Chapter 17: Skinning

I hurriedly prepared to go out and rush back, I was stopped by Xiao Lianshan at the door, I asked him what was wrong, there was no anger on his face just now, I only saw my father's concern, he looked at me silently, and it took a long time to say three words very weakly, be careful.

In fact, this should have been what I said to him, I really don't know what I did, concealing the evidence that was enough to accuse Xiao Lianshan and even helping him destroy the traces at the murder scene, all because I believed in the character of the old man opposite, it was an almost emotional belief, but my profession required me to be rational all the time.

I was really afraid that one day my unfounded belief would collapse in front of the evidence, so I nodded silently.

"Dad, take care of your body." After I finished speaking, I turned my head to Gu Xiaoxin. "Xiaoxiao, your parents are not in good health, don't run around and spend more time with them."

Gu Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile and said Let me rest assured, in fact, I want her to guard them every step of the way, at least so that I can rest assured that they will not appear in the place that makes me overwhelmed.

When I rushed back, Yun Duruo and Han Yu had already returned, and the murder that happened in the mausoleum was taken over by them in Liang Xiaocheng, and the place we were going to was called Fuping Village, not too far from Yongning Village, where the murder occurred before.

"Liang Xiaocheng received a report, in the cattle shed of a villager in Fuping Village found someone killed, Liang Xiaocheng said that it is strange recently, the people in the mountain village are very simple and live a life without fighting, there has never been a murder in the village, this is a good succession of deaths." Nangong Yi said to us on the road.

The police officer in charge of guarding the scene took us to the scene of the crime, and the identity of the deceased had been determined, Jin Chengyi, male, 47 years old, a butcher by profession, who specialized in going to the countryside to slaughter cattle and sheep.

He came to Fuping Village to be hired by the villagers to slaughter their own cattle, Jin Chengyi was the villager who went to bed after drinking and eating last night, and originally arranged to get up this morning to slaughter the cattle, but who knew that the owner found Jin Chengyi who had died of anger in the cowshed.

The scene of the crime is the villager's cowshed, according to the owner said that there are more than a dozen beef cattle in it, last night the owner heard the cattle in the cowshed in the middle of the night as if he was disturbed by something, because the house is still some distance from the cowshed, and when he got up to check it, he did not hear any movement.

"What time was it?" I looked up and asked.

"It's three or four o'clock at night, I haven't seen how long it has been since I got up from bed and was dazed." The villager replied with a sad look on his face.

"How long did the herd commotion last?" Yun Duruo then asked.

"It was about ten minutes from the time I woke up to hear no sound, and I don't know how long it took me to make a fuss before I woke up." The villagers shook their heads and said worriedly. "There are often animals in the village who stray into the cowshed and disturb the cattle, so I didn't pay much attention to it, who knew what happened......"

Jin Chengyi's body was still lying in the cowshed, Han Yu walked over and lifted the white cloth on it, Jin Chengyi was lying on the ground with an unrecognizable face and blurred flesh, his chest collapsed in many places, which was caused by broken ribs, and there were dense cow hoof marks left on his clothes, it was obvious that Jin Chengyi had been trampled by the cattle, and the deceased still exuded a strong smell of alcohol.

"I asked him to help slaughter the cow, but he died in the cowshed, I don't have to think about it, most of it was because he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet or something, but he walked to the cowshed in a daze, disturbed the cow and was hit and trampled to death." The villagers said anxiously.

"If that's the case, Jin Chengyi may have died accidentally, have you found any results in the corpse?" Yun Duruo squatted next to me and asked.

"It's not an accident, Kim Sung-yi was murdered."

I gently flicked Jin Chengyi's head with my hand, his neck bone was broken, there was a clear bruise on the neck, this is the same as what we found on Xie Tong's corpse, the trauma of being trampled by the herd should not be like this at all, the broken neck bone was twisted by someone, Jin Chengyi caused a herd commotion when he abandoned his body in the cowshed after being killed, causing his body to be trampled.

"It seems that the murderer of Jin Chengyi and the murderer of Xie are the same person." Han Yu squatted on the side and didn't know what to look at, and suddenly said in a very solemn voice.

Although the cause of Xie Tong's death is the same as Xie Tong's broken neck, it cannot be so certain that it was committed by the same person, so I asked Han Yu why he was so sure.

Han Yu stepped out of the way, and we looked at the bullpen next to him My brows furrowed even deeper, and the bullpen was engraved with clear runes, this was the third time we had seen it, once next to Xie Tong's corpse, and once behind Liu Weiming's stone pillar.

Yin Deed Charm.

Underneath the spell we see the number three in capital letters.

It seems that I was right to expect these numbers to be marked, and from the very beginning every number appeared to indicate that someone would die, but we don't know how long these numbers will continue to appear.

If the deaths of Xie Tong and Liu Weiming are related to the copper plate related to the mysterious treasure, but Jin Chengyi seems to have no intersection with the previous two deceased, why was he killed? And also left a spell to make a contract with the ghost ghost on the spot?

"Since it is now determined that these three murders are related, it cannot be ruled out that the murderer is the same person, then this is a serial murder case." Nangong Yi sighed and said suspiciously. "But the murderers of this kind of murder will have very distinct characteristics of the murder, or the motive for killing, Xie Tong and Liu Weiming are still related, but what is the relationship between Jin Chengyi and them, and the methods of these three murders are completely different, what is the murderer's intention to kill in this way?"

I'm going to come to Jin Chengyi's file and look through a few pages and find that the text on it is a little blurry, and I rubbed my eyes to get better, I don't know what's going on recently, my eyes are gradually starting to see things clearly, probably because I am too tired during this time.

Judging from the files, Kim Sung-yi should not have any intersection with the previous two deceased, and I really can't think of what connects Kim Sung-yi to them.

"It's really evil lately, two days ago I heard in the neighboring village that someone was steamed in a steamer, and it is estimated that this evil spirit has blown here." The villagers were talking to themselves in distraught. "If I had known, I wouldn't have asked Jin Chengyi to come over to help, maybe he would have been contaminated with something unclean over there."

"Over there......," the prince hesitated, looking up at the villagers. What's the place you're talking about? ”

"Where else can there be, Yongning Village."

"Yongning Village! Has Kim Sung-yi been to Yongning Village? I rubbed my eyes and asked seriously.

"Why are you still asking about me, can you not know that someone died in Yongning Village a few days ago? The cook put it in a steamer and killed it, and Jin Chengyi was the butcher who was invited. ”

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"Jin Chengyi has been to Yongning Village, Xie Tong is a cook, and Jin Chengyi is a butcher, the two of them must have confessed, at least they know each other." Yun Duruo said.

"Then these three murders are connected, they were all killed and left behind a Yin Deed spell, although the three deceased have different identities and backgrounds, they all know Xie Tong, as for whether Jin Chengyi and Liu Weiming are related, it is unknown." Nangong Yi nodded.

My eyes are still a little blurry, and from time to time I rub them and slowly become a little red and swollen, but only in this way can I see things clearly, two murders have occurred in succession in these two small villages, I am surprised what secrets are hidden here, if the murderers are Yoshida Hanzo and the other two Fuso people, their purpose has gradually become clear, they are here for the mysterious treasure, but why kill these people?

The police reported that Jin Chengyi's body was to be transported back to the police station after the investigation of the scene, and no valuable clues were found at the scene Nangong Yi nodded in agreement, and when the two police officers carried Jin Chengyi's body past me, I happened to be looking down and rubbing my eyes, and my eyes inadvertently fell on Jin Chengyi's body.

The white cloth that Han Yu lifted just now had not yet been covered, most of Jin Chengyi's collapsed chest was exposed, and a blood-red wound was looming outside the clothes on Jin Chengyi's chest.

I asked the police to stop and slowly untie Jin Chengyi's clothes, and was surprised to find that there was a palm-sized wound on Jin Chengyi's left chest, Jin Chengyi's fatal cause of death was broken neck bone, and other injuries on his body were trampled by cattle, most of them were internal organs ruptured and fractured, but there would never be such an injury to his chest.

I looked down carefully for a long time, the wound was very neat, and the internal organs were not injured, and I could clearly see the muscles and flesh on Jin Chengyi's chest.

"The murderer cut off the skin on Kim Sung-yi's chest after killing him." I said to the others with a frown, surprised.

"Every time the murderer kills someone, he will leave a Yin Deed Charm, is there any relationship between skin cutting and Yin Deed?" Nangong Yi turned her head and asked Han Yu.

"Nope." Han Yu replied with certainty.

"This wound is obviously not unintentional, if it is to torture Jin Chengyi, it will not be cut so shallowly......" I rubbed my eyes, buried my head lower, put my hand behind and said hurriedly. Magnifying glass. ”

The police officer handed me a magnifying glass, and I carefully identified it for a long time, and under the cut wound on Jin Chengyi's chest, there was a pale black thing that penetrated deep under the epidermis, and these pale black colors were distributed very regularly, only appearing under the cut wound.

"It's a tattoo!" I stood up and excitedly said to the others. "There should be a tattoo on Kim Sung-yi's chest, and the murderer cut off the tattoo after killing him, it should be that the murderer doesn't want others to know the content of the tattoo."

"Xie Tong and Liu Weiming were killed because they both had copper pieces in their hands, Jin Chengyi should have nothing to do with these so far, why did the murderer cut off the tattoo on his chest?" Yun Duruo was puzzled and said.

"That's not necessarily, Xie Tong's corpse was steamed and boiled, and the skin was swollen and festered, and Liu Weiming was cut with a thousand knives, and we haven't seen their chests either." The prince said to us thoughtfully. "Whether there is a relationship between these three people or not, you only need to verify Xie Tong and Liu Weiming's chests to find out."

Nangong Yi said that without further ado, she immediately rushed back to verify the bodies of these two people, and I asked Yun Duruo to go back with her to check all the information of these three people to find out what they had in common, and continue to interrogate Zhong Yulin, to get more clues about Yoshida Hanzo, this group of Fuso people is likely to be involved in these three murders.