The guy came to his senses and began to emphasize his importance. He Lingchuan didn't break it, he just frowned, but General Ling was much more direct: "More than a year? What can more than a year of old news have to do with the present?"

That's too far off the timeline, isn't it?

"Listen, listen." Wang Mazi didn't dare to sell Guan Zi anymore, "There is a nest of pig demons in the east of Zhitian Township, probably more than 100 of them. Their land is at the foot of the Yulun Mountain, and the area is large. This group of monsters does not have a good relationship with the locals and often causes trouble. The townspeople don't like them, but they can't do anything about them, this nest of monsters has lived at the foot of Yulun Mountain for more than a hundred years, and their seniority is much older than others, and they have been there before Zhitian Township."

"And then?" He Lingchuan knew that although the Bejia Kingdom was known as a mixed house of demons and humans, in fact, most of the monsters were still accustomed to living in ethnic groups, with clear boundaries with people.

This is the innate ethnic divide. For example, the old sheep next to him is to take his clansmen to eat and drink spicy food in the territory on the edge of the county seat, rather than living in the city.

"Last winter, there was a sudden landslide in Yulun Mountain, and it seemed that their nest had been buried." Wang Mazi said, "But no one entered the mountain at that time, and no one knew. When the snow melts the next year and the people of Shibata go into the mountains, they find that the landslide has collapsed, and the nest of these monsters has also been destroyed."

He Lingchuan couldn't help frowning: "What kind of disappearance case is this?" Isn't it just an ordinary human tragedy?

"I have a companion who is from Shibata Village, and when he was hired to clean up the landslide, he found that the pigs in the nest were all piled together, as if they had died in a group, and only bones remained. Wang Mazi said, "There are hundreds of such a big litter. Soon after, someone in the town was attacked by a pig demon, killing one and injuring one. The government was alarmed and sent people down, but after looking for more than a month, they found no trace of them. Then it was gone."

After hearing this, He Lingchuan said, "This old news doesn't seem to have anything to do with what happened in Niutou Mountain."

Wang Mazi's face fell: "Even if they were stoned to death...... My lord, did you know that pigs never like to be huddled together, especially when there are hundreds of them?"

He knew that the more he contributed, the better his hope of survival. On the other hand, it is a dead end.

"The reaction of living beings in a desperate situation is often unimaginable to others." He Lingchuan turned around, "You said, on the way back to Shuangyi Town, you encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and somehow walked to Guantian?"

"Yes, yes!"

He Lingchuan nodded: "Then you have been calculated." The ghost hitting the wall is also commonly known as the ecstasy array, and its basic function is to make people dizzy and detour.

The formation must be arranged in advance.

Someone set up a maze array on their way home in advance, inducing these villagers to go to Guantian and provoke the Drill Wind Beast.

"Who made this stealing plan for you?"

"My cousin Wang Ling." Wang Mazi said, "He told us that a group of flute-headed geese came to Wudou Town, and they were unfamiliar with the place, and the goods were still very good. As long as the robbery is completed, this time you will give me two or two taels of silver!"

He also explained, "The flurry goose is a foreigner who doesn't know what we're doing here."

"Wang Ling is dead?"

Wang Mazi nodded, there was no sadness on his face, only resentment: "You deserve it." I broke my foot that night, and he didn't stay to help me! 「

"Where did he get his news?"

"I'm not sure, but maybe it's in a gambling house." Wang Mazi said, "If he has money, he will run there."

He Lingchuan thought for a moment, "Then what about the object of your theft, that group of flute-headed geese, how much information do you remember?"

"Uh......" Wang Mazi had already reviewed this matter in his mind countless times, "It was a small caravan, with only more than thirty people and ten wagons. We stole two of them, filled with chewing tobacco and a dozen bamboo tubes stuffed with saltpeter. Wang Ling accidentally touched a tube, and the whole car was frozen."

He Lingchuan rubbed his temples: "The merchants who smuggle tobacco and saltpeter, where do you dare to touch them?"

Chewing tobacco is an ultra-high-profit commodity, and only official franchises are allowed in the Bega country, and private smuggling is a felony; As for saltpeter, it is an important military asset, one of the basic raw materials for making gunpowder, how can it be allowed to be smuggled by private businessmen?

"Occasionally...... It's also transported." Wang Mazi pouted, "We've all met, and we've ...... before."

"Stealing too?"

Wang Mazi shrunk his bag, looked at Jiao Yu and General Ling on the side, and acquiesced when he saw that they didn't say anything.

Yes, there are people who do the business of killing heads, and the small place is even more wild. Chewing tobacco and saltpeter are small in size, and everyone will share a point after stealing it, and each person will only take a little to sell it, and the stolen goods will be sold soon.

They are local bastards with their own way.

"Aren't you also a head-killing business?" He Lingchuan looked at him with a smile, "What do you remember about these merchants? The more detailed, the better."

"The leader is probably in his early forties, not short or fat, with a neatly trimmed beard, a jade wrench on his ring finger, and the neck is ————" he pointed to his neck to show He Lingchuan, "There is a flesh-colored ruffian."

"When you stepped on the spot, did you hear them tell them where they were going?"

Wang Mazi thought for a long time: "No, no, right?"

"Alright, let's go back." During He Lingchuan's interrogation of Wang Mazi, the Diamond Wind Beast brought by the goshawk and the general Lingling went to search the valley, but in the end they returned in vain.

The murderer's ability to clean up the aftermath is top-notch, and he can't find any useful clues if he continues to stay here.

……

After returning to the inn, He Lingchuan took out Fushan Ji's information again, wanting to see if he had missed anything.

The Red Yan Kingdom is so big, trying to find a missing bird is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Before He Lingchuan set off, Li Qingge shared his newly obtained information with him:

A month ago, Bega had a deflated meal on the eastern front.

It is said that it was because the two armies under the command of Bega did not coordinate in time that there was a major tactical mistake and the opponent seized the opportunity.

Yes, one of those teams is the army of the Red Yan Kingdom.

Thinking of the emperor's anger, it was not difficult for He Lingchuan to guess that perhaps it was because of the disappearance of the white-shouldered eagle that the intelligence of the coordinated operation could not be transmitted to the Chiyan Kingdom in time, resulting in huge losses on the battlefield.

Of course, Lingxu City would not tolerate such a thing.

He was curious about the source of the information, but Li Qingge obviously wouldn't reveal it.

On the information summarized from various places, Fu Shanji also wrote a few key words with a red pen:

The first word———

Rainy night!

He was very careful to find out the common denominator of the disappearances in various places, that is, they all happened on a rainy night.

He Lingchuan recalled that on the day when the rock sheep was almost stolen, it was indeed raining at night, and the rain stopped when it was ugly.

These people only go out on rainy nights, why?

The second key word summed up by Fushan Ji is "countryside".

These disappearances took place in the suburbs and in the mountains, far from the crowds.

Humans have a habit of living in groups, and many yokai prefer to walk alone and stay away from human settlements. If these murderers are targeted in the countryside, then it is true that there are more monsters killed than humans.

The murderer's caution can also be seen from this.

Then the third key word is "multiple places at the same time".

Comparing the time and space of the cases, some cases occurred very closely, only one or two days apart, but the places where the crimes occurred were far away, more than 100 miles apart.

The murderer went to a hundred miles away to commit the crime again within a dozen hours, what is this picture?

After experiencing the sheep stealing incident, He Lingchuan is more inclined to believe that these people are likely to act separately and in groups.

In other words, it is likely that this is still a cross-regional gang crime!

That's all there is to Fu Shan Ji's inference, maybe he didn't find a new clue, or maybe Fu Shan Yue gave him a stab in the face at this time......

According to He Lingchuan's opinion, Fushan Ji's top-down investigation method is destined to have no gains.

What is the efficiency of the official service? The old cow tows the broken car faster than it, not to mention all kinds of omissions.

If only the manpower and information of the official family are used, the day when the case will be solved is far away.

Don't talk about the motive, the location of the other party's crime, the target chosen, and the timing of the attack...... If you can't find the pattern, you won't be able to catch this group.

Their actions are really very secretive. If it weren't for the fact that the messengers of Lingxu City were also involved this time, I'm afraid no one would have noticed these scattered disappearances.

Not to mention the demon country, even the occasional disappearance of villagers in various parts of the kite country, which is not worth mentioning.

These days, there are simply not too many reasons for the disappearance of living people and youkai.

Then does he want to go to Wudou Town, where Wang Mazi and others were trapped, to take a look?

He Lingchuan was still thinking hard, but there was a sound of pecking from the window.

He got up and opened the window, and saw a dozen crows standing outside.

"Something?"

The largest crow came in to take a look, and made sure that the goshawk was not inside, so he boldly jumped in and took two steps:

"Are you still studying the strange things about Niutou Mountain?"

He Lingchuan nodded: "Do you have a new clue?"

"Then it's up to you to get paid." The raven grinned, "No pay, no clues!"

He has been dealing with this creature since Sanxinyuan, and knows that they are typical bandit personalities, bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

"Can you make a price for me to see?"

"300 catties of beef and mutton every month, 100 pills!" The crow thought about it before coming, "Also, we want the forest south of Shuangyi Town to be used as a habitat, and no other birds are allowed to nest except for the crows!"

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "I'm the prince's envoy, if you see me in person, do you dare to open your mouth?"

"The prince is so rich, he plucks his hair thicker than our thighs!" The crow sneered, "A few hundred catties of meat and a hundred pills a month are not a problem at all!"

"That's right." As soon as the words fell, He Lingchuan pursed his lips and whistled, and then stretched out his hand to flick it.

A strong sweep swept through and closed the window.

This separated the leader of the crows from a dozen of his men.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the big crow did not attack He Lingchuan, but just slammed into the window paper, intending to seize the window and escape.

He Lingchuan predicted accurately, and cast a net in front of it, as if the crow was throwing itself into the net.