Universe Infinite Canteen

Chapter 374 The Killer

To confirm her own speculation, Gu Qingyi decided to personally walk through the process to test it.

Yet, unexpectedly, as soon as she moved behind the Buddha statue, she made a new discovery.

Initially, she intended to test which positions were least visible, but accidentally kicked the base of the statue during her movement, producing a dull thud.

This sound was clearly not something a solid stone would make, and Gu Qingyi immediately realized something was amiss here.

She then crouched down and fiddled around for a while, surprisingly removing the stone slab in front of her, only to discover the Buddha statue's base was hollow.

Subsequently, she found another body inside.

Gu Qingyi was somewhat numbed by now, having run away from home wanting to live out her fantasy of being the Divine Detective and investigating cases, but encountering three bodies in one night was a bit too much for a rookie.@@@@

This was another headless corpse, bare-bodied, barely distinguishable as a young male.

Fortunately, there was more beneath the Buddha statue, and after she and Ma Lu moved the headless body, they found the head underneath.

And it was two heads.

One of them likely belonged to the headless corpse, but the second head Gu Qingyi picked up altered the scholar's expression dramatically.

Because it was unmistakably He Qisheng's head.

The scholar had not expected He Qisheng to have actually died, just as Ma Lu had said.

This left him standing frozen on the spot.

Seeing He Qisheng's head, Ma Lu showed no surprise, but the previously new corpse had slightly startled him.

Though his face showed surprise, his hands were not shy; he continued to help but seized the opportunity to feel around once more.

But this time, what he found was somewhat ordinary—the Li Family Fist Card Pack.

Opening the card pack, there were only 3 sets of Fist Techniques, all 1st Level, and the most powerful move had a strength of only 2 points, stronger than basic boxing, but only by a little.

Hearing this, Gu Qingyi defended Ma Lu, "He's not the murderer. I've sparred with him, and he has no martial arts skills at all. How could he possibly kill He Qisheng?"

Another disciple from the Songxi Sword Sect then said, "Catcher Gu, don't be fooled by him. Perhaps he switched his card pack secretly during your sparring, pretending not to know martial arts, just to cover up his identity as a murderer."

Gu Qingyi, hearing this, also hesitated somewhat.

Mainly because Ma Lu's behavior was indeed too unusual, not even knowing the basic rules of card playing, which didn't seem like that of a normal person.

If he was pretending, it could indeed explain everything clearly.

However, Gu Qingyi was still reluctant to believe that Ma Lu was the murderer. Seeing the two Songxi Sword Sect disciples approaching, she instinctively stepped in front of them.

The expressions of those two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect changed abruptly, "Catcher Gu, what do you mean by this?"

"There must be some misunderstanding here," Gu Qingyi said gravely. "If we talk about pretending, anyone could be pretending. Why don't you suspect others, like that family of three over there?"

She casually pointed toward a middle-aged beauty who was feeding medicine to a man.

After the bodies appeared, that family had kept to themselves in a corner, not joining the commotion but occasionally stealing glances this way, which was consistent with the reaction of ordinary people who wanted to avoid trouble.

Therefore, no one really suspected them, and those two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect clearly didn't think they were the murderers either.

Especially since the man looked seriously ill, coughing almost all night as if he was about to cough out his lungs, not looking at all like someone capable of killing.

The tall and thin man, seeing Gu Qingyi's obstinacy, couldn't hold back anymore, "Hmph, with you covering for him so much, I suspect there might also be a big problem with your identity. Could that Divine Detective Token be stolen by you?"

This was actually the unspoken thought of many people there.

Although Gu Qingyi claimed to be a Divine Detective and held the token of the Iron Clothes Sect, her performance that night didn't seem like that of a competent Divine Detective.

The bodies kept on piling up, yet there was not a single clue about the murderer, and it was only because of the formidable reputation of the Iron Clothes Sect that no one questioned her.

But now, seeing Gu Qingyi stopping them from capturing the murderer of their senior brother, the skinny guy couldn't care about that anymore.

Hearing this, Gu Qingyi also became anxious. "Just give me a little more time; I'm almost there."

"Forget it, don't waste your efforts," another disciple from the Songxi Sword Sect mocked. "What have you figured out? You even said the murderer is among Sister Zheng's family. It looks like you are desperately latching onto anyone to conclude this matter."