Chapter 128 Serial Murder Cases
After arranging the yamen runners who were staying at Hong Guangliang's house, Ji Nuan was a little confused and visited him all morning, but in fact there were no useful clues.
I am afraid that none of these people are the murderers, but they may become the targets of the murderers. Not to mention solving the case, they have to send someone to protect their safety. Thinking of County Magistrate Li’s three-day deadline, I couldn’t help but feel a little headache.
"You guys go to the streets and alleys to check if you can find the heads. You guys go back to sleep and patrol with me tonight."
The few people left respectfully, and only Yang Xiu was left beside Ji Nuan: "Captain Ji, why don't you take a break first!"
"Yang Xiu, do you think I'm very useless? I still have no clue yet?"
Ji Nuan suddenly remembered Song Wangchen. If he were there, he would not have been as helpless as he is now. Unconsciously, he took out the notes for transmission, remembering that he might be fighting with the demons at this time and finally let them go back.
No, you can’t look for Wangchen whenever you encounter something. Ji Nuan, you are a policeman!
"Captain Ji must not say that. It's only one morning, so naturally I can't find out anything. I'll go to the streets to check it out. I'll patrol with you tonight!"
Seeing that Ji Yang could still do this, Yang Xiu could not be idle even if he was a man, let alone after getting along for a few days, he couldn't help but feel a little favor with her.
"Well, it's okay, let's take action separately!"
After the two separated, Ji Nuan went to Wanhualou to check Guixiang's room again, and asked the girls inside separately, but in the end they didn't find anything. When they left Wanhualou, they realized that it was already three hours of Hai. After a day of busyness, they even forgot to eat food.
There were no pedestrians on the street. When they approached the market center, they met Yang Xiu again. There was only a hawker who bought chaos on the street and was busy. It seemed that he was about to close the stall.
The vendor was a straightforward person. Seeing Ji Nuan staring at her stall with eyes wide open, she called out, "Are you hungry? You probably have nowhere to eat this night. If you don't dislike me, I can cook two bowls of money. I will not charge you any more, seeing how hard you handle the case, I will not charge any money."
Ji Nuan felt that it was a little troublesome. Just as she was about to refuse, her stomach made an honest protest.
"Okay, I'm hungry too, but I still have to pay the money." Yang Xiu had already paid the money to sit at the table. In fact, he was not hungry, but he just couldn't bear to see Ji Nuan starve.
The vendor had already started to work hard, and Ji Nuan sat down.
The two discussed the case for a while, and then met several other yamen runners who came to patrol the night.
After a brief thank you, Ji Nuan took a few people away in a hurry, and the vendor also started to pack up the stall.
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The night was lush and the evening breeze was bright. The few people behind him couldn't help but shiver, looked at Ji Nuan resentfully, and complained in their hearts that there was no one in this person, and we even patrol the night, so we couldn't even sleep.
The sky suddenly changed, and suddenly the wind blew. Several people unconsciously blocked their eyes from the wind and sand. Only a red light flashed by, and then they heard a shrill scream.
Ji Nuan thought it was not good, so she hurriedly returned the same way, but found that the vendor who had just greeted her warmly had fallen in a pool of blood, and her head had long disappeared, and her way of death was the same as Gui Xiang.
"Yang Xiu, stay and watch the dead, come with me."
With a command from Ji Nuan, he led a few people along the bloodstains until he chased to a fish pond, and the bloodstains suddenly disappeared.
A bright red ripples appeared in the fish pond. Ji Nuan sent a spiritual power to Yanhong, and a terrified and distorted head fell into his hands.
It was the vendor before.
The vendor's pale face was filled with horrified eyes and a wide open mouth.
Although Ji Nuan couldn't bear it, the key was to catch the murderer now. He turned around and ordered: "Take it to Yang Xiu's place, and you guys chase me separately."
Ji Nuan raised the head, but no one dared to answer it. They had never seen such a scene before, and couldn't help but tremble: "Ji, Captain Ji, let's go with you!"
Ji Nuan knew that they were afraid and no longer forced them. He flew into the air and glanced back and forth at everything below, but there was no living thing except them.
If it were a human being, he would not be able to run so fast. If it were a demon, why would there be no demonic energy? But one thing is certain that all the previous speculations were wrong. The murderer did not target a certain person, but was the one who was alone.
Not good, Yang Xiu...
Ji Nuan hurried back the same way, but fortunately Yang Xiu was fine, "Yang Xiu, what did you find?"
Yang Xiu raised the Bu Yao in his hand and said, "This is picked up next to the deceased. I wonder if it was left by the murderer?" Seeing Ji Nuan holding a head in his hand, he was shocked, "This is..."
"The murderer ran away, we took it out from the fish pond along the blood."
Ji Nuan took Bu Yao and looked carefully. She always felt familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her. She turned around and ordered: "You guys bring the body back to the yamen, and you two go to the fish pond to salvage it with me. I suspect Guixiang's head was also thrown in."
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After a night of salvage, several people finally took out a swollen and white woman's head at dawn. Combined with the twisted wound, it should be Guixiang's head.
I thought it was just an ordinary murder case, but now it has become a serial murder case. The key is that the murderer left nothing but a single shot.
Ji Nuan looked at it repeatedly and found that it was very finely crafted. On the stairs, it was a lifelike phoenix, made of pure gold. The phoenix's eyes were inlaid with two pink agates, showing the owner's luxury and aristocratic spirit.
Suddenly a figure flashed through my mind. At that time, Meng Yan also wore a stroll to the bamboo house, as if this was the style.
Impossible, she is a princess of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. How could she kill her own people so cruelly? And she should be in the palace! How could she stay here to kill people?
After thinking for a long time, she couldn't figure it out. She was a little tired after running around for a day and a night. However, when she thought of the three-day period, Ji Nuan had to cheer up. Now the murderer had no clue at all. In order not to let others encounter any accidents, she transferred back to the yamen runners who were defending outside so that they could patrol tonight.
Seeing that she was frowning and refused to go to rest, Yang Xiu finally couldn't bear it: "Captain Ji, you are tired too. I'll hold on to you today, you can rest first!"
"No, the murderer's target is too wide. I can only be at ease when I keep it. By the way, you can go to the handheld shop with this step! This step is definitely not something that ordinary women can afford. I guess such a expensive thing will have accounts for the store."
After Yang Xiu left, Ji Nuan began to check the corpse again. Two people with no connections had the same way of death. If this murderer was not a demon, he would be a murderer.
Tonight, we can only use our body as bait to see if we can lure the real murderer.
"Don't put yourself in danger, and force yourself to stand up regardless of your own safety. Remember to tell me the first time if you have anything."
Song Wangchen's words were still in his ears, but unfortunately the situation is urgent now. If the murderer is not captured, I don't know how many people will be killed.
Forget the dust
, I'm going to breach the contract.
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At night, Ji Nuan had already arranged for others to patrol the night, while she herself was wearing a torn outfit, took a bamboo pole, and dressed up as a blind woman.
As soon as the hour of Hai arrived, there were only a few pedestrians left on the street, and the yamen runners began to expel the remaining few people. Gradually, the street was empty.
Ji Nuan took the bamboo pole and walked forward step by step. She deliberately applied incense ash on her face and wore a torn clothes, which made her look like a blind woman.
The streets were terrible. Apart from the sound of footsteps and the sound of bamboo poles falling to the ground, it seemed that they could not even hear the sound of the wind.
Suddenly, a shrill scream broke the silence again, Ji Nuan's heart sank and hurriedly threw away the bamboo pole and left.
It was Dr. Zhang's Renhetang. Ji Nuan hurriedly entered the investigation and found that Dr. Zhang's door was wide open, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Dr. Zhang was lying in a pool of blood. Unlike before, his head fell on the side, and his wide eyes seemed to be telling his grievances.
How could it be? It turns out that the murderer is not just a single person, she is just a lunatic, a devil who kills people everywhere.
"Ah..., witch, witch, blood, so much blood, dead..."
Ji Nuan turned around when she heard the sound, and saw the grandmother pointing at her and shouting constantly. When she saw herself looking at her, she was so scared that she fell to the ground and repeated: "Goddess, I've killed someone, I've killed someone..."
The grandma's shouts quickly attracted Yang Xiu and others who were patrolling the night. When they saw the corpse beside Ji Nuan, they knew that they were one step late again. Fortunately, Ji Yang was fine.
As if she saw a savior, the grandmother pulled Yang Xiu to stand up, hid behind him, pointed at Ji Nuan again and said, "The witch, she killed Dr. Zhang, it was her..."
At this time, Ji Nuan realized that the witch the grandma kept calling was her. What's going on? Is she unconscious and talking nonsense?
Yang Xiu naturally didn't believe it, so he immediately turned around and asked, "Grandma, what have you seen? Did you see the murderer? What do she look like?"
The grandma raised her eyes and looked at Ji Nuan and said tremblingly: "I saw it, I saw it, it was her, she killed Dr. Zhang, she was just a monster and a devil."
"Grandma, you are unconscious! She is Captain Ji!"
"No, I saw it. She twisted Dr. Zhang's head and pulled it off with blood. It was so bloody, ah..." The grandma shouted and ran away while screaming.
"Follow up and don't let her get into trouble!"
Yang Xiuxin knew that the grandma would be an important witness. Perhaps the grandma really saw the murderer, but the murderer must not be Ji Yang.
After the two yamen runners chased them out, the remaining yamen runners stared at Ji Nuan in horror, subconsciously putting their hands on the hilt of the knife, as if Ji Nuan would turn into a monster in the next second and twisting his head off hard.
Ji Nuan saw their suspicion clearly, and it was true that now that people and physical evidence were present, he really couldn't argue.
All this is like a game, a game tailored for yourself. The person who is in the game must know me, maybe he is laughing at me in the dark at this moment!
When Yang Xiu was about to step forward, he was pulled by the two yamen runners behind him: "Brother Yang, you don't want to die. She is a witch and a murderer!"
"What are you talking nonsense? Do you still don't know what Captain Ji is like? How could she be a witch? Let go."
Several people obediently let go, but retreated unconsciously, so that when an accident occurred in Yang Xiu, he could escape immediately.
"Captain Ji, Grandma has lost her mind, don't mind what she says."
Chapter completed!