"There was no dragging on the ground, there was no sign of a fight, the body was lying on its back on the ground with its feet facing outward, and the whole was in a relaxed state, and it was suddenly attacked in a defenseless state, and he died on the spot. Dressed neatly, with no other injuries on his body. Jiang Xun touched the cross-section of the corpse's neck, his fingers were stained with blood, twisted it, put it under his nose and sniffed it, "It's not poisoning, it's that someone directly cut off the head and died." ”

He stood up, looked around the room, then walked to the end of the bed, looked at the bare hanger standing there, and reached out and touched it gently.

The moment the fingertips touched it, the upper part of the hanger fell with a thud.

There was a break in the wood, about two palms below Jiang Xun's shoulder, and it was the neck of the male corpse lying on the ground.

"How did you do it, this was directly beheaded, how could there be no blood at all?" Tang Jiao had been standing far away, his body tensed nervously, and he shrunk his head, "What a hatred this must be." ”

Jiang Xun didn't speak, stood next to the hanger for two seconds, leaned down and picked up a butterfly folded out of paper from the root of the wall.

In his hand, I saw that the butterfly was white, but spread from its back to the tail near the wings, and it was all impregnated with dark red blood, like a peculiar pattern.

Jiang Xun pressed his index finger on the wall, his fingertips were stained with white ash, and he walked a few steps along the root of the wall, and found a paper butterfly on the other side, and the location of the blood stains was the same.

"Xun'er, did you find anything?" Tang Kao hid outside the door and asked.

Jiang Xun put away the two butterflies and shook his head, "I can't tell, I can't find the murder weapon." ”

"You said it smelled of gas when you came in?" He asked.

Tang Jiao nodded, "Yes, it smells of gas." ”

"Let's go to the kitchen." Jiang Xun left the bedroom and walked outside.

All my eyes were on the corpse's missing head, and the missing leg under the tugged up trousers, and I was alone in the room, so quiet that I could hear my own heartbeat.

I approached the corpse, and before I could determine the answer, my legs also went limp, and I almost fell to the ground with every step.

Finally, standing in front of him again, he knelt down on one knee, endured the choking in his throat, bit through the flesh on the inside of his mouth, felt a taste of fishy sweetness, and plucked up a little courage, and turned his right hand, which was hanging at his side, over with two hands.

Not as wide as he had remembered, not so thick of hard calluses, no scars from saws and maces, and no endless scent of burning that had been deposited in his room for years.

All that I remembered, in the corpse in front of me, was not confirmed at all.

I took one last look at his severed neck and put the cloth back over him, covering the decency of the deceased.

Jiang Xun and Tang Jiao were both in the kitchen, and they didn't seem to have made any new discoveries, and there was a kettle of water boiling on the stove, which was still hot at this time, and the incident should have happened not long ago.

"There are no traces of water around." Jiang asked Tang Jiao: "When you came in, was the gas still on?" ”

Tang Jiao nodded again, "I closed it after I came in." ”

Jiang Xun looked around, looking for other clues, and said: "People should be resting in the bedroom, smelling the smell of gas outside, thinking that the water was boiling to extinguish the fire, and when he opened the door to check, he was cut off with a sharp weapon. The impact was very strong, and at the same time cut off the hanger behind him, the section did not look like a knife and axe, the blade surface should be thinner and sharper. ”

"Where is that head now......

Before Tang Jiao's words were finished, I saw a cold light flash in front of me, and I said carefully, avoiding a gust of wind on my cheeks, and saw Jiang Xun pull Tang Jiao to his side violently. In the midst of his screams, I saw a fruit knife diagonally stuck in the cutting board behind him, where he had just stood.

"Jiang ...... Jiang Jiang Xun ......" Tang Kao stammered and couldn't speak, grabbed the corner of Jiang Xun's clothes and hid behind the two of us, "Shopkeeper Shen, save me." ”

"It's not safe here, let's get out of here first."

Before Jiang Xun's words fell, a banging sound sounded in his ears at the same time, the door was reopened and closed heavily, and the windows that were opened around him were also closed by themselves, along with the curtains, sealing the space.

In the dark, the three of us walked to the door, I reached out to twist the doorknob, but I couldn't twist it, turned back to Jiang Xun and said, "The door has been tampered with, locked and can't be opened." ”

At that moment, from the kitchen where we had just left, there was a baby-like laugh, accompanied by the regular creak of wood, gradually approaching us.

I looked at the open door of the kitchen, smelled the smell of gas spreading out from there, and before I could slow down my reaction, in the midst of laughter, a light lit up, it was the flame of a lighter.

A ball of flame burst out of the kitchen, and I heard the sound of glass breaking behind me at the same time, and turned my head to see Jiang Xun directly grab Tang Jiao and push him out of the window.

At the height of a four-story building, what happens if a person falls directly?

My heart tightened, and I heard Jiang Xun say: "There is a pergola below that can be used as a buffer, go quickly!" ”

I instinctively believed his words, but thinking of the impact of the exploding gas stove on the building, I stopped by the window, and my subordinates pinched a trick, staring at the heat wave in front of me, and raised my hand to use my own yang energy as a medium, trying to compress and seal the air around the kitchen and weaken the outbreak of the fire.

At the same time as I did this, I saw that Jiang Xun did not leave at the first time, and faced the same flame as me. I saw that outside of the yang energy I had forced out, there was a faint blue shield, as if it were a solid, thin, almost transparent color, blocking the heat from the opposite side.

I turned my head to look at him, Jiang Xun also frowned at me, the blood jade on the string of Buddha beads in his hand was bright red at this time, condensed into a piece of blood tofu, and on the other side of his right hand, the surface of the palm seemed to have a layer of ice crystals like cold frost.

Neither of us expected the other to make a move, in a similar way.

The tarpaulin below had been broken when Tang Jiao was thrown down, and I grabbed the railing on the balcony on the second floor when I jumped down, and after the three of them landed safely, the fire alarm in the building sounded, and only then did people keep pouring out, holding their mobile phones to call the fire department.

"Ouch, Xun'er, Shopkeeper Shen, are you two okay?" Tang Jiao fell the hardest, covering his arm, his face was ugly, "I was scared to death just now, you should say it." ”

Jiang Xun glanced at me with an indescribable expression, "Let's go back first." ”

I followed without saying a word, and on the way I noticed that his piece of blood jade had returned to normal at some point, white and red were set against each other, as if nothing had happened, and there was nothing unusual on his hands, which made me wonder if what I had just seen was a hallucination under the heat wave.

Back at Tang Jiao's residence, Ziwei was there alone, preparing props for Qi Xiaowan's affairs, and when he saw that the three of us entered the door, they all had a stiff face, and called me suspiciously, "Master? ”

"Let Tang Kari tell you what's going on." I looked at Jiang Xun in front of me, and seeing that he had a tendency to escape, I reached out and grabbed his wrist, "I have something I want to talk to you about alone." ”

He glanced at my hand, his eyes were complicated, and I immediately let go, clenching my fists.

Tang Jiao sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and pulled Ziwei and said, "Let's go, go to your room, and I'll tell you what we saw today." ”

Ziwei's face was not good, but he still followed his pull, and the two of them walked into the room and closed the door.

"That's not my master at all." I lowered my voice and said directly, "You lied to me. ”

"I didn't say he was your master, that's all your own guess."

I choked in my chest, not wanting to have a useless dispute with him, and said, "Well, my guesses before were all obtained from Tang Jiao's mouth, and now I want to hear you in person, how did you find Dongyan Town and find me?" Who gave you that signature? What do those words and the eight characters behind them mean? Where is my master, now? ”

I couldn't control myself from speaking a series of questions, and I was in a hurry, and I was angry with his thin and cold eyes.

"Shen Qing." He finally spoke, and then fell silent, and when my patience was almost at its limit, he took a step closer and looked down at me from a few feet away, "Before I answer your question, I want to ask you two questions. ”

"You say."

The words suppressed in the throat wanted to pour out, and the Adam's apple rolled.

"Do you know me?" His words were inexplicable, I could see his forbearance, and in that gaze overflowing with tenderness, I heard his restrained voice, "Or, from the first time you saw me to now, Shen Qing, have you ever had even the slightest sense of familiarity with me?" ”

This question was too unexpected for me, I stared at the face in front of me, and when he didn't have those raw coldness, he had a sense of vulnerability, and when people looked at him, they would feel that he had a lot of pain and wanted to confide in you.

"Yes." I opened my mouth frankly and said to him, "But I don't know you, and I have never seen you until you found Shen Ji. ”

His expression was slightly relaxed, "Then did your master tell you that after you inherit Shen Ji and can be on your own, someone will come to you and take you out of there?" ”

I didn't understand it even more, but after recalling it carefully, I still shook my head, paused, and said, "Master only told me that my existence is for protection. ”

Jiang Xun frowned, "What are you protecting?" ”

"I don't know." I said, "Maybe it's something, maybe, someone." ”

He was a special presence to me, and I thought that what I was guarding was related to him, but he didn't seem to know it.

"Jiang Xun, I don't understand what you mean by asking me this." I had a dry throat and asked, "Should I know you?" ”

Before I was nine years old, before I lost those childhood memories.

"There's nothing that shouldn't be done." Jiang Xun looked away, sat down on the side, leaned over to cover half of his face, and said in a deep voice: "I just hope that in this world, there is a person who can still remember who I am." ”

I was only ignorant, I didn't understand the meaning, I was silent for a long time, and I heard Jiang Xun say: "I had a relationship with your master many years ago. ”