Grade Number: Xuanzi Zero Zero Lu

Name: Xu Huaizhi, living corpse.

Warehousing time: October 10 of the 40th year of Jiajing.

Origin: Originally a clerk of the Cangzhou Prefecture Ya, during his serious illness, he was affected by the word 00 0 2 [Demon Seal - Remnant], which produced a mutation.

Image: A dying old scribe with a foul smell, hard leather, no breathing and heartbeat.

Characteristics: Inhuman strange power, limb regeneration, no need to [cannot] get involved in nutrition.

Note: The joints of the limbs are checked every morning and evening, and the punishment is applied according to the recovery.

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West across the courtyard wing.

When I walked into the foul-smelling room with my nose covered, I saw a wooden stake erected in the middle of the room, and with the stake as the center, there were more than a dozen circles of thick hemp rope scattered around it.

Looking further in, the most striking thing is the huge hole in the gable.

The entrance to the cave was clinging to the ground, in an irregular half-moon shape, and the surrounding walls were protruding a little.

There are also more than a dozen bricks piled up on both sides of the hole, and it seems that they should first be pushed outward with strange force, and then the wall tiles are pulled out after the wall is deformed.

Wang Shouye came to the entrance of the cave, leaned on the ground and looked carefully, and saw that there was a not very clear drag mark in the snow outside, which extended to the back of the nearby firewood house.

Obviously, Xu Huaizhi left this wing room after breaking the rope.

"When did this snow stop?"

There was an internal guard on duty in the back, and when he heard Wang Shouye's question, he immediately stepped forward and replied: "The villain remembers that it was just after the fifth watch." ”

"Did it stop suddenly, or did it get smaller?"

"It seems to have stopped suddenly, right?"

"Like?"

"It stopped suddenly, yes!"

Just after the fifth watch, that is, around 5 o'clock.

In this way, Xu Huaizhi should have escaped between Zizheng and Yin [0:00-3:00].

Because before and after the child, it is customary to check the post once.

And if you had fled after 3:00, the trail of dragging on the ground would not have been so badly covered by the snow.

"Uncle Zhao, what do you think?"

Since he wants to solve the case, he naturally has to rely on Zhao Kui, who was born as a head hunter.

Zhao Kui actually came earlier than Wang Shouye, and he had already carefully examined all the traces of the scene, so when he heard Wang Shouye's question, he immediately bowed down and reported: "If you return to the guard, in my humble opinion, then Xu Huaizhi should not be able to escape too far." ”

"Can't get too far?"

Wang Shouye raised his eyebrows when he heard this, it was already the second quarter of Mao Zheng [6:30], and at least nearly two hours had passed since Xu Huaizhi absconded.

Is his judgment of time wrong, or is the scope of his 'can't escape' too large?

"My lord, please look at the marks on the snow."

Hearing Wang Shouye's questioning, Zhao Kui came closer, pointed to the drag marks on the ground and said: "If you look closely, you can distinguish the traces left by the palms and elbows when they support the ground, but there are no traces of feet and knees at all - and when normal people crawl forward, they must use both hands and feet." ”

Wang Shouye suddenly blurted out when he heard this: "You mean, the injury on his leg has not yet recovered?!" ”

"That's right."

Zhao Kui nodded, pointed to the back of the firewood room and said, "There is also a hole in the outer wall - if he is at the mercy of his hands and feet, he can use a more concealed method." ”

A hole in the exterior wall too?

Wang Shouye frowned again when he heard this, and without saying a word, he walked out of the wing room and went around the verandah to the back of the firewood room.

Sure enough, a hole had been dug here, but now the hole was simply sealed.

In addition, the snow near the root of this outer wall is obviously much lighter than elsewhere.

Wang Shouye looked at it for a moment, and then walked around the front door of the yamen to the outside of the wall.

I saw that the outer wall was covered with a layer of snow, and if you didn't look carefully at night, it would be similar to the light gray wall.

Near the entrance of the cave, there were no traces of crawling as before.

On the contrary, the snow at the entrance of the cave is thicker than elsewhere.

"This guy should have wrapped the snow in the yard with his clothes, and after climbing out, he covered his tracks."

Zhao Kui said, and pointed not far away: "If you look carefully, he is mostly sitting upside down in the snow, relying on the palm of his hand to move forward, and every time he moves a distance, he will try to cover it - although it may not be possible to cover it in a hurry, but it was dark at night, and it was snowing heavily, so it was naturally difficult to distinguish clearly." ”

Tut~

Although Wang Shouye personally brought Xu Huaizhi back to Beijing, he really didn't pay much attention to Xu Huaizhi all along.

In my impression, this is just a corrupt official who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and accidentally got an adventure.

And every time I was tortured, I cried and cried, and my grandfather and ancestors pleaded.

Now I know that under the appearance of this guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death, there is still a meticulous mind!

In addition to sighing, Wang Shouye also immediately ordered: "Immediately send the Shanhaiwei who have seen Xu Huaizhi to the various city gates - in addition, carefully ask the guards of Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate to confirm that he has not gone out of the city yet!" ”

"In addition, please Hu Shoubei allocate a hundred foreign guards to immediately conduct a close search in all parts of Sichengfang - if you don't get anything within half an hour, you will contact Shuntian Mansion to issue a sea fishing document and issue a heavy reward!"

After giving the order, he inquired about Xu Huaizhi's condition during the inspection last night.

According to the internal guard in charge of the inspection, Xu Huaizhi's humerus was broken from the middle at that time, and bone fragments could be felt at the fracture.

According to past experience, it would take Xu Huaizhi at least two to three days to recover from such an injury, so no one expected that he would be able to escape from prison yesterday.

"What about the punishment on the knee?"

Wang Shouye asked again: "How many days does it usually take to heal?" ”

"That's long, after the last digging, it took a full ten days to grow most of it, but it was dug up again before it could grow, so the villain doesn't know how many days it will take to fully recover."

"How many days is it?"

"On the ninth day, I was going to dig again tomorrow - according to the rules, I should have broken my forearm tomorrow."

That's probably why he couldn't wait to escape.

If you miss today, you will have to wait at least ten days.

Two or three days of fracture injuries in one night......

No!

It should be healed in just two or three hours.

Did he suppress the speed of self-healing before, or did he find some way to promote strong regeneration in a short period of time?

In any case, this ability should not be able to promote the regeneration of kneecaps in the short term.

Otherwise, he could have chosen to wait for his kneecap to recover before escaping from the mountain and sea prison.

But in this way, there are some places that don't make sense.

It was obviously extremely difficult for a man with crippled legs, an obscene appearance, a single coat, covered in blood, and a foul smell to escape the ensuing pursuit of the imperial court.

Anyway, if Wang Shouye was him, he couldn't think of any way to escape and ascend to heaven.

But this Xu Huaizhi is a thoughtful person.

It stands to reason that only after making a follow-up plan to get out will it be put into action.

So what is his follow-up plan to get out?

[Uh, the fourth shift will be put tomorrow morning, the fourth watch will fail today, see if you can have four shifts tomorrow, and you can't have at least three shifts. 】