Chapter Eighty-Seven: Clues

The street where Ling Jing was located was originally quite wide, with houses scattered on both sides, and it seemed that it should also be a rather prosperous area, but now on this street, there are not many pedestrians, and even the doors of the mansions are closed, and the entire street is empty, without a trace of popularity.

Ling Jing glanced a few times around the street, and his eyes quickly fell on the sealed mansion in front of him, only to see that at the gate, two yellow seals slowly swayed in the wind, making a "pop" sound.

Ling Jing took a deep breath, and seeing that there was no one around, he suddenly jumped over the wall and entered this mansion.

There was silence in the mansion, only to see that from the gate, there were blood stains extending all the way to the lobby in front of him, Ling Jing carefully observed all the way, and walked in the direction of the lobby, and saw that although there was a lot of blood on the ground, the surrounding layout was not chaotic at all, and there was no trace of fighting.

He felt a little strange in his heart, and when he entered the lobby, he saw that the walls, tables, chairs, and screens were stained with bright red blood everywhere, but the strange thing was that the layout in the hall was also very neat, and it seemed that the master here was killed completely unsuspectingly, and there was no room for struggle before he died.

Ling Jing searched the corners of the lobby carefully, but in the end, he found no clues, and even the footprints on the ground seemed to be nothing worth noting.

As a master, walking is different from ordinary people, and the strength of his feet will be different according to the different martial arts, and the footprints left behind will be of different depths, but the footprints left here are basically no different, they seem to be ordinary people, which makes Ling Jing hesitate a little.

In this case, either the murderer deliberately erased the clues and stepped on the footprints similar to ordinary people, or the person's light skills have reached the point of perfection, or they will not leave any traces if they are stepped on the flat ground.

Although Ling Jing had some speculations, he didn't find any valuable clues in the lobby, and he searched carefully in other rooms at the moment, but the result was still nothing.

At this time, he turned to the outside of the lobby again, looked at the blood stains on the ground, and frowned.

Through his observation, it seems that this murderer is very cruel, and there are large pools of blood on the ground and on the bed at the scene of every murder.

Moreover, this person can kill more than 30 people in a row without alarming the master here, without leaving a trace, this skill is definitely extremely high.

Ling Jing shook his head, and immediately searched the surrounding walls, if he couldn't find a trace here, then this mansion would be of little value.

From the east wall to the west wall, the surroundings did not seem to be much different, and by this time, he had reached the base of the west wall, but just a few feet away from the root of the wall, he finally found something unusual.

This family's residence was originally a bit luxurious, there were not a few trees and flowers planted in the courtyard, it was autumn, there were a lot of fallen leaves in this courtyard, but Ling Jing found a place here, the fallen leaves on the ground seemed to be scattered quite unevenly, with a certain point as the center, a few fallen leaves spread out to the surroundings.

Ling Jing squatted down and took a closer look, picking up a fallen leaf, but saw that there was a slight crack on the leaf, if it wasn't for a close observation, I was afraid that it would be difficult to see the abnormality, and with a slight pinch, the whole leaf would be shattered.

"Sure enough." The broken leaves slipped from between his fingers, and Ling Jing muttered to himself: "I'm afraid this person's light skills are not simple." ”

There is no trace on the ground, but the true qi spreads to the leaves under the feet, but it can destroy the leaves to such an extent, although the inside collapses, but the entire leaf does not collapse immediately, this kind of light skill is really shocking.

A trace of horror flashed in Ling Jing's heart, with his current body and surname, coupled with the "Golden Goose Gong", he was afraid that he would not be able to do it to this extent, so how high was this person's light skills.

There was already a hint of danger in his heart, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

Originally, this matter seemed to have nothing to do with him, but he had a faint bad premonition in his heart, so he supported himself to come here to investigate.

But at this time, I already knew that this murderer was only a person with extremely high martial arts, so did I continue to risk investigating again?

Now that the clues here have basically been found out by him, Ling Jing did not continue to stay here at the moment, and soon climbed over the wall and left.

There were still few pedestrians on the street, and after Ling Jing came out, he walked in the direction of the wharf in the west of the city, but he had only walked a short distance, and suddenly paused again, turned his head and walked to the north again.

He has always been a little uneasy in his heart, since he received the first inexplicable letter in Kaifeng Mansion, this uneasy emotion has been haunting his heart, whether his intuition is correct or not, he still decided to at least find out first, otherwise his heart will always be uneasy.

Walking not far away, I saw a government office sitting in front of me, two stone lions outside the yamen with angry eyes and hideous expressions, several yacha stood outside the door, but the demeanor was a little unrestrained.

Ling Jing hid in the corner, did not alarm anyone, and soon turned over and flew onto the roof of a house, and in a few vertical jumps, he sneaked into this mansion.

Although most of the more than 30 corpses in the rich household were stored in Yizhuang, Yizhuang was generally outside the city, and he didn't have so much time to go out of the city, but it was impossible for there not to be even a single corpse left in the corpse room of this mansion.

His plan was naturally to see what was wrong with these corpses, so he immediately searched the palace, and in less than a moment, he found a dark room on the west side of the palace.

Seeing that there was no one around, Ling Jing quietly pushed open the door, but smelled that the room was filled with a putrid smell, and there was a dead body lying on several beds, all covered with sackcloth.

Ling Jing closed the door, starting from the left, lifted the linen cloth on a corpse, only to see a male corpse in his thirties and forties lying on the bed, his eyes were wide open, as if he was about to get out of his sockets, his face was pale, and his face still maintained a frightened look, but his muscles had completely dried up, and his cheeks were sunken, like a skeleton.

Ling Jing covered his mouth and nose, this person had been dead for many days, and there were these dead bodies parked in the room, and it was inevitable that there would be a disgusting smell.

At this time, Ling Jing completely ripped off the sackcloth again, and saw that the corpse had been **, and there was a completely ulcerated wound at the upper carotid artery, but it was not like the scar of a sword, and the muscles on the body were shriveled, and it was indeed in a state of being sucked dry of blood.

Looking at this corpse, Ling Jing couldn't help frowning again and pondering, it seems that the rumors in the city are not false, almost all the corpses in this rich family have been drained of blood, and judging from the wound on the neck, the murderer seems to be sucking human blood with his mouth, but it seems that this kind of evil martial arts has not appeared in the rivers and lakes for a long time.

At this moment, he heard a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, Ling Jing was shocked, and hurriedly covered the body with a sackcloth and flew onto the beam.

Immediately afterwards, I saw two figures pushing the door and walking into the house one after another, looking dressed, it seemed to be the work of the yamen, and one of the middle-aged people said: "Lao Wang, what do you mean now, it's not a way for these corpses to stop here." ”

This murder has happened for several days, and the corpses have already stinked, but the people above have no intention of sending these corpses to Yizhuang.

The other person was a little older, and said with a sad face: "It's no wonder that this matter is not an adult, in the past few months, similar tragedies have occurred in Jiaozuo, Xinxiang, and Fengqiu, and even the imperial court has been alarmed, and the pressure on our adults is not small." ”

"Hey!" The middle-aged man sighed when he heard this, and the two were relatively speechless.

Ling Jing was shocked when he heard the words on the beams of the house, Jiaozuo, Xinxiang, Fengqiu and now Dongming, these places seem to be on the same line, and they are not far from the route he has been traveling, but similar murders have occurred in these four places, is this a coincidence?

(To be continued)