withered prosperity

The female disciple who was attacked was quickly found, or in other words, her body was found very quickly.

The disciples in Shangge of Chaomu Pavilion spend one year of training outside every five years, and almost everyone can be regarded as well-informed.

But even so, when seeing this corpse, almost everyone couldn't bear to look directly at it, and even some female disciples who were acquainted with her on weekdays burst into tears on the spot.

Especially the two disciples who were on duty with her, their eyes were almost cracked, and they were filled with remorse.

"Strange." Pei Buyi asked Wei Heng, "Have you met him before?"

At this time, the two of them were in the ice room of the Zhaixing Building. The scene was exactly the same as the day before, except that the corpse in front of them was changed.

"No." Wei Heng shook his head.

Pei Buyi turned to look at the table again.

The murdered female disciple was only about twenty years old, her waist and abdomen were bloody, and her young face showed a horrified expression.

"The wound is not neat, and it was not injured by a sharp weapon." Wei Heng came to a preliminary conclusion. "It's like the work of a wild animal."

"Since the accident happened and the body was found, it was just a cup of tea." Li Ke at the side reminded him: "And no disciple reported seeing any traces of wild beasts."

"No." Pei Buyi nodded in agreement, "There are no predators nearby."

Chaomu Pavilion occupies almost half of Qianqiu Mountain, wild beasts avoid people, and rarely haunt the vicinity.

"Wait." Wei Heng moved closer, and Pei Buyi hurriedly followed.

Li Ke raised his head to look at Ye Mingzhu, and felt that the scene of rummaging through the flesh and blood was a bit scary, but due to his duty, he couldn't do anything like those old men drinking tea and chatting there.

"What?" Pei Buyi stared at the thing that Wei Heng had pulled out with a slender bamboo clip.

Then he let out a "huh" and exchanged glances with Wei Heng, who was also dignified.

"Elder Li." The two of them put the thing on a silver tray and handed it to Li Ke for inspection.

"This is..." Li Ke looked around, but couldn't see why, and asked hesitantly, "What is it?"

"Nails." Wei Heng told him: "A woman's nails."

"Her nails are broken?"

"No." Pei Buyi grabbed the dead man's hand and showed him: "No."

Only then did Li Ke see clearly that the dead man's fingers were trimmed clean without any nails.

People who practice martial arts, even if she is a woman, would not have such long nails.

However, the nails in the silver plate were round and graceful and more than an inch long, obviously not the deceased's own.

"The nail is embedded in the wound."

Li Ke didn't understand at first.

"I don't think she encountered a wild beast, but was torn open by someone and died."

"What?" Li Ke was taken aback.

Although people often say things like "I'll tear you apart", in fact, human flesh is quite tight, and it's not easy to tear it apart with bare hands. Of course, it's not difficult for someone who knows martial arts, but this kind of thing is always extremely rare .

After all, if it was really going to be ripped apart, not many people would just leave a sharp weapon unused and really tear someone apart with their bare hands.

"It's too...but she is very good at martial arts, if she has internal strength to protect her body, how can she..."

"We have checked just now. When her waist and abdomen were torn apart, she had no power to resist." Wei Heng explained to him: "It is very likely that she was poisoned by a powerful drug and could not move."

"The womb is gone." Pei Buyi raised his bloody hand and said to the two of them with a very serious expression.

The meeting hall on the second floor of Mingyue Building was full of people.

There are five elders in Chaomu Pavilion, except for Mei Yi who doesn't care about common matters all the year round, the remaining four are all present.

Lin Zhian lost his beloved disciple, and his excitement had just calmed down, but he was once again irritated by the news brought by Li Ke.

"What are you talking about? You were cut open to death with your bare hands? And the womb was taken away?" He immediately jumped up from the chair: "There is such a sensational thing! Fingers!"

"Elder Lin, be safe and don't be impatient." Yun Ji sat on the main seat with one hand propped on his chin. Because the incident happened in a hurry, his hair was still loose, and his long hair was implicated by the armrest of the chair back carved with complicated patterns. , like meandering black silk strands, but his expression is cold and stern at the moment, making people dare not even think about it.

"There have been accidents in the pavilion in the past two days, and the murderer is most likely still staying nearby." After pondering for a while, he ordered: "Let all the disciples who are nearby come back, even if they search every inch of Qianqiu Mountain, We must also find out the daring murderer."

"However, there is one thing that is very strange! Why was the womb taken away?" Elder Hu, who had been silent all this time, asked, "According to Mr. Pei's diagnosis, I think it seems that the waist and abdomen were ripped open to remove the womb. But the uterus..."

A woman's womb is not a clean thing either, so it would be unusual if it was deliberately dug out.

"I remember that there was a very famous killer in the early years. It seemed that every time he killed someone, he liked to poach the eyes of the dead and keep them." Elder Qiu Qiu Chang'an, who was sitting opposite him, answered coldly: "People in the world have a penchant for weirdness. There are so many, there might be someone who likes the womb, it's nothing unusual."

Hu Mingqi was too lazy to argue with him, so he turned to Yunji and said, "Pavilion Master, there are still distinguished guests in the pavilion. If we search the mountains wantonly, will we disturb them?"

"You are such a nonsense basket, you still care about such things at this time!" Qiu Changan snorted, "Those 'visitors' will probably be very happy when they hear Soushan! Compared to life, 'disturbing' is nothing What?"

Hu Mingqi coughed and pretended not to hear.

"Although the disciples of the pavilion were involved in the accident, the murder case of the Bai family is still full of fog. There is also no clue about the disappearance of disciples from other sects in the mountain. How big Qianqiu Mountain can be, such bizarre incidents appear one after another. I’m afraid there must be something related to it.” Yunji said his decision: “The matter of searching the mountain must be carried out as soon as possible to avoid any accidents. If the elders have no opinions, please go back and make arrangements, and then we will Elder Li dispatched them in unison."

After he said that, everyone didn't have much to say, and they all resigned to make preparations.

Yun Ji discussed with Li Ke how to proceed. Although he said just now that every detail must be screened, manpower is limited after all, and how to deploy is the most critical.

After Li Ke left, Yun Ji suddenly felt a little bored facing the empty meeting hall.

Since he became the pavilion master, he has to deal with all kinds of tedious things. Although he can handle it with ease, sometimes he feels too disturbed in his heart.What's more, in the Chaomu Pavilion, there have always been open and secret struggles between disciples and elders. He went from the lower court to the upper court, and finally became the pavilion master. Let alone experienced it, even if he watched it, he was tired of watching it.

Since he was born, then he knew the world, and now, there are only a few periods of time, and he has not been eroded by this kind of intrigue.

Among them, the most recent period was the few years when he became the direct disciple of the Pavilion Master and lived in Zhaoming Garden.

So his tolerance towards Yan Hai was also due to Gu Nian's comfortable time.

Yun Ji stood up and walked to the east window. At this time, the sun had just risen and coated everything with gold.

He looked at it for a while, and was about to leave when the door of the small building in the corner of his eyes was suddenly opened.

Although this window was quite far from the small building, with his eyesight, he could still clearly see Yan Hai coming out of the building.

Where is he going?

Yun Ji looked at him, thinking of various possibilities.

But Yan Hai was actually just standing there, as if waiting for someone.

Yun Ji originally wanted to stand behind the window, but felt that he had no reason to avoid it.

But after standing for so long, Yan Hai didn't look up here, but looked outside frequently.

Yun Ji looked at him, and the irritability in his heart increased a bit.

Soon, the people waiting for Yan Hai arrived.

"Wei... Heng?"

Yan Hai and Wei Heng stood there and said a few words, and gave him something, and Wei Heng put it in his sleeve and put it away.

Unlike strangers, do they know each other?

The guard Heng turned around and left, Yan Hai was standing there...

It was not until Wei Heng's back could no longer be seen that Yan Hai raised his head and took a look this way.

Yun Ji stood behind the window, and the sunlight shone through the pane on his face, showing a somewhat hideous appearance...