At that moment, Ma Yao and Zhou Yu rushed to the county office of Wu County. After entering the county office, Ma Yao first met the county master Wu Qige, who looked forty or fifty years old, with a scruffy beard and dull eyes, and was not as delicate as Zhou Yu said. Bian Zhou Yu explained in a low voice: "Since the death of Ninth Aunt Tai Chu Yiyi, it has become like this, as if she has aged twenty years overnight. ”

Ma Yao stood in front of Wu Qige, then grabbed Wu Qige's hand and checked his pulse and asked, "Did County Magistrate Wu often take any tonic medicine before?" Wu Qige's blank eyes finally focused on Ma Yao's face, and then looked at Ma Yao and said, "Master Hui, I only occasionally take some ginseng, cordyceps and the like, and I haven't taken it for several years." ”

"Oh," Ma Yao replied, and stared at Wu Qige's eyes for about a minute, Wu Qige felt that his body became transparent under Ma Yao's gaze, and all the details of his body were seen at a glance under Ma Yao's eyes. Ma Yao looked at it for a while and said to Zhou Yu, "Let's go to the yard and have a look." ”

"Good. Zhou Yu hurriedly led Ma Yao to the courtyard. Ma Yao walked around the yard, the area of this yard is not small, about a dozen acres of land, the whole is a gourd-shaped, the inside is large, the outside yamen is small, the door is on the mouth of the gourd, and the well is at the bottom of the gourd. The yard is old, and the yard is full of trees and mist. It is indeed arranged according to the layout of the Nine Palaces, and this well is indeed a yin eye, at least it used to be.

Because after the accident in the yamen, Wu Qige was more afraid, so he asked Guan Ming and the security captain Tu Man to build a few bright forts and several dark forts in the courtyard to ensure that there were no dead ends in the firepower. Ma Yao looked at these bunkers and turned his head to ask Zhou Yu: "Who chose the address of this bunker?" Zhou Yu thought for a while and said, "This is handled by Captain Tu Man." He is the only one in the yamen who knows more about military affairs. Brother Guan Ming also saw it and said that there was no problem, so it was built according to this layout. ”

With the movement of Ma Yao, the group came to the well, in order to facilitate Ma Yao's inquiry, Zhou Yu specially called Xiao Lu, a servant from the police station, to come to Ma Yao's side, so that Ma Yao's inquiry. This little Lu's name is Lu Jianguang. is a distant cousin of Zhou Yu. People are very clever.

Ma Yao circled the well, the well is indeed much larger than the usual well, this well fence is about more than one meter high, much higher than the well fence of the ordinary well, Ma Yao is more strange, asked Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu said: "It turns out that this well fence is also an ordinary well fence, because the well mouth is too big, there are often cats and dogs and the like fall into it and drown, so the well fence is heightened." ”

Ma Yao looked down from the well, this Wu County belongs to the coastal city, the underground water source is relatively rich, so the well water is very close to the well surface, at a glance to see the situation in the well, the water surface is calm, occasionally water vapor churning, the surrounding well wall is covered with moss.

About thirty or forty meters to the north of the well is the wall of the yamen, along the wall dozens of big trees swaying in the wind, under the big trees are all kinds of small shrubs, it seems that the whole yard is more far-reaching. Then Zhou Yu pointed to a tree and said to Ma Yao: "Brother Guan hanged himself on this tree." ”

Ma Yao stared at the tree for a moment, closed his eyes, and a picture appeared in his mind, a middle-aged man with a Peking Opera mask on his face knocked Guan Ming unconscious with a palm, and then took out a rope in the kitchen and hung Guan Ming on the tree. Then the figure slowly blurred and left the yamen. After about two minutes, he opened his eyes and said, "Guan Ming didn't commit suicide, but found something that was killed by the other party." ”

"Yes, there is no reason for this suicide at all, it has been good, and you still drink and chat with me that day?" Zhou Yu said angrily.

"A total of several people drowned in this well, please ask Director Zhou to describe it in detail. Ma Yao asked Zhou Yu beside him while looking at the sky outside the wall.

"The first to die was the laundry worker, who was pregnant. The second to die was the fourth aunt of the county magistrate Wu, who was also pregnant. There was an interval of a week, and then three days later, Guan Ming invited seven or eight migrant workers to fill the well, and three migrant workers drowned at that time, all of them men.

Then five days later, the ninth aunt of the county magistrate Wu, that is, the last Chu Yiyi to marry, drowned, this Chu Yiyi was the only one among the drowned women who was not pregnant, because she had only been married for a month.

After Chu Yiyi died, the well was like a magical suction, and several aunts and wives of County Magistrate Wu jumped in line, drowning an aunt every four or five days, all of whom were pregnant, including my sister Zhou Panpan. Speaking of this, Zhou Yu showed a painful expression.

"This murderer seems to be some kind of cult organization, specifically picking pregnant women. And all the deaths of pregnant women are very strange. Xiao Lu, you introduce to the master. Zhou Yu said hatefully.

"At present, there are nine deaths, all but three migrant workers, all of whom are women, and the common denominator of the deceased is that they are all pregnant. Except for the first pregnant woman, who was a yamen laundry worker, the other five were all the wives of the county magistrate, and except for the death of the laundry worker, who was of normal size.

The other five women all curled up into a ball in a strange posture after they died, and then there was a small hole in the spine of the lower body, in addition to the family members of the first two corpses who asked for burial, there was also Chu Yiyi's body that was asked to be taken away by the troupe, and the remaining three bodies I kept in the morgue, because the deceased was the county magistrate's wife, I did not do an autopsy. ”

Xiao Lu held a notebook in his hand and read it aloud.

"Can you take me to see the corpse?" Ma Yao asked Xiao Lu when he turned around.

"No problem," Xiao Lu immediately led the group to the morgue. As Xiao Lu said, this corpse is indeed very weirdly curled, with normal human muscles and bones can not do this posture, this hand and foot should be squeezed by external forces to form such a posture, the corpse looks like a ball.

After entering the morgue, Zhou Yu asked Xiao Lu to close the door of the morgue, turn on the light of the morgue, and then turn on a pack of cigarettes. Then they were lit one by one, and after a while, the whole morgue was filled with smoke.

Zhou Yu said to Ma Yao: "Master, please take a look." Ma Yao looked in the direction of Zhou Yu's finger, and the smoke from the room between them slowly flowed into the abdomen of the corpse along the small hole behind the corpse. It's as if there's a smoker hiding in the belly.

"Brother Guan Ming and I stumbled upon this strange phenomenon, which indicates that there must be a cavity in the lower abdomen of these corpses. Then the smoke can enter the body. Zhou Yu said while smoking. Then he extinguished the cigarette himself, and let the few people who smoked also extinguish the cigarette.

Ma Yao stretched out his hand and put it on the lower abdomen of the corpse, closed his eyes and looked into the lower abdomen of the corpse, and found that it was indeed a cavity inside. The fetus in the womb is missing.

"Bury them. Ma Yao said to Zhou Yu, "They are all hard-working women, and they will be in the ground first." ”

"Buried? Is the master already done? That's the only clue now. Zhou Yu asked puzzled.

"No need. They don't have the value of clues anymore. Ma Yao said lightly: "Is the security captain Tu Man here today?"

"Yes, out on patrol the streets. Xiao Lu looked at Ma Yao and replied.

"Can you call him to me and ask me a few words? Ma Yao said to Xiao Lu.

"Yes. Little Lu Mali turned around and walked out of the yamen to find Tu Man.