Chapter 528 Evidence of Murder

"Can you smell anything special?" Xia Fan asked Li Dao.

The fox demon shook his head, "There is a faint smell of blood at the scene, but it does not extend. In addition, there are several kinds of strange scents, but they are basically concentrated in this area."

The scent should come from the perfume worn by the people accompanying the motorcade, he thought to himself. He had noticed it when he was in the market area. People here who were dressed a little more decently would habitually use perfume to cover up their body odor. But after Jing Li's sense of smell was amplified a hundred times, it became a mixed smell.

"The perpetrators were Qi sensers." Qian Yan, who had been watching coldly, suddenly said, "They hid in the woods at first and used long-range magic attacks. The convoy guards were killed with little resistance. As long as they didn't If it’s stained with blood, it won’t bring the smell of blood out of the area.”

Xia Fan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "You seem to be quite experienced in this kind of thing..."

"Anyone who has experienced the destruction of the Yong Dynasty has blood on their hands. I'm afraid I have killed more people than you think." Qian Yan glanced at him, "Why, are you scared?"

"No, I think you're pretty awesome." Xia Fan patted her shoulder.

"..." A thousand words were stagnated.

"In that case, let's go to the woods and have a look." He took the lead towards the dense forest not far away.

The edge of the forest had obviously been searched by people from Azure Castle, and many pointed footprints could be seen in the mud. Most of these marks were left by armored boots. It's just that nothing can be found at the scene, let alone in the forest - the enemy even takes into account the tracking techniques, so naturally they will not let go of simple evidence such as shoe prints.

"It seems that we can only use the detective team's trump card." Xia Fan pondered.

"Why don't you have a trump card? I said from the beginning that Gungun should be let out, but you still have to patrol it yourself first." Li Bai glanced at him, put down the basket in his hand, and took off the cloth cover.

The plump tabby cat suddenly got out of the basket.

"Call all the wild cats nearby and ask them if they have discovered anything unusual." Li said while gesturing.

"Meow!" Gungun shouted, and then ran deep into the forest.

"Does it really understand what you're saying?" Olina asked curiously.

"The spirit doesn't understand human language, but that doesn't prevent it from understanding what I mean." Li explained, "And among the spirits, Gungun is also considered a smart one. As for the wild cats living nearby, he probably understands it as 'getting rid of' Anything but food.”

"Actually, you can try to put a special ending sound after every sentence." Xia Fan said seriously, "This way Gungun will know that your words are specially meant for it. Over time, it may be able to fully understand your words. It’s not necessarily what it means.”

"Tail sound?"

"Such as meow." He coughed twice, "The key point is to establish the corresponding relationship between languages."

"The correspondence...is this like this?" Li tried to say.

Xia Fan felt that the hairs all over his body stood up. This feeling of comfort was simply difficult to describe in words. "Ahem...yes, that's it. Try raising your hand again and tilting your head slightly -"

"Crack!"

Qian Yan directly summoned a piece of ice shard and stuffed it into Xia Fan's mouth.

"This person is not normal again. He is probably the sequelae of listening too much. You don't need to pay attention to it." The living dead said coldly.

"Meow!"

At this time, the first wild cat ran over accompanied by Gungun.

It opened its mouth and spit out a glass ball.

Li picked it up and looked at it, shook his head, but still took out a piece of dried fish from the basket and handed it to Wild Cat.

The latter happily ate it and ran back to the woods.

But Gungun did not move anymore, but squatted down on the spot, as if he was sitting in the center.

After a while, several more wild animals came over, including not only cats, but also dogs and raccoons.

The feeling is that after they confirmed that the strange things they picked up could actually be exchanged for food, they all became "mercenaries".

"Iron can, useless..."

"The glass bottle doesn't seem to have anything to do with the case."

"These seem to be... straw sandals, right?"

Xia Fan picked through the garbage one by one and said - despite the fact that this place is so remote, there are quite a lot of man-made things, and most of them have been abandoned for some time.

"They should be left by the people who lived here before the farmland was completely abandoned." Li squatted beside Xia Fan, distributing food rations to the wild animals, "If we continue searching like this, it will probably take ten days and a half to find any results. ”

"You have to try your luck after all. Can you tell Gungun to tell them to choose something newer as much as possible?"

"Let me try." Li gestured to the fat cat, who tilted his head and thought for a while, howled several times at his "subordinate", and then stretched out his two front paws towards Li.

"What does this mean?" Xia Fan asked softly.

"It said the reward would be doubled," Li replied.

Xia Fan was shocked.

This guy really doesn't understand human language? Why do you feel more clever and cunning than ordinary children? Not only does it understand Li's instructions, but it also realizes that "newer stuff" is harder to obtain, leading to the conclusion that the rewards need to be increased. This kind of profit-seeking thinking ability is already a characteristic of strong intelligence.

After the new directives were issued, the frequency of wildlife visits became much less frequent.

The things he brought back were turned into bags, books and other items.

"Hey, what is that?" Dragon Girl suddenly looked into the dense forest.

There was a rustling sound in the forest.

The other animals fled and disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye.

A black shadow swayed twice, and suddenly jumped out of the woods and appeared in front of everyone - it was clearly a gray wolf, which was surprisingly large. When it stood up, it was probably taller than an adult, and the two sharp teeth on the side of its mouth were almost exposed.

If it were an ordinary person, the first reaction would definitely be to turn around and run away. Unfortunately, there was no ordinary person at the scene, let alone a wolf, even if it was facing a whole pack of wolves, no one was afraid.

The gray wolf seemed to know this. It lowered its head and came to Xia Fan cautiously. It opened its mouth and spit out a ball of broken paper rolls, and then opened its bloody mouth towards Li.

"Ah--!"

The tone rose, clearly with a hint of flattery.

Xia Fan picked up the wet paper roll and spread it out, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "... Give it all the remaining dried fish."

"This thing... looks a little familiar." Olena came over and said.

It's not surprising to be familiar.

Because this is a talisman.

Although only half of it was left, the head and the path of the stroke were still discernible, and it was undoubtedly a talisman.

As a Western envoy who had lived in Shangyuan for several years, it was normal for the Dragon Girl to have an impression of talismans.

"This is a silent note." Qianyan's answer went a step further, "The method of making it is not like the current style, but more like an ancient method. It can completely isolate the sound in an area and maintain it for about a quarter of an hour. With this talisman, it may explain why the Azure Castle was unaware of the attack. When the killing occurred, the screams and wails were limited to a radius of three feet around it."

"You mean... the attackers are using talismans from the East Continent to commit crimes?" Olina said in disbelief.

"So your demon possessors can't find anything, right?" Qianyan curled his lips, "Because this is a murder with a completely different magic system."