Seeing that Mr. Jin had stopped, I didn't dare to interrupt and continued to wait.
Seeing that he hadn't said anything for a full two minutes, I cautiously asked, "Are you done?"
"It's over!"
"So what exactly is he trying to do?" I asked.
"have no idea!"
Damn it!
I'm truly impressed.
What's the difference between saying all this and saying nothing at all?
Is it really appropriate for you to be so blatantly padding your word count like this?
Seeing Jin Ye with his hands behind his back, looking completely at ease, I could only sigh helplessly.
"Where are you going?" Jin asked again as I turned to leave.
I suggested we go find Bai Su; she has some leads. By the way, could you find a photo of my grandfather and have Bai Su identify him?
"Then I'll go with you."
I didn't object.
Although Jin Ye can be unreliable at times, he is still quite capable.
Bai Su did not live on the same floor as us.
When we got to the courtyard, Zeng Wei saw that I was about to leave and asked me with a puzzled look where we were going.
I said I was going to find your cousin, Xiaorou.
Zeng Wei said "Oh," and pointed upwards, "She lives upstairs from you, on the third floor. I'll go with you."
Arriving at Bai Su's door, I raised my hand and knocked.
"Bai... Xiaorou, are you there?"
Because Bai Su had sent Zeng Wei away last night before revealing her identity, I quickly changed my words when I mentioned the character 'Bai'.
"Xiaorou, it's me, Chen Yan! Open the door!"
They knocked for a long time, but there was no response from inside the house.
I knocked harder and for a while, but there was still no response from inside.
Zeng Wei frowned, looking puzzled: "What's going on? Did they go out?"
I was also full of doubts.
You promised to return my things today, so why did you go out?
Just then, Jin Ye, who had been standing silently to the side, suddenly changed his expression, started counting on his fingers, and muttered to himself, "Something's not right. This is weird."
Before I could even ask anything, Jin Ye suddenly pulled Zeng Wei and me aside.
He took a deep breath, raised his foot, mustered all his strength, and kicked the door with a "bang".
As the door was violently kicked open, a chilling aura rushed out.
Upon seeing the scene inside the house, Zeng Wei cried out in terror.
Bai Su hung straight from the roof beam, the stool beneath her feet tilted to the side, as if it had been kicked away in a panic.
His hair was scattered messily across his face, with a few strands fluttering gently in the breeze, adding to the eeriness of the scene.
His eyes were wide open, empty and lifeless, as if he were staring intently at something, his gaze filled with pain and despair.
His tongue was already sticking out to his chest.
The body swayed gently in the breeze...
Bai Su is dead!
Zeng Wei stood there, frozen, his lips trembling. After a long while, he finally managed to stammer out, "What... what are we going to do?"
I took a deep breath, tried to calm myself down, gritted my teeth and said to put her down first.
After putting Bai Suping on the ground, I stared at her bloodless face, my mind buzzing.
He was perfectly fine yesterday, how could he suddenly die?
Zeng Wei's eyes also reddened as he stood to the side, and he kept murmuring, "Xiao Rou, how could this happen... how could she die?"
Only Jin Ye remained silent with a sullen face, seemingly lost in thought.
I calmed myself down a bit and squatted down to carefully examine Bai Su's body.
She would never commit suicide.
He'd been lying low for so long, and last night he said he'd give me the evidence today, but he's dead today.
Someone must be trying to stop her from saying what she hasn't said yet!
Who could it be?
I subconsciously turned my head to look at Master Jin, and then at Zeng Wei beside me.
But after thinking for a long time, I still couldn't figure out who it was.
Let's examine the body first; we might find something.
I gently lifted Bai Su's wrist and felt her pulse; it was icy cold to the touch, with no sign of a beat.
Then I lifted her eyelids.
Bai Su's pupils were completely dilated and showed no reaction to light.
I then carefully pressed on her neck to check the condition of her cervical spine.
Bai Su felt a clear fracture in her cervical spine, which was likely caused by the immense impact of hanging herself.
The livor mortis was still in the accumulation stage, distributed on the lower part of her body, and its color was relatively light.
Based on the livor mortis, the time of death was approximately one hour ago.
He died an hour ago?
At this moment, Jin, who had been silent all along, patted my shoulder, gesturing for me to lean back.
"Let me give it a try!"
I didn't know what he was going to do, but I stepped aside anyway.
Jin took out a yellow talisman from his pocket, muttered incantations, and waved his hands rapidly.
"Huh!"
Just as he was thinking about it, Jin Ye suddenly exclaimed "Huh?"
I went over to take a look and found that the yellow talisman had slowly turned into a light gray, as if it had been drained of its life force.
I hurriedly asked him what this meant, and why the yellow talisman had changed color.
Jin stopped what he was doing and let out a long sigh.
"Her soul is gone! I wanted to summon her soul to ask her how she died, but now her soul is gone. Logically speaking, the soul shouldn't leave the body so quickly!"
"His soul is gone?"
I pressed on, "Where did Xiaorou's soul go? Was it taken away by the ghost messengers?"
Master Jin slowly shook his head and explained, "No, if someone were taken away by the underworld's ghost messengers, a faint yin aura would remain in this room, like a thin mist. Moreover, a person's soul will not be taken away within three days of a normal death."
"Because a person who has just died is still unaware that they are dead and is in a dazed state, they will go to some places they walked in life to collect footprints during these three days."
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