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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12 Death’s Piano Music

 I looked toward the cordon outside, there stood two girls, a fat-looking, the other very slim, just spoke is that thin girl, she covered her mouth, constantly wiping tears.

 Huang Xiaotao walked towards them and asked, "Do you know the deceased?"

 The thin girl cried even more fiercely, the fat girl replied: "More than knowing ah, Fangfang and Zhang Kai have been in love for two years."

 This thin girls really mourn too much, Huang Xiaotao asked a police officer to take a folding chair to her to sit, the girl refused to sit, we have been waiting for her to finish crying, Huang Xiaotao asked: "When was the last time you saw the deceased yesterday?"

 "Last night we were together." The thin girl said, tears running down her face again, "But I'm sure the person who killed him was a ghost!"

 So, she talked about last night's events-

 The girl's name was Fangfang, the fat girl's name was Tian Tian, the dead man's name was Zhang Kai, and there was also a boy named Deng Chao, the four of them often played together and could be described as diehard friends who had nothing to say to each other.

 Deng Chao recently won the school's qualification for graduate school, so last night invited the three of them to eat a meal off campus, during which everyone drank some wine, we talked about the school abandoned building haunted legend.

 It is said that ten years ago in that building died a schoolgirl, the body was disassembled and hidden in a piano, since then, whenever the night is quiet, the building will be ringing horror piano sound for no reason.

 There know music listen carefully, surprised to find that the piano sound is the school flower life favorite play "Moonlight Sonata"!

 During this period, there are also unbelieving security guards in the middle of the night with a flashlight to the piano sound classroom to find out, but the screams resounded half of the school, after that went crazy, just mumbling: female ghosts playing the piano, female ghosts playing the piano.

 Soon the school building was sealed by the school authorities on an excuse, but everyone said that the reason for the sealing was actually haunted!

 It is said that wine strengthens people's courage, a bottle of white wine down, Zhang Kai and Deng Chao actually made a bet, as long as Deng Chao dare to go to that abandoned school building adventure, he will give five thousand dollars.

 So, four people will be late at night into the school building, and indeed in a music classroom saw the legendary piano. Deng Chao sat in the classroom and asked Zhang Kai to pay for it, but Zhang Kai denied it, saying that Deng Chao had to stay here for one night before he could be counted.

 Deng Chao was originally a competitive person, immediately agreed, who could not persuade, we had to leave him alone.

 Who knows that the front foot just left, behind them suddenly sounded a horrible piano sound, it is that "Moonlight Sonata"! They ran back to the music classroom to see that a long-haired female ghost in white clothes was sitting in front of the piano playing the piano, while Deng Chao stood next to him like a lost soul. Zhang Kai was ready to go in and save Deng Chao, but he was cut by something and hurt his hand.

 It turned out that there were countless sharp strings in the room, as if the female ghost's hair was flying around!

 When the song fell to its last note, Deng Chao suddenly shook and fell head over heels, his head gurgled and moved, and the three of them fled out of the school building in fear like mad.

 Both girls had a huge scare last night and had been hiding under the covers and crying until this morning when they were ready to call the police, only to hear that a body had been found in the school.

 They thought it was Deng Chao's body that had been found, but when they ran to see it, it turned out to be Zhang Kai who had hanged himself!

 Fangfang was scared out of her wits at that time, and having just seen me detecting a woman's palm print on Zhang Kai's body, she decided that it was the work of a female ghost, and that she must have forced Zhang Kai to commit suicide. Because according to a schoolmate, anyone who interrupts the female ghost's playing will upset her and have their life taken away!

 After Fang Fang finished speaking, she added, "The first one is Deng Chao, then Zhang Kai, and the next one must be me and Tian Tian, oooh, no one can escape, no one can escape!" Saying that, she cried again, and Tian Tian patted her shoulder and comforted her softly.

 We were stunned for a while, a seemingly simple case of suicide by hanging, behind which there was such a horrible school legend hidden.

 Huang Xiaotao asked, "You witnessed your classmate's head being cut off by a female ghost?"

 "Yes!" Fangfang nodded vigorously.

 "Then his body is still in that abandoned school building?"

 "It should still be there!"

 Huang Xiaotao immediately said, "Song Yang, you go with me to take a look."

 "Can I go too?" Wang Dali asked.

 "Who are you?" Huang Xiaotao coldly hummed.

 "My name is Wang Dali, I'm Song Yang's ...."

 I poked him with my elbow and said, "Assistant!"

 "Right, right, I'm his right-hand man, Song Yang can't live without me for a second!" Wang Dali cheekily plastered his face with gold, I burst into tears, what do you mean by 'not leaving for a second', this kind of words will make others mistake me as gay.

 Huang Xiaotao gave an oh-so-slight, "Fine, you come along too, but since you guys are involved in this case, you have to listen to my command."

 "As you say." I nodded.

 "Three points! First, until the case is solved, you must not disclose to outsiders that you are assisting in the investigation; second, you must not disclose the progress of the case to anyone other than me, even if the other party is a criminal police officer; third, you must not conceal information and clues from me!"

 "Yes, sir!" said WangDali, standing at attention and saluting uncharacteristically like in a Hong Kong movie.

 I thought to myself that this girl is quite controlling, but it's justifiable, from her standpoint, the two of us intervened halfway, without prior agreement any problems are her responsibility.

 In any case, can participate in solving the case, so I am very excited, although I learned a very solid theoretical knowledge, but there is not much opportunity to practice!

 Huang Xiaotao called a few people to go over with him, and by the way, to settle the two girls, taking this opportunity, I plan to take another good look at the corpse.

 Wang Dali didn't know anyone here, so he kept following me.

 The scene is crowded, I'll put my ear on the chest of the corpse through the shrouded bag, gently tapping the ribs with my fingers, Wang Dali is a guy with an idle mouth, where he muttered about whether he wanted to call another roommate to help? The police at noon tube whether the meal? And what he cares about most, does Huang Xiaotao have a boyfriend?

 I gave him a blank look and gestured for him to keep quiet, Wang Dali sensibly covered his mouth.

 My fingers kept tapping, listening to the sounds in the corpse's stomach, and after that, I turned the corpse over to listen to his spine.

 "What are you listening for? Does a dead person still have a heartbeat?" Wang Dali asked warily.

 "I heard him saying 'I died miserably', do you want to hear it?" I laughed.

 "No, no, no, it's better for you to listen!" Wang Dali waved his hand back and forth.

 In fact, this move is called 'Listening to Bones and Analyzing Sounds', it is a masterpiece in Song Family's 'The Divine Book of Prison Breaking', repeatedly tapping the ribs and spine of the deceased will produce echoes in the stomach of the deceased, just like bat echolocation, through the echoes you can form a three-dimensional map of the internal organs in your mind, and then get a lot of useful information.

 By listening to the bones and analyzing the sound, I roughly learned that the deceased's time of death was about seven to eight hours, the lungs showed signs of constriction, and the spinal nerves had multiple tears, so the cause of death was undoubtedly asphyxiation. Of course, I just wanted to re-verify, my grandfather said that to be a good coroner, everything must be seen and heard.

 After hearing this, I opened the shrouded body bag and brought the right hand of the deceased outside. When I just turned over the body, I did find that the back of the deceased's right hand had a long thin wound, which still had the adhesive left by the band-aid, and the band-aid was probably torn off by Dr. Qin.

 At that time I did not take a closer look, now take a closer look and realize that the wound was indeed inflicted by a sharp instrument, could it really be the strings of a piano as the two girls said?

 I held the dead man's hand in front of my eyes, closed my eyes, snapped them open, and used the Cave of the Specter's Pupil to take a closer look.

 Wang Dali was so scared that he sat on his butt on the ground and said, "Yangzi, what just happened to your eyes, I seem to have seen a red light in your eyes, are you too tired for your eyeballs to be congested? Do you want me to go buy you a bottle of eye drops?"

 I burst out laughing, "Go go go, don't interrupt here."

 I looked closely again, the back of the dead man's hand rapidly enlarged in my field of vision, even the pores on the back of the hand and the breaks in the wound were clearly visible, I noticed that the cut out flesh was interspersed with tiny particles, translucent with a rust-like red color.

 The wound-causing object was indeed metal, and if it had been a string it would have been possible to have rust on it.

 But the strange thing is, the direction of the wound is shallow at the top and deep at the bottom, how does it look like the deceased himself cut his hand?