As soon as you enter the door, a strange smell hits your face. Although the body has been removed, the entire room has not been cleaned up in order to preserve the scene. The house was not windy, and a fishy stench mixed with a damp musty smell. Maybe it's because it's been too long, it's not very pungent, but it's never pleasant. The black blood stains that solidified on the ground crisscrossed like veins of water, and the source could be roughly determined.

Liang Yuejun told them that the witness also said that he saw the stupid aunt open the door to someone in the afternoon, and he was afraid that the monster had changed, so he lurked at home.

There were blood splatters on the low corners of the walls and the legs of the table. Someone may have been bitten to death in a dream, and the person who woke up had a fight with the youkai, but failed. Shi Wuqi also found that there was a bloodstain in the kitchen. Liang Yuejun said that it was the silly aunt who died there, maybe she was thirsty in the middle of the night, so she got up to find water to drink.

There are still too few clues. I had to wait until I got to the ice cellar and saw the corpses with my own eyes.

At noon, they casually found a restaurant to fill their stomachs. In fact, no one thought it was time to eat, and even Ah Luan didn't shout that he was hungry, but when it came to dinner, he felt that it was inappropriate not to eat. While waiting for Xiao Er to serve the food, Shanhai asked Liang Yuejun where the document for transferring the title deed was. Fortunately, this thing is on Liang Yuejun - he asked for it. The rich man dared not speak in anger, and did not let him go, but delayed any longer, for fear that there would be no excuse to detain him for investigation.

The man in charge of the house has read for two years and knows some words, but he can't write. The description of the document is simple and straightforward, and there is no possibility that they will be deceived. At the end of the paper, the fingerprints of the big boss are clearly printed.

"What if he was really killed by someone sent by the rich man?"

Mu Wan does not rule out this suspicion. Her prejudice against being an official has always been great. Liang Yuejun shook his head and said:

"The rich man has been thinking about the little girl of the Tan family for a long time, but now she has been kidnapped by monsters, and he himself hates itchy."

At this time, Xiao Er came over with a plate. So the few people stopped discussing it and moved their chopsticks. The food is not unpalatable, nor is it tasty, but it tastes like chewing wax, and it tastes like you haven't eaten it. Although several of them have seen the world, the scene in the morning has more or less affected their appetite.

After eating, Liang Yuejun still took them with him. Seeing the father and the old folks, both sides still saluted politely.

The ice cellar is close to the mountains, on the other side of the village. The hole was dug very deep, and they walked cautiously for a long time. I didn't think that there was a lot of ice stored here, and the ice cubes of different shapes were stacked together. Liang Yuejun said that these are all dug from the mountains or rivers in winter, and they work together to store here.

The temperature of the fear of fire made the ice melt, and the Lord of the Hundred Bones raised his fan and waved it gently, and the torches in the hands of Shanhai and Mu Wan turned into blue light. The light is still bright, but it feels cold.

Going a little deeper, they saw the five corpses as they wished.

Liang Yuejun said that they were infused with spiritual power, which was true, even after a few months, they still maintained their original appearance and did not decay, and the entire ice cellar did not have any peculiar smell. The two old men were pierced by a sharp object in the heart, hurting their hearts and dying with a whimper. The woman was stabbed in the throat and broke her blood vessels, and the man was even more miserable, being pierced in two eyes and through the brain by a sharp object. And the silly aunt who died at the door of the kitchen, with blood printed on her clothes, but no scars.

It alone looks like the work of some kind of beast or youkai with sharp fangs.

"They said, what kind of monster is the monster that kidnapped the girl of Tange?"

"Dog Demon." Liang Yuejun replied truthfully.

It does look like a canine tooth mark. But......

I always feel weird.

Shi Wuqi stretched out his hand and gestured above several corpses, and the mountains and seas also circled around the wooden frame a few times. Mu Wan stood beside him, looking back and forth at the stored ice. Shi Wuqi motioned for Shanhai to take a hand, and with the help of Miss Qi, he turned over several corpses. Only then did they realize that the stupid aunt's wound was in her back.

During the whole process, Shanhai's movements were cautious and not fearful, and Shi Wuqi started directly as if he didn't feel anything, touching the corpse, breaking it, and picking vegetables in the market.

"There's a problem."

He raised his hand and straightened the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.

Liang Yuejun turned his head to look at him: "You don't hurt to say it. ”

"If it's the same youkai who did it, the spacing of the canine teeth has changed a bit. That girl's name is Tan Ge, right? Take Tan Ge's father as an example, as if the distance between these two teeth is the distance between one person's two eyes. But this is on her mother's thin neck, but it happens to be on both sides of the throat, and it has shrunk a little. As for the two old men...... There is not much difference, but the cross-sectional shape of the bite mark is slightly different. ”

"Shi Gongzi is right," Shanhai frowned, and then said, "In terms of the weaker dog demons I have seen, biting people's skulls is not too much of a problem, but the girl's father's eye sockets are not damaged, and there is no bone residue at all." Speaking of the aunt who was stabbed in the back, the two holes just avoided the hard ribs and pierced the heart. ”

"Oh? Are you saying that this is not the work of the yokai? ”

"It's not that absolute...... Shi Wuqi spread out a hand with coagulated blood, "It's not all right, it's made by a monster in human form." But I don't think it's necessary, to be able to have the practice of transforming people, and still need to be so troublesome? ”

When they said these words, Mu Wan led Dai Luan around and looked at the corpse carefully. She also chimed in:

"Indeed, if it's a dog demon, I'm afraid it won't be tenable. Monsters hurt people in no order, and their power is definitely above people, but these ...... The move is deadly, more like the work of an assassin who knows the structure of man very well. ”

Dai Luan stretched out her hand several times, wanting to touch the corpse's arm, but she always remembered the explanation of Master Ruyuejun, so she had to give up.

Liang Yuejun walked in front of Shanhai, frowning, his face turned sideways, and his face was solemn.

"According to the Taoist and your intentions...... The Tan family is up and down, are they harmed by traitors? ”

"We're not for sure. But, judging by the current situation alone, this is indeed the case. Why don't we go to the ground first, and then you can lend us the deed. ”

Walking up there, it was almost dusk, and the light was a little darker, but it didn't affect the text. They passed the paper back and forth, read it several times, and they had to see through it, and they didn't see anything famous.

"Lend me a look?" Dai Luan stretched out her head and ran around the room after the piece of paper.

"I said, little girl, don't make a mess, your master has a headache." Shi Wuqi smiled bitterly and handed the paper to Shanhai.

Dai Luan ran to Shanhai's side again, tugging at the hem of his clothes and swinging like a swing.

"Mountains and seas, mountains and seas, you show me-look-"

"Don't make a fuss."

He looked at this piece of paper a few more times, it was well preserved by Liang Yuejun, and it was relatively new. He sat down on a stone and sighed softly.

"Mountains and seas," Luan said again, "Is the blood of the dead ...... It's all black, huh? ”

"That's nature."

Liang Yuejun glanced at her.

"But I just saw that the man's thumb was still bright red."

At this time, everyone looked at her. Being stared at by a few pairs of eyes, she was still a little uncomfortable.

"What, what's wrong? Maybe I'm reading ...... wrong."

Shanhai suddenly stood up and stared at the last fingerprint, almost seeing through it.

Careless.

Unexpectedly, it was not the words themselves that were problematic, but the last fingerprints. With Ah Luan's reminder, he unexpectedly found the most crucial and decisive evidence.

All the documents and deeds are written first, and then signed or pressed with the fingers. But in this letter, the ink handwriting is covered with the cinnabar of the fingerprint. Although the pen is thin, the words are small, and only a few strokes are covered on it, but that is enough to tell the story.

"Liangyue-kun, look, this is clearly killing people first, and then taking the seal."

“…… That's right. Then, new problems arise. ”

"What's the problem?" Mu Wan asked him.

"How can you prove that this is not the work of the dog demon?"

"This ......"

A group of people was speechless.

It sounds ridiculous, but there is no such thing as such an inference. But if you think about it a little, you can understand that once a person is sure that it was a monster who did it, what needs to be done is to prove that it was a human doing. But the most critical thing - the murderer, the motive for the killing, and especially the important murder weapon, is completely clueless.

In comparison, it is much more suspicious to be a person.

"If you can find the murder weapon, you will get twice the result with half the effort." Mu Wan pondered.

"It's better to change the angle - let's go up the mountain to find the dog demon, and compare it with its tooth marks, and we can also clear the suspicion."

“…… Your face is really big, and people are here when they say they come? Youkai don't bother to prove their innocence to people. ”

"Knocked unconscious and tied up!"

Dai Luan came up with an idea. Shan Hai glared angrily:

"Isn't that putting the cart before the horse!"

There is no reason for the discussion. It was getting dark, and Liang Yuejun was not in a hurry, so she sat on the side and watched the excitement. The temperature also drops, and the evening breeze comes in from afar with a shallow smell of lake water. Several people quarreled for a while, and Shanhai suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Mu Wan:

"Your tengu, strictly speaking...... Isn't it also a dog demon? ”

Mu Wan was stunned.

"What you say seems to have some truth."

"Can it be any smaller?"

"It's not that hard."

- Since you can't invite the deity, you can find a replacement, and it's not far off. The topic of endless debate, and thus a consensus was reached. Mu Wan raised his hand and raised his arm. In the last glow of the setting sun, a black and red interlaced network of veins suddenly flashed on her white arms. But it was only for a moment and then it was gone. Feeling the resonance of the blood, the tengu appeared in the sky, breaking through the fiery clouds, and swooping down with golden flame-like remnants hanging from its snow-white body.

When it landed beside them, it was a terrifying-looking behemoth. But it is clean and radiant, and it glows softly in the dark light, which makes people feel reassuring to look at.

Dai Luan's head is embedded in the white flower of dog hair.