Unlike during the day when yang energy is abundant, yin energy naturally deepens late at night, and some deeply hidden clues are easier to discover.
Shen Hao pushed open the door of Hou Qi Mansion and walked in. He glanced at the minced meat on the ground and said leisurely: "Tsk, the Yin energy is dispersed but there is no ghost remnant. It's a clean death."
Generally speaking, people who are killed by evil spirits will have residual souls left behind. This is just like accidentally spilling some residue when eating. But now, even in the middle of the night when the Yin Qi is at its strongest, there are scattered corpses around Still no remnant soul was found.
This is not normal.
At least Shen Hao has never seen evil spirits eat so cleanly.
Go in through the back door and walk all the way forward to the side hall that you have been to before. There are dozens of pairs of footboards in the middle of the hall, which are already a little black.
Shen Hao didn't hold a lamp. He practiced the night eye technique to see objects completely unaffected by the light. His sight quickly passed through every corner of the side hall, seemingly sweeping away but not missing any detail.
Sniff sniff...
After twitching his nose a few times, Shen Hao frowned slightly and smelled the smell of corpse.
He took a few steps forward and squatted down. A few feet in front of him were the blackened feet, and the smell of corpses became even stronger.
"Keng!"
Shen Hao pulled out the Yanji Knife from his waist, picked up the foot plate closest to him and turned it over. He saw a gray stain on the sole of the foot.
"Um?"
Without stopping, Shen Hao soon turned over all the footboards in the side hall. Six of them had rotten spots on them.
After standing up again, Shen Hao stood motionless in the side hall holding the knife, his brows furrowed as if he was thinking about something.
After a long time, Shen Hao left the side hall and went straight to the kitchen.
Waving his hand to indicate that those on shift need not follow him, Shen Hao continued to open the kitchen door alone and walked in.
The moment the door was opened, the moonlight filtered in and shone on the intestines inside, making it even more eerie.
Similarly, there is a faint smell of corpse here compared to the daytime.
He picked carefully with a knife. Although Shen Hao was already used to blood, the pile of internal organs still made his stomach churn.
Soon the bits and pieces of offal in the kitchen were sorted into two piles, a small pile and a large pile, the smaller pile was obviously black in color.
Fortunately, the smell of corpses is not strong, otherwise, you would have to cover your mouth and nose with a layer of green onion and ginger buns to get in.
The smell of corpses in the back kitchen was stronger than in the previous side hall.
Pushing the door open and going out, he took a long breath to suppress the discomfort in his stomach, waved, and a Xuanqing guard trotted over not far away.
"Xiao Qi, what are your orders?"
"Go and find Wu Zuo, and also find Wang Xiaoling, and tell him that I will wait for him here."
"yes."
It didn't take long for Wang Xiaoling to arrive.
"Little flag."
"Well, Wang Jian, please immediately arrange for someone to go to the Yamen and collect the information on all missing persons around Wuyang City in the past month."
"Ah? Xiaoqi, did you find any clues again?"
"Well, let's wait until Wu Zuo comes and arrange what I just said first."
"Okay Flag."
Soon Wang Jian arranged for three strong men to go to the Yamen overnight. Xuan Qingwei never cares about the feelings of the local government when handling cases. How dare he not cooperate? Take the path of death.
Wu Zuo arrived very quickly, carrying a small wooden box on his back and being carried over by a Xuanqing guard on horseback. Perhaps because of his nervousness, there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.
"My lord, sir, I don't know, what are your orders?"
"Don't be nervous. What's your name? How long have you been working as a widower? Are you a local?"
"The younger one's name is Zhang Fushun. He's a local and has been working as a widower for more than ten years."
"Very good. Let me ask you, did you conduct a detailed investigation of the body in Qi Mansion before?"
"No, no. It's just a preliminary look. We need to wait until the scene is cleared before we can bury the body here and conduct a careful inspection."
Shen Hao shook his head and waved to the people behind him to hold the lamp.
"Come on, go in, I have something to ask you."
Besides Wu Zuo, the only person who followed Shen Hao into the back kitchen was Wang Jian.
But even with the lights on, the cruel scene in the kitchen still made Wang Jian and Zuo tremble visibly.
Shen Hao pointed to the two piles of viscera, one large and one small, that he had just separated on the ground and said to the man: "Please make sure there is any difference between these two piles of viscera."
"Yes sir."
The doubt on Wu Zuo's face flashed away, and he quickly squatted in front of the viscera, then opened the small box he brought and started working.
After a moment of burning incense, Wu Zuo stood up again with a look of surprise on his face.
"Your Excellency, I have done a "timing" on these two piles of internal organs and found that although these two piles of internal organs belong to human organs, the smaller pile of internal organs has begun to show signs of decay. This shows that the small pile of internal organs has begun to show signs of decay. This pile of guts will be removed and inactivated before the larger push of guts.”
Although this is a bit awkward to say, it is not difficult to understand.
Wang Jian's eyes widened and he frowned, as if he was hesitant to speak.
Shen Hao continued to ask expressionlessly: "Be more careful. I want a specific time of death. Can you do it?"
"The little ones do their best."
After a while, Wu Zuo stood up again and bowed: "Sir, we have preliminary results. The death time of the two large piles of internal organs should not exceed twelve hours, and the death time of the smaller pile should not exceed twelve hours." Between eighteen and twenty hours.”
Seeing that Shen Hao seemed dissatisfied, Wuzuo felt a little timid and quickly explained: "My lord, please forgive me, but it is difficult to judge because the internal organs decay at different speeds, unless there are more body parts to assist."
Shen Hao smiled and said, "Of course."
After leaving the kitchen, we went to the side hall and the main room, and finally to the Jingguan in the atrium of the main entrance.
...
"My lord, the body has been segmented."
"explain."
"After careful investigation, a small number of the corpses did not die last night, but much earlier. The specific time of death should be during the early hours of yesterday morning. Therefore, these corpses will be smaller than the rest of the corpses after being broken into pieces. It will rot and stink first.
In addition, every head in Jingguan has been briefly cleaned and inspected. Among them, three heads were so damaged that their appearance could not be distinguished. "
After Wu Zuo finished speaking, he stood aside.
Shen Hao pondered for a moment, nodded, waved his hand for Wu Zuo to leave, and said at the same time: "Tomorrow morning, you can find a few more people to bury all these bits and pieces in the Qi Mansion. It stinks."
"It's my lord, I'll take my leave now."
"Um."
As soon as Wu Zuo left, Wang Jian, who had been holding back his words for a long time, couldn't bear it any longer. He whispered beside Shen Hao and asked: "Xiao Qi, how could the people in Qi Mansion die one after another? Isn't this It’s reasonable!”
Shen Hao did not answer Wang Jian's words, but said: "You can find out what the sixty-one members of the Qi family look like. I want portraits of all of them."
