I was a little puzzled. I was just about to say why there are so many accidents happening at the construction site recently, when I heard Chen Tao stammering,
"Wang San, who was in charge of the excavator yesterday, was found dead in the toilet. He fell into the manure pit while going to the toilet in the middle of the night and drowned alive."
What? !
Hearing this, I could no longer remain calm. I quickly took a taxi and rushed back to the construction site as quickly as possible.
When I returned to the construction site, I saw that the outside of the dry toilet was already crowded with spectators. The police had set up a cordon, and several staff members were carrying a body soaked in feces and water towards the outside of the construction site.
The corpse was covered with a piece of white cloth, which still couldn't hide the smell of feces and water emanating from underneath.
Several workers followed behind, pointing at Wang San's body.
"It's so evil. Why are there so many dead people at the construction site? Counting Wang San, he is already the third one."
"Yes, how could a good person drown in a dry toilet? This way of death is too weird."
The crowd was talking a lot, but I quickly walked towards the coworker Chen Tao who called me, and said with a serious face,
"When did Wang San die?"
"I do not know."
Chen Tao shook his head vigorously and said in a panic, "Wang San and I live in the same work shed. When I got up to pee in the middle of the night, I found that Wang San was not there. I thought this guy had gone out to play cards, so I didn't care."
But when Chen Tao woke up, he still didn't see Wang San.
At that time, his stomach felt uncomfortable and he was too lazy to continue searching. He hurried to the dry toilet behind the construction site to solve the problem. He squatted down and realized something was wrong.
He saw Wang San, whose body was swollen and soaked in the cesspool. One hand was still stretched upward. His whole body was covered in stinky feces, and he was looking at him with eyes that were fixed in death.
Chen Tao was so frightened that he couldn't care less about the big number. He quickly took out his cell phone to call the police, and notified several co-workers to come back to help rescue people. I was the last one to receive the news.
After listening to Chen Tao's words, I felt completely bad.
First it was Lao Chen and then Wang San. Why would someone on the construction site die every other day?
What's even weirder is that even the contractor, Lao Song, has disappeared.
There was something wrong with this matter. I frowned and said, "Where's Lao Song? Even after two people died, he, as the contractor, didn't even come back to check on you?"
Chen Tao said, "I have been calling Lao Song, but he didn't answer. This old boy has been missing since yesterday afternoon. Could it be that he packed up his bed and ran away because he was afraid of taking responsibility?"
"Maybe."
Lao Song was the contractor here. Two employees were killed in a row. The compensation alone was enough for him to drink a pot, so it was not surprising that he ran away.
But I thought about it, and I always felt that something was wrong, so I quickly called Chen Tao and planned to go to the place where Wang San usually slept.
The accommodation environment at the construction site is very poor. Most of the people who work here are rough people. When I walked into Wang San’s work shed, I immediately found a large number of melon seeds, nuts and plastic wine bottles on the ground. There were garbage paper bags everywhere, which caused a lot of trouble. A bunch of flies.
Chen Tao followed me and said in a very non-calm tone,
"Zhou Xuan, I feel that the atmosphere at the construction site is weird during this period. Weird things are always happening. Many people are saying that something evil is going on at the construction site. What do you think?"
I shook my head and did not answer Chen Tao's words. I glanced at Wang San's bed from the corner of my eye and found that something seemed to be wrapped under the messy quilt. My heart moved and I quickly opened the quilt.
The next scene that caught my eye made me frown.
Under the pillow of the deceased Wang San, there was also a pottery object. The shape was the same as the pottery pot I found in Lao Song's house. It looked like a pair.
I was so shocked that I picked up this palm-sized clay pot and brought it up to my eyes. I immediately caught a strong earthy smell.
Chen Tao's eyes widened and he pointed at the clay pot in my hand and said, "Why did this thing appear on Wang San's bed!"
I looked back at Chen Tao, "Why, have you seen it before?"
Chen Tao nodded calmly and said he had seen it before.
"Yesterday afternoon, didn't we fish up a coffin from the river? Afterwards, Lao Song asked everyone to transport the coffin to the warehouse first. Wang San was also there at that time, and there was another garbage truck driver named Sun Wei. The three of them We pushed the coffin into the warehouse together, closed the door and discussed it in whispers for a while."
Then Lao Song walked out of the warehouse carrying a plastic bag. Chen Tao felt curious, so he secretly followed and took a look. He found that there was a clay pot in the plastic bag, which looked very old.
"I thought there was only one of that thing, but I didn't expect that Wang San also got one!"
After listening to Chen Tao's story, I already understood something.
Apparently, this thing was indeed made from that coffin.
It is estimated that Lao Song took advantage of Cai and privately led people to pry open the coffin and found the funerary objects under the coffin, so he divided the spoils with Wang San and the others, and each of them got an antique jar.
But I can’t figure out why Wang San, who was assigned the clay pot, suddenly died suddenly in the dry toilet.
Is it man-made, or did he get into something dirty because he opened the restaurant privately?
Thinking of this, I could no longer remain calm and quickly said to Chen Tao, "You just said that in addition to Lao Song and Wang San, there was also a dump truck driver named Sun Wei who also touched the coffin, right?"
Chen Tao swallowed, nodded and said, "Yes."
"Where is Sun Wei? Can you help me contact him?"
My expression was serious. Now it seems that anyone who comes into close contact with that coffin will end badly.
First of all, the first deceased, Lao Chen, was dragged directly into the water by the coffin and drowned for some unknown reason.
The next one was Wang San. After he pried open the coffin and got the burial objects underneath, he died suddenly in the dry toilet.
The whereabouts of the contractor, Lao Song, are unknown and he has completely lost contact with other people.
If we want to figure out the cause and effect of this incident, the only clue left is the dump truck driver Sun Wei.
Chen Tao swallowed uneasily and said, "I know where Sun Wei's family lives, but then again, is that coffin really so evil that it can kill people just by touching it?"
"There are a lot of things in this world that you can't understand. I can't explain why now. Anyway, the feeling that the coffin gave me is really evil. I'm afraid this time it won't be a big deal."
I frowned and looked at Chen Tao's evasive eyes, "Have you touched that coffin before?"
Chen Tao shook his head quickly, "No, how could it be? That thing was locked in the warehouse behind the building materials room by Lao Song. Even if I wanted to touch it, I wouldn't have a chance."
I nodded and said that was fine, and then urged Chen Tao to lead the way and accompany me to find Sun Wei, the last worker who had touched the coffin.
Chen Tao refused, shook his head vigorously, and said that he should forget it. This matter is too evil and I don't want to take care of it. Zhou Xuan, I advise you to stop taking care of it. If it doesn't work, let's work at another construction site. There is no need to provoke such a thing. .
I smiled bitterly and said, "It's not so easy to find a job these days. Besides, I still owe Lao Song a favor."
After I left the Taoist temple, I wandered around in society. If Lao Song hadn't seen that I could endure hardships and recruited me into the construction team, I wouldn't have been able to find a job to make a living.
Now the construction team is in trouble, and I can't ignore it.
