Chapter 498: The Particularly Obvious Red Mark

"Sneeze!" Liu Wei sat on the chair, rubbed the tip of her itchy nose, and coughed, thinking who was scolding me?

Then Liu Wei continued to tell his son at his feet: "Test tube."

Xiao Li obediently walked around to the other side of the table, took out a test tube, and handed it over.

Liu Wei didn't even look at it. She just cut a piece of lantern skin, put it in the test tube, and handed it to her son.

Xiao Li took it and, like all the previous operations, carefully poured the clear water-like liquid into the test tube, then capped it with a stopper and put it on an alcohol lamp to burn.

After the fever lasted no more than two breaths, the liquid in the test tube changed color.

After recording the data, Xiao Li thought of something, raised his head and looked at his mother: "Dad, are you catching a cold?"

Liu Wei didn't even raise his head: "No."

Xiao Li pouted: "I heard you sneeze."

Liu Wei was impatient: "Do your thing."

Xiao Li lowered his head depressedly, thought for a moment, and muttered: "You must have caught a cold last night. Uncle Rong said that you stayed in the woods until midnight. If he hadn't pulled you back, you wouldn't have come back. You were exposed at night. You I must have caught a cold." The little guy said very firmly, but he didn't dare to say it too loudly.

But Liu Wei still heard it. She frowned, put down the scalpel in her hand, turned her head, and stared at her son: "What else did your uncle Rong say to you?"

Xiao Li didn't speak.

Liu Wei simply stood up and walked over.

Xiao Li was afraid, shook his head quickly, and backed away cautiously: "No more, no more, no more..."

Liu Wei was stunned. She was just asking casually. After all, she didn't know before that Rong Leng still talked to Xiao Li about her own affairs. But looking at Xiao Li's behavior, it was clear that she had no money here.

Liu Wei narrowed her eyes, pulled the chair forward, pointed at the chair, and said, "Sit down."

Xiao Li pursed her lips and looked at her mother timidly.

Liu Wei pulled the chair again and made a "dong" sound: "Sit down."

Xiao Li swallowed his saliva, looked around, and saw Pearl on the roof of the room, who was stroking his black hair. He hurriedly shouted: "Dad, I saw blood on the corner of Pearl's mouth. She must have gone to the morgue to steal it." Eat corpses!”

The smooth and contented Pearl was stunned when she heard this. Her black bean-like eyes flashed down and she looked down, her bird-like face full of innocence.

Liu Wei glanced at the pearl and saw that it was confused and unremarkable. He frowned and turned his head, but there was no trace of Xiao Li in front of him?

"You bastard, you are getting more and more ghostly!" Liu Wei cursed secretly, looked at the open window, and darkened his eyes. Suddenly, his eyes changed, and he called out to Pearl, who was still dumbfounded and unaware of the current situation: "Come down."

Pearl flapped its wings obediently, flew down, and landed obediently on Liu Wei's hand.

Liu Wei smiled and touched its head: "Pearl, what did Rong Leng and Xiao Li talk about in the past? Do you know?"

Pearlwood blinked woodenly, and then let out a "Jie" sound.

"Don't know?" Liu Wei continued to touch its head: "You follow Xiao Li every day, how could you not know? Think about it again, have you not remembered it?"

Pearl felt a little aggrieved and shouted again: "Jie Jie..."

It really doesn't know.

The corners of Liu Wei's raised lips slowly flattened, and her eyes darkened.

Seeing Liu Wei's sudden change of expression, Pearl trembled with fright. It flapped its wings and wanted to fly away, but its feet were caught and it couldn't fly away.

It panicked and called out timidly: "Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

Liu Wei's face calmed down, and he took a rope from the side, tied its two legs, and put the whole bird on the table. Then, while continuing to do his own thing, he said: "I remember this before. Just stay."

Pearl was so wronged that its small body struggled desperately, but Liu Wei tied it well, and it couldn't break free no matter how much it fluttered. Finally, the little bird fell silent and became quiet. After an unknown period of time, Liu Wei was freed. After inspecting the two lanterns, I heard Pearl's faint cry: "Jie Jie Jie..."

Liu Wei paused, put down the test tube, and looked at Pearl: "Speak clearly."

Pearl drooped her head and continued to scream as she was dying.

When it finished barking, it didn't dare to look at Liu Wei's face and closed its eyes completely, looking as if it had no love left.

Liu Wei untied the rope under its feet. The moment the rope fell, the bird that had been dying suddenly jumped up. Its wings flashed, and a black shadow was seen passing by. There was nothing else in front of him. Half a bird feather?

Liu Wei ignored Pearl. She closed the window and continued to walk to the table, busy with what she was doing.

With insufficient evidence and unclear clues, Liu Wei had to conduct cortical inspections on all the lanterns. The inspection process was time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the results obtained were insignificant.

In modern times, as long as there is skin tissue, it is easy to detect DNA, and then compare it with the database, and 80% of the time, the identity of the victim can be successfully found.

But there were no such high-end instruments in ancient times. All Liu Wei could do was try to restore certain substances on the skin, such as skin lines, wounds, and marks.

Starting from these characteristics is the only way, but at the same time, after detection, the chance of finding the identity of the victim is only 1 in 10.

First of all, are these victims all locals of Guyong Prefecture? It’s not known yet.

Secondly, even if they were, how long had they been dead? Are there any relatives still alive? Or, have they been discovered missing? I don't know either.

In this way, if the missing persons and the test results do not match, it is also useless.

But in the current situation, we can only do this little by little. With limited technology and limited technology, Liu Wei can only do his best.

In the next hour, Liu Wei inspected three more lanterns.

Looking at the gourd lantern in her hand, Liu Wei stared at the slowly turning blue liquid in the test tube. Her fingertips rubbed the particularly obvious red mark on the leather.

Could it be such a coincidence?

Little girl, isn’t it because of this mark that you don’t want to leave this lantern?

Will you take it seriously...

Liu Wei didn't think about it anymore. He stood up from the chair, took the burned test tube, opened the stopper, used pliers to take out the burned skin, laid it flat on a small wooden board, and waited. Let it dry.

The skin that had been burned and treated quickly showed different traces. Liu Wei recorded these data, and even painted some special traces.

It was getting later and later, and the room was getting darker and darker.

Liu Wei didn't get up from the chair when she sat down again. She just lit a candle and placed it in front of the table.

As long as he made sure that the area in front of him was bright, Liu Wei didn't care about the rest.

But just because Liu Wei doesn't care, it doesn't mean that others don't care.

I don't know how long it took, but the room suddenly lit up.

Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, turned around, and saw a gentle and elegant middle-aged man standing at the door with a fire certificate in his hand.

"It's late, don't hurt your eyes." Ji Feng said.

Liu Wei said nothing, turned around, and continued to work on himself.

Ji Feng stood there without moving. He looked at Liu Wei's back with deep eyes. After a while, he spoke: "What happened last time..."