Xu Xingrong was talking to a legal medical examiner from the police.

“This is the sixth. Why did that guy kill such a young girl in such frenzy?” There was a suppressed anger and helplessness in the medical examiner's voice.

Xu Xingrong gave a sigh. “I suspect that we cannot find any clue on Zhou Ying, like the first five victims. I wondered, who on earth could do that?”

The medical examiner shook his head. “I don't know. My superiors put a lot of pressure on me after this happened. Please help to deal with it, Professor Xu. I've got to get back to deal with the things found in the scene. I'll contact you later.”

“Okay, I'll contact you as soon as I find anything,” Xu Xingrong said.

Just as Xu Xingrong was sending the legal medical examiner to the door, Ning Tao woke up his eyes and nose to the state of looking and smelling. All of a sudden, thousands of odors flooded into his nostrils, and he quickly identified Zhou Ying's scent. Then he began to search through all the smells of her body for possible traces of the killer.

The murderer could clean his fingerprints, dandruff, and hair from the body, but he could never process the odor released by his body. Whenever he touched Zhou Ying, he left a scent on the body. Ning Tao couldn't see fingerprints, dandruff, or hair, but he could smell it, many of which humans couldn't.

Soon, a strange odor entered Ning Tao's nostrils. It was the smell of some wood. Unfortunately, the scent was too faint, and Ning Tao didn't know much about wood, so he couldn't tell what kind of wood it was for a moment.

Soon he gave up on the scent of wood as a clue because people came into contact with many wooden objects in their daily lives, such as desks, chairs, doors, and even chopsticks. It was normal for a person to smell of wood.

At the moment, Xu Xingrong came over and asked, “Ning Tao, are you ready?”

Ning Tao nodded his head and answered, “Yes, I'm ready.”

Xu Xingrong reached out and lifted the shroud. A naked body was exposed to the air. Her fatal wound was in the heart, under her ribs. The blow was clean and left her no chance of life. There was no other wound on her body except the small one. She looked like a sleeping woman, who was quite calm.

Although Ning Tao was prepared for this, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Zhou Ying's body. After all, he was not a forensics major. Faced with the corpse of such a young woman, he could not maintain absolute calm as a professional, and his senses were more or less stimulated.

“Are you okay?” Xu Xingrong asked.

Ning Tao replied, “I'm fine. Let's start.”

“Zhou Ying has the same fatal wound as the other five. The murderer killed them in the same way. I did autopsies on the third and fifth cadavers. I think the murderer used a single straight blade about 30cm long,” Xu Xingrong stated briefly.

Ning Tao imagined what the weapon would look like, but he failed. “A straight blade about 30 cm long. The cut is long and thin, so the blade must be narrow. I've never seen a knife like that. Could it be a homemade knife?”

“I guess so. Leave that to the police. You put on rubber gloves and cut open her stomach with a scalpel. Let's first examine her stomach for any residue.” Xu Xingrong handed Ning Tao a pair of rubber gloves.

Ning Tao donned the rubber gloves, but instead of reaching for the scalpel in the dissecting room, he opened his small medicine chest and took out the Blade of the Solar Eclipse.

“What kind of scalpel is that? It looks so special.” Xu Xingrong looked curiously at Ning Tao's scalpel.

Ning Tao replied, “This is the scalpel I made myself. Can I use it?”

Xu Xingrong said, “Sure.”

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

“I'll see who it is.” Xu Xingrong walked to the door of the dissecting room.

Ning Tao put one hand on Zhou Ying's stomach and cut through with the Blade of the Solar Eclipse in the other. The edge of the Blade of the Solar Eclipse was so sharp that it could cut meat as quickly as cutting tofu. Ning Tao felt the barrier almost negligible. But just as the Blade of the Solar Eclipse penetrated Zhou Ying's muscle tissue, an extremely bizarre situation suddenly occurred.

The blade emitted a wisp of blood, like the rays of the dying sun. It was faint, but Ning Tao could see it clearly!

Ning Tao thought of something and put a little extraordinary spiritual power into the Blade of the Solar Eclipse. At that moment, an indescribable connection between him and the blade was built. A voice suddenly sounded in his head. “No, no… Please don't hurt me…”

The sound startled Ning Tao. He looked into Zhou Ying's eyes unconsciously.

Zhou Ying didn't open her eyes. She retained the serenity of death.

That was when more information flooded into Ning Tao's brain. A girl's voice sounded in his mind.

“Mom, I'm sorry, I can never see you again…”

“I have over 500 yuan on my bank card. I give it all to you. Please don't hurt me…”

“No, no, your ring hurts me…”

“I don't want to die, mom, mom…”

“Help… Help…”

“Ah—ah—”

After a scream of fear, all sounds died away.

The “evening twilight” on the Blade of the Solar Eclipse was gone.

Ning Tao's hands were still shaking. His heart was full of monstrous anger, and his eyes were ferocious. It was clearly Zhou Ying's voice. She pleaded and feared, but the murderer kept torturing her and then killed her. At the end of her life, she thought most of her mother, but she would never see her mother again.

Then, footsteps approached.

Ning Tao ducked his head. He knew that whoever saw him in a bad state would be intimidated. He finished the dissection by dragging his hand down. Then he lifted the Blade of the Solar Eclipse.

There was not a drop of blood on the blade, as clean as if it had been washed with alcohol.

It was not a weapon, but it has incredible powers. Just now, it extracted Zhou Ying's resentment and desire to live from her body. One died with an overwhelming desire to survive. When one was on the point of dying, his grievance was just as strong, even leaving in the form of energy. According to feudalism, this was a ghost's resentment, and according to science, this was energy.

However, today's technology was unable to capture either the ghost's resentment or the energy.

The Blade of the Solar Eclipse's material was cloudy ore, and when Ning Tao smeared his mineral powder on his forehead, he received some sonic energy from the past. In this way, the Blade of the Solar Eclipse, which was refined from cloudy ore, was able to extract sound energy from Zhou Ying's body.

“You're really here, Dr. Ning.” Hu Jilu's voice sounded.

Ning Tao looked up and asked, “Mayor Hu, why are you here?”

“I went to the Affiliated Hospital of Shan City Medical University. President Chen gave me a personal examination, and he asked me to be hospitalized. You're right, my disease…” Hu Jilu stopped, turned, bent over, and retched.

Ning Tao said, “Professor Xu, I'm going out to have a chat with Mayor Hu. You take care of this.”

Xu Xingrong replied, “Okay, just go.”

Ning Tao put the Blade of the Solar Eclipse back in the medicine chest and walked out with it. “Mayor Hu, let's go out and have a chat.”

Hu Jilu obviously didn't want to stay in the dissecting room for another second. He opened the door in front of Ning Tao and walked out.

Ning Tao left the room and said, “Chen Zhengyi must have told you that you need to have your prostate removed, right?”

Hu Jilu replied, “Yes, he said he had to have an operation to remove my prostate. I asked him if there would be any effect after the operation, and he said it would affect my s.e.xual ability. I'm not old enough to accept this. I heard Wu Wenbo say you were here, and I came over. I've decided to ask you to operate on me as long as your operation doesn't affect my s.e.xuality.”

Ning Tao stated, “As I said, you only need a minor operation. I can operate on you now, as long as there's a proper place.”

Hu Jilu said, “I'll go to the headmaster right now and ask him to find a room for me.”

Ning Tao said, “I'll be there if it's arranged.”

Then Hu Jilu left.

Ning Tao returned to the dissecting room. Seeing Xu Xingrong taking a sample from Zhou Ying's stomach, he also turned and vomited.

Xu Xingrong said, “You're already pretty good. A lot of people throw up violently when they first see it.”

Ning Tao soon quelled nausea and walked over. “Professor Xu, I'm a bit out of place for this. Please check Zhou Ying's… er, private parts.”

Xu Xingrong surprisingly asked, “What did you find?”

Ning Tao was silent for a moment before saying, “Nothing, I'm just guessing. Maybe there's a clue.”

He couldn't tell Xu Xingrong that his scalpel had absorbed Zhou Ying's resentment, or that his nose was better than a dog's, which allowed him to smell exotic wood.

“Don't worry. We'll take it one after another. You now check Zhou Ying's hair for any hidden wounds or attachments,” Xu Xingrong said.

“All right.” Ning Tao walked over and checked Zhou Ying's hair. During the inspection, he woke up his nose to enter the state of smell, and began to collect and a.n.a.lyze the odors in one place.

Without the cover of a sheet, he could examine more pertinently. This time he caught a more distinct smell of wood than before!

Knocked! Knocked! Knocked!

Suddenly there was another knock at the door.

Xu Xingrong frowned and complained, “Who is it? There is no end. It's not usually so busy here. What's going on today?”

Bang!

The door was suddenly kicked open, and several police officers entered with guns.

“Don't move!” yelled a policeman.