The sewer system of the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City is world-famous, not only extending in all directions, but also the sewers are very wide, which can be inhabited by people, but the sewers of Tokyo City also have another feature that is world-famous, that is, the smell is overwhelming, it is said that once the Song Dynasty official in charge of the waterway dredging made a real yàn, that is, a piece of silver was thrown into the sewage of the sewer, and the silver only sank a few points, so it can be seen how dirty the water of the sewer is.

Of course, the above example may be a bit exaggerated, but it is enough to show the dirtiness of the sewers in Tokyo City, Zhao Yan and the others just stood at the entrance of this secret passage leading to the sewer, and they had already learned the taste of the sewers, and even Zhao Yan finally directly pulled the sachet off his waist and covered his nose, which made him feel better.

"King Jun, you wait here, I'll take someone down to investigate!" Wang Dynasty opened his mouth to Zhao Yan and Su Shi at this time, and then he instructed the officials to prepare ropes and torches, Zhao Yan actually wanted to go down, but he knew that with his own identity, the people around him would definitely not let him go down, plus it was too smelly down here, so in the end he didn't mention it, but just told the dynasty to be careful.

After the things were ready, Wang Chao threw a torch down first, and found that the hole was not too deep, only about five or six meters, and there was no water at the bottom, although the torch burned on the ground, it was not extinguished, which showed that there was also oxygen underneath, enough for people to survive.

Then the dynasty and more than a dozen officials threw down the rope, and then slid down the rope to the bottom of the cave, at this time the dynasty shouted to Zhao Yan above: "King of the county, there is a secret passage on the right side, it should lead to the sewer, let's go in and have a look!" ”

"Be careful!" Zhao Yan once again exhorted loudly, the case of the disappearance of the monks of Xiangji Temple is too weird. And it is likely that a fairly large force is involved behind it, so the people who investigate the case in the dynasty cannot fully guarantee their safety.

The dynasty below agreed, and then entered the secret passage with more than a dozen servants, at first Zhao Yan could still see a little fire light from the secret passage at the bottom of the cave, but soon he couldn't see anything.

Zhao Yan thought that it would take a long time for them to have a result, but he didn't expect that it would only take a quarter of an hour. There was another firelight in the secret passage below, and at the same time there was a messy footstep, and then I saw the dynasty leading the officials out of the secret passage, pulling the rope and climbing up.

Wang Dynasty was the first to climb up, but before Zhao Yan could ask him about the situation below, he saw that Wang Dynasty rushed to the outside of the meditation room as fast as possible, and then spit out with a "wow", and the rest of the other officials were worse than him, and some vomited directly below. And everyone was panicked, as if they had seen something frightening?

Zhao Yan and Su Shi walked outside the meditation room, and finally waited until Wang Chao finished vomiting, and then he asked, "Wang Dynasty, what's going on, what did you encounter down there?" ”

I saw that the dynasty was pale at this time, stretched out his sleeves and wiped the corners of his mouth, and then said weakly: "The king of the county." Our family has been catching heads in the public for generations, it is not an exaggeration. I followed my father to solve the case when I was three years old, and I have seen all kinds of dead people, and I thought that I would never be afraid of the dead again in my life, but today I realized that I was wrong. ”

"What do you mean, there's a dead man down there?" Zhao Yan shouted in shock when he heard this, and a bad premonition also surged in his heart.

"It shouldn't be called dead. It should be called Roshan, and the secret passage below is not far ahead, and there is a relatively large hole with a mountain of meat piled up inside, all of which are composed of broken corpses. Judging from the few remaining heads, it should be the missing monks in the temple, but I don't know who is so cruel, even if you kill them, you have to chop them up and pile them together, and you can't even form them into corpses. "The dynasty has a lingering heart.

The dynasty has also seen a lot of cruel murders, the most of which even a dozen members of a family were hacked to death, but at once they encountered dozens of corpses, and they were chopped up and piled together, but it was the first time to encounter them, especially in the sewers, all kinds of insects and maggots were everywhere, and those corpses were piled up there for a few days, and they were all insects and rats, even an old catcher like him couldn't stand it when he saw it, and the other catchers almost vomited on the spot, and someone vomited a second time just now, It's very rare for him to be able to hold on to it before throwing up.

"All shredded corpses?" Zhao Yan was also stunned when he heard this shocking news, Su Shi next to him just imagined the picture inside, but immediately covered his mouth and almost vomited the contents of his stomach, after all, he was only a civil official, and he might not even be as fast as a catcher in this regard.

Su Shi finally calmed down the churning in his abdomen, but then said very sadly: "King of the county, in this way, I'm afraid that the emptiness is more auspicious." ”

"It's still impossible to determine, after all, there are so many broken corpses down there, and it is impossible to tell who is who, maybe the empty is not among them." Zhao Yan shook his head and said, he didn't comfort Su Shi, but really felt that Kong should still be alive.

"I also agree with the words of the king of the county, generally speaking, there are only two purposes for the murderer to break the corpse, the first is to hate the other party, and kill the other party and not solve the hatred, so the corpse is broken, but more than seventy monks in the Xiangji Temple, even if they have great hatred, they rarely chop so many corpses into pieces, so the reason is likely to be the second, that is, what the murderer wants to cover up, such as making us unable to recognize the identity of the deceased, so that we cannot determine how many people died in the temple, this purpose he has done, It is true that we cannot determine the number of dead from the mutilation. ”

Wang Chao couldn't help but sigh when he said the end, his autopsy experience was no worse than any pretentiousness, many times he could even see the cause of death of the deceased at a glance, just now he saw so many broken corpses and did not patronize the disgusting, but also took a general look, the broken corpses on the entire Roshan were not only chopped very broken, but also destroyed by the animals in the sewers, some rats with big heads took away the broken corpses, and it was impossible to piece together a complete corpse, and naturally it was impossible to deduce the exact number of deaths.

"I see, just using the deaths of so many people to cover up a secret, this murderer is simply crazy!" Su Shi first breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then said with some anger.

However, Zhao Yan and Wang Dynasty glanced at each other when they heard this, and both of them thought of the same thing, and then Wang Chao said in a low voice: "County King, do you also have a sense of déjà vu?" ”

"Yes, in order to achieve the goal, unscrupulous means, treating human life as a mustard, this method is indeed somewhat similar to the last fire in the palace." Zhao Yan also sighed lightly at this time, it was also dozens of lives, and the modus operandi was clean and neat, leaving no useful clues, this style was simply too similar.

"More than seventy lives, even if the perpetrators are all strong martial artists, it is absolutely impossible for no one to resist, but there is no trace of a fight in the entire temple, this is obviously abnormal, unless it is ......" Wang Chao muttered to himself at this time, and when he said to the end, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he said to Zhao Yan and Su Shi, "The king of the county come with me, I should know how the perpetrator killed people!" ”

After Wang Dynasty finished speaking, he turned around and left, with a hint of joy on his face, Zhao Yan and Su Shi also hurriedly followed, and as a result, Wang Chao took them straight to the kitchen of Xiangji Temple, Zhao Yan finally came to his senses at this time, and said in surprise at the moment: "That's right, if you want to kill dozens of monks in Xiangji Temple silently, the best way is to poison them!" ”

"The king of the county is wise, this is what he thinks about his humble position!" Wang Dynasty also opened his mouth at this time, and then instructed the officials behind him, "Everyone searches separately, and the entire kitchen must be searched inside and out, and no suspicious places can be missed!" ”

"Yes!" The servants agreed, and immediately rummaged through the kitchen. Wang Dynasty even walked to a row of large water tanks in the kitchen, and then checked them one by one, after all, if the murderer was poisoned, the most likely thing was to poison the water, but what disappointed him was that the water in the water tank was not abnormal, and even he tasted it himself, and did not find anything abnormal.

The other officials carefully searched the entire kitchen, but they didn't find anything, and even the salt, vinegar and other spices on the stove were also specially checked, and they were also very normal, and there was no sign of poisoning at all, which made Wang Chao couldn't help but wonder and said: "How is it possible, there is not even a trace in the kitchen?" ”

"Possibly!" At this time, Zhao Yan suddenly spoke, "If there is a mole in the temple, you can wait until the food is ready before poisoning, and then clean up the poisonous food afterwards, so that there will be no traces in the kitchen." ”

Wang Dynasty also came to his senses when he heard Zhao Yan's reminder, and at that moment he suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "It seems that there is only one way now, that is, to go down to the secret passage again, and then find the stomach and intestines from the broken corpses, and then check the remaining food in the stomach, as long as the food they eat is poisonous, we can prove that our inference is correct!" ”

Hearing that they had to go down further, and that they had to find the stomach and bring it up from those broken corpses, the surrounding officials were also pale, just now they just looked at it a few times and couldn't stand it, but now they have to rummage through it, which is even more uncomfortable than killing them.

However, the dynasty ignored the expressions of his subordinates, and immediately came to the secret passage again with the officials, but those officials were a little sluggish and didn't want to go down, which also made the dynasty very annoyed, but at this moment, a person next to Zhao Yan suddenly spoke: "Wang Zhutou, don't be embarrassed by others, I'll go down with you!" (To be continued......) R1292