I don't know who said that hospitals, schools, prisons, and ancestral halls, these four places are the places where the most unjust souls gather, and now I realize that that kind of statement is not groundless.

In fact, there are many places, although people come and go during the day, and everyone does not feel or notice, it is these ordinary and ordinary places, at night, they become another world, a dark and cold corner of horror, hospitals, schools, prisons.

With the exception of ancestral halls, humans have an innate reverence for the place where the corpses are placed. Therefore, the ancestral hall, in the eyes of human fear, whether day or night, is shrouded in a layer of mystery and a layer of weirdness!

"Is there anyone guarding the neighborhood?" I asked, glancing around.

"No, cremation has been carried out in recent years, and corpses are rarely put in the ancestral hall, so the old man who used to be a guard went back a few days ago." The little third son shook his head.

"Good, so I'm relieved!" I pulled out the wire I had with me, broke the bulky, old-fashioned copper lock, pushed the door hard, and with a creak, the closed door slowly moved to the left and right, revealing a gap that could allow two people to pass side by side. The cold air continued to pour out through the cracks in the door, and it seemed to be colder than the icy cold outside.

"Walk lightly, close the door." I wrapped my coat tightly and walked in first.

"The corpse of the strange stone wood is in the innermost one. According to tradition, it should be side by side in the coffin to the right of Old Man Qi's body. Walking beside me, Xiao Sanzi kept shivering, I nodded and quickened my pace.

The coffins of Old Man Qi and Qi Shimu were indeed the same as Xiao Sanzi said, and they were placed in the innermost room. I ignored the corpse of the old man, after all, he had been dead for several days, and although the climate was cold now, the corpse was still decomposing, and I, a rookie, would definitely not find anything on it. I still have these self-knowledge, and I went straight to pry open the lid of the strange stone and wood, and I began to examine his body.

"He had no water in his lungs and stomach, and it appears that he was killed before he threw it into the water." I pressed his lower abdomen, then ran my hand along the knife wound on the corpse's neck, and my face began to look solemn. "Strange......" I muttered.

"I see!" Xiao Sanzi was also paying attention to the knife wound, and suddenly shouted excitedly, "The murderer must be a left-hander!" He pointed to the knife wound and proudly explained to me: "His wound is on the neck, which means that the murderer attacked him from behind, and the knife wound is from right to left, and the left knife is a little higher than the right one, which fully shows that the murderer is holding the knife with his left hand." It seems that we will have to pay more attention to left-handers in the future! ”

"That's not right! The killer was not left-handed. "I pointed to the strangulation marks on the corpse," Qi Shimu's cause of death was that he was strangled by a rope from behind him, and finally suffocated to death. If you look closely at the strangulation marks, do you notice that the right side is slightly higher than the left side? This shows that he is accustomed to the right hand, which hand is used by human beings, in the mind will subconsciously think that the dominant hand is stronger than the other hand, no matter what needs to be done with both hands, the main force will often be the dominant hand. ”

Xiao Sanzi said unconvinced: "But the knife wound on the corpse was obviously caused by a left-hander, is there more than one murderer?" ”

"Not true. It's the same person, it's just that the guy is quite cunning, at least he knows how to confuse people. I gestured with my hand and said, "Although the knife edge is from right to left, and the right side is a little higher than the left side, look at the rightmost cut point, it is the deepest wound in the whole knife wound."

In other words, the murderer did not wipe his neck with his left hand behind the back of Qi Shimu at all. Instead, after strangling Qi Shimu, he put the body on the ground in front of the corpse, and slitted his neck with his right hand with a knife. ”

"I see." The little third son suddenly realized, and suddenly asked in surprise: "Is your monster really about the same age as me?" How come you know everything and are so experienced even with autopsies? Honestly, did you train as a spy since you were a child? ”

I sighed: "No way, I have a cousin who works in the sub-bureau, and every day I see and hear it, and many things I don't want to learn will naturally come." I took out a slender knife from my backpack and measured the stomach of the strange stone wood with my hands.

"You! What are you holding in your hand? Before there was a smile of adoration on my face, the little third son saw my actions and was immediately frightened and slurred.

"A very ordinary cleaver, fairly sharp, found in the kitchen of the hotel." I looked at the knife in my hand.

"You don't want to dissect him, do you?" A cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the little third son.

"Clever!" I nodded seriously, "I want to examine his stomach, duodenum, small intestine, and large intestine, and then cut open the stomach wall with scissors, maybe I can find something." This is a crucial step in the autopsy! ”

"You're crazy! That's against the law! The little third son shouted.

I smiled indifferently: "The law clearly stipulates that a person must die for twenty-four hours before an autopsy is allowed. Now that he's been dead for thirty-one hours, where can there be any such thing as breaking the law? "Naturally, I didn't mention that even if a corpse was left on for a hundred years, the law would not allow an unrelated seventeen-year-old boy to dissect a cadaver at will.

After a pause, I said again: "What's more, no one knows about our coming here, and even if we are buried, no one will open the coffin of Qishimu to inspect it." Even if someone really finds out, no one will suspect us, the Qi family is the king and hegemon in the local area, and it is normal for someone to vent their anger on his corpse. ”

"I don't care!" The third son was separated between me and the coffin, "I don't want to have a bad conscience, but I brought you here at the risk of cutting off your children and grandchildren, and if you still let you dissect his corpse, it will be a big rebellion!" Will I still be asleep in the future? ”

"You're really not going to get out of the way?" I glared at him.

"Don't let it!" He shook his head desperately.

"Alright! In short, dissecting his body was not a pleasant thing either. I scrambled the knife back into my backpack and said to him, "Enough for tonight, let's go home!" ”

Indeed, I have found a large number of clues.

Zhang Xueyun's suicide, her body disappeared with Zhang Wenyi on the night of the wake; Later, the old man Qi was killed, and then yesterday Qi Shimu also died tragically, although these seem to have a chaotic connection, in fact, they are also like a mess, which makes it difficult to straighten out in the mind, and the inextricable connections bring a huge group of questions. I don't know how to substitute the information I get into the question group.

Alas, in the labyrinth of logical thinking, there is not only one answer, as in mathematical equations.

Against the cold wind, I thought bitterly as I walked back.

By the way, I seem to have been ignoring one thing, the first time I went to Black Mountain Town, the white jade bracelet on Zhang Xueyun's corpse was obviously worn on the right wrist, but when I was guarding the spirit, I found that her bracelet was worn on the left hand, who changed the position of it?

A flash of inspiration flashed into my mind, and I grabbed the little third son and asked, "Old Man Qi and Qi Shimu are dead, who will be the biggest beneficiary?" ”

"Of course, it's Qi Wei, the second son of the Qi family." The third son thought for a while and replied: "The family rules of the Qi family only protect the eldest son, and the second son has no status in the family at all. If the eldest son asks for a separation, the second son will not receive anything. However, if the head of the family and the eldest son die, it will be an exception, and everything will go to the second son. ”

"Sure enough!" I exclaimed excitedly, "All the puzzles are solved." Little Sanzi, before three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, I hope you can gather the people from the town and the Qi family to the hotel, the more people the better. I have something to announce, and more! Can I make a phone call from the hotel? I guess I'm going to call that obnoxious cousin! ”