Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 148 A Bold Idea
Seeing that Yang Qian's attention had returned to the documents on the table, Xu Ying tactfully put down her tea bowl and quietly left the study, fearing that she would disturb her eldest son.

Little did he know that Xu Ying's unintentional trip actually helped Yang Qian open up a blind spot in his thinking.

Yes! Why must such a large animal footprint be from a demon beast? Why do you think it can't be connected to the case?

If these huge animal footprints, including the feces, all belong to the same giant mount, then wouldn't everything be connected?
Yang Qian began to deduce the massacre in Wangjiazhuang again.

A hypothetical scenario gradually became clear in Yang Qian's mind: a demon cultivator or an evil cultivator holding a powerful evil weapon passed by or came to Wangzhuang specifically, and was tempted to commit a major crime and massacre the entire village. Then he rode away on his mount. The footprints on the roofs and trees should have been made by stepping up and down when entering the village.

After this scene appeared, all the clues were connected. It seemed that there was evidence and a closed loop. It only needed to prove that Wang Xiang's soul might be injured before it could be officially used as the result of the case analysis.

There's a problem with this hypothetical scenario, however.

That is, there are actually not many that meet the requirements of this "mount".

At first glance, no matter whether it is a demon cultivator or an evil cultivator, they may have a mount. But raising a mount like the animal footprints near Wangzhuang is not as simple as raising a horse or a donkey. It consumes a huge amount of resources.

It is said that raising a mount of this level of demon beast requires spiritual grains or even spiritual stones. This is totally beyond the reach of ordinary demon cultivators and evil ways.

This basically ruled out the evil ways, because the evil monks had almost no fixed power, and it was impossible for them to have stable resources to spend on raising a mount that was actually not very useful.

Does that mean the only demon cultivators left are those in the Demon Mountain?

Yang Qian was equally uncertain.

After all, although the Demon Mountain was a large-scale power, it was not very wealthy. Raising a mount? That was not possible either.

So if we continue like this, aren't we at a dead end again?
not at all!
Because a new idea that Yang Qian had never thought of before and thought was impossible jumped into his field of vision.

The demon cultivators are poor, and the evil ones are also poor, so it is unlikely that they would take the trouble to raise demon beasts or spiritual beasts as mounts for their main means of transportation.

But there is one force that fully meets the conditions for raising mounts, and that is: the Immortal Sect!

The scene of the Five Thunder Palace riding the Thousand-mile Beast to Sandao City was still clearly remembered in Yang Qian’s mind.

Another reason why Yang Qian couldn't help but think of the Immortal Gate was that the Qianli Beast was a spiritual beast with a huge body and limbs like cow hooves!

"Could this be the hoof print of the Thousand-mile Beast?!" Yang Qian looked at the rubbing on the table and muttered subconsciously, feeling something was wrong.

The special thing about the Qianli Beast is that it cannot be found anywhere else. It is a spiritual beast unique to the Immortal Sect!

In other words, if Yang Qian's deduction is correct, the murderer who committed this bloody crime in Wangzhuang is the immortal master in the immortal sect!

Yang Qian picked up the medicinal tea that his mother had just brought him and drank it in one gulp, but he still couldn't suppress the irritability and inexplicable chill in his heart.

Now Yang Qian really hopes that Wang Xiang will not show symptoms such as weakness. In this case, all his deductions will be invalid, and he won't have to be so restless like he is now.

But sometimes, the things you least want to happen happen to you.

Early the next morning, Yang Qian went to the police station. Wang Xiang, who was temporarily placed in the police station dormitory, was in a very bad condition. He looked like he had a serious illness. He was dizzy, weak all over, and sometimes even fainted.

According to the doctor, Wang Xiang's condition is called "physical weakness" and it is a very serious physical weakness, which rarely occurs in a half-grown child like Wang Xiang. Let him rest more, eat better, and it will probably take half a year for him to recover.

But when Yang Qian heard these words, it was not just a matter of physical weakness. He could almost conclude that Wang Xiang had fainted in the cellar because he had been attacked by his soul. Although he had saved his life, he had suffered considerable damage. How should the file be written?
Just write that you suspect the immortal sect is doing evil in Sandai City?
Yang Qian had no idea what would happen if he really wrote the file in this way.

First of all, Yang Qian didn't know if he could pass Wang Hai's test. It was not impossible that he would be accused of spreading rumors and misleading the public. Not to mention that this file had to be reported to the prefecture and submitted to the Five Thunder Palace for review.

There are too many variables, so Yang Qian dare not act rashly.

After finding an album of records of spiritual beasts and flipping through it several times, Yang Qian could only smile bitterly when he saw the records about the Thousand-mile Beast. The more he looked, the more similar it looked.

Cow hooves, huge size, eats both meat and grass
But after accepting this fact, Yang Qian was not really stuck here. He naturally had a way to deal with it.

As for being afraid to move forward, or pretending that he had not thought of anything, playing dumb, and being perfunctory in the investigation of the case, this is not something Yang Qian would do.

Be it a sense of justice or stubbornness, Yang Qian is most annoyed by those who are hypocritical.

Immortal gate?

Ever since Feng Qingyi asked him to take over the stolen goods from the mine thieves, the high-end image of Xianmen no longer existed in Yang Qian's mind.

In the afternoon, Yang Qian submitted the first volume of the organized file to Wang Hai. The content inside was the same as what he said yesterday, but regarding the animal footprints, he did not mention the word "mount" in the file, but wrote "seemingly accompanied by a monster."

After reading it carefully, Wang Hai didn't think much about it, but hurriedly took the first volume to find Cui Mingsheng.

"Come on, let's go to Wangzhuang again."

Yang Qian asked Chen Dong to go with him. The two of them rode their horses and went out of the city. A day later, they arrived at Wangzhuang again.

Many people were standing outside the village, mumbling to each other. They were all people from the surrounding villages and towns, who came to watch the excitement. Seeing the coroner and the government servants carrying corpses in and out of the village, they were talking a lot.

Yang Qian and Chen Dong did not enter the village, but took a detour, passed behind the village, and went straight to the edge of the woods behind the village.

"Master Yang, what are we doing here?"

"Find someone."

"Ah? I'm afraid no one will come here? There is a small cold pond ahead, and it's very remote and hunters won't go there."

"If you killed someone in Wangzhuang, where would you run to?"

Chen Dong thought for a moment and said, "We can take the official road to the north, then go into the woods to avoid passers-by, and finally change the route to take a boat. This way, we can be far away from Sandao City in five days at most."

"But what if you are so conspicuous that you can't avoid passers-by?"

"This"

Without waiting for Chen Dong to answer, Yang Qian said, "We can go through the mountains all the way, skip the official road, and take a boat directly, or cross the river and continue north!"

This was the conclusion Yang Qian came to after carefully studying the map of the area around Wangzhuang in the duty room for a whole morning.

(End of this chapter)