On the official road to the south of Yucheng, Lin Ji and Zhong Xiaoyan walked briskly and walked side by side.
"This matter is my negligence anyway. If your family has any objections, just ask someone to come to me." Lin Ji said with some apology.
Zhong Xiaoyan shook her head slightly.
"If you don't experience life and death when you come out for training, it wouldn't be called training. Speaking of which, as for Zhong Lei's open mouth and reckless temper, I was actually very opposed to him coming to Victoria with me, but his father insisted that he come with me.
, I can't help it." Zhong Xiaoyan didn't look particularly sad, just a little annoyed.
You shouldn't have brought him here!
"After all, he is your clan brother, and he died on my territory like this. If I had known better, I shouldn't have let him go to Luoxia County."
"Don't be too guilty. It's not a big deal. There are dozens of people in the Zhong family, and there are seven or eight of them of the same generation. I will just ask my father to explain it when the time comes. Besides, Zhong Lei's death was caused by himself.
I've had enough of his nonsense for a long time." Zhong Xiaoyan said casually.
This time she followed Lin Ji out, just to fulfill her obligations. Although she was a little sad and annoyed about Zhong Lei's death, it was really not a particularly sad thing.
In this regard, Lin Ji said nothing more.
Zhong Xiaoyan didn't care, so he certainly wouldn't care either.
"If you say that, I don't feel guilty anymore."
"There is no need to feel guilty."
"If I had known earlier, I would have arranged for someone to handle the matter."
"That won't work. After all, his surname is Zhong."
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The two chatted all the way, and before long, they could see the destination of their trip, Luoxia County, in the distance ahead.
When they arrived at the place, the two of them moved a little faster and soon entered the county seat.
Then, without a moment's delay, they arrived directly at the lobby of the Luoxia County government office.
The lobby was empty and deserted, except for a janitor taking a nap at the door.
Lin Ji woke up the yamen servant.
"Go and call your county magistrate."
The yamen servant was still confused and frowned subconsciously: "Who are you?"
Zhong Xiaoyan on the side took out the Youxing Token she had just obtained.
Seeing You Xing Ling, the Yamen servant immediately became energetic.
"Two adults, please wait a moment. I will call Magistrate Lou right away."
The yamen servant quickly went to the back hall. After a while, an old man walked out of the back hall while arranging his undressed official uniform.
Seeing Lin Ji and Zhong Xiaoyan, County Magistrate Lou quickly bowed and saluted.
"Luoxia County Magistrate Lou Xingzhi has met the two adults from Jiantiansi. Are they here because of the Luofengpo demon incident?"
Lin Ji nodded slightly and asked, "Who sent the news to Yucheng?"
"It's a lower official."
"Besides the content in the message, are there any other discoveries?" Lin Ji asked again.
"No more. All the monks in the county have lost their lives. The remaining ones are just ordinary police officers. They are unable to catch them. Please don't blame me."
Lin Ji was not surprised.
To be able to quietly kill nine of the Supervisor Tiansi's head-catching demons, the demons were obviously not too simple. Naturally, he would not expect these people without cultivation to find anything.
"Have the corpses been recovered?"
"Yes, they are all in the morgue..." As he spoke, Magistrate Lou seemed to have thought of something, and quickly added, "By the way, sir, the government servants who went to collect the corpses all contracted the cold when they came back, and they were all bedridden.
rise."
"Wind cold?" Lin Ji raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Go to the morgue first, and then see the government officials."
"My lord, please come this way." Magistrate Lou quickly led the way.
Lin Ji and Zhong Xiaoyan quickly arrived at the morgue, while Magistrate Lou was just waiting at the door.
There was a candle lit in the corner of the morgue, and the dim candlelight made the whole room eerie.
There were nine plank beds in the room, and the nine corpses were all covered with white cloths.
Lin Ji did not rush to lift the white cloth to check the body, but shrugged his nose first.
"No body odor."
Zhong Xiaoyan looked at Lin Ji, she had little experience in this area.
Lin Jize said: "Although Victoria is not considered hot, the weather in July will cause corpses to smell after being exposed in the wild for only a few hours."
"These corpses were dragged back afterwards. I didn't know how long they had been dead before. But now there is no corpse odor in the morgue. This is wrong."
Zhong Xiaoyan asked: "Didn't you say they were all mummies on the way here?"
"Mummy corpses will also smell like corpses. You can't dry them so much that every bit of flesh and blood is gone, right?"
As he spoke, Lin Ji casually lifted up the white cloth on the nearest corpse.
The moment he saw the mummy, Lin Ji frowned immediately.
What you see is almost just a skeleton wrapped in skin.
Lin Ji stretched out his hand and pinched the body, with a bit of surprise on his face.
"You actually hit the mark. There is really no flesh and blood left, only skin and bones are left... But how did you do this?"
Lin Ji has been working in the Jiantian Division for so many years, so this is not the first time he has seen the so-called mummy.
"If evil cultivators take action to refine flesh and blood, the deceased will be tortured until they are no longer human, and the appearance of death will be even more ugly. They will not be as...peaceful as the corpse in front of you."
What puzzled Lin Ji the most was that although the face of the corpse in front of him had no flesh and blood, some expression could still be seen vaguely.
It was the calmness of dying without realizing it, as if he didn't realize the danger was coming before he died.
Zhong Xiaoyan also saw something was wrong from the side and asked: "Monster? Ghost?"
"I don't know." Lin Ji shook his head slightly. This was the first time he had seen this situation, and he also had no idea.
Soon, Lin Ji looked at the remaining eight corpses. They were all just like the first corpse, with only skin and bones left.
Only Zhong Lei's body at the end seemed to have a bit of surprise on his face, but there was no fear at all.
"This kid seemed to have seen the evil spirit before he died, but he wasn't afraid?" Lin Ji was a little puzzled, "He's not afraid even when he's about to die. What's the point?"
Zhong Xiaoyan curled her lips.
"I don't think it's strange. He provoked the son of a day-traveling monk on the road, and when the two of us were chased by the day-traveling monk, I didn't see any panic in him. He even said plausibly that young people should not be bullied into poverty."
This was the first time Lin Ji heard about this.
"Being chased by Japanese monks? Can you escape?"
One in the third realm and one in the fifth realm are not good at speed, so they can't escape the pursuit of the sixth realm no matter how hard they think.
"I can't escape." Zhong Xiaoyan shook her head and said, "Fortunately, there was no big grudge. After I was caught up, I reported myself to my family and said that it had nothing to do with me and it was all Zhong Lei's fault. Zhong Lei also agreed, so that
A senior just dealt with him and let me go."
"This kid's death was truly unjust." Lin Ji even had some admiration for Zhong Lei in his heart.
If you don't know how to restrain your bad mouth, you will die.
After seeing the body, Lin Ji left the morgue with Zhong Xiaoyan and found Magistrate Lou waiting outside.
"Let's go and see the government officials collecting the corpses."