On the way home, Bi Yuntao gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money to buy a few kilograms of the best 'Lingquan Brew' and cut ten kilograms of level 16 star beast spirit meat, and his steps became brisk.
According to the previous agreement, both parents should have gathered at Bi's house by now, prepared food and wine, and invited the neighbors to the family dinner. It should be a lively and festive atmosphere.
Turn across the street.
You can already see your home in the distance.
It was a ternary courtyard, a house he bought after he saved half a year's salary after becoming a special investigator.
Of course it cannot be compared with the big houses.
But this is something that is enough to make parents smile and be proud of it.
The Bi family has a good family tradition and gets along well with the neighbors.
Bi Yuntao quickened his pace, as if he had already heard the noisy and lively sounds.
But when he was more than twenty meters away from his home, a look of doubt suddenly appeared on his face.
Very deserted.
The imagined scene of family celebrations did not appear.
The doors of the shops on both sides of the street were closed.
Several landlords also closed their doors.
The most important thing is that the door to his home is also tightly closed.
what happened?
Bi Yuntao was startled, then quickened his pace and came to the door.
He raised his hand and pushed the door open.
Um?
The door is bolted from the inside.
Bi Yuntao suddenly felt a bad feeling in his heart.
He moved and jumped directly over the wall.
The front yard is very quiet.
There are more than a dozen large tables in the yard, filled with home-cooked dishes for entertaining the neighbors, and the bowls and chopsticks are neatly arranged.
The food and wine are fragrant.
But there was no one.
Bi Yuntao was even more surprised.
At this time, he looked up and saw a person standing quietly at the door of the front hall.
It’s Xiaobai, my future brother-in-law.
He stood quietly, his body intact, and when he saw Bi Yuntao coming in, he didn't say a word.
"noob?"
Bi Yuntao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Where are my parents? Where are the others?"
Xiaobai said calmly: "I just came back from the bureau not long ago. Uncle Bi and Auntie took Xiaoyu to sell clothes and jewelry. My parents had something urgent at home, so they went back temporarily. The neighbors haven't invited... By the way.
, when I came here just now, Deputy Director Zhang said that he had urgent matters to ask you, and there happened to be time. It seems that you have to hurry up and go back to the bureau."
"Director Zhang is looking for me?"
Bi Yuntao was startled and said: "What's the big deal? Okay, I'll go back right now."
He turned and left.
Bureau Zhang in Xiaobai's mouth is considered to be the most upright among the deputy directors of the Law Enforcement Bureau. He has always taken good care of Bi Yuntao and helped him withstand the pressure from above many times. It can be regarded as some kind of kindness. Naturally,
Don't be lazy.
But after taking two steps, Bi Yuntao stopped.
He turned around and looked at Xiaobai and said, "No, are you trying to push me away on purpose? Did something happen?"
Xiaobai shook his head and said: "Go quickly and come back as soon as possible to attend the engagement banquet."
Bi Yuntao shook his head and said, "No... Xiaobai, what's wrong with you?"
As he spoke, he suddenly smelled a faint smell of blood coming from the back of the front hall.
It's not chicken blood, duck blood, or other poultry and livestock blood.
Against a senior investigator with profound training, he knew very well that it smelled like human blood.
He took a step in his mind and immediately rushed towards the hall.
Xiaobai suddenly raised his hand and held his shoulder, shook his head with a strange look on his face, and said, "Don't go."
How can Bi Yuntao listen?
"open."
The real energy shook Xiao Bai's arm away, and Bi Yuntao rushed into the hall like a gust of wind.
Soon, a roar, like the wail of a nursing animal that had lost its cubs, came from behind the front hall.
A look of pain appeared on Xiaobai's face, and blood and tears flowed from his eyes.
He also turned and entered the front hall and came to the middle courtyard behind the screen.
In the central courtyard, which covers an area of more than 200 square meters, there are more than 20 corpses. In addition to the neighbors who came to attend the banquet, among them were Bi's father, Bi's mother, and Xiaobai's parents.
Of course, there is also Bi Yuntao's fiancée Bai Xiaoyu.
The neighbors all had their throats pierced directly and died instantly.
As for Bi's father, Bi's mother, and Lao Bai, their limbs were cut off, their tongues and ears were cut off, their eyes were gouged out, and their noses were cut off... Four ordinary and kind-hearted old people, before their death,
Suffered cruel torture.
Bai Xiaoyu's body was well preserved and covered with a torn piece of clothing.
Her temples were disheveled, her hair was covered with weeds, and her neck and thighs were covered with blue pinch marks, which showed what she had experienced during her lifetime...
Such a miserable scene is inhumane and outrageous.
After Bi Yuntao's initial scream, he seemed to have gone crazy. He stood blankly among the piles of corpses like a piece of wood, with empty eyes and no thought.
Xiaobai could imagine the despair in his friend's heart at this moment.
"I told you that you shouldn't come in."
While he was weeping blood and tears, he said with a painful expression: "If you don't come in, you won't be able to see such a scene, and you won't fall into self-blame. I... I originally wanted to get rid of you and clean up this place, so that even if you
In the future, if I know that my uncle, aunt, Xiaoyu and others are all dead, I won’t fall into an eternal nightmare just because of seeing this scene... Lao Bi, my condolences."
Bi Yuntao's body trembled.
He almost broke his steel teeth.
But no words were spoken.
He didn't know where the reason came from. He suppressed all the questions and anger, took a deep breath, walked over tremblingly, held his fiancée in his arms, took off his coat, put it on her, and took off her coat.
The messy weeds between the hair, and then gathered the corpses of his parents, parents-in-law, and neighbors.
"who is it?"
After doing all this, he looked at Xiaobai and said, "Tell me, who did it?"
Xiaobai's body trembled.
He laughed miserably: "They didn't kill me on the spot and let me live for one more cup of tea. They just wanted to use me to accuse you, let me accuse you, let me torture you, let me tell you everything, but...
…I won’t say anything because I know very clearly that none of this is your fault.”
Bi Yuntao clenched his fists and roared like a wounded beast, saying: "Stop talking nonsense, tell me who did it!"
"He's someone you can't fight."
Xiaobai trembled and coughed.
Black blood spurted out from his mouth and nose, and even the corners of his eyes overflowed with black blood.
He raised his hand to support the tree next to him and struggled: "My sister's biggest wish before she died was for you to live well... Lao Bi, you are a genius in the art of swordsmanship. Even the late emperor once praised you, so don't
Be impulsive, live well, practice, and become stronger. One day, you will become strong enough and you will find out everything."
"Are you poisoned?"
Bi Yuntao was shocked, rushed forward to support him, poured all the elixirs and detoxification substances on his body into Xiaobai's mouth, circulated the true energy into his body, and said in a panic: "Xiaobai, you... don't
Die, don't do this, don't die..."
"Lao Bi...you...remember...you...are not wrong...you are not wrong...it is this world that is wrong."
Xiaobai's entire face quickly turned black.
Then die.
Bi Yuntao was stunned.
"You haven't told me the answer yet."
His eyes were as red as blood and he said, "But I know who did it."
Night falls.
The moon is very round in the sky.
The food and wine on the big table in the front yard have long since cooled down.
Bi Yuntao sat blankly among the corpses, thinking, thinking...
The moonlight shone on his body, turning his black hair white.
He didn't know how much time passed before he slowly stood up.
Dark clouds covered the moon.
His hair is still white.
White hair in the middle of the night.
He collected all the bodies and buried them in the courtyard.
Then, he went to the zelkova tree in the front yard, fetched a bucket of well water, washed the whetstone, and started sharpening the knife under the tree.
The sound of sharpening knives at different levels seems to be the ruthless sharpening of the years, and it also seems to be the struggle against fate.
The sword shines coldly.
Bi Yuntao carefully sharpened every inch of the blade.
At dawn, he picked up his knife and went out.
I didn't go to the law enforcement bureau.
Didn't go to jail.
Instead, we went in the direction of the Royal Palace.
He knew that the 'Deer Cutting Banquet' that the entire star region was paying attention to was being held in the palace today.