I didn't know why Blood Impermanence had to drag me up, but I knew that now was not the time to fight him, so I hesitated and flew away from the reef in the distance.

I remember that there was indeed a master of the Hell Gate guarding the reef, but when Blood Impermanence came to talk to me, I never paid attention to the man's whereabouts.

The reef was half in the sea and half out of the water, and Blood Impermanence and I had to jump back and forth on the nearby rocks to keep our shoes from getting wet.

Blood Impermanence circled around the reef twice and didn't find any trace of his subordinates, and couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "Wu Zhao, won't you calculate?" ”

"I don't need to." I pointed to the reef and said, "There's a thread hanging from his clothes here, and the man must have slipped off the reef." ”

"Fart!" "I know how my men are doing, but he's not stupid enough to slide off the reef. ”

I didn't bother to explain anything to him, so I just jumped into the water, put my hand under the water and touched it. After a while, I pointed to the water and said, "You use the power of your inner palm to pat here and look under the water." ”

Blood Impermanence pushed the letter into the water with a suspicious palm, and when his palm swept the surface of the water a foot away, Blood Impermanence gasped as well—there was a footprint clearly on the reef below the surface of the water, and the footprint was just below the stone I had pointed to.

In other words, the owner of the footprints not only slipped into the water, but also received some heavy blow after falling into the water, which made him instinctively crush the reef under his feet under the severe pain.

The bloody face suddenly changed: "Someone! Come here, get me into the water and search for it! ”

"All back!" I snapped to stop the impermanence, "If you want your own people to die, then let them go into the water, I don't mind watching you hellmen die at the bottom of the sea one by one." ”

Blood Impermanence's face softened slightly: "Then what do you say to do?" ”

I took out three life-telling coins from my body and threw them on the reef, then reached out and pointed to the side: "Look for it in this direction, don't go into the water, just use a hook to fish in the water." ”

The men from the Hell Gate quickly found a hook from the boat and swept it all the way in the direction I had pointed out, but the thirty-odd men searched back and forth twice and failed to hook anything.

Blood Impermanence couldn't help frowning and looked at me: "Wu Zhao, is your calculation okay?" ”

I said coldly, "You don't believe it, you can't look for it." ”

"You ......" When the blood impermanence was so angry that it was smoking, Gu Piaoran said to the sea hook: "Brother Chen, can you please try it?" ”

The sea hook Lao Chen reached out and took the iron hook from the hand of a Hell Gate disciple, strode between the two rocks, stirred the hook twice in the water, and suddenly lifted it up, and actually dragged a red arm up from the water.

The human skin on that arm was gone, but the corpse was covered with a thin layer of mucous membrane, which was the same layer that blocked the spread of blood. If Lao Chen hadn't penetrated the corpse with an iron hook, he might not have been able to drag the corpse up.

Lao Chen said in a deep voice: "Come and fish!" The corpse is too slippery, either you people go down and lift it up, or you use a hook to pierce the corpse and drag it up, and I don't do anything you want to make it up for yourself. ”

To put it bluntly, a sea hook is a person who fishes for corpses and treasures in the sea, and this industry has its own rules. Lao Chen's words sounded like impersonal, but in fact he was doing things according to the rules.

Blood Impermanence spoke: "Take the rope around your arm and pull it up." ”

Someone took a slipknot and tied the body to the body, and slowly dragged the person up. As soon as the body came out of the water, the people on the shore gasped. The human skin on the entire corpse had been stripped off at all, and the corpse wrapped in film did not ooze a trace of blood except for the arm pierced by a hook. But such a corpse is more terrifying than the appearance of blood.

In my eyes, the corpse was like a body that had just been molted and was waiting to dry its body, and it might come out of that mucous membrane at some point.

After dragging the corpse to the beach, the men of the Hell Gate immediately retreated a few meters, drew their weapons and carefully surrounded the corpse, waiting for the blood impermanence to give the order.

Blood Impermanence turned to Gu Piaoran and asked, "Mr. Gu, you are well-informed, do you know what is going on?" ”

Gu Piaoran shook his head slightly and said, "I look like a tortured death row prisoner, but I don't know what that mucous membrane is." Lao Chen, do you know? ”

Old Chen, the sea hook, also shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it either." However, his human skin is definitely not in the water, I just looked for it. ”

Su Youran whispered at this time: "This person seems to have been caught by a snake and scattered. ”

Blood Impermanence turned around and said, "What is that?" ”

Su Youran explained: "A poison that has long been lost. Legend has it that the person who has shed the snake will completely shed the human skin like a snake, and the person who has shed the skin will not die for a while, because the mucous membrane on the snake will replace the human skin and lock the blood on the human body, and the person will not die because of excessive bleeding. However, that mucous membrane cannot block the sunlight and sea water like real human skin, and if you throw a poisoned person under the sun, that person will eventually be hurt to death. ”

"Shhhh ”

Someone whispered: "Shenjun, Zhao Xing doesn't seem to be dead yet." ”

I followed the impermanence of blood and looked at the corpse on the ground. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I always feel that the corpse that should have died seems to be breathing weakly.

After hesitating for a moment, Blood Impermanence drew a long knife from his hand and slashed it through the man's neck. The blood that burst out of the corpse immediately added a bit of blood to the already red and piercing robes of Blood Impermanence. Blood Impermanence put away the long knife and said in a low voice, "Find a place to bury it!" ”

Gu Piaoran, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Look around, especially in high places, to see if there is any human skin, hurry up!" ”

Blood Impermanence turned his head with a grim face and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

Gu Piaoran shook his head slightly and said, "I just doubt ......"

Gu Piaoran didn't say what he suspected, but I said, "He suspects that the entire secret realm is a place to suppress sin." In ancient times, after the torture of skinning was used, didn't they all have to stuff hay in human skins and hang them up for public display? If we find human skins nearby, we are in the place of sin again. ”

Old Joe's face turned extremely white in an instant: "Don't talk nonsense! Where did you get so many places to suppress sin? Besides, in ancient criminal law, can you still use snakes to shed and peel their skins? ”

Old Qiao was afraid of death, and I didn't want to worry about him, so I simply shook my head and looked into the distance.

After a while, someone shouted, "Here's a human skin!" ”

We immediately followed the sound and ran over, and sure enough, we saw a human skin being flattened against the cliff. Although the human skin has no flesh and bone support, the appearance of the deceased can still be vaguely distinguished from the facial features.

Blood Impermanence said in a deep voice: "Go up and take off the human skin." ”

"No way!" Old Joe stopped, "That's a public display, a public display!" In ancient times, anyone who dared to take down the corpse of the public without permission was a felony of rebellion. Don't touch it, don't touch it! ”

When the blood impermanence's face changed slightly, I leaped into the air, kicked my feet twice on the cliff, reached out and grabbed the corner of the human skin, raised my hand to tear the whole human skin to the ground, and I also fell to the ground.

Old Joe was suddenly scared half to death: "You...... You...... What can you do if you have nothing to do, even dare to move something that is displayed to the public? If you don't want to live, don't bother us! Mr. Gu, get him out, if you attract the criminal leader, it's not a joke! ”

"You shut your mouth first!" Gu Piaoran stopped and said, "Mr. Wu, what are you doing here?" ”

I lowered my head and touched the human skin a few times: "I want to verify whether the criminal leader is killing someone." If you look closely at this human skin, it must have been peeled off and stuck to the cliff shortly after. ”

Old Joe screamed: "Who can't see it? I think you're just reckless, just to be in the limelight, don't die! ”

I ignored Old Joe and continued: "Skinning was not a justifiable punishment in ancient times. Although the ancient punishment was harsh, the word 'benevolence' had to be erected for the monarch, so the skinning would not be directly written into the criminal law. Skinning is mostly due to a specific period or a specific person. ”

Ye Shen nodded and said, "What Zhaozi said is right. The punishment of skinning actually had a process of development, and it did not reach its peak until the Ming and Qing dynasties, but there were not many times when it was actually used for formal punishment. Except for Zhu Yuanzhang's founding of the country, he basically appeared in the troubled times. ”

I continued: "The punishment of skinning is not so much about the process of punishment as about the deterrence of the public. Therefore, all human skins shown to the public will undergo special nitrate, and the process is similar to that of nitrate cowhide, in order to prevent the rapid decay of human skin. But, you see, has this human skin ever been made of nitration? ”

Old Qiao said sharply: "What does that mean?" When the Qing Dynasty monk Greenqin killed the Taiping Army, didn't he just peel the skin and hang it on a tree? ”

I really couldn't stand Old Qiao's clamour, so I simply replied: "Is the place of sin suppression used to execute prisoners?" If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. ”

Gu Piaoran also glared at Lao Qiao fiercely: "Old Qiao, you'd better be quiet for a while, maybe things aren't as bad as you think." Wu Zhao, you continue. ”

I continued: "The second suspicion is that in ancient times, peeling was done alive from behind a person with a knife, and the so-called mercury peeling is nonsense. Since this is a place to suppress crimes, then the culprit should be executed in front of us like the sea, why do you act so secretly? What's the difference between this and an assassination? ”

I stood up and looked at Su Youran.