The crowd was startled and hurriedly took torches and shone them on the ground. In the dim and flickering light of the fire, I saw four or five people lying on the ground, all dead! Everyone was scared to death, and there was a panic at the scene.

The butler froze and shouted, "Don't mess around! Look who died! ”

Two bold servants stepped forward tremblingly with torches, shone the light of the torches on the faces of the dead men, carefully identified them, their complexions changed, and exclaimed, "It's the rats and dogs who follow the Yanai!" The other also exclaimed: "This is Li San and Xiao Yi!" ”

The housekeeper was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to look, and sure enough, it was four of the guards who followed the yamen! The butler realized that something was wrong and said urgently, "Quick! Check it out later! The crowd immediately ran through the hall and into the backyard. Everyone spread out and searched carefully! The crowd scattered and searched everywhere.

"Oops! There are three more of them, all dead! Several of the servants searching the cloister suddenly exclaimed. Immediately afterwards, the screams rang out one after another: "The pig's head and several of them are also dead!" "It's Huzi and them!" "Oh my God! It's Yanai! He, he, he ......"

When the housekeeper heard that he had found Yanai, he hurriedly followed the sound. When I came to the scene, I saw a headless corpse lying crookedly on the edge of a small pond, the grass was soaked with blood and water, and the head was missing! The housekeeper was bluffed and almost fell! After settling down, he carefully looked at the clothes of the headless corpse, it was indeed a ya, and hurriedly asked everyone: "Where is the head?" Everyone shook their heads. The housekeeper said angrily: "Don't go find it yet!" The people hurried down and searched in all directions.

After a while, a servant who was looking under the osmanthus tree in the distance suddenly shouted, "Found it!" The head of the Yanai is here! ”

The housekeeper hurriedly ran over, and when he saw that it was indeed the head of the Yanei, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly ordered someone to collect the body of the Yanei, guard it, and then hurriedly left the Lin family and ran back to the Taiwei Mansion.

The butler stumbled into the back hall in a panic, fell to his knees with a thud, and stammered: "Big, big, my lord, no, no, no, it's not good, Ya, Ya, Yanei, he, he's ......" Gao Taiwei frowned, "What's wrong with him?" He won't come back with you? He's getting bolder! ”

Gao Taiwei stood up, "What?! Then he asked angrily: "Isn't there more than 20 guards around him?" Who can kill him! The butler swallowed, "Those guards were all killed!" Gao Yu was shocked.

At the same time, the city patrol officers came to the south gate and were surprised to find that the city gate was wide open. The officer felt that something was wrong, and immediately ordered someone to inspect it, and found that dozens of officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were actually gagged and tied up in the squad room of the city gate tower. The officer realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately sent someone to report to the palace marshal's mansion.

Soon after, the whole capital was in an uproar. I saw that the fire dragons composed of torches converged at the city gates, and countless fire snakes swayed in the streets and alleys of the city; The sound of chaotic footsteps, rumbling horses' hooves, clanging armor, and the neighing of men and horses broke the silence of the night; The people were awakened to find that in the streets and alleys that should have been quiet and peaceful, soldiers and horses were running and war horses neighing, and they couldn't help but panic.

……

One night, the whole capital could not sleep, and in the daytime, everyone talked and panicked.

At this moment, in the palace hall, the emperor and the ministers were also discussing this matter, and Kaifeng Mansion Yin was reporting the results of the on-site investigation to the emperor: "According to the on-site investigation by Weichen and others, almost all the guards were killed by the murderer in an unsuspecting situation. The waist knives of the guards were not unsheathed, so it can be judged that when the murderer made a move, the guards did not react at all, and the murderer appeared very suddenly, and the shot was extremely fast......"

The hall buzzed, and the ministers exchanged heads. Gao Yu said angrily: "How is this possible? If one or two guards are caught off guard, it is still possible to be caught off guard by the murderer. But that's about two dozen guards! These people are all strong martial artists, how can someone kill them all in an instant? And as far as I know, these twenty or so guards who died died in the front yard and in the backyard and in the room respectively, so the death of these guards must have come first and one after the other, and people will inevitably scream and exclamate before they die, how can others not be alert because of this? So how could they all all be killed by a surprise attack without defense? ”

Kaifeng Mansion Yin hugged his fists and said: "What the Taiwei said is extremely true! Therefore, there is only one possibility, and the person who was killed first did not give a warning or scream at all! ”

Gao Yu's face changed, "This is impossible!" Unless it's a ghost! No one can do that! ”

Emperor Yin Chao of Kaifeng Mansion hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, a very strange phenomenon has been found at the scene of the lowly investigation. The site was apparently cleared, leaving almost no traces, not even footprints to be found. ”

The emperor was taken aback and changed color: "There is such a thing!" Could it be that the perpetrator is not a human being? ”

Kaifeng Mansion Yin said: "The perpetrator is definitely a human being, but it is by no means an ordinary person, but a terrible killer who is extremely proficient in the way of assassination!" Come and go without a trace, kill people invisibly! ”

Gao Yu said angrily: "How can there be such a person, don't talk nonsense and pass the buck!" ”

Kaifeng Mansion Yin hurriedly said: "Xiaguan will never dare to talk nonsense!" It's all based on the situation on the spot! In fact, such a terrible killer is unheard of! At that time, Lord Bao Zheng had countless strange cases, although there were also terrible killers, but compared with the killers in this case, they were nothing but a small matter! The killer in this case can definitely be called ancient and modern, and his mastery of the way of assassination has reached an unbelievable level! ”

There was silence in the hall, and everyone felt a chill down their spines.

The emperor frowned and said, "In this way, you can't solve the case, right?" ”

Kaifeng Mansion Yin analyzed: "More than 20 guards from Yanei and Taiwei Mansion were killed, but Lin Niangzi and Zhang Jiaotou, who deceived his father, did not know where to go; At the same time, the guards of the South City Gate were raided by people, all of them were tied up, and they couldn't answer when asked what the perpetrators looked like, and the raiders were obviously also proficient in assassination and sneak escapes, and I judged that the mysterious people who raided the South Gate and the mysterious people who attacked and killed Gao Yanei and others were the same group. The mysterious group attacked and killed Gao Yanei and others, and then raided the south gate, opened the south gate and escaped from the city. ”

The emperor hurriedly asked Gao Taiwei: "Are there soldiers and horses chasing after you outside the south gate?" ”

Gao Taiwei hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, as soon as the palace marshal's mansion received a report of an attack on the south gate last night, even if it sent two horse armies of Feilong and Feixiong to chase after it, it has not been reported yet. ”

The Emperor frowned, "This gang of thieves must be caught as soon as possible, otherwise I won't be able to sleep and eat!" ”

Cai Jingdao, who had not spoken: "Since that gang of thieves was willing to take great risks to save Lin Niangzi's family, they obviously have a lot to do with them. Although we don't know the appearance of the gang of thieves, we can find them through Lin Niangzi's family. can immediately issue sea fishing documents, and the whole country wants Lin Niangzi's family. As long as they are caught, the whereabouts of the thieves will be known. ”