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Chapter 30
As night fell, Li Jinglong suggested: "Wait here and see." So he started a bonfire and turned out some dry food for Hongjun to eat. Hongjun had no appetite for a day, so he drank a little stream and lay down on his own.
"Thank you." Li Jinglong said, "This case is preliminarily thought to be a demon. I will take you to a good time when it is over."
Hongjun lay on the meadow, looked at Li Jinglong sideways, and asked, "I sleep like this every day on my way down the mountain to Chang'an. I am used to it. But how do you tell?"
Li Jinglong thoughtfully said: "A bodyguard suddenly killed everyone in the caravan. On the last day before arriving in Chang'an, he actually committed suicide. Don't you think this is unreasonable?"
Hongjun said, "Yeah", "But the monster didn't kill people personally. What is he doing here?"
Li Jinglong replied: "Maybe this is the key clue."
Hongjun thought hard, but now he couldn't figure it out, but Li Jinglong said: "After going back to discuss with them, there may be a clearer conclusion. If you are happy, where do you like to go to play?"
"I'm not going to Pingkangli." Hongjun said casually.
"I thought it was boring when I stopped you last time?" Li Jinglong said lightly.
Hongjun didn't know why, and suddenly remembered what the carp demon said yesterday. Following Li Jinglong, he knows how to eat and play, and there are so many new things every day. It has always been like this, as if his life has become happier.
Li Jinglong: "?"
Suddenly, Hongjun pointed to the stars in the autumn night sky and said: "Long history, look at the stars, how beautiful they are."
Li Jinglong said "Um", and simply lay down, and the two looked at the stars together.
"I don't like Qin Wu." Li Jinglong said, "Are you a little jealous?"
When Hongjun was asked this, his heart jumped violently for no reason, and said in embarrassment, "No...Yes!"
"Look at me worrying about him." Li Jinglong said solemnly, "Is it not right in my heart?"
Hongjun immediately turned around, lay on his side, and stopped speaking.
Li Jinglong said: "I was friends with him, I just can't bear to watch him fall to where he is now..." While looking at the stars, he said in a daze, "Although I have known you for less than a month, you can talk and behave. Obviously from the immortal family. Being a human being and being incomparably clearer, is it comparable to a person in the mortal world?"
When Hongjun heard Li Jinglong complimenting himself so much, he immediately became excited, turned around, looked at him, and said, "Really? You praise me so happy!"
Li Jinglong said happily: "Just treat you as if I was coaxing you."
Hongjun was a little sleepy, and said in a daze: "Sometimes when I watch Du Hanqing and Little Wu, I can't help but think, if I hadn't been in Yao... I grew up in my house. Maybe compared to them. Say, I will do worse. So I take advantage of it, but I just reborn and vote well."
"That's not the case." Li Jinglong said, "Everyone has their own nature. Some people don't bother to do many things even if they are down and down all their lives. You said that you like long history..."
Hongjun said "Um", his eyelids were heavy and tiredness struck, and he didn't hear what Li Jinglong said behind him. Li Jinglong was very surprised. He stretched out his hand and shook Hongjun, called him, and had no choice but to give up.
The bonfire went out, and the world plunged into darkness.
Suddenly, Hongjun woke up in the dark, and yelled again, feeling that his body was covered with clothes, but he had not yet struggled, but Li Jinglong, who was next to him, immediately reached out and held him down.
Li Jinglong didn't know when to move over, lying side by side with him, the two of them were next to each other under his robe.
"Dreaming again?" Li Jinglong asked with concern, "Why do you always have nightmares?"
Hongjun gasped lightly and said, "Dreaming about monsters killing...killing."
He dreamed of the corpse that he saw in the daytime hiding behind the stone and could not help shaking. A group of black shadows came forward with mist, stretched out his hand, and the blood on the ground turned into a living worm flying, and finally moved towards his hand. Keep gathering.
"Don't be afraid." Li Jinglong whispered, "Are you sensitive to grievances? I want to ask you today."
Hongjun said, "Yeah", and he felt a strong heartbeat in Li Jinglong's chest, and there was a dim light in his heart, which made him very yearning. He leaned a little closer and was disturbed by nightmares. Gradually, his soul settled down and fell asleep again.
When woke up early the next morning, nothing happened. Li Jinglong made another round, carrying Hongjun, and riding his horse back to Chang'an City. When they arrived at the Exorcist Division, the three of them lay in the main hall and slept in their clothes, apparently checking the files all night.
"A new case came last night." Ah Tai said sleepily. "Murder, monsters. And witnesses."
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let this case go first and listen to our investigation results, Hongjun, this time it's your turn."
"Huh?" Hongjun had already forgotten about it, and said, "I had two bowls of braised goose noodles yesterday..."
"Okay you guys!" Ah Tai said angrily. "We are exhausted in the Exorcist Division. Are you going out to eat delicious food?"
Li Jinglong seriously described the darker and darker, and said angrily: "Speaking of the topic!"
Hongjun detailed the passage based on his memory. When talking about vomiting, everyone connected to the carp monster and said in unison: "Deserve it!" Finally, when Pingheliang was mentioned, everyone frowned. Ask questions verbally. This time he changed Li Jinglong's answer. He explained the cause and effect clearly, and said to Hongjun: "Did you forget something?"
Hongjun didn't think of it. Morigen first said, "The first three are not necessarily monsters, but the last one must be strange."
"You counted Qin Wu as well." Li Jinglong said.
"Is there always something in common between these four cases?" Ah Tai muttered.
"The common point is that even Dali Temple can't be broken?" Qiu Yongsi said.
Everyone: "..."
Qiu Yongsi waved his hand, happily: "It's related to blood."
Hongjun: "Yes."
"Except for the doctor who escaped from the city, the clue is broken." Li Jinglong said solemnly, "The rest of the case, whether it is the scene of the crime or the means of committing the crime, is extremely intense."
"This can't constitute a similarity." Morigen frowned. "Murders are always bloody."
Li Jinglong said: "The murderous people lose their minds at a certain moment."
Qiu Yongsi: "When people are angry, they will do impulsive things. When they are driven by the heart demon..."
"Heart demon." Li Jinglong pointed out the word Qiu Yongsi said straightforwardly.
Everyone was silent again,
"Only Qin Wu is like this?" Hongjun said, "After all, we haven't seen any other murderers."
Li Jinglong reminded: "The bodyguard who committed suicide."
Hongjun immediately remembered that the expression of the suicide was a clue that he had discovered.
"You have to find the blacksmith in the wife murder case." Morigen said, "If it is similar to Qin Wu, there may be a problem."
"Should the blacksmith's neighbor know him on weekdays?" Ah Tai asked.
"It's on the volume, he's an honest person." Li Jinglong motioned to Ah Tai to see for himself.
When the topic was about the blacksmith, Hongjun suddenly remembered, took out the half-moon-shaped iron piece found in the blacksmith's house, and said, "I always feel this..."
"Wait!" Qiu Yongsi immediately leaned forward, turned sideways and quickly squeezed it over, holding it in his hand, and suddenly short of breath.
"What is this magic weapon?" Hongjun asked. When he saw this iron piece, he felt as if there was a very weak demon on it, but he couldn't tell where it came from. Among the five, Qiu Yongsi is the most knowledgeable. He recognizes the sword of wisdom, and perhaps also knows the origin of this thing.
"This is not a magic weapon." Qiu Yongsi muttered, "This is a scale..."
In the afternoon of the next day, the jailer took all the exorcists and Dali Temple clerical Lian Hao into the deepest part of the prison.
"I've been tried, and I confessed. I only mentioned that when he killed someone, he was wicked." Lian Hao asked the jailer to open the prison door with the key and let them in.
The murderer was hiding in a dark corner. He was a blacksmith in his fifties, shrunken, disheveled, talked and talked, and he was confused.
Li Jinglong touched him lightly, and the blacksmith instantly let out a heartbreaking scream, and roared: "Ghost--! Ghost!"
Morigen knelt on one knee and went to the blacksmith to observe his look.
"What did you see?" Morigen asked, "Don't be afraid, tell us."
The blacksmith kept trembling, his facial features cramped and twisted, his throat gurgled, and he gave no explanation. Li Jinglong furrowed his brows and glanced at Hongjun. Both tacitly thought of the face of the bodyguard who had massacred the entire caravan.
"Ghost, ghost..." The blacksmith tossed over and over, only saying this.
When everyone left the cell, Hongjun glanced casually and found that Qin Wu was being held in another cell. Qin Wu was wearing a death row uniform, handcuffed and fettered, and fell asleep on the straw-covered ground.
With the sound of the iron chain, the jailer unlocked, Hongjun went in and patted Qin Wu, who suddenly became a frightened bird, and grabbed Hongjun's wrist fiercely.
"Save me...save me..." Qin Wu trembled, "I shouldn't have done that... I was wrong..."
Hongjun frowned and said, "Xiao Wu, tell me what happened?"
Qin Wu's eyes were full of fear, and he almost cried, saying: "I don't know... I don't know... There is a shadow that has been following me... I don't want to do it... Save me..."
The expressions of everyone outside the prison door were horrible.
"Speak clearly." Li Jinglong entered the cell, knelt in front of Qin Wu, and looked at his expression.
Qin Wu tremblingly said, "After killing them, a shadow came in..."
Hongjun was shocked, but Li Jinglong asked, "What does the shadow look like?"
Qin Wu shook his head and pleaded: "I don't know, I didn't look closely, I ran away, I dare not stay any longer..."
That night, Qin Wu still did not recover from the bloodthirsty madness after he slashed his enemies and the whole family. However, he felt the wind blowing everywhere, and the blood gathered like worms on the ground, crawling around. Suddenly, shock and madness were replaced by fear, so he stumbled all the way out with his sword.
"It's an illusion." Lian Hao frowned. "Many murderers are a little unconscious after committing a crime, but they are rarely calm."
Hongjun remembered the calm Qin Wu he saw that day. He was completely different from the panic after the murder. This made him unable to match the two.
That night, with a bright autumn moon, everyone stopped in front of the Jiuqu Bridge, silent.
Hongjun flipped the dragon scale between his fingers, from index finger to middle finger to ring finger, and back to index finger in turn.
"Don't cut your hands." Morigen reminded.
"One dragon?" Li Jinglong said, "Why on earth instigating blacksmiths and Qin Wu to kill people, and what is the motive?"
"Definiteness is related to a certain wicked technique." Qiu Yongsi analyzed, "Although the one in Hongjun's hand is a dragon scale, the nine sons of the dragon are different, and the possibility of being a real dragon is extremely small."
"Yeah." Hongjun said, "Dragon scales and phoenix feathers have extremely powerful spirit beast power. This may be the scales of the dragon family, but it will never be a real dragon."
At that time, there was the sound of water from the Jiuqu River, and the carp monster got up from the water, and replied: "The river is muddy and you can't see anything. But on the innermost edge of Jinchi Lake, there is indeed a big thing crawling. The traces of passing have squeezed the edge stones pressed on the lake a lot."
All aquatic people, even if they cultivate to become a real dragon, often need water sources, and those who are not high in the way, like the carp demon, need to soak in the pool frequently. Sure enough, Li Jinglong guessed that there are aquatic monster races, so there will be traces in the Chang'an waterway.
"Explore all the waterways separately." Li Jinglong said, "If any abnormalities are found, report them at any time."
Everyone went to every corner of Chang'an separately. Near Chang'an, "Gaojing" has been used as a country since the Western Zhou Dynasty. Since the Han Dynasty, there has been a saying that "Eight Rivers circumvent Chang'an". The Jinghe and Weihe rivers pass through this thousand-year-old city, and the tributaries are intricate like water networks. It is nearly ten feet deep.
If there is aquatic monster clan distribution, every canal, river, and fence will probably leave traces of movement. Hongjun and the carp demon head west through the Lishui Bridge. The curfew has long been in the quiet city, and there is only one person and one demon talking in the dark alley.
"Some monsters are born as dragons, and some monsters have to cultivate for thousands of years to become a dragon." The carp demon said, "How unfair are you saying this?"
Hongjun held the five-color divine light in his hand, illuminating the surroundings, and said to the carp demon: "I think carp is unfair. It is obviously not a relationship with the dragon clan. You will become a dragon by jumping a dragon.
"I want to be beautiful." The carp demon replied, "You are deceived in the little man book, understand? You have to accumulate merit first, accumulate enough merit, and then jump into the dragon gate to become a dragon."
"Hush." Hongjun stood outside a waterway in the west of the city, shining inward with a five-color divine light, the sound of water dropped, and the carp demon hurriedly hid behind Hongjun.
In the darkness, there was silence all around, and Lishui turned into the underground, flowed out of the city, and flowed into the moat outside Chang'an. However, here is the East Chang'an city wall built by Qin Qiong when Li Shimin was in power. It was built on a hill. During the drought, the Jing River outside the city was poured into Chang'an and the water level rose. When the city was flooded, the large water drained to the Weihe River and to the Qinchuan Plain. It used to be a water conservancy project for irrigating inside and outside the city.
After Wu Zetian moved the capital to Luo Yang, this place has been abandoned for a long time. Now it has been in disrepair, and the Ministry of Engineering is not taking care of it. Even the underground water channel is full of silt and is surrounded by heavy iron fences. Under the fence, there is something vaguely in the light. bright.
The carp demon ran to pick it up, and Hongjun was surprised: "It's another piece! Why does it look different?"
Hongjun compared the two iron scales side by side, and saw one dark gray and the other blue-blue, which were obviously different.
"More than one." Hongjun said solemnly.
Hongjun tried to lift the iron fence, but the fence weighed two thousand catties, and he was not strong enough, so he had to take out a throwing knife, cut one of them, held the broken fence in his hand, and walked sideways into the waterway.
"Hongjun, don't act rashly, the flying knives are not complete, I will ask them to come over!" said the carp demon.
Hongjun couldn't laugh or cry: "You too underestimate me."
Although Hongjun bumped and bumped along the way, he still had some strength. However, he was inadequate when compared with the exorcist's companions. The carp demon turned to inform his companions, and Hongjun walked slowly in the dark waterway.
The tunnel was wide and deep, and the sound of dripping water continued to be heard. You could not see your fingers all around, and a gust of wind passed by at the end, and then there was a "creak--" as if someone was pushing a wooden door.
"Who!" Hongjun said in surprise.
Ignoring the response, Hongjun stood alone in the dark and snapped his fingers with a "pop". The spell was radiant, and the shape of a phoenix flying faintly appeared, bursting out blazing real fire, turning into dozens of meteors, and shooting at the two walls of the tunnel. The sound of being ignited continued to sound, the torches inserted in the wall of the cave lit up one by one, and the light in the tunnel was restored.
There was another "squeak-", Hongjun walked slowly along the sound, turned a bend, and found an extremely spacious underground space with a lot of abandoned warships thrown in, and the river was gurgling. A stream of water fell from a high place and poured it on a rotten waterwheel. The waterwheel made a sound every half a turn.
Hongjun was about to turn around, but suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder behind his back. A voice said gloomily in his ear: "Hi, baa, monkey, bi..."
Hongjun immediately exploded Mao and almost cut off Ah Tai's hand with a flying knife. When he turned around, Ah Tai motioned for him to silence. The carp demon found Ah Tai nearby, but the others hadn't come yet.
"What does this sentence mean?" Hongjun was scared enough.
"Persian "Hello Hongjun baby"." Ah Tai smiled as he squeezed the jewelry folding fan.
"You add it yourself later." Hongjun said blankly, and threw another dragon scale to Ah Tai. Ah Tai motioned for him to look at the ground, and then waved his fan, a little flame burst out from the ring and flew away, illuminating the silent river beach.
The footprints of a group of people appeared on the river beach. The two looked at it for a moment, then raised their heads together to look at the calm water.
"Maybe hiding in the water." Ah Tai said very quietly, "Got a gamble?"
Hongjun replied in a low voice, "I think this monster may not be at home."
Ah Tai raised his eyebrows to mean how he knew it, and Hongjun whispered, "For several days, the murders happened at night, right?"
"Smart." Ah Tai smiled, and then without warning, he waved the fan in his hand and stirred up the water in the underground river!
"Wow!" Hongjun said hurriedly, ‘I just guessed! "
The power of the hurricane fan in Ah Tai's hand was fully turned on, and all the water in the river channel was rolled into a huge vortex in the loud noise, and then it collapsed with a crash, and the cave wall was full of waterfalls.
"My little baby guessed it right, I really wasn't at home." Ah Tai said casually, "Let's do it alone? Do you choose first?"
Hongjun then turned around and began to investigate with Ah Tai along both sides of the cave wall. It was when the warship with rotten wood was stumbling, and he carefully stepped across the deck of a ship.
"Ah Tai!" Hongjun said, "Come and see this?"
Ah Tai quickly jumped over the bows of several ships and landed beside Hongjun. Hongjun found a magic circle engraved with runes on the deck. In the center of the circle, there was a copper plate. Inside the copper plate, there was a drop. Strange bright red liquid, the liquid is constantly squirming.
The two looked at each other, and then looked around.
"It's like a temporary altar." Ah Tai frowned. "It's for sacrifice? What does this array mean?"
"Why haven't they come yet?" Hongjun said.
Ah Tai always felt something was wrong, and said, "Take things and leave."
Ah Tai motioned to Hongjun to pick up the copper plate, and took out a very small glass bottle from his arms, unplugged the stopper, and faced the drop of blood. Then the drop of blood seemed to be alive for an instant, and it turned into a "swish". film. Turned over to the two of them!
"Watch out!" Ah Tai shouted.
Before Hongjun recovered his mind, Ah Tai shook the folding fan in an instant, swept out the strong wind, and sent the two separately out of the circle! However, the next moment, that drop of blood shot into the river, and the river turned into blood red in an instant, booming towards the two!
Hongjun shouted: "What is this?!"
Ah Tai shouted: "Leave here! Go for help!"
Immediately after Ah Tai used all his strength, he waved his fan to send Hongjun blood out of the sky, and a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave in an instant, blocking Hongjun's way!
A sea of blood came over the sky, Hongjun was in the air, and he saw a figure rushing towards him, his cloak flying behind him, showing a hideous face, it was Jai Su! Jai Xuan's face was full of flesh, spreading his fangs, flicking away his sharp claws, and rushing towards Hongjun!
"Ah Tai——!"
Hongjun yelled, Ah Tai was swept in by the blood that gathered into the waves, and then Hongjun flew out with his left and right hands, and two flying knives clung to the claws! Gaia opened his mouth, his eyes flashed like a copper bell, Hongjun was not afraid, and his whole body was shocked.
The five-color divine light rushed out and slammed Jai Xuan fiercely. Unexpectedly, Jai Xuan couldn’t help but this young man. He had a heart of underestimating the enemy, and was immediately rushed to fly upside down, and hit and smashed into the rotten ship. The mast fell into a sea of blood!
Hongjun’s five-color divine light is the strongest defensive magic weapon in the world. Flying sand, fiery fire, mysterious ice, and violent thunder, can almost withstand everything, defending and not attacking. A monster can still do it.
"Ah Tai!" Hongjun shouted.
The hurricane rolled up, the waves of blood retreated to both sides, the ice bursts everywhere, there were fires and thunder and lightning burst from time to time. Obviously Ah Tai, who was involved in the sea of blood, is working hard. The sea of blood has no shape and is full of waves. The hurricane fan can seal the front and cannot seal the back. Ah Tai does not live in the bow of the ship, but is smashed. The waves rushed in and were almost knocked over again!
The sea of blood continued to rise, Ah Tai was already out of breath, and the hulk where he landed was almost disintegrated, becoming an island in the sea of blood.
Said it was too late, then Hongjun shot out the hook rope, hush entangled the top of the cave, and ran fast while pulling the hook rope with one hand, running around the circular cave wall, stepping sideways, and then turning around, opening his arms towards Ah Tai leaped into the air and shouted, "Grab—!"
A sea of crazy blood rushed towards Ah Tai from all directions. Ah Tai roared, spinning around on the spot, and a violent wind broke out, turning the wall of waves that swallowed him into a whirlpool, and then an somersault on his head and feet, swinging a dragon at the ship. Volume, use that recoil force to rise to the top of the cave.
The ship collapsed under this impulse, Hongjun rushed down from the air and grasped Ah Tai tightly with one hand. Ah Tai turned around again, and the wind recoiled, sending the two to the entrance like an arrow from the string!
The sea of blood swallowed all the space, rushed up the cave wall, turned around, and rushed down towards the two! Hongjun shook his left hand, and the five-color light rose flatly, forming a wall. The sea of blood slammed into the wall, and it was impossible to pass through!
Ah Tai couldn't help gasping, Hongjun flipped his hands and pushed the five-color light forward, Ah Tai shouted, "Good job!"
The sea of blood was actually pushed back by Hongjun and collapsed with a shocking tsunami. Then an ugly monster appeared from the water and slammed into the barrier of the five colors of light!
Jai Xu finally appeared, but still couldn't break through Hongjun's super magic weapon. Watching this scene, the entire huge cave seemed to be turned into a glass fish tank. A light barrier measuring several meters long and wide blocked the blood-stained river water weighing more than ten thousand jin, and there was a terrifying beast inside. Is frantically attacking the barrier!
"How long can it last?" Ah Tai asked.
"For spells... it should be fine until tomorrow morning." Hongjun said, "It's just sore hands."
"If I said to withdraw, you would withdraw." Ah Tai said, "Then turn around and run. If I say stop, you will stop, and then use magic to block it."
"Okay." Hongjun replied, "you be careful."
At that time, Jai Xuan rushed towards the five-color divine light again, slammed against the light barrier, and then the five-color divine light was bright and bounced it out.
"Withdraw!" Ah Tai shouted.
Hongjun withdrew the five-color light, and the sea of blood suddenly surged like a landslide. Then Ah Tai spread his arms, leaped behind him, and shouted, "Run!"
Hongjun turned around and ran. When Ah Tai leaped back, he stretched his hands, the ring on his left hand burst into a dense fireball, and a fan on his right hand made the fireball swarming towards the sea of blood!
It just so happened that at that moment, Jai Xuan rushed into the bleeding tide, roaring towards the two of them, and Ah Tai shouted again: "Stop!"
When Hongjun turned his head, he caught a glimpse of Jai Xuan's mouth wide open, but what was waiting for him was dozens of fireballs. The fireballs screamed continuously, and all of them filled Jai Xuan's mouth!
Hongjun bowed, pressing one of his hands together, and the five-color light barrier rose again.
With a muffled sound, it was as if someone had hit the wall with one head, and the fireball swallowed by Javier exploded in the abdomen. The power of the explosion exploded a blood hole in the abdomen, and then hit the five-colored divine light, causing a sea of blood. It became muddy and flew out behind the barrier.
Hongjun: "Hahahaha—"
He only thought the scene was funny, Ah Tai gasped, "Get out."
Hongjun pressed the five-color divine light with both hands to seal the tunnel, blocking the sea of blood surging. Jai Xu had already disappeared. It is strange to say that the sea of blood gradually calmed down.
The two stepped back a few steps, the color of the sea of blood gradually faded, and the bright red seemed to be alive, shrinking in the water. Hongjun remembered the squirming blood on the plate he saw first, and tried to remove the light barrier. The sewage fell off with a sound.
On the ground of **, a bright red blood was slowly twisting. Jai Xuan was blasted through his abdomen, and he did not know where to escape.
Hongjun frowned and looked at Ah Tai.
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