1.

The school medical office of Jinghai Normal University.

The door to the ward was locked, and the original bed was replaced with an autopsy table, with the shadowless lamp flickering on it, and the corpse of Number One lying directly below the dissecting table was the one. Lin Xiao sat on a chair in the corner, holding a paper cup and pouring water to frantically suppress himself, while turning his head sideways to cover his eyes with his hands, not looking at the scene of the autopsy in white.

Ye Wuxin was standing at the other end of the dissecting table, a pair of deep beautiful eyes staring at the hands of the white clothes holding the dissecting knives at the moment, watching how she separated the corpse and examined the flesh and skin tissues and internal organs of the deceased.

"Eldest sister, are you in the school clinic or the forensic office?" Lin Xiao felt that during this period of time, his mental endurance had made a qualitative leap, but judging from the current situation, this "leap" was not complete enough.

"If I go out and tell people that our school doctor knows how to dissect, they will definitely think I'm crazy!"

"What are you kidding, anatomy is a doctor's compulsory subject, unless you tell them I studied dentistry. ”

"Are you?!"

"! Of course not!"

"Then please do it lightly. At this time, there was a strong pungent smell in the ward, and Lin Xiao covered his mouth and nose with a bitter face, "Don't make the smell of blood so big." ”

Bai Yi put down the scalpel and began to sew the dissected corpse back, saying as he sewed: "This is not the smell of blood, it is the smell of corpses." ”

"Corpse stench?" Ye Wuxin frowned.

Lin Xiao also subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and when he turned his head, he happened to see the picture of Bai Yi putting an unknown organ back into his body and sewing it up, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly turned his head again and didn't dare to look at it again.

"I can't. Lin Xiao covered his eyes and said, "This corpse died for no more than an hour and a half, and we sent it to you as soon as possible, even if the weather is hot now, it won't stink so soon." ”

The dexterous hands of the white clothes flew up, quickly threaded the needle and thread, and with the help of a cup of tea, the corpse was restored to its original state. She skillfully cleaned up the blood stains around her, picked up her knives and stripped off her gloves, and did all of this without forgetting to state her autopsy results:

"The corpse contained gases, mainly hydrogen sulfide, methane, ammonia, etc., and a small area of green patches appeared on the skin of the lower right abdomen, mainly caused by intestinal bacteria, and it was judged that the time of death had exceeded two to three days and nights. ”

"When a person dies, his muscles are slowed down, and they soon become stiff, that is, corpse stiffness. Mortis appears as quickly as half an hour after death, usually two to three hours after death, from partial to whole-body spread, six to eight hours after death, and peaks in twelve to fifteen hours......"

Lin Xiao and Ye Wuxin rolled their eyes together: "Talk about people!"

"Be patient. Bai Yi said helplessly, "Under normal circumstances, the zombie state lasts for twenty-four to thirty-six hours and then begins to gradually ease. In the summer, after two to three days, the zombie will gradually disappear. ”

"The temperature has been around 35 degrees Celsius recently, and I would venture to assume that it will only take two days for the mortis to disappear. Judging from the situation of this corpse, this period has passed, but it should not exceed too much time. ”

"Finally, these are these. Bai Yi pointed to the dark red flaky patches on the corpse, "That's what we often call corpse spots." Judging by the shape and color, the corpse spots on this corpse have entered the spreading stage, and the plasma stained with hemoglobin has soaked the surrounding tissues, indicating that the time of death has been more than thirty-two hours. ”

"In addition, when the corpse was examined just now, the finger pressure did not change the color and did not disappear, and when the position of the corpse was changed, the corpse spot did not displace, indicating that the corpse spot had passed the spreading phase and entered the infiltration phase. ”

Bai Yi took the document board and recorded as he spoke, and at the end, the pen turned on his fingertips, and the pen tip slammed on the document paper: "To sum up, the accumulation of corpse qi in the body, a small area of decay in the lower abdomen, the alleviation of corpse mortis, and the infiltration period of corpse spots, it can be concluded from these - the death range of this corpse is between sixty and seventy-two hours. ”

Ye Wuxin asked, "Then if you count by day, that is, two and a half to three days." ”

Bai Yi nodded: "That's right." ”

Lin Xiao held his forehead and eased his mind for a while, and after a long time, he added: "I still have a question, are you sure...... Are you really an ordinary school doctor?"

Bai Yi blinked her watery eyes, thought for a moment and asked, "Why not?"

"Just kidding!Will the normal school doctor perform an autopsy?!"

"Does it matter...... No one saw it anyway. ”

Bai Yi washed his hands by the pool on the side, carefully rubbed the blood stains on his fingertips when he cleaned up, looked up at Lin Xiao through the mirror on the wall and said, "What you should be concerned about now is not whether I will conduct an autopsy, but since this person died two or three days ago, who is the person you and Hong Chen fought in the ring this afternoon?"

Ye Wuxin said: "When this person attacked me in the library, I could feel that there were traces of spiritual power running in his body. But it's not like it's the result of one's own cultivation, it's more like a ...... Attached to this corpse. ”

Bai Yi asked, "Lin Xiao, when you fought with this person this afternoon, did you feel any traces related to cultivators on his body?" ”

Lin Xiaoyao shook his head: "Except for the fact that this No. 1 is more eye-catching in horizontal kung fu, there is not much difference between other places and people who practice kung fu normally. If he was really a cultivator, even if I couldn't feel it, Hong Chen would definitely be able to feel it. ”

"Cousin, you think that there will be signs of spiritual power attaching to the corpse because this corpse has been tricked by someone to do 'puppetry', which is why it will attack you. ”

"As for why there are two identical people...... Bai Yi gnats his nails, as if considering some possibility, "I have a bold idea, but someone needs to confirm it, which of you will help me send a ghost or a god to call me." ”

Lin Xiao stood up: "I'll go, I'll go." ”

Bai Yi raised his eyebrows: "You can be so active in an errand job?"

"Nonsense, to this unlucky thing and others, then I'd rather run errands. Lin Xiao said angrily, "Hurry up and get rid of him, I don't want to see him again when I come back!"

2.

"Corpse Whisperer?"

Yun Mengze glanced around Lin Xiao and the others with his suspicious gaze, and asked with a vigilant expression, "Why did you suddenly inquire about this?"

"Actually...... I have this question as well. Lin Xiao looked sideways at the white clothes beside him, "Isn't "Corpse Whisperer" a horror and suspense web novel?"

"I'm not talking about fiction......"

"Is it a TV series?"

Bai Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "You have to fall to death!"

"The corpse whisperer she says is really not the same thing as what you think. Yun Mengze said with a solemn face, "It is an unknowable organization in the Netherworld, and the so-called 'Corpse Whisperer' is the code name of the leader of this organization, and its meaning/interpretation is - the person who speaks for the dead." ”

Lin Xiao was puzzled: "The person who speaks for the deceased?"

"Yes, this sentence explains the meaning of the words 'corpse whisperer' and the reason why this organization exists. Yun Mengze said, "Carefully speaking, the existence of this organization has a certain relationship with our Soul Chasing Pavilion. ”

"How?"

Yun Mengze took the glass of water handed over by Bai Yi, took a sip and said, "I said before that anyone who is wanted by the Soul Chasing Order will be chased to death by the people of the Soul Chasing Pavilion no matter how far they flee to the ends of the earth, throughout the ages, without exception...... Well, you seem to be an exception!"

"Especially those who have applied for the Red Soul Chase Order to be wanted, it takes a ghost to send a god or even a pavilion master to settle down. But these characters are often big and important, and sometimes killing a person can shake the balance of big and small situations. ”

"I'll give you an example, whenever the scale goes out of balance, the Corpse Whisperer puts a weight on the balance to balance it. This weight...... I don't know how to describe it, but you can think of it as a ...... Scapegoat. ”

Lin Xiao frowned: "I don't really understand. ”

"This stand-in is exactly the same as the person who was killed, the appearance is completely the same, the memory is completely the same, and even the style of doing things and speaking is completely the same. The stand-in will take the place of the dead man and continue to live in this world until he regains his balance and then finds the right time to disappear completely. ”

Lin Xiao's eyes widened in surprise: "It's really a big world, there are no wonders, there can still be this kind of operation! Are you sure it's not a top bag master or a stand-in puppet wearing a human skin/mask?"

Ye Wuxin said: "The real human skin/mask is not as expressive as in novels or movies, this kind of thing can only be concealed for a while, and it is easy to fall off after a long time, unless you sew it on your face." ”

Bai Yi continued: "Even if it is really sewn on your face, but doing so will make your facial features, facial muscles and expression look very stiff, and you will wear it all at once." ”

"So the Corpse Whisperer would never use this kind of shoddy disguise to hide people's eyes, and the stand-in he found was definitely real...... But the problem is, no one knows how he found these identical people. ”

Lin Xiao smacked his lips and said, "In your era, there should be no cloning technology." ”

Ye Wuxin and the three of them shook their heads in unison.

"Don't talk about us back then, even in your current era, you can't clone if you want. Bai Yi spread his hands and said.

"And cloning can only clone your genes so that the clone looks like you, and there is no way to copy and paste all your memories and behavior style...... Although some science fiction novels and movies depict it this way, it is not scientific by today's scientific standards. ”

"The presence of you people in my life is already the greatest disrespect for the word science...... Lin Xiao muttered.

Bai Yi touched him with his elbow: "Don't be poor about you." Then he turned to Yun Mengze, "Since you said that the Corpse Whisperer is linked to your Soul Chasing Pavilion to a certain extent, then why did you act so sensitive when I mentioned this term just now?"

Yun Mengze said: "Because I have never personally seen a corpse whisperer, or rather—since this ...... After separating the Seven Towers, the Corpse Whisperer and the stand-ins he controlled were gone. ”

Lin Xiao was stunned: "I don't carry this pot!"

"Of course you have to carry it. Yun Mengze said, "The disappearance of the Corpse Whisperer is due to unemployment in the final analysis. ”

Lin Xiao's eyes widened together: "What?"

"I told you before, after the division of the building, our Soul Chasing Pavilion has not taken over the red-level mission, and the white-level assassination target is dead, and there is no need to take his place, so what is the matter with the corpse whisperer?"

Lin Xiao touched his chin and smacked his lips: "If that's the case, if you calculate carefully, it will take at least a thousand years for this corpse whisperer to disappear." ”

Ye Wuxin sensitively felt that things were not as simple as Yun Mengze said, her deep gaze suddenly became sharp, and the temperature in the room seemed to be a few degrees lower: "Things shouldn't be as simple as you say." ”

Yun Mengze withstood the coercion released by Ye Wuxin, only to feel that his breath was condensed in his chest and was extremely uncomfortable, and after weighing it again, he sighed, and added: "In fact, a few decades ago, a major event happened in the first heavy building. Since that incident, 'Corpse Whisperer' has become a forbidden word in the first floor. ”

Bai Yi said in disbelief: "It's really strange that there are still things in this world that make you group of ghost cultivators feel afraid. ”

Ye Wuxin slowly put away the coercion: "Let's hear it." ”

"I only learned about this matter after listening to the Pavilion Master," Yun Mengze said: "About fifty years ago, someone in the first floor claimed that he was a corpse whisperer who had been dormant for thousands of years, and created a number of stand-in murders. All the dead have only one thing in common, and that is that they were killed by people who looked the same as themselves. ”

"How do you know that?"

Ye Wuxin said: "I think I knew it through the 'Returning Light Technique' - it was a unique talisman of their first floor, which could see the image of the deceased at the moment before his death by applying a talisman on the deceased's body. ”

Yun Mengze nodded: "That's right." And those stand-ins automatically fill the position of the deceased after the killing, so that people can't see the flaws at all. ”

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Since you can't see the flaw, how did you find out later?"

"When a scavenger was scavenging, the ghoul he raised dug out a fresh corpse, the daughter of the head of a famous clan at the time. Later, after the Soul Chasing Pavilion intervened to investigate the matter, it was found that the slain people had been piled up into corpse pits in the valley of Beiyin Mountain, and the stand-ins had infiltrated large and small forces, including the Lechuan clan!"

Ye Wuxin's face changed for the first time when he heard this: "Even the Lechuan clan is also on the way!"

Yun Mengze continued: "I don't know the specific details very well. In short, that incident made the entire Yichonglou panic at that time, and no one could tell who was true and who was false. Later, the major forces began to eliminate the stand-ins, and it took a long time to completely reshuffle the layout of the floor, and slowly this matter was over. ”

Lin Xiao could afford goosebumps when he heard it: "It sounds like it's crazy enough, what happened to the last behind-the-scenes manipulator? Has it been ...... by you?" Death penalty?"

Yun Mengze glanced at him and shook his head slowly.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but be stunned: "You haven't even sentenced yourself to death for such a heinous crime, who wrote the legal provisions of your first building?"

Yun Mengze sneered: "If the mastermind behind this scene is really caught, he will definitely be punished ten thousand times more cruel than capital punishment." But the point is, no one caught him. ”

Ye Wuxin frowned and said, "Didn't you find out the real culprit in that incident back then?"

Yun Mengze shook his head and said, "No." Even if the Soul Chasing Pavilion Master personally went out, he didn't find him - it was as if he had disappeared out of thin air. Later, a similar case never happened again, so I didn't pay attention to him anymore. ”

"A corpse whisperer who has disappeared for fifty years, why did he appear in the Triple Building, is it coming at me again?" Lin Xiao only felt that this information came a little quickly, and he was afraid that he would not be able to digest it for a while.

Yun Mengze said: "Objectively speaking, just based on the situation you encountered today, you can't so arbitrarily judge that the person who wants to target you is the person before. My suggestion is that since the other side has already started to move, then the next time should be coming soon, you should be prepared, the next time it may be a tough battle. ”

Lin Xiao suddenly thought: "In two or three days, there will be a military training exercise, and then there will be a National Day holiday, do you think the other party will choose when to do it?"

"I think it's a little more likely that they'll do it when you're home from vacation. Bai Yi said. "After all, there are a lot of people in the school, and the other party must want to keep their actions secret. There aren't many people you can keep an eye on you at home, so there's a good chance that the other person will choose to wait until you get home. ”

"What are you kidding, I'm not the only one in my family, but my parents are here. ”

"Who is joking with you, people have even cleaned up the training family in the military academy training base, and the corpse is lying here, will you not dare to touch you because your parents are at home?!"

Lin Xiao was stunned: "That's not good, I can't go back." ”

Bai Yi smiled: "Are you afraid?"

Lin Xiao waved his hand irritably: "I'm afraid." But I'm not afraid of my own death, I'm afraid of implicating my parents. ”

"Just give your parents a call and say you want to use this long vacation to hang out with your classmates. Ye Wuxin proposed, "You will live with me on National Day, and they will not dare to act rashly with me by your side." By the way, I can also take you to investigate this series of things. ”

Lin Xiao was silent for a long time, took out his mobile phone, clicked on the address book and looked at it for a long time, then turned around and walked out of the school doctor's office: "Then I'll make a call." ”

3.

After Yun Mengze left, Bai Yi leaned into Ye Wuxin's ear and whispered: "He didn't go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, wouldn't it be too much for us to keep him from going home based on just one guess?"

"So I asked him to call, and if his parents didn't agree, then we would just work harder, go back to Thornton City with him, and wait for the opportunity to protect it. Ye Wuxin sighed, "By the way, did you find out the real cause of death of that corpse during your autopsy?"

Bai Yi nodded and said, "I can see this without an autopsy." In addition to the sword you stabbed, he also had a fatal wound on his body. ”

"Where?"

"At the 'Yingxiang Point' on the outer edge of the wing, there is a very small wound, which should be left by a needle-like hidden weapon. ”

Ye Wuxin said curiously: "Is this kind of injury fatal? Could it be that he shot through the skull from this position?"

Bai Yi smiled: "It's not such an exaggeration, but this is indeed a fatal injury." This man is practicing horizontal kung fu, and his cover door is in that position. In addition, there were no other wounds on his body except for the sword wound on his chest and the needle hole on the wing of his nose, so he should have been killed with one blow. ”

Ye Wuxin nodded thoughtfully: "The murderer should know the deceased very well, and even know the door of the practice very clearly, so that there will be no deviation when he shoots." ”

"This kind of thing is equivalent to a matter of life, and people who practice martial arts will not joke with their lives, there should be no reason to talk nonsense with others about the location of their own door. Bai Yi also said, "Then it seems ......."

"The only one who knows about the cover door is himself," Ye Wuxin said in a deep voice, "Then you know how to kill him...... Again, there is only 'himself' - it seems that the murderer should be the stand-in arranged by the corpse whisperer. ”

"So where should I start now?"

"It's not clear. Ye Wuxin analyzed, "There are only a few days before the end of military training, and now we have begun to be vigilant, and it is predicted that there should be no variables in the short term." Let's divide the work, I'll investigate where this person went and who he came into contact with before he died, and you continue to look for any clues on that corpse. ”

Bai Yi said with a bitter face: "This corpse should not be able to find any tricks, can you change it?"

Ye Wuxin was silent for a moment, and then said: "Then go and investigate this person's medical history in the past half a year, if not, take this corpse to the medical school for a blood test." ”

"Just check the medical records, and take a blood test?" the white-clothed fox looked at Ye Wuxin suspiciously, "Cousin, did you think of something?"

Ye Wuxin hesitated for a moment and then said, "It's just a guess. Just like Lin Xiao said, it is impossible for the Corpse Whisperer to create a person who is exactly the same in all aspects out of thin air, and he can also have the appearance and memory of the original body at the same time, even if he is a clone, he can't do it. ”

Bai Yi said, "So...... What does this have to do with the deceased's medical records and blood. ”

"I think the Corpse Whisperer should have something in his hand that we don't know about, to make this rough puppet model, and then activate the puppet through a certain breath carried by the body, just like ......"

"You mean, puppetry?!" Bai Yi exclaimed. "But at most, you can only have the same appearance, and you can't have the same memories. ”

"So it can only be said to be a guess, and we don't know what the other party has in his hands. Ye Wuxin said, "Blood is the most common medium, and the patient's data and blood samples can be easily obtained in the hospital, and from these two aspects, the case may make a breakthrough." ”

Bai Yi circled his thumb and forefinger and made an "OK" gesture, took the autopsy report and turned around and left the ward. Ye Wuxin walked to the hospital bed and lifted the white cloth covering it, revealing the true appearance of the corpse.

"It seems that you have more secrets hidden in you than I imagined!"

【To be continued】