Chapter Thirty-Seven: And Then There Was No More
"By the way, there's one more thing I want to tell you!"
Li Mu and An Zhiquan were stopped by Xiao Song before they could leave.
"What's the matter, you can say it quickly, don't spit it out!" Li Mu urged when he saw that Xiao Song looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.
"It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but it's a bit evil!" As he spoke, he looked around, and when he was sure that there was no one next to him, he leaned into Li Mu and An Zhiquan's ears and whispered.
"I read the autopsy report, and the cause of Yang Yi's death was suffocation. Based on the marks on his neck, it can be concluded that he was strangled to death. β
Originally, Xiao Song mysteriously thought that he could break out some big news, but this was the result. Li Mu suddenly had a feeling that I took off my pants and you just looked at me.
"Please, it's not very common to be strangled to death, what's all the fuss." Li Mu was obviously dissatisfied with Xiao Song's fuss.
Seeing that Li Mu was a little dissatisfied, Xiao Song further explained: "Yes, of course I wouldn't make a fuss if I strangled me to death, but the blame for this incident is that the marks on the deceased's neck are very consistent with his own palms. β
"What do you mean?" Li Mu hadn't reacted to the meaning of Xiao Song's words for a while, but after thinking about it, he understood what Xiao Song meant.
"Your consciousness is that the dead strangled themselves!" As he spoke, Li Mu also grabbed his neck with his hands and gestured.
Xiao Song didn't answer, just nodded.
"If so, it's a wicked thing. Regardless, the priority is to find news of the other missing persons. Who would have asked someone to say yes to someone casually? Li Mu was still talking about Yang Yi's death in the previous sentence, and in the latter sentence, he took the opportunity to vent his inner dissatisfaction. However, An Zhiquan looked at some warning quotes hanging on the wall casually.
According to police information, there are a total of six missing people, except for Yang Yi's body has been found, the other five have not been heard from until now, let alone whether they are alive or dead.
The date of birth of the missing person is on the data, and An Zhiquan converts it into the generation of eight characters according to the perpetual calendar, and then prepares to use the method of detecting the corpse with a bright light again. If you can really find it, it is good, if you can't find it, it means that the person is not dead.
I don't know if Li Mu and An Zhiquan were lucky, and they successfully found the body of the deceased after four consecutive flashes of light to detect the corpse. Of course, this is not good news for the family of the deceased, and the bad news for Li Mu and An Zhiquan is that when they used the bright lantern to probe the corpse to find the last missing person, Kong Ming Lantern couldn't fly. The fact that Kong Ming's lantern can't fly means that the last person is just missing and not dead, which makes Li Mu and An Zhiquan have to find another way to find it.
"Xiao Anzi, don't you Liuyang Guan have a way to find a living person?" Seeing the many powerful things about An Zhiquan, Li Mu believes that An Zhiquan must have a way to find a living person. Sure enough, An Zhiquan gave the answer after thinking about it for a while.
"There is another method, it is called chasing sails for a thousand miles."
"Chasing sails for a thousand miles?"
"Yes, this is a relatively rare method of tracking living people in our Six Yang Concept, but this method is somewhat current."
"Restrictions, what are the restrictions?"
"First, the tracking range, it is said to be a thousand miles to chase sails, but in fact, it can only be effective within 100 miles. However, if the missing person has already left the territory of Shangdu, then it may be difficult to find the two of them at all, so this condition will not affect it. Second, if you want to use the sail for thousands of miles, you must have the price of the living person. β
Li Mu pondered what An Zhiquan said. The range is within 100 miles, which means that the range can only be controlled within the territory of Shangdu, plus the surrounding cities at most. As for the second condition, if you want to find the objects on the living person, then I am afraid that you have to go to his house to find it. After confirming, the two felt that they would go to the house of the last missing young man the next day, and this young man was the little six in Xiao Song's mouth before.
The address of Xiao Liu's house is indicated in the information given by Xiao Song, and Li Mu and An Zhiquan went to Xiao Liu's house according to the address. Xiao Liu's home conditions are similar to those of Yang Yi's family, Li Mu didn't plan to stay this time, and of course he didn't directly say that he was looking for Xiao Liu's body to cast spells. Li Mu had prepared a set of rhetoric before he came.
βDNAοΌβ Xiaoliu's parents expressed puzzlement at the DNA that Li Mu, who pretended to be a police officer, said out of his mouth.
Li Mu had already prepared in his heart, so it was not unreasonable to face doubts, and explained slowly: "Yes, we hope to be able to get the tissue components of Xiaoliu's body, so that we can collect his DNA, and at the same time, it will also help our police find his whereabouts faster." β
As soon as Xiaoliu's mother heard that she could help find her son, her previous doubts immediately disappeared, and her emotions suddenly became high-pitched.
"That, what do you mean by the tissue composition of Xiaoliu's body? I don't know if there is one at home! Although Xiaoliu's mother was very excited, she was puzzled by the composition of the body tissue that Li Mu had just said.
In fact, Li Mu also suddenly thought of saying it, which seemed more professional, but in fact, he didn't know whether the word was right or not.
"That's right, this tissue component is very troublesome to explain, to put it simply, as long as there is some hair and blood and so on, it will do."
Li Mu was afraid that the more he talked, it would be easy to show his feet, so he simply didn't explain and said what he wanted directly.
Hearing that Li Mu wanted Xiao Liu's blood and hair, Xiao Liu's parents also fell into deep thought. After a while, I saw Xiao Liu's father say to Xiao Liu's mother: "Haven't you kept the child's fetal hair, or you can give that to Officer Li." β
Xiaoliu's mother was a little hesitant at first, but when she thought of her son, who had been missing for many days, she turned around and went to the back room, and after a while, she took out a small cloth bag and handed it to Li Mu. Needless to say, this cloth bag contains Xiaoliu's fetal hair.
"Officer Li, we only have Xiao Liu's hair, and as for Xiao Liu's blood, we really don't have it."
"It doesn't matter, with Xiaoliu's fetal hair, it can also help our work. Rest assured, our police will do their best to find your son. Li Mu was about to say goodbye when he saw that the things were in hand, but before leaving, he also comforted him with words.
Hair is naturally an object on the body, so with Xiaoliu's hair, then chasing sails for thousands of miles can be used.
The materials used to chase sails are common but rare. Why is it common, at that time, because the material used to make sailboats was the common reed, but why is it rare, because this reed is of course not an ordinary reed, but a reed that grows on an old grave. Therefore, Li Mu and An Zhi Quanguang spent a whole day looking for suitable reeds, and ran almost all the places in Shangdu where reeds could grow, and finally found them by a river bubble. According to An Zhiquan, there is a floating corpse buried under this river bubble for many years.
With the materials, An Zhiquan started to make sailboats. The reeds were chopped with a knife into shapes five centimeters wide and fifteen centimeters long, and then put together into the hull of the ship. At the bow and stern of the boat, An Zhiquan carefully tied Xiaoliu's hair. In addition, An Zhiquan made a mast out of a thin reed. Then he draws a talisman to act as a sail. It took nearly three hours for the small galleon, about the size of a palm, to sit down.
After the sailboat was seated, An Zhiquan put the sailboat in the window, and then kneaded the remaining Xiaoliu hair and a piece of talisman paper together in the palm of his hand. Then, An Zhiquan directly let the rune paper ignite in the palm of his hand until it was dyed into ashes. Spreading his palm holding the ashes against the sailboat, An Zhiquan silently recited a spell and blew violently.
The ashes rose and all fell on the sailboat, not a single thing scattered outside. The rune paper that served as a sail suddenly bulged under An Zhiquan's blow just now. Immediately after, the sailboat on the table slid forward under the drive of Fu Fan, and the sailboat actually flew away.
I'm afraid that anyone who sees such a magical scene will be surprised, and Li Mu is no different. They are not there for the fat man, otherwise the fat man's personality will definitely die and ask for peace and security to him. Because he will definitely learn this trick, then he can perform super magic.
Of course, An Zhiquan didn't know what Li Mu was thinking at this time. He watched the sailboat fly higher and higher in the air, farther and farther away, until finally he couldn't see it anymore and didn't get up to chase it, which made Li Mu a little anxious.
"Xiao Anzi, don't we have to chase after Kong Ming Lantern like chasing Kong Ming?" Li Mu thought that this method was the same as the Ming Lantern Detective Corpse, and he had to follow Kong Ming Lantern all over the city, but when he saw An Zhiquan's indifferent look, he found that it was not the case.
An Zhiquan's temperament is like that, he wants to say that he will take the initiative to tell you without you asking, but if he doesn't want to say it, no matter how much you ask, he won't say. Li Mu and An Zhiquan's time together is not short, and he has also figured out some rules for An Zhiquan's temperament. Looking at the situation at this time, even if he asks again, it is estimated that An Zhiquan will not take the initiative to say it, it is better to wait for him to reveal it himself.
Sure enough, An Zhiquan didn't let Li Mu wait too long.
Pour the water from the mineral water bottle into a bowl and throw a needle-shaped reed into the water.
The water is the water that takes out the water in the river bubble, and because there are floating corpses buried in the ground, the water yin qi is very heavy. And as soon as the needle-shaped reed was thrown into the bowl and began to rotate slowly, even if no one touched the bowl.
"The sailboat just now will help me find the person we are looking for, and this one will help me find the sailboat." An Zhiquan pointed to the reeds in the bowl and pointed at Li Mu and explained.
"So what are we going to do next?" After listening to An Zhiquan's explanation, Li Mu knew the role of chasing sails for thousands of miles, but he still didn't know what he should do next. But An Zhiquan's answer to him made him a little speechless.
"Don't do it!"
When he heard An Zhiquan answer that he didn't have to do anything, Li Mu was also a little speechless.
"No, what are we going to do?"
"Wait!" This time, An Zhiquan replied more concisely, using only one word.
"And then?"
"What, then?"
"I mean, then what?"
"And then there is no more!"
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Li Mu finally gave up continuing the in-depth discussion with An Zhiquan, but wisely chose to remain silent.