Most of the clues found so far are indirect clues, and there is no direct evidence related to the murderer. Xiao Lou deduced that the murderer's relatives starved to death in the famine 20 years ago and came back for revenge. This is also based on speculation from criminal psychology.
As Lu Jiuchuan said, it is indeed extremely difficult to find the relationship between the person who had the accident 20 years ago and the murderer.
In the span of 20 years, most of the evidence has been lost, most of the insiders are probably dead, and related people are likely to have been silenced by the murderer, such as the Zhao family and the Chen family.
Lu Jiuchuan looked back at Yu Hanjiang and asked, "Do you have any good ideas? After all, you are the most professional in investigating cases."
Yu Hanjiang said, "Our current status is just that of passers-by who happened to come to the town. It is not convenient for large-scale visits and investigations. That would alert the enemy."
Xiao Lou agreed, "This time it's really not like the 8 Hearts Secret Room. Hanjiang was the new prefect at that time, so it was natural to investigate the murder case. But now, we live in an inn, and going in and out every day will arouse suspicion. In case of a kidnapping
There are still hidden hunters in the town, and we have to avoid their pursuit..."
He paused, looked at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Let Mr. Shao and Xiaoye investigate. What do you think?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded, "Okay. Shao Qingge has a lot of money. Sometimes it is a good choice to ask for information and give money. Today he and Ye Qi stopped by to buy clothes and got a lot of useful clues."
Lu Jiuchuan suggested, "There is also Hua Ying. She is still acting alone at the moment. Shao Qingge uses money to buy people's hearts when asking for information. Hua Ying's asking for information is simpler - directly using a dagger to force people to tell the truth."
The person to inquire about the information has been decided. The key is, how to ask?
Xiao Lou thought for a while, held down the earphone and said, "Mr. Shao, Xiaoye, Hua Ying, please go around the town. You can pretend that you have relatives and friends in Qingfeng Town who were missing 20 years ago. You are here to look for them."
Relatives and friends, try to find old people in the town to inquire about the details of the famine 20 years ago, maybe you will gain something."
Chu Huaying responded and quickly sneaked into the town.
Shao Qingge asked, "When will you come back? Don't you need me to stay at the inn to teleport?"
Xiao Lou said, "We still need to investigate the mass graves. Give the teleportation card to Teacher Qu and I will contact her before I come back."
Shao Qingge said, "Okay, I'll take Ye Qi out for a walk."
After ending the call, Xiao Lou and three people continued to search the mass graves. Most of the corpses here were piled randomly, but some had tombstones with the names of the tomb owners written on them. In the mass graves during the day, the tombstones were not visible.
They were as densely packed as what they saw last night, but there were hundreds of them, so the four of them had to check them one by one.
While looking for the tombstone, they discovered that Chen Yu's family, including the midwife they saw last night, were all dead, but they did not see the body of the newborn baby.
Yu Hanjiang said, "We went to Chen's house last night and heard the cry of a child. It makes no sense that all the adults came to the mass grave and the child was left behind? Where is the child's body?"
Xiao Lou said, "I don't know. It seems that no baby's body was found in the entire mass grave."
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but cursed a pervert, "Could it be that the murderer has special hobbies? For example, eating the hearts of babies to practice martial arts or something? Damn it, that's disgusting!"
Tang Ci "..."
This possibility cannot be ruled out. This murderer is different from the murderers we have encountered before.
Xiao Lou said, "If the murderer really killed someone for revenge, would he come to pay homage to his relatives' graves?"
When Yu Hanjiang heard this, he quickly scanned the mass graves with his sharp eyes. He did not find any food for worship placed in front of any tombstone. However, he found scraps of paper left by burning paper money near one of the tombstones, as well as
Black and gray.
Yu Hanjiang walked over quickly, squatted down, picked up some black powder with his fingers, put it to his nose and smelled it. After a while, he pointed at the tombstone and said firmly, "Someone came here this morning and burned some paper money."
Tang Ci wondered, "Are you sure it's this morning?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded, "Well, the paper money was not completely burned. The lower layer of black ash was covered with muddy water, but the upper layer was dry. If the person who burned the paper came here before yesterday, the heavy rain last night should have wet all the ashes. The ashes are
He did it, which proves that he must have just come here early this morning to burn paper for the tomb owner."
No wonder Yu Hanjiang would touch the ashes with his own hands.
Last night's heavy rain would have soaked everything, and the surface of the ashes was dry, obviously they were left this morning.
Xiao Lou speculated, "Could the person who came to burn paper money for the deceased be the murderer? If you look closely at this tombstone, there is no name of the deceased engraved on it."
Most of the tombstones around have the names of the deceased, such as "Tomb of my father Li Qingyun".
But the tombstone in front of me only has a stone with nothing written on it. The location of the tombstone is quite good. It is backed by a big tree. In summer, the dense branches and leaves will cast a large area of shade, which is just right.
The tombstone is shrouded in the shade of trees. It can be seen that the person who erected the tombstone was very thoughtful and chose a good place for the deceased.
Tang Ci looked up at the big tree and said, "So, the murderer came to the mass grave this morning, and we just missed him?"
Lu Jiuchuan suddenly remembered something and slapped his forehead hard. "By the way, when I went up the mountain just now, I climbed up along the vines from under the cliff. Come and take a look, this vine is a bit strange. I guess the murderer probably followed it too."
The vines climbed up."
Yu Hanjiang stood up immediately and said, "Hurry, the vines may be destroyed!"
The four of them walked quickly, and Yu Hanjiang simply used Qinggong cards to lead Xiao Lou back to the cliff at the top of the mountain.
Xiao Lou stuck his head out and looked down - there was thick white mist under the cliff. There was indeed a vine woven from vegetation hanging on the edge of the steep cliff. This vine was as thick as an adult man's arm and ran along the wall.
It fell down. But due to the thick fog in the mountains, it was not clear whether the end of the vines reached the bottom of the mountain.
Yu Hanjiang said, "I'll go down and take a look."
He grabbed the vine with one hand and flew down using the Qinggong card. His feet used the cliff as a landing point. After only a few seconds, Yu Hanjiang flew back to the top of the mountain and whispered, "The vine was cut from the middle. If
Without the cards in hand, if we climb down hastily, we will only fall to pieces."
Xiao Lou was startled. "It seems that the murderer has discovered us?"
Lu Jiuchuan's expression suddenly changed, "Could it be that Orion?"
Tang Ci shook his head and said, "Probably not. Orion looks very young, probably about 25 years old. He said he has lived here for 10 years. When we asked him just now, he also honestly told us about the rainy night three years ago.
From what I saw and heard, I thought I saw a ghost bride, and I was trembling with fear... She didn't look like the kind of ruthless murderer."
If he is really the murderer, then his acting skills are too superb.
Lu Jiuchuan thought for a while and said, "What you said makes sense. There should be no secret room where we can find the murderer directly from the beginning. Therefore, the murderer has actually been lurking at the bottom of the mountain. When I climbed up along the vines, he took the opportunity to chop down the vines.
Cut off, cut off this road to trap us in the mountain?"
Xiao Lou asked doubtfully, "But since these zombies don't transform into corpses during the day, can't we just go down the mountain along another road? It won't help if he cuts the vines, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Lou heard a strange rustling sound coming from his ears.
He looked back and saw a large number of zombies, as if they had been awakened by something, densely surrounding them. The tidal wave of zombies made Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but yell, "Fuck, zombies can transform during the day? No way!"
Reasonable?"
Yu Hanjiang said solemnly, "Our idea is too simple. Crisis does not only occur at night."
Xiao Lou hurriedly pressed the voice earphone and said to Qu Wanyue, "Teacher Qu, start teleporting!"
He quickly took out the compass, trying to draw an invincible circle to protect everyone. As a result, the moment he took out the compass, a female zombie in red suddenly threw out the red satin in her hand!
The group of female zombies in the wedding team were each more powerful than the last. The one who took action was the bride Zhao Ze'an. Her eyes were red and her expression was dull, but her movements were much more flexible than the other zombies. Xiao Lou felt his wrist go numb, and the compass in his hand
He was caught off guard and fell to the bottom of the cliff.
Seeing that the red silk satin was about to wrap around Xiao Lou's waist, Yu Hanjiang, with his sharp eyesight and quick hands, flew up into the air with Xiao Lou in his arms, slashing down the saber in his hand decisively, splitting the silk satin in two!
Zhao Ze'an was cut off from her weapon and immediately went berserk. She let out a harsh roar and rushed towards Yu Hanjiang. Yu Hanjiang used the force of his left leg to fly and kicked her hard with his right foot, knocking her to the ground.
Next to them, Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci were also surrounded by zombies. Tang Ci was forced to retreat step by step, and could only release his mechanical drone to bomb the zombies. Lu Jiuchuan took out his sharp sword and waved it in front of him to stop the zombies.
He came closer and shouted sharply, "Xiao Tang, call the Wolf King to buy time!"
The White Wolf King was a card that Lu Jiuchuan had just given to Tang Ci not long ago. Tang Ci remembered this card and immediately summoned the White Wolf King.
The Wolf King's 2nd skill can summon dozens of wolves to assist in combat. As Tang Ci used the skill, dozens of ferocious wolves suddenly appeared around him. Following their master's will, they quickly fought with the zombies.
At!
Wolves are also extremely ferocious animals. Although their numbers are far inferior to those of zombies, they can bite off the legs of zombies and slow down their progress.
The scene was extremely chaotic for a while.
Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan quickly shuttled among the zombies, cutting off all the approaching zombies. Xiao Lou felt that flesh and blood were flying everywhere in front of his eyes, and the entire mass grave was like a purgatory on earth!
He was horrified and asked, "Does the murderer know some kind of evil magic?"
Tang Ci stared at Brother Jiu among the zombies with a pale face. Hearing this, his hands trembled slightly and said, "Since we encountered a copy with a supernatural theme this time, the murderer can control the actions of the living and the dead, so that's okay."
Not surprising."
Recalling what Orion told him about what he saw three years ago, Tang Ci was even more certain of this.
On that rainy night three years ago, a hunter living in the mountains and forests saw a team welcoming a bride. All the people walked stiffly towards the mass graves without making any sound, in neat steps.
If the murderer hadn't controlled the actions of these people, how could so many people be like "puppets on strings", rushing to the mass graves in the middle of the night?
Xiao Lou frowned and said, "The murderer knows a kind of magic that can control humans to act according to his instructions, and he can also control the corpses of the dead? It seems that the zombies in the mass graves were deliberately controlled by the murderer to besiege us?"
Yu Hanjiang, who was not far away, heard this and hurriedly said, "Brother Ninth and I can't wait too long, let Qu Wanyue start teleporting quickly!"
Lu Jiuchuan said, "It will take 5 minutes for Li Qingzhao's mark to take effect. If it doesn't work, let's go to Peach Blossom Spring first?"
Xiao Lou said, "Okay, retreat quickly!"
Lu Jiuchuan immediately opened the Peach Blossom Garden, and the scenery in front of the four people changed, and they all appeared under the peach blossom tree.
Xiao Lou remembered that the last scene after leaving the mass grave was the dull expression of the zombie bride.
The faces of the four of them were ugly. Tang Ci said softly, "The murderer has grasped our movements. This is very troublesome."
Lu Jiuchuan said, "No wonder this secret room is called a battle royale. This damn murderer regards us as a target to kill? Moreover, the enemy is in the dark and I am in the open. We must be more careful every step in the future."
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and asked, "Teacher Qu, are the marks ready? Take us back to the inn."
Qu Wanyue said, "There's still half a minute left. Are you okay?"
Xiao Lou looked at his teammates around him and said, "Fortunately, he ran fast and was not injured."
Half a minute passed quickly, and Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were pulled back to the inn's Tianzi room by Li Qingzhao's sign. To the waiter and the inn owner, it seemed that they had never been out.
Recalling what he had just experienced, Xiao Lou was really scared.
The murderer encountered in the supernatural secret room this time was so evil that he could actually control the actions of living people and make people follow his will, running to mass graves late at night like a puppet on strings.
Now that the murderer has discovered that they are investigating the matter, what if his teammates also accuse him?
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou immediately pressed the earphone and said, "Mr. Shao, Xiaoye, Huaying, come back as soon as possible! The murderer this time is very dangerous, we have to discuss countermeasures."