Li Changan walked around the house before and after.

When you go back to the courtyard.

Yu Mei had already dug out all the corpses in the soil.

There are 14 bodies of men, women and children, poor and rich, and the family is neatly arranged under the eaves.

She searched the body carefully, and asked without looking back:

"How? What does your nose say?"

It seems that he has already noticed the strangeness of the Taoist priest's nose.

However, Li Changan didn't deliberately cover it up, so he didn't care at all, and only told him what he had discovered.

"My nose told me that there was a trail of muddy water mixed with demonic energy, hitting the yard leading to the back door, and finally submerged into the waterway behind the house. ”

"I suspect that this youkai infiltrated the workshop through the waterway and broke into the house through the back door. ”

He pointed to a corpse that was still in good clothes.

For some unknown reason, the family gathered in the main hall in the middle of the night, and they were all killed by the monster. ”

Yu Mei nodded and beckoned Li Changan over.

Then, in front of the Taoist priest, one of the female corpses was examined.

Li Changan had some impressions of this corpse, and it was the owner who first discovered the hand.

She is about sixteen or seventeen years old, even if she falls into the sludge, it is difficult to hide her fair complexion and beautiful appearance.

It's just that at this moment...... Yu Mei pressed the female corpse's face, and the once full and elastic cheeks immediately concave a pit, showing a blue-white gray color; she opened the female corpse's eyelids again, and the eyes that were once rippling in autumn were already dull and cloudy, and the eyes were like black hairy moons that collapsed and scattered, staining the whites of her eyes; she grabbed the cloud-like sideburns roughly, and the strands of hair immediately curled, like weeds in winter.

"What do you see?"

Yu Mei suddenly spoke.

"The eyes are scattered, the face is pale, and the hair is withered, and he should have died of exhaustive blood. ”

Li Chang'an frowned in response, and Yu Mei leaned over and used a bamboo stick to probe into the ear hole of the female corpse and scrape out a little rotten mud.

"And now?"

The Taoist priest rolled his eyes silently, if you find something, to put it bluntly, it looks like a ninth-rate detective drama, turning around and asking a hammer, which eye do you have to see that I Li Daoren has the ability to investigate cases? !

He could see that although this Yu Mei was openly asking for his helper for help, he secretly had some provocative demonstrates.

I don't know if it was the night before, I chased her and cut down a few streets, and I was angry. Still, the miasma was exposed today, and he deliberately demonstrated to save some ground.

However, the Taoist priest didn't bother to guess, so he didn't find out and took over the conversation.

"Cannibal blood is usually a means of ghosts, but there are also many demons, so it is not enough to rely on. But this demon can drive the dirt ......"

He put on a bamboo stick and sniffed it, and an unconcealable putrid stench poured into his nostrils.

"And the mud left on the body of the dead must be the kind of demon that was born or inhabited by the mud. As far as I know, swamp demons, mud rays, and even earthworms that have become demons are all in harmony. ”

Li Changan rubbed the stubble on his chin and recalled the clues he found before and after.

"This monster can suck the blood of essence, has the ability to drive away the earth, is accompanied by rotting mud, and buries the dead in the mud. I just checked, and there were mud marks where it passed. And when the attack was launched in the court, there was a 'snort' sound......"

Li Changan's words suddenly froze.

Chong Yumei grinned.

"I see!"

He took out a "Chonglong Jade Talisman" and sacrificed to the Nose God.

He sniffed carefully on the ground, and finally, he came to the front of a corpse under the eaves.

The corpse was as big as a basket, and it was a pregnant woman, or rather, it looked like a pregnant woman.

The Taoist priest drew his sword in his hand, said "accuse", and went straight forward to cut open his belly.

As a matter of common sense, the bloody scene did not happen.

There was no blood, no dead babies, not even internal organs.

In the empty abdomen, there is only one giant monster fish covered in red spots.

He had already been shocked to death by Yu Mei's Yin Thunder in the belly of the corpse.

The Taoist priest picked it out with the tip of his sword.

"Ghost. ”

......

Ghosts.

Although the name has a "ghost", it is not actually a ghost, but a kind of youkai that has become a fish spirit.

"Records of Differences" contains:

In Yuzhang County, there is a special kind of fish, which looks like a mullet, with a red pattern, and inhabits the sludge pond all year round. If you don't clean it up, the fish will grow gradually, and when there are hundreds or even thousands, it is easy to give birth to a kind of youkai called 'Oni'.

The ghost can make the soil around the sludge pond more fertile. But if you want to farm, you have to make offerings to the ghosts. Even so, the offerings demanded by the yokai increased year by year, until the fields were not as rich as the offerings. If you abandon the land, or even plough it without telling you at first, you will die quietly at home.

At the beginning, when Li Changan read this, he thought that this was made up by some ancestor and secretly satirized a certain landlord in Yuzhang. But whether it's true or not, demons and monsters, anyway, half of Thailand runs out of human suffering.

In short, this monster is greedy and can walk on land at night. But wherever you go, you will leave mud trails, and everywhere you go, you can hear the sound of "sizzling".

......

Uncover the true face of the murderer.

Li Changan was not happy.

People are dead, monsters are killed, and the corpses have their own relatives and friends.

There's nothing to say about here.

Compared with the corpse in front of him, he was more concerned about the demon change in Yu Mei's mouth and the culprit behind the scenes.

Li Changan didn't completely believe the other party, but so far, only the explanation in Yu Mei's mouth was the most reasonable.

So, he had a stomach full of questions ready to ask.

But before he could speak, a series of commotion was heard outside, and then someone knocked on the door.

"The yamen handled the case and opened the door quickly. ”

It turned out that the catchers were too late again.

Li Changan turned his eyes to look at Yu Mei, but unexpectedly, half of the figure was gone, and the Si people had already fled.

............

"Crunch. ”

The door opened again.

Outside, a group of officials were fighting with open flames, and their expressions were tense.

There were some surprises that the leader of the team was not Xing Zhutou, but an unfamiliar catcher. However, after thinking about it, Lao Xing was still seriously injured and recuperating in bed, and the "power" of the chief catcher in Xiaoshui County could only be handed over to others as an agent.

Li Changan, who opened the door, was silent, but the quick arrester who knocked on the door was startled.

"You...... Why are you here? ”

"Monsters hurt people, I came to kill demons, what's so strange?"

"Yes...... But what about the owner?"

"Dead. ”

"How much?"

"Full doors. ”

As he spoke, the Taoist priest casually beckoned the group of officials to come in.

"The corpse is in the courtyard, you will know it when you see it. ”

But after saying that, there was no movement outside for a long time, and the Taoist priest turned his head to see that his face was full of cringe, and no one dared to step into the door.

Until.

"What are you afraid of?"

A voice rang out from the back of the line.

Orr, a young face squeezed through the crowd.

It's none other than Bo Ziyu. To say that this young Zhukuai did not deal with Li Changan before, but when the Taoist priest saved Xing Zhutou, his attitude took a big turn.

No, when he entered the door, he first saluted the Taoist priest, and then scolded a group of servants:

"Since the Taoist is here, the monster must have been ambushed, and there is no danger in the door, why do you still act in such a frightened state, in vain to make people laugh!"

After saying that, he went to the courtyard angrily.

Leaving a group of officials to look at each other, and finally, under the supervision of the leader, they still rubbed (harmony) and followed in.

A group of servants entered the courtyard.

First of all, he was taken aback when he saw the mud all over the garden, and then he was shocked when he saw a group of corpses, and finally he was pointed out by the Taoist priest that the big fish was the monster itself, and he almost lost his soul.

The Taoist priest didn't want to see their ugliness more, so he instructed a few words, put the finishing touches behind, and left.

But when he went out, Bo Ziyu called him.

"Dao Chief. ”

"What?"

The young catcher frowned.

"Something isn't right. ”

"Where?"

"Dead people...... Less. ”

He hastened to explain.

"My uncle once took me to check on a theft case at this house. I know that the owner's surname is Zhou, a famous poetry and book heirloom in the city, and there is a Xiucai named Zhou Huai in the family, who is quite famous in the left near the left. We have only identified the fourteen corpses, and the father and son of the Zhou family and several relatives are not among them. ”

That's a bit of a weirdness.

The Taoist priest stopped, pulled Bo Ziyu over, and asked carefully.

His suspicions were justified.

If the Zhou father and son went out to visit friends or go to a banquet, they escaped. But which family visits friends, the father brings his daughter, and the son also brings a concubine?

Another possibility, Zhou's father and son were also at home at the time, and they were also attacked, so they were not among the fourteen corpses...... Either they escaped and are now hiding somewhere, or they were caught by a youkai and simply moved somewhere else.

But it's not very likely.

"Is it ......," Bo Ziyu said hesitantly, "there is another monster." ”

The Taoist priest's mind raced.

It is true that when he walked around the house, he only smelled the smell of "ghost", so he didn't think about it. But who said that there is only one ghost?

Could it be that the two appeared together, and after the killing, one stayed in the Zhou family, and the other swept away the Zhou father and son and others, and went to enjoy it elsewhere?

Li Changan held on to the hilt of his sword and turned around and returned to the court.

The previous words were full.

This is not over yet!