The rebirth of the evil woman is not easy to mess with

Chapter 977 Late-night investigation!

As usual, Li Qingmu chose an inn located in the center of the city with a fairly good location, but the boss here refused to stay overnight, no matter what they said, no matter how much money they paid, the other party would not buy it.

This made Li Qingmu very puzzled, could it be that the so-called monsters would come to the inn to arrest people?
If this is the case, the people in their inn would have to run away?

"Shopkeeper, don't worry, we'll just rest here for one night and leave tomorrow, we won't cause you any trouble."

With that said, Li Qingmu took out 100 taels of silver notes and forced them in front of the shopkeeper.

Seeing such a large amount of money, the shopkeeper of the inn was a little moved, so he immediately pulled the two into the inn, picked up the door panel to close it, and said to the two: "It's agreed that it will be one night. Come on, don't stay here."

The boss collected the money, arranged two rooms for the two of them, and then closed the shop again, which opened the conversation.

Li Qingmu was very good at insinuating, and soon found out more information from the innkeeper.

Inns and restaurants are always the places where information circulates the fastest. They also operate meals during the day, so they have heard a lot of gossip and know more than the common people outside.

According to him, three or five people disappeared every day in Linzhou City in the past few months, and the number continued to increase slowly over time. At first, only a dozen people disappeared. After the family members reported it to the Yamen, the Yamen didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, it became more and more serious. At the beginning, there were four or five, seven or eight people every day, and in the last day, there were nearly twenty people who were neither alive nor dead. It was very strange.

They don't know where the monsters have captured them. It is said that some people fall asleep in the middle of the night, and they are gone by dawn.

So after a long time, I couldn't hide it anymore. Now everyone knows about it, and those with money in their families have taken the whole family to seek refuge in other places.

Most of the rest have little money and nowhere to go.

Li Qingmu nodded, no wonder all the old people he saw on the road, not many young ones, and most of them had sorrow and fear on their faces.

That's what happened.

He asked again: "Didn't the yamen send people to investigate? What is causing the trouble?"

Li Qingmu doesn't believe in any ghosts and ghosts, this is the sub-helm of the Tianxiahui, if there is any trouble, it must be the Tianxiahui's troubles.

But there is one thing he can't figure out, if it's just arresting strong men, then why are they arresting old people and children?
The shopkeeper sighed a long time and said, "The yamen is also terribly afraid. The gate is closed and we don't care about anything. Otherwise, how can we people be so afraid?"

Even the yamen are closed to thank customers?
Li Qingmu frowned, there was definitely something strange about this matter, it was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

He decided to go out tonight and check it out.

So after sending the shopkeeper away, he asked Qi Jingyu to stay in the inn, then changed into night clothes, and prepared to go out alone to investigate.

But Qi Jingyu was very dissatisfied, every time he encountered such a thing, the emperor would leave him behind, it was really unkind.

"Uncle Huang, just take me with you, I promise you will never hold back."

Li Qingmu looked back at him with a smile: "Do you really want to go? What if there are really monsters? Are you not afraid?"

"What am I afraid of with the emperor around? Besides, the talk about monsters is pure nonsense. I haven't heard of any monsters in Dazhou for hundreds of years. This must be man-made."

After thinking about it, they shouldn't use too powerful experts to catch ordinary people, so Li Qingmu nodded, threw a set of night clothes over, and said, "Hurry up and put on, let's go out and see what's going on."

According to the people and the innkeeper, every time someone disappeared, it happened at night, and some people even saw the monster, saying that it had a very big head, sharp teeth, and it looked very scary.

After Qi Jingyu changed his clothes, the two immediately opened the window and jumped out at the same time. In order to get a better view, the two jumped onto the roof of the inn, looking down at the lifeless Linzhou City.

Linzhou City at night was terrifyingly quiet, it seemed that no one dared to make a sound, only the two strings of lanterns floating in the wind at the entrance of the inn were still shaking and creaking.

Fortunately, neither Qi Jingyu nor Li Qingmu was a coward. They squatted on the roof and waited for a while, always calm, so Li Qingmu grabbed the eaves and sneaked into the inn to steal two jars of wine and gave Qi Jingyu a bottle.

"Have some wine to warm you up."

The roof where the wind blows at night is still quite cold. If the wind blows like this all night, I'm afraid it will be cold tomorrow.

Qi Jingyu untied the seal, took a few mouthfuls and asked, "Uncle Huang, what do you think these guys are trying to do by pretending to be fools?"

"I don't know, there are only two possibilities."

"Either they're trying to create panic. Take advantage of it."

"Either there are characteristics of those who were taken that were useful to them."

In the early years when Qi Jingyu was not enthroned, there were people secretly arresting people to practice evil kungfu in the Jianghu. Although they were wiped out by the righteous people, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no fish that slip through the net.

I just don't know what's going on here in Linzhou City.

Qi Jingyu said half-understood: "According to what the innkeeper said, they have arrested hundreds of people, and so many people disappeared, it should be something unexpected."

Because according to his thinking, if it is just to create panic and take the opportunity to make money, there is no need to arrest so many people. Just killing a few people and spreading the plague is enough to have an effect.

Li Qingmu guessed the same way, he pondered for a while and said: "Wait and see, if what the shopkeeper said is true, they will definitely act again tonight, as long as they are caught, we will know what's going on."

In the middle of the night, the moon was already westward, and it was less than an hour before dawn, when Li Qingmu suddenly heard a slight sound of tiles.

He stood up immediately, and there were four or five figures moving quickly on the roof in the dark night.

These people are also wearing night clothes, but with a huge mask on their heads, they look like big-headed dolls.

Li Qingmu patted Qi Jingyu who was dozing off, and said, "Don't sleep, they have appeared!"

The two immediately chased after them. Li Qingmu was extremely fast, and he was the first to catch up to a place less than a hundred steps away from the figures. Qi Jingyu was a little slower, but still managed to keep up.

The figures in front quickly realized that they were being followed, so they stopped and looked back, and found that neither Li Qingmu nor Qi Jingyu were wearing masks, so they immediately decided that they were not their own.

Without further ado, the group immediately threw out dozens of plum darts, but Li Qingmu was agile and dodged after a few tumblings. At the same time, he grabbed a few tiles and threw them out like darts with his hands.

With his internal strength, tiles can be used as darts!
(End of this chapter)