Everyone was also worried about Yue Jian's safety, so they came together at this time and studied the file in front of them with Chu Qingxiao.
The contents of the dossier are extensive.
There are information on thirteen missing persons, and their backgrounds, identities, etc. are all recorded one by one.
There is also some evidence collected by the officials of the Zhijian Hall, mainly witness testimony and the victim's belongings.
Chu Qingxiao and others took a general look and found that the more than ten victims were all of different ages and cultivation levels, and their businesses in Tianxuan City were also very different.
But they do have some similarities.
For example, almost all of this group of people are lonely and widowed.
Some people are orphans whose parents died young, and some people are middle-aged and their wives and children are separated, or there are changes in the family and the absence of relatives and friends.
At the same time, before the incident, people who were familiar with them were more or less aware that there seemed to be someone close to the victim, with a different age, appearance, and gender.
All in all, none of the fourteen victims, including Tsukimi, had any close relatives with them.
Think again about what happened to Tsukimi and the companions who suddenly appeared around these victims.
Chu Qingxiao had reason to guess that the other party took advantage of this, pretended to be their close relatives, deceived these victims, and then used some method to make them disappear in Wuling City.
At the same time, in the previous cases, there are also many records of careful investigation by Jianjian Hall officials. Various clues are complicated, and there are some suspects who have been suspected, but in the end they were overturned by various evidences.
Starting from the eleventh case, various investigations became obviously sloppy, even hasty.
Chu Qingxiao secretly speculated that it was said that the Tianxuan Ten Traces case caused panic when the tenth case occurred. At that time, Tianxuan Mountain sent a large number of people to investigate the case thoroughly, but in the end, because the murderer could not be found, the case was hastily dismissed.
It's over.
It was probably because he was aware of the troubles involved in this case that when he encountered the case later, the sword-wielding guard on duty, with the idea that doing more was better than doing less, seemed to be extremely perfunctory in his investigation of the case.
"It seems that Tianxuan Mountain has not investigated this case." Chu Zhaozhao said at that time after reading the file.
They originally thought that the reason why the Ten Unsolved Cases had not been solved that day was partly due to the slackness of the Sword Master, but when they read the file, they found that things were not what they imagined.
In fact, Tianxuan Mountain took it very seriously after the Ten Traces case caused panic, and the elders sent to investigate were also people with considerable experience in investigating cases.
Judging from the records in the files, the officials leading the case have made a lot of efforts.
There were as many as 463 suspects identified in the first ten cases, but in the end, after investigation, they were all denied.
The whole case started over and over again in this process of identifying the suspect and then overturning the suspicion of the suspect.
"You still look confused!" Ziyu muttered in frustration at this moment.
It's no wonder that Ziyu is depressed. Judging from this file, in order to find the murderer, the elders sent by Tianxuan Mountain can be said to have gone to any length.
They even pulled out thousands of inner sect disciples to conduct a thorough investigation of Tianxuan City one by one, trying to kill the victims alive or dead, but they still found nothing.
And they hurriedly tried to solve this mystery that had troubled Tianxuan City. With their half-expert and even ignorant level of investigating the case, it was somewhat of a dream.
"Not necessarily." At this moment, seeing Ziyu's worry, Chu Zhaozhao suddenly said.
"Previously we had some key evidence that the Sword Master did not have."
"Huh? Is there any?" Ziyu blinked, somewhat confused as to what the key evidence in Chu Zhaozhao's mouth was.
Chu Zhaozhao said: "First of all, although Tianxuan Mountain thoroughly investigated the case before, it never found that these victims were targeted by outside gods because they accepted the commission from Qinghuan Mansion."
"Secondly, they didn't find the wooden box."
"But what's the use of all this? There's still no way to find Yue Jian!" Ziyu muttered, with a troubled expression on her face, and her beautiful eyes, with two eyebrows almost knitted together.
Chu Qingxiao said: "From the current information, the wooden box is the medium to spread the curse, and at the same time, the curse is spread through the mission of Qinghuan Mansion."
"At present, it seems that there are three things we need to figure out."
"First, what was in this wooden box before this?"
"Secondly, each of the victims is a widowed person, and they all received wooden boxes through commissions received from Qinghuan Mansion. So how does the possible outer god ensure that every one receives a wooden box?
Are the people who come to the mission all victims who meet such conditions?"
"Finally, the first victim, Meng Yuan, how did he get this wooden box?"
"As long as we can figure out these three points, I think we may be able to get closer to the truth."
Chu Qingxiao was more anxious in his heart than anyone else present, but he forced himself to calm down and sorted out the questions he could think of into categories.
"Liaoyuan and I are more sensitive to divine aura, maybe we can start with this wooden box." Sanniang said at this time.
"Although the wooden box is empty, something important must have been stored before, so it was sealed by its owner with divine power. Liaoyuan and I can try to sense whether there is any residual breath.
"
Chu Qingxiao nodded when he heard this, waved his hand to call out Liaoyuan, and then handed over the wooden box.
Sanniang took the wooden box and Liaoyuan stepped aside. They both sat cross-legged and began to carefully sense the qi in the wooden box.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao turned to look at the others and said: "Since this task is sent from Qinghuan Mansion, there must be someone in Qinghuan Mansion to handle such a large amount of tasks, even if it only appears once every month
, the people who handled it should also be impressed, and the people who took over this task were all victims of the Ten Traces case. When Zhijian Tang retrieved the files in Qinghuan Mansion, it is logically impossible for the people in Qinghuan Mansion.
I don’t know anything about it. However, this matter has never been mentioned in the files of Zhijian Hall. I am wondering if there is any problem in Qinghuan Mansion."
Having said this, his eyes fell on Lu Sandao: "I would like to trouble Senior Sister Lu to make another trip to ask the people in Qinghuan Mansion about this commission."
Lu Sandao was very happy when she heard this. She stood up and picked up her saber. Her eyes were a little excited and she said: "It's easy to talk about, but maybe it can make up for the missed fight."
After saying that, she got up and left quite excitedly.
Seeing that she wanted to fight more than investigate the case, Chu Qingxiao suddenly became worried and quickly looked at the Meng family siblings, Zhu Quan and others.
Zhu Quan was alert and said hurriedly: "How about we accompany Lu Zhenshou on a trip, or we can help make suggestions on the way and see if we can be of some help."
After hearing this, the Meng family siblings nodded without thinking too much.
Wait until Lu Sandao and others leave.
Ziyu and Chu Zhaozhao also looked at Chu Qingxiao, and Chu Zhaozhao asked: "Then what do we do?"
Chu Qingxiao handed over the file in his hand again and said: "Take a good look at the file of the first victim. I think as long as we can figure out how he disappeared, we may be close to the truth."
When Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu heard this, they took the file without saying anything more and together with Chu Qingxiao carefully examined the details of the file.
Meng Yuan.
Aged twenty-six years old.
A native of Tuhu Town, Cangzhou.
He lost his father and mother when he was young.
Live with his uncle.
My uncle is a teacher at a local martial arts school and has two sons and one daughter.
In February of the 10th year of Chongsheng, he joined Tianxuan Mountain and became a servant disciple.
He lives in Lingsha Lane in the west of the city, in the courtyard with the word Y and D.
There are four disciples in the courtyard. According to the statements of disciples in the same courtyard, Meng Yuan is a man of few words. He lives in seclusion in the courtyard and rarely interacts with the four disciples in the courtyard. However, even so, the disciples in the same courtyard have a good impression of him and comment on him.
not bad.
He disappeared on May 16, the 11th year of Chongsheng.
The person who reported the case was Zhou Guan, a disciple of the same college.
On May 14th, Zhou Guan discovered that Zhou Guan had not returned home for a long time, so he went to Zhijian Hall to report the incident.
Zhijian Tang was ordered to inspect Meng Yuan's residence. The bedding was neatly stacked and objects were gathered in an orderly manner. There were no signs of fighting and no property damage.
At the same time, we found out about his personal connections and found that he had no grudges with anyone outside.
Chu Qingxiao looked at the dossier about Meng Yuan in his hand and suddenly frowned.
Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu, who were also looking at the files, also noticed something strange about Chu Qingxiao.
"What? Did you find anything?" Chu Zhaozhao asked.
Chu Qingxiao said nothing, but frowned and took another file from the stone table, which was Meng Yuan's record in Qinghuan Mansion.
He looked carefully, but his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
"This Meng Yuan seems a bit strange." Chu Qingxiao said.
"What's weird?" Ziyu also came over and asked.
Chu Qingxiao pointed at the files of Qinghuan Mansion and said: "Look, Meng Yuan's files say that his parents died and he followed his uncle."
"My uncle is a teacher at a local martial arts school."
"The income from a job like teaching in a martial arts school is not particularly high, and his uncle himself has two sons and a daughter."
"We assume that his uncle is a good man and treats him as his own, but with his uncle's income, the amount of money he can give him in a month is not very much."
"And he came to Tianxuan City for two purposes. One is to join the inner sect through the selection of the inner sect, and the other is to accept commissions from the Qinghuan Mansion as a handyman disciple and earn a living."
"But no matter what his purpose is in coming to Tianxuan City, as a child from an ordinary family, he cannot bypass the Qinghuan Mansion."
"But since he came to Tianxuan City in the tenth year of his Chongsheng, for a full year, there is no record of him accepting any commission in Qinghuan Mansion."
"On the contrary, in the few days before his disappearance, there were scattered records of going to Qinghuan Mansion to receive commissions."
"Also, he has lived in that small courtyard for more than a year and has almost no interaction with the people who live with him. But why did the people who lived with him choose to report him to the police as soon as he disappeared?"
"Imagine if you have a neighbor you've only met a few times. No matter how warm-hearted you are, if he doesn't come home for a day, your first reaction will be that the other person is missing? Or is there something that's keeping you outside?"