Chapter 2 Tragedy

noon.

East of Wuyang City, Qi Mansion.

A group of guards sealed the gate of the Qi mansion, and no one else was allowed to approach. From a distance, one could see a trace of panic on the faces of these guards.

The ones who actually entered and exited the courtyard of the Qi mansion were a group of Xuanqing guards wearing black brocade robes with goose spine knives pinned to their waists.

With a gloomy face, Shen Hao quickly stepped into the Qi mansion with his hands behind his back, and the school order beside him followed him to introduce the situation inside.

"The person who reported the case was the old man Zeng who collected Yexiang from the east side of the city. According to him, he came to Qi Mansion to collect Yexiang from the first day according to the rules at Yinzheng time, but he waited for a long time at the back door but no waiter opened the door, and then he went up and knocked I went through the door, only to find that the back door was ajar, and when I pushed it open, I saw a thigh lying on the ground."

"The first batch of people who entered the scene were three on-duty servants from the county government office. According to them, they entered the Qi mansion through the back door after receiving the report. When they reached the side hall, they dared not go any further and retreated in fright. come out."

"Then these three guards reported the matter to Xuanqingwei through the county government on the grounds that the "big case is strange""

As soon as Shen Hao stepped into the Qi Mansion, he subconsciously paused, and muttered: "What a strong fishy smell!"

Passing through the entrance, you can see the source of the fishy smell: torn corpses scattered on the ground, potted plants, flowers and plants

The human heads were piled up into a Jingguan, and placed in the middle of the most conspicuous atrium behind the porch.

"Is there anyone alive?"

"There are a total of sixty-one members of the Qi family, including the maids and handymen, and there is no one alive. They are all here."

"Tsk, Miemen." Shen Hao frowned slightly, looking at Jing Guan in front of him, he understood that he had encountered a difficult case again this time. After a moment of silence, he continued to ask, "Have you found the warehouse?"

"I found it. The Qi family is in the cloth business. The stall is huge and the family's wealth is rich. After a rough count, the cash in the warehouse alone is no less than one million taels."

"Huh? What you mean is that there is no loss of property in the warehouse?"

"Yes, when we found it, the lock on the warehouse door was intact, there was no trace of man-made damage, and the belongings inside were also stacked in an orderly manner without any sign of being searched or moved. And I found a running account book from the accountant of the Qi Mansion. It contains the latest The balance of the warehouse is basically consistent with the amount of property we have initially counted in the warehouse."

Shen Hao frowned again, killing people without asking for money?

Passing through the atrium and entering the main room, the inside is even more gloomy. Even at noon, people can't help but feel chills on the back: arms of different sizes are neatly stacked on the Eight Immortals table in the main room, There was a large pool of blood dripping down the table.

"Xiao Qi, we found the evil spirit on this table."

Shen Hao nodded when he heard the words, moved to the table of the Eight Immortals, and took out a regular hexagonal formation disk from his arms, engraved with complicated patterns on it, it was the "chasing evil disk" commonly seen in Xuanqing Guard.

Slightly agitating the true energy in his body, bursts of faint light lit up on the evil chasing plate in Shen Hao's hand, and after flickering for a while, it returned to calm again.

"Huh? Third-rank evil spirit?" Shen Hao is familiar with every change on the evil-chasing disk. The flickering just now told him that there is indeed a small amount of evil energy left around the Eight Immortals table in front of him, and it was left by the third-rank evil spirit.

Shen Hao frowned, and asked, "Are there any records of third-grade evil spirits around Wuyang City?"

"No. The subordinates also find it strange that if a third-rank evil spirit enters the city, only one Qi family will suffer."

"There is nothing wrong with chasing evil disks. Is there anything else strange about it?"

"Yes, in the side hall and kitchen."

"This... is the kitchen?" Shen Hao boasted that he was used to big scenes, but when he walked into the back kitchen of Qi Mansion, he still felt a bit bitter in his throat and writhing in his stomach.

"Xiao Qi, before I did this, vomit, I came here, the offal here is all, all human internal organs, poof." Even though the school order had come here once, the scene in front of him was too bloody, which made him stop talking. Retching.

Shen Hao patted the school order on the shoulder understandingly, indicating that the other party could go out and wait for him, but he frowned and began to investigate carefully in the back kitchen.

"Mismatched corpses, siege, separated organs, and arms... It does look like those evil styles."

The evil chasing plate was used again, and after a while, the evil chasing plate showed that this place was the same as the evil spirit in the main room before, although it was very faint, it was indeed left by a third-grade evil spirit.

"A third-grade evil spirit really slipped into the city? But"

Shen Hao looked at the evil chasing disk in his hand and felt a little puzzled. Although I firmly believe that there will be no mistakes in chasing evil disks, but as the previous school order said, things like evil spirits are dishonest, and they can even be called crazy.

"Um?"

Shen Hao squatted down suddenly, and then pulled out the goose spine knife at his waist. With a flash of light, he picked out a fingernail-sized flake from the pool of blood on the ground.

"This is."

Although it was soaked in blood and had already turned black, Shen Hao could still tell that the sheet was a scrap of paper, to be precise, it was a piece of scrap of paper that hadn't burnt out.

Burning paper in the kitchen?

Walking to the side of the water tank, holding the knife, dipped the scraps of paper on the tip of the knife in the water tank to lighten the red and black blood stains on it, and then pulled the corner of Shen Hao's mouth upwards.

"It's interesting if it's a talisman."

After leaving the back kitchen, Shen Hao went to a side hall of Qi Mansion.

The scene in the side hall was equally horrifying. Feet of different sizes were torn off and laid on the floor of the side hall like floor tiles. There was a creepy sense of coordination in the blink of an eye.

"Xiao Qi, check and confirm that there are exactly sixty-one pairs of feet here, and they should belong to the sixty-one members of the Qi family just like the hands in the main room before. Tsk, these evil spirits are so frankly disgusting!" Turning pale, he cursed softly.

"Disgusting? Haha, it's a little bit, but it's not like I haven't seen something more disgusting. On the contrary, I think that many things people do are more disgusting than evil spirits." Shen Hao shook his head with a smile, and walked into the side hall first.

Sixty-one feet sounds like a lot, but in fact it can't cover much of the place, not to mention that the Qi family's side hall is not small, only the one in the middle is covered.

Compared with the previous discovery in the back kitchen, there is nothing worth investigating in this side hall except for the faint evil spirit that was also sensed by the evil chasing plate.

"Xiao Qi, that's how evil spirits are found in the three places in Qi Mansion. Do you have any other orders?"

"Prince Wang, do you feel that there is something missing in this mansion?"

"Ah? This subordinate doesn't know."

"Blood."

"What?"

"Don't you think there is too little blood in the Qi Mansion?"

Shen Hao pointed to the mottled blood remaining on the ground and continued: "From the moment we entered the door, the scene in the Qi Mansion looked extremely tragic and bloody, but didn't you notice it? Although the scene here was tragic, no matter whether it was the Jing Guan at the door and the The arm table, or the organs in the back kitchen, or the footboard in this side hall, actually did not meet the expected amount of bleeding."

The school order was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, then thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Yes! It is said in the "Segmentation of People" in the guard that if all the blood of an adult is released, there will be seven to ten blood. Two catties, the amount of blood is different between men and women, and it has something to do with weight. If this is the case, the sixty-one members of the Qi family should have at least four hundred catties of blood? Why should there be 300 catties of blood, but here seems to be far less than 300 catties of blood!"