Step into the garden.
On both sides of the entrance, there are two rows of vivid horse heads, with a pair of colorful butterflies resting above each horse head.
Looking carefully, it seems to be several kinds of flowers grouped together.
This is not a simple combination, but a strange symbiotic relationship.
At this moment.
As the warm breeze blows, the butterfly's wings open and close slightly, as if it wants to take off into the sky.
The round eyes of the horse's head seem to be rotating, as if observing the surroundings.
At a glance, the horse head and butterfly seemed to come alive.
And such a scene shows the ingenuity of the mind.
Fang Qinghuai, the owner of the winter garden, looked a little proud: "Sergeant Cheng, in order to cultivate this kind of 'Welcome Malan', our Fang family has spent fifteen years."
Cheng Han praised: "It's really good!"
As an ordinary person, it is extremely rare to achieve this level of success.
Fang Qinghuai led the way, explaining the types of flowers and talking about the twists and turns in the cultivation process of the Fang family.
Fang Tingyuan also lost no time in interjecting a few words and telling one or two interesting stories, showing the image of an alert young man.
After a while.
The female assistant joined the chat.
She behaved like a qualified public relations person and properly promoted the achievements of the Inspection Bureau.
"This kind of 'Snow Floating Orchid' is one of the most famous flowers in the winter garden. Whenever it snows heavily outside, the Snow Floating Orchid will automatically turn on without any wind. When the garden opens on a snowy day, the most people will gather around them to watch them.
"I remember that the winter before last, a group of thieves wanted to sneak into the winter garden and steal a few pots of snow orchids. The inspection office received relevant information through the underground intelligence network and caught the thieves in advance."
Fang Qinghuai praised him cooperatively: "When the Inspection Bureau sent someone over afterwards, I found out that a temporary gardener had been bribed by a thief. This incident scared me into a cold sweat."
The middle-aged man looked at the female assistant and praised him at the right time: "The public security in Anhua City is so good, and the Inspection Department must have contributed a lot!"
His son Fang Tingyuan took the opportunity to peek at the female assistant's beautiful face, with a hint of intoxication in his eyes.
Cheng Han sighed: "Just like tourists who see only a few rare flowers such as snowflake orchids, how can it not be the same in the eyes of the Inspection Office?"
The female assistant's pretty face changed slightly and she made a metaphor: "Over the years, the Inspectorate has been working hard to be a diligent gardener, carefully taking care of every flower in the garden."
Cheng Han was noncommittal: "Really?"
The female assistant replied seriously: "Of course!"
However, the large number of images of skeletons at the bottom of the river fed back by the black cats, as well as the old women encountered outside the city, have proven how serious the problem in Anhua City is.
After deduction, every skeleton comes from the bottom of society, which also means the destruction of a family.
Therefore, Cheng Han didn't even believe the other party's punctuation marks.
at this time.
Fang Tingyuan didn't know whether it was because he was obsessed with sex or because he really felt this way, so he echoed: "The Inspection Department's work is indeed very responsible..."
The words are not finished yet.
Fang Qinghuai pulled his son's sleeve hard and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up! How can you interrupt here?"
Fang Tingyuan suddenly woke up and quickly closed his mouth.
Cheng Han chuckled: "There are too many flowers that the gardener can't take care of."
His eyes swept over a piece of "Lan Hehua" and he waved his right hand lightly.
The next moment.
Something amazing happened.
This large area of thousands of Crane Flowers suddenly came to life.
These crane-head-shaped flowers stretch their necks like real cranes, and then part like waves, revealing a particularly short crane flower.
The female assistant was dumbfounded.
Fang Qinghuai and his son were shocked to see such extraordinary power for the first time.
Cheng Han looked at Lan Hehua and murmured: "I am an orphan, and I know the living conditions of the lower class commoners better than anyone else.
"In this city, I don't know how many people are like this Lanhe flower, but no one pays attention to it..."
Along with his words, an even more wonderful sight appeared.
"They grow silently..."
The Lanhe flower began to grow rapidly. In just a few breaths, it grew from a palm long to a mature state of more than half a meter tall.
"They bloom silently..."
The Lanhe flower grew flower bones, quickly expanded into buds, and then bloomed in full bloom.
"They withered silently..."
The Lanhe flower withered instantly.
Cheng Han added in his heart: Even if he died, he would be deliberately ignored.
This astonishing performance made the three of them silent for a long time.
Although the female assistant is a warrior, she was still shocked even though she had never been exposed to such extraordinary power.
Not to mention Fang Qinghuai and his son, their jaws almost dropped.
After a while.
The female assistant came back to her senses and said with a tone full of grievance: "Are you really so dissatisfied with the work of the Inspection Department?"
Cheng Han shook his head: "Whether the inspection office is doing well or not, I don't have to say, people's hearts have their own justice."
He suddenly lost interest: "Let's go!"
*
Black Cat's search of the waterway finally yielded results.
In a certain hidden waterway, it discovered a narrow branch.
This section is extremely narrow, no more than half an arm wide, and even a child cannot swim across it.
The black cat let two smaller fish clear the way, and the shadow clone followed them into them.
After swimming for several hundred meters, it entered a dark underground lake.
The shadow clone saw a terrifying scene:
At the bottom of the lake.
There are shrine-like objects deposited one after another, the number of which is no less than thirty.
Every shrine is made of bones.
From just a cursory inspection, it can be determined that no less than a hundred skeletons were consumed.
It can also be judged that the existence of the Bone Shrine is definitely not short.
The black cat didn't stay too long, then controlled the fish and left.
And here we are.
For others, it's still a mystery.
Who built the Bone Shrine?
What is the purpose?
But for Cheng Han, every shrine and every skeleton is related, and the answer is obvious.
In this so-called case of "cannibalism by extraordinary creatures", "cannibalism" is indeed a thing.
As for extraordinary creatures, haha!
Next.
Just let everything play out.
*
The next day.
Outpost extortion case, investigation concluded.
The entire outpost was almost destroyed, and most of the inspectors were found guilty.
Half of them were guilty of serious crimes and were temporarily handed over to the Black Armored Army for hard labor.
There is only one task - to search the river.
This time, the search was carried out with greater intensity, even the silt at the bottom of the river was fished out.
soon.
The first skeleton was recovered.
Then came the second, third, and until the fifth skeleton was retrieved, everyone realized that things were not simple.
During this process, Cheng Han only used a slight mental suggestion, allowing a group of salvagers to find the burial site faster.
Subsequently.
Senior team member Zheng Ao Feng began to ask Anhua City for more manpower to dig river channels on a large scale.
All this is a conspiracy.
certainly.
Cheng Han was directing this behind the scenes, while Ao Feng was the one doing the work on the surface.
The third day.
Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of people, more than 60 corpses were dug out from the river.
This is a huge number.
Even the governor of Anhua City was alerted and personally came to place the corpses in a circle.
The Archon solemnly stated that he was willing to do everything he could to help and bring the murderer to justice.
Ao Feng still has a request - I want more people.
The fourth day.
There are already more than 2,500 people searching the river.
According to Cheng Han's request, these people did not miss any suspicious areas.
That afternoon.
Hidden waterways were found.
Cheng Han rushed to the scene, sensed it for a moment, and said a prophecy: "I sense the breath of death."
If anyone else said this, they would definitely be regarded as crazy.
But hearing it from the genius boy made Ao Feng decide to find out everything.
The Black Armored Army urgently obtained a magical tool and got into the terrifying underground lake.
Then.
Things were a complete sensation.
The city's guarding Xuanshi came to the scene in person and used Xuanfa to blast open the underground lake.
It was confirmed that the bone shrine at the bottom of the lake was an evil life-extending ritual.
That is, by sacrificing the lives of ordinary people and building a bone shrine, the sacrificer can age more slowly and gain some extra spiritual power.
The guarding Xuanshi also concluded that the purpose of the sacrificer was most likely to attack the Xuanshi level.
The last thing is very simple.
The guarding Xuanshi called in the Xuanzhen, conducted some tracing, and found the real murderer - Huang Xiansheng, the director of the Inspection Department.
After some interrogation, everything came to light.
It turned out that this man was over sixty years old and his soul was on the verge of decline. He was not willing to end his life, so he quietly began to perform evil sacrifices six years ago.
Logically speaking, there are too many missing people, and they must be reported to the Black Armored Army to prevent believers of the Ability God from actually engaging in blood sacrifices and endangering the safety of the entire city.
However, Huang Xiansheng, in his capacity as director, quietly suppressed these matters and regularly burned certain files.
However.
The long-term evil sacrifice caused this person's mental strength to have serious problems.
During a hunting trip not long ago, Huang Xiansheng accidentally lost control.
This guy killed several passers-by, brutally cut their bodies into pieces, and devoured their internal organs.
And this scene happened to be caught by a large group of inspectors.
Huang Xiansheng had no time to kill and silence him, so he was forced to jump into the waterway and escape.
The case of cannibalism by aquatic supernatural creatures just broke out.
To this.
Cheng Han could only sigh deeply: "Out-of-control desire is the most terrifying thing."
In the history of Tai'an Xiaoling Realm, there are only a handful of weird things that killed more than two hundred people.
Huang Xiansheng, with one person's power, had as many as 227 innocent souls in his hands!
