I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 142: Separation of Flesh and Bone_1

Chapter 142: Chapter 142: Separation of Flesh and Bone_1

Wei Shuxian curled his lip, he knew you weren’t telling the truth, but it wasn’t hard to tell from his attitude towards her that you weren’t interested in her.

"Our Detective Agency has established a cooperative relationship with the Criminal Police Brigade, and we’ve worked on two cases in the past few days. Although we didn’t make much money, it has boosted everyone’s morale, and our Detective Agency’s name has also appeared in the newspapers."

You nodded, "That’s good, but we shouldn’t just take on any job either. After all, dealing with the police carries certain dangers."

"We’ll be discerning about that," he replied.

"Hey, what are you two men muttering about? Come over here!" Xian Qianling was sitting in a chair looking through some documents, her tone somewhat impatient.

"What happened?" you walked over.

Xian Qianling threw a stack of thick documents at you, "Take a look for yourself."

Even though you knew Xian Qianling was deliberately making things difficult for you, you, with your photographic memory, were not intimidated, right?

That thick stack of documents, you merely flipped through the pages quickly, your brows furrowing tighter and tighter. After finishing, you immediately turned to Dai Zhenan, not far from you, and asked, "Ji Ji man, have you carefully observed every corner of this room?"

Standing beside Liao Yong, Dai Zhenan nodded.

"Did you find anything?"

"Nothing."

You turned your head to look at Xian Qianling and said, "First, take me to see Ma Hong’s body."

Xian Qianling nodded and stood up to take you into the inner room.

You had assumed the police would have taken the body to the hospital for refrigeration, but unexpectedly, they had laid out three bodies flat in the study.

"Why didn’t you take care of the bodies? Although the weather is getting cooler now, it’s still hot during the day. In a few days, the bodies will start to decompose."

Xian Qianling sighed, "You think I don’t want to? The thing is, no one can touch them."

"Why?" Before Xian Qianling could answer, you suddenly noticed that on the other side of the study, there were three skeletons laid out.

"Hmm?"

Your brows naturally knitted together, you compared the three bodies to the skeletons, and suddenly came to a conclusion that even you hesitated to confirm, "These... these skeletons belong to these three bodies?"

Xian Qianling nodded, "The skeletons of all three bodies have been removed, yet there are no wounds on the bodies. One of our new criminal police officers didn’t know better and touched Ma Hong’s body, and as a result, Ma Hong’s arm was as soft as if it had no bones. Afterward, we performed an X-ray analysis on the three bodies and found they really had lost their skeletons!"

"That’s too bizarre."

Xian Qianling continued, "As you just saw in the documents, one woman is Ma Hong’s legal wife, the other is Ma Hong’s lover. Their manner of death is exactly like Ma Hong’s. However, their breasts have been cruelly cut off."

"That twisted?"

You walked over to Ma Hong’s side and gently placed your hand on Ma Hong’s shoulder. However, that miraculous ability which had up till now failed only when used on Fan Yi, inexplicably failed once again. All you saw was a pitch-black vista in your eyes, until at last, a very blurred figure became faintly visible.

"What did you see?"

Seeing you open your eyes, Xian Qianling asked urgently.

"I couldn’t make out anything clearly, just a vague figure."

"Is there a specific appearance? Male, female?"

You thought for a moment and said, "It looked to be a child, roughly up to your waist in height, couldn’t tell if it was a boy or a girl, though."

Hearing you say that, Xian Qianling deliberately placed her hand at her waist, moved it away, and then held it in front of herself as she fell into thought.

"Just a silhouette, and it’s not certain if that was the murderer, only that she is definitely related to this case."

"Huh? Now that you mention it, there is someone who fits the description you provided."

"Who?"

"Ma Hong’s daughter, Ma Xiaozhu." Xian Qianling quickly ruled her out, though, "Definitely not her. Putting everything else aside, she’s Ma Hong’s daughter, and how could such a young girl commit such a bizarre and brutal act."

You frowned and asked, "Don’t rush to conclusions. Tell me, are you certain that this Ma Xiaozhu is Ma Hong’s biological daughter?"

"We haven’t done a detailed investigation into that."

"I suggest you start one immediately."

"All right." Saying that, Xian Qianling took out her phone and walked aside to have someone investigate Ma Xiaozhu.

Meanwhile, you seemed to have discovered something, swiftly walked over to Ma Hong, and opened his eyelids.

At that moment, you were stunned because you found that Ma Hong’s eyeballs had only the whites, with no pupils!

You fell silent.

Just then, Wei Shuxian and Zong Wangyue happened to walk in. You turned to Wei Shuxian and asked, "Glasses, how much do you know about Pupil Skill?"

"Pupil Skill?"

Zong Wangyue eagerly took up the thread, smiling and saying, "Boss, I know about the Pupil Skill you’re talking about."

"Oh? Let’s hear it, then."

"That would be, like, the Sharingan that can copy any ninja technique, and then there’s the Reincarnation Eye that can control people... Hey, Boss, don’t get violent, let’s talk this out!"

Wei Shuxian yanked Zong Wangyue back, sparing him from your beating.

"I don’t know much, as these days, there are too few people or resources available that understand the Pupil Skill."

"Tell me everything you know," your intuition told you this matter must be related to some Evil Art, likely a kind of Pupil Skill.

Wei Shuxian pondered and said, "I once read a piece of information in a damaged scroll from my family archives. It mentioned that all the Pupil Skills in the world follow a general outline. They range from strong to weak, with various levels of power. The most common is the Yin and Yang eyes we often speak of. Our Detective Agency’s new guy, Ji Ji man, isn’t he in possession of the Yin and Yang eyes?"

You nodded, "Ji Ji man’s Yin and Yang eyes are still in the preliminary stage. He can see only a limited range of things. With further cultivation, he might be able to perceive beings of the Ghost King level."

"Above the Yin and Yang eyes are the Ghost Eyes. Ghost Eyes are extremely rare; you might not find one in ten million. It is said that if one cultivates Ghost Eyes to the utmost, they can capture souls and even compel Ghost Kings to do their bidding." Wei Shuxian looked at you and said, "To tell you the truth, at first, I thought that Old Shu, you had the Ghost Eye, but as we worked together more, I realized your eyes are unique. They look connected, yet seem separate."

Wei Shuxian’s detailed observation instinctively made you feel a hint of danger, but fortunately, he was your close brother. If he were an enemy, you wouldn’t mind twisting his neck right now!

"Above the Ghost Eyes, there should be another type of Pupil Skill, but the damaged scroll didn’t say."

"Not just one type." You glanced at the corpses of Ma Hong and the other two, "At least Ma Hong and the other two were killed by some unheard-of Pupil Skill."

"Pupil Skill!?"

As Wei Shuxian was in shock, Xian Qianling walked in and looked at you, asking, "Are you sure?"

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