Yuanshan Mountain in Youzhou was the first place where the corpse was found.
When everyone in Jiulong Mansion and Lin Feifei came here in a hurry, the body had not been moved yet.
However, the scene has been blocked by many police officers.
"Master Ling, how is the situation?"
Chen Yutian walked slowly to Ling Yuntian. After returning from Ling Mo's private residence, before he entered the post office, he met someone who came to report from the Yamen.
So without taking any rest, he hurriedly led everyone from Jiulong Mansion to the scene.
Ling Yuntian has been anxious ever since he saw the corpse at the scene.
Because too many people died this time.
Moreover, there was a vacancy in the Yamen office due to Han Leng's death. In a short period of time, no one could be found to replace him.
Therefore, autopsy has become a problem.
"Master Chen, you are finally here."
Looking at Chen Yutian, Ling Yuntian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sir, let's not talk too much. Please let Mr. Gongsun do the autopsy first."
"good."
Chen Yutian nodded and glanced at Gongsun slightly.
Gongsun understood immediately and took the tools to the grass pit beside the road to inspect the body.
Except for Xue Tianhan, the rest of the people, including Li Qing, Meng Gang, and Lin Feifei who came together, were all scattered around the scene to conduct searches.
"Master Ling, what on earth is going on?"
Chen Yutian glanced at the densely packed corpses in the grass pit, and his expression suddenly darkened.
Because he saw that among these corpses, there were two children no more than ten years old.
How could such a young child be so cruel? This murderer is so heartless!
"Just now, the Yamen received a report that many bodies were found here. When I arrived with my people, this place was already like this."
"According to the injuries on their bodies, they probably encountered gangsters on the road and the whole family was massacred to death."
Ling Yuntian shook his head slightly.
"Who discovered the body first?"
Xue Tianhan looked around, his eyes resting on a woodcutter who was being arrested and questioned.
"The person who discovered the body was a woodcutter, and he was the one who went to the Yamen to report the crime. And according to what he said, when he found the body, there was originally a person alive, but he died after saying a few words to him."
After Ling Yuntian finished speaking, Chen Yutian's eyes were also locked on the woodcutter.
"Where is the identity of the deceased?" he asked.
"It's still under investigation, but I believe there will be results soon."
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, and then he and Xue Tianhan came to the woodcutter.
"Are you the woodcutter who first discovered the body?"
The woodcutter nodded and said, "Yes, I wonder if you have anything to ask, sir?"
"You said that when you found the body, there was still a living person inside?"
"Yes."
"He only said one sentence to you and then died, right?"
"That's right."
"Then, what did he say?"
"What did you say……"
The woodcutter scratched the back of his head, thought for a while, and said:
"He seemed to have said something like "court...". Sorry, his voice was too low at the time, so I couldn't hear him clearly."
"It doesn't matter."
Chen Yutian waved his hand gently, turned around and began to ponder.
"In court...what exactly does he want to say?"
"Could it be that you want this woodcutter to report the crime?"
Xue Tianhan guessed.
"Reporting a crime... It doesn't seem like it. If it is really a report, then he can just say it directly without saying the word 'court'..."
…
"grown ups……"
After Gongsun examined the body, he walked straight towards Chen Yutian.
"Gongsun, how is the situation?"
Chen Yutian nodded slightly towards Gongsun and asked.
"Most of the deceased were hacked to death with random knives. There must be more than one murderer. According to the spots on their bodies, they probably died for more than a day and a night, and I checked their bodies and found no property."
Gongsun frowned, his expression slightly gloomy.
Apparently, he was also angry at the murderer's unscrupulous behavior.
"There is no property? Is it really the crime of robbers?" Chen Yutian murmured, his eyes unintentionally swept over and landed on the broken carriage beside him.
There was no blood on the carriage, but it was in dilapidated condition.
Judging from its appearance, it looks like it has rolled down from a very high place.
Not only was the frame loose, but the curtain was broken.
"What's going on with this carriage?"
"Reporting to your lord, according to the woodcutter who found the body, the carriage overturned and was crushed under the body when the body was found. It must be the carriage they were riding in before they were killed," a government official replied.
"That's it." Chen Yutian nodded and looked at the place where the corpse was laid out again.
This is a grass pit, and there are no cliffs and rocks around it. Naturally, it is impossible for the carriage to roll down directly from a high place.
So, where does it come from?
"Sir, we have discovered something." Li Qing's voice came from a distance.
Hearing his voice, almost everyone in the Jiulong Mansion and Lin Feifei raised their heads. When they saw Li Qing holding something and waving it vigorously, everyone gathered over.
"This is……"
Chen Yutian looked at what Li Qing handed into his hands.
It was a broken piece of black cloth with some blood stains on it.
"It looks like pieces of clothing, but among the dead, no one seems to be wearing black clothes?" Gongsun was a little confused.
"Since it doesn't belong to the deceased, it must belong to the murderer. Li Qing, where did you find this thing?"
Li Qing pointed to a towering tree in the distance.
The fragments were found on the branches of this tree.
Wu Dongtian jumped up, landed on the branch, and looked around.
Immediately, the sparkle in his eyes disappeared.
"Look there!"
He suddenly pointed in a direction and his voice was extremely solemn.
Everyone was startled and looked along his gaze, only to see a larger piece of black cloth under the cliff not far from the tree.
"This doesn't seem to be a piece of clothing?"
Walking to the foot of the cliff, Gongsun picked up the larger black rag, compared it with the small rag in his hand, and pondered slightly.
"Indeed it is not. If I guessed correctly, this object should be the front curtain of the carriage."
Chen Yutian stared at the two not-so-clear ruts next to the black cloth.
"The curtain of the carriage?"
The eyes of Gongsun and everyone else were also attracted by the two ruts. The next moment, everyone invariably followed the ruts and looked forward.
Not far ahead in a straight line is the place where corpses are buried.
Then, everyone raised their heads and looked upward.
I saw that the cliff was so high that I couldn't even see the top.
Although the mountain is extremely steep, it is relatively smooth.
More importantly, the foot of the cliff is the starting point of the rut.
Looking at this rut, everyone looked at each other and took a breath of air, with extremely unbelievable colors in their eyes.
"No way……"
…
"Brother, do you know the way up from here?" Chen Yutian pointed to the cliff that was too high to reach the top and asked the woodcutter who first discovered the body.
The woodcutter looked up and pointed to the path next to him.
"Sir, if you keep walking along this road, you can reach the top of the mountain."
"Thank you." Chen Yutian smiled slightly, and then led everyone in Jiulong Mansion and Lin Feifei to go up the mountain along the path.
After arriving at the top of the mountain, everyone found a rutted path leading to the cliff, with little scarlet blood stains dotted around it.
Seeing this, everyone immediately understood that the carriage was indeed pushed down from here.
And based on the blood stains around the ruts, it can be determined that the carriage at that time should still be carrying those corpses.
Seeing this, the disbelief in everyone's eyes became more intense.
"It's unbelievable. The carriage really pushed the body down from here, and after falling off the cliff, it was not damaged. Instead, it directly used the momentum to cross the mountain road, and then the body and the carriage overturned together. ?”
"This is unbelievable!"
Lin Feifei looked at the completely unclear ground under the cliff, with an incredible look on her face.
Chen Yutian also smiled and nodded.
"Yes, no one can believe it, but judging from the situation at the scene, I'm afraid this is the real situation..."
"And judging from the situation at the scene, it is obvious that the murderer used a carriage to pull the corpses to the cliff to eliminate the traces of the corpses in order to prevent others from finding them. However, they did not expect that the situation at the foot of the mountain was not what they thought. Human traces.”
Gongsun also smiled.
Huo Yuanji nodded and said, "Mr. Gongsun is absolutely right. This rut must have been the route they took to dump the body. If you follow the rut, you might be able to find the first scene of the crime."
Chen Yutian also nodded, "It makes sense, then let's go and take a look."
After saying that, he walked along the direction of the ruts and bloodstains.
Everyone also followed closely.
The group of people followed the bloodstains and ruts left along the way and arrived near an official road extending in all directions. At this time, the ruts and bloodstains completely disappeared.
"The ruts disappeared here... It seems that this is very likely to be the first scene of the crime."
Gongsun narrowed his eyes slightly, looked around, and said to everyone.
"Maybe……"
Chen Yutian answered ambiguously, "But, where is this place?"
"This... seems to be the official road we walked when we came to Youzhou..."
Wu Dongtian looked around, picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, put it to his nose and smelled it.
"Well, it is indeed the official way when we came." Gongsun also nodded.
But the next moment, his body suddenly froze in place as if struck by thunder.
He looked at the rutted and bloodstained path leading to the cliff, and at the direction relative to Youzhou, showing a look of great shock.
It was as if this moment made him think of something unbelievable.
"impossible……"
As he murmured, the look of shock in his eyes became more intense, and his gaze towards the cliff gradually changed.
Chen Yutian thought he was a little strange, so he asked: "Mr. Gongsun, what did you think of?"
Gongsun nodded slightly.
"I don't know what it is. Can you tell me so that everyone can listen..."
Gongsun thought for a while, nodded, and said only one word, "Okay."
Then he looked at Xue Tianhan and everyone on the side, "Do you still remember that day when we were looking for the remaining personnel left on the account books?"
Everyone except Chen Yutian and Bai Fan nodded.
"Of course I remember. All of them moved to the capital a day or two ago."
"Not bad!" Gongsun nodded, and then looked at the surrounding situation with a slightly complicated look.
"Just now, I suddenly thought of a possibility. If these people were suddenly intercepted and killed halfway when their families were moving to the capital, do you think there is such a possibility?"
Hearing this, everyone's eyes froze.
"This..." Huo Yuanji's expression was slightly frozen, and he didn't know what to say.
Although he didn't want to think that this possibility was true from the bottom of his heart, he had a terrible intuition that told him that Gongsun's guess was very likely to be the truth.
The mood of the rest of the people was equally complicated.
Only Chen Yutian and Bai Fan, who didn't understand the ins and outs, looked at their surroundings very seriously.
"It's too early to say that now. After all, we don't even know the identity of the deceased yet."
Chen Yutian's way of condensation and gravity.
The rest of the people also nodded slightly.
"However, this is indeed the only official road from Youzhou to the capital. If you want to go from Youzhou to the capital, this is the only way. Since those deceased were all killed on this road, then it can It is certain that the deceased was intercepted and killed by the murderer on the way to the capital. After his death, his body was thrown under the cliff along with the car and people."
Chen Yutian said again, his eyes extremely solemn.
The situation mentioned by Gongsun can be inferred from his words just now.
Although he didn't quite agree with his speculation, Chen Yutian didn't dare to deny it rashly.
Because he knows the opponent hidden behind the scenes too well.
Judging from all the previous signs, it is shown that this opponent is definitely a ruthless, cold and ruthless person.
He can kill anyone who is of no use to him or who might leak any clues related to the case without hesitation.
Therefore, he did not rule out that in order to ensure that the clues would not be leaked, this person deliberately persuaded those who Huadie could not solve in the future to move their families, and then he arranged for people to intercept and kill them halfway and send everyone to hell. Because only dead people will not reveal any clues.
I have to say that this method is too vicious.
But Chen Yutian believed that the opponent who was hiding and laughing in the dark could definitely do it.
"Hopefully it's not that bad..."
He sighed in his heart. For some reason, he always had a bad premonition, always feeling that things would come true...
…
When they returned to the cliff, everyone discovered that there were a few more people at the scene.
I saw a middle-aged man in green clothes with a sad look on his face as he looked at the many corpses that had been moved out and covered with white cloth.
Fang Jing and Ling Yuntian were talking next to him, as if they were asking the middle-aged man to express his condolences.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood that the identity of the deceased must have been found out...
Sure enough, as soon as everyone arrived at the scene, they saw Ling Yuntian hurriedly came to Chen Yutian and said: "Sir, the identity of the deceased has been found out."
"Oh?" Chen Yutian's expression changed slightly.
The rest of the people immediately focused their attention on Ling Yuntian the moment they heard these words.
Ling Yuntian was stunned for a moment!
"The deceased are Chu Yuhai's family who were preparing to move to the capital city not long ago. This is his cousin Wang Peng. According to him, Chu Yuhai's family left Youzhou City two days ago, presumably in the middle of the night. I encountered bandits on the road and lost my life in vain."
Hearing this, everyone in Jiulong Mansion suddenly changed their expressions!
Chu Yuhai, this name is exactly the person in the account book with missing pages, who did not die at the hands of Hua Butterfly!
Unexpectedly, the dead person is actually the person on the account book with missing pages!
Could it be that... things are really as Gongsun speculated, and this is another murder case to prevent clues from being leaked?
Or was it simply intercepted by bandits?
For a moment, Chen Yutian and everyone in Jiulong Mansion were in a state of confusion.
