Chapter 4: Murder and Silence

In an instant, a fiery snake came out of Yin Tiancheng's hand, first wrapped around the hand that was holding his neck, and then circled up, entangling the young thief's entire body.

The young man suddenly felt that he had fallen into the sea of fire, and he couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and immediately let go of the hand around Yin Tiancheng's neck.

Before he could come back to his senses and attack again, the ball of light in Yin Tiancheng's other hand suddenly burst out and hit the young man's chest hard.

"Ahh

With the screams, the young man's body was shaken away, and as soon as he fell to the ground, several long swords were pressed against his neck.

"You, when did you steal my fire escape technique?" The young man's pupils suddenly constricted, and now Yin Tiancheng in his eyes was simply a monster.

"It turns out that this spell is called Fire Escape. Yin Tiancheng secretly wrote down the name of this spell, but said with a disdainful smile on his face: "This kind of little trick, I can use it casually, do I still need to steal it?"

The young man roared unconvinced: "My spell is a fire attribute, but the ball of light you shot out belongs to the wood attribute, how can you practice two spells with different attributes at the same time! ”

"Since I can't cultivate two attribute spells at the same time, how can I study fire attribute spells?" Yin Tiancheng immediately seized the loophole in his words.

The young man was speechless for a moment.

"Talking about the way of cultivating immortals with a frog at the bottom of a well like you, wouldn't it cost me my worth?"

Although it was deliberately stimulating him, Yin Tiancheng had already memorized the content of the other party's words, and this was the first time he knew that cultivation spells also had attributes and other particularities.

"Okay Tiancheng, stop playing tricks, quickly interrogate him for what is the purpose of trespassing on the county government?" Lin Chengen reminded him beside him.

As soon as he heard the county magistrate's words, Ding Ming immediately ran over to steal the limelight, he directly stepped forward and grabbed the young man's collar, and asked sharply, "What are you doing in the county office?" The young man was silent.

"Isn't it a hero, I'll ask again, and if you don't, I'll guarantee you an extra hole in your chest. ”

"The hero spares his life, I say, I say!" the young man immediately confessed.

"It's really boring, it's a bad seed. Ding Ming originally thought that the young man was a stubborn person, and he would not confess until he was tortured, but who knew that this guy was a coward who did not live up to his name.

The young man knelt on the ground and said, "I have been ordered by my master to come to the county government to bring back Wang Yuan's body." ”

Yin Tiancheng was shocked when he heard it next to him, Wang Yuan was the one who died in the thatched house, this guy dared to break into the yamen in broad daylight for the sake of a corpse, it can be seen that the mastermind behind the scenes is very anxious about this, could it be that Wang Yuan's corpse hides some secrets?

Thinking of this, Yin Tiancheng was a little uneasy, and immediately asked, "Who is the master of your family, tell me quickly!"

Without any answer, Yin Tiancheng saw that the young man's body fell to the ground as soon as he became weak, with a seven-star dart stuck in the back of his head, and the person was already dead.

Yin Tiancheng looked up in the direction where the dart was coming from, and found a masked man standing on the eaves.

"It turns out that there are accomplices!" Ding Ming raised the knife, his momentum looked fierce, but the person did not move, but looked at Yin Tiancheng. The intention couldn't be more obvious, it was clear that he wanted Yin Tiancheng to take the lead.

After all, being able to kill a person in full view of everyone shows that this masked man's martial arts are much more advanced than Ding Ming, and if he also knows magic like the dead young man, then the situation will not be good.

So Ding Ming didn't dare to rush to death, he was counting on Yin Tiancheng to deal with this person, and he was watching the movements, and it was not too late to grab the credit when he had the opportunity.

Yin Tiancheng smiled lightly, and with a wave of his hand, another cyan ball of light was aimed at the masked man and smashed over,

The ball of light instantly hit his body, but what he didn't expect was that a black earth mist suddenly rose around the masked man's body, which was a mist thinner than the tip of a needle and darker than ink, and the masked man disappeared when the fog ended.

Lin Chengen was stunned below, and he asked everyone, "What's going on?"

Yin Tiancheng was thinking about it, and Ding Ming spoke smartly, "I heard that there is a strange martial art called ninjutsu in Dongying overseas, and today I finally saw it." ”

Yin Tiancheng looked at him with a smile and did not speak.

Ding Ming asked unconvinced: "Am I not right?"

"This doesn't look like some kind of ninjutsu, but the earth escape technique in Qimen Dunjia. Yin Tiancheng didn't know if what he said was right, after all, he just instinctively felt that the masked man's escape ability was a kind of spell, so he said nonsense.

Yin Tiancheng didn't know, and the officials gathered next to him didn't know, but thought that Yin Tiancheng was knowledgeable, and everyone nodded yes and admired him.

Lin Chengen smiled and said to Yin Tiancheng: "The old man really looked away, I didn't expect that there was a talent like you hidden in the yamen!"

"The adults have won the award, but in fact, everyone is very good. "When it should be low-key, it should be low-key, Yin Tiancheng, who has been mixed in the three religions and nine streams all the year round, naturally understands this truth.

"Tiancheng, from now on, don't be a catcher, just be promoted to the head catcher, how about being my assistant?"

"Thank you, sir. Yin Tiancheng replied lightly, if he had found this position in the past, he would have been very happy, but now with this ability that can copy other people's spells, let alone mixing with a county official like Lin Chengen in the future, it may not be a problem to become a general.

Yin Tiancheng didn't care, but Ding Ming was in a hurry, and said: "He and I are both headhunters, who will have the final say in the future about the affairs in the yamen, except for the master?"

"You are in charge of running the field, Tiancheng usually follows me to run errands. "Having discovered such a powerful talent, of course Lin Chengen wants to keep him by his side, with Yin Tiancheng to protect himself, and which thief dares to assassinate.

"Damn, this kid is with Lin Chengen, isn't he favored every day, and it will be enough for me to say some bad things in the future!" Ding Ming scolded secretly, but on the surface, he had to pretend to be smiling to congratulate Yin Tiancheng.

At this time, Yin Tiancheng suddenly remembered something, and he hurriedly said to Lin Chengen: "This dead thief said that he stole Wang Yuan's body......"

"Let's go, let's go to the morgue and have a look!" Lin Chengen suddenly understood, and everyone followed him to the morgue, leaving only a few officials to protect the scene.

Seeing Wang Yuan's body lying on the broken bed, without closing his eyes until he died, Yin Tiancheng was a little sad, after all, this person's death had a lot to do with him.

He set his mind to search Wang Yuan's body, but he couldn't find any valuable clues, and just as he frowned and thought, a clever catcher quickly said, "Maybe there is some secret hidden in his body." ”

Yin Tiancheng felt that his words were reasonable, but he said with a little hesitation: "It is against national law to dissect the corpse without the consent of the relatives of the bitter master. ”

"Don't worry Yin Zhutou, Wang Yuan has been an orphan since he was a child, if we do this, who will sue?"

Before Yin Tiancheng could answer, a catcher who was guarding outside walked in quickly and said, "That thief didn't leave anything to identify himself, but I found it on the sole of his shoe." ”

Yin Tiancheng stretched out his hand to take a look and found that it was a green bud, which had been flattened by his shoes.

Lin Chengen said: "In the cold winter, it should be plum blossoms. ”

"Yes, it's the green calyx. The clever catcher replied quickly.

Yin Tiancheng asked confidently: "Brother has good eyesight, I don't know where there are green calyx plums in our county?"

"Green calyx is not a local variety, and it is rare in the county. If I'm not mistaken, only the Baiyun Temple in Xinghua Mountain in the western suburbs is planted with this flower. ”

"Looks like I'm going there. Yin Tiancheng chuckled, and suddenly had a good idea.

He often heard that the Taoist priest in the Baiyun Temple knew magic, but unfortunately every time he wanted to enter the temple to admire, he was stopped by the Taoist boy at the door.

The reason why Baiyun Temple dared to stop the people in the official palace was because it was a Taoist temple given by the Holy Lord, so although Yin Tiancheng was angry at these Taoist boys' rude behavior before, he couldn't do anything about them.

Now that the opportunity has come, this young man who stole the corpse is likely to be a disguised Baiyun Guan Taoist priest, as long as he uses this as an excuse to go in and investigate the case, and those people stop him again, wouldn't it be that there are no three hundred taels of silver here.

But that's not the point, Yin Tiancheng's real idea is to learn spells with these Taoist priests, as long as he can find a chance to shake hands with them or something, then the rest of the matter ......

Thinking that he would possess many spells for no reason, Yin Tiancheng almost laughed out loud, and he hurriedly said to Lin Chengen: "My lord, since the dead are related to Baiyun Temple, why don't you let me go to the temple to investigate." ”

"This can't be done, didn't you say it just now, just let Ding Ming run errands in the field. Lin Chengen flatly refused.

"Baiyun Temple is not an ordinary Taoist temple, Brother Ding is frivolous, in case someone takes advantage of the loophole and catches something, then the above will blame it......" Yin Tiancheng deliberately did not continue.

Lin Chengen understood, and immediately nodded in agreement with his request.

Ding Ming was furious in his heart when he listened, this kid rejected himself as soon as he was promoted, so wouldn't he be able to wear small shoes for himself at any time in the future!

Before he had a chance to step forward and argue a few words, he heard Yin Tiancheng say: "My lord, you just arranged for me to investigate the case of the theft of Wang Yuanwai's horse......

"Why don't you worry about such a trivial matter, let Ding Ming do it. ”

"Then thank you Brother Ding. Yin Tiancheng laughed, and took the catcher who searched for the green calyx to Baiyun Temple.

Ding Mingqi's face turned blue, but even more annoying things were still to come.

At this time, Lin Chengen said loudly behind him: "Tiancheng, Baiyunguan is far away, you go and bring the fast horse that Ding Ming often rides!"