Jiang Yue followed Ye Shi'an inside and almost vomited when she saw the scene inside.
In the living room, Su Ning lay on the floor in a bizarre position, completely naked, holding a bloodstained boning knife in her hand. Her face and body were covered with crisscrossing, bloody wounds inflicted by the knife.
Blood was everywhere, as if the person had been bled dry and died.
There were candles placed around her body, some with incense burning beside them, and strips of cloth, as if torn from her clothes, in some places.
Jiang Yue suppressed the churning in her stomach and carefully examined the strips of cloth that were stained red with blood. These strips of cloth looked somewhat familiar to Jiang Yue.
"How are you?"
Ye Shi'an walked over and asked Jiang Yue with concern. Even the men felt uncomfortable seeing such a bloody scene, let alone Jiang Yue, a girl.
"I'm fine."
Jiang Yue's face was a little pale, but she seemed to be in good spirits. She pointed to the strips of cloth on the ground and said to Ye Shi'an, "These strips of cloth are from Su Chen's clothes. I saw him wear them when he was in night school."
Jiang Yue had noticed that these strips of cloth looked familiar. After examining them closely, she found an embroidered pattern on one of the strips and suddenly remembered seeing Su Chen wearing clothes with the same pattern when she was at night school.
"Su Ning's brother?"
Ye Shi'an frowned.
"Um."
Jiang Yue nodded, looking at Su Ning's body and the candles on the ground, and said with pursed lips, "I think Su Ning's death may be related to Su Chen."
Ye Shi'an frowned even more deeply. "But isn't he already dead?"
"He's dead."
Jiang Yue took out paper and pen from her bag, intending to draw the location of Su Ning's body and the candles and coins so she could show them to Old Man Chen outside later, when she saw Old Man Chen walk in from outside.
"Master."
Upon seeing Old Man Chen, Jiang Yue immediately went over to him.
When Old Chen saw Su Ning on the ground, he was so frightened that he took two steps back. "Tsk tsk... This way of dying is really too heinous. This girl is ruthless!"
Upon hearing Old Man Chen's words, Jiang Yue looked at Su Ning on the ground and suddenly had a bold guess in her mind.
"Master, you don't mean that Su Ning inflicted these wounds on herself, do you?"
Everyone present was shocked when Jiang Yue said this.
Old Chen pointed to the bloodstained boning knife in Su Ning's hand, his tone tinged with regret, "Isn't this obvious enough?"
Ye Shi'an looked at the knife, his brows furrowing into a deep frown. They had seen the knife in Su Ning's hand as soon as they came in, and had even suspected that Su Ning might have committed suicide.
But they weren't sure, because the wounds on Su Ning's body were clearly inflicted before her death. These wounds were crisscrossed and covered almost her entire body. How could a girl be so cruel to herself and commit suicide in such an extremely painful and self-destructive way?
"The people are all dead, there's no point in us staying here any longer."
Old Chen glanced at Su Ning again, then said to Jiang Yue, "Let's leave this to the police officers and head back now."
Jiang Yue could tell that Old Man Chen didn't want to say more, so she obediently nodded and asked Ye Shi'an, "Can my master and I go back first?"
If you have any other questions, feel free to call me anytime.
Ye Shi'an knew their home phone number, so it was easy for him to contact her.
"You may need to go to the police station to make a statement later. I will call you then."
Ye Shian said, "After all, it was Jiang Yue who called the police when this happened."
He believed that Jiang Yue was definitely not the one who did this, but he still had to take a statement.
Jiang Yue followed Old Man Chen out of the Su family's house, and just as they reached the alley entrance, they encountered Lu Jingnian who had rushed over.
"Yueyue."
Lu Jingnian got out of the car and saw Jiang Yue walking out of the alley with Old Man Chen, so he hurriedly ran towards her.
"You look terrible, are you injured?"
Looking at Jiang Yue's pale face, Lu Jingnian asked anxiously.
"Su Ning is dead. I was a little scared just now, but I'm fine now."
Jiang Yue had never seen a dead person before, and Su Ning's death was so cruel. Jiang Yue was indeed a little frightened just now, but she was afraid of affecting Ye Shi'an and the others' work, so she endured it and did not show it.
Lu Jingnian hugged her tenderly, "You and Master go to the car and wait for me. I'll go in and check on things, and I'll be right back."
"Um."
Jiang Yue nodded, let go of him, and went to the car with Old Man Chen.
Lu Jingnian drove here alone.
Once they got in the car and there were no outsiders around, Old Man Chen said to Jiang Yue, "The person behind that Su Chen you mentioned is no ordinary person."
The Soul-Guiding and Resurrection Array set up next to that girl was extremely cruel. It required the blood of a close relative as a guide to bring the soul back, and then the three souls and seven spirits of that close relative were used to form the array to send the person back to life.
The Su Chen you mentioned who was supposed to be dead has probably returned.
Just now, when Jiang Yue looked at those candles and copper coins, she felt that it might be a formation.
Unexpectedly, it was a formation used to revive Su Chen.
Jiang Yue, however, had never encountered these things before and didn't quite understand. For example, regarding the terrible and horrific wounds on Su Ning's body, she asked Old Man Chen, "Master, if this formation requires the blood of a close relative as a catalyst, there are many ways to bleed the blood. Why use such a cruel method?"
Not only was his entire body covered in horrific wounds, but he didn't even have a single piece of clothing.
Jiang Yue thought she was brave enough, but thinking about Su Ning's death still made her very uncomfortable.
Old Chen explained, "Because this is an extremely sinister sacrificial formation. Since it goes against the laws of nature, whether it is the person casting the spell or the person being resurrected, as long as they use this formation, they will inevitably suffer extremely painful backlash."
However, if the person making the sacrifice willingly inflicts eighty-one deep, bone-revealing cuts on their own body to bear the pain of the backlash for the resurrected, then after the formation succeeds, neither the caster nor the resurrected will suffer any further backlash.
Jiang Yue sighed after hearing Old Man Chen's explanation.
"I never would have guessed that Su Ning would go to such lengths for Su Chen."
Eighty-one cuts, each one deep enough to see the bone!
How could she do this to herself?
"That's where the brilliance of the person behind it all lies."
Old Chen said, "When you came here, you told me that Su Ning is not very smart and that she bullies the weak and fears the strong. Such a person would never have the courage to be so ruthless to herself."
"The person who cast the spell must have done something to her for her to act this way."
"Moreover, when we arrived, Su Ning must have just died. With this kind of formation, the caster must be able to leave only after the person who was sacrificed dies. So when we arrived, that person must have just left as well. I checked the surrounding area and didn't find any trace left by the other party. This person was indeed very cunning to be able to disappear without leaving a trace in such a short time after Su Ning's death. They are quite difficult to deal with."
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