The Demons-Hunting Queen's Hall.

From time to time, a cold rain wind swept into the hall, stirring the faint lights on the walls.

Three men with sad faces sat around a green wooden table in the middle of the hall, silent and solemn, and on the table was a pile of files that had been turned over in a mess.

The two young men sitting on the left and right sides were wearing neat silk and blue uniforms, and there were two words embroidered with blood-colored brocade thread on the uniforms on their chests.

They are none other than the Demon Slayer Guards from the White Tiger Hall, the head of the Xuanjing Demon Slaying Division.

The one on the left side has a tiger's back and a bear's waist, wide ears, and leopard eyes and whiskers, and this face reveals a non-angry and self-righteous exorcism and killing intent, this person's name is Zhu Sihou.

The man opposite him was lean, four of his facial features were unremarkable, but his eyes stood out from the crowd, his eyes were narrow, and he was almost stitched together, looking lethargic, this person's name was Zhang Deshuai.

The middle-aged man in his early forties, who was short and simple, wearing a coarse cloth anti-demon uniform that had been washed slightly white, was Liu Zhigang, the head of the local anti-demon yamen.

"The two adults, I suddenly remembered, I heard that there seems to be a kind of painting cultivator in the Confucian Academy, called the original painter? They have great powers, they can restore some scenes that have never been seen before, and if they can invite one, this case will definitely be solved! ”

In silence, Liu Zhigang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and suddenly thought of something, he looked at the two demon slayer guards with bright eyes and said.

On the side, Zhu Sihou touched the beard on his chin, shook his head and replied with a wry smile and a sigh,

"Painter? Yes, there is, but this technique is extremely talented, and there are very few people who cultivate, and there are only two people practicing in Anguo Academy, and it is said that one has not returned to Xuanjing for more than ten years since he went out to collect wind and practice, and the other was invited to assist in the investigation of the murder of the master of Liu Tang half a month ago. ”

"If the original painter is really that powerful, the case of the master of the willow hall will not be unrecognizable to this day......"

Zhang Deshuai raised his head, looked at Liu Zhigang with two gaps that could not be glimpsed, and added lightly.

“……”

The light of hope that had just lit up in Liu Zhigang's eyes was extinguished instantly, and he lowered his head and fell into silence again, only to feel anxious.

He has been a demon hunter for twenty-three years, and he knows very well that since the chief hall master has given strict orders to the two demon slaying guards who came to supervise today, it means that he has also become a grasshopper in the same boat.

After all, the case happened in his jurisdiction, if there is no eyebrow all the time, he will definitely be punished the same afterwards, given that he is already a grassroots demon arrester and has no room for further demotion to the bottom, he is likely to be dismissed from his post in the future......

"Daddy! Brother Jie, he has just returned from patrol, and he is waiting in the outer hall, saying that he wants to ask to see you. ”

Suddenly, a round fat boy walked briskly through the rain corridor and came to report in a hurry.

"Lu Renjie? The time has not yet passed, why is this kid not on duty patrolling and running back to the yamen to find me? Liu Zhigang raised his head and frowned at his son, and asked curiously.

"Brother Jie said that he killed a monster when he was patrolling at night, and before the monster died, he interrogated him severely, and learned that the other party was the direct murderer who abducted the children in the city a few days ago, and he also interrogated some of the remaining clues of the case from the monster's mouth, and I heard that you and the two demon slaying inspectors happened to be discussing this case in the back hall, so I asked me to report it quickly......"

…… Monster?

The kidnapper?

The rest of the clues?

The news came too suddenly, and the three people in the room, who had been lost and confused for most of the day, suddenly bounced up from their seats when they heard the words, but for a while they stood on the ground and looked at each other motionless, they seemed to wonder if their ears had heard wrong, and they were eager to get confirmation from each other.

Suddenly, Zhang Deshuai reached out and pulled Zhu Sihou's beard hard.

"Ahh Lao Zhang, what are you doing? Die of pain! ”

Zhu Sihou, a fierce man with a fierce face, hid his face in pain and screamed in a shrill voice, his leopard eyes glared angrily, and he gasped and scolded.

"Do you feel pain? That means it's not a dream! I thought it was because of the pressure of handling the case today, and the exhaustion of running around, I was sitting here asleep, dreaming......"

Zhang Deshuai looked at the plucked plucked black hair in his hand, grinned, and immediately turned his head to beckon to the fat boy at the door,

"Call this person in!"

"By the way, Liu Chashou, is the messenger surnamed Lu under your command reliable?"

As soon as the little fat man at the door turned around and left, Zhang Deshuai couldn't wait to ask Liu Zhigang, who was stunned on the side, and Zhu Sihou also turned his head to look.

Suddenly learning that one of his extremely reliable subordinates had brought such news, Liu Zhigang's face was flushed with excitement and joy, he came back to his senses, and immediately patted his chest and assured the two,

"Although the two poor masters put their hearts in their stomachs, Lu Renjie's father was originally a demon hunter in my yamen, this kid was grown up with my own eyes, he was loyal and honest, diligent in handling cases, and his cultivation talent was also good.

He has only been a demon arrester for five years, and he has made many meritorious contributions, and three years ago, when he was only eighteen years old, he went to Dongyang Mountain alone to kill a nest of rat spirits that plagued the medicine diggers, so these days I sent him to patrol outside day and night to take precautions, and he suddenly returned to the yamen at this moment to bring this news, it must be true! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a young man with a tall figure, handsome eyebrows, and a demon arrester's clothes stained with mud and stains, but he did not hide his chic and dignified posture at all, and walked in briskly through the rain corridor.

He was carrying a corpse on his shoulder, but it looked like it was clearly a Terran corpse.

"The lowly Lu Renjie has seen the two chief officials."

Lu Renjie put the corpse on his shoulder on the ground, bowed his hand to the two demon slayers, and then nodded to Liu Zhigang to say hello.

The three of them were all focused on the so-called monster corpse at the moment, and they just inadvertently shook their heads, and they couldn't wait to come over to watch and inspect the corpse.

"You say this woman is a monster? Why is the Demon-Slaying Copper Rope tied to her corpse but nothing happens? ”

Zhu Sihou only glanced at the so-called monster corpse brought by Lu Renjie, and then noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly looked back and questioned Lu Renjie.

"My lord, you misunderstood, this demon is not a woman, I don't believe you touch it carefully, as for why the copper rope did not react, the adult can untie his clothes and take a closer look, the answer is hidden in his clothes." Lu Renjie smiled and betrayed this fierce-looking man.

"With such a countenance, you say that she is...... Male? ”

Zhu Sihou muttered in his mouth, and the words I don't believe it were clearly written on his face.

The other two looked suspicious, and after speaking, Zhu Sihou immediately stretched out his hand decisively and went straight to check the road.

"Sure enough, it's a man......"

Zhu Sihou's expression flashed, the leopard's eyes widened slightly, he didn't say anything in his mouth, his hand moved up, and he ripped open the corpse's clothes.

The next moment, the three people who were surrounding the corpse on the ground and squatting to probe their brains suddenly shrank their necks back, and invariably showed the expression of the old man on the same bus.

Lu Renjie grinned and snickered silently from the sidelines.

"What the hell...... The man was dressed in a woman's belly pocket...... Hey? Wrong! This is no ordinary belly pocket! It's a Dao Gate Talisman that insulates demonic energy! ”

Zhu Sihou couldn't hold back, and began to curse in his mouth, but his hand did not let go of the light and exquisite underwear, he stroked the half-dyed crimson peony with his thumb in one hand, and the next moment he carefully found that on the silky thin silk cloth in the style of the belly pocket, there was a layer of dense and complicated vermilion runes as the base, obviously he was holding a small rune in his hand.

"Let me see!"

Zhang Deshuai looked overjoyed, the two tightly closed eyes opened a few points rarely, revealing two shining eyes, the head that had just shrunk back quickly leaned forward, he quickly reached out and snatched the belly pocket talisman in Zhu Sihou's hand, and tore it violently and roughly.

Whew!

With a crisp sound, two seductive thin bands on the corpse's shoulders snapped.

As soon as the "Fu Jia" left the corpse, a cold demonic aura suddenly surged in the hall, and the lights placed around it were extinguished in the gust of demon wind, and the only one left on the table was protected by Lu Renjie in time.

Under the extremely dim light, the delicate-faced corpse on the ground visibly shrunk to the naked eye, quickly giving birth to blood-stained snow-colored fur, turning into the original form of a fox demon, and the copper rope bound to it also began to exude bursts of clear light, and the entire back hall suddenly looked gloomy.

"What a pure demon...... Gas...... This...... The fox demon is probably a pure-blooded demon clan from the Wind Spirit Treasure Continent! ”

Zhu Sihou glanced at Zhang Deshuai in front of him in astonishment, and squeezed out such a sentence in his throat.

"Could it be that the recent several major cases that have appeared inside and outside Xuanjing one after another are all secretly plotted by the demon kingdom of Fengling Treasure Continent? It makes sense that the Liu Hall Master was suddenly killed and died! ”

Zhang Deshuai stared at the belly pocket in his hand and said thoughtfully.

It is worthy of the demon slaying guard from the general office, and the demon qi that has not been dissipated by this corpse can quickly and accurately judge the bloodline of the fox demon, and on the side, Lu Renjie secretly marveled in his heart.

"I see! This demon actually has such a treasure as the Dao Gate Rune Armor! No wonder there are more than 30 crime scenes, none of which have the slightest demonic spirit! ”

At this time, the last string in Liu Zhigang's heart, which had been silent, was finally completely loosened, and he said slowly with a long sigh of relief.

If more than 30 cases were committed by monsters themselves, and he failed to detect the demonic qi in the city in time, then the follow-up report to the general yamen would have to convict him of a serious crime of negligence in the demon yamen, which would implicate the entire yamen.

It wasn't until this moment that after seeing the Daomen "rune armor" torn off, the body of the fox demon revealed its original form, and the burden of worry in his heart was finally lifted.

After speaking, Liu Zhigang immediately got up and turned his head to Lu Renjie and commanded,

"Xiaojie! Hurry up and tell these two demon slayer guards the truth about the night patrol and demon slayer! ”

"That's it! This Lu messenger, hurry up and talk to me in detail! ”

Zhang Deshuai, who was squatting on the ground, withdrew his gaze from his belly pocket, stood up and looked at Lu Renjie, and said with an excited expression.

Zhu Sihou on the side also wanted to reach out and take his belly pocket to take a closer look, but Zhang Deshuai's eyes were quick, and he had already taken the first step to inadvertently put it into his chest shirt, seeing that his cautious attitude seemed to be to protect important evidence.

Lu Renjie had re-lit the extinguished lamp at this moment, and the hall suddenly regained its brightness, and he nodded,

"Everyone, please sit down and take a sip of tea and slow down, and listen to the humble words."

Then everyone sat around the table and listened attentively to Lu Renjie's experience of meeting demons at night, chasing demons, subduing demons, and judging demons.

The origin of the fox demon, the Blood Lotus Sect, the Poisonous Lotus Dao people, and the information about the case of the fox demon using his natural powers to bewitch and take away children without leaving a clue were all revealed by him from the interrogation of the fox demon.

On the way back, Lu Renjie had already planned this statement, he was originally going to inform Liu Zhigang about it, so that he could plan to mobilize the forces of the demon arrester Yamen to arrest the Poison Lotus Daoist for interrogation and rescue the more than 30 missing children.

Everyone in the hall did not question Lu Renjie's motives, and besides, the corpse of this monster and the two conclusive pieces of evidence that covered the demonic qi had been presented to everyone, so they naturally believed all his words.

"Am I wrong? This fox demon was not instructed by the Demon Kingdom of Fengling Baozhou? ”

After hearing this, Zhang Deshuai couldn't help but smack his tongue and said, a little unexpected to him, but in fact, Lu Renjie's words make sense, Dali does have many Fengyue places that enslave demon prostitutes.

For example, in Xuanjing City, there was a high-cost Imperial Demon Pavilion in the building last night that they frequented by the Demon Slayer Guard.

Usually these demon prostitutes need to be registered by the government, and will regularly send Taoist cultivators to pull out the demon qi and clean up the demon veins.

Therefore, it is widely favored and praised by many literati and scholars, and at the same time, it also creates a lot of concessionary taxes for the government.

There was a lot of trading, which naturally gave birth to many caravans that took risks and traveled thousands of miles to Fengling Treasure Continent to hunt for gold and hunt demons.

"Blood Lotus Sect? Lao Zhu, have you ever heard of such a sect? After Zhang Deshuai finished speaking, he immediately raised his eyebrows and turned his head to ask Zhu Sihou.

"I've never heard of it, this may be a new nameless evil sect, my Dali is the largest dynasty of the Kyushu human race, Xuanjing is the capital of the country, the forest is the most likely to attract these nameless wild birds to build a nest, if there is really such a sect, let's give it a nest!"

Zhu Sihou shook his head and replied, and then looked at Lu Renjie and asked puzzledly,

"According to what you said, since you have subdued this demon, and it has also confessed so much information to your heart with the tip of your knife, why don't you use the Demon Hunting Copper Rope to bind it back alive, but kill it with a knife?"

This fierce-looking macho man is quite thoughtful, but fortunately he has already planned all the rhetoric......

Hearing the questioning, Lu Renjie showed a face for the rest of his life, sighed with a palpitating expression, and replied,

"I don't know,I lost the copper rope in the fight.,I found it back later.,So after subduing it, I couldn't tie it up in time.,This demon is quite cunning.,After the confession, I mistakenly thought that I had completely gained my trust.,I actually wanted to take advantage of the information I confessed to grab the knife and kill it.,I've followed my father since I was a child to practice the "Demon Knife Intent" The first heavy to kill it all.,So when I felt the killing machine attacked, I subconsciously gave it a knife.。

"I see......"

Zhu Sihou and Zhang Deshuai nodded and looked at each other, and said in unison, they had also practiced the Demon Suppression Sword Intent, and they knew that the one who had re-cultivated the goal of killing them all was not to be merciful, and once they sensed the slightest crisis, they needed to make a decision immediately, and they must not show mercy to their subordinates, otherwise they would be the ones who died.

At this time, Liu Zhigang on the side asked with concern,

"Dare to ask the two inspectors, now that we have such important clues in our hands, I wonder if we can report it to the general office and hand it over to the hall master of the White Tiger Hall to come and investigate it in person?"

Zhu Sihou frowned and thought slightly,

Although this Lu messenger got so much information from the mouth of the monster, but at the moment, this is all a one-sided statement of the fox demon before he died, you need to know that the monster is cunning and abnormal, and it is difficult to distinguish the truth from falsehood, who knows if it is a lie made up to confuse the attention of the Lu messenger when it encounters a crisis, just for the last moment of the knife counterattack.

In addition, the Lu messenger failed to leave the monster alive to testify, I am afraid that we still need to think of further confirming this information before we can report it to the hall master and ask her to come and make a decision. ”

"Lao Zhu, I don't dare to agree with your point of view! You see that this rune armor is so exquisitely made, the rune array at the bottom is particularly complicated, and it can also tightly protect the breath of the fox demon after death, and maintain the human form unchanged for a long time, this must be from the hands of a rune master who has not cultivated a lot!

Although the monster is dead, the corpses of this treasure and the fox demon alone are enough to make the hall master pay attention to her! ”

On the side, Zhang Deshuai immediately took out his belly pocket from his arms and raised it, and refuted it seriously.

"Lao Zhang, what do you mean, let's take this corpse and talisman back to the general office tonight?

But now only I, the White Tiger Hall, am in charge of this case, and all the manpower has been assigned to various places by the hall master in the afternoon, and you and I left in a hurry, and there is no news of their exact location, even if we rush back to the general office overnight, it will be difficult to convey the news to the hall master for a while, is it possible to go to the transcendent platform to alarm Lord Sitai? Do you dare to go? ”

“…… I don't have the courage to go to the transcendental platform to alarm Lord Sitai, but don't you forget? We've got a roar of tiger fireworks! With just one fireworks, you can summon the hall master here tonight! ”

"You forgot too? The Tiger Roaring Fireworks Hall Master and the other brothers of the White Tiger Hall could see it, how could the thieves in the shadows be blind?

Even if we report the information to the hall master in time, we have already caught the snake, how can they not be vigilant and pay attention, so as to hide it even deeper?

You don't know how important this case is, tonight I finally got good luck from the sky, let this Lu messenger bring this clue for us, rashly startled the snake, even if the hall master she was summoned, if we can't get the clues in the future, we won't be able to make meritorious contributions, I'm afraid we will have to be poked in the head by the hall master and reprimanded! I'm afraid I won't even get the opportunity to degrade the street patrol demon hunter who drinks the cold wind and plays the copper rope! ”

Drinking cold wind and playing with copper ropes, the street patrol demon killer......

Lu Renjie, who was drinking water with a tea cup on the side, was stunned and almost choked.

That kid from the fat golden dragon is not his own private goods, these two demon slayers really said such things?

Is it so despised for a low-level sheriff like me......

Sure enough, the water flows low, people go high, no matter which world it is, they still have to struggle upward.

When Zhang Deshuai heard this, his face twitched suddenly, his brows suddenly tightened, and he couldn't help but think of the scene of being violently poked in the head by the hall master's drunken madman and insulting and scolding.

In the White Tiger Hall, this is a nightmare scene that all demon slaying guards will desperately avoid, he was finally persuaded by his partner, nodded in agreement, and slowly put his belly pocket back into his chest to hide it, while saying,

“…… That's right, it seems that we really need to think about it in detail and in the long run, and we can't easily give the hall master a chance to poke us in the head......"

"The two of them are not secret, in fact, they have pondered a plan here, not only to not startle the snake, but also to further confirm the authenticity of the information said by the fox demon......"

At this time, Lu Renjie put down the blue and white porcelain bowl in his hand and interjected at the right time.