Inside the prefect's Yamen, there was a busy scene.
The red-clothed envoys were searching for various information. The officials in the yamen not only did not dare to stop them, but also cooperated obediently. They were afraid that if they were not careful, they would be regarded as Li Tingfang's accomplices and be arrested and interrogated in the prison of the Demon Suppression Department.
Precisely because many of their colleagues were arrested and sent to the Demon Suppression Department, the officials in the prefecture's yamen were all in a state of panic.
Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer, led by Zhu Xiucai, went straight to the backyard.
In addition to the red-clothed envoys, there is also Taoist Priest Qiu Shi here. Li Tingfang's family members have already been taken to the Yamen of the Demon Suppression Division for interrogation.
When Qin Shaoyou and others arrived, Taoist Master Qiu Shi was conducting an autopsy on the maid's body.
Seeing Qin Shaoyou walking into the side room where the corpse was parked, Taoist Master Qiu Shi reported to him:
"Sir, the deceased was about twenty-five years old. He had no spiritual power, blood or other energy in his body, and no tattoo marks of Black Lotus followers were found on his body. He was an ordinary person.
The cause of death was poisoning. According to my inspection, she took the poison extracted from the ghost bomb. This poison is extremely toxic and acts directly on the heart. Just a little bit can kill someone suddenly."
"Ghost bomb?"
Qin Shaoyou raised his eyebrows slightly, remembering some of the cases he had seen in the Demon Suppression Department, and asked: "But are there ghosts that live in the water, are similar to monsters, and can release poisonous gas?"
"Yes, that's it."
Taoist Master Qiu Shi nodded.
"This kind of ghost often appears in rivers in the mountains around Dianzhou. Every time it appears, it will be accompanied by poisonous fog. If the trees are contaminated, they will immediately wither. If people are contaminated, they will die on the spot. The locals call it ghost bombs."
Qin Shaoyou immediately thought of the group of witches who followed Li Tingfang.
Siam, Jiaozhi and Dianzhou are very close to each other and are deeply influenced by Dianzhou. Even the popular witchcraft and evil arts in the two countries were passed from Dianzhou.
Could it be that the poison that this maid took was extracted from the ghost bullet by this group of witches?
Qin Qiaoer obviously thought of going together with his brother, so he immediately turned around and walked to the Yamen of the Demon Suppression Division next to him.
"I'm going to interrogate the captured Gu witches and see if I can get some information from them. I'll leave this to you."
Qin Shaoyou said "Okay" and asked Zhu Xiucai to interrogate the people in Li Tingfang's house to see who this maid had close contacts with on weekdays.
Zhu Xiucai raised his hands and said: "Sir, before I went to Jingsi to find you, I had already ordered people to interrogate these situations. The results should be available now. I will go and get the interrogation report for you to review."
After Qin Shaoyou nodded in agreement, Zhu Xiucai immediately followed Qin Qiaoer to the Yamen of the Demon Suppression Division.
Qin Shaoyou took out the statue of the City God, and after burning a stick of incense, he used his talent of "Communication with Ghosts and Gods" and borrowed Cai Guizhong's magical power of the City God to summon the spirit of the maid's corpse.
After burning the incense, Zhu Xiucai came back with the interrogation report, and Qin Shaoyou also used all the methods to summon the soul, but the maid's soul was not summoned back.
Seeing this, Zhu Xiucai couldn't help but ask: "Sir, is this a failure in summoning the soul? Has the soul of this maid dissipated, or has she been detained by others?"
"Her soul is still there, but she was detained by someone. That person sensed that I was summoning the soul and used magic to interfere with my summons."
Although Qin Shaoyou didn't summon the maid's soul, he didn't discover it at all.
With the help of the City God's magical power, Qin Shaoyou smelled a scent through a brief contact and confrontation with the person who imprisoned the maid's soul.
That smell made Qin Shaoyou feel very familiar.
It smells like the blood moon!
The person who imprisoned this maid's soul, like Qin Shaoyou, is practicing with the help of the blood moon.
However, the other party obviously does not have Qin Shaoyou's ability to make dishes with the power of the blood moon. During the cooking process, the chaos, violence and other negative energies contained in the power of the blood moon are resolved.
On the contrary, the opponent is deeply affected by the negative energy in the power of the blood moon. Not only does his own power become chaotic and violent, but his personal emotions may also become a little crazy...
I just don’t know who this person is?
However, there are not many people who use the power of the blood moon to practice, and even fewer who don't go crazy and die. Perhaps this can be a direction for investigation.
After exhaling a breath of turbidity, Qin Shaoyou turned to look at Zhu Xiucai: "What is the result of the interrogation?"
Zhu Xiucai handed over the interrogation report with both hands.
"The people in Li Tingfang's house said that this maid was brought by their wife from her natal family. She has always been loyal and devoted to Li Tingfang's demon son.
They didn't know that this maid had recorded the growth of Li Tingfang's son, let alone why she did this. According to them, this maid usually accompanied their wife in the backyard and almost never left the house alone, so she also
I don’t know who I came into contact with outside.
I also specifically asked Li Tingfang and his wife, but they didn't know anything about it. Judging from their surprised looks, it didn't look like they were pretending."
While listening to Zhu Xiucai's report, Qin Shaoyou looked through the interrogation transcripts. Indeed, as Zhu Xiucai said, no one in Li Tingfang's house was aware of this maid's weird behavior.
On Qin Qiaoer's side, the results of the interrogation were soon announced.
Those Gu witches did have poison extracted from ghost bullets, but they had not given it to this maid, and they did not know where the ghost bullet poison that the maid took was obtained.
The clue ends here, once again.
Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer were also helpless. They could only gather together the various situations and clues that had been investigated so far, and wait for new discoveries to be made in the future before launching follow-up investigations.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and people from Chuzhou Chief Secretary and Chuzhou Demon Suppression Department finally arrived at Shi Nan Fucheng.
As soon as the people from the Chief Secretary of Chuzhou came, they wanted to take Li Tingfang away.
"Thank you for your hard work, my lords, you have helped us uncover a scum in the Chuzhou officialdom. Now please hand him over to us to deal with..."
Qin Shaoyou looked at the person who spoke with a half-smile but not a smile. This person's name was Chen Yuan, and he was a lawyer from the Chuzhou Chief Secretary's Counseling Office.
The Liwen Office is responsible for the investigation of criminal names in a state. As a Liwen, Chen Yuan is indeed qualified to intervene in Li Tingfang's case.
However, Li Tingfang was involved in many murder cases, and the cases were personally supervised by the red-clothed messenger. Even if they were to be handed over, they should not be handed over to the Inquisition Office of the Chief Secretary of Chuzhou.
Chen Yuan's behavior was obviously strange.
"Chen Liwen was clamoring to take people away as soon as he arrived. What's the matter? Are you having any collusion with Li Tingfang? Are you afraid that we will find out?"
Qin Qiaoer sneered and called to his red-clothed envoy: "Since Chen Liwen has taken the initiative to come forward, you guys should not be idle. Take Chen Liwen to the prison for interrogation to see if he is okay."
When Chen Yuan heard this, his expression suddenly changed, and then he realized that the group of people in front of him were red-clothed messengers, not ordinary night watchmen of the Demon Suppression Division.
He hurriedly laughed dryly: "Sir, are you kidding..."
"You were the one who joked with me first. I don't like people joking with me in serious matters." Qin Qiaoer said with a straight face.
Her messengers in red clothes immediately rushed up and took Chen Yuan to the prison to start the trial. Everyone who came with Chen Yuan was dumbfounded.
Although these people had heard of the red-clothed messenger's tyranny before, this was the first time they had seen it with their own eyes.