Volume 3: Evil Ghosts Eat People Chapter 193: The Mystery of Bones (Part 2)
Xu Zun's words aroused great curiosity among everyone.
Especially Li Ronger, she had never understood why Xu Zun knew that Yongxing Fort was the most dangerous place, but he still insisted on holding the alliance in Yongxing Fort.
Now I finally understand that Xu Zun has always had his own ideas and goals.
This also made Li Ronger have a new understanding of Xu Zun, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Xu Zun became strange again.
"Brother Xu," Li Yuner immediately changed her address and urged Xu Zun, "Since you already know the truth, then tell it quickly and prove my sister's innocence!"
"Haha, don't be anxious," Xu Zun said, "I'm a person who never reveals anything until I'm absolutely sure. I usually won't reveal the truth easily.
"But..." He pointed at the corpses on the ground and said, "The situation is critical now, so I can only do it reluctantly!"
"Then tell me," Zhuang Jingcheng and other elders were so curious that they asked, "What happened? Why did our leader turn into a pile of bones?"
"This is the simplest question," Xu Zun finally began to reason, "That pile of bones is not your leader at all!"
"What?"
As soon as the words were spoken, everyone in the room was shocked.
"No... isn't it the Sect Master?" The elders were surprised.
"The owner of the bones had been lying in the coffin for at least ten years," Xu Zun said, "and it was obviously taken out of the coffin by someone else to use."
"Ah? You..." Zhuang Jingcheng asked in surprise, "What is your basis?"
"It is actually very difficult to obtain a real human skeleton," Xu Zun explained. "After a person dies, the soft tissue of the human body will turn gray and stick to the bones like mud.
"So, bones obtained through natural decay are gray or black.
“If you want to get white bones, there are only two ways. The first is to remove the flesh and blood from a newly dead person, then wash and dry them.
“Another method is to rinse the bones of people who have died for many years and have turned into human bones, so that we can get the white bones we see.
"And from my observation, the so-called remains of Sect Leader Wanqi should belong to the latter."
ah……
Everyone was stunned, their faces full of surprise and doubt.
"There were no cut marks on the bones in the coffin, so they were probably not picked out. But there were obvious friction marks on the bones, which showed that they had been washed and polished.
"Moreover," Xu Zun said, "in order to make the bones stacked into the shape of a cross-legged meditation posture, they also deliberately applied glue at the joints."
"Ah? This..." The elders stared in amazement.
"Later, the bones fell apart because they were afraid that you would find out the problem, right?" Xu Zun continued, "But this is basically useless. The bones have already shown signs of fat loss, which means they must be at least ten years old.
“In addition, based on a rough estimate of the femur of the corpse, the deceased must be about eight feet tall, much taller than your leader.
"Also, the worst part is that the pelvis of the corpse is protruding and deformed, clearly that of a woman who has given birth!
"The murderer is simply insulting your intelligence..."
ah……
There was an uproar at the scene; no one expected it to be so outrageous.
"So..." Xu Zun continued, "Bai Gu is Bai Gu. He has nothing to do with your Sect Leader. He just put on the Sect Leader's clothes and made you mistake him for the Sect Leader."
"Ah?" Zhuang Jingcheng asked excitedly with trembling cheeks, "What about the secret room? The master entered the secret room to practice and never came out again. The door can only be locked from the inside. We broke open the stone door to get in..."
"This is also very simple," Xu Zun said, "Because this is a group play, the murderer is not just one person, they used a trick to deceive you."
"A trick?" an elder in the back exclaimed, "That's impossible! We were all there!"
"Do you know why I want to question the guard who guards the secret room?" Xu Zun said, "The facts should be like this.
"Your leader Wanqi entered the secret room to practice, but he didn't expect that there was an ambush in the secret room. The murderers worked together to kill the leader Wanqi, then carried away the body and replaced it with the bones that had been prepared long ago.
"The murderer and the guard are in the same group. Everything was done in secret, so it won't arouse your suspicion."
"Impossible!" Zhuang Jingcheng was the first to wave his hands. "Master Wanqi is a master of martial arts. Even if several of us elders work together, it is impossible for us to kill him easily, not to mention that we can do it so secretly?"
"Really?" Xu Zun raised an objection. "Then who can kill Elder Jiao Chengtong and Gang Leader Ma Xin with one strike?"
"This..." Everyone fell into deep thought.
"You...you said that the guards and the murderer are in cahoots. All right," Zhuang Jingcheng turned and ordered a disciple, "Quickly call those disciples guarding the secret room over. We'll know the answer once we ask them!"
"Second Elder..." a disciple replied, "Those people are already dead! They... those people..."
Everyone looked and saw that the people the disciple was pointing to were the Zishan Sect disciples who had been killed by Li Ronger before.
"Ah? Is it really like this ?" Zhuang Jingcheng was shocked and felt a chill.
Xu Zun was also a little surprised, and murmured, "So that's how it is. They want to use Li Rong'er to kill people and silence them. What a good plan!"
"No," an elder said at this time, "even if what you said is completely right, the murderers killed the head of Wanqi Sect and carried his body out and replaced it with bones.
"But...how is the door to the secret room locked?"
"Yes!" Everyone was surprised and looked at Xu Zun.
"This is even simpler," Xu Zun said, "After the murderers arranged the bones, they did not all leave. Instead, they left one person in the secret room, and this person locked the secret room."
"Ah?" Zhuang Jingcheng's eyes widened. "If that's the case, then the person left behind won't be able to leave?"
"Right?" Xu Zun said, "The secret room was finally opened by you. After the stone door was knocked down, smoke and dust suddenly rose, and you rushed into the secret room together.
“But after you go in, the first thing you see is the skeleton, and naturally all your attention will be drawn to it.
"The person who stays behind just needs to hide in the darkness at the door. After you all go in, he can quietly stand among the crowd!
"Who could have noticed that there was one more person at the scene?"
"Ah? You...you mean..." Zhuang Jingcheng asked, "This person...is also a disciple of my Zishan Sect?"
"Yes," Xu Zun nodded, "He is not only a disciple of your Zishan Sect, but also a person of relatively high status. Even if he appears in the secret room, he will not be suspected!"
"Who... is this? Who is it?" Zhuang Jingcheng looked at the disciples behind him and asked loudly.
The disciples were so frightened that they lowered their heads and retreated in silence.
"In that case..." an elder suggested, "We can investigate carefully to see who was not there before we broke down the door, but showed up after we broke down the door!?"
"Yes," another elder agreed, "and it has to be a disciple of a higher generation!"
“Elder, elder…” Hearing this, a disciple behind him suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said loudly, “I seem to remember that when we broke down the door, Senior Brother Ling Feng didn’t seem to be there, right?”
"Yes, yes..." another disciple echoed, "Senior Brother Ling Feng is a disciple of Gang Leader Wanqi, so he should have been there at the time, right? We even discussed this matter at the time!"
"What happened next?" Zhuang Jingcheng asked hurriedly, "Did you see him again?"
"Later...it seemed..." A disciple standing further away said hesitantly, "I seemed to see him?"
"Yes, I seem to have some impression of it, but I'm not sure..."
"Okay, it must be him!" Xu Zun pointed at Ling Feng's body, "Otherwise he wouldn't be the first one to be silenced."
"How...how could this happen?!" Zhuang Jingcheng shouted excitedly, "It would be fine if Zishan sent out one traitor, but why...why...why would there be so many...what on earth do they want to do?"
"Wait..." Suddenly, another elder remembered something and asked loudly, "There is one thing that cannot be explained! How do you explain the person whose fingers turned into bones after touching the scales?"
"What do you think?" This time, Xu Zun was too lazy to explain and asked directly.
After a moment, the elder finally understood: "Ah? You mean... that person also has a problem?"
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