After Lu Bai's clone paused for a moment, he got into the fire scene without hesitation.
If Huang Zuotou dies, this clue will be completely lost.
However, when Lu Bai's clone rushed in, he saw that the huge house was completely immersed in raging fire, and corpses were scattered everywhere. Some corpses were burnt, and some were still intact, but they were all dead.
Lu Bai took a look at the man's neck and saw that he was fatal with one stab. The person who killed and silenced the man was an experienced hand.
For fear of leaving evidence behind, he asked Lu Bai to continue intervening. After killing the person, a fire burned all the evidence.
"What a cruel person." Lu Bai thought to himself.
He walked around and saw that the fire started in the living room. There were several corpses lying in the living room, which were still charred corpses. It seemed that Huang Zuotou was also inside.
Lu Bai did not break in.
Obviously nothing can be found.
He stood in the yard with his brows furrowed, feeling very upset. Ever since he started investigating this case, he had been being led around, and his opponents were almost always one step ahead of him, snuffing out the clues he found.
It's true in the palace, it's true in Peach Blossom Temple, it's true in Huang Zuotou now.
He felt like he had entered a big maze, groping for many paths that led to dead ends, and he still couldn't find the direction.
Lu Bai let out a long sigh, and his body dispersed in the air.
Lu Bai looked back at the two craftsmen, suddenly thinking, this case was not completely clueless.
Judging from the information he gathered in Longliu Lane, there was no child inside.
Combined with the fact that Hu Wanwan and the others just said that Huang Zuotou's children were not abducted, it seems that the man behind the scenes likes to use children to threaten their parents to do things for him.
In this case, Huang Zuotou's threat to the three craftsmen with tokens this morning must be the work of the mastermind behind the scenes.
In other words, he currently knows that at least three children are in the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes.
There are some tricks here.
Lu Bai went to the general to investigate the case, copied down the list, and went straight to Hu Baiwan's house. After coming out of Hu Baiwan's house, he used his magical power to shrink into an inch and arrived at Shi Garden almost in the blink of an eye.
In such a short period of time, if the mastermind behind the scenes wants to break this line, it is obvious that they have to move forward together, and they have to be steady and ruthless, without leaving any mistakes.
Obviously, the mastermind behind this indeed did it accurately and ruthlessly, but something went wrong...
Lu Bai sneered.
Cutting off these threads in a short period of time, and asking these three craftsmen to kill Hu Wanwan and three other people, at least proved that the mastermind behind the scenes was familiar with the construction industry.
Otherwise, we would not have caught the sons and daughters of the craftsmen at the same construction site at the critical moment and forced them to commit such crimes.
Therefore, Lu Bai felt that the mastermind behind this could start from the case of the missing child.
By the way, how many cases have there been?
Lu Bai thought about it in his mind, including the fire case in Qingxin Palace, the case of stealing money from the inner treasury, and the case of missing children——
Well.
Lu Bai was startled.
Not long ago, he asked Fang Qianhu to investigate the case of missing children. I wonder how his investigation went. Lu Bai was very busy these days and did not bother to go to Nanzhen Fusi. He did not expect that the case he was investigating now was the same as Fang Qianhu's.
I contacted him about the case he was investigating.
Thinking of this, Lu Bai stood up and stretched, "Now there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to listen to?"
Li San, the craftsman who was kneeling on the ground, said hurriedly: "Okay, good news!"
The craftsman next to him nodded hurriedly.
"Uh--" Lu Bai pondered for a moment, "Let's talk about the bad news. Longliu Lane was on fire, and not even a hair of Huang Zuotou's house was burned."
"Ah!" Li San's face changed color immediately.
"The good news is that there is no child's body inside. Now that the child has not been missing for a long time, if we continue to trace it, we may be able to find traces of your child." Lu Bai said.
The two craftsmen immediately panicked.
They ran onto the stone bridge, anxious to go home.
Lu Bai asked them to wait and tell him his address first so that he could go there easily.
The two craftsmen stopped hurriedly and reported the door of their home. Lu Bai's body split into three in an instant, and the two clones headed towards the door provided by Li San and others.
As for Lu Bai, he followed the craftsman who was running quickly.
"You just said that after seeing the children's tokens, you had no doubt that they were kidnapped because of Huang Zuotou, Hu Baiwan and the others were also threatened in this way, right?" Lu Bai asked.
The two of them were panting and could only nod.
"They are the only ones who lost their children?" Lu Bai asked.
He needs to find out when the child was lost, and find out whether the person behind the scenes kidnapped the child and threatened people when he was targeting Neiku, or whether he had been doing this a long time ago.
Li San shook his head.
He had to stop and said, "No, no, a long time ago there was a legend about the ogre in the suburbs of the city. It was said that there was an ogre in the streets, which looked like a black dog and specialized in kidnapping children."
"oh?"
Lu Bai thought to himself that this child-eating demon was probably kidnapping children for those old eunuchs.
"Approximately when did it start?" Lu Bai asked.
Li San remembered that he had heard this legend intermittently when he was a child. "At that time, when my mother threatened me, she said, if you don't obey me, the ogre demon will take you away."
Li San grew up under the fear of the child-eating demon.
The craftsman next to him suddenly said: "When we were young, there were often rumors that children were abducted by the child-eating demon."
"Oh?" Lu Bai asked him where his hometown was.
"Gusu." said the craftsman.
His hometown was in Suzhou, and he was later drafted to the capital to build a palace and serve. Later, he stayed in the capital to start a family.
Lu Bai still felt that this ogre was most likely the work of the inner study hall.
As the saying goes, eggs should be placed in different baskets. If these old eunuchs want to eat people, they will definitely not just stick to the wool around the capital.
"Hu Wanwan's son was also abducted by the child-eating demon?" Lu Bai asked.
Li San hesitated.
he does not know.
The legendary food-eating demon never returned the child after it abducted it. After Hu Baiwan and his children were lost, it was initially said that the child-eating demon had kidnapped them, but later Hu Baiwan said that someone else had captured their child.
After leaving, they have a way to get the child back.
"So, I think their child was probably not taken away by the child-eating demon." Li San also hesitated.
"But when they lost their child, it was said that a person who looked like a black dog snatched their child." Another craftsman added.
Among the craftsmen who built Qingxin Hall, not only Hu Wanwan's three children were abducted, but several craftsmen's children were also abducted.
Because as colleagues who are usually good friends, they have helped search together, so they know.
Lu Bai's heart moved, "Oh? Can you help dig a hole for His Highness Qingxin so that you can get the child back?"
The craftsman nodded.
"What about the others? The other children abducted by the eater can't come back?" Lu Bai asked.
He became suspicious now, wondering if the ogre demon and the person who kidnapped the craftsman's child were not in the same group, or was the ogre demon himself a monster?
Li San shook his head, "I never heard that it could be recovered before, but in recent years there has been a theory."
"What statement."
Li Sanxian told Lu Bai that he didn't know whether the legend was true or not. He just got the information vaguely while helping his companions find children.
"My son was kidnapped by the child-eating demon. As long as I sacrifice four children, I can get my own child back," Li San said.