"Young master and madam, may we speak in private?" After An Nanyang finished speaking, he moved closer to Li Mai and whispered, "If you are curious, I can take you to see those two corpses."

Li Mai thought to herself, "I'm not curious!"

However, with so many people listening, she and Zhou Quan really need this person's help to get out of here smoothly without being harassed or secretly followed. It seems that you really can't talk carelessly in public places.

She had a rough idea of ​​who this person was.

“Alright!” Li Mai nodded, stood up, and said to Zhou Quan, “Husband, bring some snacks and melon seeds. We’ll enjoy them while admiring the moon tonight.”

Fine, she also wanted to see if it was the work of those mutated gluttonous insects from the apocalypse, or if it was indeed a Gu worm.

Zhou Quan was taken aback, then quickly said "Oh." The shopkeeper bought a food box, put the plate of snacks and melon seeds in it, and handed the plate to the shopkeeper.

Just as he was about to pay the bill, An Nanyang stopped him, paid two taels of silver, and led the two of them out of the teahouse.

A group of young people behind them also wanted to go and see what was going on, but when they went outside and saw the four guards standing on both sides of the door following them, they all stopped.

The Four Heavenly Kings, aren't they the town magistrate's guards?

I see. So this person was the town magistrate in disguise. No wonder his voice sounded so familiar.

Now, no one dared to go and watch the spectacle anymore.

At the same time, they became even more curious about the real answer.

Li Mai and Zhou Quan followed this person directly into the government office.

When Zhou Quan saw the government office, he understood that this person was either a coroner or a town official.

After they went inside, the man asked them to sit for a while. He went to the back room and came out with the same clothes but a different appearance. He looked much more handsome than before and resembled a frail scholar.

But Li Mai felt that this person knew kung fu and even the legendary art of disguise.

"Greetings, Your Excellency!" Li Mai and Zhou Quan stood up and bowed at the same time.

"Please sit. My name is An Nanyang, and I am the town's magistrate. Last night's events have truly given me a headache. This afternoon, I was thinking of going to a teahouse to hear what the people of the martial arts world had to say. Your wife's account is similar to that of me and the coroner, so I invited you back."

"I have already arranged for someone to summon the coroner. Once he arrives, we will go and examine the body together."

An Nanyang was quite easygoing and explained the situation to the two of them.

Li Mai nodded. Today's incident served as a lesson, and she would no longer speak carelessly in public.

Soon, the coroner arrived. He was an old man who bowed to An Nanyang. Then, the group went to a room in the outer courtyard, where several yamen runners were guarding outside.

Li Mai fell behind and stood with Zhou Quan. She took the food box from his hand and stored it in her spatial storage with a thought.

She didn't want her desserts to be tainted by the stench of death.

Upon entering, I saw two corpses covered with white sheets.

"The one inside is a female corpse, and the one outside is a male corpse," the coroner told them.

"Madam, why don't you go and take a look at the female corpse?" An Nanyang seemed to sense something was wrong after calling out to his wife, and he didn't know the names of Zhou Quan and Li Mai.

Li Mai turned to look at him. "My lord, my husband's surname is Zhou, and my surname is Li. You can call me Madam Zhou or Lady Li."

“Alright, Madam Zhou!” An Nanyang smiled awkwardly. He didn’t know what these two people did, but this lady seemed to have some ability.

Li Mai took the white gloves handed to her by the coroner, put them on, took out a white handkerchief from her sleeve and covered her nose, then walked over and removed the white cloth.

The corpse was unclothed, with only a piece of cloth covering its chest and waist, and the exposed abdomen showing rough stitches.

The coroner and An Nanyang came over and stood behind her, while Zhou Quan stood to the side watching silently.

He still found it all very surreal. Who would have thought that just yesterday at this time they were being chased by assassins and later destroyed so many corpses, and today they were actually studying corpses in the morgue with the town's chief coroner?

Li Mai turned to the coroner and asked, "Who performed the abdominal surgery?"

The coroner said, "It's me."

"Did you have your whole body checked before the surgery? Did you find any other wounds?" Li Mai asked.

The coroner thought for a moment and said, "I examined the male corpse carefully, but for the female corpse, I only looked at the exposed parts."

Li Mai nodded and said, "Turn around, let me see what's covered."

The three men quickly turned around.

After examining Li Mai's chest, she found no wounds, covered it up, and then went to her lower abdomen. She untied it and carefully examined her anus and genitals. After checking everything, she found no problems.

After covering it up, Li Mai was puzzled. "That's impossible. There's no sign of any insects crawling inside."

Her gaze swept over the maid's corpse again, and suddenly Li Mai's eyes fell on the belly button.

Hmm? This maid's belly button seems to have more layers?

"Do you have tweezers?" Li Mai asked the coroner.

The coroner nodded and took out a pair of silver tweezers from the box he had brought and handed them to Li Mai.

“You can turn around now. I think the problem is in the belly button area.” After Li Mai finished speaking, she waited for them to turn around before using tweezers to move the belly button. As a result, the belly button was very loose and she easily stretched it open.

Li Mai: ......

When they saw a hole the size of a finger in his navel, everyone understood.

Upon seeing this, the coroner instructed his men to quickly jot down notes. They had previously overlooked the navel, as it appeared normal at first glance.

They then went to look at the male corpse, and it was the same; both had a hole the size of a finger in their navel.

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