Two nights later, another casual cultivator was murdered.
He was killed in the same senseless and silent way. At that time, the closest monk to this casual cultivator was less than 500 meters away.
In this case, the casual cultivator still had all the blood drained from his body and died.
Another day passed, and new news came. Two of the casual cultivators who fled the city out of fear were missing.
These two casual cultivators have entrustments and are working for the Zhang family. It is impossible for them to disappear without even asking for compensation.
The day after Liang Sanxiu disappeared, a monk found their blood-drained bodies in a cave outside Liang Sanxiu.
At this time, all the casual cultivators were afraid. The four cultivating families were the main ones. The casual cultivators gathered around the cultivating families for safety.
At the same time, Gu Jia also increased the task reward from five hundred spirit stones to one thousand spirit stones.
Li Shiming has not dared to practice in the past few days, for fear that the fluctuation of spiritual power in the spirit gathering plate will attract the monk's attention.
Although he does not live in the northeast corner of Zhongdu, who knows if the monk only pays attention to that area.
He compressed his sleep time to the minimum, sleeping for two hours during the day and not sleeping at all at night. He always wore a blindfold and watched the surveillance camera footage.
That night, Li Shiming, like the previous days, first let the drone fly.
In the dark night, the drone flew to an altitude of 300 meters, and he blessed the drone with an 'escape talisman', making the drone invisible.
This is what he discovered after studying the 'Escape Technique'. The 'Escape Technique' can not only be used on monks. As long as it is activated with spiritual power, the target can be people or objects.
No matter what the target is, the duration of the 'Escape Technique' is the same.
"Hey!" He saw a figure, but it was different from the figure under normal infrared thermal imaging. This figure was dark blue.
In his settings, red is the heat source, and blue will appear when the temperature is lower than the outdoor temperature. This dark blue will only appear when the temperature is extremely low.
You should know that it is still summer and the temperature outside is still very hot at night.
At this time, a target with extremely low temperature appears, which will naturally be particularly eye-catching in infrared thermal imaging.
For a creature whose body temperature is so low that it is still able to move and take on a humanoid form, there is only one possibility, that is, 'refining the corpse'.
Li Shiming didn't feel happy at all. He didn't want to come into contact with dangerous monks.
Fortunately, this dark blue figure was not targeting him, but was moving quickly in another direction.
The dark blue figure moves in an extremely weird way, almost in a straight line.
Li Shiming switched the drone's shooting mode. Under the dim moonlight, a black shadow could be vaguely seen flying between the houses.
No matter how tall the building is, black shadows always jump up.
At the running speed of the black shadow, if the drone was not at a high altitude, it would be impossible to even see the movement of the black shadow clearly on the ground.
Li Shiming hesitated for a moment, and after deciding to put his own safety first, he also left his yard.
He did not go at full speed, but kept a long distance from the black shadow.
He is not worried at all about losing the shadow in a short period of time. As long as the drone's power is not completely exhausted, he can stare at the shadow through his eyes in the sky.
When the black shadow was about to reach the city wall, he saw through the blindfold that the dark blue figure overlapped with a red figure, and then the dark blue figure disappeared, leaving only the red figure moving in another direction.
The fast movement speed of the dark blue figure and the red figure has also become a favorable condition for drone tracking.
If the speed of the two figures is slower, it will drag the drone until the battery is low.
The red figure was finally located at a private house. Li Shiming remembered the location of the private house and chose the roof of a three-story wooden building a thousand meters away.
He first took back the drone, replaced the battery for the drone, and then released the drone again.
Then he took out the monocular telescope and observed the situation of the residence.
There is no one else in the house, and a red figure appears under the thermal imaging, indicating that there is only one person there.
Through the monocular telescope, Li Shiming saw the windows of the house illuminated by lights. Then the figure blew out the light and disappeared.
Under the infrared display of the drone, the figure was lying flat, probably sleeping.
Who would have thought that the monks who could not find a place to settle down due to the turmoil in Zhongdu would live in civilian houses in the city and transform into common people.
Li Shiming looked at the three-story building he was in. This was Yuelai Restaurant, a very famous restaurant in the city.
He took out the 'Baili Messenger Talisman', explained the situation, wrote down his location, and asked Gu Jia to come over with his aura hidden.
After releasing the 'Hundred Miles Messenger Talisman', he immediately put away all the drones and monocular telescopes.
After waiting for half a cup of tea, Li Shiming felt that there seemed to be someone around him. He turned around and found Gu Jia and another person standing beside him.
To be honest, Li Shiming was really frightened. As a monk, he had not felt this way for a long time.
"Little friend Li, are you sure you have found the corpse-refining monk?" Gu Jia asked in a serious voice.
There was a trace of worry in his eyes, as if he was afraid that Li Shiming was joking.
Of course, he also understood that Li Shiming would not joke about this kind of thing.
"Just now I noticed a figure passing by my house, so I followed it. After that figure met with another figure, they formed a figure and returned to the house in front!" Li Shiming said, pointing to the house in the distance.
"You are quite courageous. You dare to track him alone on the second level of Qi Refining!" The man next to Gu Jia said calmly.
Li Shiming could not sense the spiritual power fluctuations on the other party, but he had a feeling that although the other party had no spiritual power fluctuations, there was a faint and terrifying coercion, which made him dare not despise the other party in the slightest.
"This fellow Taoist, Brother Gu has helped me a lot. The corpse-refining monk has caused a lot of trouble to Brother Gu. Of course it is my duty to help when I have the opportunity!" Li Shiming said in a deep voice.
He didn't understand why the other party had the time to talk to him here instead of immediately arranging an arrest.
"Little friend Li, don't call me random names, call me uncle!" Gu Jia said in a suppressed voice.
Li Shiming was startled by what Gu Jia said. Of course he knew what the title Uncle Master meant.
Gu Jia's uncle, isn't he a foundation-building monk?
"I have met my senior, please forgive me for my offense!" Li Shiming did not dare to really call him uncle. He was not yet a disciple of the Tianhai Sect. He might be able to do so in the future, but not now.
"That's right. Although I don't know how your spiritual roots are, you can reach the peak of the second level of Qi Refining at this age, so there is no problem in entering the sect!" the foundation-building monk said with a smile.
He came here this time just for the corpse-refining monk. On the first day he arrived, Li Shiming sent him the traces of the corpse-refining monk. Coupled with Gu Jia's recommendation, he had a good impression of Li Shiming.