Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 74 - 47: Netherworld Flower

There was a corpse in the room that’s starting to stink.

Lying face up on the bed.

This place that barely counts as a room contains many children’s items and the weapon he used during his crimes.

Both his outward appearance and these pieces of evidence are enough to prove he is the murderer in this series of serial killings.

But no one felt happy about it.

Wen Xu performed an initial examination wearing gloves, and looked complexly at Zhou Zhicheng.

"It’s been dead for at least three days."

In this weather, a body left in a rental apartment like this would become a paradise for flies in a few more days.

"What was the cause of death?" Zhou Zhicheng asked.

"Frightened to death," Wen Xu responded with a grim expression.

"What?" Zhou Zhicheng thought he misheard.

He stood up, carefully taking off his gloves, revealing his white slender fingers.

"The victim’s face was cyanotic, with dilated pupils, due to a brief disturbance in breathing caused by extreme fright, leading to hypoxia, which reduces the oxygen content in the blood, increases deoxygenated hemoglobin, and thus turns the skin and mucous membranes a bluish-purple hue."

"And there are no obvious wounds on the body, nor any bruising from being struck."

A hint of coldness intertwined with the pleasant voice.

"So he was scared to death."

Wen Xu’s probing gaze unknowingly passed over Zhou Zhicheng’s face.

He realized that what surprised the latter more was the cause of death, not the fact that the murderer was dead.

To be honest, when he called to say he’d found the killer and asked him to come out, Wen Xu was confused.

What use would a forensic expert like him be in capturing a serial killer?

However, now...

Wen Xu’s thin lips pressed together slightly, his face devoid of extra expression, yet deep within his eyes, hidden currents surged.

It seems that woman had informed him of the situation long ago.

Zhou Zhicheng didn’t notice that Wen Xu was analyzing him.

He indeed learned from Mu Yunchu about the killer’s death early on.

This case is somewhat bizarre.

Even when reporting the case closure, he felt a suppressed rage.

"Damn it, it’s so uncanny, the killer just mysteriously died of fright!"

In all his years, he’d never encountered such an absurd case.

Based on years of experience, Zhou Zhicheng vaguely felt there was another conspiracy behind this.

But now everything seemed straightforward enough to close the case.

So during those days, he acted like he was in menopause, feeling displeased with everything and everyone.

Even when Wen Xu, sensing doubts about the case and wanting to discuss it, he was unceremoniously turned down.

And incidentally, he forced a week’s leave on him.

Wen Xu: "..."

*

It’s been more than half a month since the rich lady Rong Mulan came to find Mu Yunchu, yet Li Shang discovered she had no intention of addressing this issue.

All she did every day was run her shop and feed her plants.

No livestreaming, not even stepping outside.

Li Shang was baffled.

That night, watching Mu Yunchu stand by the garden again, she couldn’t help but speak up.

"Boss, aren’t you planning to help Rong Mulan?"

It’s definitely not because Mu Yunchu can’t find the child that she’s not taking action.

The only possibility is that she doesn’t plan to do it.

Mu Yunchu looked up puzzled, "Why do you ask?"

Li Shang: "I see you have no plans of leaving."

Mu Yunchu was slightly taken aback and then pointed to her feet.

"I’m waiting for it."

"It’s about to grow out."

Li Shang followed her gaze.

As her voice faded, the plants in the garden suddenly transformed.

Li Shang’s mouth hung open in shock.

The ground seemed to faintly shake.

The loose soil appeared to be slowly pushed up by some invisible force, and then a hint of crimson color peeped out from the cracks in the earth, its redness growing ever more intense, spreading gradually.

She watched the few plants grow instantaneously, rendered speechless.

If at this moment Li Shang still believed these were vegetable seeds Mu Yunchu bought from the morning market, it would be utterly ridiculous.

"What... what is this?"

Her pupils reflected the flower’s blood-like color.

The petals were slender and soft, with wavy edges. Each petal faintly showed some vein-like lines.

Astonishing and mesmerizing.

Most importantly, it didn’t resemble any earthly plant, feeling incredibly illusory.

Mu Yunchu’s eyes showed satisfaction, her thin lips gently parted:

"Flower Lily."

"The legendary Netherworld Flower?"

"Not legendary." Mu Yunchu retorted, "This is an actual Flower Lily growing in the Netherworld."

She obtained it by accident.

There had never been a suitable opportunity to plant it.

Li Shang didn’t know what to say.

She always knew Mu Yunchu was formidable.

But no matter how powerful, she was still just a human.

How exactly did she obtain such a thing from the Netherworld and successively plant it on earthly soil?

Yet Li Shang felt that Mu Yunchu wouldn’t tell her.

Almost as if she read her mind, Mu Yunchu slowly turned to her,

"I don’t remember."

"What?"

"I said, I don’t remember how I got this thing."

Mu Yunchu’s brows knitted slightly, her entire face seemingly shrouded in a layer of frost.

She looked somewhat unreal.

She didn’t know how she obtained this miraculous seed, nor could she deduce anything.

Only recently some memories surfaced in her dreams; she followed them to find this Flower Lily seed.

But as to how it came to be, how she received it, Mu Yunchu couldn’t recall at all.

However, she knew one thing: when fully grown, the Flower Lily had immense value.

"I might be out for about a week; I suspect Ruijing will take action over there, and I’m uneasy leaving home unattended."

But with this flower, it’s different.

It could serve to guard the house.

Li Shang hadn’t caught the implication in her words, seeming disinterested.

"We’ll set off tomorrow."

Until Mu Yunchu spoke this, Li Shang couldn’t believe her ears and raised her head, "I can go too?"

"Of course."

She blinked.

This was the first time she didn’t have to stay home since following Mu Yunchu.

Immediately, she leaped with joy, darting into the house to start packing her bags.

She had amassed quite a collection of ’stuff’ during her time in the shop.

*

Tianbao Village wasn’t far from Qinghe City.

Located slightly south of the center of the country’s geographical layout.

The area was mountainous, from the plane you could see the expansive mountain ranges below.

Li Shang, on her first flight, was excitedly looking around.

For over two hours, she didn’t close her eyes for a second.

After landing, they would need to take a bus or a shuttle to reach the village.

Mu Yunchu happened to notice a shuttle offering 100 yuan per person to the nearest town to Tianbao Village.

She bought the tickets and boarded the vehicle without hesitation.

There weren’t many people on the shuttle, presumably because the place didn’t get many visitors.

Moreover, this shuttle only ran once a day, and Mu Yunchu and Li Shang waited on it for a long time before it prepared to depart.

Just as the doors were about to close, a rushing figure suddenly boarded.

The man had a shoulder bag, and he noticeably paused upon seeing Mu Yunchu looking out the window from a corner.