Late at night, the lamps were still lit in the study room of Feng Mingyuan in the City Lord's Mansion. From time to time, some guards or officials from the city lord's palace would come in and out.
The huge Yongchuan City, including the surrounding areas and the affairs of the surrounding cities, has a lot of disturbances.
Feng Mingyuan is used to working hard for a few days in a row, then resting for a few days, and repeats this process. So when he was busy, he would sometimes work around the clock, but when he was resting, he would be just as straightforward. Unless something urgent happened, he would ignore everything.
Today is Feng Mingyuan's first day as director after two days of relaxation, so he has a lot of backlogged things, and he doesn't like to keep procrastinating, so staying up all night has become another habit.
"Sir, your previous judgment was correct. The people below found the corpse fragments of the evil spirits outside the city. Although they were very few and had obviously been covered up, it was still possible to tell that there were two evil spirits in total, and both were liked by them before they died. It has been devoured by the soul-devouring Dao methods, and only a little bit of residue is left."
After the chores at hand were almost taken care of, Feng Mingyuan's personal bodyguard Zhou Zhonghao reported to Feng Mingyuan the latest situation in the city. Prior to this, the city lord's palace adopted the "bait" plan of the eldest lady, and successfully used the bait to lure out the evil spirits who had committed nearly ten murders in the city. But at the last moment of closing the net, something unexpected happened and the other party ran away.
In this incident, the five Qi Refiners in the City Lord's Mansion who participated in the pursuit were all injured to varying degrees. Afterwards, it was determined that their injuries were all caused by the force of the rebound when the demon violently broke out of the trap.
Feng Mingyuan made a judgment on this matter at that time, saying that it was impossible for those evil spirits who were evasive and not very powerful to tear open the magic circle set up by the five Qi Refiners alone. There must be changes involved. Either the evil spirit has a helper and is secretly rescuing him. Or there is someone who is also keeping an eye on those evil spirits and wants to take advantage of them. After that, the city lord's palace was asked to increase the search scope, thinking that this matter would definitely leave clues.
As a result, after several days of investigation, traces were found in a dry well outside the city. It seems that although Yaoxie ran away from the original bait plan, it did not end well in the end. Later, another clue of the same evil was found in a small forest. And there are obvious signs of deliberate cover-up, but the cover-up was not complete, and it did not escape the experts in the city lord's palace who were dedicated to pursuing their duties.
"Only the fragments of Yaoxie's corpse were found? Is there anything else found?"
"Speaking to the adults, in addition to the fragments of Yaoxie's corpse, some remaining female body parts, broken arms and damaged clothing were found. It can be determined that they were the bait sister who was kidnapped by Yaoxie at that time. But... ."
"explain."
"It's my lord. That sister's body is very mutilated, many times more mutilated than the corpses left in any previous murders. It can only be distinguished that it is a human corpse. And the amount of blood is much less, and it does not look like a living body. people."
There are many questions in the news, not only that Yaoxie has been found and that Yaoxie is dead, but there are also other doubts. The girl's body was obviously one of them. This point is completely invisible to the pursuit masters in the City Lord's Mansion.
"Hmph, controlling a dead body?"
"Sir?" Zhou Zhonghao looked over doubtfully.
However, Feng Mingyuan did not explain, but continued to ask: "Do you still remember the murder case reported by the knife club before?"
"Your Excellency, you are talking about the case where Li Jiang, the chief of the Blood Guard of the state capital, and his deputy were killed in a grove outside the city east, and then their bodies were mutilated and blamed on evil spirits?"
Feng Mingyuan nodded, leaned back in his chair, and said with interest: "That's right. Ordinary people, even monsters, would never have the courage to touch the blood guards of the state capital. If they offend those madmen, they would hide in He was afraid that he would be dug up in the gutter for revenge. Moreover, the perfunctory act of mutilating the body after the murder was simply too casual. It was like just coping with the problem. Who would you think of a normal person who would commit such a murder and not take such care of himself? Do you take your life seriously?"
Without waiting for Zhou Zhonghao to answer, Feng Mingyuan directly gave his judgment and said: "Dare to do this unless the murderer is sure that he will not be discovered in any case, even if his hasty disguise is seen through."
"Sir, do you think these two cases were committed by the same person?"
"It's not that I feel it, but I'm sure!" Feng Mingyuan also smiled, tapped the slip on the table with his fingers, and said word by word: "Being able to kill two third-level warriors silently, destroy the corpses and blame the evil spirits, The sister who is clearly a bait is actually a corpse, and can be devoured by evil spirits. All these things are connected together. What can you think of that can do all of this at the same time?
Do you still remember the highest maritime arrest document of the country and the DPRK that was left in the "Warning Matters" when I first took office? "
Zhou Zhonghao, who was still thinking seriously with an expressionless face, suddenly changed his face after hearing Feng Mingyuan's last two sentences, and he could not control the fear in his eyes in shock.
"Sir, are you saying that Li Jiang and the two demons who were devoured this time were killed by the ghost cultivator who was pursued for hundreds of years after the country issued the highest arrest document?!"
"That's right, it's a ghost cultivator."
"But sir, why do ghost cultivators want to kill people and demons?"
"Don't forget, it is clearly stated in the Haidu document that the ghost cultivator was seriously injured and his strength was at a loss. The reason why he killed people and evil spirits was naturally not because of grudges, but because he wanted to heal his wounds! Although ghost cultivators are not as good as evil spirits, they are It can also repair itself by devouring other people's souls and flesh. Moreover, ghost cultivators are best at controlling dead bodies, which also explains why it uses our bait plan to bully evil spirits before attacking. Because it is injured. , there is no way to kill hard, so you need to use tricks."
When Feng Mingyuan said this, the excitement in his eyes was almost overflowing.
Before today, the death of the two blood guards in the state capital had always concerned him. At first, he thought that someone was deliberately muddying the waters in Yongchuan City, and might even be trying to bring down the city lord's palace, which had always stayed out of the matter. But this time the evil incident suddenly made Feng Mingyuan connect the document that had been hanging in his mind for a long time to assist in the investigation of sea arrests. Everything seems so reasonable.
There was silence in the study for a while, and then Feng Mingyuan continued: "The ghost cultivator either passed by Yongchuan, or he has been hiding here for many years. This time, because of the clay figurine sculpture, the Qi practitioners who would not have come to our place came one after another. Come here and try your luck. These Qi masters who have cultivated spiritual energy and have a Taoist body, but have low strength, are definitely a good opportunity for the ghost cultivator in the sea to make a fortune. That's why he took action.
Zhonghao, please check again to see if there are any other Qi practitioners who have suddenly disappeared in the city recently. If there is, then my guess should be 100% certain! "
