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[Chapter 492, clue delivery]

The six Xiao Lou people returned to Qingfeng Town in the daytime. The residents of the town were preparing lunch. The smell of food was wafting around the streets. People had kind smiles on their faces. It was impossible to tell that such a peaceful town was like this. There are actually two cold-blooded, cruel murderers hiding in the world.

Qin Feng's roster is a key piece of physical evidence. The people marked with a red cross on the roster are all people who have disappeared in Qingfeng Town in recent years. Except for the Zhao family and the Chen family, they were definitely led to the mass graves by the murderer. , which murderer the other missing people were killed by has not yet been determined, Xiao Lou plans to investigate one by one.

He first screened out all the women on the roster who were around 18 years old.

Except for Zhao Zesui, the fourth daughter of the Zhao family, the number of remaining girls is exactly the same as the number of corpses found at the bottom of the lake. In other words, in the past few years, all the missing girls in the town were dragged into the lake and drowned by the second murderer. of.

Xiao Lou thought for a moment and said to his teammates: "The families of these girls are still there. I guess they have been brainwashed by the rumors of 'devil seeking their lives' and have not continued to trace the whereabouts of the missing people. We have to find a way to let them see it with their own eyes." The corpse at the bottom of the lake proves that it is not a ghost seeking life, so we can launch an investigation."

Yu Hanjiang agreed: "The murderer is hiding in the dark, so we will be very passive, not to mention that our identity is just a passing tourist, and it is inconvenient to directly ask for clues about the deceased. But if, we 'accidentally' discover the body in the lake, Their mayor must come forward to investigate this matter."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and said in tacit understanding: "Lead the snake out of the hole, use Qin Feng, the mayor, and use his mouth to investigate the truth about the girl's drowning case."

After confirming this, Xiao Lou started to make arrangements.

The six of them had to perform a scene.

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After lunch, the weather was hot. Liu Qiao and Lao Mo came to the lake to enjoy the cool weather and pretend to enjoy the scenery.

Liu Qiao was lying on the edge of the fence looking into the distance. Suddenly, her foot slipped and she fell into the lake with a "plop". She opened her mouth and shouted: "Help...help...life..."

Seeing her struggling and sinking into the lake, with her head submerged by the water, Lao Mo's expression changed and he hurried to the lake. He was sweating profusely and his face turned pale: "Who can save my apprentice? She fell in." Gone into the lake!"

Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou, Long Sen, and Qu Wanyue "happened" to pass by here. Hearing the cry for help, Yu Hanjiang strode to the lakeside. There were already many onlookers around. He squeezed into the crowd and asked in a low voice: " Uncle, what’s wrong?”

Lao Mo pointed to the lake in a panic: "My apprentice accidentally fell into the lake. She has already sunk. Will she be drowned? Can anyone save her?"

Without saying a word, Yu Hanjiang took off his coat and stuffed it into Xiao Lou's hand, and said to Long Sen: "Help!"

The two jumped into the lake one after the other.

The people around also poked their heads out and looked at the lake curiously. Some people whispered: "I fell down and didn't respond for so long. Can I still be saved?" "Not necessarily. If this girl is not lucky, she can survive after being fished out. Woolen cloth."

Xiao Lou looked nervously at the position where Yu Hanjiang jumped.

Yu Hanjiang and Long Sen had already sunk into the lake to look for someone - of course they were not looking for Liu Qiao, but the female body at the bottom of the lake.

According to the original plan, when they rescued Liu Qiao, they would push aside the water plants and drag the body of a recently deceased female to the shore. The onlookers would definitely be shocked. At the same time, they could also take the opportunity to investigate the sinking of the lake bottom. Clues to the corpse case.

The problem is that they found the female corpse in the ghost town at night last night. Now it is Qingfeng Town during the day. Will there still be corpses in the lake? If the inference is wrong, the scene will be in vain.

Xiao Lou waited uneasily for a moment. Suddenly, Yu Hanjiang floated to the lake with the "dying" Liu Qiao. Lao Mo immediately ran over excitedly and said: "Xiao Qiao, are you okay?"

Liu Qiao coughed desperately and coughed up a lot of lake water. He finally recovered and said with a white face: "Am I still alive?"

Lao Mo was ecstatic, touched her wet hair and said, "That's great! Thank you so much for this savior."

Liu Qiao turned to look at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Brother, thank you for saving me."

Yu Hanjiang said in a low voice: "It's a small effort, no thanks."

Several people were immersed in the performance, and the onlookers were about to disperse after watching the excitement. But at this moment, Long Sen, who had just jumped into the lake, suddenly dragged a woman in red to the surface and said, "Old man, is this your apprentice?"

Old Mo was stunned for a moment, looked at the girl Long Sen dragged out, and said: "This...whose girl is this?!"

Long Sen laid the woman in red flat on the ground and said, "Isn't he your apprentice?"

Lao Mo said: "My apprentice has been rescued. I don't know this girl!"

The onlookers looked horrified - one girl jumped down and two girls were rescued. What kind of situation is this?

Moreover, the woman in red seems to be dead? The skin was as pale as paper, and the face was swollen, making it difficult to see the appearance.

Yu Hanjiang took a step forward with a serious expression, squatted down and looked at the body on the ground, felt her breath with his hand, shook his head and said: "I'm afraid this girl has been dead for more than a day or two. Recently, some people in the small town committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake. ?”

An aunt next to her said, "I haven't heard of any girl committing suicide! Not long ago, a girl disappeared on the day of the Ghost Festival. It is said that she was seduced by a ghost and became a ghost wife?"

The middle-aged man said: "This girl's waist

Jade pendant, why does it look familiar to me? "

An old woman asked doubtfully: "Isn't this the Miss Lin family? The jade pendant seems to have the word 'Lin' written on it. By the way, their lady disappeared on the Ghost Festival. Unexpectedly, she fell into the lake... Sigh... , committing evil!"

People around were talking a lot. Soon, someone went to notify the mayor Qin Feng.

When Qin Feng arrived at the scene, the crowd was surrounding the body. He pushed aside the crowd and came to the body. He looked at Yu Hanjiang and asked in a low voice: "Did you discover the body?"

Yu Hanjiang stood up, looked directly at the other person, and nodded: "Yes. This Xiaoqiao girl accidentally fell into the water. My guard and I went to the lake to rescue people. Unexpectedly, a female corpse would be rescued from the bottom of the lake."

Qin Feng knelt down with a frown, carefully inspected the condition of the body, and finally came to the conclusion: "It should have been drowned." He picked up the jade pendant around the woman's waist, looked at it, and said, "It's Miss Lin who disappeared a few days ago. , I didn’t expect that I would slip and fall into the water.”

Xiao Loudao: "I just heard everyone say that this Miss Lin disappeared on the Ghost Festival and was seduced by a ghost to become his wife. How could she suddenly fall into the water and drown?"

Qin Feng said coldly: "Outsiders should not ask too much about our Qingfeng Town affairs."

He stood up and said to the two men who were following him: "Take the girl's body back to the Lin family and give it a good burial."

Then, he turned around and walked away neatly.

Xiao Lou: "..."

The plot NPC did not cooperate with the investigation at all.

According to common sense, there have been so many girls missing in the town in recent years, and the body of one of them was found in the lake. Shouldn't the lake be thoroughly searched to see if others fell into the water and died? As a result, the mayor actually buried the body, turned around and walked away, pretending that nothing happened?

I originally wanted to use Qin Feng's help to collect clues, but I didn't expect that Qin Feng did not follow common sense, and Xiao Lou's wishful thinking came to nothing. He glanced at Yu Hanjiang and had no choice but to follow the crowd and disperse.

What a mistake. You can't jump down now and fish out another body, right?

After returning to the inn, Xiao Lou said helplessly: "The plot characters in the secret room this time are not affected by us at all. It seems that it is impossible to ask Qin Feng for help. We have to find clues on our own. What's more, Qin Feng's suspicion It hasn’t been ruled out yet.”

Qu Wanyue said: "The rattle in the secret room of Qin Feng's study and the red-crossed roster. These evidences are too obvious. Why do I feel that he does not look like the murderer?"

Xiao Loudao: "I don't think he is the murderer, but he must be one of the insiders. However, the clues he knows will not be told to us. Moreover, judging from his reaction just now, he is very repulsive to others investigating this matter. .”

Yu Hanjiang suddenly thought of something, frowned and said, "By the way, someone has been offering incense to the Zhao family in the mourning hall. The survivor of the Zhao family extermination case is probably the Zhao family's daughter-in-law who did not appear in the memorial tablet. She is also involved in this case. The key is. We have to go to the Zhao family again to see if anyone goes to the mourning hall to light incense today."

Xiao Lou also wanted to go to the scene again. When he and Yu Hanjiang went to the Zhao family yesterday, they found that the mourning hall was decorated a bit strangely. The room was filled with memorial tablets of the Zhao family and three sticks of incense were lit. Apparently someone had given them to them for a long time. Incense.

Nighttime is another space, and they cannot meet this person who offers incense.

You might find something else if you go during the day.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said: "Let's go to the Chen family and Zhao family again to see if there are any missing clues."

The group put on their invisibility cloaks and quickly arrived at Chen's house.

At that time, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang did not search the Chen family, but Liu Qiao and Lao Mo investigated. The key clues Liu Qiao found were a rattle and a letter written by Chen Yu to his father-in-law. Now Xiao Lou searched again and found no other useful clues. However, a hidden cellar in the Chen family's backyard caught Xiao Lou's attention. .

When he walked to the door of the cellar, he always felt that there was something strange and eerie about the dark cellar, and the cold wind went straight into his neck. He looked at the iron door that locked the cellar, and asked Liu Qiao: "Xiao Liu, have you ever gone down to see this place?" ?"

Liu Qiao was a little embarrassed: "Professor Xiao, time is tight. I didn't realize there was a cellar in the backyard at the time."

When Yu Hanjiang heard this, he also came over and leaned over to look at the iron door: "Cellars are usually used to store wine, right?"

Xiao Lou said: "This door is locked, I have to go down and take a look."

Long Sen took the initiative to walk in front, broke the door lock, quickly walked around the wall, and said: "Everyone, come down, there is no mechanism. The aroma of wine is very strong here, and there is a lot of good wine hidden."

But what can it mean? Chen Yu likes to drink?

Xiao Lou didn't worry about this for the time being, and took everyone to the Zhao family's mourning hall again.

Sure enough, three more incense sticks were lit in the incense burner at the front of the mourning hall. At this time, the three incense sticks were about to burn out, indicating that the person who lit the incense had left here for some time.

Xiao Lou looked around carefully, trying to find any clues left by the person who offered the incense...

However, the other party was very cautious and did not leave even a hair.

Just when Xiao Lou regretted that there was no harvest in this investigation, his eyes suddenly fixed on the cantilever beam on the roof. In the middle of the cantilever beam, there was a palm-sized spider lying. The color was very close to the cantilever beam. If you don't look closely, It's hard to detect.

Xiao Lou pointed there: "Look."

Qu Wanyue took a closer look and was startled by the spider, saying, "This spider seems to be motionless?"

Yu Hanjiang raised his head and said calmly: "That's not a living spider, but Chu Huaying's spider mark."

Everyone has seen Huaying's spider mark before, and it can indeed be fake.

Xiao Lou was overjoyed: "This is the clue Hua Ying left for us!"

Yu Hanjiang flew up, climbed onto the cantilever beam with his left hand, and carefully searched with his right hand in the cracks of the cantilever beam. Sure enough, he found a letter, opened it and saw that it was the vigorous and powerful calligraphy of the old man Gui.

However, the content of the letter made everyone look at each other in shock.

The first line read: "Lu, Tang, Chu, and Gui, the four of us traveled to the world three years ago and can't go back."

Xiao Lou: "…………"

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There have indeed been relatively few updates recently. I feel very uncomfortable after catching a cold. I will update more when my health improves and finish writing this copy as soon as possible.

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