The two searched the surroundings, and the results they got were shocking.
In the small mountain pit, the two picked up thousands of scattered bones. According to Tian Jue'er's judgment, at least a dozen corpses had been buried here.
What shocked the two even more was that most of these bones were from children, and only a few were from adults.
Zhuge Ji cleared a clearing, Lele helped, Tian Jueer slowly arranged the bones, and finally pieced together a total of twelve child skeletons and one adult skeleton.
Among them, judging from the condition of the children's skeletons, most of them were still young children, the oldest was no more than eight years old, and the youngest was even only two years old.
But because too much time has passed, many bones have been taken away by wild beasts in the mountains. Almost all of them are missing arms and legs, and the skeletons are not complete, so Tian Jueer is temporarily unable to determine the cause of their death.
The last adult skeleton left clues. The skull dug out by Lele had obvious cracks from blunt force blows. It must have been a heavy blow with a blunt force weapon before death.
Lele played a lot of roles in finding bones. Its sense of smell is much sharper than humans. It found many bones buried in the ground.
Tian Jue'er rewarded it with a banana for this, and Lele smiled from ear to ear and worked even harder.
Looking at the thirteen skeletons in front of him, Tian Jueer asked blankly:
"Do you see anything?"
Tian Jueer often gives up thinking because she is not smart enough. For her, there are people smarter than herself around her anyway, so why should she waste energy thinking.
After all, thinking also requires energy. If Tian Jueer uses his brain too much, it will be like competing with the source Gu for energy, and he may faint due to "hypoglycemia".
Zhuge Ji adjusted his glasses and said:
"Thirteen skeletons appeared in Mount Emei, but have not been found for so many years. The only answer I can think of is that the murderer directly erased their souls after killing them!"
Without a soul, it is impossible to form a lonely ghost, let alone to accumulate grudges and evil spirits here. Even if a Buddhist monk passes by, he can only smell the smell of blood and putrid smell, but cannot detect anything else.
And even the animals in Mount Emei are still preyed on by the weak and the strong, so it is normal for the smell of blood to appear in the mountains.
"The people who killed them were not ordinary people, which also shows that this was not an ordinary murder."
Tian Jueer nodded in agreement.
Zhuge Ji then speculated:
"Only one of the thirteen skeletons is that of an adult, and the rest are children. This reminds me of one person - Qi Dongqiang's master."
Qi Dongqiang's master was organized by human traffickers. They specialized in kidnapping and selling children. Apart from them, how could there be so many children on Mount Emei?
Moreover, it is inferred from the age of the skeletons that when they died, Qi Dongqiang's master should have been active in the Emei Mountain area.
Zhuge Ji knelt down, looked at the bones carefully, and suddenly said in a deep voice:
"All the skeletons have one thing in common: No matter how many bones they were missing, none of them had complete limbs."
Tian Jue'er was puzzled: "What's the problem with this? Maybe it was taken away by an animal?"
"Most wild beasts don't like to eat corpses, and animals that like to eat corpses prefer to eat internal organs and have little interest in the limbs that are difficult to chew and have no flesh. Therefore, even if the skeletons are incomplete, none of the dozens of skeletons has complete hands and feet. The probability is not that high.”
Zhuge Ji continued his analysis: "Do you think it is possible that they had no hands or feet before they were alive?"
Tian Jue'er's expression suddenly changed. As a poor canary who was once raised and tortured by Wu Tianfeng countless times, even though her brain was not flexible, she figured out what Zhuge Ji wanted to express in an instant.
Most of these children were kidnapped and taken to Mount Emei by the human trafficker organization that Master Qi Dongqiang belonged to. According to the rules of the human trafficker organization, they will select children who are healthy and good-looking and sell them to buyers.
And those children who are in poor health, are too old, or have facial defects will have their hands and feet amputated by the organization and become poor disabled people, forcing them to beg on the streets.
These corpses, which had no limbs before death, belonged to the latter.
But for some unknown reason, the human traffickers wanted to kill them and throw them into the wilderness.
Although they still couldn't figure out the truth, the two people's speculations were very close to the truth. Tian Jue'er couldn't help but get red eyes when thinking about the hardships these children had to endure during their lifetimes, and felt the same.
Zhuge Ji was a little more rational. After analyzing the child's corpse, he finally looked at the adult's corpse.
"The child's skeleton is understandable, but what about the adult's skeleton?"
Because he was immersed in thinking, Zhuge Ji even forgot to be afraid. He squatted next to the adult corpse and studied it carefully.
The corpse is that of a man, who was probably in his early twenties when he died. Was he killed by the murderer because he accidentally stumbled into a crime scene organized by a human trafficker, or was he himself a member of the human trafficker organization and was just taken advantage of?
If the identity of this male skeleton could be known, many problems could be solved. Unfortunately, too much time has passed and no clothes or leftover items can be found.
Presumably the murderer would not let go of any property.
At this time, Lele, who was idle, sniffed and seemed to find something. After digging under a big tree for a long time, he finally dug out something, but it was only half of a wooden fish left.
This wooden fish had been buried underground for who knows how many years, but it was still smooth after wiping off the mud on it. Unfortunately, it was broken and could not make any sound.
Lele held the wooden fish in his hand and played with it for a while. Then on a whim, he turned the wooden fish upside down on his head.
The broken wooden fish immediately transformed into a hat and fit perfectly with Lele's head, just covering its bald spot.
"Chi chi chi chi!"
Lele was dancing happily and swinging back and forth on the tree.
Zhuge Ji's thoughts were interrupted by Lele, and he raised his head and glared at it angrily.
After coming back to his senses, Zhuge Ji could no longer continue the reasoning clues. He could only say:
"Let's look around again. If we don't find anything new, we'll go back and report the matter first. Maybe we can get some clues."
Tian Jue'er nodded: "Okay."
The skeletons of twelve children appeared on Mount Emei. If this happened last month, it would probably have shocked the entire Xuanmen.
That is to say, now that everyone has bigger troubles to deal with, this matter does not seem so urgent.
Therefore, Zhuge Ji decided to go back and report the matter first. As for the search for the Lotus Formation Eye, he couldn't wait for a day or two.
