After sending Cheng Feishuang to the inn, Lin Yan discovered that Cheng Linong and others were not there. After asking the waiter, he found out that Cheng Linong had received the martial arts hero post. Xiao Qianjue summoned almost all the prominent figures in Changshan Town and went to Changshan Pavilion Villa halfway up Changshan Mountain. As for the gathering, Cheng Feiyu and Cheng Feiyuan went to the Tianjiao gathering.
"I'll take you to your brother's place." Lin Yan immediately said to Cheng Feishuang.
Although he was protected by defensive jade, Lin Yan still couldn't let go. Cheng Feishuang's safety could only be guaranteed with a master guarding him.
"I won't go, it may not be safe anywhere." Cheng Feishuang said with a smile, "Don't forget, the so-called gathering of geniuses gathers many big sect missions, and there must be many martial arts seniors watching. If they appear there, I’m afraid that even with my two brothers protecting me, I’m not necessarily safe. On the contrary, no one at the inn noticed, so maybe it’s safer.”
Seeing that Lin Yan was still hesitant, Cheng Feishuang said again: "Don't worry, my father has brought a lot of guards. With them by his side, no one can hurt me. I will act by ear. If something goes wrong, I will be the first one." Just run."
"Okay." Lin Yan hesitated for a moment and nodded.
What Cheng Feishuang said makes sense. The Tianjiao Gathering has gathered nearly all the Tianjiao figures in the entire martial arts world. There must be a lot of followers, and there are many people. Even if the two brothers Cheng Feiyu are strong in martial arts, they cannot protect Cheng Feishuang from so many people. .
"Then I will give you all these jade stones. You must hide them closely. If someone comes looking for the Cheng family or me, you must keep quiet and pretend that you are not at the inn." Lin Yan ordered, and even asked Cheng Feishuang to He changed all his clothes and dressed up as a guard.
Lin Yan gave the Cheng family guards a few words, then left the inn and wandered around the inn for a while to check if there were any suspicious people.
Sensing that there was nothing unusual, Lin Yan slowly left and disappeared into the crowd.
His target was clearly the place where the Ouyang family, who had been massacred by the "Blood Demon" a few days ago, lived.
This is an inn. The Ouyang family has a government background, so the place where the Ouyang family lives is not an ordinary inn, but an inn in Changshan Town.
After climbing over the door wall, Lin Yan sneaked into the inn and searched around for a while to find out the layout of the inn. The entire post house is divided into front and rear courtyards. The front courtyard has a hall. In front of the hall is the entrance to the front yard, and on the left and right are two wings. The front yard is mainly used for receiving passing officials, delivering letters, or handing over urgent reports. The back yard is where guests stay, mostly the upper hall, and is surrounded by other halls. The entire post house has a garden with a pond and tree planting. The Youyuan is located at the back and side of the backyard. There is a post building between the backyard and the Youyuan. A rammed earth wall was built around the entire post house, and a door was opened directly opposite the entrance to the front yard.
After checking them all, Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh at the wealth of these officials. Changshan Town is neither a big city nor a battleground for military strategists. The posthouses here are actually so luxurious. This courtyard setting , no worse than the Lin Family's Lin Family Fort.
One is just an inn in a small town, and the other is a famous family in the southwest. The courtyard decorations are actually the same.
While sighing, Lin Yan also found that there were not many people in the entire post station. There were only some boys sweeping the floor and a few postmen. The staffing was quite strange, but after a little thought, he could figure out the reason.
A few days ago, the Ouyang family massacre also killed many people in the inn, so the remaining people in the entire inn were in panic, fearing that the blood demon had not gone far and would come back to commit murder again, so they all resigned and returned home. Now, Most of the people who work together in the inn are old, weak, sick and disabled people who cannot leave. There are also some people who are newly recruited to maintain the operation of the entire inn.
Lin Yan knocked out a boy at the inn, put on his clothes, pretended to be holding a broom, and walked towards the residence of the Ouyang family.
"Hey, what are you doing?" A middle-aged man with a mustache in his thirties, wearing the official uniform of the inn, saw Lin Yan walking towards the inner room with a broom, and immediately stepped forward to stop Lin Yan.
Lin Yan had already restrained his breath. When he saw someone stopping him, he immediately took a step back in panic and said tremblingly: "I... I... I'm going to clean the courtyard in the inner room. I don't know, sir... sir Why did you stop the young one?"
This middle-aged man with a mustache is the postmaster of the posthouse in Changshan Town. He usually doesn't do anything. A few days ago, the posthouse was bloodbathed. He missed the wine shop and brothel and died drunk there. Unexpectedly, he escaped. One calamity. In the past few days, the state government has intervened in the case, and many important figures from the government have come to investigate the case. In order to protect the scene of the crime, the Yi Cheng had to guard the door of the inner room, waiting for people from the government to come at any time. .
After all, it is just to meet more people above me, firstly to avoid the crime of dereliction of duty, and secondly, I want to know as soon as possible when someone from the official family comes to visit, so that I can be familiar with him, in case I can be of some help. A low-level Yi Cheng might be promoted to a higher level, and he might even become a county magistrate.
"Are you new here? Have you registered?" The middle-aged man with a mustache dressed as a postmaster said calmly. Lin Yan originally thought that this person had seen through his disguise, and he hesitated whether to expose his identity, but after a while Seeing the carefree look of the postmaster, I suddenly felt that I was overthinking it, so I calmed down and said, "Sir... I have just been here for a day. The adults in charge are busy and haven't registered... yet..."
"These bastards will cause trouble for me." The middle-aged man with the mustache sighed. He also knew that this is a special period, and it would be good if someone dared to do things. He immediately said: "This is where the murder happened. I have been ordered to do it at any time by the superiors." If you want to survey the scene, there is no need to clean it. Remember, no one can enter here without my order, do you hear me?"
Lin Yan quickly lowered his head and said solemnly: "Yes, yes, I just came here and don't know the rules. Please forgive me!"
"Forget it, those who don't know are not guilty." The middle-aged man with a mustache waved his hand impatiently, signaling Lin Yan to retreat.
Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and retreated, walked to a deserted place, pondered for a moment, and then secretly climbed into the inner room from the wall surrounding the inner room.
Although the crime scene is nominally off-limits, there are not many people in the entire post house and there is a shortage of manpower. Although there are people blocking several intersections, the doors and walls around the inner room are not guarded.
Of course, this is also due to Lin Yan's superb body skills. If he were an ordinary warrior, climbing up the wall in the blue sky and in broad daylight, he would be noticed by the guards in the distance the moment he stood on the wall. He would be far less capable than Lin Yan. So fast.
Entering the inner room, Lin Yan didn't take a few steps before he smelled a strong smell of blood. This smell of blood was mixed in the air. Ordinary people would think it was just an ordinary odor, but with Lin Yan's superb medical skills, naturally, You can tell that this fishy smell is the smell of blood.
"What's going on? It's been a few days, why is there still a smell of blood?" Lin Yan was surprised. The body had long been taken away by state officials. Logically speaking, a few days would be enough for the blood As it dries up, the flavor will gradually dissipate.
Before Lin Yan entered the inner room, he discovered that there were extremely obvious blood stains on the corridor outside the inner room door. The blood stains on it had dried and turned purple-red.
The purple-red blood stain spread all the way to the door of the inner room, and divided into several paths at a fork in the corridor, and extended into the courtyard of the inner room.
The entire courtyard seemed to have been ransacked, and some of the rockeries were broken. There were obvious knife marks on them, as well as fist and palm prints. Not only that, Lin Yan also saw knife marks and fist marks on many beams and pillars in the corridor.
"The knives have the same handle." After comparing the knife marks everywhere, Lin Yan found some clues. "Sure enough, there is only one person." He looked at the traces of the fight around him, and a figure appeared in his mind, chasing the Ouyang family. The people in the Ouyang family used ruthless swordsmanship. Even the people of the Ouyang family were no match for each other. They were killed one by one. At first, they were in the inner room just now, and the fighting spread to the courtyard.
"If there is only one person, this person's martial arts should be at the peak of the acquired eighth level." Lin Yan can say with certainty. Of course, this acquired eighth level peak is the acquired eighth level peak of the warriors in this world, which is the peak level of the top masters, and Lin Tiannan , Cheng Linong belongs to the same level.
Lin Yan entered the inner room and inspected it from all directions. Except that he could not simulate the faces of the dead Ouyang family members and the appearance of this "blood demon", Lin Yan had roughly guessed the entire fight. the process of.
First they started fighting in the house where he was now, and then when they were fighting in the house, they disturbed the people living in the surrounding houses. As a result, they were killed one by one by the crazy blood demons. There were a few with superb martial arts who persisted for a long time. At the same time, they encircled and attacked all the way to the courtyard.
Lin Yan looked at the furnishings in the house. Almost all the luggage had been taken away. Only tables, chairs and beds were left in the whole house. The wardrobes and boxes were all empty.
However, Lin Yan found a half-blooded sword in a corner. There was only one tip, about three inches long, and it was stained with some blood.
But the strange thing is that the blood stained on the sword tip did not dry up. When Lin Yan picked up the sword tip, the blood stained on it slipped to the ground and formed a blood drop with dust.
Lin Yan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly picked up the blood bead with his hands, letting it stain his hands red.
"Did it just fall off? No, even if it just fell off, it would take at least a quarter of an hour for it to slide off the tip of the sword so smoothly." Lin Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.
When an ordinary person bleeds, if there is not much blood, it will gradually solidify and dry up after about a quarter of an hour. But he was in this courtyard a quarter of an hour ago. If there was a fight, it would be impossible to hide it from Lin Yan's ears, so , there is no way it was just shed.
In other words, this drop of blood took at least three or four days. The blood that had been shed three or four days ago could remain uncoagulated when exposed to the air. This was obviously something wrong.
It's a pity that this drop of blood was too little. Lin Yan instilled Qi to investigate, but still found nothing strange about this drop of blood.
