The identity of the newly discovered body that had been killed was determined when Zheng Jiuye arrived there.

The corpse lying there was a wandering adventurer from the Swordsmen's Guild - an adventurer is generally someone who specializes in hunting materials, killing monsters, escorting teams, and so on; With the exception of the Assassin Guild mode, all other guilds have quest panels dedicated to adventurers.

"Not long......"

The fatal wound was a cut throat; In addition, there were blunt blows on many parts of the body, and because the blood around them had not yet coagulated, it can be judged that the deceased did not die for much longer...... How much?

Zheng Jiuye scratched his head in confusion, this number made him forget...... But it doesn't matter, anyway, this guy hasn't been dead for long.

Regardless of what the duke's side has to say, the serial murder seems to be real. However, looking at the face of this killed guy, Zheng Jiuye always felt that he had seen it in the bounty order of the local assassin guild......

Although he only scanned the bounty list by turning the page quickly, Zheng Jiuye was still a little impressed, so he took out a stack of bounty sheets from his arms and began to compare them with each other's faces.

"It's really ...... him"

Zheng Jiuye actually found this adventurer on one of the bounty orders.

Yari, male, 31 years old, third-order swordsman, private bounty of 1200 gold coins......

The reward in remote areas is not good for this, and the emperor must clearly indicate the reason for being wanted is that the wanted warrant in this kind of place does not write why he is wanted, in short, he is wanted; The merchant Zheng Jiuye killed before had enough time to investigate his evil deeds, but in this case, Zheng Jiuye didn't have the time to leisurely investigate this guy who was not too important.

Anyway, everyone is dead.

All the money on the deceased was still taken from him; In addition, considering the situation provided by the Duke that the murderer "killed for money", there is a good chance that the private bounty was also taken away by him bypassing the Assassin Guild or in some other way.

In six days at most, all of the new generation of Seven Sages will be inspired...... Counting the time it takes for people from different places to rush to the target place, in other words, the time that Zheng Jiuye can leave aside to solve the problem is actually quite limited.

"In this case, patrols don't seem to be of much use......

Zheng Jiuye sighed helplessly. Although the town is not large, it takes more than ten or twenty minutes to patrol along the established route; It seems that with the strength of the other party, the time spent patrolling around is completely enough for the other party to hunt their targets before leaving.

In other words, in less than twenty minutes, or even less, the opponent single-handedly killed a third-order professional - not to mention, this third-order professional is still the swordsman with the most balanced abilities in all aspects, and his one-on-one combat ability is second only to that of berserkers.

This kind of swordsman who fights monsters outside all the year round is not the kind of rich merchant who has almost forgotten about fighting...... Although it is said that Zheng Jiuye, a swordsman with third-order strength, can't take it, it is because of the energy advantage formed by the high energy reserves and the low consumption of assassins.

Dealing with a third-order swordsman with rich combat experience in ten minutes, Zheng Jiuye couldn't do it himself.

Well, Sophia can't be counted...... In the villa before, Sophia was a third-order guard all the way, and when she saw one by one, she rushed all the way up.

"In that case, patrolling is a complete waste of time......

Zheng Jiuye sighed helplessly.

If the patrol interval is too long, it will not be useful at all; If you want to shorten the patrol interval, you have to divert the patrol team.

Now there are only five third-order professionals in each patrol. The combat effectiveness of the squad leader and soldier of the ordinary first and second order is not counted...... If it is diverted again, can two or three third-order professionals really be able to stop that guy whose strength is at least the apex of the third order, and maybe even higher?

Zheng Jiuye felt ...... Probably not.

But the duke made all the requests, and Zheng Jiuye was not very easy to say that he would not do it if he didn't do it...... At least on the surface.

Now Zheng Jiuye is already standing near the corpse, and the patrol team is still very numerous at first glance - with Sophia and Yan Hassan's weapons there, even a fifth-order and sixth-order professional can't bear a single shot, so there is no problem with Zheng Jiuye.

In fact, Zheng Jiuye first asked Sophia to use a spell to put an illusion similar to the principle of mirror refraction on an ordinary soldier next to him, and then replaced the illusion in Zheng Jiuye's position, and Zheng Jiuye himself came down to investigate.

"Yo...... It's a coincidence, you're here to investigate. ”

Zheng Jiuye had just arrived at the location of the corpse when he happened to meet the shooter who had just spoken to him...... Zheng Jiuye raised his hand in awkwardness and said hello.

"Do you think something is wrong too...... I just felt that something was wrong, and I realized the problem after looking at it with my eagle eye. ”

Zheng Jiuye: "...... Yes? ”

No, I'm just going to come back and take a look......

"I went to check when this guy went missing, two days ago; And the pile of blood below is also very unreasonable, obviously the location of the injury is a fatal wound to the neck throat cut, but the formation of a splash of blood traces is not consistent with arterial splashing. ”

"Hmmm......"

Zheng Jiuye could only respond with a confused face.

To be honest, Zheng Jiuye actually didn't see anything at all just now...... Although Zheng Jiuye can also understand the problem of blood splashing due to high arterial pressure, how can Zheng Jiuye see that it does not conform to the trajectory......

"And then I borrowed this."

The archer took out a piece of cloth and dipped it in the blood underneath the other's body - Zheng Jiuye knew that thing, it was the square scarf used by the Assassin Guild to complete the mission, but it was not quite the same, it was glowing with golden magic circle traces on it.

Immediately afterwards, the archer took out a skinning knife, scraped off a bit of flesh from the corpse, and put it in the handkerchief as well; After two or three minutes, a strong red light lit up on the handkerchief.

"Look, it's not alone...... If it's a person, the circle won't shine. Also, the blood is fresher and should be fresh; The corpse is supposed to have been dead for some time. ”

Zheng Jiuye: "Oh...... Is the body in the space equipment? ”

The shooter shook his head: "Let's not mention the price of space equipment...... Space equipment is not capable of storing any surviving items. Can a freshly dead body be placed in a space device? ”

"Can't...... Because most of the cells in the body continue to work, they will not die completely until eight hours later. ”

Zheng Jiuye was stunned for a moment before replying.

This world also has the idea of brain death, cells and the like, although it is still very rudimentary.