Chapter 453 Keywords of the Murder Case

The guy recovered and began to emphasize his importance. He Lingchuan didn't point it out, just frowned, but General Ling was much more direct: "More than a year? How can the old news of more than a year be related to the present?"

Is this timeline too far?

"Listen, you guys, please listen." Wang Mazi didn't dare to lie any more, "There is a nest of pig demons in the east of Zhitian Township, probably more than a hundred of them. Their land is at the foot of Moon Mountain, and it covers a large area. This is The group of monsters have a bad relationship with the locals and often cause trouble. The townspeople don't like them, but there is nothing they can do about them. This group of monsters has lived under the Moon Mountain for more than a hundred years and is much older than the others. They’ve been around since before.”

"Then?" He Lingchuan knew that although Bejia Country is known as a place where monsters and humans live together, in fact, most monsters are still accustomed to living in separate ethnic groups, with clear boundaries between them and humans.

This is the natural racial gap. For example, the old sheep next to me wanted to live with his tribe in the territory near the county seat, but did not want to live in the city.

"Last winter, there was a sudden landslide in Moon Mountain, which seemed to have buried their nest." Wang Mazi said, "But no one went into the mountain at that time, so no one knew about it. When the snow melts next year, people from Zhitian Township will go into the mountain. Only then did we realize that the mountain collapsed and the monster’s lair was destroyed.”

He Lingchuan couldn't help but frown: "What kind of disappearance case is this?" Isn't it just an ordinary human tragedy?

"I have a companion who is from Zhitian Township. When I was hired to clean up the landslide, I found that the corpses of pigs in the nest were all piled up together, as if they died in a group, and only the bones were left." Wang Mazi said, " There were hundreds of them in such a large nest. Not long after, someone in the town was attacked by the Pig Demon, one was killed and one was injured. The government was alerted and sent people down, but no trace of them was found after more than a month of searching. Just let it go.”

After hearing this, He Lingchuan said: "This old news seems to have nothing to do with what happened in Niutoushan."

Wang Mazi's face fell: "Even if they were crushed to death... Sir, do you know that pigs never like to be crowded together, especially when there are hundreds of them?"

He knew that the more he contributed, the greater his chances of survival. On the contrary, it is a dead end.

"It's usually hard for others to imagine how a creature reacts when faced with a desperate situation." He Lingchuan turned around and said, "You said you encountered a ghost on the way back to Shuangyi Town and walked to Guantian inexplicably?"

"Yes, it is!"

He Lingchuan nodded: "Then you have been tricked." The Ghost Wall is also commonly known as the ecstasy array. Its basic function is to make people dizzy and take random detours.

The formation must be arranged in advance.

Someone set up a enchantment array on their way home in advance to induce these country people to go to Guantian and provoke the wind beast.

"Who gave you this plan to steal goods?"

"My cousin Wang Ling." Wang Mazi said, "He told us that a group of geese came to Wudou Town. They were unfamiliar with the place and the goods were very good. As long as the robbery is successful, I will be given two or two of them this time. Two taels of silver!"

He further explained: "Lengtou Goose refers to foreigners who don't know what's going on here."

"Wang Ling is dead?"

Wang Mazi nodded, with no sadness on his face, only anger: "You deserve it. I sprained my foot that night, and he didn't stay to help me!"

"Where did his news come from?"

"I'm not sure, but it might be in a gambling house." Wang Mazi said, "He runs there when he has money."

He Lingchuan thought for a while: "So, what about the target of your theft, that gang of geese? How much information do you remember?"

"Uh..." Wang Mazi has already replayed this matter in his mind countless times, "It's a small caravan, with only more than thirty people and ten trucks. We stole two of them, which were filled with chewing tobacco. , and there were more than a dozen bamboo tubes stuffed with saltpeter. Wang Ling accidentally opened one, causing the carriage to freeze. "

He Lingchuan rubbed his temples: "How dare you touch the merchants who smuggle chewing tobacco and saltpeter?"

Chewing tobacco is an ultra-high-profit commodity. The Bega Kingdom only allows official monopoly, and private smuggling is a serious crime. As for saltpeter, it is an important military resource and one of the basic raw materials for making gunpowder. How can private and commercial smuggling be allowed?

"Occasionally...someone gets lucky." Wang Mazi said firmly, "We have all seen it before, and..."

"Stealed too?"

Wang Mazi shrank his head and looked at Jiao Yu and General Ling beside him. Seeing that they didn't express their opinions, he acquiesced.

Yes, there are people involved in the beheading business, and it’s even more wild in this small place. Chewing tobacco and saltpeter are both small in size. After everyone steals it, they will share it. Each person only takes a little and sells it, and the stolen goods can be sold quickly.

They are local gangsters and have their own way.

"Aren't you also engaged in beheading business?" He Lingchuan looked at him with a half-smile, "What do you remember about these merchants? The more detailed the better."

"The leader is probably in his early forties, neither short nor fat, with a neatly trimmed beard. He wears a jade ring on his ring finger. On his neck -" he pointed to his neck to show He Lingchuan, "there is a flesh-colored mole."

"When you visited the location, did you hear them say where their destination was?"

Wang Mazi thought for a long time: "No, no?"

"Okay, let's go back." While He Lingchuan was interrogating Wang Mazi, the goshawk and the wind drill beast brought by General Ling went to search the valley, but in the end they returned without success.

The murderer's ability to clean up the aftermath is top-notch, and he can't find any useful clues if he continues to stay here.

…

After returning to the inn, He Lingchuan took out Fu Shanji's information again to see if he had missed anything.

The Chiyan Kingdom is so big that looking for a missing bird is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Before He Lingchuan set out, Li Qingge shared the newly obtained intelligence with him:

A month ago, Beijia suffered a setback on the eastern front.

It is said that it was because the two armies commanded by Beijia did not coordinate in time that a major tactical mistake occurred and the opponent seized the opportunity.

Yes, one of the teams was the army of the Chiyan Kingdom.

Considering the anger of the Emperor, He Lingchuan could easily guess that perhaps the disappearance of the white-shouldered eagle caused the information of the coordinated operation to fail to reach the Chiyan Kingdom in time, resulting in huge losses on the battlefield.

Lingxu City would certainly not tolerate such a thing.

He was very curious about the source of the information, but Li Qingge obviously would not reveal it.

On the information collected from various places, Fu Shanji also wrote a few keywords in red pen:

The first word -

Rainy night!

He was very careful and found the common point of the missing cases in various places, that is, they all happened on rainy nights.

He Lingchuan recalled that the day when the mountain goat was almost stolen, it was indeed raining all night, and it stopped after the hour of the ox.

Why do these people only go out on rainy nights?

The second key word summed up by Fushanji is "countryside".

These missing cases all happened in the suburbs and mountains, far away from the city.

Humans have the habit of living in groups, while many monsters like to travel alone and stay away from human settlements. If these murderers specifically choose the suburbs, then more monsters will be killed than humans.

This also shows the murderer's caution.

Then the third key word is "multiple places at the same time".

Comparing the time and space of the individual cases, some cases happened very close, only one or two days apart, but the crime scene was very far away, more than a hundred miles apart.

The murderer traveled a hundred miles away to commit another crime within a dozen hours. What's the purpose of this?

After experiencing the sheep stealing incident, He Lingchuan was more inclined to believe that these people were likely to act separately and in groups.

That is to say, this is probably a cross-regional gang!

Fu Shanji's inference is just so much. Maybe he didn't find any new clues, or maybe Fu Shanyue gave him a blow at this time...

According to He Lingchuan's opinion, Fu Shanji's top-down investigation method is doomed to yield nothing.

What is the efficiency of the government? An old ox can pull a broken cart faster than it, not to mention all kinds of omissions.

If only the government's manpower and information are used, the day of solving the case is far away.

Let alone the motive, the location of the other party's crime, the target chosen, the timing of the attack... If you can't find the pattern, you can't catch this group of people.

Their actions are really secretive. If it weren't for the Lingxu City messenger being involved this time, I'm afraid no one would have noticed these scattered disappearances.

Let alone the Monster Country, even if a few villagers occasionally disappear in various parts of the Yuan Country, it's common and not worth mentioning.

These days, there are too many reasons for the disappearance of living people and monsters.

Should he go to Wudou Town where Wang Mazi and others were set up to see what was going on?

He Lingchuan was still thinking hard, but there was a pecking sound on the window.

He got up and opened the window, and saw more than a dozen crows standing outside.

"What's going on?"

The largest crow poked its head in to take a look, and confirmed that the goshawk was not inside, so it boldly jumped in and took two steps:

"Are you still studying the strange things in Niutou Mountain?"

He Lingchuan nodded: "Do you have any new clues?"

"That depends on what reward you offer." The crow said casually, "No reward, no clues!"

He had been dealing with this kind of creature since Sanxinyuan, and knew that they were typical bandit characters, bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

"Can you name a price for me?"

"Three hundred kilograms of beef and mutton and one hundred Baoling Pills per month!" The crow came after thinking it over. "Also, we want the forest south of Shuangyi Town as our habitat. No other birds are allowed to build nests except the crows!"

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "I am the prince's special envoy. You see me as if you saw him in person. How dare you ask for such a high price?"

"The prince is so rich that even a hair he plucks is thicker than our thighs!" The crow sneered, "A few hundred kilograms of meat and a hundred pills per month are not a problem at all!"

"That's true." As soon as the voice fell, He Lingchuan pursed his lips and blew a whistle, then stretched out his hand and flicked it.

A stream of energy swept over and closed the window.

This separated the crow leader from a dozen of his men.

The big crow did not attack He Lingchuan when it saw that the situation was not good, but just hit the window paper, trying to escape through the window.

He Lingchuan predicted accurately and cast a net right in front of it, as if the crow was walking into a trap.