Chapter 1537 Underground passages and ruins of previous dynasties
The reason why Jin An didn't deal with the three corpses in the room was
Use the art of exorcism to find the murderer,
First, because the corpse exorcism technique pays more attention to completing the obsession during life, not necessarily finding the true heart;
The second reason is that his animal-making skills can deceive cause and effect and temporarily avoid three disasters and nine disasters. He is worried that the culprit behind the scenes cannot kill Li Yan twice and will kill him a third time.
Indeed, Li Yan was greedy for money, betrayed his trust first, and committed a heinous crime.
He did not participate in the killing, and he did not participate in the dumping of the body subjectively. He became an idiot in the rest of his life. He spent the rest of his life suffering to atone for his sins. He deserved it, and there was no need to kill them all.
Outsiders don't understand this, but the old Taoist priest understands the details. He saw Jin An's good intentions and looked at him with relief and approval.
God has the virtue of good life, and Tianyan 49 leaves only a sliver of hope. People who like to kill everyone without leaving any room for death are mostly lonely.
Others could not understand the deeper meaning of this. They only saw the magic of Jin An's Taoist skills in turning living people into horses. After the shock, they were pleasantly surprised.
There is no need to say more about the brothers from the Criminal Investigation Department. Jin An has long been omnipotent in their eyes. They have already experienced it, such as walking in the underworld and driving away corpses, and now they are adding another animal.
This was the first time that Li Dajin had seen such a magical Taoist method. A living person could turn into an animal if asked. This was much more bizarre and powerful than those tricks on the street.
"A miracle! A miracle! This is turning decay into something magical, this is bringing the dead back to life!"
After Li Dajin was shocked, his eyes turned firm: "The Five Zang Taoist Temple is the real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Sir Commander, I want to convert to the Five Zang Taoist Temple!"
Fatty Li pushed Li Dajin: "Wuzang Taoist Temple only accepts incense from good men and women. You are still a suspect. After you clear yourself of the suspicion, the door of Wu Zang Taoist Temple will always be open to you."
Li Dajin hurriedly defended: "It's unjust. I really didn't know anything about this case. I was also a victim of being deceived. I even lost a horse for no reason."
Fatty Li glared: "Are you wronged or not? It's useless to cry now. When the case is investigated clearly, if you are really innocent, Fatty, I will personally take you to the Five Zang Taoist Temple to perform the incense on the fifteenth day of every month to help you get rid of bad luck."
Li Dajin was in high spirits and rubbed his hands happily: "Sir, you said this yourself. Don't regret it later. Everyone present has heard it and can help testify."
The two of them were still arguing, so Jin An called Li Dajin and asked where the carriage was, and then hitched the horse again. He needed the old horse to know the way and help him chase the murderer.
In order to enter the Five Zang Taoist Temple, Li Dajin's legs were not weak and his hands were not shaking. Now he was full of energy and strived to show himself. He immediately found a carriage and hitched the horse himself.
"Distant nephew, this time you met a noble person like the commander, who snatched you back from the gate of hell. You should behave well and help the commander solve the case. When I grab the fifteen incense sticks from the Five Zang Taoist Temple, I will raise you in the future.
Lao. If you have uncle to eat, you won't be hungry."
Li Dajin had mixed feelings about the stupid Li Yan. He fed the horse with grass while touching the horse's head. This means that if you want the horse to run fast, you must feed the horse more grass.
After eating and drinking, the group of people got into the carriage and started chasing the murderer.
Li Dajin hugged the horse and clamored to follow him together. He said affectionate words like uncle and nephew are inseparable. Jin An did not hesitate for too long and agreed to take Li Dajin with him.
"Deputy Commander Sun, you and your brothers will continue to search the spice shop. No matter who comes today, no one is allowed to enter or leave the spice shop."
"I'll leave a few helpers behind and sit with you in the spice shop."
The helper Jin An was talking about was the clone transformed from the Holy Fetus of Lead and Mercury.
With so many masters from the late third realm stationed in the spice shop, the spice shop is unbreakable unless the fourth realm attacks the spice shop.
This is the capital city. If the Fourth Realm really attacks the spice shop, there is no need for Jin'an's main body to take action. The elders of Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and Tianshi Mansion will all come out to help suppress the enemy.
Deputy Commander Sun felt regretful that he could not participate in the whole pursuit of the murderer, but in the end he followed the order and left, intensifying the blockade of the spice shop.
Later, the old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and Li Dajin acted as temporary coachmen, driving the Penglai Inn carriage in front, and Jin An's Biyan carriage behind. A large group of criminal inspector brothers cleared the way. Under countless pairs of surprised eyes in the Spice Shop,
The procession left Penglai Inn in great numbers.
Especially when Li Dajin, the owner of Penglai Inn, actually drove the car himself to lead the way for the Criminal Investigation Department, it aroused many curious discussions.
Li Yan transformed into a horse and pulled the carriage. He first came to the Nanyang spices that had been in stock, stayed for a while, and then left. He was acting according to the trajectory of his previous life.
Fatty Li was very smart and did not need Jin An's instructions. He paid attention to the Nanyang spice shop, and then ordered people to seal down all nearby Nanyang spice shops and no one was allowed to enter or exit.
Ding——
Ding——
The horseshoes stepped on the smooth blue brick pavement, pulling the carriage in a circle around the spice shop, just like Li Yan's rigorous and careful life before.
Afterwards, the carriage shuttled into the dark alleys, first stopped for a cup of tea, and then continued on the road, circling through the alleys.
Because the alley was narrow, the Bi'an carriage could not enter. The Bi'an carriage that Jin An was riding in stopped at the entrance of the alley. When he saw Li Yan pulling the carriage on the road again, the Bi'an carriage followed him slowly outside the street.
The Biyan carriage followed for about two seconds. Li Yan's horse began to slow down and finally stopped in a bamboo forest.
There is a dry and abandoned river outside the bamboo forest. At this time, the Biyan carriage is parked on the river bank.
Jin An lifted up the curtain cloth with one finger. From his perspective at this moment, he could just see Li Yan's transformed horse parked in the bamboo forest, grazing with its head down.
While looking at the bamboo forest where Li Yan was, he was also looking around at the surrounding environment.
The location here is remote, there are no tall buildings around, there are only a few scattered shacks built along the river. Some of these shacks are occupied by people. Some people are hiding behind the windows and quietly looking at the sudden visit of the Criminal Inspectorate. Some are dark and deserted.
, there are also several shacks that look like they have just been burned by fire, with scorch marks.
As soon as the Biyan carriage stopped, there was an unpleasant and pungent smell wafting in the air, including the smell of sulfur, saltpeter, and other complex pungent smells.
These smells were wafted from the dry river canals. Several criminal inspectors held torches and shined into the river canals. They saw mountains of garbage, which were all the residual garbage left after processing various spices.
In addition to being used as seasonings to add flavor to food, spices can also be used to make aromatherapy, sachets, and powder. The latter three are the most profitable, but the refining process is often very complicated and inevitably produces a lot of waste residue.
Take the most common rouge gouache as an example. It not only uses natural herbs such as red vine, safflower, hollyhock flower, chrysanthemum, mountain flower and other natural herbs to extract red pigments, but also adds appropriate amounts of cinnabar, ocher, realgar, lead and mercury and other auxiliary materials.
Used to enhance the antiseptic and flavoring effect.
If the rouge color is complex and diverse, to win the favor of the ladies of the mansion, and to show the noble status, more expensive mulberry silk, pearl mill powder, precious Nanyang flower dew and other precious raw materials will be used to make the skin white and smooth.
It gels fat and has a moisturizing effect in autumn and winter...
The more complicated the production, the more waste residue is produced. The spice shop is booming, so there must be a place to dump the waste residue. In addition, distillation and purification also pollute the water source. Over time, the rivers here are polluted, dry up, and then become
In the place where garbage is dumped, dozens of pungent smells mix and gather, and the place gradually becomes a dark corner where no one dares to live.
Under the torch, the dry river turned into a stinky ditch with sewage flowing across it. Rats and insects grew freely in it. A few dirty rats with long gray tails raised their heads and bared their teeth at the criminal inspector holding a torch.
, squeaking fiercely, and then slowly crawled into the cave on the river bank, not afraid of people or fire.
"What a big rat, it's almost catching up with my seven-year-old cat!"
"This big rat is not afraid of people or fire. Maybe he has become a spirit!"
The criminal investigators wanted to look for traces of the big rat, but the big rat had already penetrated into the cave and could not be found.
"Master Commander, this is a very suitable place for killing people and dumping corpses. Even if the corpses rot and stink, outsiders will not notice it easily." Someone said to Jin An in the Biyan carriage.
Just at this moment, Li Yan, who had been staying in the bamboo forest for a while, transformed into a pony and walked towards the river bank, attracting everyone's attention.
There was a stone arch bridge over the dry river. Li Yan pulled the carriage and wanted to cross the stone arch bridge to the other side, but the stone arch bridge had steps and the carriage could not get up.
Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest worked together to remove the harness from the horse's neck.
Without the restraints of the carriage, Li Yan turned into a pony on all fours and easily climbed onto the stone arch bridge. The horseshoes made a crisp sound in the dark night, like hammers hitting people's hearts one after another, and their hearts beat faster.
At this time, Jin An had also got off the Biyan carriage and came to the other side of the dry river with the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li.
After reaching the other side of the river, the pungent smell wafting in the air became even stronger. After a while, it made my throat sting and my eyes felt uncomfortable.
At this time, the old Taoist priest once again took out the yellow talisman paper from his Tai Chi Bagua bag, soaked it with Sanyang wine, and stuffed it into his nose. He immediately felt better.
As long as you don't have to breathe through your mouth, that's fine.
Suddenly, there was a blazing fire in the distance, and a fire broke out in a simple shack. Then I saw a figure covered in fire in the shack. He broke through the shack and jumped into the smelly ditch under the dry river. Although the fire was extinguished, but
There was no movement, and no one was seen climbing ashore.
Fatty Li ordered a few people to go over and rescue the people, while the rest continued to follow Li Yan's transformed pony to chase the murderer.
Li Yan is an old horse who knows the way and can find the way clearly in the dark. When he walked through five river steps and reached the sixth river step, he suddenly walked down the stone steps and went into the smelly ditch of the river.
"Huh?"
Everyone was shocked.
Just when everyone was about to follow them down the steps of the river, the criminal inspectors who went to search for the drowned person in the canal came back carrying a man who was smelly and completely burned by the fire.
"Master Commander, this person is dead, what should we do?" The Criminal Inspector put down the charred corpse on his back.
This charred corpse looked miserable, with most of its hair missing, and its body covered with abscesses. The ruptured abscesses cooked by the fire were still leaking steaming thick water, and the stench was unpleasant.
"A poisonous body. This is a person who often lives with poisons. He suffers systemic sequelae and is already terminally ill and hopeless." The old Taoist priest exclaimed and hurriedly took out his homemade detoxification pills and gave them to those who had been in contact with the corpse.
The prosecutor swallowed it.
"What happened to that fire?" Jin An asked about the fire.
Several people replied: "These shacks are filled with powder masters who cannot afford the high rent of spice shops. This person should have accidentally started a fire while distilling and purifying flower dew."
Recalling the several uninhabited shacks that he saw that were scorched black by fire, Jin An nodded clearly: "You guys find a stretcher and take this charred body back to the Criminal Investigation Department morgue and let Mr. Han examine it."
The specific cause of death. Take a shower and change into clean clothes after you return, so as not to be infected by this person's poison."
"The place where the corpse was dumped should be here. Boss Li, just follow me here. You go back to the Criminal Investigation Department with them. If I don't see you in the Criminal Investigation Department after I go back, I will treat you as a absconder because of fear of crime."
, ordered the whole city to arrest you." Jin An said this to Li Dajin, the owner of Penglai Inn.
Li Dajin opened his mouth to speak, but was frightened back by Jin An's cold gaze.
After watching a few people leave, Jin An took the remaining people and went down into the dry river.
In just a moment's delay, Li Yan's pony was about to disappear into the dirty canal.
When they caught up with Li Yan, they saw the horse raising its hooves and digging in front of a mountain of garbage. A pile of yellow, green and white powdery waste was dug out, emitting a mixture of many pungent odors.
Turbid and foul smelling.
Seeing this, Fatty Li took a few people over to help, and then heard Fatty Li yelling in surprise: "Taoist Master Jin'an, there is something going on here, there is a hidden secret passage here!"
It was a passage that was half buried by waste powder. The passage was so deep that even the light of a torch could only shine a few steps away. Beyond the light of the fire was a deep darkness that could not be seen.
"Why is there a passage here? Is it a flood discharge culvert during the rainy season?" Fatty Li did not rush into the passage rashly. He first threw his torch into the passage. Seeing that the torch did not go out and kept burning steadily, he then walked toward Jin'an.
He nodded to indicate that there was enough air inside.
The passage is very spacious inside, not cramped at all, and has a tendency to get wider as you go.
Jin'an's six senses are far sharper than ordinary people. Even in a dim environment, he can notice many details. Suddenly, he stopped and reached out to touch the stones on both sides of the passage.
"These stone strips look older than the stone strips of the canal outside, and the stone cutting technology is not as exquisite as the canal outside. They feel rough and do not look like they were built at the same time. In other words, they are not from the same dynasty." Jin An's eyes lit up.
, the thoughts in my mind are like many shooting stars passing by.
Hearing this, Fatty Li was surprised and checked. The more he checked, the more surprised he became. There was indeed a big difference.
"If it wasn't built by the same dynasty... Taoist Master Jin'an, are you suspecting... that this is probably a ruins from a previous dynasty?" Fatty Li looked serious.
Once the former dynasty is involved, no matter what happens, it is no small matter.
Jin An thought of the scene he saw when he attacked the base of the Holy Land of Innocents and walked through the underworld in the capital city. In the capital city of the underworld, there were hundreds of buildings stacked on top of each other, and hundreds of buildings like abyss were exposed under the cracks in the streets.
There are also many hundred-story buildings on the ground.
Some of the stacked buildings are old and new, some are beautiful, with green tiles and vermilion eaves, and are brightly lit, while others are ruined and dark, eerie.
The new dynasty was built on the old dynasty, and the new capital was built on the old site. The capital, the ancient capital of the seven dynasties, was rebuilt on the ruins again and again.
Recalling the capital city in the underworld, he also recalled the palace in the underworld. There was no royal luck to suppress the palace in the underworld, and the yin energy was so terrifying that even he did not dare to take risks and approach it easily.
Such as the phantom of the palace maid, the well of the precious concubine, the strange things in the Chuxiu Palace, the faceless corpse, the caller, the Yin and Yang Dao, the fishing in the North Sea, the human figure... the strange stories of the palace have been circulated for a long time.
Jin An continued to follow Li Yan and asked as he walked: "Fat Li, the capital city has been destroyed and rebuilt after war. There should be some ruins of the previous dynasty under the new site, right?"
Fatty Li caught up with Jin An's back: "Yes, but those are forbidden areas and are guarded by special personnel. There is no one guarding here. It seems to be an omitted place...or...is it a new secret passage?"