Nightwatcher Chapter 49: Post-mortem
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"Have you been spied on?"
Xu Qi'an was taken aback for a moment, walked to the window, glanced around sharply, and then retracted his gaze: "How do you know that you are being spied on."
He didn't feel like being spied on. Although the third-rank martial artist's cultivation base was sealed, Tian Gu would only be more sensitive in this regard.
"After you left, it suddenly said that someone was watching us."
Mun Nanzhi was a little scared: "But I watched by the window for a long time, but I didn't notice being spied. It frightened me."
Xu Qi'an looked at the little white fox with a heavy face: "Do you have the talent and supernatural powers in this area?"
Little White Fox shook his head and said softly: "My talent is stealth and speed."
Xu Qi'an questioned: "Not your illusion?"
Little White Fox kept shook his head: "My intuition has never been wrong."
"I understand."
Xu Qi'an said: "You two are staying in the Buddha Pagoda for the time being. I did encounter some strange things in my investigation recently."
He called the inn Xiaoer, prepared some dry food, water, and daily necessities, and then sacrificed to the Lingfutu pagoda and included Munanzhi and the little white fox.
After doing all this, Xu Qi'an didn't leave immediately, went to the table, spread out the paper, and habitually reviewed the Chai family case. .
Although there was a certain amount of attention and analysis before, Xu Qi'an always put the grabbing of dragon energy as the first priority, and the scrutiny of the case is over.
To this day, after witnessing the death of a family of three, Xu Qi'an decided to put the Dragon Qi aside for the time being, devote himself to the case, and have fun with the people behind the scenes.
"Follow me, kill people, monitor Munanzhi, okay, play with you."
He has quite a wealth of criminal investigation experience, as well as knowledge of criminal psychology, and analysis of problems is far more precise and sensitive than the smart people of this era.
"The source of everything was the homicide that occurred in Chai Mansion two decades ago. The deceased Chai Jianyuan, the suspect's righteous son Chai Xian, and the witness Chai Xing'er included everyone from the Chai family. Motivation for the murder: because of love!
"Note: Miss Chai Lan is missing."
Xu Qi'an did not stop writing and continued to write:
"The motive is insufficient to support the suspect's murder of his father, or other reasons, or being framed.
"Chai Xing'er's ex-husband died because of Chai Jianyuan, with grudges; Chai Jianyuan's sons are mediocre and unable to inherit the family business. Therefore, Chai Xing'er is the biggest gainer and has sufficient motives for murder."
After writing this passage, Xu Qi'an made a summary:
The first suspect, Chai Xian; the second suspect, Chai Xing'er.
Although Chai Xian'er is more suspicious than Chai Xian in his speculation, there is evidence that Chai Xian is the murderer. Investigating the case can't be idealistic, so Chai Xian is still the first suspect.
Xu Qi'an picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and kept the posture of holding the cup. After ten seconds, he began to write the case of the second stage.
"After the incident, Chai Xian committed repeated murders in Xiangzhou and even Zhangzhou, and he targeted people from the gang to start, and later affected the people!
"Note: This does not correspond to the behavior of a suspect who killed his father for love."
In short, Chai Xian’s motives for committing the crime and his subsequent actions to create chaos in Xiangzhou are completely contradictory and unreasonable.
This is nothing more than three situations:
"Concluded: Chai Xian's motive for murder can be overturned, not for love, but for other reasons; Chai Xian was framed by others, and this case has other hidden details."
After sorting out the case, Xu Qi'an then wrote down two doubts:
"Are the murderers in the small village the real murderers behind the scenes?"
"What is the purpose of even committing murders in Xiangzhou?"
Xu Qi'an puts down the pen and analyzes carefully:
"If the person behind the scenes was killed last night, then he (she) is fully capable of ambushing Chai Xian and eradicating him. But the person behind the scenes did not do this. If the person behind the scenes is Chai Xian'er, he should not Get rid of Chai Xian and hurry up?"
There is another contradiction here.
There are three contradictions in the whole case. If Chai Xian is the murderer, then the Chai Mansion murder case and the subsequent mass murder case are contradictory.
Based on this contradiction, it highlights the possibility that Chai Xing'er, a vested interest, framed Chai Xian.
But last night’s extermination of the door in a small mountain village once again contradicted the speculation that "Chai Xing'er was the murderer behind the scenes".
In the first stage of the case, the homicide in Chai Mansion, the suspect was identified as Chai Xian.
In the second phase of the case, Xiangzhou homicides occurred frequently, and the suspect was identified as Chai Xing'er.
In the third stage of the small village extermination case, Chai Xinger's suspicion of being behind the scenes has been alleviated, making the case even more confusing.
"Where is Chai Lan? Where did Chai Lan go?
"Assuming that Chai Xing'er is behind the scenes, but Chai Lan did the murder case in Xiaoshan Village, then the previous speculation can barely be established without overturning. But what is the purpose of Chai Lan's doing this?
"You can't make such a speculation. Chai Lan has not appeared from the beginning to the end, and there is no clue related to her. If you make such an assumption, it will only lead me into a dead end."
At this point of analysis, Xu Qi'an vaguely felt that something was wrong.
This is the intuition of an old detective.
Xu Qi'an leaned back, leaned back in the chair, and closed his eyes. This process lasted for more than ten minutes. He opened his eyes and had the answer in his heart.
Chaos!
Yes, the biggest problem with the Chai family's case is chaos and contradictions everywhere, but what really made him realize that something was wrong was the motive!
"All the contradiction lies in unreasonable motives. Chai Xian's motives for killing Chai Jianyuan are unreasonable. The motives for killing Chai Jianyuan in the small village are unreasonable. Killing so many people just to keep Chai Xian is also unreasonable.
"It feels like a cannon hitting flies. If Chai Xian is a seed of infatuation and is willing to kill Chai Lan's father, then as long as he hides Chai Lan and takes this as a hostage, he will not leave Xiangzhou.
"Therefore, there is another hidden story in this case, which is not as simple as it seems.
"Going back to the source, starting from the Chai family........"
Xu Qi'an shook his hand and lit the paper, turning it into ashes, then threw it into the small celadon water tank for washing the pen, and left the inn.
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Half an hour later, the shopkeeper of the inn was sitting behind the counter, fiddled with the abacus, and sorted the books.
A gentle voice chanting Buddha's name came from my ear:
"Amitabha!"
The shopkeeper looked up and saw that he was a monk with the characteristics of the Western Regions, dressed in easy-to-go clothes, calm and restrained.
"Will the master stay in a store, or do you want to be the top?"
The shopkeeper smiles all over.
He has run this first-class inn in Xiangzhou for most of his life, and he has seen a handful of monks. In the Central Plains, Buddhist monks are "rare things."
The young monk puts his hands together, and his speech is as gentle as a spring breeze:
"The poor monk would like to ask if there is a man and woman living in the store recently, the man is wearing a Tsing Yi, the woman is plain, and the mount is a war horse."
The monk's words seemed to have convincing power, and a strange feeling rose in the treasurer's heart, as if the monk on the other side was a majestic father.
"There is such a pair of guests."
The shopkeeper told the truth: "If you say you are a pair of plain-looking men and women, I have no impression, but if you say war horses, then you know who the master is talking about. But unfortunately, the guest officer just Check out and leave."
Jingxin nodded and said: "Thank you for the shopkeeper."
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Late night, Chai Mansion.
A shadow sneaked in the darkness, silently, the brilliance of the patrol guard's torch distorted the reflection of the green belt, and for a moment the shadow of the sneak was illuminated.
But at the next moment, it disappeared silently, appeared in the darkness further away, and continued to move towards its destination.
Not long after, he came to a secluded courtyard.
I didn't enter immediately, because there were a lot of guards added near the courtyard, and many of them were martial arts practitioners.
But Sombra did not retreat because of this. He went around one direction and came to the back of the small courtyard.
In the room, the candlelight was bright, and the rich smell of meat filled the room. Three men were sitting around the table, eating antique soup, that is, hot pot.
Since Chai Xian invaded the cellar, Chai Mansion has strengthened its defense here.
Not only will there be additional staff outside, there are also masters "stationed" day and night in the house.
Xu Qi'an outside the house separated by a wall, concentrating:
"The three people inside are all martial arts above the realm of refining the gods. The sneak attack will only make them sense my existence in advance, which will attract the guards outside...If it was the previous me, probably only Recklessly entered by force, but now I am no longer a rude martial artist."
Ten seconds later, under the foundation of the yard, in the hole, a sleeping mouse woke up and opened its blood-red eyes.
This is not an ordinary mouse. It is full of poisons, and toxins spew out with its breath, infecting all the creatures around it.
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In the house!
"Why is Chai Xian coming back?"
A burly man said.
"I heard from the clan that I was looking for Xiaolan, this madman thought Xiaolan was killed and hid in the cellar."
Another man shook his head: "Didn't Xiaolan be kidnapped by him."
While they were talking, they heard the "squeak" cry, and followed the sound, it was a fat black rat standing in the shadow of the corner with a pair of red eyes staring at the three people silently .
As a Wufu who has a strong premonition of danger, the moment the three men saw the mouse, their intuition began to warn.
They instinctively grabbed the weapon leaning on the table and called out loudly to notify the guard outside.
But the next moment, the three fell on the table softly and passed out.
A few seconds later, a shadow came out from under the table. Xu Qi'an looked around and listened, confirming that the guards outside the courtyard did not notice the movement inside. He turned to the cellar entrance and opened the heavy stone cover.
The poison among the three people in the room has a strong paralyzing effect, which is not life-threatening, and can recover from weakness for a few days at most.
As the stone cover opened, a dark hole appeared. Xu Qi'an took out the prepared candle and lit it, holding the orange halo, and entered the cellar along the steps.
He walked through the rows of corpses and walked briskly. He only felt that this was the safest and most comfortable place in the world.
But the investigation is important. He forcibly resisted the urge to talk to and interact with the corpse, and went straight to the secret room deep in the cellar.
There is a custom in Chai Mansion. After the death of the clansmen, they either cremation or donate the corpse to the family to make walking corpses.
This is to prevent the corpses of the tribe from being excavated by outsiders.
Before the operation, Xu Qi'an had obtained information from Li Lingsu. Chai Jianyuan's body was refined into a walking corpse by Chai Xinger and stored in the cellar.
Chai Myolie’s argument is that the Chai family has undergone major changes and urgently needs strength to protect the family’s safety.
This reason won the unanimous approval of the Chai family.
But Xu Qi'an believes that ~IndoMTL.com~ there is a selfishness of "a tooth for a tooth".
Of course, Chai Xing'er's thoughts are not important, Xu Qi'an sneaked in this time, it was an autopsy.
The corpse can give a lot of information, the appearance of the wound, the injury, etc., which can tell Xu Qi'an whether it is an acquaintance who committed the crime.
Soon, he came to the secret room deep in the cellar.
The door of the chamber is locked tightly.
Xu Qi'an put his palm against the lock cylinder, exerting force, and with a bang, the lock cylinder was directly shaken off, shaking out the misty dust.
There are not many corpses in the secret room. There are four on each side, wearing hoods and all gray clothes, all of the same style.
From the slightly bulged breasts, it can be seen that three of them are female corpses.
Xu Qi'an took off the corpse's headgear, and after identification, he recognized that the third corpse on the left was Chai Jianyuan.
Interestingly, the third corpse on the right is a male corpse with clear features. According to Li Lingsu's description, "he" is Chai Xing'er's ex-husband.
"Tsk, looking at each other, Chai Myolie really resents Chai Jianyuan."
Xu Qi'an didn't delay, kicked Chai Jianyuan's body, stripped off his gray clothes, and held a candle to examine the body.
There was a sutured wound on Chai Jianyuan's chest, but the corpse spots all over destroyed the marks of other wounds.
Xu Qi'an moved the candle, the orange halo moved down from his chest, and stopped between his legs. He wrapped his hand in grey clothes and took out a bird egg.
"Exclude attacks on the crotch!"
This position is relatively weak for the copper-skinned and iron-boned Takeo.
Moving down further, the halo of the candle illuminates Chai Jianyuan's feet.
In the dimness, Xu Qi'an's pupils dilated slightly, his eyes frozen.
Chai Jianyuan's left foot has six toes.
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PS: Sorry, the recent update is weak. The word count of the update this month is 160,000. It has reached a new low since the serialization. I am trying to recover.