Different from getting what he wanted, Xue Gui, who hurried to the criminal record room, did not find what he wanted.
The sky was already getting dark, and Xue Gui's eyes were slightly red. He looked up from a pile of papers, his eyes obviously looking irritable.
"How could it not be?"
The filing room of the Criminal Department is similar to the filing room in the Xuanqing Guard Command Yamen. Although the focus is different, the information accumulated over the years is also diverse and massive. There are also a lot of secrets about cultivation in it, including the types and analysis of techniques of each major sect, the main schools of casual cultivation, etc.
However, this time Xue Gui hit a wall. He stayed up all night, flipped through hundreds of documents, and looked up almost all the information about soul magic, but none of them related to the method of "words are refracted into the soul". Weird means.
"What should I do?" I finally saw the "thread" but found that it couldn't be pulled. This was very annoying. I wanted to directly determine the identity of the murderer behind this weird method, but now it seems that it is not possible for the time being. Maybe let those escapist masters from Fenghong Villa or Xuanqing Guard come and see if they know this method?
Li Qing was also helping to rummage around. His eyes were redder than Xue Gui's. He also couldn't find any clues in the documents.
"Okay. Let's take a rest. We've gone through the main content. No matter how many times you go through it, you won't be able to find it. Maybe the documents in our Criminal Department are missing in that regard. I don't know if Xuanqingwei and Fenghong Villa can Can't help." Xue Gui asked Li Qing to stop.
"Then shall we go to the Xuanqingwei Commander's Office now?"
"There's no rush. We'll go over there when it's time to go to work, otherwise we won't be able to get in there."
"Where is Fenghong Villa? Can we go there?"
Xue Gui also frowned. Indeed, Xuan Qingwei is now the co-investigation department and should help open part of the document room for them to investigate. But Fenghong Villa was hard to say. The other party had a very tough attitude before, saying that they would not participate in the normal affairs of the Criminal Department. This made Xue Gui understand that he obviously wanted to stay out of the matter. I'm afraid Fenghong Villa won't help this time either.
"Go to Xuanqingwei first and ask. Leave Fenghong Villa behind. Let's go get something to eat while doing some work." Xue Gui stood up and led Li Qing out of the case room and turned to the canteen of the Criminal Department.
Because there are people on duty in the Criminal Department at twelve o'clock every day, there are cooks waiting in the dining hall at twelve o'clock every day. This is much better than Xuanqing Guard. It's open.
Xue Gui's appetite is not big, about the same as ordinary people, and his taste is light. He spends more time eating vegetarian food. He doesn't avoid drinking alcohol and is very drinkable. And Li Qing, even though she is a woman, has a much bigger appetite than Xue Gui, especially since she didn't sleep all night last night and consumed a lot of food. She was already eating her fifth meatloaf for breakfast, one or two heavy.
"By the way, where is Shen Hao? Where did he go later?" Xue Gui also just remembered that there was someone named Shen Du running around in the case. He didn't see anyone now, so he turned to ask Li Qing.
Li Qing had gone out several times before, just to listen to the reports from the people below. So while eating, he answered Xue Gui and said: "Soon after we left the prison, the man named Shen also left, but instead of going back to the Xuanqing Guard Station, he went to Prince Qian's Mansion. Then he returned to the Xuanqing Guard Station at about the end of Haishi. "
"Going to Prince Qian's Mansion? Do you want to follow the line in the story book? It is also a way. But there are too many uncertainties. We can also follow it, but the focus is still on finding out which door The origin of the means. Do you understand?"
"I understand! Later, I will ask someone to find out the origin of the storybook. At least follow the man named Shen to prevent him from causing trouble again." Li Qing said that he had eaten it in the hands of Xuan Qingwei last time. She still feels bad about a big loss, and she doesn't like the person named Shen no matter what.
Xue Gui nodded and remained silent as acquiescence. No one could see the expression on his face under the mask.
But what was unexpected was that as soon as Xue Gui came out of the canteen after eating, a yamen servant came over to report to Xue Gui that a deputy Qianhu of Xuan Qingwei named Shen was looking for Xue Gui.
"Shen Hao? Why is he here so early?"
He was confused, but Xue Gui still had to see him. He went back to the public house and wrote a note to Li Qing, asking the other party to take the note to Xuanqing Guard to check the case documents. He himself stayed to meet Shen Hao and hear what he was talking about. thing.
"Master Xue."
"Master Shen, sit down."
The two sat down, their eyes facing each other, without the sharpness of yesterday, and both seemed to have some words.
It was Shen Hao who spoke first. After all, he was a co-investigator, and this case was incomparable to others. He would not take any credit if he could, so as soon as he gained anything, he would come and tell Xue Gui first, so that Xue Gui could better handle the case. front.
"Master Xue, last night I went to Prince Qian's Mansion and asked people in the Prince's Mansion about some things about Prince Qian's lifetime. I found some things interesting, so I hurriedly came to tell Master Xue."
"Oh? What did Master Shen gain?"
"Prince Qian should be a prince who has a very regular and self-disciplined life. He can fold his own quilt, plan his own daily schedule and things, and have leisure time when he is busy... and reading a storybook and drinking a hundred Fruit wine is a part of Qian Wang’s daily routine and two of his hobbies.
Master Xue must have known about the stinging word in the previous book "Evil Beasts of Baijiang", right? It's a word "curse", but this word alone will definitely not kill Qian Wang. Otherwise, wouldn’t everyone including me who read that book deserve to die? "
At this point, Xue Gui had already sat up straight. He understood that Shen Hao was on to the point. Indeed, if King Qian was killed by the word "curse" in the book, why didn't the person who read the book behind him die? Even if Shen Hao hadn't reminded them, they wouldn't have been able to discover this weird thing in the book.
Just listen to Shen Hao continue to say: "So I think that the word "curse" in "Baijiang Evil Beast" should not be a separate spell, but there are other words that cooperate or continuously form a complete spell, which happens to be When King Qian saw the word "curse" in "The Evil Beast of Baijiang", he exploded and killed King Qian instantly."
"You mean there are problems with the books King Qian read before?!"
Shen Hao nodded: "That's right. Add special magic methods to the book in a coherent way, let King Qian, who has the rules of life and hobbies engraved in his bones, fall into the trap himself, and finally choose the most suitable opportunity. Kill with one blow.”
"Where are those books?!" Xue Gui couldn't sit still. He found that following Shen Hao's clue seemed to be very promising.
"I already asked the people in Prince Qian's Mansion yesterday, because although story books are a way to kill time, they have no real meaning, and there are very few famous writers. Unlike ordinary works, the collection value is extremely low. So after reading Prince Qian, unless it is... I like it very much, otherwise it would be directly thrown into the scrap pile.
Unfortunately, at noon on the day King Qian was killed, that is, half a day before King Qian's death, someone who collected old books came to collect the scripts from Prince Qian's mansion. "
