A small cell with a single bed, a toilet, an old table, a cabinet, and nothing else.
Zhong You's body was hunched over and lying on the bed facing the wall. He was wearing a prison uniform with a serial number on the back.
The prison guards outside the cell did not follow. The special operations team just waved their hands and they kept slightly away from each other as a habit.
Liu Xiao did not touch the body directly, but walked slowly in the cell and looked around.
In addition to Su Gu's unsuitability, there was another reason why he went on the mission today, and that was his own request.
He expressed to Ye Qu two days ago that he was willing to share the pressure with the team members, and as long as his extraordinary abilities were suitable, he could arrange for anyone who could help.
Because he feels that only by being more exposed to extraordinary events can we understand more about the world.
He raised his hand and gently stroked the table and the edge of the bed, finding no doubts.
Ye Qufang walked over with light steps: "There are no external injuries, and there are no traces of divinity around. It seems to be sudden death, but the real cause of death is failure of vitality."
This should be the inspection result of Jiu Mingjun, the leader of the third team, so Yue Fei doesn't have to make another trip.
But the vitality is exhausted?
This statement comes from the mouth of a doctor with a strong and extraordinary flavor, let alone an extraordinary doctor.
Liu Xiao gently touched Zhong You's body and prepared to straighten him up.
The hand was heavy, and the whole body shook slightly with the force.
He was so frightened that he immediately retracted his hand.
After death, the body is rigor mortis, and it is impossible to change its posture at this time. This is why the body still looks like this after Jiu Mingjun came. However, Liu Xiao didn't think of this when he came into contact with it for the first time.
After taking two deep breaths, he directly put his hand on Zhong You's shoulder. It felt like pressing on a stone, cold and stiff.
This is an old corpse, thin and full of wrinkles, with traces of time and the weather and frost left by suffering.
Liu Xiaozhi realized that the world was actually not as beautiful as he imagined.
He only saw the prosperous Jinluo City, but not the surrounding small villages; he only saw the closed welfare home, but did not know the reason for the closure; he only knew that there were no beggars in the city, but he did not know where the beggars went.
Holding back the flinch, I closed my eyes.
The world without color is covered down.
The first one to appear is black.
Bottomless darkness.
It's as pure as the bottomless water in Ye Qu's "Water Mirror" world.
Then a weathered human face appeared in the depths of darkness, full of ravines.
That's Zhong You's face.
However, this face was so thin and so different from the first time he saw it that Liu Xiao almost didn't recognize it.
The face was constantly changing expressions, sometimes in pain and sometimes joy, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing. The expressions changed very quickly, but the distance was too far and it was difficult to see clearly.
At the same time, some other pictures also appeared in Liu Xiao's field of vision.
Various images were mixed together and flickering, which not only distracted his attention, but also made him dizzy, unsteady, and a little nauseous.
He closed his eyes and did not open them, but he pressed the edge of the bed with his other hand to keep himself balanced.
Cheer up and try to move your perspective to get closer, hoping to see Zhong You's situation clearly.
The field of view is smoothly extended.
He saw Zhong You lying on the bed, with a distorted expression on his face. Any happiness or joy there was was all an illusion caused by the distortion of the muscles on his face.
I saw Zhong You rolling around on the bed, making various distorted and weird expressions on his face uncontrollably. At the same time, his body was twitching, and the muscles under his skin were beating abnormally.
Liu Xiao turned her perspective to look around.
The table, cabinet, and toilet are all normal.
Team leader Jiu Mingjun has checked that there is no trace of divinity, so what caused him to become like this?
The surroundings were dark, and it must have been night. It seemed that Zhong You experienced great pain before his death. If it was not caused in prison, it could only have been brought in from outside the prison.
It only happened now.
That should make sense.
No wonder the third team wants to hand the case back.
Liu Xiao thought about it, turned her vision around and returned to the bed, only to see Zhong You sitting up.
His heart skipped a beat.
Scared me!
But why is he sitting up?
The next moment, he noticed that Zhong You's face, which was only skin and bones, was abnormally close. The skin was sallow and bloodless, and the turbid and lifeless eyes were glowing with a pale green light, staring at him.
Liu Xiao subconsciously wanted to retreat, but his perspective suddenly became unable to move. He tried a little harder to break away, but it still had no effect.
Then he realized that what he was moving was his body in reality, and the pictures in history were not moved.
He quickly moved time and prepared to zoom out.
"Roar--"
Zhong You suddenly opened his mouth, which was so thin that he almost had no lips, revealing a pair of black and yellow teeth, and bit Liu Xiao's face.
"ah--"
Liu Xiao exclaimed and jumped away suddenly. At the same time, he opened his eyes and all the images disappeared, only to see Zhong You's body still curled up on the bed with his face inward.
Then he felt that he hit something soft. When he looked back, he found that it was Senior Ye Qu who had stabilized him.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still beating fast and his breathing was a little heavy, so he stretched out his hand to caress his heaving chest.
"Are you injured? I saw that you were struggling to get away just now. I thought you were stuck to the corpse and was trying to wake you up."
Liu Xiao shook his head and thanked her, saying:
"No, it's just that the distance was too close and I was frightened by his expression."
"What's your expression? Is there anything unusual?"
"Yes, Zhong Youlin was in great pain before he died, and I saw green eyes again."
Ye Qu was lost in thought, stroking the bracelet on his left wrist with his right hand, and said with doubts: "I didn't find out, Su Gu didn't ask, Huiheng couldn't see it, and Yue Fei didn't find anything abnormal. What on earth is this?
What?"
Then he seemed to suddenly remember something, his eyes lit up, and he said to Liu Xiao: "It's not that there is no connection at all. The test result of Team Leader Jiu Mingjun was that his vitality was failure. Yue Fei also casually said that he was extremely weak.
He looks older than his actual age."
Liu Xiao guessed: "This is... something that can provide extraordinary abilities, but will be consumed and overdraw life? Does such a thing exist?"
"I've never seen it, but I can't say it's completely impossible. Everything has divinity. Everything is created by gods. The same is true for human vitality. If there is something that can convert vitality into divinity, then it will have extraordinary abilities.
It's not impossible
"It seems this case is not as simple as imagined."
Liu Xiao said: "What should we do now?"
"Inform the temple and report all the information. You can also write down what you just saw."
"good."
Outside the cell, Ye Qu said to the captain of the special operations team: "Inform the temple to recover the body."
The need for the temple to recover the body meant that it was determined that it was not an ordinary case. The captain nodded in agreement and immediately made arrangements. The prison guards were also stopped around and were not allowed to approach.
The rest of the trivial matters can be left to the special operations team. Liu Xiao and Ye Qu walked out side by side, passing by the door of the prisoner who humiliated Liu Xiao.
I saw that the cell door had been opened, and there was no difference in the layout inside. However, the prisoner was nowhere to be found, and there was a pool of blood on the ground in the cell.
Ye Qu's eyes lit up, and he looked at Liu Xiao with some surprise: "You're quite cruel, aren't you?"
Liu Xiao keenly captured Ye Qu's expression.
Well, jailers, people with extraordinary abilities in prison are responsible for torture. Do they all have this mentality?
He chuckled and said nothing.
"What did you do?" Ye Qu asked again.
Seeing the way his eyes were shining, Liu Xiao decided to tell the truth, so she pointed down at the ground and then made a downward motion.
Ye Qu couldn't help but look down at his lower body and said, "Why are you so heavy-handed?"
"Senior Ye Qu, didn't you say that almost all of the people in this prison have no chance of getting out again in this life? Their crimes are unforgivable and they only bring themselves to blame."
"That eases your burden, doesn't it?"
Liu Xiao didn't know what Ye Qu meant, so he didn't speak, which was regarded as acquiescence.
Ye Qu did not blame, but just reminded: "You must pay attention to the change in your own thoughts. Don't really regard yourself as a god just because you have entered the path of god, thus despising ordinary people."
"Did I... go too far?"
Ye Qu thought for a moment and did not answer directly. Instead, he talked about another thing:
"Su Gu also came here, and he was also a prisoner. After he returned, Su Gu cried for a week before he slowly recovered.
"Actually, I would rather tell Su Gu: 'The prisoner who insulted you last time was punished,' rather than 'The prisoner stayed in prison for the rest of his life.'"
He didn't say what happened at that time, he just told it softly, but Liu Xiao could imagine that it might be more extreme than what he encountered today.
Ye Qu continued: "All criminals should be punished. Those who repent may not be able to get a lighter punishment, but those who do not repent must be severely punished. Ordinary people who insult others will only be punished with education and compensation, while insults by death row prisoners should be punished
Let him feel the pain."
Liu Xiao understood Senior Ye Qu's point of view, and at the same time felt that this point of view was not extreme. His opinion was based on the premise that the other party had many bad deeds.
"So I think it's not too much and it suits me very well."
Liu Xiao nodded. In fact, he knew that if he saw it face to face, he might not take such a heavy blow, but in the mental picture, everything seemed to be false, so he directly took the fatal blow.
This is just like a person who is usually kind and kind, but kills people like crazy in the game. It has a feeling that "it's not the real world".
If Senior Ye Qu hadn't stopped him, he might have tortured him again. If he had known about Su Gu in advance, he might have killed him, right?
Liu Xiao wasn't sure, but he felt he would do it.
The special operations team sent the body to the temple, and the cell was sealed and will no longer be used unless it is unsealed.
It seemed that this case would become an unsolved case again, and the doubts were difficult to explain. This was indeed the case. Until the next day, the autopsy at the temple could not provide any more clues.
However, Su Gu was very happy after knowing that the prisoner who humiliated her had been castrated by Liu Xiao. Of course, she was a little surprised at first.
Yue Fei was also surprised. She thought Liu Xiao was an elegant and gentle person, but she didn't expect that he would do such a thing.
Liu Xiao smiled and said: "Repay kindness with kindness and repay hatred with straightness. I quite agree with Senior Ye Qu's point of view."
Ye Qu quickly shook his head: "I have never said these eight words of yours, and I have never heard them before. I can't bear the title of a 'Great Confucian'."