Chapter 59 The Coffin That Could Not Be Lifted

Liu Jun and the others looked at each other and walked over. They saw several people using all their strength to move the coffin, yet the coffin remained completely motionless. Anyone who wasn't a fool could tell there was something wrong with this coffin. No, to be precise, there was something wrong with the corpse inside the coffin.

Liu Jun looked at the coffin closely for a moment and asked casually, "How did the person inside this coffin die?"

The funeral home workers looked at each other, and not a single one of them made a sound. It wasn't until Captain Yu pulled out his police badge and flashed it that one of the workers finally spoke up: The deceased's wife had told Liu Jun and the others that the man died of a heart disease. The death certificate issued by their village committee also stated that he died of a heart disease.

Liu Jun was slightly stunned. Heart disease? That's impossible. Even through the coffin, one could feel the overwhelming resentment emanating from it. How could a ghost who died of illness harbor such deep resentment? Did he take fake medicine?

Right at that moment, the coffin actually emitted a "thump, thump, thump" sound, as if someone inside was knocking on it. Not only did Liu Jun hear it, but everyone around heard it as well, and those funeral home workers were so frightened that they backed far away from the coffin. Meanwhile, Liu Jun looked at the deceased's wife; her expression was a mix of fear, panic, and what seemed to be nervousness.

Doubt arose in his heart: You didn't do anything wrong, so what are you nervous about? Then a thought struck him: That's right, the fact that she was so nervous indicated that the cause of the deceased's death was fishy. Master Sherlock Holmes Qianjin is now online.

Liu Jun nudged Captain Yu with his elbow. Captain Yu looked at him in confusion, and Liu Jun signaled him to look at the deceased's wife. They say Captain Yu has real competence for a reason; his intelligence was noticeably only slightly lower than Liu Jun's. When he saw the deceased's wife's expression, he distinctly frowned, seemingly also sensing something fishy. A normal person would only feel fear in such a situation, not nervousness.

"Fatty, come over here, let's open the coffin." With that, Liu Jun walked right up to the coffin and prepared to push the lid off. Those workers wanted to say something but stopped; they wanted to stop Liu Jun, but didn't dare.

As for the deceased's wife, seeing that Liu Jun and Fatty were about to push open the coffin lid, she rushed forward to stop them. "Don't touch my husband's coffin!" the deceased's wife screamed frantically. Captain Yu looked over at Liu Jun, his gaze seeming to ask whether they could be certain there was a problem with the corpse inside the coffin. Liu Jun returned a reassuring look.

"Ma'am, I suspect the deceased did not die of illness, but of murder. Please cooperate," Captain Yu said, immediately motioning for the policewoman Ji Min to step forward and pull the deceased's wife away.

"If there's no problem, I might be in deep trouble," Captain Yu said to Liu Jun while the deceased's wife was being pulled away, because everything was just a guess and he couldn't be certain.

"Brother, are you here to be a comedian? The coffin is still making knocking noises right now; isn't this the most obvious problem laid out in plain sight?" Liu Jun retorted irritably.

Captain Yu smiled awkwardly and joined Liu Jun and the others in putting their backs into sliding the coffin lid to the side. Strangely enough, the moment the lid was moved away, the knocking sound stopped.

Liu Jun looked at the deceased inside the coffin, recalling some corpse-identification techniques recorded in the texts he had read at the shop. He concentrated his attention on observing the deceased, watched for a moment, and then gently pressed the deceased's chest area with his hand before touching the back of the deceased's head.

"The deceased's wife said he died of heart disease?" Liu Jun looked up with a half-smile at the deceased's wife, the woman who had previously been crying her eyes out.

"Yeah, she said he died of heart disease." Captain Yu finished speaking, then asked the workers for the death certificate and took a look at it. They say human curiosity is boundless; seeing that Liu Jun and the others were fine, those workers also crowded around, completely losing the look of being scared out of their wits from earlier.

"There are bloodstains on the back of the deceased's head; even though they were wiped, blood filaments remain. The deceased's eyes are bloodshot, there are bruises on the body, bones in certain areas are obviously displaced and protruding, and the organs in the chest cavity are displaced. Therefore, the deceased died from a fall from a height." Forensic Pathologist Master Qianjin is now online. Let me ask you, is this awesome or not?

"Bring the deceased's wife over," Liu Jun shouted to the policewoman Ji Min, and the deceased's wife was brought over. Seeing that the coffin had already been opened, the deceased's wife went weak at the knees.

Liu Jun slowly walked up to the deceased's wife and said in a deep voice, "Tell me honestly right now, how exactly did your husband die? You can keep lying, but your husband has already undergone a corpse transformation, and there is a mouthful of resentment burning in his chest. If you refuse to tell me the truth, after he rises from the dead, he will find you and chew your bones up bit by bit, then swallow them."

Liu Jun originally thought that scaring the woman would make her tell the truth, but unexpectedly, she was so frightened that she fainted on the spot. This made things a little awkward.

"Sigh, sigh, return your soul." With those words, Liu Jun pinched the philtrum of the woman. She woke up, looked at Liu Jun, and then looked at the coffin. "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'll tell you everything. Husband, I'm the one who harmed you!" she screamed in terror while frantically crawling backward, wanting to distance herself as much as possible.

"Divine soldiers of the universe, essence of the Bagua, summon the divine generals to comfort my body. Hearing this spell, arrive instantly; all matters are revealed, nothing goes unreported, do not disobey this decree. Calm the heart and pacify the spirit."

A calming talisman was slapped onto the woman, and she gradually quieted down and began to recount how this whole matter came to be.

This woman and their village secretary, Zhou, were childhood sweethearts. Zhou was accepted into university while she was not, so she went out to work in other places, and the two slowly lost contact.

Her family felt she was of age and arranged a blind date for her. The blind date was with the deceased, Cheng. The two didn't experience any so-called love at first sight; they simply felt they were getting older, so they got married.

Not long after they got married, Zhou returned and even became the village secretary. Upon returning, he learned that his childhood sweetheart had gotten married, and deep down he felt that something that rightfully belonged to him was gone. Thus, he tried every possible means to seduce the woman, even helping her become the head of the women's association. This gave the two an even more justifiable excuse to interact.

Gradually, they rediscovered the feeling of being childhood sweethearts, though they hadn't actually slept together yet. At first, Cheng didn't pay much attention to this matter, nor did he know too much about it. However, the gossip in the village grew increasingly fierce and eventually reached the ears of the deceased, Cheng.

Cheng went somewhere and got dead drunk, and when he came home, the two had a huge fight, and Cheng even struck her. After hitting her, the woman ran off to Zhou's house. Zhou asked what had happened, constantly comforted her, and the two ended up sleeping together, not returning home until the early hours of the morning.

After hitting the woman, Cheng felt a bit regretful. He wanted to wait for her to come back so he could apologize, but he waited until the wee hours. When the woman returned, Cheng demanded to know where she had been, and the two started yelling at each other again. In a moment of agitation, the woman told Cheng that she was already with Zhou and wanted a divorce tomorrow. Unable to cope, Cheng jumped down from the upper floor and became the deceased Cheng.

At that time, the woman panicked, ran downstairs to check on Cheng, and found that he was already dead. Losing her mind, she called Zhou. Zhou rushed over to take a look. Because it was a low building built during the village's demolition and relocation, Cheng had simply fallen to his death, but his body was still intact. He told her to claim to others that he had died of a heart disease, and the two of them moved Cheng's corpse back into the house and cleaned him up.

When dawn broke and the death certificate was obtained, they had the hearse come and take him away.

Cheng harbored deep resentment in his heart, which was why the coffin could not be lifted. After hearing the story, Captain Yu arranged for people to go and arrest Zhou, and Ji Min escorted the deceased's wife into a police car.

Liu Jun walked back to the coffin and looked at the deceased. He whispered to the deceased that the matter had been dealt with, and then asked Fatty to recite the Soul-Cleansing Sutra one more time. He slid the coffin lid back into place and motioned for the funeral home workers to try lifting it again. Sure enough, it was easily lifted.