Tianyi Pavilion is located on the south side of Xin'an City, it is a academy left in the later Zhou Dynasty, founded by Wei Liaoweng of the Zhou people, there are three in and two out, there are eight houses in total, and the collection of books is as many as 100,000 volumes.
It's just that, due to the impact of the war, the collection of books in Tianyi Pavilion has long been looted and destroyed, and in the ruins of the courtyard, scattered pages can occasionally be found, which are sandwiched in the cracks and stones of the bricks, and they still survive.
Cheng Muyou stepped on the yellowed and curly pages and walked into the lobby of Tianyi Pavilion, the dust on the ground was picked up by the hem of his clothes, and it flew wildly in the beam of light that penetrated through the window.
There is a familiar smell in the air, very smelly, and the smell is mixed with a sourness, if the average person smells it, the light person will be dizzy and nauseous, and the heavy person may vomit non-stop, adding another flavor to the taste.
But Cheng Muyou sniffed carefully, and said softly, "At the end of May, the smell of rot has not yet reached its peak, that's right, she should have died ten days ago, that is, on the day of the lunar eclipse." ” He fixed his eyes on the front side, on the left side of the lobby, under the half-broken stone pillar, sat a thin body, Jiao Xiaomei was already thin, but now she was skinned, more like a shrinkage, a circle smaller.
She leaned against the stone pillar, her hands hanging at her sides, her head drooping downward, folded at an eerie angle.
Her skin was gone, her hair had been stripped along with her scalp, and if it weren't for the flies on her body, she would have been able to see her thin malnourished muscles and dark blue veins.
Seeing Cheng Muyou standing still, Shi Fei, who was still looking for clues around, walked up to him and saluted, "My lord, we didn't patrol here originally, but when I passed by this neighborhood, I heard that in the past few days, I could always smell a particularly bad smell, but I didn't know where the smell came from, so I took a few brothers to find it along the smell, and then I found Jiao Xiaomei's body."
He pointed to the side, "It was her skirt, which was thrown aside at random, it seems that the murderer did not want to deliberately hide the identity of the deceased, and we also relied on these clothes to determine that this body is Jiao Xiaomei's." ” Cheng Muyou nodded, walked to the corpse and squatted down, Shi Fei wanted to help him drive away the flies on the corpse, but it was in vain, those disgusting insects encountered such a good meal, one by one, they were like crazy demons, they were dead on the corpse, and they were reluctant to leave, just driven away, and fell back again, greedily sucking Jiao Xiaomei's carrion, and producing their offspring in this rare comfortable nest.
Cheng Muyou sighed, "Is it really fate?"
That night, you escaped from Sun Huaijin's hands, but you still did not escape the pursuit of death, but who made you like this?
” Just thinking to himself, Shi Jin walked in from the outside with the steps of "dong dong", "My lord, I have already inquired in the surrounding area, on the day of the lunar eclipse, the nearby residents did not hear any movement in this academy, and they also said that in the past few days, they have not seen strangers haunting this neighborhood. ” "It seems that this murderer has come and gone without a trace, and his whereabouts are mysterious," he looked at Shi Fei, "Have you searched the house?"
Did the murderer leave any clues?
” Shi Fei shook his head, "Although the house is full of dust, this house is transparent on all sides, and the wind and sand have been strong in the past few days, and when the wind blows, there are no clues." ” Cheng Muyou's face became more and more solemn, he waved his hand on Jiao Xiaomei's corpse, temporarily driving away the flies that fell on it, and stared at her with a pair of eyes without moving, "Shi Fei Shi Jin, have you two brothers ever seen skinning?"
” Shi Jin rubbed his nose, "I haven't seen people skinned, but I've seen people skin sheepskin before." ” "Look at Jiao Xiaomei, what do you think is the difference between her and the skinned sheep?"
Shi Jin tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally said in a whisper, "The sheep has four legs, and she has two legs."
Shi Fei patted his brother on the head, "Idiot, even if he hasn't been skinned, everyone knows that people have two legs and sheep have four legs." ” Shi Jin touched the place where he was hurting, "Then you say, what's the difference between them, aren't they all blurred flesh and blood, and they can't even tell what they look like."
Shi Fei shook his head helplessly, and saluted Cheng Mu, "My lord, animals that are skinned often have uneven bodies, because the strength is difficult to maintain consistency in the process of skinning, and sometimes the strength is too strong, and it will be torn off with the meat, so the body is basically pitted, but this little sister Jiao, why is her body so smooth, as if the skin, the skin is peeled off by herself." ” Cheng Muyou nodded approvingly, "You are right, peeling and molting are completely different, you look at that snake, molting two to three times a year, sometimes as many as a dozen times, after molting, the body is smoother and smoother, and it will never be as ugly as being skinned." ” "Could it be that Jiao Xiaomei molted her own skin?
She's not a snake.
Shi Jin grabbed his head and stared at Jiao Xiaomei's corpse.
"Anyway, this thing is weird, you must not be careless."
As he spoke, a servant's voice came from the depths of the room, "My lord, my lord, here is a discovery." ” Cheng Muyou and the Shi brothers hurriedly stood up and walked inside, and when they saw them coming, the official pointed to the corner in front of them, "My lord, come and see, what is that trace?"
It looks weird. ” Cheng Mu walked over, this is the corner of the wall, and there is a stone pillar in front of it, so this small space is very dusty and has not been blown away by the wind.
On this layer of gray dust, there were two boxy black marks, about the width of an adult's palm, but only half the length of a palm, one in front and one behind, one on the left and one on the right, on the half-foot-high pile of dust in the corner.
"What is this?"
Shi Jin stretched out his hand to touch it, but was slapped by Cheng Muyou on the back of his hand.
"How many times have I taught you, things on the scene can't be moved, so you go to find a painter and ask him to draw this pair of prints, so that we can compare them in the future."
Cheng Muyou frowned and stood up, he looked around, and felt that this room was full of weirdness: Jiao Xiaomei's skin was silently peeled off, and the human skin was taken away, it can be seen that the purpose of that person is human skin, not for anything else. ” Human skin.
His heart shrank suddenly: human skin.
Isn't there a man he knows who wears a human skin?
That man, on the night of the lunar eclipse, was also outside.
"My lord, I think this thing is very weird, do you want to ask Miss Yan to come and see it?"
Shi Fei asked for instructions behind him.
"No, you don't."
His expression was grim, and he said these two words resolutely and resolutely.