Li Huaiyun glanced at Zhou Xiaolin and knew from the look on her face that he disliked this place. It was backed by an alley and there were some vegetable leaves and food scraps all over the ground.
Fortunately, there are only a few people drinking tea and chatting around, so no one will notice anything strange. This woman is a bit tidy and can't accept the smell of this stall. How can she be a police officer? After seeing these scenes of corpses, do you feel sick to death?
He listened carefully to Zhou Xiaolin and told Zhou Xiaolin the contents of the file. There were three arson cases in total. In addition to Uncle Liu, an old subordinate of the King of Incheon, there was also a son of a wealthy family who was in the breeding business and was responsible for the supply of meat and vegetables to the palace. .
Another family is a court official, an official in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
It was a court official again. Li Huaiyun remembered that the previous case involved officials from the Ministry of Punishment. Could there be officials from other departments involved in future cases?
Pay attention to neatness.
These three houses burned down at about the same time. It was a silent fire that burned all three sleeping families to death.
The cause of the fire is also unknown in the file, but the results of Li Huaiyun's search in those three houses showed that the location of the fire was basically in the study.
Unless the fire was extremely fierce and no one had time to react, if it were other circumstances, then the three families were obviously in a coma and no one woke up.
The situation written in the file is that these three houses were discovered after they were almost burned down. The biggest suspicion is probably that the surrounding neighbors did not react at all all night, which is very strange.
The current situation immediately reminded him of the man in black robes, Wei Shunkai, who was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. According to the files, his family of more than thirty people were burned to death in this way.
Obviously the same method of committing the crime must be particularly related to these three arson cases!
Looking at Li Huaiyun who was deep in thought, Zhou Xiaolin stood there and waited for a moment. Seeing that he still didn't speak, she shouted directly, "Hey! You thief, did you find anything?"
When she shouted, the people sitting in the booth all looked at Li Huaiyun, causing Li Huaiyun to quickly lower his head and drink tea to cover up his embarrassment and express his ignorance.
When everyone found out that there was no follow-up, Li Huaiyun immediately looked sullen and said, "Princess Princess, can you respect me and don't call me a thief in public? If people know that we are investigating the case, we might be targeted." On!"
Zhou Xiaolin didn't take it seriously and just pursed her lips, "You don't care what I call you."
"If you call me a slut, I'll be really rude next time and I'll touch you!"
"How dare you? Believe it or not, someone will chop off your hand."
Li Huaiyun exhaled heavily, just to release the breath in her body a little. At that moment, strong winds rose around her, causing her skirt to flutter.
"Didn't Sikyong tell you that my realm is above the Hedao realm?"
Zhou Xiaolin was surprised that Sikyong did not tell him that when Naozhai competed with him, they were evenly matched for a while, which made her mistakenly think that this person's martial arts cultivation was not high.
"Hmph! So what? Can you deal with my father's 200,000-strong army?"
"It's impossible to deal with this, but if the King of Incheon dares to attack me with an army of 200,000, believe it or not, Youre will say that he intends to rebel!"
Zhou Xiaolin was stunned for a moment and had nothing to say. She could only wait for Li Huaiyun with a resentful expression.
He was most afraid that the air would suddenly become quiet. In order to alleviate this embarrassment, Li Huaiyun immediately said, "These are three arson cases. The modus operandi, time of the crime, and location are very similar. It can be seen that they must be the same person!"
"As for the motive, the file states that it is unclear, so this is the most difficult part of the case!"
"If you consider the motive for committing the crime, do you think these three cases were committed by humans?" Zhou Xiaolin asked, "Let the Monster Slayer Division investigate the case. It is obvious that monsters are responsible."
"Of course I understand this. However, after investigating several cases these days, I found that monsters actually have motives for causing trouble, such as officials colluding with monsters, or someone joining forces with others to rob women for their own selfish desires."
Li Huaiyun said sternly, "So, in order to figure out the relationship between these three people in this case, we need to investigate carefully. The most fearful thing is that if the three people have no relationship, then this case can be classified as Monsters commit crimes randomly!”
"There is no mention of the relationship between the three of them in the file, and from what I know about Uncle Liu, he is a very upright man and would not do anything that is harmful to nature!"
"That's not necessarily the case!"
These words instantly made Zhou Xiaolin feel angry. She pointed at Li Huaiyun fiercely, "You question my character! Uncle Liu is not that kind of person."
"Okay, okay! I won't make any comments for now!" Li Huaiyun raised his hand and said apologetically, "Next, let's go to the scene and take a look. Maybe we can find clues and clear your uncle Liu's name!"
"Then don't talk too much! Hurry up and see the scene!"
Li Huaiyun and Zhou Xiaolin now drew the location of the three houses on the table, and then determined how to search in order to avoid taking the wrong path.
They searched carefully in the first two burned houses to see if there were any clues, and finally went to the house where Uncle Liu lived.
When she came to the house, Zhou Xiaolin's eyes became a little dull. She tried her best to purse her lips. Uncle Liu served as the personal guard of the King of Incheon when she was very young. He also took good care of her. The two of them The relationship between father and daughter is also affectionate.
I remember that when she was thirteen years old, she went to the river to play willfully. When the tide hit, Uncle Liu risked his life and went into the water to rescue her. Due to the strong current, they were thrown towards the reef, and Uncle Liu's knees were knocked down. Fortunately, he endured the pain and struggled to swim back, and was able to escape, but he also suffered from a slight limp.
"In these three cases, more than 60 people died in total, including more than a dozen children, the youngest was only half a year old, and the eldest was only more than ten years old. These children are really unfortunate!"
Zhou Xiaolin knew that those children were Uncle Liu's grandchildren. The fire had wiped out his lineage. She secretly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. .
Li Huaiyun stood in front of the door that was charred by the fire. He pushed the door, and half of the door slowly fell backwards, setting off bursts of black smoke.
They walked in from the front door. Inside the house was a desolate scene, with stone bricks, rubble, and burnt blackened trees everywhere.
"Where are those bodies now?"
"In the charity village near the city wall on West Street."
"There are more than 60 people, how can we accommodate so many people?" Li Huaiyun asked curiously.
"Just squeeze it in! Besides, there are only about forty of them!"
"What else?"
"Basically, all the children in these three houses were burned to ashes. Only the adults still have body parts!"
Li Huaiyun pinched his chin, "This is strange! The burning was so thorough that not a single bit of the child was left."
"The adults were burned beyond recognition, not to mention the children," Zhou Xiaolin said bitterly.
"Can you guarantee that the intensity of the fire is the same in every part of the house? And the same is true for each of the three houses in the case. The children were burned to ashes and the adults were severely burned."
"This situation is so abnormal! It goes against common sense."
"What kind of common sense do you need to know about monsters causing trouble!"
Li Huaiyun explained, "Even if it is a monster causing trouble, it cannot be too similar. It is exactly the same."
"There is only one possibility in this situation. When the fire breaks out, everyone will be unconscious?"
Li Huaiyun's analysis immediately gave Zhou Xiaolin a new idea in her mind. It was indeed true! This analysis is quite accurate.
"What you said makes sense, but why wasn't the fire so intense that it surrounded them all and left them with nowhere to escape?"
"The file says that the body was near the bedside of the house. If they knew there was a fire, they would get up and run away no matter what! So it is certain that they did not know about it, and the smoke and dust caused by such a large fire must be harmful to people. If their breathing is affected, then if they don’t get up, they can only stay asleep!”
"So, the most important thing right now is to find the place where the fire first started in the house, so that we can roughly understand whether the purpose of the fire is to burn people or objects."
Zhou Xiaolin suddenly realized, "The most likely possibility is that someone couldn't find anything and burned the place down."
"Yes!"
"But it must be difficult to find the fire point!" Zhou Xiaolin looked around and saw that there were burned ruins everywhere, and the house was so big, it would be difficult to find the location of the fire.
"Do you still remember where the fire-fighting position is in the file?" Li Huaiyun asked.
Zhou Xiaolin led Li Huaiyun to the back door of the house. "According to the records, it should be here. The door is closed. Only the back door has a small fire. You can climb over the wall and open the back door."
Li Huaiyun stood at the back door, and then walked forward slowly. He carefully observed the situation on the ground and the damage on the surrounding walls. Judging from the surface conditions, the fire became bigger and bigger as it went in, and the damage was worse. The more serious it is.
As they looked deeper, they found that the study was the most severely burned, no less than the master bedroom.
"From this point of view, there should be two places where the fire was most intense. One was the room where the children slept, and the other was the study room."
"We saw roughly the same situation in the other two houses before."
Li Huaiyun frowned, with a puzzled look on his face, "No wonder those children were burned! And why did they attack those children? Weird! Weird!"
"Indeed! I thought these three people would be targets, but I didn't expect it!"
"There's definitely something wrong with it."
Zhou Xiaolin pondered for a moment, "There is no one in the study, but there is such a big fire. It must be that there is something in the study."
"Then let's dig and see! Maybe we can dig something out!" Li Huaiyun rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the ruins. Then he put on his boxing gloves and muttered softly, "dig inside the small ruins." Digging and digging, we found a body and a baby!"
Zhou Xiaolin listened to what he muttered and said with a look of disgust, "You can't respect the deceased. After all, Uncle Liu is the elder I respect the most."
"Okay, then I won't sing. Why don't you come and dig together? Maybe we can dig up some clues and find his murderer!"
Zhou Xiaolin looked at the ruins, as well as the burnt stones and charcoal. Although she wanted to go up, she still didn't dare to go up to help, "How about I call someone to come!"
"Do you need to go to such trouble? I didn't listen to what Sikyong said. Our investigation must be kept confidential."
Li Huaiyun was still digging here. The study was burned and collapsed, so there were a lot of gravels. After a while, Zhou Xiaolin yelled.
He turned his head and frowned, "What's going on? Why are you yelling all of a sudden?"
