"Let's get over quickly. Cui Li and Yu Die'er got up and went to the ice cellar.

After a short time, he arrived at the door of the ice cellar, Cui Li did not push the door in directly, but stopped his steps and reminded Yu Die'er: "Why don't you wait outside the door, there are dead bodies here, strange and scary, I'm afraid you will have nightmares when you see it." ”

Shaking his head, he insisted: "It's okay, I'll go in too, maybe I can find something." ”

Cui Li was stubborn, but he also hoped that she could find something, so he no longer dissuaded, and the subordinates who led them to come took two cotton cloaks from the small room next door, and the two of them wrapped them, Cui Li reached out and pushed open the door of the ice cellar, and a cold breath immediately rushed to his face, as cold as the ice and snow weather of the cold winter wax moon. Yu Die'er couldn't help but tighten the cloak on her body again.

There were several people in the ice room, examining the corpses, and Tsurutai stood aside with a solemn expression.

"The king has passed on the experienced tattoo master in the city, as well as the work seconded from the government, and is re-examining the body. Hetai saw the two of them come in and explained.

Yu Die'er restrained the fear in her heart, and also leaned over to look at the corpse a few times.

The bodies of the eight corpses, laid in two rows on the stone bed, were the only evidence of their time, and it was answering the questions of the souls of the dead in a mysterious language.

The fish and butterflies have witnessed the last brief moments of their lives, they have youthful and beautiful faces, but they do the most dangerous and vicious things, stabbing them! They may not have a grudge against the royal family, or with anyone they want to assassinate, they are just tools for the execution of those behind the scenes, and they never make their own decisions in life, they only obey orders, and they are completely liberated until they die. From another point of view, death is not terrible for them, but salvation and liberation. So Yu Butterfly has an illusion that these dead corpses look even more beautiful than they were when they were alive, a peaceful and relaxed beauty.

Because they were kept in the ice cellar, the corpses were not decomposed, but the color was not gray and white, and there were large corpse spots, because these assassins died in battle, and the transition from healthy people to death occurred in a very short period of time, so the speed and degree of corpse spots appeared faster and more often than those who died slowly due to disease.

So it still looks disgusting, although Yu Die'er tried her best to restrain herself, she still couldn't help frowning, and looked carefully at the corpse, the tattoo master looked fearless, and looked at the tattoo intently, and after looking at the front, he turned several corpses over one by one and examined them carefully, so as to be able to probe the most detailed results.

Yu Die'er looked at these corpses, faintly felt that something was wrong, but couldn't say what was wrong, until the man finished checking the back and pulled the corpse back, at that moment, Yu Die'er happened to look at the face of the corpse, and suddenly grabbed a flash of weird feeling, it turned out that something was wrong that the face of the corpse was like a living person, yes, the weirdness lies in the face, if you don't look at the place below the neck, it is obviously a face or a person, and even the color has not changed.

Although there are corpse spots on the collarbone of the neck, indicating that this is a corpse, the face is so lifelike, with a smooth forehead, closed eyelids, frosted eyelashes, a pointed nose, and a small mouth, it is no different from a living person.

The fish butterfly herself was shocked by this discovery, which was so strange. It's also incredible.

At this time, the tattoo master presented the results of his careful investigation to Hetai, and what he said was exactly as Die'er had guessed. This tattoo was indeed tattooed after death, and it should have been about five days old.

About five days? Isn't it before and after taking over the case himself? Hetai narrowed his narrow phoenix eyes and looked thoughtful.

The post-mortem also ended his autopsy, and the report was consistent with the description in the previous case file, and the cause of death was clear, so even the instigator behind the scenes did not need to lie on it, so he came up with the trick of tattooing to divert the investigator's attention.

This should be experienced, and he also sees the problem of tattoos, which is the same as what the tattoo master said.

"Are you sure?" asked Tsurutai in a deep voice after a long moment.

"Grass people have been doing tattoos for 30 years, and they can't be mistaken. ”

"Twenty years of debriefing, countless autopsies, and some knowledge of tattoo skills, the humble head vouches, the tattoo on this corpse is as the master said, it must be tattooed after death, and look at the degree of color of this pigment should be within five days, it will never be wrong. ”

The two swore an oath.

"Fluttershy?" Tsurutai calls out when she sees her staring at the corpse with a strange expression.

Yu Die'er glanced at him and said hesitantly: "The face of this corpse seems to have a problem. ”

"Something wrong with your face?" said several people in unison. Then they looked at the corpse's face.

Cui Li is a well-versed doctor after all, maybe he seemed to feel abnormal before, but he couldn't think of it for a while, after all, it was too sensational, and now as soon as Yu Die'er said it, he only glanced at it, and then gasped.

exclaimed: "That's right, why doesn't this dead man's face look like a dead man, just like a living person?" said and walked quickly to the other corpses, looked at them one by one, and then said with a grimace: "It's all like this!"

The man stroked his goatee with a solemn face, and said to Yu Die'er: "The girl is really good eyesight, how can you see it?" The old man also faintly felt a little strange, but after careful inspection, he could not find the crux of the problem, it turned out that it was strange on his face.

"It's so bizarre, it's so bizarre, the body of a dead man, the face of a living man?"

Several people gathered around together, and looked at the lifelike face carefully, the more they looked at it, the more creepy they felt, and the tattoo master was even more trembling in his legs and stomach. Although he is also a person who is dozens of years old, although he also takes over the business of tattooing dead corpses, but this is the first time I have seen this kind of thing. For there is a man who has been dead for many days, and his face remains the same?

"Cui Li, let's see if it could be that these assassins took some elixirs before their deaths, or they could keep their face unchanged after death. Although Hetai was also a little moved, he was still relatively calm.

Fluttershy is very attentive and notices that the corpse has a different face, or maybe it's a breakthrough. He added.

Cui Li nodded, took out a small box, and took out a small medicine bottle and a special fine needle from it. Open the cap of the bottle and pour out some powder and sprinkle it on the face of the corpse, and then pierce the needle into it.

"Lord Wang, these corpses have not taken any special pills. After a moment's effort, Cui Li came to a conclusion. Because he was disguised as a eunuch in the palace and wore a eunuch uniform when he came out, he no longer called Brother He in front of outsiders, but called him the prince like others.

"Haven't you taken it?" said Hetai slowly, his eyes deepening.

Since he didn't take any medicine that could fix his face and make his face unchanged after death, how could his face be like a living person? Yu Die'er was extremely puzzled, and so did the others, all looking at each other and thinking about it.

Suddenly, a thought rushed into her head, and her face did not change? Could it be that it was not a real face in the first place, so even though the person died, the face was still the same as when it was alive. For example, just like in the previous life, Hebi strangled himself to death, and then after he died, he ordered the Taoist to imitate his own face with a secret method to make a human skin mask, and put it on the face of another woman, and that woman would be the same as himself.

If this is the case, then why the powerless Mai Ji suddenly became an assassin with strong martial arts can be explained.

The assassin infiltrated the palace, secretly killed the real Maiko, and then made a human skin mask and put it on, and became the Mai Queen, the human skin mask was draped down from the real person's face, which was extremely realistic, enough to confuse the real with the real. In this way, it will be smoothly hidden.

"Lord Wang. Yu Die'er took two steps towards Hetai, whispered, gave him a color, and then looked at the tattoo master and the man. Tsurutai immediately understood.

called the subordinates at the door in and ordered: "Lead the two to the back hall to rest and settle down, and send someone to protect them." He looked at the tattoo master and the servant, and said politely to save face: "I still need the testimony of the two in the hall, so I bother you to rest in the back hall of the official office first, and then send the two back after the hall." ”

"The prince is polite, it should be, it should be. The subordinate affairs, to be able to serve the prince, is the fortunate thing of the subordinates of the three lives, don't say that after the court, even if the case is closed and then go back. "I made a look of sincerity.

"The prince handles the case and catches the murderer, which is also for the safety of the people, and the violence is safe and good. "The tattoo master is also swearing.

The subordinate led the two out, and when the footsteps were far away, Yu Die'er spoke: "I have an idea, do you think it is possible, the face of this corpse is fake, so it does not change depending on the life and death of this assassin?"

"What, fake? You mean the mask the assassin is wearing?" Cui Li exclaimed, reaching out to touch the dead corpse's face again, "This feels like a human face, what kind of mask can be so realistic." ”

Hetai raised his eyebrows, and seemed to be moved, but he didn't speak, just waiting for Yu Die'er to continue.

"Of course, ordinary masks are easy to identify, but what if it's a subtle disguise, or a human skin mask that's enough to be realistic?" Butterfly hypothetical, because she wasn't sure exactly how the assassin's face was made, but it was now determined that the face was fake, and it was somehow after all.

Cui Li felt that what she said was reasonable, and it was not difficult to determine, anyway, the corpse was in front of him, and he would know it after an examination, he reached out to explore the lower jaw of the corpse, but found that it was very smooth and had no interface, so he took out a bottle of potion from the small box, dropped a few drops on the handkerchief, wiped it back and forth on the jaw with a handkerchief, wiped it more than a dozen times, and reached out to pick it again.

This time, he picked up a little film-like thing, pinched it with his two fingers and gently untied it, and a thin face like a cicada's wings was torn off with his hand. This mask is extremely elastic, torn off without any damage, intact, but the mask can be unmasked, and the face looks like a dead corpse. And his face was hideous, and his expression seemed to be angry and unwilling.

"It looks like a human skin mask made by secret methods?" Cui Li frowned in surprise.

Looking at the mask in his hand, Yu Die'er's heart shook, exactly the same as the mask made by the old Taoist in his previous life. Then he asked, "Does Childe know the origin of this mask, and who made it?"