Dead.

In a manor on the outskirts of Xuandu, a terrible scream suddenly sounded.

There was also the sound of something smashing.

The whole manor was disturbed, and a noblewoman with her servant followed the sound, and saw a maid retreating in terror in the room where the door was open.

She was so scared that she didn't even notice the threshold under her feet, and in the process of retreating, she tripped and fell to the ground.

At this time, the noble ladies and servants behind him also saw the situation in the room clearly.

Then, their eyes widened instantly, and their eyes revealed the same horror as the maid!

I saw that the ground in front of the door of the study was full of blood.

A corpse with no head, lying cold in a pool of blood!

"Ah...... Lord......"

Seeing this, the lady screamed and fainted directly.

A group of servants behind her were in a hurry, and hurriedly helped her back to the room to rest, and sent another person to report the case to Gyeonggi Mansion in Xuandu City.

About an hour later, the Gyeonggi Province catchers arrived......

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Chen Gong stood in front of the door of the scene and looked inside.

He originally went to Gyeonggi Mansion to find Xing Eunming to catch up, and he didn't want to meet the manor servants who came to report the crime, so he came here with the best help of the students.

Not far from the door, there was a pile of broken porcelain shards, and a wooden plate that was turned on the ground, one side of which was stained with blood.

Chen Gong squatted down slightly and gently picked up a piece of shard with a handkerchief.

"It looks like a piece of a teacup! ”

Xing Enming stood behind him, staring at the fragment with a solemn gaze.

On the side, a little maid timidly spoke, "That should be the teacup I accidentally broken...... At that time, I was so scared to see the old man's corpse, so I broke the teacup I was holding and spilled the tea all over the ground......"

Hearing this, Xing Enming and Chen Gong's eyes lit up!

"Oh, girl, were you the first to find a body?"

"Yes...... Yes. The little maid nodded lightly and spoke in a low voice.

"Can you tell us about the circumstances of the discovery of the body?"

"Okay. The little maid nodded, thought for a while, and spoke, "I originally came over to bring tea to the master at the usual time. The lord likes to drink tea soon after dark, this is the rule that everyone here knows, originally it was my turn to bring tea to the lord today, but when I came to the lord's study with tea, I knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response, and then I pushed the door, only to find that the door was not locked at all......"

"I thought it was the master who forgot to lock the door, so I wanted to go in to remind him, who knew that as soon as I entered the door, I saw that the master became like this......"

The little maid palpitatedly and pointed to the headless corpse in a pool of blood on the ground.

"I was terrified...... The tea brought me accidentally fell to the ground......"

Listening to the little maid's story, Chen Gong looked at the ground in front of the door.

The ground where the teacup was sitting was still a little damp, and it was certain that there must have been liquid spilled on it before that.

He nodded slightly, then lifted his foot and stepped over the pile of debris into the room.

This is a very elegantly arranged study, the table and bookshelves are made of good pear blossom wood, the whole room is full of good smell of wood fragrance, it can be seen that the owner of this place, is an elegant person who likes to read, and at the same time has a lot of wealth, otherwise it is impossible to afford the precious wood of pear blossom wood.

Chen Gong's eyes looked at the bookshelves and bookcases.

The books on the shelves are neatly arranged, and the four treasures of the study on the bookcase are all unmessy, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the scene of a murder.

"There is not the slightest trace of a fight......"

Chen Gong groaned slightly, walked to the window, and carefully looked at the good latch on it, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"There is not the slightest sign of damage to the windows......"

"In that case, the murderer must have entered and exited through an unlocked door...... But if that's the case, someone should see it......"

"And the murderer, why cut off the head of the deceased?"

Chen Gong stared at the location of the head of the headless corpse in the pool of blood, and groaned slightly.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed, as if he had thought of something, and he looked at the little girl.

"Little girl, you just said that this is the corpse of your master, right?"

The little maid nodded, "Yes." ”

"But this corpse has no head and no face, how do you know that he is your master?" Chen Gong's eyes flashed suddenly, staring at the little maid, and slowly spoke.

A terrifying sense of majesty suddenly emanated!

The little maid was immediately frightened, and replied weakly, "Yes...... It was Madame who said it before she fainted, and she shouted 'Master' before she passed out, so we all thought that this corpse was Master's."

"Oh, yes, and where is your lady at the moment?"

"Husband...... Madame fainted after seeing the corpse before, and she should still be resting in the room now!" the little maid looked at Chen Gong in fear and replied.

Chen Gong groaned for a moment, and then glanced at Xing Enming.

Xing Enming immediately understood, and instructed Zhou Lin, the head catcher on the side, to call his wife over.

Chen Gong came to the corpse and asked, "How is the situation?"

He replied respectfully: "My lord, we have not found any wounds in any other part of this corpse, and we can be sure that the deceased was killed by a knife, and the corpse was cut flat, so it should not be done by a living hand." ”

"Then it's an experienced person who commits the crime......"

Chen Gong's expression was slightly solemn, and his eyes were full of thought. The deceased was actually killed by a knife, and there were no traces of a fight at the scene, which means that the deceased was cut off by the murderer without any resistance, and there are usually only two situations in this way.

One is that the deceased is dead, so there will be no resistance.

Second, the deceased did not die, but he lost consciousness and therefore did not resist.

Judging by the large pool of blood left at the scene, the first scenario is clearly unlikely.

After all, it is impossible to have so much blood after being decapitated, because the blood in the body loses its vitality and begins to coagulate.

Then the situation can only be the second case.

Moreover, there is also the problem that all the windows at the scene have no signs of being damaged, so the murderer can only enter and exit through the open door.

But in this way, it is impossible for no one to see him in the manor.

After all, this study is directly opposite the atrium of the manor.

"None of you really have seen any suspicious figures coming in or out of here?"

Xing Enming stood in front of the door of the study and asked all the servants in the manor.

Everyone shook their heads, saying that they had never seen anyone enter or leave the room, because this was the master's private place, and no one else was generally allowed to enter or leave.

Xing Enming, who received the reply, frowned slightly.

Since no one has ever seen a suspicious figure enter or leave this room, how did the killer come in and kill someone?

Chen Gong looked around the room.

Except for the pool of blood on the floor, everything in the room seemed extremely normal, giving people a sense of extreme conflict.

This feeling has been there since Fang just came in.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Gong quietly looked at every part of the room, muttering to himself, in the moment just now, he seemed to have caught something, and it was as if he hadn't thought of anything.

At this time, he let out a startled sound.

"What's wrong?" Chen Gong hurriedly asked.

He pointed to the wrist of the corpse's right arm, "There seems to be an old wound here, looking at the shape, it looks like there was a tattoo here before." ”

Chen Gong looked at it, and saw a huge scar on the wrist of the corpse's right arm, densely intertwined with each other, as if intertwined into a figure.

It's just that it's been too long for me to see what the figure looks like.

"People usually use a special potion to wash off the tattoos on their bodies, but the tattoos washed by this potion, although they are no longer recognizable, but the wounds left by the original tattoos will not be erased together, but will remain, just like they are now. ”

He looked at the wound and said slowly.

Chen Gong pondered slightly and asked, "Then do you have a way to restore this tattoo to its original appearance?"

"The subordinates can give it a try, but whether it can be fully restored, the subordinates dare not guarantee. After a moment's thought, he replied.

Chen Gong nodded and agreed to him.

The matter of tattoos is put aside for now, and there are two things that need to be determined the most.

First, it is the identity of the deceased, whether he is the owner of this manor, Wu Chengtian, as the little maid said, still needs to be verified.

After all, the corpse has no head, and it is difficult to identify it.

Second, why did the murderer cut off the head of the deceased?

If it was simply for the purpose of killing, there was no need for the murderer to cut off the head of the deceased, and there must be a reason for doing so now.

But what could be the reason?

Chen Gong fell into deep thought.

Outside the door, Xing Enming was also confused.

There is no doubt that the killer could only enter and exit through the only open door. But in this way, it is impossible for him not to be discovered by the many servants of the atrium.

Unless...... The killer's movements are extremely fast, so fast that people can't react at all.

And it has to be done silently

It's not something that can be done by humans!

I'm afraid that only the legendary immortals can do it......

"Wait...... Immortals?"

At the mention of the word "immortal", Xing Enming couldn't help but think of the two martial arts saints Ice King and Yanzun he had seen in the Guogong Mansion.

These two people can be regarded as real immortals.

Thinking of this, Xing Enming's eyes couldn't help but flash slightly!

"Isn't it ......"

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Mrs. Wu is finally here.

Under the leadership of Zhou Lin and a few catchers, she came to Xing Enming.

"The folk woman meets the ...... of the old man of the blue sky"

"No courtesy. Xing Enming waved his hand, looked at the teacher who came over, cleared his throat, and asked, "Madam, this house asks you, this corpse obviously has no head, and you can't see the face clearly, why can you recognize this as your master's body before you faint?"

When Mrs. Wu heard this, she looked at the headless corpse on the ground, and a slight palpitation flashed in her expression.

Obviously, her fear of Fang Cai has not been completely eliminated.

"My lord Mingjian! The woman only saw that the clothes of this corpse were exactly the same as the clothes that my lord was wearing today, so she thought that this corpse belonged to my lord. Madame Wu pointed to the clothes on the headless corpse and spoke slowly.

When Xing Enming heard this, he smiled bitterly.

"But madam, with these clothes alone, we can't be completely sure that this is the corpse of your master!

"Oh, then, these clothes alone can't prove that this corpse belongs to my master?" Madame Wu looked surprised.

"Exactly!"

"But my lord has not come out since he entered the study this afternoon, and when the door of the study was opened again, what I saw was this headless corpse, doesn't this prove that this corpse belongs to my lord?" asked Mrs. Wu again.

"This ......"

Xing Enming glanced at Mrs. Wu with a slightly strange expression, what she said, in some cases, can indeed prove the identity of the corpse at the moment,

It's just that because the door of the study has not been locked, and no servants dare to approach here, no one knows whether Wu Chengtian, the master of the village, has gone out after entering the study. In this way, it naturally cannot be used as evidence to prove identity.

"Ma'am. I don't know what characteristics your master has on his body?"

This is, Chen Gong, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, and after hearing his question, Mrs. Wu was slightly stunned.

"Physical features?"

"Yes, now that this corpse is only a body part, since there is no head to identify the identity, then we can only judge the belonging according to this body, I wonder if the lady knows, what distinctive features on the body of the lord of your mansion can prove his identity?"

Chen Gong smiled and spoke.

"This ......" Mrs. Wu hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and thought about it, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "I remember, on my master's wrist, there is a scar left by the tattoo...... That's right, right on the wrist of his right hand!"

She was sure and spoke.

And after hearing this, whether it was Chen Gong, Xing Enming, or the autopsy inside, his eyes shrank slightly in an instant!

On the wrist of the deceased's right hand, there is indeed a scar left after the tattoo has been washed off!

Could it be that the deceased is really the owner of this manor, Wu Chengtian?

Xing Enming's face showed a look of disbelief.

At this moment, the servant on the side spoke again.

"Madam, I don't know if your master practices swords on weekdays?"

"Yes Although my lord is a businessman, he does like to practice swords, and this is the saber he usually uses when he practices swords. ”

Madame Wu pointed to a sword hanging on the wall.

The look on his face was even more surprised.

Chen Gong walked slightly to the corpse, lowered his head and looked at the right hand that he had been looking at before.

The tiger's mouth of this right hand is full of calluses, which is obviously caused by years of dancing with swords.

It seems that the deceased is really Wu Chengtian!