Chapter 488: Mask
Two days ago, Dai Xiaojun's wife picked up her son from kindergarten from school, and on the way home, the car had just driven to the middle of the intersection when a large truck suddenly rushed over and pressed over from the car.
After investigation, the driver was drunk driving, overloaded, and there were human and physical evidence and monitoring, which was an accident.
Some neighbors reacted that Dai Xiaojun had a good relationship with his wife, and when his wife and children had an accident, he was drunk for two consecutive days, and he also saw him climb to the top floor alone.
I just thought he was trying to breathe...... After all, who would take care of someone's stairs and climb the stairs if they have nothing to do.
But I didn't expect that from going upstairs to falling, it would take no more than three minutes.
In other words, he climbed upstairs, and then without any pause, he ran directly to the roof wall and jumped down.
Su Xin inexplicably felt that the wind was blowing cold on his body, looking at the sky, it was already late spring, and it was about to enter summer, how could there be a feeling of spring cold.
Why did this happen when I first arrived? Oh wrong, two days ago, it was she who decided to deal with this case, and then Dai Xiaojun's wife and children and himself had accidents one after another, could it be that there is something to do with it?
Although a cordon had been drawn below the floor, there was still a group of people outside, looking up and stretching their necks to look at the roof from time to time.
Or clasped his hands and talked eagerly with the people next to him, his face flashed with curiosity, his face was full of energy, and what was even more strange was that there was a woman who simply moved a stool and sat next to him to watch the excitement...
Su Xin suddenly thought of something, turned around and went to a remote corner, slapped an invisibility charm on his body, and then crossed the cordon and climbed to the top of the building.
The police have carefully surveyed the area, and there is no sign of anyone else present.
When he came to the rooftop, Su Xin found that the wall was very high, about 1.6 meters, and there was a slight concave arc, even Su Xin himself could only barely poke his head out.
As an ordinary person, if you want to climb directly on such a high platform, you need a lot of starting speed and momentum, because there is no place for strength under your feet, and you also need strong arm strength to pull your body up.
Su Xin had seen a photo of Dai Xiaojun on the information before, wearing a black-framed glasses, his body was quite thin, and the most important thing was that his height was only 169cm.
Su Xin turned his head and saw a monitoring probe next to him, facing the staircase, but it was wide-angle.
My heart moved, and I hurriedly asked for the surveillance video of this building through the relationship of the special case team.
The video shows exactly the same as the eyewitness account: Dai Xiaojun has been drunk and climbed to the top of the building alone for three consecutive days since his wife and children were in a car accident, and no one expected him to suddenly jump from it.
In the picture, a staggering man carries a liquor bottle in his hand and holds on to the railing with one hand, climbing up from the staircase.
His eyes stared straight into the distance, a sneer appeared on his lips, and then he poured two more sips of wine into his mouth, and then rushed forward with a scream. The body resembles that of an agile monkey, slamming over the high fence and disappearing into the camera.
Su Xin played back the video and fixed it in the last shot of Dai Xiaojun's drink.
That sinister smile...... It's not at all like despair due to grief and pain, it's more like... Contemptuous and provocative.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, she saw the man in the video suddenly turn his head to look in the direction of the camera, and make eye contact with Su Xin, who was watching the video.
The mouth cracked into a black hole-like opening, and the eyes were also two black holes, obviously looking smiling, but the whole face was white and stiff, which made her suddenly remember the appearance of the mask in her mind, but it was not a hole left in the mouth and eyes.
Su Xin's hair stood on end, and when she looked at it again, she found that the video was playing normally again.
She played it back a few more times, and there was no footage of the man suddenly looking back at the camera.
It was as if that glimpse was just an illusion on her part.
Su Xin rubbed her temples, she could already conclude that something was wrong with this Dai Xiaojun, and it must have something to do with the face.
Looking at the entire "mask" archive, no one has actually seen what the mask looks like, and all descriptions of it come from Su Qin's "travelogue".
Of course, the special case team would not characterize a case so hastily, and the real name of this "mask" was because the two special case team members who had been reskinned claimed that they were masks.
For ordinary people, this is a simple suicide case that can't be simpler, and Dai Xiaojun also has a motive to commit suicide, so his family has already brought the body back, and there is no intention to continue to investigate.
Su Xin still wanted to make the last step to confirm and rushed to the crematorium, which was full of gloom.
She found that there were really no traces of Dai Xiaojun's soul on his body.
Generally speaking, within three days after death, there is a heavy residual breath of soul on the corpse, which is considered a mark left on one's soul, so some people return to their souls after a few days of death.
But Dai Xiaojun's body was like a tabula rasa.
Isn't a mask just a hole in a whiteboard with an eye and a mouth?
As Su Xin pondered, the cremator placed the body on a special metal table, then pushed it into the furnace and closed the lid.
Inside, the flames wrapped up the corpses......
With a "boom", the lying corpse suddenly sat up, a mask appeared on its face, which gradually faded under the licking of the flames, and then the corpse was slowly burned to ashes.
Su Xin saw clearly that the mask that suddenly appeared in the flames was the kind of mask that resembled "Wu".
Su Xin remembers seeing it in a documentary program before, saying that it was a kind of god that people believed in in ancient times, which could help people drive away plagues and evil spirits, and even became a prosperous sacrificial culture for a time.
Wu's mask is no longer the tabula rasa that Su Xin saw in his previous "trance", but a very exaggerated shape, with abrupt eyes, a cracked blood-colored mouth, and sharp fangs, which looks a little hideous.
Whether it is the tabula rasa that Su Xin "saw" before, or the fluttering in the flames in front of him, it has absolutely nothing to do with the "soft and vivid texture" written in Su Qin's travelogue.
The burner was also taken aback by the scene in front of him, but he had worked here for many years and had seen many strange things, so he rubbed his eyes, sighed to himself, shook his head, and continued to work, such as turning the corpse over and making it fully burning.
Su Xin saw that there was no abnormality, so he left quietly.
She went around for two or three days, and only confirmed one thing: the "mask" was not confined to that mountain village, as stated in the epilogue of the archive, but existed in the lives of ordinary people in a different way, and then unknowingly took people's lives.
No wonder the special case team still hasn't given up on this case!