Chapter 42: Gu
Bai Tang's eyes fell on the grapes, and he saw that the purple-black grape skin was still with water droplets, which looked crystal clear, but he could vaguely see some winding traces on it.
The things she eats are not only tributes, but also very high-standard, so naturally this situation will not occur, and she has never seen any insect crawls on the fruit.
She took the grape, a little curious about what insect crawl marks were, and whether insect crawls over and left traces.
But these marks look uneven, and they don't look like insects crawling over.
Suddenly, her gaze froze, and the crawling marks of the insects that were fixed on it did not move.
Pei Liang finished training the maid and asked her to change it again, but when she turned her head, she saw Bai Tang staring at the grape with a serious face, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”
Bai Tang raised his eyes to look at her, then at the grapes, and suddenly asked, "Are there any crawling marks like this?" ”
Everyone was stunned and looked at her inexplicably.
"Is there any?" She turned her eyes to look at the maid with the fruit plate, and there was a bit of fierceness in her voice.
"Ah, no, no, it's all picked out and thrown away." The maid was frightened by her stern gaze and stammered in reply.
Bai Tang's brows immediately furrowed.
"What's wrong with this thing?" Pei Liang also felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help but ask again.
Bai Tang just wrinkled his eyebrows and shook his head, and asked the maid again, "Are there any other things with similar climbing marks?" ”
"This, yes, yes, some trees will have it."
"Tired, help me find some, anything, as long as there are similar insect crawl marks."
The maid opened her mouth, as if she hadn't reacted a little.
"Go ahead, do as Lord Bai says, hurry up." Pei Liang said.
The maid should get down and leave quickly.
Pei Liang looked at Bai Tang again.
Bai Tang only said, "I just thought of some clues about the case, but I'm not sure yet." ”
Soon the maid came in again, carrying a small basket of leaves, flowers, and even uncut fruit.
Bai Tang took out some and looked at it carefully, his brows tightened more and more, but soon stretched out again, revealing a bright light under his eyes.
She put down her things and said to Pei Liang, "I'm going to go out, and Mrs. Lao Fu will talk to Grandpa Guo on my behalf." After saying that, she walked out quickly, and before the people inside could react, she had already left the courtyard.
When Bai Tang arrived at the Inspector's Mansion, he bumped into Wei Jiuli, who was leading his horse and preparing to leave.
When he saw her coming, he immediately handed over the horse to his subordinates and hurried to meet her, "I was about to go to you." ”
"I've got something for you, too." Bai Tang got off.
The two glanced at each other, Wei Jiuli bowed his head, asked people to place the carriage, and took her into the house.
The two walked straight towards the morgue.
Wei Jiuli first said, "I sent someone to check last night, and there were indeed people who went to the coffin to say that the tombs seemed to have been turned over the earth, but I thought that these were all new tombs, so I didn't say it, and the nails on the coffin were also checked, and there were indeed traces of being constantly pried open and re-entered." ”
"Well, I've also made some discoveries, and if my idea is confirmed, then a lot of doubts will make sense." Bai Tang also said.
The two soon arrived at the morgue.
Bai Tang changed his clothes and walked in, suddenly paused, and said to the back guard Jiu Li, "I may dissect the corpse later, why don't you wait outside?" ”
She didn't think anything of it herself, but it seemed that others were quite repulsed and feared by others.
She thought of the reaction of those people in the palace when she dissected the newly dead palace maid in front of those palace concubines in order to investigate the case, and couldn't help frowning.
Wei Jiuli also put on the isolation suit, was stunned when he heard the words, then understood, and said with a smile, "No." As he spoke, he walked past her and closed the door.
Bai Tang saw that he didn't mind, so he didn't say more.
Although the morgue tried its best to control the temperature, the corpses placed outside would still decompose, and naturally there was a smell, but fortunately, wearing a mask slowed down a little.
Bai Tang walked directly to Liu San's corpse, went over the dissecting instrument from the desk, lifted the white cloth, and swept his gaze over his naked corpse.
Wei Jiuli's eyebrows couldn't help but gather, and he raised his hand to pull up the white cloth and cover the lower half of the corpse.
Bai Tang looked at him suspiciously.
Wei Jiuli looked serious and serious, "Save some face for the deceased." ”
Bai Tang was surprised, he didn't expect him to have this heart, but he didn't think much about it when he thought that the world had a lot of respect for the dead.
A finger-sized scalpel slashed lightly across the corpse, opening it from the chest down to the abdomen.
Because the blood has coagulated, it doesn't look bloody, but the smell of rancid smell is stronger than before.
The system can only perform fundamental analysis through scanning and perspective, and more things need to be touched by hand to further analysis.
The two sides were peeled open, revealing the internal organs, and the marks above were also revealed.
"Doesn't it look like a bug crawling track?" Bai Tang said casually, then took out a tube to carefully separate the internal organs, and leaned over to examine it carefully.
Wei Jiuli's eyes were also a little serious, and he walked around to the opposite side of her and stared at it together.
"Sure enough." Bai Tang put the internal organs back in place, and then scraped out some blood mud and preserved it.
Then she went to the rest of the corpses and cut open the skin, scraping some of the dried blood clots and putting them together.
Inevitably disturbing her train of thought, Wei Jiuli only followed the whole process and didn't ask much.
After she cleaned up, the two of them went out of the morgue and went to freshen up before they got together to talk.
"These people are not just poisoned, they are Gu Poison, and I suspect that they may be treated as Gu nests."
"Gu Nest?" Wei Jiuli's eyes sank.
He'd heard of that too.
It is not easy to raise Gu, many of them need to be raised in special methods, and some of them are incubated and cultivated in flesh and blood, and these bodies are called Gu nests.
Bai Tang saw that he understood, so he didn't explain much, "According to my assumption, when these people's bodies begin to disease, it should be when the Gu worms hatch, and then the poison of the Gu worms will immediately spread, allowing the body to enter a state of suspended animation, so that the young Gu can safely absorb nutrients." "After all, the human body has many resistances, some of which can automatically weaken or eliminate parasites.
After all, young Gu is fragile, which can be regarded as a sense of self-protection, just like a spider or snake must make the prey completely unthreatening before they start eating before they eat their prey.
"And during this period, the Gu poison will also provide some things for the host, such as not rotting, when the adult leaves the body, the toxicity remaining in the body will slowly disappear, and the host body will enter a dry state."
Bai Tang continued, "Judging from the activity of the viscera, Liu Sangongzi's body should not have died for more than three days, and the toxicity in his body is also higher than that of other corpses, that is to say, the Gu in his body has been taken away for no more than five days. ”
Wei Jiuli listened with his eyebrows, his fingers habitually tapping on the table, and his mind was already quickly searching for relevant memories.
Wei Jiuli's kung fu was naturally not born with it, and it was not something that the martial artist invited could teach, and he had the rest and accidentally worshipped the teacher.
However, his master is not very righteous, so he also knows a little about some things in the sideways, such as Gu poison.