Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely-Chapter 1241 - 412: Outer Realm People, Demon Dragon’s Power, The Confident Chu Yan’er, Hou Ming’s Skills_5
Given the perilous nature of the Ice Abyss, humans have long been accustomed to death and naturally don’t shy away from talking about it.
But it still depends on the closeness of the relationship.
The thirty-two corpses on the ground are the victims from the Beishuo, Yangqu, and Dragon Valley Three Towns Chambers of Commerce who were killed consecutively on the first, third, and fifth days of last month.
Beishuo had thirteen people, Yangqu had nine, and Dragon Valley had ten, totaling exactly thirty-two.
During the daytime of the eighteenth last month, Xia Hong gave the Three Towns a deadline of ten days. Five days ago, they had already sent all the corpses of their Chamber of Commerce’s dead to Hongmen City.
The fact that Great Xia insisted on investigating the case, how the Lords of the towns viewed it was unknown, but in the hearts of the people present from various towns, it was clearly a form of bullying.
On the eighteenth last month, after Xia Hong defeated Yang Zhun in a battle, the twelve Beast Kings from the Eight Towns were thoroughly intimidated, to the point that even Yang Zhun was frightened enough to claim that there was more to the deaths of the thirteen people from the Beishuo Chamber of Commerce, how could the two towns Yangqu and Dragon Valley dare to pursue further?
Yang Rong, Cao Tianying, and Long Wenbai—when they sent the corpses over on the twenty-eighth last month, they were already mentally prepared, determined to become part of a play orchestrated by Great Xia.
What kind of play?
Naturally, the kind where Great Xia would determine that Yuwen Dao wasn’t the real culprit!
However, the three of them did not expect Great Xia to behave so excessively.
At this moment, none of the thirty-two corpses on the ground were intact; all the original wounds on their bodies had been reopened by someone.
"They spent five days investigating the case, only to destroy these thirty-two corpses this way, Great Xia really has formidable means!"
"Is it really necessary to be so excessive even when destroying evidence?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
"With the Great Xia Lord having such immense power, and capable of extraordinary feats, our Three Towns wouldn’t dare pursue this initially, why the need to humiliate the corpses like this?"
Yang Rong, Cao Tianying, and Long Wenbai, seeing Xia Chuan remain silent for so long, could no longer contain their anger and directly spoke up in mockery.
Xia Chuan glanced at the three without responding, instead turning towards Hou Ming on the left, waving his hand: "Hou Ming, you said the results were found, start now!"
"Understood!"
Hou Ming agreed and stepped out from the crowd, looking around at the eight institute heads present, as well as the Cold Resistance Levels from the Eight Towns behind them, finally facing the direction of Beishuo, Yangqu, and Dragon Valley Three Towns, he clasped his hands and bowed: "Hou Ming, the Golden Order Prison Warden from Great Xia, first apologizes to the three institute heads."
Yang Rong, Cao Tianying, and Long Wenbai’s faces froze.
"During these five days, investigating the case, I’ve caused considerable damage to the corpses without notifying the three institute heads, which indeed was a bit excessive, please you three, understand that it was all for uncovering the truth."
Upon hearing Hou Ming’s words, Yang Rong sneered, making no response, yet the expressions of Cao Long and the others noticeably softened.
Hou Ming didn’t dwell further on it, directly moving towards the thirteen Beishuo corpses, pointing at Yang Ning behind Yang Rong and questioning: "Yang Ning, you previously said that you witnessed Lord Yuan killing your thirteen people from Beishuo on the night of September first, alone, is that correct?"
Yang Ning’s face was full of hatred at this moment, and he stepped forward without any hint of fear, nodding directly in response: "That’s right, I saw it with my own eyes."
"Then I ask you, what weapon did Lord Yuan use for the killings?"
"He used his Double-edged Giant Axe!"
Everyone’s gaze immediately focused on Yuan Cheng.
To be precise, on the Silver Double-bladed Giant Axe beside him.
Yuan Cheng’s face twitched slightly, but he said nothing.
"Fine! For now, let’s not discuss whether Lord Yuan had the strength to kill Yang Fan’s thirteen people at such speed, all of you please first observe Yang Fan’s corpse."
On Yang Fan’s forehead, there was indeed a large axe mark, and almost his entire face was hacked apart, clearly showing he died from being hacked by an axe.
Seeing everyone fixated on Yang Fan’s corpse’s head, Hou Ming directly bent down and astonishingly peeled off the flesh from his forehead plaque with bare hands.
Yang Fan had been dead for so long, the corpse had been frozen for days, and the stiffness of the flesh could be imagined, but Hou Ming, possessing the strength of 25 tufts, had no difficulty in peeling the flesh from the body.
Splat...
At the sound of flesh separating from bone, everyone’s brows furrowed sharply.
After peeling the flesh from the forehead, Hou Ming directly stood Yang Fan’s corpse upright, displaying the peeled frontal bone to everyone.
With the flesh from the corpse’s forehead peeled away, everyone could clearly see the condition of the bone inside, and their expressions instantly froze at the sight.
On the forehead plaque bone, there was a thumb-width small crack.
"Can any of you see anything?"
Those present today were not young, and they quickly understood after thinking for a moment, their expressions changing dramatically.
The small crack on the forehead bone was much deeper than the original wound on Yang Fan’s face, suggesting a high probability that the fatal injury was actually the crack on the forehead bone, rather than the hacked facial wound.
Not just a high probability, it should be more than ninety percent certain!
Judging from the hack marks on Yang Fan’s face, this axe strike certainly guaranteed Yang Fan’s death, if it was indeed Yuan Cheng who killed him, there was no need to stab Yang Fan’s forehead with a sword, it would be redundant.
"Of course, one corpse isn’t enough to prove anything..."
Hou Ming continued speaking at this moment, motioning towards Great Xia, from which more than a dozen Silver Order Prison Wardens came forward, joining him in lifting the remaining twelve Beishuo Chamber of Commerce corpses, some peeling the chests, some peeling the back skulls, others the spines...
