The winter night came early, just after the unitary hour, and the darkness completely enveloped the earth like an invisible giant hand. The moon is hidden and the stars are hidden, and the five fingers are not visible beyond the light and candle shadow.

The cold wind rushed through the streets and alleys, and the doors and windows that had fallen into disrepair or forgot to lock them made "clang" and "squeak" sounds, and they were heard far away in the silence. In the deep alley, I don't know whose dog was alarmed, kept barking wildly, and then turned into a whining and low sobbing amid the owner's scolding.

The weather is cold, and the swords, swords, and flesh and blood are flying on Dongmen Street, and the people who are afraid of harming themselves have closed their doors and hid at home. The bloody battle was exaggerated by eyewitnesses, and spread rapidly throughout the city of Ezhou, so that there were few pedestrians on the streets, and the people were in a hurry.

Di Ren has been running the dart bureau for decades, and has always had dealings with the government and magnates, and is generous and righteous, making friends with heroes and heroes in the world.

Although the Golden Lion Dart Bureau is out of self-preservation, if you want to make a big deal small and close the case as soon as possible, you will inevitably have to spend money to dredge it around.

For Di Ren, the problem that money can solve is not a problem, so before the official mission arrives, he has already thought about how to deal with it. As for the specific operation, when I met with the shopkeeper Xu in the Ezhou branch, I would think about it in the long run, after all, for more than 20 years, all the affairs in Ezhou have been carefully handled by the shopkeeper Xu, and it is naturally best for him to come forward.

After instructing Wang Dart and others to stay and cooperate with the government's inquiry, Di Ren led the four ponies through the streets and alleys to the Ezhou Branch, and the horses' hooves knocked out a series of cold sounds on the bluestone slab.

After about half a pillar of incense, at the intersection of the two long streets, Di Ren motioned for Xiao Ma and the others to stop.

At this time, the chaotic noise of the east gate has been left far behind, and there is silence all around. Through the faint moonlight occasionally falling from the clouds, the pony saw the four large lacquered gold characters "Ezhou Branch" on the door of the house on the corner of the street.

There were no lights, no guards, no ringing......

The dark and silent house stands on the same dark and silent long street, and there is something faintly strange and unsettling at this time when it should have been busy.

The pony frowned, there was a vague premonition in his heart, he looked sideways at Di Ren, and was about to speak, when he heard Di Ren say in confusion: "It's strange, why is there no one on duty in the dart game today, and those who are blind in the dark lights everywhere don't hold the lights." Shopkeeper Xu has always been diligent, how could he be so negligent, could it be ......"

As he spoke, his figure flashed, and he had already turned over and dismounted, and galloped quickly towards the courtyard gate. After a few taps on the black lacquer gate, there was no reaction in the courtyard, and with a slight push, the gate opened.

Di Ren was anxious, he didn't care about his safety, and he wanted to go in as soon as he moved. The pony followed and stopped him, and listened for a moment outside the courtyard gate, but there was no sound in the courtyard, and a faint blood in the darkness permeated the courtyard.

Knowing that something was wrong, the pony quickly removed the windproof lamp from the eaves of the porch, lit it with a fire breaker, and stepped into the courtyard first.

By the dim light, it can be vaguely seen that there are several dart carts parked in the open space in the courtyard, and many boxes and goods are placed on the car and the ground, and seven or eight dart guys who are busy with the situation fall to the ground in different forms, the boxes on their shoulders and the items in their hands fall to the side, and the utensils and silver ingots are scattered all over the place.

There was no trace of a fight, and the busy scene seemed to come to a standstill in an instant, turning into a dead silence.

The pony quickly glanced at the audience, walked over quickly to probe the pulse of a fellow's neck, tried to sniff, the tentacles were cold, the breath was nothing, and the deceased's whole body was carefully examined by the lamplight, and couldn't help but be secretly shocked: the deceased had no other wounds except for a soybean-sized blood hole in his throat, and the strange thing was that the blood stains on the wound seemed to coagulate in an instant, sealing the blood hole, and only a little blood overflowed from the mouth and nose.

He quickly inspected the other seven men in the courtyard before he straightened up, shook his head at Di Ren with a solemn expression, and said, "The deceased's blood has not dried up, his limbs have not yet stiffened, and judging from the fact that he was busy sorting out the goods and putting them into storage, it should be about the same time as when we were attacked on Dongmen Street. ”

Shanyuan said: "The murder is still in a hurry, according to the monk, eighty percent of it was done by the same group of people." But this white jade wolf carving is in our hands, what is the reason why they came to the dart game to kill people?"

"I'll talk about this later, let's split up and see if anyone is still alive. Pony said, "Brother Wen, please examine the wounds of these deceased. Just in case, Yu Xin, you can stay and take care of Brother Wen. ”

Di Ren and Shanyuan each took lamps and candles, and searched the entire house with Xiaoma, but unfortunately, including the shopkeeper Xu, all 32 people in the dart game were killed, and none of them survived.

"Bang !!"

Di Ren slammed his fist on the pillar, and looked at the tragedy in the courtyard with tears in his eyes.

Beginning tonight, he bore the blood of thirty-two more brethren. From the moment he took the dart of the white jade wolf eagle, he knew very well that this trip was not only blocking his own life, but also the lives of a group of brothers. But the thirty-two people of the Ezhou Branch had nothing to do with the white jade wolf eagle at all, but they were brutally murdered before he arrived.

If the murderer was from the same gang that attacked him twice, would he have killed all the brothers in the sub-bureaus along the way in order to cut off his reinforcements? If it were not for the same gang, who would the murderer be? Why did he kill 32 people?

Di Ren tried his best to calm down his grief and anger, and was silent for a long time before he asked gloomily, "What did Brother Pony find?"

The pony frowned, thinking about the murder scene in his mind, and said: "The murderer is too fast, the whole murder process is just a blink of an eye, and these guys in the dart game are all in a busy form, and it seems that they have been murdered before they can react." We just checked the scars on these people, and they were all killed with one hit. Five of the eight men died from sharp throat penetration, and the other three had their necks choked alive in a brutal manner. The same is true of the wounds of the deceased in the house. ”

"The wounds of the five deceased who were pierced through the throat are exactly the same, according to the scars, they are neither knife wounds nor sword wounds, nor do they look like wounds left by any other weapons, judging from the wounds on the necks of the other three deceased, the murderer should have used martial arts such as Eagle Claw Gong and Mighty Vajra Finger. ”

Di Ren's eyes were like torches, and he said in a deep voice: "Fist and foot kung fu is the most difficult to learn, and there are very few people who can enter the hall and get a great success. Looking at the entire martial arts, there are no more than five people who can kill the invisible with fingering in an instant. Di Mou traveled to the ends of the earth, and he also wanted to find out the real murderer from these five people and sacrifice the undead with blood. ”

"The five masters that Mr. Di refers to, but the Shanxi Eagle Claw Gate Master Ying Feixiang, the Hebei Ghost Hand Gang Leader Ku Jiu, the Gansu "Iron Arm Toutuo" Shangwu, Lingnan "One Designated Qiankun" Nanwu Taoist and Shaolin Xuanshan Master?"

Di Ren nodded and said, "It's these five people." ”

"The killer is not among the five. The pony shook his head and said, "Although the martial arts used by this person are similar to those of Eagle Claw Skill, Skull Hand, and Vajra Finger, but the finger is strong through the throat, but it can coagulate blood clots and seal wounds in an instant.

"In addition, judging by the wounds and bruises on their necks, the murderer should have been a scrawny man who looked like a skeleton. I'm afraid that I'm three points thinner than the thinnest of the five masters, I really can't think of such a person in the martial arts. ”

At this point, Warmth had finished examining their wounds and walked over to them, and Pony asked, "Does Brother Wen have any insight from their wounds?"

Wen Wen said: "I have carefully examined their wounds, and it is true that as you just said, they were killed with their bare hands, but they ...... It's just that...... The murderer ......" Speaking of this, the warm face became hesitant, and he stopped talking.

"If you have anything to say, Brother Wen, it doesn't hurt to say it, one more clue, one more possibility of finding out the murderer, and we shouldn't let go of any clues. ”

"I think...... I think the killer may not be ...... Not people. Wen Wen said with some embarrassment, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

The murderer is not a man!

When everyone heard Wen Wen say this, they were all stunned.

Since starting from Hangzhou City, they have encountered several dangers along the way, although it has not been possible to find out who is behind the scenes, but the people who attacked them are all big people. The Ezhou Branch was tragically destroyed, and everyone speculated that what they suspected was nothing more than the top master in the martial arts.

Warmth's conclusion was unexpected and momentarily incredulous. If the murderer was not a human being, what could be such a skill that could kill thirty-two people in such a short period of time?

In the faint light, the pony's eyes loomed with stars.

Things are becoming more and more confusing and clueless, but his intuition is that the layers of suspicion are just the other party's attempt to confuse the public, so that they will fall deeper and deeper into the puzzle and make wrong judgments. He must have overlooked a detail all the time, and once he realized it, all his doubts would be solved.

Thinking of this, he said to Nuan: "Brother Wen, tell me about the clues you found." ”

Wen Wen nodded, and said slowly: "The length of the five bruises on the deceased's neck is not much different from the length of an ordinary adult man's fingers, but the bruises are slender and intermittent, far apart, and together they are only as wide as the palm of a four- or five-year-old child's hand. It stands to reason that even if an adult man is skinny, his fingers are somewhat flesh and skin, and he will definitely not be so slender. ”

"If the murderer is a dwarf as short as a child, it is not surprising that his fingers are small to urinate, but it is ...... It's just that the dwarf's fingers can't be that long, which is really weird, could it be that he is a strange person with strange hand shapes. Shanyuan touched his head, his face full of doubts.

"The world is so big, there are no wonders, and there are not necessarily people like that. Pony said, "If this is the only thing, I don't think Brother Wen will assume that the murderer is not human, he must have discovered something else strange." ”

The reason why I think the murderer is not human is because I found a strange thing in the five dead who were pierced through the throat. ”