Dark Fairy

Chapter 77 Feng Mingyuan’s unexpected gain
Late at night, the lamps were still on in Feng Mingyuan's study in the City Lord's Mansion.From time to time, some guards or officials from the City Lord's Mansion will come in and out.

Counting the surrounding land and the affairs of the surrounding cities in the huge Yongchuan City, there are quite a lot of disturbances.

Feng Mingyuan is used to working hard for a few days in a row, then resting for a few days, and repeats this process.So when he was busy, he would sometimes work around the clock, but when he was resting, he would be just as straightforward. Unless something urgent happened, he would ignore everything.

Today was Feng Mingyuan's first day as a director after relaxing for two days, so he had a lot of things backlogged, and he didn't like to procrastinate all the time, so it became another habit to keep changing overnight.

"My lord, your previous judgment was not wrong. The people below found the fragments of Yaoxie's corpse outside the city. Although they were few and obviously treated to cover them up, they can still tell that there are two heads of Yaoxie. They were both liked by them before they died. It has been devoured by the method of Soul Devouring Dao, and there are only a few residues left."

When the chores in his hands were almost dealt with, Feng Mingyuan's personal bodyguard, Zhou Zhonghao, reported to Feng Mingyuan the latest situation in the city.Prior to this, the City Lord's Mansion adopted the Da Furen's "bait" plan, and successfully used the bait to lure out the evil spirits who had committed nearly ten murders in the city.But at the last moment of closing the net, an accident occurred and the opponent ran away.

The five Qi refiners in the City Lord's Mansion who participated in the pursuit were all injured to varying degrees.Afterwards, it was judged that their injuries were all caused by the force of the shock when the evil spirit broke free from the trap at that time.

And Feng Mingyuan made a judgment on this matter at the time, saying that it was impossible for those evasive evil spirits who were obviously not strong enough to tear open the magic circle jointly arranged by the five qi refiners.There must have been accidents in it.Or there are evil spirits with helpers, secretly rescued.Or someone is also staring at those evil spirits and wants to reap the benefits of the fisherman.After that, the City Lord's Mansion was asked to increase the scope of the search, thinking that this matter would definitely leave clues.

As a result, after several days of investigation, traces were found in a dry well outside the city.It seems that although Yaoxie ran away from the original bait plan, it didn't end well in the end.Afterwards, they found clues that also belonged to evil spirits in a small forest.And there are obvious traces of deliberate cover-up, but the cover-up is not thorough, and it has not escaped the experts who specialize in pursuit in the City Lord's Mansion.

"Only the body fragments of Yaoxie were found? Did you find anything else?"

"Returning to my lord, apart from the fragments of Yaoxie's corpse, I found some remnants of the female body, severed limbs, broken arms and torn clothes. It can be confirmed that it is the sister who was taken away by Yaoxie as a bait. However."

"Say."

"It's my lord. That sister's body is very mutilated, many times more mutilated than the corpses left in any previous murders. It can only be distinguished that it is a human corpse. And the amount of blood is much less, and it does not look like a living body. people."

There are a lot of questions in the news, not just the simple finding of Yaoxie and the fact that Yaoxie has died, but also other doubts.That sister's body was obviously one of them.This point can't be hidden in front of those pursuit masters in the city lord's mansion.

"Hmph, manipulating dead bodies?"

"My lord?" Zhou Zhonghao looked over suspiciously.

However, Feng Mingyuan did not explain, but continued to ask: "Do you still remember the murder case that was reported in the knife shop?"

"My lord is talking about the case of Li Jiang, the head of the blood guard of the state capital, and his deputy, who were killed in a grove outside the city, and then their bodies were mutilated to blame evil spirits?"

Feng Mingyuan nodded, leaned back in his chair, and said with great interest: "That's right. Ordinary people, even demons, would never have the guts to touch the blood guards in the state capital. If they provoke those lunatics, they will hide in I'm afraid they will be dug out in the gutter for revenge. Moreover, the perfunctory destruction of the corpse after the murder is simply too casual. It's like coping with the matter. You say that whoever commits such a murder normally dare not treat himself like this take your life seriously?"

Without waiting for Zhou Zhonghao to answer, Feng Mingyuan directly gave his judgment and said: "Dare to do this unless the murderer is sure that he will not be discovered in any case, even if his hasty disguise is seen through."

"Sir, do you think these two cases were committed by the same person?"

"It's not that I feel, but I'm sure!" Feng Mingyuan also smiled, tapped the copybook on the table with his fingers, and said word by word: "Can kill two third-rank warriors silently, destroy the corpse and blame the evil spirits, The sister who is obviously a bait is a corpse, and the evil spirits can swallow it. These things are connected, what can you think of that can do all of this at the same time?
Do you still remember the highest sea arrest document in the country that pursued the assisted investigation and left it in the "Warning Items" when I first took office? "

Zhou Zhonghao, who was still thinking seriously with a blank face, suddenly changed his face after hearing Feng Mingyuan's last two sentences, and the fear in his eyes couldn't be controlled in horror.

"My lord, are you saying that the two of Li Jiang and the two demons who were devoured this time were killed by the ghost cultivator who Guochao issued the highest sea arrest document for hundreds of years?!"

"That's right, it's Ghost Cultivator."

"But my lord, why does the ghost cultivator want to kill and kill evil spirits?"

"Don't forget, it is clearly stated in the Haidu document that the ghost cultivator was seriously injured and his strength was at a loss. The reason why he killed the demons was naturally not because of grudges, but because he wanted to heal his wounds! Although the ghost cultivators are not as good as the demons, they are It can also repair itself by devouring other people's souls and flesh. Moreover, ghost cultivators are best at controlling dead bodies, which also explains why it uses our bait plan to bully evil spirits before attacking. Because it is injured. , there is no way to kill hard, so you need to use tricks."

When Feng Mingyuan said this, the excitement in his eyes was about to overflow.

Before today, the death of the two blood guards in the state capital made him very concerned. At first, he felt that someone was deliberately muddying the water in Yongchuan City, and might even bring down the city lord's mansion, which had been staying out of the matter.But this time, the evil incident immediately made Feng Mingyuan connect with an assisting investigation document that had been hanging in his heart all along.Everything still looks so reasonable.

There was silence in the study for a while, before Feng Mingyuan continued: "The ghost cultivator either passed by Yongchuan, or he has been hiding here for many years. This time, because of the clay figurines, the Qi refiners who would not come to our place have flocked." Come here to try your luck. These qi refiners who have cultivated aura, have Taoism, but low strength are definitely a good opportunity for the ghost cultivator in the Haizhuo document to make up for it. That's why he did it.

Zhonghao, go check again to see if there are other Qi refiners who suddenly disappeared in the city recently.If there is, then my guess should be sure! "

(End of this chapter)