Chapter 10 The Corpse Pit

Generally speaking, encountering a big case means encountering a big opportunity, but also a big risk.

There are also ways to reduce the risk. You only need to hand over the case or hand it over to the higher authorities, but doing so is also equivalent to giving up the opportunity to be accompanied.

If you don't fight for breath in your life, you have to fight for a profit, right? Chen Tianwen's choice was to put the treasure on Shen Hao, firstly, he could afford to lose even if he lost, and secondly, he believed in Shen Hao's ability.

For a little monk with no background to be able to climb all the way to Xiaoqi's position in a place like Xuanqingwei where the relationship is intricate, it is already very self-explanatory.

And Shen Hao also knew what Chen Tianwen's plan was, and he also had the same plan.

Once the case is solved, as the handler, what benefits will Shen Hao lose?

"It would be great if I could get two more Small Peiyuan Pills." On the way back, Shen Hao couldn't help feeling a burst of expectation in his heart. He didn't notice that when he came out of the teleportation circle, a pair of eyes were looking at him from a distance, full of eyes.

On the afternoon of the third day after the incident.

A hundred Xuanqing guards marched into Wuyang City from Licheng Guards. Not only took over the defense of the two gates of Wuyang City, but also took over the case file room in the yamen of Wuyang City, and began to cooperate with the guards of Wuyang City to carry out a dragnet-style investigation throughout the city.

The large number of Xuanqing Guards stationed in brought an invisible sense of oppression to everyone in Wuyang City, like a shadow, oppressing the whole city. Not only the officials in the large and small yamen of Wuyang City clasped their feet tightly, even the peddlers on the street did not dare to yell loudly as usual.

Wang Jian's efficiency was very high, and he had revealed all the old backgrounds of the Qi family in Wuyang City the next day. What made him very excited was that his guess had made new progress.

From the mouths of several people involved with the Qi family, Wang Jian learned that the Qi family had an unregistered real estate outside the city besides the big cloth stall: a dilapidated Zhuangzi.

No matter what the Qi family is doing behind the scenes, they are a well-known and powerful family in Wuyang City on the surface. How could they buy a useless and abandoned Zhuangzi as a property?

Suspicious in Wang Jian's heart, he took people to the Zhuangzi overnight to check, but as soon as he arrived at the place, Wang Jian felt the chasing disk in his arms shaking violently, so scared that he almost fell off the horse.

"There are evil spirits haunting this place! It's still a third grade!"

After a simple search, Wang Jian did not find the evil in person. After heaved a sigh of relief, he coldly ordered to dig three feet into the ground. He felt an unusual coldness in this old and desolate village, and he could even smell it everywhere. The stench of blood into the air.

As a result, just digging a small yard at random made Wang Jian realize that he had found a great place.

Then Wang Jian immediately asked the rest of the people to seal off the abandoned village, and he himself hurriedly returned to Wuyang City to inform Shen Hao.

It was already late at night when Shen Hao rushed to the abandoned Zhuangzi with fifty Xuanqing guards and a hundred Wuyangcheng guards, but more than a hundred torches illuminated the whole Zhuangzi, especially the one that was destroyed in advance. The small courtyard that was dug up, and the courtyard wall that was pushed down were clearly illuminated, and everyone around looked at it with chills down their spines.

"Is this a burial pit?"

"It's not like, it's such a mess, it's far worse than the burial pits on the battlefield, but it's like, it's like a living pit."

"Living pit? No way. These people must be killed first and then thrown into it in pieces."

"I know, I'm just saying it looks like it."

Those who are less timid are speechless, and even look away.

Those who were more courageous whispered to each other, after all, even Shen Hao, who had been in Xuanqing Guard for eight years, was seeing such a scene for the first time.

I saw a big pit dug out in an abandoned small courtyard with a radius of less than ten feet. The exposed parts in the pit were all hands, feet, or heads of various shapes, broken, and none of them were complete.

These corpses were piled up in the soil like rubbish, with the same degree of decay, presumably they were buried here at the same time.

Shen Hao frowned and took out his evil chasing plate, pumped his true energy, and took it back after a while, knowing in his heart that there were indeed third-grade evil spirits haunting this place as Wang Jian said.

Only Shen Hao's nearest Wang Jian was a little surprised, he clearly felt that the true essence of his little banner officer just now was not the fifth level of Qi refining. This, is this a breakthrough? !

Shen Hao didn't bother to worry about what Wang Jian was thinking. After putting away the evil chasing dish, he looked at the corpse in the pit and said in a deep voice, "Let the brothers start digging, the whole abandoned village is full of stench, and the soil can't cover the smell. , I'm afraid it's not just this one pit."

"Yes, Xiaoqi." Wang Jian waved his hand back while responding.

An hour flies.

Most of the diggers were strong men from Xuan Qingwei. These killers have already stepped into the threshold of monks. In terms of strength alone, they are much stronger than ordinary people, so the shovels are so fast that they dug up almost all the abandoned things in the village. The courtyards turned out as Shen Hao expected, there was a large corpse pit under each courtyard.

Not to mention that there were more than a thousand corpses excavated, and each pit was only dug a shallow layer, and the corpses were not dug deep, so the actual number of corpses is likely to be much more than what can be seen.

"Xiao Qi, I think these corpses should be those apprentices who "disappeared"."

Wang Jian's analysis is well-founded, because there are obvious differences in the degree of decay of the corpses in so many corpse pits. The ones that have been around for a long time have become bones, while the ones that are more recent are still growing maggots. This one echoes the large number of apprentices who regularly "leave" in the Qijia cloth stall. You only need to pick up a few corpses that can be distinguished by their appearance and let the master in the cloth stall identify them.

Shen Hao nodded and did not say a word. He knew in his heart that Wang Jian said that there was no need to ask for evidence. These corpses must be those apprentices in the Qi family's cloth stalls. Moreover, the discovery of the corpses seemed to confirm Wang Jian's previous treatment. The Qi family is guessed as a "human blood trafficker". After all, to traffic people's blood, it's not enough to put some blood to raise it, it needs to be drained all at once, and it will kill people.

Seeing that Shen Hao didn't speak, Wang Jian continued: "Xiao Qi, the breath of a third-grade evil spirit was also found here, and it was also not recorded in the files of Wuyang City, which shows that this evil spirit has been lurking, or it is , is it artificially dominated?"

The corners of Wang Jian's mouth trembled slightly when he uttered the words "human domination", and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, for fear that Shen Hao would see his timidity, so he lowered his head slightly.

"You finally thought of this. Two days faster than I expected." Shen Hao smiled rarely, and patted the shoulder of the school commander who was not a few years younger than himself.

"Huh? Xiaoqi, you, you have already thought of it?"

"Hehe, didn't you say that before? It's unreasonable for a third-grade evil spirit to enter the city, but only one Qi family suffers. Either the third-grade evil spirit is not the cause of the problem with the evil chasing disk, or the evil spirit is imprisoned by external forces You have a bloodthirsty instinct. So you should be mentally prepared."

Speaking of this, Shen Hao couldn't help but think of an old saying: Eliminate all possibilities, and whatever remains, no matter how unbelievable, must be the truth.