Chapter 54: Destruction of the Body
The reason for emphasizing that the corpses belonged to humans was that Cheese had expected to find the black-haired corpses of the nezumi or the infected here, but the corpses found in the last room were actually from three serious humans. That's a bit of a fun thing to do. Lighting the candles in the room unscrupulously, since there is no one else in this building, those unnecessary cautions can be put aside for a while. The mage looked at the bodies of the three men, their coats had been stripped off, and they had been taken along with their belongings, leaving only a layer of close-fitting clothing, and the most puzzling thing was that all three corpses had black cloth bags on their heads, and it was reasonable to put cloth bags on the heads of others because they didn't want that person to remember their faces. But judging from the results, the people who negotiated with these three people have already killed them, so why do they do this?
Since there was nothing on the corpses to identify them, it was no matter how they died, and without saying a word, the mage ripped off the clothes of the three men, and could see that two of them had obvious wounds on their bodies, and there was a narrow blood mark on their chests facing their hearts, and the dried blood stains began from this gap and spread to their chests.
"A sword piercing the heart from the front. Leon said when he saw the two wounds.
The mage nodded, the chief knight was undoubtedly an expert in this area, and since he had judged the origin of the wound, it was probably like this. What really puzzled Cheese was the third corpse, which showed no signs of trauma, so what was the cause of his death?
"The wound is not going to be on the head, you know, like a blunt force or something. Elsa gave her opinion on this.
Cheese then untied the cloth bags on the heads of the three men, but things did not seem to be as the proprietress had guessed, the facial expressions of the three men were relatively normal, and there were no obvious wounds on their heads. However, just as Cheese took off the third person's sack, Leon's eyes widened for a moment as he looked at the third person's face.
"Baron Grey!" said the chief knight, pointing to the third man's face.
Elsa hurriedly took the candle a few steps closer to the corpse's face and asked.
"Are you sure? This is Baron Gray of the Pharmacists' Guild?"
The Knight Captain stared at the face carefully again for a moment, then nodded heavily.
"That's right, I can assure you, this man is Baron Gray. ”
Hearing this, Cheese couldn't help but frown. How could Baron Gray's body appear here, or how could Baron Gran, who was in charge of the pharmacist in Turbidity Town, die? Originally, it was reasonable for Leon to be mutined by his subordinates, perhaps because Leon and that Gregory had a deep grudge, but the latter found a chance to explode in this mission. But now Baron Gray's death has made the situation in Turbidity Town confusing, and as the leader of the Apothecary Guild in Turbidity Town, he shouldn't have died here for whatever reason.
There were too many unexplained problems in this small town this night, the heavily guarded two-story building, the unattended and ransacked Pharmacists Guild station, plus this Baron Gray who died in his own station, the mage's brain became a little knotted, he could easily crack the mutation law of the virus, but these artificially created puzzles were not his strong point. In addition to the reserve of knowledge, if you think about what is happening here logically, what Cheese can do is basically the same as an ordinary person with clear thinking.
Speaking of which, from the time Cheese they left the two-story building to get here, to the stun of the guards and into the Apothecary Residence, they finally found the bodies of Baron Gray and the other two. It all seemed like a long time, but in fact it happened in an hour, and the discovery of a large amount of information in a short period of time made it a little difficult to breathe, and Cheese felt as if an invisible hand was gradually grabbing his throat. Everything that happens here smacks of conspiracy everywhere. In retrospect, it was a mistaken decision to make this the number one goal at the time.
"You ...... Did you find anything strange about these two corpses?" said the proprietress as the mage and the chief knight were still considering the significance of Baron Gray's corpse.
"What did you find?" asked Cheese, who didn't see anything wrong with the two bodies that had been stripped of their clothes.
"Wounds, there's something wrong with their wounds!" Elsa said, pointing to the two wounds.
"Didn't Leon already think it was caused by a sword piercing the heart from the front?" the mage still didn't understand what the proprietress meant. At this point, the blood lion actually didn't keep up with Elsa's train of thought, and the two looked at the proprietress inexplicably, not understanding what she meant.
"The wounds on their bodies are fine, but there is a wound on their clothes!"
"There's something wrong with the wound on their clothes, they don't have wounds on their clothes at all......" Cheese was stunned when he said this. Yes, the reason why I had to tear off the clothes of these two people before was because I couldn't see the wounds on the clothes. But they had died from sword wounds, so how could there be no holes in their clothes?
The mage hurriedly picked up the shirts of the two men and examined them carefully, but the result was that there were no signs of damage on the two clothes, or even ...... Not even bloodstained. How is this possible?
"There are two possibilities. Leon was equally aware of the problem, and as a knight chief, he quickly came up with his own hypothesis.
"The first possibility is that the person who killed them did it with their hands naked. Although the Blood Lion said this, judging from his expression, he himself didn't believe it, after all, under what circumstances would such a thing happen.
"As for the other possibility...... The killers changed their clothes after the killing, and for unknown reasons after the bodies had cooled down completely, they were dressed in their current clothes. But it doesn't make sense, why would the killer change the clothes of the killed? ”
"Will it ...... Those people were going to get those clothes?" Elsa whispered.
"It's a possibility, but why put new clothes on them, and the cloth bag on their heads, these tricks may be hidden for a while when the corpse is found tomorrow, but it will soon be punctured. Leon said.
Cheese thought for a moment and said.
"Is it possible that those who do this will only have to wait for this moment, or that they are actually just an option because they won't really give people a chance to identify the three bodies?"
Cold sweat ran down the necks of the three of them, and there was no doubt that what the mage had inadvertently said was the most likely scenario. If the killers want to destroy the corpse as soon as possible, then they don't need to go to great lengths to cover up the anomalies on the corpse, these small tricks are just a trick they use to delay time. But if this assumption is true, then they must have destroyed the corpses before dawn tomorrow......
"You guys, you don't smell anything baked. Elsa, who has the sharpest sense of smell, asked.
With the words of the proprietress , the smell of burning charcoal was already very obvious in the air, if it wasn't for the hallucination of the three people together, then the appearance of this smell should only mean that something was burning nearby. The three of them glanced at each other, dropped the three bodies, and hurried back to the stairwell. Where, they saw tongues of fire rising, and before they knew it, the first floor of the building was silently burning.