Xingyun Liushui

Breaking the waist and arranging the eight trigrams and six lines,

Blood skull point Tai Chi Liangyi.

Chu Xingyun pushed open the door of Li's house, and a bloody smell came out of his nostrils, which was disgusting.

At the high sill, a young man hit his head on the water tank, his brains burst.

Raising his head slightly, a middle-aged man died on his back on the steps. His forehead was sunken by a heavy weapon, and his eyeballs bulged out and fell to the side of his forehead.

Turning around again, it was a mature man's corpse, with his intestines broken, lying on the ground...

The remains of broken limbs are everywhere, shocking.

For a long time, Chu Xingyun stood silently like this, together with the case of extermination, with hundreds of resentful souls.How deep is the blood feud?How many mourning plain clothes.

However, feeling sad can't bring the dead back to life, only the arrest of the real murderer can comfort the dead.Chu Xingyun slowly paced in the huge open space, as if he was measuring something.There were a total of eight corpses on the open space, all of whom seemed to be some servants of Li's mansion, who died in various corners, in a horrific condition.

"Did you find anything?" Song Changfeng stepped forward and asked.

"Do you feel that from the moment you step here, there is a feeling of deja vu?" Chu Xingyun replied in a low voice.

"You mean..."

Xingyun didn't wait for him to speak, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said: "Song Changfeng, last night was March [-]th, right?"

"Yes, but what's the matter with this day...March [-]th!"

Song Changfeng also realized that seven years ago, on the [-]th night of March, the Mu family of the Hou family was exterminated.

That case was very tragic. More than 200 people in the Hou's mansion died unexpectedly.

Song Changfeng and Chu Xingyun were deeply impressed by this, because they were the ones who discovered the tragedy that year.

On that day seven years ago, the Song family was looking for something to do with Lord Hou, so Song Changfeng pulled Chu Xingyun early and stood with him in front of the Hou's mansion, but there was no answer after a long knock, so he took the liberty to open the door and entered, only to see severed limbs everywhere Wreckage, hell on earth...

After a long silence, Song Changfeng said slowly, "Do you think it's the same person?"

Chu Xingyun paused for a while, then nodded.

Song Changfeng frowned slightly: "Is it possible that someone deliberately chose the same day in order to pretend to be related to the Houmen case?"

"It's unlikely. It's been seven years since the Hou Men case, and all the corpses here are exactly the same as they were seven years ago."

The serial extermination case spanning seven years...

"how can that be?"

Song Changfeng immediately climbed up the steps and looked around the courtyard. The gutted corpse at the door was particularly tragic, but the more Song Changfeng looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Suddenly, a fragment from seven years ago came into his mind...

He suddenly said: "No, the body that died at the door was lying horizontally, while the body that died at the door of the Hou Mansion was lying vertically!"

"No, if you regard each corpse as a point..." Chu Xingyun said while walking down the steps, "then the eight corpses are exactly in the east, south, west, north, northeast, northwest, There are eight directions in the southeast and southwest. And you see, the one at the door and the one who died in the northwest corner are both strong men, and even their clothes are similar, and they are probably two night watchmen."

Chu Xingyun walked to the northwest corner and squatted down next to the corpse: "According to these dragging bloodstains, we can know that the murderer should cut their throats and kill them all first, and then move this one to the northwest corner. But the most important thing is Yes, the corpses in this courtyard are mostly wounded on the right side of the deceased's body."

"The murderer is left-handed?"

"Probably, at least he killed with a knife in his left hand."

Song Changfeng pondered for a long time, and asked, "Is this the same as it was seven years ago?"

Chu Xingyun nodded: "In the front yard of Hou's mansion, the corpses in the southeast corner and northwest corner were pierced in the right chest cavity and right abdomen respectively, and most of the wounds in other corpses were on the right side. , the wounds should be more on the left side."

Song Changfeng tried his best to recall the details at that time, but his memory was already blurred. When he entered the Hou's mansion, there was a bloody corpse at the door. When he saw it, he immediately vomited out "Wow—" and then fell unconscious.After contemplating for a moment, Song Changfeng finally gave up looking for clues from his memory, and only said:

"Xingyun, I really admire your courage. Under the circumstances at that time, you can still remember so many details!"

Chu Xingyun smiled and didn't answer. Song Changfeng was eighteen that year, and he was only sixteen. How could he not be disgusted when he saw the bloody corpse, but he was not like Song Changfeng who grew up in a noble mansion. He was eight years old During the great famine that year, I also ate dead human flesh with my uncle's family.

If he had a choice, he would rather not have such courage.But suffering shapes people. At that time, he helped Song Changfeng through the front yard, wanting to go in and look for survivors, but once he entered the main hall and saw the room full of corpses, he couldn't go any further.

After Ji returned to the Song Mansion, Chu Xingyun secretly wrote down all the details he could remember, thinking that the government might use them for investigation and inquiry, but he never expected that because of the change of imperial power, Hou Ye Wrong team, this case of extermination of more than 200 people was finally left unsolved.

and many more!

The scenes from seven years ago kept coming up, Chu Xingyun suddenly realized something, he raised his leg and quickly walked towards the main entrance, the miserable corpse with intestines all over the ground came into his eyes, this person and the one in the northwest corner are both The night watchman has a cut throat scar on his neck, and a more obvious question hits Chu Xingyun's heart:

If the man's throat had already been slit to death, then why open his guts?

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Chu Xingyun was different, Song Changfeng hurried over.

"It's very strange. It's the most neat thing to do when you massacre a family late at night. Whether it's seven years ago or now, the dead body was killed in one blow, although it was tragic. Only this person was killed twice for no reason. Like a murderer."

"Then... what do you think the murderer will be like?"

Chu Xingyun thought for a while, and figured out: "Arrogant but cautious, paranoid and terrifying."

"Tell me why?"

"Dare to destroy the Hou family seven years ago, and now dare to attack the court officials. This is bold; it is prudent to wipe out all the hundreds of people in the whole house overnight without leaving any trace of yourself; It is paranoid not to run away immediately after killing a person, but to arrange the corpses in a leisurely manner. And it took seven years for him to commit the case of the Li family, which shows that he has never forgotten a certain purpose, no matter how long he waits. No matter how long or how much he suffers, he will never give up, and this is the most terrifying point, how could such a murderer go out of his way to kill an ordinary night watchman twice?"

Song Changfeng squatted down and inspected the corpse carefully. The intestines were leaking and shattered. It would take at least ten knives to stab a person like this. If there was no reason, the murderer would never waste an inch of time on unnecessary things.

Unable to understand for a while, Song Changfeng called the tall officer and soldier over, made a detailed record of the corpse, and at the same time got up, saw that Chu Xingyun was walking towards the main room step by step, turned around to follow, and asked: "Xingyun , How much impression do you have of the corpse in the hall seven years ago?"

"I have a deeper impression than the eight corpses in the front yard. I walked there at that time, and I couldn't go any further. I dragged you to escape. If I guessed correctly, according to the style of the murderer, there should be Just like seven years ago, there are also six corpses lined up in a row, the first five of which are corpses with broken waists."

Song Changfeng heard the words, stopped immediately, and then said behind Chu Xingyun:

"No, this time, there is only one."

Chu Xingyun was taken aback, pushed the door and entered——

What came into view were six corpses, all lying horizontally and arranged in a column.

Chu Xingyun took a rough look. The six deceased all died of heart trauma. After the murderer arranged the corpses, he chopped off the second one.

reason?Chu Xingyun fell into a mess, and couldn't find the basic motive of the murderer's actions, and couldn't find the rope connecting everything.He quickly left the main hall, walked towards the inner room, and asked:

"Where is the body of the head of the Li family?"

At the mention of Mr. Li Yushi, Song Changfeng's face suddenly turned ashen:

"That kind of thing... I'm afraid it can no longer be called a corpse."

Chu Xingyun's heart beat wildly for a while.

It was only when he really stood outside Li's house and opened the door to enter that he truly understood this sentence.

The ground inside the house was very clean, without any excess dirt or blood, only a puddle of muddy flesh, bright red, and a dead head.

Obviously, the Patriarch of the Li family was beheaded, and the rest was chopped into a puddle of flesh and blood, neatly laid out into a picture of Tai Chi.

Chu Xingyun went around in a circle, the flesh and blood represented the black part in Tai Chi, and there was a round blank space in the middle, and the head represented the black eyes in Tai Chi. The murderer did it very meticulously, with neat edges and smooth arcs.

He squatted down to observe, there was not much blood, most of it was flesh, and there was no bone in the flesh.The murderer should have beheaded the head of the Li family somewhere first, then bled and deboned, and then transported it back here to lay out this pattern, otherwise the blood would flow everywhere, and the bones would be exposed outside the muddy meat, which would destroy the murderer's " masterpiece".

Chu Xingyun suddenly thought of a word, Paoding Jieniu, the murderer is like the chef in this allusion, the thin blade follows the human texture, dissects the skin and dissects the abdomen, picks the tendons and cuts the bones, and the fallen flesh and blood are like soil. The knife looked around, full of ambition.

The murderer's reason for being so insane?Put eight corpses in eight directions in the front yard, arrange six corpses in a row and cut off the waist of the second corpse, and then spread the meat paste into a Tai Chi pattern...

Eight, six, Tai Chi...

Tai Chi Eight Diagrams and Six Lines!

Chu Xingyun's heart shook suddenly, and he grabbed the end of the rope.The Tai Chi picture here is a hint, and the eight corpses in the front yard respectively symbolize the eight directions of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui in the gossip. Whether it was seven years ago or now, the murderer What I really want to convey is the six-yao hexagram image formed by the six corpses in the main hall!

He hurried back to the main hall and carefully inspected the six corpses. Song Changfeng rushed over from the back room. There were six corpses between them. Their eyes met. Seeing Chu Xingyun's mouth slightly raised, Song Changfeng smiled and said:

"Have you figured it all out?"

"I'm only scratching the surface, and I'm far from solving the case. First of all, the eight corpses represent the gossip, the meat paste and the head represent Taiji, and the Taiji gossip, implying that the six corpses in the main hall are Liuyao hexagrams, and the murderer used the corpses to arrange hexagrams." , to deliver the message."

Chu Xingyun said again: "In the gossip, a short horizontal line is used to represent the yang line, and the interrupted short line represents the yin line. Six lines form a hexagram image. There are 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes. Different hexagram images correspond to different meanings. "

There are six corpses on the ground, the first one is a whole corpse, that is, the Yang line "—", the second one is cut off in the middle, that is, the Yin line "--", and the remaining four are still whole corpses, that is, the four Yang lines "—" ".The six lines form a hexagram image vertically from top to bottom.

Chu Xingyun drew the figure with his hands, and said: "This is the No. 64 hexagram in the 14 hexagrams of the Book of Changes. The fire and the sky are abundant. The lower hexagram of this hexagram is Qian and the sky, and the upper hexagram is Li and Fire. The sky shines on all things, and a gentleman can curb evil and promote good, follow the sky and time, and achieve great things.”

Song Changfeng: "You mean... the murderer used the hexagrams to tell the latecomers that the Li family had done bad things before, and he exterminated the family to punish the evil and promote the good?"

Chu Xingyun nodded: "And seven years ago, in the murder case of Master Hou Mu's family, the first five in the main hall were corpses with broken waists, and the last one was a whole corpse. .”

As he spoke, he drew a picture of hexagrams with his index finger: "The inner hexagram of this hexagram is earthquake and thunder, and the outer hexagram is Kun and earth. And there is a sign of prosperity in luck, but it is taboo to be eager for success."

Song Changfeng said: "So, the murderer may have planned to kill the family from the very beginning, so the hexagram of Leifu was released during the Houmen case, which means the beginning of everything, and his seven years of silence coincided with the fact that he should not be rushed. become?"

"That's right. The most interesting thing is that he even made a hexagram for ghosts to see."

"……deceased?"

"Yes. You see, whether it is the Huotian Dayou hexagram in the hall now or the Leifu hexagram seven years ago, it is all based on my standing position. I came in from the door, and you came out of the back room, just standing Opposite me, the patterns I saw were all reversed. Think about it, who would be able to 'walk' out of the inner room if no outsiders came in?"

Song Changfeng: "The ghost of the dead?"

Chu Xingyun nodded slightly: "Seven years ago, the hexagram that Lord Hou destroyed the family, from my direction, the first five with a broken waist, and the sixth with a whole body, this is No. 20. If you look at it from the same direction, it becomes the first whole corpse, and the remaining five have broken waists. This becomes the No.20 trigram, Mountain and Land Stripping: The mountains are high and dangerous, and the wind and rain are eroding. Before, this was for Lord Hou.

"And now, here in the Li family, there is the second body with a broken waist, and the rest of the corpses. The murderer arranged hexagram No. 14, Huotian Dayou. From your side, it's the other way around, and it's the fifth body with a broken waist. Then it becomes the No.13 hexagram, Tianhuo Tongren..."

"Wait, the Tianhuo Tongren hexagram..." Song Changfeng said, "I remember that it symbolizes a deep friendship, one heart breaks gold, cooperates with others, and goes smoothly. Could this imply that there is more than one murderer?"

Chu Xingyun: "Whether the murderer has an accomplice or not is still uncertain. It may mean that the Li family has an inner ghost. However, in the original text of the "Book of Changes" written by Tianhuo Tongren Gua, there is another sentence that says 'benefits involve Dachuan'."

"Is it good for crossing the river?"

"Yes, the murderer himself doesn't believe in ghosts and ghosts at all. He is telling all the dead that I walked by water. If you have a grievance, just be a water ghost to report it!"