After two days, Zhou Zheng was urgently recruited into the palace by Lin Shi.

When he arrived, Murong Huang was also there, but he had a gloomy face and a worried look, and he was absent-minded and perfunctory even when he greeted Zhou Zheng.

"Zhou Zheng, my chamberlain is dead." Lin Shi saw the door, "There was only Murong Huang at the scene. He said that you asked him to come to me, the chamberlain, is this true? ”

"Indeed!" Zhou Zheng simply told Lin Shi the results of the investigation in the past few days and his own suspicions and speculations. "Senior, can you let me take a look at the scene?"

Lin Shi didn't approve, but asked with the details, "Do you suspect that someone specially arranged for me to meet Concubine Zhai?" ”

"Yes. That's why I asked General Murong Huang to privately find the senior chamberlain to find out the specific situation of that year. ”

Lin Shi pondered for a long time, "No one arranged my meeting with Concubine Zhai!" That day, I went out of the palace with Jiang Ning and Murong Huang to inspect, and I accidentally saw a few old soldiers fighting chess on the street. One or two of them, I have the impression of, were several courtiers who had been convicted in the previous dynasty. At that time, I also remembered their contribution to the entire demon clan, so I went to their homes to sit down and learn about their current living conditions. I visited seven or eight houses that day, and one of them was Concubine Zhai's house. Concubine Zhai's grandfather was a general of the previous dynasty and made countless contributions. Later, for various reasons, people died, and the family road also fell.

I married the Zhai family as a concubine, firstly, to appease the group of criminal ministers led by the Zhai family, so that their descendants can be used by me. The other, I do like her, just meet her and miss her!

My chamberlain has followed me for more than a hundred years, and he knows this. It makes sense that you should first think of looking for him. But while you were looking for him, he died! Zhou Zheng, don't you think, this is too coincidental? ”

"Senior Lin Shi, do you think it was Murong Huang who killed the inner attendant?"

Lin Shi glanced at Murong Huang a few times and shook his head.

"No, I believe in my great general! Besides, he alone can't kill my chamberlain! ”

Zhou Zheng was shocked. Lin Shi's meaning is very clear, his inner attendant cultivation is not weaker than Murong Huang's, at least it is also the cultivation of the eighth layer of the Immortal Rank!

"Senior, are you suspicious of me?"

"Now in the Qilin Clan, the only person who can kill my inner attendant without knowing it, except for me and the Ghost King, is you! You say, should I doubt you? ”

"What the senior said makes sense! However, there is also a possibility that several people join forces! I have a question, who knows the cultivation of the inner attendants, except for the seniors, who else knows? ”

Lin Shi groaned for a longer time this time.

"Nobody knows!"

"What about the chamberlain's family?"

"He has no family!"

"Disciple? Or a friend? ”

"He has been there for me to serve and has very little time for himself! He has no disciples, let alone friends! ”

"He's the secret guard of his predecessors? In addition to him, how many other secret guards are there like the seniors? ”

Lin Shi instantly became vigilant.

"Zhou Zheng, what do you mean?"

"It's been made clear, someone wants to assassinate you! Suppose, it's me who wants to kill you. You and I are quite compatible, and I will take the method of sneak attack. No matter how many immortal level eighth-layer Great Perfection people you have around you, the protection is in vain! They can't stop me! ”

"Not bad!" Lin Shi agreed with Zhou Zheng's assumption, "If it were you, there would be no need to play such a little trick. So, you didn't kill my chamberlain! ”

"Thank you seniors for your trust! If so, the question comes back, why kill your chamberlain first? Explain that the person who wants to kill you knows that you have such a secret guard. He, or they, are not completely sure that they will be able to kill you if they are blocked by the secret guards. So, they have to clear the obstacles in advance. This also shows from another aspect that the people who want to kill you are not as high as you.

However, this also makes me wonder how they can kill a person like you who is the ninth layer of the Immortal Rank Great Perfection through even if it is an assassination? ”

Lin Shi couldn't figure this out.

"The top priority now is to transfer the guards to his side, both openly and secretly, and take precautions at any time. In addition, if the seniors can trust me, let me go to the scene of the murder of the chamberlain, and I will try to find the murderer in the shortest possible time. In this way, the seniors can follow the vine and find out who wants to kill you behind the scenes! ”

Lin Shihu looked at Zhou Zheng suspiciously, "Why help me?" ”

Zhou Zheng smiled calmly, "It's not you who I'm helping!" It's the whole demon clan! If you die, the Qilin clan will be in chaos.

At that time, neither the Qingluan Clan nor the Black Dragon Clan would miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of annexing the Qilin Clan! It will definitely be like before, the three clans will fight in the dark, and the lives will be ruined!

This situation is what the demons are most happy to see! If there is a demon lord or a demon king secretly fueling the troubles, I am afraid that Kunlun will become the next demon capital like Blackwater City and Silent Land in the end! This is something that our Corrections Department will not tolerate! ”

Lin Shi nodded, he agreed with Zhou Zheng's statement. Still, he had doubts.

"No, there are no conditions, right?"

"Seniors are seniors! My conditions are very simple, on the land occupied by the Qilin Clan, five cities will be allocated to me, and four will be given to the Department of Law and Punishment as the assets of the Department of Law and Punishment. One for me! ”

Lin Shi smiled, "Zhou Zheng Zhenjun is so calculating!" ”

Zhou Zheng didn't care about Lin Shi's sarcasm, and clenched his fists, "Then I'll leave first!" ”

Zhou Zheng's attitude is very clear, and the Department of Law and Punishment is unwilling to Kunlun to fight again. However, if there is really no power to stop it, it will not be harmful to the Department of Justice. When it's a big deal to clean up the mess, just put a little more effort into it!

"Please stay!" Lin Shi also knew that the Department of Law and Punishment could watch the fire from the other side and stand idly by. At this time, it was him who was in a hurry, not Zhou Zheng! can get Zhou Zheng's help, Linshi's winning chance is very big!

Although he refused Zhou Zheng's cooperation, Lin Shi also had the confidence that he would not be afraid of these sneaky assassins. However, if he wants to find these rebels and thieves in time, he does not have the ability to do so.

There is always a pair of eyes staring at himself in the dark, and no one can be sure! Besides, if the opponent finds Zhou Zheng's cooperation again, Linshi's situation will definitely fall into dire straits!

Thinking about these truths, Lin Shi thought about the conditions proposed by Zhou Zheng, and felt that it was much more reasonable!

"Zhou Zheng, I can promise you! However, I am no longer a demon king, and this matter still needs the consent of the patriarch! ”

Lin Shi, this is something to say. If Zhou Zheng can find the real culprit and find out those who are not subordinate, then the conditions proposed by Zhou Zheng, Lin Shi's consent basically means that the patriarch Qilinzi agrees!

However, if Zhou Zheng is unfavorable and puts Linshi in danger, or even unfortunately dies, then all Linshi's promises can only be a dead letter! Zhou Zheng can't get any benefits!

Zhou Zheng naturally understood, and he laughed, "As long as Linshi's seniors agree!" In addition, General Murong Huang, do you still trust it? ”

"Naturally!"

"Please allow Senior to let General Murong Huang accompany me, I need his help!"

"Good! Go with you! I look forward to the good news from you! ”

The chamberlain died in his own courtyard in the palace.

Early this morning, Murong Huang inquired about whether the chamberlain was not on duty, so he came to his courtyard to prepare for inquiry. However, after entering the courtyard, he found that the chamberlain had died, and he had just died when he looked at his temperature.

Murong Huang immediately called the guards, closed the palace gate as soon as possible, and sent people to search everywhere, but after tossing for a long time, he didn't even find the shadow of the murderer.

The chamberlain was fatally stabbed, and there was no trace of a fight in the courtyard. This shows that either someone who is very familiar with the chamberlain suddenly kills him when he is unprepared. Either that, it is a person with an extremely high cultivation, at least at the level of a demon king, who secretly kills suddenly, so that he has no backhand!

This is also why Lin Shi first suspected Murong Huang, and then suspected that Zhou Zheng was the murderer.

Zhou Zheng carefully inspected the scene, but found no suspicious clues in the hospital.

The chamberlain is a knife in the back of the neck, and it is a short knife. From the point of view of the piercing, the height of the murderer is about the same as that of the inner officer, but slightly taller.

Zhou Zheng and Murong Huang's heights match. Think about the unicorn again, the height is also in line!

With Zhou Zheng's cultivation, he can naturally approach the back of the inner attendant without knowing it, and then kill with one blow!

However, Zhou Zheng has already proven his innocence. The remaining possibility is to target the suspicion on people who are the same cultivation as the inner chamberlain.

Both Murong Huang and Qilinzi had the ability to kill him with a knife in his back when the waiter was defenseless.

However, there is a problem here, when a person of the eighth layer of the Immortal Rank Great Perfection leaves his back to the other party, unless he is an extremely close person, it is impossible to be defenseless. And, once you take precautions, even if someone of the same level assassinates, you will dodge the key point in a hurry, and even fight back, and it is impossible to be killed by a knife!

This is also the reason why Lin Shi finally dispelled his suspicions about Murong Huang.

Murong Huang and the chamberlain are just colleagues, and they have no deep friendship. Zhou Zheng's most suspicious Qilinzi and the inner attendant were only general friends.

These two, one is a person who understands Linshi, and he is so suspicious that he can't see the courtiers forming a party for personal gain, and he can't tolerate the minister getting too close to his inner servants. Therefore, in addition to having official contacts with the internal officials, he never met in private and did not dare to have deep friendships.

The other one, who has had little roots in this area since he was a child, has never known that he has a close relationship with other ministers and chamberlains, and he is only familiar with anyone, and there are very few people who can have long-term contacts. And the chamberlain is definitely not among them.

If these two assassins are assassinated, it is impossible for the inner chamberlain to be unguarded!

As for the assassination of a person who is cultivated as a lower than the inner attendant, it is also possible to kill the inner attendant. However, the gap in cultivation will definitely not be fatal with one sword!

The case has completely reached a dead end!

Zhou Zheng first thought of whether this inner attendant was being controlled? It's like Qingqin controls the chief of the pheasant's guard and the small hair through the parasitic beast. However, Zhou Zheng soon rejected this idea.

First, the parasitic beast is a rare species that is hard to come by; Second, if you really want to control a person who has cultivated at the eighth level of the Immortal Rank, then the cultivation of the person who controls it must be at the level of a demon king.

Just like Qingqin has the cultivation of the eighth layer of the Immortal Rank, he can control the people of the seventh or sixth layer of the Immortal Rank for his own use!

With that level, it's easy to kill the chamberlain, so why bother? Besides, if the inner chamberlain is really controlled, wouldn't it be better to let him go to assassinate Linshi? Why bother to kill him?

After checking back and forth for more than two hours, Zhou Zheng took Murong Huang to ask Lin Shi for his guilt.

When I entered the dormitory, I saw that all the previous maids and maids had withdrawn, and only three maids and two maids were serving beside Lin Shi without leaving the left and right.

These five people look seven points similar in appearance, and they should be brothers and sisters of the same mother.

The cultivation of these people is not high, most of them are around the seventh layer of the immortal level, and two of them have not even reached the Great Perfection realm.

However, Zhou Zheng had the illusion that when these people joined forces, Murong Huang was definitely not an opponent, and even he had to work hard to defeat these five people!

This should be the core secret guard of Linshi!

"Senior Linshi, I've let you down!"

"No murderer found?"

Zhou Zheng shook his head helplessly.

"Not a single clue! As soon as the inner chamberlain died, General Murong Huang entered his courtyard. And, then, the general closed the palace gate and began a comprehensive search. In such a short period of time, unless it is a person at the level of a demon king, no one will be able to escape from the palace. ”

"My king, I sent someone to meet the ghost king, and the ghost king said that she had been in the haunted house and never left. If she is telling the truth, then it is very likely that there is still a demon king-level person in our Jiaxiang City! Murong Huang's face was heavy.

"Could it be?"

Lin Shi paused. However, Murong Huang heard the meaning.

"Back to the Demon King, I have already sent secret agents, and the news they sent back, Long Hai and Mei Yu did not come out of their respective royal cities."

Lin Shi was silent. If it is true as Murong Huang said, Kunlun Xu has another demon king and kills his chamberlain. Then, the Qilin clan is worried, and Linshi's life is also worried!

"This, it doesn't have to be the Demon King's doing." Zhou Zheng cautiously said his thoughts.

"Although this chamberlain was fatally stabbed by a knife in the back of the neck, judging from the traces of the knife's stabbing, it was not necessarily from behind him, but also from in front of him."

Neither Murong Huang nor Lin Shi understood what Zhou Zheng meant.

Zhou Zheng continued, "I carefully examined the body of the chamberlain, and found that there was a very small amount of rouge left on his mouth and nose, and I guess the murderer did not wipe it clean when he wiped it after the incident.

In addition, the place where the chamberlain died was next to the stone pier platform where the debris was drying in the courtyard, and the debris on the platform was a mess. Earlier, I thought it was the chamberlain who fell on the table and messed up the clutter when he died. However, there may be another possibility, which is that he and a certain woman are having sex on the stone platform.

There are two possibilities, one is deliberate, this person deliberately and the chamberlain, in his defenselessness, hugged his head and stabbed him in the neck with a short knife. The other is that the chamberlain forcibly had sex, and the woman stabbed him in the back of the neck with a knife in the resistance. ”

Lin Shi's face became extremely ugly, "This damn minion! I said a long time ago that sooner or later he would die of lust! ”

Lin Shi's words undoubtedly confirmed Zhou Zheng's speculation.

"If this is the case, then, it is likely that the murderer himself is a person in the palace and is still hiding in the palace!" Zhou Zheng continued, "Cultivation, it is possible to assassinate successfully above the immortal level!" ”

This incident gave Lin Shi a headache. Most of the maids in Xiangyun Palace are cultivators at the peak of the Heavenly Rank and the first and second layers of the Immortal Rank, and there are as many as a thousand of them. If you check this one by one, how long will it take?