"Hmm, ahhhh......hh

As soon as he saw the mutilated charred corpse in the thick smoke, the timid Zhao Minmin couldn't help but scream, covered his mouth and trembled and stepped back, looking like he was about to cry.

“…… Uncle Yun. ”

Chen Siyi looked at the corpse with a sad expression, turned his head slightly, and made a gesture to the gentleman old man behind him, who nodded understandingly, and then stepped forward into the ruins, and Tao Tao and Jiang Yao quickly followed, and followed the old man to stand next to the pile of scattered corpses.

"This ...... Who is ......" Jiang Yao covered his nose with a handkerchief, looking at the charred corpse under his feet that had been burned beyond recognition, under the impact of the previous explosion, the corpse had become scattered, and it was not easy to identify it.

Jiang Yao sighed in his heart, and looked away a little reluctantly, sweeping his gaze around, and soon, a shiny object came into his eyes in the charred ruins.

"What is this?"

Jiang Yao squinted, stepped forward cautiously, and gently brushed off the charcoal ash, only to find that it was a string of chic brass keys.

"This key seems to be...... The ...... on Ah Xing's body"

Jiang Yao was stunned, and suddenly remembered the same set of keys that Ah Xing used when he took them into the house before, and the ominous premonition in his heart arose again, which made his face change.

"Is it difficult, is it ...... This corpse is ......!"

"There is a high probability that it is Ah Xing. It was Uncle Yun who spoke this time, and I saw him sigh and put on his gloves and pick up the set of keys. "Ah Xing is the logistics manager of this Weiyang branch, and he has always been inseparable from this key, but now he has fallen next to this corpse, I am afraid it will be ......."

"What if...... He didn't help us get to the kitchen to prepare food, and he wouldn't have been caught up in the gas explosion......"

Thinking that Ah Xing's death might have something to do with him, Jiang Yao's heart suddenly tightened, and on the other hand, the gluttony on the side was quite indifferent, only to see him glance at the miserable charred corpse with an expressionless face, and then turned his head to look at the kitchen ruins around him, with a knowing expression on his face.

"Did the gas explode? huh...... How do I think the source of this explosion is none other than this corpse?"

"The source of the explosion is a corpse? this, how is this possible!" Jiang Yao said in surprise.

"No, he's not wrong. "This time, Uncle Yun unexpectedly stood on the gluttonous side. "Judging by the traces of the spread of the fire around it, the central point of the explosion is indeed the inside of this corpse, and you can see ......"

Uncle Yun said, squatting down next to a corpse piece suspected to be in the abdomen, and stretched out his finger. I saw that the position of this abdomen had been blown open by the waist, which looked particularly miserable, but what made people feel even more numb was that the inside of the section was radial and had been burned through, so the wound did not look like it was caused by an external explosion source.

"It's ...... But how could a good person suddenly blow himself up??" Seeing the actual evidence in front of him, Jiang Yao was stunned. And just as he was talking, he saw that Uncle Yun seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly stretched out his hand and probed into the section of the corpse in his abdomen, carefully tinkering.

"You, what are you doing...... Hmmm......"

Seeing Uncle Yun's abrupt move, Jiang Yao's stomach suddenly felt like it was overturning, but Tao Tao didn't speak, just waited calmly and watched Uncle Yun's movements.

"Snap ......"

After a while, a charred black fragment was pulled out of the section of the corpse, and Uncle Yun's movements finally stopped, and slowly spread out his palm, only to see a twisted object appear in his palm.

"What is this?"

Jiang Yao stepped forward and looked at the strange object in Uncle Yun's hand, and his eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly.

This seems to be the remains of a worm, which looks like a centipede, but it is much larger than an ordinary centipede, and the arthropods are densely arranged along the red and black body, which looks extremely disgusting. It's just that the most numbing thing about the scalp is that the shape of this stump is still clearly recognizable after such a severe explosion, which is obviously beyond the common sense of ordinary people.

"'Gu worm'...... Now that's interesting. Gluttony looked at the half of the worm, and looked like he knew it in his heart.

"'Gu worm'? what is that?" Jiang Yao asked, turning his head.

"It's a kind of Miaojiang witchcraft prop. Uncle Yun said, took out a handkerchief, and carefully wrapped the half of the centipede.

"In Xiangxi, there are some underground Miao wizards who can use secret methods to force poisonous insects to kill each other, and in the end, the one left behind will become a 'Gu worm' controlled by wizards. The types of "Gu worms" are ever-changing, some are highly poisonous, and some can enter the human body to control people's behavior and make them puppets. In today's era, this kind of Gu cultivation witchcraft has long been banned, and some bad wizards will implant self-detonation spells in the worm's body in advance to destroy the evidence in order to prevent the outside world from detecting that it is a 'Gu worm' when they act. ”

"That'...... Could it be ...... this time" Jiang Yao looked down at the charred corpse on the ground and did not continue.

"I'm afraid eight or nine is not far from ten. Someone pre-implanted the "Gu worm" in Ah Xing's body, and regarded the "Gu worm" as *, and this house was all made of wood, so it quickly burned. Uncle Yun said. Originally, this fire was enough to burn the corpses and Gu worms to ashes, but the other party probably didn't expect the eldest lady to extinguish the fire so quickly, so he left a clue. ”

"When was such a terrible bug implanted in Ah Xing's body? He didn't show any signs of being tricked at all before...... Jiang Yao hesitated.

"'Gu worm' can disguise itself as an egg under the effect of a spell, and infiltrate the target through direct contact with food or human skin, and during the incubation period, the host will not have any abnormalities; Uncle Yun said seriously.

"Ah Xing's behavior when he took us to the room before was not unusual, that is to say, it was a short time after he left, someone secretly performed a spell to activate the worm eggs, which made the 'Gu worm' latent in Ah Xing's body quickly become an adult, and caused the current miserable situation......

Jiang Yao pondered, and at this time, Chen Siyi's anxious inquiry voice had sounded from behind:

"Uncle Yun, did you find something?"

"Yes, Miss. ”

Uncle Yun nodded, then stood up and walked out of the ruins, and Jiang Yao saw that there was nothing to check at the scene, so he also planned to go out, but when he looked back, he found that Tao Tao was still staring at the scattered corpses, as if he was thoughtful.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yao asked.

“…… Nothing, let's go. ”

Tao Tao withdrew his gaze from the corpse and turned to leave the ruins, and Chen Siyi and the others who were waiting in the guest hall at this time finally saw the remains of the 'Gu worm' displayed by Uncle Yun, and they were all surprised.

"'Gu worm'!?, how can such a poisonous thing appear here!" Chen Siyi looked at the half of the weird centipede in disbelief, and his pretty face turned white.

"This was found inside the body and the source of this fire. Uncle Yun said, putting away the handkerchief. "Judging from the current situation, this fire is not an accident, but someone deliberately murdered Ah Xing. Now that someone has died under the 'Gu worm', in order to ensure your safety, from now on, I hope that you will not drink any water or food in the house for the time being. ”

"Wait a minute, you just said ...... It was ...... who were burned to death Ah Xing!?" Zhao Minmin's eyes widened suddenly, and tears rolled between his eyes. "Why, how can this be! I don't believe it...... I don't believe it!!"

"Shhh...... I did notice movement in the kitchen before, could it be really Ah Xing?" Wu Lao Liu held his chin and looked tangled. "And now that things are so big, I don't see Ah Xing appearing, which can't be said!"

"Alas......" Uncle Yun sighed softly and handed the string of brass keys to Chen Siyi. "This was picked up next to the corpse. ”

"This is the key that Ah Xing keeps, so ......" Chen Siyi glanced in the direction of the ruins, and his eyes burned with anger in his sadness. "Ah Xing is usually honest, who is so heartbroken and crazy that he has to be killed in this way!"

"'Gu worm'...... Could it be, is it really 'her'......" Ah Hu stared at the burned ruins, his eyes were a little straight, as if he had thought of something, and he was not the only one with the same ugly face, and Zhang Qiuyue's expression on his side had never eased up after seeing the stump of the 'Gu worm'.

"First Wang Le, and now Ah Xing, plus the footprints of the pair of corpse wax and the 'Gu worm'...... It's 'her', it must be 'her' back!" Zhang Qiuyue gritted her teeth, her face was blue and white for a while.

"'She'?" Jiang Yao noticed the strangeness of the two of them, and hurriedly asked. "Do you know something?"

"No, no, it's nothing......" Ah Hu turned his head unnaturally, his expression was cloudy, but such an abnormal appearance obviously couldn't hide Chen Siyi's eyes, only to see the latter's eyes glare, and his tone became more and more unpolite:

"What's going on?"

"Miss, I, we really don't know anything......" Ah Hu was glared at by Chen Siyi, and suddenly he was in a big mess, and he took a step back tremblingly, and Zhang Qiuyue on the side seemed to have reached the critical point of patience under pressure, and finally raised his head sharply and shouted loudly:

"It's Wen Jie! It must be that slut who is haunted and has come back to hurt people!" Zhang Qiuyue glared at her bloodshot eyes and gritted her teeth.

Isn't that the original owner of the room we stayed in before?

Hearing the name in Zhang Qiuyue's mouth, Jiang Yao immediately remembered the hand-drawn books he had seen under the dresser in the room before, and the inscription on it was the word "Wen Jie".

"Wen Jie, I seem to have heard this name somewhere......" Chen Siyi thought about it, frowning slightly.

"Wen Jie used to be our pharmacist here, but a year ago...... Missing. Ah Hu had a calm face, and finally seemed to have given up concealment.

"Missing?"

"Yes, when she was dispensing medicine for a client, she made a mistake and the client died unexpectedly after taking the medicine. At that time, this matter was quite a big trouble, and our Chen family medicine store also lost a lot of money......"

"I think about it, it seems like it is. Chen Siyi raised his head and said thoughtfully. "Although I didn't know the details abroad at the time, I did hear that there was an accident with a pharmacist in the branch...... How did Wen Jie disappear later?"

"Hmph, it's not because I'm afraid of crime and absconding!" Zhang Qiuyue rolled her eyes and interjected. "After the accident, she was probably afraid of going to jail, so she disappeared overnight, and then people found her luggage next to a waterfall cliff in the mountains, but the person was gone, it is estimated that she fell down, and even the body was not found!"

"No...... She—she's not going to do such a thing!" I heard about Wen ...... Miss Wen has always had a good reputation......"

Hearing what Zhang Qiuyue said, Zhao Minmin on the side suddenly opened his mouth in a hurry, but was scolded back by Zhang Qiuyue without saying a word:

"What do you know! It's only been a few months since I've been here, and I haven't even seen her in person, so who is in a position to defend her? Shut up!"

"I ...... I ......" Zhao Minmin was so blocked that he couldn't speak, so he could only wipe his tears with an aggrieved face, and rubbed the corners of his clothes with his head down.

"Since this pharmacist named Wen Jie died a year ago, how can he come out to harm people now?" Jiang Yao pondered, and suddenly remembered the pair of corpse wax footprints that appeared by the well earlier.

"...... a year ago? Could it be that you suspect that she came back after the 'corpse'......

"That's right! it must be her!" Zhang Qiuyue clenched her fists, and her freckled face looked particularly distorted under the hatred.

"Wang Le's death before is probably not an accident, and she must have been ......the victim! It was the 'motive' that harmed Wang Le and Ah Xing!"