Chapter 251

If she did not do this, He Zhiran would not be able to make further favorable judgments.

After thinking for a while, she spoke up, "I want to take a look at Eldest and Second Brother's corpses."

Sure enough, as soon as she said this, Mo Jiuye did not agree immediately. His eyebrows were locked in a frown for a long time before he asked, "Can any clues be found from the corpses?"

He Zhiran knew her request would be questioned. She expressed her thoughts.

"There is an instrument in the medical room of my space that can detect familial relationships between people. I was thinking that if Eldest and Second Brother were still alive, the people lying in the graves would not be Mo Family members. As long as we examine it, we will know the result."

Mo Jiuye had not expected there to be such an operation in her space.

This was indeed a good method. If the people in the graves were not Mo Family members, they could completely determine that Eldest and Second Brother were still alive.

On the other hand, if the people lying here were indeed Eldest and Second Brother, they would have no need to continue searching.

After analyzing the pros and cons, Mo Jiuye solemnly came to the graves of his two elder brothers and bowed deeply.

"Eldest Brother, Second Brother, please forgive your younger brother for being impolite. In order to ascertain whether you are still alive, this is the only method."

Having said that, he looked at He Zhiran with a serious expression.

"Ranran, take the tools out from your space. I will dig open the graves now."

He Zhiran thought Mo Jiuye would use iron shovels, the most primitive method for grave digging. She felt it would be somewhat time consuming.

Because she had not told Mo Jiuye that after examining Eldest and Second Brother's graves, she also wanted to dig open the other graves and take a look.

At this rate, even if they dug all day, they probably would not be able to dig up so many graves. Therefore, she did not immediately purchase iron shovels and tools of that nature. Instead, she decided to look for a small, time-saving and labor-saving mechanical device on Taobao.

After searching for a while, He Zhiran found a suitable mini excavator.

Unlike the large excavators people were used to seeing, this mini excavator was only about a square meter in size and very convenient to operate, perfect for this kind of "grave robbing" task.

The mini excavator required diesel fuel. He Zhiran immediately contacted Little Collector and asked him to get her some diesel fuel.

Little Collector was especially attentive to He Zhiran's messages now. Seeing her message, he would reply at the first opportunity.

Fortunately, when he had been preparing gasoline recently, he had also brought along a few barrels of diesel fuel. Upon learning of He Zhiran's need, he immediately listed them for 1 yuan each.

He Zhiran did not have time to check exactly how many barrels of diesel fuel had been added to her space. After fueling up the mini excavator, she took it out.

Mo Jiuye had thought his wife would be gone for a while to buy iron shovels. He did not expect her to bring out such a strange contraption.

At the moment, both of them were rather serious. Neither felt like joking about the mini excavator.

He Zhiran knew Mo Jiuye would not know how to operate this equipment, so she took the initiative to lift the excavator and start it up.

A deafening mechanical sound echoed through the open valley, startling the birds roosting in the trees into frantically flapping their wings and fleeing in all directions.

Fortunately, there were absolutely no people around here, allowing He Zhiran to use the mini excavator without any reservations.

Before long, all of the soil on top of Eldest Brother's grave was dug away, exposing the coffin lid.

He Zhiran's consciousness entered her space again and she purchased some tools from Taobao.

Mo Jiuye stepped forward to pick up a curved iron hammer. With a slight exertion of force, the thick coffin cover was pried open.

Inside the coffin was a headless skeleton.

Mo Jiuye thought He Zhiran would be frightened seeing this. After opening the coffin, he went to her side and gripped her little hand tightly.

At the moment, He Zhiran was staring fixedly at the skeleton. Seeing this, Mo Jiuye thought she was scared.

"Ranran, I'm here. Don't be afraid." He Zhiran currently had no mind to explain that she was not afraid, because she noticed the bones of the skeleton had a vaguely bluish-black tinge.

"This person died from poisoning."

"Poisoning?" Mo Jiuye was somewhat puzzled.

Eldest and Second Brother had been killed on the spot by enemy troops, and then had their heads cut off and displayed at the city gates. How could they have been poisoned?

At this time, He Zhiran had already broken free of Mo Jiuye's grip on her hand. She slowly walked to the coffin.

She took out a stainless steel scraper from her space and scraped some powder from the skeleton. Then she pulled Mo Jiuye along to quickly enter her space.

In her haste to find answers, she directly ignored the steamed buns who had come over looking for hugs.

She looked seriously at Mo Jiuye, "I need a little of your blood for testing."

Mo Jiuye did not hesitate at all to hold out his arm, because he had seen his wife take blood samples from others several times by pricking their arms with a needle.

He Zhiran's actions were very smooth. She drew some blood from the artery in Mo Jiuye's arm, then immediately buried herself in the laboratory.

After about an hour, the DNA test results came out. As expected, the corpse had no blood relation to Mo Jiuye.

Since there was no blood relation, she also had no need to continue investigating what poison the person had died from, much less analyze the cause of death of a substitute corpse.

When Mo Jiuye learned that the corpse was not Eldest Brother, he felt a burst of elation in his heart.

This very likely meant that Eldest Brother was still alive.

The two had the same idea without discussing it and decided to dig open the graves of the other brothers as well to test their DNA against Mo Jiuye's.

The mini excavator worked continuously for less than an hour and opened up the graves of Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Brothers.

Mo Jiuye had already learned how to collect cells from the bones. Without waiting for He Zhiran to act, he finished up.

Just as He Zhiran was about to bring Mo Jiuye into her space to run the tests, Mo Jiuye suddenly halted his actions.

He gestured for He Zhiran to keep silent. He Zhiran reacted very quickly. She guessed that Mo Jiuye was alerting her to some abnormality in their surroundings. She promptly stored the mini excavator and tools into her space.

Mo Jiuye swiftly picked her up by the waist and leapt onto a thick tree.

The two looked down and saw several people dressed in Da Shun Army uniforms walking in their direction.