Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, I was working as a detective in Chang'an

If we want to find a breakthrough in the case of this female ghost, we must first find her body.

So, we followed the place she mentioned and found a mass grave on the edge of Qujiang River. This is a place far away from Chang'an County. In the far south, people with no money or power are basically buried here. Some simply set up a tombstone, and some just dig a pit and bury them.

The fat man and I came here with our tools during the day. Even though the sky was bright and the sun was shining brightly, we still felt extremely eerie and scary. The vegetation here was lush, blocking the sky and the sun, and there were graves everywhere with scattered white hangings on them. , yellow paper ties make people feel even more panicked.

It is quiet here, there is no sound, so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat. Even though it is broad daylight, you can't help but feel a bit chilly. At this time, I don’t know what kind of bird it was. It screamed, shrill and sharp, piercing the sky. It flapped its wings and flew into the distance. Fatty and I were startled. We cursed this beast in our hearts, what are you doing? to scare us.

I groaned secretly in my heart. It seemed that this trip was really not easy.

This mass grave is not a very big place, so I told Fatty to look for new graves that had been dug recently and did not have tombstones. We searched separately in order to find Lin Wan'er's grave as soon as possible.

The tombs here seemed to be quite old, so it was not difficult to find a new tomb. After searching for about a stick of incense, I finally found a new tomb. This grave looks like other ownerless graves, just a mound of newly cultivated soil.

We started digging the grave and soon unearthed a corpse. The corpse was buried prone, with only a trunk and limbs and no head.

This corpse did not have a coffin, but was buried directly in the soil. The fat man and I carefully piled the soil around the corpse with shovels. It was June at this time, and the weather was very hot. The body was buried in the soil to cut off the air, so the body's degree of decay was not very serious, but there were also many maggots crawling in and out of the clothes.

The fat man knelt down and looked at the corpse carefully. He confirmed that it was a female corpse. She was wearing a crimson skirt, purple bottom skirt, and a pair of red embroidered shoes.

Her head was cut off from the neck. The fat man looked at the wound on the neck and said, "It looks like it was cut with a sharp weapon like an axe. It was like the head was cut off after death!"

I asked, "How do you know she was beheaded after death?"

The fat man pointed to a section of the neck and head and said: "Look carefully at this wound. If someone had been beheaded before death, the wound would have some curls. This is the reaction of the person in death, but this incision is relatively smooth. And the ax was very sharp, and it only took one use to chop off the person’s head.”

I asked the fat man: "How long has she been dead?"

The fat man frowned and said, "Judging from the size of the maggots, she has been dead for almost half a month."

I was surprised: "Ah, can you tell the time of death from these maggots?"

"Well, I have done experiments, raised maggots, observed the time from eggs to adults, and made detailed records. There are only conditional restrictions, such as dryness and humidity of the environment, but the difference is not too big. "

After hearing this, I was amazed. This fat man really had a strong taste. Looking at the corpse, I felt like vomiting, but I couldn't lose to the fat man, so I held it back.

The fat man and I tried to turn her body over, and the fat man slowly untied her coat. At this time, a fishy smell hit our faces, and there was a sharp knife stuck in her chest! It was strange that her coat was clean, but the middle coat, or underwear, was soaked in blood so that the color could not be seen.

The fat man carefully opened her tunic a little, and suddenly found a piece of yellow paper stuffed inside. Looking at the piece of paper, there was a talisman drawn with blood. This talisman was very strange. I had never seen it before!

The fat man said: "No wonder Lin Wan'er didn't remember anything after her death. It was because of this talisman."

"What kind of talisman is this?"

"It's called the Soul Capture Talisman. The person who killed her was afraid that she would turn into a ghost after death and seek revenge on him, so he put a Soul Capture Talisman on the deceased to make her forget the experience of being killed, and also to make the victim never The inability to be reincarnated is a very evil spell. If a person who is cursed cannot be reincarnated for 49 days, he will forever turn into a ghost and harm the world, but the person who harmed him will not be found."

Is there such a vicious spell in this world?

The fat man told me that this place was not suitable for autopsy and that the body needed to be moved to Yizhuang for further examination. So I asked Fatty to guard here while I went to the Yamen to ask someone to move Lin Wan'er's body to Yizhuang.

The fat man began to examine Lin Wan'er's body. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the Yi Zhuang became dark and gloomy. Several unknown corpses have small wooden signs hanging on their feet with numbers written on them, waiting for relatives to identify them. If they are not identified, they will be put into a thin-skinned coffin and buried hastily, which can be considered as a final resting place.

He first carefully took off the outermost skirt of Lin Wan'er, then pulled out the sharp knife from her chest and placed it on a plate on the table next to her. Then he slowly took off Lin Wan'er's middle coat, and a naked, headless female corpse lay quietly on the wooden board.

He asked me to get a pen and paper and asked me to write it down.

The fat man said: "It was obvious that she was stabbed to death with a knife. The knife was a sharp bone-cutting knife, four inches long. After her death, her head was chopped off with a sharp weapon such as a machete or an axe. It was very neat. The head was chopped off at once, it seems the murderer was very strong."

Next, the fat man spread Lin Wan'er's legs for inspection. He told me that Lin Wan'er was still a virgin, which made me feel more comfortable. But the fat man added: "Although I was a virgin, someone tried to rape me!"

"Ah! Attempted rape?"

"You see there are bruises on her thighs. These are not corpse bruises, but bruises caused by pinching with hands. Her vulva is red and swollen, and her breasts have traces of being scratched and pinched. This shows that the murderer wanted to commit rape, but For some reason, it was not possible to continue, and the deceased was molested and abused! This shows that something unexpected happened during the rape, or that this person is not very good at that."

What a fucking pervert!

Next, the fat man raised Lin Wan'er's hand and looked at it carefully. Then he took out a small shovel-like tool from his special box and scraped out some black powdery substance from Lin Wan'er's fingernails.

I asked: "What is this?"

The fat man said: "It's like powder that has solidified after the ink has dried. Get a bowl and pour water into it for me." I quickly went to get a small bowl, poured half a bowl of water, and handed it to the fat man.

The fat man poured the powder into the water. The powder melted when it met the water. After a while, the water changed color. It seemed that it was indeed ink for writing.

"Why is there ink left in her nails?"

"This may be the clue she left us. Lin Wan'er is a very delicate woman, and her middle coat is also very particular. Although it is stained by blood, the material is high-quality silk, and the rose pattern embroidered on it is like It can be seen that it is Su embroidery, which is very expensive, and she wears a gold bracelet on her wrist. Her hands are very delicate and have no traces of rough work. How could such a delicate and wealthy woman allow dirt in her nails? What? It must have been that she grabbed something while struggling, and the ink on the object had not yet dried, so it remained in her nails."

I thought for a while and said, "The gold bracelet on her hand was not taken away, which means that the murderer was not a revolt for wealth, and there was a vicious charm on it. It seems that it was either a vendetta or a love killing."

The fat man said: "This is not certain yet, but what is certain is that the murderer and the deceased must have known each other. You see, her coat was put on after someone had beheaded her head and bled it, and she was dressed very well. Being careful shows that the murderer wanted to preserve the last dignity of the deceased."