For two whole days and nights, none of the team members slept a wink.
Together with the helpers from the judicial office supported by Deacon Jin, the files and information on the seventeen unsolved cases were reviewed from beginning to end.
At the same time, they also visited the deceased's family members, neighbors and other possible witnesses. Numerous clues came one after another, and finally converged in front of Li Mu.
"Case number, Jiu Lu Jiu, an eyewitness once saw two strange men in black robes before the victim drowned."
"Case number, 1554, there were pinholes on the victim's neck and ankles, which are consistent with the pinholes in the boy in red case."
"Case No. 823, imprints of a suspected magic circle were found in the attic of the victim's residence."
It has to be said that the investigative ability of the case officer is extremely outstanding. Once he paid attention to it, many previously missed clues were collected, but it also made everyone present more and more frightened.
"Although the methods are different, the essence is to make the victim die in endless pain, and then seal the resentment in the corpse."
He picked up the file in his hand and put it down again. Although he had found hundreds of clues, Li Mu still couldn't figure out the true purpose of the murderer behind it, and naturally he couldn't judge his subsequent actions.
"You go and take a rest first. Elder Li and I will take your place. If other cases are not found out, people will collapse first. Our task is important, and you can't make any mistakes."
A cup of steaming green tea was placed in front of Li Mu. The little Tao Wan who spoke was dressed in plain clothes, with a high ponytail, and a touch of pink and white, looking fresh and refined.
"I'm fine. These papers... Okay, I'm going to take a nap. If anything happens, call me right away."
Li Mu was about to refuse, but Qianqianyu's hand covered his mouth, and Xiao Taowan told him with his eyes that the matter was non-negotiable.
Even Li Mu, who never gave in when faced with the "blood" organization's king who had transcended the tribulation realm, had no choice but to obey the girl's "ferocious" gaze. He found a couch and closed his eyes to rest.
Maybe he was too tired these past few days, so Li Mu fell asleep all of a sudden. He felt that he had had a long, long dream. In the dream, he reached the pinnacle of power, and no one in the Three Realms could compete with him.
contend.
But I don't know why he was not happy sitting on the obsidian throne. The sword in Mosuo's hand looked up to his side, but there was no one there.
Lin Qingzhu, Nie Xiaoyu, Ruolan, Su Fenqiao, Fang Yan, Hao Meng, Little Monkey, Chunxiang, Li Yubai, Liu Ruoying...
None of these people who had made a mark in his life accompanied him to the top. He didn't know why, and he couldn't remember what he had experienced along the way.
It's just that the emptiness in my heart is getting stronger and stronger, and no matter how huge the power is, it seems that it can't fill this endless abyss.
"Li Mu, Li Mu, wake up quickly."
The violent shaking woke Li Mu up from his dream. He had no time to recall the details of the dream, because a crucial clue had been delivered to him.
There were only a few lines of words on the paper, but Li Mu's eyes couldn't help but shine. His unremitting efforts finally paid off, and the black hands hiding behind the scenes that harmed the people of Metallurgical City were finally exposed.
"So in order of the time of death of the victims, the bodies of the ten earliest victims have all disappeared, right?"
On the fifth underground floor of the case office, in front of the long and spacious table, the five members of the team, plus Deacon Jin and her subordinates, all reviewed the clues they had just obtained. The victims who were ruled to have committed suicide now had sufficient information.
Ten people experienced missing bodies.
These civilians were buried in various places. The most desolate family just found a soil slope at random, dug a hole and buried the bodies. However, when investigators from the case office went to visit, they found that all the bodies had been buried.
Stolen.
"Including the boy in red, there are a total of eighteen corpses. Ten of them were missing. All of them were cases dating back more than half a year."
"Then can I make a bold guess? After these victims die, they cannot be used by the murderer immediately. It takes a certain amount of time to become a 'useful' container, and at this time the murderer will come back and put the 'mature'
His body was stolen to fulfill his ulterior motives."
Li Mu's proposal was recognized by everyone. Following this assumption, a new round of investigation work began again. With lessons learned from the past, the progress was obviously faster than the last time.
"Judging from the order of death, the next body to be stolen is this one, a 23-year-old prostitute. The cause of death was suicide by taking poison."
Looking at the beautiful but charming woman in the file, Li Mu couldn't help but sigh that the cause of death of suicide by poisoning was no longer established, but no one knew how much torture she endured before her death.
"The deceased had no family or friends. In the end, the body was buried on a hill in the north of the city. However, the person responsible for digging the grave was no longer in Metallurgical City at that time, so there was no way to determine the specific location."
The prosecutor's office has done its job to the extreme. Although the precise burial place of the body has not been found, now that the target area has been locked, there is only one thing left for Li Mu and the others to do, and that is to wait and see.
The evening breeze in Metallurgical City carries a warm temperature, and the slightly pungent smell in the air is caused by long-term metallurgical forging. The chaotic hills in the north of the city become quiet at night, and only the occasional passing field mice make noises.
A rustling sound.
But the hills were by no means deserted today, because a total of twenty monks, including the elite team led by Li Mu, were already lurking in the night.
The most powerful elders Li Mu and Li Shu guarded the core area of the mass grave. Xiao Taowan and Bai Jingting were in charge of the two entrances and exits of the hill. Jin Ding and fifteen Danjie realm monks sent by the Si'an Ya were scattered around.
Every hidden corner.
"Do you think the man behind the scenes is the 'blood' organization? What do they want to do by collecting so much grievances? Are the means of mass destruction mastered by Dong Penglai really provided by this organization?"
Lying in the shadows, Li and Mu kept observing the mass graves, but except for two small wild cats passing through, there was no movement of other creatures.
"Although I'm not sure, I feel that these strange cases are very similar to the style of the Blood organization. The planning spans a long time and the methods are extremely cruel. These are the standard features of those black-robed people. When I was in Cangyun Empire before,
, I also met one of the leaders of this organization, who turned out to be a demon from ancient times."
"So I think that by collecting such rich and pure resentment, they probably want to cast an ancient evil spell. But for what purpose, we can only know after we catch them."
Li Mu quietly answered Li Shu's doubts. Ever since he traveled to the fairy world, the "Blood" organization has been constantly at odds with him, so that now whenever he encounters a similar incident, he will instinctively think that it is a man in black robe.