The rest of the world [farming]

As time progressed, it was getting colder day by day outside.Because there is no fire and no heating, every household is extremely cold.Fortunately, there are enough body warmers and heating packs. Although the house is as cold as an icehouse, the days have not come yet.

The death toll in the last week is the lowest since the volcanic eruption.Only one old lady died, and that old lady was seriously ill before the end of the world, and she had been taking medicine to cope with it.After the end of the world, the medicine is gone, and people gradually die in pain and suffering, which can be regarded as the end of life.

The poor old man struggled to persist until now, but he didn't even have a coffin after his death.

Ao Mu was filling out the death report. By the way, he took a look at the number of people living in the village. There were less than 800 people.It used to be a big village with more than 3000 people.The end of the world, roughly.

Seeing people who were once familiar or even acquainted die one after another like this is far more exhausting than dying all at once.

Because they may be more careful, or their desire to survive is stronger.It is possible to survive.

"Still writing?" Yang Wu took a look with his head, "Thinking of so many dead people, it would be strange if he was in a good mood."

"Who hasn't died yet?" Ao Mu finished writing the last stroke, and flipped through the death report that was about to be finished.

Yang Wu watched it for a while: "It's too negative, it doesn't fit my little angel personality."

Ao Mu glanced at Yang Wu: "Just you? Little angel?"

Yang Wu blinked, with a naive face on the outside: "Isn't it your little angel?"

Ao Mu turned his head from the cute face, ignoring this malicious and cute baby face.

Yang Wu laughed and said, "I won't mess with you. I think the strawberries have ripened quite a bit, and some of them are quite big. I specially adjusted the fill light level, this time it should be sweeter than last time. Go pick strawberries and get my share."

Ao Mu responded.After re-checking and making sure that there is no problem, I got up to go to the greenhouse when I heard the sound of the door being unlocked.

village head?Ao Mu turned on the monitor and took a look.The person standing inside the No. [-] door is not the village head with a portable oxygen cylinder.

Waiting for the air inside the No. [-] door to be pulled out, Ao Mu had already started discussing with Yang Wu what he was doing when he came back.

"Could it be that there's something more to send from us?" Yang Wu took a sip of the tea that Ao Mu had recently drunk, and frowned after only one sip: "What is this?"

"Cassia seed, very fragrant." Ao Mu glanced at the teacup, Yang Wu has become more and more comfortable with the things he used recently.

"Health care? Brother Mu, do you need maintenance now? Did I squeeze you too hard?" Yang Wu self-reflected.

Ao Mu took the cup over: "This is to nourish the liver and improve the eyesight. It is your business to nourish the kidney."

In this regard, every man has a mysterious self-esteem.

Yang Wu didn't argue with him, but his eyes kept drifting to Ao Mu's lower body, making Ao Mu wonder if he was really hungry for this little bastard with five elements.

The village chief sent him to the clinic, and Ao Mu got up and turned on the air purifier.

"Second uncle come over when you are free." Ao Mu said politely, asked him to sit down and poured him a glass of water.

With doubts on his face on Tuesday, he nodded and smiled at Ao Mu when he entered the room: "I've been busy recently."

"It's okay, everyone who should be busy is almost busy." Ao Mu said straight to the point, "What's the matter?"

"I'm not sure if it's a big deal." After thinking about it carefully on Tuesday, he sighed and said, "He's dead again. It's from the school, and he said that he slipped under his feet and knocked him to death. I think it's a bit strange. That place is not slippery. And if an old man and an old lady can't stand still, it's okay, but that person can resist stones and do heavy work at the age of 50. He doesn't smoke or drink. It's possible that he slipped and killed himself for no reason. Sex is too low."

Yang Wu came alive: "Do you think you were killed?"

Tuesday nodded, then shook his head again: "Aren't I not sure? I wanted to call you and the People's Liberation Army together to check and check. You said that there are so many people living in the school. If someone else killed them, then kill them." If the prisoner is still inside, how will others live!"

Tuesday's concerns were not unfounded.Everything has a contingency.Even if the person really killed himself, checking it is also a respect for the deceased.

Ao Mu is a doctor, at least he can deduce the way of death.Although he is not a serious forensic doctor, he can still confirm it with a simple judgment.

Ao Mu nodded: "Okay, I'll go there as soon as I get ready. Have those soldiers passed by?"

"It's gone. Where there are many people, there was someone living there. After knowing it, I protected the scene first, and no one moved. I asked the other two to go there together." The village chief rearranged the ventilator.

"Then I'll go and have a look." Yang Wu stood up.

"Just don't make trouble." Ao Mu knew that Yang Wu's brain was busy, so there was no harm in taking it with him.

Turning around to say hello to Ao Ling, the two put on protective clothing and carried oxygen cylinders on their backs and went straight to the school.

This elementary school is actually only 40 to 20 years old.When it was only established more than [-] years ago, there were fewer and fewer children because of family planning.In the end, it was simply merged into the village.The primary school in this village has been put on hold until now.

Now even the exercise materials for the children have not been removed, but the windows have been replaced with plastic windows.The primary school was rebuilt a few years before the merger, using red bricks.In addition, it has been repaired well, and it is still very strong now.

This is actually the first time Ao Mu has entered elementary school since returning to the village.He studied here in the first and second grades of his childhood.Later merged to go to the countryside.In his memory, the first and second grades were more difficult than the next four years.Because of his special family, the child's malice is so pure.He is often the object of children's teasing and bullying during class breaks.

Later, when I was in the third grade, I was faced with unfamiliar classmates.At that time, Ao Mu was still a little happy, thinking that the previous situation would not happen again.

At that time, he had just communicated with two little boys and made an appointment to play the horizontal and parallel bars together after school at noon.

As a result, a little girl from the same village who was assigned to the same class suddenly pointed at him and said, "He doesn't have a father! His mother is an idiot! He is also an idiot! Those who play with him are also idiots."

Since then, the little Ao Mu once again fell into a cycle of despair for him as a child.

Fast forward 20 years, and Ao Mu doesn't even remember who that little girl was.But Ao Mu will never forget what she said.The voice was so sharp and so cruel.

Standing at the school gate and looking at a strange school, it is completely different from memory.Memory's playground, where weeds often grow and need to be cleaned by senior students, has turned into a concrete floor, and teachers have been painted with white glue.The roof has also changed from red tiles to blue color steel.

Behind the fog, there are only a few rusty fitness equipment still standing there.

Already beyond recognition.

Yang Wu touched Ao Mu's arm, and looked through the glass of the helmet to ask what happened to Ao Mu.

Ao Mu just shook his head.At the beginning, he was like falling into hell, but now he revisited his old place, but he was quite emotional.

This elementary school is not big, there are only seven classrooms, a teacher's office, a principal's office and two utility rooms in total.Now they have broken through each other, and they are all sealed with cement and plastic.To enter, you can only enter from a utility room at the farthest edge, and wait for the air to be pumped to a safe value before entering.

The deceased was in the principal's office.

A total of a hundred or so people lived here, most of whom were old and young, women and children, and some families with many people but only one man also moved in.

This also caused some young and strong men to gather together to preside over the affairs, and then there was a vague tendency to decide who was the boss.Because it is a big pot of rice, it often requires personnel management.This is also inevitable.

After officially entering the school, many people had already gathered in the teacher's office. When they saw the village head and Ao Mu coming, they all said this in a hurry.

"Don't talk for now, let Xiao Ao go to the principal's office to have a look, come and go, don't block, let someone else come out."

"Village chief! We really don't understand this matter! We were really pushed by someone? You say we are all in the same village, who doesn't understand who! Who can be so cruel!"

"That's right! Who could it be! But if you are really pushed by someone, you have to catch him. I watched TV and said that if you can kill one, you don't care about killing two. It's so evil!"

"Xiao Ao, you are a doctor, you are capable, you have to take a good look at it."

"Why did you say that such a good man died, and he helped me carry water yesterday!"

Walking all the way, people on both sides were chattering.Ao Mu continued to walk in, and when he was about to reach the door, he saw two more women walking towards a young girl. good.

"Xiaoyue, tell him quickly!"

The girl's eyes were a little dull, and when she saw Ao Mu, she bowed her head and started crying again, and Ao Mu couldn't hear what she was sobbing, but only heard the words "Dad... no... no...".

With pity in his eyes on Tuesday, he explained to Ao Mu in a low voice: "The one who died was Ma Laosan, Ma Yulin. There are only two fathers in his family, and the father brought a daughter. I was afraid that only two people would not be able to take care of each other. Moved here. You said that the father is gone. This little girl is only in her twenties and she didn't even find her husband's house. How will she live in the future."

"Ma Laosan? Ma Laoliu's family?" Before that, Ma Laoliu Ma Yuquan didn't believe that the poisonous gas outside would kill people, so he went out from home without permission to be acutely poisoned.Although he was rescued later, the root cause of the disease has already fallen.Recently, I heard that people lying on the kang are getting worse every day, and I don’t know how many days they can live.

"Isn't it? This girl is also very pitiful. Let's go in and have a look." Tuesday dragged Ao Mu and Yang Wu into the principal's office.As soon as I entered the principal's office, it was immediately clean.Except for one dead person, there were only three People's Liberation Army guards in the house.

"Did you see anything?" Ao Mu took off his heavy protective clothing, put on gloves and asked the soldiers.

A soldier frowned and said, "Everything else is fine, except that there seems to be blood stains on the side of the cabinet that have been wiped off. But when the corpse was found, the scene was quite chaotic, and the possibility of being rubbed by people during crowding cannot be ruled out."

"Discovered?" Ao Mu caught the key word.

The soldier nodded: "The person should have been dead for a while before being discovered. This is the principal's office, and the more important foods such as canned food are usually locked here, so it is easy not to let them in."

Yang Wu raised his eyebrows: "In this case, it should be easy to check the target."

The soldier smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's still very difficult. It was strict at the beginning. But everyone eats a big pot of rice, and the food is not bad. There is no need to steal these things back. And even if it is a little less, more supplies are distributed, yes. Everyone has no influence. So although it is usually locked, the key is placed in the drawer, and anyone can take it. Usually, the cooks and the caretakers often come in and out. It is not ruled out that outsiders may steal in with the key. This village They are all relatives. Even if you see someone stealing it, you won’t say anything. It’s even harder to find this person.”

The village chief touched Ao Mu: "Take a look and see if you really killed yourself."

Ao Mu nodded.Looking at the corpse on the ground.In fact, when a person just dies, it is not obvious that he is dead. If it is not that he is not breathing, it is almost as if he is asleep.

In the past year, Ao Mu has met the corpse many times.Not to mention how familiar it is, at least there will be no nightmares.

People are lying on their backs, and a famous soldier used the leftover chalk to draw on the ground the posture of the person when he died, just like on TV.

Ma Laosan's eyes were still open, and his mouth was still open.Ao Mu checked his face first, and there was nothing wrong with it.It's just that there is horror in the fixed expression.

Then ask the soldiers to help drag the clothes down, and then turn over.

There is an obvious wound on his back neck, which corresponds to the corner of the table next to him.Judging from the blood stains on the wound, it should have been caused when he was alive.This should be fatal.

When Ao Mu was bored, he would watch some forensic dramas and read two related books.He is a day that he could not even dream of being useful.

"Did you really hit him?" asked again on Tuesday.

Ao Mu didn't answer, but stretched out his hand to touch Ma Laosan's hair, and there was blood on the glove.But judging from the degree of bleeding on the neck, it shouldn't be left on the hair.The blood on the ground wasn't quite right either.

"Is there a razor clipper? Shave his hair." Ao Mu said.

On Tuesday, I was busy going out to ask everyone.After searching for a while, I only found an old-fashioned razor, the kind with a blade.

Ao Mu could only make do with it, carefully shaving off the longer hair at the back of his head bit by bit, and sure enough, he saw a wound that was bigger than the neck.

Ao Mu glanced at the others.Yang Wu moved closer. He looked at the corpse with some resistance, but seeing the wound, he still couldn't help saying: "It seems that this is the real fatal injury."

Ao Mudao: "Maybe they are all. But one thing is certain. There must have been a second person at the scene. And this person was the murderer."

A soldier took a closer look at the shape of the wound: "You mean... someone pushed the cabinet he hit first, and then installed the corner of the table, so there are traces of wiping on the cabinet?"

Ao Mu shook his head: "The wood of the cabinet is thin, and such a heavy wound may crack the cabinet. Looking at the shape, it is very likely that it was hit by a long and heavy object. Then the person is still angry, or still conscious. , grabbed his neck and slammed it into the corner of the table to mend it, which can be regarded as a disguised accident. There may be blood splatters on the cabinet, or it may be the murderer who was stained with blood and rubbed it."

The village chief said strangely: "But if there is blood on the body, there are so many people living in such a small place, someone must have seen it."

Yang Wu shook his head, adding a bit of sarcasm in his words: "You think too much. That's a murderer. They both know each other. Who dare to speak up after seeing it? Even if the murderer is taken away, his family Will it be revenge, how dare other people tell the truth?"

Ao Mu said: "Not necessarily. Now that there is a lack of water, they basically wear black clothes. The visibility in the house is not so high. As long as it doesn't get on the face, it's hard to see. Who can climb on other people's clothes to look carefully. "

What Ao Mu and Yang Wu said made sense, the village chief sighed and said, "What's the matter?"

After hearing this, the soldier couldn't help saying: "In this case, the murderer can only be an adult man."

"Almost. Strong adult women are not ruled out either. In this case, it is easy to rule out. Strong women, or adult men. The time of death is also easy to infer. As long as people have their own things to do when something happens, there are other people around. People can rule out suspicion, so the scope is much smaller. This is a long time in a closed space, and people are likely to have psychological problems under high pressure. But no one is a natural killer. Since you kill someone, you will definitely There is something strange. This is not difficult to detect."

This is not a personal matter, but a collective matter.

Now the school runs its own stove, and has its own generator, air purifier and oxygen generator.It is almost an independent existence from the village.Therefore, the management of the village is becoming looser and looser.

As a result, more problems arise.

In a completely closed environment, people's hearts are prone to problems.If rights are involved, the consequences will be even more serious.

There are only a few middle-aged men here who have some power competition with each other.If this dead person is not well controlled, it will only get more and more out of control in the future.

That is something that no one wants to see.

The subsequent investigation is the job of the village chief and the soldiers.Ao Mu inspected the corpse carefully, picked up the clothes and studied them again and again.It was the first time for Ao Mu to come into contact with this kind of thing, so he was inevitably a little excited.Yang Wu also accompanied him, discussing some issues with him from time to time, which could also bring Ao Mu different ideas.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, they finally brought three people over, a total of two men and one woman.One of the men is in his early thirties, the other is in his fifties and still has a mustache, while the woman is about 50 to 1.7 years old, with a strong figure, at least [-] meters five, because her face is covered with rough clothes, it is impossible to distinguish between men and women. Come.

As soon as he entered the room, the woman had already yelled: "Why did you call me over? Why did I kill someone or set it on fire? Are you suspicious of me? Are you suspicious of me if you hold my hand? If you have I'll admit the evidence right away, but if it wasn't for me, I'd tell you that I would never end with you!"

The author has something to say: A change in people's hearts can be regarded as a precursor to tragedy