He erased the ligature marks on her limbs?!
Wang Gaosheng was utterly baffled. By all reason, once a person died, their natural healing functions ceased as well, meaning every wound on the corpse would remain fixed in place. To erase them, one would probably have to wait until the body had completely decayed.
Other than that, he could not think of any other way.
Fortunately, Sun Shaozong had no intention of making him keep guessing. He raised his chin slightly and said, "Try piecing her arm back together."
Wang Gaosheng immediately rummaged through the body parts and found the left arm that had been cut into two sections. Then, with great care, he joined them together, reconstructing an arm with seams that were almost impossible to see.
Once he had finished, Wang Gaosheng could not help explaining, "My lord, the cut fits together without the slightest gap. It shows just how viciously skilled the murderer's knife work was. That was precisely why this humble one originally suspected Butcher Hu."
"The murderer was more than merely vicious."
Sun Shaozong shook his head. "What truly reveals the excellence of his knife work is the tampering done at the cut."
Tampering at the cut?
Puzzled, Wang Gaosheng separated the severed arm again and scrutinized it for a long while, yet he could not see anything unusual at all.
"If you truly cannot tell, then try feeling the bone on the upper half of the severed arm first."
Gritting his teeth, Wang Gaosheng simply removed his gloves and carefully ran his fingers over the cross-section of the bone.
At first, his face was full of bewilderment and doubt. But gradually, that confusion turned into horror, until he finally cried out, "Th-this... the grooves at the break in this bone were carved by someone!"
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