Before Fang Mubei's words fell, Mu Yuanjing got up and left his seat and walked towards the room where the corpse was sunken, and the situation in the room was indeed as Fang Mubei said.

There was only a large patch of blood left on the bed where the deceased was lying, and the body was gone.

Mu Yuanjing looked at Fang Mubei, "What's the matter?" ”

"The subordinate has been conducting an autopsy in the room, and after finding that there was an abnormality under the skin of the corpse, he wanted to cut the skin, but when the subordinate turned around to get the tools, he turned around and found that the corpse was gone."

At the time of the autopsy, only Fang Mubei was left in the room, and the other hidden guards were guarding the door of the room.

After Wei Xu asked, he said to Mu Yuanjing: "Lord Wang, before the corpse was gone, there were no strangers approaching the doors and windows. ”

Mu Yuanjing's eyes stared at the bed heavily, there was no one else in the room except Fang Mubei, and no one had entered or left during the period, if nothing else, the corpse should still be in the room.

He took a few steps forward, lifted the futon on the bed, and found that the bed board under the futon was intact, and there was no trace of a dark room, and he reached out and knocked on the wall, and the sound was dull and solid, and it did not look like there was a dark passage.

The bustard's mother was still standing outside the door, and Mu Yuanjing ordered, "Bring the bustard's mother here." ”

Wei Xu invited people into the room, and Mu Yuanjing was keenly aware that the bustard's mother's expression was faintly uneasy when she looked at the bed.

He looked at her and asked in a deep voice, "Is there a mechanism or a dark room in the room?" ”

Mother Bustard clenched the embroidered handkerchief in her hand and did not make a sound.

Mu Yuanjing turned his gaze to the window, "Don't force this king to torture you. ”

Mother Bustard's face turned white for a moment, then she slowly walked to the bed, reached out and pressed it in a hidden position on the head of the bed, and after a few moments, the bedding on the bed slowly collapsed.

Fang Mubei only then remembered that when he performed the autopsy, he seemed to have accidentally touched the position of the mechanism, and according to the time when the futon collapsed after the mechanism was opened, it was indeed the time when he turned around and left the bed to get tools on the table.

Just as Fang Mubei was pondering, the bed board was quickly closed after the bustard's mother let go, the hidden guard controlled the bustard's mother, Wei Xu stepped forward to reopen the bed board, and used the crossbar to resist it, so that the bed board could not be closed again, and then gave way to Fang Mubei behind him.

It turned out that the dead body was lying on the movable bed board before, Fang Mubei accidentally touched the button to open the trapboard, the trap opened, the dead body rolled down, but the bedding under the body did not move much, after the trap was closed again, what Fang Mubei saw was the scene of the dead body disappearing, the bed board that Mu Yuanjing observed before was not complete, but because the bed board in the closed state was extremely tightly connected, this did not let Mu Yuanjing see it.

Fang Mubei took two steps forward, and was about to look under the bed board, when he found that many insects crawled out of it one after another, those insects were all black, with wings on their backs, similar in appearance to black beetles, but much larger.

Fang Mubei had a bad premonition in his heart, he swallowed his saliva, took a few steps forward, and finally saw the situation under the bed board clearly, his scalp exploded instantly, small goosebumps appeared all over his body, and the whole person froze in place.

Wei Xu stabbed him in the back, and was about to ask what was going on, when Fang Mubei screamed and jumped to the side, his dodge made Wei Xu also see the scene in front of him that made people's scalps tingle.

There were too many black bugs to count, densely crawling all over the corpses, covering almost the entire corpse, their wings flapping slightly, and some were crawling out from the inside, towards the light outside.

Mu Yuanjing instructed Wei Xu: "Go and invite the princess over." ”

Su Qingmo had been waiting in the next room, when Wei Xu hurriedly ran over to say that something was wrong, she was still confused, and after entering the room and seeing Fang Mubei's somewhat bad face, she followed his line of sight, and her expression condensed slightly after seeing the appearance of the black insect.

Mu Yuanjing asked, "What does Qingmo recognize as these?" ”

Su Qingmo endured his nausea, walked closer, and affirmed after just one glance: "It's a corpse worm." ”

She explained to a few people present: "The corpse worm is also called the corpse Gu, it is a harmless insect, as for why it is called Gu, it is because the corpse worm cannot reproduce on its own, it is by planting the mother Gu in the corpse, and then reproduces, the body of the living person will not have any abnormalities after being hit by the corpse Gu, only three hours after death, the corpse Gu will wake up from the body, they will eat the corpse, including the internal organs, and finally leave only a skeleton." ”

As soon as Su Qingmo said this, several people also noticed the little white bones exposed through the black pressure of the insect swarm.

"Through the time when the corpse Gu appeared, it can be known that the deceased was killed at the beginning of the night."

Su Qingmo agreed with Mu Yuanjing's conclusion, she asked Wei Xu next to her to find a torch, and after getting the torch, she walked into the bedside and brought the flame close to the corpse Gu, just before the flames burned to the corpse Gu, all the corpse Gu turned over and died as if they couldn't stand the high temperature.

There were countless insect corpses left in the dark layer under the bed, Fang Mubei was really frightened, and only after the hidden guard had disposed of all the insect corpses did he approach the deceased who only left a white bone.

The corpse was gnawed by the corpse Gu and could not be cleaner, and the clues that should have been there were probably disappeared, Fang Mubei had to give up after working hard for a long time.

Of course, Mu Yuanjing knew that there was no point in staying any longer, so he asked the hidden guard to bring the bones of the deceased back to the hermit with the bustard's mother, and then he looked at the mechanism on the bed and was slightly distracted.

Why is there a dark layer under the bed in the green building? Is this room the only one, or are there all the other rooms?

While Mu Yuanjing was pondering, Su Qingmo carefully collected all the corpses of the insects, and did not let go of a single one, and then she took out a copper basin from the room, put the corpses of the insects into the basin, and lit the corpses with the torches of Fang Cai.

Wei Xu stepped forward and asked while watching, "Princess, what are you doing here?" ”

"The mother Gu is inside these insect corpses, if they are not all burned to ashes, it will inevitably be picked up by people who understand Gu and refined into a new corpse Gu."

There were too many Gu insect corpses in the copper basin, and the flames were only burning at the top layer, Su Qingmo and Wei Xu waited patiently, and suddenly a piercing woman's cry came from the copper basin.

Wei Xu was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "This is also from Gu worms?" ”

Su Qingmo's expression changed suddenly, she ignored the copper basin that was still burning, raised her foot and tried to step on the fire extinguisher, after Wei Xu saw her movements, he subconsciously pulled away and rushed up.

By the time the fire was extinguished, most of the insect corpses in the copper basin had already burned off.

Su Qingmo looked at the insect corpses remaining at the bottom of the basin and breathed a sigh of relief.

Mu Yuanjing, who walked behind her at some point, asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Su Qingmo turned his head to look at him with a solemn expression, "The few people before me are afraid that they didn't die normally." ”

The Oiran who died in the Qinglou was naturally not a normal death, but Su Qingmo was not referring to this.

"I would like to know about the previous deaths," she said. ”

What Su Qingmo asked for was not difficult, Mu Yuanjing led people to the outside of the Qinglou, and a few people had just left the Nuanyu Building, and before they could take a few steps, a man rushed out of the oblique.

Wei Xu subconsciously touched the soft sword on his waist, but was stopped by Mu Yuanjing in the next moment.

Mu Yuanjing looked at the person who came, the clothes he was wearing were of great value, and the jade crown on his head was also in good condition, so he could see that the other party was born in a wealthy family.

Before Mu Yuanjing could speak, the person who came hurriedly said, "Lord Wang, I have something I want to report to you." ”

Wei Xu asked from the side, "Who are you?" ”

The man looked a little embarrassed and said, "I was the first person to find out that Miss Rue was dead." ”

Rue Xiang was the Oiran of Nuan Yulou who had just been killed, and Wei Xu knew that the person in front of him was the guest who bought the deceased's first night.

He looked at the man in front of him, "How do you know that my master is the prince?" ”

The man replied: "My name is Guo Zhi, my father is Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and I have seen the prince from afar not long ago. ”

After learning Guo Zhi's identity, Wei Xu looked at it for a moment.

To say that Dali Temple Shaoqing is really a good official, upright, low-key and upright, but he just gave birth to a son like a demon king in the world, this Guo Zhi is now twenty years old, unwilling to marry a wife, not to say, but also unwilling to take a concubine, see the world to the fireworks willow lane drilling, Guo family only has him a son, the couple is not beaten, scolded or scolded, can only let Guo Zhi in the capital as a well-known gentleman, fortunately, although Guo Zhi is a bit of a prodigal person, but never cause trouble, at most in the green building to mess with flowers.

Wei Xu looked at Guo Zhi, who was a little weak on the soles of his feet in front of him, and asked, "What does Guo Gongzi have to say to the prince?" ”

Guo Zhi glanced at Mu Yuanjing and opened his mouth at Wei Xu's signal.

"After I bought Miss Rue last night for the first night, we both went to her room, and"

Before he could continue, Mu Yuanjing suddenly interrupted: "Let's talk about the point." ”

Guo Zhi was stunned for a moment, and after seeing Su Qingmo behind Mu Yuanjing, he sensibly skipped the middle process, and said: "When I slept with Miss Rue Xiang until the second half of the night, I vaguely heard the cry of a woman in the room, and then I felt that someone was blowing on my left ear next to the pillow, at first I thought it was Miss Ruxiang, but then I reacted that Miss Rue Xiang was lying on my right side, and who was the person blowing on the left." ”

As he spoke, he rubbed his left ear, and continued: "After realizing the strangeness of the matter, I was frightened and woke up instantly, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not open my eyes, and my body could not move, and not long after, I lost consciousness and fell asleep, and the next morning, I thought that everything that happened in the night was a dream, and I was about to talk to Miss Rue when I saw a corpse with a missing head lying next to me." ”

Wei Xu asked, "Why didn't you say it when I asked you this morning?" ”

After discovering the deceased, Wei Xu rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and the routine questioning was also done by Wei Xu.

"I was so stunned that I didn't think about it at the time, but then I thought about it and felt that the situation that night was not a dream."

Guo Zhi's words did not help solve the case, but they were of great significance to Su Qingmo, and she asked some details at that time, which allowed Mu Yuanjing to let Guo Zhi leave.

After Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo got into the carriage, Wei Xu drove to the hermit according to Mu Yuanjing's instructions, and after the three of them arrived at the hermitage ya, Pei Lin and Fang Mubei had already waited in front of the door of the morgue.

Fang Mubei opened the door of the morgue, there were still five wooden coffins in the house, because it was winter, so in the dark compartment under the wooden coffin, there was not much ice used to delay the decomposition of the corpse.

Fang Mubei opened one of the wooden coffins, and there was a slightly decomposed corpse inside, and he took a file from the shelf against the wall and sent it to Mu Yuanjing.

After Mu Yuanjing took it, Fang Mubei looked at the corpse in the coffin and said: "Lord Wang, this corpse is the first Oiran to die in Nuan Yu Lou, the time of death was six months ago, and every month since then, as long as Nuan Yu Lou chooses an Oiran, he will be killed in less than two days, until last month, seven people have died, and what was found this morning is the eighth." ”

Pei Lin was puzzled: "Nuan Yulou has died so much, you don't know?" ”

This question was also what Mu Yuanjing was thinking about at this time, and before he could figure it out, Wei Xu's words gave the answer.

"Lord Wang, all the murders that occurred in Nuan Yulou were reported to the Criminal Department, and after being inquired by his subordinates, the reason why the Criminal Department did not report to the Yin Shiya was that someone above suppressed the case, if it wasn't for Guo Gongzi to publicize the matter on the spot this time, I'm afraid that the Criminal Department still won't choose to report it."

Mu Yuanjing said in a deep voice: "Let Lin Ning investigate, who is the person who ordered the Criminal Department to suppress the case?" ”

Wei Xu was ordered to inform Lin Ning that since the red face and dry bones on Mu Yuanjing's body were removed, Lin Ning had returned to the hidden guard team and served as the commander of his hidden guards.

Fang Mubei walked to the other three coffins and opened them one by one, and inside each of the three coffins were two skeletons with missing heads.

Su Qingmo thought of her previous guess, stepped forward and observed them in turn, and after looking around, her heart beat a little fast.

Su Qingmo looked at Mu Yuanjing and said softly: "Lord Wang, the murderer is not the same person. ”

Mu Yuanjing frowned slightly.

Su Qingmo stood between the two wooden coffins containing the white bones and asked Fang Mubei, "Can the second person who was killed and the next six people die in the same way?" ”

Fang Mubei nodded, "The method of death is the same, and the method is the same, they are all killed by cutting off their heads while they are asleep, and there are detailed records in the dossier." ”

Su Qingmo then asked, "The people who have inspected the scene, have they found anything else in common?" ”

Fang Mubei recalled, and suddenly said: "The people from the Criminal Department said that from the second scene, a small black worm will appear next to some deceased, and some will not. ”

His words did not surprise Su Qingmo, she sorted out her thoughts and began to talk to the people present.

"Starting from the second deceased, until everyone who was killed later, the murderer should be the same person, the kind of small black bug mentioned by the Criminal Department is the corpse Gu, as for why some corpses are not around, I think it should be because the time of death of the deceased is not the same, the corpse Gu only wakes up from the body three hours after the person dies, and the corpse Gu after awakening will quickly gnaw the corpse clean, and then leave the corpse under the leadership of the mother Gu."

Hearing this, Pei Lin suddenly asked out loud, "Someone used the Corpse Transformation Gu?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded and added, "Not only did he use the Corpse Transformation Gu, that person also used the Corpse Transformation Gu to take away the souls of the previous few deceased. ”

Although Mu Yuanjing and Fang Mubei couldn't understand her words, Pei Lin understood in an instant: "You mean the Nine Yin Resurrection?" ”

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