“Please conduct a careful investigation, Master Ji.” Su Ziluo said.

Only then did Ji Yunshu avert her gaze, somewhat afraid to look at him. She simply nodded and silently carried the sandalwood box in her hands into the room.

What assaulted her nostrils was wave after wave of the stench of blood!

She wrinkled her nose and followed the pool of bright red blood on the floor with her eyes, seeing the corpse on the bed covered with white cloth. The cloth was stained red in patches, exceptionally glaring!

She placed the sandalwood box on the table, took out a pair of gloves from inside and put them on, then walked over. Her fingertips had just pinched the corner of the white cloth, preparing to lift it, when in the next second, Su Ziluo’s voice came from behind her.

“The corpse’s head was severed. Master Ji should prepare yourself mentally.”

Prepare?

Was he worried she would vomit?

Ji Yunshu turned her body slightly to the side without responding. Her fingertips exerted force and she lifted the white cloth in one motion.

Yuchi Lin’s corpse was revealed. Good, good!

The corpse wasn’t particularly gruesome. The severed head had also been placed on the neck, bound with a simple cloth, so one truly couldn’t see the trace of the head being separated from the neck.

Yuchi Lin’s body had already stiffened. His eyes were wide open, his face somewhat purplish, his lips even darker.

Ji Yunshu reached out and pried Yuchi Lin’s eyes open wider to examine his eyeballs. Then she tore open Yuchi Lin’s blood-stained upper garment in one motion. On his chest and abdomen, livor mortis had already formed. She pressed with her fingers and the livor mortis showed signs of fading.

She drew a conclusion!

She turned to Su Ziluo and said, “General Yuchi’s eye membranes show severe cloudiness, the corners of his mouth have begun to shrivel, and judging from the livor mortis formed on his chest, his time of death should have been during the chou hour.”

After listening, Su Ziluo turned his gaze and asked the soldier at the door, “During the chou hour, did anyone enter the general’s room?”

“During that time, only that Dalin general was inside drinking with General Yuchi.” The soldier replied.

“During the chou hour, did any unfamiliar people enter the courier station?”

“No!”

Su Ziluo’s gaze deepened. He looked at Ji Yunshu and said, “I wonder if Master Ji has any other discoveries that could prove the murderer is someone else?”

Ji Yunshu was somewhat surprised. “I had thought Master Su would also be like them, insisting that it was General Ji Li’s doing.”

“Human life is paramount. One must always investigate thoroughly. Often what the human eye sees as fact may not truly be fact. Everything must be verified with evidence.” Su Ziluo replied quite calmly.

But these calm words made Ji Yunshu’s heart pound, shaking her for a long moment!

She remembered that at the time, Ji Pei had asked her why, when there were eyewitnesses who had identified the murderer, she still kept investigating.

At that time, she had told Ji Pei exactly what Su Ziluo had just said!

Word for word, not missing a single one!

She was afraid her current emotions would be seen through by Su Ziluo, so she quickly looked away.

While responding to his words, she said, “Yes, Master Su is correct. Often what the naked eye sees may not be the truth.”

As the words fell, she turned around to face the corpse on the bed again, immediately saying, “I believe that any evidence can be found on the deceased’s body.”

Having said this, she suddenly tore off the white cloth binding the corpse’s neck. Without the white cloth to secure it, the head immediately tilted to the side, revealing the cut.

Fortunately—

She directly lifted the head with her hands so she could see the cut more carefully, even touching it with her hands. Fortunately, the blood had already drained, leaving only some viscous blood threads pulling at it.

“The cut is very smooth. The outer edge has no saw-tooth marks, and the middle shows no signs of forceful grinding. One can see the murder weapon was a very smooth and extremely sharp blade—either a knife or a sword.”

As she spoke, she turned and placed the head on the table, opened the sandalwood box, and selected a sharp knife.

The soldier at the door saw this and quickly said to Su Ziluo, “Master Su, the general is already in this state. Must we now allow others to cut open the general’s head?”

“I said, this matter is entrusted to Master Ji.”

His tone was slightly heavier, as if carrying a layer of ice, instantly freezing the other party solid, not daring to speak again.

Ji Yunshu’s ears seemed stuffed with cotton—she didn’t hear their words at all. She carefully selected a sharp knife and bit by bit picked out the small section of throat bone connecting the head to the neck.

She held it in her hand, examining it closely!

As if appreciating a rare treasure.

Finally, she directly removed the glove from her right hand and rubbed the base of the throat bone with her thumb.

Her originally tightly furrowed brow relaxed somewhat as she said, “The murder weapon should be a sword.”

Su Ziluo shifted his wheelchair, the wheels rolling to her side. He raised his eyes, looking at the blood-stained throat bone in her hand.

“How did you determine that?” He asked.

Ji Yunshu narrowed her eyes slightly and explained, “Ordinary knives gradually thin from thick. If only cutting into skin and flesh, there would be no difference from a result caused by a sword. However, if cutting into bone, it’s different. When cutting down with a knife, because the knife’s thickness gradually increases, the bone’s edge will definitely show signs of shattering. But on this throat bone, there is no such situation. Therefore, what severed the head was a flat, thin sword—it should be the one General Ji was holding at the time!”

“Could it be that the murderer is truly him?”

Ji Yunshu didn’t respond with a shake of her head. She placed the head back on the corpse, her gaze then noticing the corpse’s ten curled fingers—and the curvature was quite severe!

There had been intense struggling before death!

The next moment, she actually did something that shocked everyone.

She stripped off all of Yuchi Lin’s clothing!

Though this wasn’t particularly unusual—after all, she was now a man, and a man looking at a man wasn’t strange at all!

However, Su Ziluo behind her, his expression darkened!

Ji Yunshu examined the entire body of the corpse from top to bottom and discovered that apart from several old wounds left from battles on the battlefield, there were basically no other injuries on the corpse’s body.

She was somewhat puzzled!

She said in confusion, “The fingers are curled—there must have been struggling before death. One stroke to sever the head wouldn’t allow time for struggling. Apart from old wounds, there are no other injuries on the body, so it couldn’t have been struggling due to pain. Moreover, he wasn’t poisoned before death, so… before his head was severed, what exactly did he experience? What made his hands struggle so intensely?”

She sighed, feeling somewhat strange for the first time!

Su Ziluo heard her muttering but didn’t speak up to interrupt!

After Ji Yunshu had dressed Yuchi Lin properly, she looked around the room. There were no signs of a fight inside. On the table, there were some toppled empty wine bottles and several small dishes!

It seemed that last night, Yuchi Lin and Ji Li had truly drunk heartily for quite a while!