Inside the house, the maids and servants formed a circle.

In the center of the crowd, on a long table, lay a stiff corpse, looking very scary.

"When and where was this found?"

At the table, Zhao Han looked at the corpse and asked Cao Yong.

It turned out that in the early hours of this morning, a servant found a man wearing a mage's clothes lying under a tree to the east of the manor.

The servant thought it was a drunk guest and wanted to wake him up. When he got closer, he discovered that it was a corpse. He was so frightened that he fainted.

After a long time, he woke up and ran back to the village to report to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong was shocked and quickly found someone to carry the body back.

The second master, Xu Wangxian, was weak and could not bear such a shock. He did not dare to be alarmed. After much thought, he thought of asking someone from the Yamen for help.

He first went to Jiang Huai, who had the highest official position.

When Jiang Huai heard that the person was dead, his face immediately changed color, and he said that he was only here to supervise, and he didn't care about solving the case, and asked Cao Yong to find those mages.

When Cao Yong mentioned the mage, the first thing he thought of was Zhao Han. He immediately searched for him all over the village, and it took him a long time to find them.

Zhao Han listened carefully, then personally took off all the clothes on the corpse and observed it carefully.

Cao Yong and everyone else felt sick. They covered their eyes, backed away, and even vomited.

This is a corpse that can be called "complete".

He was lying on his back, his head, body, hands and feet almost intact.

There were only some dark purple corpse spots on the skin on the lower back, which made people shudder to see them.

Zhao Han walked around the corpse, constantly observing and thinking about something.

Luo Yuer also looked at it carefully, and from time to time even got very close to take a look.

Seeing those slaves, they felt nauseous and wanted to vomit again.

"I admire you, Sister Xiang'er..."

Jiang Wuwei covered his nose. Xi Tianci was also scared and hid far away.

"Zhao Han," Luo Yu'er said, "Looking at the appearance of these corpse spots, this man should have died around three o'clock last night, which happened to be when we were at the pass."

"Yu'er, have you really learned the art of writing?"

"Of course, daddy taught me."

"Is it okay for uncle to abuse his daughter like this?"

"Go away... My father said that he only has me as his daughter. If he doesn't pass his skills on to me, who else will he pass it on to?

"Then do you recognize this person?" Zhao Han asked.

"It's one of the three mages at the courtyard gate yesterday."

"The one who takes the lead?"

"No, it's one of the two skinny guys at the back."

"Then how did this man die?"

Identification of the cause of death is one of the skills of his work.

Luo Yu'er shook her head, "This man is from head to toe, with only a few bruises on his calves. This should be from the beating you gave him yesterday.

Such a small injury could never be fatal.

In other places, there were no signs of injury at all.

Let's talk about poisoning, but generally people who are poisoned will have traces of poisonous gas exposed on their bodies.

The eyes, nails, earlobes, or the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet, the Tanzhong point on the chest, etc., will all be a little strange.

But this man has nothing.

I've also seen his mouth..."

Luo Yu'er pointed at the corpse's large mouth, which was full of gray and yellow teeth:

"There is no trace of poison here.

This corpse is covered in parts, if there is anything special about it, this is the only one."

On the neck of the corpse, there was a light purple mark, the size of a peanut, which was extremely difficult to detect.

"Isn't this just the corpse stain?" Jiang Wuwei held his nose and came over.

"It's not like that."

Luo Yuer said, "Corpse spots are when a person dies and the blood in the body stops flowing. It gathers in low places and piles under the human skin, forming corpse spots.

The corpse was lying face up and back down. Even if there were corpse spots on the neck, they should be on the back of the neck.

But this purple spot happened to be on the neck and close to the chin. Moreover, the purple was too bright and did not look like a corpse spot at all.

It's a pity that I didn't study it carefully when my father taught me. Otherwise, maybe I would know what it is.

Maybe, this is the cause of this man’s death.”

"That's not right." Zhao Han said.

"What's wrong?"

"On this person's body," Zhao Han said, "in addition to this purple spot, there is another strange thing."

He pointed at the corpse's eyes.

On that deathly gray face, the two small eyes and mouth were wide open.

The two hands moved forward and backward, frozen in the air, as if they were trying to push away something terrible.

"Poor guy," Jiang Wuwei said, "before he died, he must have seen something scary."

Luo Yuer seemed to have thought of something:

"Could it be Gao Chang Li Gui? Did Li Gui kill him?"

A chill suddenly appeared from the soles of everyone around him.

"No way?"

Jiang Wuwei whispered, "Didn't we drive that thing outside last night?

Right, a godsend?"

"Yes...right..." Xi Tianci said.

"But then it disappeared again."

Luo Yuer said, "Besides, Zhao Han also said before that this might be to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Maybe it lured me out first, lured the tiger away from the mountain, and then came back to harm people?"

"Won't."

Zhao Han said, "Snake Tooth Pass and the location where the body was found are far apart, one in the south and the other in the north.

Judging from the time of death of the corpse, this man died exactly at the time when we encountered the "viper ghost" at the pass last night.

There are all kinds of strange ghosts in the world, and some are able to travel quickly due to the creation of heaven and earth.

But even if you could fly, you couldn't travel between two places in such a short time.

And I have a feeling that last night, the evil ghost didn't leave the pass very far at all.

It's just that I've exhausted all my detection spells, but I can't see a trace of ghost energy, and I can't find it.

Besides, if it is really to 'tune the tiger away from the mountain', then the ones who should be transferred away are those mages who know magic and may threaten the evil ghosts.

Yu'er, you don't know magic. The devil doesn't have to be afraid of you at all. What does it 'tune' you for?

Looking for a job by yourself?"

"Then let's put it this way," Luo Yu'er said, "This man was not harmed by a powerful ghost.

Who could that be?”

"That's the weirdest thing.

Yu'er, look at his eyes again."

Luo Yuer looked over again.

The pupils were dilated and lifeless, just like an ordinary dead person.

"In the center." Zhao Han said.

Luo Yu'er moved closer.

The scattered eyes were white and dull.

Right in the middle, there seems to be a small green to black spot, too small to be noticed.

"What's this?"
To be continued...