Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 123: Strange Bones
"Master, what were you doing before you came in just now? Were you afraid that there would be a strange smell in the cellar? But isn't it a bit disrespectful to Ning Mo to do so..." Tang Xiaotang was the second one to follow Tang Zheng down to the cellar. She saw the purple-gold constellation rising behind Tang Zheng, and was sizing up the cellar with the faint light from the stars and the flow of star power. She walked to his side and asked in a low voice.
Hearing Tang Xiaotang's words, Tang Zheng couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Oh my god, is the Master such an impolite person in your eyes? I waved the folding fan to get some fresh air so that we wouldn't be poisoned to death in the cellar!"
"Poisoned? You mean, there is poison in this cellar? Ning Mo's sister was poisoned to death back then?" Tang Xiaotang asked in surprise.
Tang Zheng shook his head speechlessly, and had to briefly teach Tang Xiaotang some physics knowledge: "In a cellar that has been unused and covered for many years, a large amount of carbon dioxide will often accumulate. If there is rotting stored food or... corpses in the cellar, there may also be a large amount of methane. These two gases are harmful to the human body. If you breathe too much, you will die. It's not that the cellar was poisonous back then, but the cellar has produced poison itself in the past ten years. Do you understand?"
Tang Xiaotang listened to it. Suddenly, Ning Mo, who followed nodded and said, "Although I don't know what the carbon dioxide and methane Tang Zheng is talking about are, many poor people in Feishi City have cellars, and many people have died inexplicably in their own cellars. Therefore, most people will open the cellar for a while before daring to go in. I was just about to remind you, but I didn't expect Tang Zheng to take precautions in advance."
"Wow, Master, you are so amazing. How do you know everything? Are there cellars in your hometown?" Tang Xiaotang looked at Tang Zheng with admiration.
"In my hometown, the groundwater is too abundant, so it's not suitable for digging cellars. Okay, okay, we are here to investigate a case today, so please don't go off topic anymore." Tang Zheng stopped the topic and walked around the entire cellar carefully to observe.
The light in this cellar was very dim and it was not dug very neatly. Even though Tang Zheng and his colleagues drove the Astrology Light, they were unable to illuminate the entire cellar. Many places were still shrouded in shadows.
The cellar was also completely empty, with almost nothing in it.
Tang Zheng knocked on the wall carefully, but did not feel the presence of any secret rooms or secret passages.
There was a corner where there was a large piece of dusty cloth. Tang Zheng looked at it for a while. He picked it up with his toes and the cloth was completely broken into pieces. It was obvious that it had been abandoned in the cellar for a long time.
"I have checked this cellar countless times. Apart from this cellar entrance, there is no way out. I really can't figure out how my sister disappeared. I have never believed in ghosts or gods, but since that day, I sometimes even wonder if I have committed too many sins and must be punished by heaven, but the retribution falls on my sister!" Ning Mo looked at Tang Zheng and the others who checked everywhere and did not find anything suspicious, and said dejectedly.
"When you entered the cellar that day, you didn't find your sister, nor did you sense any living beings or warrior's star power. Then, you chased them out. How long and how far did it take you to get back home?" Tang Zheng suddenly asked.
Ning Mo didn't even think about it, and answered directly: "I searched outside for almost an hour, but found nothing, so I returned home. Then I stayed there for less than a quarter of an hour, but I didn't give up, so I rushed out to look for it again. I went back and forth like this all night, until dawn, when I was completely exhausted and stopped temporarily on the side of the road."
Tang Zheng nodded and was about to speak when Xu Qingyan suddenly walked to the center of the cellar and suddenly lay on the ground, not caring about his clean and delicate clothes. He sniffed gently, activated his star power to sense it, and suddenly stood up, pointing at the ground and said, "Dig it up, there is something strange underground."
Upon hearing this, Tang Zheng and Ning Mo hurried over, and according to Xu Qingyan's instructions, the three of them started digging together.
After digging for a long time, there was still nothing in the ground. Tang Xiaotang, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but feel discouraged, but Xu Qingyan was still very determined. He kept his expression unchanged and continued digging.
Ning Mo and Tang Zheng saw Xu Qingyan's performance and didn't say much. They continued to dig deeper with him.
When they dug to a depth of five or six meters, a finger bone as long as a sleeve suddenly appeared in the mud. When Ning Mo saw the finger bone, he was stunned, and then continued digging like crazy.
Soon, an entire white skeleton was completely revealed in the mud.
Ning Mo looked at the complete skeleton, standing there blankly. His whole body suddenly trembled, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Tang Xiaotang looked at the slightly creepy skeleton in the cellar and asked in a low voice: "Could this be the remains of Ning Mo's sister? She was killed in the cellar and buried here, so Ning Mo didn't find her? But... that's not right. The three of you worked together and dug for such a long time to dig out the skeleton. How could the killer have dug so deep in such a hurry?"
"Besides, even if he had a way to bury the remains of Ning Mo's sister, according to Ning Mo, he left a trap at the entrance of the cellar before he left, and the trap was not triggered when he came back. We checked the cellar and found that it only had one exit. So Ning Mo's sister should have been in a place similar to a secret room at the time. How did the killer get in and leave without leaving a trace? It can't be such a coincidence. He just happened to have the ability to bury the body and the ability to enter the secret room. This is too incredible!"
Tang Xiaotang scratched his head and analyzed the situation to himself, but in the end, he still couldn't figure out what was going on.
Tang Zheng tapped Tang Xiaotang's forehead and smiled: "Finally your IQ has improved... This skeleton is not the skeleton of Ning Mo's sister. Ning Mo was just too concerned and didn't notice it for a while. With his ability, he should have reacted by now, ah..."
"Then, whose bones are these and why are they left in the cellar of Ning Mo's house? This case seems to be getting even more strange!" Tang Xiaotang said a little frantically.
"How do I know whose skeletons these are? But, to be more precise, you should ask, what on earth are these skeletons of?" Tang Zheng looked at the skeletons on the ground and shook his head.
"Ah? Isn't this a human skeleton? How could it be? It clearly has a nose and eyes, two legs and two hands. If this is not a human skeleton, then what kind of skeleton is it?" Tang Xiaotang asked curiously.
Tang Zheng shrugged and nodded at Xu Qingyan who was examining the skeleton with his hands, "Ask the person who discovered the skeleton this question!"
