White Bone Monkey King

The reason why Jin An didn't confront the three corpses in the room was

Use the art of exorcism to find the murderer,

First, because the corpse exorcism technique focuses more on completing the obsession during life, not necessarily on finding the true heart;

The second reason is that his animal-making skills can blind the cause and effect and temporarily avoid three disasters and nine disasters. He is worried that the culprit behind the scenes failed to kill Li Yan twice and will kill him a third time.

Indeed, Li Yan was greedy for money, betrayed his trust first, and committed a heinous crime.

He did not participate in the killing, and he did not participate in the dumping of the body subjectively. He became an idiot in the rest of his life. He spent the rest of his life suffering to atone for his sins. He deserved it, and there was no need to kill them all.

Outsiders don't understand this, but the old Taoist priest knows the details. He sees Jin An's good intentions, and his eyes are relieved and approving.

God has the virtue of good life, and Tianyan Forty-nine leaves only a sliver of hope. People who like to kill everyone without leaving any room for death are mostly lonely.

Others couldn't understand the deeper meaning. They only saw the magic of Jin An's Taoist skills in turning living people into horses. After the shock, they were pleasantly surprised.

There is no need to say more about the brothers from the Criminal Investigation Division. Jin An has long been omnipotent in their eyes. They have already experienced it, such as walking in the underworld and driving away corpses, and now they have another one to add to the mix.

This was the first time that Li Dajin had seen such a magical Taoist technique. A living person could turn into an animal if asked. This was much more bizarre and powerful than those tricks on the street.

"A miracle! A miracle! This is turning decay into magic, this is bringing the dead back to life!"

After Li Dajin was shocked, his eyes turned firm: "The Five Zang Taoist Temple is the real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Sir Commander, I want to convert to the Five Zang Taoist Temple!"

Fatty Li pushed Li Dajin: "The Five Zang Taoist Temple only accepts incense from good men and women. You are still a suspect. After you clear yourself of the suspicion, the door of the Five Zang Taoist Temple will always be open to you."

Li Dajin hurriedly defended: "It's unjust. I really didn't know anything about this case. I was also a victim of being deceived. I even lost a horse for no reason."

Fatty Li glared: "Are you wronged or not? It's useless to cry now. When the case is investigated clearly, if you are really innocent, Fatty, I will personally take you to the Five Zang Taoist Temple to perform the first incense on the fifteenth day of every month to help you get rid of bad luck."

Li Dajin was in high spirits and rubbed his hands happily: "Sir, you said this yourself. Don't regret it later. Everyone present has heard it and can help testify."

The two of them were still arguing. Jin An called Li Dajin and asked where the carriage was. He hitched the horse again. He needed the old horse to know the way and help him chase the murderer.

In order to enter the Five Zang Taoist Temple, Li Dajin's legs were not weak and his hands were not shaking. Now he was full of energy and strived for merit to show himself. He immediately found a carriage and hitched the colt himself.

"Distant nephew, this time you met a noble person like the commander, who snatched you back from the gate of hell. You should behave well and help the commander solve the case. When I get the fifteen incense sticks from the Five Zang Taoist Temple, I will raise you in the future. Old. If you have something to eat, you won't be hungry."

Li Dajin had mixed feelings about becoming a stupid Li Yan. He touched the horse's head while feeding it. This means that if you want the horse to run fast, you must feed the horse more grass.

After eating and drinking, the group got into the carriage and started chasing the murderer.

Li Dajin hugged the horse and clamored to follow him together. He said affectionate words like uncle and nephew are inseparable. Jin An did not hesitate for too long and agreed to take Li Dajin with him.

"Deputy Commander Sun, you and your brothers will continue to search the spice shop. No matter who comes today, no one is allowed to enter or leave the spice shop."

"I'll leave a few helpers behind to sit in the spice shop with you."

The helper Jin An was talking about was the clone transformed from the Holy Fetus of Lead and Mercury.

With so many masters from the late third realm stationed in the spice shop, the spice shop is unbreakable unless the fourth realm attacks the spice shop.

This is the capital city. If the Fourth Realm really attacks the spice shop, there is no need for Jin'an's main body to take action. The elders from Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and Tianshi Mansion will all come out to help suppress the enemy.

Deputy Commander Sun felt regretful that he could not participate in the whole pursuit of the murderer. In the end, he followed the order and left, intensifying the blockade of the spice shop.

Later, the old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and Li Dajin acted as temporary coachmen, driving the Penglai Inn carriage in front, and Jin An's Biyan carriage behind. A large group of criminal inspector brothers cleared the way. Under countless pairs of surprised eyes in the Spice Shop, The team left Penglai Inn in great numbers.

Especially when Li Dajin, the owner of Penglai Inn, actually drove the car himself to lead the way for the Criminal Investigation Department, it aroused many people's curious discussions.

The pony that Li Yan transformed into pulled the carriage, first came to the Nanyang spices that had been in stock, stayed for a while, and then left. He was acting according to the trajectory of his previous life.

Fatty Li was very smart and did not need Jin An's instructions. He paid attention to the Nanyang spice shop, and then ordered people to seal down all nearby Nanyang spice shops and no one was allowed to enter or exit.

Ding——

Ding——

Horseshoes stepped on the smooth blue brick road, pulling the carriage in a circle around the spice shop, just like Li Yan's rigorous and careful life before.

Afterwards, the carriage entered the dark alleys, stopped for a cup of tea, and then continued on the road, circling through the alleys.

Because the alley was narrow, the Bi'an carriage could not enter. The Bi'an carriage that Jin An was riding in stopped at the entrance of the alley. When he saw Li Yan pulling the carriage on the road again, the Bi'an carriage followed leisurely outside the street.

The Biyan carriage followed for about two seconds, and the pony transformed by Li Yan began to slow down and finally stopped in a bamboo forest.

There is a dry and abandoned river outside the bamboo forest. At this time, the Biyan carriage is parked on the bank of the river.

Jin An lifted the curtain with one finger. From his perspective at this time, he could just see Li Yan's transformed colt stopped in the bamboo forest and lowered his head to eat grass.

While looking at the bamboo forest where Li Yan was, he also looked around the surrounding environment.

This place is remote, and there are no tall buildings around. There are only a few shacks built along the river. Some of these shacks are inhabited. Some people hide behind the window and quietly look at the sudden visit of the Criminal Investigation Department. Some shacks are dark and empty, and some shacks seem to have just been burned by a fire, with traces of charred black.

As soon as the Bi'an carriage stopped, there was an unpleasant and pungent smell in the air, with sulfur, saltpeter, and other complex and pungent smells.

These smells all came from the dry canal. Several Criminal Investigation Departments held torches in their hands and shone them into the canal. They saw piles of garbage, which were all the residues and garbage left after processing various spices.

In addition to being used as seasonings to add flavor to food, spices can also be used to make aromatherapy, sachets, and powder. The latter three are the most profitable, but the refining process is often very complicated and inevitably produces a lot of waste residue.

Take the most common rouge powder as an example. It not only uses natural herbs such as red vine, safflower, hollyhock, heavy crimson, and mountain flowers to extract red pigments, but also adds cinnabar, ochre, realgar, lead and mercury and other auxiliary materials to enhance the antiseptic and fragrance-enhancing effects.

If the rouge is to have complex and diverse colors to win the favor of the ladies in the mansion and show its noble status, more expensive mulberry silk, pearl powder, Nanyang precious flower dew and other precious raw materials will be used to make the skin white and creamy, and moisturize in autumn and winter...

The more complicated the production, the more waste residue will be produced. The spice shop is booming, and there must be a place to dump the waste residue. In addition, distillation and purification also pollute the water source. Over time, the river channel here is polluted, dried up, and then became a place for dumping garbage. Dozens of pungent smells are mixed and gathered, and this place has gradually become a dark corner where no one dares to live.

Under the torch, the dry river channel turned into a stinking ditch with sewage flowing, and rats and insects grew rampantly in it. Several dirty rats with long gray tails raised their heads and bared their teeth at the criminal inspector holding a torch, squeaked fiercely, and then slowly drilled into the cave on the river bank, not afraid of people or fire.

"What a big rat, almost as big as my seven-year-old cat!"

"This rat is not afraid of people or fire, could it be that it has become a spirit!"

The criminal inspectors wanted to look for the rat, but the rat had already gone into the cave and could not be found.

"Commander, this place is very suitable for killing people and dumping corpses. Even if the corpse rots and stinks, outsiders can't easily find it." Someone said to Jin An in the Bi'an carriage.

Just at this time, Li Yan, who had stayed in the bamboo forest for a while, turned into a colt and walked towards the river bank, attracting everyone's attention.

There is a stone arch bridge on the dry river channel. Li Yan pulled the carriage to go across the stone arch bridge, but the stone arch bridge had steps and the carriage could not get up.

Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest worked together to take off the harness on the horse's neck.

Without the restraint of the carriage, Li Yan turned into a colt on all fours and easily got on the stone arch bridge. The horseshoes made crisp sounds in the dark night, like hammers hitting people's hearts one after another, and their hearts beat faster.

At this time, Jin An had also gotten off the Bi'an carriage and came to the other side of the dry canal with the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li.

After arriving at the other side of the canal, the pungent smell in the air became stronger, and it made people's throats ache and feel uncomfortable in just a short while.

At this time, the old Taoist priest took out the yellow talisman paper from his Tai Chi Bagua bag again, soaked it with Sanyang wine, and then stuffed it into his nose, and he immediately felt much better.

As long as he didn't breathe through his mouth.

Suddenly, a fire was blazing in the distance. A simple shack was on fire. Then a figure covered in fire was seen in the shack. He broke through the shack and jumped into the stinking ditch under the dry river. Although the fire was extinguished, the person was still motionless and no one climbed ashore.

Fatty Li ordered a few people to rescue people, and the rest of the people continued to follow the colt that Li Yan had transformed into to chase the murderer.

Li Yan was an old horse who knew the way and could find the way clearly in the dark. When he walked through five river steps and reached the sixth river step, he suddenly walked down the stone steps and went down into the stinking ditch of the river.

"Huh?"

Everyone was surprised.

Just as everyone was about to follow him down the river steps, the criminal inspectors who went to the river to search for the drowning person came back carrying a person who was smelly and burned to ashes by the fire.

"Commander, this person is dead. What should we do with him?" The criminal inspector put down the charred body on his back.

The charred corpse looked miserable, with most of its hair lost and pus all over its body. The ruptured pustules cooked by the fire were still oozing out steaming thick water, which smelled terrible.

"What a poisonous body! This is a person who often lives with poisons. He has suffered systemic sequelae and is already incurable." The old Taoist priest exclaimed, and hurriedly took out his homemade detoxification pills and asked the criminal inspectors who had contacted the corpse to swallow them.

"What happened to the fire?" Jin An asked about the fire.

Several people answered: "These shacks are all cosmetics artists who can't afford the high rent of the spice shop. Just now, this person should have accidentally ignited the fire when he was distilling and purifying the flower dew."

Recalling the several uninhabited shacks that he saw that were scorched by fire, Jin An nodded clearly: "You guys find a stretcher and take this charred body back to the Criminal Investigation Department morgue and let Mr. Han examine it." The specific cause of death. Take a shower and change into clean clothes after you return to avoid being infected by this person’s poison.”

"The place where the body was dumped should be here. Boss Li, just follow me here. You go back to the Criminal Investigation Department with them. If I don't see you in the Criminal Investigation Department after I go back, I will treat you as a fugitive because of fear of crime." , ordered the whole city to arrest you." Jin An said this to Li Dajin, the owner of Penglai Inn.

Li Dajin opened his mouth to speak, but was frightened back by Jin An's cold gaze.

After watching a few people leave, Jin An took the remaining people and went down into the dry river.

After just a moment's delay, Li Yan's pony was about to disappear into the dirty river.

When they caught up with Li Yan, they saw the horse raising its hooves and digging in front of a mountain of garbage. A pile of yellow, green and white powdery waste was dug out, emitting a mixture of many pungent odors. Turbid and foul smelling.

Seeing this, Fatty Li took a few people over to help, and then heard Fatty Li yelling in surprise: "Taoist Master Jin'an, there is something going on here, there is a hidden secret passage here!"

It was a passage that was half buried by waste powder. The passage was so deep that even the light from the torch could only shine a few steps away. Beyond the light was a deep darkness that could not be seen.

"Why is there a passage here? Is it a flood discharge culvert during the rainy season?" Fatty Li did not rush into the passage rashly. He first threw his torch into the passage. Seeing that the torch did not go out and kept burning steadily, he then walked toward Jin'an. He nodded to indicate that there was enough air inside.

The passage is very spacious inside, not cramped at all, and has a tendency to get wider as you go.

Jin'an's six senses are far sharper than ordinary people. Even in a dim environment, he can notice many details. Suddenly, he stopped and reached out to touch the stones on both sides of the passage.

"These stone strips look older than the stone strips in the river canal outside, and the stone cutting technology is not as exquisite as the canal outside. They feel rough and do not look like they were built at the same time. In other words, they are not from the same dynasty." Jin An's eyes lit up. , the thoughts in my mind are like many shooting stars passing by.

Hearing this, Fatty Li was surprised and checked. The more he checked, the more surprised he became. There was indeed a big difference.

"If it wasn't built by the same dynasty... Taoist Master Jin'an, are you suspecting... that this is probably a ruins from a previous dynasty?" Fatty Li looked serious.

Once the former dynasty is involved, no matter what happens, it is no small matter.

Jin An thought of the scene he saw when he attacked the lair of the Holy Land of Infernal Affairs and walked through the underworld in the capital city. In the capital city of the underworld, there were hundreds of buildings stacked on top of each other, and hundreds of buildings like abyss were exposed under the cracks in the streets. There are also many hundred-story buildings on the ground.

Some of the stacked buildings are old and new, some are beautiful, with green tiles and red eaves, and are brightly lit, while others are ruined and dark.

The new dynasty was built on the old dynasty, and the new capital was built on the old site. The capital, the ancient capital of the seven dynasties, was rebuilt on the ruins again and again.

Thinking back to the capital city in the underworld, he also recalled the palace in the underworld. There was no royal luck to suppress the palace in the underworld, and the yin energy was so terrifying that even he didn't dare to approach it easily.

Such as the phantom of the palace maid, the well of the precious concubine, the strange things in the Chuxiu Palace, the faceless corpse, the caller, the Yin and Yang Dao, fishing in the North Sea, the human shadow... the strange stories of the palace have been circulated for a long time.

Jin An continued to follow Li Yan and asked as he walked: "Fat Li, the capital city has been destroyed and rebuilt after war. There should be some ruins of the previous dynasty under the new site, right?"

Fatty Li caught up with Jin An's back: "Yes, but those are forbidden areas and are guarded by dedicated personnel. There is no one guarding here. It seems to be an omitted place...or...is it a new secret passage?"