I was just solving crimes, how could I become an immortal?

Chapter 18 Why is Cao An’s Qi-gazing technique different?
  The turbid fog floats in the streets and alleys of the ghost market, and the world that never sees the light of day makes this place like a devil's cave.

If not forced by life, who would want to open a shop and live here.

"But people always have to leave. Once you leave, you probably won't come back in the future!" At the entrance of Xue Ji's pawnshop, Boss Xue carried his luggage and locked the door tightly.

Black goods, private work, licking blood at the tip of a knife...

These years of ups and downs are all to save a pension fund for myself, so that I can buy a house in Shangjiang City, have a house with a concubine, and live a leisurely retirement life.

"But Boss Xue, I see that you are so energetic, you don't look like you are going to close your shop to retire! Have you made a fortune recently?"

Behind him, a sinister joke suddenly came, making Boss Xue's heart skip a beat.

Turning around, he saw Cao An leading dozens of elites from the Imperial City Division to block the front of his store.

Boss Xue immediately put on an apologetic smile and bowed to greet him.

"It turns out that the adults came to make atonement for their sins. Alas~~ Xiaoren's shop has been open for seven years, and to be honest, I feel very reluctant to leave it. It's just that Wang Er died unexpectedly. I have no worries and continue to stay here. This place only adds to the sadness!"

Boss Xue wiped his face vigorously, as if he wanted to hold back a few tears to prove the deep relationship between their master and servant.

"But from what I see, you don't seem to care about Wang Er's life or death!"

"How, how could it be possible? I have opened this store for seven years, and Wang Er has been with me for seven years. I treat him as my son, so naturally I have a very good relationship with him."

"Really? But Wang Er's first seven days haven't passed yet, and the body is still hanging in the morgue. You just left like this, and you didn't even burn a piece of paper?"

"Sir, I'm going to the city to find a good tomb for him. Wang Er used to say that he would leave this hellish place after making money. Now that he died unexpectedly, he should be buried outside."

Boss Xue's answer can be said to be watertight.

What's more important is that this person is now emboldened and not afraid of the government's investigation. He even reopened the store door and led everyone in to make tea and entertain them, as if he had done nothing wrong.

Cao An waved his hand and did not accept the tea from Boss Xue. Instead, he observed it in front of the display rack.

Beautiful porcelain, yellowed ancient books, and Cao An even saw the remains of the martial arts.

"There are a lot of good things in this pawn shop! Are you just going to leave without asking for them all?"

Boss Xue was well prepared, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Sir, this is just a joke. This shop is just a small business. If you say this valuable thing, it's really not much."

The implication is that 99% of the goods in this pawn shop are fakes, so it would be a shame to throw them away.

Cao An tried to pick up a small bronze tripod. The weight, inscriptions, and signs of distress all looked very realistic.

"Boss Xue, your level of fraud is really extraordinary!"

"What the heck, the adults are praising you so much, and the villains are just trying to make ends meet."

"No, you are not just making a living. Being able to open a shop in this ghost market for seven years is beyond the skills of ordinary people. What's more... the crime scene you faked was owned by Lian Huangcheng Division Everyone has been deceived."

In one sentence, the atmosphere of the scene solidified instantly.

'bass! bass! bass! In an instant, eight swords from the Imperial City Division were unsheathed. Boss Xue was so frightened that he knelt down with a bang.

"Sir, I don't know anything about the fake crime scene!"

Judging from the cowardly look on his face, he seemed quite innocent. Unfortunately, no one present believed this statement.

They are all officers who lick blood from their swords. Nine out of ten criminals they arrest claim that they are innocent. It would be strange if they believe it easily.

"But I still don't understand how this pawnshop owner got connected with the serial murders?" Pang Shi asked doubtfully.

They checked everything they could. The pawnshop owner's cultivation was indeed ordinary, and no objects related to the demon clan were found in the shop. Why did Cao An suddenly lead the team here?
  "It's very simple, because I used the aura technique to see the aura of windfall in the three dead demons."

Cao An changed to a simpler way and explained the ability of the deceased's last words.

In those three last words, there was a mention of "making a small profit from the goods you brought along the way", which must have been a private sale before the transaction with the Imperial City Division. The black servant is very sure that there has not been a large amount of demon goods flowing into the ghost market recently, so the three demons can only be sold privately to the Chamber of Commerce store.

Combined with the fact that Wang Er was plotted by one of his own people, and the only person who has contact with him is Xue Ji's pawnshop, Boss Xue will definitely not be able to escape.

Cao An's reasoning not only shocked everyone in the Imperial City Division, but even Sanyang was shocked.

Don't get me wrong, I was not stunned by his reasoning, but surprised by...

"This [Qi Watching Technique] can actually see the Qi of a dead person?"

"It shouldn't work, right? After death, seven souls will be destroyed. Now that you have expired, where can you look?"

"I asked this question to a monk from Si Tianjian last time, and he slapped me and told me to get out."

"If others can't do it, it doesn't mean that Cao An can't do it. Don't forget his [Sanqing Asking for Directions] yesterday. How many monks from Si Tianjian can do it?"

"Cao An is really a master!"

Cao An:......

Dead people can't use [Qi Watching Technique]?
  You should have told me earlier! I just wanted to find an excuse to explain my last words, and now it seems that the more I explain, the more mysterious it becomes.

There is no other way, just respond with silence and let you figure it out on your own.

Cao An turned his head and looked at Boss Xue, who was crying out loudly with runny nose and tears.

"Sir! Even if I know some tricks of forgery, I am just an ordinary person after all! How can I poison some monster?"

"No, compared to faking the scene, poisoning is the easiest. As long as you make them a small profit, their vigilance will naturally be lowered."

There was obviously a big deal on the second day, but it still made the three mandrills feel that they had made a small profit. I am afraid that the price of this transaction was much higher than the market price.

It's not easy to find a good and kind-hearted shopkeeper in the ghost market. He offers a high price to buy it, just to get close and wait for an opportunity to poison the tea.

When the drug takes effect, he waits for an opportunity to kill and loot all the property.

When Shopkeeper Xue heard this, he cried even more: "Sir, you keep saying that I kill people and steal money, but you have searched my shop several times, how can there be any money!"

"It doesn't exist here, which doesn't mean it doesn't exist elsewhere. If I guessed correctly, the thing should no longer be in the ghost market, but in the city."

In one sentence, the expression of the pawnshop owner who complained about the injustice finally changed slightly.

How did Cao An know?

"The reason is very simple. Why did the body from the previous few days only appear today? It was because the murderer had a weak background and was afraid of revenge from the deceased's relatives and friends, so he chose to hide the body in the first place."

"Having tasted the sweetness, you repeated your old tricks and killed three mandrills. Only then did you realize that you were in trouble."

"So you fabricated a murder scene at noon today to cover up your move of stolen goods last night."

Cao An's guess is already close to ten.

The key point of the entire case is the time of death, but even if the pawnshop owner's counterfeiting skills are superb, he can't stand up to Cao An's detective system.

Of course, the pawn shop owner also knew that he would end up miserable after pleading guilty, but he still insisted that he was innocent.

"Sir, what you said is just one-sided. I am innocent. You can't wrongly accuse a good person!"

Boss Xue was very sure that the place where he hid the stolen goods was very secret, and the Imperial City Department would never be able to find it. There was no physical evidence, and all the claims were just assumptions, with no evidence at all.

Unfortunately, Cao An's detective system is the evidence.

(End of this chapter)