Both Qi Kang'an and Fang Qi looked disheveled, and Qi Bao'er also pursed his lips in silence.
It turns out that there are so many things in a running water mat, but they are too ignorant.
County Magistrate Cao did not interrupt them, and after Twelve finished speaking, he continued: "That's right, the You family was killed that night, and the murderer poisoned the You family's own food.
The servants of the You family also ate the leftover food eaten by the masters, so when everyone was poisoned in the middle of the night, no one in the whole house ran away.
There were too many people coming and going at the flowing water mat. Almost half of the county people went to You Mansion to eat at the mat that day. It was really difficult to find out who had poisoned the place.
The source of the poison has not been found from the medical clinics and pharmacists in the city."
That night, everyone in You Mansion was suffering from the poison at about the same time. No one could leave the house to seek help. Naturally, no one could survive.
With such targeted poisoning, Magistrate Cao had to wonder if it was revenge for someone who had a grudge against You Mansion.
After receiving the case, Magistrate Cao tried his best to block the news. He only let people know that the You family was wiped out, but not why.
With many years of experience in handling cases, he knew that many murderers would return to the scene of the crime after committing the crime, some to confirm with their own eyes that the person they wanted to kill was dead, and some simply to satisfy their perverted selfish desires.
Magistrate Cao originally wanted to release some specious news to lure out the murderer.
The murderer was lured out, but not in the way he expected.
On the night of the second day, the watchman in the city was killed in an alley, and his abdomen was almost stabbed to death.
Not only that, just one day later, a butcher and his family in the south of the city were murdered. The butcher, his wife, and the eldest son, only an infant girl was left alive.
Another day later, a gangster who also lived in the south of the city was killed on the road when he returned home from gambling at night.
At this time, County Magistrate Cao focused his attention mainly on the south of the city, because Youfu is also in the south of the city, the watchman also died in the south of the city, and the two subsequent incidents were also in the south of the city, so he suspected that the murderer might be hiding somewhere in the south of the city.
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Of course, focusing on the south of the city, he also did not miss other places in the city.
Due to the successive murders, the government officials were seriously short of manpower. Magistrate Cao also invited the only two escort agencies in the city and Deyuan's bodyguards to help.
Maybe it was because the investigation in the city was strict, or maybe the murderer temporarily lost interest in killing one person, but the city was peaceful for a few days.
But it only lasted a few days, and then there were incidents everywhere in the south, north, east, and west of the city.
From every other day to every day, and then even during the day when someone was walking alone in the alley, something would happen.
As a result, the people are naturally in panic all day long.
Fortunately, the murderer didn't seem to dare to break in by force, probably because he was afraid of attracting the patrolling government officials, bodyguards, and guards. Everyone would be fine if they hid at home and didn't open the door to anyone at will.
but··
I'm afraid of this but.
"Our county has no grain reserves. All the grain needed in the city depends on the government's distribution."
Although there is no food in storage, there has never been a food shortage in Xiangzhou County, so every household does not have much food, and it is not possible to buy it after it is gone.
So here’s the problem, if you don’t have food at home, you have to go out!
No, the last few people who got into trouble were in trouble because they went out to buy food.
Magistrate Cao smiled bitterly and said, "I think the county magistrate saw it when he entered the city. Many of the people in the city looked like refugees from a disaster."
The four of them, Qi Bao'er, all nodded. When they saw it, they really thought that the people in Xiangzhou County were like this because they were short of food.
"Xiangzhou County is not short of food, but no one dares to come out to buy food."
They are all scared. As long as they have a little food at home and can survive for a while, they are not willing to go out and seek death.
Qi Kang'an thought of a key question: "We have made such a big move in the past two nights. If the murderer is still in the city, he/she will definitely know. Bao, do you think he/she will run away?"
Qi Baoer was silent for a while and shook his head, "I think this person is most likely mentally ill. He/she must be addicted to killing one person now, and he has killed so many people for so long.
, but the government still hasn’t caught him, this will make him feel in his heart that the government is not that good and can’t do anything to him. He will feel that he is above the government in terms of killing one person.
It is impossible for such a person to stop.
Moreover, I didn't find anyone else near the inn last night. Tonight, Master Cao has sealed off the area around the inn, and I also didn't find anyone other than us around.
Either the murderer happened to be out of town these two days, or the murderer didn't dare to get too close here.
In short, unless he himself is related to the headless zombie, he would not know what really happened here.
Even if we knew someone was staying at the inn, we wouldn't know if the four of us are ordinary people."
Qi Baoer's words made Magistrate Cao feel a little embarrassed, but it was only a little bit. After all, you would get used to being slapped in the face.
He agreed very much with Qi Baoer's analysis and nodded repeatedly: "What the county master said makes sense. I guess the murderer may not be in the city recently. There had been no murders for two days before the county master entered the city."
Speaking of this, Fang Qi expressed his confusion, "There have been multiple murders in the city, why did the magistrate open the city gates wide and let the murderers come in and out at will?"
Qi Baoer also looked at Magistrate Cao intently.
Magistrate Cao's eyes wandered as if he had been poked into a guilty conscience.
He didn't explain anything, but he said everything.
At first, you might think that the murderer was seeking revenge, but with the subsequent murders, anyone who is not a fool sitting in the position of Magistrate Cao will know that this is a serial pervert who kills one person and one person.
Moreover, he was a perverted, murderous maniac who was more powerful than at least the government officials in Xiangzhou County and the people they hired to help.
After a long investigation, we couldn't even find out what the murderer looked like. Instead, ordinary people were getting into trouble one after another.
Magistrate Cao is a person who has experience in solving cases. He knows that it is too easy for a murderer to kill someone in one place and the government has nothing to do with him. He will most likely change places in order to find excitement.
So he opened the city gate wide and allowed them to come in and out at will.
To put it nicely, he was doing it for the people of the city, but to put it badly, he was admitting defeat to the murderer.
The four of them looked at Magistrate Cao's guilty look and roughly guessed what he had done, but none of them could say a word about his behavior.
Just knowing that tonight he was going to deal with a dangerous thing like the Headless Zombie, he could take the initiative to wait at the inn with everyone else instead of hiding. As an official, County Magistrate Cao, he couldn't do that.
Gotta say.
It can only be said that he was helpless.
It is selfish, there is no denying this, but the premise of his selfishness is that he has the people of Xiangzhou County in his heart.
The one who is really to blame, and who should be blamed the most, is the murderer.
Thinking that this matter was too heavy, Fang Qi hurriedly chatted and changed the topic: "County Lord, should you check whether there is a murder nearby to confirm whether the murderer has left Xiangzhou County?"
