Xinglong Street Heavenly Dog Devouring Heart Incident [Middle]

Heavenly Dog Devouring Heart?

Sun Shaozong took the dozen or so dog hairs and sniffed them one by one, then carefully twisted them into a small clump, held them in his palm, and examined them carefully for a long while. A look of disdain appeared on his face, but he didn't reveal anything, only handed the dog hair to Zhao Wuwei for safekeeping, and then searched inch by inch again.

Seeing that Sun Shaozong didn't take the 'Heavenly Dog Devouring Heart' seriously, Zhao Wuwei couldn't help but follow him, muttering like a chatterbox, "My lord, this case is really strange!"

"I heard that last night, Vice Minister Ge drove all the servants and maids around him out of the courtyard again, and stayed alone in this study. As a result, around midnight, bursts of miserable dog barks came from this room, and each bark was more tragic than the last!"

"The Ge family felt something was wrong, so they gathered a dozen people and mustered up the courage to come and ask what was going on."

"As soon as they arrived in the courtyard, the dog barking stopped, but no matter how they shouted outside, there was no response from inside."

"Having no other choice, the steward and the eldest son of the Ge family ordered the door to be broken open!"

"Who knew that after entering the bedroom, they found that Vice Minister Ge had died on the spot, there was no one else in the room, and a heart was missing! There were only a few dog hairs on the transom. If this isn't the Heavenly Dog claiming a life, what else could it be?"

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong suddenly pulled his head out of the bathtub and said solemnly, "Can you be sure that the dog barking disappeared suddenly after everyone entered the courtyard?"

"Of course, more than a dozen witnesses said so!"

Seeing that his words had finally worked, Zhao Wuwei hurriedly added fuel to the fire, "Do you think this is strange or not?! Either the murderer is a demon who can fly and escape; or the Heavenly Dog ate Vice Minister Ge's heart and then escaped through the transom! Otherwise, how could he disappear into thin air when so many people were blocking him inside..."

Before the 'disappear' could be uttered, Sun Shaozong, without saying a word, directly pounced on the corner behind the door, and carefully examined the floor and walls.

Zhao Wuwei also eagerly leaned over, but even with bloodshot eyes, he didn't find anything strange behind the door.

Just as he was wondering if Sun Shaozong had made a mistake, he saw him clap his hands and excitedly say, "Let's go! First, I'll go and see those witnesses, and then give our Prefectural Assistant a reassurance!"

Saying that, he walked out of the messy bedroom.

Reassurance?

Could it be that this case has already been solved again?!

Zhao Wuwei was horrified, and for a moment forgot to follow—although he was very confident in Sun Shaozong's ability to solve cases, the current case was obviously beyond human ability!

Could it be...

That Sun Shaozong, like Bao Longtu, who 'judges the living by day and the dead by night', can even arrest and interrogate demons and ghosts?!

Because he was slow for a moment, when Zhao Wuwei came out of the bedroom, he saw Sun Shaozong talking eloquently to Jia Yucun and the Ge family:

"The murderer left two very obvious pieces of evidence at the scene."

"First, the few dog hairs on the transom!"

"Second, the missing heart of the deceased!"

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong paused and looked around at everyone, then continued, "According to my investigation just now, the heart should have been torn off by the murderer with his teeth and eaten directly into his stomach!"

"Heavenly Dog! It must be the Heavenly Dog that ate master's heart!"

Before Sun Shaozong could finish speaking, a middle-aged woman in a mink coat screamed hysterically, "That ghost has tortured master for a year and a half, I knew that one day, master would die at the hands of that ghost!"

"Wuwuwu..."

The woman's screams were still echoing in his ears, and an old man in his fifties burst into tears, "Master, master, this old servant told you to invite some experts to exorcise the evil spirits, but you refused, saying you wouldn't agree to anything. Now it's all over, you were killed by that ghost! Wuwuwu..."

Looking at the positions and attire of these two people, they should be Vice Minister Ge's concubine and steward.

The others, though not as distraught as they were, also had faces as white as paper, their faces filled with lingering fear!

Even Jia Yucun replaced his usual cold demeanor with a face full of fear, his eyes darting around in their sockets, the word 'retreat' seemingly written directly on his face.

Just then, Sun Shaozong suddenly laughed and shook his head, saying, "The murderer's purpose in doing this is precisely to make others think of 'Heavenly Dog Devouring Heart' – but this clumsy method is like adding feet to a snake or attaching a dog's tail to a sable, it's utterly ridiculous!"

Saying that, he reached out to Zhao Wuwei and instructed, "Give me that tuft of dog hair!"

Zhao Wuwei hurriedly unfolded the paper package and carefully presented the dog hair.

Sun Shaozong pinched it in his hand, shook it a few times, and scoffed, "The thickness, length, color, feel... even the smell of these dog hairs are different, clearly they were randomly picked up to make up the numbers – what everyone heard last night shouldn't have been a pack of dogs barking wildly, right?"

Hearing these words, everyone couldn't help but look suspiciously at the dog hair.

But the woman in the fox fur didn't believe it at all, sneering and disdainfully saying, "This Heavenly Dog isn't an ordinary dog, it's the resentment of many unjustly dead creatures gathered together, it's not surprising that it grows many different hairs!"

I'll be damned~

There's even this kind of explanation!

Not to mention others being 'suddenly enlightened', even Sun Shaozong was momentarily speechless.

Fortunately, he didn't only have this one piece of evidence, so he reached out to Zhao Wuwei again for something else, holding it in his palm to show everyone, "Alright, even if that Heavenly Dog is indeed a mixed breed, then how should this be explained?"

Everyone fixed their eyes on it, only to see that what he was holding in his hand was clearly a small clump of minced meat stuck together – although some people vaguely guessed the origin of this thing, they couldn't figure out Sun Shaozong's purpose in showing it, no matter how hard they tried.

"Brother."

Jia Yucun couldn't help but urge, "Stop being mysterious, quickly tell us, what's the suspicious point of this thing?"

"Prefectural Assistant."

Sun Shaozong then explained, "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be the minced heart after being chewed by the murderer – but don't you think this minced meat is a bit too fine?"

Saying that, he spread the minced meat into a thin layer on his palm, and continued to explain, "Although a dog's teeth are sharp and pointed, making them more suitable for chewing hard objects or tearing flesh than humans – but precisely because they are sharp and pointed, a dog's teeth don't have the ability to grind food into fine particles! On the contrary, our human teeth can easily achieve this effect!"

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong pointed his hand at the middle-aged woman and asked with a smile, "This madam, you wouldn't want to tell me that the Heavenly Dog not only grew a body of mixed hair, but also grew a mouth full of human teeth, would you?!"

In order to ensure that there were no obvious flaws in the deduction of this case, I checked a lot of information for a long time, so this chapter is a bit late.