At the bottom of the door, near the ground, there were blood-red handprints, no more, no less, exactly seven, and the height was the height of a person lying on the ground and raising his hand to tap the door.

Su Qingmo remembered the sound of beating in the second half of the night, and his back was cold.

She crouched down and stretched out her hand to measure the bloody handprint on the door, two circles larger than her hand, which should belong to an adult man.

She looked at it for a long time, but there was still no way to find the owner of the handprint, and said to Mu Yuanjing on the side: "Later, let him see it when Pei Lin comes." ”

Pei Lin had something to do and left for a few days before entering Beijing, so he didn't enter the Sifang Academy with Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo.

Before waiting for Pei Lin to arrive, the two went to the scene where Zhuo Bai and Zhao Licheng were killed, Tang Mufang had been cleaned because of the relationship between using it, and the students who lived in the same dormitory with Zhao Licheng had moved out, and the dormitory was vacant.

From the bottom of Zhao Licheng's hanging position to the direction of the door, there was a trailing bloodstain.

The purple gold bell on Su Qingmo's waist did not react, she stood at the door and looked around the room, and said with some doubts: "This place doesn't look like a dead person." ”

Mu Yuanjing was puzzled, and Su Qingmo continued: "The room is clean, and those who don't know think that someone has done magic here after Zhao Licheng was killed." ”

After the deceased person is killed, most of the ghosts after death will stay in place, and even if they leave for a short time, there will be a cold aura left, but there is nothing in Zhao Licheng's bedroom.

Su Qingmo twisted his eyebrows and left behind Mu Yuanjing.

In the middle of the day, Pei Lin rushed to the academy, Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo's house was still burning candles, he knocked on the door, and only after hearing someone in the house answering the sound did he push the door and walked in.

Su Qingmo leaned on the bedpost with his eyes closed, sleepy, and opened his eyes sleepily after hearing the sound of the door opening, and became energetic when he saw Pei Lin.

"Cousin, you're finally here."

Pei Lin still had a chill on his body, thinking that it was because he was in a hurry, he first saluted Mu Yuanjing, and then looked at Su Qingmo and smiled: "It seems that things are a little tricky." ”

The murder case that occurred in the academy Su Qingmo told Pei Lin in detail in the letter, and Pei Lin, who had already mastered the situation, did not delay any longer, and untied the big burden he was carrying and put it on the table.

"Lord Wang, can you have the beads left after the water ghost flew away?"

Mu Yuanjing took out something from his sleeve and handed it to Pei Lin, who was speaking.

The beads, which were still jet-black the night before, somehow became darker.

Pei Lin looked at the beads on his palm and sighed: "The obsession has become heavier. ”

Su Qingmo asked, "What exactly is this?" ”

"This thing has no specific name, it is the relatives of the ghost after death, refining it with their own blood and obsession, and after being refined, it will become a container for the soul, which can make the ghost temporarily leave the place where it was killed before death."

Su Qingmo thought of the house where Zhao Licheng was killed, and asked, "Will the resentment disappear after leaving?" ”

"Naturally not, even if you can leave for a short time, you still have to go back in the end, the place where you were killed before your death is equivalent to a cage for both the ghost and the ghost, unless the hatred or resentment disappears, or there is a superior person's practice, they can't leave."

Pei Lin clenched the things in his hand and continued, "I need to go to the well to confirm some things, but before we leave, we'd better find out who the owner of the bloody handprint is." ”

Su Qingmo's eyes lit up, and he watched Pei Lin take out a candle lamp with an entire body of turquoise from his baggage.

The candle lamp is exquisite, the base is the size of a palm, the length of the handle is less than a foot, and the candlestick is a blooming flower with a wick in the middle.

Pei Lin put the candle lamp in his palm and introduced it to Mu Yuanjing: "This lamp is called reincarnation, and it is best to use it as the owner of the bloody handprint. ”

Su Qingmo blew out all the candles in the room, and darkness shrouded in an instant, only the hazy moonlight entered through the window.

There was a groping sound on the table, followed by a faint candle flame.

It turned out that Pei Lin lit the reincarnation lamp with a sting fire, and the faint green candlelight lit up in the house.

Pei Lin walked to the door with a lamp, and the moment he approached the bloody handprint, the color of the candle flame suddenly turned red.

There was joy in his eyes, "Soon we will know the owner of the bloody handprint." ”

Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo followed behind Pei Lin, the color of the candle flame of the reincarnation lamp was always red, and it only changed back to dark green when the direction was wrong, and after Pei Lin adjusted the direction, the candle flame became red again.

The three of them followed the guidance of the reincarnation lamp for a short time and came to the door of a room.

Su Qingmo's attention left the candle flame, looking at some familiar houses in front of her, just in the daytime, she and Mu Yuanjing had just left.

Pei Lin confirmed the state of the candle flame and asked, "Whose room is this?" ”

Mu Yuanjing said lightly: "The second deceased, Zhao Licheng." ”

Pei Lin's face was slightly solemn, "So the bloody handprint on the door is Zhao Licheng's?" ”

Su Qingmo hesitated: "I have been here with the prince during the day, and there is no problem. ”

Pei Lin closed his eyes when he heard this, his lips squirmed silently, and after a moment, he opened them again.

Su Qingmo knew that Pei Lin had already opened the Heavenly Eye.

Pei Lin stood in front of the door steadily, what Su Qingmo said was right, the breath in the whole room was very clean, but it was also a little abnormally clean, he used the eye of the sky, his eyes roamed around the room, and after noticing a gray mist in the corner, his voice became solemn.

"Zhao Licheng's ghost did not leave, but was eaten."

He pushed open the door and walked in, walked straight to the corner where the gray mist was, took out a little finger-length slug and lit it with the candle flame of the reincarnation lamp, and the lit slab slowly drifted out of the corner with the smoke, and after a while the plaster mist and the smoke of the smear merged into an obvious form.

It is a man's body, but the man's upper and lower body are in a broken state.

Su Qingmo explained to Mu Yuanjing: "The gray mist in the corner should be a trace of the person's soul that escaped before it was eaten, and my cousin repaired it, so that the gray mist can show the overall shape." ”

Mu Yuanjing looked at the vague humanoid silhouette on the ground and said, "The one who was devoured should be the second deceased, Zhao Licheng. ”

"There's no way to create a bloody handprint on the door with just form."

Su Qingmo never figured out the key.

Pei Lin asked, "The bloody handprint suddenly appeared last night?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded.

"What did you and the prince do all day yesterday?"

Su Qingmo said to Pei Lin while recalling, and when he talked about the water ghost in the well, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, "I know, Zhao Licheng's ghost was devoured by the water ghost in the well, and the only person in this academy who has the ability to devour ghosts is the water ghost in the well that has become a climate." “

"After the water ghost dispersed last night, Zhao Licheng's ghost was free and returned to the place where it was killed, and then crawled all the way to the door of my room and the prince's house, and the height of the bloody handprint is the height of the person lying on the ground and knocking on the door."

Pei Lin continued: "Zhao Licheng's remnant soul is no longer enough to support it, so it disappeared after doing things, leaving only a trace of soul in this room. ”

When the two were talking, Mu Yuanjing's eyes inadvertently passed by the foot of the bed, he walked over and squatted down, stretched out his hand to grope at the foot of the bed, and then he made a movement and took out an object.

A purse that is slightly rough in terms of materials and work.

Mu Yuanjing's discovery attracted Su Qingmo and Pei Lin to step forward, he opened his purse, and it contained a piece of prayer paper, which read, 'May my son Wenrui be safe and smooth, in good health, even if my mother is gone, I must live well'.

Zhao Licheng's house has been closely guarded by the yamen since the murder occurred, and until the hermit took over, the hidden guards have always been monitoring the house in the dark.

Mu Yuanjing can be sure that no one else has come in this house after Zhao Licheng was killed, except for the people from the hidden world, so the purse was lost here before Zhao Licheng was killed or when Zhao Licheng was killed.

The first few words on the note reminded Su Qingmo of a person, and she asked in a low voice, "The purse belongs to Qi Wenrui?" The murderer of Zhao Licheng is also him? ”

Pei Lin's fingers rubbed his chin, ", there is a trace of Zhao Licheng's resentment left on the purse, it must have been dragged off Qi Wenrui before he swallowed his breath, so there is a good chance that the murderer is Qi Wenrui. ”

"It was Qi Wenrui who killed Zhuo Bai?"

"Let's go to Tang Mufang to take a look, if Zhuo Bai's soul is also devoured, then his death must be inseparable from Qi Wenrui."

The three of them walked to the Tang Mu room not far away, and the reincarnation light had been extinguished, so the speed under the feet of the three of them was much faster.

It was late at night, and the students of the academy had already rested and did not use the Tang Mu Room, so there were no candles lit in the Tang Mu Room, and it was pitch black.

Pei Lin stood in front of the door of Tang Mufang, he didn't need to go in at all, he only looked at it with his heavenly eyes for a moment and affirmed: "Zhuo Bai's soul has also been devoured by the water ghost. ”

The situation in Tang Mu's room was the same as Zhao Licheng's room, the only difference was that Zhuo Bai's soul had already been eaten away by the water ghost.

Su Qingmo asked Pei Lindao, "Is the water ghost controlled by Qi Wenrui?" ”

Pei Lin didn't say yes or no, "Let's go, go to the well, I need to look at it before I can get an answer." ”

The three of them hurried to the well again, it was obviously a cold and windy night, and Su Qingmo didn't feel cold after surviving.

The well still stood quietly by the bamboo forest as before, but the atmosphere around it was not as gloomy as before.

Pei Lin touched the wooden board that sealed the mouth of the well, and then squatted down to take a closer look at the spell on the body of the well, which was dull in color and was not easy to find.

Su Qingmo's gaze followed Pei Lin's downward adjustment, and then he noticed the situation on the well body, and wondered: "How can there be a soul locking spell?" ”

Pei Lin stood up, "You take a closer look." ”

Su Qingmo stepped forward, circled around the well, and said 'huh' in his mouth, "It doesn't look like a soul locking spell."

Pei Lin sighed lightly, as if he was worried about her lack of learning.

"It used to be a soul lock spell, but then someone added two strokes and it became a soul invitation spell."

Pei Lin pointed to the wooden board on the wellhead and said to Mu Yuanjing: "Lord Wang, the wooden board that seals the wellhead is made of acacia wood, and the well is painted with a soul-locking spell. ”

"So the Soul Locking Spell became the Soul Invitation Spell?"

Pei Lin nodded, "Huaimu with the soul invitation spell reversed the effect of the original binding ghosts, not only invited the ghosts of the water ghosts out of the well, but also used the Huaimu to absorb the nearby yin qi and enhance the ability of the water ghosts, the people behind this are not simple." ”

After finishing speaking, Pei Lin's expression brought a hint of confusion, "Where did so much resentment come from?" ”

Without waiting for him to figure it out, Su Qingmo asked, "Is it really Qi Wenrui who used water ghosts to kill people?" ”

Pei Lin rubbed his somewhat stiff hands and stomped his feet, "Let's go back to the room and say, okay?" ”

Mu Yuanjing was also afraid that he would damage Su Qingmo's body for a long time in the cold wind.

After returning to Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo's room, Pei Lin first poured a cup of hot tea to warm his hands, and then sat down on a chair.

Su Qingmo asked a little anxiously, "Is it Qi Wenrui?" ”

Pei Lin took a sip of hot tea, the warmth flowed from his mouth to his abdomen, he gasped comfortably, and said plausibly: "It's him and it's not him." ”

Su Qingmo was confused by him, and was about to get up and rush to him, but her right hand was grabbed by Mu Yuanjing, who gave her a cup of hot tea, "Don't worry." ”

Pei Lin glanced at her and said with a smile: "You should really learn from the prince, what are you anxious about, I was about to say it." ”

When it comes to business, he has some seriousness on his face, "I said it was him, because it was indeed Qi Wenrui who killed the people, as for not him, it was because Qi Wenrui couldn't control the water ghost to help him kill people, and there was someone else behind him." ”

Su Qingmo was a little ignorant, Mu Yuanjing sat beside her and looked at Pei Lin and said lightly: "If this king is right, it should be the real murderer who controlled the water ghost and Qi Wenrui, and then the murderer used the water ghost to help Qi Wenrui kill Zhuo Bai and Zhao Licheng, and then let the water ghost devour the souls of the two before the person lost his breath." ”

"The prince's guess is exactly right."

"Who is the one who controls the water ghosts in the back?"

Pei Lin took out the jet-black beads from before, "I can't tell the specific identity of that person, but I can be sure that that person is related to the person in the well." ”

He put the bead on the table and explained: "I also said before that this bead is refined with the blood and obsession of relatives, and if you send the bead into the ghost's body, you can control the ghost, but the person who controls it must be the person who refines the bead, that is, the water ghost and the murderer are blood relatives before their death. ”

Su Qingmo guessed: "Maybe the water ghost and Qi Wenrui are blood relatives. ”

Pei Lin didn't think about this possibility, he pondered: "The note in the purse indicates that Qi Wenrui's family should have an old mother besides him, could it be that the person in the well is Qi Wenrui's mother?" ”

Mu Yuanjing glanced at the night and interrupted Pei Lin's train of thought, "Everything will be clear after the body is fished out of the well tomorrow." ”

The meaning of evicting the guest in his words was obvious, Pei Lin naturally didn't want to stay any longer, he left the room and walked towards Wei Xu and Fang Mubei's residence.

The three of them didn't expect that on the second day, before the body in the well could be identified, there was another murder in the Sifang Academy.

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