After hearing Ji Wanrong's words, everyone lowered their heads and stared at the unremarkable place, but their eyes invariably became solemn.
They took the shovel that Ji Wanrong conjured up like a magic trick, put on the masks that Ji Wanrong took out from the space, and started digging together towards that place.
The sky gradually turned white, and the milky white mist on the edge of the lake gradually dissipated under the light.
From night to day, it was as if all the truth was about to clear up.
Ji Wanrong looked at the gradually deepening pit in front of him, twisted his wrist that was stiff from the cold, and heard Mo Jiecheng's serious voice in his ears.
"There are signs of loosening of the soil underneath, which means this area has been excavated before."
After Mo Jiecheng finished speaking, no one answered, but everyone knew what this sentence meant.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, the hole dug became deeper and deeper.
The three dogs suddenly became energetic. One Gulu got up from the ground, barked twice more, and wagged its tail at the pit.
As soon as Ji Wanrong shoveled down, he suddenly felt something was wrong. The shovel seemed to have hit something hard.
"There seems to be something." Listening to Ji Wanrong's words, Mo Jiecheng's frown deepened.
"Maybe we found human bones and can't use the shovel."
After Mo Jiecheng said this, he put down the shovel in his hand, took out the pair of rubber gloves from his chest, squatted in the pit and started digging.
Within two strokes, Mo Jiecheng's movements became slower and slower, and his face became more and more ugly.
He felt the hard object that his fingertips touched, and his fingertips trembled slightly. Then he pushed away the soil and slowly picked up the hard object that he touched.
It was not yet fully dark, and the gray light shone on Mo Jiecheng's hand. The thing he was holding in his hand made everyone's eyes shrink suddenly.
Although they were mentally prepared, everyone was still shocked by the scene in front of them.
What is in front of you is the dense bones!
The three dogs that were wagging their tails smelled the bones and began to bark wildly. Siqin was so frightened that she quickly covered their mouths.
"Rong'er...is this a human leg bone? Why does it look so small?" Xie Lingxiao looked at the bones in Mo Jiecheng's hand, took a step closer to Ji Wanrong, and held her hand tightly.
Only then did he feel that Ji Wanrong's hands were not ordinary cold. A coolness seemed to have invaded her blood and bones, making her hands tremble slightly.
"It's a leg bone, it's...a child's leg bone." Ji Wanrong stared at the leg bone in Mo Jiecheng's hand, opened his mouth slightly, and it was extremely difficult to speak every word.
The leg bone in Mo Jiecheng's hand was obviously not fully developed. It looked like the deceased was no more than ten years old.
As soon as Ji Wanrong's words came out, everyone fell silent.
Siqin cursed a beast in a low voice, then pursed her lips and walked into the pit, expressionlessly searching for the whereabouts of other bones with Mo Jiecheng.
Xie Lingxiao closed his eyes and looked up at Ji Wanrong. Seeing that Ji Wanrong was still calm, he followed them into the pit.
Xie Lingxiao took the leg bone from Mo Junfeng's hand and handed it to Ji Wanrong. Ji Wanrong took the leg bone with plastic gloves and opened the fire seal and observed it carefully.
The leg bones were also treated very clean. If you smell carefully, you can still smell the special smell of disinfectant.
If you carefully observe the surface of the leg bone with firelight, you can also find fine scratches on the surface of the leg bone.
The corpse was not a normal bone-whitening phenomenon, but flesh that had been deliberately removed. The technique was similar, proving that the owner of this skeleton was the same as that of brother Lu Zhongfeng, and had probably been processed by Mo Junfeng.
As more and more human bones were discovered in the pit, Ji Wanrong could be sure that the processing methods of these human bones were all done by Mo Junfeng.
The sun was clearly rising and the sky was getting brighter and brighter. Occasionally, you could still hear the crisp chirping of birds, but as everyone looked at more and more human bones, they felt more and more creepy in their hearts.
Even Siqin couldn't help but tremble all over until the end of the dig.
"You go up first, go up first and take a rest." Xie Lingxiao looked at Siqin's pale face, and he didn't look good either.
Siqin nodded and got out of the pit with Xie Lingxiao's help.
She took off her gloves and mask, then covered her mouth to hold back vomiting.
"Take a Baian pill and squeeze it down." Ji Wanrong handed her the white porcelain bottle and took the kettle with him.
Siqin washed her hands with water and took Baian Pills, and the nausea in her stomach was much better.
"Master, there is a baby's skeleton down there..." Siqin looked up at Ji Wanrong helplessly.
In her heart, she had infinite admiration for Ji Wanrong. She was obviously a woman who did not know martial arts, but she showed extraordinary calmness at this moment.
Ji Wanrong pursed her lips and pointed to the skeleton closest to her side: "The baby's skeleton was probably in the belly of this pregnant woman."
Siqin followed Ji Wanrong's line of sight and saw five complete skeletons in front of her.
"There are five sets of skeletons that can be clearly identified in front of us, excluding those that have not been dug out yet."
There are still many that have not been dug out, and everyone is tacitly aware of this result.
"But Master, are all these skeletons complete? I always feel like something is missing?"
Ji Wanrong listened to Siqin's words and turned to look at her seriously: "These skeletons are all missing a rib. Maybe it was not found, or maybe it was a special message left by the murderer."
After hearing Ji Wanrong's words, Mo Jiecheng was also tired of digging. He straightened up and stood there to rest for a while, then climbed out of the pit again.
When he saw the square skeleton on the ground, Mo Jiecheng remained silent for a moment.
Ji Wanrong turned to look at him: "What should we do next?"
When Mo Jiecheng heard this, he was silent for a long time. Ji Wanrong knew that he was struggling fiercely in his heart.
"We must keep it secret, release some information privately, and then send people to find the families of the missing people to see if they can identify themselves through the skeletons, and then..."
Mo Jiecheng choked up: "Let's use the victim's mouth to boil the public's resentment and mention this matter again."
When Ji Wanrong heard this, he nodded heavily.
Mo Jiecheng meant to report Mo Junfeng, but not through his own mouth. Ji Wanrong also thought the same.
They can't come forward in person to see anyone.
Although he knew that every next step would be difficult, Ji Wanrong also wanted to do this.
There is no need to identify the bones. There are instruments in Ji Wanrong's space. You only need to compare the DNA of the victim's family members with these bones to determine the identity.
As long as some information is released, pointing the missing people to Mo Junfeng, and leading the emperor to inspect Mo Junfeng's four carriages in order to prove Mo Junfeng's innocence, everything will fall into place.
Ji Wanrong knows that there is a type of criminals, especially high-intelligence criminals like Mo Junfeng, who often leave some evidence behind when committing crimes as their trophies.
If the missing bones of the victim were in Mo Junfeng's mansion, then everything would be conclusive evidence.
However, it may take some time from the release of the news to the boiling of public dissatisfaction. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Ji Wanrong can't wait for this day to arrive.
She needs to go back and think carefully about how to add fire to this matter to make it burn even more intensely.
