"What?"
Zhou Heng almost thought he had heard wrong and said in dismay, "It's the owner of the Five Xiang Martial Hall, Zhao Yuan? Is he dead? And it says the murderer is me?"
"Right." Liu nodded, then smiled, "But you don't need to worry, almost no one believes that you killed him. Well, until the truth is revealed, Zhao Yuan's own disciple and daughter might have some animosity towards you."
"Phew, that's normal." Zhou Heng was relieved, but still very confused, he brought Liu to a corner and asked, "What exactly is going on? Can Mr. Liu explain?"
Zhao Yuan was the owner of the Five Xiang Martial Hall, stepping into the seventh grade more than a decade ago, and was also an outer disciple of the Five Elements Sect, proficient in many profound martial arts, and could be said to be a number of experts in Huang Tongfu City.
How could he suddenly die violently overnight?
"It was that Instructor Chen from the Five Xiang Martial Arts Center who found it." Liu Changsheng didn't have any pretensions and directly told Zhou Heng what had happened.
After Zhou Heng listened, he generally understood some of the circumstances of this matter.
It turned out that Zhao Yuan had been practicing in the martial arts hall yesterday, and by the time he finished, it was already evening, so he simply ate in the hall's dining hall and went to his exclusive bedroom to rest.
Since he had always been in the habit of going to the early class square in the morning to check on the apprentices' coursework, rain or shine, but today, Instructor Chen, who was in charge of the early class, noticed that he wasn't here.
So he went to Zhao Yuan's bedroom to look for him after the morning class, but he didn't expect to find him dead in his own bedroom.
The whole room was messy, the furniture was broken, and it was obvious that there had been a fierce battle.
The bones of his knees were completely crushed by the powerful force, his chest cavity collapsed, his ribs were almost completely broken, most of his organs were broken, his veins and tendons were all broken, and his martial arts skills were also ruined.
In the end, as if saving his last breath, he wrote the line "Murderer Zhou Heng" with a profuse hatred.
"Since there was a fierce battle, didn't anyone hear the sound?" Zhou Heng was puzzled, "Wuxiang Martial Arts Center is such a big place, there should be shift beaters."
"The magistrate of the government office interrogated the shift beaters, and didn't hear anything." Liu Changsheng shook his head and said, "This matter is bizarre, and it's even more bizarre when it involves you, later on it's expected that there will be a government city The magistrate is coming to summon you, so be prepared."
"So Mr. Willow came over just to tell me that?" Zhou Heng was appalled, he thought that Liu Changsheng had come over to take him to the Wuxiang Martial Hall or to the government office.
"This gentleman is not a constable, can he still arrest you and leave?" Willow turned and walked out while waving her hand and said, "I'm just idle, I want you to be quicker ninepins and be able to have a couple of moves with me.
"It's a real bummer to encounter this stall now, but you shouldn't be allowed to get muddled up, so keep an eye out for yourself. "
By the time he was done, the man was gone.
"Thank you." Zhou Heng whispered towards the door.
--Liu Changsheng hadn't noticed that he was already ninth-grade, this was because the lower third-grade stage couldn't yet directly determine the cultivation realm of others through perception, and could only be determined during an encounter.
"Xiao Zhou, that was Liu Changsheng of the Five Elements Sect just now?" Lin Cang came over, he had actually been paying attention to this side and said, "I believe you are innocent, but Zhao Yuan's identity is not ordinary after all . This matter should not be simple.
"If the constable from the court of the capital city comes to take you away later, don't be rebellious, just follow them, I'll go look for old The librarian should be able to unblock some connections."
"Good." Zhou Heng nodded, his heart warming slightly.
Lin Cang was an instructor who would truly care for and love his apprentices, such people were rare no matter what era or world, and more likely to avoid apprentices who might have made a mistake like a snake.
Less than a quarter of an hour after Liu left, a middle-aged man in a blue-colored sturdy suit with a red belt around his waist and a short knife dangling from it walked in.
Behind him were three young men, tall and strapping, also dressed in a green-colored strong suit, but with only a white belt tied around their waists.
This was the attire of the constable of the Huang Tong government.
The red belt was a constable, while the white belt was just an ordinary constable.
When this constable walked into the martial arts school, he instantly attracted everyone's attention, but he didn't make any noise, but rather asked Zhou Heng quite politely where he was and walked straight over.
"I'm Constable Meng Xing of the Prefecture City's Yamen." This constable's attitude was surprisingly gentle, and he arched his hand to Zhou Heng, "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu was here just now, so I'm sure you already know that the owner of the Zhao Pavilion The thing is up."
Is the constable's attitude so amiable these days?
Zhou Heng was slightly stunned before nodding, "Well, we already know something about the situation."
"Then, please ask Duke Zhou to come with us to the Five Xiang Martial Hall." Meng Xing smiled, "Don't worry Duke, with us by your side, even if someone at the Five Xiang Martial Hall has no brains to believe this, they won't be able to hurt you. "
".... "Zhou Heng was a bit confused, but he didn't know how to reply for a moment.
What is this, this captain's attitude is too good.
Could it be because I'm too handsome?
High charisma value plus good feelings?
Well, that seemed quite reasonable.
Lin Cang who was standing on the side was also a bit confused.
Actually, he had already prepared for this earlier, wanting to use the silver to make some points, so that these constables would treat Zhou Heng with a gentler attitude, so that no chaos would arise from Zhou Heng's youth and vigor.
But I didn't expect that this constable's attitude was all so good, as if he really treated Zhou Heng as if he was the son of some worldly family.
Could it be that Liu Changsheng had greeted him in advance?
But that was unlikely, even if he was bored and wanted an opponent to fight, there was no need to hold Zhou Heng up like this.
It was already the most merciful thing to come and explain the situation in advance.
What's going on?
The apprentices in the hall were also stunned.
Most of the apprentices of the Long Xing Martial Arts School came from ordinary families, and they were respectful of people like the Constable Constable, naturally having an inexplicable sense of fear.
But now these rumored vicious and evil guys, why were they so respectful to Zhou Heng?
Did Zhou Heng actually have some kind of heavenly background?
"Mr. Zhou, what do you think?" When Meng Xing saw that Zhou Heng was silent and didn't answer, he inquired again, his tone still gentle, and he didn't look the least bit anxious.
"Uh... good." Only then did Zhou Heng return to his senses and said, "Please trouble Constable Meng to lead the way."
.....
As soon as Zhou Heng and Meng Xing and the others left, the apprentices in the Long Xing martial arts school exploded.
There was a lot of discussion.
"Heavens! Zhou Heng couldn't really be a disciple of some great sect! Usually just hiding your identity?"
"It's really possible, his martial arts talent is too high, if he's not a disciple of a big sect, how could he have such talent?"
"Zhou Heng is so powerful that he could actually be a child of a great family!"
"However, it seems like we don't have any great clans with the surname of Zhou in the Great Qi, and there seems to be a Zhou Clan in the southern Great Jin that is quite powerful."
Lin Cang saw that these people were making wild guesses, and the more they guessed, the more outrageous they became, so he even stood out and scolded.
"What was all the discussion about! Quickly practice!"
The group of apprentices ended their heated discussion and dispersed as birds and beasts.
Lin Cang's gaze shifted away from these apprentices and looked towards the northern part of the city, he was a little worried about Zhou Heng.
.....
The Long Xing Martial Arts Center was the eastern part of the city, and it was quite far from the northern part of the city.
Although Zhou Heng's group was going there by carriage, it still took at least half an hour to get there.
Therefore, while on the way, Zhou Heng asked Meng Xing, the constable, for more details about the location of the crime.
He learned some details that Liu Changsheng had not detailed earlier.
For example, the window was clearly open, but there were no signs of it being overturned or vandalized.
The walls of the bedroom were also intact.
Even though Zhao Yuan's bedroom was not small, with a length and width of over three feet and a height of one foot, even the furniture was beaten to pieces and the walls were not damaged in any way, which was not normal at all.
Very bizarre.
Zhou Heng's eyebrows were locked, and his mind simulated the situation in that bedroom.
This description was simply as if something had wrapped the inside of the bedroom, and no matter how much damage was caused inside, it would have no effect on the outside.
That's why there would be no damage to the walls and windows.
If there was truly such an ability, then it would be normal for the people outside not to hear the sounds of the fight, as this space was wrapped up and the sounds were naturally blocked from getting out at all.
But what kind of realm would it take to be able to do this level of ability?
The lower three grades shouldn't be able to reach this level anyway.
Even a peak seventh-grade expert wouldn't be able to directly encase a piece of space to death.
I'm afraid it would have to be at least a middle third-grade expert to do so.
Or.....
A ghost?
Zhou Heng couldn't help but think back to his previous experience.
It wouldn't seem strange for such an evil, unknown, mysterious, yet immortal ghost to possess the strange ability to block off space.
It did seem possible.
Thinking of this, he thought back to the situation that Yu He had encountered earlier.
Originally, Zhou Heng had planned to carefully explore what was going on after learning the palm thunder and being right about the ability to kill ghosts, but he hadn't expected that something would come directly to him so soon.
He didn't even have time to learn Palm Thunder.
"If this matter is really related to ghosts, is it one with the ghosts that Yu He encountered? This way speculations can be made from Yu He's side."
Zhou Heng was in deep thought.
"Yu He had a sudden accident the night before last, before that he only contacted me as well as Liu Changsheng, Steward Wang, and Zhao Yuan, so how could he ...No, there's another one, that money shopkeeper!"
He suddenly thought of Shopkeeper Qian who had appeared and disappeared inexplicably that night.
Although Yu He Ming hadn't actually contacted Shopkeeper Qian that night, Shopkeeper Qian's bizarre demeanor and expression seemed very problematic.
Originally, both Zhou Heng and Yu He had thought it was just a look of envy and jealousy purely out of competition for business failure, but now it seemed that it was not so.
Perhaps he had colluded with the ghosts?
"Mr. Zhou, we've arrived." Constable Meng Xing reminded.
"Thank you." Zhou Heng nodded slightly and then got up to get off the car, but as soon as he stepped out of the car he saw his number one target of suspicion.
Qian Bu Duo!
Moneylord!
Compared to the previous two days, at this time, Shopkeeper Qian was clearly much paler, with a sad and bitter expression, sighing from time to time as if he was very sad.
This arrival of Zhou Heng suddenly drew the attention of everyone present.
So handsome!
That's the first reaction people have.
And then the second reaction-.
Such a good-looking man really can't be a murderer!
Of course, it would be because the huge majority of people simply didn't believe that it was Zhou Heng who killed Zhao Yuan.
How could an unpinted martial artist kill a seventh grade expert?
Hardly!
But at this time, Shopkeeper Qian walked over and stood in front of Zhou Heng, the sad and bitter expression on his face turning into anger, his eyes staring at Zhou Heng and gnashing his teeth.
"Zhou Heng! You killed Zhao Yuan, but you still dare to come here, did you come here to commit suicide to thank for your crime!"