As soon as I walked in, a strange smell hit my face. Although the body has been removed, the entire room has not been cleaned in order to preserve the scene. There was no wind in the house, and there was a fishy smell mixed with a damp musty smell. Maybe it's because it's been too long, so it's not very pungent, but it's definitely not pleasant. The black blood stains solidified on the ground criss-crossed like water veins, and the source could be roughly determined.
Liang Yuejun told them that the witness also said that he saw the silly aunt opening the door for someone in the afternoon, fearing that she had turned into a monster and lurked in the house like this.
There were blood splatters on the low corners and table legs. Perhaps someone was bitten to death in a dream, and the person who woke up fought the monster but failed. Shi Wuqi also found a blood stain in the kitchen. Liang Yuejun said that the silly aunt died there. Maybe she was thirsty in the middle of the night and got up to look for water.
There are still too few clues. I had to wait until I got to the ice cellar to see the corpses with my own eyes.
At noon, they randomly found a restaurant to fill their stomachs. In fact, no one felt that it was time to eat. Even Aluan didn't complain about being hungry. It was just that when it was time to eat, he felt it was inappropriate not to eat. While waiting for the waiter to serve the food, Shan Hai asked Liang Yuejun where the document for transferring the land deed was. Fortunately, this thing is on Liangyue-kun - he asked for it. The rich man dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so he did not let him go. If he was delayed any longer, he would have no excuse to detain him for investigation.
The man who heads the house has been studying for two years and knows some words, but he can't write. The description in the document was simple and direct, so there was little chance that they would be deceived. The boss's fingerprints were clearly printed on the end of the paper.
"What if the rich man really sent someone to kill him?"
Mu Wan did not rule out this suspicion. Her prejudice against being an official has always been very big. Liang Yuejun shook his head and said:
"The rich man has been thinking about the little girl of the Tan family for a long time, but now that she has been kidnapped by a monster, he himself is filled with hatred."
At this time, the waiter came over with a plate. So they stopped discussing and moved their chopsticks. The food was neither unpleasant nor appetizing. It just tasted like chewing gum and felt like nothing had been eaten at all. Although several of them had seen the world, the scene in the morning had some effect on their appetite.
After eating, Liang Yuejun still took them with him. When meeting fellow villagers, both sides still saluted politely.
The ice cellar is located near the mountain, at the other end of the village. The hole was dug very deep and they walked carefully for a long time. I never thought that there was a huge amount of ice stored here, and the ice blocks of different shapes were stacked together. Liangyue Jun said that these were all dug by the villagers from the mountains or rivers in winter and worked together to store them here.
Fearing that the heat of the fire would melt the ice, Lord Bai Skeleton raised his fan and waved it gently, and the torches in Shan Hai and Mu Wan's hands turned into blue light. The light was still bright, but it felt cold.
Going deeper, they saw the five corpses as they wished.
Liang Yuejun said that spiritual power was injected into them, which was true. Even after a few months, they still maintained their original appearance and had not rotted, and the entire ice cellar had no peculiar smell. Both old men were stabbed in the heart with sharp objects, which hurt their hearts and died. The woman's throat was stabbed and her blood vessels were broken. The man was even worse, with a sharp object piercing his eyes and penetrating his brain. And that silly aunt who died at the door of the kitchen had blood on her clothes but no scars.
It looked like the work of some kind of beast or monster with sharp fangs.
"They said, what kind of monster is the monster that kidnapped Miss Tange?"
"Dog demon." Liang Yuejun answered truthfully.
It does look like the marks left by canine teeth. But……
I always feel strange.
Shi Wuqi stretched out his hand and gestured above the corpses, and the mountains and seas also circled the wooden frame several times. Mu Wan stood nearby, looking back and forth at the stored ice cubes. Shi Wuqi signaled Shan Hai to help, and with the help of Miss Qi, he turned over several corpses. Only then did they discover that the silly aunt's injuries were on her back.
During the whole process, Shan Hai's movements were cautious and unscrupulous, and Shi Wuqi went straight to it as if he had no feeling at all, touching the body and breaking it apart, like picking vegetables in the market.
"has a problem."
He raised his hand and straightened the thumb and index finger of his right hand.
Liang Yuejun turned to look at him: "It doesn't matter if you say so."
"If they are made by the same monster, the distance between the canine teeth has changed. Is the girl's name Tan Ge? Taking Tan Ge's father as an example, the distance between the two teeth is exactly the distance between a person's eyes. But this does not matter to her My mother's thin neck has shrunk just on both sides of her throat. As for the two old people... there is not much difference, but the cross-sectional shape of the bite marks is slightly different."
"Master Shi is right," Shan Hai frowned, and then said, "Judging from the weaker dog demons I've seen, it's not a big problem to crush a person's skull, but the girl's father's eye sockets were not damaged. , there is no bone residue at all. As for the aunt who was stabbed in the back, the two holes just avoided the hard ribs and pierced the heart. "
"Oh? Are you saying that this matter was not caused by monsters?"
"It's not so absolute..." Shi Wuqi spread out a hand stained with solidified blood, "It's not safe, it's a monster that turned into a human form. But I don't think it's necessary. If you can practice turning into a human, you can still do it." Why bother?"
While they were saying these words, Mu Wan led Dai Luan around and took a closer look at the body. She also echoed:
"Indeed, if you say it's a dog monster, I'm afraid it's untenable. Monsters hurt people without any rules, and their power is definitely superior to humans, but these... deadly moves are more like the actions of assassins who have a very good understanding of human structure. for."
Dai Luan stretched out her hand several times, wanting to touch the corpse's arm, but she always remembered Master Ru Yuejun's instructions and had to give up.
Liang Yuejun walked up to Shanhai, frowning, turning his face sideways, with a solemn expression.
"According to Taoist Master and everyone else's wishes...were everyone in the Tan family harmed by traitors?"
"We are not sure. But, judging from the current situation, it is indeed the case. Why don't we go to the ground first, and then you can lend us the contract to take a look."
When I walked up there, it was almost dusk and the light was a little darker, but it did not affect the writing. They passed the paper around and read it several times, but they couldn't figure it out.
"Let me take a look?" Dai Luan stretched out her head and ran around among the people chasing the piece of paper.
"Little girl, please don't cause trouble. Your master has a very bad headache." Shi Wuqi smiled bitterly and handed the paper to Shan Hai.
Dai Luan ran to Shan Hai again and pulled hard on the hem of his clothes, swinging him like a swing.
"Mountains and seas, show me - look -"
"Don't make trouble."
He took a few more glances at the paper. It was well preserved by Liang Yuejun and was relatively new. He sat on a rock and sighed softly.
"Mountains and seas," Aluan spoke again, "Isn't the blood of the dead...all black?"
"That's natural."
Liang Yuejun glanced at her.
"But I just saw that the man's thumb was still bright red."
At this time, everyone looked at her. She was still a little uncomfortable being stared at by several pairs of eyes.
"What, what's wrong? Maybe I saw it wrong..."
Shan Hai suddenly stood up and stared at the last fingerprint, almost seeing through it.
Careless.
Unexpectedly, the problem was not the words themselves, but the final fingerprints. With Aluan's reminder, he accidentally discovered the most critical and decisive evidence.
For all documents and contracts, the contents are written down first, and then signed or pressed with fingers. But in this letter, the ink writing happened to cover the cinnabar of the fingerprints. Although the pen is very thin and the characters are small, with only a few strokes covering it, it is enough to illustrate the problem.
"Liangyue-kun, you see, this is obviously killing people first and taking the seal later."
"...That makes sense. Then, new problems will arise."
"Any more questions?" Mu Wan asked him.
"How to prove that this is not the work of a dog demon?"
"this……"
A group of people were speechless.
It sounds really ridiculous. There is no way to infer such a thing. But if you think about it for a moment, you will understand that once a person is sure that a monster did something, what he needs to do is to prove that it was done by a person. But the most important thing - there is no clue about the murderer, the motive of the murder, especially the important murder weapon.
In comparison, it is much more suspicious to be a human being.
"If we can find the murder weapon, we will get twice the result with half the effort." Mu Wan thought.
"Why don't we change the angle - let's go up the mountain to find the dog demon and use its tooth marks to compare, and we can clear the suspicion."
"...You, Lord Bai Skeleton, are really proud of themselves. Do people come just as they say? Only monsters don't bother to prove their innocence to others."
"Knock him unconscious and tie him up!"
Dai Luan came up with a blind idea. Shan Hai glared angrily:
"Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?"
There are all kinds of talks, and the discussion can't come up with a clear answer. It was getting dark, and Mr. Liangyue was not in a hurry, so he just sat aside and watched the excitement. The temperature has also dropped, and the evening breeze comes from a distance with a faint smell of lake water. The few people argued for a while, and Shanhai suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked Mu Wan:
"Your Tengu, strictly speaking... isn't it also a dog demon?"
Mu Wan was stunned.
"What you said seems to make some sense."
"Could it be smaller?"
"It's not difficult."
——Since you can't invite me, you can find a substitute, and it won't be much different. A consensus was reached on the hotly debated topic. Mu Wan raised his hand and raised his arm. In the last light of the setting sun, a network of black and red veins suddenly appeared on her white arms. But it disappeared in just a moment. Feeling the resonance of his bloodline, the Tengu appeared in the sky, breaking through the fiery clouds, and his snow-white body hung with golden flame-like remnants of clouds swooping down.
When it fell next to them, it was still a terrifying-looking behemoth. But it is clean, full of energy, and glows softly in the dark scene, making people feel at ease looking at it.
Dai Luan's head was embedded in the white dog hair.
