If a person loses his heart, he will naturally die.
But there are exceptions, such as Shen Hao. When he was an ordinary soldier of Xuanqing Guard, he encountered a powerful evil spirit. Everyone in the Xiaoqi camp was killed, and he himself had his heart ripped out by the evil evil spirit and died tragically. But later he came back from the dead with the black beast tattoo and became the only one to "survive".
So when he heard Wang Yiming talk about the tragic situation of the dead people in Hegeng Village, he immediately felt a sudden feeling in his heart. It was not because he was afraid, but because he recalled his own personal experiences in the past.
Wang Yiming hurriedly went to inquire about the news. After Shen Hao returned to the commanding Yamen all the way, he couldn't sit down in the public house and walked back and forth in the room with a frown on his face.
What kept recurring in my mind was the scene of narrowly escaping from death, and the strange experience of having my heart taken out but still surviving.
Shen Hao has personally experienced the horror of evil spirits several times, and has also investigated many cases of evil spirits harming people. Many of its levels of brutality were much more brutal than the time when Shen Hao's heart was ripped out. But Shen Hao discovered some patterns.
That is, there are many ways for evil spirits to harm people, including tearing them into pieces or swallowing parts, and there are also some eccentric people who like to put corpses in weird arrangements, but one thing is that Shen Hao discovered that apart from the time when his heart was ripped out, There are very few cases of evil spirits outside the country that are specifically designed to seek death.
In other words, when evil spirits harm people, they are very cruel and rarely rip out people's hearts.
This matter has always been deep in Shen Hao's heart. He has never mentioned it to anyone. Firstly, he did not want others to find out that he was pursuing some evil spirit. Secondly, it was also because the experience of narrowly surviving death touched his chest. He has a black beast tattoo, so it cannot be known to outsiders.
But over the years, Shen Hao has already made a judgment: Maybe the evil spirit that stole his heart back then was a maverick?
No matter what he said, he was always thinking about it in his heart, even holding a grudge. The petty Shen Hao has always wanted to take revenge. Even if he is evil, he still has the idea of turning the opponent into ashes.
Therefore, Shen Hao has been paying attention to every case about evil spirits, but so far he has not made any more discoveries about the case of evil spirits that ripped out people's hearts alone.
Now I didn't expect it to appear again in the suburbs of Fengli City. To be honest, Shen Hao couldn't calm down.
Shen Hao has always been cautious about his own resurrection. He knew that this was abnormal. The main reason was that the black beast tattoo on his chest was helping him. As for why he was helping him but not the other people who died tragically at the scene. , Shen Hao was completely unaware of this, and at the same time he was full of desire to explore the black beast tattoo on his chest.
Now the evil spirit that almost killed him may be back again. Will it lead to some new discoveries about the black beast tattoo?
These thoughts kept swirling in Shen Hao's mind, making him a little restless. But he couldn't intervene abruptly. This would be too disrespectful to Kuang Shengyuan and would destroy the current tacit understanding between the two parties.
"We can only wait a little longer."
Feeling anxious, Shen Hao stayed in the public house until it was close to Hai and then went home to rest.
For the next three days, Wang Yiming reported the progress of each case after detecting it, and there was also a report submitted by Heishui.
What Heishui handed over were the confessions of those who had narrowly escaped death in Hegeng Village. They got it in a roundabout way, bypassing the local government and the Xuanqing Guards Office, so it was very credible.
What Wang Yiming handed over was the current investigation progress of the Xuanqing Guard Qianhu Office. Because of the same affiliation, although they are now "separated", Kuang Shengyuan has always maintained a certain degree of goodwill towards Shen Hao, so he did not refuse Wang Yiming's inquiry. .
Therefore, although Shen Hao was not involved in the case, he still had more detailed information about the case.
According to the confessions of several surviving parties obtained by Heishui, after comprehensive analysis, it can be known that: on the fifth day of February, it is time to pick the small flowers and leaves on the river bank, and the people who have planted them in the village are very busy these days. , basically they go to the fields to pick at the ugly time, and when the Yin time comes, they are driven to Fengri City by oxcart. You have to go to the city before the Maozheng time, so that the freshest vegetables can be sold at the best price.
There are no greenhouse vegetables here, they all sell seasonal vegetables. Inns and restaurants have opened, and the vegetable sellers in the market have slowly returned to the same scale as before the money and food shortage. Often, as long as a cart of vegetables is fresh enough, you can buy it without waiting. The East Market will be sold out.
Although you will make less money by selling to a vegetable vendor, the quantity is large and it saves time. After selling out in the morning, you can eat something and drive back in the cart. It would be safest to take a handful of loose money back and bury it at the foot of the bed. Carrying it in my arms always makes me feel uneasy.
When it was just after noon, the group of people who had sold vegetables in Hegeng Village returned to Zhuangzi and found that an empty house was waiting for them. Where were the people?
After searching around, everyone panicked, some people continued to search, and a few people ran back to Fengri City to report the case to the Yamen.
I was waiting for the Yamen servant to come over, and it was already midnight in the afternoon. The government officials, led by several villagers, searched for traces all the way to a mountain forest behind Zhuangzi. When they entered the forest, they smelled a smell of blood. The deeper they went, the stronger the smell became.
The last piece of corpse hung like bacon hanging on the kitchen stove, swaying slightly in the wind, and drops of blood dripped from the big hole in the chest, dripping on the ground, each one was like this, so that these drops of blood A large area of the forest was dyed dark red.
Not to mention the bankers who were frightened or grief-stricken, even the government officials who were used to seeing murders quickly turned pale. After persuading the banker who was about to move the corpse, a Yamen servant immediately rushed back on horseback to report the matter. At the same time, he began to carefully explore the nearby corpse.
There was only one fatal wound on the body's surface, which was the big hole in the chest. The rest of the skin was intact. There were different expressions on the faces, but none of them were in pain or panic. It was more like they were killed and dug up at a certain moment before they even noticed. out of their hearts.
At the time of Youzheng, more than ten yamen came from the yamen to support them. They went in and out of the woods and every household in Zhuangzi with dharma plates. They quickly came to a conclusion: it was a special case, and it was initially judged that it was the result of evil spirits entering Zhuangzi and causing harm.
So this case fell into the hands of Xuanqing Wei Quanhusuo.
However, the news from Wang Yiming was that a general staff from the Qianhu Bureau was responsible for the investigation, but no trace of the evil spirit was found. Even three days later, someone was ready to temporarily close the case. They thought that the river was caused by The evil spirit responsible for the Gengzhuangzi tragedy has escaped.
"Run away? It is indeed possible. But what about the characteristics? Are the characteristics and whereabouts of the evil spirit not to be traced?" Shen Hao frowned and put down the briefing in his hand, and he did not agree with Qianhusuo's hasty approach.
