Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Chapter 37: Jade Comb

Everyone examined Jin Mantang's body in detail. Apart from confirming the that he was not killed by another, they found nothing new.

After, they went next door to examine Dong Ling's body again. Gongyang Wumen had already seen Dong Ling's body. A hemp rope mark on his neck was very obvious and his neck bones were broken. His face was rosy, and his expression was horrified. There were no other injuries on his body. It seemed that he had hanged himself.

His clothes were crisp and spotless, giving the impression that there was no struggle. After walking out of the room, Hua Ruxue locked Jin Mantang's bedroom and led everyone to the garden outside the window.

The courtyard of Yuanbao Villa was full of flowers, and the trees were very dense and tall, indicating that someone had put considerable effort into designing and building it. Fang Duobing had already been mumbling when he entered about how amazing it all was, and now he mumbled even more. Jin Mantang's courtyard was filled with exotic flowers and plants, but he didn't recognize any of them.

The Fang family was also wealthy in the world, but compared with Jin Mantang, their level of luxury was still far behind.

In addition to the unrecognizable flowers and trees in the courtyard, there was also a small path paved with Kunlun Ziyu white jade, resembling goose eggs. On both sides of the path, grass as soft and lucious as a woman's hair grew, the blades being one and a half feet long. Although it was long, the grass was elegant and didn't look overgrown.

In this elegant, and fragrant courtyard, Hua Ruxue drew a long circle in the grass with his sword scabbard.

Fang Duobing took a closer look and was about to laugh at Hua Ruxue for making such a fuss, but the more he looked, the more curious he became. "What is this?"

Hua Ruxue stood beside the circle with his arms folded, turning a deaf ear.

Guan Hemeng was curious when he saw what was within the circle of the grass. He said, "This... is a footprint?"

It turned out that there were two strange scratches on the green and lush grass, as if something had plowed it, but they only broke the grass at the stems and did not lift up the soil. Moreover, some of the relatively young grass stems were broken, not because they were trampled or fatigued by heavy pressure. These two scratch marks neither looked like the marks made by people walking or the running over of a cart, but rather looked like something passing over the grass, grazing pieces of grass from shallow to deep.

Just looking at the scratches, they didn't resemble something made by a bird or a bat, or any kind of animal. It must have been something much heavier than a bird to leave such scratches as it passed through the grass.

"It's not a footprint," Gongyang Wumen said, "Maybe it's the Flying On Grass Skill?"

Everyone's eyes lit up. A kind of Qinggong Flying technique that used force to pass over the grass just might have been able to cause such a scratch mark.

Guan Hemeng stood up in response, used the Flying On Grass Skill to glide across a patch of grass, and landed on the other side of the courtyard. He steadied himself, straightening his now grass-stained clothes.

"What do you think?"

Hua Ruxue shook his head first and said coldly, "I've tried it, see for yourself."

Guan Hemeng looked back and saw that although "Flying on Grass" could break pieces of grass stem, it left only a mark, and the mark was much wider than the two scratches pointed out by Hua Ruxue. Those two strange scratches were straight as if measured with an ink ruler, but the marks left by him were deviated and of different lengths. As expected, they were not similar.