Two days later.
Thirty miles southwest of Yingchou Cliff.
Groups of gray-clothed patrols were scattered throughout the dense forest, searching carefully.
After a long while, Yu Liu, the newly appointed deputy director of the Inspection Yuan, quickly came to a big tree.
With a flash of inspiration, he jumped to the top of this six or seven-story tall tree.
On the canopy of the tree, a middle-aged man in his forties stood quietly.
He stepped on the tip of a leaf. No matter how the tree crown swayed, the other leaf remained still, like a rock in the sea.
Yu Liu stood firm on a branch as thick as a finger and clasped his fists respectfully.
"Elder Hu, the scene was severely damaged and nothing can be found."
"Vice-President Zhao and the three patrol patrol teams are probably in danger."
Hu Changqing slightly twirled his beard and muttered to himself: "Retaliation?"
He asked Zhao Shaoyuan to investigate smuggling. His original intention was to crack down on retail investors and facilitate his unified management in the future. As a result, the people were gone as soon as they started.
"Is there anyone else in the other courtyard involved in the Yingchouya mutual market transaction?"
"Did you steal the business from me?" A cold light flashed in Hu Changqing's eyes.
This is adding sand to his territory!
"It's time to clean up Yingchou Cliff."
Just as he was contemplating a plan to exclude and cleanse, a strong figure suddenly rushed up the tree trunk.
The other party had an honest and honest look on his face. After bowing respectfully, he said in a loud voice: "Elder, Vice-President, we have discovered something!"
As he spoke, he turned his hands and held up a sparrow-sized bird.
The bird's feathers were gray and its whole body was shriveled. A piece of its hind legs had been chewed off by small animals, revealing its white bones.
What’s strange is that the muscles attached to the bones neither look dripping with blood nor show signs of rotting and smelly, but instead appear bright brown and red, like bacon!
Hu Changqing's expression couldn't help but change.
With one move of his hand, he photographed the bird in the air in front of him.
"With all the energy, blood, and essence drained away, Dongling Barbarian's witchcraft curse and killing secret technique?!"
He couldn't help but think of the dozen or so bizarre death cases on Yingchou Cliff.
"Could it be that Zhao Shaoyuan's disappearance was not due to mutual trading, but because he encountered something that shouldn't be seen and was silenced?!"
Hu Changqing frowned immediately.
"Someone is planning Yingchou Cliff? Just like the original Misty Mountain!"
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.
The Yingchou Cliff Mountain Protection Formation has not been set up yet!
"On the sixth day, leave a team of people to continue the search. The others will go back to Yingchou Cliff immediately to investigate the witchcraft murder cases first!"
Zhao Shaoyuan's death is no longer important.
Hu Changqing attaches more importance to the safety of Yingchouya.
As the supervisor of the prison, as long as Yingchou Cliff can be kept, there is no need to worry about making white jade money.
Yu Liu immediately shouted in response, jumped down from the tree and asked people to leave.
Before leaving, he patted the honest man on the arm with satisfaction: "Yulin, good job!"
"Since this is the clue you discovered, the rest of the work will be left to you."
As he spoke, he leaned closer and whispered: "The elder and I are going to investigate the murderer. You mainly need to find the corpse, especially the corpse of Deputy Zhao Yuan."
"The most important thing is the magic weapon on the corpse."
"There may be the aura of the murderer's secret technique on it. If you find it, you must hand it over to me as soon as possible!" Yu Liu seriously warned: "And it must be kept secret. The information must not be leaked."
"Don't worry, Capital City. If you find it, I will definitely hand it over to you as soon as possible." Yulin said honestly and seriously, with a slightly clumsy temperament that made people believe it just by looking at it.
"Haha, okay! Leave it to you, I won't worry!" Yu Liu laughed loudly and hurriedly left with a group of people.
Yulin stood there, always keeping that honest smile on his face.
Lu Ku and others slowly came to Yulin's side and calmly looked at the people's backs in the distance.
"Our new vice-capital seems to have taken a liking to that nemesis."
"Ah……"
…
Next to the small waterfall on the mountainside of Yingchou Cliff, inside the wooden building.
Chen Mu was restless and couldn't calm down for two days in a row, for fear of being found out and attracting Sun Jian.
I always feel like a bolt of thunder will hit my head in the next moment.
"You can't wait like this." Chen Mu frowned.
The inability to obtain external information immediately made it impossible for him to determine the situation.
"It's a pity that Hongxiufang doesn't have a branch here. Even if it has a restaurant and teahouse, it would be fine."
In the past, he could always harvest intelligence information from these places.
"The six Wushan brothers and sisters?" Chen Mu thought thoughtfully.
He was unable to find out the news, but as the protagonist of this incident, Lu Ku and others would definitely find a way to pay attention to the changes in the situation.
If we could manage to get what the seven had gained...
Chen Mu's eyes lit up: "Tongxin Curse Synesthesia!"
When synesthesia is activated, it can synchronize seven people and five senses.
What the seven people saw and heard, he could also see and hear.
"This is equivalent to having seven extra pairs of ears and eyes!"
Moreover, among the seven, Shi Xian practiced listening to the secret method carefully and was the best at listening to all directions.
The higher the level of the deep listening method, the wider the listening range. Active detection is easier to detect, but there are no hidden dangers in passive listening.
Just like Chen Mu's Sixth Level Listening Method, as long as you hang it on your ear, you can hear movement within a radius of 500 meters without being discovered.
"Shi Xian's secret technique is only at the third level, and his passive listening ability is poor."
"But I can lend her my listening skills! Haha!"
Before, he returned the third-level giant spirit god to Ai Ji with part of his mana, which allowed Ai Ji to temporarily perform secret techniques across levels.
In the same way, now Chen Mu can also lend Shi Xian the power of listening to the truth, allowing her to temporarily possess the power of sixth level listening!
Chen Mu immediately started trying.
Not long after, the Sixth Level Truth Listening Talisman was successfully delivered to the Shixian Jade Seed.
All kinds of noises came into my mind.
"It's done!" Chen Mu was greatly excited.
But when he listened carefully, he couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Shi Xian seems to be at... the Inspection Institute!"
Something happened? !
He immediately listened attentively.
But the more he listened, the weirder his face became.
The six Wushan brothers and sisters are inspectors of the Inspection Institute?
Is Yulin managed by ten people?
Will the new deputy governor let the six Wushan brothers and sisters focus on investigating the disappearance of Zhao Shaoyuan?
This...let the murderer track down the murderer? !
Chen Mu: "..."
"That Deputy Governor is really discerning."
"ha!"
…
Half a month later.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and snowflakes are even starting to drift on the top of Yingchou Cliff.
Next to the small waterfall on the mountainside, the interior of Chen Mumu Building is as warm as spring.
The flames in the stove roared loudly, burning the heating pipes under the floor.
"Although the cold and heat are not intrusive, in the middle of winter, it is still warm and comfortable." Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.
He had done floor heating in Lengyue Mountain before. Nowadays, the ground is made of steel, and it is more convenient to rub stoves and heating pipes with just a little soil.
He walked happily to the window, his breath was as tight as a windshield wiper.
From top to bottom, the white water vapor condensed on Qiongyu's windows is pushed away to reveal the scenery outside the window.
Chen Mu held a cup of hot Huiyuan Tang with the flavor of Hu spicy soup in his hands, looking at the high and empty scenery at the foot of the mountain, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
Over the past ten days or so, things have been changing at Yingchou Cliff.
Elder Hu Changqing vigorously investigated and found some Dongling barbarian spies.
However, the case of Zhao Shaoyuan's disappearance has always been elusive due to the good vision of the deputy director of the Inspection Yuan.
Even because Elder Hu attaches great importance to the strange death case of Yingchouya. Yulin and others were deployed to support two days ago.
No one paid attention to the disappearance of Zhao Shaoyuan and others.
"It's good that no one is paying attention." Chen Mu felt relaxed.
"Thanks to those barbarian spies."
Because of his synaesthesia, he also got some information about the barbarian witchcraft killing incident.
Most of those who died had their bodies shriveled up and their vitality, blood, and essence drained away. The effect was very similar to Wu Ruo's secret method of absorbing souls and returning them to their original state.
That's why the Inspectorate turned its attention.
"I don't know what the Inspection Commission will find today."
Chen Mu activated the Tongxin Mantra synaesthesia as he had done in the past few days, and at the same time passed the Sixth Level Truth Listening Talisman to Shi Xian.
"Isn't this a radio from another world listening to spells? Haha..."
Chen Mu took a sip of Hui Yuan Tang proudly and happily lay down next to the stove in the rocking chair.
"If Shi Xian is running around and increases the listening range, it can be used as a reduced version of Shunfeng Ear."
(End of chapter)
