Yin Fa led me from the left side of the front building to an office on the far right. A scribe sitting at the door saw Yin Fa coming from a distance, so he quickly got up and went in to report, and then hurriedly ran out to meet Yin Fa, with an embarrassed and panicked smile on his face.

This is the office of Leng Yuankui, another deputy city lord. His style is at the other extreme: minimalist and dark!

Because ghosts are not allowed to enter Shangcheng, most places are lit by open flames, but Leng Yuankui's office still uses ghost fires. It was so dark that I could only see a large table and a chair, and a few large bookshelves in the corners, and that's it.

Leng Yuankui wore a particularly heavy cloak, just like the kind of cloak that the most afraid of cold would only wear in the coldest winter. Especially in the dim light, I couldn't see his true face at all, not even his facial features, as if there was an empty cloud of darkness under the cloak.

Since there was only one chair in the office, and it was under Leng Yuankui's ass, even Yin Fa had no place to sit, so he could only stand and talk.

"Deputy City Lord Leng, the city guards have reported to me a case of ghost murder. Although the murderer was not caught red-handed, the eyewitnesses have been found, how should you deal with this matter? Yin Fa said coldly.

Leng Yuankui was silent for a long time. It is estimated that he didn't expect Yin Fa to come to visit suddenly, and directly threw him a big problem.

"Isn't the City Guard currently in the hands of Deputy City Lord Yin for the time being? Why do you want to come to me in person in this kind of case? He also asked coldly. His voice was like a ghost, it was extremely cold, and he really didn't lose his surname to him!

"Humph! The murderer has been identified, and it is the bear boss of the Giant Axe Gang! Yin Fa continued to be aggressive, "If I'm not mistaken, the Giant Axe Gang buys a lot of ghost slaves from the Ghost Affairs Division every year, right?" ”

"How can you be sure that the murderer is Boss Bear?" Leng Yuankui seemed to intend to continue to shirk.

"I'll bring the eyewitnesses for that night now, listen to them yourself!" Yin Fa turned around and gestured to me.

I was not stupid, so I immediately recounted the events of that night in detail, and finally identified the bear boss with certainty, and described his appearance and the weapons he used.

"Not only me, but also two city guards and many neighbors at the scene at that time, they can all be eyewitnesses. And it wasn't curfew yet! ”

"What time was it?" Leng Yuankui asked.

"It's a quarter of an hour before we start!" I replied firmly, "The clock on the top didn't ring until after Boss Bear fled, and everyone can be sure of that!" ”

Leng Yuankui couldn't find any excuse, so he had to be silent again.

Yin Fa sneered, and his tone was even more unkind: "Whether it is during the curfew period or not, ghost murder must be punished!" This is the rule that Zuoqiu City has established since the beginning of its establishment! Now that there are multiple witnesses and the identity of the murderer has been confirmed, shouldn't the Ghost Affairs Division be held responsible? ”

“......”

"Could it be that there is some great business between the Giant Axe Gang and the Ghost Affairs Division, and even Deputy City Lord Leng wants to exonerate this murderer? If that's the case, I can also get the city guards to get the case dismissed, and I won't be to blame for the past......"

Yin Fa's cynicism finally made Leng Yuankui unable to listen to it, and raised his hand and said: "Deputy City Lord Yin doesn't need to say any more, since the evidence is conclusive, the Ghost Affairs Division will definitely support it and help the city guards investigate this case!" ”

For the sake of Tian Laolu's death, Yin Fa actually went straight to Leng Yuankui's office in person, which not only surprised me, but even Teng Boli did not expect it.

Afterwards, I learned some inside information from Cao Zhe: Originally, the relationship between Yin Fa and Leng Yuankui was neither good nor bad, and the two of them were in charge of the Yin Affairs Division and the other were in charge of the Ghost Affairs Division, and their powers did not conflict. But Wu Fang, who was in charge of city defense affairs in the middle, always had conflicts with these two people, and he was not pleasing left and right.

Now that Wu Fang has defected, the two have lost their unanimous external goals, and the relationship has gradually become tense, and they both want to compete for more right to speak. In particular, Yin Fa temporarily took over the management of the city guards, and he was even more ambitious, wanting to force Leng Yuankui to take over. But managing city defense affairs is a thankless job, and maybe Leng Yuankui is also thinking of ways to make some trouble for Yin Fa.

But he didn't want Yin Fa to start faster than him, so he actually seized on Tian Laolu's death to make a big fuss, and forced Leng Yuankui to bow his head, so he had to promise to instruct the Ghost Affairs Division to investigate. In the prelude to this power struggle, Yin Fa also successfully seized the advantage of momentum.

Of course, how they fight for power and profit is their business, and Tian Laolu's death has finally been taken seriously by the high-level, which is an exciting good thing for me and all the staff of Changshou Hotel!

But after the excitement, an even bigger trouble ensued: how can Boss Bear be brought to justice?

Leng Yuankui is really not a guy who can be manipulated. He actually played a trick of abandoning the car to protect the handsome, deducing that the Giant Axe Gang had been disbanded, and the gang leader Boss Xiong went alone to defect to the Abyss Swallowing Ghost of the Hungry Ghost Pit, and now he is a ghost leader under the Abyss Swallowing Ghost!

Sure enough, as Cao Zhe guessed, the Giant Axe Gang was actually a ghost gang controlled by Leng Yuankui's subordinates, which was specially used to sell those criminal ghost slaves captured by the Ghost Affairs Division in order to achieve the purpose of using power for personal gain. Now Leng Yuankui would rather give up the ghost of Boss Xiong and protect the organization of the Giant Axe Gang. As long as he escaped this wave of limelight, he changed the name of a gang and began to continue to sell ghost slaves bought from official channels.

According to the agreement reached between the two deputy city lords with ghosts, in order to arrest Boss Xiong, Yin Fa agreed to send a city guard with relatively high cultivation from the city guard, and Leng Yuankui would also send an official from the ghost department who was more familiar with the hungry ghost pit to cooperate in the arrest. And I, as the "witness" and "identifier", actually asked to go with me!

Go to the hungry ghost pit and catch a ghost out? It's simply an impossible task, okay!

But what has been decided by the top management, the people below cannot change it, they can only carry it out. What's more, I myself swore to avenge Tian Laolu, and it is impossible to give up.

Therefore, I categorically declined the kindness of all the people in the Changshou Hotel and the Teng family caravan who came to persuade me, put on a full suit of armor and helmets, prepared all the talismans and props, brought a short knife, a shield wok, and ruyi chopsticks, and left as promised.

The Hungry Ghost Pit is located in the lower right corner of the lower city and was originally a stone mine. When Zuoqiu Castle was first built, most of the stone used was collected from there. The dungeon was built, and the abandoned stone mine was transformed into a giant spiral-shaped stone pit.

At that time, the mining ghost slaves were particularly hard at work, and they were pardoned by the lord of Zuoqiu City, and all of them were released from slavery. Under the leadership of the Abyss Devouring Ghosts, they simply occupied this abandoned stone mine as their base camp, and gradually grew into the number one ghost gang in Zuoqiu City.

I stood on the edge of the big rock pit and looked down in horror. Under the action of the spiral-shaped pit wall, the continuous gusts of yin wind blowing from the bottom of the pit formed one after another small "tornadoes", bringing some debris and various strange sounds from the bottom of the pit to the ground. I really can't tell if those sharp and miserable cries are wind or real ghost screams?

There were two passages into the pit, and I arrived at the one near the lower gate in advance as agreed, but I was immediately surrounded by several gatekeepers with particularly unkind faces.

"Hey, hey! Boy, you're not a little cowardly! How dare you come here alone? ”

"Haha! It's been a long time since I've eaten human flesh, and it's rare for a fool to be automatically delivered to my door. Hey, let's talk about it first, his right thigh is mine! ”

"Then I'll book his left thigh!"

"I love to gnaw on people's heads! Leave his head to me! ”

Before I got into the pit, I had to pull out the short knife in advance and take a posture with the shield wok. Actually, I still have a bottom in my heart, it's noon, and the ghost secretary and the people from the city guard are about to arrive, and these pesky janitors are just here to make a show and want to scare me.

Sure enough, an impatient voice sounded behind me: "What do you want to do?" The Ghost Affairs Division came to investigate the case on the order of Deputy City Lord Leng, and you dispersed quickly! ”

Hey, I still have some impressions of this voice! I turned around to look, and sure enough, it was an "acquaintance"!

Two years ago, because of the pursuit of a ghost slave who escaped from Fuguilou, the Ghost Affairs Division sent a catcher to the Changshou Hotel to search, and he also searched my body himself. Isn't this the Fu Catcher Cao who supported Qiu Fugui? This time, the Ghost Affairs Division actually sent him such a soft bone!

Fu Zhucao held a waist card high in his hand, and walked over with a big grin, still holding a proboscis dog in his hand as usual. He is the catcher of the Ghost Affairs Division, although his skills don't look very good, but he is still very confident in dealing with these watchmen who are fierce and inward-looking.

A few janitors could only bully newcomers like me, and when they saw the waist card of the ghost secretary, they nodded and retreated. Fu Zhucao was reluctant to look at me with his eyes and asked, "You are the eyewitness of the Teng family?" ”

"Yes!"

"You...... Is it a dart master? ”

"Yes!"

"That's good! At least I don't have to go down to the hungry ghost pit with a burden! ”

Fu Zhucao tidied up his official uniform a little contrivedly, and the arrogance on his face was extremely inconsistent with his height of less than one meter six. I didn't bother to deal with him, but in order to catch Boss Bear smoothly, I could only listen to his arrangements patiently.

"The Guards haven't arrived yet?" Fu Zhucao muttered to himself again, looking up at the clock on the roof of the cave. At this time, the clock rang at noon, which was the agreed meeting time of the three parties.

There was a faint, rapid rustling sound that almost accompanied the sound of the bell. Fu Zhucao and I turned our heads to see a heavily armed city guard riding a large spider majestically over. And I noticed the red ribbon around her neck at a glance!