The sword floated in a smooth arc like a fish in the air, and re-aimed the tip at them, and it turned the blade slightly, as if the tremor of the sword had just been exchanged made it a little uncomfortable.

"Demon Sword!" Kong Lanting finally spit out these two words in a dumb voice.

Guan Qianyan looked at the scene in front of him in shock, and subconsciously shook his head, and in the surrounding dense fog, more shapeless sharpness had surrounded them, and those piercing disturbances were gradually no longer messy, but seemed to begin to condense into the same thick flow.

Slower, but more pronounced, waves slowly pushed away in the mist.

Guan Qianyan looked back at the boy who gritted his teeth and covered his wrist with a pale face, he undoubtedly broke his muscles and bones in the exchange just now, and most likely he would never be able to use a sword like just now.

And that's just its ordinary sword, and it's just an ordinary one of them.

The girl fell into despair, the sword in front of her had readjusted, and at the last moment she had not thought about what to say to the boy, the sword had already struck again.

The two of them shrank their pupils at the same time, but Kong Lanting's sword was even slower than the girl this time, Guan Qianyan gritted his teeth and slashed the sword, and sure enough, it fell short again.

Sharp pressed to her throat, the girl was covered with cold horror, but that moment did not come.

The sword was strangled in front of her throat, as if frozen in the air.

Guan Qianyan watched this scene almost suffocating, as long as it went two inches further, it would take her life inexorably.

But it didn't happen, and at this moment, the sword seemed to hear some call, and it slowly retreated two feet, and then swept back into the mist.

Then there was the disturbance of the heavy mist being dispersed, and the condensed thing was slowly swimming away, Guan Qianyan's eyes followed the direction of the fog in a daze, and slowly raised his head.

Which direction is the peak?

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Xianqiao Peak.

The Law Enforcement Hall is still operating to the maximum extent, and the blockade of the entire Xianqiao has been put on the surface, and the other party has taken the young man's life like a bag, but has not left any traces, which is something that is unacceptable to those who know about this matter.

"It's been investigated." Zhao Cheng walked to Gan Zifeng's side, "All of them have been verified, no one has missed any place, and when the incident happened, our blockade was still leaky." ”

Gan Zifeng slowly raised his head: "He only moved his hand after he saw me coming down." ”

"We just did an investigation in the shadow of that rock." Zhao Cheng handed over a rather scribbled booklet, "We have already set up a sheltering array there, and in this case, we still have to observe the movements of the people in it, and we have listed six positions and five means for the disciples of the two halls of the Instrument and Array. ”

Gan Zifeng looked at him.

"But after the initial investigation, none of them matched."

Gan Zifeng's brows furrowed even tighter, staring at the corpse at his feet in silence.

"If there's a guy who's been hiding somewhere on the periphery and staring, you don't enter until you're leaving. We really didn't find any trace of this man. Zhao Chengdao, "Of course, we will search more deeply and more carefully next."

Gan Zifeng listened to the report of the young man in his ear, and the blood flowing under his eyes began to coagulate slowly, and he suddenly felt a vague and inexplicable sense of deviation in his heart.

Wrong.

Something isn't right.

Gan Zifeng suddenly remembered the months spent beside that Wuhejian.

"Sometimes investigating a case is actually like this trick." The strange-looking old man looked at the stage, "Especially what kind of unsolved cases, you always want to peel off the cocoon layer by layer, and you must drill through the tip of this bull's horn. In fact, it has entered into the logic of his stipulation. ”

"Sometimes you have to think normally, think about your own way of thinking." The old man smiled hoarsely, "It's like this trick - what kind of listening instrument, you can also look up to him, that's a nursery!" ”

"In fact, if you do a lot of work in this industry, you will feel it, and sometimes when you are excited, you feel that you have taken a fork in the road, and this thing cannot be taught."

Gan Zifeng looked at the corpse in front of him steadily, and suddenly raised his hand: "Don't worry. Take pen, ink and paper, and ask for a thin pen. ”

Zhao Chengyi, who was still reporting, was stunned: "Oh good." ”

Gan Zifeng's gaze fell on Yan Caiyue's godless eyes, and he suddenly felt that the whole person was a little floating.

It was a myriad of memories of his past coming back to him, connected to such a similar reality, as if to pull him back to seven years ago.

Zhao Cheng quickly took the pen and paper, Gan Zifeng took it, refused the request to do it on his behalf, he knelt on the ground, pursed his lips and traced the eyes without saying a word.

The man's voice of trying to calm and patiently was already a memory that had been swept to the edge, and now it came back vaguely.

"I know the eye can't tell the difference." Zhang Meiqing said seriously, "After a person dies, the muscles in the eyes are no longer bound, resulting in dilated pupils; Because it no longer reflects external objects, but is like ashes, this is indeed a normal 'godlessness'. ”

Gan Zifeng has been a deacon of the Dharma Hall for half his life, and he is very familiar with this scene, and at this time, as he has done many times before, he has carefully sketched these godless eyes on the paper one by one.

"But the 'godless' who was injured by Kenshin is not like this, the size of the pupils does not change, and foreign objects can also be reflected on the pupils, but everything is transparent in front of him, and he doesn't have any focus."

"But now it's gone."

"It's fundamentally different. Because when people enter Kenshingu, they have the illusion of falling into the boundless depth, so the moment they look into Kenshingu, their pupils are fixed in a state of 'deep looking'. Such a person can see the difference even after death - I will teach you how to tell"

"Maybe. But Peak Lord, this corpse fell off a cliff and died, and it has been released for almost thirty hours, and the blood in the pupils has coagulated, and we can't tell the difference you mentioned. ”

"So that's how they cover up the truth!" Gan Zifeng remembered that the hand that the man pressed in front of him turned white, "Listen to me, you draw these eyes carefully, and then draw another one on it, removing the blood, gray, and flocculation on it. Look again. ”

Gan Zifeng did that at the time, but the corpse had indeed been left for a long time, and there were too many factors that would cause the same subtle changes. This kind of chasing after the wind and shadows has not been recognized by the Law Enforcement Hall.

But now, the body in front of him was still fresh.

Gan Zifeng finished drawing the eyes, then turned the pen and dropped the end of the pen on the paper. He retraced every detail caused by the blow of the cliff, and the ink lines disappeared one by one as the barrel passed.

Bloodshot, hemorrhage, protrusion, distortion. Little by little, it was restored to its normal appearance, and finally, a pair of intact eyes settled on the paper.

"You see, the godlessness of the dead is relaxation and spreading, but the loss of the heart is the depth and obsession." Zhang Meiqing pointed at the eyes that had been repaired, "The reason why they are doing things to the eyes is because this can be easily seen!" ”

Gan Zifeng pursed his lips at this time and looked at the painting in his hand, these eyes that spread after death are so normal, without any so-called "depth and obsession".

At this moment, Gan Zifeng really felt that he had completed a reunion with himself after seven years, the same place, the same corpse, the same case. The results should be replaced.

"He wasn't robbed of his soul." Gan Zifeng said in a low voice.

"What?" Zhao Cheng was stunned.

"There is no trace of being taken away." Gan Zifeng stood up and looked up at the cliff head.

"You're saying the killer only killed him—"

"Maybe there is no murderer." Gan Zifeng turned his head to look at him, "What if he really committed suicide." ”

“.”

"So we couldn't find any trace of the intruder, because it was he who walked to the edge of Yunping with his sword in his hand, and then jumped down." Gan Zifeng's voice was extremely cold, "Didn't you visit him when you came, what was he like at that time?" ”

"He's in great shape!" Zhao Cheng was still in disbelief, "At that time, the injuries had been dealt with, and he was lying in the quilt, although his face was pale, he was in very good spirits. We chatted with him for a few words, and he also showed us the gifts brought by the disciples of Zhufeng to tell the truth, and I think he was even a little happy at that time, because living in such a place, I don't think he had ever received so much warm care. ”

"Then we gave him a warning bead and told him that we would guard the entire cliff and that he could contact us if there was anything unusual." The young man apparently preferred to accept that there was a real evil man, "How could he kill himself?!" ”

“.”

Gan Zifeng pursed his lips and his eyes flashed, and at this time, a somewhat dry male voice sounded next to him: "Someone. Told him. ”

The two turned their heads, and Shi Yinglin was looking at Yan Caiyue's body in a daze.

"What?"

"We came late and saw that Senior Brother Yan was not like that, Elder." Shi Yinglin turned his head in a daze, "We asked him a lot of things, but he didn't say a word, just looked at the beam of the house and didn't move, like a corpse. I thought he hadn't recovered yet. ”

"But no, someone told him the news from the medical hall that his meridian tree was abolished."

“.” Gan Zifeng slowly squinted.

"Yes. Senior Brother Cai Yue grew up under Uncle Daishi, and since he was a child, he has regarded cultivation as more important than anything else. The blue-clothed girl trembled slightly, "He is usually arrogant and arrogant, just because he believes that sword practice is more important than everything, and if he practices his sword well, he will be superior to others. He can't accept the news now. ”

“.”

"But who can tell him?" Zhao Cheng frowned, "There are too many people who can talk to him in a day, and we don't listen."

"Isn't the list of names still unfinished!" Gan Zifeng shouted, "Look at who else!" ”

Zhao Cheng came back to his senses abruptly and went to take the shelved roster again, Gan Zifeng turned his head and ordered: "Xu Xun!" Don't check the periphery, transfer people to Yan Caiyue Courtyard, I want to see how he knows that everyone left Yunping at that moment! ”

"Yes!"

At this time, many law enforcement hall personnel had arrived, and the investigation began to unfold in a new direction, Zhao Cheng flipped through the booklet, and it was not until the last page that he suddenly paused his finger on a name, revealing a somewhat dazed look.

"What's wrong?"

“.” Zhao Cheng opened his mouth twice, and Gan Zifeng looked over, his fingers were resting on the two same names, one new and one old.

Xi Tianji.

There was silence.

This is indeed an unexpected, but incomparably plausible name.

He came over before noon, after Zhao Cheng and before Shi Yinglin; He had been assisting in the affairs of the sect for a long time, and it was easy to get the news of the medical hall; He is also the most beloved elder brother of our time, no matter what he says. Yan Caiyue must have trusted him 100 percent.

But.

"How is that possible?" Shi Yinglin was at a loss, "This should be a coincidence, Elder Gan, just like I am here now. There must be some misunderstanding. ”

Zhao Cheng took a deep breath, rolled his eyes and said softly, "Elder, back then, Xi Tianji was just fourteen years old. ”

"And it was Jiang Yitong who injured Ji Feng that year." The man continued, "It's inconvenient to visit, so Yuan Wufeng replaced him. It should indeed be a coincidence. ”

Gan Zifeng was silent, his eyes flashing.

Xi Tianji's identity and motives are not to be mentioned, when he was fourteen years old, he really couldn't beat Ji Feng at all, let alone forcibly take the soul after defeating the enemy with one blow.

But Zhang Meiqing said that that was Ji Feng's death.

When the dossier was no longer credible, he had to rely on what had been left behind by the man who had taken the right path. It's just that even back then, Zhang Meiqing searched through the famous posts and couldn't find those two abnormal enough names.

Is the murderer really on this roster, and what exactly did the man leave out of the year?

There was no one around to disturb the elder's thoughts, Gan Zifeng quietly rubbed the paper in his hand, and looked at everything in front of him with empty eyes. Suddenly, a figure walked in front of him, and the old man's eyes froze in hindsight.

"Wait—you." Gan Zifeng frowned and called out to his people.

The slightly chubby man turned around, dressed in a law enforcement uniform, looking like he was in his twenties, and looked at him blankly: "What's the matter, Elder?" ”

"There doesn't seem to be anyone I brought." Gan Zifeng looked at this somewhat raw face, and said coldly, "Are you transferred from behind to support?" ”

"No, I'm from the outer hall, my lord."

Gan Zifeng frowned, and Zhao Cheng had already spoken: "It's the guest he helped remember, my lord-you forgot, in addition to the people we brought, there are law enforcement hall people patrolling between the peaks on weekdays, and today it will be the turn of this junior brother to be on duty." Of course, today we kept him outside and didn't let him in. ”

“.”

"Your Excellency?"

Gan Zifeng looked at the man in amazement and took a deep breath: "Yes, Zhang Meiqing is not a person from the Law Enforcement Hall, and he can't remember this rule."

What? My lord. ”

"Check it out now!" The old man turned around suddenly, "I want to know immediately how the rotation of the Zhufeng patrol is arranged!" On the day Ji Feng fell off the cliff, who was patrolling Xianqiao Peak! ”

It's really hard to find such a watch, let alone the shift seven years ago, but fortunately, the person in question is here.

"Elder, Elder." The slightly chubby disciple was a little cautious and said, "Zhufeng Youshi has always been one person from each peak, and one person is worth a month. I am a disciple of Candle Peak, if you count forward, Senior Brother Ji Feng should be on duty at Yuanwu Peak in that month. ”

“.”

"At that time, it was still a fat mess, and it was all done by the façade disciples." Seeing that no one spoke, this disciple continued, "At that time, the number one person in Yuan Wufeng should be Senior Brother Jiang Yitongjiang. ”

Everyone present was almost shocked, and Gan Zifeng turned his head: "Xi Tianji, Jiang Yitong, where are these two people now?" ”

Zhao Cheng was stunned for a while: "They seem to be on duty to guard the back cliff and stay in the hall today." ”

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Under the back cliff, Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting had just climbed up with the help of the cliff.

"That's right!" The girl looked at the flat peak, where the fog finally dissipated. She breathed a sigh of relief: "This is Jia Jiuzhu!" ”

(End of chapter)

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