07 Homicide

Hearing this, General Lu immediately shouted: "What nonsense! Shut up!" Unfortunately, it was too late, and everyone present was in an uproar in an instant. General Lu hurriedly asked the sergeant to take away the three Taoist priests from the "Yinshan Hall" and instructed the people present: "Yumen Pass is a military important place, and today's events are strange, and there must be some gangsters who are secretly doing so; Everyone answered, but they couldn't hide the panic in their eyes.

Later, General Lu discussed with Xian Jingyue, wanting to hear the opinion of the pro-army governor's office. Xian Jingyue and General Lu have the same opinion, the two living corpses in Yizhuang today and the dozen or so living corpses transported from the city gate appeared almost at the same time, and they can grasp the time so accurately, it can be seen that there must be someone behind this corpse fraud. Although I don't know what the other party's intentions are, it is very likely that they are coming for the 100,000 garrisons of Yumen Pass.

As for the origin of these living corpses, although he thought of the "No. 1 zombie in China" in the underworld family on the shore of Poyang Lake, it was just a guess. If this speculation is true, then most of the people behind the whole thing are Yan Si, because he also participated in the affairs of the underworld family at that time. Although Xie Yixiang had witnessed Yan Sidao's death at the hands of the family's Da Rui's great-grandfather, even Xie Yixiang himself was not sure whether Yan Sidao had really died.

And Xian Jingyue had dealt with Yan Sidao when he was in Huguang, and even fought side by side, knowing that this person was unparalleled in wisdom and scheming, but he was not a good type. Looking at his actions in Huguang, it seems that he is trying to make money, but after scrutinizing many of the details, he disdains money, and I don't know what kind of intentions he has in his heart. If today's corpse transformation in Yumen Pass is really planned by Yan Sidao, could it be that Yan Sidao is plotting the whole world and wants to provoke war in the world?

However, with only a dozen or so living corpses, although their strength and speed are far superior to ordinary people, for the 100,000 garrisons of Yumen Pass, today's chaos is undoubtedly an itch in the boots, and it cannot shake the garrison in the slightest. Even if Xian Jingyue was not present, it would be a matter of time before the sergeants subdued these living corpses. So what is the hidden purpose of the corpse fraud that occurred at Yumen Pass today? Is it just to declare war on the garrison of Yumen Pass, or is it just a warning?

As for the remarks of the Taoist priest of "Yinshan Hall" about "zombies", General Lu, as the commander of the 100,000 garrison, for the sake of insurance, could only believe that he had something rather than believe that he did not have it, and immediately ordered the sergeant to burn all the captured living corpses and the remains of other living corpses, not leaving a single hand or foot, and even the people and sergeants who were killed by the living corpses were also burned together, and even all the corpses parked in Yizhuang were not left.

When he gave the order, a sergeant suddenly ran over and told him that just when the corpse had changed, a murder had occurred in the barracks on the right side of the official road, and more than a dozen sergeants had died. Because the whole army was shocked by the living corpses at the city gate at that time, no one paid attention to them for a while, and it was not until this moment that the bodies of these sergeants were found, and they did not know who the murderer was. General Lu was shocked in his heart, and said angrily: "What a bold man! He dared to commit murder in my Lu someone's barracks, take me to see it quickly!"

It seems that today's incident is really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, so General Lu asked Jingyue to go to check it out first, to see if the commander of the pro-army Governor's Mansion could find any clues, and several other generals and Master Lu and Master Zhou also followed all the way. Everyone asked the sergeant who came to pay the omission along the way, and only then did they know that the dozen or so sergeants who were killed in the barracks on the right were all sergeants on errand in the house, that is, cooks in the army.

Originally, the 100,000 garrisons of Yumen Pass were stationed behind the city wall, and they were separated into two battalions on the left and right by the official road in the middle, and the 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers in the barracks on the right side of the official road were cooked in a large iron pot of 20 people in two camps on weekdays, but the ingredients such as rice, noodles, meat and vegetables were uniformly distributed by the room. There are more than a dozen cooks in the room, and they are only responsible for the rough processing of ingredients on weekdays, so as to distribute them to the sergeants of the battalions, and sometimes open small stoves for the generals. At this moment, when they heard that the slain sergeant was one of these cooks in the barracks, everyone was a little puzzled and hurried to the barracks on the right, which was a huge tent, and outside the tent was a mountain of ingredients. When I entered the tent, I saw that the bodies of the dozen cooks were inside, and the cause of death was a thin wound on the neck, apparently by the same person who had slit their throats with a sharp blade, and then discarded all the corpses into the tent.

Seeing the cause of death of these cooks, Xian Jingyue couldn't help frowning slightly, and said, "It's such a ruthless knife technique, but I didn't expect there to be such a person here." General Lu and the others were all born in the army, and they didn't know the way of autopsy and investigation, so they hurriedly asked Xian Jingyue for advice. In fact, Xian Jingyue is not good at this, but looking at the appearance of these dozen or so corpses, it is obvious that they died one or two hours ago, and it will not exceed three hours at most, which is exactly when living corpses appear at the gates of Yizhuang and the city. According to this inference, it is obviously not a coincidence that this is the death of more than a dozen cooks, and it is even very likely that the corpse mutiny that occurred today is to cover for the murderers of these dozen cooks, and use the living corpses to divert the attention of the sergeants in the battalion.

Regarding this speculation of Xian Jingyue, everyone nodded secretly. But in the final analysis, what was the purpose of the other party to kill these dozen cooks in the barracks on the right? Thinking of this, Master Zhou turned his attention to the ingredients outside the camp tent and asked tentatively, "Could it be ...... Could it be that the murderer killed these cooks because he wanted to do something with the ingredients and poison people?"

Master Lu next to him shook his head and said: "The cook in the room was killed, we naturally think that the ingredients were poisoned, and the murderer should not be so stupid." Master Zhou muttered: "Maybe the murderer just wants to destroy these ingredients and cut off the food and grass of the garrison to cause panic, and he is not afraid of being known by us." Master Lu shook his head again and said, "Judging from the current situation, if the murderer has done anything to the ingredients, he can only poison them. Wouldn't it be easier to burn all of them in one fire if such a large batch of ingredients was to cut off my grain and grass?"

Hearing the discussion between the two staff members, General Lu looked at the mountains of ingredients piled up outside the room, which were basically bags of wheat flour, as well as a small amount of cabbage and pork, and couldn't help but sneer: "If it is poisoned, how much poison does it take? Moreover, it is not easy for the murderer to poison all these ingredients in a hurry after killing people; if he sets fire to them, after all, he is too ostentatious, and he is afraid that the murderer will not want to take risks, so as to expose his whereabouts." But for the sake of caution, I still called the military Lang Zhong to come and check it out. After that, he asked Xian Jingyue again: "Based on the wounds on the necks of these cooks, the first general office may see the origin of the murderer?"

At this time, Xian Jingyue had already roughly examined the dozen or so corpses in the room, and when she heard General Lu's question, she replied: "The murderer's martial arts are extremely high, and he can be regarded as a first-class master in the rivers and lakes. Most of the murder weapons used were short knives as thin as cicada wings, but they were different from the knife techniques of the Central Plains factions, and they should be a master of the evil sect from the Western Regions. In addition, the murderer used his left hand to stab. Then Master Lu couldn't help asking: "Did the first general office say that the murderer was a left-handed man? If that's the case, let's go and search the streets outside." ”

Xian Jingyue shook her head slowly, frowned and said, "Not necessarily, it is also possible for the Han people to learn the sword technique of the Western Regions Evil Sect." Moreover, the murderer can succeed in the barracks with one blow, come and go freely, and leave no trace, and it is very likely that he lurked in the garrison early in the morning. As for his left-handed knife, perhaps it was just a deliberate cover-up, maybe his right-handed knife was actually faster than his left-handed knife. ”

Hearing Xian Jingyue's answer, Master Lu couldn't help but gasp and said, "The garrison of Yumen Pass is claimed to be 100,000, although it is only a bluff to the outside world, but there are 50,000 or 60,000 people. If the murderer is a sergeant in the battalion, wouldn't it be a needle in a haystack to find out about this person?"

Xian Jingyue pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "A thousand people?" Master Lu was slightly stunned and asked, "What a thousand people?" Xian Jingyue said slowly: "Investigate thoroughly, when the corpse changes today, whether it is the sergeant in the camp or the people on the street, all the suspects will be found." As long as there are less than a thousand people, I can find the murderer among them. ”