Chapter Ten Exhumation
Zuo Zuo opened the cellar and said, "Sir, do you want to see the bodies of those victims again?"
Zhang Shan shook his head.
"No, this time I want to see the other corpses in the cellar."
Zuo Wuzuo was confused, but Zhao Xun realized what Zhang Shan was thinking, and his expression was a little gloomy and uncertain.
Zhang Shan looked at each and every one of them and found that most of them had been hacked or beaten to death, with various injuries on their bodies.
This is not surprising, the people in the cellar are all thugs who died in the battle between Lifu Hall and other forces.
Lifu Tangkou is the overlord of Guanhu County, but that does not mean that there are no disputes between it and other forces in Guanhu County.
Zhang Shan was disappointed because he did not find the injuries he wanted to see on these corpses.
"Are all the bodies of the thugs at Lifu Hall here?" Zhang Shan asked.
Zuo Wuzuo shook his head.
"Only those from this month, the others have been buried collectively."
There is a cemetery at the entrance of Lifu Hall. After the death of people in the hall, they will be buried collectively in the cemetery at a fixed time every month.
Zhang Shan was stunned.
In Guanhu County, there is a mixture of people and people. The poor people in and around the county wrap up the bodies of beggars and throw them away at the Corpse Dumping Ridge. When they reach a certain number, they light a fire and burn them all.
Those with money are basically buried in burials.
Most of the Lifu and thugs under Lifu Tangkou were buried in the ground.
It was just a matter of wrapping the body, burying it in the soil, and adding an entry to the cemetery list.
After thinking about it, Zhang Shan asked Zhao Xun to take him to the cemetery at Lifu Hall.
Zhao Xun hesitated again and again, sighed, and finally compromised.
Zhao Xun is not stupid. He has already noticed something from the Tangkou's instructions and made some guesses.
Some of the speculations made him feel that something was wrong, but when faced with Zhang Shan, he thought about it and decided that cooperation was the best option.
At the cemetery at the entrance of the hall, Zhang Shan took two shovels from the tombkeeper and asked for the cemetery list.
The register records the basic information of everyone buried here, their cause of death, and their burial location.
The tombkeeper didn't know why, and Zhao Xun's eyelids twitched.
Zhao Xun asked the tombkeeper to leave and not to come if he heard anything later.
The tombkeeper paused and ran away quickly. He understood deeply that there are some things that cannot be heard, seen or understood, otherwise people will die.
But obviously, the tombkeeper thought too much this time.
Zhang Shan complained as he watched the tombkeeper running away quickly.
"It's running too fast. It's almost catching up to one-third of my power."
"But you don't have to run so fast this time."
Shaking his head, he threw a shovel to Zhao Xun.
"Let's go ahead and dig out these corpses!"
Zhang Shan wanted to see what happened to the corpse that was buried at Lifu Hall.
Even though this was a bit disrespectful to the deceased, he wanted to confirm some speculations and couldn't care less.
Zhao Xun sighed, feeling helpless in his heart. He felt that he might have used up all his sighs in the past two days.
Both of them are acquired fourth and fifth level warriors, so digging a hole would be a piece of cake.
Without even a stick of incense, they dug up more than forty buried corpses.
There are not many potholes on the ground, only a large pothole seven or eight meters deep and more than ten meters in diameter.
"It turns out to be a corpse pit. No wonder they are buried every month."
Zhang Shan looked around and saw that there were many corpse pits where corpses had been buried, and there were more than a thousand names recorded on the roster.
Zhenyuan Guan was only established eighteen years ago, and the longest force here cannot exceed the time since Zhenyuan Guan was established.
In only eighteen years at most, so many of the thugs in Lifu Hall have died.
"The struggle is fierce." Zhang Shan muttered in his heart.
The exhumed corpses were generally rotten and full of pus.
There were even white maggots burrowing inside and outside the body, gnawing at the carrion.
Zhang Shan and Zhao Xun took a rest and found wooden sticks to pick apart the wrappings and clothing of the corpses, peel away the rotten flesh and blood, and examine their internal organs.
They took out the rosters and compared them, and judged their identities based on the injuries on their bodies.
Fifteen corpses were searched in succession, but nothing was found.
It was not until the sixteenth time that Zhang Shan finally found what he was looking for.
A corpse with its heart ripped out!
However, the cause of death stated on the roster was that he was hacked to death with a knife, and there was no mention of being poached.
After finding what he was looking for, Zhang Shan was not very happy, and Zhao Xun also looked gloomy and complicated.
The latter initially thought that Tangkou did not want to get involved in this troublesome matter.
But the people above wanted to guide Zhang Shan to the Corpse Pouling Ridge, and Zhao Xun realized that this matter was not simple.
At that time, he thought about many possibilities, including what the prosecutor might have found out, and he was worried about the murderer's background and strength.
In addition, Zhao Xun also has some bad associations.
Tangkou may be involved.
The corpses discovered at this moment and the issues recorded on the roster are all supporting Zhao Xun's previous speculation.
Zhang Shan was in a bad mood, but he didn't give up. A corpse couldn't tell much. If his guess was true, then...
There were a total of forty-six corpses, all of which had their rotting chests and abdomen removed by Zhang Shan and Zhao Xun.
In addition to the previous one, two more corpses with their hearts removed were found, and there was also no description of the removal of their hearts on the list.
At this time, Zhang Shan and Zhao Xun were completely sure that Lifu Tangguo was indeed related to the skinning and heart-breaking incident.
"Hey, this is really troublesome." Zhang Shan had a headache.
Tang Lifu was involved in this matter, and the bad guess in his mind was increasingly confirmed to be true.
Zhang Shan didn't know how to deal with it.
And there are still many questions in his mind that have not been answered.
"I have mastered a lot of fragments, but why do I feel that these fragments are so fragmented that they cannot be combined?"
After pondering for a long time, Zhang Shan still couldn't figure out the reason.
Zhang Shan didn't want to get into the details, so he put it aside for the time being if he couldn't figure it out.
He looked at Zhao Xun.
Zhao Xun doesn't know what to do now.
Tangkou is involved in this matter, but to what extent is he involved? Who else is involved?
And since Tangkou is implicated, why should he report it to Zhenyuan Guan? Isn’t this looking for death?
Zhenyuan Guan only stipulates that a large number of mortals under his command die tragically for no reason, and a reasonable explanation must be given.
There is a lot of room for maneuver here.
Wouldn't it be enough to find a scapegoat, or even make all the victims disappear?
He actually exposed the body?
Who did this? So stupid?
Is it difficult for Tangkou to dispose of the corpse?
Is it difficult to burn it directly to ashes?
There are many unreasonable things in this, but the corpses buried here did appear to be in the same situation as the skinning and heart-removing case.
Zhao Xun was one of two adults, and he had deep doubts about the intelligence of the person in charge. One thing could actually be done like this, leaving such obvious clues.
Well, now that Zhang Shan has been found out, what will happen next?
You can't kill Zhang Shan, right? Then Zhenyuan Guan will definitely send stronger warriors to investigate. Will Tangkou be able to withstand it?
The more Zhao Xun thought about it, the more he felt that he was going to die.
He was already thinking about how to get out of the whirlpool.
"Wake up, wake up!" Zhang Shan clapped his hands, awakening Zhao Xun from deep thought.
"Okay, I know what you are thinking. Don't worry, the situation is not as bad as you think."
"But I do need to talk to the higher-ups in your hall."
Zhang Shan said seriously.
Chapter completed!