strange village

In the darkness, what appeared to be a face appeared from the crack of the door.

"Who is it?" Dongyue asked a little louder.

"Huh?" Zhu Yao looked in the direction of his gaze, his expression changed drastically, as if he had seen it too.

The two of them stood there in a daze, but their faces remained motionless, as if they were calmly hiding their real bodies in the crack of the door and watching their every move.So Dongyue bravely took a few steps forward, approached the door, and took a closer look, the owner of that face was not human!

Zhu Yao stretched out his hand and opened the door a little wider.Sure enough, there was a slender shadow standing inside the door.What I saw just now was his pale face, but he couldn't see the pupils clearly, but there was an expression on his face, which seemed indifferent and painful. A sense of oppression, but a pair of arms are extraordinarily slender, almost hanging from the shoulders to the ground, and the legs are also too slender, almost all the legs below the chest, which looks extraordinarily scary and weird.

When Dongyue saw the thing clearly, her heart was beating like a drum, and she couldn't calm down, but she still refused to show weakness, and couldn't help cursing: "Damn it, is this an alien?"

Countless terrifying thoughts popped out of his brain at once, his thoughts were like wild horses running wildly, he could only try his best to stop his imagination from continuing to diverge. He walked straight forward, stretched out his hand and pushed open the gate of the courtyard, and walked in without hesitation, he made a gesture to block it but it was too late.

"It's weird." Zhu Yao's voice was still without any emotion.

At this moment, as if to verify his words, a gust of cold evil wind completely blew the door open, and the courtyard door widened to the limit in an instant, making a collision noise, and there was a gust of wind behind it, but the slender four-legged monster remained motionless. Still poking her head out, staring at the front, it didn't seem to be a living creature on earth, Dongyue crept forward, only to find out with the faint light in the courtyard, it seemed to be a statue.

Feelings have been frightened by herself for a long time, so Dongyue breathed a sigh of relief and cursed: "Which bastard made this statue, it's so disgusting, and it's still placed at the door."

Zhu Yao didn't answer, but was standing not far from him and stopped moving forward. Dongyue looked at him and found that he was not looking in her direction, but was staring straight at the depth of the yard. As if being tapped, the whole person froze there motionless.

Dongyue was about to look in the direction of his gaze, but Zhu Yao said, "Don't look! Go outside and call for someone." The voice was extremely stern.

But it was too late, Dongyue had already turned her eyes from Zhu Yao to the depths of the courtyard, where there was a pavilion like their small courtyard, and it was emitting a flowing blue and white shimmer, like A jellyfish is floating in the deep sea, and inside the jellyfish pavilion, there is obviously a person sitting alone in the pavilion, and a tea set is placed on the table in front of the person, as if drinking alone in the dark night Tea.

Who is it?

Dongyue couldn't help but took two steps forward, wanting to take a closer look around the pavilion, but soon, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, it was indeed a person sitting in the pavilion, but, this person His body was not shrouded in night, but strange light was reflected, and it looked like his whole body was covered with a layer of liquid, which was actually dripping wet.

is blood.

Intuition told him that it was blood. With the dim light, the whole body of the man was covered with dark liquid, and his whole body was a dazzling dark red, as if the whole skin had been peeled off, and his face was completely blurred. Even the hair is gone, but the body is still wearing complete clothes, like the long robes that people here often wear, or, women's skirts!

At this distance, he could smell blood in his nostrils, and an unbearable nausea welled up his throat. Dongyue covered his mouth and nose with one hand, trying to block the smell.

Suddenly his eyes went dark, and a pair of big warm hands covered his eyes. He was held in Zhu Yao's arms, and his deep voice came from beside his ears: "Close your eyes, don't look, go!" Come on, find someone."

Dongyue didn't know how she got out of the yard, or she was dragged out by Zhu Yao. The two quickly found the guards not far away, and soon, Chu Qing brought a group of people to this eerie little yard .Due to the large number of people coming and turning on all the lights in the courtyard, the courtyard was instantly brightly lit like daytime.

Different from the antiquity of other courtyards, this courtyard has a unique post-modern style. There was not only one weird statue with slender limbs just now, but it was distributed in various places in the courtyard in a strange way. Looking at the paleness of the ground now, it looks particularly terrifying.

When everyone saw the things in the pavilion clearly, their faces changed, and some even couldn't help turning around and retching.

Several guards stepped forward to move the blood corpse out, but found that there was nowhere to start. There was not an inch of skin on the corpse, and even the scalp was peeled neatly. Although it was not the time to praise, I have to say that the craftsmanship is quite impressive. Exquisite.Dongyue was leaning on Zhu Yao's shoulder, and she looked unwell. Although Zhu Yao was also an otaku who was used to squatting at home, he was obviously much stronger than him.

After a person is frightened, his hands and feet are usually numb first, then his limbs are cold, and then his whole body feels numb, and then his brain may be instantly congested, dizzy, and his limbs are weak. Dongyue undoubtedly experienced all these symptoms over and over again.Frost Leaf thoughtfully brought him a gray plush blanket to wrap him up. The demeanor of the night had completely disappeared, and Dongyue was completely beaten back to her original shape, and she didn't care about being teased by Zhu Yao for being coquettish. Leaning beside Zhu Yao, like a wounded bear.

"Are you the first discoverers?" Chu Qing asked.

Dongyue's face was pale, she didn't seem to have reacted yet, and she didn't know whether she should answer, Zhu Yao nodded beside her.

"Did you see anyone else nearby?" Chu Qing was very neatly dressed, although he did not participate in the meeting, it seemed that he did not go to bed early.

"I didn't see it." Zhu Yao shook his head, and briefly described how the two found the corpse. Although some frightening details were omitted, the listeners on the side still gasped, and Geng Xuemeng was even more generous. He passed out immediately and was carried back to his residence.This time, the doctor Chong Shizhao was too busy, he ordered Kong Xiang to send soothing soup to the sixth wife, and went forward to check the bloody corpse.

"Is it the fourth wife?" Mo Tan asked.

"It's not clear, let someone familiar with it identify whether the clothes on the corpse belong to the Fourth Wife." Chong Shizhao said.

"The cause of death?" Chu Qing asked.

"The back of the deceased's head was hit with a blunt instrument, which should be the cause of death." Chong Shizhao replied.

Knowing that they were not skinned to death while awake, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, even hearing about a possible cruel way of death is unacceptable at the moment.

"Where did you kill people, where did you skin them? It doesn't look like this place." Mo Tan said.

She was right. For the scene of the carnage, this place seemed too clean, and there were no tools for the crime.

"Even if the skin is peeled after death, although there is not much bloodshed, but this place is too clean, it should not be the scene of the crime." Chong Shizhao said.

The guards went into the house and searched, but found nothing unusual.

"It must be that the fourth wife has no one to take care of her, that's why she suffered such a disaster, and there is no one to help clean it up." Shuang Ye said, with a sad expression on her face, as if she was very sentimental.

As Chu Qing's subordinate, she should be quite aware of the Chu family's human relationships and sophistication, and she knows the fourth wife's living conditions and why. Although people's fate is unpredictable, a good woman is still a beautiful woman with talent and beauty , Who could have imagined what would happen in the end?

As soon as this matter happened, except for the guests who were at the venue at that time, everyone else seemed to be suspicious. With such a large population in the Chu family, it was extremely troublesome to investigate. It was already late at night, so Chu Qing ordered the guests to be sent back to their residences first. Then slowly investigate, the guards naturally have no rest this night, the eldest wife's case has not been solved yet, who knows that another life has been added, the fourth wife who was the most suspected also died, and the matter has reached a deadlock.

Shuangye and Mo Tan sent Dongyue back to their residence, they were not at ease, they brought some food for supper, and specially brought two bowls of pig heart and longan soup, to soothe the two of them.

The trick of eating snakes will definitely not work. Snakes scare people into eating snakes, but people can’t eat people if they scare people.Dongyue kept saying that she was fine, but her complexion did not improve, and she seemed unable to eat anything.

"I think you are going the wrong way, and you have taken a short detour. The structure of the Chu family is somewhat similar to the Eight Diagrams map, but many roads are connected. You took an extra intersection, so you passed the one you would not normally pass by. The gate of the courtyard. As for why the courtyard gate is open, no one usually helps the Fourth Wife to take care of it. It seems that the murderer did it deliberately in order to let her body be discovered earlier." Shuang Ye said.

"You mean that the murderer let us find the body on purpose?" Mo Tan asked.

"It's possible. If you don't have anything else to do on weekdays, and the fourth wife doesn't often come out for activities, then people will come here only during the meal delivery time. Dinner is usually delivered at seven o'clock. Today's meal delivery time is earlier than that." Well, normally, no one will find the body until early tomorrow morning at least, but if you get up early and no one answers the door, and some people leave food at the door, then the next meal will be at noon, so the time to find the body will be It would be more beneficial for the murderer to destroy the evidence or escape sooner, so why spend all this effort to let us find the body in advance?" Shuang Ye murmured.

Several people shook their heads.

After a while, Mo Tan said: "Maybe our thinking is complicated. The murderer just didn't come and close the door carelessly. It happened that someone passed by there by mistake, so we discovered it in advance. Yes! It must be so!"

"It makes sense." Zhu Yao said.

"Whether it is the death of the eldest wife or the fourth wife, there is really no real evidence left, not even a decent suspect. Would such a meticulous person make such a mistake?" Shuangye said.

"It's not certain. If this detail doesn't affect the thoroughness of the overall plan, the murderer won't care too much."

Still have no idea.