Qingzhou, Zhoucheng
On the bustling street, a man and a woman were walking in a hurry.
The man has a stern expression and a small beard on his lips that obscures his appearance. He is Yang Zhen.
Liu Rou's disappearance was learned yesterday.
The afternoon before yesterday, Caiyun held his warrant and found Tian Tiezhu, Chen Fugui, Zhang Qianfan, Chen Ru and others in Chunan Town, Wushui County, and ordered them to come to Yunya Town to meet.
Needless to say, we all reunited after a long separation, and it goes without saying that we were very happy during the meeting.
Chunan Town operated well after he left, especially after Kuangzhou was established. Chunan Town became an important route for countless explorers to reach the Million Mountains. Business gradually prospered and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
Not only did Zhenbao save more than 200,000 spiritual stones, but the cultivation level of everyone also did not drop, which made Yang Zhen very happy.
Then he asked Liu Rou why she didn't come, and then he realized that the little girl had not been very happy in the past few years.
She followed Yang Zhen for three years, spending most of her time in the Bluestone Space, and was unfamiliar with everyone in Chunan Town. Although Chen Fugui and Bao Yinglian were very respectful to her and did not dare to lack her cultivation resources, the girl was still unhappy and had not made many friends. She spent her days drawing talismans.
She often went to Qingzhou to visit her father, sometimes staying for several months at a time.
This time it took a long time. After leaving Chunan Town in December last year, it has been almost half a year since I came back.
Yang Zhen didn't take it seriously. Later, Caiyun led Tiezhu Caisi to Fangshi, and happened to meet Lan Caifang and Dou Manxiong who came to look for her, and they came to see him together.
Only then did Yang Zhen learn from Dou Manxiong that a major incident occurred in Qingzhou on New Year's Eve last year, and Miss Liu Rou disappeared in that incident.
"I always wanted to wait until you came back to tell you, so I didn't tell Caiyun and the others." Dou Manxiong explained.
Yang Zhen waved her hand. He was so anxious that he still cared about this. Immediately, he returned to the mountains, contacted Zixue, and asked to go to Qingzhou to investigate in person.
To his surprise, Zixue not only agreed, but was also willing to go with him.
The destination for the two of them at this moment was Liu Guanting's official office.
…
"On New Year's Eve last year, Rou'er and Lao Chan celebrated the New Year together. During the dinner, my father and my daughter talked about the customs and customs of Qingzhou, and somehow they ended up talking about Qingyu Mountain. Lao Chan was also obsessed that day, and he became interested and said he wanted to see it. Ichiban. Rou'er is a filial child, so she took Lao Chan and took a flying boat to Qingyu Mountain..."
In a small courtyard in the tall and majestic Zhoumu Yamen, Liu Guanting, the former magistrate of Wushui County, recalled what happened five months ago, sighing and regretting from time to time.
After not seeing him for several years, this mortal old man who was not even sixty years old already had pale temples, dark complexion, wrinkles on his face, and deep sorrow in his deep and cloudy eyes.
The mansion and the government office are connected together. In the courtyard occupied by the old man, in addition to himself, there is also a concubine whom he took in at the persuasion of his daughter, as well as an old servant. At this time, the two of them were waiting on the side and wiping tears with them.
Qingyu Mountain is the node of the heaven and earth magic circle, which is very beneficial to the manifestation of spiritual roots. Every year on New Year's Eve, a large number of mortal monks from all over Xu Kingdom go there, making it very lively.
Yang Zhen had seen it before when she was twelve years old, and gained great benefits from this mountain.
After Liu Guanting and his daughter arrived at Qingyu Mountain, they walked up the stone steps just like he did that day. The scene they saw when they arrived at the mountain, as well as the various strange manifestations of their spiritual roots, were also very similar to those then.
This time, there are almost a thousand children with spiritual roots appearing in Qingyu Mountain. After midnight, everyone left the mountain one after another. Those who came from a family that cultivated immortals and had superior conditions directly took up their spaceships and left. But the vast majority of people still have to continue walking down the mountain.
Liu Rou and her daughter followed the crowd.
About halfway through the journey, news suddenly came that something had happened ahead. Several children who had just developed spiritual roots disappeared one after another, and the families accompanying them were brutally slaughtered, leaving no one alive.
Dou Zhiyun, the master of Qingyun Palace, ordered the mountain to be closed for investigation.
So everyone could only walk slowly. Liu Guanting was old and frail, so he found a place to rest on the roadside accompanied by his daughter. Not long after, the old man suddenly fell into a coma, and when he woke up, there was no trace of Liu Rou.
"Master Yang," Liu Guanting burst into tears: "I only have such a daughter, you, you must help me find her, wuwu..."
Yang Zhen nodded gloomily. Half a year after the incident, Liu Guanting's account was almost the same as the files he found in the sect. It shows that the old man has this matter deeply in mind, and the process he described should be generally true.
"Sir, can you accompany me to Qingyu Mountain?"
"Go on your own!" The old man immediately became energetic, raised his thick eyebrows, and stood up.
…
The spaceship flew at lightning speed and brought the three of them to Qingyu Mountain. Under the guidance of the old man, they quickly found the place where he rested that day.
Yang Zhen looked around and saw that it was a flat land about half a foot wide, with dense woods behind it, and two or three feet in front of it was the bluestone path where tourists came and went. A raised rock slightly obscured the view.
"How long did it take for you to stay here before something happened?"
"About two-quarters of an hour," Liu Guanting replied: "At that time, a monk was flying in the air and asked everyone to stop and check. The old man was tired from walking, so he asked Rou'er to take out the bench, tea and other things and find such a quiet place. The place."
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Yang Zhen sighed, in that case, the more people there are, the safer it is. It's better for you, but you have to stay away from the crowd.
I had protected Liu Rou so well in those years, and the little girl had no experience in the world at all!
But things had already happened, and there was no point in regretting, so he continued to ask:
"What was Liu Rou doing at the last moment before she fell into coma? Did the boss see anything?"
"You can see shadowy pedestrians in the distance. Rou'er, Rou'er was pouring tea for the old man..."
"What was the light like?"
"On New Year's Eve, there was no moon, but the stars were shining brightly over Qingyun Mountain. My daughter was dressed in a full dress that day, with a white jade phoenix hairpin on her head, shining brightly under the stars. The old man was just about to praise Rou'er for her beautiful dress. Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound in my mind, and I fainted..."
This was an attack by spiritual consciousness, Yang Zhen knew it in her heart.
He looked at the silent mountain forest and sighed secretly. Time had passed for a long time. Otherwise, with Yiyi's talent, this man would have nowhere to hide even if he fled to the ends of the earth.
"The passers-by who passed by at that time, did they find them and what did they say?" Yang Zhen turned around and asked.
Zixue on the side shook her head: "There were many pedestrians passing by here that night, but they didn't notice the movement here."
"How long has the mountain been closed? Have you discovered anything?"
"It was sealed until dawn the next day. Because there were too many people, we had to let it go in the end. Nothing was found." Zixue continued to answer.
She helped to obtain these files. The thick pile was half a person tall, and there were many jade slips and the like. Some Yang Zhen didn't have time to study it carefully.
In addition to Liu Rou's disappearance that night, there were also six children with spiritual roots who disappeared one after another, three men and three women. They all came from small families, and the one with the best conditions was just a Qi-training family.
Among the family members accompanying them, those with the highest level of cultivation were only in the late stage of Qi training and have already fallen.
This embarrassment quickly alarmed the Yunxiao Sect, and several people were sent to investigate, but no results were obtained.
However, there are also some preliminary conclusions.
For example, there should be only one murderer, whose cultivation level is at least in the middle stage of foundation building, and it is more likely to be Zifu;
The murderer was good at concealment, ruthless, and quick in his methods. All the victims were fatal with one blow. This was probably not his first time.
Also, no traces of toxins or smoke were found at the scene. The murderer should have killed people in an instant by relying on his strange body skills...
So much.
In addition, some people think that Liu Rou's disappearance is another unrelated incident. The main reason is that Old Man Liu was not killed.
There were even people who suspected Liu Rou, but the girl's cultivation level was too low, and after the Dou family found out, they also came forward as guarantee, so Chunan Town was not affected. The place was so remote and lonely that I didn't even know it existed.
Finally, there is speculation on the motive. Some people think that underground gangs such as the Sanmenghui are deliberately provoking. Others think that the murderer may just have a grudge against one of the families, and killing several more families is just to cover up others' eyes. Some people think that the murderer is practicing some kind of evil skill, so he robbed the children. Boys and girls, etc.
"Does anyone doubt Sangzhou?" Yang Zhen asked.
Due to the death of the four heads of the four kingdoms, Sangzhou often attacked Qingzhou in the past few years. It was not until the head of the Xian family who was the main battler was killed that the situation eased.
"Of course," Zixue replied: "The sect also sent people to Sangzhou to investigate. They were quite cooperative, but nothing was found."
Yang Zhen fell into deep thought. He has personally experienced the development of the feud between Sangzhou and Qingzhou. If he has any suspicions, the first person who comes to mind is Sangzhou.
It is not impossible that they were able to cause mischief when Zhao Yue'er manifested his spiritual roots, and now they are retaliating and causing mischief again.
Moreover, apart from Sangzhou, he had no other clues about this man.
…
"I'm going to Sangzhou." Yang Zhen said suddenly.
Zixue was slightly stunned: "How do you plan to proceed?"
"Zha Xian's family." Yang Zhen said flatly.
If this was Sangzhou's mischief, the Xian family was very likely to be involved. Even if they were not involved, they probably knew some of the inside story.
If that's the case, check their private chats in the past month and you'll probably find clues.
However, going to Sangzhou is not that convenient.
Although there is a teleportation array connecting Sangzhou and Qingzhou, the relationship between the two places is not harmonious, so both parties need to communicate in advance before the teleportation arrays on both sides can be activated at the same time.
The envoy sent by the Yunxiao Sect last time went in this way, but in this way, every move of his was under the surveillance of the other party, which was obviously not appropriate.
The second way is to take a passenger boat between the two places. There is only one trip every ten days, on the first day of every ten days. The last trip happened to leave yesterday.
Do we have to wait another nine days? He immediately denied the plan.
Yesterday, Zhao Yue'er, accompanied by Qing Xiaoling, carried the Demon Soul Flower and a high-grade Purple Cloud Pill to her grandma and headed to Shuyang County. When she returns, there will be a very important thing waiting for Yang Zhen to do.
He must rush back to Yunya Town in ten days at most.
The last option is to go privately. It's just that the endless sea has high winds and rough waves, and there are countless sea beasts, so even driving a flying boat is risky. Unless you are in the middle stage of Zifu, you can control the flying boat out of danger, or you have specific treasures, such as the Xian family's large gray-blue ship that can be hidden in the sea.
Should Qin Mingyue be awakened from seclusion? Yang Zhen hesitated.
At this moment, I heard Zixue say: "I will accompany you! I will control the flying boat."
