The weather is gradually entering spring, the offensive of the cold winter months has receded, and the entire Dalin City will be filled with new vitality in the embrace of spring. The bright sunshine rarely appeared above the capital. Jing Yu moved a deck chair to take a nap in the yard early in the morning. Tea was brewing in the charcoal stove nearby, and he was chewing a kind of gum in his mouth that could be eaten as chewing gum. This was his newly discovered thing.
It was a rare quiet day. Not long ago, Jing Yu was still worried about the relationship between Huang and Nian Beast. Nian Beast was extremely afraid of Huang, but it was unwilling to be outdone. The two often clashed. Fortunately, Jing Yu pulled them away in time. The one-week running-in period finally allowed the two of them to calm down, and Jing Yu rarely had time to drink tea and sleep.
However, workers are not allowed to be lazy, and Dingmingsi quickly received the order from the court.
A vicious massacre occurred recently in Linying County, Qizhou.
In just one night, a hundred people died in the entire city, exactly one hundred people. The deceased was killed by a single blow, and there was a penetrating wound in the heart. The local county government initially determined that it was a weapon injury.
This matter was reported to the imperial court by Linying County Magistrate, causing shock to the entire government and the public. The emperor even hastily retreated from the court in anger. Killing people in Qizhou is equivalent to killing people under the eyes of the emperor. This is a contemptuous insult to the Dalin regime.
Not only that, the death toll is rising by one hundred every day, and one hundred people will die every night. If left unchecked, Linying County will become an empty city in a while!
Jing Yu had a headache when he looked at this number. On the one hand, it was because a good vacation was ruined, and on the other hand, because such cases were usually not man-made.
Without further ado, Jing Yu called everyone from Dingming Division to go to Linying County to investigate the matter.
The important task of analyzing the case naturally fell on Chen Xueyun. He read the case file carefully and highlighted the important points with charcoal. The constant death toll of a hundred people every night shows that it is not an accident, but something deliberate by some force. The first thing Chen Xueyun thought of was the cult.
However, according to the cult's routine, it must be mainly brainwashing. This kind of regular murder motive is not consistent.
So he turned his attention to the surrounding banditry and demon kingdoms.
Linying County is close to the northern border, and banditry has been rampant for a long time. They do have enough strength to massacre the city. However, if you substitute yourself as a bandit, you should clean up the government personnel as soon as possible so that they lose contact with the court. Besides, the killing method of killing with one blow was not done by bandits. Chen Xueyun shook her head and abandoned this thought.
If it were a demon country...
Chen Xueyun asked Song Qian for help, which kind of demon clan can kill with one blow, and can also kill people invisible. Song Qian said very little, and the demon country would not do this. Even if the demon country wanted to kill someone, it had to make a plan.
The clues were interrupted now, and the weapons were intact, but no force would do this.
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In Linying County, people were afraid to go out and the streets were deserted. The situation was very similar to that in Wuyin County. All the soldiers on duty were transferred to the county government to protect the county magistrate, and a large area outside the county seat was used for burying corpses.
Many wealthy landowners and squires had fled Linying County overnight and sought refuge elsewhere. There were only groups of people in the city who were worried about their lives and were waiting to die. The county magistrate was helpless. As the food, clothing and parents of these people, he was lying on the hospital bed with a high fever and confusion.
If someone passes by this place, they will definitely see rows of corpses on the ground covered with white cloth, like a white river the moment they enter the city. The white river represents the flow of fresh life in the city, the rampage of criminals, and the helplessness of ordinary people in the face of supernatural forces.
Jing Yu was also shocked when he first arrived. The corpses there were so shocking that Qiao Xu lay down in the corner and started vomiting. Even if it is wrapped in white cloth, it cannot resist the physiological reaction.
Because of this incident, the county magistrate had nightmares every night, and he became seriously ill and bedridden out of fear. Everyone in Dingming Division could not see the county magistrate, so they had to start their own investigation.
They first went to the deceased's home to look for clues, and the general conclusion was that there was no trace of activity in the home, which reminded Jing Yu of previous evil murders in Wuyin County.
When evil spirits kill people, the deceased are usually extremely painful, and they like to torture people. This kind of being penetrated by weapons is hardly the style of evil spirits.
Next, Song Qian and Huang were responsible for inspecting the body. They peeled off the white cloth on the body piece by piece, and they all saw the eye-catching wound on the left chest, with a smooth cut surface. Song Qian had some vague speculations in his mind, and he needed some tangible evidence to prove it.
Jing Yu decided to push the suspect to the demon kingdom again. He borrowed all the demon-related cases from the county government in the past six months, and there was no end to them.
Then filtering out the cases of monster murders, he was pleasantly surprised to find that there was one case that fit the current situation very well, and the suspect was at large.
Opening the case file, it was mentioned: On January 15, officials received a report that more than ten people died suddenly in Linzifang, southwest of Linying County, and the wounds were uniform incisions. Over the next few days, until January 20, the number of people gradually declined. The government sent out all the detectives but failed to catch the culprit.
Jing Yu suddenly felt that this case was quite interesting. Maybe it was the murderer's practice work, while what happened a few days ago was his official action.
So Jing Yu asked Chen Xueyun to handle the case with him, while the others stayed behind to continue investigating the case of hundreds of people. They first inquired about the address of the deceased in the old case and went to the other party's home to conduct evidence collection and investigation.
The first person who arrived was the home of a deceased man named Li. He had a wife and seemed to have returned to her parents' home that day, so he escaped. The Widow Li sat quietly by the window, looking motionless at the sky outside the window.
"Sister, what did your husband do before he died?" Jing Yu asked cautiously.
Widow Li glanced at him and shed a tear from the corner of her eye: "My husband used to work as a clerk in a grocery store, and the money he earned every month was enough to support the family. But he lost his life at the age when he was most suitable for work, so I should What should I do...wuwuwu." Widow Li lay on the table and cried bitterly.
"Then do you have any heirs?" Jing Yu didn't hear the children playing in the house and felt a little strange, so he asked again.
"My son died in that massacre a few days ago." Widow Li wiped away her tears and continued.
Jing Yu's heart tightened, and he grabbed the threshold to calm his mind. Judging from the apparent age of Widow Li, her son cannot be more than ten years old, but mother and son are separated forever.
Chen Xueyun recorded what Widow Li said, closed the book, and called Jing Yu outside the house.
He said to Jing Yu: "This eldest sister is so miserable. It would be better for Brother Jing not to provoke her. I suggest you go elsewhere to obtain evidence."
Jing Yu agreed. He said goodbye to his eldest sister and left three taels of silver for her to bury her husband and son safely.
For an hour, they searched all the houses of the deceased and questioned some people related to the deceased, but no useful clues were found. But there was new progress on Song Qian's side. They actually found a survivor of the Hundred Persons Case, a person with a heart on the right side.
The man's surname was Zhang. He luckily escaped the attack and never went out again, so the government was not aware of his existence. Zhang Sangao's left chest was wrapped in cloth and he was lying on the couch, still recovering from his illness. Song Qian was responsible for asking him what he saw and heard that night, including the appearance of the murderer and so on.
He said that the person who came to kill him that night was not a living thing, but he couldn't see clearly. He only felt a shadow flash past, and felt a pain in his chest, and then he lost consciousness and passed out.
Jing Yu didn't know this information yet, and was still busy investigating the unsolved case.
It wasn't until night that the two teams concluded their investigation. Song Qian's side made a breakthrough but lacked more critical information, while Jing Yu's side was completely clueless and a mess.
Tonight is a full moon night.
Everyone in Dingmingsi couldn't sleep at all, because they were very anxious when they thought of another hundred people dying when they woke up tomorrow, in case the county magistrate was included in the next wave of deaths...
Jing Yu was not in the inn, but chose to drag Chen Xueyun to walk on the street together - Xueyun was not sleeping either - and the two of them looked at the jade plate in the sky, feeling not leisurely but fearful.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Jing Yu saw a black shadow jumping on the surrounding rooftops. He immediately took out a rough iron gun and threw it at it. The iron gun passed by the black shadow, making a crisp impact sound. The black shadow seemed to see the two people on the street and rushed towards them.
Jing Yu smiled evilly, took out the gun, and pulled the trigger. The vigorous spiritual power turned into a meteor and penetrated the black shadow. The black shadow fell to the ground in pain, twisting his body and trying to escape.
When he got closer, he found that it was a wolf demon. Jing Yu fired another shot and broke the wolf demon's legs. He put away the gun and squatted down to interrogate the wolf demon.
"Why are you running on the roof?"
The wolf demon's eyes were scarlet, and he glared at Jing Yu unwillingly: "I killed the man, but you caught him, and you can do whatever you want."
"Did you kill those hundreds of people?" Jing Yu's voice contained a hint of anger.
"Uncle, if I have such strength, will I still be caught by you?" the wolf demon said arrogantly.
Jing Yu understood and shot the wolf demon's head to pieces. The latter's body collapsed on the ground, lifeless. Chen Xueyun tied the wolf demon's body with a rope and took it back to the county government.
After Zuo Zuo's examination, it was consistent with the cut wounds in the murder case two months ago. The long claws of this wolf demon were extremely sharp, like metal, and it should be a mutant species of the wolf demon family. Now that the unsolved case has been settled, Jing Yu plans to bring the news to Widow Li afterwards so that she can face life again.
Song Qian didn't tell Jing Yu the news about the survivors. He wanted to sort it out by himself and tell it all together. However, Jing Yu learned about the survivors from the county government in advance, and confirmed that the real culprit in the Hundred Persons Case might not be a demon.
Arrive as promised the next day.
Another hundred people died in Linying County, leaving Dingmingsi little time.
Even so, Jing Yu wanted to visit Widow Li, wanting to bring the news that the wolf demon was dead. As soon as he stepped through the threshold, he froze on the spot.
There was a female corpse hanging on the beam. The female corpse's face was blue and her eyes were closed in silence. There were still three taels of silver and a piece of paper on the table, with a short line of writing on the paper.
"Ms. sir, son, I'm here to see you." (To be continued)
