Urban Witcher

After finishing speaking, Ye Shaoyang stretched out the middle two fingers of his left hand, pinched the throat bone of the corpse, kneaded it gently for a while, pinched his hand into a phoenix eye, buckled it all the way from the X position between the chest and abdomen, and hit the throat hard. Then push up and say, "Open your mouth!"

Under the watchful eyes of three people and six pairs of eyes, Li Xiaoqiang's mouth suddenly opened.

Liu Yinshui took a few steps back in fright, showing disbelief.

Xie Yuqing was also surprised, and asked Ye Shaoyang: "Why does he still hear you talking, is the soul still in the body?"

Ye Shaoyang shook his head, "After a person dies, until the end of the first seven days, there is remnant thought in the body. Under the influence of magic, the remnant thought can do some simple mechanical activities. Xiangxi expelling corpses is to use the dead person's remnant thought to control the corpse."

Ye Shaoyang opened the corpse's mouth with both hands, glanced into the mouth, nodded slowly, and said: "It really is like this..."

Xie Yuqing curiously leaned over to look, and saw that Li Xiaoqiang's mouth was full of blood and crushed meat, and was already frozen stiff. With rich experience in criminal investigation, she could tell what was going on at a glance, and breathed in the air and said, "Oh my god, this It was his tongue that was chewed to pieces!"

Liu Yinshui stepped forward and said: "Yes, we also discovered this during the autopsy. It is suspected that the deceased experienced some kind of terrible pain at the last moment, so he would bite his tongue...but if you bite your tongue into pieces like this, It's unbelievable."

Ye Shaoyang slowly shook his head and said, "He didn't bite it himself."

Liu Yinshui was taken aback, and said, "What do you mean, could it be someone else did it?"

"I mean, biting his tongue was not of his own will. He was possessed by a ghost. Maybe the ghost used his body to bite his tongue so that he couldn't speak because he was worried about his nonsense. Come on..." Speaking of this, Ye Shaoyang remembered what Lin Yongchang said about the last time he met Li Xiaoqiang, thought about it carefully, and suddenly said: "I understand!"

Turning to look at Liu Yinshui with a blank face, he said, "Lin Yongchang, you know, you must have investigated him."

Liu Yinshui nodded, "He was the last person who saw Li Xiaoqiang alive. We have investigated, and he has no motive or objective conditions for committing the crime."

"I'm not saying he killed people." Ye Shaoyang waved his hand and said, "When he saw Li Xiaoqiang, Li Xiaoqiang yelled and muttered to himself... Please note that Li Xiaoqiang was still talking at that time, which means that at that time, his The tongue has not been chewed. My guess is that he was already possessed by a demon.

It is not easy for a ghost to take over the human body, and it is even more difficult to completely control the host's body, especially if you want to seal off the five senses of the host, without a period of infiltration, it is impossible to do it at all..."

"What do you mean by five senses?" Liu Yinshui asked curiously.

"To put it simply, it is the sense of smell, sight, hearing, and the ability to speak and think." Ye Shaoyang explained, "After the body is occupied by a foreign ghost, my soul will shrink to the corner of the heart and temporarily protect it. At certain times, it is possible to awaken and take back control of the body.

Li Xiaoqiang’s abnormal behavior of shouting and screaming at the lake at the end is most likely because he was fighting against the ghosts in his body, competing for his body, and finally failed, but he was not reconciled... He must have discovered Lin Yongchang at that time, and wanted to tell him some secrets , in order not to let him leak the secret, the ghost controlled his body, chewed his tongue, and then the two souls competed for the body, and accidentally fell into the water...

I have seen that small pavilion nearby, if you fall into the water from that angle, it is not easy to climb up, not to mention that Li Xiaoqiang was in that state at that time, he was no different from a drunk. Although that ghost can seize the body, it has no way to revive a dead person, so it gave up his body... These are my speculations, there must be some mistakes in the details, but it should not be wrong in general. "

The two detectives looked at him blankly.

"Why...that ghost wants to control Li Xiaoqiang's body, what secrets does it have that it is afraid that Li Xiaoqiang will reveal it?" Xie Yuqing thought for a while and asked the doubtful point.

"Controlling his body may be to use him to do something. After all, there are some things that only living people can do, but Li Xiaoqiang may not be willing to obey his orders. It is not easy for that ghost to get on his body. Of course he doesn't want to give up, so he just In a stalemate, he wanted to melt his soul little by little, but Li Xiaoqiang pretended to obey, and that night he suddenly exerted his strength, awakened his consciousness, regained part of the control of his body, and wanted to shake out the secrets he held..."

Ye Shaoyang shrugged, "These are all my guesses. There is basis, but there is no evidence."

Liu Yinshui said: "What basis?"

"On that night a week ago, the Taibai star traveled eastward, and the purple energy came from the east. From nine o'clock to eleven o'clock in the evening, it was the best time to awaken the soul. Li Xiaoqiang used that time to try to regain his body, but It's only half the battle."

Xie Yuqing was surprised and said, "What Taibaixing are you talking about...How could Li Xiaoqiang, an ordinary person, know?"

Ye Shaoyang smiled, "Who told you that he is an ordinary person? If he wasn't a mage, his soul would have been refined by evil spirits long ago. How could he have the chance to resist for so long?" In order to prove his deduction, Ye Shaoyang raised the right hand of the corpse confidently, Breaking apart his stiff fingers, he showed his index finger and middle finger to the two, and said, "What's wrong with touching it yourself?"

Xie Yuqing grabbed Li Xiaoqiang's two fingers, touched them for a while, and said, "There are quite thick calluses on the pads of the index finger and middle finger, and also on the sides, and the color... seems to be a bit reddish, which is different from normal skin."

Ye Shaoyang nodded, and said with satisfaction: "Calluses are caused by his long-term practice of magic formulas and knots in his hands. The color of his fingers is the reason for long-term preparation of magic medicine, soaking and dyeing." Ye Shaoyang snapped Li Xiaoqiang's little finger to show them , I saw that the nail of the little finger is longer than the others, and the front part of the nail is also pink. If you look closely, the nail is filled with red powder.

"See, like me, there are cinnabar powder stuffed in the nails for emergency." Ye Shaoyang stretched out his hand and pinched Li Xiaoqiang's index finger, and sighed: "The calluses are too thin, and the practice can only be two or three years at most."

Liu Yinshui asked curiously, "Let me see what your hands look like."

Ye Shaoyang smiled, "Sorry, I can't just show my hands to others."

Xie Yuqing looked at Li Xiaoqiang's body and asked, "Is this fellow a Taoist?"

"It shouldn't be a Taoist priest, probably a folk cultivator, or a spell lover, who taught himself." Ye Shaoyang continued to think according to his own speculation, and suddenly Xie Yuqing said "Hey" and said: "What is this? Is it also What is the sign of the mage?"

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