After hearing the yamen's report, Lin Ji did not get up.
The chief arrester is responsible for overseeing the affairs of the Supervisory Office in Liangzhou. Cases in Liangcheng City are naturally taken over by the chief arresters in the city.
Otherwise, what would those deputy chief arresters do?
"How did you find me? Where is Sun Hai?"
The yamen servant smiled bitterly and didn't know how to explain it. If Sun Hai could solve it, how could he bother you, the Chief Inspector?
Seeing this, Lin Ji had no choice but to get up and walk all the way to the Yamen lobby.
Walking into the hall, Lin Ji saw a man in brocade uniform in his early fifties.
He has a jade ring on his hand, and the clothes on his body are quite fine and should be made of fine fabrics.
"Who are you?" Lin Ji asked casually.
"If you want to reply to your lord, I am Zheng Yunxuan."
Lin Ji subconsciously looked at the government servant who was following him.
This yamen servant was also quite astute and deliberately currying favor with Lin Ji.
"He is the head of the Zheng family."
"Zheng family?"
"Not long after I came to Liangcheng, I ran a tailor shop business in the city, with seven or eight shops."
Lin Ji looked at the yamen servant.
"May I have your name?"
When the yamen officer heard this, his face suddenly lit up with joy.
"To my lord, little Zhou Ying, my father is fond of gambling, so he gave me this name."
"Well, that's a good name." Lin Ji patted Zhou Ying on the shoulder.
Looking at Zheng Yunxuan again, Lin Ji felt at least a little bit confused.
"Master Zheng, where in the city does your family live?"
"In the west of the city."
"Which deputy chief police officer belongs to the west side of the city?"
"Gui Li is arresting the head, but he doesn't care. He says he can't kill all the ghosts outside the city, so he has no time to care about the Zheng family's small affairs."
Lin Ji was stunned, Li Wushuang was really good at this.
"Captain Li doesn't care, and the other deputy officers don't care either?"
"Captain Chu can't find anyone."
Lin Ji looked at Zhou Ying beside him.
"Chu Qin came from the sect to gain experience. He doesn't know the specific details."
When Lin Ji heard that it was the sect who came down from the mountain, Lin Ji suddenly knew something.
The disciples of the sect are like this. They are practicing in the world, but they have to pretend to be aloof from the world.
When he was in Qingyang County, Guo Yi just did it. Ling Yin had the same attitude when he first came here. He practiced cultivation all day long when there was no case, ignored other things, and rarely interacted with others.
Lin Ji looked at Zheng Yunxuan again.
"Where is Sun Hai? He is already the headhunter, why don't you look for him?"
"Looking for it, Capt. Sun said that the west of the city is Capt. Li's territory, and it's hard for him to interfere." Zhang Yunxuan smiled bitterly, "And Capt. Wu has already...already..."
Lin Ji waved his hand to show that he understood.
"Why is Liangcheng so evil? There are so many arrests, but not even one is handling the case? There are quite a few reasons for each one."
Just from these few words, Lin Ji could feel the complexity of Liang Cheng.
But he is not afraid of offending people.
"Are there any other deputy chiefs in the city?"
"There is also Deputy Chief Tian Jiufeng, but Chief Tian is in charge of the south of the city, and..." Zhou Ying whispered from the side.
"And what? Don't worry about it."
Zhou Ying said: "Besides, Deputy Tian is not responsible for arresting people. He is a member of the Tian family."
"Is the Tian family a big family in the city?" Lin Ji thought of Tian Wenliang who he sent away.
Zhou Ying nodded.
Lin Ji was too lazy to ask again and looked at Zheng Wenxuan.
"Tell me, what happened to your family? The police below are useless. Do you have to find the demon hunter?"
"It's a tree." When Zheng Yunxuan mentioned this, fear suddenly appeared on his face.
"Tree?" Lin Ji was stunned.
Zheng Yunxuan said: "That was a month ago. My old man felt that a big tree in the house was an eyesore, so he planned to cut it down. Who would have thought that the trouble would start from here..."
"The tree can't be cut down! I've tried everything with axes and saws, and it's clear that it can be cut down, but the big tree just won't fall down."
"It breaks without falling? Go on." Lin Ji became somewhat interested.
"Every time a tree is cut down, the tree will bleed blood-red sap, but after the sap flows to the ground, it disappears and does not dye the ground red. It is strangely tight."
"Even so, you still want to chop?" Lin Ji raised his eyebrows and asked.
Zheng Yunxuan shook his head quickly: "Of course I don't dare!"
"But after cutting down the tree for the first time, there was no peace in our home! Every night, everyone in the family would have nightmares. When they woke up the next day, they were weak and sweating profusely."
"It was fine at first and I could bear it. But just a few days ago...my parents were killed by that tree, and they never died in peace."
As he spoke, Zheng Yunxuan's eyes were already red.
"A dead person?" Lin Ji couldn't laugh now.
Previously, I just listened to the excitement and thought it was the trees becoming spirits.
But after hearing that someone had died, it was no longer a joke.
Lin Ji stood up and said, "Let's go to your house and see that tree."
Zheng Yunxuan nodded quickly.
Lin Ji then said to Zhou Ying, the government servant on the side: "Go and call all the deputy chiefs in the city and meet me at the Zheng family's house!"
"As ordered." Zhou Ying responded quickly.
Follow Zheng Wenxuan all the way to Zheng’s house.
While still outside the house, Lin Ji saw the towering tree in the backyard.
It is more than twenty meters long, which is really rare in the city.
Arriving at the back garden of the house, Lin Ji immediately felt the spiritual energy permeating the big tree.
"Sure enough, the big tree has become a spirit."
Animals are transformed into demons, and plants are transformed into spirits.
The number of spirits is actually not less than that of monsters, but most of them are in the deep mountains and forests.
And compared to the difficulty of monsters, spirits are treasures in the eyes of monks.
It would be most appropriate to capture it to refine the elixir and supplement it.
This was the first time Lin Ji had heard of someone who became a spirit in the city and dared to harm others.
"Mr. Lin, this is it." Zheng Wenxuan stood at the door of the garden and did not dare to come in.
Lin Ji ignored this and walked directly into the garden, picked up the ax on the ground and walked towards the big tree.
"If you don't harm others, I don't care about you. If you dare to harm others, then don't blame me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ji raised his ax and struck the big tree.
The ax head was quite sharp and it sank into the trunk of the tree in no time.
Bright red juice flowed out.
"It's really strange."
Lin Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to swing the ax.
The tree trunk was thick enough for two people to hug each other. After a moment, Lin Ji cut it through.
But the big tree remained motionless, as if it had not been broken.
"You haven't shown up yet?"
Lin Ji kicked the tree trunk and the leaves on the top of the tree kept shaking, but the tree still did not fall.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ji suddenly lost his temper.
Preparing to kick again.
Suddenly, a strange voice sounded next to his ears.
"come in!"
Before Lin Ji could react, the scenery in front of him changed.
He was actually already in the trunk of the tree.
There was an extremely small space around him, and his whole body was tightly wrapped in wood.
It's as if he grew out of a tree trunk.
Gradually, some of the gaps around him disappeared, and the wood piled up on his body, and the pressure became more and more obvious.
"This is trying to squeeze me to death."
