"The beast that can kill Butcher Hong must be what kind of beast it is." Everyone gathered around Butcher Hong and speculated, all talking.
Tiger, lion, leopard...
This man is as strong as an iron tower, taller than Jian Yu, and very strong. The muscles on his body are bulging, and it feels like he can kill a tiger with one punch. And he has been a butcher for so many years, so he must have a ferocious mind, and he is definitely not an ordinary beast.
It can kill you.
"I can't tell what kind of beast it is, but Butcher Hong did fight to the death with that guy." Bai Yue lit it with a stick: "There are four kinds of scars that can be seen on his body now."
Everyone only saw scars, but it was really impossible to distinguish four types.
"One is a friction wound, which was caused by rolling on the ground during a struggle. The wounds are very shallow and only the surface of the skin is damaged, with mud inside."
"The second is the lacerations caused by teeth. He has many lacerations on his body, but his winter clothes are thick, so most of the injuries are not deep. The most serious one is on the shoulder, where a large piece of flesh was torn off.
, causing excessive blood loss. The teeth of this animal..."
Bai Yue looked carefully: "It's jagged... very strange."
Everyone gathered around to listen to Bai Yue say that they might not have seen fewer dead people than Bai Yue, but they had definitely seen fewer animals than Bai Yue. There were no zoos in this era, and most people just saw whatever was available locally.
No, some have heard of it, some have not even heard of it.
People like Jian Yu and Liang Meng who often travel around can be considered very experienced in the world, but the world is also limited. Although there is a lot of knowledge from the travel notes, it is always not as good as Bai Yue or even dissecting it himself.
"It's not a beast like a lion or tiger." Bai Yue said firmly: "The wounds caused by beasts like tigers are different from this."
What kind of beast could have serrated teeth? No one could figure out why for a while.
"The third wound, this is what I am sure is not caused by a tiger or a lion. This wound is in the shape of a shot and was pulled out, similar to the effect of a whip. Unless someone was holding a similar weapon to help in the fight, otherwise, this wound
It should be caused by the tail of a ferocious beast. The ferocious beast has a crocodile-like tail, but the lion and tiger do not."
Liang Meng suddenly raised his hand, and Bai Yue almost laughed. This must have been inspired by the users in the shanty town.
Bai Yue said: "Tell me."
"Why can't a person with a whip help the fight? It may not be possible for such a big beast to escape from the secret room without being seen by the people around it. Moreover, the ceiling is intact and the secret door is blocked from the outside.
He died. There must be someone else present."
"That's right." Qi Min also said: "It must be very expensive to raise such a big guy, no matter what it is. This butcher looks like a janitor, and he is definitely not the owner of the beast."
"It's judged from the wounds." Bai Yue pointed to several long strips of wounds for them to see: "These are the wounds I said were swept out by the tail. The traces of the wounds are complete. At that time, Butcher Hong was fighting with the beast.
, they must be rolling around and entangled together. If a third person is assisting with a whip, regardless of whether it is necessary, it is impossible for him to accurately hit the dead body with every whip, and there will definitely be a beast.
If you block it, the whip will only fall normally."
After everyone thought about it, they realized that this was true.
"Only if the whip comes with the prey, there will be no hindrance and it can be completely swept over the victim."
"Is it possible... that it's a crocodile?" Liang Meng murmured: "Someone raised a crocodile here privately? Then they arrested people to watch the crocodile eat people... It's really crazy."
Although there are no crocodiles in the capital, Jian Yu and others all know and have seen them. They are also called earth dragons. They are indeed ferocious and can eat people.
Someone suddenly interjected: "Don't the earth dragons have to be by the water? This place is so dry, how can it be an earth dragon?"
"That's not necessarily the case." Bai Yue said: "Animals like crocodiles can live out of the water, and the reason why they never live near the water is because there is more food near the water. They are bulky and move on the shore.
Not flexible enough, hunting is more difficult than in the water."
"It's really an earth dragon." Liang Meng was horrified, "What a big crocodile that is."
"This can be inferred from the fourth wound, which is caused by sharp claws holding down the prey." Bai Yue said: "Whether it is a beast or a human, if you hold it down and bite with your teeth, you usually use your forelimbs..."
As Bai Yue spoke, he pressed Jian Yu's arms with both hands. Jian Yu just looked at her and said softly: "Would you like to take a bite to test your position?"
"Um, no need?" Bai Yue smiled perfunctorily, stretched out his hand to wipe Jian Yu's clothes: "I see there is dust on your clothes, let me pat it for you."
The unmarried couple's unintentional flirting without choosing the right place was almost unbearable. Everyone in Liang Meng complained in their hearts, but there was no expression on their faces. They were all staring at the corpse on the ground, as if a gunshot was about to be fired there.
Here comes a flower.
Bai Yue retracted his hand: "The beast held the victim down with its forelimbs, and then bit it with its teeth. According to the distance between the two, the length of this animal is about... about three meters."
Everyone took a breath. It was three meters long, had sharp teeth and claws, and could use its tail as a weapon. No wonder Butcher Hong was so strong that he was bitten to death, let alone his bare hands. Animals of this type usually have...
The sharp skin may not be able to penetrate even if you hold a butcher's knife in your hand.
Jian Yu said slowly: "How long has Butcher Hong been dead?"
"It's hard to say the exact time, but it should have been more than three days, before Mrs. Liu disappeared." Bai Yue said.
"A person will become stiff soon after death, and the joints will be difficult to bend, and the state at death will be fixed. This is rigor mortis. Rigor mortis will appear fastest about two quarters of an hour after death, usually one to two hours after death.
Hours. It spreads throughout the body at three to four hours, and reaches its peak at six to eight hours."
The monks in Dali Temple were also able to speak freely about these things. Everyone was used to it and was not surprised.
Bai Yue said: "The rigor mortis state lasted for twelve to eighteen hours and then began to ease. In three to seven days in winter, the rigor mortis gradually disappeared and the body returned to softness. Now the victim's blood has coagulated and dried up, and the body has returned to softness, so he died.
The time was more than three days, so he is not the murderer of the disappearance, at least not the only murderer."
Everyone thought about it for a while, and the case seemed to be very simple. It was that someone secretly kept wild beasts in captivity, and was so crazy that they captured live humans to feed or entertain them.
But thinking about it is very complicated. Liang Meng's soul asked: "If Butcher Hong died first and Granny Liu disappeared later, why didn't the murderer just use Butcher Hong to feed the monsters instead of going to the trouble of arresting Granny Liu? Although he was crazy, but many
If you arrest someone, the risk of exposure is always higher."