The skin of this severed palm is very delicate, and the fingertips are left with long nails, dyed pale red; as Xue Zhiyan said, a gold ring with an openwork is worn on the middle finger, and the appearance is very precious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs Xie Yixiang said, at this time, the thumb of the severed palm was clearly wrapped in a circle of gauze, and a faint trace of blood was vaguely oozing from the slightly yellowed gauze.

This is a wrist-to-wrist broken palm, but looking closely at the fracture of the palm, the top five elites in the capital's torture room have changed their faces at the same time.

Because this severed palm does not seem to be broken, but as if it is...... Abscission.

Yes, it's falling off. Because the broken part of the palm is slightly bulging, it is covered with a layer of skin, which is as delicate as the skin on the back of the hand, and it is actually integrated with the entire palm, which is natural.

Even if you reach out and touch the broken place, I am afraid that I will not feel anything strange about the flesh there. Xue Zhiyan couldn't help but shout in a deep voice: "This is impossible. ”

He has been a man for five years, a ten-year worker, and a twenty-year autopsy in the criminal arrest room, and has examined tens of thousands of corpses. However, he had never seen such a strange phenomenon in front of him.

Cheng Chengtian, who was on the side, took a deep breath and asked, "Is this really a human palm?" Xue Zhiyan just shook his head, slowly closed his eyes, and said, "I don't know." ”

Suppose a person's palm is cut off, and after several years of recuperation, the broken part of his arm will grow new flesh and cover the wound of the broken place, just like the flesh covered by the broken part of the palm in front of him.

But when the palm of the hand is cut off from the body, it is no longer alive, and how can it be possible to grow new flesh and skin at the fracture after leaving the human body?

Unless the palm of the hand is alive.

Cheng Chengtian stared at the palm in the grass, looked at the corpse on the road, and suddenly took two steps back, just hitting his horse. With a long roar of the horse, Cheng Qitian shouted: "Could it be...... Could it be this severed palm...... No way, no way!"

Although seeing such a strange scene, Jia Mengchao still didn't forget to ridicule him, and sneered: "Even if you want to slap Lao Xue's ass, you don't need to repeat what he just said." Although he and Cheng Chengtian have been colleagues for more than ten years, they have a very bad personal relationship with each other, and they have had several big fights in secret.

But I heard Zhuang Haoming sigh and said, "Xiao Jia, you misunderstood. ”

He reached out and grabbed the sparse white hair on his head, and said slowly: "Xiao Cheng, he wants to say that the murderer who strangled the man on the road is the severed palm in front of him." ”

A red sun shone in the sky, and the spring breeze came with a damp breath. But listening to the sound of the horse's hooves, the people in the torture room looked gloomy, and they had already continued to hurry silently.

Xue Zhiyan's mind was full of that strange palm, and as long as it was the corpse that he had examined over the years, there had never been the slightest ambiguity. But now there was such an unreasonable palm in front of him. As soon as you close your eyes, it seems that you will see the palm of your hand flying towards you, grabbing your neck. He could even clearly feel the long nails on the fingertips of his palms rubbing back and forth against his neck.

So Xue Zhiyan finally couldn't help but step forward, came to Zhuang Haoming's side, and asked, "Master, do we really ignore this matter?" After a slight hesitation, Xue Zhiyan added with some hesitation: "We are the ...... of criminal arrest We have the right to intervene in all the cases in the world, and when we encounter such strange things, it seems a little ...... to walk away like this" He originally wanted to say, "We are people from the torture room", but suddenly remembered that this trip to the west wanted to cover up his identity, so he swallowed the words "torture room" back.

Zhuang Haoming naturally understood what he meant, couldn't help sighing, and said, "I didn't expect it to be you who came to say this to me." Seeing that Xue Zhiyan's face was full of doubts, he turned his head to look at Xie Yixiang, and asked lightly, "Yixiang, what do you think?"

Xie Yixiang said without thinking: "My niece is dull, but she listens to her uncle's orders. ”

Zhuang Haoming smiled and said, "Then you should tell me, why did your uncle let everyone ignore it and continue to go to Yueyang?"

Xie Yixiang said: "Uncle Yingming, the decision you made naturally has your reasons. After saying this, she saw that Zhuang Haoming was still looking at her, so she glanced at Jia Mengchao beside her and asked, "Brother Jia, why do you say we don't pay attention to this matter?"

Najia Mengchao was conceited, and when he saw Xie Yixiang asking himself in person, he was overjoyed, but his face was silent, and he said lightly: "That's because your Uncle Zhuang is shrewd and understands the true meaning." ”

He couldn't help but say carefully: "Third Miss, if you think about it carefully, there are so many people passing by this official road every day, and it can almost be said that there are endless cars and horses. Since Lao Xue said that the man died in the middle of the night last night, why was such an obvious body lying on the official road, but it was not found by other pedestrians? Hmph, this is naturally someone deliberately wanted us to see this scene. I dare to conclude that the corpse and the severed palm were moved to the official road just before we came, just to show us. It can be seen that our whereabouts have long been in the hands of others. ”

Xue Zhiyan next to him couldn't help but be startled, and asked, "Who is secretly spying on us, what does that corpse mean, and that palm...... Did the murderer strangle the man to death and then his palm fell, or did he ......"

Cheng regret saw that Jia Mengchao had stolen the limelight, and without waiting for Xue Zhiyan to finish speaking, he took over the conversation and said: "I said Lao Xue, you only know how to deal with corpses all day long, and you always like to get entangled in these details. We should not only look at what is in front of us, but also at the root of it. ”

Jia Mengchao also hurriedly grabbed the conversation and said coldly: "The purpose of our trip is to arrest that killer, so the last thing we want to arrive smoothly is naturally that person." As for the corpse and the strange palm, I am afraid it was only his warning to us. He should also know that his actions will not deter us, but if we stop to dig deeper, we will fall for his tricks and delay the trip. ”

When he said this, Cheng Shaotian hurriedly added: "The key to arresting the murderer is the word 'fast', so the best way is to turn a blind eye, the master's decision is right." ”

Everyone came to Huguang this time, and they hid their identities along the way. Except for Xie Yixiang, everyone called Zhuang Haoming "master". When Zhuang Haoming heard the two of them say this, he couldn't help but nod his head with a little approval, and concluded: "Yes, the purpose of our trip is to arrest the infamous 'Rose Thorn', no matter what or anyone, it is less important than this matter. In addition, our trip is very difficult, before meeting each other, everyone should try to save every ounce of strength, and be sure to face the battle in the best condition. ”

Xue Zhiyan frowned, although he was unwilling, he had to give up. At that moment, everyone whipped their horses together, and said no more words.

Zhuang Haoming glanced at Xie Yixiang absently, and shook his head slowly.

Unexpectedly, since the rebellion in Taiyuan Temple last year, this girl has changed. She is no longer the innocent, heartless little girl, and even she is getting harder and harder to read her.

The 'Rose Thorn' is not a flower, but a person, or a group of people.

Because no one has seen him for what he really is, and no one knows if they are a person or a group of people.

Each time a crime is committed, the "rose thorn" wears an ebony mask with a bright red rose flower outlined with cinnabar. He neither steals nor robs, nor does he plunder, he only kills, and only kills one kind of person, that is, officials of the imperial court.

Every year, there are always so many officials who die at the hands of the 'Rose Thorn', including senior officials in the DPRK and China such as the governor of Jiangxi, and junior officials in the wilderness such as the Linhe County Commander. Although these officials have nothing to do with each other, they have one striking thing in common: poverty.

Poor enough to have vegetables, poor to be poor, poor to have four walls. It was called Qingtian by the people and was named a model by the imperial court. Whenever such a court official appeared, everyone immediately knew that he was the next target of the 'Rose Thorn'.

However, no matter how much precautions were taken, the ebony mask with the bright red rose would always appear late one night, stabbing a dagger carved out of wood into the official's chest. Along with the assassination, there was also a white spirit, which read: "The flowers have no heart, and the roses have thorns." ”

No one knew what these two sentences meant, and no one knew why he had assassinated these beloved Qing officials. The most strange thing is that this 'rose thorn' is neither a person from the imperial court, nor does it seem to be a person from the rivers and lakes. The imperial court launched three large-scale thorough investigations, but they returned one after another, and the people in the rivers and lakes also hated him deeply, and secretly pursued him for several years, but they did not even know whether the "rose thorn" was a man or a woman.

Therefore, Zhuang Haoming received the news of the criminal arrest room this time, saying that the 'Rose Thorn' was wandering in the Miao District area in Huguang, so he immediately led Cheng Xitian, Jia Mengchao, Xue Zhiyan and Xie Yixiang all the way to Huguang and went straight to Huguang.

This time, it is necessary to capture this "rose thorn" alive.