Generally speaking, encountering a big case means encountering a big opportunity, but it also means a big risk.
There are ways to reduce risks. You just need to hand over the case or submit it to a superior. But doing so also means giving up the accompanying opportunities.
If you live your whole life without fighting for your reputation, you still have to fight for a profit, right? Chen Tianwen's choice was to put his treasure on Shen Hao. Firstly, he could afford to lose even if he lost, and secondly, he believed in Shen Hao's ability.
The fact that a young monk with no background can climb all the way to the position of Xiao Qi in a place like Xuanqingwei with complicated relationships speaks for itself.
And Shen Hao also knew Chen Tianwen's plan, and he had the same plan.
Once the case is solved, what benefits will Shen Hao lose as the person in charge?
"It would be great if I could get two more Little Pei Yuan Pills." On the way back, Shen Hao couldn't help but feel a burst of hope in his heart. He didn't notice that the moment he came out of the teleportation circle, a pair of eyes were looking at him from a distance, full of awe.
...
On the afternoon of the third day after the incident.
One hundred Xuanqing guards marched from Licheng Guard Station into Wuyang City. Not only did they take over the defense of the two city gates of Wuyang City, they also took over the desk room in the Wuyang City Yamen, and began to join forces with the Wuyang City garrison to launch a network-style investigation throughout the city.
The large number of Xuanqing Guards stationed in Wuyang City brought an invisible sense of oppression to everyone in Wuyang City, like a shadow, oppressing the whole city. Not only the officials in Wuyangcheng's yamen tightened their feet, but even the vendors and lackeys on the street did not dare to shout and sell as loudly as usual.
Wang Jian was very efficient. He had already uncovered all the Qi family's contacts in Wuyang City the next day. What made him excited was that his guess had made new progress.
From the mouths of several people involved with the Qi family, Wang Jian learned that the Qi family had another unregistered property outside the city: an abandoned Zhuangzi.
No matter what the Qi family does behind the scenes, they are a well-known and wealthy family in Wuyang City. How could they buy a useless and abandoned village as property?
Wang Jian became suspicious and took his people to the Zhuangzi overnight to check. As soon as he arrived, Wang Jian felt the evil-chasing disk in his arms vibrating violently. He was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
"There are evil spirits in this place! And...it's still level three!"
After a simple search, Wang Jian did not find the evil spirit in his face. He breathed a sigh of relief and ordered to dig three feet into the ground with a cold face. He felt an unusual coldness in this abandoned and desolate village, and he could even smell it everywhere. The smell of blood in the air.
As a result, Wang Jian realized that he had discovered a remarkable place just by digging up a small yard.
Then Wang Jian immediately asked the others to blockade the abandoned village, and he personally rushed back to Wuyang City to inform Shen Hao.
It was already late at night when Shen Hao led fifty Xuanqing guards and one hundred Wuyangcheng guards to the abandoned Zhuangzi. However, more than a hundred torches illuminated the entire Zhuangzi, especially the area that had been destroyed in advance. The dug-out small courtyard was clearly illuminated by the demolished courtyard wall, which sent shivers down the spines of everyone around.
"Is this a burial pit?"
"It's not like that. It's so messy. It's far worse than the burial pits on the battlefield. It looks more like a living pit."
"A living pit? No. These people must have been killed in bits and pieces before being thrown in."
"I know, I just said it looks like."
...
The more timid ones were speechless and even looked away.
The bolder ones were whispering to each other. After all, even Shen Hao, who had been in the Xuanqing Guard for eight years, had seen such a scene for the first time.
I saw a large pit dug out in an abandoned courtyard with a radius of less than ten feet. What was exposed in the pit were all hands, feet, or various heads of different appearances. They were all broken and no one was complete.
These corpses were piled in the soil like garbage, and they were all in the same degree of decay. They must have been buried here at the same time.
Shen Hao frowned and took out his evil-chasing disk, pumped up his true energy, and put it back after a moment, knowing clearly that there were indeed third-level evil spirits here as Wang Jian said.
Only Shen Hao and Wang Jian were a little surprised recently. He clearly felt that the true energy that his little flag officer had just now was no longer at the fifth level of Qi refining. This, is this a breakthrough? !
Shen Hao didn't have time to care about what Wang Jian was thinking. After putting away the evil tray, he looked at the corpses in the pit and said solemnly: "Let the brothers start digging. The whole abandoned village is full of stench, and the soil can't cover up the smell." , I’m afraid it’s not just this one pitfall.”
"Yes, Xiaoqi." Wang Jian responded while waving behind him.
An hour flies by.
Most of the diggers were the warriors of the Xuanqing Guard. These killers had already crossed the threshold of monks. In terms of strength alone, they were much stronger than ordinary people, so the shovels were very fast and dug up almost all the abandoned buildings in Zhuangzi. In the courtyards, the result was just as Shen Hao expected. Under each courtyard was a large corpse pit.
Not to mention the number of corpses dug up was over a thousand, and each pit was only a shallow layer dug, without the corpses being dug deeper, so the actual number of corpses is likely to be much higher than what can be seen.
"Xiao Qi, I think these corpses should be those "disappeared" apprentices."
Wang Jian's analysis is well-founded, because there are obvious differences in the degree of decay of the corpses in so many corpse pits. The older ones have turned into bones, while the more recent ones are still growing maggots. This one echoes the large number of apprentices who "leave" regularly in the Qijia cloth stall. You only need to pick up a few corpses with distinguishable appearances and let the master in the cloth stall identify them.
Shen Hao nodded without saying a word. He knew in his heart that there was no need to verify what Wang Jian said. These corpses must be those apprentices in the Qi family's stall. Moreover, the corpses were found, which seemed to confirm Wang Jian's previous opinions. It is speculated that the Qi family is a "human blood dealer". After all, if you want to sell human blood, you can't just put some blood and keep it. It has to be drained all at once, which will kill people.
Seeing that Shen Hao didn't speak, Wang Jian continued: "Xiaoqi, the aura of the third-grade evil spirit was also found here, and it was also not recorded in the Wuyang City's documents. This shows that this evil spirit has been lurking, or that it is , is it controlled by humans?"
When Wang Jian said the words "human control", his mouth trembled slightly, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. He was afraid that Shen Hao would see his cowardice, so he lowered his head slightly.
"You finally thought of this. Two days faster than I expected." Shen Hao smiled rarely and patted the shoulder of the school commander, who was only a few years younger than himself.
"Ah? Xiaoqi, you, you have thought of it a long time ago?"
"Haha, didn't you say that before? It's unreasonable for a third-grade evil spirit to enter the city and only one of the Qi family suffer. Either it's not the third-grade evil spirit that caused the problem with the evil chasing plate, or the evil spirit was imprisoned by an external force. He has a murderous instinct. So you should be mentally prepared."
Speaking of this, Shen Hao couldn't help but think of an old saying: eliminate all possibilities, and whatever is left must be the truth no matter how incredible it is.
