The person I met at the breakfast shop was Ji Linsheng, who had made some gains after a night of investigation.
After he left the guest room last night, he went not far outside the county guard's courtyard and discovered the formation set up in the courtyard. Generally speaking, this formation, when activated, can defend against monks below the spiritual realm.
It’s not that you can’t pass below the Divine Soul Realm. It’s just that if you don’t reach the Divine Soul Realm, your spiritual consciousness cannot be released, and it can’t help the monks explore the internal structure. It will take more time to break the formation. If you break through without breaking the formation, you will create There was a lot of movement.
He is here to investigate secretly. In that case, breaking in by force is definitely not possible, so it is not called a secret investigation.
But it happened that he, Ji Linsheng, was also involved in formations. Not to mention he was quite proficient, but at least there was no problem in breaking this formation.
However, Sheriff Lingwu is a master who has already jumped over the Dragon Gate. He only stayed in the stage of exploring supernatural powers with true essence and did not break through to the marrow cleansing stage. Even so, with the vitality in his body having been transformed into true essence, his strength is also the same as before Longmen. There is a huge difference.
He wasn't sure that the movement during the formation would be small enough for the county guard not to notice, so he simply didn't try to break the formation and just lurked in the distance.
Perhaps due to the superstitious formation, the county guard and his confidant were actually talking in the courtyard, giving him the opportunity to read lips. Through lip reading, he learned that the county guard and his servants were actually talking about bribery and silence. , and accidentally revealed the place where the body of the silenced person was dumped, which made him feel very incredible.
Then he followed the fortune teller to another courtyard. Since there was no county guard present this time, he boldly broke through the formation and sneaked in. He heard the conversation between the fortune teller and the guard. It was simply that the fortune teller was there. Tell your subordinates a few things to do.
He listened for a while and then quietly withdrew, preparing to investigate the matter.
There are usually many processes involved in the exchange of interests among officials, and what materials need to be transported. If it involves resources allocated by the state, the process will be even more cumbersome. Even if the county magistrate can decide with one word, the differences between various departments Approvals are skipped, but people still have to do things after all.
As long as the county governor does not do everything personally, the people below will inevitably have a lot of contact with other people when doing things. The key points of the contact process always need to be cleared, and the people who handle this process are basically low-level officials.
He first checked the low-level officials in Lingwu County and found that many officials in key positions had disappeared recently.
Then they went to the dumping site revealed by the county guard. Not only did they find a large number of corpses, but they also confirmed that the identities of the corpses were consistent with those of the missing officials. Based on the clues left at the dumping site, they followed up and found several thugs who had been arranged to silence them.
He decisively took down one of them, and then used secret methods to extract a confession and found out who his contact was.
Ji Linsheng has a strong execution ability. He sneaked into the online home without stopping and found many traces of burned accounts. He thought that the clues were cut off and the evidence was no longer available.
But he still searched the person's home with the last glimmer of hope. He didn't know whether the person on the line wanted to get some handle to protect himself at a critical moment, or for other reasons, but those were not important. What was important was that he did not All accounts were destroyed and some were kept privately.
The hiding place is very secretive. If he hadn't been a patrolman in the academy and was proficient in various search techniques, it would have been really difficult to find it.
This part of the accounts clearly stated the many exchanges of interests between Lingwu County Sheriff and Guozi Jijiu. Not only were there private exchanges of interests, but they also dared to embezzle the court's resources, which made him furious.
There were a lot of things to say, and the tracing process was also very complicated, but he solved them all overnight, and the efficiency was not bad.
The original process was reasonable, but this investigation was also quite troublesome, and it was not due to certain factors of luck that the investigation could not be completed. Logically speaking, he only had to capture the persons involved and the stolen goods during the last bribery process by the county magistrate, and then he would be done. After all, the stolen goods were stolen and there was solid evidence.
But Ji Linsheng hesitated. He thought about it. Although he couldn't say what was wrong, he vaguely felt that there was something hidden in the matter. This kind of investigation could be completed overnight. It couldn't be explained by the word efficiency.
Whenever something important happens, he needs to be calm. After being calm, he can feel at ease. After being calm, he can think about it. After thinking about it, he can gain something. Since his subconscious tells him that there is something fishy, he must calm down and figure out the key.
Taking advantage of the dawn, he was not in a hurry, and casually found a breakfast stall with few people to get some food. He just sat there eating and thinking, but he happened to meet Wei Feng and Liu Cun. When they saw the other party mentioning the Academy, they just Don't rush and listen more.
Unexpectedly, after listening to this casually, I discovered that it was no coincidence that the other party was sitting here. Although the other party did not mention him at all, he never left him.
Then came the scene where Wei Feng and Liu Cun sang the double act. He suddenly realized that he really didn't mind leaving a spot for this young man.
But not to mention that the quota is nothing in the eyes of his level, nor to the miraculousness of this young man himself. Just say that the nineteen-year-old and half-step Dragon Gate young man next to him is worth selling. The other party is good.
Wei Feng himself was taking advantage of Liu Cun's power this time. He admitted that there was an element of gambling, but the fact was that he was right.
After Ji Linsheng realized that the other party had always known his whereabouts, he looked at this incident again, and found several strange things that were immediately unexplainable.
While the sky was just getting light, the servants of the Sheriff's Mansion were still busy. He was walking through the mansion like a ghost, but no one could notice him.
Ji Linsheng squatted in a corner outside the magistrate's courtyard and carefully checked the isolation formation again. He came with a purpose. This time he finally discovered that there was a small illusion inside the isolation formation. Array.
It's just that this illusory formation was too hidden and so small that he didn't notice it in the rush he came here last night.
Such a small phantom array produces a very small illusion area, so most of what I saw outside the hospital last night must be true. There are not many things that this phantom array can do, but its effect is not necessarily small. For example, it can change the array. Lip reading seen by outsiders...
He seemed to realize something, and stood up to leave, but suddenly he found a piece of ceramic shard under his feet. He recalled the jar of wine that the county guard drank last night. It seemed to be this kind of jar. He got closer and smelled it, except for the smell of wine. , and seems to have the smell of some kind of ecstasy drug...
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At the same time, a servant carried a small package into a certain courtyard. The only guard in the courtyard was Master Bu's guard.
The servant closed the courtyard door, opened the package, and handed it to the guard. He saw that the pieces inside the package were all large and small fragments of the broken wine jar.
The servant reported: "Sir, all the fragments of the wine jar that were thrown outside the courtyard by the Sheriff last night have been picked up and are all here."
The guard nodded and didn't look too much. He just asked casually: "Are you sure you have picked it up cleanly? There is nothing missing, right?"
The servant lowered his head expressionlessly, and simply said: "I confirm that I have picked it up cleanly."
The guard waved his hand: "Okay, then you can go."
The servant obeyed the order and left, keeping his head down the whole time.
The guard casually shattered the fragments into powder and scattered them into the toilet.
If he had been more cautious and tried to restore the pieces by putting them together, he might have been able to find that there might be one piece missing from these pieces...
(End of chapter)
