The servants in the six doors are basically locals, and there are a few henchmen brought by Xia Yue from Jiangzhou.

Everyone carefully studied the black beetles and came to the conclusion that they had never seen them, and some people even went to the garden dirt and grass to catch them, and after they went back, they were all different.

Xia Yue took the insect to Aunt Zhou again to identify it, but she hadn't seen it either. However, this insect was found on Zhou Cheng's corpse, and she didn't dare to tell her about it, her crying voice was hoarse in the past two days, and her eyes were swollen, if she told her about it, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to accept it.

After Ye Caitang carefully examined Zhou Cheng's wounds, he took out a scalpel.

She cut Zhou Cheng's chest, and after she finished it, she calmly said to everyone: "These insects are not from the morgue, nor are they from the six doors, and it is difficult to say where they come from." ”

It's hard to say where it came from? What is the meaning?

Ye Caitang said: "These insects were brought into the six doors by Zhou Cheng's corpse, and I just cut a few wounds caused by the insects' gnawing, and I found that it was not just a wound on the epidermis, the wound had reached deep into Zhou Cheng's body. ”

For a while, the crowd didn't particularly understand.

Xia Yue said: "What do you mean, they have penetrated into Zhou Cheng's body and are gnawing at its flesh and blood." ”

"That's pretty much it." Ye Caitang said: "But I don't think they started eating after they got in. When I autopsied Zhou Cheng's body the day before yesterday, I didn't see anything unusual in his stomach. That is, there were no such bugs at that time. But Zhou Chen's corpse had already entered the six doors at that time, and if these insects were not hidden somewhere in the six doors, then they were already hidden in Zhou Cheng's corpse. ”

"Maybe they haven't hatched yet, they don't need to eat or drink, they hibernate like hibernation. In the two days that Zhou Cheng's body was parked in the morgue, these insects hatched out and needed to be eaten and drunk, and Zhou Cheng's body was their food. ”

"They came out as they ate. The wounds on Zhou Cheng's corpse also illustrate this very well, the inside is an old wound, and the outside is a new wound, these insects do not fall on the skin and then eat the corpse, but lurk in Zhou Cheng's body and gnaw from the inside out. ”

Ye Caitang's conclusion was so explosive that everyone felt sick after thinking about it carefully.

What did Zhou Cheng do? They are all dead, and the corpses have to suffer like this.

But that's weird.

Xia Yue sent people to scatter around the capital to find out, is there such a bug in the capital? I also asked Aunt Zhou, where did Zhou Cheng usually go? Look where he's been, and find a way to get rid of the worm if he has one.

A bug that hides in a person's body, it can eat human flesh from the inside and then burrow out of the body.

And if this bug is rampant, it will be the biggest killer, and many people will suffer.

As he spoke, someone suddenly shouted, "They seem to be dead." ”

Everyone looked at it again, and sure enough, the insects that were crawling around and making a mess just now slowed down, and they didn't move when they saw it.

Someone poked it with a stick, and sure enough, he was dead.

Everyone looked at each other, how long had it been, why did they die?

But the truth is that these bugs are indeed dead, and none of them are spared.

While surprised, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Tong said: "Is it possible, they can't see the light." ”

It is impossible for a species to appear suddenly, it must have evolved over a long time, if there is really such a bug in the capital, how can it be discovered?

Xia Yue asked several errand officers to guard the bodies of Zhou Cheng's father and wife in shifts, and the white cloth was not covered, it was all opened. If there is any abnormality, please feel free to report it to other people.

The remaining part went to interrogate the third part, and the other part investigated the strange situation of Zhou Cheng's body.

Ye Caitang studied the corpse of the insect over and over again.

Although it was just a few black-looking beetles, her focused expression seemed as if Xia Yue would come out of it.

This bug is really strange, and everyone studied it at the beginning, but no one can study it.

Xia Yue even asked people to take the corpses of insects to Taixue to find those respected and well-informed old men, but no one had ever seen the worms that came out of the corpses, which seemed to them to be weird and weird. It's not something that happens alive.

But the facts are right in front of you. Everyone watched it happen, watched it die.

Finally, Ye Caitang pondered for a night and figured out something.

Ye Caitang didn't sleep all night with red eyes, and the next morning he went to find Xia Yue, and asked, "Has the tomb robber's tent come out for the third trial?" ”

Xia Yue nodded: "Recruited." ”

Although his mouth is quite hard, the six doors are also very hard, Ye Caitang asked, "What do you say?" ”

Xia Yue said: "Peng San is indeed a tomb robber. Under the guise of a merchant, he bumped into various villages, inquired about the situation, and if he found a previous grave or a rich man buried, he would dig up the grave before it was dark and loot the burial goods inside. You see that his family seems to be poor, in fact, he is very rich, but he is just robbing the tomb, although the risks are big and the benefits are great, but there is a little trouble in the interests. Some things are valuable and can be exchanged for money, and some things are valuable and not easy to exchange for money, and once they are brought to the market, they are easy to be seen. ”

For example, Zhao's sister-in-law's bracelet.

If the bracelet hadn't been seen by Si Hu, it wouldn't have been involved in this matter.

Peng San was very depressed because, according to him, he did give the Zhao family some money, but what he gave was silver, silver that could be circulated. And the bracelet of the Zhao family's sister-in-law was secretly taken from him, and he didn't know it.

That bracelet is indeed a good thing underground. He picked out his trophies, washed them clean, and put them in a beautiful box, which he planned to give to Zhao Yuyin as a love token when she entered the door, and then he would also tell her to hide it so that no one could see it.

Unexpectedly, the sister-in-law of the Zhao family still had the problem of holding the sheep by hand.

When Zhao An and his wife went to the three families to talk about their sister, Zhao's sister-in-law saw the bracelet and took it away.

She only took the bracelet, and the box was still in its place, so Tent San thought that the bracelet was still in the box.

It's really a mistake, but this is also another sense of Skynet's magnificence, negligence but not leakage.

Ye Caitang nodded with his hand: "Peng San is a tomb robber, that's right." He was a merchant and wandered around the villages, walking the streets and alleys, and no one doubted him, right? ”

Xia Yue nodded.

"There is another kind of people who also wander from village to village, and no one suspects it."

"Who."

Ye Caitang said: "Zhou Cheng." ”

There are no large-scale cultivators in the capital, even in this era, the land in the capital is also every inch of land, most of it is used to build houses, there are no large idle vegetable fields, and the consumption of large households is more, and those vegetables are also collected from the villages or farmers in the countryside.

The Zhou family is responsible for the supply of ingredients for many families in the capital.

That is, buy and sell, receive and give.

Everyone was a little puzzled: "Do you suspect that Zhou Cheng and Peng San are in a gang?" ”

Xia Yue didn't understand why Ye Caitang had such an association.

Now in this case, there are the Zhou family, the Zhao family, and the Peng San.

But I can't see that the Zhou family has anything to do with Pengsan, they have no financial contacts, and they know from relatives and neighbors that they have no contacts with each other.

Ye Caitang said: "Because of the little insect that crawled out of Zhou Cheng's corpse yesterday." I looked closely at the corpse and examined it all night, and I found that the bug was a little different from a normal bug.

"Where?"

It's strange to say, Xia Yue sent out a lot of manpower. Not only did the six doors of the Zhou family, but even the corners of the entire capital, the grass and shrubs in the corners, and the surrounding villages have been inspected, but no one has ever seen this kind of insect, and no similar insect has been found.

Ye Caitang said: "These insects don't have eyes. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment: "No eyes? ”

I didn't notice that there are still living animals in this world that don't have eyes.

Ye Caitang nodded.

Actually, in this world, I can't say a lot, but there are animals without eyes.

They have a common characteristic that they live in the dark, such as the deep sea or underground, because there is no light in their living environment, so they use a lot of eyes, and over time, the function of the eyes will deteriorate.

This concept may be a bit ahead of its time for people these days.

Ye Caitang had no way to explain to everyone what a cave newt, a Madagascar blind snake, a Kentucky cave shrimp, a Brazilian blind piranha, and a Texas blind salamander.

She could only say: "For example, the earthworm, the earthworm has no eyes, because it has been under the bottom for a long time, so it feels that it doesn't need the eye, and it conveys this idea from generation to generation, and slowly the eyes disappear." ”

Everyone has seen earthworms.

Xia Yue thought about it, and everyone thought about it too, don't say it, it seems that there are no eyes.

Wang Tong couldn't help but say: "Earthworms don't have eyes, so how can it see things?" ”

"I don't need to look at it." Ye Caitang popularized knowledge: "The surface of the earthworm's skin can feel light, and other senses are also very developed, just like if a person's eyes are not good, his hearing is particularly good, and some people can feel murderous, what do you say murderous?" You can't see it, you can't touch it, that's what it feels like, and earthworms feel very good. Enough underground. ”

Everyone seems to understand it, okay, what you said seems to make sense.

Xia Yue understood what Ye Caitang meant, these insects all live deep underground, such as in tombs. The reason why this kind of worm was found on Zhou Cheng was because he had been to the tomb, and these worms entered his body in that place, and then were brought up by Zhou Cheng.

"Yes." Ye Caitang said: "That's what I mean, and these insects are used to living underground, so they are afraid of light." They could still reproduce and survive when they were in Zhou Cheng's body, but once they came out of his body and entered the bright environment outside, they died immediately. ”

After carefully brushing it up, there is indeed this possibility, and everyone can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, such a terrible insect can only live underground, which is a good thing.

Otherwise, this is tantamount to an all-pervasive killer, and it is impossible to prevent it.

Xia Yue said: "It seems that I have to take someone to Zhou's house again." ”

On the third side of the tent, I have to ask again.