Chapter 18: Exposure
The Royal Mansion
"Young City Lord!" Lao Liu saw the arrival of the young man and hurriedly stepped forward.
"It's okay, I don't know if Liu Dutong has found any clues?" Guo Qiuran looked at Wang Cheng's corpse that had been taken down and placed on the ground, and asked.
"Tell the young city lord, the lord of the Wang family has lost all his qi and blood, his limbs have been shattered, his skull has been broken, and his knowledge of the sea does not exist, so he should have been searched for souls. But I can't see how. "Lao Liu has only been here for a short time, and he can only understand this, and he doesn't understand any more.
The young man squatted down and looked at the Wang family master who was no longer mighty a few times, got up and walked towards the lake.
Soldiers at the lake were salvaging corpses, many of which were slightly swollen, with purple lips and pale faces, all of which had been drowned.
Suddenly, when a soldier lifted the corpse up, he miscalculated the weight, and the whole person was carried by the corpse towards the lake.
It was too late to let go, and I was about to fall into the lake, but I was dragged by someone.
"Don't move, I'll pull you up!"
The soldier quickly stiffened his body and was slowly pulled back. When he came back to his senses, he was already in a cold sweat, and he was also afraid that he would fall into it, and the lake looked like it was panicking, not to mention that there were corpses under the lake.
He hurriedly thanked the people around him, and when he saw that it was the young city lord, he became more and more grateful in his heart.
"Come, let's pull up the corpse just now!" Guo Qiuran said as he looked at the young soldier and patted him on the shoulder.
"It's... Yes, yes!" the soldier already seemed a little incoherent.
"Ready, one, two, three!" he remembered with a clattering sound, and waves broke across the lake.
The soldiers by the lake looked over, and they saw a group of corpses dragged out by the young city lord.
It was not that the young soldier miscalculated the weight of one corpse, but that the corpse's legs were wrapped around the hands of the other corpses, and the rest of the corpses were clinging to the corpse, their fingers buckled into each other's bodies, and the clinging hands were twisted and deformed. The bulging eyeballs and the wide open mouth all tell the despair of the time.
The young soldier had already collapsed to the ground in fright. And the young man next to him was still dragging hard, dragging out the corpses connected in the water little by little, looking a little crazy.
"Take a hand!" Guo Qiuran suddenly shouted to the housekeeper and Lao Liu.
Looking at such a crazy young city lord, both of them trembled a little, and hurriedly stepped forward, and with a lift of the aura, the corpses that were more than thirty meters long were dragged out, and the water level of the entire lake dropped a lot.
At a cursory glance, there have been more than 100 people, and everyone looked at this behemoth in shock, silent for a long time, too cruel!
"Hahahahaha Everyone could hear the comfort and relief in the laughter.
After a long time, Guo Qiuran calmed down and said to Lao Liu: "Liu Dutong, I'm afraid this matter can't be solved in the army, send someone to ask the people of the three sects, they should be in the barracks." I told them that the investigation authority is fully open, and whatever you need is casually mentioned, I will ensure that I can meet it. ”
With that, he pushed away the butler's outstretched hand, got up and left the palace.
The single butler followed silently.
"Keep working for me!" Lao Liu shouted as he looked at the soldiers around him, and those soldiers were also frightened.
He was about to go to the army, when his legs suddenly became weak and he fell to the ground, and then he realized that he was also frightened, and he was frightened by the young city lord.
It's so terrifying, I feel that the boy who has always appeared as an elegant and weak image is broken in his heart, and after being broken, he sees that he is a wild beast. Bloodthirsty beasts!
He has to hurry up and run to the army and tell General Zhou!
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"Single housekeeper. The single bear behind him shuddered.
"Did the people who sent out before reply to the letter?" asked Guo Qiuran, who had left the palace.
"I have replied, saying that the bandits within a hundred miles are nowhere to be seen, the stockade has been burned down, and... Three more villages disappeared. Shan Xiong reported carefully.
"Well, those merchants who came to the City Lord's Mansion probably can't wait, you can send someone to meet them. You know how to do it. ”
"Young master, if you find out that it is really what they call it?"
"It's clean, I'm tired and need some sleep. Don't bother me if it's not important, you know?"
"My subordinates understand!"
"You don't have to follow, go and get busy yourself. I'll go home by myself. ”
"This ......" Although Shan Xiong was not very relieved, he still agreed.
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Guo Qiuran casually found a restaurant to sit down, and ordered a side dish and two taels of wine. At this time, it was past noon, and there were relatively few people in the restaurant. He just stared at the bustle of the street outside.
"Hey, Brother Yu, I want to eat this~" Following the prestige, I saw a pair of poorly dressed men and women in front of the candy stall, and the girl pointed to a cute candy and said.
"Okay, good!" the boy smiled and took out two dim spirit coins from his shabby clothes, "Boss, give me this!"
"Okay!" the boss smiled and took the spirit coin, and made a bigger flower candy for them, "Here!"
"Thank you, boss!" the boy thanked the girl as he led the girl.
"Haha, no, no, no, little things. ”
Looking at the two people in the distance, the young man in the restaurant sipped the wine, a little bitter.
"Shopkeeper, the money is here. Guo Qiuran went out and looked at this vibrant city.
Although many people in this city are still relatively poor, they are still living seriously, and he suddenly hesitated.
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"Big brother, where are we going now?" Lin Wanrong asked, today's sun is a little hot, and with the scene I saw before, my body is a little uncomfortable.
"If you guys are unwell, go back to the inn first, and I'll go to the scene of the disappearance. Rong Qingbai looked at the sweat on the heads of several people, and knew that they needed to take a break.
"Fourth brother, how do you feel, if you can still insist, come with me for a trip. ”
Ryusuke took out the wind oil essence and applied a small amount to the Tianmu acupoint, feeling better, and the two left together.
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"This is the scene of the crime determined by the City Lord's Mansion, can you smell something?" Rong Qingbai asked.
"No, no special smell. Big brother, what do you want me to smell?"
"It's about whether you can smell familiar smells, such as in the ferry village. ”
Hearing this, Long Fu knew that Rong Qingbai wanted to determine whether the disappearance case of South China City and the "village slaughter case" in Ferry Village were committed by one person.
After running to about a dozen locations, nothing was found, and only the last known location remained, which happened last night, in the alley near the West Market, where there were witnesses.
At this time, there was a black-robed man in the alley at the scene of the crime who was concentrating on what was going on, and he knew that there were two young men coming, although one of them was disguised, but the bone age was still visible to him, but he didn't care, because there were always some city kids here who wanted to solve the case or something.
When the two came to the vicinity of the black robe, Rong Qingbai glanced at Long Suke, and Long Fu began to meditate.
And Rong Qingbai looked at the black robe with some curiosity, and always felt that this person had a somewhat familiar feeling.
The black robe ignored him, probed, seemed to have gained something, and left in a hurry.
"Do you smell it?"
Ryusuke said with some confusion: "I seem to smell the familiar blood, which is somewhat similar to the blood of the palace in the morning, but it doesn't seem to be." ”
Rong Qingbai sighed a little, this time he came to South China City with less treasures, thinking of being pitted by the elders of the mission hall, he felt a little annoyed, don't you have a good three-star mission!
Now it's not the Nine Heavens Mirror before, not only do you have to look easy when you go out, you can't bring too many good things, in case you are targeted and cry, it's too late, sometimes it's useless for the sect to back. If it was useful, the ten major forces of Evergreen County would not have died so many people.
"The black-robed man should have been to the palace just now, and it makes sense to send him to investigate now. Rong Qingbai said, but he still had a guess, that is, the Wang family was slaughtered, and it was related to this person, and that familiarity came from the formation aura that flashed on the black robe's body, and it had the same aura as the isolation formation.
If Ryusuke doesn't mention the Wang family, he may not be able to remember it. After all, he had been thinking about the direction of the blood.
Huh?
The young man hurriedly took out the runes that had been rubbed down earlier. After thinking about it carefully, his pupils shrank, but he confirmed again and again that it was not this person, but there were some similar techniques.
Who is this person?
"Let's go~ Let's go back to the inn, it's getting late. You've worked hard too. Go back and get some rest."
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in the barracks
"General, do you want to ask Sanzong for help?" asked Lao Liu.
"Don't worry about it for the time being, wait until their injuries are healed, the words of the Evergreen Sect before made the other two sects a little worried, and they don't worry about us. Now that the people of the Evergreen Sect have left, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many wounded, the people from the other two sects would probably have to leave as well. Zhou Zhengxuan rubbed the Tianmu acupoint with a little headache.
"But it's better to talk to them, after all, this matter needs the help of the two sects, in fact, the two of them are probably waiting. ”
"Are you waiting for the sect's support?" asked Lao Liu.
"It should be, in fact, it is normal for sect missions to die, but now there are a lot of deaths here, plus the previous incident, there are no more people trusted by the two sects here, even if the city lord's mansion says so, they may not appreciate it. ”
This is Zhou Zhengxuan's headache.
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The water pavilion next to the sea of spiritual hearts
"Old thing! If my apprentice has three long and two short, I will come back and chop you alive!" Old man come out!" A group of people were on the edge of the sea, and one of them was frantically "spitting" at an old man, and as soon as the copper bell rang in his hand, a behemoth swam into the air from the sea, making a huge sound of "Hmm~".
", do you want to sit on the Sky Swallowing Whale?" the old man was also shocked by the behavior of this old man.
"Nonsense! It's not that you're a waste! How many people have been killed or injured without finding anything in the three-star mission? South China City is so far away, these disciples have all taken it, you can watch it!" The Sky Swallower Whale swept through the air in ripples and disappeared into the sky.
The old man on the edge of the sea blushed and muttered, "My apprentice is also over there, I'm also in a hurry!
This mission can only suffer a dark loss, I hope it is still too late to stop the loss in time.
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Elysium Palace in the middle of Changqing County
In the splendid temple, extravagance prevailed.
"Isn't this the Great Elder? My own disciples didn't go to take a look, I heard that Bai Bai Hao led the team to die a lot this time. Someone said to the bare-chested monk in the main hall.
"It's no wonder to him about this, but the mission elder has to give some explanation. The monk touched his beard and said indifferently.
"What does this matter have to do with me if this is the city lord's mansion?" said a rat-eyed old man holding a huge wine gourd.
"Since it's pushed around, forget it, just take a loss, and see how City Lord Guo explains, after all, this is a probing task, and there is still randomness. Let's teach us a lesson. The Nine Elders, who are outside the summons, help me take a look. I don't really want to move, after all, there are two little ladies here to tug at the heartstrings~ haha. "The monk hugged the two beautiful girls, and he was not happy.
Other people saw that this monk began to be unscrupulous, and they were also a little speechless, and when they became the apprentice of the flower monk, Bai Bai Hao was also miserable.
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