Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 431: See the Mummy Again
Wu Daquan reported: "Sir, the first person to report the case was the owner of Zhang's cloth shop. His clerk took the cloth to the surrounding villages to trade. In the end, he never came back. We sent people to look for him several times, but there was no trace of him.

I led a team to handle this first case. We circled the route taken by the cloth shop clerk and found no suspicious traces. Only someone in a nearby village saw him and pointed the way, but he was not seen again in the villages behind. We only confirmed the missing section..."

The case remains unsolved because there are no clues.

If an ordinary person disappeared inexplicably, it would be a grave danger. And since there was no possibility of revenge for the person who had a clean background, the only possibilities left were "being kidnapped" or "being eaten".

"Point out the location." Yang Qian closed the file in his hand and pointed to the map of the prefecture on the wall, asking Wu Daquan to point out the approximate locations of the crime scenes on the table. Yang Qian knew about the big cities, but he was not very clear about the small ones.

Wu Daquan hurried over, picked up a crayon and drew on the map, quickly drawing small circles.

Yang Qian picked up the tea and took a few sips, then watched Wu Daquan's hand draw on the map, which eventually became a messy-looking mark.

"Sir, these are probably the places where reports have been received." The implication was that Wu Daquan didn't know how many missing cases there were that had not been reported.

Yang Qian put down the cup and walked to the map to look at it carefully.

Then he took the crayon from Wu Daquan and circled all the small red circles marked by Wu Daquan, drawing a bigger circle.

"Sir?" Wu Daquan didn't quite understand what Yang Qian was doing.

Yang Qian did not answer, but continued to look at the big circle he drew, and then drew a cross in the center of the circle.

"This is where?"

Wu Daquan said quickly: "In reply to your question, the nearest village here is Xiaoqiao Village, which is an abandoned village that has been deserted for many years. It used to be a very small village with about a dozen or twenty people."

"Have you sent anyone to investigate here?"

"That... That's not the case. There aren't even any proper roads around here, and no one has disappeared around here..."

Before Wu Daquan finished speaking, Yang Qian interrupted him and said, "Look at the crime scene you marked yourself. It is scattered and there is no planning at all, let alone any purpose. It seems more like they just picked a random target and attacked it.

So, if it were you, would you look for targets around where you are staying? After all, this is the most convenient way. "

Wu Daquan was stunned by Yang Qian's statement. It was the first time he heard that a case could be investigated by relying on a map. If Yang Qian had not been a famous detective, Wu Daquan would have scoffed at him.

Now, Yang Qian's words made Wu Daquan think about it in a daze, and finally he felt that what Yang Qian said seemed to make sense.

"But sir, this area is too large, isn't it? It's dozens of miles wide. Who has such a large range of activities and thinks it's near home?"

"It's impossible for an ordinary person to treat such a large area as his own backyard. But for someone who can fly or ride on clouds, it's not a problem."

"Teng, Tengyunjiwu?!" Wu Daquan's eyes widened, and he was horrified. After investigating this case, they finally found out that it was a big thief or a big demon? !

In the past, Wu Daquan would not have thought much about such things and would have simply forgotten about them. But now in front of Yang Qian, he couldn't just ignore the case, right? Besides, what's so great about flying in the clouds? His master is not in vain!

"Sir, I will send someone to investigate over there right away!" Wu Daquan responded quickly.

Yang Qian shook his head and said, "It's useless for you to go there. If you really encounter this, you will be like throwing meat buns at a dog and never come back. I will go there myself." Wu Daquan wanted to follow him, but was stopped by Yang Qian. After listening for a while, Yang Qian felt that this matter was more and more unusual.

There weren't many great demons or great bandits in Shuangqing Prefecture, and they used to gather in a few great demon mountains or large bandit strongholds. These places had been swept by Yang Qian several times, and some died and some ran away, so how could they dare to show up again?

It's very strange that they are doing evil so blatantly now, and they don't even try to cover it up.

Either you are fearless or you are seeking death.

The next day, Yang Qian arrived at the Xiaoqiao Village mentioned by Wu Daquan.

The houses here are dilapidated, most of them have collapsed, covered with vegetation, or covered with a thick layer of moss.

There were no other traces on the stone road in the village except for some sporadic animal footprints.

He flew the shuttle around the village, but nothing within a few miles could arouse his spiritual reaction.

Turn to the mountain to the west of the village. This is the only place close to the mountain. If someone wants to hide here, apart from the shabby houses in the village, the only way is to go into the mountains. If there is no discovery in the mountains, Yang Qian will have to re-judge the details of this case, which means that his previous judgment was wrong.

However, not long after entering the mountain, Yang Qian saw some corpse rats sneaking through the woods.

Something is wrong.

If corpse rats appeared, there must be a corpse nearby. Yang Qian expanded his divine sense and soon found the first strange thing he had found in a ditch.

A pit, probably a small natural depression, about two zhang in circumference, one and a half zhang deep, with a slope downwards.

At this time, the small depression was not filled with water, but corpses. It was full of corpses.

Yang Qian's divine sense swept over and found a total of thirteen corpses in the pit.

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Even when someone came, the dead rats in the pit did not flee immediately, but continued to gnaw on the food. They made a chewing sound that made people's teeth ache, as if they were chewing on hard objects?

Is a corpse also considered a hard object?

Of course.

What's more, the corpses in the pit were not ordinary corpses, but shriveled mummies. All the hair on their bodies had fallen off, and their skin was tightly attached to the muscles and bones as if it had been baked. Almost all the water had been squeezed out. An adult's thigh was about the same thickness as a corn cob.

The entire corpse was tilted in the pit, and with the dead rats inside, it looked like a bowl of rotten noodles sprinkled with rat shit.

It looks unappetizing.

With a flick of his finger, a ball of fire fell into the pit, and then suddenly burned, and in the blink of an eye, the fire was fierce. The corpse rats that were eating happily inside were burned to pieces before they could run out.

The fire technique was already extremely hot under the influence of Yang Qian's magic power, and even the basic technique was more than enough to burn the corpses. Moreover, these mummies were just like firewood, igniting at the slightest touch.

Looking at the corpse that was rapidly turning into a charred black, Yang Qian frowned deeply. He had seen this kind of corpse before, and he had seen many, many of them.
(End of this chapter)