Dafeng Night Watchman-Chapter 537 - Bloody Case

The rain flowed down the eaves, forming intermittent water curtains, which were blown by the cold wind and hit the ground obliquely like flying flowers and broken jade.

Xiangzhou is located in the southwest. It is cold and dry in winter. When it rains, it is cold and damp, and the coldness penetrates into the bones.

Everyone sat around the campfire. There was plenty of firewood, and the flames dispelled the coldness of the rainy night.

"The demon-slaying meeting convened by Aunt Chai?"

Li Lingsu's expression suddenly became strange, and he asked: "The demon-slaying meeting, who to kill? Did something happen to the Chai family?"

Xu Qian'an fiddled with the campfire and suddenly understood why Tianzong wanted to capture the Holy Son and the Holy Daughter together.

Li Miaozhen's chivalry may not be wrong in the eyes of Tianzong. Her real fault lies in her inflated sense of justice and being trapped by "love".

Similarly, Li Lingsu's real fault is not that he sleeps with women everywhere. If the Holy Son is ruthless, Tianzong may not bother to care about his trivial matters.

His fault is that he has feelings for every woman he has taught.

As soon as he heard that it was related to the Chai family, the boy couldn't sit still.

"Brother, aren't you from Zhangzhou?"

Feng Xiu asked with some surprise. .

Xiangzhou is a prefecture under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou. She directly pointed out that he was not from Zhangzhou. Does this mean that the so-called "Demon Slaughtering Conference" is no longer limited to Xiangzhou, but is known to everyone in the whole Zhangzhou?

Xu Qian'an came to a corresponding conclusion, and then heard Li Lingsu's answer with a smile:

"Our destination is Yongzhou, and we are just passing through Xiangzhou. We don't know much about the things here."

Feng Xiu nodded suddenly, looked at Li Lingsu's handsome face calmly, and said:

"More than half a month ago, a big thing happened in the Chai family. The head of the family, Chai Jianyuan, was killed in the mansion. The murderer was his adopted son Chai Xian. After killing his adoptive father who was very kind to him, he went crazy and killed dozens of people in the mansion. He killed all the way out and has not been heard from since then."

"Chai Xian..."

Li Lingsu murmured this name, as if he was not unfamiliar with this person.

Xu Qianan added a piece of firewood and said with a smile: "From what the young lady said, this Chai Xian is still in Zhangzhou and has not left?"

This man is very perceptive...... Feng Xiu was a little surprised and said softly:

"Your Excellency is right. After Chai Xian killed someone, he not only did not flee Zhangzhou, but claimed that he was wronged and framed. He threatened to investigate the matter and clear his name.

"But later, murders frequently occurred in various parts of Zhangzhou, especially in Xiangzhou. Some people saw him killing people and refining corpses with their own eyes. At first, he killed people from the underworld, and later even ordinary people suffered from his murderous hands. The Xiangzhou government began to intervene in the matter.

"Aunt Chai took the opportunity to convene a "Demon Slaughtering Conference" and called on people from all over Zhangzhou to go to Xiangzhou and join the government to fight against Chai Xian."

Wang Jun, who was dressed in black, snorted coldly: "The evil demons and heretics who harmed the people should be killed by everyone."

The scholar Lu Wei remained silent and quietly moved closer to the crowd.

Xu Qianan took off the water bag, drank a sip, and added some water to the little white fox's bowl. It stretched out its pink little tongue and licked silently.

The little white fox was reserved and elegant, with bright fur and spotless. In addition, it was small and cute, which could most arouse a woman's heart.

Feng Xiu stared at it and said happily: "What a beautiful little fox, can I hold it?"

The little white fox raised its head and was about to say: No!

Mu Nanzhi took the lead and picked it up, blocked its mouth, and said lightly: "No!"

Feng Xiu looked disappointed.

Wang Jun, who was dressed in black, saw that the woman he liked had hit a snag, and snorted: "It's just a fox, what's so rare, Sister Feng, wait until the rain stops tomorrow, I will go to the mountain to catch one for you."

Feng Xiu shook her head: "Forget it, no need to bother."

She just thought the little white fox was cute and wanted to hold it, but if she really wanted to keep one by her side, she didn't have the energy and interest.

As she spoke, she subconsciously glanced at Li Lingsu again, and happened to meet his eyes. This elegant and handsome man actually flirted with her.

Feng Xiu immediately looked away, her heart was beating wildly, and her face was burning.

Oh, my damn charm... Li Lingsu sighed, like a peerless strong man who was lonely at the top.

Then, he heard Xu Qian's voice transmission: "Is that aunt of the Chai family your lover?"

How do you know... Li Lingsu was dumbfounded and almost blurted out a question.

"I don't remember saying it." He replied by voice transmission.

"You heard about the bloody case of the Chai family, but you were only surprised and not worried, which means that you are sure that your lover is not a surprise. So I guess it was the aunt of the Chai family who initiated the call." Xu Qian'an said.

"Senior is very observant!" Li Lingsu said by voice transmission.

"What do you think of this case?" Xu Qian'an asked by voice transmission.

Li Lingsu fell into memories and said leisurely:

"I once traveled to Zhangzhou with Junior Sister Miaozhen and met the Chai family by chance. The leader at that time was a woman with a sad face like a lilac, which made people feel pity.

"Zhangzhou has a well-developed water system. We met on a cruise ship. In the early spring of that year, there was apricot blossom and light rain. She was wearing a water-green long skirt and holding an oil-paper umbrella, standing by the boat watching the rain.

"She had just lost her husband and was depressed. I invited her to drink to relieve her sorrow. At first, she ignored me and was cold to me. Later, she was annoyed and even spoke ill of me."

Mourning, losing your husband? What's the difference between you and Cao the thief? !

Xu Qian'an was shocked.

"Later, she said that there was a Thousand Absolute Valley in Zhangzhou, and there was a pair of strange beasts in the valley, the male and female never separated. There was a strange flower called "White Head" growing near their nest. If you could get that flower, you could stay with the person you love for the rest of your life and grow old together.

"If I could pick that flower, she would drink with me."

Hearing this, Xu Qian'an nodded slowly: "You got that flower, so you captured the heart of the beauty?"

The Holy Son shook his head:

"There is indeed a pair of strange beasts in the Thousand Absolute Valley, they are extremely ferocious, with the blood of gods and demons, let alone the fifth-grade, even the fourth-grade masters can't deal with them. There is no such flower near the nest of the male and female beasts, she lied to me.

"But I still went there, fought a big battle with the two beasts, plucked one of their tail feathers, and escaped with serious injuries. I found her, gave her the tail feather, and then left."

Leaving now? It's different from what I thought... Xu Qian'an frowned and said in a voice transmission: "What happened next?"

Li Lingsu chuckled twice and said in a voice transmission:

"She chased me out and asked me, with tears in her eyes, why did I do this, knowing that there were no so-called exotic flowers in the valley and knowing that she was lying to me. Why did I risk my life?

"I said: Beautiful girl, loving you is my lifelong belief; entering your heart is my dream desire; this feeling from the heart will not change because of the river diversion, nor will it be buried because of the collapse of the mountain.

"Even if it's a little joke of yours, I am willing to try it with my life. Unfortunately, my girl, I can't enter your heart. So, I want to leave here and go far away.

"She threw herself into my arms regardless of everything..."

Good guy, may I ask if Tianzong still accepts disciples? I want to go there for further study for a few years... Xu Qian'an interrupted with a cold voice transmission:

"Enough, let's talk about business. "

Li Lingsu ended the topic with a lingering feeling, and said in a voice transmission:

"I have met Chai Xian several times. He is a kind-hearted person, not like a thief who would kill his father and relatives. There may be a hidden story..."

He hesitated.

Xu Qian'an, who was full of thoughts of killing his father, said: "If you have something to say, just say it."

"I want to go to Chai's house to see her and learn about the case." Li Lingsu tried.

Xu Qian gave him the feeling that he was gentle but also cold. He didn't seem like the kind of person who would meddle in other people's business, so he couldn't guess what he was thinking.

Xu Qian nodded: "No more than three days. "

He actually agreed... Li Lingsu was delighted.

........

The night deepened, and the rain fell.

Everyone sat cross-legged or lay on their sides, resting in the cold night.

The bonfire dimmed, and the red charcoal emitted heat, trying to dispel the cold.

In the silent night, the weak firelight distorted the shadows. In the corner of the south wall, the coffin board of the old coffin was slowly opened in the silent darkness.

A blue-black hand stretched out from the coffin, with black nails, pressing on the edge of the coffin.

"Clang! "

After a few seconds of silence, the coffin lid flew up and fell heavily to the ground with a loud noise.

A figure stood up straight from the coffin, and his knees seemed unable to bend.

The loud noise woke up the people who were staying overnight in the deserted temple. Wang Jun, a man in black tights, and Feng Xiu, who was good at shorts, woke up first and subconsciously grabbed the weapons beside them.

"Clang! "

The swords were unsheathed at the same time.

Mu Nanzhi had been traveling for several days and was exhausted. After being woken up, he rubbed his eye circles and opened his eyes.

I saw Wang Jun and Feng Xiu holding weapons, facing the coffin in the south with their backs to the crowd. In the creepy coffin, there stood a figure. He was hidden in the darkness, and only a rough outline could be seen.

The two sides seemed to be confronting each other.

At this time, the figure in the coffin gently jumped out of the coffin. His jumping posture was very strange, and his knees seemed not to bend, and he jumped straight.

The firelight illuminated the man's appearance, white pupils, blue-black skin and flesh cloth Full of ulcers, sparse hair, tattered clothes, a stench of corpses hits the face.

This is not a person, it is clearly a corpse, a moving corpse.

Mu Nanzhi's pupils are slightly dilated, her expression is frozen, and after a few seconds, she screams at a high decibel.

"Ah....."

The little white fox also screams like a young girl, stands up, hugs Xu Qian'an's calf with its two front paws, and trembles.

The scream seems to stimulate it, it lets out a creepy roar, and its legs bounce, and it pounces on everyone.

The scholar Lu Wei screams and runs away to the corner in fear.

"It's a blood corpse!"

Wang Jun, who was dressed in black, roared and slashed his long sword vertically, trying to cut the blood corpse in half.

"A blood corpse is an evil creature that survives by swallowing the essence and blood of living people. Above the blood corpse is the iron corpse, and the defense of the iron corpse is equivalent to the copper skin and iron bones of the sixth grade. The ancestors of the Chai family relied on thirteen iron corpses to fight against Xiangzhou."

Li Lingsu explained in a voice transmission.

The blood corpse closed its hands and clamped the blade. Wang Jun pulled it hard several times, but he couldn't pull it out.

The power of this blood corpse was far beyond his imagination.

Feng Xiujiao scolded, took two steps quickly, and kicked the blood corpse in the chest. Bang! A cloud of dust exploded.

The blood corpse's body shrank like a shrimp, but its feet were firmly rooted and did not move at all.

The next second, it stood up and shook Feng Xiu away. Then, it swung its arms sideways and swept Wang Jun away.

The two young men and women fell in different directions, groaning in pain.

Wang Jun was hit in the arm by the blood corpse, and his upper arm bone was fractured. He endured the pain, and while breathing to relieve it, he picked up his sword and was about to continue fighting. Suddenly, his legs softened and his dantian was twisted like a knife.

"Ah..."

On the other side, Feng Xiu seemed to have encountered a similar situation. His face was pale and weak due to the pain.

Poisoned... Wang Jun's heart trembled and he immediately understood his situation.

"Brother Wang, Miss Feng, you are indeed a master from a famous sect. You were poisoned by my soft muscle powder, and it has only taken effect now."

In the corner, the scholar Lu Wei walked out of the shadow with a smile and came to the campfire.

His face was handsome, but he was no longer gentle as before. Under the light of the fire, he even looked a little hideous.

"It's you?!"

Feng Xiu was shocked and did not expect things to develop like this.

"You are the one who raises corpses. No wonder you didn't let me chop the coffin just now, because I didn't have the chance to poison it?"

Wang Jun stood up shakily with his knife, his face livid.

Lv Wei nodded and said, "That's right, my blood corpse is not yet mature. Although it is no problem to kill you two, it can't catch up with you if you want to escape."

"Why did you do this?"

Feng Xiu's cultivation is not as good as Wang Jun's, and he can't stand up.

Lv Wei was about to answer when he heard the man in green sitting cross-legged beside the bonfire, unable to move, say:

"Of course it is to sacrifice the blood corpse and improve the cultivation."

Lv Wei looked at him for a few times, confirmed that he was just an ordinary person and posed no threat, and said with a smile: "That's right."

Xu Qian'an said again: "So you disguised yourself as a scholar, wandered around nearby, and deceived passers-by? Seeing that there were a lot of bonfire ashes before, I think you must have harmed a lot of people."

Feng Xiu and Wang Jun's faces suddenly became ugly. They were the passers-by who were deceived.

Lv Wei smiled and looked at the man in green again.

"There are frequent deaths on this road, and the government doesn't care?" Li Lingsu poked the bonfire and asked.

"The present is different from the past. Chai Xian is killing people and refining corpses everywhere, causing a great disturbance in the city. We are just following him to get some benefits. Anyway, the blame will be put on him in the end."

Lv Wei's eyes were gloomy, and he seemed unwilling to talk nonsense. He said, "Let's eat you ordinary people first."

Controlling the blood corpse, he walked towards Li Lingsu.

Why was I the first person to die? Was it because I was too handsome?

Li Lingsu was a little angry.

"Ordinary people's blood and essence are not very useful, but over time, they can also accumulate into a lot. I see that you are in good health, and your blood and qi are extremely vigorous among ordinary people."

While Lv Wei was speaking, the blood corpse had bounced in front of Li Lingsu, opened its smelly mouth, and bit the Holy Son fiercely.

Li Lingsu shook his head, dodged sideways, stood up, took off the jade hairpin that tied his hair, and threw it gently.

The jade hairpin shot out like lightning, piercing half of the blood corpse's face. The tip of the hairpin pierced an ugly black poisonous insect, which seemed to be given life. It turned and returned to Li Lingsu.

The blood corpse staggered forward two steps, fell to the ground, and there was no sound.

"What?!"

Lv Wei's eyes almost popped out of his sockets. He had worked hard for several years to cultivate the blood corpse, which was more powerful than the Qi training realm, but it was so easy to be broken by the other party.

Shock, astonishment, and disbelief first surged, followed by fear and anxiety, and cold sweat poured out.

Obviously, he met a real master.

Maybe the next moment, he will become a corpse like the blood corpse.

Feng Xiu and Wang Jun were saved from a desperate situation, and they were surprised, happy and confused. However, compared with Wang Jun, who was full of joy because he escaped from death, the beautiful Feng girl looked at Li Lingsu infatuatedly.

It turns out he is so powerful...

Xu Qian'an waved his hand, took the jade hairpin, stared at the poisonous insect on the tip of the hairpin, and shook his head:

"It's a mutated corpse poisonous insect, not authentic enough."

As he spoke, Lv Wei's expression went through a series of changes, and finally he made up his mind and rushed out of the ruined temple at a very fast speed, trying to escape.

"Swish!"

The jade hairpin whistled out, piercing the chest of the scholar Lv Wei, bringing out a stream of bright red blood, and the man fell to the ground.

Feng Xiu and Wang Jun, who witnessed Lv Wei being killed like a piece of grass, took a deep breath, suppressed the complex emotions surging in their hearts, and said respectfully:

"Thank you two seniors for saving my life."

Xu Qian'an threw a piece of firewood into the fire and sighed: "Is Xiangzhou so chaotic now?"

Feng Xiu pursed her lips, "When I was in the sect, I only heard that Chai Xian was in Xiangzhou and other counties were causing chaos and making it difficult to rest. Now it seems that some of these murders were caused by people like Lv Wei who were not upright.

"My brother Wang and I trusted the wrong person. If the two seniors were not in the temple today, I am afraid we would not be able to survive."

She thanked him for saving her life again, but her eyes were focused on Li Lingsu most of the time, thinking that this handsome man was the core of the small team.

Li Lingsu nodded slightly: "Deal with the blood corpse, continue to rest, and wait for tomorrow to set off. "

Mu Nanzhi watched Wang Jun drag the blood corpse away, turned his head in fear, and glared at Xu Qi'an:

"Did you know that there was a ghost in the coffin a long time ago?"

Xu Qi'an shook his head:

"I don't know, but there is definitely something strange about placing a coffin in a dilapidated temple. People often stop here to rest. The tables were chopped into firewood and burned, but the coffin was intact. Such a big flaw was revealed at a glance."

As for later, the scholar secretly threw the smoke into the bonfire, which could not be hidden from him as a poison expert.

Mu Nanzhi snorted, hugged Bai Ji and lay down, facing Xu Qi'an sideways, with the curves of his waist and hips extremely moving.

"It's uncomfortable, don't hold me to sleep..."

The little white fox struggled.

Xu Qi'an lay on his side and hugged Mu Nanzhi's slender waist.

Her delicate body stiffened for a moment, but she did not resist or speak.

........

The second Day, early morning.

Mu Nanzhi woke up and found herself curled up in Xu Qi'an's arms. She was frightened last night, so she subconsciously clung to him when she slept again, seeking a sense of security.

She looked like an unmarried girl, her face slightly red, but she was trying hard to pretend that nothing had happened.

Not long after, everyone woke up one after another. Xu Qi'an boiled a pot of hot water, first gave each person a bowl of hot water to cool steamed buns, and then used the remaining hot water to brush their teeth and clean their faces.

Everyone set off together. On the way, Xu Qi'an asked:

"What special food does Xiangzhou have?"

Li Lingsu thought for a while and said, "The bacon is good. When we enter the city, I will take you to taste it."

Xu Qi'an looked at Mu Nanzhi and saw that she was interested, so he smiled and said, "Okay. "

Feng Xiu and Wang Jun followed behind him somewhat stiffly, not daring to speak actively. When they heard Li Lingsu respectfully address the man in green, they looked at each other in surprise.

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He addressed the man as a senior, and his attitude was quite respectful...Feng Xiu's round eyes widened slightly. Could it be that she guessed wrong, and the man in green was the core figure?

Before noon, the group arrived at Xiangzhou City. The city wall was three feet high, and there were few pedestrians, dressed in ordinary clothes, and rarely saw people in bright clothes and riding horses.

Xiangzhou was not rich, and was even worse than Leizhou, which was located on the border.

After entering the city, Feng Xiu and Wang Jun said goodbye and left.

Li Lingsu led the way, and Xu Qian'an led the mare, following behind with a "da da da" sound. Half an hour later, they stopped outside a large manor.

A plaque with the words "Chai Mansion" was hung on the red lacquered gate.

The young and strong doorman came up and bowed, saying, "Which sect do you belong to? "

Li Lingsu replied: "No sect or school."

"Do you have an invitation?"

"No." Li Lingsu shook his head.

The doorman frowned and was about to speak when he heard the handsome young man say:

"Chai Xing'er and I are old friends. Go in and inform us that Li Lingsu wants to see you."