Tianchu said: "Get up and speak, how did you come here?" ”

Then the people stood up and told them what had happened to them.

It turned out that the mast of the big ship was blown off by the strong wind, and at the same time, the fans of the ship and the captain of the ship were swept into the sea by the wind and waves along with the mast. Yu Xinlong on the sail, as well as some martial arts and boat bosses who were close to the mast, caught the sail by luck, and then climbed onto the mast, and the rest of the nearly forty fanzi and boatmen fell into the water and drowned.

The rope tied to the mast on the sail was broken by the strong wind and waves, the sail and the mast were separated, and the sail floated to the island with the crossbar, and the main mast that Xiao Zhenpeng grabbed was not easy to sink because it was very thick, and almost all the people who climbed the mast were strong martial artists, so they survived the wind and waves, but Rao was so, many boatmen and fans who climbed on the mast in that storm were still swept away from the mast by the wind and waves and drowned in the sea.

After the wind and waves, only the chief Yu Xinlong, Xiao Zhenpeng, Su Wen, Cai Qingworm, Xu Xiaobin, Fang Lang, Wang Jinhua, and a female fan Zhang Yilei and the boat boss were left on the mast of the river, a total of nine people.

In the past few days at sea, due to the different directions of ocean currents, they luckily avoided the bigger wind and waves encountered by Meng Tianchu and the other three the day before yesterday, and only encountered some light rain, so they did not die of thirst. As soon as they went to the island and found the rainwater from the pond to drink, and when they were about to explore this isolated island, they were seen by Meng Tianchu and them from the top of the mountain.

After asking what happened, Meng Tianchu also briefly said how the three of them drifted to this isolated island. and told the story of the discovery of the body of the female fanzi Liu Lian and the burial of her on the hillside of the sea in front.

Xiao Zhenpeng bowed and said, "The foreman personally buried the remains of his subordinates. We are grateful for our care and care for our subordinates. The foreman treats me like my own parents! ”

Everyone bowed down to express their gratitude, and a deeply moved look appeared on their faces.

Xiao Zhenpeng saw at a glance that the clothes and fabrics Meng Tianchu were wearing were exactly the same, and they were actually made of sails. hurriedly took off his robe for Meng Tianchu to wear, and ordered the female fan Zhang Yilei to take off her dress and change it to Xia Fengyi. Of course, Meng Tianchu and Xia Fengyi refused.

Although the fabric of this sail is too hard and not very comfortable to wear, this is the first piece of clothing that Xia Fengyi made for Meng Tianchu, of course, she is reluctant to change it for Xiao Zhenpeng, and Xia Fengyi does not like to wear other people's dresses.

Xiao Zhenpeng saw Meng Tianchu and the three of them barefoot, and hurriedly took off their shoes to Meng Tianchu. Let the female fan Zhang Yilei take off her shoes and give it to Xia Fengyi, and let the male fan Fang Lang take off her shoes for Feiyan to wear.

Xia Fengyi still can't resist the temptation of shoes, firstly, shoes are not as personal as clothes, and secondly, Xia Fengyi was born in an official eunuch, and she is pampered on weekdays, and she has never walked barefoot on the grass and stones, and her feet are painful, and these men and women have martial arts. It doesn't matter if you wear shoes and bare feet, so after Meng Tianchu wore Xiao Zhenpeng's shoes, he asked Xia Fengyi to wear them too. She agreed, thanked Zhang Yilei and put them on. The size is just right. Feiyan also took Fang Lang's shoes and put them on.

Xiao Zhenpeng patted his ass and took off his shoes to Meng Tianchu, and his subordinate Cai Qingworm hurriedly took off his shoes to Xiao Zhenpeng to wear.

Fanzi Xu Xiaobin saw that Zhang Yilei was barefoot and indecent, so he took off his shoes and handed them to Zhang Yilei. Zhang Yilei shook her head and didn't answer, and Xu Xiaobin put on his shoes by himself.

Feiyan ran back to the cave and brought the leftover barbecue fish fillet, which was shared among several people, but it was only enough to make a bottom. The hairpin on the head of the landed man was not lost, so he found a wooden stick and learned Meng Tianchu's method to make a spear for fishing.

With these people, Meng Tianchu and them will be relaxed. Feiyan cut the fish into fillets and grilled them for everyone to eat.

After eating, a group of people sit around the beach and discuss what to do next.

The captain said, "There are many trees on this island, and we have swords, but we don't have a saw, so we can only use a sword to transform it into a rudimentary saw, so let's take some time to build a boat and row back." It should be a short distance from the coast, bring food and water, and it should be possible to return to land in a few days. ”

Everyone was very happy when they heard this, the boss of this ship was a shipwright, and he knew very well how to build a ship, and he had been in the rough sea for a long time, and under his command, he would definitely be able to build a ship.

Meng Tianchu immediately ordered to start building a ship immediately, and he was supposed to participate in person, but Xiao Zhenpeng and Yu Xinlong didn't agree anyway, just let him sit in command.

Meng Tianchu didn't know anything about shipbuilding, and it was just a kind word to say that command, he was a chief, how dare these people let him do it himself.

These Dongchang fans all have martial arts, especially Yu Xinlong and Fang Lang, Wang Jinhua, Xu Xiaobin, Su Wen and several others, martial arts are even better, especially the chief Yu Xinlong, who is higher than other fans' martial arts. Everyone else carries one tree, and he carries two trees!

Seeing that Yu Xinlong and the others were so brave, Meng Tianchu didn't bother to cut down trees and trees himself, so he decided to go fishing, bring it to Feiyan barbecue, and prepare food for everyone.

If it takes a few days at sea, then fresh water must be prepared, now

Water and land utensils, fortunately, there are many pottery workshops in ancient times, and you can see pork and pig running in the streets and alleys.

It only took less than an hour for Yu Xinlong and the others to cut down the trees they needed, during which the boat boss transformed two thin swords into a rudimentary saw, although he didn't do it, he could barely use it.

Then Yu Xinlong and the others were busy sawing the trees into wood chips according to the requirements of the boat boss, although it really took some time, but with the concerted efforts of these martial arts fans, at night, the wood was also sawed into the required planks.

When it got dark, Xiao Zhenpeng arranged to build a bonfire on the beach, Zhongfanzi and the boat boss slept by the beach bonfire, and Meng Tianchu, Xia Fengyi, and Feiyan still slept in the cave. Yu Xinlong took two strong martial arts dealers to sleep at the entrance of the cave as a guard.

The next day, the ship's boss commanded the start of shipbuilding. This is a technical job. It's not that a lot of people can help, and a lot of people can't help, so Meng Tianchu instructed to leave Xu Xiaobin to help the boat boss. The rest of the land was led by Xinlong and Xiao Zhenpeng, who went to the island to hunt, collect wild fruits, and prepare food for crossing the sea. Food and fresh water need to be prepared, after all, there are eleven people.

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In the afternoon, Xiao Zhenpeng led the team back first, and only brought back a few hares and a snake. This isolated island is too small, there are no large animals, and there are no tigers and other beasts.

But Yu Xinlong and the others didn't come back for a long time, and it wasn't until the evening that they saw Su Wen, who had gone hunting with Yu Xinlong, running back, panting and reporting to Meng Tianchu: "My lord, our Fang Langfang brothers are gone, and Yu Yanchang is looking for them with his brothers." ”

The crowd was taken aback. Meng Tianchu hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"When we arrived at the mountain, the chief said that there were no big animals on the mountain, and everyone scattered to look for it to see if we could hunt some hares or something. It was said that it would be concentrated for about two hours. So we parted, and it was time to meet. I arrived at the meeting place first, and after a while, Commander Yu also came, but we waited for almost half an hour, and we didn't see Fang Lang coming, so the Commander asked me to report to the lord, and he went to look for it. ”

Meng Tianchu frowned and said: "This island is not very big, except for the hill where we live, there are no steep cliffs, the terrain is relatively flat, and there is no possibility of falling off the cliff." ”

Zhang Yilei, the female fan, said: "Could he be too tired and fall asleep in the grass?" ”

Yes, isn't "Journey to the West" Zhu Bajie often sleeping in the grass and being lazy, it's just that Meng Tianchu has a bad premonition, these fans are different from Zhu Bajie, especially the fans selected to go to sea with him to protect this time, they are all carefully selected elites, and the leader of the East Factory is different from Tang Seng who is kind and kind, and he is still in danger, no fan dares to be lazy to sleep at this time. This Fang Lang didn't come back for most of the hour, and it was likely that something had happened.

Meng Tianchu immediately ordered Xiao Zhenpeng to lead the crowd to help find it.

After a while, the commander Xiao Zhenpeng hurriedly came to report with two fans, saying that he had found Fanzi Fang Lang, but he was dead, and there was a wound on the top of his head. The blood is all dry, and I don't know how I died.

Meng Tianchu was taken aback, could it be that there was an enemy lurking on this small island? didn't dare to let Xia Fengyi and Feiyan leave him, and followed Xiao Zhenpeng and others to the scene of the crime.

This scene is an open green grassland, and the body was found by Fanzi Xu Xiaobin, lying in the grass in the middle of the open field.

Yu Xinlong and others are all veterans of Dongchang's investigation, although they rely more on chasing after the wind and even talking about it, but they still know the importance of the on-site protection site.

Meng Tianchu glanced at the corpse in the grass from a distance, and was not in a hurry to go over, and asked Fanzi Xu Xiaobin: "You first tell me how the corpse was found." ”

Xu Xiaobin bowed down and said: "Xiaodi followed the two commanders to look for Brother Fang Lang, and the commander Yu asked everyone to scatter and dragnet to search, and assigned the small one to be in charge of this area, when Xiaodi searched here, he found that there was a person lying on his stomach in the grass, and looked carefully, his clothes were Fang Lang, and he called twice, but he ignored it. The little one went up to check and found that he was dead. The younger one immediately beckoned to the brothers who were near, and then the captain and they arrived. ”

Meng Tianchu glanced at everyone: "Apart from Xu Xiaobin, who else has been to the corpse?" ”

Yu Xinlong bowed down and said, "I have examined the corpse with a humble position. None of the others had ever been close, they were just watching from afar. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, first observed his feet, carefully avoided places that might leave traces, and approached the corpse.

The corpse was surrounded by muddy grass and some low bushes, the body was in prone suit, lying face down on the dirt, hands bent in front of the head, left leg slightly bent, right leg straight, from the back position, fully dressed, no obvious external injuries, no signs of struggle.

Meng Tianchu glanced at the corpse, and suddenly found that the deceased was holding a piece of something in the palm of his right hand, and a black rope was exposed.

Meng Tianchu grabbed the rope and gently pulled out the piece of thing in the deceased's hand to take a look, Leng Buding was startled - it turned out to be the Dongchang waist card of the female floating corpse Liu Lian before!

He obviously tied this waist card to the branch of Liu Lian's grave, how could it appear in the palm of the deceased's hand

Is there really a ghost in this world? Impossible, as a medical examiner. He never believed in ghosts and gods. There must be a reason for this, but this reason has not yet been recognized, and people always unconsciously attribute things that they do not realize to ghosts and gods. The latter adds oil and vinegar, which is why there are so many legends of gods and monsters.

But what is the reason for this? He has already told the public about Liu Lian's burial on the hillside by the sea, so it is possible that Fang Lang passed by Liu Lian's grave and took this waist card as a commemoration or wanted to go back in the future and give it to Liu Lian's family as a commemoration, if the murderer is his own subordinates, it is also possible that the murderer took the waist card and stuffed it in the palm of the deceased's hand. Attempts to lead murder to ghosts and ghosts.

Of course, if there are other people, even enemies, on this island, it is possible that they did it, but as for the purpose of doing so, it is not clear.

Meng Tianchu carried the rope and looked at the waist card from different angles in the sun, trying to find the fingerprints, but unfortunately failed to find them. I didn't bring my own forensic evidence investigation box (fortunately I didn't.) Otherwise, it might have been lost in those two storms.) There is no fingerprint brush, there is no way to extract fingerprints for identification, so you can only put the waist card in your arms first.

Then the examination of the body began. The body was turned over, and no obvious external injuries were found on the frontal part of the body. The nose has been flattened by the earth, and the nose and mouth are covered with dirt. Examination of the mouth and nostrils showed no soil, but only a small amount of bleeding from the nostrils, so it was judged that the deceased had died of exhaustion before or at the same time as he fell to the ground, so although the mouth and nose were blocked with mud, there was no breathing in the nostrils.

The fatal wound was on the top of the head, a triangular wound the size of a finger, a skull defective fracture, with neat wounds, blood and a small amount of white cerebral plasma around the wound. The wound was probed with a tree branch, and it was found that the wound cavity was more than two inches deep into the brain parenchyma, and the brain parenchyma was partially defective.

The cause of death was traumatic cerebral laceration.

When the coat was removed, it was found that the corpse spots were located on the face, chest, abdomen, thighs, and front of the arms, which were consistent with the prone position, and it was preliminarily judged that the corpse had not moved. Mortis has appeared, descending, in the mandibular joint, neck, and shoulders. Combined with corpse cold, corpse spots, and corpse stiffness, the time of death was judged to be two hours (about four hours).

The fatal wound of the deceased was a sharp wound on the top of the head, which could have caused the deceased to die instantly, and no murder weapon was found at the wound site and around the corpse, according to which the possibility of suicide was preliminarily ruled out. Therefore, it was preliminarily determined that it was homicide.

If it was he killed, it would be very strange, first, from the wound on the top of the deceased's head, it was like a triangle, this kind of murder weapon was very strange, it was not an ordinary sword, it was a little similar to a three-edged scraper, but there was also a clear difference, because the three-edged scraper stabbed mostly in the shape of a triangular star, which was generally equilateral, and one side of the wound was an inward arc, and the other two sides were outwardly arc-shaped. This does not match the characteristics of the Three-Edged Scraper Blood Blade. Second, the deceased's brain parenchyma was partially defective, as if it had been taken away, what kind of murder weapon was this? Can the brain in the wound cavity be sucked away?

Meng Tianchu carefully inspected the surroundings of the corpse again, due to the heavy rain in the previous two days, there was a lot of water in this area, although it had been exposed to the sun for two days, it was only half-dry, and people stepped on it, leaving relatively clear footprints.

Three footprints were found around the body, one of which was the deceased's own, from west to east, to the point where the body had fallen, apparently killed while walking. After comparing the other two shoe prints, Xu Xiaobin and Yu Xinlong, who were the first to find the corpses, were compared. Other than that, no other people's footprints were found within a radius of a few zhang.

This is strange, although it was the body found by Xu Xiaobin, but the deceased had been dead for four hours when he found it, and Xu Xiaobin had been on the beach all day to help the boat boss and never left the beach, so it couldn't be that he was a thief shouting to catch a thief.

Then the suspect is only Yu Xinlong.

Xiao Zhenpeng gave an order, and several fans surrounded Xinlong with their own blades.

Yu Xinlong did not resist, but shouted that he was wronged, saying that two hours (four hours) ago, he was hunting on the other side and had never been to this area at all. It wasn't until Xu Xiaobin shouted that he found the body just now that he rushed to hear the news.

Xiao Zhenpeng sneered: "The foreman said, check the footprints at the scene, only you and Xu Xiaobin, Xu Xiaobin has been on the beach, who is it if you didn't kill Fang Lang?" ”

"That shoe print was left when we arrived here just now, when I examined the body."

"Hehe, we came here together, everyone heard Xu Xiaobin say that Fang Lang was dead, and he didn't come forward to protect the scene, but you ran up to check if you were dead, it was obvious that you wanted to deliberately mess up the scene and cover up the footprints you left when you killed people before!"

"I didn't! Don't spew blood! ”

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After carefully observing all Yu Xinlong's footprints around the scene, Meng Tianchu said: "Don't argue between the two of you, what Commander Yu said is true, he didn't kill people." Put away your swords! ”