The guy calmed down and began to emphasize his importance. He Lingchuan didn't point it out, just frowned, but General Ling was much more direct: "More than a year? How can the old news of more than a year be related to the present?"
Is this timeline too far?
"Listen, you guys, listen." Wang Mazi didn't dare to lie any more, "There is a nest of pig monsters in the east of Zhitian Township, probably more than a hundred of them. Their land is at the foot of Moon Mountain, and it covers a large area. This is
The group of monsters have a bad relationship with the locals and often cause trouble. The townspeople don't like them, but they can't do anything about them. This group of monsters has lived under the Moon Mountain for more than a hundred years, and they are much older than the others. They don't have Shibata.
They’ve been around since before.”
"Then?" He Lingchuan knew that although Bejia Country is known as a place where monsters and humans live together, in fact, most monsters are still accustomed to living in separate ethnic groups, with clear boundaries between themselves and humans.
This is a natural ethnic gap. For example, this old sheep next to me wants to live with his tribe in the territory next to the county seat, eating and drinking, and does not want to live in the city.
"Last winter, there was a sudden landslide in Moon Mountain, which seemed to have buried their nest." Wang Mazi said, "But no one went into the mountain at that time, so no one knew about it. When the snow melts next year, people from Zhitian Township will go into the mountain.
Only then did I realize that the landslide had caused the monsters’ lair to be destroyed.”
He Lingchuan couldn't help but frown: "What kind of disappearance case is this?" Isn't it just an ordinary human tragedy?
"I have a companion who is from Zhitian Township. When he was hired to clean up the landslide, he found that the corpses of pigs in the nest were all piled together, as if they died in a group, and only the bones were left." Wang Mazi said, "
There were hundreds of pigs in such a big nest. Not long after, someone in the town was attacked by the Pig Demon, killing one and injuring one. The government was alerted and sent people down. After searching for more than a month, no sign of them was found. What happened next
Let’s just let it go.”
After hearing this, He Lingchuan said: "This old news seems to have nothing to do with what happened in Niutoushan."
Wang Mazi's face fell: "Even if they were beaten to death... Sir, do you know that pigs never like to be crowded together, especially when there are hundreds of them?"
He knew that the more he contributed, the greater his chance of survival. On the contrary, it would be a dead end.
"The reaction of a creature when faced with a desperate situation is usually difficult for others to imagine." He Lingchuan turned around and said, "You said you encountered a ghost on the way back to Shuangyi Town and walked to Guantian inexplicably?"
"Yes, it is!"
He Lingchuan nodded: "Then you have been tricked." The Ghost Wall is also commonly known as the ecstasy array. Its basic function is to make people dizzy and take random detours.
The formation must be arranged in advance.
Someone laid a enchantment array on their way home in advance to induce these country people to go to Guantian and provoke the wind beast.
"Who gave you this plan to steal goods?"
"My cousin Wang Ling." Wang Mazi said, "He told us that a group of geese came to Wudou Town. They are unfamiliar with the place and the goods are very good. As long as the robbery is successful, I will be given two pieces this time.
Two taels of silver!"
He further explained: "Lengtou Goose refers to foreigners who don't know what's going on here."
"Wang Ling is dead?"
Wang Mazi nodded, with no sadness on his face, only anger: "You deserve it. I sprained my foot that night, and he didn't stay to help me!"
"Where did his news come from?"
"I'm not sure, but it might be in a gambling house." Wang Mazi said, "He runs there when he has money."
He Lingchuan thought for a while: "So, what about the target of your theft, that gang of geese? How much information do you remember?"
"Uh..." Wang Mazi has already replayed this matter in his mind countless times, "It's a small caravan, with only more than thirty people, and ten trucks. We stole two of them, and they were filled with chewing tobacco.
, and there were more than a dozen bamboo tubes stuffed with saltpeter. Wang Ling accidentally opened one tube, causing the entire carriage to freeze."
He Lingchuan rubbed his temples: "How dare you touch the merchants who smuggle chewing tobacco and saltpeter?"
Chewing tobacco is an ultra-high-profit commodity. The Bega Kingdom only allows official smuggling, and private smuggling is a serious crime. As for saltpeter, it is an important military resource and one of the basic raw materials for making gunpowder. How can private and commercial smuggling be allowed?
"Occasionally...someone is lucky." Wang Mazi said firmly, "We have all seen it before, and..."
"Stealed too?"
Wang Mazi shrank his head and looked at Jiao Yu and General Ling beside him. Seeing that they didn't express their opinions, he acquiesced.
Yes, there are people involved in the decapitation business, and the small place is very wild. Chewing tobacco and saltpeter are both small in size. After everyone steals them, they will share one point. Each person only takes a little and sells them, and the stolen goods can be sold quickly.
They are local gangsters and have their own way.
"Isn't it true that you are also involved in the beheading business?" He Lingchuan looked at him with a half-smile, "What do you remember about these merchants? The more detailed the better."
"The leader is probably in his early forties, neither short nor fat, with a neatly trimmed beard. He wears a jade ring on his ring finger. On his neck -" he pointed to his neck to show He Lingchuan, "there is a flesh-colored mole."
"When you visited the destination, did you hear them say where their destination was?"
Wang Mazi thought for a long time: "No, no?"
"Okay, let's go back." While He Lingchuan was interrogating Wang Mazi, the goshawk and the wind drill beast brought by General Ling went to search the valley, but in the end they returned without success.
The murderer's ability to clean up the aftermath is top-notch, and he can't find any useful clues if he continues to stay here.
…
After returning to the inn, He Lingchuan took out Fu Shanji's information again to see if he had made any omissions.
The country of Chiyan is so big, trying to find a missing bird is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Before He Lingchuan set off, Li Qingge shared the newly obtained information with him:
A month ago, Bega suffered a defeat on the eastern front.
It is said that major tactical errors occurred because the two armies commanded by Bega failed to coordinate in time, and the opponent seized the opportunity.
Yes, one of the teams is the army of Chiyan Kingdom.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Thinking of the emperor's anger, He Lingchuan could easily guess that perhaps it was because of the disappearance of the white-shouldered eagle that the information on coordinated operations was not transmitted to the Chiyan Kingdom in time.
, thus causing huge losses on the battlefield.
Of course Lingxu City will not tolerate such a thing.
He was curious about the source of the information, but Li Qingge obviously would not reveal it.
On the information compiled from various places, Fu Shanji also wrote several keywords in red pen:
The first word -
Rainy night!
He was very attentive and found out what the disappearances in various places had in common, that is, they all happened on rainy nights.
He Lingchuan recalled that on the day when the blue sheep were almost stolen, it was indeed raining continuously at night, and it stopped raining only after Chou.
These people only go out on rainy nights, why?
The second key word that Fu Shanji summed up is "countryside".
These disappearances all occurred in the suburbs and mountains and forests, far away from the urban population.
Humans have the habit of living in groups, but many monsters like to live alone and stay away from human settlements. If these murderers targeted the countryside, they would indeed have killed more monsters than humans.
This also shows the caution of the murderer.
Then the third key word is "multiple places at the same time".
Comparing the time and space in which the cases occurred, some cases occurred very close in time, only one or two days apart, but the places where the cases occurred were far away, more than a hundred miles apart.
The murderer went hundreds of miles away to commit another crime within a dozen hours. What was this plot?
After personally experiencing the sheep-stealing incident, He Lingchuan was more inclined to believe that these people probably split up and acted in groups.
In other words, this is probably a crime committed by a cross-regional gang!
Fu Shanji could only infer so much. Maybe he didn't find any new clues, or maybe Fu Shanyue gave him a blow in the head at this time...
According to He Lingchuan, Fu Shanji's top-down investigation method is destined to yield little results.
What is the efficiency of government affairs? An old cow can drag a broken car faster than it, not to mention all kinds of omissions.
If only official manpower and official information are used, the day when the case will be solved is far away.
Not to mention the motive, the location where the other party committed the crime, the target chosen, the timing of the attack... If you can't figure out the pattern, you won't be able to catch this group of people.
Their actions are really very secretive. If the Lingxu City messenger hadn't been involved this time, no one would have noticed these scattered disappearances in various places.
Not to mention the Demon Kingdom, even if a few villagers occasionally disappear from various places in the Kite Kingdom, they are so common that they are not worth mentioning.
These days, there are not many reasons that lead to the disappearance of living people and monsters.
Then should he go to Wudou Town where Wang Mazi and others were tricked to find out what happened?
He Lingchuan was still thinking hard when the sound of peeling and pecking came from the window.
He got up and opened the window and saw a dozen crows standing outside.
"Is something wrong?"
The biggest crow poked its head in to take a look and made sure that the goshawk was not inside, then boldly jumped in and took two steps:
"Are you still studying the strange things in Niutoushan?"
He Lingchuan nodded: "Do you have any new clues?"
"Then it depends on what reward you offer." Crow said carelessly, "Without reward, there will be no clues!"
He has been dealing with this kind of creatures since Sanxinyuan, and he knows that they have a typical character of bandits, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong.
"Can you give me a price and let me see?"
"Three hundred kilograms of beef and mutton every month, and one hundred elixirs!" Crow came after thinking carefully, "Also, we want the woods south of Shuangyi Town as a habitat, and no other people are allowed except for crows.
Birds build nests!”
He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "I am the Crown Prince's special envoy. When you see me as if you saw him coming in person, how dare you open your mouth like a lion?"
"The prince is so rich, his hair is thicker than our thighs!" Crow sneered, "Hundreds of kilograms of meat and a hundred pills every month are nothing to worry about!"
"That's true." As soon as he finished speaking, He Lingchuan pursed his lips and whistled, then stretched out his hand to brush it.
A force of energy swept across and closed the window.
This separated the crow leader from a dozen of his subordinates.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the big crow did not attack He Lingchuan, but just slammed into the window paper, trying to escape through the window.
He Lingchuan's prediction was accurate and he cast a net directly in front of it, as if the crow had thrown itself into the net.