Drip-- drip-- drip--
Dark-red liquid dripped from intestines hanging on a beam, and blood stains and body parts almost covered the floor, leaving no place to stay.
Ye Anping looked up and around. He really didn't want to take a closer look at these body parts, so he took out a pair of gloves from his bag, squatted down, and touched the bloodstains on the ground. He planned to wait by the door for fifteen minutes before leaving.
However, Feng Yu Die was quite serious. Although her face was twitching now, she resisted the feeling of nausea and stepped on the blood, approaching the corpses. She used her sword to turn them over.
"Hiss... Who was so ruthless? It looks like something a demonic cultivator would do."
As she spoke, she went to the wall again and looked closely at the marks left on it, holding her chin and thinking.
"Hmm..."
Ye Anping stood at the door, silently watching her look left and right inside the pavilion, suddenly curious about what she could find out on her own if he didn't say anything.
In this Sword Pavilion murder case in the game, Yun Yiyi, Yun Jiujiu, and Yun Xi were competing with each other to see who could catch the culprit first. As for who ultimately caught the culprit, it actually depended on the players' choices.
If the players helped Yun Yiyi investigate the case, then Yun Yiyi would win in the end. If they helped Yun Jiujiu, then Yun Jiujiu would win.
The Sword Pavilion investigation was a shared plot in the Eldest and the Second Lady's storylines.
As for Yun Xi's side, in the entire Moon Shadow Sword Sect storyline, there were not many divergent options, and almost all of them involved fighting.
If Ye Anping judged correctly, Yun Xi and his sister should have met the killer on the streets by now and followed him.
This was also the reason why he placed his sister on Yun Xi's side-- she didn't need to use too much brain; she just needed to protect Yun Xi and kill people, and that's it.
As he watched Feng Yu Die wandering around, holding her chin and thinking seriously, Feng Yu Die suddenly discovered that Ye Anping was standing at the door without moving a step, and she came over. "Young Master Ye, why are you standing at the door? Aren't you investigating the case?"
"Well, you investigate. I'll just take a look."
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Feng Yu Die tilted her head, turned to look at the mess in the room, and narrowed her eyes. "Hiss... Could it be that you did this? You..."
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Ye Anping was taken aback for a moment, then replied with a smile, "No."
Feng Yu Die seemed to let out a sigh of relief and whispered, "Oh... Phew-- that's good, that's good."
Ye Anping pursed his lips, speechless, before asking: "...How's it going over there with Yun Jiujiu?"
"That little bean is annoying the hell out of me. Every day, she looks for me to fight, but also forces me to drink with her, and just now, she even bit me."
"So..." Ye Anping hesitated for a moment, then he asked, "How many times have you won?"
"We fight once a day, so three times already."
"Oh... then it'll be soon."
"What will be soon?"
--- The love letter incident will be soon.
No wonder Yun Jiujiu kissed her just now; her favorability level should have reached seventy or eighty percent, right?
Ye Anping shrugged with a smile. "Nothing important. What did you find out?"
At this question, Feng Yu Die turned her head, scanned those corpses again, and mused. "Hmm... Some of these people's shoes have mud on the soles, and some are clean with nothing on them. And the marks on the wall are very strange. I can't figure out how the killer did this."
"So, you think these people were moved here after they died?"
"Yeah." Feng Yu Die nodded and then walked to a corpse in front of her. She used her sword to poke a bit of its split-open abdomen and said, "Moreover, the number of organs in these corpses doesn't match up. Each body is missing something."
Ye Anping showed a slightly surprised expression and asked tentatively, "Some are hanging on the beams above, and some are stuck to the walls?"
Feng Yu Die frowned in contemplation, then shook her head. "I've counted them all three times. A normal person has seventy-eight organs*. I used my spiritual sense to explore everything, and I only found two thousand and seventy-nine in total. It's exactly twenty-seven short. Each person is missing something."
"Hmm..."
"Young Master Ye, no matter what, it's impossible for someone to completely obliterate a person's internal organs like this. If it was really done by someone with an exceptionally high cultivation level, there wouldn't be any corpses left behind, nor would they have made such a mess here..."
Feng Yu Die nodded earnestly and raised her index finger, concluding her statement. "There is definitely someone trying to confuse us! These twenty-seven people were killed elsewhere and then moved here afterward. This chaos was created to cover up the missing twenty-seven organs. It's most likely a gang committing the crime, as these people died around the same time but in completely different locations."
Ye Anping had to admit, he was impressed.
Following the game process, at this moment, players could only infer from the battle traces at the scene that these people were killed elsewhere and brought here, with suspicion pointing toward the master of the Sword Pavilion .
But in less than a quarter of an hour, Feng Yu Die had already grasped the main point of the incident.
--- Someone was collecting the organs of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect's inner disciples.
If they told Yun Yiyi and the others about it now, it would probably be like skipping three or four plotlines and rushing straight to the Final Boss room.
There was no such route in the game, but Ye Anping could easily foresee a conclusion after thinking about it.
If they went this way, then not only would the three Yun family ladies die, but even the entire sect would be slaughtered.
He sighed and said, "Don't mention anything about organs for now. Just say that these people seem to have been moved here after death."
"Huh?" Feng Yu Die blinked and tilted her head. "Why?"
"For your lady's sake."
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"Sister Pei?"
No, I mean Yun Jiujiu ... Ye Anping smiled. "Anyway, just don't say anything yet."
"But what's going on? Tell me. How did you know about this? Are you really not the one who did it?"
"No..." Ye Anping sighed and glanced in the direction of the door. He leaned closer to her and whispered. "In the forbidden land of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, in the Thousand Sword Pool , there's a man named Kun Wu."
"What about him?"
"His original surname was Yun, but he was deprived of his surname by Yun Tianchong and was imprisoned there. He is a rebellious son with a heavenly spiritual root and great abilities."
"...Got it!" Feng Yu Die nodded in understanding and made a chopping gesture with her right hand. "So, we're going to take care of him in the end, right?"
"He's just a pawn in my hands, thinking he's playing chess."
Ye Anping smiled and felt that time was almost up, so he turned and held the pavilion door.
"Alright, time's up. Let's go out."
"Oh... Great!"