Everyone left Yuewei Building, and finally went to do some business, Xie Lingxu and Chu Xiu came behind Xiao Qixin and listened to him ask about the situation with a few people from the Nine Governors who came from the side.

Xie Lingxu secretly sorted it out in his mind, and felt that the situation was probably like this:

In the past seven days, there have been three deaths in the imperial city, but the dead people are all nobodies, as for why Xiao Qixin is suddenly found now, it is because with today, there are already eighteen people dead. Xie Lingxu estimated that eighteen is a mysterious number in the eyes of the Chinese people, just like eighteen Arhats, eighteen layers of hell or something, so the number of dead people reached eighteen, which faintly hinted that something big was going to happen.

The identities of the eighteen people who died were different, mainly male, and the area where the deceased lived could not see any rules, scattered all over the east, west, north and south, very much like Xie Lingxu was blind when he was playing minesweeping.

As soon as a person dies, it will cause panic in people's hearts, and when people's hearts panic, they will not be able to hold back and want to shout outside.

There are two kinds of modern sayings. One is that there is a murderer in the imperial city, bloodthirsty, who takes pleasure in killing, catches whoever kills whom, and has no humanity at all, and he comes and goes without a trace, and no one has seen his true face, let alone caught him. There is also a kind of murder group, and the members of the group are committing murders everywhere and doing exercises for a bigger conspiracy, but the specific conspiracy is, the folk screenwriters have not yet made up the brains.

Xie Lingxu personally thinks that the first statement is unlikely - the amount of labor is too large. Although it is not impossible to kill eighteen people in seven days, it is too difficult for the murderer to go around to kill people in this place where there are no cars and no motorcycles. It would be fine if he brought a horse, but this is about an average of two and a half people's workload a day, and the murderer is not tired to death, so what kind of fun can he find to satisfy his bad taste? Unless his pleasure is to toss himself.

Besides, Xie Lingxu felt that it was unlikely that a character like a serial killer would appear here, and most of the ordinary people in ancient times had no perverted ideas, and most of those who had ideas didn't have the guts. Their minds are imprisoned, like domesticated animals, they have shackles around their necks and shackles on their wrists, unlike in modern times, where people have more thoughts and abilities, or take their own feelings as a guideline, and it all depends on their grandfather's hobbies to fight and kill, while some people release their nature a little excessively, but it seems to have degraded to a primitive state, saying and doing things like animals without brains.

But if the murderer is not an ordinary person, but a powerful character, then he killed so many ordinary people, isn't it very cheap, if you want to kill someone with a little status, you should kill someone with a bit of identity to reflect your self-worth.

The second argument can't say what's wrong, but it just feels like nonsense. If there really is some conspiracy plan that causes a sensation at this time, wouldn't it be a surprise? Unless they are full of confidence and think that it is impossible to be caught, but inexplicably feel a little full.

Xie Lingxu couldn't think of what conspiracy had to be killed by the goddess, the only idea was to kill people and spell words, what message to send, if they were really spelling, the places of these dead people on the map were not like a thing at all, unless it was a code, if it was really like that, I am afraid it would be difficult to crack.

In fact, Xie Lingxu also heard another statement in Yuewei Building, his ears were sharp, and when everyone was chatting and eating silently on the side, Xie Lingxu was in a daze, while listening to the big man at the table downstairs discussing this case that caused panic in the whole city.

Listening to their meaning, it means that the comet has hit the moon recently, and the white rainbow has penetrated the sun, and there will be natural and man-made disasters in the near future. All kinds of signs are the same as when the former emperor, that is, Luo Fan's father, succeeded to the throne more than 50 years ago, when the society was already surging and full of crises. The prosperous kingdom of heaven was about to come to an end, and those who were plotting rebellion were spreading in the imperial city, causing turmoil and making the people miserable. The rebels have even penetrated into the palace and secretly hatched a plan to assassinate the emperor. Later, things changed, and Luo Fan's father, that is, the third prince at that time, caught the thief and bulldozed the rebellious gang, but he still failed to rescue the emperor at the moment of crisis, and the emperor's deathbed was located in the third prince, and the country was restored to peace.

Xie Lingxu secretly thought that it was his ability to eradicate the thief, but it was difficult to say whether the failure to rescue the emperor was intentional, but this has been a matter of so many years, and the intrigue of the palace nobles is not something that Xie Lingxu and other idle people can manage, but this statement can be regarded as a direction, but this direction does not refer to the direction of the murderer, but it is more like an omen that the country is about to change hands.

But such a statement involving royalty and nobility is always suppressed as soon as it comes out, otherwise it will cause unrest, and some discussion can be heard in the corners today. However, if people don't say it, it doesn't mean that they won't think so, if there are more people who think like this, and the rumors spread widely, it is estimated that the entire imperial city will be in panic all day long.

Xie Lingxu buried his head in thought, didn't pay attention to the steps under his feet, and never thought that there was a masonry in the middle of the road, kicked it up, and stumbled forward. Xin Yu was slapped on the shoulder in time, Xie Lingxu immediately stood firm, and heard the voice of the person behind him in a low voice

"Look at the ......"

Xie Lingxu glanced at the craggy five fingers on his shoulder, raised his head and said thank you, and hurriedly walked towards the building in front of him.

From a distance, I saw that the place where the murder occurred was a shop, and the plaque read "Flowing Gold Pawnshop", and the crowd gathered around to watch the excitement, Xie Lingxu thought to himself that there was nothing to see about the death, and he was not afraid of nightmares at night?

Chu Xiu pushed away the person who was pushing in front of him and roared

"The Stygian Army is doing something, get out of the way!"

Sure enough, as soon as they heard the name of the Underworld Army, a group of idlers and others made way for Chu Xiu and the others to make a spacious avenue.

Xie Lingxu saw at a glance a man lying on his back on the ground with a colorful dress and a big belly, and a few people from the Nine Governors Sect wearing navy blue brocade clothes on the side were swaying around the corpse.

I didn't understand the process, and I was about to stride forward, but I was grabbed by Chu Xiu's arm.

"Lingxu, solving the case or something, it's Lao Xiao's business, let's just stay here."

Xie Lingxu had an MMP expression on his face, thinking to himself that the mother's labor and management have watched the full Sherlock Holmes works so many times, and I finally bumped into a ready-made murder case today, you let me stay here,

"Staying here? What are you doing here? ”

"Protect the site and the safety of the relevant personnel!"

Fuck, protect your uncle, what's there to protect.

"What if the murderer kills someone closely? I think we'd better go over it, lest it's too late. ”

Saying that, Xie Lingxu rushed over directly, but Chu Xiu couldn't stop him.

Standing in front of the corpse, Chu Xiu poked Xie Lingxu's shoulder

"Huh...... I said let's have some fun—"

was glared at by the person in front of him, "I said, Uncle Chu, can you shut up!" ”

Chu Xiu was glared at, and then he stopped talking very familiarly. Xie Lingxu turned his head, and before meeting, Xiao Qixin was wearing gloves and inspecting the corpse.

The corpse was lying on its back, with broken bands of purple marks on his throat, his dark purple tongue sticking out, his open eyes protruding like dead fish eyes, and there were some blood stains on his eyelids.

It seems that this person was strangled to death, and the murder weapon was probably a ready-made pawnshop, a gold and silver chain or something, but looking at the horizontal meat on his neck, Xie Lingxu felt that this person was afraid that it would not be easy to be strangled to death, and there might be other wounds. As for the identity of this person, looking at his fat body, he is different from ordinary people, and the material of his clothes can also be seen to be a good product, and the clerk in the pawnshop naturally cannot have this economic condition, then he is the pawnshop owner nine times out of ten. However, he vaguely felt that something was missing from him, which made him look uncoordinated.

The servant on the side touched the corpse all over the body and lifted the deceased's shirt. Chu Xiu covered Xie Lingxu's eyes and was slapped away by her angrily.

"What are you doing!"

"Don't look at it, long needle eye."

"Grow a fart." Labor and management study medicine, read countless dead bodies, and if you have a long needle, you will be blind early.

The pale-faced man examined it slightly, stood up and arched his hand towards Xiao Qixin and King You

"The deceased was the owner of this pawnshop, with strangulation marks on his neck and a fist-sized mark on his chest, which should have been hit to the heart by a heavy object first, and then strangled to death.

Xiao Qixin waved at him, "Got it, take the body away." ”

After the people left, Chu Xiu came to Xiao Qixin's side

"Old Xiao, old Xiao, how is it? Do you see anything? ”

Xiao Qixin took off his gloves and spread his hands

"There are so few clues, and I don't have a clue at all."

Turning his face to the side of the King of You, he arched his hand, "Boss, do you have any opinions?" ”

King You's face was indifferent, "Not for the time being, I just think that the murderer looks like it's for money." ”

Xie Lingxu looked at the furnishings around the pawnshop, and then looked at the items in the cabinet, all of which were ordinary goods that were not worth much. Either the valuable goods were left elsewhere, or the valuable goods were taken away.

Is the murderer in it for money?

Obviously, yes, and what was missing from the deceased's body, Xie Lingxu thought that it was some gold and silver chains or jewelry, wearing such fancy clothes, without some vulgar accessories, it was simply not his taste. I'm afraid that the murderer just used the gold chain on his body and something like that to send him to the western sky, and then took the murder weapon away.

Why? Why for the money? Could it be that a serial killer kills people and kills the poor? Need money for some gear?

Or, this is just a false clue, deliberately leading the detective in the wrong direction, because after all, this method is not subtle, as if it is a fanfare: Did you see, the murderer, I took all the valuable things of this guy, guess who I am!

Xie Lingxu suddenly asked Xiao Qixin, who was thinking desperately

"Xiao Qixin, can you tell me the identity of the person who died before him?"

The latter looked surprised: "Xiao Jie, in fact, you don't have to care about this case, just leave the matter of deciding the case to me and the coach." ”

Xie Lingxu's face darkened, "Okay, don't talk nonsense, say it quickly!" ”

Xiao Qixin raised his eyebrows, not to despise Xie Lingxu, in fact, he felt that she was very qualified and smart, and her opinions may also be unique. But this kind of murder-related thing, consciously should still be done by the old men, and the little girl who is like a flower and the moon should sing, dance, and don't wade into any troubled waters.

But thinking about it, Xie Lingxu has never been a little girl, at least her actions can't give her such a position, she is now a netherworld army, a soldier like herself.

Xiao Qixin looked at Xie Lingxu's clear but deep eyes, and said with a serious expression

"Before, a clothing seller died, then a fishmonger, and then ...... That's him. ”

Xiao Qixin didn't blink his eyes, and continued

"These three people, they don't have much communication on weekdays, and the places where they live are far away, especially the fishmonger, he is from the North City, hundreds of miles away from the East City, Xiao Jie, do you think that these three people who seem to be unrelated will have any connection in secret?"