Li Huaiyun looked around and said softly, "These corpses should have rotted normally, but they just encountered a certain situation, which made the progress of the corpses decomposing a little strange. ”

"Then why is this happening?" Wang Ziqian asked.

"There are a few possibilities!" Li Huaiyun explained, "First of all, the new corpses outside the ditch also appeared to ferment and produce ammonia, which shows that the progress of decay must be accelerated, which must be done in a special environment, for example, there are fungi-like mushrooms on the ground,"

"Another point is that the corpse should have been disposed of, using something similar to gum to seal the hole where the gas came out!"

Wang Ziqian was a little incredulous, "You mean, someone has been here and endured the smell and disposed of the corpse." ”

"Yes!"

"But for what?"

"To breed some kind of creature!"

Wang Ziqian hadn't heard of this kind of speculation, did he feel unusually novel, "Cultivating some kind of creature?" ”

"Yes, there may be some kind of parasitic monster that needs to be fed enough to survive, so some people are targeting the people in the palace!"

"Wait a minute! So someone keeps this creature in the palace? And as the later stage of cultivation, someone needs to sacrifice, right? ”

Li Huaiyun nodded and looked at the corpses piled up on the other side of the ditch, "Yes!" At the moment, these are just participation, and the most important thing is to see the autopsy. ”

He took a deep breath, then crouched down and turned over the one at his feet, the corpse at the front.

It was a corpse with almost no intact flesh, and everyone was quite surprised at what it was to bite a flesh-and-blood body into such a shape.

The corpse in front of Li Huaiyun was quite infiltrating, the whole body was bitten and incomplete, and most of the internal organs of this body were also bitten off, without any traces of tearing, and there were internal visceral chips on the ground, which showed that the internal organs were chewed after being bitten raw.

It is hard to believe that such behavior is the work of a human being.

Every inch of skin on the upper and lower parts of this body has bite marks, the blood-red tissue cortex in the exposed area, and the bitten bones, and half of the head has been gnawed off.

He reached out and picked up the broken bone, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then leaned over and looked at the skull, judging from the cut surface of the bone, the teeth of this monster were quite irregular.

Coupled with the scratches on the corpse, it can be judged that the nails on the monster's hands are also quite slender and sharp.

There was also some mud attached to the wound, and the monster must have been hiding near the mud, or somewhere in a well.

He dismantled the stomach and intestines from the internal organs of the other corpses, and then pulled out the contents and turned them out completely.

The wooden kite stood aside and saw such a scene, frowning, she regretted it a little, she asked this guy to come here, and she hadn't done it before.

Now, I never imagined that it would be so disgusting and physiologically uncomfortable.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"The second thing I just said, there is something parasitic in this body, and the stomach is in the middle of the human body, and this place is also the easiest to get into."

Li Huaiyun lifted the stomach and intestines that were turned out, "The inner walls of these two organs have been bitten again, so my judgment should be correct." ”

Seeing this scene, Mu Kite and Wang Ziqian forcibly endured the fear in their hearts and leaned back.

This guy is really good! Why don't you feel disgusting at all! Mu Kite thought to herself, and she also had a big question in her heart, how did these people get here?

She had always had this doubt in her mind, and then she glanced elsewhere, only to find that on the rock wall not far away, a light flickered and flashed.

What is it? She immediately shone the lantern that way.

"What's wrong?" Li Huai, who suddenly lost half of his light, turned to the wooden kite, "What's the matter?" What did you find? ”

The wooden kite didn't respond to him, just took two steps forward, then crouched there, reaching out to pick up something on the ground.

Seeing such an abnormal situation of the wooden kite, Li Huaiyun immediately got up and walked over, "You wait here!" He walked up, saw the kite with something in his hand, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"It's quite resilient, it looks like it's probably the hair of a monster."

"Hair?" Li Huaiyun took the things handed by the wooden kite, and then rubbed them gently under the lantern, this hard texture really doesn't look like an ordinary person, plus this thick roughness, it must be carried by some kind of medicine.

Wang Ziqian couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and walked up, "What did you find?" ”

"Nothing! It's just a little hair! ”

"Hair?"

"Yes, it's left on the monster!" Li Huaiyun said, "This kind of hair still has mud on it, obviously, it shows that the monster is hiding in a dark and damp place,"

These words made Wang Ziqian's back suddenly cold, and he immediately looked around, for fear that the monster was hiding nearby, and suddenly began to attack, he didn't want to die here!

"What are you doing? Don't be so careful! Here it should simply not be possible. ”

"Why?"

"If you think about it with your brain, you can understand that if you are here, you people from Dali Temple and the Criminal Department will not suffer a long time ago, and I am afraid that ordinary people will be able to solve this thing."

Wang Ziqian thought about it carefully and felt that this guess was indeed correct, "What does Gongzi Li mean is that this monster comes back here occasionally?" ”

"Yes," Li Huaiyun took a step forward, then took out some of the severed limbs in a ditch and threw them around, "You see, these things are all rotting to different degrees, some are already only bones, and some are just beginning to rot. ”

"In that case, where do you start investigating?"

Li Huaiyun pointed to his feet, "I'm afraid I'm going to start here, after all, the corpse is here." ”

Wang Ziqian's eyes looked around, "But that monster is not here at the moment, how should we check?" ”

"You're also from the Criminal Department, don't you give some advice?"

"This..." Wang Ziqian was a little speechless for a while, mainly because he knew very little about the case, and it was difficult for him to give a reason.

"My advice is to search the neighborhood!"

It shouldn't be! The people of this criminal department only have such a little ability? Li Huaiyun had some doubts about this, and always felt that something was wrong.

"It's true that being close to the scene of the murder is also more helpful for finding the murderer!" Li Huaiyun said, he raised his hand and said loudly, "The three of us walked in other directions by ourselves, carefully observing the ground and walls, as well as inside the ditch, maybe we can find any other clues,"

He instructed, "Remember, if you notice something wrong, notify the others immediately." ”

"Okay!" The three of them walked in other directions.

Li Huaiyun continued to walk in the direction of the ditch, and a slight sound of wind blew through the cave, as if someone was blowing in his ear.

The more he walked inside, the more he felt that this place was quite strange, and there was some faint uneasiness in his heart, and at this moment, a rock wall appeared in front of him.

On one of the rock walls, there is a protruding stone block covered with Taoist rune paper.

Li Huaiyun stepped forward curiously, put his hand on the stone, and suddenly the qi and blood in his body surged, and a picture spontaneously appeared in his mind, he was submerged in the stinky pool of blood, unable to breathe.

The electric shock sensation made his arms tremble slightly, and he retracted his hands, his chest rising and falling violently, as if his whole body had been sucked dry.

What's hidden in this? He stretched out his hand and tried to break the protruding stone, but found that the stone was motionless, completely unable to break it, could it be that he wanted to tear off all the rune paper on it?

"Here, there is a situation!" Li Huaiyun shouted loudly, and the sound quickly spread throughout the sewer.

Mu Kite and Wang Ziqian immediately arrived.

"What did you find?" Wang Ziqian asked curiously.

Li Huaiyun stood there, pointing to the rune paper beside him, "Something seems to be sealed here?" Judging from the approximate position and size of the rune paper, I judged that there must be some kind of utensils hidden in it. ”

He bent down and pointed to the rune paper on it, "Judging from the density of the rune paper, it is very likely that it is some kind of murder weapon, and only in this way can the evil qi inside be suppressed." ”

Wang Ziqian gasped, judging from this analysis, the sewers in this palace actually hid such a dangerous murder weapon!

"What could it be in there?"

Mu Kite immediately said, "I'm afraid I have to ask the people in the palace, maybe the old man of the faint king and the secretary of the government, maybe some of them must know." ”

Li Huaiyun shook his head and disagreed with this, "They shouldn't know either, otherwise, how could they not remind us." ”

"Then let's just get rid of this rune paper and take it out?"

"It's too risky, so I still have to tell the secretary and remember it for a long time." Li Huaiyun said, he asked, "Where are you?" But what else did you find? ”

Wang Ziqian shook his head, "I didn't find anything else, and I found a large area of blood stains on the wall,"

"Isn't that a big discovery?"

"It should have been the place where the monsters used to commit murder, except for some cloth on the ground, and a small amount of flesh and organ tissue, there is nothing else."

Li Huai pinched his chin with strength and looked at the wooden kite, "Where are you?" ”

"Nothing to discover!"

"Really didn't find anything?" Li Huaiyun asked.

"It's nothing!"

"Let's go over there first, maybe there's something else to discover."

With Wang Ziqian leading the way, they carried lanterns and walked towards the stone wall.

Li Huaiyun was on the one-person-high stone wall, and saw this spilled bloodstain, he stood on the stone wall, gently wiped the blood on the stone wall with his hand, and had some doubts in his heart.

"Don't you think it's strange? The blood stains on this stone wall are too obvious, this place is located in the sewer, damp and dim, and the stone wall is wet all year round, why can these blood stains remain? ”

Wang Ziqian straightened up suddenly, yes! How come I haven't thought about it anymore! "Is there something wrong with the blood, or is it just a splash of paint?"

"Paint here? Doesn't it make people feel like their brains are abnormal? ”

"That..."

Li Huaiyun pondered for a moment, "Then it's a possibility, these blood stains exist when this sewer is not so wet. ”

Yes! Wang Ziqian and Mu Kite were both quite surprised by this statement, "It has existed for a long time? ”

"Yes!" Li Huaiyun explained, "Perhaps when this sewer was built, some living sacrifices were needed to let the gods of the earth bless the integrity and smoothness of the project." ”

"The corpse in the ditch..."

"It shouldn't matter much! But it may have something to do with the murder weapon that was sealed by the rune paper. ”

"I can't figure out what the two have to do with each other!"

Li Huaiyun spread out his hand, "If you think about it carefully, could it be the person who built the sewer and used the murder weapon to dispose of the sacrifice!" ”

In this way, they all felt that there was some truth, but then, there were still things that could not be explained.

The murder weapon was suppressed by such a dense rune paper, not like it was used casually to dispose of sacrifices.

Wang Ziqian opened his mouth and said, "In this way, I can only ask the people who have been in the palace for a long time." ”

"Don't bother! I went directly to the question emperor and saw what he had to say. The wooden kite volunteered.

Li Huaiyun interjected, "And it's best to ask the minister, if they don't want to say it, then you can go to the treasury in the palace and find those previous historical classics." ”

He thought to himself, just in time to go and rummage through the warehouse, if there is a case about the fire.

Just as they were about to exit the sewers, a low whistle rang out, unusually high-pitched, followed by a clattering sound.

Li Huaiyun immediately became alert, he gathered the true qi in his body into his arms, and said loudly, "There is something!" ”

The wooden kite directly loaded the bow and crossbow on his wrist, and the sound of the sharp nails rubbing against the stone wall made people's scalps tingle to hear, which was definitely not a sound that a normal person could make.

Wang Ziqian himself is an ordinary person, so his reaction is relatively slow, "Is there anyone here?" ”

"It's not somebody! It's a monster running here. ”

"Monster!" When Wang Ziqian heard this, he immediately became nervous, and in the ditch where the corpses were placed in the distance, there were those corpses that had been gnawed.

His cold hair stood on end, and he pushed the lantern out as far as he could, hoping to see the trace of the monster, and the sound kept ringing, making his body tremble.

"I can't see any trace of that monster."

Li Huaiyun quickly waved the lantern, "Nonsense, of course you can't see it!" The thing was still climbing on the stone wall. ”

Continue to the steps, "Don't let fear distract you. ”

At this moment, the wooden kite shot several crossbow arrows directly into the distance, and the metal arrows collided with the damp stone wall, and suddenly, several fires jumped out.

Li Huaiyun turned his gaze to the place where the fire was generated, "You saw it?" ”

"Nope! I felt the breath of that guy, and when I tried to judge the direction of the other party's actions, I found that the breath came and went! It's a headache. ”

"You've thought enough! That thing shouldn't be that simple! Li Huaiyun said, "Let's leave as soon as possible." ”

Li Huaiyun became extremely alert, and he said loudly, "We may have fallen into a predicament. ”

Just as he was preparing everyone to complete this sewer, there were some voices not far away.

The wooden kite turned his head smartly, raised his hand and shot a crossbow arrow at the stone wall above, and after a crisp sound, the crossbow arrow fell directly to the ground in front of it, emitting a faint firelight.

"Feel something again?"

"Yes! But I haven't been able to be sure of the other party's location. ”

"Save a little, otherwise, I'm afraid that by the end of the day, the crossbow arrows will already be empty."

"Hmmm! I know. ”

Then, on the stone wall, there were a few bright eyes, as if there was a pair of eyes on the rock wall above, staring at them all the time, which made people feel uneasy.

The people below have to raise their heads from time to time and look up to see if someone is really observing them.

It was here that the shrill voice, from near to far, and then to himself, heard the veins in the palace.

In the sewers, that thing really can't see the light of day.

"Lean against my back!" Li Huaiyun said loudly that he didn't want the people from the Criminal Department to be arrested and eaten.

After Wang Ziqian heard this, he immediately stuck to his back, and at this time, he didn't care if it was hot or not, and he didn't care who the people behind the fat man were.

Yes! Oh! This shrill cry rang out again from above, making people shiver.

The wooden kite raised its head and stretched the lantern upwards to illuminate a rock wall above, and with great effort, finally saw the whole picture of the monster.

This is a scaly human body, a monster climbing on all fours, with a protruding and slender face, similar to an ape, but also a demon heritage, with a few cuts on his neck, and the whole eyeball is yellow, a mouth of jagged teeth, and a small protruding tail.

The monster opened its bloody mouth and let out a roar, its mouth full of blood foam, and the scraps of flesh between its teeth.

"Quick! Let's go! Li Huaiyun urged, "Mu Kite, you are responsible for watching the people in the Criminal Department, don't let that thing get close to him." ”

"If something comes over, just shoot it!"

The wooden kite raised his hand and shot a crossbow arrow at the monster, but it was easily dodged, to put it simply!

"You can see from the size of that guy, it's definitely not that simple, you can be shot casually."

He shouted, "Hurry up! Go that way! ”

The wooden kite pushed Wang Ziqian, "Don't hold your head, hurry up and run over there!" ”

At this time, something unexpected happened, and two identical monsters jumped in front of them, opening their terrifying mouths.

The wooden kite hurriedly moved forward and fired several crossbow arrows in a row, but the accuracy was very poor, "No! It's too dark to aim at well. ”

"Go ahead!" She urged, but was suddenly startled by the monster that appeared on the side, she took a step back and shot the crossbow arrow again.

But apart from the sound of the crossbow bolts hitting the ground, there was nothing else.

The wooden kite gritted its teeth, "Damn! These things are too flexible to shoot at all. ”

Speaking of which, Wang Ziqian has been attacked by many monsters, and his body and face have been scratched with bloody fingernails.

Those monsters seem to be quite smart and will choose the weakest attack, but fortunately, Wang Ziqian dodged in time and avoided many key attacks.

Suddenly, one directly opened its arms and pounced, if it was pounced, I was afraid that it would be bitten by this monster.

At the last moment, a fierce fist, like a heavy artillery bomb, directly hit the monster that would pounce on Wang Ziqian.

The tremendous strength tore apart the monster's body, and dark red blood splattered out in the air.

Li Huaiyun clenched his fists and frowned deeply, "It's okay!" ”

The other two were shocked by the power of this punch, "This... It's also too strong. ”

"Don't have time to be surprised, keep walking and get out of here." Li Huaiyun said, he reminded the wooden kite, "Don't attack directly, this monster's reaction speed is very fast, we can only deal with it a little, and after they come forward to attack, we can counterattack directly." ”

"What?" Wood Kite thinks that this method is too shrinking, and it is impossible to grasp the initiative at all, "As long as you do it first, it will be fine!" ”

You've died so many times, you still can't figure it out?

"Don't you understand?" Li Huaiyun shouted loudly, "This thing is too agile, you can only wait patiently for the opportunity, if you don't want to waste crossbow arrows, just listen to me." ”

The three of them formed a back-to-back huddle and slowly walked down the steps.

Li Huaiyun was in charge of the rear, and looked at the rock wall above from time to time, and many monsters quickly crawled towards him.

They were all smashed by him with his fists, temporarily bluffing other monsters and making them dare not come up.

Just as they were about to reach the steps, these monsters suddenly became bold again, and they were not afraid of any danger at all, and pounced directly.

According to the previous instructions, as long as this kind of monster takes the initiative to attack, then it will be easier to deal with.

The accuracy of the wooden kite's bow and crossbow has also improved a lot, and Li Huaiyun's supreme fist can tear apart several monsters in an instant.

However, the eyes of those monsters had turned blood-red, and they seemed to have entered a berserk character.

"Quick! Go up! These monsters are going crazy! ”

Wood Kite and Wang Ziqian walked up the steps, and at this time, Wood Kite's bow and crossbow had been shot, and she now had no combat power.

Li Huaiyun stood in front of the steps and stopped a group of monsters who wanted to attack the other two.

He sank down, arms raised, "No one is allowed to take another step forward, or I'll leave you dead." ”

He threw a punch that shattered the monster that crossed the boundary, "I warned you! ”

These monsters lying on the ground let out a slight hissing sound from their mouths!

Li Huaiyun looked at the dozen or so monsters that kept crawling in front of him, where did these creatures come from? Why did it suddenly appear in the sewers?

The Criminal Department and Dali Temple were not here before, I have seen them, why did they suddenly appear? It must have been some kind of mechanism triggered during our investigation, or something special smelling or sounding.

Yes! The shouts of the other two came from the steps, and as soon as Li Huaiyun looked up, he found that some monsters had climbed up the steps along the rock wall.

Li Huaiyun was in a hurry and wanted to turn around and run up, but at that moment, a monster pounced directly and bit his neck.

At that moment, sharp teeth pierced into the flesh of his neck, and blood was pouring out of the wound.

He felt a sharp pain in his neck, and directly grabbed the monster's upper and lower jaws with his hand, and then violently tore the monster's mouth open.

"Haven't you seen a strong person in the Hedao Realm," Li Huaiyun's body was covered with a layer of pale yellow light, and the muscles on his body became particularly prominent and tough.

He threw the monster aside with a flick of his hand, and then stepped back step by step, as long as there were monsters who dared to step forward, he used the supreme fist to deal with the monsters properly, so that those monsters did not dare to move forward.

Li Huaiyun strode up the steps, and then directly dealt with a few monsters that were biting wooden kites and Wang Ziqian.

He threw the body down and picked up the wooden kite, "It's okay! ”

The wooden kite looked frightened, then shook his head, "It's okay! Fortunately, there are some protective devices on the body. ”

She pointed at Wang Ziqian, "That guy is not good!" Bitten in a lot of places. ”

"Hurry up and take him out and find the imperial doctor, I don't know what poison this thing has on it?" Li Huaiyun didn't have anything to do with his body, he just thought that this monster would have a problem.

He stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Ziqian, who was lying on the ground, up, "Can you go?" ”

Wang Ziqian trembled, "But... OK! It's just a little weak. ”

"It's good that you didn't get to the vital parts, otherwise, you would have died here!"

"Quick! Let's go! ”

The three of them looked at the monsters crawling on the steps and the rock wall above their heads, and immediately cheered up and rushed outside.

When Li Huaiyun came out of it, he immediately tightened the lid on the steps, and then brought more than 100 kilograms of stones, pressed them on them, and then sat on the ground.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "Can you still go?" If you can, I'll take you away, but if you can't, just wait here, and I'll call the guards and the royal doctor." ”

The wooden kite looked at the blood marks on his arm, "It's okay! ”

Wang Ziqian also seemed to be okay for the time being, but as soon as he said a few words, he felt that his chest was dull, and a stream of blood gushed out of his mouth.

"It's okay!"

"Don't do it! If you're like this, I'm afraid that if you don't take a few steps, you may die on the road! ”

"Then I'll be here with peace of mind."

Li Huaiyun used too much supreme fist, resulting in a rather weak body, this kind of boxing to the yang, therefore, a great consumption of physical energy, this... For a moment, he wished to lie on the ground and not get up.

"Then you just wait here now, I will have someone notify the Demon Slayer Division, and inform the Secretary to come and beat people immediately,"

"Okay!" Wang Ziqian fell to the side, his body covered in blood, "Hurry up!" I feel like I can't hold it anymore! ”

Li Huaiyun picked up the wooden kite, "Okay!" Let's go call someone! ”

They ran towards the Temple of Heart Cultivation.

"How did this monster get inside?" The wooden kite endured the pain and asked softly.

"I don't know, it must not have come in from outside, otherwise you can't explain it, there are suddenly so many monsters in there."

"Why didn't they show up before? Now so? The wooden kite was quite worried on his face, not knowing what the final result would be.

Li Huaiyun explained, "As I explained before, this parasite was previously parasitic in the decaying body, and only at a certain time will it be completely released.

Including this body, it can be destroyed by some kind of poisonous mushroom, otherwise, it wouldn't be so listless! ”

"In addition, the presence of this creature requires certain triggers, such as the scent, or the spores emitted by the fungus."

"So where were these things hidden in the first place?"

"Where do you think the whole huge sewer will be hidden?"

"In the sewage!"

"Yes!"

A cold sweat broke out on the wooden kite's head, which meant that the things made her feel even more disgusting.

They came to the Yangxin Palace, passed on to the emperor, Emperor Zhou Sheng directly ordered to surround the place, and in this case of hearing what Li Huaiyun said, he made a decision as the king of a country without any hesitation.

"What the hell are you looking for?" Emperor Zhou Sheng asked optimistically, "The case has been investigated clearly?" ”

"Nope! No! It's just that these monsters appeared in it, and it was difficult to deal with, so I came here to find the emperor. ”

Li Huaiyun briefly talked about the things in the sewer.

"So you still haven't found any special clues?"