Dafeng Night Watchman

Chapter 547: Chapter 547 No clue

Chapter 547: Chapter 547 No clue

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Sunlight shone in through the lattice window, and dust floated.

In the silent environment, Xu Qi'an stood silently in the room. After a while, the blue veins on his forehead were retracted. He began to check the scene without any expression.

The furnishings such as tables and chairs were placed intact, and there were no signs of fighting. The man's carotid artery was cut by a sharp weapon, and his left temple collapsed.

Killed instantly.

The cause of death of the mother and daughter was pierced by a sharp weapon at the same time. The mother was pierced in the heart, but the little girl was pierced in the right chest. After Xu Qi'an touched her head, he found that the real cause of death was that the top of the head was shattered.

He then turned over the bodies of the three corpses, lifted the cotton clothes on their backs, and checked the degree of condensation of the corpse spots.

"The time of death is no more than four hours. He was killed in the morning... No, that's not right. The temperature last night was about 2 degrees. If he was killed at night, the actual time of death would be earlier."

Low temperature has a "freshness preservation" effect, which will affect the judgment of the time of death.

"Although there are no signs of fighting in the house, this does not mean that it was committed by an acquaintance, because it is too easy to deal with ordinary people, and they can be killed instantly."

But who would kill this innocent family for no reason?

Xu Qian'an sat at the table, tapping the table with his fingertips. In the tapping sound, the pheromones in his brain seemed to boil.......

"Besides me and Chai Xian, who else knows this place? If there is no one, the murderer is either him or me.. If someone knows this place, why didn't they come earlier or later, but killed people to silence them after I sent the message?

"The purpose is not Chai Xian, but to stop Chai Xian from going to the Demon Slaughter Conference..... But what's the point? Wouldn't it be better to ambush people here and kill Chai Xian directly?

"So, it was Chai Xian who killed people to silence them? That's not right, the motive is unreasonable."

Xu Qian'an's eyes suddenly widened, and he thought of a possibility.

On the day I followed Chai Xian as a cat, I was also followed by someone...

"Chai Xian couldn't detect my tracking, because zombies don't have the ability to resist tracking. But I don't have this ability either. I was just a cat at the time, not the real body. If someone had quietly followed us that night..."

Xu Qian'an stood up suddenly, left the house, turned around and closed the door, rode on the mare, and galloped away.

Chai Mansion.

Li Lingsu held the boiling hot teacup in both hands and took a sip of the sweet liquid.

The white and delicate cup was full of wolfberries, so that the few teas seemed particularly

sweet.

Alas, every day... Li Lingsu sighed.

Before becoming extraordinary, the Taoist sect had limited physical enhancement, which was far less abnormal than the martial arts physique.

In the past six months, the Dongfang sisters deliberately drained his energy, causing him to be in a state of deficit all the time.

I thought that I could conserve my energy and strength after being separated from the Dongfang sisters, but for various reasons, I had to accompany other confidantes.

From Wenren Qianrou to Chai Xing'er, they were all hot and fiery.

"Maybe I should try to practice the martial arts system. Although martial artists cannot break their bodies before practicing Qi, that is for people without a foundation. If they break their bodies early, they cannot practice Qi. If I recover my cultivation, it will not be difficult to practice Qi with the fourth-grade Taoism.

"Well, I still have to start from the Jingjing realm. Otherwise, without the process of tempering my body, it is basically impossible for me to enter the fifth-grade Huajin. Wait, I am not taking the martial arts path for combat power, practicing Qi is enough..."

While I was daydreaming, I suddenly heard a figure coming out from the shadow of the coffee table.

It was Xu Qian, who looked ordinary.

"Senior?"

Li Lingsu was surprised. He didn't expect Xu Qian to come here in person. Was he not afraid of being discovered by the Buddhist monks?

Just when he was about to ask this, he suddenly realized that Xu Qian's state was not right. Tianzong has the ability of "investigating things to gain knowledge". He is particularly sensitive to people and things that he has been with for a long time, and can immediately detect the slightest change.

It is a prerequisite for "harmony between man and nature".

Although Li Lingsu doesn't know Xu Qian very well, he has spent a long time with him.

In the past, Xu Qian was a pool of immersive and unfathomable water. Now Xu Qian is a sea with undercurrents.

Xu Qian nodded and said, "Where was Chai Xing'er last night?"

In my bed... Li Lingsu said, "Always with me."

Xu Qian reminded, "Are you sure?"

It is also possible that he went out to do something shameful while you were asleep.

Li Lingsu frowned, "We didn't finish until two quarters after midnight last night. Besides, my seal has only broken a small part. I am not sleeping too deeply. If the person beside me leaves, I cannot fail to notice it."

Speaking of this, Li Lingsu subconsciously rubbed his sore waist.

It is two quarters of midnight. Are you really suffering from kidney deficiency? Xu Qian'an nodded slowly and said without any nonsense: "Meet outside the north city in two quarters of

an hour."

He turned into a shadow and disappeared in the room.

"Mysterious..."

Li Lingsu immediately left the room, asked the manager of Chai Mansion for a horse, and ran along the main road to the north city gate.

It took only a quarter of an hour for the two to meet outside the north city gate. Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian had changed his appearance again.

Xu Qian'an nodded slightly, without any explanation, he pinched the mare's belly and rode

away.

"Go!"

Li Lingsu waved his whip and followed immediately.

As they approached the village, Xu Qian'an slowed down his horse, threw a robe and hood to

him, and said:

"Put them on. There has been a murder in the village. Go and summon the souls and find out who the murderer is."

When Li Lingsu finished her disguise, Xu Qi'an got off the horse and snapped his fingers. The mare and the horse Li Lingsu was riding obediently entered the forest by the roadside and hid. Tsk, the ability of the beast control Gu is really useful... Li Lingsu thought enviously.

The heart Gu is also called "beast Gu" or "beast control Gu" because the heart Gu master often uses it to control poisonous insects and beasts.

The two entered the village side by side. When they were close to their destination, Xu Qi'an found that the courtyard was full of villagers, and mournful cries came from the house. The villagers stood in the courtyard or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.

Xu Qi'an vaguely heard a few words:

"Did Wang Laosi's family offend someone?"

"Who knows? He didn't even let the children go. The murderer is really unscrupulous."

"Alas, could it be that Chai Xian who did it? It must be him. I heard that he is a lunatic who

even killed his adoptive father. "

"Oh, aren't we in danger?"

He and Li Lingsu pushed aside the villagers and entered the yard.

A simple wooden board was set up in the house, and the family of three lay on it, covered with

dirty white cloth. An old man with gray hair fell beside the board and cried loudly.

A young couple was busy in the house. They were wearing ordinary cloth clothes, their hands

were rough, and their faces were dark. They were used to doing rough work.

"Who are you?"

Seeing Xu Qian'an and Li Lingsu come in, the young couple was a little wary, especially Li

Lingsu who was wearing a robe and a hood.

"People from the government."

Xu Qian'an said in a deep voice: "Who told you to move the body without permission? What if

you destroy the clues left by the murderer?"

He came up and questioned the young man, who was at a loss and thought he had made a big

mistake.

Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the inner room, which was the crime scene, and closed

the door.

Without giving the young man a chance to respond, Xu Qian'an asked with a stern face: "What is your relationship with this family?"

The young man looked back at the male deceased, and sadness appeared on his dull face:

"He is my brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, a neighbor saw a stranger come in and then leave soon. He came to see the situation, but no one answered after shouting for a long

time. When he came in, he found that everyone had been killed..."

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Xu Qian'an said calmly: "Then call the neighbors around."

The young man walked out of the door, glanced at the crowd watching the excitement outside

the yard, and said in dialect:

"The official has something to ask, come over here. "

He pointed at several of the neighbors.

Soon, two old women came in, both neighbors.

The old women were a little afraid, but they couldn't restrain their nature of being nosy, and

their eyes frequently looked at the three bodies on the wooden board.

"Has anyone strange come here?"

Xu Qiyan asked, and got the answer "A strange man came at noon."

"Has anyone strange come in the morning?"

The two old women looked at each other and shook their heads.

One said she didn't notice, and the other said she didn't see. Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger

enters the village, it will be very conspicuous, and the possibility of committing a crime at night is greater..... He thought secretly, at this time, Li Lingsu came out of the house and

shook his head at him.

"The soul was scattered." Li Lingsu transmitted.

Xu Qiyan's face sank and nodded slowly.

The two did not stay any longer and hurriedly left the village.

On the way back, Li Lingsu whispered: "What happened. "

"I followed Chai Xian that day and found this place all the way. Chai Xian was hiding in this family, which was one of his places to stay."

Xu Qian'an sat on the back of the mare, looking into the distance, and said: "We agreed to use this as a contact point to exchange information. I planned to instigate him to confront Chai Xing'er at the Demon Slaughter Conference and take the opportunity to lock

his position. Well, I used the heart poison to control a cat to track him that day. When I arrived

here, he had already left."

Here is the reason why he wanted to find Chai Xian's body.

Although Li Lingsu was puzzled, he did not ask in detail, and pondered: "But Chai Xian did

not appear at the Demon Slaughter Conference today."

"Yes!"

Xu Qian'an nodded: "So I came here to confirm, but found that they were silenced."

"Hiss..." Li Lingsu took a breath:

"The purpose of silencing is to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaughter

Conference? There is a problem here, that is, the person who silenced him knew that Chai Xian would come tonight. Otherwise, Chai Xian would not have received your note, and he would not have shown up, so there would be no need to kill him to silence him."

This sentence woke Xu Qian'an up, and he said in a deep voice: "Perhaps it was not to prevent

Chai Xian from getting the note, but to scare Chai Xian away."

"What do you mean?" Li Lingsu asked.

"I don't know much about Chai Xian, but I know that he has a somewhat extreme personality.

He stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real culprit behind the scenes.

Even if there was no note from me, he would probably take advantage of the opportunity of

the Demon Slaughter Conference to seek justice."

Xu Qian'an analyzed:

"The note is an extra insurance I added, but it is not the most critical. Because I can't be sure

that Chai Xian would definitely come last night, but how can the person behind the scenes be sure that Chai Xian would come last night?"

The premise of killing to silence the witness is that Chai Xian got the note and will disrupt the Demon Slaughter Conference tomorrow.

But Xu Qiyan couldn't be sure that Chai Xian would come to the small mountain village last

night. If he didn't come, he wouldn't see the note, and the motive for killing to silence the witness would not exist.

But the family of three was still killed, which means that the person behind the scenes knew

that Chai Xian would come last night.

Li Lingsu understood:

"The note is not the key, the key is that the murderer behind the scenes knew that Chai Xian

would come here last night. He killed the family of three in advance, which scared Chai Xian

and made him think that the mysterious person he met that day, that is, you, the senior, was a person with evil intentions.

"Out of caution, he gave up the idea of disrupting the Demon Slaughter Conference. But what

is the murderer's purpose?"

Xu Qiyan couldn't give an answer, and shook his head:

"A key piece of information is missing. In this case, in addition to Chai Xing'er and Chai Xian,

there is another person hiding behind the scenes. He is the one who is killing people

everywhere. If we can identify this person, the truth will be basically solved."

Li Lingsu thought of a character: "Could it be Chai Lan?"

This character has never appeared before. She disappeared strangely on the day of Chai

Jianyuan's death and there has been no news since then.

Xu Qiyan asked back: "Does she have this level of cultivation?"

"Chai Lan's cultivation is good, but she should not have reached the fourth level, or even the

fifth level. But it is not certain whether she has hidden strength." Li Lingsu could not be sure.

Xu Qiyan said: "Don't come to me these two days."

"Why?"

"I will investigate the case secretly, find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and then kill

him." Xu Qiyan said expressionlessly.

Chai Mansion.

A monk returned to the yard and knocked on Jingxin's door. After getting permission, he

pushed the door open and saw Jingxin and Jingyuan talking.

"My two brothers, the donor Chai Xing'er asked me to tell you that a family was murdered in

Xiaobu Village, more than 30 miles west of Xiangzhou City. It was suspected to be done by people from the underworld.

"After the "search team" organized by the government inquired about the situation, it has been ruled out that it was Chai Xian who did it. However, according to the villagers, a man in

green came to the village at noon today. Not long after the incident, two strangers dressed strangely entered the village and claimed to be from the government.

"But the government has confirmed that these two people are not from the government."

He described the death of the family of three in detail.

Jingxin twisted the chess piece, "click" it fell, and said gently: "I know."

The monk folded his hands and retreated. "Maybe it was a wandering knight in the underworld." Jingyuan said.

He was referring to the two people who pretended to be from the government after the

incident.

"You didn't take the essence and blood, and you didn't ask for money, so why did you kill people?" Jingxin frowned and pondered.

"Maybe it's revenge, maybe it's the evil people who are taking advantage of the situation.

Don't worry too much. If you want to solve this matter early, you still have to eradicate it."

Jingyuan said in a deep voice. After the Demon Slaughter Conference, the government and several major underworld forces searched every house in city according to the Yellow Book.

There are also "search teams" stationed in towns and villages.

To be able to do this, the Xiangzhou government has done a lot.

"You will go out of the city to patrol tonight, remember to show off." Jingxin said.

"Yes." Jingyuan nodded.

Jingxin put down the chess piece, took out an ancient book from the cloth bag, and stopped at

a certain page while turning the pages.

"The Corpse Gu tribe in Southern Xinjiang has a secret technique of using corpses to raise corpses. This technique is derived from the technique of raising Gu. The walking corpses devour each other and grab the essence. The final winner is the corpse king." "Above the iron corpses are flying corpses. Flying corpses do not have the early warning of

danger of the martial artists in the Refining Spirit Realm, the ultimate control of strength of the martial artists in the Transformation Realm, and the "intention" of the fourth-grade martial artists, but flying corpses can fly in the air for a short time. Their combat power is not

weaker than that of the fourth-grade, or even stronger."

"Because they have grabbed enough blood essence, they have condensed the embryonic form of blood pills in their bodies and have the ability to regenerate flesh and blood." Jingxin said slowly: "So many warriors have been killed, some of them have been robbed of

their blood, and some of their bodies have disappeared. The person behind the scenes is probably trying to make a flying corpse. He will definitely not let you who have cultivated the

Vajra Divine Art go."

Jingyuan smiled and said: "Especially at the Demon Slaughtering Conference, I showed that my cultivation was barely at the fifth level."

As he was talking, another monk came in and handed over a note: "Brother Jingxin, the housekeeper of the Chai Mansion handed over a letter, saying that

someone outside the door sent it, and asked you by name. " Jingxin opened the envelope with doubts.

Xu Qian'an returned to the inn and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?"

Mu Nanzhi's vigilant voice sounded behind the door.

"Me."

Xu Qian'an heard that there was something wrong with her voice and said: "Open the door,

what's wrong?"

Zhi~

The door opened, and Mu Nanzhi stood behind the door with a serious face.

Two palm-sized little white foxes squatted at her feet obediently, and said in a childish voice

pretending to be serious:

"Someone is watching us. If you don't come back, I will be scared and crawl under the bed."