One night passed, and Lu Xiaoyue finally read the entire account book.
After reading the last page, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and then closed the ledger heavily.
In the past few years, the number of missing people in Huayin City is far more than a hundred people, but ten times that number!
Moreover, this is still the number of reports, and there are more that are hidden, unable to be reported, or even not discovered at all...
Adding all these together, there are at least more than 2,000 people...
It is not unusually difficult to investigate more than 100 people among so many missing people.
"Xiaoyue, what's wrong? Do you feel powerless after reading this?" Jianzhen asked with concern.
"Well... too many! There are too many people... we can't investigate them at all." Lu Xiaoyue replied with some frustration.
"Yes, there are indeed many!" Jian Zhen couldn't help but sigh, and then changed his tone and said: "But it's not impossible to investigate clearly... As long as we can find the right method!"
He spent the whole night reading the account books with Lu Xiaoyue, even more carefully than Lu Xiaoyue. After all, his spirit was stronger and he would not feel sleepy.
He could see many details in the ledger more clearly than Lu Xiaoyue.
"What method?" Lu Xiaoyue suddenly became happy and asked quickly.
"The "Soul-Entering Gossamer" ritual is to extend one's life, so most of its victims are young people. So we only need to find people similar to Mu Yunyan... There is no need to pay attention to the others." Jian Zhen said seriously.
explained.
Only survey young people!
In this way, the scope of the investigation will be greatly reduced. If the gender can be determined, the scope of the investigation can be directly reduced by half.
However, Jian Zhen is not sure about the gender at present. After all, although Mu Yunyan and the victims in the courtyard are both women, who can directly confirm that the remaining victims are all women?
After listening to Jianzhen's explanation, Lu Xiaoyue once again opened the missing persons registration ledger and began to search according to the conditions.
This time, because of the conditions, Lu Xiaoyue searched extremely quickly.
Jian Zhen also classified them silently in his mind to confirm his conjecture.
The sky was getting brighter, and there were more and more guests in the hall. The disciples of the Moon Martial Arts School all got up and came to the hall one by one to wait.
According to the usual practice, there should be a "unique" teaching at this time.
However, Lu Xiaoyue was too busy to take time off, so all the teaching tasks were handed over to senior brother Qin Xiao.
He is responsible for teaching the other disciples...
With one against three, Qin Xiao only used three moves to sweep all three new disciples to the ground. The whole process did not take more than a minute.
At this moment, Qin Xiao finally understood his master's original mood.
It’s simply not that exciting!
When everyone at Yueliang Martial Arts School finished their morning exercises and returned to the lobby to have breakfast, Lu Xiaoyue finally read the entire "Missing Person Registration Manual" again and made a selection.
Jian Zhen finally confirmed his guess and couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough! The victims are all women..."
He carefully recorded all the missing people. Among them, there were only two young men. However, they were not missing in Huayin City. They went to other places to do business and did not come back. Therefore, they were registered as missing persons in Huayin City.
Except for these two young men, the remaining missing young people are all women...and most of them are outsiders who came to play with their families and friends!
Outsider, visiting with friends, young woman... Mu Yunyan fits these three labels perfectly!
No wonder she fell for it.
Lu Xiaoyue also did a good job of screening at this time. Excluding the elderly and children, there were less than 150 missing young people in total, and the circle instantly shrank by more than ten times.
If there is help from the City Lord's Mansion of Huayin City, it is not impossible to find out these more than a hundred people.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiaoyue called the shopkeeper of Baixiaolou and gave instructions on this matter.
The shopkeeper agreed without saying a word.
"Hey, why is he so easy to talk to today?" Lu Xiaoyue was a little surprised. The shopkeeper was still pushing back yesterday and didn't even want to report the news. Why is he so cooperative today?
"Perhaps you are planning to make meritorious deeds?" Jian Zhen replied calmly.
"Tch! There is such a big problem behind the scenes in Huayin City. Even if he makes a meritorious service, I'm afraid he won't be able to wash away his sins!" Lu Xiaoyue said disdainfully.
Jian Zhen shrugged and said, "I just came here. Even if I have done it before, it was the matter of the previous shopkeeper."
The disappearances of these missing people spanned several years, and this shopkeeper was transferred more than two months ago to replace the previous fat shopkeeper. It seems that he was not guilty at all and was completely taking the blame.
But the previous fat shopkeeper was guilty of many sins!
Such a big thing happened secretly in Huayin City. As a collector of information, he didn't know anything about it. It was simply a huge dereliction of duty.
"Okay..." Lu Xiaoyue also thought about this clearly and simply stopped mentioning it.
Soon, the breakfast ordered by the disciples was served. Lu Xiaoyue was eating while waiting for news from the City Lord's Mansion.
After waiting for a long time, no news from the city lord's mansion came, but two acquaintances came.
Li Xuanqing and her daughter Li Qingyue slowly walked into the lobby of Baixiao Tower.
As soon as the mother and daughter came in, the sounds in the hall suddenly disappeared. There were people talking quietly at first, but after seeing them, everyone was stunned.
Li Qingyue is still young. Although she is a beauty, she is not very outstanding.
On the other hand, Li Xuanqing's face was radiant, her whole person was floating, and the aura she showed in every gesture was enough to make most people feel ashamed.
Most of the people in the hall were disciples of the Moon Martial Arts School, but few people knew about the relationship between Li Xuanqing and Li Muhong. Most of them were intimidated by Li Xuanqing's appearance.
At this moment, Lu Xiaoyue turned around and spotted them, and stood up in surprise.
"Sister Qingyue, you are finally here!" Lu Xiaoyue waved to them and shouted loudly.
Li Xuanqing and Li Qingyue looked over at the same time, not only seeing Lu Xiaoyue, but also Li Muhong sitting near her.
Li Xuanqing's face suddenly froze, and she didn't know whether it was joy or shyness, but she didn't bring her daughter over immediately.
However, Li Qingyue was very excited and couldn't help but run over holding her mother's hand.
In the end, Li Xuanqing couldn't resist her daughter, so she half-pulled and half-followed her.
Li Qingyue naturally sat next to Lu Xiaoyue.
"Xiaoyue, I heard that you asked us to come here?" Li Qingyue came to Huayin City for the first time and was very curious about everything here. Even after entering the inn, she had to look around.
"Yes!" Lu Xiaoyue admitted generously: "I encountered some things, which may be related to the Immortal Sect, so I have to call you to help..."