Chapter 3 Secret Words

Sixty-one people died, their bodies were mutilated, the scene was brutal, and evil spirits were detected by the evil chasing disk, but the only strange thing was that the amount of bleeding at the scene was far from matching the "sixty-one lives".

"Murdering and dismembering corpses, torturing corpses, these are indeed what evil spirits like to do. But collecting human blood is not."

"Xiaoqi is so keenly aware that his subordinates admire him! So it seems that the lives of the sixty-one members of the Qi family were not caused by evil spirits but by someone else?"

"Oh, Commander Wang, I never said that the deaths of these people had nothing to do with evil spirits. Besides, it's too early to draw conclusions. Let the brothers hurry up and go through the process. Be careful, and don't let go of everything inside and out. Yes. Also, you showed me the scene of the Qi Mansion, except for our Xuan Qingwei brothers, no one is allowed to enter without my permission. In addition, you secretly check the background of the Qi family."

"Find the background of Qi's family? Why?" Wang Xiaoling didn't quite understand Shen Hao's purpose.

"A family who is in the cloth business and has a large stall, it is reasonable to say that the flow of money should be frequent. Isn't it safer and more convenient to store silver in the bank? Is it necessary to save millions of cash at home? This Qi family is afraid. not simple."

"Xiaoqi is thoughtful and thoughtful, and his subordinates are not as good as that."

"Okay, stop flattering, hurry up and do it, I'll go back first, I have to report such a big case to Zongqi."

After leaving the Qi Mansion, Shen Hao didn't stop in Wuyang City, and directly returned to Li City through the teleportation circle in the city.

Unlike Wuyang City, Li City can be regarded as one of the few large cities in the west of the Jingjiu Dynasty, and only in large cities will the Xuanqing Guards be stationed.

Shen Hao works as a small banner official of the seventh rank in the guard, which is the lowest official rank in the Xuanqing Guard, but there are quite a lot of people under his jurisdiction.

Ten Xuanqing guards, plus two school orders, and fifty soldiers form a small banner battalion, and Shen Hao is the small banner officer.

Above the small banner officer is the seventh-rank general banner officer. Generally speaking, a general banner officer will have three to four small banner battalions under his command.

From the top of the general banner is to test one hundred households from the six products, and govern the establishment of the three general banners. And the official six-rank hundred household officials have jurisdiction over two trial hundred household establishments.

The Xuanqing Guards Office in Licheng is a full-staffed six-rank and one hundred household officials, responsible for all special affairs of seventeen cities with a radius of three thousand miles.

Compared with the county government in the city, the public house of Xuanqing Guards in Licheng looks very shabby, and there are not even two town house stone beasts at the gate of the courtyard.

"Chen Zongqi, my subordinates have something to report."

"come in."

Shen Hao opened the door and went in. In the not-so-big office, a fat, round, short middle-aged man was sitting at his desk, writing a book. This person is Chen Tianwen, the Chief Banner Officer, Shen Hao's immediate superior.

"Chen Zongqi, I went to the scene to see the case reported in the Wuyang City newspaper this morning."

"Tell me, what's the situation?"

"It was a rich family with the surname Qi in Wuyang City. Sixty-one members of the family, young and old, including servants, all died. The corpses were in pieces. The chasing evil disk found a faint evil spirit remaining at the scene, which showed that it was a third-grade evil spirit."

Chen Tianwen, who heard the "Third Grade Evil Spirit" lying on his desk, raised his head to look at Shen Hao, but he didn't interrupt Shen Hao's words.

I heard Shen Hao continue: "But although the chasing evil disk sensed the evil breath of the third rank, no one was killed in Wuyang City that night except for Qi Mansion, and there is no record about the surrounding area of ​​Wuyang City in the last three months. There was an evil record. Moreover, sixty-one people were mutilated at the scene but only had a small amount of blood. The subordinates feel that this matter is not simple."

"The amount of blood and the corpse don't match? Are you sure that the one sensed on the evil chasing disk is a third-grade evil spirit?"

"The subordinates are sure."

"This is not the style of the third-grade evil spirit. Either the perception result of the evil spirit chasing plate is wrong, or the attack range of the evil spirit is limited. Shen Hao, tell me your opinion."

Shen Hao thought about his words before saying: "General Banner, this subordinate thinks that the case of extermination of the 61 members of the Qi family might have something to do with that group of people."

"That group of people?" Chen Tianwen was taken aback for a moment, and soon thought of something. He leaned forward, his face became a little serious, and he asked anxiously, "Did you find anything?"

"The subordinate found this in the Qi mansion." As Shen Hao said, he put the scrap of paper that he found in the back kitchen of the Qi family from his bosom in front of Chen Tianwen.

Chen Tianwen didn't touch it with his hands, but took a closer look, frowned and said, "Pieces of talisman paper?"

"Yes, it should be a fragment of the Yin Talisman of the evil sect, if it is not bad as expected by the subordinates."

"Oh?" Chen Tianwen nodded calmly, and then with a wave of his palm, the fragments of talisman paper on the table burned out of thin air, and an extremely subtle fluctuation of mana flashed away from the fragments. Although the time was short, Chen Tianwen could clearly feel the eerie characteristics of this ray of mana fluctuations.

"It's really an evil yin talisman! Shen Hao, your eyesight is really good!"

It is not easy to be able to tell what kind of spell this is on a fragment the size of a fingernail with just the naked eye.

"The general flag has won the award, but you are familiar with it."

"No need to be modest." Chen Tianwen stood up from his seat, walked to the window and closed the only one that was open, then turned around and continued: "Who else knows about this except you and me?"

"Don't worry, General Banner. I discovered this fragment alone and reported it to you directly. No one else will know about it except you."

"very good!"

Chen Tianwen patted Shen Hao's shoulder in satisfaction, took two steps in the small office, then sat back on the chair and remained silent for a long time, as if he was thinking about something.

"In this way, you take my warrant and go to the arsenal to get three third-rank lightning talismans for emergencies, and then cover the surrounding areas of Wuyang City on the grounds of thoroughly investigating the "third-rank evil spirits". I will also report this case and the rest of the cases." Separation keeps you from being disturbed by others. But you must promise to give me a good grade before the sixth day of next month, understand?"

The sixth day of next month? There are still ten days.

After thinking about it for a while, Shen Hao understood why Chen Tianwen set the time on the sixth day of the next month, because the seventh day of the next month was the routine big case briefing of the guard.

"Please rest assured, General Banner, your subordinates will not miss the important event of General Banner."

Chen Tianwen nodded, picked up the pen on the table again, and waved his hand casually to signal that Shen Hao could back down.

However, Shen Hao bowed and said: "General Banner, I still have something to report."

"explain."

"A batch of money of unknown origin was also seized in the case of Qi's extermination of the family. There are many doubts. Now the subordinates have no skills to take care of it. I also ask the general flag to help."

"Oh, is this really the case? How much is it?"

"Seventy-five thousand taels."

"How about this, tomorrow I will send someone to take over this batch of money, and you can concentrate on thoroughly investigating the Miemen case, don't be distracted."

"Thank you, General Banner, for taking care of me. This subordinate has something to do, so I will resign."

"Well, go down, be careful about everything. Also, you don't seem to be in a good mood. After going to the arsenal, go to the alchemy room and give my name to get a small Peiyuan pill. Don't wear yourself out. But I'm waiting for you to help me control the scene."

"Yes, thank you Zongqi for your kindness."

A smile appeared on Shen Hao's face when he came out of the public house.