Chapter 41 The Poison Plot (Finale)
Youzhou Ape Mountain, the first scene where the body was found.
When the people of the Nine Dragons Mansion and Lin Feifei hurriedly came here, the corpse had not yet been moved.
But the scene has been blocked by many fast arresters.
"Lord Ling, what's the situation?"
Chen Yutian walked slowly to Ling Yuntian, returning from Ling Mo's private mansion, he had not yet entered the pavilion, and he met the person who came to report the news from the yamen.
So he didn't care about resting, so he hurriedly rushed to the scene with everyone in Jiulong Mansion.
Ling Yuntian has been very anxious since he saw the corpse at the scene.
Because there are too many people who died this time.
Moreover, there was a vacancy in the yamen due to Han Leng's death, and in a short period of time, there was no one who could be replaced.
Therefore, the autopsy has become a difficult problem.
"Lord Chen, you can be regarded as here. ”
Looking at Chen Yutian, Ling Yuntian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"My lord, let's not talk too much, you can let Mr. Gongsun perform an autopsy first. ”
"Good. ”
Chen Yutian nodded and glanced at Gongsun slightly.
Gongsun immediately understood, and took the tools to the grass pit next to the road to examine the corpse.
Except for Xue Tianhan, the rest of the people, including Li Qing, Meng Gang, and Lin Feifei, who came together, were all scattered around the scene to conduct searches.
"Lord Ling, what the hell is going on?"
Chen Yutian glanced at the dense corpses in the grass pit, and his expression suddenly became gloomy.
Because he saw that among the corpses were two children no more than ten years old.
Even such a young child can be so poisonous, this murderer is simply unconscionable!
"Fang Yamen received a report that a lot of corpses had been found here. When I came with someone, it was already like this. ”
"According to the injuries on their bodies, they should have met bandits on the road, and their whole family was slaughtered and died. ”
Ling Yuntian shook his head slightly.
"Who was the first to find the body?"
Xue Tianhan looked around, his eyes resting on a woodcutter who was about to be questioned by arrest.
"The person who found the body was a woodcutter, and he was the one who went to the yamen to report the crime. And according to what he said, when he found the body, there was still a living mouth, but after a few words with him, he lost his breath. ”
Ling Yuntian's words fell, and Chen Yutian's eyes also locked on the woodcutter.
"What about the identity of the deceased?" he asked.
"It's still under investigation, but I'm sure we'll see results soon. ”
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, and then came to the woodcutter with Xue Tianhan.
"You're the woodcutter who first found the body?"
The woodcutter nodded, "Yes, I wonder if the adults have anything to ask?"
"You said that when you found the body, there was a living mouth inside?"
"Yes. ”
"He only said one word to you, and then he died, right?"
"That's right. ”
"So, what did he say?"
"What did you say......"
The woodcutter scratched the back of his head, thought for a moment, and said:
"He seems to have spoken in court...... Sorry, he was speaking so low that I couldn't hear it very clearly. ”
"It doesn't matter. ”
Chen Yutian waved his hand lightly, turned around and groaned.
"Public Court...... What the hell is he trying to say?"
"Could it be that you want this woodcutter to report the crime?"
Snow and cold guesses.
"Do you want to report it...... It's not like it, if it's really a report, then he can say it directly, and he doesn't need to say the word 'court'......"
......
"Adult ......"
After Gongsun finished examining the body, he walked straight towards Chen Yutian.
"Gongsun, what's the situation?"
Chen Yutian nodded slightly at Gongsun and asked.
"Most of the dead were hacked to death with knives, and there should be more than one murderer. Based on the corpse spots on their bodies, it was probably more than a day and a night since they died, and I looked at their bodies and found no belongings. ”
Gongsun frowned, his expression slightly gloomy.
Obviously, he was also outraged by the murderer's unconscionable actions.
"Nothing to lose, could it really be the robbers?" Chen Yutian muttered, his gaze unintentionally swept and landed on the broken carriage beside him.
There was no blood on the carriage, but it was in tatters.
It looks like it's rolling down from a great height.
Not only was the frame loose, but the curtain was broken.
"What's going on with this carriage?"
"My lord, according to the woodcutter who found the body, the carriage was overturned and pressed under the body when it was found. I think it must have been the carriage they were in before they were killed. One of the officials replied.
"I see. Chen Yutian nodded, and looked at the place of corpses again.
This is a grass pit, there are no cliffs and strange rocks around, and it is naturally impossible for the carriage to roll down directly from a high place.
So, where does it come from?
"My lord, there is a discovery. Li Qing's voice came from afar.
Hearing his voice, almost all the people in the Nine Dragons Mansion and Lin Feifei who were present raised their heads, and when they saw Li Qing holding something and waving it vigorously, everyone gathered over.
"It's ......"
Chen Yutian looked at what Li Qing handed over to him.
It was a tattered piece of black cloth with a slight stain of blood on it.
"It looks like pieces of clothes, but among these deceased, there doesn't seem to be anyone wearing black clothes?" Gongsun was a little puzzled.
"Since it is not the dead, it can only be the murderer. Li Qing, where did you find this?"
Li Qing pointed to a towering tree in the distance.
The fragments were found on the branches of this tree.
Wu Dongtian jumped up, landed on the branch, and looked around.
Immediately, the essence in his eyes flashed.
"Look there!"
He suddenly pointed in one direction, and his voice was extremely solemn.
Everyone was stunned, and looked at him, but saw that under the cliff not far from this tree, there was a larger piece of black cloth.
"It seems...... It's not a piece of clothing?"
Walking to the bottom of the cliff, Gongsun picked up the larger black rag and compared it with the small piece of rag in his hand, groaning slightly.
"Not really. If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be the curtain in front of the carriage. ”
Chen Yutian stared at the two rut marks next to the black cloth that were not particularly clear.
"The curtain of the carriage?"
Gongsun and everyone's eyes were also attracted by the two rut marks, and the next moment, everyone looked forward along the rut marks.
Not far in a straight line ahead, is the place where the corpses are displayed.
Then everyone looked up in unison and looked up.
I saw that the cliff was extremely high, and I couldn't even see the top at a glance.
The mountain is steep but relatively smooth.
What's more, at the foot of the cliff is where the rut begins.
Looking at this rut, everyone looked at each other, and they all gasped, and their eyes showed an incomparably unbelievable color.
"No......"
......
"This big brother, do you know the way up from here?" Chen Yutian pointed to the cliff that was not high, and asked the woodcutter who first found the body.
The woodcutter looked up and pointed to the path beside him.
"Go up, sir, and you will reach the top of this mountain. ”
"Thank you. Chen Yutian smiled slightly, and then led the people of Jiulong Mansion and Lin Feifei to go up the hill along the path.
After reaching the top of the mountain, everyone found a rutted road leading to the cliff, and there were still scarlet blood stains around it.
Seeing this, the crowd immediately understood that the carriage was indeed pushed down from here.
And based on the bloodstains around the rut, it can be determined that the carriage at that time should still be carrying those corpses.
Seeing this, the disbelief in everyone's eyes became more and more intense.
"Unbelievable, the carriage really carried the corpse down from here, and then after falling off the cliff, it was not damaged, but directly crossed the mountain road with the momentum, and then the corpse and the cart overturned together?"
"It's unbelievable!"
Lin Feifei looked at the ground under the cliff that was completely unclear, and his face showed an incredible look.
Chen Yutian also smiled and nodded.
"Yes, no one can really believe it, but based on the situation at the scene, I am afraid that the real situation is really like this......"
And according to the situation at the scene, it is obvious that the murderer should have pulled the corpses in a carriage to throw the corpses under the cliff in order not to be found, but they didn't expect that the bottom of the mountain was not as uninhabited as they thought. ”
Gongsun also smiled.
Huo Yuanji nodded and said, "What Mr. Gongsun said is extremely true. Presumably, this rut should be the route they dumped the corpse, and if you look for it along the rut, you may be able to find the first scene of the crime. ”
Chen Yutian also nodded, "It makes sense, then let's take a look." ”
With that, he paced in the direction of ruts and blood.
And the crowd followed.
The group followed the bloodstains and ruts left along the way, and came to the vicinity of an official road that extended in all directions, and the ruts and bloodstains completely disappeared at this time.
"The rut is gone here...... It seems that there is a high probability that this is the first scene of the crime. ”
Gongsun squinted his eyes slightly and looked around, saying to everyone.
"Maybe......"
Chen Yutian replied ambiguously, "But, what kind of place is this?"
"Here...... It seems that we walked on the official road when we came to Youzhou......"
Wu Dongtian looked around, picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, put it to his nose and sniffed it slightly.
"Well, it's true that we came here as an official way. Gongsun also nodded.
But the next moment, his body, suddenly, as if bombarded by thunder, suddenly froze in place.
He looked at the path with ruts and blood stains leading to the cliff, and looked in the direction relative to Youzhou, revealing a look of great shock.
It was as if something unbelievable had occurred to him in that moment.
"Impossible......"
As he muttered, the shock in his eyes grew stronger, and his gaze towards the cliff gradually changed.
Chen Yutian felt that he was a little strange, so he asked, "Mr. Gongsun, what did you think of?"
Gongsun nodded slightly.
"I don't know what it is, can you tell it and let everyone hear it......"
Gongsun thought for a moment, nodded, and only said one word, "Okay." ”
Then his eyes looked at the people on the side, "Do you remember what we were looking for the rest of the people who were left in the account books that day?"
Everyone, except for Chen Yutian and Bai Fan, all nodded.
"Of course I do. All of them had moved to the capital a day or two before. ”
"Not bad!" Gongsun nodded, and then looked at the surroundings with a slightly complicated gaze.
"Just now, I suddenly thought of a possibility. If these people were suddenly intercepted and killed halfway through when their families moved to the capital, do you think there is such a possibility?"
Hearing this, everyone's eyes froze.
"This ......" Huo Yuanji's expression was slightly frozen, and he didn't know what to say.
Although he didn't want to think that this might be true in his heart, he had a terrible intuition that told him that Gongsun's guess was very likely to be the truth.
The rest of the crowd had equally mixed feelings.
Only Chen Yutian and Bai Fan, who didn't understand the ins and outs, looked at the surrounding environment very solemnly.
"It's too early to say that, after all, the identity of our deceased is not yet known. ”
The way of Chen Yutian and solemn.
The rest of the crowd also nodded slightly.
"However, this is indeed the only official road from Youzhou to the capital, and if you want to go from Youzhou to the capital, this is the only way to go. Since the deceased were all killed on this road, it can be determined that the deceased should have been intercepted and killed by the murderer on the way to the capital. After his death, he was thrown at the bottom of the cliff with a car and people. ”
Chen Yutian said again, his eyes were extremely solemn.
The situation that Gongsun said can be deduced from his words.
Although he didn't quite agree with his speculation, Chen Yutian didn't dare to deny it.
Because he knows too well the opponent who is hiding behind the scenes.
Judging from all the previous signs, it shows that this opponent is definitely a ruthless, cold and ruthless person.
As long as it is of no use to him, or who may leak a trace of clues related to the case, he can kill without hesitation.
Therefore, he did not rule out that in order to ensure that the clues were not leaked, this person deliberately persuaded those who had time to solve the problem in the future to move their families, and then he arranged for someone to intercept and kill everyone halfway and send everyone to hell. Because only dead people will not reveal any clues.
I have to say that such a method is too vicious.
But Chen Yutian believes that the opponent who hides in the shadows and snickers will definitely do it.
"Hopefully things aren't that bad......"
He sighed in his heart, for some reason, he always had a bad premonition, always feeling that things would seem to come true......
......
When they returned to the bottom of the cliff, they found that there were several more people at the scene.
I saw a middle-aged man in a green coat looking at the many corpses that had been moved out and covered with white cloths, with a sad face.
Fang Jing and Ling Yuntian were talking beside him, looking like that, it seemed that they were making the middle-aged man mourn.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood that the identity of the deceased must have been found out......
Sure enough, as soon as everyone walked to the scene, they saw Ling Yuntian hurriedly come to Chen Yutian and said, "My lord, the identity of the deceased has been clarified. ”
"Oh?" Chen Yutian's expression moved slightly.
The rest of the crowd immediately focused their eyes on Ling Yuntian the moment they heard these words.
Ling Yuntian was stunned for a moment!
"The deceased is Chu Yuhai's family, who were about to move their family to the capital not long before yesterday. This is his cousin Wang Peng. According to what he said, Chu Yuhai left Youzhou City with his family two days ago, and he should have met a bandit in the middle of the road and lost his life in vain. ”
Hearing this, everyone in the Kowloon Mansion changed color!
Chu Yuhai, this name, is the one in the account book with missing pages, and he did not die in the hands of Hua Butterfly!
Unexpectedly, the dead one is really a character on the missing page of the account book!
Could it be ...... Things are really as Gongsun speculated, and this matter is another murder case to prevent clues from being leaked?
Or was it just that he was intercepted by bandits?
For a while, Chen Yutian and everyone in Jiulong Mansion were in turmoil.