Chapter 20: Intuition
had to stay in this small city temporarily, Lin Xi found this geographical chronicle from the bookshelf in the space to pass the time, and turned to the article introducing Los Angeles. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Located in the south, Los Angeles is a city with a warm and humid climate throughout the year. Because it is a necessary place to go to Taosang, a big city in the south, there is a frequent flow of people, and many famous trading houses on the mainland will set up shop here. The cultivation of medicinal herbs is the main source of income here, and the people in the city are enough to live a prosperous life just by doing so.
The branches set up here are more or less involved in some medicinal materials business, the merchants will buy the medicinal materials in different seasons to store, so that the shops in other cities can timely replenish the shortage of medicinal materials, is a veritable medicinal materials transfer station, even the mainland is famous for refining pills Baicaotang has set up its own branch here.
The prosperity of economy and trade brought prosperity to the local residents, and also brought rich benefits to the Xianzong in the Los Angeles area under its jurisdiction, where the annual offerings were more than twice as many as those of the same size in the southwest.
The prosperity of Los Angeles has attracted many immortal sects who are eyeing it, and the immortal sects near Los Angeles want to get a piece of the pie. Now, Los Angeles is under the jurisdiction of the Terran Sect Wangxian Pavilion. Prior to this, the last person in charge of Los Angeles was a medium-sized immortal sect called the Qingyue Sect, and the fall of the last immortal stage power in the sect caused the power of this sect to plummet, and it was no longer able to fight against other sects, which led to a scuffle for Los Angeles. The final result is obvious, among the many sects, the Mochizuki Pavilion stands out and takes Los Angeles into the bag, and the Wangxian Pavilion has gradually become the leader of the southern sect after these hundreds of years of development.
After digesting this content, the last trace of the sunset disappeared, Lin Xi closed the book, thought of Uncle Zhu who was captured in the afternoon, and his curiosity was great, and he pulled Xiaolan, who was retiring from cultivation, downstairs to see if there was any new progress in the case.
It may be that the security in the city has always been very good, it is rare to have such a terrible murder, people's curiosity overcomes the fear of the murderer, at this time the downstairs is still full of people, and there is a table with a lot of gold and silver, it turns out that a few people have opened a gambling game, betting on whether the wolf Zhu taken away in the afternoon is the real murderer.
The two of them found an empty table in the corner and sat down, asked for a pot of Biluochun to drink, and threw a piece of broken silver to the guy who served the tea, and the guy's attitude became more enthusiastic, seeing that there was not much tea in the little blue tea bowl, he immediately lifted the teapot and filled it, and as soon as he heard that he wanted to hear the progress of the matter, he immediately told the two of them the latest situation he knew.
Only then did I know that the suspect Wolf Zhu, who had previously caught the broken corpse, could not be convicted, because Wolf Zhu is also a wolf demon and does not have the habit of sucking blood, and the other party has always denied that there is an accomplice, and there is a clear alibi at the time of the incident, so he released the other party back after dinner.
And judging from the scene, the incident could never have been committed by mortals, which was beyond the scope of Los Angeles' ability to catch fast, so such a case would be reported to the monks of Wangxian Pavilion who were on duty in Los Angeles this month, and they would come forward to investigate.
Lin Xi asked again when those of him who lived in the inn at the time of the incident could leave, and the guy touched his head and said, "Tomorrow, the disciples of Wangxian Pavilion should be able to leave after checking it." After getting the news he wanted, Lin Xi gave the guy a piece of broken silver again, and motioned to the other party to get busy first under the guy's grateful eyes. Although there is a lot of information, it is not very important, and there are still no useful clues.
"You say, could it be a bat demon?" Lin Xi guessed.
"It can't be a bat demon, the bat demon was extinct seven hundred years ago." Xiao Lan frowned and said, although the case has nothing to do with herself and others, there is always a sense of unsteadiness in her heart, and as the night approaches, this feeling becomes clearer and clearer. The intuition of the demon clan has always been very accurate, but unfortunately he is really not talented in divination, and he can't calculate what will happen in the near future.
"In addition to bats and mosquitoes, I can't think of that kind of monster sucking blood." Lin Xi supported his chin with one hand, and the other hand tapped rhythmically on the table.
"No, maybe the murderer wasn't a blood-sucking monster in the first place, but extracted blood for other purposes?" Xiaolan sat up sharply and said solemnly.
"Possibly, but that would be a big deal." Lin Xi nodded approvingly, compared with Xiaolan, his experience was still too little.
"Well, but don't worry, with the intervention of the sect disciples, you will soon be able to find the real culprit." Xiaolan said, it's just a pity that Mrs. Su is gone, the husband and wife went to relatives, but now there is only one person left.
It wasn't early, the people sitting on the first floor gradually dispersed, and Lin Xi and Xiaolan also returned to the room upstairs.
Somehow, both of them are not at peace in their hearts, and there is always a bad premonition. In the end, the two decided not to sleep at night, closed the doors and windows of their rooms, and the two of them respectively pulled off one of their hair and tied it at the window and door, and set up a warning formation in the room.
The two came to Grandma and Lin Zhi's room, let them rest first, and the two came to keep vigil tonight.
After that, the two also set up a formation in the room, but this time it was a protective formation. The murderer came and went without a trace, not knowing how dangerous things would be, Xiaolan used all his spiritual power to set up a double-layer protection array, and it was said that even the monks in the early stage of the tribulation could not break this big array.
Lin Xi volunteered to stay in the middle of the night and let Xiaolan recover his spiritual power first, after all, Xiaolan was the main force, and he hadn't even broken through the foundation.
In order not to startle the snake, Lin Xi blew out the candle while Xiaolan was practicing, and sat quietly in the dark room by himself. Because he hadn't started to learn the breath technique, Lin Xi pasted a breath charm on himself that he had only recently learned.
At this time, the people in the inn were already asleep, only the sound of Lin Zhi and Grandma's shallow breathing came from the silent night, and a few snoring sounds came from time to time in the nearby room, and a rough voice could be clearly heard muttering, "Mother, I want to eat sugar gourd." The sound of his own breathing was barely audible under the effect of the breathing charm.
In the middle of the moon, it was already midnight before he knew it, and Lin Xi concentrated so that he would not miss any suspicious movements.
At this time, Xiaolan also recovered the spiritual power of his whole body, sat on the chair opposite Lin Xi, and let Lin Xi enter the space to rest, Lin Xi shook his head, with his current cultivation, even if he didn't sleep all night, he wouldn't feel tired, not to mention, who knows what will happen in the second half of the night, and he can help Xiaolan at a critical moment if he stays.