The decapitation demon was originally just a simple criminal case, and there were a lot of warriors and spirits who got out of control every year.

But it can be semi-official, with the prefix "justice", which shows that the problem is extremely complex.

After all, in this era, due to the activity of the secret police, the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to "justice" is the black armband, not its original intention.

"There is a traitor among us......."

Zheng Li remembered very well that when he gave himself the commission to investigate the traitor, Xie Ying's expression was quite heavy.

This case first appeared half a year ago, and at the beginning, no one took it seriously.

It's just that some of the ex-convicts and the notorious ones were beheaded in the alleys/homes, and they were all bastards who committed heinous crimes and did not regret their deaths.

"Is it another sad battlefield PSTD (traumatic stress sequelae) patient, it should be disposed of soon......"

Shiqian City and other great human cities have been in a state of sub-war for a long time, and the other side of everyone's military strength is that a large number of battlefield wounded and veterans have been produced for a long time.

Some are retired due to injuries, but most of them are due to psychological factors, and most of them cannot bear the fear of killing and being killed.

This is normal, after all, not everyone is suitable to be a warrior.

But some people are so adaptable that they can't stop.......

"The victim's body is dry, the vitality is obviously lost, and there is an obvious burning sensation at the wound, the high probability is the result of psionic energy extraction, and the spiritual energy degree of the whole body is much lower than that of a child, so it can basically be judged that the vitality and psionic energy have been taken away........ A Sword Master with Devouring, an Out-of-Control Demon Slayer, or both. Of course, it is possible for an alien race with similar abilities, but the odds are not high. ”

The spirit blade is a weapon of killing, it can be grown through killing, and taking life on the battlefield to obtain soul fragments is the best nourishment for the growth of one's own spirituality and spiritual energy.

But this kind of growth is also limited, it is an embellishment rather than a meal, and it is a key nutrient to make up for its own shortcomings.

The finishing touch is the outward aspect of spiritual awakening, not the gulp of "I want it all." ”

A sword master with devouring and eats everything....... The example of the three armies is enough to wake up.

But not the deadliest, the most dangerous is the so-called "falling into the path of asura".

The desire to kill, the appetite for soul and life, once a person indulges it, the bottom line will be gradually lost, and the evolutionary route will be completely distorted, not only for the sword master, but also for the spirit race and even the spirit blade.

That's right, including spirit blades, psionic weapons that don't have self-awareness.

As they continue to take lives, the unawakened spirit blades can instinctively evolve the ability to devour life and seize spiritual energy, accelerating their own growth.

If they have a similar devouring ability, they will gain more than three times as much as a normal spirit blade by killing the same life.

What's more, for them...... "this is delicious".

At that time, the spirit blade was equivalent to an ignorant child, and the desire to eat was irresistible.

Once the hunger of the delicious soul is formed, it will quickly intensify, and every time you eat, it will be in a state of intoxication.

Even if he had his senses, he had become unable to leave the killing when he came back to his senses, and he fell into the endless path of Shura, becoming the so-called "magic sword".

The best of them can even manipulate the sword master in reverse, twisting it into his own tool man......... That's right, Lin Yuying is a magic sword, at least it used to be.

And because the consciousness of the magic sword was in a hazy and chaotic state at this time, it was all instinctive, and there were many people who drove the tool man sword master crazy.

Ironically, due to the sufficiency of "battlefield nourishment", as well as the Tool Man Living Sacrifice Psionic Energy Library, and the fact that it has a strong desire impulse, the consciousness awakening rate of the magic sword is indeed the highest among the spirit blade types....... Basically, a magic sword at least killed enough, and in the end, they all awakened their self-consciousness, which was to suffer their previous sword masters.

The tool man is broken? Look for it again.

A magic sword is formed, and it is quite normal to harm (consume) twenty or thirty sword master tool people.

It's the same with the sword master who devours the ability, in a sense, they are no different from the magic sword at all, they are all psychic energy and life force poisoners, but the sword master is often more crazy, the body mutation will be abnormally obvious, and he often transforms his spirit blade into a magic sword.

Blood-thirsty lunatics, regardless of the ethnic branch, will be left on the front lines of the battlefield.

Either self-destruct in madness, or gradually cool down over time.

The situation of the magic sword is special, after their self-consciousness awakens, it is equivalent to starting over, and the past has become black history...... You can't expect a baby to be responsible for what it does.

Of course, many people have a dispute about this.

Some people accuse that it is the Demon Sword Spirit Clan that is generally stronger than the Spirit Clan of the same level, and has a bunch of powerful battlefield abilities such as blood manipulation and vitality drainage, plus they have experienced a hundred battles, and they are basically super soldiers, so the Great Citizens' Council deliberately left loopholes when formulating regulations.

"All blades have the potential to become magic swords, and becoming a magic sword is most likely the responsibility of his sword master, and we cannot let him be judged for his guilt before he was born (before he awakens to consciousness). If he re-offends later, we can re-hold him accountable. ”

This relatively mild statement has been recognized by the majority of citizens...... This is not a peaceful era, people worship the strong, and the Demon Sword Spirit Clan is basically all strong.

After the Demon Sword Spirit Clan woke up, some returned to the city-state, and some still chose to stay on the battlefield, and the city did not have enough nutrients for them.

The most dangerous thing is that someone comes back, but the heart doesn't come back.

"In just twenty days, seventeen lives, all of them were fatal in one blow to the throat, and they fell incredibly cleanly...... This guy has a big appetite. ”

Similar cases, which occur every year, are often solved quickly.

After all, the police don't eat dry food these days, and even if they can't handle it, there are black armbands.

The police didn't slack off because their victims were bastards/wanted criminals, they knew that the thirst for souls is endless and that there is no limit to depravity......

"I only kill some criminals, I just eliminate harm for the people."

"These thugs are wasting food when they live, and I am cleaning up garbage and saving social resources."

He ..... If he doesn't get in the way, I won't kill him! I don't want to! I just want to escape! ”

"I just want to survive! I still have potential to tap, I want to evolve stronger, I want to live longer, what's wrong? Tell me, what's wrong with killing a waste of spirit crystals?! I can do so much more than he does. ”

Layer by layer, the lower limit of people, that is, there is no lower limit.

When the bottom line is set in the heart, and the hunger that comes from the heart is constantly urged, it is quite difficult to say how much bottom line and reason that person has...... They can always find all sorts of reasons to satisfy their desires and what little "conscience" they have left!

It is worth mentioning that probably due to the same species, and the evolution of the spiritual energy of all the sword masters of the whole people, the spiritual energy and vitality of human beings are quite good nutrients for sword masters and spirit swords who have fallen into the demon path.

The strange law of what you eat makes up for what you eat once again comes into play, and therefore the criminal law strictly prohibits killing each other.

By the way, some demon sword spirits are still using the sword master as a guise to squeeze out the spiritual energy of one tool man after another, which is really a heinous crime....... But it's perfectly legal!

After all, this is theoretically just a normal contract.

You can't stand the temptation yourself, your body can't bear it, and you deserve to be sucked clean.

cough, to get back to the point, there are so many criminal cases like the beheading demon that even tabloid reporters don't bother to report it.

The sudden death of a lawbreaker is often a harbinger of serial murders, and the vitality and spiritual power on the corpse are too obvious.

According to their past experience, they quickly focused on the location of the victim, and searched for suspicious solitary spirits, sword masters with magic swords, and sword masters with devouring abilities in several surrounding areas.

Generally speaking, there will be gains soon, and most of the sword masters who have entered the demon have body shape mutations, appearance mutations, and their words and deeds are basically abnormal.

The characteristics of the Demon Sword itself are even more obvious, and the Demon Sword Spirit Clan gives people a strong sense of threat when they stand there.

If the investigation doesn't work, then baiting, fishing, or simply waiting for the rabbit at the affected site can often be rewarded.

Unless he doesn't commit any more crimes, he will be caught sooner or later, this is the confidence of the old policemen.

But this time, for a month and a half, nothing was found, and the cases continued to occur, and there was a trend of expansion, and the old policemen found that the situation was wrong.

The increasing frequency of the crime often indicates that the murderer is getting hungrier and thirstier, but the strange thing is that .......

"How can the victims still be some murderers who are not sorry to die, obviously there are ordinary people around the victims who are easier to attack, this is too self-controlled."

The area of damage has expanded from one district to four districts, and although the Qiu District and Bailu District are still the main districts, there is no pattern in the area where the crime occurred.

The most incredible thing is ......

"So many lists of thugs from there?! He's better than the wanted list of our police department. ”

The wanted list is limited, and most of the so-called thugs are in prison, and many of the corpses are eventually taken to verify their identities only to find out that they are disguised villains.

In this world, no matter how many kinds of abilities there are, there is no prophecy, and it already involves the divine domain of the time realm, even if it is a rare information processing ability, it also needs to be supplied with sufficient intelligence materials, and it is impossible to dig out so many lurking villains so casually.

At this time, the portrait of the offender in the police has changed from the original killing and poisoning to a madman who is obsessed with eradicating evil and enforcing "justice" in his own way.

Well, it sounds familiar.

"It's not something we can handle, leave it to the black armband."

The case team in charge finally gave up rationally, and they also smelled it, and it seemed that they could not continue to investigate.

After the transfer according to the procedure, the problem is instantly big.

"Hey, why are so many victims on our assassination list?"

Assassinate? True, this is also one of the important jobs of the secret police.

After Zheng Ligang did the intelligence investigation work, there were some people in the new list of problems who were very unsuitable for public handling.

For example, the city defense officer who has already committed treason, if he doesn't handle it properly, the soldiers below will change, and he is afraid that he will jump off the wall and do something.

Then, it is better to be "sick to death" and "suicide".

Similar situations also include celebrities in the city who have been bought to do public opinion propaganda, a second generation who should be punished with capital punishment but whose relatives are very troublesome, and a very famous celebrity who is actually a spy from another country, etc.

It's weird, after further investigation, the black armbands found that the decapitator helped them reduce their workload a lot.

got the case file from the police station, and then compared it carefully, good guy, this guy is really 997 full attendance and doesn't get paid.

It's not just assassination lists, solid lists, special lists, spy lists, gangster danger lists, as long as it's a good thing to kill, all of them.

So, there was the first scene......

“....... Find out the traitors who leaked the information, whether they deserve it or not, and they should not be lynched by outsiders! ”

Not only did Xie Ying entrust Zheng Li, but the black armband also began to picket and investigate.

But what made Xie Ying unhappy was that within the discipline inspection, many people recognized and even worshiped the behavior of the beheading demon, and the yang and yin hindered the investigation.

Who has the motivation to look into whom? According to the concept and working method of discipline inspection "eliminating evil", all employees are suspicious.

In the eyes of many black armbands, who doesn't have a little motive and dark words, that is the real disloyalty!

When you ask A what time is there is an alibi, BCDEF says "I went to play mahjong with me", "Let's go to drink a little wine"........

Obviously, other person A is working overtime in the office, and he has been made into countless clones and has become an important object of suspicion.

"Otherwise, we will give a few people different information, and whoever sees whose intelligence related person is dead, will be suspicious."

This case, handed over to Zheng Li, as an outsider, has not progressed for a long time.

He was annoyed by Xie Ying's chasing, so he simply took out the classic routine of investigating the mole in the TV series.

At that time, Xie Ying nodded on the spot, but shook his head again.

"This is the first step in investigating the mole, and we used it early on."

"No results? The bait didn't move? The other party is very experienced. ”

"No, the bait is all dead, the mole is even higher than we expected, and now all the top echelons of the secret police are on the suspicion list."

At this time, this case was poured out by the unscrupulous media, which not only painted the color but also was named "justice", which made the black armband crazy.

This is not a simple loss of reputation, but the public opinion caused by the report, which has made the "righteous beheading demon" have many more folk worshippers.

Forget about worshippers, this is the era of the whole people holding arms, and there are many imitators, so that gangster fraud and other less dangerous criminals are at risk, and it also greatly increases the difficulty of detection.

In the end, everyone went out together, caught a bunch of "decapitators" and came back, and checked them one by one...... Well, all of it is not true.

Although he had already realized it, he also choked the tired half-dead policemen and black armbands.

That was about four months ago, when the media paid attention to it, and the pressure was really great, and Xie Ying was also in a hurry, one communication a day.

was really annoyed by this real "headless public case", and Zheng Li came up with a crooked idea again.

"Otherwise, let's change our thinking, we can't find a traitor, and we just start with the most capable and motivated Demon Sword Spirit Clan, I think, Lin Yuying is the most suspicious. She is not only a demon sword spirit clan, but also a title hunter with strong strength, and most of the people on the death list can't withstand her sword. ”

While speaking, Zheng Li kept nodding.

"Mmmmmmmm, she's still a sword-form spirit clan, and her wounds are right. It has the characteristics of drawing blood and energy, and is always alone, which is a perfect fit! Let's get her in for trial first. ”

At that time, Xie Ying glared at him.

"Communiqué personal vendetta is a crime, do you want to go and squat for a few months in advance?"

"Tsk, forget it if you don't check, what are you doing so fiercely."

“........ We've checked, and she has a complete alibi. Not only her, but also the Demon Sword and Demon Sword Spirit Clan recorded in the four surrounding districts, we have all checked. None of them match. ”

Hearing this, even Zheng Li was silent, and he calculated a little.

"It's very hard, even if it's not more than a thousand, there are hundreds, and it's not easy to deal with, and there are connections between each other."

“...... I worked overtime and lived in the office for half a month, many colleagues were injured, and I also went to the hospital for two days......"

This case, which dragged on for more and more time, made the Seventh Discipline Inspection Department of Bailu District very embarrassed, and at the same time, the Ninth Discipline Inspection Department of the Qiu Subdistrict next door was also uncomfortable.

The victims are mainly concentrated in these two districts, indicating that most of the leaks are also located in these two districts.

The "justice" hat of the righteous decapitator is getting tighter and tighter, and it has become a classic joke for other secret police to laugh at the black armband, and almost everyone suspects that it was a high-ranking person with a black armband.

Seeing that the case is becoming more and more headless, it seems that everyone acquiesces that this will be a public case that cannot be solved for a long time, and they can only wait for when the murderer himself shows his flaws, and even Xie Ying urges Zheng Li a lot less frequently..... In fact, it is because of the special nature of the victims that many police officers and secret police lack the motivation to solve the case.

But now, I'm afraid no one will lack the motivation to solve the case...... The death of Director Liao means that everything is out of control, and all the black armbands have become mad dogs.

"Director Liao of the Ninth Department of Discipline Inspection became famous earlier than me, and his death is a pity. But he put on makeup and sneaked into the villa area of Fortune Avenue, which originally said a lot of things........"

“........ I remember that the high-rise dormitories in your seven places are on Fortune Avenue. ”

"Well, there's security there, so let's sleep peacefully, right across from his death villa."

Well, needless to say, this is Director Liao lurking over and sneaking up to find out the bottom of your seven high-level officials.

Then he died at the door of your dormitory........

Just imagining, Zheng Li can guess how delicate the relationship between the seventh and ninth places is now.

No wonder I said I was looking for Xie Ying just now, and the newcomer from the Nine Divisions didn't report it, and when I mentioned this name, I was even more excited.

Thinking of this, Zheng Li's head was a little fried.

"You're still ...... Entrust me to investigate Director Liao privately?! ”

Zheng Li is a little big, this commission is leaked out, and he and Xie Ying will not become the first suspects? Wait, I don't want to go to prison with this idiot!

"We're about the same level, and a lot of information has only been in our hands. At this stage, it is time to check our responsible persons. It's normal that he doesn't trust me, and I don't trust him either. No one can be trusted, which is the basic premise of our work. ”

Xie Ying said extremely calmly, as if all this was taken for granted.

“....... Wait, then you still come to me, do you know that you may be called in for investigation at any time. ”

"So, I'm going to hand over the new commission to you first. Even if I am really quarantined and censored because of this, and you are implicated because of this, you will definitely be released before me, and you will deal with business immediately after you go out. ”

", dead workaholic, even junior and younger brothers are pitted!"

Angrily expressed dissatisfaction, but Zheng Li was a little weak-hearted.

Let it out first? It's really not necessarily, can you stand up to the check? Although I have never crossed the line, there are many who step on the edge.

Just the Huohuo live broadcast platform, and the rabbit's contract, just a bunch of problems, I won't be planted like this because I was implicated.

“....... I don't have much time, so I'll get all the work done over first. If that's all, it's still a criminal case, and it's not a big deal. But then, it's top secret, you remember to burn it after reading, haven't you always wondered why the head of the twenty-fourth district must be the most capable of fighting? ”

"I know, it's because of the quasi-mythical creatures that they can be used as the town guard accessories of the 'Time Migration City' to maintain the spatial stability of the districts of the Fourth Ring Road."

Zheng Li took the document, looked down at it, and casually threw out a super bomb.

Xie Ying was stunned for a moment, then shook his head again.

"It seems that the relationship between you and the head of your family is even better than I expected, but this is still not in accordance with the rules, remember to report it later, and don't leak it to the public."

Zheng Li nodded, flipped through it a little, and knew what Xie Ying's second commission meant.

"At nine o'clock, the orangutan beast was arrested and the goods of the Attels entered the customs at almost the same time, what a coincidence......"

"Well, District Chief Sun was arrested, and according to the requirements of the soul contract of Shiqian City, the offender will lose his official status, and naturally he will lose his identity as a town guard. The spatial lock of the entire White Dew Zone was unlocked, allowing Attel's contraband to enter. It was also due to the lack of guards that the time whale was allowed to shuttle through the subspace at will, causing the scene in front of him. ”

Xie Ying was referring to the ruins and the remnants of buildings......

"After all, it was caused by the decapitation demon's knife? That's a coincidence, isn't it? ”

"There are no coincidences in this world, there are only inevitability."

The indifferent Xie Ying said some familiar lines, which made Zheng Li look at him for a long time, this guy is also a traverser? Or a lover of antique cartoons?

“....... Isn't that what you like to say? This time, I agree. ”

"The encounter between District Chief Sun and the head of the envoy is a coincidence in itself, and the beheading demon of the wanted criminal appeared at that time, and he happened to kill an important target, causing a diplomatic incident, and happened to blame the more important District Chief Sun."

"This series of coincidences led to a short-term spatial imbalance, and it was also a coincidence that Alt entered at this time, with contraband. Now, the decapitator's abnormal movement made Director Liao decide to investigate privately, and he happened to die in the opposite door of the seven dormitories, which is still a coincidence. ”

"But if there are too many coincidences that coincide, it can't be a coincidence. Although there is no evidence, I think there must be a mastermind behind the scenes, and now it should be just the beginning, and the plan behind it must be huge. My commission for you is to find him and stop him! ”

"Farewell, don't do it, bye-bye!"