Chapter 12: Murder

The young man sat on the edge of the bed with his back to the door, his head hanging on the couch, and if you ignore the black and red blood on the ground, from behind, it is just an ordinary corpse.

However, if you go around to the front, his terrifying appearance will frighten any official who is accustomed to seeing the scene of a murder, even the battle-hardened Lehi.

He was scratched from his chin to the top of his collarbone, his flesh was blurred, to be exact, only the back of his neck was still attached to his body, and the rest of his body was crushed into a pile of flesh by something.

The flesh hangs above the chest, and it looks like a huge lump of tumor.

"What kind of deep hatred and hatred, to trample people like this, look at his young age, but there are any enemies?" Lehi's white eyebrows were twisted into a knot at the center of his eyebrows, and he looked at the shopkeeper who was slumped in the doorway, and asked in a deep voice.

"This kid is from Dongchang, and there is no one I know here except me. Besides, he is honest and smiles at everyone, where is the enemy," the shopkeeper sobbed, "Master Guan, don't talk about him, my store has been open in Qingzhou City for so many years, and I have never complained with anyone, how can I ...... Why is this happening now, you must be the master of the villain, this child's father handed him over to me, how can I explain it to others now? ”

"Has he recently added tiles to his house?"

A familiar voice of Li Hai came from outside the door, and he turned around and saw Zhao Zimai walking into the house with a white face, accompanied by Baotian, and his eyes did not turn to himself, but fell on the back of the young man.

"Lord Zhao."

Li Hai was just about to step forward, but was stopped by Zhao Zimai raising his hand.

"Has this little brother recently had a child born in his family?" Seeing the shopkeeper looking at him in confusion, Zhao Zimai asked again.

"I didn't ...... No, I don't. The shopkeeper finally reacted, shaking his head like a rattle, "He's not married yet, and I haven't heard that his brother has recently added a new child......

"Lord Zhao, what are you asking for?" Li Hai caught the worry in Zhao Zimai's words, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

Zhao Zimai pointed forward, his eyes dimmed, "Look at his back." ”

Lehi turned his head suspiciously, stared at the blood-stained middle coat for a long time, and finally gasped, and suddenly said, "It's ...... "Drowning Song." ”

After speaking, seeing that the other officials in the house were all looking at each other, it was difficult to understand their meaning, so he explained, "Two sentences were written behind him: 'The heir will reduce his lifespan, and when he asks for his life, he can't swallow the umbilicus.'" ’”

Hearing this, a group of people looked at the young man, only to find that the blood stains on his back were different from other places, and the rest of the places were either large red balls or splattered blood spots, only the blood stains on the back were rugged and criss-crossed, and only after careful identification could they find that they were small fonts. It's just that the blood spread on his clothes, and the handwriting became blurry, and he leaned back on the bed, and the folds of his clothes made the font crooked and covered part of it, so they didn't see it in Lehi.

"Lord Zhao is very clear, and the lower officials almost ignored this important evidence." Lehi sighed heartily, then looked at the young man's back again, and muttered to himself, "It's just that why did the murderer leave this sentence?" "Drowning Song"? What did he mean by writing this? ”

"Wronged souls ask for their lives, how clearly it is written." Baotian interjected coldly.

This sentence plunged the people around them into a terrible silence for an instant, including the neighborhood, who had been stopped by the officials from the door to watch the lively neighborhood with interest.

"How angry it is to kill so many babies. I often hear people say that karma is not retribution, the time has not yet come, and now is the time for these unjust souls to take revenge. ”

Baotian added another sentence, and after he finished speaking, he found that the people who were watching outside the door left silently one by two, as if they had suddenly lost interest in this bloody murder scene, so he said smugly, "Finally scared them away, and the dead man made them happy." ”

"You know their minds and know what they are afraid of." Li Hai said quietly, looked at the corpse of the shopkeeper, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I don't believe in the revenge of the unjust soul, if there is really a vengeful soul, every family in Dongchang will not be able to escape." ”

"It never hurts to plan ahead." Zhao Zimai's eyes sank, and he said something that made Li Hai uneasy.

There was a "knock" footsteps on the stairs, and then Susan's figure appeared outside the door, "Mike, here...... What's going on here? ”

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After listening to Zhao Zimai's brief description of the murder, Susan covered her chest, as if she was going to pass out in the next moment.

"How so? He...... I ......."

She didn't say a complete sentence for a long time, so Zhao Zimai had to hold her shoulder to help her stabilize, "Susan, did you and Amy hear anything last night?" ”

"That's what I'm going to say Mike, I followed Amy downstairs last night......" She seemed to choke all at once, her mouth opened and closed for a long time, and she didn't say the second half of the sentence.

"You and Amy went downstairs last night?" Zhao Zimai's narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and he found that Susan's expression was a little flustered, and his eyes were dodgy, but he didn't dare to look at himself.

"That's right," she picked at the corners of her skirt, bit her lip and thought for a long time, before finally saying, "I got up to drink water last night, and when I turned around, I found that Amy was also up, but no matter how I called her, she didn't pay attention to anyone, she seemed to be still in a dream, and her two eyes were stunned and very empty. I thought it was strange and went to pull her, but before I could touch her hand, Amy suddenly walked towards the door. I was afraid that something would happen to her, so I followed behind, but when she went down the stairs, I rushed to the outside of the inn, and I chased her outside while calling her name. But she ignored my call, and walked forward intently, as if she were being summoned by something. ”

"And then?" Zhao Zimai took a step forward, carefully examining Susan's erratic eyes.

After walking for about half an hour, she suddenly turned back to me and said something, and then fell down, falling on the road. I thought she had fainted, but upon closer inspection I realized that she was just asleep, so I carried her back to the inn, but she seemed to be tired and was still asleep, and never woke up. Speaking of this, she pulled Zhao Zimai's sleeve, "Mike, is Amy having dreamwalking?" When I was a child, I also saw my brother get up in the middle of the night and wander around the house, and then he grew up and got better. ”