Qingju, who was standing next to him, stopped sobbing, wiped away her tears, and continued, "When we went in, we saw Sun Sanlang lying on his back on the ground, with a dagger stuck in his chest. The hilt of the dagger was sticking out, and the entire dagger was inside... Blood... The whole place was red. Sun Sanlang must have lost a lot of blood."
Then came He Yi's voice, which sounded more like a summary: "The blood flow was so great that when we arrived, the blood had already stained Sun Sanlang's clothes and the surrounding ground..."
"Yes!" the other two said in unison.
[Detective Ke Lan makes his appearance...]
There is only one truth, the latter.
[The villainous female supporting character should carefully recall the color of the blood. Based on the blood and the state of the corpse, the time of death can be deduced. She should hurry and get the two of them to help her think and recall; there's no time to lose.]
It wasn't some kind of sabotage, just a coincidence. I'll say it three times: it was a coincidence, a coincidence!
He Yi seemed to have thought of something. She couldn't just sit and wait for death. Her gaze swept over the two of them before she pressed on, "The color of the blood is very important!"
It is important to know that the blood of a person who has just died is dark reddish-brown. Once more than an hour has passed since the person died, the blood will coagulate and turn blackish-red.
"Was the blood bright red and glaring under the lantern light, or had it already darkened and turned black?" Heavens, before He Yi even had a chance to think, before she could see everything clearly, Sun Sanlang's neighbor appeared.
The woman screamed at the top of her lungs, insisting that the three girls had killed someone. Now, He Yi was truly in a situation where she couldn't clear her name no matter what she did. Now, she had to rely on the three girls' recollections to reconstruct the scene accurately.
He Yi looked at the two of them, and Qing Ju immediately stopped crying.
Master Liuyun also began to recall the terrifying scene he had witnessed.
Finally, someone murmured, "I remember now, the blood was bright red, very glaring... I was so frightened at the time that I almost fainted."
It was Qingju's voice.
"Bright red!?" He Yi murmured softly, and she thought about it carefully and soon realized what it was.
Liu Yun coughed, one hand resting on his chin while the other rhythmically tapped his temple. "If a person has been dead for too long, the blood exposed to the air will gradually darken, even turn black!"
“Isn’t that right?” He Yi saw a glimmer of hope, suddenly stood up, and continued, “That kind of blood not only turns black, but also becomes very viscous.”
[The novel *Ten Deadly Sins* describes a villainous female supporting character whose blood turns into a fluid resembling frozen tofu.]
He Yi naturally saw the comments as well. She was now calm and collected. In short, as long as she found a clue, she could follow the trail and more evidence and clues would gradually emerge.
"But if you think back carefully, the blood we saw at the time was bright red!"
"This means that Sun Sanlang has not been dead for long! It's very likely that he died shortly before we arrived!" These words were spoken by Liu Yun. Although Liu Yun had never killed anyone, she had, after all, been a wanderer in the martial arts world.
Having learned about all of this, He Yi breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this; having evidence was better than having none.
Now we don't have to feel like blind men and elephants anymore, yay!
[Heyi Sherlock Holmes is online, hahaha.]
[Time of death being determined...]
Qingju looked at the two of them and saw Heyi and Liuyun answering each other's questions. Knowing that hope had returned, Qingju immediately perked up.
He Yi continued her analysis, while Liu Yun added, "Moreover, Princess, you see, it's only the beginning of summer, and the weather is already so hot and humid. That awful place, the West Market, has an abundance of mosquitoes. If Sun Sanlang had been dead for some time, there would definitely be flies and mosquitoes swarming around his body, biting him..."
He Yi looked at her approvingly, nodded, and added, "But in fact, when we went in, apart from the strong smell of blood, we didn't see any mosquitoes or other insects in the room, right?!"
They both nodded.
He Yi paced back and forth. “Master, you have observed very carefully. You are right. I think this is a very important point of doubt! It shows that the time of death was very short and the smell of blood had not yet attracted a large number of mosquitoes.”
"Princess, and Sun Sanlang's face too!"
As if suddenly remembering something, Qingju continued, "Although Sun Sanlang's face is terrifying, with his eyes wide open, it's not the bluish-purple of a dead person. A dead person's face should be as white as paper, and their lips should be white as well."
"His face was as white as paper, not bluish-purple!"
He Yi pondered the matter repeatedly. She looked up at the sky and analyzed it with her limited medical knowledge and experience: "Usually, after a person dies, the blood stops immediately. Under the influence of gravity, the blood will settle in the lowest part of the body. For example, when a person is lying down, the blood will sink to the bottom of the arm or the buttocks."
[You're amazing, you villainous female supporting character! You're like a god to me, how do you know everything?]
Looks like watching TV dramas wasn't a waste of time.
[The villainous female supporting character is so articulate, keep deduce, this is really exciting!]
He Yi pondered for a moment and said, "When blood settles in the blood vessels and seeps through the dermis, it will form lividity, and the face will appear pale."
"But if it was suffocation or poisoning, the skin of the corpse would quickly turn bluish-purple. What we have now is that Sun Sanlang was stabbed in the chest, and it is obvious that he lost too much blood and his face is pale! Doesn't this prove once again that he has only been dead for a short time?"
suddenly see the light.
He Yi looked at Qingju and Liuyun, "If I have made a mistake, you should point it out now."
Liu Yun nodded, "You haven't made any mistakes. I think the more you analyze it, the clearer your thinking becomes, Princess."
In this way, the bewilderment from seeing the corpse and the fear of being inexplicably captured vanished completely, and a strong will to survive transformed into a light in the darkness, faint but flickering.
The desire to uncover the truth had already unknowingly gripped the three of them.
He Yi stamped her foot and said firmly, "That's the key point! The murderer probably left in a hurry shortly before we arrived, or even when we knocked on the door!"
The two people next to her nodded. He Yi was about to say something when Liu Yun slowly said, "Before we went in, I thought I heard a sound inside the house, like a door being opened or closed."
He Yi had actually heard it too. She was just about to ask the two of them, but now that Liu Yun said it, He Yi was even more certain that she had heard it correctly. It was a door opening.
Qingju, who was standing next to her, suddenly stood up and quickly wiped her eyes. "Princess, have you ever thought that the sound might have been made accidentally by the murderer when he left? We knocked on the door before entering, and we really thought no one would respond, so we didn't think much of it."
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