Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 20 Zerg
Facing these things, he was at a loss. Based on his speculation alone, there should be an inevitable connection between these things.

First of all, the ghost came to the clan hall to look for something, but obviously couldn't find it.Secondly, when fake officials enter the clan hall, they are likely to take away the imperial decree and the jade turtle belt.

Obviously, both have the same purpose, which is to find something, just don't know if they are the same gang.

And among all the incidents, the most strange and inexplicable is undoubtedly the corpse that appeared out of thin air.

In the family hall, Li Canghai and Wu Zuo carefully inspected the corpse.

Wu Zuo is an older man who looks quite experienced.

"There are no red spots on the eyelids of the corpse, which means that he died of suffocation. The corpse was abnormally cold, and it is impossible to estimate the time of death. The old man has been doing this for so many years, and he has never seen such a strange way of dying without trauma."

Fu Zuo stroked his dry beard, shook his head and said.

Li Canghai nodded and said, "It's been only an hour since the death of the deceased, yet the body shows signs of being cold. This is really unimaginable."

Wu Zuo looked at him in surprise, and asked curiously: "How could the corpse become so cold within an hour? Besides, it's midsummer now, how is this possible?"

Li Canghai frowned, he stomped a few steps back and forth beside the corpse, and suddenly said: "Since there is no abnormality on the surface of the corpse, could it be an internal injury? My lord, please dissect the corpse."

Wu Zuo nodded in response, and with the help of several yamen servants, he carried the body to a woodshed for an autopsy.

In the middle of the night, a few oil lamps were lit in the woodshed, and the dim yellow flames swayed with the wind, making the whole woodshed look strange and inexplicable.

Li Canghai and Wu Zuo, master and apprentice, stood in front of the corpse, ready to test the knife.

Although Li Canghai learned anatomy in his previous life, he only learned a little bit for criminal investigation.At this time, he came to help as an assistant.

The strange posture of the corpse, coupled with the degree of stiffness, made it difficult to remove its clothes.

When he pulled off the top of the corpse, Li Canghai found a knife mark on the right shoulder of the corpse.

The knife mark was drawn obliquely from the right shoulder to the chest, about the length of two fingers.

"The knife mark on the deceased's chest should have been injured by a dagger or something. Judging from the degree of scarring, it should be several months old." Wu Zuo pointed to the scar and asked his apprentice to record it.

"Master, I found this from the clothes of the deceased." Wu Zuo apprentice sorted the clothes of the corpse, and took out a hanging chain from inside.

The hanging chain is made of beef tendon, with a claw of unknown origin attached to it.

Li Canghai hurried forward, holding the chain in his hand to observe.

In the way to solve the case, any little detail may play a vital role.But he looked at the hanging chain over and over again, but he didn't find anything, as if it was a talisman.

"Let's start." Li Canghai decided to conduct an autopsy first.

Wu Zuo picked up the knife, and was about to ask him to help open the curled limbs of the corpse, but unexpectedly the limbs suddenly softened, and at this time another gust of wind happened to blow.

The sudden change frightened the three of them, thinking that the ghost of the deceased had come to claim his life.

Fortunately, several of them were bold people, and Wu Zuo, the master and apprentice, often dealt with corpses, and the three of them quickly calmed down.

"Strange, why did the stiffness of this corpse disappear suddenly?" Li Canghai frowned, and hurriedly asked Wu Zuo to hurry up with the autopsy.

Wu Zuo nodded, and a half-finger-long autopsy knife quickly danced on the corpse, and the chest of the deceased was cut open soon.

Seeing the internal organs of the deceased, the three of them took a breath at the same time.

The internal organs of the deceased were hollow, as if they had been eaten by something.What's even more weird is that there is a layer of ice on the outside of the gnawed internal organs.

Li Canghai and Lao Wuzuo looked at each other, no wonder the corpse was so cold, it turned out that the body was frozen.

After the corpse was cut open, there was an icy air from inside the corpse, and the old Wu Zuo took advantage of the melting ice to quickly cut out a piece of internal organs.

The spleen and liver could no longer be distinguished from this piece of internal organs, and it was frozen to the size of a fist, like amber.But unlike Amber, it was full of scalp-tingling eerie.

At this moment, there was a slight cracking sound from the ice cube in the hands of the old clerk.

An ominous premonition suddenly appeared in Li Canghai's mind, and he yelled, "Throw it away!"

The old Wu Zuo didn't react for a while, and saw the ice cube cracked, and a white worm that was a circle bigger than a fingernail crawled out from the internal organs.

The worm got into the palm of the old gangster in an instant, and in an instant, a burst of ice rose from the left hand of the old gangster.

The old Wuzuo screamed in horror, he only felt a cold breath spread from the palm of his hand to his whole body.

This old Wu Zuo was also a man with a strong heart. He knew that it would be very difficult for him to survive if the bug got into his body, so he picked up the knife and stuck it in the palm of his hand fiercely.

With a cry of pain, the old Wuzuo's palm was pierced by a sharp blade.

Li Canghai admired secretly, in the face of life and death, the old master was able to remain unruffled in the face of danger, the speed and ruthlessness with which he struck the sword was like a divine skill.

The old Wu Zuo gritted his teeth and endured the pain. He pulled out the sharp knife, and the white worm was stuck in the tip of the knife.

Wu Zuo's apprentice hastily tore off a piece of cloth and bandaged his wound. The pain made his right hand tremble, and with a clang, the knife fell to the ground.

Chi~
It was as if a cold snowball had been slapped on the stove, and there was a melting sound. The worm twisted a few times and instantly turned into puddles of liquid.

"This old man has been a clerk all his life, and he has seen many strange things. What the hell is this?" The old clerk said with lingering fear, clutching his bandaged left hand.

Li Canghai's face was solemn, he took out a piece of internal organs about the same size from the corpse, and carefully placed it in front of the candle.

The ice on the outside of the internal organs faded rapidly, and soon an identical bug crawled out of it.

The worm was white and translucent, like icy slugs, and it exuded a cold air, as long as it got close to the candle, the worm would melt quickly.

"It seems that the deceased's body was stiff and cold, all caused by the bug. What is this thing that can produce cold air?" Li Canghai melted the bug, and then looked at the corpse. There may be many such bugs in the corpse.

Thinking of this, Li Canghai couldn't help shivering. It seems that these bugs regarded the corpse as a parasitic host.

After finding out the cause of death, Li Canghai asked the old man to go back to rest as a teacher and apprentice, while he returned to the family hall and came to the scene of the crime again.

At this time, the sky is getting brighter.

Li Canghai looked at the blood writing on the ground. Although the blood writing had solidified, it was still ferocious.

Before he knew it, the sky was already bright, and the sunlight slanted in through the window lattice, making his eyes ache.

Di Qing came over and saw Li Canghai staring at the bloody words from afar, quietly walked behind him, and pushed him like a prank.

Li Canghai fell to the ground with a thud, fell a few feet, and rolled directly behind the open door of the clan hall.

(End of this chapter)