The footprints downstairs were already quite messy, because there were many people from various government departments who went to the scene to search and collect evidence, and they all left obvious footprints on the slippery ground. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Duan Qianqiu didn't stay long in the already slightly messy scene downstairs, he took a look at the environment around the attic, and then walked along a path from the attic to the back garden with Lu Bangyan and Mei Tiezheng.

It is a cobblestone path lined with low, evergreen shrubs.

Wang Xiangyun likes to be quiet, and her attic is built in the most secluded part of the house, so the path leading to the back garden is usually not passed by anyone on weekdays.

When Duan Qianqiu and the three of them walked along the path, they could vaguely see the footprints of several people on the stone surface along the way, and one of the footprints of a pair of slightly smaller sizes led all the way forward, until they came out of a side door in the Wang family's mansion, and these footprints slowly faded until they disappeared.

After going out of the side gate and walking through a large section of hard stone road, there is a carriage road that crosses the mountains, and the mud on the road is compacted, and after the heavy rain washes away the floating soil, the traces of footprints are difficult to detect on this main road, so the chance of continuing to follow the trail is getting smaller and smaller.

A path is faced with the choice of whether to go left or right, and if you choose it wrong, it can lead the search astray.

At this time, Duan Qianqiu suddenly said: "Just now we walked through the side gate of the back garden, I heard the housekeeper of the palace say that there is another one like this." ”

"Yes. Mei Tieke said: "The exit of the other side door is on the left side of this road. Mei Tieke pointed to the left side of the carriage road in front of him.

Duan Qianqiu then pointed to the right side of the carriage road and said, "Then let's go this way and take a look." ”

Looking at the puzzled expressions of the other two, Duan Qianqiu explained: "Since the distance from the attic to these two side doors is the same, and they have chosen a side door close to our right, then they naturally have a better chance of going to the right." ”

"In that case, let's search this way. Lu Bangyan agreed.

"Childe, do you want me to find more people?" asked Mei Tieke.

"Don't use it for the time being, the goal is not clear now, and more people will only increase the interference. Let's just go ahead and have a look. ”

The road became more and more deserted, and it bent into a mountain col. The trees on both sides of the road ahead were becoming scarcer, and at the end of the road seemed to be in a village.

The village had clearly suffered some kind of disaster before, and as far as the eye could see, there were broken walls, some of which had collapsed on the lintels of the beams. It is even covered with green vines, and from time to time some birds and finches fly up on it.

Entering the village, the most striking thing is an ancient well, which is in the center of the village because of its age. There were even deep grooves left on the well railings from the grinding of the bucket ropes. On the green bricks paved around the wall of the ancient well, it is covered with moss, and because of the abundant rain recently, it looks very green, and even climbs the entire edge of the well.

This is a well that looks quaint and quiet.

However, as soon as Duan Qianqiu and the three of them approached, they smelled blood from the well.

The smell of blood coming out of the well, though not strong, was pungent in the fresh air of the wilderness and mountain outskirts.

There were four people in the well, judging from the costumes, they were the other four missing guards downstairs under Wang Xiangyun.

Mei Tieke girded his waist with green vines. Climbed to the bottom of the well and lifted up the four corpses.

But what is surprising is that except for one of the four people, whose skull burst and whose head is blurred with flesh and blood, the other three have no scars on their bodies.

Lu Bangyan bent down to examine the deceased carefully, and only after a long time did he say to Duan Qianqiu: "They all drowned, and this skull burst should have been caused by hitting a stone protruding from the wall of the well when he fell into the well." ”

Duan Qianqiu sniffed as he smelled the strange fragrance that emanated from Wang Xiangyun's room again.

And it is from these corpses that these aromas emanate.

"Why did these four people commit suicide by throwing themselves into a well?" asked Mei Tieke.

Duan Qianqiu used his hand to open the lower eyelid of one of them. I saw that the eyes were gray-black overall, but the edges of the eyelids were blood-red.

"They are poisoned!" Duan Qianqiu said, "Or should it be said that they have been hit by a very toxic incense." ”

"Childe, do you know what kind of poison it is... Or is it a miserty?" asked Mei Tieke.

Duan Qianqiu's eyes showed a solemn look, and he thought about it for a moment. Then explained: "When I was in Wang Xiangyun's attic before, I actually smelled this fragrance, but it was much lighter there. Here, however, there was a very pronounced aroma coming from these corpses, and I looked into their eyes, and it showed the symptoms of poison. ”

"This poison. It is called Epiphyllum and is spread by pollen, and when inhaled into the nose, the toxicity lurks in the body.

"Is the Ephematose very poisonous?" asked Mei Tieke.

"The epiphany is known as the king of incense, the fragrance of the flower is quiet and elegant, and the first smell is like an orchid. However, pollen is extremely toxic and spreads widely, usually within three or four zhang, and those who inhale pollen will be poisoned. Those who are fascinated, like falling into a dream, will be manipulated by people with ulterior motives. ”

Lu Bangyan said: "Will the flower poison still lurk? Will there be an incubation period after being hit by the phantom flower poison?"

"Exactly. This is the peculiarity of this poisonous flower, even if it is poisoned, but if the person who administers the poison does not give a trigger point, the poison will not attack, and after a long time, the poison will be eliminated. ”

Mei Tieke said: "Is it like that explosive, if you don't light the fuse, it won't hurt." ”

Duan Qianqiu said: "That's pretty much the case, but it's even more terrifying than this, just like Gu magic, the poisoner can trigger the onset of the poison's toxicity through a certain action, sound or image, once it happens, the poisoner will be like a puppet driven, completely obeying the poisoner's orders." ”

Lu Bangyan listened and asked, "Qianqiu, do you suspect that the bouquet of flowers in Wang Xiangyun's room is this Ephemato? And these four guards and Wang Xiangyun are all under the control of the Epiphany Poison? How can the four dead guards explain it? Why didn't the poisoner control them as well?"

"The poison of the Epiphany is mainly transmitted through pollen, but the pollen is limited, which means that the number of people who can be poisoned at a time cannot be too large, and after these four guards are put down, the bouquet of Epiphany will not be able to cast a second poisonous incense. The four patrol guards who died downstairs may have been an accident, and the poisoners probably didn't expect them to appear suddenly. Duan Qianqiu said.

"These four guards died unjustly!" (To be continued.) )