Chapter 235

"Hmm? Is my eyes playing tricks on me?" Liu Tong suddenly said, "There are words on this bone."

Reminded by him, Qi Fei put on latex gloves and wiped away the clay on it. He saw a sentence clearly carved on the bone: "Congratulations on finding me, guess who I am?"

This sounded playful, but it made people's hair stand on end.

"Heh, quite playful," Liu Tong said behind Qi Fei.

Qi Fei only felt creepy. These words were clearly imitating the tone of the deceased to talk to them. The bones were very old, but the traces of the text carving were very new. Needless to ask, it should have been left by Xi He.

If it weren't for the rain, they wouldn't have discovered these white bones so quickly.

Qi Fei faced Xi He's terror for the first time—he not only planned to take action on the day Lu Man arrived, but even considered the weather—this must be a heavy rainy day, the rain must be heavy enough to wash away the soil Lu Man dug up, exposing the white bones under the maple tree roots, and he did all this just for fun.

Like an archaeological excavation, the soil under the maple tree was constantly dug up, and a complete human skeleton appeared in everyone's sight.

These bones, in the posture of a baby, head down, curled up under the maple tree, with fine roots embedded in every joint gap and the hollow eye sockets of the skull.

The deceased and the maple tree full of vitality were intertwined, a scene of indescribable mystery.

That sentence was carved on its tibia: "Guess who I am?"

Below the tibia, the grinning corner of the skull seemed to be reciting this sentence with a sneer.

Xiao Tao held up the skull and observed it carefully under the shadowless lamp, as if admiring a work of art: "This is really an excellent skull."

"The point is, the information of this skeleton..." Qi Fei was anxious on the side. He couldn't understand Xiao Tao's niche aesthetic.

For him, this was just evidence, there was no beauty or ugliness.

"Male, age at death around thirty, there are stab marks on the fourth rib on the left. The deceased was stabbed before death, considering it a possible cause of death." Xiao Tao pointed to the stab marks with tweezers.

Qi Fei squatted halfway, his face almost sticking to the stainless steel dissection table, staring at the stab marks: "The angle is from the lower left to the upper right, which means..."

Before he finished speaking, a hand had already grabbed his back, making him straighten up and turn around.

The person who grabbed him was Zhong Kui, or rather, Zhong Xiaoyu.

She didn't know where she grabbed a scalpel, grabbed his arm with one hand, and had already held the knife against his rib with the other.

Her eyes flashed with a cold, fierce light that made people fear, like a mother wolf that had been dormant for a long time.

At this moment, Qi Fei felt a chill in his heart, convinced that she was going to stab this knife down.

Just when he was panicked, Zhong Xiaoyu's face relaxed and said: "Just like this, the other party is shorter than the deceased, close to our height difference, so either the other party is a very short male, or a female close to my height." When mentioning the latter, Zhong Xiaoyu's eyes were gray and dull, and there seemed to be undercurrents in her black pupils, wanting to swallow Qi Fei's secret uneasiness. "You know, a three-year-old child can't do these things."

Three-year-old child, Zhong Xiaoyu was referring to Xi He, Qi Fei knew.

However, at this moment, he would rather this murderer be that three-year-old child. No matter what, this answer was not as absurd as another suspicion.

That maple tree was planted by his mother Xi Zi Yun with her own hands, which meant that these white bones had something to do with Xi Zi Yun no matter what.

However, his mother was so gentle and kind, it could be said that she was the warmest background color in his life, how could she be involved in a murder case?!

He stumbled and hit the stainless steel cabinet on the side. The cold instruments on the cabinet made a noisy collision sound, concretizing his panic at this moment.

"It's really interesting. Xi He told me about his childhood, his love for his mother, his hatred for his father, everything is classic like that ancient myth of killing the father and marrying the mother. In Xi He's narration, Xi Zi Yun is always a perfect existence like an angel. However, he talked about those strange dreams he had, dreams where his mother and womb were filled with bloody and dark tones. I always thought this was a reflection of his own dark side.

It seems I was wrong.

I didn't see through Xi He after all."

Zhong Xiaoyu's words, Qi Fei didn't want to understand, and stubbornly said: "This is Xi He's trick. You know him so well, don't you know the truth that it's too early to draw conclusions?"

"Excellent detective, instead of arguing with me here, you'd better prove me wrong with action." Zhong Xiaoyu's expression was very strange, that kind of contemptuous mockery, which he had never seen on Zhong Kui's face.

He missed that Zhong Kui who always stood firmly on his side. This thought crossed his mind and was betrayed to Zhong Xiaoyu through that subtle expression.

Like a devil's deal, Zhong Xiaoyu leaned close to Qi Fei and whispered: "I promise you, as long as you bring Xi He to me and let me have a conclusion with him, once my wish is fulfilled, I will let this skin be given to Zhong Kui and return her to you."

Qi Fei looked at this woman whose face was familiar but whose feeling was so strange, and didn't believe her words at this moment. After all, she had made an agreement with Zhong Kui with the same rhetoric, and didn't do it in the end.

However, he had no choice.

"Hmm? This person's hand is very strange." Xiao Tao's words interrupted the subtle confrontation between Qi Fei and Zhong Xiaoyu.

The two turned their heads at the same time and saw Xiao Tao carefully piecing together the various finger bones, piecing them into the shape of a palm: "His finger bones are bent."

"What do you mean?" Qi Fei asked uncomprehendingly.

Xiao Tao moved the human skeleton model that had been placed in the corner of the wall for a long time, grabbed the skull's palm and placed it next to the deceased's finger bones to explain: "Normal finger bones are connected like this straight, one section after another through joints, but this person's finger bones themselves have an arc, they are bent. This is an obvious deformity, but I can't judge whether this deformity is congenital or acquired."

Qi Fei couldn't help but look at his own palm after being told by Xiao Tao.

"Hmm, I seem to have seen this situation somewhere." Zhong Xiaoyu walked to Qi Fei's side, frowned, and looked a bit painful.

"Where?" Qi Fei pressed.

Zhong Xiaoyu's mouth parted slightly, and she hesitated to say three words: "Sanwu Town."

"Sanwu Town?" Qi Fei was excited when he heard this place, because this was where Zhong Kui lived. In a sense, if Zhong Xiaoyu's hometown was Baicheng, then Zhong Kui's hometown was Sanwu Town. Intuition told him that Zhong Xiaoyu didn't want to mention this place.

(End of chapter)