She gently lifted her eyelids and said, "His pupils were dilated, and he was extremely frightened before he died... It seemed like he was frightened to death by something."
"Scared to death?" Ke Chunliang's face was stiff. "She's quite courageous. She usually dares to go into the woods alone."
Su Yao placed his hand on the corpse's abdomen, tapping lightly with his knuckles a few times, then paused, frowning slightly.
"Hmm?" She whispered to herself, "...not right."
She touched an acupuncture point on the woman's abdomen, then slid her finger down the midline, probing inch by inch. Then she suddenly stopped and looked up at everyone:
"Her internal organs are gone."
"What?!" Everyone spoke almost at the same time.
Zhou Lingyu took a step forward, his expression suddenly changing: "You mean, all her organs were taken away?"
"To be precise, the abdomen was hollowed out by some force. There are no cuts on the skin, the muscles are intact, but the inside is empty."
"This..." Ke Chunliang staggered a step, his face pale: "This has never happened before..."
Su Yao stood up, his expression grim: "She wasn't poisoned, nor was she injured by a wild beast. This kind of death seems to be the work of some strange creature."
"Is it the work of evil spirits?" Zhou Lingyu asked in a low voice.
She denied it, "If it was a demon, there should be some evil aura left on her body. With your sensitivity, you should be able to detect it."
Zhou Qilin also frowned: "I didn't sense any spiritual fluctuations or demonic energy... It's like... she is outside this world, and was pulled away and released by 'something'."
"Something took away my internal organs without leaving any trace." Su Yao murmured.
Everyone fell silent.
On a fir tree not far away, there was a sudden "cawing" sound, and a crow flapped its wings and flew up, causing the branches to shake violently.
Su Yao suddenly looked up: "Look at her hands."
Everyone looked and saw that the woman's right index finger was wrapped with a very thin silver-white thread.
Su Yao squatted down and stared at the thin thread: "This is not a thread, it is... a very thin spider silk?"
"Spider?" Zhou Qilin's eyes glared. "You mean, there's a spider demon?"
Su Yao shook her head: "It's not a demon. If it was really a spider demon, the body wouldn't be so intact... It's some kind of creature between a demon and a spirit, and it didn't leave any trace, as if it didn't belong to this world at all."
Zhou Lingyu suddenly asked Zhou Qilin: "Do you still remember the word mentioned in the Spirit Archives? 'Mirror World Species'."
Zhou Qilin frowned and glanced at him. "I remember. The strange phenomenon that briefly appeared deep in the mountains and forests was called the 'Mirror World Entrance'."
"Perhaps there are things hidden there that don't belong to the human world..."
The wind blew through the mountains and forests, and the lights flickered, as if some invisible "eyes" were watching them from a distance.
Purple eyes looked towards the dark forest, eyes darkening slightly: "It seems that something is trying to lure us into the forest."
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