Volume 1: Overture to the Dead Chapter 64: Strange Murder
At the beginning of the heavy snowfall, the cold night walk finally became a little free, but there was no place to eat breakfast - there was a murder in Wangjiang Tower yesterday, which had just been seized and had not yet opened for business.
Shi Shiran walked out of his house in the cold night, shook the street for a while, and finally sat down in front of the wonton stall of the old torturer nearby, asked for a bowl of wontons, and beat two poached eggs.
The snow does not turn cold into snow. Although the snow has stopped, the chill in the air has increased.
And what made Han Yexing feel a little annoying was that there was still a faint flash of black gas coming out of the city everywhere, lingering around the entire Xingtian City. The only thing that made him feel at ease was that he found that he was not afraid of these black gases in the past few days. It was as if there was a warm current flowing around in his body, and if it weren't for not wanting to be too eye-catching, he could even directly entangle his soul with these black silks and fall into the wind.
In the past two years, I have unconsciously made considerable progress in my spiritual practice. And more importantly, the Feng Sunset in his spiritual platform finally began to recover in extreme weakness, and even through the soul connection between them, it was enough for Han Yexing to fight against these advanced versions of the Soul Leaving Gu.
Eating steaming wontons, I looked up inadvertently in the cold night, as if I was shaking like an electric shock. I saw a figure turning the street into an alley.
Although the figure was far away, ordinary people couldn't see it clearly, but under the spirit of the cold night walk, this distance was not a problem at all. He only glanced at it, and he recognized the manβ
Extinction.
The soul sealer of the Abyss plane, the current princess Zixuan's friend and guest, saved him from life and death several times in Xunyang City, and led him into this spiritual door as a friend and teacher.
I didn't know what I was thinking for a while, so I lowered my head in the cold night.
On this completely unprepared morning, he suddenly saw this old friend, and almost immediately stood up and rushed over to greet him, but he still sat firmly here.
For most of the past six months, he deliberately left himself out of all kinds of chaos and deliberately did not inquire about any news about these friends. Although it's hard - these friends are all top figures in the rivers and lakes, and they may even inadvertently hear the waves they make in this purple mystery.
But he did, and he completely isolated himself from their world. He lowered his head and continued to drink the piping hot wonton soup one by one.
When he came to the class room, he keenly felt that the atmosphere had become extremely solemn. Nan Batian saw him come in, his face was happy, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I was about to send someone to find you." Okay, now that everyone is here, let's go. β
Looking around in the cold night, there were more than ten people gathered in the class room, all of whom were his old team members who had been following him since Xunyang City, and they were all middle deacons with high cultivation and good at fighting. Since the case made by the spirit hunter, he hadn't seen such a lineup from the Heaven Hunting City team.
I put down the cold night and let go of the mood of the old man, and asked suspiciously: "Boss Nan, are we going to ......?"
Nanba Tiandao: "Talk while walking." There was a troublesome case yesterday, and if you are not careful, there will be a big mess. We can't wait for trouble to come our way, we have to go and explain some things first. β
Walking out of the deacon's mansion, all the way forward, the cold night line followed Nan Batian in the middle of the road, a group of deacons pressed the handle of the knife to the left and right, this line of people strutted forward, an indescribable momentum spread, and pedestrians avoided the way. In a moment, everyone had come to a dark gate at the Thirteen Lines Pier.
There are three large characters on the plaque above the gate: thirteen lines.
In front of the gate, two unicorn knights in golden armor had already cast a grim look at them.
Han Yexing was stunned for a while, but he didn't expect that the "trouble" mentioned by Nan Batian would be involved in these thirteen lines. Although I knew that there was a murder in Wangjianglou yesterday, I also found out that the deceased was a spirit refiner. But the investigation of the case is not his business, it is not his business, and he also tried his best to exclude the matter of the spirit hunter involved in this person from his mind.
Looking at today's situation, he knew that the case was not simple. The dead spirit refiner is afraid that he is not just an ordinary spirit refiner.
Nan Batian signaled, and a tall catcher beside him walked forward quickly, and arched his hand at a unicorn knight: "I am ordered to investigate the case, and I will report to the knight." β
The Qilin Knight looked at it coldly, sneered, and wanted to drive the group away. But when he saw a little girl running from inside the door, she shouted to the knight: "There is a distinguished guest coming to the door, how dare you stop it!"
Seeing this, the Qilin knight's cold and arrogant momentum was stunned, and then he was accompanied by a smiling face: "Sister Wuyan, where did you come from, it's just a quick catcher in the city, so don't worry about him." "Cold Night Xing looked fixedly, that imposing little girl was not the Red Flameless he met in the Wind Breath Wasteland, but who was it.
He hurriedly turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Nan Batian and said in a low voice: "Xiao Xingzi, don't fall our prestige!"
It's just that Nan Batian's voice didn't fall, but the little girl of Hong Wuyan pounced on Han Yexing with a smile: "Brother Yexing, you are really in Xingtian City, Miss told me about it, I still don't believe it." Since you're in Xingtian City, why don't you come to us? Come in with me, Miss is waiting for you inside. β
As he spoke, he dragged the cold night walk and walked in. I only saw that Nan Batian and the Qilin Knight were dumbfounded, and their faces changed several times.
The unicorn knight let go of the red flameless and cold nights, and the Nan Batian and his party naturally followed inside. The knight was about to stop again, but he was glared at by the red flameless, and naturally made way for everyone.
Everyone turned around the shadow wall, and the cold night walker suddenly felt that it was dark in front of them, but they saw that there were twenty or thirty unicorn knights standing or standing, almost filling the huge courtyard. These thirteen rows occupy a huge area, and there are thirteen independent courtyards in it, each of which has a large array and a storehouse.
And this small courtyard is the port of these thirteen courtyards, and it can be regarded as the real gatehouse of these thirteen rows. When those Qilin Knights saw Red Flameless coming, they all smiled and moved out of the way. But no one gave way to the group of people who caught it, and it seemed that they did not see this group at all.
Nan Batian and the others stopped, and cold sweat appeared on their foreheads, but they still held on to confront these knights of the Weiyang Legion with a strong momentum.
The cold night walk was about to drag the excited Red Flameless and stopped talking. But hearing Nan Batian's sneer, he shouted: "It is said that these thirteen elements are the extralegal places of this Heavenly City, it seems that it is really a great momentum, and even the people who take care of the home are all members of the Weiyang Legion." β
Han Yexing wanted to speak again, but he heard a deep voice from the inner room from afar: "Mr. Nan catches the head, our thirteen spirit refiners have been contracted by the foreman, you don't go to chase the murderer, how can you have time to come to us?"
Han Yexing looked up, the man was wearing a refining spirit robe, it seemed that he was just a gatehouse, but his body was full of spiritual energy, and he had reached the realm of the first level of the Spirit Venerable, although it was far less than the Shuofeng Spirit Venerable, but it was also a genuine Spirit Venerable. It seems that these thirteen elements are really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but a small deacon, the cultivation is already so unfathomable.
Nan Batian's face changed slightly, and he held on to his momentum, and said: "Deacon Huang, the case must be investigated, but this matter involves the Falling Moon Merchant Group and your thirteen lines, and I, Nanbatian, have to come first to say hello, in case there is any misunderstanding at that time, it will not be good." β
Deacon Huang stood still, and did not have the slightest indication of inviting the group into the house, sneered, and said: "On weekdays, the Heavenly Spirit Hou can afford to be punished, and the thirteen elements of my family are considered courtesy, and we have never been unhappy. But I have something to do with the thirteen lines, and I have never bothered the Linghou, as for the matter of Mr. Nan's head hunting, I have already known about it in the thirteen lines, you can just let it go. β
Nan Batian smiled and said, "Deacon Huang, since these thirteen elements are one with our Linghou Mansion. Xingtian City is peaceful, everyone is safe and sound, and it is good for everyone, right? If something happens to these thirteen lines, it is my duty to arrest the murderer, and I will do my best. But if these thirteen elements keep us out of the door, they will only give people a handle, and they will think that there is something wrong with the thirteen elements, which is very unwise. β
These soft and hard words seemed to hit Deacon Huang, and he saw that Hong Wuyan was dragging a young catcher. He stared carefully at the cold night for a while, and then turned his head to look at Nan Batian and said: "Okay, since this is the case, then please ask Mr. Nan to enter with this young man, and talk after meeting the chief deacons." Please!"
Nan Batian nodded slightly to the crowd, motioned for them to wait outside, walked to Han Yexing's side and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and without caring about the white eyes of Hong Wuyan, he followed her through the corridor and entered the inner courtyard of the Thirteen Elements.
The three of them walked all the way under the guidance of the chief deacon, walking through the dazzling corridors, and the cold night could not help but look at the overlord with a puzzled face. Along the way, Nan Batian sighed lightly and whispered the beginning and end of the case to Han Yexing, and only then did he finally understand the ins and outs of such a big battle.
Yesterday evening, when the business of Wangjiang Tower was bleak, there was only one spirit refiner of the thirteenth line drinking tea and watching the snow on the third floor of Wangjiang Tower. Unexpectedly, an elder of the Fishing Dragon Gang brought a guest of the Falling Moon Merchant Group to Wangjiang Tower, and he would also go to the third floor to enjoy the snow. The elder wanted to empty the third floor, but the thirteen-line spirit refiner refused to move, even though Xiao Er's good words were exhausted.
Although this fishing dragon gang has a lot of power to speak in the rivers and lakes on the dock of the Thirteen Lines, it is not on the stage in front of a behemoth like the Thirteen Lines. Even if the elder wanted to back down, the guests of the Falling Moon Merchant Group were unrelenting and would definitely go upstairs. The elder of the Fishing Dragon Gang was too late, so he had to ask everyone in the store to wait downstairs, and he went straight upstairs with the guests.
After that, the shopkeepers in Wangjiang Tower didn't know, but after listening to the silence upstairs for a long time, the elder of the Fishing Dragon Gang suddenly shouted not to do anything, and even though he heard a loud noise, he was full of inspiration.
Originally, this kind of conflict was quite common, especially on the ground of the thirteen docks. It is common for people in the rivers and lakes to meet and disagree, and it is common to start a move, at most they will break the blood flow, leaving some open and dark wounds, after all, everyone is also here to ask for money, not to mention that in front of this Linghou Mansion, it will be troublesome in the face of this Weiyang army.
Unexpectedly, this conflict will take a lot of time, and it sounds like you are the elder of the Dragon Fishing Gang trying his best to mediate between the two. After a while, suddenly there was no sound, and then only the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard, and the bold man opened the door to see that the deacon of the thirteen lines had fallen from the third floor on the road in front of the teahouse, and blood was spilled on the ground, and he saw that he could no longer live.
Now something big happened. Seeing that the elder of the Yulong State came down from the upper floor with the guest with a pale face, the guys naturally didn't dare to stop them, and let them go, but dared to send someone to the Banfang to report the case. It's just that most of the catchers went on patrol last night, and the old catchers who only had one ear in the squad room were there, and they couldn't get the gist of it, so they just thought it was an ordinary case. In the past few days, there has been a heavy snow disaster, and there have been a lot of homicide cases, but they didn't take it seriously, and they wrote it down and it was over.
Until this morning, Nan Batian arrived at the Yamen, and when he heard what the old catcher said, he knew that it was not good, so he hurriedly summoned the brothers, and before he could investigate the case, he went to the thirteen lines to explain it clearly. One is to try to clear up the relationship, and the other is to check down, and you must go through the consent of the thirteen lines before you can go down, otherwise you are afraid that you will poke out a big hug.
Because of these thirteen elements, he can't afford to mess with Nan Batian, but they can't afford to mess with the Falling Moon Merchant Group either.
While the two were talking, the red flameless pouted and shouted, "Oh, you two are really wordy, and you have arrived at the place." Let's talk about it in detail after meeting with the princess. β