Chapter 18 Chapter Two Ancient Swords

Strange murders occurred one after another in Linan College, and the victims in the cases all turned into mummy strangely after death.I wanted to get clues from the couple who discovered the mummy recently, but their confessions did not help the investigation.They failed to provide valuable clues, so I can only pin my hope on the dead. I gave a cigarette to Liu Nian, who had just finished the autopsy on the deceased, and asked about the situation of the deceased. He lit up the cigarette and took a few puffs before answering: "The condition of the deceased is almost exactly the same as that of the case two years ago." , it seems that he was stabbed to death by a sharp weapon, but in fact there was no serious injury. The real cause of death was severe blood loss. However, you should be able to see that there is no blood at the scene..." He motioned us to observe the area around the deceased, indeed Not a single drop of blood could be seen.

The deceased was lying in the grass. If the death was caused by excessive blood loss, the surrounding weeds and soil must be stained with blood.The only way to remove these bloodstains is to shovel away the weeds and soil, but everything here is very well preserved, unlike the previous "large-scale construction". "Could it be that this is not the first scene of the murder?" Zhen Zhen's assumption was not completely unreasonable, but she suddenly noticed a very important detail. "Look here." Liu Nian forced a smile at Zhen Zhen, and pointed to the deceased's shirt to show her.There was a hole in the deceased's jacket, judging from the shape, it should have been pierced by a sharp weapon such as a sword, corresponding to the wound on his chest.In other words, the murderer stabbed the murder weapon into the body of the deceased through the clothes.

"What's so special about this?" Zhen Zhen didn't realize the mystery. Fleeing Years and I looked at each other, shrugged helplessly, and then explained to her: "The deceased's clothes had no blood stains, which means that the deceased did not have blood flowing out of the wound at all when he was killed." "How is it possible?" Zhen Zhen looked shocked, and continued after a while: "Didn't he become like this because he lost a lot of blood? How could there be no blood coming out?" "Because the blood in the body of the deceased was burned the moment he was killed, just like in the case two years ago." I smiled helplessly.In the case of the Gujian serial murder case two years ago, the situation of the deceased was exactly the same as that of this case. It was as if the blood in the whole body was drained instantly at the moment of being stabbed.

"Burn it? How is it possible, the deceased doesn't seem to have been burned!" Zhen Zhen looked surprised, as if she felt incredible about it. When I was about to explain the meaning of "burn" to her, Liu Nian pointed to the wound of the deceased and said to me: "Perhaps, you should go to the city museum to find Ni Xueer." "Why?" I asked puzzled. He smoked his cigarette before answering: "The situation of the deceased is very similar to that of the case two years ago, so I think the key lies in the murder weapon. In the case two years ago, although the murderer could not be caught, it has been confirmed that the murder weapon was the museum's murder weapon." A stolen ancient sword."

I nodded: "Well, you were also involved in the autopsy at the time, and you know more about the murder weapon than I do." "That's right, although I don't know as much about the case as you do, the corpse can tell me the details of the murder weapon, so..." He paused before continuing: "So I can be sure that the murder weapon this time is definitely not two years old. That ancient sword in front of you!" "What?" I was taken aback.Although this time is very different from the case two years ago, the strange death of the deceased is exactly the same, so I am almost sure that the murder weapon is the terrible ancient sword, but Fleeting Years gave me a negative answer.

Liu Nian pointed to the wound of the deceased again and explained to me: "The thing stolen from the museum is a Tang sword. People, the wound is very smooth, and the wound is also very deep. However, the wound of the deceased is completely different, not only the wound is shallow, but also uneven. Therefore, I can be sure that the murder weapon is not the ancient sword two years ago." "What could the murder weapon be?" My thoughts became a little confused, and I actually asked Liu Nian this nonsensical question. He smiled far-fetchedly: "That's why I asked you to find Ni Xueer. Judging from the wounds of the deceased, I think the murder weapon should be a dagger with a special shape. She may be able to provide you with some clues."

"Oh, I don't want to go to that nagging woman!" Thinking of Ni Xueer gave me a headache. Fleeting Nian showed a gloating smile: "It's up to you whether to go find her or not. What I can do is to check the autopsy reports of the previous four deceased for you to further confirm my inference." Although the case has already appeared Five dead, but because the school and the local police station had been suppressing the matter before, it was not handed over to us until now.Therefore, the previous four deceased were all autopsied by the local forensic doctor. If I want to go to Ni Xueer, I have millions of unwillingness in my heart, but I have no choice but to go to her, because besides her, I really can't think of anyone else who can provide me with clues.So I had no choice but to go to the city museum with Zhenzhen.

Today is not a weekend, nor is it a free open day, so the city museum is quite deserted, and we didn't even see a ghost when we came in.In fact, there may not be many people here even on weekends. Most people nowadays are only interested in new things, but dismiss the cultural treasures left by their ancestors.I don't know if it is to create a cultural atmosphere, the light in the museum is relatively dim. Although it is broad daylight, it still looks like a haunted house.I don't know what the designer thinks, I don't feel the cultural atmosphere, but the feeling of chills on the back is very strong.

I didn't see Xue'er in the exhibition hall, so I thought she was in the office, so I went there to find her.However, when I wanted to ask Zhen Zhen to follow me, I found that she was staring at an exhibit in a daze.It was an old wooden threshing machine, although it had some historical value, but I didn't think she would be interested in it, so I asked her why she was looking at this threshing machine? She pointed to the back of the threshing machine and said, "That dummy is very realistic, just like a real person." I looked in the direction she was pointing, and sure enough, I saw a dummy sitting behind the threshing machine with its back against the threshing machine.At first glance, it is still lifelike, but when you look closely, you can't help feeling strange, because the dummy is wearing a white-collar suit, which is incompatible with this threshing machine from the countryside.Just when I was about to express my doubts, she went up to touch the dummy's hair, and said in amazement, "The hair is also the same as the real one..."

Before Zhen Zhen finished speaking, the dummy suddenly jumped all over and let out a heart-pounding scream.In this silent exhibition hall, the scream was like midnight thunder, and it almost made my heart jump out of my stomach.Of course Zhenzhen was not much better, she fell to the ground in fright, and then scrambled and crawled behind me.She held my arm firmly, trembling uncontrollably, and even stammered: "She can move...she can move..." Although I was also very scared, I couldn't pee my pants in front of Zhenzhen, so I forced myself to stand calmly in front of her and whispered to her, "Don't be afraid, just wait and see." know what to do.Originally, I wanted to run out first, but my legs were a little weak, and I probably couldn't run anymore.

After struggling a few times, the suspected dummy object murmured: "Why did I fall asleep here..." Then it crawled on the ground in a panic, groping the floor with both hands, as if Find something and crawl towards us. Longevity God!I think what we met was not some weird dummy, but the one I least wanted to see, but this time it was a special trip to find her——Ni Xueer. When she found us, she screamed again: "Who are you? The museum is closed. How did you get in? What are you doing here? Are you trying to steal something?" I picked up a pair of near-sighted glasses from her side, handed them over to her, and said to her angrily: "Wake up, comrade, it's time to stop!" After she put on her glasses and saw who I was, she was taken aback for a moment and then smirked at me: "Hey! Aren't you A Mu? Why did you come here?" She was surprised when she found Zhenzhen behind me Said: "Wow, your girlfriend is so beautiful, why didn't you introduce me?" "Did you give me a chance to introduce?" I replied angrily.Maybe I thought my answer was ambiguous, Zhen Zhen's face immediately turned red, and she quickly jumped out to clarify: "I am his colleague, not his girlfriend." After the frightening meeting, Xueer planned to take us to the office for a detailed talk, nagging us constantly on the way.One moment she said that the work in the museum was very busy, so busy that she fell asleep sitting behind the threshing machine, and another moment she said that she liked the work in the museum very much, no matter how hard it was.Anyway, she didn't stop talking until she got to the office. After arriving at the office, Xue'er didn't seem to want to shut up, and continued nagging.Before entering the office, Zhen Zhen asked me in a low voice why she told Liu Nian that Xueer was a woman, causing her to think that Xueer was an old lady in her fifties or sixties, but she turned out to be a girl about her age.I didn't answer her question, but I think now she should understand why I said Cher is a woman. With great difficulty, I was able to catch Xue'er's time to speak, and immediately explained to her why I came here: "There have been many murders in Linan College, and the death of the deceased is very similar to the case two years ago, so I suspect that the murderer The murder weapon was an ancient sword stolen from the museum. But Fleeting Time said that the murder weapon this time was not a sword, but a rather special dagger, so I would like to ask you, is there a similar in nature to the stolen ancient sword? dagger." "Dagger..." Xue'er stretched her hands above her head stupidly, and drew a circle on her head with her index finger.Zhen Zhen asked her why in doubt?She replied with a smirk: "It is said that this can speed up the blood circulation in the brain, and it will be easier to think about things." "Really?" Zhen Zhen asked me this time. I glanced at her with contempt: "You don't believe it, do you? She probably watched too many cartoons when she was a child." Zhenzhen was silenced by what I said, while Xueer completely ignored my ridicule, closed her eyes and continued to draw circles on her head.Perhaps her method was really effective. It didn't take long for her to show an expression of enlightenment, and said with a smile: "I figured it out. I remember that there should be three Tang swords that were stolen before." "Three?" Hearing her say that, I couldn't help being a little surprised. I had the impression that she didn't mention this to me two years ago, so I asked, "Why didn't I hear it from you before?" "Have you ever asked me before?" she replied confidently. Come to think of it, I've never asked this question before.But whether he asked before or not is not important now, the important thing is whether one of the other two swords is a dagger with a special shape.I expressed the question in my heart, hoping she could give me a satisfactory answer.However, her answer disappointed me: "No, the three are long swords, and the other two have the same style as the stolen one, but the patterns are different." Although she failed to give me a satisfactory answer, I was not discouraged and continued to ask her about the three ancient swords. "Actually, I don't know much. I've told you about it before. Let me tell you in detail." As she spoke, she drew a circle on her head again, and it took a long time before she gave me a detailed answer—— It is said that Emperor Taizong of Tang got a huge strange sword in his later years, and the blood of the person who was injured by this strange sword would be sucked dry immediately.He originally wanted to destroy this terrifying strange sword so as not to cause harm to the world, but Taishi Ling Li Chunfeng persuaded him to divide the strange sword into three and cast it into three evil-suppressing swords.He also said that with the three swords, the Li family can be preserved forever. He listened to Li Chunfeng's words and ordered him to personally supervise the production of the three swords. Li Chunfeng recruited the best swordsmiths at that time, and cast the different swords weighing hundreds of catties into three Tang swords. The sword "benevolence and filial piety".After the Suppressing Evil Sword was cast, he told Tang Taizong that the sword must be consecrated before it can be effective, and the method of consecration is to use the sword to massacre the most evil people, and each sword must kill ninety-nine or eighty-one people. Killing more than 200 people at one time, this kind of thing may sound creepy now.However, for Tang Taizong, who is the emperor, this was just a very simple matter, and he immediately ordered Li Chunfeng to select the most evil people from the prisoners who had committed capital crimes to consecrate the sword. Strange to say, although it is not a big deal to kill 200 or 300 death row prisoners at a time, it is definitely a matter that needs to be recorded in the records.However, there is no record in the official history, but only a little mention in the unofficial history. According to unofficial history, the purpose of Tang Taizong's casting of swords was to consolidate the country. These three swords can respectively protect Li's country for ninety-nine and eighty-one years, and the three together can protect the country for two hundred and forty-three years.Coincidentally, the unofficial history says that the three swords were cast in 648, and it was 907 when Liang Wang Zhu Wen usurped the throne and led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty.If the 16 years since Wu Zetian established himself as Emperor Wu Zhou were deducted, it would be exactly 243 years. After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, these three Tang swords were lost among the people. One of them fell into the hands of a wealthy businessman during the Northern Song Dynasty, and was later buried in a tomb as a funeral object. It was only excavated by the archaeological team in recent years. The sword is the "Kunhe" stolen from our museum.As for "dryness" and "benevolence and filial piety", since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, there is no record of them in all the official histories, unofficial histories, and even folklore, and no trace of them has been found in recent years.I think they were either found and smuggled out of the country, or they are still lying in the ground waiting to be found... The information Xue'er provided seems to be of no use to the investigation of this case. After all, I have heard her mention the main points in the information two years ago, and the other two Tang swords are obviously different from the murder weapon in this case.However, in her narration, I found a problem, so I asked: "You said that Tang Taizong got a different sword weighing a hundred catties, but the Tang sword stolen from the museum should only weigh two or three catties. It didn't weigh more than ten catties, so where did the remaining ninety catties go?" She thought for a while before answering: "I don't know. The wild history only said that Li Chunfeng cast the different swords into three Tang swords, and the remaining ninety catties were not mentioned. However, the wild history also said that the different swords The sword is an ancient sword with a long history, the Tang Dynasty has a long history, and it can be said to be 'ancient' now." "Ancient strange sword..." I muttered, wondering if Li Chunfeng would forge an extra dagger for self-defense besides forging this huge ancient strange sword into three Tang swords?