"Mu Laixin, hurry, hurry back."

Six small characters that seemed to be condensed by clouds and mist hovered in the air for about three seconds before slowly dissipating.

"I can't imagine that the token given by Wanfa Zhenren also has a remote transmission function!"

Shen Lang stood up, put away the token, and beckoned Xiaoyu:

"There's something urgent, we have to leave for the city immediately, there's no time to test the spell!"

Xiao Yu was not disappointed, but breathed a sigh of relief - it was really worried that a thunder would scorch Shen Lang on the outside and tender on the inside, and now Shen Lang said that he would not test it, of course it would be the best!

At that moment, the little fish tail swung and jumped up from the lake, more than ten feet in the air, and leaped towards Shen Lang.

Shen Lang raised his left hand, gently caught the small fish, and as soon as his mind moved, he put it into the space of a fine pen.

After that, Shen Lang dug some mud by the lake and put it into the space, and then a seventh-grade "Spirit Flying Technique" was blessed on himself, and he suddenly became as light as a swallow, and he used his deep internal strength to perform light skills, supplemented by second-order agility enhancement, and the whole person seemed to turn into a wind phantom, flying towards the outside of the valley.

It only took more than an hour for Shen Lang to go out of the mountain, return to the town at the foot of the mountain where the horses were kept, retrieve his black horse, and gallop towards the capital.

In the evening.

Shen Lang led the black horse, holding a large clay pot planted with a five-foot sapling, and appeared in front of the yamen of the Shenzhu Hall.

Tie the horse to the horse stake in front of the door, and Shen Lang hung the Shenzhutang waist card on his belt, and entered the gate unimpeded all the way.

"Lord Yan!"

"Xiao Shen is here. Look at you like this, it seems like you've traveled a long way? Sit down, have a cup of tea and take a breath. ”

"Lord Yan, dare to ask what Lord Mu's letter says? Is there something urgent about her? ”

"Don't worry. Xiao Mu did encounter something, but she didn't have an accident herself......"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Hmm...... You take a look at this first. ”

Yan Tianying took out a dossier from the drawer and handed it to Shen Lang.

Shen Lang got up and took it, opened it and took a look, and saw that the first page was a portrait of a beautiful woman with a spear and a heroic posture.

There is also a text description below:

Ling Yunfeng, twenty-four years old, a disciple of the True Transmission of the Divine Spear Sect, a martial artist of the fifth grade, is expected to condense the true qi seed before the age of twenty-five, and the fourth rank is introduced. On a certain day in the month, when he went out of the mountain to visit friends, he disappeared, and the horses were abandoned in a certain place, eaten by fierce beasts, and their luggage was scattered all over the place. There was no sign of a fight, and there was no blood. It is suspected that the location of the horse's corpse was not the first place of the crime.

Turning the next page, there is another portrait of a beautiful woman with a high ponytail, a short cloak, and a sheathed sword.

Caption:

Zhuo Jingjing, 22 years old, a person from Yunzhou Mansion, has been apprenticed to Qingyun Sanren since childhood, and has become a martial artist with five grades. On a certain day of a certain month, he went out to visit a friend and disappeared, and his teacher has been searching for him so far, but to no avail......

Another one.

Hu Jiao, eighteen years old, a native of Lianzhou Mansion, in the early stage of the fourth grade, was a closed disciple of Chu Daoren, the first sword in Lianzhou. Chu Daoren went missing in early March to visit friends in Dongzhou, and after Hu Jiao got the news, he went out to look for his teacher, and he also disappeared in mid-April, and the exact location of the disappearance is unknown......

A thick dossier that records more than 50 cases of disappearances.

The missing persons in each disappearance case are young and beautiful female warriors, and many of them have chivalrous reputations.

But what is surprising is that these more than 50 disappearances occurred in different state capitals.

There are even two cases of disappearance that are very close to each other, one occurred in a military state in the Western Regions, and the other occurred on a certain outer island in the East China Sea.

Yan Tianying said slowly:

"These cases of the disappearance of chivalrous women all occurred in different state capitals, everywhere in the world, so these cases were originally regarded as isolated cases and only investigated and dealt with in their respective state capitals, and my Shenzhutang did not receive a report.

"It wasn't until after Xiao Mu's interrogation that I ordered the collection of similar cases of the disappearance of chivalrous women, and I also went to the criminal department's case library to ask the old officials of the criminal department to help me find information, and finally compiled more than 50 files.

"What do you think of this case, Xiao Shen?"

Shen Lang groaned:

"These more than 50 disappearances happened this year, from the beginning of spring to the beginning of winter. The locations of the crimes are scattered throughout the country, and no one will treat them as the same case without compiling all the information.

"From the perspective of his subordinates, this should be a serial kidnapping case. All the missing chivalrous women are most likely to be committed by the same force. The forces ...... All over the country, very powerful! ”

When he said this, a subtle sense of déjà vu rose in his heart.

I feel as if I've been in a similar situation.

Soon, he thought of his "relict mansion" adventure.

Although he was not "kidnapped", if he had not escaped from the "real human palace", he would have been recorded in the file as a "missing person".

Moreover, at the beginning, he obviously entered the relict mansion in the wild temple of Damang Mountain, but after he came out, he jumped seven or eight thousand miles and came to the Luling Mansion not far from Beijing.

This kind of spatial and geographical shift......

Cases of the disappearance of chivalrous women are everywhere in the world, the former one also occurred in the Western Regions, and the latter one occurred in the East China Sea......

There is a very subtle connection between the two.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Yan Tianying say in a low voice:

"Although Xiao Mu has not yet found evidence of Yingguogong's crime, he has basically cleared up the Blood Shadow Cult that has infiltrated Yingzhou. Originally, she wanted to stay in Yingzhou for another month until she came back a year ago, but I felt that something was wrong with her......

Shen Lang was taken aback and asked:

"Muslim people are not in the right state? What's wrong with her? ”

Yan Tianying frowned slightly:

"Xiao Mu once asked the Divine Hunting Hall for help, and I sent her a few assistants. Last month, when the heads of the arresters routinely reported the progress of the case, they said that Xiao Mu's mood changed drastically, becoming more and more irritable and impulsive, and even injured the local head catcher in public in the court. This is completely different from her usual personality and style.

"In addition, when Xiao Mu reported the case to me last month, he claimed to have developed a new secret technique that could sense and distinguish the demonic aura on the blood shadow cultists. With this secret technique, no matter how good the Blood Shadow cultists were at disguise, it would be difficult for them to escape her pursuit. It was with this secret technique that she roughly swept away the Blood Shadow Cultists who had infiltrated Yingzhou.

"I can contact her assistants to report the situation, Xiao Mu's so-called 'secret technique' that can distinguish the breath of demons, I always feel that something is wrong. Therefore, he asked her to put aside the matter of Yingguo Gong and return to the capital as soon as possible. ”

Hearing this, Shen Lang's heart moved-when Mu Qingxue went to Shark King Island, he was injured by an evil demon, and this injury has not healed, and there was also a seizure on Sword Pavilion Island, where the South China Sea Sword Sect is located.

Later, Shen Lang asked her about the situation, and she only said that it had been properly dealt with and that her injuries had improved, but she did not inform him of the specific situation.

So could it be that Mu Qingxue's emotional changes and style of acting were affected by the injury?

She hasn't really healed from her injuries for so long?

While thinking about it, Yan Tianying continued to say:

On the way back to Beijing, Xiao Mu encountered another kidnapping case. The victim was a beautiful woman in her early twenties. Xiao Mu originally wanted to shoot directly, arrest the kidnappers, and save the chivalrous girl, but on them, she sensed the demonic aura with her 'secret technique'. ”

Shen Lang's heart moved:

"The kidnappers have something to do with demons? Is it a cult god like the Blood Shadow Cult and the Spider Mother Cult? Kidnapping a chivalrous woman is a blood sacrifice? ”

Yan Tianying did not affirm or deny, and continued:

After sensing the demonic aura, Xiao Mu decided to make a plan. She disguised herself as the heroine's companion, rushed over to save her, and after rescuing the heroine, she broke off her back, and then pretended to be invincible, and was captured by mistake......"

Shen Lang said: "Lord Yan, is it a bit child's play for Lord Mu?" Even if she wants to pretend to be the heroine's companion, then she has to be recognized! ”

"I also find it strange. However, she said that she confused the chivalrous woman's cognition with 'secret arts', so that the chivalrous girl really regarded her as a close friend. ”

"The ...... of the face of the Lady of Komu"

"She said she had changed her appearance."

Hearing this, Shen Lang's heart moved:

"Lord Yan, this urgent letter from Master Mu came from after she was 'caught by mistake'?"

Yan Tianying nodded:

"You've used a positioning talisman that can be implanted in your tooth and when activated, it can lock your position even from thousands of miles away. Xiao Mu went to Yingzhou to handle the case, and of course he also had a similar positioning talisman on his body.

"And because she is in the three-rank realm, after activating the spirit rune, she can also transmit a lot of information with her mind within a limited time, and appear on the receiving instrument on our side.

"The causes and consequences of Xiao Mu's 'missing and being caught' are passed on in this way. And after she was escorted to a secret place, she also met several chivalrous women who had been kidnapped for a month or two. Later, when she interrogated, the names of the chivalrous women who had been tied up for a month or two were also passed over. ”

Hearing this, Shen Lang suddenly said:

"It was through the names of those chivalrous women that Lord Yan discovered the clues, merged several disappearances that were originally regarded as isolated cases, and was inspired by this to find out all the disappearances that seemed to be isolated, but in fact had the same characteristics?"

Yan Tianying smiled ashamedly:

"Not that I found out. It's an old clerk who is well-read and memorized, and when he was checking the information of another case in the Criminal Department before, he saw the case files of the disappearance of those chivalrous women. This time, I saw the names sent back by Xiao Mu, so I linked them together. ”

“……”

Shen Lang blinked and changed the topic casually:

"Since Master Mu has successfully broken into the secret base where the kidnappers are holding the chivalrous girls, and there is a positioning talisman, has he already locked the location of the kidnappers and can catch them all?"

Yan Tianying's expression became serious:

"That's the problem. Although Xiao Mu transmitted the message, her location could not be locked with a positioning rune. The positioning rune on Xiao Mu's body has lost its positioning function! ”

Shen Lang was surprised:

"How so? That positioning spirit rune was refined by a real person, right? How can the positioning rune refined by a dignified real person be invalid? ”

Yan Tianying pursed the corners of his mouth and was silent for a while before he said slowly:

"If there is a great real person who lays down a ban, confuses the direction and turns the situation upside down...... to make the positioning rune lose its positioning effect. ”

Shen Lang breathed slightly, and said in a deep voice:

"Who is behind the kidnapping...... Is it a real person? ”

So can this case be investigated together with the "Adventure of the Lost Mansion" that I encountered?

In other words, the number of first-class real people in Dongtu who exist today is very limited, even if a rigorous detective will not let go of any possibility, and the Wanfa Zhenren and Liuli Venerable are also included in the object of suspicion, and the target of suspicion is only six people in total.

Merely......

No matter which of these six people is, it is impossible to investigate them easily!

"It won't be Yuzhen." Yan Tianying said: "It's not that I'm partial to her. It's just that if she really did so many actions, she couldn't hide it from me. This is Yan Tianying's self-confidence as the number one grandmaster today. ”

Shen Lang nodded:

"The subordinates also feel that it is impossible for Wanfa Zhenren to be suspicious. Venerable Liuli is also not suspicious. ”

"Well, Venerable Liuli really won't be suspicious. Her real law is very special, under the lotus, the karmic fire burns for a long time, once she creates bad karma, she will immediately burn her body with karma, either the original spirit will be injured and her cultivation will be greatly damaged, or she will fall into the devil's path and become an evil demon. ”

"That's four ...... left"

"Dawei Bodhisattva, Five Thunder Zhenren, Qiankun Zhenren, Bailong Zhenren. Among them, Qiankun and Bailong, the two great real people, are both from the royal family. ”

"Lord Yan, you know me, it's not that I'm prejudiced against the royal family, but this kind of bad thing, I think it's very likely, it's very likely to be related to the two real people of Qiankun and Bailong......"

“……”

Yan Tianying glanced at Shen Lang with a subtle expression, and said lightly:

"Qiankun Zhenren is the younger brother of Emperor Taizu, who is more than 150 years old this year, and has followed Emperor Taizu to sweep the world. Bailong Zhenren, the grandson of Taizu, is over eighty years old this year.

"Bailong Zhenren is good at refining puppets, and the human-shaped and beast-shaped puppets that are refined are almost exactly the same as real beings, not only flesh and blood, but even real qi machines, and other idle warriors and monks, it is difficult to distinguish their authenticity.

"Qiankun real people...... Good at formation, there is a thought of the ability to form a formation. Its spatial shifting array is the only ...... in the world."

A space shifting array?

Thinking of the experience of moving seven or eight thousand miles of space before and after entering and leaving the relic's mansion, as well as the geographical location where the more than fifty kidnapping cases occurred, as well as Mu Qingxue's positioning talisman was inexplicably invalid, and it was impossible to lock her specific location......

In the space array for the world's unique Qiankun real person, it is really very suspicious!

However, Yan Tianying said:

"Qiankun Zhenren and Bailong Zhenren are certainly very suspicious, but are you too arbitrary? Don't forget, Xiao Mu said that she sensed the demonic aura in the kidnapper.

"And Qiankun Zhenren and Bailong Zhenren have always been able to push and push the matter of strengthening the seal of the Genting Demon Palace. On the contrary, those of us who have to strengthen the seal every few years have a greater possibility of being corrupted and polluted by the demonic aura unknowingly......"

Shen Lang spread his hands:

"If you want to say that, even Lord Yan, you are suspicious. After all, although you are not a great real person, you have a real person by your side......"

Yan Tianying was stunned, but he didn't expect to go around and go around, and he went around himself.

smiled helplessly at the moment, shook his head and said:

"In short, this case is very tricky, and all I can do for you is to keep an eye on other real people with Yuzhen, so that they can't move easily. It is up to you to investigate the specific case. ”

Shen Lang knew that Yan Tianying had asked him to come back, and he must have asked him to participate in the investigation of the case.

And now that Mu Qingxue has already penetrated into the enemy, Shen Lang is naturally obliged.

It's just that he was a little confused:

"Lord Yan, it is very likely that there is a real person behind this case, in this case, do you have to send a stronger god to lead me? It's not that I'm arrogant, it's just that I have a little bit of strength...... It's a bit underwhelming. ”

Yan Tianying Road:

"Xiao Shen, do you know how many second-grade martial artists there are in our Divine Capture Hall?"

Shen Lang asked, "Why do you have to have three or five?" ”

"Not a single one."

Yan Tianying's face was expressionless, and he said lightly:

"There are no second-grade martial artists in the Divine Capture Hall, and there are only three third-grade martial artists including Xiao Mu, in total. There are only eighteen four-rank martial artists. Fa Xiu only has ten thousand true people to see my face, and he reluctantly serves as the advisor of the Divine Capture Hall. ”

"Huh?" Shen Lang was stunned: "The Divine Capture Hall is majestic, and even the world...... How is it possible to have such manpower? ”

Because of me, the Divine Capture Hall is the world's most powerful!

Yan Tianying sighed secretly in his heart, but he didn't boast about it, and only said softly:

"Although the salary of the Divine Capture Hall is good, there is no shortage of cultivation resources, and there is a series of ten thousand real people, all kinds of magic weapons and elixirs provided for free or at a low price, but the rules of our Divine Capture Hall are too strict. Those who want to make a fortune and become rich will not come to the God Hunting Hall. If you want to be free and unrestrained, and even do whatever you want, you won't come to the God Hunting Hall.

"Most of the people who volunteered to join the Divine Capture Hall were young people who were enthusiastic and righteous. But young people are accustomed to the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and after seeing the prosperity of the world, they will also change.

"After all, no matter how high the salary of our Shenzhutang is, and no matter how good the benefits are, among this Beijing teacher, compared with those children of wealthy families, it looks a little shabby. You can't earn gray income, and the way to get money is just salaries and bounties.

"Xiao Mu Tangtang three-rank martial artist, a year is a year, plus the New Year's Festival reward, case handling bounty, at most more than 2,000 silver dollars. Which of the other third-rank martial artists will take this money in their eyes? Give more than 2,000 a month and they won't do it!

"There is little money, there are many things, and it is dangerous, and there are people hanging bounties on the black market at every turn...... There are 800 people a year, how many high-quality martial artists are willing to play for hundreds or thousands of dollars?

"Therefore, many young people who joined the Divine Hunting Hall with enthusiasm back then, there are some who are corrupt and degenerate halfway, and there are also many who take the initiative to leave to pursue a better life.

"This has come and gone, and until now, our God Hunting Hall is just a master."

Shen Lang asked:

"Can't you go up and up? The headhunters who shed blood and worked hard to uphold law and order and justice deserve better treatment. ”

Yan Tianying spreads hands:

"Our Divine Hunting Hall is in charge of everything, and everyone is arrested, not only the evil demons and foreign ways hate us, but many noble clans, and even many court officials, regard us as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh. Not to mention the improvement of treatment, it would be good not to be cut in appropriation!

"In other words, in recent years, there have been several court discussions in the court to cut the funds of our Divine Capture Hall. There are even servants of the Criminal Department who openly complain, saying that the existence of our Divine Arrest Hall is the division of the power of the Criminal Department.

"In short, those few times, if it weren't for the few upright ministers who tried their best to fight for it, and I Yan was a bit thin-faced, the imperial court would have formed a public discussion a long time ago to cut the funds of our Divine Capture Hall.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, the head catchers of the Divine Capture Hall can get the magic weapons, equipment, and elixirs of the Ten Thousand Law Real People for free and at a low price, and my Yan Tianying has made a great effort! I am a dignified grandmaster, all my salary is handed over, and you dare not believe any private money? ”

Listening to Yan Tianying's down-to-earth complaints, Shen Lang felt both cordial and a little sad.

A dignified and first-class grandmaster, as long as he is willing, like the Dragon King of the Seven Seas, it is no problem to find a place to establish a country and become a king on his own.

But now I don't even have private money......

Tsk, it's pitiful and respectable.

"Far from it. Alas, when I get older, I become verbose, and I will always unconsciously digress from the topic......"

After a few complaints, Yan Tianying returned to the original topic:

"In short, the number of people in our Divine Arrest Hall is too small, and the other two third-grade catchers are all rushing outside to investigate important cases. The eighteen four-rank catchers also have their own heavy responsibilities.

"Speaking of Xiao Shen, don't you feel that our yamen is too deserted? Except for a few old and young scribes, basically no one else? Just because everyone isn't here! At the New Year's dinner, you may not be able to get half of the people......"

Shaking his head, he looked at Shen Lang and said solemnly:

"The other two third-grade catchers are not there, and the fourth-grade catchers are also out handling cases. Among all the remaining head hunters, there were more than 100 killers who fought alone, killed all of them, and single-handedly killed Xiao Shen, the seven sisters of the spider...... Already the strongest. ”

“……”

What Yan Tianying said was so reasonable, it made Shen Lang speechless.

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