The medicine store was extremely spacious, but there were only four people standing there with solemn expressions. Apart from them, there were three corpses covered by white cloths lying flat on the ground.
Seeing the three people enter, the expressions of the four people in the hall did not change much. Only the corner of Chen Jiu's eye twitched slightly. Li Yaotian and the other two looked at Chen Jiu, as if waiting for him to say something. He was Chen Jiu, but he did not speak. In the end, it was Li Yaotian who broke the silence.
"You're here." He looked at the three people who had just entered and said a superfluous sentence.
"Yes." Even if it was a superfluous sentence, Jin Qi still bowed and replied. Behind him, Lu Ping and Zi Mu also followed suit and bowed. After that, they curiously sized up the important place hidden in the mountain. Their gazes swept across Mizar Peak's head disciple Bai Li from time to time. This skinny, dark skinned, Mizar Peak's head disciple looked like a medicine farmer. To Lu Ping and Zi Mu, he was a new face.
"Lu Ping, Zi Mu, right?" At this time, Li Yaotian looked at Lu Ping and Zi Mu and continued to speak.
"Yes." Lu Ping replied calmly. Zi Mu, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by the favor. One of the Big Dipper academicians, Alioth Star, was actually able to call out his name. This pleasant surprise made him throw all his previous worries and fears to the back of his mind.
"Take a look." Li Yaotian did not say anything more to Lu Ping and Zi Mu. He turned his head and signaled Jin Qi to check the three corpses.
Jin Qi nodded and walked to the first corpse. He bent down and lifted the white cloth. The first thing that entered his eyes was a face filled with astonishment.
A trace of sorrow flashed across Jin Qi's face. After all, this was a fellow disciple that he had been with day and night. He quietly mourned for a few seconds, then continued to lift the white cloth. Immediately, he saw the fatal wound at the heart of the corpse.
There was only one wound. Precisely, it was fatal. The deceased did not leave any traces of resistance and was already killed by this blow.
Who was so strong?
Countless names floated in Jin Qi's mind. He was very familiar with the deceased disciples. In the North Style Academy, the number of people that could surprise him to death was not too few. But not a lot.
Or perhaps, it was an opponent that he had never thought of, and that was why he had been caught off guard, and that was why he had died in such astonishment and unwillingness?
Another name popped up in Jin Qi's mind. A list of students who were close to the deceased.
Then, Jin Qi placed his right hand on the deceased's wound and probed the wound with his Soul Power. Did this fatal blow leave any information in the wound?
No.
Jin Qi carefully examined the wound twice and found that it was a fatal wound. There was no Soul Power or other information left behind.
He shook his head and stood up. He gently covered the dead man's face with the white cloth and walked to the second corpse.
This time, the deceased even had a smile on his face, as if he had died in a very happy situation.
How could this be? Jin Qi completely lifted the white cloth and looked for the wound, but he couldn't find anything on his body. With a thought, Jin Qi placed his finger on the lips of the deceased. Very quickly. The power of the soul detected the traces in his mouth.
It was poison.
The colorless and odorless Wu Shuang was something that normal people could not guard against. However, for cultivators, with their talent in the aspect of Pivot Soul, there were many ways to distinguish this Wu Shuang. Just like how Jin Qi could distinguish poison by placing his finger on the other person's lips.
But the ability of the Pivot Soul of this deceased was coincidentally useless against this Wu Shuang. The murderer used this poison to make him die with a smile. Clearly, he understood the abilities of this deceased very well.
To have such a relationship with him … Jin Qi's network of relationships started to flash in his mind again. He compared it with the two names he had filtered out earlier, and walked to the third corpse.
This deceased didn't have any obvious emotions on his face. But the same as the previous two, he also didn't show any signs of resistance. His fatal wound was at his waist. Jin Qi didn't find anything. Among the three victims, this one was the one with the least information.
But …
Jin Qi's finger didn't leave the wound immediately. He didn't find any information left by the murderer, but he sensed something unusual.
"This wound … …" Jin Qi turned his head. He found something on the wound. It wasn't information about the murderer, but it was something unusual. He didn't know if the four present had sensed it. But when he turned his head, he saw the four looking at him seriously, waiting for him to give an answer.
"It seems to have been treated a little," Jin Qi said.
"What treatment?" Li Yaotian asked.
"The blood in the wound has coagulated, and the degree of damage to the body is slightly different," Jin Qi said.
"The reason?" Li Yaotian asked.
"I'm not sure. Maybe they wanted to confuse some information, or maybe they didn't control their soul power well and created an accident?" Jin Qi wasn't sure.
"Cun Jing," Li Yaotian suddenly said.
"Cun Jing?" Jin Qi stilled.
"You shouldn't be unfamiliar with it. The Medicinal Kitchen often uses this ability. Almost all of the students here know it," Li Yaotian said.
"Yes." Jin Qi nodded. Cun Jing had the ability to maintain the freshness of medicine. The Medicinal Kitchen often used Cun Jing to adjust the state of the medicine, whether it was making medicine or storing it.
"What will happen if Cun Jing is used on a person, such as a wound?" Li Yaotian asked.
"It will slow down the degree of damage to the wound, so it can be used as a temporary treatment," Jin Qi answered truthfully.
"At the same time, it will cause an error in judgment of when the wound was created," Li Yaotian said.
"Yes." Jin Qi nodded.
"When did you use it on the two corpses before?" Li Yaotian asked.
"Three hours ago," Jin Qi said.
"Then what about this corpse whose wound was changed by Cun Jing?" Li Yaotian asked.
"It's hard to say. This Cun Jing failed a little, and the wound wasn't treated completely. Judging from the traces of the failure, the corpse died about five hours ago. Cun Jing's treatment can adjust it to a state of necrosis for three hours. "Jin Qi knew what Li Yaotian was trying to analyze, so he continued to explain.
"Then the known information we've obtained is the following." Li Yaotian began to list, "The murderer should know all three of the victims, and even be very familiar with them. The murderer is proficient in pharmacology, and clearly knows that the second victim's ability is unable to distinguish turbid. The murderer needs to change the time of death, and the goal of doing so is usually to give himself an alibi. He used the ability that everyone in the Megrez Peak Medicinal Kitchen can use, Cun Jing."
"From these three points, have you thought of anyone suspicious?" Li Yaotian asked.
"Yes." Jin Qi nodded.
"Who?"
"Me." Jin Qi smiled bitterly.
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