Nightwatcher

The sun shines in through the latticed windows, and the dust floats.

In the silent environment, Xu Qi'an stood silently in the room. It took a while for the veins on his forehead to recede. He began to check the scene with no expression.

Tables and chairs and other furnishings were placed in a complete manner, with no signs of battle. The man's carotid artery was cut by a sharp weapon, and his left temple collapsed. .

Instant death.

The cause of death of both mother and daughter was pierced by a sharp weapon at the same time, the mother was pierced through the heart, but the little girl was pierced through the right chest, after Xu Qi'an touched her head, he found that the real cause of death was the broken sky spirit cover.

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

"The death time did not exceed four hours, and he was killed in the morning. No, no, the temperature last night was almost 2 degrees. If he was killed at night, the actual time of death would be earlier."

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

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

But for no reason, who would kill this innocent family?

Xu Qi'an sat at the table, lightly tapped the table with his fingertips, and the pheromones in his brain seemed to be boiling amidst the beeping sound.

"Apart from me and Chai Xian, who else knows about this place? If there is no one, the murderer is either him or me. If someone knows about this place, why don't they come sooner or later, but after I send the letter, kill people to silence them?

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

"So, it was Chai Xian who killed and silenced? That's not right, the motive is unreasonable."

Xu Qi'an's eyes widened suddenly, thinking of a possibility.

The day I turned into a cat to follow Chai Xian, I was also followed by someone

"Chai Xian couldn't find my stalking, because walking corpses don't have anti-tracking ability. But I also didn't have this ability. I was just a cat at that time, not the real body. If someone quietly followed us that night"

Xu Qi'an suddenly got up, left the house, closed the door behind him, got on the filly, and galloped away.

chaifu.

Holding the hot teacup in both hands, Li Lingsu took a sip of the sweet liquid.

The white and delicate cup is filled with goji berries, so that the few teas are extra sweet.

Alas, Li Lingsu sighed this day.

Before the Taoism is extraordinary, the growth of the body is limited, and it is far less abnormal than the martial arts physique.

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

I thought that I would be able to recharge my energy and accumulate energy after being separated from the Dongfang sisters, but for various reasons, I had to accompany my other confidante.

From Wenren Qianrou to Chai Xing'er, they are all dry firewood.

"Maybe I should try to practice the Wufu system. Although Wufu can't break the body before training Qi, it is for people who have no foundation. If I break the body early, I can't train Qi. If I recover my cultivation, I will forcefully train Qi with the fourth-rank Taoism , it is not difficult.

"Well, I still have to start from the refinement state, otherwise, without the process of torturing the body, it is basically impossible for me to step into the fifth-grade Huajin. Wait, I don't take the martial arts path for combat power, the Qi training state is for the sake of strength." OK."

While thinking about it, I suddenly heard a figure coming out from the shadow of the coffee table.

It was the plain-looking Xu Qian.

"senior?"

Li Lingsu was taken aback. He didn't expect Xu Qian to come here in person. Aren't he afraid of being discovered by Buddhist monks?

Just as he was about to ask this question, he suddenly realized that Xu Qian's state was not right.

Tianzong has the ability of "observing things to gain knowledge". He is particularly sensitive to people and things he has been with for a long time, and can immediately detect any changes.

It is a prerequisite ability of "Heaven and Man".

Although Li Lingsu didn't know Xu Qian well, he had spent a lot of time with him.

In the past, Xu Qian was a sinking pool of unfathomable water. The current Xu Qian is on the surface of an undercurrent and turbulent sea.

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

On my bed Li Lingsu said: "Stay with me all the time."

Xu Qi'an reminded: "Are you sure?"

It is also possible to go out and do some shady things while you are asleep.

Li Lingsu frowned: "We didn't end until midnight last night. In addition, my seal broke through a small part, and I didn't sleep too deeply. If the person next to my pillow leaves, I can't not notice it."

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

In two moments, do you really have a kidney deficiency? Xu Qi'an nodded slowly, without talking nonsense: "We will meet outside Beicheng in two quarters of an hour."

He turned into a shadow and disappeared into the room.

"Mysterious and mysterious."

Li Lingsu immediately left the room, asked the steward of the Chai Mansion for a horse, and walked along the main road to the gate of the North City.

It took only a quarter of an hour for the two to meet outside the North City Gate. Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian changed his appearance again.

Xu Qi'an nodded slightly, without explaining, grabbed the belly of the filly and rode away.

"drive!"

Li Lingsu waved his whip and followed immediately.

Approaching the village, Xu Qi'an slowed down his horse, threw a robe and hood to him, and said:

"Put it on, a murder has occurred in the village, you go to summon the soul and find out who the murderer is."

After Li Lingsu's disguise was over, Xu Qi'an got off his horse and snapped his fingers. The filly and Li Lingsu's horse obediently entered the forest by the side of the road and hid.

Tsk, the beast control Gu's ability is really useful, Li Lingsu thought enviously.

Heart Gu is also called "Beast Gu" and "Beast Control 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 small courtyard was full of villagers, and mournful cries came from the house.

The villagers stood in or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.

Xu Qi'an vaguely heard a few words:

"Has Wang Laosi's family offended anyone?"

"Who knows, even the children are not spared, the murderer is really devoid of conscience."

"Hey, could it be that Chai Xian 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 then?"

He and Li Lingsu squeezed the villagers away and entered the yard.

A simple wooden board was set up in the room, and a family of three lay on it, covered with a dirty white cloth, and an old man with gray hair fell down beside the board, crying loudly.

A young couple was busy in the house. They were dressed in ordinary clothes, their hands were rough, and their faces were dark. They looked like people who were 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 in a deep voice: "Who told you to move the corpse without authorization? What if you destroy the clues left by the murderer?"

He came up to question, and the young man who asked was at a loss, thinking that he had made a big mistake.

Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the back room, which was the scene of the murder, and closed the door.

Without giving the young man a chance to respond, Xu Qi'an kept a straight face and asked again: "What is your relationship with this family?"

The young man looked back at the dead man, with sadness on his dull face:

"He is my elder brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, the neighbor saw a stranger coming in, and then left quickly. He came to check the situation, but no one answered for a long time. When he came in, he found that everyone had been arrested. killed."

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Xu Qi'an didn't change his face, and said: "Call the neighbors around here."

The young man stepped 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, two old women came in, they were neighbors.

The old mothers were a little afraid, but couldn't restrain their nature of troublemakers, and looked at the three corpses on the wooden board frequently.

"Has any strange person been here?"

Xu Qi'an asked, and got the answer "A strange man came here at noon".

"Did anyone come here this morning?"

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

One said he hadn't noticed it, and the other said he hadn't seen it.

Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger enters the village, they will be very eye-catching, and they are more likely to commit murder at night. He thought to himself, at this moment, Li Lingsu came out of the house and shook his head at him.

"The soul has been scattered." Li Lingsu said via voice transmission.

Xu Qi'an's face darkened, and he nodded slowly.

The two didn't stay any 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 this place all the way. Chai Xian is hiding in this family, which is one of his footholds."

Xu Qi'an sat on the back of the little mare, looked into the distance, and said:

"That day we agreed to use this as a contact point to exchange information. I planned to encourage him to go to the Demon Slaughter Conference to confront Chai Xing'er and take the opportunity to lock his location. Well, that day I manipulated a cat to follow me with my mind. When the main body arrived, he had already left."

Why he is looking for Chai Xian's body is ignored here.

Although Li Lingsu was puzzled, he didn't ask carefully, and pondered: "But Chai Xian didn't appear at the Demon Slaying Conference today."

"Yes!"

Xu Qi'an nodded: "So I came here to confirm, only to find that they were silenced."

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

"The purpose of silencing is to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaying Conference? There is a problem here, that is, the person who silencing knows that Chai Xian will come tonight. Otherwise, if Chai Xian can't receive your note, he probably won't show up. There is no need to kill people."

This sentence awakened Xu Qi'an, and he said in a deep voice, "Maybe it's not to prevent Chai Xian from getting the note, but to scare Chai Xian away."

"How to say?" Li Lingsu asked.

"I don't know much about Chai Xian, but I know that this person is a bit extreme. He stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real culprit behind the scenes. Even if there is no note from me, he will probably borrow the Demon Slaughter Conference Time to avenge."

Xu Qi'an analyzed:

"The note is an extra insurance for me, but it's not the most important thing. Because I can't be sure that Chai Xian will definitely come last night, but how can the people behind the scenes be sure that Chai Xian will come last night?"

The premise of killing people and silence is that Chai Xian gets the note and will disrupt the situation at the Demon Slaying Conference tomorrow.

But even Xu Qi'an couldn't be sure that Chai Xian would come to Xiaoshan Village last night. If he didn't come, he wouldn't see the note, and the motive of killing people to silence him wouldn't 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 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 frightened Chai Xian and made him feel that the mysterious person he met that day, that is, you, senior, was the one who harbored evil intentions." people.

"Out of caution, he gave up the idea of ​​causing trouble at the Demon Slaying Conference. But what is the murderer's purpose?"

Xu Qi'an failed to give an answer, shook his head and said:

"One key piece of information is missing. In this case, apart from Chai Xing'er and Chai Xian, there is another person hidden behind the scenes. He is the one who is killing people everywhere. Find out the identity of this person, and the truth will basically be revealed."

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

This character has never appeared before. She disappeared mysteriously on the day of Chai Jianyuan's death and has never been heard from again.

Xu Qi'an asked back: "Does she have this level of cultivation?"

"Chai Lan's cultivation is good, but she probably hasn't reached the fourth rank, or even the fifth rank. But it's not sure whether she has hidden strength." Li Lingsu couldn't be sure.

Xu Qi'an said: "You don't need to look for me these two days."

"Why?"

"I will investigate the case secretly, find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and then kill him." Xu Qi'an said expressionlessly.

chaifu.

A monk returned to the courtyard and knocked on the door of Jingxin's room. After getting permission, he pushed the door in and saw Jingxin and Jingyuan talking in his hands.

"Two senior brothers, benefactor Chai Xing'er asked me to tell you that there was a murder case in Xiaobu Village, more than 30 miles west of Xiangzhou City.

"After the "search team" organized by the government inquired about the situation, it was ruled out that Chai Xian was responsible. However, according to the villagers, a man in Tsing Yi came to the village at noon today. Not long after the incident, two more strangely dressed When outsiders enter the village, they claim to be from the government.

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

He gave a detailed account of the deaths of the family of three.

Jing Xin twirled the chess piece, and it landed with a "click" in a gentle voice: "Got it."

The monk put his palms together and retreated.

"Perhaps he is a ranger." Jing Yuan said.

He was referring to the two people who pretended to be officials afterwards.

"I didn't ingest blood, didn't ask for money, why did I kill someone?" Jing Xin frowned and pondered.

"Maybe it's a vendetta, or maybe it's an evil person fishing in troubled waters. Don't pay too much attention to it. If you want to solve this matter earlier, you still have to get rid of the root." Jing Yuan said in a deep voice.

After the demon slaying meeting, the government and several major powers in the rivers and lakes checked the yellow book and searched door to door in the city.

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

To be able to achieve this step, the Xiangzhou government has already done a lot.

"You are going out of the city to patrol tonight, remember to show off." Jing Xin said.

"En." Jing Yuan nodded.

Jing Xin put down the chess pieces, took out an ancient book from the cloth bag, and stopped at a certain page while turning the pages.

"The Southern Border Corpse Gu Department has a secret technique of raising corpses with corpses. This technique is derived from the technique of raising Gu. The walking corpses devour each other and grab the essence. The winner in the end is the Corpse King."

"Above the iron corpse is the flying corpse. The flying corpse does not have the early warning of the danger of the martial arts of the refining gods, the ultimate control of the strength of the strength of the martial arts, and the "will" of the fourth-rank martial arts, but the flying corpse can temporarily defend the air. Flying, the combat power is not weaker than the fourth rank, even stronger."

"Because they have captured enough blood essence and condensed the embryonic form of blood pills in their bodies, possessing the ability to regenerate flesh and blood."

Jing Xin said slowly: "After killing so many warriors, some of them were robbed of blood, and some of their corpses disappeared. The person behind the scenes is probably trying to refine a flying corpse. He will definitely not let go you."

Jing Yuan smiled and said, "Especially at the Demon Slaying Conference, my cultivation was barely at the fifth rank."

While talking, another monk came in and handed over a note:

"Senior Brother Jingxin, the housekeeper of the Chai Mansion handed over a letter, saying that it was sent by someone outside the door, and asked to give it to you by name."

With doubts, Jing Xin opened the envelope.

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

"who is it?"

Mu Nanzhi's vigilant voice sounded from behind the door.

"I."

Xu Qi'an heard something wrong with her voice, and said, "Open the door, what's the matter?"

squeak~

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

Two palm-sized little white foxes squatted obediently at her feet, their childish voices pretending to be serious:

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

PS: I recommend a book "I Heard You're Tricky", a book written by the leader of the kindergarten. Remember to fasten your seat belt before reading it.