noon.
To the east of Wuyang City is Qi Mansion.
A group of officers sealed the gate of Qi Mansion, and no one else was allowed to approach. From a distance, you can see traces of panic on the faces of these officers.
The people who really entered and exited the courtyard of Qi Mansion were a group of Xuanqing guards wearing black brocade robes with Yanji knives on their waists.
Shen Hao, with a gloomy look on his face, quickly entered the Qi Mansion with his hands behind his back, and the school commander next to him introduced him to the situation inside.
"The person who reported the case was Old Man Zeng, who collects night incense in the east of the city. According to him, he came to the Qi Mansion at Yin Zheng time according to the rules to collect the night incense from the previous day, but after waiting for a long time at the back door, the clerk did not open the door. Then he went up and knocked. I opened the door, only to find that the back door was ajar. When I pushed it open, I saw a thigh lying on the ground..."
"The first group to enter the scene were three on-duty officers from the county government. According to them, they entered the Qi Mansion through the back door after receiving the report. When they reached the side hall, they did not dare to continue walking and retreated in fright. come out......"
"Then the three officers reported the matter to Xuanqingwei through the county government on the grounds that it was a "big case of mystery"..."
As soon as Shen Hao stepped into Qi Mansion, he subconsciously paused and muttered: "What a fishy smell!"
Passing through the entrance hall, you can see the source of the fishy smell: corpses that have been torn into pieces are scattered on the ground, potted landscapes, flowers and plants...
The heads were piled up into a jingguan and placed in the center of the most conspicuous atrium behind the entrance.
"Is there anyone alive?"
"There are a total of sixty-one people in the Qi Mansion, including maids and servants, and not a single one is alive. They are all here."
"Tsk, destroy the whole family." Shen Hao frowned slightly, looking at Jingguan in front of him, he understood that he had encountered a difficult case again this time. After a moment of silence, he continued to ask: "Have you found the warehouse?"
"Found it. The Qi family is in the cloth business. The stall is very large and the family is rich. After a rough inventory, the cash in the warehouse alone is more than one million taels."
"Huh? You mean there was no loss of property in the warehouse?"
"Yes, the door of the warehouse was intact when we found it. There were no signs of man-made damage. The property inside was also stacked in an orderly manner with no sign of being rummaged through or moved. And I found a running account book from the Qi Mansion accounting room with the latest The balance is basically consistent with the amount of property we initially counted in the warehouse."
Shen Hao frowned a little more, killing people without asking for money?
Passing through the atrium and entering the main room, the place looks even more solemn. Even at noon, people can't help but feel chills on the back: arms of different sizes are neatly stacked on the Eight Immortals table in the main room. Blood dripped down the table and formed a large pool.
"Xiao Qi, we found the evil spirit on this table."
Shen Hao nodded when he heard this, walked over to the Eight Immortals Table, and took out a regular hexagonal array disk with complex patterns engraved on it. It was the "evil chasing disk" commonly seen in Xuanqing Guards.
After a little stimulation of the true energy in his body, the evil-chasing plate in Shen Hao's hand lit up with bursts of faint light. After flickering for a while, it returned to calm.
"Huh? Third-grade evil spirit?" Shen Hao was familiar with every change on the evil-chasing disk. The flash of light just now told him that there was indeed a trace amount of evil energy left around the Eight Immortals table in front of him, and it was left by the third-grade evil spirit.
Shen Hao frowned and asked, "Are there any records of third-grade evil spirits around Wuyang City?"
"No. My subordinates also find it strange that if a third-grade evil spirit enters the city, only the Qi family will suffer."
"There is nothing wrong with chasing the evil disk. Is there anything else fishy about it?"
"Yes, in the side hall and kitchen."
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"This... is the kitchen?" Shen Hao boasted that he was used to seeing big scenes, but when he walked into the kitchen of Qi Mansion, he still felt a bit bitter in his throat and churning in his stomach.
"Xiaoqi, I've been here before, the offal in here is all human viscera, pfft." Even though the school commander had already been here once, the scene in front of him was so bloody that he couldn't stop thinking He was retching.
Shen Hao patted the school commander's shoulder in understanding, indicating that he could go out and wait for him, but he frowned and began to explore the kitchen carefully.
"The corpse was dismembered, the body was erected, the organs were separated, and there were arms... It does look like those evil ways."
The evil-chasing disk was used again. After a while, the evil-chasing disk showed that this place was the same as the evil spirit in the main room before. Although it was very weak, it was indeed left by a third-grade evil spirit.
"A third-grade evil spirit really slipped into the city? But..."
Shen Hao looked at the evil-chasing plate in his hand and felt a little puzzled. Although I firmly believe that the evil-chasing disk will not go wrong, but as the school commander said before, evil spirits are not honest, and can even be called crazy. They will definitely not just bring disaster to the entire family.
"Um?"
Shen Hao suddenly squatted down, and then pulled out the Yanji knife from his waist. The knife flashed, and he picked out a fingernail-sized piece from a pool of blood on the ground.
"This is......"
Although it was soaked in blood and turned black, Shen Hao could still tell that the piece of paper was a scrap of paper, or to be precise, a scrap of paper that had not been burned.
Burning paper in the kitchen?
He walked to the water tank, picked up the knife, and dipped the scraps of paper on the tip of the knife into the water tank to lighten the red and black blood stains on it, and then pulled up the corner of Shen Hao's mouth.
"It's a talisman...it's quite interesting."
After leaving the kitchen, Shen Hao went to a side hall of Qi Mansion.
The scene in the side hall was equally horrifying. Footboards of different sizes were torn off and laid on the floor of the side hall like floor tiles. At a glance, there was a strange and eerie sense of coordination.
"Xiao Qi, we have checked and confirmed that there are exactly sixty-one pairs of feet here. They should belong to the sixty-one members of the Qi family like the hands in the main room before. Tsk, these evil spirits are so disgusting!" The school commander looked a little confused. He turned white and cursed quietly.
"Disgusting? Haha, it's a little bit true, but it's not that I've never seen anything more disgusting. On the contrary, I think many times what people do is more disgusting than evil." Shen Hao smiled and shook his head, and walked into the side hall first.
Sixty-one pairs of baseboards sounds like a lot, but in fact it doesn't cover a large area. Besides, the side hall of the Qi family is not small, and only the middle one is covered.
Compared with what was found in the back kitchen before, there is nothing worth exploring in this side hall except for the weak evil aura that was also sensed by the evil chasing plate.
"Xiao Qi, this is the place where evil spirits have been found in three places in the Qi Mansion. Do you have any other orders?"
"Prince Commander, do you feel that there is something missing in this mansion?"
"Ah? I don't know."
"Blood."
"What?"
"Don't you think there is too little blood in Qi Mansion?"
Shen Hao pointed to the mottled blood stains remaining on the ground and continued: "From the moment we entered the door, the scene in Qi Mansion looked extremely tragic and bloody, but didn't you notice? Although the scene here is tragic, no matter the Jingguan at the door and the The arm table, the organs in the back kitchen, or the footboard in this side hall actually do not meet the amount of bleeding that should be expected."
The school commander was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "That's right! It was mentioned in the "Segmentation of Human Beings" in the health center that if all the blood of an adult is released, seven to ten Two kilograms, the blood volume of men and women is different, and it is also related to the weight. If calculated in this way, the 61 people in the Qi family should have at least 400 kilograms of blood, right? Even if it cannot be drained cleanly, the body is so fragmented, and then Why should there be three hundred kilograms of blood, but here it seems...there is far less blood than three hundred kilograms!"
