What Li Huaiyun saw was a face with a mutilated face and a face full of scars. There was a large red scar on the top of his head with a little hair growing sporadically on it. No part of the entire face, including the neck, was complete. It looked like he had been severely injured. Burned person.
This terrifying appearance will make your hair stand on end just by looking at it.
"Looking at you like this, you must have died once!"
The man in black robe hid his face again, "That's natural, but I will repay the pain to Da Zhou twice as much."
It seems likely that he was a person who had suffered persecution in the Great Zhou Dynasty and had a certain status.
Li Huaiyun actually thought that if he saw this person's true appearance, he might be able to find out his true identity based on his appearance. However, with the terrifying face now, this hope has been dashed.
Li Huaiyun also wanted to get some information, "You must have been wronged! If you can tell me the matter, I can reverse the case for you!"
The man in black robe laughed coldly, "Humph! You are from the Demon Slayer Division and not from Dali Temple. Why should you help me?"
"You just want to know more!"
Li Huaiyun raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile, "That's true! However, I am already dying, why don't you tell me everything, including what you are plotting!"
"You?" The man in black robe was silent for a moment, "It seems you have found something! You are quite capable!"
Li Huaiyun nodded, "Thank you! Your affirmation is appreciation to me."
"Then thank me properly after you get underground!"
"Okay! I will find them and thank them properly!"
The man in black robe gritted his teeth and his words were always so unexpected.
"They were burned to death too!" Li Huaiyun could clearly see that the body under the black robe was trembling slightly.
"So, I can help your family clear the wrongs."
"Hmph! How many people? A family of more than thirty people was burned to death in a fire overnight! How can a low-level monster hunter like you take care of this!"
"You'd better go on your way with peace of mind!"
The man in black robe straightened up, and his shadow suddenly began to grow longer, and then struck towards Li Huaiyun. As long as the shadow passed through the boards and papers on the ground, none of them were cut in half.
The shadow was aimed directly at Li Huaiyun's head. He turned his head slightly, and the shadow slid across his face, leaving a slender cut on his face.
Bright red blood slowly flowed from the wound.
"What!" The man in black robe leaned forward, "You actually unlocked the body-holding technique."
"The Body Holding Technique! The name is quite nice." Li Huaiyun wiped the wounds on his face with a proud smile on his face, "It's just a silver needle inserted into the boots to seal the acupuncture points of the human feet. As long as I With luck, just pop the silver needles on the acupuncture points and you’ll be fine!”
The man in black robe responded with a slightly surprised voice. "I didn't expect you even knew this!"
"My aunt has done this to me before."
"It seems she is not simple!"
"No, she is just a female doctor who treats patients and prescribes medicine."
As soon as Li Huaiyun finished speaking, he immediately turned sideways, rolled a few times, and then squatted there.
The shadow just now circled back from the distance.
The shadow controlled by this guy should be some kind of special cloth that can be released and closed at any time, and there are sharp things hidden in it that can cut some things.
"Everyone who is about to die is lying! I should have dealt with you directly just now."
"I didn't lie. The dying person was talking about you."
"Hmph! You don't know how to unlock a body-holding technique, so you think you're great! What ability do you have against me?"
"Then try it!"
Li Huaiyun clenched his fists and ran up quickly, avoiding the flying black shadows from time to time. Although he had a few cuts on his clothes because of hiding from these things, he had already closed the distance between him and the man in black robes. distance.
This opponent should not be good at getting up close. Based on this, he has hope of defeating the opponent.
"Who are you and why are you here?"
"Do you really think I will answer you?" The man in black robe was already floating in the air, and was retreating quickly, and soon retreated under the willow tree.
He stretched out his arms and pulled up the cuffs, revealing his burned and scarred arms. Then he squatted down and patted the ground. The whole alley suddenly became quiet, and the ground began to shake slowly.
Seeing many pairs of rotten arms stretching out from the cracked ground in front of him, Li Huaiyun jumped back subconsciously.
This move again! He landed in a safe place and pointed at the man in black robe, "You are the Yin Magician!"
The man in black robe, who was already close to the trunk of the willow tree, let out a charming smile, "You really know a lot."
"I can't keep you like this!" Just when the man in black robe wanted to take action, several more people came to the alley.
In order not to be exposed, the black-robed man's attack stopped abruptly, "I'll spare your life this time, but you won't be so lucky next time!"
When the man in black robe slowly disappeared into the tree trunk, there was no breath anymore.
A Tian and several other demon hunters rushed to the scene. When they saw Li Huaiyun standing in the alley, they stepped forward to ask.
"I'm fine!" Li Huaiyun waved his hands with his back to them. He looked at the willow tree in the alley and pondered for a long time.
Seeing that he was still standing there, Ah Tian stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Ah Yun! What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, I just feel a little bad!"
"Have you tracked the man in black robe?"
Li Huaiyun shook his head, "No! Let him run away. This guy comes and goes without a trace. However, what is certain is that that guy should be the Yin Magician."
He turned to look at A Tian, "Did you find anything else in the residence of the Ministry of War official?"
"No more for the time being! However, we need to investigate further." A Tian responded. He suddenly remembered something, "By the way, there is still one wing left that has not been inspected. Do you need to go back and inspect it?"
"Go back!"
They returned to the mansion and went to the official's room to check, hoping to see if there were any other clues.
A Tian followed, "Did you really not see the man in black robe after you chased him out?"
"Yes, but it was limited to simple conversations. I only knew that this person was here for revenge."
"Revenge, revenge on whom?"
"I don't know!" He couldn't say he was taking revenge on Da Zhou! "We'll talk about it later when we go back and report to Sikyong."
They walked into the wing. The decoration and furnishings of this room were similar to those of other houses. It was silent inside.
Li Huaiyun walked around the room and finally sat down at the table opposite the door. The table was covered with a tablecloth made of precious silk.
He tapped his fingers lightly on the table, making a crisp sound, and kept thinking about the ins and outs of the entire case.
At this moment, he saw an envelope pressed under the candlestick in the middle of the table, with nothing written on it.
Li Huaiyun picked up the envelope and took out the paper inside. Unexpectedly, it was an invitation letter from the Jiaofang Secretary. The general content of it was that he hoped that the official would go to a restaurant next to the Wei River during the lantern festival.
From the delicate handwriting on it, it seems that the person who wrote this letter must be a woman. The strength of holding the pen and writing the inscription is relatively light, and it is not strong enough to penetrate the paper.
However, there is no signature on it, so I have no idea who wrote it!
Li Huaiyun folded his chin, "Looking at the contents of the letter, this guy is not having an affair with an oiran, is he?"
"It's very possible!" A Tian walked up, sat aside, and looked at the envelope in his hand, "Maybe they are plotting to meet in a restaurant to discuss things!"
"If that's the case, this envelope should have been burned long ago. How could it be placed on the table, held down only by a candlestick?"
Forehead! A Tian was speechless for a moment and thought about it casually, "Could it be that he was taken away by our people because he was too late?"
"There is another possibility!"
A Tian immediately asked, "What other possibilities are there?"
"It's just that the contents of this envelope are too ordinary. If it is burned, it will attract unnecessary attention."
"yes!"
Li Huaiyong clapped his hands vigorously, "Hurry up and contact your superiors to tell them that they must pay attention to this lantern festival. It may be dangerous."
"good!"
Before leaving, they checked the official's residence again. Apart from the clues they found before, there was basically nothing.
They slipped out of the mansion and walked on the street. Li Huaiyun said, "It seems that it is necessary to go to this lantern festival at night. Maybe we can find clues in that restaurant."
"That's just right!" A Tian responded with a smile and nodded. He had made an agreement with his sweetheart a few days ago to go to this lantern festival.
Li Huaiyun glanced at A Tian and found that a silly smile appeared on his face inadvertently. He pushed A Tian and said, "What are you thinking? Are you so happy?"
"Of course, I just happened to be going to the lantern festival with my sweetheart." A Tian responded, and he patted Li Huaiyun on the shoulder.
"This is a case investigation! You really think it's a lantern show!"
A Tian smiled and responded, "If you think about it, there is a team heavily guarding it, plus people from the Demon Slaying Division, whether those monsters or the men in black robes, would you go back to a place like that?"
Li Huaiyun scratched his neck and pointed at A Tian, "You kid, you are very thoughtful in this regard!"
"That's right!" A Tian responded with a proud look on his face, "You should find someone you like anytime! Otherwise, it would be boring to attend the lantern festival alone."
"I definitely won't come to the lantern festival alone. Besides, this lantern festival is organized by the Jiaofang Secretary. If I go there with my sweetheart, why do I always feel like I'm making love to my sweetheart!"
When Ah Tian was told this, his brows suddenly stood up and he glared angrily at Li Huaiyun, a guy who was talking nonsense, "You bastard, what did you say!"
"Oh! No! I'm just telling you my opinion."
They returned to the Demon Slaying Department and went directly to the meeting hall to report to Sikyong what happened in the house of the Ministry of War officials.
At this time, there was only Sikyong in the meeting hall. After listening to what they said, Qin Gang could no longer sit still and stood in the middle with his hands behind his back.
"It seems that it is necessary to interrogate this Ministry of War official. This guy must know something and is just pretending to be innocent."
Li Huaiyun clasped his fists, bowed and said, "Sikyong, we still need to look through those files to see if there is a case in which a family of more than thirty people was burned to death. I feel that this person must be involved in some other cases."
"I will also send someone to check this point." Qin Gang nodded and glanced at Li Huaiyun, "Are you really okay? Logically speaking, the cultivation level of the man in black robe must be higher than yours. There was no Is it bad for you?"
