Chapter 223: Neighbors
Li Zhiyan turned his head and hurriedly ran towards Yue Ling's side.
Running next to Yue Ling, Li Zhiyan immediately saw what Yue Ling had foundβa deep scratch on the courtyard wall.
Yes, it's scratches. It's like a man with a huge palm grasping the marks on the wall with five fingers. The marks were very deep, neatly scraped from the top to the corner of the wall.
This kind of trace is absolutely impossible for an ordinary mortal to make. It could only be ...... Monster.
"Moon Spirit, is this a monster?" Li Zhiyan walked into Yue Ling's side and asked with a low lean.
"It should be, Brother Zhiyan. The only people who can make such a big mark can only be the youkai and those of us who are cultivators. But I have never heard of a sect of cultivators who would cause traces of such a beast.
There is a high probability that it was made by a monster. It seems that this youkai has also shot here. β
Li Zhiyan stepped forward and touched the marks on the wall, and then suddenly reacted to something. He ran back into the crowd and asked loudly.
"Among you, is there anyone who is a neighbor of Mrs. Wang's family?"
Today's events are so lively, Li Zhiyan guessed that Mrs. Wang's neighbors should also come over to see the excitement.
I thought that someone would answer soon, but after Li Zhiyan asked, he waited for a while, but no one stood up to respond to Li Zhiyan.
"Didn't you?!" Li Zhiyan waited for a while and said strangely. "Didn't they come to see the fun?"
"My lord, it seems that Mrs. Wang's neighbors and their neighbors really didn't come over." There were people in the crowd who knew Mrs. Wang's neighbors, shouting loudly.
Li Zhiyan felt bad in his heart, so he hurriedly pushed away the crowd and ran towards Mrs. Wang's neighbor next to him.
Running to the door, Li Zhiyan pushed the door hard, and found that the door was tied from the inside and couldn't be opened. I could only shout loudly into the door.
"Anyone?! Someone didn't ?!!! I am the Chang'an Order of the Imperial Court, and the people inside quickly open the door! β
Li Zhiyan screamed for a long time, but there was no sound in the door, which made Li Zhiyan confirm the thoughts in his heart even more.
"Who lives in this house?!" Li Zhiyan turned around and asked the people who followed behind him.
"Lord Hui, this seems to be the home of Butcher Zheng, it stands to reason that he has to go out of the city every morning to buy pigs, transport them back and kill them, and then go to the West Market to sell them in the afternoon.
Maybe he went out of the city early today to buy pigs. β
"Buying pigs? He's the only one in his house?! β
"Of course not, he still has a wife and children, but...... The villain didn't know why there was no sound inside. β
"Get out of the way! I'll go in and take a look! After Li Zhiyan heard this, he immediately dispersed the crowd, and after he came to open the distance, he added a running boost to borrow strength on the wall. In two or three clicks, he climbed the low wall of Zheng Butcher's house.
Standing on the wall, the situation in Butcher Zheng's house was reflected in Li Zhiyan's eyes. For a long time, Li Zhiyan did not jump from the wall to Butcher Zheng's house.
"Brother Zhiyan, what's going on inside?!"
"Dead man." Li Zhiyan responded coldly, then jumped off the wall and opened the door of Butcher Zheng's room from the inside.
Whether it's watching the lively people, or the moon spirit Angelica, and those officials. The moment I opened the door again, I was startled by the bright red scene inside.
A few of them couldn't stand it anymore, and they were already paralyzed on the ground, and they kept running back.
A family of four, all of whom died in the courtyard. And it looks like he was deliberately dragged out of the room and put in the courtyard after being killed.
It seems that the murderer did this so that the moment the door was opened, everyone could see the scene inside.
This murderer is really good at creating terrifying scenes.
Zheng Butcher's house is to the west of Wang Cheng's house, and to the east of Wang Cheng's house, there is also a family.
After Li Zhiyan walked out of Butcher Zheng's house, he immediately ran to the house in the east. This is the crowd watching the excitement has also guessed Li Zhiyan's thoughts, and some people who know that family have already shouted the identity of that family to Li Zhiyan.
"Master Li, that's Gong Matchmaker's home to the east. There are only two people in her family, her and her wife. β
Sure enough, the door of this house was also tightly closed, and Li Zhiyan jumped to the wall again, and the scene he saw was exactly the same as the scene in Butcher Zheng's house.
Two bodies had died in the courtyard.
Li Zhiyan closed his eyes slightly and silently clenched his fists.
The murderer's purpose should be Mrs. Wang alone, but he slaughtered all the two families in Mrs. Wang's neighborhood. He really didn't leave any eyewitnesses who might see him.
After Li Zhiyan saw the traces taken out of Mrs. Wang's house, he thought that if he could cause that kind of traces, it should make a lot of noise.
If there is such a loud noise in Mrs. Wang's house for no reason, then her neighbors are likely to be curious to see the situation in Mrs. Wang's house.
In that case, Wang's neighbors will most likely witness the murder at that time. But this murderer seems to have thought of this, so he directly and ruthlessly eliminated all these two families.
Li Zhiyan asked the officials to disperse the crowd. Then the two families around Mrs. Wang also became the focus of the investigation of the officials.
Li Zhiyan was no longer confined to Mrs. Wang's courtyard, and walked to the house next to Butcher Zheng's side to take a closer look.
Zheng Butcher's family of four, in addition to Zheng Butcher's husband and wife, there is also a young daughter of Nian Fang Cardamom. and the old mother of Zheng Butcher. The bodies of the four people were cut in the throat and killed with one blow in the same way as Mrs. Wang's death.
The advantage of killing people in this way should be that the deceased can not make any sound and die in silence. There are only two of them in Gong's family, and the way of death is the same as that of Zheng Butcher's family.
And it can be seen that when Zheng Butcher and the others died, they were still sleeping on the bed in their own home. When he was sleeping soundly, he was killed by the murderer. It seems that the time of the murderer's murder was in the dead of night.
It is only at this time that whether it is Zheng Butcher's family or Gong Matchmaker's family in the east, they will all be in bed and then killed.
Although the corpses were not on the bed at this time, it could be seen that there was a long trail of blood and drag marks from the bed in the house to the side of each corpse in the courtyard. This is also evidence that the bodies were killed in bed.
But there is only one human bloodstain, a little different. It's this daughter of Zheng Butcher.
Next to the body of Zheng Butcher's daughter, there were no traces of drag or blood. It looks like the girl was in the middle of the yard and was killed directly.