Chapter 61: A Cave Behind the Sitting Buddha Eight corpses in the cave

Zhao Zimeng removed the emergency light from his waist. Under the illumination of two emergency lights, the cave is as bright as day. This is not an isolated cave,

In the north and south directions of the cave, there is an unfathomable black hole, and below the cave should be a relatively large group of caves.

"I've counted, there are seven corpses here, and the one hanging on top of it makes a total of eight corpses. This body was supposed to be the last person to be killed, and there was still some soft tissue left on her body. ”

Xiang Daimo pointed the flashlight's pillar at a corpse: "There are several corpses that are very old. Xiang Daimo pointed the light of the flashlight at a few bones, "These bones should be caused by the movement of some creatures in the cave." ”

All the corpses were dressed in the same clothes worn by the monks and nuns of the Ming Chen Temple, and even the hats and shoes were identical. The seven corpses had different postures, and the corpses were thrown from above, but they were all in different postures!

"Captain, do you see the corpse up there?" Xiang Daimo said.

"I saw it. This should be a case within a case, and now it seems that the disappearance case not only happened in Mingchen Nunnery, but also in Ziyunguan. ”

"In Ziyunguan, someone must have disappeared mysteriously."

Xiang Daimo shook the rope eight times, Ma Jianping immediately collected the rope, and a few minutes later, Ma Jianping sent eight body bags to the bottom of the cave - when they set off, the comrades brought fifteen body bags.

Zhao Zimeng and Xiang Daimo put the corpses into body bags—each bag held a pair of corpses, and as for the scattered bones, they were arranged one by one according to the fragments of the corpses. It took a long time for the two of them to do this, because some of the bones had been broken into several pieces, and some of the bones had moved a long distance, and it was more difficult to put them together.

In addition to placing the body in a body bag, look carefully for any remnants associated with the body.

At the bottom of the cave, the two men found two strings of hand beads—one with the corpse, one separate from the corpse, and two of the corpses with two cloth bands under their waists—one with only a key on each of them; Two keys were attached to the other cloth strap.

The number of keys and the identity of the deceased are consistent. The nuns are unlikely to have a key to any other place than the key to the meditation room—they have nowhere else to go but to sleep.

When Zhao Zimeng and Xiang Daimo were sorting out several female corpses, they found that the clothes on the corpses were scattered as soon as they touched them, so before moving the corpses into the body bag, Xiang Daimo left some video materials with his camera - these video materials are very important to the comrades.

Two hours later, all seven bodies were removed from the cave.

For the last corpse, Zhao Zimeng and Xiang Daimo struggled a lot, because this corpse was about twenty meters away from the entrance of the cave.

The two men were suspended in the air and put the remains in body bags - there was no place to settle on the two pillars.

Zhao Zimeng found a thin cowhide belt in the stone crack under the corpse, picked up the cow belt, and there were two copper keys, one large and one small, underneath.

When Xiang Daimo put the body into the body bag, one of his leg bones fell underneath. Therefore, after removing the eighth corpse from the cave, Xiang Daimo returned to the bottom of the cave and invited the leg bones of the eighth corpse.

The eight corpses were placed in the woods in front of the grotto, and Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, and Xiang Daimo conducted a careful and meticulous autopsy of the eight corpses, and the age, gender, height, and time of death of the deceased were registered one by one. There were seven female corpses and one male corpse.

Among the eight corpses, Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei took the only male corpse as the focus of the autopsy.

Below, let's take a look at this autopsy record:

Sex of the deceased, male;

Age, between thirty and thirty-five years old;

time of death, between forty-one and forty-four years;

The cause of death was seven radiating cracks on the deceased's forehead, two centimeters above the hairline, and a hole with a diameter of about 0.3 centimeters at the intersection of several cracks. The deceased suffered a comminuted fracture of the right leg.

The deceased's posture in the cave was face up, and the whole body was at a thirty-five degree angle to the horizon: the head was resting in the gap between the two pillared stones, the back was in a hollow stone crevice, the right leg was bent under the right leg, and the left leg was hanging from a slanted stone and tree root—it was this leg that fell to the bottom of the cave, and it was probably this long oblique stone and jagged root that intercepted the man's corpse—so that it would not fall to the bottom of the cave.

According to the analysis and judgment of the deceased's posture in the cave and the injured parts, the comminuted fracture of the deceased's right leg should have been caused by the murderer's right leg first touching the stalactite when he was thrown down the cave;

As for the radial cracks above the deceased's hairline, it is highly likely that they were fatal, and the deceased's posture in the cave was face up, with his feet landing first and his head falling to the ground last.

Therefore, the four men concluded that the radial cracks above the hairline and the holes where the cracks intersected were the direct cause of their death—that is, the deceased had been badly injured and killed before being thrown into the cave.

The deceased's height was one meter seven, and a cowhide belt with two keys attached to it was found in a crevice in the pillared stone below the deceased's waist.

When Zhao Zimeng and Xiang Daimo walked out of the grotto, there were already dozens of people gathered outside the grotto, and most of these people were Taoist priests from Ziyun Temple, and the four masters of Wuwen Daochang, Wuji, Daoren and Qingquan were also standing in the crowd; The other part of the people are people who live in the villages near Ziyunguan.

Zhao Zimeng called Wuwen Daoist and several other masters to him.

When Xiang Daimo took out two keys from the plastic bag, Wuji suddenly said loudly: "Captain Zhao, this key is exactly the same as the key on my body." ”

Zhao Zimeng walked up to Master Wuji: "Master Wuji, what is the key to this place?" ”

"This key—I have one of these, you see—" Wuji lifted the corner of his robes and removed a cloth strap from his belt—there was a copper key on it.

Linghu Yunfei put the two keys together and made a serious comparison.

"The two keys are exactly the same." Director Wang also saw it.

Director Wang is right, the two keys are indeed exactly the same - they are both two bronze keys.

Master Wuwen walked up to Ling Hu Yunfei. He took the key from Linghu Yunfei's hand, put it in the palm of his hand and looked at it, he seemed to have something to say.

Zhao Zimeng had already seen it: "Wuwen Daoist, do you want to say something?" Zhao Zimeng said.

"Let me ask first, what's the matter with this key?"

"This is what we found on the eighth corpse - judging by the clothing, he should be a Taoist priest of the Purple Cloud Temple."

"How so?"

"This person is wearing a set of black Taoist robes of the Purple Cloud Temple."

"The Dao robe of the Purple Cloud Temple? Why didn't I see the clothes? ”

"When we saw him, he was wearing a set of robes, and when we moved his body, the clothes all melted off, because it had been so long, and as soon as our hands touched the clothes, the clothes fell apart — thankfully we took pictures."

"Daoist Wuwen, wait a minute, I'll ask Master Wuji something. Levelless master, what is the key to this place? ”

"It's the key to my room, the North Warm Pavilion." Infinite Road.

"There is no doubt that this person is a person from Ziyun Temple, you have stayed in Ziyun Temple for the longest time, more than forty years ago, did any Taoist priests in Ziyun Temple suddenly disappear?"

"I was about to talk about this incident, three years before Elder Jianzhi died, a Taoist priest named Shunyi suddenly came down the mountain, and Elder Jianzhi said that Shunyi had returned to his hometown to serve his elderly parents. The Taoist priest in the temple discussed this matter in private, and it happened that Shunyi, like Wuji, was also the person who served Elder Jianzhi in the Heart Cultivation Palace—everyone who served Elder Jianzhi lived in the room of the Beinuan Pavilion. ”

"How old was Shun Yi when he left the Purple Cloud Temple?" Zhao Zimeng asked.

"Thirty-three!"

"Elder Wuwen, please come with us." Zhao Zimeng led the unknown Taoist chief to a corpse, and there was a crimson cloth shoe in the body bag—Xiang Daimo and Zhao Zimeng only found one shoe, the upper was relatively high, and there was a cloth strap on the upper - the cloth strap was tied to the foot and neck.

Daoist Wuwen was the first to see the shoes: "Fifty years ago, the Taoist priest of Ziyunguan wore this kind of cloth shoes with belts, you are right, this person is indeed a person from Ziyunguan." ”

"Wuwen Dao Chang, what is Shunyi's height?" Zhao Zimeng wanted to know more.

Wuwen Dao Chang called Daoren to Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei: "Captain Zhao Zimeng, Shun Yi is as tall as Daoren. ”

Zhao Zimeng visually measured it, and Daoren's height was about one meter seventy.

Considering several factors, the deceased should be the Shunyi master mentioned by the Wuwen Taoist.

It must have been Shun Yi who discovered the secret of Elder Jianzhi, so he caused the disaster of killing and finally died in Huangquan.

"Elder Dare to Appreciate Wisdom is not a good thing! We were all deceived by Him. "Nothing is heard.

"Elder Wuwen, didn't you doubt Elder Jianzhi at all?"

"No, this old fox is very well disguised, at that time, there were more than 50 Taoist priests in Ziyun Temple, each of them respected Elder Jianzhi, he was kind to others, and often funded people in the surrounding villages, he usually never got angry, no matter what mistakes the disciples made, he just smiled and said a few words and passed, so the disciples in the view admired and admired him."

"Ever since I entered the Purple Cloud Temple, I have never seen Elder Jianzhi walk out of the Purple Cloud Temple, and I always think that he is a person with high cultivation and conduct."

"Zhizhen has confessed that he embarked on this road of no return, mainly due to the influence of Elder Jianzhi - he inadvertently discovered the secret of Jianzhi Daoist, and after Jianzhi died, he followed in his footsteps and went out of control."

"I really know people and faces, but I don't know my heart! My eyes are white. Wuwen Dao Chang was furious.

In order to confirm whether the deceased is Shunyi, there is one more thing that must be done.