On killing the protagonist

Ye Hanjiang hadn't recovered from the shock of suddenly encountering piranhas when he heard Gu Qinuo and Ye Qiu shouting at the same time: "Be careful!"

His heart trembled, and he jumped upwards with all his strength, only to feel a gust of wind passing behind his ears.

After confirming that he was temporarily out of danger, Ye Hanjiang hurriedly turned his head and stretched his neck to look back, only to see a huge dark shadow falling into the turbid water only one and a half meters away from him.

Because the other party was too fast, Ye Hanjiang didn't see what it was.

But he knew that it would definitely not be the shadow formed by the gathering of piranhas.

Then there is only one possibility left - that is a big fish!

The big fish's movements were exceptionally nimble. When it attacked Ye Hanjiang but failed, it quickly swung its tail and turned back.

And Ye Hanjiang also took this opportunity to see his true face clearly.

It was a very ugly fish with a large mouth nearly one meter wide. The upper and lower lips were opened like two chopping boards, which were full of inverted teeth.

Seeing this mouth, Ye Hanjiang immediately realized what was attacking him - it was the largest and most ferocious freshwater fish in the world - man-eating catfish!

This monster is more than three meters long, and it is the most ferocious carnivore in fresh water. In terms of aggressiveness and ferocity, it is no less than the great white shark, a beast in the deep sea.

At this time, not only Ye Hanjiang, but everyone present knew that once bitten by this big guy, there would be only death waiting for Ye Hanjiang.

Fortunately, Ye Hanjiang was only less than two meters away from the top at this time. Unfortunately, the man-eating catfish might not give him another chance to escape.

What was even more unlucky was that Ye Hanjiang's wound from being bitten by the wolf king was torn open under excessive use, and blood dripped down his arm.

The severe pain from the wound made him sweat profusely. The blood dripping from his arm dripped down his cheeks and slid down the sweat. He gritted his teeth and tightened the rope, trying to climb a little higher. .

At this moment, the man-eating catfish launched an offensive. With a swing of its tail, it jumped up from the water with its strength, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and approached Ye Hanjiang.

At this time, the wound on Ye Hanjiang's arm was torn, and his physical strength had been severely exhausted. He was at the end of his strength.

He wanted to dodge the blow sideways, but he didn't expect that the hand holding the rope tightly was sweating too much, and there was a faint sign of being unable to hold it. Ye Hanjiang was startled, and just about to sound a warning, the next moment, his hand broke away from the rope , The whole person fell uncontrollably and rapidly.

And the cannibal catfish's attack had already arrived at this time. It originally wanted to attack Yang Chao behind Ye Hanjiang, but it never thought that Ye Hanjiang's slide would expose his head to the attack range.

The big fish mouth was close in front of his eyes, blood was about to splash on the spot, Ye Hanjiang only felt that God's will tricked people, and wanted to die here, but he didn't know how to feel in his heart for a while.

At the very moment, a figure descended from the sky.

With the help of the falling inertial force, he stepped on the head of the man-eating catfish, kicked it hard into the water below, and at the same time raised his hand, inserted the horizontal knife into the concrete wall beside him, and stopped firmly into the air.

Ye Hanjiang, who narrowly escaped from under the mouth of the fish, took a closer look and found that the person who came was Gu Qinuo.

He didn't say much, and while looking at the water vigilantly, he yelled: "Let's go!"

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to grab Ye Hanjiang's clothes, and sent him upwards violently.

On the other side, there was a strong pull from above, and Ye Hanjiang was pulled up with a 'swoosh'.

And Gu Qinuo was also at the last moment when the rope was rising, he drew his knife, grabbed the rope, and kicked his feet in one go, and he jumped up and landed firmly beside Ye Hanjiang.

The man-eating catfish swam back and forth twice below, seeing that there was no more chance to attack, it finally had to swim away reluctantly.

This rescue can be said to be extremely thrilling, but if Gu Qinuo was slower for a few seconds, Ye Hanjiang would kill the fish, and if he was too fast, he would not be able to accurately kick the man-eating catfish.

In order to prevent accidents, a group of people quickly evacuated here with Yang Chao's body after they escaped.

After returning to the residence, Ye Hanjiang immediately conducted an autopsy.

When he came out of the temporary autopsy room, everyone immediately surrounded him.

Ye Hanjiang closed the door and said, "Go to the living room and talk."

A group of people went to the living room again, and when everyone sat down at the dining table, Ye Hanjiang spoke about the results of his inspection.

"First of all, the cause of death, he died from starvation."

"impossible!"

Guan Susu was the first to retort: ​​"Normal people will die in seven days without water and food. He disappeared for less than three days. Even if he died, he could only die from dehydration, right?"

Under the unanimous suspicion of everyone, Ye Hanjiang nodded and said: "Normally, this is indeed the case."

As he spoke, he suddenly looked at the others and asked, "I wonder if anyone has heard of the Hungry Ghost Way?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

Ye Hanjiang: "The way of hungry ghosts is a Buddhist saying. To put it bluntly, it is actually to resist hunger. Everyone knows that when people are hungry, they will want to eat. This is a very natural physiological reaction."

"Hunger comes from instinct, not a habit of eating within hours. Even if a person is sitting or lying still, your heart is still beating and blood is still flowing. What do they need for movement? What they need is energy. "

"And what we eat is partially transformed into the energy needed by these organs. It is first divided into large and small, and then further divided into finer parts. Finally, it is turned into sugars and transported to various organs. Under the action of the cells of the organs, carbon is decomposed. Substances such as hydrogen and oxygen are used for the body to burn and release heat energy. When the body uses up the energy, it sends a hunger signal to the brain through the autonomic nerves."

"At this time, you will feel weak and hungry. What the murderer did was to let Yang Chao run slowly around a round table when he was hungry. Out of the pan, his favorite food."

Everyone frowned unconsciously, this approach was too cruel.

Running hungry while looking at the tastiest food within reach is too much of a willpower requirement.

Yang Chao's ability to persist for so long has indeed reached his physical limit, but he won't die, right?

Ye Hanjiang continued: "Food will be replaced all the time to ensure its freshness and the impact on your sense of sight and smell. And a hungry person will secrete gastric acid from his stomach out of an instinctive physiological reaction, which is a kind of pH A strong acid with a value of 1, there is a layer of mucous membrane inside the stomach, which will protect your stomach from being swallowed by this strong acid, but if you keep hungry and let the stomach acid continue to secrete—"

The eyes of the others widened, they already knew what Ye Hanjiang was going to say next.

Ye Hanjiang lowered his eyes, hiding the pity in his eyes and said: "I opened Yang Chao's abdominal cavity, and one-third of his internal organs have been corroded by the gastric acid secreted by himself. The cause of his death can be said to be—— Because of hunger, he ate himself up!"

These words made everyone present panic. After a long time, Gu Qinuo said slowly: "It's too cruel."

The only woman present, Guan Susu, with blank eyes, murmured tremblingly: "Pervert...he is a devil...Ah!!!"

Screaming, he rushed back to his room.

But Wei Guo asked with a livid face, "Is there no way to catch that murderer?"

Ye Hanjiang shook his head: "He hardly left any loopholes. It is difficult to pinpoint the scope of the murderer based on the current clues."

Hearing this, Wei Guo stopped talking, but chose to turn around and return to his room.

Ye Hanjiang could see from his expression that he seemed to have begun to distrust other people.

He tilted his head towards the rest of Gu Qinuo and Ye Qiu, made a careful monitoring move, and then deliberately raised his voice and said: "No matter what, we and Yang Chao are also considered companions, let him go to the ground anyway. Ann!"

This is Ye Hanjiang's last chance for Wei Guo and Guan Susu. If they still have any humanity, they will definitely come out and send Yang Chao off with them for the last time after hearing this. I'm making other calculations.

In the situation where he couldn't tell who the murderer was, Ye Hanjiang had no choice but to make reservations, at least some key information would be concealed.

Until they carried Yang Chao's body to Fang Yanbo's grave, there was still no one following behind.

Ye Hanjiang knew in his heart that from today onwards, they might completely break up.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing: "No wonder Gaia's plan can succeed, people's hearts are really the most terrifying."

Gu Qinuo patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "As long as we stick to our hearts."

Said to him: "You brought us out specially, you don't just want to bury Yang Chao, do you?"

Ye Hanjiang nodded, and removed the white cloth covering Yang Chao's body.

When the remaining two saw the corpse clearly, they all frowned unconsciously.

It turned out that the bandage on Yang Chao's stomach had been untied by Ye Hanjiang, revealing a bloody wound, and his two calves, which were almost bones, hung empty below his knees.

Gu Qinuo glanced at the wound on his stomach, and said firmly: "It was cut artificially. The murder weapon should be a fruit knife. Judging from the cutting edge, at least seven to nine cuts were made. The murderer was very smart and chose the location on the stomach. Under the knife, on the one hand, it will not cause too much damage, on the other hand, it perfectly avoids all the major arteries, even if there is blood loss, it will not affect his life."

And Ye Qiu also found the needle hole on his arm, he looked carefully before he said: "The needle hole is at the position of the vein in the elbow, it is initially suspected that blood should have been drawn, from the fact that he was still alive when we saw him, and he was cut. According to the situation of the meat, the blood loss is up to 800cc."

Ye Hanjiang nodded in agreement with the two of them. He knelt down and took Yang Chao's hand, and said to them: "The wound and pinhole on the stomach are just one aspect. What I really want you to see is this!"

After all, he turned Yang Chao's right hand over.

The two looked intently, only to see the three numbers 666, the size of a fingernail, engraved on Yang Chao's right wrist with a sharp tool.