"I, Hou Mo Liuming, have saved countless lives in my life, but I never thought that in my old age, I would see the body of my own daughter in my own home!"
"And the murderer is among the patients I am about to treat!"
"It's really... pathetic, lamentable and ridiculous!"
Hou Mo's questioning came with an echo, reverberating from all directions, and everyone seemed to be in a valley.
Yang Zheng withstood the pressure from the roar and clasped his fists, saying, "This is not what we want to see happen. The murderer is certainly hateful, but I hope the Medical Saint can control his emotions and not vent his anger on innocent people!"
"Turning your anger out on others? This kid just said it himself that the murderer is among you! Or, each of you is an accomplice!" Hou Moliuming snorted angrily.
"How can you be so arbitrary!" Jin Fugui quickly shouted that it was unfair: "Maybe there is a murderer, but most of us are innocent!"
The spear master clasped his fists and said, "The Medical Saint cured my niece yesterday. I am grateful to him. How could I attack Miss Hou Molan?"
"Are all of you wronged?" Hou Moliuming stood with his hands behind his back, facing the crowd, his fist clenched tightly behind his back, "But the one who was wronged the most was my daughter who died for no reason!"
"I know the Medical Saint is heartbroken. It is a tragedy for an old man to send off a young man." The Ninth Princess took the initiative to step forward and comforted him, saying, "I can make a solemn promise to bring the murderer to justice and give Miss Hou Molan justice!"
"This matter involves the blood-stained clothes case, and it may also be an act of revenge for the medical saint's rescue of people. Miss Lan's death is really strange, and there are many doubts. Please give us some time to find out the truth!"
The Medical Saint was silent for two seconds, and then his voice became more questioning: "Are you really going to find out?"
"I will!" The Ninth Princess promised: "I swear in the name of the Royal Princess!"
"Okay!" Hou Moliu Ming agreed: "I believe in your oath."
However, before others could show their joy.
The Medical Saint's next words made everyone change color again.
"However, before the truth is revealed, you are not allowed to leave Baicao Valley!"
"I have opened the Huzhongtian formation that Wu Jue Weng personally set up. Anyone who wants to break in or leave secretly will be confused by the formation. At the same time, there are many poisonous insects and poisonous plants raised outside the Baicao Valley, and there are even deadly poisons hidden in the fog..."
"Unless I close this formation, you will not be able to get out now."
When everyone heard this, their expressions changed drastically.
The spear master was stunned and immediately said, "The Medical Saint is trying to trap us here!"
“If you can’t find the real murderer of my daughter, then you can only stay here!” Hou Moliuming’s voice was filled with cold anger, calm yet crazy: “I’ll give you seven days. If you don’t hand over the murderer within seven days, the poisonous fog will spread to the entire Baicao Valley. Even if you are canonized, you will suffer a lot! As for those who are not canonized, don’t expect to leave alive!”
Hear this.
Huang Qiyun's expression changed. Are they going to perish together? !
If the murderer is not found, will everyone be left behind to be buried with him?
What kind of medical saint is this? A mad saint, right?
However, after hearing this... the first ones to get angry were not the Ninth Princess and Yang Zheng, or rather, it was the Ninth Princess who stopped Yang Diao Si from getting furious.
The one who completely lost his temper was Jin Fugui. He yelled, "You bastard Hou Moliuming! Are you trying to kill me to silence me?"
"For three years, I have spent all my family wealth to ask you to treat my illness. I have been very polite to you. I have spent no less than ten thousand taels of gold!"
"I didn't satisfy you, but you still can't cure my illness! You even want to trap me here to death!"
Jin Fugui was furious and heartbroken.
He had originally lost hope in the medical skills of the Medical Saint. His patience had been exhausted over the past three years. The friendly attitude he maintained this time was just a disguise. Now his mentality had exploded and they were completely at odds with each other.
Hou Moliuming said coldly: "I told you three years ago that your illness might not be cured! You injured your roots in a duel a few years ago, so who can you blame for not having an heir!"
"You fart!"
Jin Fugui transformed into a tiger king, pointed at the medical sage and cursed: "You only treated my illness once fifteen years ago! Let me consolidate my body and energy for ten years before returning to see you for a follow-up visit, and by then you can cure my illness! But ten years later, your medical skills have declined, and you can't cure my illness, but you still deceived me for three whole years!"
"You old man, how can you have any medical ethics or compassion! You are clearly a heartless person who takes human life lightly and is worse than pigs and dogs!"
"Shut up!" The Medical Saint shouted angrily, "No matter what you think, it has nothing to do with me. I only want the murderer! Bring the murderer to me within seven days, otherwise... you will all be buried with my daughter!"
On-site atmosphere tension +50
Just at this moment, a light voice was heard.
"Why would it take seven days?"
"It only takes three days."
The young man walked out of the crowd, with slow steps and a calm demeanor. He looked so confident that people even subconsciously ignored the arrogant words he said.
Even Hou Moliuming was shocked after hearing this sentence.
"Are you crazy!" Yang Diaosi said angrily.
"I am very sober." Bai Yu said calmly, "If you can't solve the case within three days, I will bring my head to you."
"You said it!" The Medical Saint confirmed this sentence: "If you can't do it, your head will be hung on the gate of Baicao Villa!"
"But if I can solve the case within three days..." Bai Yu continued, "During these three days, please stay in the pavilion and don't go out."
"No need for you to say more!"
Hou Moliuming waved his sleeves violently, and there seemed to be wind and thunder hidden in his sleeves, and bells rang loudly. He walked towards the center of the pavilion. At the same time, a figure wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat stood on the only road leading to the pavilion.
He stood there with his hands clasped together, holding a paddle. His raised face was covered with a bronze mask, on which was engraved the word "Gongshu" in ancient seal script.
"Gongshu Family's Semi-Saint Puppet!" Yang Zheng recognized it at a glance: "This is an ancestral item of the Gongshu Family. It is rumored that there are less than nine of them, and they were passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period. Surprisingly, one of them will be left in the hands of the Medical Saint."
"It is rumored that this half-saint puppet is powerful enough to fight against a martial saint. If we don't care about the damage, it can even kill a martial saint one-on-one!"
"It's just that he only has one." Jin Fugui said: "What if we work together to control this puppet and then control the Medical Saint?"
"No." The Ninth Princess rejected it directly: "I will never allow you to harm the Medical Saint!"
Yang Zheng said calmly: "Manager Jin may be a little tired."
Jin Fugui glanced at the noble princess and reacted at this time. He bowed and said, "I was wrong. I was so angry that I said some nonsense."
Yang Zheng said calmly: "Manager Jin may be a little tired."
Huang Qiyun watched coldly from the side, thinking to himself that this group of people were only physically united but spiritually divided.
Everyone has their own goals and ideas.
The Ninth Princess did not want to use force against the Medical Saint, not because she was kind, nor because she really wanted to know who the murderer was, but because her blood poison needed treatment, and the only one who could cure her was Hou Moliuming... Once coercive measures were taken against him, the Medical Saint would no longer treat her, and she would then be dead.
Yang Zheng also knew this, so he always remained restrained in his attitude towards the Medical Saint.
Jin Fugui really wanted to take revenge on the Medical Saint, but he didn't dare to do so because the Ninth Princess was of noble status and Yang Diaosi could kill him with just one slap.
As for the gun master's position, he remained very calm.
Although he came here to treat internal injuries, internal injuries can heal themselves slowly.
The biggest problem at the moment is that the Medical Saint refuses to let the person go, which puts him in a dilemma... If it comes to a critical moment, his position may change. Will he choose to control the Medical Saint at that time, or will he do nothing else? But for now, he still supports Bai Yu in finding the murderer.
"Sir, let me confirm it again." The Ninth Princess walked up to Bai Yu and even held his hand anxiously: "Can you really find the real murderer within three days?"
"Not before, but now... I'm at least 70% sure." Bai Yu replied.
"Do you already know who the murderer is?"
"Just knowing is useless, we need evidence... guesses are guesses, intuition is intuition." Bai Yu said mysteriously: "Besides, there are still some key points that I haven't thought through clearly."
"As long as you are sure." The Ninth Princess looked at him seriously: "My life is now in your hands!"
"Next, no matter what you want to do, I will support you wholeheartedly!"
"You must find the murderer for me!"
She gritted her teeth, her eyes revealing the intimidation of someone in a high position.
"I wish I could tear him into pieces!!"
……
Returned to the other courtyard.
Bai Yu felt a little hungry, so he asked the cook to continue cooking in the kitchen.
The others were ordered to stay together and supervise each other.
At the same time, he brought a few brave people along to go with him to perform the autopsy.
Bai Yu didn't really know much about autopsies, but he was a modern man after all, and had watched a lot of crime dramas, so he had some bits and pieces of knowledge.
It’s a pity that I don’t have any tape, otherwise I could try to extract some fingerprints from the body.
"What are you looking for?" The gun leader noticed Bai Yu checking every part of the body and asked.
"evidence."
"Don't look for it. The victims of the blood-stained clothes case usually died an unnatural death, and there are no clues left behind." Wu Qiangkui whispered: "The cause of death is exactly the same as my sister's. I also tried to catch the murderer, but..."
"As a relative of the victim, do you think this body is very standard?" Bai Yu asked, looking up.
"standard?"
"I mean, in your opinion, is it a copycat?" Bai Yu asked, "After all, the Bloody Clothes Case is a well-known murder case, and the real murderer has not been found yet. His method has long been spread, so is it possible that this is a copycat?"
Wu Qiangkui pondered for a moment, lost in thought and reminiscing.
In his eyes, this corpse was too similar to the one he saw that year.
He concluded: "It feels almost exactly the same to me."
"So, you think it's not the copycat murderer, but the murderer of the bloody clothes case himself." Bai Yu confirmed again: "Is that so?"
The gun master's eyes flickered: "I'm not sure."
"I thought you'd be ecstatic," Bai Yu said, distractedly. "We finally found clues to the murderer, and he's trapped in Baicao Valley. Shouldn't you be happy?"
"I'm not sure." Wu Qiangkui sighed. "It always feels a little unreal. After all, the blood-stained shirt case has resurfaced after so many years, and it happened among us... With all due respect, I have a very good intuition, but I don't think there is a murderer in this villa."
"intuition?"
"I am a warrior, so I naturally trust my intuition." The spear leader changed the subject and said, "So what did you see?"
"I can see a little bit." Bai Yu finished the simple autopsy: "Based on the results of observation, the deceased died from decapitation."
"Isn't this obvious?"
"But judging from the cross-section of the wound, she did not die from decapitation."
"What do you mean?" the spear leader asked.
"The wounds on her body showed inconsistent characteristics."
Bai Yu pointed casually at a wound on his body and said, "If the head was chopped off while the person was alive, the wound would have an active reaction, just like the wound on the wrist. The skin and flesh would shrink, the wound would turn outward, the blood would be brighter in color, showing purple-red, and there would be an inflammatory reaction."
"But here..." He pointed at the wound on his neck and said, "The cross-section of the wound on his neck is not bright red. Instead, it is white with red spots. The skin and flesh are not tight and turned outward. There is no inflammation reaction, and there is no sign of blood clotting."
"So what?" Yang Zheng, who was watching coldly from the side, asked while covering his mouth and nose with a handkerchief.
"She was beheaded after death." Bai Yu gestured a throat-cutting motion: "The other wounds on her body were concentrated at the point where the arteries of various parts of the body converged, and a large amount of blood was drained, so the inferred cause of death is..."
"Large amount of blood loss." Yang Zheng was slightly startled: "Have the bodies in the blood-stained clothes case in the past been checked in this aspect? Are they consistent?"
"Yes." The spear master nodded. "I remember now, A-mei's body was also like this... The officials at that time should have known this from the coroner, but they still claimed that she died by beheading. Why is that?"
"No matter why, it can be proved that... the deceased died of blood loss rather than beheading, which is consistent with the deaths in the past, and this news is not known to the public." Bai Yu glanced at the two people: "You should realize what this means, right?"
Yang Zheng's face was solemn: "So, the real murderer of the bloody clothes case is here!"
"To put it another way, even if he is a copycat, he must have a very deep understanding of the murderer's murder methods, otherwise he wouldn't have imitated them so vividly." Bai Yu rubbed his hands in the basin and used his Qi to evaporate the water stains: "Then it can be judged that the other party is also closely related to the blood-stained clothes case. As long as we catch him, the case will have a major breakthrough."
"Okay!" The Gun Master slapped his thigh heavily, his eyes sparkling with excitement as he asked, "What should we do next?"
"Don't worry... I haven't finished talking yet."
Bai Yu continued to look at the corpse.
"The bleeding process must have been very painful and time-consuming, but there was no sign of resistance on her body."
"Both her hands and feet were intact, with no signs of violence. Normally, when people see danger approaching, they will instinctively raise their hands, but there were no additional scars on her hands. They were intact, and there was not even any sign of being tied up repeatedly... This is very strange."
Yang Diaosi asked doubtfully, "You mean, she might have been knocked unconscious by someone..."
"I tend to think it was drugs." Bai Yu crossed his arms. "After all, there were no other injuries on her body. Whether it was a knock with a club or other methods, there should have been some traces left. Drugs are the most effective. I guess she was knocked unconscious and then bled dry."
“However, it is somewhat hard to imagine that the daughter of the Medical Saint would be knocked out by drugs,” said the Gun Master.
"She is too young, so it is possible that she was careless." Yang Zheng expressed his understanding: "Many young people have died due to carelessness. This is her residence, so she may not be suspicious of the guests."
"Maybe, but there is also a second possibility..." Bai Yu stared at the headless corpse, then shook his head and walked out of the morgue: "This is all I can see for now."
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