Shopkeeper Qian's words were incomparably sad and angry, and it sounded like he would hate to kill Zhou Heng right now to avenge Zhao Yuan's death.
Zhou Heng was slightly stunned at the words.
I go, is the number one suspect this arrogant?
However, before Zhou Heng could respond.
Meng Xing shouted in a deep voice, "Qian Budo, don't talk nonsense, you are also a suspect!"
Shopkeeper Qian lowered his head at the news and stopped speaking.
Zhou Heng, however, looked at Meng Xing with some consternation, wondering, "Is Shopkeeper Qian also a suspect?"
Chimbuto was also brought in as a suspect?
You didn't say what was on your mind yourself.
"Hmph! I don't know how you constables handle your cases!" Shopkeeper Qian looked at Meng Xing with a disdainful face and said, "I'm an innocent family, and Zhao Yuan and I were schoolmates, how could I kill him,'' You guys actually suspect me?"
"Behave yourself!" A young constable next to him kicked Shopkeeper Qian and snorted, "How are you talking to us Meng Tou, do you know the rules!"
"Little Wang, bring this guy in first, Miss Li is already inside." Meng Xing also looked like a cold-faced constable, and said coldly, "If he speaks nonsense again, give him some color!"
"Yes!" The young constable nodded and then directly dragged Shopkeeper Qian inside the Wuxiang Martial Hall.
"I've made Mr. Zhou laugh." Meng Xing looked at Zhou Heng but put on another gentle expression as he said, "Please follow me, gentleman, someone is already in The crime scene is waiting."
The speed of this face change made Zhou Heng look stunned.
I thought to myself, "Did this dude study Sichuan Opera?
That's a great face turn!
But why are these constable-catchers so kind to themselves?
Something's weird!
Is it really because I'm so handsome?
��.....
The crime scene refers to the bedroom where Jo Won was killed.
Except for Zhao Yuan's body, which has been removed, everything here is kept this way.
Including that bloody line of characters-.
Zhou Heng, the murderer!
When Zhou Heng and Meng Xing arrived at the scene of the crime, they found that Shopkeeper Qian and the constable called Xiao Wang from earlier were already here.
In addition, there was a young woman.
She looked to be in her mid-twenties, wearing a light yellow dress, with fluffy hair, with a clear appearance and cold eyes, standing alone in the corner of this bedroom, silent and with a very low presence.
Shopkeeper Qian saw Zhou Heng coming over and sneered, "Zhou Heng, open your eyes and see what's written there! If you didn't kill anyone, who else could it be?"
"Shut up!" Meng Xing glared at him, then said to Zhou Heng, "Mr. Zhou, you can just take a casual look around here, leave the rest to us."
".... "Zhou Heng's eyebrows furrowed slightly at the words, somewhat confused as to what Meng Xing wanted to do, just let the suspect take a casual look around the crime scene, could he be sure of the real killer?
Not very realistic, I guess.
Of course, he wouldn't miss this opportunity to observe the crime scene properly.
If it was really the work of a ghost, there should be residual ghostly aura here.
--Ever since his first encounter with ghost qi at Cheng Jiangjian's place, Zhou Heng had a certain level of perception of ghost qi, but it was limited to the ghost qi remaining on normal people or objects.
With his Insight +1 level, after looking through the bedroom completely, he didn't find anything that could, there were no traces of ghosts at all.
Was it not the work of a ghost?
Or is this ghost good at hiding and avoiding ghostly residue?
Zhou Heng was puzzled and was about to end his observation, when suddenly his sight was aligned with the young woman standing in the corner, and he saw a pair of eyes that were as clear as a clear spring.
"I'm okay."
Just at this time, that woman suddenly spoke, her gaze turned, and raised her hand to point at the money manager, saying, "Constable Meng, control this man first! Get up, there's something wrong with his expression when he looked at this bedroom just now, there's a major suspicion."
"What!?" Shopkeeper Qian became confused, startled, "This, this is impossible, I'm innocent, I'm innocent ah, you, you bloody mouth!"
"Arrest them!" Meng Xing directly ordered.
"Yes!" The little king constable nodded his head.
At the same time, three constables rushed in from the outside and were subdued by Qian Master at once.
"What do you guys want to do!?" Shopkeeper Qian was horrified and shouted, "You can't do that!"
"Take away! Locked in the cellar first, to await punishment!" Meng Xing said in a deep voice.
The bedroom became quiet once again as Head Qian was directly taken away by Xiao Wang and the other four constables.
"... "Zhou Heng had a few suspicions in his heart, but he was more confused and looked at Meng Xing, "What's going on, Constable Meng."
"It's like this, come, I'll introduce you." Meng Xing walked over to the girl standing in the corner and said to Zhou Heng, "Mr. Zhou, this is Miss Jingxin Li.
"She can determine the mental activity of a person by observing the changes in their expressions, and it was just now that she saw the wrong expression on the Qian treasurer's face that she That he might have a problem."
"Is that still possible?" Zhou Heng couldn't help but be stunned at the news, this was too amazing, "So there's nothing wrong with my expression just now?"
"No." Li Jingxin cherished her words and said indifferently, "Your eyes are the eyes of one searching for clues, no panic, no fear, no surprise."
"In that case, I'll send Duke Zhou back first." Meng Xing smiled.
"That won't be necessary." Zhou Heng shook his head and said, "I can just go back by myself."
He always felt that this Meng Xing was just too attentive, all a bit too attentive, especially after seeing the contrast between Meng Xing's attitude towards Shopkeeper Qian just now.
"How is this okay?" But Meng Xing said, "I'm sorry for taking the trouble to ask you to come here, but if I don't see you off myself, I'll feel uneasy. ."
"....Well, I'll take care of that." Zhou Heng could only agree.
In his heart, however, he felt that the development of this matter was very odd, but he couldn't tell what exactly it was.
.....
The carriage on the return trip.
Zhou Heng, who had seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and his face became extremely pale.
"What's wrong Duke Zhou?" Meng Xing was confused at the sight.
"It's nothing, I had a nightmare." Zhou Heng shook his head and added, "Constable Meng, stop at the gold shop in front of you, I can go back by myself."
"Mr. Zhou is going to exchange gold?" Meng Xing was surprised, he could have heard that this Duke Zhou was quite shy in his bag.
"Well, there are some special uses for it." Zhou Heng nodded his head, looking bitter.
He was bored on the way here, so he was trying to comprehend the "Palm Lightning" technique in his mind, so that he could be used from time to time.
The first thing you need to do is to learn the "palm thunder" technique, which can be used from time to time to help you learn the technique.
It progressed quickly, and it wasn't long before he learned this dao method.
Palm Thunder seemed to be a dao method that specifically targeted ghosts, and even if it was just a beginner, it could still cause extremely strong damage to ghosts, and when it was practiced to a great extent, it would have the effect of destroying ghosts.
But then he discovered a very terrifying situation.
The dao method, Palm Thunder, actually required burning money!
Whether you are practicing or actually performing this dao, you need to use gold as a spirit guide to cast the spell.
One or two gold pieces at a time.
This was literally killing me!
"If the gentleman needs gold, I have some here." Meng Xing suddenly took a cloth bag out of his bosom and opened it, inside was a gold cake, handing it to Zhou Heng and smiling, "First there go use it."
?
Zhou Heng looked at Meng Xing and then at the golden cake, startled, "Constable Meng, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Gongzi is valued by the House Master, he must have a promising future, I just want to take advantage of the present to befriend Gongzi, I have no other thoughts." Meng Xing didn't conceal anything, directly explaining his thoughts, "Please accept it, Gongshi."
"....."
Zhou Heng was slightly silent at the words, hesitated for a moment, or nodded and accepted it, saying, "Thank you."
Ah, money, what a good thing .
.....
The government city's Yamen.
The lord of the government, Wu Zongshan, was dealing with government affairs in his study, when suddenly there was a knock on the door from outside.
"Come in." He said faintly.
Then the door of the room opened.
Meng walked in, arched his hands in a respectful salute, and said, "Greeting the lord of the government, regarding the case of the death of Zhao Yuan, the owner of the Five Xiang Martial Hall, my subordinate has new information to report.
"Subordinates in accordance with the method you suggested, Your Excellency, had both Master Qian and Zhou Heng look at the scene of the crime and had Miss Li observe their expressions, and finally decided that Master Qian was the one with the problem.
"He has now been detained in the cellar to await your lord's punishment."
"Just lock him up for now." Wu Zongshan said indifferently, "No one is allowed to open the cellar door without my order."
"Huh?" Meng Xing was confused at the news and said, "That meal?"
"Delivered once daily at midday." Wu Zongshan.
"Yes!" Meng Xing was about to take his leave after bowing with his hands.
"Slowly leave first." Wu Zongshan suddenly spoke up and said, "When you went to pass on Zhou Heng, what was your attitude."
"Naturally, your subordinate does not dare to forget your lord's instructions." Meng Xing said evenly, "Subordinates will abide by your words and treat that Duke Zhou with gentleness, not daring to be the least bit lenient."
"Good." Wu Zongshan cocked his head slightly and said, "Go."
After Meng Xing left.
A silhouette suddenly appeared from behind the screen of the study room, with a light yellow dress and fluffy hair, it was Li Jingxin who was the "observer" earlier.
"Godfather, why do you want me to forcibly decide that there's something wrong with that Qian treasurer?" Li Jingxin's willow brows furrowed lightly as she said, "I actually didn't notice anything unusual about his expression."
"For the entire Huangtong Prefecture City." Wu Zongshan sighed slightly, shook his head and smiled bitterly as he said, "Jingxin, are you satisfied with this answer? Go back and get some early rest."
"....Well, Godfather also rest early." Li Jingxin nodded her head and took her leave.
At this point, only Wu Zongshan was left in the study again.
He took a deep breath.
Turning to the bookshelf, he twisted a mechanism, and a secret compartment opened.
Inside was a stack of apricot-yellow paper, a brush, and a box of cinnabar.
The outermost apricot yellow paper had words written in cinnabar.
"Traces of suspected ghosts appear in Huang Tongfu City, roughly seventh-grade strength, special ability involves hiding traces, blocking the area, please Sunday The Patrol Division sent the Lord Star Ambassador to come and put the ghosts to death."
Below this paragraph of text, a blank area was left.
At this moment, there was a bright silvery light like a star, slowly outlining a text on this almond yellow paper - Good!
When Wu Zongshan saw the word, his entire body breathed a sigh of relief.
.....
In the cellar of the Five Xiang Martial Arts Center.
It was dark and cold, with no one around.
Shopkeeper Qian was sitting in a corner, looking very calm and without any remorse, and after seeing the moonlight shining in through the gap in the entrance of the cellar, the corner of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing a hint of a smile.
"Wu Zongshan, do you think you can hold me back like this? It was actually all expected, I knew you would suspect something about me, so I took it upon myself to let you lock me up.
"Now that you think I can't get out of here, the outside is the safest situation where you can safely ask for help from the Sunday Patrol Division and wait for their people to come and kill me.
"Unfortunately, you still know too little about ghosts, and now that I've completely entered the 'control' stage, how can this little cellar be able to lock me up?
"Although my control over this body hasn't reached the 'seize the body' stage yet, and devouring yang energy would be quite a waste, but it's done, and I can't care about that much.
"We must leave before the arrival of the Sunday Patrol Division!
"Zhou Heng, delicious Yang Qi, I'm coming, hahaha!"
The current Shopkeeper Qian was no longer the same Qian Budo he once was.
After he muttered in his heart, the smile on his face turned cold, then his figure shifted slightly, his entire body instantly softening and then flattening.
In the end, it actually became a seemingly shapeless shadow!
The shadow traveled up the wall of the cellar and easily made its way through the gap in the entrance to the cellar and out.
At that moment, the three young constables guarding the cellar were taking a nap.
The young king constable was among them.
The shadows suddenly swooped in, immediately enveloping the young constable.
In just a few breaths of time, the shadow swallowed and absorbed it, then continued to move around the ground and left the area.
The entire process was silent, and the other two captors didn't even notice that the little king had been killed.
Still napping.
.....
In a wasteland on the outskirts of Huang Tongfu City.
Zhou Heng was holding half a golden cake in the palm of his right hand, exactly one tael.
The left hand, on the other hand, was pinching secrets.
Thunder Seal!
At the same time, he mobilized his internal qi and infused it into his right palm.
It began to catalyze the half of the golden cake in the palm according to the palm thunder's method of qi execution.
This was the preparation process for the Dao.
Normally, it might only take a few breaths.
But due to Zhou Heng's weak inner breath, his first time cultivating this dao method, and his unfamiliarity with the way to execute qi, this preparation process took an extremely long time.
Only after half an hour had passed did a few hair-thin arcs of electricity appear on the half of the golden cake.
After another half an hour, the golden cake finally completely turned into liquid gold and gathered into a small ball the size of a quail egg, its surface wrapped in dense electric light.
Palm Thunder!
It's done!
Finally!
"Hahaha! Finally!"
Zhou Heng couldn't help but smile and was very excited as he looked at the electric golden ball of light in his hand.
This feeling of palm-ruling lightning was really cool!
At the same time, under the hazy moonlight, a cloud of wavering shadows swam over and approached Zhou Heng, ready to pounce on him and devour him.
"What pure yang energy, what dense yang energy! No wonder I'm drawn here, this kind of Yang energy is only second to the Supreme Yang Spirit, great, really great!
"Although devouring him in my current state would waste some of my yang energy, there's a great possibility that it would allow me to break through my current level, which is equivalent to a human's six!
"Great chance, great chance! My beautiful meal, here I come!"
Turned into a shadow, the moneykeeper was ecstatic inside, dreaming of a better future.
But at this moment-.
Zhou Heng suddenly raised his right hand and threw out the palm thunder in his hand.
"Nine Heavens Xuanzha, turn into thunder! The splendid heavenly majesty, drawn by gold!"
Zhou Heng very shamelessly gave himself a spell for this palm thunder, as he felt that this was the first dao he had ever cast and it had to be ritualistic.
Boom!
The palm thunder burst open with a deafening roar, the dazzling golden light of thunder illuminated the surrounding area of ten feet as bright as day, and the blazing atmosphere swept around like a storm.
Before the shadow could even act, it was shattered apart by the sudden thunder and lightning, and after barely reuniting, it immediately fled.
Throughout the entire time, Zhou Heng was unaware of the existence of this shadow.
"You have successfully performed the Dao Law "Palm Lightning" [8th grade], proficiency +5."
The system prompt rang out in Zhou Heng's mind.
Such an increase in proficiency made him slightly relieved, it was good that it wasn't that he could only increase his proficiency a little at a time by casting it, it was barely good news.
But then, another system prompt rang out.
"Congratulations! Having defeated the unbeatable enemy Feng You, Lucky Bag [Silver] +3."
What!
Zhou Heng was stunned, what was the situation?