with words in mind

Chapter 435 Qingzhou Sea Ghost Case 5
In order to have a smooth questioning, Yan Mo asked the others to wait outside, and he brought the food and drinks along the way into the cabin at the bottom of the ship.

"Da Pound is the best water-based player in our group. If it wasn't for the sea ghost, he would definitely not have died!"

"Yes. Dapeng is short in stature, but as long as he enters the water, he looks like a fish! Over the years, if it weren't for Dapeng, we would have died many times because of our water skills"

While the pirates were drinking wine and eating meat, the chatterbox slowly opened up.

Yan Mo flipped through the objects in front of him, and hearing everyone's praise for Da Pound, he felt that Da Pound was not easy, but the corpse was so real
Boom, jingle bell——

"What is this?" Seeing something rolling out, Yan Mo picked it up and saw that it was a few glass bottles and dark jars.

"Oh, Dapeng usually likes to collect these bottles and cans, baby!"

Yan Mo: "They are all empty?"

"Sometimes we like to use these bottles and jars if we can find something valuable. Lately though, the pound bottles have been empty for a while."

Yan Mo played with the bottles in her hand, opened them one by one, looked at them carefully, and smelled them silently. When she approached with the dark jar, she smelled a strange smell.
After getting out of the bilge, Yan Mo dismissed Yu Xi and wanted to take Qi Ming alone to discuss what he had gained and thought, but unexpectedly, the masked young man remained shameless.

"Did the family know something down there? Huh? Tell me about it~"

"You said you are from the Jiang family? You must be familiar with the Shibo Department because you trade goods from the North and South Seas?"

"Ah? Oh!" The masked boy hesitated for a moment before saying, "Of course I'm familiar with it!"

"Then you are also familiar with this Yu Xi?"

"Master Yu, you must have heard of it!"

"Do you know how Yu Xi colluded with the pirates?"

"Huh? Don't everyone know about this?" The masked boy was slightly surprised, staring at the two of them from left to right, and said cautiously, "You dare to board this ship without knowing."

"Ahem!" Qi Ming cleared his throat at the right time, "The head of the house has a lot of things to do every day, so why bother to inquire about such a trivial matter, you might as well talk about it, young master."

"...This is not a trivial matter," the masked boy said quietly, as if he couldn't stand the man's lust, "Yu Xi, as the former city ship commander, has little power but is very important. He can call all the ships in the city ship department.

It is heard that he and Boss Hu have known each other for a long time, one of them is white, the other is black, and both of them take everything.

The Jiang family deals with pirates on the one hand, and deals with all parties in the Shipbuilding Department on the other hand.

It's a pity that we will all be exploited double-layered."

Yan Mo: "So Yu Xi and Boss Hu have always been on good terms?"

"Hey! That's impossible! After all, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. With the downfall of Yu Zhi, Mr. Yu was also implicated. Boss Hu took the opportunity to want to dominate the family. After Master Yu became aware of it, he colluded internally and externally, which gave Boss Hu a lot of benefits. In the end, they also occupied the ship, arranged the transaction, said that after the transaction was completed, they divided the transaction proceeds into two, and parted ways.”

Yan Mo: "So, this transaction is their breakup party?"

"Well, that's it. I heard that Mr. Yu is proficient in shipbuilding, and the ship to be given to Boss Hu was also carefully selected by him."

"It seems that he has internal support in the Shibo Department." Yan Mowu muttered to himself, "It's just that Master Yu is so kind to Mr. Hu?"

"Now that Boss is dead, isn't it good intentions, who doesn't want to have a drum?" The masked boy said with a self-smart look, "It's just that the sea fire broke out suddenly, and Boss and Boss Tong died for no reason. Stealing the show!"

After listening to this, Yan Mo looked between Qi Ming and the masked son, and finally she smiled leisurely, and said without hesitation: "When I put a hot water bottle on Master Yun's concubine, I found that her stomach is not at all. warm.

It is said that the body temperature of pregnant women will be slightly higher than that of ordinary people, but I can't feel the body temperature through the underwear. "

"That's fake!" The masked man immediately concluded, as if not surprised, "To be honest, I have doubted their identities for a long time!"

"You have suspected it for a long time?" Yan Mo looked at the other party curiously.

"Hey, suspicion. It's just suspicion, or have you found evidence!"

"Yeah~" Yan Mo stared at the other party, and said, "Since the stomach is fake and the miscarriage is fake, why do I smell blood on her body? When I put the hot water bottle, I took the opportunity to look, and the concubine was not injured."

"Huh? That's weird!"

"It can only mean that it is someone else's blood." Qi Ming did not reject the masked young man, and expressed his opinion, "The key is, where is this other person's blood hidden?"

"Fake belly! What better place to hide than there!"

Yan Mo: "Then, here comes the problem again. The door lock is intact and the window is narrow. How did that concubine come into contact with other people's blood, and how did she leave straw in Yu Xi's room?"

Masked boy: "Straw powder?"

Yan Mo: "There are a few scattered pieces of straw next to Boss Tong's body, and I also found the pieces next to the little concubine."

"Are you suspecting that the concubine killed Boss Tong?" The masked boy asked in surprise, "But, can she escape through that window? If she has the bone shrinking skill, I think it is possible."

Crash, clack, clatter!
Before the words were finished, the surging wind and waves slammed against the hull of the ship again, making a sound like a gust of wind and rain!
The sporadic light spots that fell with the waves just hit Yan Mo's feet!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa""

Just when Yan Mo was about to pick up the Nocturnal Glow Algae, he suddenly heard shouts not far away!

"It's Master Yu's voice! Not good!"

The masked young man recognized his position by listening to the voice, turned the corner nimbly, and led Yan Mo and Qi Ming to find Yu Xi in a corner!
"It's a sea ghost. I just saw a black shadow, ah! It's right there. It's going to kill me! It's going to kill me!! Ahh! Don't come here! Don't come here!!!"

Seeing Yu Xi's terrified appearance, Yan Mo didn't feel that the other party was acting. She grabbed the mast rope and flew, leaning over to stop on the side of the hull!

There are some crushed and flattened nocturnal algae left on the hull, and there are still finger marks and footprints on the algae powder, which means that someone was indeed here just now!But definitely not sea ghosts!

"Be careful!" Seeing Yan Mo bend over, Qi Ming quickly tightened the rope!

Yan Mo took a piece of nocturnal algae powder through the corner of his skirt, and under the guidance of Qi Ming, he stepped back to the boat board!
"Then there are ghosts and ghosts." Yu Xi seemed to be terrified, and kept muttering, "It's not enough to kill others! It also wants to kill me! It wants to kill me! We can't stay at sea anymore! ! How long will it take to reach the shore?!" As he spoke, he frantically looked for someone to ask about the progress of the course!
Snapped!
"Young Master Jiang, first help Master Yu in!" Yan Mo knocked Yu Xi unconscious with a blow of his sword!
"Huh? Me? Ah! Why is it me again?!" The masked boy reacted for a moment, then grabbed Yu Xi and brought him into the nearest house!
Yan Mo stuffed the various things in his hands to Qi Ming: "You stay here, I'll come when I go!"

"Home!"

Yan Mo moved quickly, ignoring the shouts behind her, but after a while, she returned to the original place with a heavy skeleton!

"What are you doing with the dead body?!" The masked boy just leaned against the wall in horror!
"There are footprints on this luminous algae." Yan Mo casually took a small piece of fabric in the room, picked up the eclipsed luminous algae and said, "I also found finger marks and footprints in Yu Xi's room. I think the owner of the footprints is the true body of the sea ghost!"

"Sure enough! But who is so powerful that he can pretend to be a sea ghost, come and go without a trace?"

Yan Mo: "How about, let's think about how the sea fire came from?"

Masked boy: "Sea fire?"

Yan Mo took out the dark jar and asked the two in front of him to smell it.

"Huh! What kind of smell is this?!" Seeing that the owner handed over Luminous Algae again, the masked boy gathered it together with some disgust, and found, "Huh? This smell is very similar to the one in the jar! Whose jar is this?"

"Big pound."

Qi Ming: "What does the master mean, all the noctiluca are grown in big pounds?"

Yan Mo: "It's very possible. This also explains why the nocturnal algae that often appear in the shallows appear in the deep sea. However, there are so many nocturnal algae in the sea that these small bottles and cans can't hold them at all. My doubts are, Where did the large numbers of nocturnal algae come from?"

"Sea fires appear under the surface of the sea, of course they are all in the sea."

Yan Mo: "Then why does the sea fire appear along this ship?"

"Along this boat. Someone is raising them~ I understand!" The masked boy suddenly realized, "Da Pound raised them under the boat!"

"That's right, that's what I thought! With the weight of the water, it shouldn't be difficult to place the nocturnal algae we usually collect on the bottom of the boat. It's very likely that he did it quietly while the pirates were taking the boat."

"But, what does this have to do with the real body of the sea ghost?" The masked boy stared at the corpse timidly and said, "Could it be that the sea ghost was transformed after Da Pound's death?!"

"Then we have to ask it!" Yan Mo stared at the skeleton and said!
"It? A corpse." Even though he was afraid and disgusted, the masked boy couldn't stand his curiosity, "How do you want to ask?"

Yan Mo: "Just now at the bottom of the boat, I heard everyone's praise for Da Pang, saying that he is small in stature but has excellent water skills. And this skeleton has a long upper body and a short lower body, which is very similar to Da Pang's body characteristics."

"So, he is a big pound." The masked boy looked puzzled, not knowing what the other party wanted to say.
"But it's a pity," Yan Mo said, pointing to the lower body of the skeleton, "this is a skeleton made of pieces, the upper body is a man's body, and the lower body is a woman's body!"

"What?!" The masked boy was embarrassed to look at the corpse when he heard it, "How did you see that?"

"The pelvic bone of a female body is different from that of a male body. The angle of the pubic bone will be much wider than that of a male body. In this way, it is easier for a woman to come out during childbirth. This is also an important sign to distinguish between men and women with bones.

At first, I also thought it was a big pound corpse, and I didn't check whether it was a man or a woman.

I didn't feel strange until everyone said again and again that the big pound water was very good.With a big pound of water, it should be difficult to untie the slipknot on the ankle, but he was tied like this and was 'eaten' alive!When it reappeared, it was such a corpse.

You said that a big man with a big pound has a woman's lower body? "

"The more you say it, the more outrageous it is. If the big pound is a man, it is a man. How can there be a woman. Ah, I know, he is not a big pound! Just like that little concubine's belly, it is all fake! Because Dapeng is short in stature, and the ordinary male skeleton does not fit his stature, so he used a female body to splice it together. From this point of view," the masked man walked forward like a crab, "the body of this corpse The interface between the tailbone and the pelvis is indeed a bit strange.Huh? So, big pound him"

"Not dead!" Yan Mo continued, "Didn't the ghostly sea ghost be found? In the water, boots and shoes are obstacles. Since he is familiar with water, he should be walking barefoot. That's how Yu Xi Fingerprints and footprints were left on the windows of Noctiluca's corpse."

"So, Boss Tong was really killed by the 'Sea Ghost'! But, with so many pirates on board, and we've been going around, where can the big pound be hidden?"

"You forgot, the big pound water is very good." Yan Mo looked through the door to the unfathomable sea.

"You mean, he's hiding in the water?!"

"That's right! Although the water is dark, since he knows how to raise nocturnal algae, he already thought of using it for lighting."

"Wow," the masked young man sighed, "This person is really gifted. It's the beginning of spring, the weather is cold and the water is cold, and in such a dark sea, he can feel like a fish in water."

"I think it's because the sea water is too cold that Da Pound needs to get on the boat to warm up, and he doesn't want to bump into Mr. Yu just in time."

"That's not necessarily true." Qi Ming looked at Yu Xi who was still in a coma, "Everywhere Da Pound goes is always related to him, maybe Da Pound is chasing Yu Xi closely."

"Even so." The masked young man was puzzled again, "Boss Hu died before the big pound disappeared. Could it be that he was also killed by the big pound?"

"Now it seems that there are only two real victims, Boss Tong and Boss Hu. The question now is, why did Da Pound kill Boss Tong? Or why did Da Pound kill Master Yu?"

"Ah~ I know again!" The masked boy realized again, "We all suspect that Mr. Yu has bad intentions for Boss Hu, and Da Pound is Boss Hu's subordinate. He must have been chasing Yu because he wanted to avenge Boss. grown ups!"

Yan Mo: "In any case, we have to find out about Boss Hu's death first. There is one more thing that I am very concerned about. Since the concubine's belly is fake, it means that Master Yun may not be real either. Since it is fake , why don't you say it?"

"The bandits are rampant after all," said the masked man, "Even if they say they are fake, the pirates may not believe it. It's better to keep acting, maybe you can save your life."

"Since that's the case, why did they pretend to have big bellies in the first place and become the targets of pirates?"

"Ah~ Makes sense!" The masked boy held the fist-shaped hand in one hand, and said with great awareness, "Could it be that they pretended to be Lord Yun and boarded the ship in order to cheat pirates and eat black people!"

Hearing the answer that was different from what he expected, Yan Mo couldn't help but slipped half of his shoulder: "I talked with Master Yun, and he seems to hate Yu Xi deeply, there must be articles in it. Not only that, Master Yun knew it from the scene outside the small window. The fact that the sea ghost was causing trouble, but I didn't ask for help immediately when I faced it, is very strange, not to mention, the bloody smell on that concubine's body is also weird."

"In short, right now we need to solve the death of the boss first." Qi Ming grabbed Yu Xi neatly and took the lead.

When he came to the second floor of the annex building, Guo Ze stepped forward to inquire when he saw Ying's family.

Yan Mo prevaricated a few words, handed Yu Xi over to the other party's care, and then led Qi Ming and the masked son into the boss's room to start further investigation.

"It's such a mess inside, what other clues can there be?" The masked boy didn't know where to start, looking here and looking over there.

"Don't move around!" Yan Mo warned sternly, "Telling you to follow is not a disservice to you!"

"Of course I want to help you~" The masked boy didn't dare to move any more, and said in a good voice, "Although this room is messy, the layout is still classic."

Yan Mo: "Layout?"

"You don't know that, you should be at home~" Seeing that he was useful, the masked boy hurriedly began to talk, "This kind of building ships are used for both commercial and war purposes. As a merchant ship, the main building on the opposite side is the main building. , has a lot of capacity. As a warship, the auxiliary building is the center and can be used for command. Boss Hu’s room is the center of the center, and there should be a secret escape route in the room.”

Yan Mo checked the boss's body carefully again, and just when he found that there was still some food in the mouth of the body, he heard: "Secret escape route?!" She looked around, inspecting the ground, walls, and roof beams. again, found nothing
It wasn't until the three of them worked together to push the mattress away that they found a window with the same length as the bed under the corresponding wall.

To get in and out, you have to lie on the ground and roll around.

Outside the long window is a tall building wall. The path outside the window is about ten feet long and two feet wide. The narrow width is only enough for one person to stand on. The two ends of the path are perfectly covered and sealed by wooden buildings. Only one side of the wood is destroyed , to enter and exit.

But now, the left and right sides are intact, only .
The three people who rolled out of the window one after another looked up and said in unison: "Up!"

(End of this chapter)