Chapter 215: The Truth Is Revealed (2/2)
Bingxin pulled at my shirt. ”Song Yang-gege, you haven’t explained the most important part. Why was the corpse hugging the man?”
”It wasn’t exactly a hug, but this action-” I said, crossing my arms.
”Are you trying to make me anxious? Regardless of which action it was, why would the dead move?”
I explained that it was merely a simple nerve reflex, just like how a frog could still move under the stimulation of electric current even with its head cut off. This was called the Lazarus Phenomenon. In the Bible, Lazarus was an old man who had been resurrected from the dead by Jesus. If the vertebra of a recently dead body was stimulated, both its hands would slowly cross in front of the chest as if it had been resurrected.
Xiao Boli must have touched the dead girl’s spine while he was doing the deed. Or perhaps the static electricity generated by the friction from his moving body stimulated the corpse so its arms tightly wrapped around the man, indirectly causing him to faint.
This shared the same principle as the Song family's Corpse Reanimation. A portion of energy remained in the magnetic pulse of the human body. Proper stimulation could make the body ”move.”
Bingxin exclaimed, ”Wow, so it’s actually real! You’ve opened my eyes!”
”There have been cases of people raping corpses and being hugged by them. I think this might be God’s way of leaving us that last bit of dignity!”
”Officer, how long will my prison sentence be?” asked Mr. Qin.
”The penalty for manslaughter varies. In your case, your circumstances allow for greater discretion in reducing your sentence. We won't arrest you so you can turn yourself in! This will definitely win you leniency,” I counseled.
”Uncle Qin, I'll find you the best public defender. You should be able to fight for a suspended sentence. If you behave well during your probation, your sentence may also be reduced,” Bingxin assured the man.
“I still have one more tiny request,” Mr. Qin turned to the both of us.
I nodded, ”Go ahead.”
Uncle Qin sighed, ”Can you publicize the case in the newspaper so people are aware of it? My hope is that Chinese girls will know what self-esteem and self-love are, and won’t be fooled by those foreign men. I have already lost my daughter and I hope no other family has to suffer the same tragedy.”
His words struck a chord with me and I found myself declaring, ”Yes! I promise to do this for you!”
Wiping away the uncontrollable tears that welled up in his eyes, Mr. Qin sighed, ”Thank you, thank you so much. Meeting the two of you was a stroke of good luck. I only did such a foolish thing because I couldn’t let it go. My daughter died for nothing while that Korean bastard still lived to harm other young girls in the future. I just couldn’t accept how unfair the situation was.”
As Bingxin consoled the man, I pulled out a stash of yellow joss papers and burned them while chanting the reincarnation mantra. Just as I finished, Bingxin asked me what to do with the two corpses. I said, ”If we want to separate them, we’ll have to saw off Qin Lu's arm. I don’t think Mr. Qin would be happy with that. Xiao Boli has no relatives anyway, so we might as well bury them like that.”
By the time we reached the bottom of the hill, it was already dark. Mr. Qin brought his car around and offered to send us home before turning himself in.
Taking one last look at the hill, he sighed with regret, ”Alas! This old locust tree grew on the graves of my ancestors yet I cut it down with great disrespect. This is my retribution.”
”You shouldn’t think of it like that,” I said. “Perhaps it is your ancestors who are protecting the descendants of the Qin family!”
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