"There are many marks of sword scratches all over the body of the deceased, but there are no scars on the body. It can be seen that the deceased must have practiced defensive martial arts similar to the golden bell, which is why such a phenomenon was caused." Gongsun pointed to the The headless body that was found told everyone.
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, then stepped forward and lifted up the cuff of the right arm of the headless corpse. As expected, a hideous scar appeared in front of his eyes, which was almost the same as the scars on Ling Zhanwu and others. different.
"He is indeed the head of the Nine Snakes Association!" Xuan Xi nodded aside.
Chen Yutian nodded, carefully circled the headless corpse twice, and then looked at the old man who was covering his granddaughter's eyes to prevent her from seeing the scene in front of him.
"Old man, come here and take a look. Are these clothes worn by the vicious person who came to your house last night?"
The father-in-law hesitated for a moment, then asked his granddaughter to stay where she was, and walked up to take a closer look. After just one glance, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly said to Chen Yutian: "Yes, sir, this person... this person He is the vicious person who came to my house last night! I remember this outfit and this scar. It was only when I saw the same scar on him and the person who was recovering from the injury that I thought they were acquaintances! How could I think……"
When the old man said this, he suddenly sighed.
Chen Yutian understood why he sighed, and then carefully observed the headless corpse again. The cause of death of the corpse could be judged from the blood spouting from the neck. What needed to be determined now was whether he was as different as the previous deceased. Generally, one is struck by the Heart-Destroying Sword Qi.
Generally speaking, since the deceased is proficient in defensive martial arts such as the Golden Bell Shield, it is not easy to break through his defense and take his life. The best way is to launch the attack from the inside out. It attacks the weakly defended body first, working from the inside out, and then kills.
If analyzed from this point, the deceased must have been struck by the Heart-Destroying Sword Qi!
But this is just speculation after all, without actual evidence to support it. Chen Yutian sighed slightly, shifted his gaze from the headless corpse, and looked around the scene.
The entire area within a few feet of the incident has been cordoned off by the government. Gyeonggi Prefecture police officers, Yongfeng County government officials, and Kowloon Prefecture detectives are scattered around and are conducting a thorough search of the entire crime scene. But so far, they haven't found anything suspicious.
Chen Yutian breathed a sigh of relief and glanced around unintentionally, only to find that Xue Tianhan was squatting under a tree, observing something attentively.
"Brother Xue, what did you discover?"
Chen Yutian walked over with a smile, and together with Xuan Xi and Ling Miaoyin, came to Xue Tianhan, and then saw Xue Tianhan frowning slightly and staring at something in his hand.
It was a dusty white rag!
Judging from the fabric of the piece of cloth, it should be part of silk clothing. Clothes made of this kind of fabric are not easy to break. In addition, there is no mess at the edge of the broken area. It can be determined that it was not accidentally caught on a branch and torn. What came off was... cut off from the clothes by some kind of sharp weapon.
Moreover, the rag was white, but almost all of the deceased was wearing darker-colored clothes. Even though he did wear a silk lining underneath, there was no damage to the clothes, and it was obviously not damaged. It was not cut by the deceased from the clothes of the deceased.
So whose clothing was this cut from?
The results speak for themselves.
"Is this what the murderer left behind?" Ling Miaoyin spoke in a tentative tone.
Xue Tianhan nodded, "That's right..."
"What does it mean?" Ling Miaoyin asked, frowning with a hint of confusion.
"Because I'm not completely sure, so I can only say that it's a guess." Xue Tianhan replied seriously, then looked up at Chen Yutian and found that he was staring intently at the fragment in his hand, so he reached out and took it Something was given to him.
"This was found under this tree. It should have been cut off by the deceased's weapon during the fight between the murderer and the deceased. But the strange thing is that I didn't see any weapons on the deceased's body!" Xue Tian Han said.
Chen Yutian took the piece of cloth from his hand and squinted his eyes slightly. But when he turned the other side of the cloth over and looked at it, he just glanced at it, and there seemed to be a flash of shock in his heart. However, everyone was stunned.
"This is……"
Xuan Xi glanced at it with curiosity and found that there were some special patterns on the back of the piece of cloth.
Xue Tianhan also looked at the pattern, and then at Chen Yutian's dull expression, with a hint of thoughtfulness in his eyes.
At this time, Gongsun's preliminary autopsy was basically completed.
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"The deceased's name is Mo Lingxiao, from Shanyang County, Linzhou. This is the official guide found on his body, as well as his token of being the head of the Nine Snakes Association." Gongsun pointed to the two pieces on the ground. He told everyone about the items found from the deceased.
Chen Yutian picked up Guan Ping Luyin and looked at it, and then picked up the jade pendant and looked at it. He nodded slightly, then looked at Gongsun and asked, "What about the deceased's time of death? Also, was he struck by the Heart-Destroying Sword Qi?"
After hearing these two questions, Gongsun nodded slightly and said: "The time of death was about four or five hours ago. This is basically consistent with what the old man said. It can be determined that the deceased should be the person who was recovering from his injuries. If there is no mistake , he should be Yue Lingxiao who is on the run."
Hearing this, Chen Yutian frowned slightly.
Xing Enming on the side had a gloomy expression and an angry look on his face.
This Yue Lingxiao has repeatedly killed people at the feet of the emperor in the capital. He even deliberately wanted to send the heads of people killed by him to the government. This is simply a naked provocation. He really doesn't let people like them, who are from the official family, go free. In the eyes!
"This guy is quite brave..." At this moment, Wu Gongtian suddenly said.
Chen Yutian's expression moved slightly and he glanced at him. The rest of the people also looked at him with a hint of surprise.
Xing Enming and Chen Tao asked with a hint of confusion, "How do you say this, Mr. Wu?"
Wu Dongtian smiled and said: "Two adults, please think carefully. If the murderer is replaced by ourselves, let us consider it from the murderer's point of view. If we ourselves kill someone, what will we do? What to do?"
Xing Enming and Chen Tao looked at each other.
They were all people who had been involved in the officialdom for many years, so they could naturally understand the true meaning of Wu Dongtian's words, and asked: "Master Wu, you mean...the murderer's behavior is somewhat unreasonable?"
Wu Dongtian nodded slightly.
Xing Enming squinted his eyes and thought carefully, then said: "That's right... If it were an ordinary murderer, his first reaction after killing someone would be to run away. The farther away the better, but the murderer in this case obviously did the opposite. To put it bluntly, it has been nearly half a month since the incident, and he is still wandering around the capital, killing a few more people from time to time. He doesn't look like a fugitive on the run..."
At this point, he suddenly stopped and his eyes suddenly lit up!
"Could it be that...his purpose was not to escape at all? Or, from the very beginning, when he chose to leave the capital, it was not to escape, but to...lead out and kill these subsequent deceased ones one by one?"
Xing Enming's expression suddenly changed!
This is an extremely bold guess, but judging from the various actions taken by the murderer so far, it is not completely impossible to happen.
Chen Yutian nodded slightly.
He did not tell Xing Enming about the Nine Snakes Society. After all, this matter not only involved this case, but also involved the secrets of the eight saint clans, Futian Sect and other saints. These, without the permission of the four saints, The fewer people who know, the better.
And Xing Enming was able to deduce the murderer's purpose very accurately without knowing anything about the Nine Snakes Association, which shows that his own reasoning ability is not weak.
But after all, he was still missing important information and couldn't put the puzzle together completely.
"Yue Lingxiao's motive for escaping from the capital is indeed as Uncle Xing said. It was to wait for an opportunity to lure out and kill the nine snake heads one by one. The purpose is probably to prevent the fragments of the map recording the location of the Feng Family's most treasured treasure from falling into the Futian Sect. In his hands. But what I still can’t figure out is why he must dismember the body of the deceased after killing someone? Is it just his quirk of killing people?”
Chen Yutian thought secretly in his heart.
"No, it shouldn't be that simple... He must have a deep meaning in doing this, but what is his purpose? And..."
Thinking of this, Chen Yutian subconsciously looked at the pattern on the piece of white cloth in his hand and frowned slightly.
"...How could this thing appear at the murder scene?"
The moment his thoughts fell, a figure that he had only seen once but would never forget suddenly appeared in his mind.
That's... Ling Xiaowu!
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A pure white robe hung gently on the hanger.
The robe was very new, as if it had just been washed. It was placed on the hanger, and there were faint drops of water dripping from it.
On the hem of the robe, at the lower right corner, there is a mark that seems to have been cut by a sword or other sharp weapon, which makes the front hem obviously missing a piece compared to the back hem.
A bare hand suddenly picked up the missing piece of front hem.
A pretty face appeared with the appearance of bare hands, and her pretty eyebrows frowned slightly, as if she was distressed about the damaged clothes.
Immediately, she looked behind her with a trace of resentment in her eyes.
There, there was a girl in men's clothing sitting side by side with a man in blue.
And that ray of resentment was looking at the young man in blue.
"Uh..." Looking at the girl's resentful eyes, the young man in blue smiled helplessly. The girl wearing men's clothes beside him couldn't help laughing when he saw this.
"Hehe... I'm asking you, a stinking fart, to show off again. This is a dress sewn by Sister Xiaoxiao herself, but you only wore it for a few days before it was scratched... It's really..." Liu Huangcui He looked at Ling Xiaowu and joked.
Hearing this, Ling Xiaowu smiled bitterly.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the damaged area for a long time, then let it go with a slight frown on her face, came to sit in front of Liu Huangcui and Ling Xiaowu, and sat down.
"Sister Xiaoxiao, what did you find?" Liu Huangcui quickly came over and asked with a smile.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Ling Xiaowu solemnly, her eyes slightly complicated: "I looked carefully and found that the neat gap couldn't be cut by a sword. That piece should have been cut by a sword energy. Yes, right?"
"Sword Qi?" Upon hearing this, Liu Huangcui on the side was involuntarily surprised.
"You actually still have sword energy that can touch your clothes? Who is this person?" Liu Huangcui looked at Ling Xiaowu in surprise and asked.
Ling Xiaowu smiled bitterly.
Because of the particularity of his Taiyi Immortal Demonic Body, under normal circumstances, the body-protecting Gang Qi formed by him in the Gang Qi separation realm will be one layer more than that of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this extra layer, This makes one's own defense almost impeccable. After all, under normal circumstances, no matter how powerful the attack is, it can only destroy one's own layer of protective aura at most. The other layer is one that most people wouldn’t expect, so it’s naturally impossible for it to be broken.
Because of this, Liu Huangcui and Yu Xiaoxiao were so surprised when they discovered that the piece of clothing was actually cut off by the sword energy. Because this means that during the battle, two layers of protective energy were broken by a sword energy.
However, this is not the case.
"I don't know who he is, but his sword energy is really weird... because he didn't destroy my first layer of defense, but directly passed through this layer of defense and directly destroyed the second layer. . Just like his sword energy seems to... be able to penetrate the inner force."
"Penetrating internal power?" Liu Huangcui exclaimed.
Yu Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed, and while she covered her mouth, her eyes and pupils suddenly shrank, and she remembered a legend about the Taiyi Sect in the past.
Ling Xiaowu obviously knew what she was thinking, and waved his hand slightly and smiled, "Don't worry, according to legend, the sword energy can penetrate the inner force once at most. There are two levels of my immortal and demon inner force. I just need to be more careful next time." There won’t be any problem.”
Yu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.
Liu Huangcui asked: "Does this person... have anything to do with your enemy?"
Hearing this question, Ling Xiaowu pondered for a moment and said: "He... should also be one of my enemies, but for some reason, they actually started killing each other... and I saw with my own eyes that he was killing people. After that, he cut off the other party’s head.”
"You said he cut off the dead man's head?" Liu Huangcui's eyes suddenly changed and she exclaimed.
Ling Xiaowu nodded, his eyes also a little solemn.
"Judging from this, the headless corpse we found on the road before should be one of them." Yu Xiaoxiao calmed down slightly and said slowly.
The other two people nodded, and then Liu Huangcui narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "Brother Ling, it seems... the purpose of the mysterious person who sent you the letter should not be simple. It may be related to the fact that your Feng family was exterminated back then."
Hearing this, Ling Xiaowu's eyes suddenly turned slightly cold.
"you mean……"
"Think about it, since our Taiyi Tianfu was established, we have been searching the rivers and lakes for the bandits from the Nine Snakes Association, but we have found nothing. This shows that these guys are hidden deep enough, but that mysterious person who wrote to you , but can easily tell you that they are all hiding in the capital, and asking you to come to the capital to take revenge, is this a bit strange? What's more, as soon as we arrived in the capital, the bandits of the Nine Snakes Society in the past began to die violently. To be honest, this is too much of a coincidence... I always feel that things are not that simple, and we... still have to be careful."
Liu Huangcui changed her previous playful expression and spoke with great solemnity.
Hearing this, Ling Xiaowu also nodded extremely solemnly.
