When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Each of the earth pits on the wall corresponded to the original location of the carvings. Xiao Yihuo stared at the destroyed wall with a gloomy look in his eyes and said, "It seems we are late."

"It was destroyed so completely, there's really no clue left." Lin Lezhi joked as he shone the fire starter in his hand across the hole in the wall.

The light from the tinder flickered in Lin Lezhi's eyes. His calm eyes revealed a hint of contemplation. Lin Lezhi paused, then continued, "However, the more you want to hide something, the more it means that you have a secret that you don't want to be discovered."

After saying that, Lin Lezhi moved the light source in his hand towards the entrance of the cave.

Because he was afraid that the people would discover something unusual in Wu Sanshan's house, Cheng Su only took the parchment map from the basement when he left, and the coffin was left in the basement.

Below the cave entrance, where the moonlight shines, there is a white light.

Lin Lezhi and Xiao Yihuo looked at each other, then walked towards the coffin at the same time and worked together to move the coffin lid open.

Originally half the coffin was filled with gold, silver and jewels, but now only a pile of scattered bones remain in the coffin.

The light source in the cave was very dim, and Lin Lezhi had to lean over the coffin and hold the flame in his hand close to the dry bones in the coffin to be able to see the details inside the coffin clearly.

There are no carvings on the inside of the coffin.

As the light source moved, Lin Lezhi's eyes gradually darkened.

"Xiao Xu, go up first and help move the corpse outside."

Xiao Yihuo glanced at the dry bones in the coffin, and without thinking for too long, he glanced over Lin Lezhi's left shoulder, then looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "You go up first, I'll do it."

Lin Lezhi was stunned for a moment, and then a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The person who was cleaning up the bones would inevitably have a lot of contact with the coffin and the bones. He was afraid that Xiao Yihuo had mysophobia, so he took the initiative to offer to pass them down there himself.

Could it be that God has finally opened his eyes?

"Okay." Lin Lezhi agreed very readily.

Lin Lezhi climbed up along the rope. As soon as he turned around, Xiao Yihuo brought out the corpse pieces from the direction of the cave entrance.

Lin Lezhi took off his coat, and after taking the corpse, he placed the bones inside his clothes next to the cave entrance and put them together into a complete body.

After the two of them gradually became more acquainted with each other, they quickly moved the corpse out of the cave.

Originally, the corpse was buried among gold, silver and treasures, and was wearing a large number of ornaments, so it was impossible to see the entire body. Now with the moonlight and the light of the fire, all the marks on the body are clearly visible.

The corpse had no head and there were scars of varying depths all over its body, as if left by sharp weapons such as swords.

"The corpse is a female, who must have suffered inhuman torture before death." Lin Lezhi said with dark eyes as he looked at the corpse in front of him.

“Look at these places.”

Lin Lezhi did not keep the secret and pointed his fingers at the wrist and ankle of the corpse. The scars on these four places were obviously deeper than those on other places, which showed the force with which the victim was attacked.

Lin Lezhi looked carefully and found no scars on the ankle.

"The tendons of his hands and feet were severed, and there were so many scars of varying depths on his body, but there were no scars on his neck and chest, which were the most fatal. If they wanted to kill someone, it would be easiest to kill him directly, without using such cruel means to torture him, unless..." Lin Lezhi raised his eyes to look at Xiao Yihuo and said, "The murderer has a reason not to kill him directly."

"The reason why we can't kill him is nothing more than hatred, or the deceased has something useful to us." Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi and asked, "Which one do you think it is?"

Lin Lezhi looked at the corpse on the ground and responded, "I'm not sure what type it is, and the person who put the deceased in the coffin may not be the murderer."

"Even if we know which one it is, after a hundred years on earth, it is impossible to refute right and wrong."

"It may not be as long as a hundred years."

Realizing that there might be other discrepancies in this matter, Xiao Yihuo paused for a moment, then his eyes darkened and he slowly asked, "What do you mean?"

Lin Lezhi looked at Xiao Yihuo and asked, "Do you remember what was inside the coffin when we first opened it?"

Xiao Yihuo thought for a moment and said, "Apart from the damage to the coffin itself, the jade in the coffin was affected by the corpse, which caused a stain. The other items in the coffin are almost all well preserved."

Lin Lezhi picked up the hip bone of the corpse and asked Xiao Yihuo, "Look carefully at this hip bone. Is there anything wrong with it?"

"Something's wrong..." Xiao Yihuo stared at the skull in Lin Lezhi's hand for a while, and thought about all the corpses he had seen before.

From Yulong Village to the corpse in front of us, each corpse is different due to the cause of death.

The size of the corpse varies depending on the person's gender, age, and body size, but in essence there is not much difference. After a person dies, they will turn into bones after a period of time.

Even if the body turns into dry bones, we can still use the clues on the bones to determine what kind of injuries the deceased suffered during his lifetime.

In order to allow Xiao Yihuo to see clearly, Lin Lezhi turned the direction of his hips, facing the inside of his hips towards Xiao Yihuo, and shone the light in his hand over to him, "Looking this way, you should be able to see more clearly."

Looking from the direction Lin Lezhi turned, he could see some dirt on the inside of the hip bone.

Xiao Yihuo's eyes darkened, and then he looked at Lin Lezhi and said seriously, "You mean to say that the owner of this corpse is not the original owner of the coffin."

"That's right." Lin Lezhi confirmed Xiao Yihuo's answer and continued: When we opened the coffin, the gold, silver and jewelry inside the coffin showed no signs of being contaminated by water or soil, which shows that the coffin is very well sealed. In the case of complete isolation from the air, the bones will be relatively well preserved. There should be no dirt in the skull, let alone brown. "

"Brown?" Xiao Yihuo asked in confusion.

"Yes." Lin Lezhi explained in an easy-to-understand way: "After the corpse is skeletonized, it is usually light yellow. But if it is buried directly in the soil, it is easy to be affected by the soil environment and cause the bone color to change. The longer the corpse is in contact with the soil, the darker the color of the corpse will be."

"How do you know all this?" After hearing Lin Lezhi's answer, Xiao Yihuo's eyes showed a hint of suspicion.

In fact, as early as when Lin Lezhi identified the seven corpses on the ground, Xiao Yihuo was amazed at Lin Lezhi's knowledge of the corpses. There was nothing wrong with judging the cause of death by the injuries on the bones of the deceased.

But how do we know that soil can affect bone color?

and……

Xiao Yihuo's eyes darkened. Lin Lezhi said that he had lost his memory and couldn't even remember the copper coin year numbers of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Would he still remember the experience he had accumulated from solving cases?

…………

Oops……

Seeing Xiao Yihuo's suspicious look, Lin Lezhi's brain was working rapidly.

Affected by humidity and heavy metal elements in the soil, the bones will undergo oxidation reaction to produce calcium oxide, causing the bones to appear brown.

But these ancient people are still unknown, and more importantly, ordinary people would not dig up graves and perform autopsies at will.

I can't say that I learned it from the corpse cases in books and on the Internet. I should only talk about the suspicious point of the soil. I really need to be more careful in the future.

Lin Lezhi smiled, and tried to make it seem like a trivial matter, and responded in a relaxed tone: "I also saw it in an ancient book before."

Lin Lezhi pointed to the dirt in the skull and changed the subject, "The coffin lid is damaged, but the treasure inside is not covered in dust, and the dirt on the hip bone has not dried yet. This coffin may have been moved here recently."

Although the intentions of the mastermind behind this are still unclear, the fact that someone deliberately destroyed the carvings on the wall undoubtedly shows that there is indeed a special meaning behind these carvings.

What would it mean?

There is another point that Lin Lezhi can't figure out.

The outside of the corpse was cleaned so cleanly, but why was there dirt left on the inside?