As Guo Gang reminded, with the death of Lin Yuanwai, the person who is most worried about now is the grave man.
This is the problem that urgently needs to be solved.
Especially today is the last day.
Once the ten-day period is missed, although the grave man will disappear on his own, the tavern clerk and others who came into contact with him will also be buried with him.
"Sister Leng, is it possible that the grave man He Qingyu has been killed by Lin Yuanwai?"
Meng Xiaotu gave a guess.
Leng Xinnan tried her best to stay calm, rubbed her brows and said, "If he is really dead, that would be a good thing. I'm afraid he is still alive."
Yes, who can guarantee that Lin Yuanwai will definitely kill the grave man after returning home?
I was afraid that I would die before I could kill him.
"You're so smart, please think of a way." Meng Xiaotu shook the man's arm and began to ask for help.
Facing the expectant looks of everyone, Li Nanke said helplessly: "I'm thinking, if it weren't for me, wouldn't you be able to do anything? Can you just wait for the Tomb Man to disappear on his own?"
Leng Xinnan was a little surprised and simply confessed: "Although the Night Patrol Division has experienced so many years and has greatly improved its overall strength and experience, not every case can be solved.
Even the Kyoto Night Patrol Department is the same, especially when it comes to grave people. It is already very good to maintain a success rate of 50%. Our Yuncheng Suzaku Department has handled a total of nineteen cases involving grave people, and only one case was successful.
Eight cases completed.”
This is the sentiment of all members of the Night Watch Division.
I'm not afraid of monsters or nightmares, but I'm afraid of people from the grave.
People are the most difficult to deal with.
Li Nanke was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the woman's charming and soft side face and asked: "Master Leng, if the Grave Man is killed, is its body still there?"
Leng Xinnan shook his head: "No, once the tomb man dies, its body will disappear. But it will leave a special smell of rotten acid. This smell cannot be eliminated and will not dissipate until about seven days."
Li Nanke said nothing and went straight to the master bedroom next door where Lin Yuanwai and Mei Xing'er previously lived. Then he opened the familiar secret door on the bed and got closer and smelled it.
"She should still be alive," the man said.
Leng Xinnan looked stunned: "He Qingyu, the grave man, is hiding here?"
Li Nanke shrugged: "It seems that this is the only place in the Lin Mansion that can hide people. I remember when I told him that there might be a tunnel in the room, although Lin didn't hide anything, his reaction was a bit exaggerated.
You might as well recall his behavior at that time. He first opened the secret door, and then jumped in in a hurry without waiting for us to check.
Remember, he jumped directly, without using a ladder.
You can say that he was worried about his wife, but at that time, there was no guarantee that his wife would be down there.
Another point is that after we jumped outside, the tunnel chamber was actually very quiet. But when we got down, there was a sound from the fan driven by the water tanker outside, which is obviously a problem."
Leng Xinnan's beautiful eyes sparkled. "Leader Lin is anxious to go down, not because of his wife, but because he wants to hide something else!"
"That's right."
Li Nanke smiled and nodded. "One more thing. After Mrs. Lin was rescued, she said she heard her old lover shouting 'help' in a daze. She thought she was hearing hallucinations and didn't care. But the problem is,
Was she really hallucinating?"
Leng Xinnan no longer hesitated and led people into the passage.
As Li Nanke said, this time everyone did not hear the sound of the fan after entering the tunnel secret room.
But there are walls all around, making it difficult to hide.
"There should be a secret door, look for -"
Before Li Nanke finished speaking, Meng Xiaotu swung his meteor hammers and hit the wall next to him. With a loud bang, a large hole was opened in the hard wall.
Through the gap in the ruins, a man can be seen tied to a chair.
The man was wearing a moon-white gown, he had a scholarly appearance, his face was pale, and he looked sickly.
It is He Qingyu, the resurrected grave man!
Li Nanke extended his thumb towards Meng Xiaotu and couldn't help but admire: "Sure enough, there are advantages to being brainless. Although it is a bit violent, it saves a lot of time."
"Brainless? Why do you think I'm brainless?"
Meng Xiaotu put her hands on her hips and pouted her mouth angrily.
Leng Xinnan stared at the man with pretty eyes: "You already knew that the grave man He Qingyu was imprisoned here, why didn't you tell us?"
"I just want these two men to come face to face and work things out."
Li Nanke gave a reason that was not a reason, then entered the inner room sideways through the gap, and came to the grave man He Qingyu.
The latter was quite lethargic and looked extremely tired.
After noticing the person coming, he reluctantly opened his eyelids.
"Introduce yourself."
Li Nanke took out a blunderbuss and pointed it at the opponent's eyebrows. "My name is Li Nanke. I not only captured your wife, but also killed your daughter. But I am a good person. Can you introduce yourself?"
Grave Man He Qingyu slowly closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "I am a dead man."
It can be seen from this sentence that Lin Yuanwai has told it everything.
"Congratulations, you got it."
Li Nanke pulled the trigger.
But the strange thing is that the gunfire did not sound.
Even He Qingyu, the man waiting to die in the graveyard, opened his eyes in confusion.
"Go say goodbye to Mei Xing'er for the last time." Li Nanke sighed, turned to Leng Xinnan and said, "Give me some face, okay?"
Leng Xinnan hesitated for a moment and finally nodded: "Okay."
…
The blood-red sunset slowly sank among the scattered clouds.
The rose-colored twilight shrouded the Night Watch Prison, coating this gloomy house with a layer of miserable blood red.
Li Nanke leaned against the wall and stared at the setting sun in trance.
Guo Gang and others carefully guarded the only exit of the prison to prevent He Qingyu, the grave man, from escaping.
"Sometimes I wonder why the Grave Man appears."
Leng Xinnan's slender fingers as long as green onions rubbed a fallen leaf she had picked up, her eyes as trance-like as smoke. "Perhaps it was to say goodbye again to those relatives, lovers, and friends who had no time to say goodbye and were separated forever.
It's a pity that human emotions are always selfish. No one wants to die, and no one wants to leave his lover and relatives forever.
Resurrection from the dead will make people cherish their own lives more and cherish what they once neglected..."
Leng Xinnan sighed, focused his gaze on the man's handsome profile, and asked, "What do you think?"
Li Nanke remained silent, looking at the red sun in the distance.
After a long time, Li Nanke finally said: "We are in trouble."
"What?"
Leng Xinnan looked dazed and asked as if he had a clear understanding. "Is it the Tianqiong Sect?"
"Um."
The man nodded, his expression solemn as never before.
Leng Xinnan said: "I have already reported this matter, and the Shadow Guards will handle it. Anything involving the Tianqiong Sect must be handed over to the Shadow Guards for investigation. We are only assisting."
"The murderer is provoking us and coming for us."
Li Nanke expressed his judgment. "The imprint pattern was placed on the painting with great fanfare, and no traces were erased on the scene. She was provoking us. Believe me, something will happen soon."
"Then what should we do? How about dispatching manpower from Yuncheng to conduct a more rigorous search?"
Leng Xinnan immediately suggested.
Just as Li Nanke was about to speak, a little boy holding a candied haws suddenly came over, raised the envelope in his hand high, and said in a sweet voice: "Brother, someone gave you a letter."
letter……
Li Nanke's eyes flashed and he took the envelope.
Leng Xinnan quickly asked the boy: "Who gave you the letter? Where did you give it?"
"No need to ask, it's that mysterious woman."
Li Nanke signaled the frightened little boy to leave and opened the envelope.
There are three letters in total.
There is still some rouge smell left on it.
After reading the first letter, Li Nanke curled his lips, handed the letter to the woman and said, "This is the letter from Lin Yuwai, telling me the whereabouts of the grave man He Qingyu."
Leng Xinnan was surprised: "Did the mysterious woman take away the letter Lin sent to you?"
"No, in that case, it should have been given to the mysterious woman by Lin Yuwai and asked her to pass it on to me." Li Nanke thought for a moment and then rejected Leng Xinnan's conjecture.
From this, it can be confirmed that Lin Yuanwai did know the mysterious woman.
And they are old acquaintances with whom we have a good relationship.
Leng Xinnan was confused: "Are you sure? Then why did the mysterious woman hand it over to you now?"
Li Nanke shook his head and smiled: "She is secretly observing to see if I can find He Qingyu, the grave man. If I can't find him, she will forward the letter to me."
Li Nanke said and opened the second letter.
"She heard the forest officer praise me as a talented person and recommended me to join the Tianqiong Sect. But before that, she wanted to test me to see if I was qualified to enter the Tianqiong Sect."
"You must be sick."
Hearing this, Leng Xinnan raised her eyebrows.
Li Nanke opened the third letter, and after reading it, he said: "She said that in five days, a big case will happen in Dongqi County, and she hopes that I can take the initiative to participate.
In addition, she will send me a separate case as a meeting gift tomorrow evening, and will also meet with me."
Leng Xinnan took the letter in the man's hand and read it carefully several times, her pretty face becoming colder.
Arrogant!
Too arrogant!
Leng Xinnan clenched her pink fist tightly and said in a cold voice: "I will immediately inform Yuncheng to send more experts over. I want to see how capable this woman is and how dare she challenge the imperial court!"
Li Nanke put the letter away with a heavy heart.
We are not afraid of enemies hiding in the shadows, but we are afraid of enemies hiding in the shadows but openly provocative.
At this time, the grave man He Qingyu came out of the prison.
The crowd quickly surrounded him.
Nowadays, there are many people who come into contact with him. If he is allowed to slip away, everyone will be in trouble.
"Have you finished saying goodbye?"
Li Nanke walked up to the grave man He Qingyu and asked.
Gratitude appeared on the latter's pale face: "Thank you, Mr. Li, for giving me the opportunity to make up for my regrets."
"Are you ready?"
Li Nanke picked up the firecracker - this time it was the firecracker given to him by Caiyun, which could be fired.
"Let Guo Gang and the others do it."
Leng Xinnan didn't want Li Nanke to have too much life debt on his hands.
However, the man shook his head firmly: "I'll do it."
The girl had no choice but to give up.
Grave Man He Qingyu took a deep breath. Facing the black muzzle in front of him, he showed no fear at all, only a calm smile.
"Ready."
"Any last words?"
"I already told Myolie." Grave Man He Qingyu paused, looked at Li Nanke with a complex expression and said, "It's a pity that we didn't get to know each other earlier, otherwise I really wanted to be friends with you."
"Thank you, but I'm not interested."
Li Nanke was ready to shoot.
"Didn't you say goodbye to me?" He Qingyu, the grave man, asked with a smile.
Li Nanke tilted his head and thought for a long time, but could not think of any suitable farewell words. The scene of Lin Jiaoyue taking off her clothes and negotiating with him on the cliff suddenly flashed in his mind, and he said lightly: "Your daughter has a good figure."
boom!
Gunfire rang out.
The person in front of him suddenly scattered like shards of glass, and then disappeared into the air.
At the same time, a white bead quietly sank into Li Nanke's heart. No one except himself noticed it.