The people of Herculera have long been accustomed to the distorted and bright light, when the light on the body reaches a certain temperature, people from all walks of life will consciously wake up to start the day's work, they are always very punctual, the market opens at eight o'clock, there are so many goods that can fill the warehouses of the entire dock, and at nine o'clock is the busiest time of the day in the whole city, the major inns and restaurants are open, and the refreshing and delicious morning tea is often in short supply.

The Hexiang Pavilion in the east of the city is a good place for tea lovers, and the proprietor Sylna, a shrewd woman who knows how to use the 10th anniversary of the opening of the shop to promote her inn, is as expected, and after only one day of the departure of the outsiders, her shop has become very popular.

But no matter how loud the cash register worked, Sylna was never happy.

Last night, the shocking news came from the monastery of Hergrilla: a monk found the body of Li Jikui in the confessional room.

He can be regarded as half of Sylna's friend, it was Li Jikui who introduced her to the Seven Artifact Expedition in the first place, and her daughter was successfully rescued, Li Jikui's death made Sylna sad, and at the same time, she was deeply puzzled by the cause of the priest's death.

Along with Sylna's doubts were the customers of the Lotus Fragrance Pavilion, and the case quickly became an after-dinner conversation. Several stout men let out disgusting laughter, so angry that Sylna almost made a gesture of throwing the plate and picking up the customer.

At this moment, a young man and woman dressed as foreigners sat down at the round table to the right of Sylna, a gray-haired Belen, dressed in a brown leather jacket and a wide-brimmed hat of the same color on the top of his head, revealing only half of his handsome face. The woman is a dragon man, she has a ruddy complexion, a white long-sleeved shirt and a purple short skirt, and the white stockings on her beautiful legs are even more seductive, attracting the peeking eyes of many men along the way.

"What do you two want?" Sylna took the menu and put it on the table, and began to sell the signature dishes of the Lotus Fragrance Pavilion, but she was interrupted by the man in the middle of her sentence.

"I'm sorry! We just wanted to ask you a few people. The man took off his wide-brimmed hat to reveal his true face, and this person was Mu Yunxi. After being released from Yi Island, he and Liu Yuhan have been tracking down Ling Wenxuan's whereabouts, and at the Edorys Monastery they learned that Ling Wenxuan had already taken Youna to Heglila, so the two have been following here.

"A woman in her twenties, dressed in a white dress, was probably this tall. Mu Yunxi used Liu Yuhan's height as a reference and gestured with her hand, "Accompanying her are a Tianyao Sect priest with freckles on his face and a woman who claims to be a guard nun, have you ever seen these three people?" ”

Sylna pondered for a moment and replied, "Of course I have seen the people you are looking for, and they have lived in my inn for some time, but they came with four instead of three. ”

"Who else is it?"

"That person is dressed as a rich lady, and he should be a rich man. Sylna gently patted the dust off the cloth and smiled, "You're late, they left Hegrilla yesterday." ”

"Did they say where they were going?" Mu Yunxi continued to ask.

"I don't know, even if the old lady knows, I won't tell you, they are my daughter's lifesavers, you better fight their ideas less, otherwise don't blame the old lady for being polite." Sylna gave the order to evict the guest with a fist swing, and returned to the inn without looking back.

Seeing that Sylna was unwilling to provide clues, Mu Yunxi had no choice but to leave the Lotus Fragrance Pavilion dejectedly. In Wanyang, he missed an opportunity to find Shen Fangli, but he didn't expect that this time he was still one step later than Ling Wenxuan, Ling Wenxuan's city is very deep, and taking away the amnesiac Shen Fangli must have an ulterior purpose.

Thinking about it, Mu Yunxi couldn't help but slam the edge of the boat, and the hull of the boat was immediately tilted to the side, and a large splash of water splashed on the boat.

The boatman was so frightened that he hurriedly used his oars to control the balance of the hull: "I said boss, you can just get angry at me, even if my boat is slow, I don't have to get angry at the boat!

"Big brother, I'm sorry, my friend is in a bad mood today. Liu Yuhan smiled at the boatman, and turned to Mu Yunxi, "You are too impetuous, even if we can't find Shen Fangli this time, we shouldn't give up!"

Mu Yunxi let out a long sigh: "But the only clue has been broken, how do you let us find it?"

"Isn't there still this? take a good look, maybe we can solve this case and get the clue you want. Liu Yuhan spread out the "Heglila Daily" and put it in front of Mu Yunxi's eyes, and the front page reported the murder in the secret room that caused a sensation in the city.

Mu Yunxi took the newspaper and read it carefully, pondered for a moment and said, "How much do you know about this deceased named Li Jikui. ”

"He was a well-known priest in Heglila, belonging to the Heavenly Yao Sect, and had made outstanding contributions to the missionary cause of the Chilu Autonomous Prefecture, so his death undoubtedly caused a huge loss to the entire Phantom Yao Sect, and even alarmed the governor of the Chilu Autonomous Prefecture. ”

"It's kind of interesting, because of the duties of the Investigator, it seems that we should really go over there and investigate. Mu Yunxi nodded while listening, and returned the newspaper to Liu Yuhan, "Brother boatman, please turn around, we have to go to Heglila Monastery." ”

Pingchuan Island is less noisy than in the past, the whole island is heavily guarded, and the boats that come and go have to go through strict inspections, even they are no exception, so Mu Yunxi and Liu Yuhan respectively handed the documents to a police officer on duty.

"Otto-Hungarian Panhu City Special Police Group Investigation Officer - Mu Yunxi. The police officer looked at the documents and muttered word by word, "And the searcher, Liu Yuhan, you are indeed policemen, but ......"

"Now that you know who we are, you should let us go. Liu Yuhan clasped his hands and said impatiently.

"However, the murder that happened in our Chilu Autonomous Prefecture should naturally be solved by ourselves, and if outsiders intervene, it will be considered that the Heglila police are incompetent and damage our image. ”

"We just happened to be passing by here and wanted to do our part to help, isn't that okay?" Liu Yuhan became more and more impatient.

The police officer still seemed to want to persuade Liu Yuhan to leave, when a young man with short hair left in his shawl walked up the stairs up the mountain and waved his hand to let the police officer go: "Since the two of you are so enthusiastic and want to assist us in our investigation, then come with me!"

Liu Yuhan and Mu Yunxi glanced at each other, and then followed behind this person and followed him up the stairs to the top of the mountain.

Along the way, Mu Yunxi thought about how to climb up to this person, he carefully observed this person's appearance, and had an idea, so he coughed twice and said: "I didn't expect to meet a searcher who is also a sword spell master here! Your Excellency's skills are extraordinary, and it must be Jiang Zhifei, the master of the world's top ten famous swords, Tianyu Sword." ”

Mu Yunxi's words shocked this person's heart, and then the corners of his mouth turned upward, and he turned around slowly: "Oh!

"The same intuition as a sword spell master, combined with some reasoning and analysis. Mu Yunxi smiled and slowed down, "From the conversation you had with the policeman just now, it is not difficult to see that you are his superior, generally when a major case occurs, the search officer is responsible for the investigation, and the ordinary police officer assists in the investigation, it is obvious that you are not an ordinary policeman, you can only be a search officer." ”

"And how did you get my name? Do you have any acquaintances who know me?"

"It was our first meeting, but I noticed a lot of details: your face was very thin, with a shallow scar, your arms were thick, the corners of your police uniform had been properly adjusted for the needs of battle, you had an empty scabbard tied around your left waist but no sword, and the feather earring in your right ear that looked like a pocket blade made me very concerned. Mu Yunxi paused for a moment and continued, "So, I came to the following conclusion: An investigator who doesn't go out often, but still insists on practicing swordsmanship hard, at the scene of a major murder, his sword must be carried with him, otherwise he will not carry an empty scabbard, and this sword must be hidden on him in a very special way. I've seen some information about the top 10 famous swords in the world, and it is said that there is a sword as light as a feather that can be miniatized and hidden somewhere on the body with the user's combat skills. There is such a person mentioned in the case book of our police station, he is the owner of the Thousand Feather Sword, the second of the top ten famous swords, Jiang Jianfei, a famous investigator in Chilu Autonomous Prefecture. ”

"Yes, perfect reasoning, I am Jiang Feifei. ”

Jiang Jianfei smiled and clenched his hands and recited the incantation, and the feather earring on his right ear suddenly split into hundreds of tiny feather blades, which were recombined and automatically spliced together to form a silver light cold sword, which he held in his hand.

Mu Yunxi and Liu Yuhan were so shocked by what they saw in front of them that they couldn't speak, until Jiang Zhifei stopped casting the spell and put the sword back into its sheath. The two of them realized that it was time to enter the scene of the crime.

A long cordon was set up in front of the monastery to isolate the monks and nuns who were watching, and on the other side of the aisle, a forensic man reported to Jiang Jianfei the details of the corpse, and he listened to the testimony of the man, and from time to time made notes in his notebook. Mu Yunxi, who was next to him, only listened to a few words briefly, and then crossed the cordon alone and came to the vicinity of the confessional where the crime occurred.

What greeted Mu Yunxi's eyes was a cold corpse tightly wrapped in rattan, and what killed Li Jikui was a blood-red rose blooming in his heart, he leaned on the iron chair in the confessional room in a strange posture, his face was covered by a white mask, the candles on the two candlesticks on the table had been burned, and a gold-colored holy grail was placed in the middle

Mu Yunxi put on a mask and gloves, and cautiously walked into the confession room mixed with the smell of corpses, what he cared about the most was the candlestick and the holy grail on the table, usually these sacrificial utensils are not placed in the confession room, he concluded that these things must have been left by the murderer, so he carefully examined the candlestick and the holy grail, and when his eyes just stayed on the holy grail, his whole body immediately shuddered.

"Hey, what did you find!" Liu Yuhan, who came from behind, looked curiously at the Holy Grail in Mu Yunxi's hand, but as soon as she glanced at it, she was so frightened that she almost didn't sit down on the ground.

The chalice was filled with dried blood, which obviously came from Li Jikui's body, and the entire confessional room was covered with bloodstains, especially in the heart of Li Jikui, and the murderer was extremely cruel and bled the body after the victim's death.

In order to find more clues, Mu Yunxi took off the mask on the corpse's face, and saw the corpse's extremely hideous and distorted face, he held back his nausea, and tried not to look at the face, but focused his eyes on the mask, and behind the mask, he saw a line of handwriting written in blood:

He disguises his greed with a mask of hypocrisy.

What exactly does this line of words mean? Mu Yunxi quickly fell into deep thought.