Chapter 32: The Strange Murderer
Bricks, gravel, dust, and mud flew into the conference room, and the many fox demons fighting outside the door did not wait for the elders to command, they rushed out of the door and window to chase Hu Yuxuan, and Lao Wu jumped up and stepped on the shoulder of a fox demon as soon as his drunken eyes opened, and chased out of the hole in front of the demons, leaving Ding Xiaolan standing alone in a daze.
Outside the house, there were security guards and some small fox demons who did not enter the stream, and they were all ready to hear the sound of fighting, and they rushed in just waiting for an order.
When the surface of the cave cracked, they couldn't help but look up, only to see that in the dust and mist of rubble, the figure of a young man leaped out like lightning, and when they saw clearly that the person who came was the patriarch Hu Yuxuan, they all stood there stunned.
Hu Qingyun, who was chasing after him, also flew out and shouted loudly: "Don't let Hu Yuxuan go, he is the murderer of the old patriarch!" ”
When everyone heard the words, they came together to help.
Qi Lu only came out of the hole with a head of ash at this time, he smiled bitterly and stabilized his figure on the ridge of the roof, and Lao Wu also showed his figure behind him, and dropped his feet behind Qi Lu a little.
"Hu Qingyun, you are ruthless enough, Lao Tzu confessed today! Sooner or later, this account will come to you to settle the account! Hu Yuxuan stayed in the dripping eaves for only a few seconds, and after leaving this cruel sentence, he quickly fled forward, his clothes blown away by the strong wind.
Hu Yuxuan's flash movement technique in the Semitic clan is unmatched, after a few ups and downs of his body, his figure disappeared from the sight of the people chasing behind, even Hu Qingyun, who was as fast as lightning, was pulled away by him for a long distance, and could only be tracked by the instinct of the monster.
Hu Yuxuan, who was running at great speed, didn't mention how much regret he felt in his heart, he really didn't expect Hu Qingyun to break into the Semitic conference room single-handedly today, and he would knock himself down with just a few words. As the old saying goes, stay in the green mountains without fear of no firewood, it is this belief that supports Hu Yuxuan, as long as he escapes today's catastrophe, he believes that he will be able to make a comeback.
After a few hours of running in one breath, Hu Yuxuan had fled to the deep mountains on the outskirts, and when he looked back, he found that he had already left the tracker out of sight, so he stopped on a rock on the side of the mountain road to rest.
Just as he was gasping for breath, he suddenly heard a slight footstep behind him, and suddenly looked behind him with a sword in shock.
He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the visitor was just a little screamer carrying a garbage bag, but then his expression became cold again.
Barren mountains and mountains, what is this little guy doing here? Is it to pick up garbage? It's the people who came to hunt me down!
Hu Yuxuan looked coldly at the person who was about to walk up to him and shouted, and his brows couldn't help frowning. This is just an underage boy, a thin man, at first glance he is a poor-born man, and even the rags on his body are a few sizes larger than his thin body, obviously the clothes worn by his parents.
It seems that I was overly worried, he didn't have any demonic energy on him, he was just a child who happened to pass by, how could he be a killer! Hu Yuxuan withdrew his sword and sat down on the stone to rest, but his eyes were still fixed on Xiao Yaohua's every move. The sense of vigilance that had been cultivated for thousands of years had not completely disappeared in his heart.
Xiao Yuhua limped past Hu Yuxuan and walked straight towards the mountain road in front of him, without even raising his head to look at him, as if Hu Yuxuan didn't exist at all.
Hu Yuxuan was completely relieved at this time, he thought that the city would not be able to stay any longer, the Yan tribe in Miao Jiang had always been at odds with the Semitic people, so it was better to go to them first to avoid the limelight, and then kill them when the time was ripe to take Hu Qingyun's dog's life.
Hu Yuxuan made up his mind and was about to go down the mountain to escape from the city, so he stood up and patted the dust, but suddenly found that there was a stain on his clothes, and suddenly remembered that the garbage bag on his shoulder accidentally touched his body when Xiao Yuhua passed by.
"You bitch, you actually soiled my clothes." Hu Yuxuan scolded, feeling that he was extremely unlucky today.
"Uncle, what did you say?" Xiao Yaohua, who had walked away, stopped and turned back to him.
"Stinky food, my clothes are tens of thousands of yuan, you fucking get dirty, can you afford to pay for it? I said you" Hu Yuxuan suddenly stopped talking, because the little screaming in front of him disappeared like a ghost, followed by a thick demonic aura permeated the entire mountain road, and the demonic aura contained infinite murderous intent!
Hu Yuxuan was suddenly frightened, and hurriedly squeezed the snow-white long sword in his hand.
Suddenly, a whining sound from an unknown beast sounded behind Hu Yuxuan, and before he could look behind him, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, almost fainting from the pain.
A red light passed through his left chest, followed by a hand like a wolf's claw that pierced his chest, and there was a bloody thing in the beast's palm. Hu Yuxuan couldn't help but be frightened when he looked at it, wasn't this bloody thing that was still wriggling his heart?
He thought it was an illusion, and it wasn't until blood kept pouring out from the corners of his mouth that he realized that he had been attacked by the murderer. It was the first time in his life that Hu Yuxuan had encountered such a terrifying and bizarre thing, and the murderer killed so fast that he didn't even have time to react.
"Didn't your mother teach you not to curse?" A cold voice came from behind him.
Hu Yuxuan screamed in pain, and his cry was full of fear.
"Mr. Qi, did you hear the screams?" Hu Qingyun, who was chasing, stopped and asked Qi Lu, who was following closely behind him.
I heard it, like Hu Yuxuan's voice. I have an ominous premonition that Hu Yuxuan is likely to be in trouble. Qi Lu didn't stop for a moment, and ran straight towards the sound of the voice.
By the time they arrived at the scene, the murderer had already fled, leaving only the angry Hu Yuxuan lying on the ground, and the blood flowing from his chest hole had stained the weeds around him.
Qi Lu was surprised, Hu Yuxuan's fatal wound reminded him of Hu Zhicai, who died not long ago, and from the perspective of the modus operandi, it was completely certain that it was the same murderer.
"Do you know who killed you?"
Hu Yuxuan shook his head sadly, his eyes full of confusion.
Qi Lu bent down and wanted to bandage his wounds, but Hu Yuxuan pushed his hand away with difficulty, and his mouth kept squirming.
Qi Lu suddenly knew that he had something to say to himself, so he hurriedly put his ear in front of his mouth.
"Mr. Qi, remember what you promised me!" Hu Yuxuan finally glanced at Hu Qingyun, who had rushed to his side, and kicked his legs to death.
"Brother, you must fulfill the dead man's request, otherwise he will haunt you when he becomes a ghost." Hu Qingyun sighed, with a complicated expression in his eyes.
"What did I promise him? What is it, how am I not impressed? Qi Lu was confused.
Lao Wu arrived, and Feng Qiniang and other elders also arrived, and they were all stunned by the tragic scene in front of them.
Lao Wu sighed and said, "It seems that the biggest crisis of your Semitic clan is not Hu Yuxuan, but this killer who has committed murders. ”
"Yes, if this thief is not removed, we Semitic people are afraid that there will never be a day of peace." Hu Qingyun clenched his fists.
"Brother Qingyun, didn't you know the name of the deceased in advance, why didn't you expect Hu Yuxuan to die this time?" Qi Lu suddenly remembered this fact.
"Do you think I'm deliberately hiding from you? I really didn't expect the murderer to kill Hu Yuxuan. Hu Qingyun's face suddenly turned red.
Lao Wu said on the side: "And this homicide is irregular in time. ”
Qi Lu was silent, the time of death of the previous victims was the night of the full moon, and today is only the eighth day of the new year, and it is daylight.
Feng Qiniang squatted down and closed Hu Yuxuan's unblinded eyes with her hands. When Hu Yuxuan's eyes closed, his corpse was gradually deformed, and finally turned into a snow fox with pure white fur as silver.
"Seventh sister, although Yuxuan has done a lot of evil, after all, he is a member of our Semitic clan, and he has also made a lot of contributions to his clan before, you better find a good cemetery to bury him, don't let him be violent in the wilderness." Seeing that the opponent was dead, Hu Qingyun seemed to have resolved the hatred in his heart.
Feng Qi Niang passed in front of everyone with the silver fox in her arms, and walked silently down the mountain. Although she didn't say a word, several elders knew that she was very sad.
The cold wind blew, and Hu Qingyun and several elders also said goodbye to Qi Lu, until their figures disappeared into the mountain road, and Lao Wu muttered: "Damn, my leg is numb!" ”
"After running for so long, your legs will be numb?" Qi Lu asked strangely, only to find that Lao Wu's right foot had moved a position.
Qi Lu's pair of sword eyebrows suddenly locked, and he saw that there was a clear shoe print on the ground where Lao Wu's feet were removed, and there were several claw marks left on the front end of the shoe print. This shoe print is exactly the same as the strange footprints left by the murderer at the scene of Hu Zhicai's death, and now even children know that this is the trace left by the murderer.
"Do you think my feet will be numb if I stand in the air for a long time?" Lao Wu sat on the stone and began to rub his numb right leg.
Qi Lu asked, "Why don't you want Hu Qingyun and their fox demons to see the footprints?" ”
"Hmph, this case is far more complicated than we imagined, and the murderer is the fox demon in the Semitic race."
"Isn't it a werewolf, why did you become a fox demon again?" Qi Lu didn't quite agree with Lao Wu's point of view, the footprints of the fox demon that revealed their original form were much smaller than these strange footprints.
"Of course I'm just speculating, an instinctive hunch." Lao Wu said: "But today I can see the fame." ”
"What do you want to say to me?"
"The murderer always wears the same pair of tourist shoes when committing crimes, which is unreasonable."
Lao Wu is right, under normal circumstances, the murderer will destroy the murder weapon and clothes and other things that are easy to reveal his identity after committing the crime, but this murderer has no intention of doing so.
"Maybe it's the murderer's deliberate ecstasy array, usually hiding his shoes in a secret place, and only taking them out to wear when he commits the crime?" Qi Lu proposed another possibility.
Lao Wu didn't dwell on this question, but changed the topic and said: "The shoes are only 36 sizes, and I estimate that when this monster returns to its human form, it will either be a woman or a minor, and its height will not exceed one meter six." ”
Qi Lu agreed with Lao Wu's point of view, he took out his mobile phone to take a picture of the footprints, and said after taking the picture: "The murderer's motive for killing is very puzzling, maybe our previous guesses are all wrong." ”
"Yes, when Mo Chengcheng was killed, I felt that the murderer's motive was unknown."
It seems that not only our judgment was wrong, but even Hu Qingyun's judgment was wrong, otherwise he would have predicted that Hu Yuxuan would be killed by the murderer, and he would not have to break into the private club alone to prove his innocence.
"Let's go, let's go back to the office. Tomorrow, I'll study the next direction of detection. ”
In the cold wind, there was the cries of crows, the chirping of grass insects, and the sounds of beasts that could not be distinguished.
The deep mountains and old forests are already a terrifying place, and at this moment, the sunset is about to fall in the west, and it is inevitable that there will be more strange sounds.
Qi Lu was not disturbed by the noise at all, and walked towards the bottom of the mountain with Lao Wu one after another.