Daxianguan

Chapter 263

If so many people die at once, no matter what period it is, it is a major case that can alarm the Holy Dynasty.

Chu Xian didn't delay at the moment, and immediately asked Wen Youquan to go to the county to bring soldiers over, while Chu Xian stayed and surveyed the scene.

The result was as Chu Xian expected, all the villagers in Lujia Village died, and everyone had a strange smile on their faces. Most people don’t understand it, but Chu Xian knows that Yin and Yang mirror each other, and they have this kind of smile when they die. , that means that these people were frightened to death by the technique.

In fact, this is the appearance of death that only occurs when the fear is extreme.

Chu Xian immediately used the soul-calling technique to call the souls of the dead for questioning, but it didn’t work. The souls of the dead people had already been wiped out, or they were captured and trapped. Chu Xian was considered a soul-calling technique. The method is superb, and it is useless at this time.

Fortunately, Chu Xian has other means.

Investigating cases is what Chu Xian is good at. Even if ghosts and gods commit crimes, Chu Xian can see some clues from some clues.

First of all, the time when the other party committed the crime was actually in the early morning. Obviously, the other party did this on purpose. People who died at this time had weak souls and were most likely to be manipulated.

But as an evil ghost, there are great restrictions on daring to kill living people in the daytime. Moreover, it is not easy for an evil ghost on the other side to kill so many living people.

Ordinary demons would never be able to do this.

In Chu Xian's view, there are only two possibilities, either he is an old ghost with a high level of cultivation, or he has a special status. They may not dare to come out, let alone cast spells to kill people.

In addition, the opponent used a ghost weapon, otherwise, no matter how powerful the ghost cultivator is, it is impossible to affect so many people at the same time, and just now Wen Youquan got the Tao, in fact it was not the ghost that cast the spell, but was affected by the ghost weapon .

Chu Xian fought the evil spirit and beat the evil spirit away. The other party hadn't had time to take away the ghost weapon, so finding the ghost weapon was what Chu Xian had to do now.

The ghost weapon, the magical weapon used by the ghost, may not exist at all in the eyes of living people, invisible and intangible, but that is for ordinary people, and it is not difficult for Chu Xian.

After walking back and forth in Lujia Village a few times, Chu Xian stopped in front of a large well in the village.

"Get out of your body!"

Now Chu Xian can easily get out of the body without sitting cross-legged, and the speed is extremely fast, just listening to the whistling of the wind, when Chu Xian returns to the body, there is already one more thing in his hand.

It was a wet bronze mirror.

The bronze mirror is at most the size of a palm, small and exquisite, with seven kinds of evil spirits engraved on its seven sides, and behind it is an eye, which seems to be able to pierce people's hearts.

The weirdest thing was that the bronze mirror was very unstable, as if it would disappear at any time. Chu Xian immediately chanted a spell, and the bronze mirror stabilized.

That ghost is using this thing to kill people, so that it can be done without any effort.

This bronze mirror is also a clue.

Every ghost weapon should have an owner. When the time comes, follow the clues and find out who is behind the scenes.

When Wen Youquan brought people over, it was already noon, the rain had stopped at this moment, but the sky was still gloomy, those soldiers and county government servants knew that Chu Xian was the government order, and they were all respectful.

Chu Xian called Wen Youquan and asked him what he thought.

Wen Youquan thought for a while: "My lord, the deceased in Lujia Village died in the same way as the previous ones. They should be from the same person or the same group."

"Or, it's a ghost." Chu Xian said.

Wen Youquan nodded hastily: "Yes, yes, it's a ghost. Your Majesty the Governor, up to now, more than 200 people have died. Now the whole county is already in panic. If you can't catch the murderer, I'm afraid it will take a long time. Something went wrong."

This Chu Xian naturally knew.

Originally, Chu Xian planned to investigate secretly, but now it seems that this is not possible, and since he has already alarmed the enemy, it is better to simply call a group of soldiers to stabilize the situation.

At least in the eyes of the common people, they have a bottom line in their hearts.

Chu Xian is currently writing a letter to the paper crane, and a day later, the three thousand Tengjia troops have rushed to Yaoguang County, followed by the new chief secretary and some officials in the city, the brothers and sisters of the Luo family and Chu San also came Well, in this way, almost every village in Yaoguang County is guarded by the Tengjia Army, and Chu Xian and the others are also always ready to dispatch immediately if there is any trouble.

It's just that in the next few days, the situation in Yaoguang County was calm, and there was no murder of a hungry ghost. After waiting for a few more days, it was still calm.

Many people felt relieved, thinking that the magistrate himself was sitting in the town, and there were three thousand Tengjia troops, so they deterred the evil ghost.

Wen Youquan also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as people don't continue to die, then thank God. Right now, it seems to be good. No matter what the origin of the murderous ghost is, the other party at least knows how to restrain himself, knowing that this side is not easy to mess with, so stop, maybe sooner or later Just run away.

The officials in the county also breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that calm should be restored in a few days.

It's just that when Wen Youquan mentioned this matter once, he probably wanted to hear Chu Xian's tone and see when Chu Xian would return to Yunlong City.

"Go back?" Chu Xian glanced at Wen Youquan, who hurriedly said: "Master Fu Ling, seeing that the situation is not good, the evil ghost must not dare to commit crimes again. In this way, the situation in the county can be stabilized."

"Then act as if nothing happened, and everything is as usual?" Chu Xian asked again at this time, this time, Wen Youquan sensed that something was wrong, so he didn't dare to speak casually.

Chu Xian shook his head: "No matter who committed this case, they must be investigated to the end, and then the culprit will be arrested and brought to justice. If it is a person, it will be beheaded; if it is a ghost, its soul will be beheaded."

Wen Youquan was stunned.

He can already be sure that the person who committed the crime is an evil spirit, so this kind of matter is no longer something that a mere county magistrate can solve. You have to notify the underworld and let the underworld investigate and deal with it.

This is called the separation of powers, which cannot be overstepped.

That's why Wen Youquan was stunned after hearing Chu Xian's words, and felt in his heart that the magistrate was asking for trouble, not to mention whether he had the authority, but to catch an evil spirit. It would be fine if the other party committed another crime. If it disappears from now on, and there is no such means and ability to investigate and deal with it, where should we start?
Wen Youquan felt that he should remind the magistrate, and immediately said in a low voice: "Master magistrate, this kind of thing should not be reported to the underworld..."

"I have already sent the letter notifying the underworld. According to experience, the underworld will not respond too quickly, and will often ignore it. It is better to rely on the underworld to investigate the case by ourselves." Chu Xian obviously He is very familiar with the operation of the underworld, and he can hear that he is very dissatisfied.

At this time, Wen Youquan didn't dare to say anything.

He obviously didn't dare to obstruct Chu Xian, but he just felt that the magistrate would definitely not be able to find out anything, at most he would just put on a show.

But in the next few days, Wen Youquan discovered that the magistrate was not just pretending, he was really investigating, and he was extremely devoted.

In the county government office of Yaoguang County, in a study room temporarily requisitioned by Chu Xian, there are many documents, which are all the rosters of household registration in the county.

Chu Xian ticked off the names of the civilians who were killed this time with a red pen.

That evil spirit never came back to commit crimes, and Chu Xian had tried it before, using the bronze mirror as a bait to see if he could be lured out.

As a result, the other party was not fooled, as if he really walked away and never appeared again.

Obviously, the evil ghost knew who he was and the price of doing something wrong again, so he disappeared, but just like what Chu Xian and Wen Youquan said, Chu Xian would not just write a memorandum and submit it to the state government. The ball was taken away, Chu Xian wanted to investigate this matter to the end.

Committing crimes in his territory, Chu Xian will never let it go.

This was Chu Xian's own obsession. Anyway, Chu Xian would not let the more than 200 people in the land he ruled lose their lives just like that.

In the past few days, Chu Xian made a discovery.

First of all, the dead people, either with the surname Lu or Yao, at least most of them, except for a few officials who tried to report the news.

But Chu Xian felt that the evil ghost killed the messengers just to block the news, that is to say, if those people didn't go out to report the news, they wouldn't die.

In this way, after sorting out the victims, it is easy to see that they are targeting people with the surnames Lu and Yao in Yaoguang County.

Further in-depth investigations revealed that these two surnames were once rich families in Yaoguang County, and in the local area, these two surnames both came from the same clan, and they lived separately later, but they did not leave the boundary of Yaoguang County.

For this reason, Chu Xian found out the earliest genealogy files that could be retrieved. Of course, it took a lot of effort to find these things.

But it's worth it.

Chu Xian found an extremely important clue. The families surnamed Lu and Yao were foreigners. About a hundred years ago, they moved from other prefectures to Yaoguang County. Later, they got married and had children here to multiply their families.

There are very few records of this aspect in the file, and the members of these two families are all extinct now. Fortunately, there are many old people in Yaoguang County who know about these two families.

Among them, there is the former county magistrate who has retired and returned to his hometown.

The county magistrate is already 110 years old, because he is not cultivated enough and the official is not high enough, so he is already very old. It is estimated that his lifespan will not exceed 130 years old, and it may not even reach it.

Chu Xian went to find the other party in person, the old county magistrate was naturally extremely surprised, not only went out to greet him in person, but also treated Chu Xian as a guest of honor.

After all, Chu Xian is the government order.

After the servant made tea and was dismissed by the old county magistrate, the latter said: "The reason why the magistrate came to see me, I already know a thing or two."

Chu Xian smiled. Obviously, even if the old county magistrate stepped back, he still had some influence in the county. It was obviously impossible for the other party not to know about such a big incident in Yaoguang County, and the other party not only I know, I must know some inside information.

"That's why Chu came here." Chu Xian took a sip of tea, then tasted it: "Good tea."

(End of this chapter)