The wanted notice was posted all over the city, and the entire Xuandu City suddenly became a sensation. The people all knew that the murderer responsible for many unsolved murders had been found out by the government. He was the person on the wanted portrait with a reward, and they couldn't help but talk about it.
Among the crowd, there was an obscure figure. After seeing the portrait of Yue Lingxiao on the wanted poster, his eyes froze slightly.
Then he lowered the bamboo hat on his head, lowered his head and left quickly.
After walking to a small alley where no one was paying attention, he gently took out a palm-sized jade tablet from his arms. His fingers were full of inner strength and suddenly passed over the jade tablet. The jade tablet suddenly lit up with a faint light. .
Then, as he thought, his spiritual sense instantly invaded the jade tablet. After a while, the light on the jade tablet gradually dimmed.
After the light completely disappeared, the person slowly put away the jade token, lowered the bamboo hat in his hand again, looked around to make sure no one noticed him, and then quickly left again...
At the same time, inside the Kowloon Mansion.
Chen Yutian held a very ordinary-looking painting in his hand and looked at Gongsun in front of him with a hint of solemnity.
Seeing him like this, Gongsun couldn't help but ask, "What's going on, sir?"
Chen Yutian pointed to the painting in his hand, sighed, and said, "For some reason, I can't see anything wrong with this painting at all."
Gongsun looked down at the painting and couldn't help but smile. The painting in front of me is the same painting that I stared at in Meng Xingyun's room yesterday. I didn't expect that the Lord would even bring this painting back as evidence.
"Sir, actually the problem with this painting is not the painting, but the words." Gongsun said with a smile.
"Oh? Literally?"
Chen Yutian was stunned for a moment. Before he could take a closer look at the painting, he heard Zhou Lin's exclamation from outside the hall.
"Master Chen, it's not good, it's not good..."
After hearing this, Chen Yutian had to put down the painting in his hand first, because he could guess from Zhou Lin's shout that something big must have happened when he came to find him this time, otherwise he wouldn't be like this. anxious.
"Master Chen, something serious has happened..."
Zhou Lin hurriedly came to the hall and bowed his head to Chen Yutian.
Chen Yutian smiled slightly and asked: "Zhou Captou, what happened? Why are you so panicked?"
Zhou Lin slowly breathed a sigh of relief and shouted: "The human head... the human head appears again..."
Hearing this, Chen Yutian was stunned. After looking at each other with Gongsun, he asked in a deep voice: "Where is it? Take us there quickly!"
Zhou Lin nodded and said, "Sir, please follow me."
Chen Yutian quickly rolled up the painting in his hand again, gathered everyone with Gongsun, and left with Zhou Lin.
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In the west of Xuandu City, in front of a shop called "Zhouji Restaurant".
Xing Enming looked gloomy and looked up at the top of the bamboo pole that was originally used to hang the wine cover in front of the restaurant.
Just a moment ago, there was a human head hanging there.
The owner of Zhou Ji Restaurant is an old man named Zhou Li. The old man is about sixty years old. He has opened a restaurant here for more than ten years. He has always been on good terms with people and has a good reputation among the neighbors.
But the old man didn't know who he had offended. Just when the hotel was about to open today, he discovered that an unkempt and bloody human head was hanging on the bamboo pole of the wine rack in front of his door.
The moment he saw the head, Zhou Li was so frightened that he rolled his eyes and fainted.
Fortunately, there was a clever nephew beside him. As soon as he saw that something was wrong, he immediately took the neighbors who saw the head to Gyeonggi Prefecture to report it to the official.
After Xing Enming learned of the situation for the first time, he thought that the missing head of the headless case had appeared again, so he immediately rushed over with the Yamen servants. He also ordered Zhou Lin to go to Jiulong Mansion to inform Chen Yutian and others, but who knew he came to the scene? Only later did he realize that things were not what he had imagined.
Because just now, when he ordered someone to remove the human head from the bamboo pole, he was surprised to find that the face of the human head had been cut beyond recognition with a knife, making it impossible to identify its identity. And judging from the fact that the knife marks are still very fresh, it should have happened not long ago.
But recently, no new headless corpses have appeared at all.
"But openly hanging the head at the door of the store, such behavior is simply unreasonable!" Xing Enming stared at the top of the bamboo pole, his expression becoming more and more gloomy.
Although the matter may have nothing to do with the headless case, the initiator of such a bad act of framing the blame must also be punished.
At this moment, Chen Yutian and others arrived here under the leadership of Zhou Lin.
Chen Yutian and others had heard the general situation from Zhou Lin on the road. While they were surprised by the murderer's atrocious behavior, they also felt that the other party's psychology seemed a little abnormal.
After a few brief greetings with Xing Enming, Chen Yutian came to the bamboo poles and looked up.
Zhou Li's nephew Zhou Xing was standing beside him at this moment.
Chen Yutian looked at the bamboo pole carefully and asked Zhou Xing, "Zhou Xing, can you tell me how this head is hung on the bamboo pole?"
"Of course, sir!" Zhou Xing nodded and then said.
"Sir, when we saw the head, it was hanging on the hook on the bamboo pole in my house. That's where we usually hang the wine cover. At that time, the hair of the head was tied together, and it was just hung by the hair. Hang on the hook."
Hearing this, Chen Yutian nodded slightly and asked, "Are you and your uncle really ignorant of this head?"
"This is natural!" Zhou Xing nodded heavily, then looked up at Chen Yutian and said: "Sir, I dare to assure you that my uncle and I don't know about this person! We are all good people, why? Maybe kill someone?"
Chen Yutian nodded noncommittally, and then asked: "Then do you know if your uncle has any enemies? Or has any grudges with anyone?"
Zhou Xing shook his head again, but before he could speak, Xing Enming, who was standing by, said, "Master Chen, I have already asked these questions one by one before you came. Zhou Li is usually a kind person." , I have never offended anyone, and I have never made any grudges with anyone. I am known by my neighbors as a good old man."
Hearing this, Chen Yutian nodded slightly again.
At the same time, Huo Yuanji and Lin Feifei were talking to several people who were watching the excitement.
Through conversations, many regular customers who were familiar with Zhou Li's uncle and nephew confirmed that what Zhou Xing said was true.
The two of them couldn't help but frown.
Since no one was offended, why would the murderer hang the head on a bamboo pole for no reason?
The two of them accidentally looked across the street and discovered that there was also a hotel opposite.
Seeing this scene, they couldn't help but look at each other, and they both found a faint sparkle in each other's eyes.
"I see, this is indeed a possibility..." Looking at the restaurant opposite, Xue Tianhan couldn't help but nodded secretly in his heart.
Beside him, Ling Miaoyin stared at the figure who was thinking, not knowing what he was thinking.
On the other side, Wu Dongtian and Tang Fengling looked at the restaurant opposite. The former smiled secretly and said: "It is said that people in the same industry are enemies. These two restaurants are so close to each other. It would be strange if there is no problem..."
Tang Fengling also nodded slightly.
Bai Fan, on the other hand, was staring at a person in the crowd.
It was a man wearing a bamboo hat, with his head lowered, almost burying his face. He looked about thirty or forty years old, with a strong build. He was pushing a small wheelbarrow filled with goods and stood at the edge of the crowd to watch the excitement. .
This man only appeared after they arrived. As soon as he appeared, Bai Fan's eyes were involuntarily attracted to him. For some reason, he always felt that this salesman was a bit suspicious.
Although the other party did not have any suspicious behavior or behavior.
But his intuition told him that there was definitely something wrong with the person in front of him.
For a moment, it was difficult for Bai Fan to take his eyes off this person, and what was even more strange was that the longer his eyes stayed on this person, the more suspicious he felt.
"Sir, do you think you would do it at the restaurant across the street? After all, we are enemies if we work together!"
Tianying's voice suddenly came to his ears.
Hearing this, Bai Fan was stunned for a moment. He looked back at Tianying and found that he was looking at the restaurant opposite "Zhouji Restaurant" like everyone else, with a slight flash of excitement in his eyes.
He turned around and looked at the restaurant, and found that both the decoration in front of the restaurant and the interior decoration of the restaurant opposite were several notches higher than the "Zhouji Restaurant" in front of him.
But the front door was deserted, and there seemed to be no business going on.
In such a comparison, it is not impossible to say that they are enemies.
Just as he was thinking about it, Bai Fan suddenly came back to his senses. When he looked back, he found that the suspicious salesman he had noticed before had long since disappeared.
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Yu Ji pushed the wheelbarrow and left the crowd.
He wasn't too interested in what happened in front of the restaurant. The only thing he was interested in was the human head hanging on the bamboo pole.
Unfortunately, he arrived a little late. By the time he passed by, the head had already been removed by the Gyeonggi Prefecture.
In addition, there was always someone in the crowd whose eyes were fixed on him, which made him feel very uncomfortable and disliked it.
So he left.
Of course, there was a more important reason for him to leave. He had to find someone, a treacherous villain!
This is his most important mission in Beijing this time!
He had to finish it, and he had to finish it! Because he wanted to seek justice for those brothers who died in that man's hands!
He is Yu Ji.
It is also the third snake head among the nine snake heads of the Nine Snakes Association in the past.
As the middle brother, he has the right and obligation to do so.
So he couldn't stop, and he had no reason to stop.
"Um?"
After walking out of the crowd, Yu Ji looked back, trying to find the eyes that had been staring at him in the crowd just now.
But he found something that surprised him even more1
That's a snake pattern painted on the wall of an alley!
The white lime, outlined on the blue-grey ancient walls, reflected in Yuji's eyes, making his eyes flash slightly!
This pattern was very familiar to him.
Because this was the secret code they used to communicate with each other when the Nine Snakes Society was still there.
There are currently less than four people in the world who know this method of contact.
Yu Ji pondered for a moment, then reached out and touched his waist. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Hidden around his waist is the sword that will accompany him throughout his life.
Whenever he feels its presence, no matter what the situation is, it can calm him down the fastest.
Because as long as the sword is still in his hand, he will be undefeated.
This is the truth that I realized after many years of wandering in the world when I was young.
Although his youth is gone now, his skills are still there, his ambition is still there, and his sword is still there.
"I want to see who left this secret mark!"
His eyes flashed slightly, and he took big steps resolutely, walking in the direction indicated by the secret message...
Along the way, he saw the same secret marks on more walls, white lime traces, which filled his eyes all the way until he came to a remote uninhabited alley.
The alley is very narrow, with courtyard walls made of gray stone bricks on both sides. The courtyard behind the wall has long been deserted, overgrown with weeds, and no one is around.
This place has been abandoned.
Looking at the desolate scenery on both sides, Yu Ji's eyes narrowed slightly.
A gust of breeze blew by, and a sense of desolation and sadness came to my heart.
There was even a touch of murderous aura mixed in the breeze, sealing the void and making Yu Ji's heart beat suddenly.
Yu Ji's hand involuntarily grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist.
At the same time, the nerves all over his body were involuntarily tense, and his spirit was even more concentrated.
A life and death crisis suddenly appeared in my mind!
At the same time, the murderous aura in the void suddenly intensified, carrying a bone-chilling murderous intention, and suddenly rushed towards Yu Ji's chest.
Yu Ji felt that a flower suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
A bright sword light streaked through the void and pierced straight towards him!
Yu Ji had never seen such a brilliant sword, like a meteor in the night sky, falling at the end of the sky.
At that moment, without thinking, he suddenly pulled out the long sword from his waist with his right hand. When he subconsciously stabbed the sword, his steps suddenly retreated!
Ding……
The moment the swords touched each other and sparks flew out, the energy was about to explode, and the surrounding brick walls were violently destroyed.
Clearly visible sword marks were permanently left on the gray square bricks.
Yu Ji was surprised by the powerful force of the opponent's sword, and his steps back suddenly stopped!
The long sword rotated, and the strange strength flowed, returning all the strength contained in the opponent's sword back.
An inexplicable repulsive force suddenly appeared!
The opponent was instantly ejected seven steps away.
Yu Ji put away the slightly surprised expression on his face, and then glanced at the person standing in front of him facing him.
The other person's face was covered and his appearance could not be seen clearly.
"You tried so hard to lure me here, but you only dare to meet me with your face covered. You really let me down!" Yu Ji tightened the sword in his hand, looked at the person opposite him coldly, and reprimanded.
Hearing this, the person opposite laughed directly.
A voice suddenly reached Yu Ji's ears.
"Third brother, we haven't seen each other for a long time..."
Hearing this voice, Yu Ji's expression suddenly changed!
