Nightwatcher Chapter 48: No clue
Sunlight shines in from the lattice windows, and dust floats.
In the quiet environment, Xu Qi'an stood silently in the room. After a while, the blue veins that jumped up on his forehead retracted, and he started to check the scene without any expression.
The furnishings such as tables and chairs were placed intact, with no signs of fighting. The man's carotid artery was cut by a sharp weapon, and his left temple collapsed.
Desperate 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 Qian touched her head, she found that the real cause of death was being crushed by the Tian Ling Gai.
He then turned the bodies of the three corpses, lifted the cotton-padded clothes on their backs, and checked the degree of aggregation of the corpses. . .
"The time of death did not exceed four hours. It was killed in the morning...No, that’s not right. The temperature last night was almost 2 degrees. If it was killed at night, the actual time of death would be even longer. Early."
Low temperature has a "preservation" effect, which will affect the judgment of the time of death.
"Although there are no traces of fighting in the house, this does not mean that acquaintances committed the crime, because it is too simple to deal with ordinary people and can be killed instantly."
But for no reason, who would kill this innocent family?
Xu Qi'an sits at the table, tapping the table with his fingertips, and the pheromone in his brain is like boiling......
"Apart from me and Chai Xian, who else knows this place? If no one is there, he or me is the murderer. If anyone knows this place, why didn't they come early or late? After I spread the letter, kill the people?
"The purpose is not to stop Chai Xian, but to prevent Chai Xian from going to the Demon Slaying Conference... but what is the point? Wouldn't it be better to ambush people here and kill Chai Xian directly.
"So, Chai Xian was the one who killed the people? It's not right, the motivation is unreasonable."
Xu Qi'an suddenly widened his eyes and thought of a possibility.
The day I turned the cat to follow Chai Xian, I was also followed by others........
"Chai Xian couldn't find my tracking because the walking dead didn't have the anti-tracking ability. But I also didn't have the ability. I was just a cat, not the body. If someone quietly followed us that night... ......."
Xu Qi'an abruptly got up, left the house, turned the door closed, mounted the little mare, and galloped away.
..........
Chai Mansion.
Li Lingsu held the hot tea cup in both hands and took a sip of the sweet liquid.
The white and delicate cup is filled with goji berries, so that the few teas are exceptionally sweet.
Hey, every day...Li Lingsu sighed.
Before being transcendent, Daomen had limited gains to the body, which was far less perverted than Wufu's physique.
In the past six months, the Eastern sisters deliberately drained his energy, causing him to be in a state of deficit all the time.
I thought that after being separated from the Eastern sisters, I would be able to recharge and accumulate energy, but for various reasons, I had to accompany other confidantes.
From Wenren Qianrou to Chai Xing'er, they are all dry firewood.
"Perhaps I should try to practice the martial arts system. Although the martial arts cannot break through before practicing Qi, it is for people who have no foundation. If I break my body early, I cannot practice Qi. It’s not difficult to forcefully practice Qi.
"Well, I still have to start from the refinement stage. Otherwise, without the process of fighting the body, I will basically be unable to enter the fifth grade of energy. Wait, I am not taking the martial arts path for combat strength. Aura is enough........."
As I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a figure emerge from the shadow of the coffee table.
It is Xu Qian who is plain-looking.
"Senior?"
Li Lingsu was taken aback. He didn't expect Xu Qian to come personally. Are you afraid of being discovered by a Buddhist monk?
He just wanted to ask, when he suddenly realized that Xu Qian's state was not right.
Tianzong has the ability to "know through things" and is particularly sensitive to people and things that have been with him for a long time, and a slight change can be immediately noticed.
Belongs to the prerequisite ability of "Heaven and Man Are One".
Although Li Lingsu doesn't know Xu Qian, he still has a lot of time together.
Xu Qian in the past was a pool of immersed, unfathomable water. Xu Qian is now a raging sea under the current.
Xu Qi'an nodded and said: "Where was Myolie Chai last night?"
In my bed...... Li Lingsu said: "Always be with me."
Xu Qi'an reminded: "Are you sure?"
It is also possible to go out and do some shameful things while you are asleep.
Li Lingsu frowned: "Last night we didn't end until two minutes later. In addition, my seal broke through a small part, and the sleep was not too heavy. If the person next to the pillow left, I couldn't be aware of it. ."
Speaking of this, Li Lingsu subconsciously rubbed his sore waist.
Two moments later, do you really have a kidney failure? Xu Qi'an nodded slowly without saying nonsense: "In two quarters, we will meet outside the North City."
He turned into a shadow and disappeared into the room.
"Mysterious God..."
Li Lingsu left the room immediately, asked the steward of Chai Mansion for a horse, and walked along the main road to the gate of the North City.
In just a quarter of an hour, the two met outside the North City Gate, and Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian changed his appearance again.
Xu Qi'an nodded slightly, without explaining, grabbed the belly of the little mare and rode away.
"Drive!"
Li Lingsu waved his whip and immediately followed.
As we approached the village, Xu Qi'an slowed down and gave him a robe and hood, saying:
"Put it on, there has been a murder in the village, you go to the soul to find out who the murderer is."
When Li Lingsu's cross-dressing was over, Xu Qi'an got off his horse and snapped his fingers. The little mare and the horses Li Lingsu rode obediently entered the woods on the roadside and hid them.
Hey, the ability of Imperial Beast Gu is really useful...Li Lingsu thought enviously.
Heart Gu is also called "Beast Gu" and "Imperial Beast Gu", because Heart Gu masters often use it to control poisonous insects and beasts.
The two entered the village side by side. When approaching the destination, Xu Qi'an found that the villagers were standing outside the small courtyard, and the cry of grief came from the house.
The villagers stood either in the courtyard or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.
Xu Qi'an vaguely heard a few words:
"Did the fourth family provoke anyone?"
"Who knows, even the children are not let go, the murderer is really depressed."
"Hey, could it be that Chai Xian did it? It must be him. I heard that this is a lunatic, and even the adoptive father is killed."
"Oh, aren't we in danger?"
He and Li Lingsu squeezed away the villagers and entered the yard.
A simple wooden board was erected in the room, and a family of three lay on it, covered with dirty white cloth, and an old man with gray hair fell down on the wooden board, crying.
A young couple is busy in the house. They are dressed in ordinary common clothes, their hands are rough, and their faces are dark. At first glance, they are people who are used to rough work.
"Who are you?"
Seeing Xu Qi'an and Li Lingsu coming in, the young couple was a little wary, especially Li Lingsu was wearing a robe and a hood.
"People from the government."
Xu Qi'an said solemnly: "Who told you to move the body without authorization? What if you destroy the clue left by the murderer."
He came up to question, and the young man asked was at a loss and thought he had made a big mistake.
Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the back room, the scene of the murder, and closed the door.
Without giving young people a chance to react, Xu Qi'an sullenly asked: "What is your relationship with this family?"
The young man looked back at the male dead, sadness on his dull face:
"He is my brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, the neighbor saw a stranger coming in, and then he quickly left. He came to see the situation and shouted that no one would answer for a long time. He came in and found Everyone was killed..."
As I talked, my eyes turned red.
Xu Qi'an didn't change his face, and said: "The neighbors around you call here."
The young man walked out of the threshold, glanced at the crowd outside the courtyard, and said in dialect:
"The official has something to ask, come here."
He pointed to several of the neighbors.
Soon, the two old mothers came in, both neighbors.
The old mothers were a little frightened, and couldn't restrain the nature of good people. They looked at the three corpses on the wooden board frequently.
"Any strange person has been here?"
Xu Qi'an asked, and got the answer "a strange man came over at noon".
"Has anyone been weird in the morning?"
The two old mothers looked at each other and shook their heads.
One said he didn't pay attention, and the other said he didn't see it.
Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger enters the village, it will be very eye-catching, and the possibility of murder at night is greater... He secretly thought, at this time, Li Lingsu came from the house Walked out and shook his head at him.
"The soul was broken up." Li Lingsu said through voice.
Xu Qi'an's face sank and nodded slowly.
The two did not stay longer and left the village in a hurry.
On the way back, Li Lingsu whispered: "What happened?"
"I followed Chai Xian that day and found here all the way. Chai Xian hid in this family's house, which is one of the footholds."
Xu Qi'an sat on the back of the little mare, looking far away, saying:
"On that day, we agreed to use this as a contact point to exchange news. I intend to encourage him to go to the Demon Slayer Conference to confront Chai Xing'er, and take the opportunity to lock his position. Well, that day, I used Heart Gu to track a cat. , When I arrived locally, he had already left."
Why he was looking for Chai Xian is ignored here.
Although Li Lingsu had doubts, he did not ask carefully, and said in deep thought: "But Chai Xian did not appear at the Demon Slaying Conference today."
"Yes!"
Xu Qi'an nodded: "So I came here to confirm, but found that they were silenced."
"Hiss..." Li Lingsu took a breath:
"The purpose of Mikou is to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaying Conference? There is a problem here, that is, people who Mikou know that Chai Xian will come tonight. Otherwise, if Chai Xian can't receive your note, he will probably not show up. , Then there is no need to kill people."
These words awakened Xu Qi'an, and he said solemnly: "Perhaps not to prevent the note from being obtained by Chai Xian, but to scare Chai Xian away."
"How do you say?" Li Lingsu asked.
"I don’t know much about Chai Xian, but I know that this person’s personality is a bit extreme. He stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real murderer behind the scenes. Even without my note, he would probably borrow The timing of the devil's congress is to redress."
Xu Qi'an analyzed:
"The note is my additional insurance, but it is not the most critical. Because I am not sure that Chai Xian will come last night, but how can anyone behind the scenes be sure that Chai Xian will come last night?"
The prerequisite for killing people is that Chai Xian gets the note and will disrupt the situation in the Demon Slayer tomorrow.
But Xu Qi'an is not sure that Chai Xian will come to the small mountain village last night. If he doesn't come, he won't see the note, and the motive for killing people will not exist.
But the three members of this family were still killed, indicating that the people behind the scenes knew that Chai Xian would come last night.
Li Lingsu understands:
"The note is not the key. The key is that the murderer behind the scenes knew that Chai Xian would be here last night. He killed the family of three in advance and frightened Chai Xian, making him feel that the mysterious person he met that day, that is, senior you, He is the one who hides the evil heart.
"Out of prudence, he dispelled the idea of disturbing things at the Demon Massacre. But what is the purpose of the murderer?"
Xu Qi'an could not give an answer, and shook his head:
"A key piece of information is missing. In this case, besides Chai Xing'er and Chai Xian, there is also a person behind the scenes. He is killing people everywhere. Locking this person's identity will basically unlock the truth."
Li Lingsu thought of a character: "Will it be Chai Lan?"
This character has never appeared. She disappeared strangely on the day of Chai Jianyuan's death, and there is no news again.
Xu Qi'an asked back: "Does she have this cultivation level?"
"Chai Lan has a good cultivation base, but she should have not reached the fourth rank, or even the fifth rank. However, it is not certain whether she has hidden strength." Li Lingsu could not be sure.
Xu Qi'an said: "I won't use it to find me for these two days."
"Why?"
"I will investigate the case secretly, find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and then kill." Xu Qi'an said blankly.
...........
Chai Mansion.
A monk returned to the courtyard and clicked on the door of Jingxin's room. After getting permission, he pushed the door in and saw Jingxin and Jingyuan talking.
"Two brothers, my benefactor Chai Xing'er asked me to tell me that there was a murder case in Xiaobu Village, more than 30 miles away to the west of Xiangzhou City, which is suspected to be done by people from the rivers and lakes.
"After the "search team" organized by the government inquired about the situation, it was ruled out that Chai Xian did it. However, according to the villagers, a man in Tsing Yi came to the village at noon today. Not long afterwards, there were two more A strangely dressed outsider enters the village, claiming to be a government official.
"Yamen has confirmed that these two people are not from the government."
He gave a detailed account of the death of a family of three.
Jing Xin twisted the chess piece, "Pada" fell, with a gentle voice: "I see."
The monk happily retired.
"Xu is a ranger." Jing Yuan said.
He was referring to the two fake officials after the incident.
"I have never ingested blood, did not ask for money, why is it killing?" Jing Xin frowned and muttered.
"Maybe it's a vendetta, or maybe a wicked person fishing in troubled waters, don't care too much. If you want to solve this problem earlier, you still have to get rid of the roots." Jing Yuan said in a deep voice.
After the Demon Slaying Conference, the government and several big rivers and lakes compared the yellow books and searched from house to house in the city.
There are also "search teams" in towns.
To achieve this step, the Xiangzhou government has done a lot.
"Tonight, you will go out for a tour of the city~IndoMTL.com~Remember to be ostentatious." Jing Xin said.
"Yeah." Jing Yuan nodded.
Jing Xin put down the chess piece, took out an ancient book from the cloth bag, and stopped at a certain page while turning the page.
"The Southern Border Corpse Gu Department has a secret technique for raising corpses with corpses. This technique is born out of the technique of raising corpses. The walking corpses swallow each other and grab the essence. The final winner is the corpse king."
"Above the iron corpse is the flying corpse. The flying corpse does not have the warning of the danger of the warrior of the gods, does not have the ultimate control of the strength of the swordsman, and does not have the "intention" of the fourth-grade warrior, but the flying corpse can Flying in the air for a short time, the combat power is not weaker than the fourth rank, even stronger.
"Because they grabbed enough essence and blood to condense the embryonic blood pill in the body, they have the ability to regenerate flesh and blood."
Jing Xin slowly said: "Killing so many martial artists, some of them were grabbed of blood, and some of the corpses were missing. The person behind the scenes is afraid that they want to train a flying corpse. He definitely will not let go of the cultivation. You of King Kong Magical Art."
Jing Yuan smiled and said: "Especially at the Demon Slaying Conference, the cultivation base I showed barely reached the fifth rank."
While talking, another monk came in and handed a note:
"Brother Jingxin, the steward of Chai Mansion handed out a letter, saying that it was delivered by someone outside the door. I will give you a request for a surname."
Jingxin opened the envelope with doubts.
...........
Xu Qi'an returned to the inn and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
Munanzhi's vigilant voice sounded behind the door.
"Me."
Xu Qi'an heard something wrong in her voice, and said: "Open the door, what's the matter?"
Squeak~
The door of the room opened, and Munanzhi stood behind the door, his face serious.
Two small white foxes with big palms squatted at her feet well-behaved, their childish voice pretending to be serious:
"Someone is watching us. If you don't come back, my aunt will be scared under the drill press."