Mirror Guard Yamen, in a small corner on the edge.
Li Xiaozhu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly as he recalled the past, and there was a faint light in his tired eyes.
In an instant, it seemed that she was no longer a miserable clerk struggling with paperwork, but a high-spirited female swordsman who wielded a sword.
When encountering injustice on the road, flying swords will take people's heads.
By then, she will be very strong and have her own sword, a real flying sword...
After reverie, she looked at the pocket wooden sword in her hand that had been with her for many years.
Li Xiaozhu had fantasized about it and studied it carefully countless times.
Now she was sure that there was no hidden mystery in the wooden sword, it was just used by her brother to play with.
Thinking about it, that mysterious brother, although he is also a practitioner, is wandering around and homeless. He wears a simple Geyi and a farmer's bamboo hat woven from bamboo strips every day. He looks so miserable and miserable. Very poor.
Li Xiaozhu calculated that if he didn't get promoted, he would have to save his salary for more than ten years to buy a flying sword of the most ordinary quality. How could his impoverished brother just give one away?
However, she still cherishes the pocket wooden sword in her hand and the accidental and wonderful encounter in her childhood.
"Li Xiaozhu, what are you doing here?"
Suddenly the cold voice of the team leader sounded from behind.
"Read the files, read the files." Li Xiaozhu was startled and woke up from his memories. He quickly stuffed the pocket wooden sword back into his collar and pretended to flip through the books on the table.
When the footsteps behind her gradually disappeared, the little girl breathed a sigh of relief and sighed in her heart.
She couldn't do this job for a whole day!
I really want to resign now, hang up and leave, wander around the world like my brother, and be at home all over the world.
However, Li Xiaozhu knew that his cultivation was too weak. He was only in the second level of Qi refining. Although he was among the best among his peers, he was not strong enough to face various dangers alone.
In addition, the identity of the mirror guard is an important guarantee. With the iron-bottomed glass mirror hanging on her waist, even if many people want to trouble her, they dare not do it directly.
The few Qi Condensing Pills that Jingwei Yamen distributes every month are almost her only cultivation resources.
Therefore, I'm afraid this hard work will have to take some time...
In the evening, Li Xiaozhu was already dizzy. After turning in his shift, he went out the back door weakly and went back to the public house behind the Yamen to rest.
The public house was a temporary dormitory for the mirror guards, but Li Xiaozhu directly regarded it as home.
Her parents had died long ago, and her only relative, her aunt, also passed away the year before last. She didn't want to live alone in the old house, so she had moved here long ago.
The public house is close to the Jingwei Yamen and the City Lord's Mansion, and is equipped with many formations. Living here, your safety is guaranteed, and that bullshit Mr. Deng who has been coveting her does not dare to mess around.
As soon as he opened the door, a white shadow suddenly fell down, which startled Li Xiaozhu.
It turned out to be a piece of paper filled with words, and no one knew who had stuffed it into the crack of the door.
Pick it up and take a look.
"Kidnapping pregnant women, removing their fetuses by caesarean section, and using them to refine the Blood Infant Pill..."
After a few simple glances, Li Xiaozhu's heart was filled with turmoil.
As a member of the government, she was always well-informed. She remembered that in recent years, there had been cases of missing pregnant women, which had happened frequently and once caused uproar in the city.
The detectives from the City Lord's Mansion have been searching for several years, but there are no clues at all.
Mirror Guard also intervened in the investigation and found no signs of involvement of practitioners, so they did not invest too much energy.
Now it seems that if what is written on the note is true, then there must be a group of extremely evil gangsters lurking in Nanyang City, including many practitioners!
Li Xiaozhu looked around, but there was no one around, and he didn't know who gave the note.
The public house here belongs exclusively to the Nanyang Mirror Guards. It is always guarded and no outsiders are allowed in. Only the Mirror Guards come in and out occasionally.
But he didn't care to worry about it at this moment. Li Xiaozhu hurried back to Jingwei Yamen and handed the note to the captain who was still sullen.
"The note stuffed at the door of your room?" Captain Zheng snorted coldly, "Li Xiaozhu, if you can't finish the files, don't come up with tasks. There's no point in trying these tricks."
"Only the mirror guards can enter the public house. Which colleague would not even take the credit for solving the case and leave such precious clues to you?"
"I——" Li Xiaozhu was speechless and was stunned for a long time before he weakly replied,
"Don't worry about me. With such a big case involving so many lives, you have to investigate it again, right?"
Team Leader threw the note to the corner of the table, "If there are any reliable clues, I will naturally notify the City Lord's Mansion, so you don't need to worry about it."
"..."
Li Xiaozhu returned to his room and lay on the bed for a long time, not understanding what Captain Zheng meant by his words.
Should we investigate or not?
From the looks of it, it seemed like she didn't intend to investigate. After all, because of Mr. Deng, the captain had long disliked her.
Li Xiaozhu struggled for a long time, and the tragic scene of caesarean section and fetal removal lingered in his mind.
"Humph, I can't count on these people, I'll do it myself!"
"Whether it's true or false, I have to take a look so that I can feel at ease."
She knew it was dangerous, but she still wanted to go.
Perhaps, my father and mother, who were both Mirror Guards back then, thought the same way when faced with the crisis.
"There is no need to conduct an in-depth investigation. As long as we find some solid evidence, Team Zheng can pretend to be stupid even if he wants to."
She jumped up from the bed and stretched her old waist, which was sore and numb after sitting all day.
Immediately, an invisible air current appeared, covering the body surface and pushing up all the clothes.
The second level of Qi refining - body protection.
Reiki can protect the surface of the skin like a layer of invisible armor, invulnerable to water and fire.
Although the Qi Refiners of the second realm have average combat power, their defense is still good and they can more than protect themselves.
Li Xiaozhu took out the sword he had never used before, hung it on his waist, and looked in the mirror.
Even though the spiritual energy held up the clothes, she still felt quite thin, but wearing black clothes and carrying a sword gave her a bit of a chilling air, covering up the youthfulness of a little girl.
Li Xiaozhu was very satisfied.
Considering that Mr. Deng might have someone watching her, she decided to try disguise again, and then when it got darker, she would quietly go out and visit the places mentioned on the note...
Diagonally opposite the Jingwei Yamen, in a restaurant, Zhu An sat by the window, toasting and drinking alone, occasionally looking at the sunset outside the window.
"This little girl has a very hard life."
Zhu An was fully aware of Li Xiaozhu's situation, including the various pressures he faced, but did not intervene.
With some twists and turns in life, do we still need to rely on him to help?
As for the little girl's practice, there is no problem.
When Zhu An met Li Xiaozhu, he deliberately stayed for a few more days. Not only did he take her into the Qi Refining School, but he also buried a spiritual seed in her body.
When it senses the lack of spiritual energy in the meridians, the spiritual seeds will automatically activate and quietly release the spiritual energy to make up for the deficiency, just like a slow-release elixir of the highest quality.
In this way, there is no need to worry about insufficient cultivation resources, which is one of the reasons why Li Xiaozhu entered the country so quickly.
Therefore, Zhu An came to Nanyang this time just to see if the little girl had changed.
People's hearts are complex and fickle.
Especially in the face of difficulties and pressure, the dreams and persistence we once had will gradually become riddled with holes and become fragile like a stalactite mountain eroded by wind and rain.
When he was young, Song Xiang, the king of Changling, guarded the border for hundreds of years, fought countless bloody battles with the demon clan, was repeatedly seriously injured and refused to retreat, and shocked all directions. How high-spirited he was.
But when I get older, my mentality gradually changes, and I never return to the evil path.
Zhu An practices the way of refining gods and can see through most people's thoughts and memories at a glance.
However, the changes in people's hearts over time are unpredictable and difficult to predict. I am afraid that only advanced divination techniques can predict it.
Zhu An is not good at those things, so he still uses a simpler and more direct method - go out and take a look from time to time.
This time, he came and watched.
"It's still the same as before."
Zhu An happily raised his glass and saluted out of the window, as if to pay tribute to Li Xiaozhu over there in the mansion.
Putting down the cup and spreading his hands, the Nine Refined Blood Infant Pills lying in his palms trembled slightly, then flew out of the window and disappeared without a trace...
People related to the Nine Refined Blood Infant Pills can be divided into two groups. One group specializes in abducting and kidnapping pregnant women, and the other group is responsible for refining and selling the pills.
The perpetrators of abduction and kidnapping were mainly mortals, so the difficulty was lower. Zhu An used the blood baby pill to sense and directly locked several locations, and handed the clues to Li Xiaozhu, which was also a test for her.
As for the other group of alchemists who can get on the line with King Changling, they are definitely not ordinary practitioners, so they have to be left to stronger people to deal with.
This matter has been arranged.
Several diners sitting next to him were also practitioners, but they didn't notice the evil Blood Infant Pill at all. They were still changing glasses and talking loudly:
"Have you heard that the Black Eagle King and the Mountain Ape King suddenly started fighting for some unknown reason? The two powerful demon kings faced off so hard that the ground cracked and the sound shook hundreds of miles away. How terrifying!"
"Well done! It's best if we die together." Some people gloated and clapped their hands.
Someone else analyzed: "The territories of these two demon kings are close to the border of our human race. They have always been a great threat, but now they have started to bite dogs. This is a good thing - maybe our respected king can step in and start a snipe and clam fight." If you fight, the fisherman will gain!"
"Could it be false news? The two demon kings are supposed to be a team, right? How could they suddenly kill each other?" Some people also expressed doubts.
"Yes, it may be a bait to lure the strong human beings into taking the bait."
"The current situation is complicated and confusing and difficult to predict..."
Everyone sighed with emotion, but they didn't know that the "mastermind" who created this situation was sitting quietly next to them.
When Zhu An heard this, his expression remained as usual, but he thought of the panda Maruwan and the little red fox Hongyun far away in the mountains.
"I don't know how well these two little guys are practicing, or whether they are lazy."
The main body and the clone share memories, but this incarnation of "Jiang Haike" Zhu An is a little far away from Beishan, so it can be regarded as an independent individual at this time.
In his opinion, the past few days had been quite lively. He had eaten two noodles, attended a birthday party, and met several old friends.
But for a bamboo, being lively once in a while is enough, and the noisy world is not its destination.
Zhu An missed the tranquility in the mountains again.
"Go and go."
There was a wisp of breeze, I don't know where it came from, passed through the hollow window lattice beside the table, floated away, and merged into the vast twilight. I don't know where it will end.
The excited diners nearby turned their heads accidentally.
"Hey, why are the people over there missing?"
"I don't know. I went downstairs just now. It's okay. Let's continue talking about our..."
