Vol 2 Chapter 48: No clue

Sunlight came in from the lattice windows, and dust floated.
In the silent environment, Xu Qi'an stood silently in the room. After a while, the blue veins that had jumped on his forehead retracted, and he started to check the scene without any expression.
The furnishings such as tables and chairs are intact, with no signs of fighting. The man's carotid artery was cut by a sharp weapon, and his left temple collapsed.
Killed instantly.
The mother and daughter died because they were pierced by a sharp weapon at the same time. The mother was pierced in the heart, but the little girl was pierced in her right chest. After Xu Qian touched her head, she found that the real cause of death was the crushing of the Tianling Gai.
He then turned the bodies of the three corpses, lifted the cotton-padded clothes on their backs, and checked the degree of aggregation of the corpses. . .
"The time of death did not exceed four hours. It was killed in the morning...No, it's not right. The temperature last night was almost 2 degrees. If it was killed at night, the actual time of death would be earlier."
Low temperature has a "preservation" effect, which will affect the judgment of the time of death.
"Although there are no traces of fighting in the house, this does not mean that acquaintances committed the crime, because it is too simple to deal with ordinary people and can be killed instantly."
But for no reason, who would kill this innocent family?
Xu Qi'an was sitting at the table, tapping the table with his fingertips, and the pheromone in his brain was like boiling..........
"Apart from me and Chai Xian, who else knows this place? If there is no one, he or me is the murderer. If anyone knows this place, why don't they come early and late? After I spread the letter, kill people?
"The purpose is not Chai Xian, but to prevent Chai Xian from going to the Demon Slaying Conference... but what is the point? Isn't it better to ambush people here and kill Chai Xian directly?
"So, Chai Xian was the one who killed the people? It's not right, the motive is unreasonable."
Xu Qi'an suddenly widened his eyes and thought of a possibility.
The day I turned the cat to follow Chai Xian, I was also followed by others........
"Chai Xian couldn't find my tracking, because the walking dead didn't have the ability to anti-track. But I also didn't have the ability. I was just a cat, not the body. If someone quietly followed us that night... ...."
Xu Qi'an abruptly got up, left the house, turned the door closed, mounted the little mare, and galloped away.
..........
Chai House.
Li Lingsu held the hot tea cup in both hands and took a sip of the sweet liquid.
The white and delicate cup is filled with goji berries, so that the few teas are exceptionally sweet.
Alas, every day...Li Lingsu sighed.
Daomen had limited gains to his body before being transcendent, far less perverted than Wufu's physique.
In the past six months, the Eastern sisters deliberately drained his energy, causing him to be in a state of deficit all the time.
I thought that after being separated from the Eastern sisters, I would be able to recharge and accumulate energy, but for various reasons, I had to accompany other confidantes.
From Wenren Qianrou to Chai Xing'er, they are all dry Chai Lihuo.
"Maybe I should try to practice the martial arts system. Although the martial arts cannot break through before practicing the Qi state, it is for people who have no foundation. Breaking through early can not practice Qi. If I restore my cultivation base, I will use the fourth stage Taoism to forcefully practice Qi. , It's not difficult.
"Well, I still have to start from the refinement stage, otherwise, without the process of fighting the body, I will basically be unable to enter the fifth-grade transformation energy. Wait, I don't take the martial arts path for combat strength, but to train the aura. Okay........."
As I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a figure emerge from the shadow of the coffee table.
It is Xu Qian who is plain-looking.
"senior?"
Li Lingsu was taken aback. He didn't expect Xu Qian to come personally. Isn't he afraid of being discovered by Buddhist monks?
He just wanted to ask, when he suddenly realized that Xu Qian's state was not right.
Tianzong has the ability to "know through things", and is particularly sensitive to people and things that have been getting along for a long time, and a slight change can be immediately noticed.
It belongs to the prerequisite ability of "Harmony of Man and Nature".
Although Li Lingsu didn't know Xu Qian, he still had a lot of time together.
Xu Qian in the past was a pool of immersed, unfathomable water. Xu Qian is now a raging sea under the current.
Xu Qi'an nodded and said, "Where was Myolie Chai last night?"
On my bed...... Li Lingsu said, "Always be with me."
Xu Qi'an reminded: "Are you sure?"
It is also possible to go out to do some shameful things while you are asleep.
Li Lingsu frowned: "Last night we didn't end until two minutes later. In addition, my seal broke a small part, and the sleep was not too heavy. If the person next to the pillow leaves, I can't notice it."
Having said this, Li Lingsu subconsciously rubbed his sore waist.
At two moments, are you really suffering from a kidney failure? Xu Qi'an nodded slowly without saying nonsense: "In two quarters, we will meet outside the North City."
He turned into a shadow and disappeared into the room.
"Mystery of God..."
Li Lingsu immediately left the room, asked the steward of Chai Mansion for a horse, and walked along the main road to the gate of the North City.
It only took a quarter of an hour for the two to meet outside the North City Gate. Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian had changed again.
Xu Qi'an nodded slightly, without explaining, grabbed the belly of the little mare and rode away.
"drive!"
Li Lingsu waved his riding whip and immediately followed.
Approaching the village, Xu Qi'an slowed down, lost a robe and hood to him, and said:
"Put it on, there has been a murder in the village. Go and ask the soul to find out who the murderer is."
After Li Lingsu's cross-dressing was over, Xu Qi'an rolled over and dismounted and snapped his fingers. The little mare and the horse Li Lingsu was riding happily entered the woods on the roadside and hid them.
Hey, the ability of Royal Beast Gu is really useful...Li Lingsu thought enviously.
Heart Gu is also called "Beast Gu" and "Imperial Beast Gu" because Heart Gu masters often use it to control poisonous insects and beasts.
The two entered the village side by side. When approaching the destination, Xu Qi'an found that the villagers were standing outside the small courtyard, and sorrowful cries came from the house.
The villagers stood either in the courtyard or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.
Xu Qi'an vaguely heard a few words:
"Did the Wang and Lao Si family provoke anyone?"
"Who knows, don't even let the child go, the murderer is really depressed."
"Hey, could it be that Chai Xian did it? It must be him. I heard that this is a lunatic, and even the adoptive father is killed."
"Oh, aren't we in danger?"
He and Li Lingsu squeezed away the villagers and entered the yard.
A simple wooden board was erected in the room, and a family of three lay on it, covered with dirty white cloth, and an old man with gray hair fell down on the wooden board, crying.
A young couple was busy in the house. They were dressed in ordinary common clothes, their hands were rough, and their faces were dark. At first glance, they were people who were used to rough work.
"who are you?"
Seeing Xu Qi'an and Li Lingsu coming in, the young couple was a little wary, especially Li Lingsu was wearing a robe and a hood.
"People from the government."
Xu Qi'an said solemnly: "Who told you to move the body without authorization? What if you destroy the clue left by the murderer."
He came up to question, and the young man asked was at a loss, thinking he had made a big mistake.
Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the back room, the scene of the murder, and closed the door.
Without giving the young people a chance to react, Xu Qi'an sullenly asked, "What is your relationship with this family?"
The young man looked back at the male dead, sadness on his dull face:
"He is my brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, the neighbor saw a stranger come in, and then left soon. He came to check the situation and called for a long time that no one responded. He came in and found that everyone was killed......."
As he spoke, his eyes were red.
Xu Qi'an didn't change his face and said, "The neighbors around you call here."
The young man walked out of the threshold, glanced at the crowd outside the courtyard, and said in dialect:
"The official has something to ask, come here."
He pointed to several neighbors.
Soon, the two old mothers came in, both neighbors.
The old mothers were a little frightened, and couldn't restrain the nature of good people. They looked at the three corpses on the board frequently.
"Is there any strange person here before?"
Xu Qi'an asked and got the answer "A strange man came over at noon".
"Has anyone been weird in the morning?"
The two old mothers looked at each other and shook their heads.
One said he didn't pay attention, the other said he didn't see it.
Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger enters the village, it will be very eye-catching, and the possibility of murder at night will be greater... He secretly thought. At this time, Li Lingsu walked out of the house. , Shook his head at him.
"The soul was broken up." Li Lingsu said through voice.
Xu Qi'an's face sank and nodded slowly.
The two did not stay longer and left the village in a hurry.
On the way back, Li Lingsu whispered: "What happened?"
"I followed Chai Xian that day and found here all the way. Chai Xian is hiding in this family's house, which is one of the places to stay."
Xu Qi'an sat on the back of the little mare, looking far away, and said:
"On that day, we agreed to use this as the contact point to exchange news. I intend to encourage him to go to the Demon Slaying Conference to confront Chai Xing'er and take the opportunity to lock his position. Well, that day, I was tracking a cat with Heart Gu. When the locals arrived, he had already left."
This ignores why he is looking for Chai Xian ontology.
Although Li Lingsu had doubts, he did not ask carefully, and said in deep thought, "But Chai Xian did not appear at the Demon Slaying Conference today."
"Yes!"
Xu Qi'an nodded: "So I came here to confirm, but found that they were silenced."
"Hi..." Li Lingsu took a breath:
"The purpose of Miekou is to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaying Conference? There is a problem here, that is, the people who Miekou know that Chai Xian will come tonight. Otherwise, if Chai Xian can't receive your note, he will probably not show up. There is no need to kill people."
These words awakened Xu Qi'an, and he said solemnly, "Perhaps not to prevent the note from being obtained by Chai Xian, but to scare Chai Xian away."
"How do you say?" Li Lingsu asked.
"I don't know much about Chai Xian, but I know that this person's personality is a bit extreme. He stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real murderer behind the scenes. Even without my note, he would probably borrow from the Demon Slayer Conference. Time for justice."
Xu Qi'an analyzed:
"The note is my extra insurance, but it's not the most critical one. Because I can't be sure that Chai Xian will come last night, but how can people behind the scenes be sure that Chai Xian will come last night?"
The prerequisite for killing people is that Chai Xian gets the note and will disrupt the situation in the Demon Slayer Conference tomorrow.
But Xu Qi'an was not sure that Chai Xian would come to the small mountain village last night. If he didn't come, he would not see the note, and the motive for killing people would not exist.
But this family of three were still killed, indicating that the people behind the scenes knew that Chai Xian would come last night.
Li Lingsu understood:
"The note is not the key. The key is that the murderer behind the scenes knew that Chai Xian would be here last night. He killed the family of three ahead of time and frightened Chai Xian, making him feel that the mysterious person he met that day, the predecessor you, was a man of evil. people.
"Out of prudence, he dispelled the idea of ​​disturbing things at the Demon Slayer Conference. But what is the purpose of the murderer?"
Xu Qi'an could not give an answer, shook his head and said:
"One key piece of information is missing. In this case, apart from Chai Xing'er and Chai Xian, there is also a person behind the scenes. He is killing people everywhere. Locking this person's identity will basically unlock the truth."
Li Lingsu thought of a character: "Will it be Chai Lan?"
This character has never appeared before, she disappeared strangely on the day of Chai Jianyuan's death, and there is no news again.
Xu Qi'an asked back: "Does she have this cultivation level?"
"Chai Lan has a good cultivation base, but she should not have reached the fourth rank, or even the fifth rank. However, it is not certain whether she has hidden strength." Li Lingsu could not be sure.
Xu Qi'an said, "I won't use it for these two days."
"Why?"
"I will investigate the case secretly, find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and then kill." Xu Qi'an said blankly.
...........
Chai House.
A monk returned to the courtyard and clicked on the door of Jingxin's room. After getting permission, he pushed the door in and saw Jingxin and Jingyuan talking.
"Two brothers, the benefactor Chai Xing'er asked me to tell me that there was an extermination case in Xiaobu Village, more than 30 miles west of Xiangzhou City.
"After the "search team" organized by the government inquired about the situation, it was ruled out that Chai Xian did it. However, according to the villagers, a man in Tsing Yi came to the village at noon today. Not long afterwards, there were two more weirdly dressed men. Outsiders come into the village, claiming to be government officials.
"But the Yamen have confirmed that these two people are not from the government."
He detailed the death of a family of three.
Jing Xin twisted the chess piece and dropped "Pata" with a gentle voice: "I see."
The monk retired together.
"Xu is a ranger," said Jing Yuan.
He was referring to the two fake officials after the incident.
"Why did you kill someone if you never ingested blood, didn't ask for money?" Jing Xin frowned and muttered.
"Maybe it's a vendetta, or maybe it's a wicked person fishing in troubled waters, don't care too much. If you want to solve this problem earlier, you still have to get rid of the root." Jing Yuan said in a deep voice.
After the Demon Slaying Conference, the government and several big rivers and lakes compared the yellow books and searched from house to house in the city.
There are also "search teams" in the townships.
To achieve this step, the Xiangzhou government has done a lot.
"Tonight, you will go out for a tour of the city~EbookFREE.me~ remember to be a little bit sassy." Jing Xin said.
"Yeah." Jing Yuan nodded.
Jing Xin put down the chess piece, took out an ancient book from the cloth bag, and stopped on a certain page while turning the pages.
"The Southern Border Corpse Gu Department has a secret technique that uses corpses to raise corpses. This technique is born out of the technique of cultivating corpses. Walking corpses swallow each other and grab the essence. The final winner is the corpse king."
"Above the iron corpse is the flying corpse. The flying corpse does not have the warning of the danger of the refining realm martial artist, the ultimate control of the strength of the martial artist, and the "intention" of the fourth-grade martial artist, but the flying corpse can be short-lived. Flying, the combat power is not weaker than the fourth rank, or even stronger."
"Because they grabbed enough essence and blood to condense the embryonic blood pill in the body, with the ability to regenerate flesh and blood."
Jing Xin slowly said: "After killing so many martial artists, some of them were grabbed of blood, and some of the corpses were missing. The person behind the scenes is afraid that they want to practice a flying corpse. He definitely will not let go of the power of the gods. you."
Jing Yuan smiled and said, "Especially at the Demon Slaying Conference, the cultivation base I showed barely reached the fifth rank."
As he was talking, another monk came in and handed a note:
"Brother Jingxin, the steward of Chai Mansion handed out a letter, saying that it was delivered by someone outside the door, asking for a name and surname to you."
With doubts, Jing Xin opened the envelope.
...........
Xu Qi'an returned to the inn and knocked on the door.
"who is it?"
Mu Nanzhi's vigilant voice sounded behind the door.
"I."
Xu Qi'an heard something wrong in her voice and said, "Open the door, what's wrong?"
Squeak~
The door opened, and Mu Nanzhi stood behind the door, his face serious.
Two small white foxes with big palms squatted at her feet obediently, their childish voice pretending to be serious:
"Someone is watching us. If you don't come back, my aunt will be scared under the drill bed."