"Xu Shaoxia, you said that the five rats have infiltrated the village?"

"That's right, Master Zhou, when I left, I happened to meet a lone person, and after he was injured, he told me that the other people were hiding in the village."

"Could it be that they lied to you?"

"There is this possibility, but I have already handed over one of them to the government, in order to eliminate their hypocrisy, so I still have to trouble the owner of the village, gather everyone to the wide area in the village, and ask the owner of the village, Brother Wannian, and other brothers in the village guard to join me to investigate the traces of the five rats in the Nanhe River from house to house, how about it?"

Zhou Yuansi listened to Xu Shangcheng's suggestion, and felt good for a while, and after thinking about it for a while, he agreed to his method.

In Zhoujiazhuang, Zhou Yuansi's words were still very convincing, and after he ordered to go down, all the residents in the village put down their things one after another and gathered in an open space in the village.

After making sure that everyone, both adults and children, was there, the guards first cleared the crowd to see if there were any mixed rats in the crowd.

Subsequently, some of the guards stayed behind to protect and guard the villagers, and the other part followed Xu Shangcheng and the owner of the village to each house to check the traces of the five rats.

Starting from the area around the vacant land, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the house of the owner of Zhou Zhuang, Zhou Yuansi is very atmospheric, and he can be regarded as an example for all the villagers, directly let the servants open the door, and let Xu Shangcheng take the people in the guards, and carefully search them one by one.

After seeing Zhou Yuansi's house, Xu Shangcheng still admires the owner, on the bright side, the owner of the Zhou family is well-off, but looking at the interior of his home, it is really simple, and he meets a servant on the road, and he is also dressed unpretentiously but politely.

After leaving Zhou Yuansi's house, he had to go to other people's homes to search.

In fact, Xu Shangcheng searched for Quanzhuang with great fanfare this time, and he knew that it was not to find the five rats.

The five rats and five people have been ambushed at the exit of all parties in the village according to Xu Shangcheng's instructions to see if there are any people in them who see that the situation is wrong and secretly escape.

And Xu Shangcheng searched in it, and it was better to find the remaining murder weapon or bloody clothes, but Xu Shangcheng felt that it had been a night, and these things should not have much reference value.

After all, in this era of the game, no matter how magical the martial arts are, there is no fingerprint identification technology or DNA identification technology, a blood-stained weapon and bloodstained clothes, discarded at will, and it is impossible to frame others.

Therefore, what Xu Shangcheng found this time was not a murder weapon, but the fuel mentioned by the five rats to fuel the fire.

I still remember that the five rats said earlier that the fire suddenly surged last night for some reason, and Xu Cheng concluded that it must have used combustibles such as fire oil.

Just because it is the spring rain season in Shudi, whether it is morning or evening, the air is moist, generally speaking, if you want to burn a house, it still takes some time.

But if there is only one person in sight of the five rats, they can go from no fire to a prosperous fire, and there must be other means.

Moreover, people who rob homes or kill people for other purposes only set fire to their bodies on a temporary basis, and rarely light a fire so smoothly in the middle of the night.

Therefore, it is very likely that the murderer had planned in advance and had such things as fire oil, and was ready to kill and set fire to him from the beginning.

Since this person can escape in the village so easily, then the possibility that he is a villager in the village is also very high, as for why the village said that the family lost their lives, there has always been no hatred or resentment.

Xu Shangcheng won't think much about this kind of thing, as long as he finds evidence, all the unreasonable will become reasonable.

Therefore, Xu Shangcheng led everyone to search door to door, and finally found half a barrel of extremely hidden fire oil in a hunter's house in Zhuangdongtou, and there were two bloody machetes and bloodstained linen clothes hidden together.

After finding these things, Xu Shangcheng said a few words to Zhou Yuansi privately about his conjecture, and the flexible owner of Zhou Zhuang quickly understood what Xu Shangcheng meant.

Then everyone put this place aside for the time being, and continued to search for other places in the village, but a group of people quietly returned to the place where the villagers gathered and listed the hunters as key control objects.

Next, Xu Shangcheng and the others did not find anything similar to fire oil from other places in Zhuangzhong, so it can be basically determined that Orion is extremely suspicious.

The follow-up process was very smooth.

The crowd returned to the place where the villagers gathered, and almost instantaneously took down Orion, and surprisingly, Orion quickly fell down and confessed, as for why he did this, it was only because Orion had a marriage contract with the wife of the family who died.

But the day after tomorrow, the wife was arranged by her parents to marry the husband, and Orion is still single.

Originally, in the early years, Orion still imagined that he would one day make a fortune and marry that wife again, but who knew that two of the three children in that family had entered the famous sect to practice martial arts, and their lives became more and more beautiful.

One day, when he returned from a hunting outing, he happened to meet the wife leading his young son out, and the hunter just wanted to reminisce about the old days.

But when the young son saw Orion approaching, he suddenly covered his mouth and nose, and shouted that it stinks, and Orion looked over again, but saw that the wife also showed disdain and disgust, and asked him not to come closer.

How could such a scene not make Orion feel murderous.

Just a few days later, Orion bought a barrel of oil from the city, and the last night he did the murder and arson.

Orion didn't know about the five rats living in the village, and he didn't expect that in addition to the night guards, there would be other people who would come out in the middle of the night.

You must know that last night was a starless night without a moon, and Orion thought that as long as he escaped the guards, who would have thought that he would be discovered by the five rats again.

With such a complete amount of human and material evidence, Orion had no choice but to confess his guilt and be escorted away by the government that came later.

The five rats who have been staying outside the village, after this incident, were also jointly introduced to Zhou Yuansi by Xu Shangcheng and the widower.

Looking at the well-preserved belongings of each person, Zhou Yuansi understood that these five people, who were not gentle-looking, actually still had a chivalrous heart, so he simply invited them to join the Zhuang Zhong Guard.

According to Zhou Yuansi, the five rats are independent of the villagers' guards of Zhou Wannian and others, and they only need to assist Zhuangzhong in patrolling the mountains and wilderness on weekdays, and more importantly, to instruct the martial arts of the Zhuangzhong guards.

It is only up to them to decide whether the five rats will go or stay when the strength of the guards can be improved.

At the same time, Zhou Yuansi is not only willing to pay the salary of the five rats, but also guarantees their accommodation, and will go to the official mansion to eliminate their arrest.

When the five rats in Nanhe heard about such a good thing, they were extremely excited, and seeing that the five rats returned their belongings, the residents of Zhuangzhong could not refute Zhou Yuansi's decision.

In this way, the matter of the five rats staying in the village to assist in patrolling the mountains and passing on the martial arts can be regarded as a temporary decision.

It wasn't until the evening that Xu Shangcheng finally walked out of Zhoujiazhuang, said goodbye to the people in Zhoujiazhuang and the five rats, and Xu Shangcheng walked towards Zizhou City.

Walking on the official road, Xu Shangcheng was in a good mood, just because after he perfectly solved the incident, Zhou Yuansi doubled it to 40 taels in addition to the given 20 taels of silver.

You must know that according to the prices in "The Legend of Tianxia", the annual income of ordinary farmers is only a few taels of silver.

Even if you are a businessman, if you can earn dozens of taels a day, it is considered a profiteering industry.

Xu Shangcheng thought to himself: "This week, Jiazhuang is really scraping a lot of oil on the hands of business travelers, otherwise how can you give forty taels of snowflake silver so arrogantly." ”

Unconsciously, Xu Shangcheng has walked back to the city, in fact, the night activities of "The Legend of Tianxia" are also very rich, especially in big cities like Zizhou City, if you want to explore in it, there must be a lot of fun.

However, Xu Shangcheng's evening time is not used to hang out, a few days ago, he was used to practice internal strength, and today he has to plan the silver taels he got for this mission.

"Forty taels, according to the government, it takes about thirty taels to worship sects such as the Qingcheng faction and the Emei faction, about twenty-five taels to worship the Xishu Sword Pavilion, and fifteen taels to worship the Taibai Sword Gate......

The two counties of Bashu, the famous kendo sect, these four, you have to plan well, all day long in Zizhou City, it's not a way, there is no mental support, in this game will inevitably fall behind, rather than blindly touching the fate, it is better to worship into a sect early. ”

After a brief thought, Xu Shangcheng sorted out the gains and losses, and then the sect he finally chose was the Taibai Sword Gate, which was closer to Zizhou City.

Although it can be seen from the entrance fee that there is a gap between Taibai Sword Gate and Qingcheng, Emei and even Xishu Sword Pavilion, for Xu Shangcheng, it is the key to learn a high-quality internal skill as soon as possible.

As for the subtlety of the swordsmanship, Xu Shangcheng is not worried, he can create a heavenly swordsmanship by himself, and it is based on the swordsmanship used by the mortal Yu Qing, if he smelts the sword path learned by the follow-up Xiuzhen, Xu Shangcheng doesn't know who else can have a high swordsmanship in this martial arts game.

Practicing the mental method again, Xu Shangcheng is ready to go offline to eat, take a good rest, today is the third day of the service, and it is also the Monday of the week.

Tomorrow, Xu Shangcheng has another day's lessons, he must come back at night, hurry up and rush to the Taibai Sword Gate, fortunately, when the player is out of the role, the character also retains a certain degree of subjective initiative.

Although he doesn't take the initiative to practice, he is good enough to deal with all kinds of emergencies normally.

If you need to travel and don't want to experience the process, you can start at night and exit offline, and you will basically arrive during the day.

If you are unlucky and encounter someone who robs the road or kills someone, that is, you will return to the initial point and be seriously injured, but the loss of money depends on whether your source of blessing is high or not.

Xu Shangcheng also wanted to take advantage of this time, so before going offline, he came to the city post station, hired a carriage that went directly to the town near Taibai Jianmen, and set off.

Before leaving, Xu Shangcheng reconfirmed his attribute panel:

Name: Xu Shangcheng

Gender: Male

Age: 16 years old

Nationality: Zizhou, Shu County

Jianghu title: sit on the Heavenly Sword

Jianghu assessment: slightly famous

Martial Arts Realm: Hidden Yuan Realm

Body (physique): Eleven

Qi (True Qi): Nine

Force (force): Eleven

Dexterity (dexterity): Eight

Enlightenment (enlightenment): eleven

Fu (Fuyuan): Five

Major in Internal Strength: Basic Internal Skills (9th Layer)

Minor: None

Major in External Skills: Yu Qing Sword Pose (7th Floor)

Minor external skills: Taiyuan Sword Sutra (fragment) (zero layer), basic sword technique (seven layers)

Major self-cultivation method: Yu Qing sword step (6th layer)

Minor Self-cultivation: None