After opening the curtain, the tent, which had not been entered for several days, was filled with dust. The setting sun shone on the ground through the half-covered windows, and the smoke and dust danced.
"I heard from Manager Ran that in order to facilitate our investigation, this place has not been touched since the accident; and after the body was removed, the bed was restored to the way it was after the accident."
Huang Yi tied the curtain to one side and signaled Gu An and others to enter the room first.
Stepping in, the messy Cheng She and two blood-stained beds came into Gu An's sight.
"There are two overseers living in one tent. This tent and the one next to it were attacked in the Wu Mansion."
Another member of the Suppressing Evil Division said.
After scanning for a week, Gu An found that except for the man-made mess on the bed, everything else could only show that the overseer who lived in the tent did not pay attention to tidying up.
"Senior Brother Qian, I'll go to the other side and have a look."
"Well, if you find anything, please notify us in time."
Gu An nodded and walked out of the tent and came to another tent.
The layout here is much neater than that one.
Basically the same as over there, there were blood stains on the bed, and half of the yellow pillows had been dyed black.
A lot of waste...
At this time, Gu An discovered that there was a lot of distance between the two beds, but the quilts were still intact on the bed.
After thinking about it, Gu An lay down on both beds in different positions, and pulled the quilt just right.
This means that when one overseer has an accident, the other one is still sleeping, which means that one of them is sucked dry without any movement.
After raising his head and thinking for a while, Gu An looked at the windows and curtains inside the tent.
In mint condition...
If it is demonic and strange, it means having spiritual intelligence.
It is difficult to deal with the strange monsters who have intelligence...
Thinking about this, when Gu An was about to get up to discuss with Qian Yue and the others, he suddenly felt something click on his hand on the pillow.
He frowned and turned his head.
The whip, a long red whip stained with black blood, with some barbs growing out of the tip of the whip.
"Did you find anything?"
Qian Yue's honest voice came from outside.
"Nothing, just a whip."
Gu An raised the whip in his hand.
"Whips? Whips are quite common here. Junior brother, you may not know it clearly the first time you come here. The whips here are exclusively produced by the Zhenxie Division and the Wu Mansion.
The Qi-suppressing grass is ground into powder and developed into a chronic poison used to suppress the flow of internal Qi. The poison is mixed into a whip, and the long whip is thrown on the person. The barb at the tip is like a needle, injecting the poison into the human body.
.”
Making a show, Qian Yue took the whip and demonstrated it directly to Gu An.
"Crack!"
"Clang!"
It fell into the air and crackled.
Gu An discovered that under the sunlight, some silvery liquid did fly out from the barb at the tip of the whip.
But this clang sound... was caused by Qian Yue accidentally falling on a shelf nearby, causing some brand new shackles on it to fall to the ground.
"What's wrong!"
"What did you say?"
"..."
The noise here alerted Huang Yi and others in the tent next to them, and they all came over to check.
"It's nothing. Junior brother, this is my first time here. Senior brother introduced me to the whip here."
Gu An responded, stepped forward to hold up the shelf, picked up the shackles and put them back on top.
When he picked it up halfway, Gu An's eyes narrowed.
Through the sunlight, there were faint black marks on some of the shackles.
Thinking back to the previous discovery that the murderer seemed to be very intelligent, Gu An asked: "Senior Brother Qian, there is a specific number of shackles here."
Qian Yue scratched his head and came forward: "I don't know about this. I need to ask Manager Ran and them; what's wrong?"
Gu An pondered for a moment and told Qian Yue his thoughts.
Qian Yue's face was solemn: "Isn't this impossible?"
"I think we should ask Manager Ran."
A quarter of an hour later, inside Ran Liang's tent.
"Impossible, these miners take the medicine we give them every day. Without an antidote, it is impossible for them to regain their strength!
Besides, there are no prisoners among them who live on blood."
Ran Liang frowned and denied Gu An's statement.
"On the contrary, I think what Huang Yi just said, that the murderer this time is a demon with spiritual intelligence is more reliable.
Because of this, it takes away a pair of shackles and allows us to focus on investigating the miners.
As for the purpose, it’s not clear yet.”
After questioning just now, it was found that one pair of shackles was indeed missing. In addition, because the murderer was intelligent, Gu An guessed whether it was a powerful prisoner who was causing trouble at night, and then found that his shackles were stained with blood.
So I put on a new pair.
As a result, Ran Liang denied it...
"This is just a disciple's guess. There is no need to worry, Manager Ran."
Seeing Ran Liang's chest rising and falling, Gu An looked angry and raised his hands.
After a moment of silence, Ran Liang turned around and walked out of the tent quickly: "Wait for me, I'll go find Lao Zhou to discuss it."
Ran Liang left the tent, and the solemn atmosphere just now dissipated a lot.
Qian Yue patted Gu An on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "Junior brother Gu, don't take the words of Manager Ran to heart.
After all, Manager Ran comes from Dongling County, and they are relatively confident in their own methods. In addition, even if something happens over the years, there has never been a case where a miner can hurt a supervisor."
"Senior brother, don't worry, I understand. Besides, this is just a guess on my part."
Gu An said with a smile.
"This way, I feel relieved."
After a long time, when the sky was getting dark, Ran Liang returned to the camp.
"I discussed it with Lao Zhou just now and thought that this time it was most likely that there was something weird like a spiritual demon or a blood freeze.
Fei Ge has already sent a letter to the Zhenxie Division and Wu Mansion in the four counties, asking them to send Instructor Xiaoqi to handle the matter.
The beds have also been arranged for you.
It’s not too early today, let’s go to bed early.”
Gu An and the others looked at each other without saying anything, and all stepped back.
…
The tents of Gu An and others were arranged at the junction between Zhenxie Division and Wu Mansion.
"Well, we probably have nothing to do these days. We can just wait for the higher-ups to send people over and wait for dispatch."
Qian Yue lay down on the bed and didn't get up again.
Gu An thought for a moment: "Master Yang is in retreat, which master from Ping'an County will we send here?"
"Before Master Yang went into seclusion, he specifically handed over the affairs to you and Tao Xiaoqi. It should be one of the other three adults."
As long as it's not Tao Yu, that's no problem... Gu An thought silently.
After talking with Qian Yue for a while, Gu An fell into sleep.
The night is getting darker.
The heat of summer caused Gu An and Qian Yue to leave the windows on both sides half open to let the cool breeze pass through, conveying a sense of coolness.
In the open space not far from the camp, corners of the white cloth covering the six corpses were blown up and down by the breeze from time to time.
A pair of eyes appeared from the window of a tent somewhere, staring in the direction of the corpse.
Suddenly, the breeze stopped for a few breaths.
Woohoo~~
Dark clouds drifted in the distance, covering the moon, and the wind became louder.
Whoosh!
The white cloth covering the body was suddenly blown away and floated away.
The protruding eyes of the six mummies gradually became filled with blood, and their originally dry torsos became plumper for some reason.
"Hungry~~"
The red smoke exhaled from the mouth was quickly blown away by the wind.
He slowly climbed up from the ground with his hands on the ground, his head looking back left and right like a machine. After two breaths, he seemed to have determined his direction and moved towards the tent.