Chapter Twenty-Seven: Smoke Willow Lane

When he returned to Chang'an, it was late at night, and Da Yu rushed straight to the Tianjian Platform, found a corner, and quietly hit the Tianjian Platform with a mana. After a while, there was still a ray of light descending from the sky, submerging overhead, and a voice said: "There is a nether master, kill the devil, and reward the Tao for forty-nine years and another thirty-seven days." ”

Da Yuan only felt that his whole body trembled, and it seemed that his cultivation of mana and mind had been refined. The glow faded, and Da Yuan was stunned in place for a while, almost unable to believe it, he expected that the reward for completing the Demon Order would be a lot, but he didn't expect that there would be nearly fifty years of Taoism.

He also thought that he was already a hundred years of Taoism, the realm of Jiedan, and the next realm would take about two hundred and sixty years of Taoism to comprehend. If you continue like this, as long as you don't miss a move, you only need to receive two or three more demon orders to enter the realm of the original god's out-of-body body.

After a while, the ecstasy in Da Yuan's heart gradually calmed down, and he played another mana at the Tianjian Platform to receive a new order. After a while, Da Yuan left the Tianjian Platform, his face was nervous and solemn, and there was a hint of excitement. This new earth order is another demon order, and unlike every time, after receiving the order, the voice from the heavenly court actually has a hint of expectation.

Da Yuan didn't want to cause more trouble, so he left Chang'an in a hurry. Out of Chang'an, Da Yuan did not rest, and went straight to the northwest. This time, the devil's order is in Liangzhou, the border pass, to kill the faceless blood corpse.

A few days later, Da Yuan stood outside Liangzhou City covered in dust. In front of him is a border city, far more desolate than the Central Plains, the wind and sand blow, at a glance it looks gray.

When I entered Liangzhou City, I saw that although the city was not prosperous, there were many residents and merchants, the dirt road was narrow and tortuous, and the adobe houses on both sides were densely packed. Da Yuan walked around the city a few times, and found that bandits were rampant here, gangs were rampant, and there were fights and robberies in the city from time to time. Until it was getting late, but he found no trace of the faceless bloody corpse, he felt tired from running all the way, and when he saw a deserted house, he went in to rest.

Leaning against the wall and meditating, it was late at night, and the sound of drumming was heard outside. After a while, I heard the sound of a hurried run, and suddenly the two of them chased after each other.

The first to come was a masked man, seeing that there was no way out, he turned around and said: "I didn't want to kill quickly, you force me again, don't blame me for being rude." ”

The one who entered the door was a trapper, shouting: "It's okay if you forcibly destroy that woman, why kill her whole family, even if I am not a trapper, I can't tolerate you." ”

The masked man laughed a few times, drew his knife and slashed. The captor also raised his waist knife and fought with the masked man. After a few fights, the masked man kicked off the waist knife in the trapper's hand, and kicked the trapper in the leg again, and the trapper fell to the ground at once, and fell in front of the big jacket.

The masked man took advantage of the situation to raise his knife and was about to kill the captor, when Da Yuan suddenly stood up, and with a slight wave of his hand, he saw that the masked man was cut in two from waist to shoulder, along with the steel knife in his hand, and the masked man's internal organs and intestines flowed out, and the ground was covered with blood. The catcher stood up in a panic, and then took out a photo of the fire, and when he saw the tragic condition of the masked man, his face turned pale with fright.

After a while, the captor came to his senses, bowed to the big coat, and thanked him again and again. asked about the name of the big coat again, and heard the big coat say that he came from afar to find relatives without success, and hurriedly invited the big coat home to entertain him. The arrester said: "Benefactor, the younger brother is called fast-legged Song San, he is on an errand in the government, Brother Tai is my life-saving benefactor, since Brother Tai has nowhere to go, you must come to my house to live, even if the benefactor lives in my house for a lifetime, the little brother is also willing, and there is no other word." ”

Da Yuan thought about it, if you want to find the faceless blood corpse is like looking for a needle in a haystack, even if you are an outsider, you have to make friends with some forces, he is the tolerance of the yamen, or he can help me. Da Yuan responded, Song Sanxi was overjoyed, and invited Da Yuan to go home respectfully, and arranged for Da Yuan to live well.

He lived in Song San's house for a few days, and Da Yuan wandered around the city every day, looking for traces of the faceless bloody corpse, but there was no progress for a few days. Song San noticed that Da Yuan's clothes were ragged, so he bought clothes for Da Yuan, and drank and laughed with Da Yuan whenever he had leisure. Da Yuan asked on this day: "I want to check the case files of your government office, I don't know what method there is?"

Song San was a little embarrassed at once, and said: "Those case files are locked in the treasury, and they are guarded by special personnel, even if they are the head catcher and the judge, they have never taken it out, if the benefactor wants to find something, the younger brother can help you check it." ”

Da Yuan thought about it for a while, the faceless blood corpse is a bloodthirsty monster with the surname of heaven, and it must devour the flesh and blood of the living every time, and the case file in the government must record all the cases of missing people or homicides, as long as you slowly investigate carefully, you may be able to find clues, but this matter must be cautious, and you will always be at ease with the help of others. Da Yuan said: "It's not difficult, it's just that this time I came to visit a relative, but the person is not there, I just want the government to have a record." ”

Song San immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and promised to help find it, so Da Yu had to casually make up a name for him to check. The two chatted for a while, and then said, "There are still few people in your yamen? I have always had nothing to do, and I want to get a job." ”

Song San nodded and responded: "Brother Yuan, you should be able to make a lot of achievements with your skills, I have some personal relations with Lord Judge Lu, and I will dredge it tomorrow, and I may not have a chance." ”

After two more days, Song San really helped Da Yuan dredge up the judge, and first asked Da Yuan to be a patrol to maintain law and order on the street. After a few days like this, seeing that Da Yuan was extraordinary, he promoted Da Yuan to be a catcher, full-time arresting criminals.

After being a catcher, he found a reason and entered the case file division. There were three large warehouses where the case files were stored, and the number of files in them was a great surprise. Fortunately, the case files were all stored on time, and Da Yuan found the case files of the past one or two years, starting with the murder case files. It took a few days of hard work to go through most of the homicide files, most of which were homicides, and a few of the murders looked quite bizarre, but they didn't necessarily have anything to do with the faceless bloody corpse.

After a few days of investigation in this way, the literature and history of the management of the case file already had suspicions, and Da Yuan had to spare some time to concentrate on handling a few major cases for the government and the government, and he really made some contributions. In this way, if you go to the case file department to read the file, you won't ask more about literature and history. Da Yuan had already checked the homicide case file, and had no clue, so he flipped through the missing person case file again.

All homicides have details such as where the body was found, and the connections can be carefully examined. However, the missing persons case does not record where the person disappeared, and when he looks at them one by one, these missing persons have everything in common, and there is nothing in common. Da Yuan flipped through all the missing case files and found no clues, and on this day, the literary and historical officer who managed the case files suddenly said: "I still have a lot of idle case files here, I don't know if you can use them." ”

Da Yuan and the historian went to the warehouse where the sundries were stored, and saw that there were several large bamboo baskets containing case files, all of which were the original oral records of the person who reported the case during the recent trial. Da Yu took a basket of recent records, and Wen Shi admired Da Yuan's intentions in investigating the case, and allowed him to take them home and read them carefully.

When he returned to Song San's house, he sat in the shade of a tree and picked out all the missing and murder case files to check carefully. After reading a few case files, I saw this sentence in one case file: I saw him yesterday, I called him, but he ran away and entered Yanliu Lane. In the case file, the arrester said that the man had died a few days earlier, but the woman had seen the man a few days later.

After reading dozens of case files, another case file mentioned a similar situation, a woman's husband went to look for flowers and asked willows, and did not return home for many days, and then the woman saw her husband's back in Yanliu Lane, and the woman's husband's body was later found in a broken and insincere shape, which seemed to have been eaten by vicious dogs.

Da Yuan noticed the place of Yanliu Lane at this time, and he re-checked dozens of case files, many of which mentioned Yanliu Lane to a greater or lesser extent, and there were many more case files that mentioned a place called Sweet Water Street. Da Yuan picked out these case files related to Sweetwater Street and Smoke Willow Lane, and found that most of the missing persons were young men. Sweetwater Street is the most prosperous place in the city, it is the gathering place of the Jiyuan casino, where there are many murders, and Yanliu Lane is a quiet neighborhood, and there are many officials' mansions, which is a suspicious place.

The next day, Da Yuan took advantage of the time to patrol the streets, walked around Yanliu Lane, and secretly paid attention. There are more than a dozen families in Yanliu Lane, all of whom are local magnates, so there are very few idlers walking around the neighborhood. I didn't see anything unusual for a few days, and this day Da Yuan just walked to Yanliu Lane, and suddenly saw a few guys walking with rice bowls of vegetables, and the last of them was pale. Da Yuan's heart jumped after just one look, the guy's face was extremely abnormal, and there was no trace of anger on the man's body, obviously a dead man.

Da Yuan followed from a distance, and saw the people enter the alley, and at the end, they entered a small and inconspicuous temple.

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