Chapter 3: Witnessing the sunken corpse

[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming was Mo Han and wonderful, and detailed why it was forty-four resentful spirits. On the other side, Zhao Liang, who felt the lotus pond, saw that the female corpse that was fished ashore not only had no face, but even her lower body was missing. Holding back his anger, after taking a closer look at the corpse, he found an important clue in it. Zhao Liang locked the scope of the deceased's identity through the calluses on the hands of a deceased. Mu Qingming followed Brother Wang to the lotus pond, and after taking a closer look at the floating corpse that was fished up, Zhao Liang proposed that it was very strange for the corpse to appear, but Mu Qingming disagreed, and then after a little thought, he told Zhao Liang how the corpse of the sinking pond floated. 】

The sky was a little brighter, and several more female corpses were fished up. Like the others, they also have no skin and lower body, and they are rotten and swollen, and their whole body is swollen, and most of the skin that has fallen off has shrunk.

Their mouths are filled with mud and sand and aquatic plants, mixed with a lot of foam.

The stench around the lotus pond is also getting stronger.

Zhao Liang ignored the stench emanating from the corpse, squatted down beside the female corpse, reached out and grabbed the right hand of the female corpse and looked at it.

As he looked at him, he stroked the calluses on the female corpse's thumb and index finger.

Because it was a callus, it was just soaked in cold water in the pool, but it didn't disappear.

After all, Zhao Liang is a veteran of solving cases, and he knows this kind of calluse just by looking at it and touching it, and it is made by twisting Buddha beads for a long time. In today's Kunming City, the only women who can have leisure to twist Buddhist beads are the children of rich families or the servants of some rich families.

Ordinary people can't wait to use their time every day to make money, so that they and their children can live a better life, who will have nothing to do with a Buddha bead twist and twist.

"Inspector Zhao, did you find anything?" A policeman who was about the same age as Zhao Liang walked over to him after seeing him look at the female corpse's fingers and looking at them attentively.

As soon as the policeman approached the pile of floating corpses, he immediately subconsciously covered his nose with his hands.

The stench was so pungent that it was like stinking rotten flesh and rotten vegetables.

"Don't be a cop if you're afraid of the smell." Zhao Liang glanced at the policeman's hand covering his mouth and nose, then turned back to stare at the soft calluses on the female corpse's hands, and said slowly: "This is a rich woman, and the calluses on her hands are made of twisted Buddha beads. ”。

After a pause, Zhao Liang asked again: "In the past three or five days, have you received any reports of missing persons?" ”。

After thinking about it for a while, the little policeman shook his head slightly in confusion.

Zhao Liang felt strange and couldn't help frowning; These women's eight achievements without a lower body are used to make women who complain wells. They must all be pregnant, and there is also a rich woman who can twist Buddhist beads often.

Whose pregnant woman is lost, will there be someone who is not in a hurry and does not report the case?

He frowned and pondered for a moment, and then a thought suddenly appeared in his mind: "Could it be that these women are outsiders?" ”。

According to the rules of the Police Department of the Republic of China, where the case is missing, the case is handled. And if you meet a police officer who is waiting for death, he may tell his family to go back and wait, and then continue to do nothing.

Thinking that Mu Qingming told him that it was very likely that the grievance well was planted by a cult called Changshengdao, and told him that this cult was very powerful, and Mu Qingming himself came to hunt them down.

If there really is such a powerful cult that abducts pregnant women from other places, there will be a very high chance. And judging from the fact that so many female corpses were brutally killed, Mu Qingming did not lie to him at all.

Whether it's cutting off the skins of the women, digging up the women's lower bodies, or sinking twenty-eight corpses into a pond, this is not a job that can be done by one person.

Thinking of this, Zhao Liang felt a chill in his back for this cult for the first time.

He is about to face not a cold-blooded killer, but a group of cold-blooded killers.

"Zhao Liang." At this time, Liu Yang, who had already completed the preliminary survey, stood up, moved his hands and feet, and walked slowly towards him.

At the same time, Brother Wang also took Mu Qingming and walked quickly towards this side.

Along the way, Brother Wang kept urging Mu Qingming and said, "Young Master Mu, can you hurry up?" Is this a matter of human life? ”。

"Okay, okay, got it." Mu Qingming replied a little impatiently, but at the same time quickened his pace.

When he walked to Zhao Liang's side, Mu Qingming's eyes immediately looked at those floating corpses, and then he was suddenly stunned, and the impatience on his face was immediately replaced by surprise.

He looked at the female corpses in three rows on the bank of the lotus pond in a daze, but he couldn't speak when he opened his lips slightly. Under the light of the flashlights still on in the hands of the policemen, the female corpses without their lower bodies all showed the appearance of opening their mouths wide, which was even more weird.

"Lao Zhao, Young Master Mu, I've seen all the corpses that have been fished up, and they have all been soaked in water for more than twelve hours." Liu Yang, who was also tightly frowning, slowly put down his rolled up sleeves and said slowly: "The corpse's mouth should have been opened before it was sunk into the pond, so there is a lot of mud and sand in their mouths and noses, and they have almost filled their mouths. ”。

"And the mouths that grew up may be because they died with something like cloth in their mouths, because I found silk threads for weaving cloth in the mouth of a corpse. What kind of material it is, I have to wait until I go back and take a closer look to find out" Liu Yang paused, and after a little reflection, he continued to explain to Mu Qingming and Zhao Liang in detail: "This caused them to still open their mouths after death, so that the sediment that was measured after sinking the pond poured into their mouths. ”。

After finishing speaking, he took out a small paper bag and handed it to Mu Qingming.

Mu Qingming opened the paper bag and opened it, and there was only a thin silk thread inside. After picking up the silk thread and looking closely, I found that the texture is soft and strong, and it has a natural yellow-green color, which is very shimmering and shiny.

"The silk of the silkworm." Mu Qingming recognized what it was at a glance. This kind of thing was very popular during the Tang Dynasty, according to historical records, ancient scholars liked to wear clothes made of silk, and the clothes made of silk were called Confucian clothes.

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was rare to use it to make clothes, but some southern embroidery threads, cyan or yellow-green embroidery threads, will also be replaced by silk.

The record of the dragon lock people is salty and pungent and non-toxic, and human food can strengthen the body and fitness, and medicine can cure many diseases.

"Can you know when they were sunk?" However, this did not help much to target the murderer, and this kind of silk was too common in the south. So Mu Qingming put the silk back in the paper bag, handed it back, and asked thoughtfully.

"There can only be a preliminary statistic, probably after nightfall the day before yesterday." Liu Yang looked up at the brighter and brighter sky, and after calculating in his heart, he said slowly: "Judging from the fact that the foam in the corpse's mouth has not overflowed, the corpse spots are mostly light red, and the keratinized layer on the palms and soles of the feet is thick, they have been soaking in the pool water for a day. ”。

After Mu Qingming immediately thought about it, he found that the time when the corpses sank into the pond was exactly the time when he went to the palm tree camp to hunt down and kill the eldest sister of the Immortal Dao.

In addition, these female corpses have no lower body without exception, and Bacheng is one of those women who have been made into a resentful well. Thinking of this, Mu Qingming couldn't help but look at Zhao Liang.

"And the woman's face has been cut off, and it is very difficult to determine the identity." Liu Yang sighed lightly, and a few regrets appeared between his eyebrows, which was regret for the deceased: "The lower body was also cut off." The cause of death was not drowning, but most likely the removal of the lower body, and eventually the death of a massive hemorrhage. ”。

Speaking of this, Liu Yang's brows furrowed a little: "They have one more thing in common, that is, they are all gone." It was a perfect excision, not to mention me, even my professor in Germany might not be able to do it so fluently. ”。

"Professor?" Mu Qing muttered.

"Oh, it's one of the teachers." Liu Yang then gave him a brief explanation.

The morning breeze blew and blew away the putrid stench from the corpses. At this time, the last body had been fished up by the police who had gone into the water.

The brilliant morning light after dawn lifts the last trace of darkness of the winter night.

Mu Qingming's eyes swept over the floating corpses, no more, no less, exactly twenty-eight, which was the same as the number of resentment wells. And they are all gone* women, which is too much of a coincidence.

But Mu Qingming didn't believe that there could be any coincidences, and immediately asked Liu Yang: "Then Liu Qizuo, can you see that these women are all pregnant?" ”。

Liu Yang turned his head to look at the female corpses that had been soaked and deformed, and immediately a little embarrassed color appeared on his face, and then spread his heads together: "It's all soaked like this, and the lower body and * are gone, I really can't be sure if I am pregnant." ”。

Mu Qing saw that he was also a little embarrassed, so he didn't continue to ask this question, but just looked around the lotus pond silently.

The ten-acre pond is surrounded by weeds, and there are many willows in the trees. A cold air was slowly emanating from among these willow trees.

Of course, these willow trees are not arranged in a regular manner, or are closely connected, so the sinking of corpses here will not lead to corpse transformation. It's just that this place is already on the outskirts of the city and sparsely populated, so it was chosen as the place to dump corpses?

Thinking like this, Mu Qingming bypassed the corpses and stood in the reeds by the pool, staring at the pool surface that was as calm as a mirror in the morning light, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"And the appearance of corpses is also very strange, they didn't float on the water in the first place." Zhao Liang also walked over, stood side by side with Mu Qingming, and looked at the pond in front of him and said.

"It's not surprising." Mu Qingming just thought about it for a while, and then showed a little disdain, and said leisurely: "Have you seen their swollen ankles?" ”。

Zhao Liangdun was suspicious, I don't know what this has to do with the sudden appearance of the corpse on the surface?

Mu Qingming turned his head to look at Zhao Liang, who was a little suspicious, and smiled indifferently, then turned around and walked to a female corpse and squatted down, pointing to the strangulation marks on the ankles of the female corpse, and a few wisps of damp straw stuck in the swollen *.

Zhao Liang walked over and took a look, and suddenly realized. Looking around at the other female corpses, some even had a circle of straw rope around their ankles, which Zhao Liang had been careless about before and didn't see it.

It can be seen that these female corpses are tied with straw ropes on their feet, and the other end of the straw rope is tied with stones. So they sank to the bottom of the pond and were not found.

However, the straw rope is more perishable in the water, once the straw rope is broken for a long time, the corpse hesitates to soak in the water for a longer time, the gas in the body continues to increase, and the buoyancy gradually increases, so it all floats.

"Young Master Mu is really sharp-eyed, he knows so much information just by looking at the corpse a few times." Liu Yang also walked over and cast an admiring look at Mu Qingming.

"Liu Cheng has an overreputation for you, and Mu is ashamed." Mu Qingming got up slowly, smiled at Liu Yang, and teased meaningfully: "Our Inspector Zhao's focus is in the wrong direction, he may have encountered too many strange things recently, so he would actually bother with such a small problem as the corpse floating." Instead, it ignores the most important point, whether anyone witnessed the sinking corpse. ”。

Is Mu Qingming's statement correct? Has anyone witnessed the sinking of the body? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.