The road in Yubi Mountain is not easy to walk on, especially if you are riding a horse, it is easy to hurt the horse's hoof. However, with the help of Mr. Gunshan, Zhu Xiucai's journey went very smoothly.
Soon, Zhu Xiucai rode his horse and rushed to the gate of Jingsi.
A few years ago, all the monks in this temple 'disappeared' overnight, causing people from all over the country to think that it was haunted by ghosts.
How scary must it be to have a demon that can't even be controlled by a temple?
As a result, the Jingsi Temple, which was full of incense, quickly became deserted and dilapidated. With so many people coming today, it was already its most popular day in recent years.
Zhu Xiucai jumped up from his horse. After landing, he quickly came to Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer. He bowed and took out a booklet from his arms and presented it to them.
"Sir, this is the transcript we found in the backyard of the prefect's Yamen. It records in detail the changes in Li Tingfang's demon son every day..."
"oh?"
Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer looked at each other, took the transcript and looked through it.
I saw this record, starting from the day Li Tingfang's wife became pregnant with the child.
It not only recorded the daily changes in Li Tingfang’s wife’s belly, but also recorded the fetal heart rate and fetal movements.
Qin Qiaoer took a look and said, "This is not Li Tingfang's handwriting."
When they interrogated Li Tingfang, they not only asked Li Tingfang to sign the results of the interrogation, but also asked Li Tingfang to write a confession in his own handwriting. Although they were familiar with Li Tingfang's handwriting, they could recognize it.
Qin Shaoyou squinted his eyes and said: "It seems that the person who wrote the transcript is very close to Li Tingfang, otherwise he would not know the changes in the fetal heartbeat in Li Tingfang's wife's belly."
When Zhu Xiucai heard this, he immediately responded: "Your Excellency has a keen eye, and I can't hide anything from you. This transcript was written by a maid next to Mrs. Li Tingfang."
"Did that maid explain why she recorded this?" Qin Shaoyou asked.
"No."
Zhu Xiucai shook his head.
"When the maid saw us searching everywhere, she wanted to secretly burn the record, but the Yin soldiers found it and took it down on the spot.
We originally wanted to interrogate her, but she hid a poison sac in her mouth and bit it open the moment she was arrested. Before we could start the trial, she developed the poison. By the time we invited the Taoist priest from Jade Emperor Temple, she was already completely dead. "
"You want to get rid of it once you die? It's so easy."
Qin Shaoyou snorted and planned to rush back to Shinan Fucheng later and use the method of using the maid's corpse to capture her soul for interrogation.
The time spent talking to Zhu Xiucai did not delay Qin Shaoyou from reading the transcript.
After Li Tingfang's demon son was born, the child's daily growth and intelligence were recorded in detail in the transcript.
After Li Tingfang listened to the fortune teller, he began to ask witches to collect human blood, attack and kill people, dig out their heart and soul, and feed it to his son. This notebook records in detail every time Li Tingfang's son drank human blood and ate it. Various reactions and changes after conquering people's hearts and courage...
Unfortunately, the maid who wrote the note only recorded the changes in the situation of Li Tingfang's son from the perspective of a bystander, and did not give any opinions on these changes.
In other words, this transcript is more like an observation diary, which prevents Qin Shaoyou, Qin Qiaoer and others from analyzing more useful clues from the transcript.
For example, who led the transformation of people into monsters? For example, what is their purpose and intention in doing this, etc...
However, after Qin Qiaoer read the transcript, he frowned slightly and said "strange".
Qin Shaoyou immediately turned his head and looked at her: "What's wrong, sister, what did you find?"
Qin Qiaoer replied: "I remembered one thing. A similar record was found in the Prince of Shu's Mansion. That record also recorded in detail what the Crown Prince of Shu did after swallowing the 'elixir'. Various transformations of living people into zombies..."
Qin Shaoyou was a little surprised: "There is such a thing? Why didn't I know about it?"
Qin Qiaoer rolled her eyes at him and said angrily: "Nonsense, your previous level was not high enough. Although you participated in the arrest of the King of Shu, after the subsequent investigation, I naturally will not tell you."
Qin Shaoyou was speechless.
When he was investigating and arresting the King of Shu, he was just the chief officer of the Demon Town Department of a county, and he was really not qualified to know about these investigations.
Now, although his official rank has only been promoted by half a rank compared to the original, he has been transferred to the Red Envoy as the commander, and he is already qualified to intervene in these matters.
Qin Shaoyou did not struggle with this issue, but instead asked: "Who wrote the observation notes in the Prince of Shu's Mansion, and why they were written, have you found out?"
"No."
Qin Qiaoer shook his head.
"When we found the transcript in the Prince of Shu's Mansion, it had been thrown into a fire and most of it had been burned.
The people around were all servants of the Shu Palace. No one admitted that the transcript was related to them, and no one knew who threw the transcript into the fire. "
Qin Shaoyou said it was a pity and temporarily put away the transcripts. As he walked outside the Jingsi Temple, he pondered: "The appearance of the two transcripts makes me feel that these two cases are like two experiments..."
"experiment?"
"One is an experiment that turns people into zombies, and the other is a sight that turns people into monsters...
The transcript records various situations that occurred during the experiment in detail, in order to facilitate the experimenter to make adjustments.
The question now is, is there a connection between these two experiments? Could it be that the people who carried out these two experiments were the same group? Who are they and what is their purpose? "
The 'elixir' that the prince of Shu took was given to him by Emperor Jianwu. So, could Emperor Jianwu lead the Prince of Shu's 'experiment'?
So what about the experiments involving Li Tingfang’s son? Was it also done by Emperor Jianwu?
Why did he do this?
Isn't what he pursues immortality and immortality? Could it be that you feel that the right path is not going to work, so you want to try some crooked ways?
Or is it that these two experiments have nothing to do with Emperor Jianwu, but that the people behind the alchemists who gave him the elixir were doing some kind of secret experiment that was unknown to everyone?
A series of questions popped up in Qin Shaoyou's mind.
It's just that these questions cannot be discussed with others for the time being. After all, Emperor Jianwu is involved.
Although Qin Shaoyou didn't say anything, Qin Qiaoer should have guessed something. She frowned slightly and didn't say much. She just warned: "There are some things, even if you have evidence, don't tell others easily."
Qin Shaoyou glanced sideways at his sixth sister, nodded and said, "Understood."
Soon, Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer mounted their horses and left the Jingsi Temple together with Zhu Xiucai, Gunshan Jun and others.
After they returned to Shi Nanfu City, they rushed straight to the prefect's Yamen and saw the body of the maid.
(End of chapter)
