Chen Yutian and the others followed the fishermen to the riverside.
Before we arrived, we saw a lot of people gathered by the river from a distance, mostly local people. They were surrounding an open space, talking among themselves, and their eyes showed horror.
I could faintly hear similar words coming from the crowd.
"Oh... what a sin..."
"Isn't it? It's really perverted to kill someone and not leave the body intact..."
Xing Enming looked at the scene in front of him and frowned slightly.
Then he beckoned Zhou Lin over, whispered a few words to Zhou Lin, Zhou Lin nodded slightly, and then led a few people away before everyone else.
Seeing Zhou Lin leading the policemen to disperse the surrounding people and sealing off the scene, Chen Yutian nodded slightly.
Then Chen Yutian and others, led by the fishermen, came to the two floating corpses.
These were indeed two floating corpses, because their skin had wrinkles and their clothes were wet. They had obviously just been fished out of the water.
Chen Yutian frowned slightly.
As the fishermen said when they reported the crime, the two floating corpses also had no heads. Therefore, the identity of the deceased is still difficult to determine.
The only thing that's certain is...
Chen Yutian squatted down slightly, picked up the right hand of one of the corpses that was wrinkled by blisters, slowly lifted up the half-wet sleeve, and his eyes suddenly narrowed slightly.
Underneath his sleeves was a familiar tattoo scar.
Obviously, these two people are also two of the nine snake heads of the Nine Snakes Association.
And they should be the last two snake heads of the Nine Snakes Society that are still alive except for the murderer Yue Lingxiao!
And now, they are dead too!
This shows that... Yue Lingxiao has achieved his goal, and he will probably hide away as quickly as possible so that no one can find him.
Thinking of this, Xing Enming's face became a little ugly.
At the same time, he also realized the urgency of this matter!
"If Yue Lingxiao cannot be arrested as soon as possible, I am afraid that this case will become an unsolved case and the murderer will never be caught again..."
Xing Enming frowned slightly.
On the other side, Gongsun had already begun a preliminary examination of the body.
Chen Yutian looked around, then looked at the river in front of him, and his eyes stayed on the old fisherman who was following him to the Yamen to report the crime.
"Old man, you said these two corpses were fished out of the river, right?"
"Yes... Sir, he and I fished these two out of the river..." The old fisherman pointed to his companion beside him. He was a middle-aged man who didn't look too young, with an unshaven beard. He had dark skin and looked honest and honest. When he saw the old man pointing at him, he immediately scratched his head and giggled in embarrassment.
The old fisherman immediately laughed and scolded: "Silly boy, why are you laughing? This is the eldest man in the government yamen. Why don't you meet the eldest man soon?"
While he was teaching the middle-aged man a lesson, he said to Chen Yutian: "I hope you will forgive me. This is my son. He has been fishing by the river all his life and has never seen the world..."
When Chen Yutian heard this, he quickly waved his hands and said with a smile: "Don't say that, old man. I think this eldest brother has an honest temperament. He must have found a good house with someone?"
Hearing this, the father-in-law suddenly showed a happy smile that could not be concealed...
After hearing the old man's words, the middle-aged man quickly bowed his head and said, "I have seen the great master..."
Chen Yutian quickly helped him up with a wry smile.
"Brother, you don't have to be so polite. It's better to tell me in detail what happened when you discovered these two corpses!"
The middle-aged man nodded, and then said: "Master Rongzhen... This morning, I went to the river to fish as usual. But who would have thought that as soon as I reached the center of the river with my boat, I saw something in the distance. There were two things floating up and down in the water. I felt a little strange, so I took the boat over to investigate..."
The middle-aged man described the scene to Chen Yutian and Xing Enming...
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Early in the morning, a small boat rowed slowly toward the center of the river. The boatman was holding his pole while looking around at the surrounding lake, as if he was looking for the most suitable place to cast his net.
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed slightly.
There seemed to be something catching his eye on the river in the distance.
Slowly zooming in, a black shadow floating on the river suddenly appeared in the boatman's sight. The black shadow surged from time to time with the waves of the river, which made the boatman feel very strange.
"Dad...Dad...come out and take a look, what is that?"
He shouted several times at the figure in the canopy of the small boat, and then he saw an old man in his sixties slowly walking out of the canopy.
"What's it called? What did you find?"
The old man glared at the middle-aged man rather unhappily and asked.
The middle-aged man pointed at the strange scene on the river.
The old man followed his point and looked over. After looking for a long time, he frowned slightly and shook his head, "I don't know. I've never seen anything before. Let's row the boat over and have a look."
"Hey, okay, dad!"
The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and then suddenly pushed himself hard into the water.
The boat approached the strange place on the river at an unprecedented speed.
Soon, the boat reached its destination.
The old man stood on the bow and looked in that direction. This time he finally saw it clearly. But the moment he saw clearly the strangeness in the center of the river, his face instantly turned extremely pale!
"This...this is..."
The middle-aged man looked at his father in confusion, and then realized that the old man's face was pale, as if he had discovered something extremely terrifying!
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
The old man was stunned at the bow of the boat for a quarter of an hour before he slowly came to his senses. He immediately grabbed his son and said, "Hurry up and prepare the fishing net..."
"Ah?" The middle-aged man was stunned, not knowing what his father meant.
"What are you doing standing here? Why don't you go quickly?" The old man glared at the middle-aged man fiercely, and then scolded him.
The middle-aged man was slightly stunned, handed the bamboo pole in his hand to the old man, and returned to the boat canopy to get the fishing net.
The old man held the wormwood and pushed towards the strange place with all his strength.
"Dad, the fishing net is here, but are there any fish here? Why did you ask me to bring the fishing net out?" The middle-aged man walked out of the boat canopy and looked at his father who was holding the boat hard.
"You'll find out later, why don't you hurry up and get ready to fish?" the old man said intermittently. As the words fell, the boat had already arrived at that strange place.
Things that were floating in the water before now revealed their true colors.
However, just when the middle-aged man saw clearly the true identity of the things floating in the river, his hands firmly holding the fishing net began to tremble involuntarily!
The old man on the side urged: "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you fish it out quickly?"
After hearing his father's urging, the middle-aged boatman finally knew what his father wanted to catch with his fishing net. But how could he get rid of this kind of thing?
I saw two headless corpses floating in the river, and an extremely pungent fishy smell was emanating from the water.
That's corpse odor!
"Why don't you do it quickly?" the old man urged.
The middle-aged man closed his eyes slightly, hesitated, endured the pungent stench, and suddenly dropped the fishing net in his hand, directly covering the two headless corpses...
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"You said these two corpses were floating in the center of the river before?" Chen Yutian asked as he looked at the river surface in the distance that was illuminated by the sun like a bright mirror.
"Yes." The middle-aged man and the old fisherman replied at the same time.
Chen Yutian nodded slightly.
According to the description of the father and son, the body was in the center of the river before it was discovered.
But why are they in that place?
After all, the location of the center of the river is no better than others. If there is no boat to travel, you have to rely on the Qinggong Room to get there.
And if so, then there are generally three possibilities for the corpse to appear in the center of the river.
First, the two deceased people reached that place by relying on Qinggong, but just after they arrived, their heads were cut off in strange ways, and they died.
Second, the two deceased people and the murderer took a boat to the center of the river, but at this moment the murderer suddenly attacked, chopped off their heads and killed them, and then Ah Jing's headless body sank into the river... …
Thirdly, the two deceased were killed and decapitated by the murderer elsewhere. After what happened last night, the murderer took a boat to the center of the river and sank their headless bodies into the river...
There are three possibilities. According to common sense, the first one is the least likely.
After all, no master of the Gangqi Separation Body would be free enough to use Qinggong to cross the river, because the more advanced the skill, the more he knows how to use internal force. Such a method that consumes a lot of internal force and is not very effective is generally only a glimpse. Only warriors from the Martial Arts Sect would do it.
After ruling out the first possibility, the remaining two possibilities are, strictly speaking, possible.
But the chances of the second possibility happening are slim.
Because when the deceased learned that the tragic deaths of their brothers had all happened at the hands of Yue Lingxiao, it was bound to be impossible for them and Yue Lingxiao to sit in the same boat again.
But everything is possible, so Chen Yutian did not directly rule out this possibility, but waited for Gongsun's autopsy results.
Because he had a hunch that Gongsun's autopsy results should also be able to help him rule out an answer.
Xing Enming stared at the river in a daze.
His thoughts were not on this case at the moment.
Or, to put it bluntly, his mind was not on the two corpses in front of him.
All his thoughts at the moment were focused on the suspected murderer Yue Lingxiao.
After killing the other snake heads of the former Nine Snakes Society except himself, what will be Yue Lingxiao's next move?
Although it is not completely certain, it should be impossible to kill someone.
After all, his goal should have been achieved the moment all the snake heads in the Nine Snakes Guild died, so it should be impossible for anyone to sacrifice anymore.
So what are Yue Lingxiao’s plans next?
According to ordinary people's thinking, he would definitely choose to hide so that the government and everyone could not find him.
But after all the previous signs, Xing Enming knew that Yue Lingxiao was not a person who acted according to ordinary people's thinking.
Then what his next move will be becomes extremely difficult to guess.
However, one thing Xing Enming knew very well was that no matter what, this was the last chance to capture Yue Lingxiao. Once this opportunity was missed, there would probably be no way to arrest this murderous murderer in the future.
"It seems that the next step will be a gamble..."
He muttered to himself.
At the same time, he looked at Gongsun who was doing the autopsy and the people in Jiulong Mansion who were searching the scene, and frowned slightly.
Then, his eyes slowly stared at the lower right corner of a huge rock not far from the river bank.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he just saw that there seemed to be something there.
Frowning slightly, Xing Enming touched his chin, took a step forward, and walked towards the boulder with eyes full of doubts.
"This is……"
When he came to the boulder, Xing Enming picked up a wooden branch and swept a few weeds at the lower right corner of the boulder.
There was nothing wrong at first, but at the moment when Xing Enming's face became more and more suspicious, a huge force suddenly came from the other end of the branch in his hand.
It seemed like it had hit something hard.
Xing Enming suddenly frowned.
With a sudden force, the branch in his hand pulled out the "hard object" from the grass with a force.
I saw a round object suddenly rolling out of the grass. After rolling on the ground for two or three times, it slowly stopped.
Xing Enming's eyes suddenly shrank!
"This is……"
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At this moment, Chen Yutian and Xuan Xi in the distance also noticed Xing Enming's movements.
They saw Xing Enming's expression suddenly change after taking a closer look at the round object rolling out of the grass. They immediately looked at each other, and they all found a hint of vague curiosity in each other's eyes. .
Xue Tianhan and Ling Miaoyin also noticed Xing Enming.
They looked at Xing Enming's fearful look at that moment, and looked thoughtful.
Bai Fan, Tian Ying, Tang Fengling, Wu Dongtian, Huo Yuanji, and Lin Feifeitong in the distance also noticed the situation here and came over curiously.
"Master Xing, what happened? Why are you looking like this?"
Bai Fan galloped towards Xing Enming from a distance and asked curiously. However, just when his footsteps were less than three steps away from Xing Enming's position, he suddenly stopped!
The next moment, a fleeting look of fear also appeared on his face!
Seeing this, everyone became more curious.
Soon, Chen Yutian, Xuan Xi, Xue Tianhan, Ling Miaoyin and others came over to find out. When they saw the true face of the thing in front of them, they couldn't help but suddenly changed their expressions!
"This... is actually..."
Gongsun walked over curiously, and the moment he saw the round thing, his eyes suddenly showed an inexplicable light!
I saw that round thing, and it turned out to be a human head, facing up to the sky, but with an expression of extreme surprise... a human head!
