The System Forces Me to Be the Emperor

After inspecting Yao's house, Xiao Rui and the others left here. On the way to Chengxi Shushu, he shared his discovery with Guo Jia.

Guo Jiaxian said: Basically, it can be judged that Master Yao was killed by him, and he was killed by an acquaintance, because the deceased was sitting on a chair and did not resist, and according to the traces of blood spurting after the beheading, the murderer moved his hand from behind the deceased. , It should be the murderer suddenly killed the two when they were talking. As for why his head was cut off, in my opinion, one is the murderer's serial plan to cause panic on purpose. The other is to cover up the traces of an acquaintance. After all, if an acquaintance acts from behind, the face of the deceased is a calm expression after death.

Then how did the other party complete the murder in the secret room? The door and windows were bolted from the inside. Xiao Rui asked.

Guo Jia explained: I just checked the wooden bolt of the bolt door carefully. The wooden bolt is broken at the front. It turns out that the wooden bolt is only stuck in the front end of the slot. There are burnt marks on the end of the wooden bolt, so I guess, The murderer placed something similar to gunpowder at the end of the peg, ignited it to produce a certain impact, and pushed the peg into the slot, but the thrust was relatively light, so it only pushed the front part. In addition, I was still on the ground The discovery of black ash just confirmed my guess.

Oh? Xiao Rui was slightly startled, gunpowder is his magical weapon, how could it appear in Songyang County, but soon, Xiao Rui understood. As an alchemist, Ge Hong was able to discover the existence of gunpowder from the method of subduing fire, and other alchemists would naturally discover it as well.

It's just that the current method of subduing fire is still in the early stage and has not been taken seriously, so gunpowder has not been completely born on the mainland.

Or, some people have inadvertently prepared the earliest gunpowder, which, although not very powerful, still uses a certain impact when ignited.

Just like the previous life, the method of subduing fire was invented in the Tang Dynasty, and the prototype of gunpowder came into being, but it was not used in military affairs until the Song Dynasty, and it had a greater attack. The early gunpowder was only used for acrobatics and performances.

Guo Jia said again: What did your Highness find?

Xiao Rui said: Master Yao's family is very rich, but his son doesn't know what kind of business he is doing. According to the son of the deceased, he once asked and was reprimanded. There is a big problem with Master Yao's business. Come to Songyang Settling in the county is more like avoiding enemies. Secondly, I asked the deceased’s son if he had any friends, especially those outside of Songyang County, but the deceased’s son did not have any, and the deceased never mentioned it. However, every year at the beginning of April Fourth, the deceased will all leave Songyang County, and their whereabouts are unknown!

The deceased used to be in a big business, and he didn't have any friends outside. Besides, the time of the fourth day of April made me feel so familiar, as if it was a day, and I couldn't remember it for a while.

Guo Jia nodded and said: The first deceased revealed too many problems, let's check the other two deceased, these three people must be related, as long as we can find the connection between them, the truth will be revealed. .”

That's right! Xiao Rui felt that the trip to Songyang County was even more exciting.

When I came to the Mingwen Shushu, the Shushu where I was supposed to study aloud was empty and extremely depressed. There was a murder case in the Shushu, and the students didn't dare to study anymore. They went home and left Songyang County.

Wu Biao, the county magistrate, was not stupid. He didn't let the five witnesses leave, so after the four arrived, they could continue to question.

Guo Jia asked the five students about the situation that night, while Li Yuanfang and Dian Wei checked the external environment, especially the trajectory and route of the headless corpse, and carefully checked the environment near the trajectory.

And Xiao Rui came to the room where the headless corpse tore off Master Song.

This is a simple study room with simple decoration, a set of tables and chairs, a pair of desks, a few bookcases, and the bookcases are full of books.

Xiao Rui flipped through the books Mr. Song was reading, and then his drafts for practicing calligraphy. When he turned over a few paintings he hadn't finished, he suddenly found that one of the paintings was very familiar. Looking carefully, it wasn't next to Danyang Lake. Pudu Temple? Continuing to look through, Xiao Rui found another painting that was actually a scenery of Kyoto.

According to the information, this Master Song was born as a child and had never passed the provincial examination, so he set up a private school in a county like Songyang County to teach students. But judging from his paintings, this Master Song's experience is not simple, at least he has been to Kyoto.

Next, Xiao Rui found no other useful clues.

Guo Jia asked five students. They were all eleven or twelve years old. The night was dark and windy, and their eyesight was not too high. They were about to ask Master Song a question, but they suddenly saw a bloody The headless corpse ran out with two arms in its arms, then rushed up and flew away.

But when Guo Jia asked about the height and general figure of Fei's corpse, all five of them shook their heads.

Secondly, Guo Jia was also curious, it was so late, why didn't the five students go home, and why did they stay in the school so late? According to the answers of the five people, it was Master Song who specially asked them to stay because he had important knowledge. Unexpectedly, this kind of thing happened when knowledge was not imparted.

And Li Yuanfang and Dian Wei, based on the trajectory of the flying corpse described by the five students, carefully checked the trees around the trajectory.

This school was built in the middle of a mountain forest, and there were trees in front of all the rooms. If the murderer tied ropes to the trees and used external force to create the illusion of flying, it would not be impossible.

However, the two checked the surrounding trees, but found no traces of rope binding and friction.

Just when the two thought they had no clues, Li Yuanfang in front of him suddenly found a dense bamboo forest ten feet away from the gate of the school.

Li Yuanfang suddenly thought of a possibility, and immediately went to check in the bamboo forest. After careful observation, he finally found the trace.

After the four of them checked the school, they began to get together to discuss the findings.

Xiao Ruixian: This Master Song is by no means an ordinary old pedant, just like the first deceased Master Yao, it is definitely not as simple as it appears on the surface. But there are relatively few other clues, and no deeper content can be found. Fengxiao, where are you?

Guo Jiadao: Basically, it can be concluded that it was not a headless corpse murder at all, but a conspiracy designed in advance, a play by the murderer, and the murderer also knew the second deceased, and the murderer deliberately let the deceased leave five students behind. , so as to serve as witnesses, so as to provide evidence of the murder of the headless corpse. When the crime happened, the color was relatively dark, and the five students were young. Facing the so-called headless corpse, I just remembered that it was a headless corpse. It is equivalent to giving false testimony for the real murderer.

At this time, Li Yuanfang also revealed the clues he found: I checked the trees on both sides according to the trajectory of the headless corpse, and there were indeed no traces. Then, how did the headless corpse fly away? Later, I It was found that there was a bamboo forest in front of the Shushu, and traces were found in the bamboo forest. It turned out that the murderer used the strong toughness of bamboo to bend several bamboos with ropes, and then tied them to the corpse with black-dyed ropes as a means of fixing the bamboos. When the rope is cut, the force of the bamboo rebounding is enough to drag the murderer away!

Xiao Rui and Guo Jia looked at each other, Xiao Rui smiled and said, For the time being, why did the murderer kill three people? What is his purpose for doing this? Just to create a terrifying killing effect?

It's not that simple. I feel that the purpose of the murderer's creation of ghosts is to cause panic and make some people in Songyang County leave Songyang County, so that it is convenient for him to plan something! Guo Jia deduced.

Xiao Rui nodded and said: It is very possible that the people in Songyang County are already in panic, and everyone who can leave has left. If this is the case, then let's go to the third deceased to see, maybe there are new discoveries!

In this way, the four immediately moved to the south of the city and came to the pharmacy next to the three deceased.

This pharmacy is very ordinary, just an ordinary pharmacy, with a long counter and a cabinet of traditional Chinese medicine behind it. This pharmacy is also responsible for helping people make medicine, so there is nothing special about it.

Guo Jia asked the deceased's wife, Mrs. Sun, and she was heartbroken and described the scene of the curtain.

It was noon, and my husband was drying medicinal herbs in the backyard. He went there for a long time and didn't come back. The pharmacy was busy, so Mrs. Sun went to call the deceased in the backyard. He hugged the head of the corpse, unable to move, and then, suddenly, flames and black smoke burst out from under the two people's feet. At the same time, accompanied by the sound of crackling, a big fire ignited on the two of them. Sun heard her husband's screams He was so frightened that he was at a loss, and hurried to call for someone, but it was too late in the end.

After listening to Sun's description, Guo Jia asked: Sun, when fire and black smoke spewed out from under the shopkeeper Sun and the headless corpse, did you smell the pungent smell of sulfur?

Mrs. Sun recalled it for a while, nodded immediately, and said, Surely, Sakura.

Xiao Rui asked: Just now, your husband was hugged by a headless corpse and couldn't move. Even when his body caught fire, he could only scream and couldn't move?

That's right, that headless corpse is too tightly strangled. Sun wiped her eyes and cried.

Xiao Rui and Guo Jia looked at each other, it seemed that the deceased was drugged, so he couldn't move, how could it be that the headless corpse was strangled too tightly. In addition, the flames under the two people's feet must have been caused by the ignition of gunpowder. It is believed that there were flammable things on the two of them, which is why they burned so fast.

As for doing this, it was naturally for Mrs. Sun to see it with her own eyes, to see the illusion of a headless corpse murdering a man, so as to cause greater panic.

However, we now know how the murderer killed Rao, but who the murderer is and what his intentions are, we still have no clue.

Oh, by the way, what does your husband do on the fourth day of April every year? Do you have any impression of this day? Xiao Rui always felt that this day was very familiar, but he couldn't think of what day it was.

And just now when they were in the Mingwen Shushu, the five students also recalled that Mr. Song, who died tragically, would suspend classes around this time every year, and he didn't know where he was going!

Hearing Xiao Rui's question, Mrs. Sun didn't hesitate, but nodded!