White Bone Monkey King

Not far away, they came across a locked, rusty iron fence.

"Is it an iron fence set up by the imperial court? Should I report it to the imperial court first to see if anyone has taken over this place..."

Before he finished speaking, Jin An was so energetic that he shattered the iron fence.

Well.

Fatty Li followed Jin An closely and continued to go deeper into the secret passage.

Fatty Li has been in the capital for too long. The power in the capital is complex. Various departments, provinces, and ministries are intertwined. Any wrong step can easily lead to unintended disasters. What's more, it involves forbidden places like the ruins of the previous dynasty, so sometimes Fatty Li's ideas for handling cases can easily fall into dead ends. .

Jin An doesn't pay attention to this. Anyone who blocks his way and prevents him from handling the case today will be arrested and sent to the prison of the Criminal Investigation Department.

The secret passage is very long, and the road collapsed during the process.

forking road,

The new culvert overlaps the old culvert.

And one locked iron fence after another.

…These various details look like they have been deliberately modified by humans.

The purpose is to create an underground maze so that no one can easily find the inner truth.

If it weren't for Li Yan, the old horse who knows the way, to lead the way, if outsiders want to find the right way out here, there will be no results in a few days, and the few days here still need to have enough manpower.

If I were to explore alone, I don't know how long it would take.

"Why do I feel that the surroundings are getting darker and darker as we walk, and the range of the torch lighting is getting smaller and smaller. But the torch light keeps burning, and it has not become smaller, and the air has not become thinner." Fatty Li kept talking along the way, Use this to pass the boring rush time in a claustrophobic environment.

Jin An seemed to be aware of everything and had already seen the truth in advance. He raised his hand and wiped a layer of black powder from the cracks in the stones around him, and explained: "It should be from these powders."

Hearing this, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li, who were curious about everything, followed the same example and grabbed a large piece of powder from Yanbi Mountain.

Fatty Li: "Put it on your fingertips and rub it. The texture is very delicate, as fine and smooth as wheat flour. It doesn't look like sand or gravel weathered from stone strips..."

The old Taoist tasted it with the tip of his tongue, and then swallowed it quickly: "The taste is sour, bitter, and spicy, a bit like the smell of the spice waste outside, but it is not as strong as the smell of the waste outside... According to the old Taoist, I guess, it should be It was a light-absorbing pigment that was accidentally tempered when refining a certain spice, and then smeared here..."

Fatty Li slapped his thigh: "Look, look, Fatty, what am I talking about? This thing is not local at first glance, it must be a foreign thing."

Jin An, Old Taoist Priest, and Lao Gou all turned a blind eye to Fatty Li's afterthought. The other members of the Criminal Investigation Department who followed him bowed their heads in embarrassment, ashamed to be colleagues with Fatty Li.

Fatty Li kept talking all the way: "It's an unreported ruins of the previous dynasty, and it's artificially applied with special paint. Is it really just to make it easier for people to kill people and dump their bodies without exposing their whereabouts?"

"But when I think about it carefully, I feel that the logic doesn't make sense..."

"And we still don't know what the other party's purpose is and why he committed crimes and killed people one after another in the spice shop..."

Jin An followed Li Yan and said in a cold voice, "Have you ever heard of incense and perfume made from corpse oil and bone oil?"

well?

Fatty Li and the other brothers from the Criminal Investigation Department were all shocked.

Jin An: "Yang is born from the yin pole, and yin is born from the yang pole. If there is yin in everything, there must be yang. For example, ambergris is a royal tribute. Everyone compares ambergris to a gift from the sea dragon. One tael of ambergris is worth one tael. Two pieces of gold, but no one dares to say that ambergris is the excrement of a giant whale in the sea.”

"The other party keeps killing people in the spice shop. I guess that the other party is most likely using artificial formulas to refine valuable aromatherapy rouge. But there is one thing I haven't figured out yet. If he really uses corpse oil, Bone oil is used to make aromatic rouge. People have been burned until no bones are left. Why can they keep the whole body and go around here to dump it? "

Jin An's eyes were cold: "It seems that all the answers are related to the secret that Li Yan and the four of them saw six days ago."

The old Taoist priest also answered at this time: "Li Yanyun's last trip to the coffin was six days ago. After midnight today, it happens to be the first seventh soul night of the deceased in the coffin."

It was another time to use corpse oil and bone oil to make perfume and diffuse rouge, which was horrifying and unheard of. It was also the first seventh night of the soul. The brothers from the Criminal Investigation Department who followed felt a sudden chill on the back of their necks, and their steps became heavy. It was as if someone was carrying someone on his back and exhaling cold air.

People can't have random thoughts. As soon as they have random thoughts, they start to become suspicious. From time to time, they look back at their backs, and from time to time they look up at the top of their heads. The goosebumps on their arms are all covered with cold. Even the surrounding environment felt cold, damp and cold.

"Lord Commander, is there really someone who can use people to refine corpse oil and then use it to refine aromatherapy rouge? The rotting corpse smells terrible. I can still figure it out. The smell of corpses is fragrant... I can't figure out what it is even if I try hard. A terrifying scene, doesn’t it mean that all the women in the city are using scented rouge to smear corpse oil on their faces?”

"Damn it, stop talking. The prodigal woman in my family likes to smear all kinds of rouge on her face. The drawer of the dresser is filled with all kinds of rouge! Lord Commander... you said that Xiaohongchun rouge will be mixed with rouge. Put it into corpse oil or bone, it's made of bone oil, I smell the fragrance of old people, every time my prodigal bitch rubs this, I feel like a fly smelling the smell of corpse, hugging old people..."

"Hiss! Zhang Dagui, your wife is evil!"

"Is my wife really evil?" A member of the Criminal Investigation Department named Zhang Dagui became suspicious under the influence of the claustrophobic environment.

Fatty Li was furious when he saw how frightened these people were. He turned around and kicked one of them: "A bunch of cowards, they were scared out of their wits before they even saw half a ghost."

Everyone was kicked to the point of retreating, and they complained incessantly: "Baihu, you like to bump into evil spirits, but you can't force us to like to bump into evil spirits too!"

"Yes, that is evil! We are not martial arts immortals like the commander, and we are not afraid of even the thousand-year-old corpse king!"

Jin An looked at the quarrel behind him, but he did not stop it harshly. Instead, he explained: "Don't worry, refining corpse oil and bone oil is troublesome, and killing people and dumping their bodies is even more troublesome. This raw material is an expensive and rare item, and only those nobles can Only the ladies of the noble family can afford it, so ordinary people don’t have to worry.”

"Fortunately we are ordinary people."

"Zhang Dagui, is that Little Hongchun Rouge really that magical?"

While the team was still moving forward, everyone in the Criminal Investigation Department began to discuss in low voices "how men choose the right rouge" and "how attractive a good rouge is to men." The depressive atmosphere in the claustrophobic secret passage was much reduced.

Under the skill of animal-making, Li Yan was like a tireless oxen and horses, leading the way diligently. Five forks suddenly appeared in front of them, and each fork was locked by a rusty iron chain.

The iron fence is a little different this time, it looks new.

This detail caught everyone's attention.

Jin An took the torch handed by Fatty Li and stretched it into each secret passage. The firelight swayed slightly, and there was a breeze in each secret passage, which connected it with the outside world.

"It seems that there is more than one secret passage in the spice shop that can lead to the ruins of the previous dynasty when we came here." Jin An snorted coldly and returned the torch to Fatty Li.

He was not in a hurry to investigate one by one now. He followed Li Yan and continued deep into the secret passage. He prioritized and solved the problems one by one.

"Sometimes, Fatty, I wonder whether this Li Yan is really stupid or fake. He has only been here once, but his ability to recognize the way is better than ordinary people." Fatty Li didn't stop talking all the way.

The old Taoist priest Nian Xu said: "The deeper the obsession, the deeper the memory. Fear is also a kind of obsession. When people encounter horrific events, they will recall them over and over again. The longest one will never forget them."

Fatty Li nodded: "Fat Master, this time I have learned and used the old horse to learn the way."

Li Yan, who was praising Li Yan for being a good ox and a tireless horse, and who had been leading the way, suddenly stopped at this time, walked around Li Yan, and saw a coffin appearing in front of him.

The coffin had been opened at this time, and the body inside had long since disappeared, leaving only an embroidered shoe worn by a woman.

Jin An bent over and took out the embroidered shoes from the coffin, gestured with the soles of the shoes with his palms, and said: "The feet are six inches and nine inches long. The soles are not heavily worn and the wear marks are even. This person should be a young woman with a light body and has not done any physical work." . The uppers are clean and they love to be clean. ”

"The embroidered shoes are of fine workmanship and come from a wealthy family. The embroidered stamens have signs of broken threads, and the toes should be inlaid with decorations such as pearls, jade, and stone beads. Women love beauty, and the other party comes from a wealthy family and pays more attention to beauty. He wouldn’t go out wearing broken shoes, they must have been torn off in a violent struggle before he was killed.”

Jin An handed the embroidered shoes to Fatty Li and asked him to protect the evidence. After he finished dealing with the matters at the ruins of the previous dynasty, he would use the Luogeng jade plate to find the lost beads.

The place where the beads fell was the scene of the first murder.

Finding the scene of the first murder means finding the culprit behind the scenes.

As the saying goes, the laws of heaven are clear. If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing unless you do it yourself.

Jin An continued to observe the coffin: "There are no signs of struggle or scratches in the coffin. It can be determined that the person was killed when the coffin was being loaded."

Next to the coffin is a huge bronze coffin. The surface of the bronze coffin is carved with hornless dragons, and there are more than a dozen iron chains hanging above the head.

I followed the direction of the chain and found several winches in the corner.

"Hey, little brother, come and see, this coffin is engraved with Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang Big Dipper. The handle of the Dipper points to the north and it is winter all over the world. This is the seven-star giant in the mouth. Coffin..." The old Taoist priest originally wanted to continue, but when he saw that there were many people here, he stopped talking.

Because the seven-star coffin appears here, it has extraordinary significance. If the news is leaked, many people will be implicated.

Under the leadership of Fatty Li, the criminal inspectors dispersed to turn the winch.

Crash--

The iron chains vibrated, and as the winch kept turning, the lid of the seven-star giant coffin was lifted up, moo!

There was a roar from the coffin that sounded like a cow but not a cow, a dragon but not a dragon, and a cloud of cold air rushed out.

Jin An was a martial arts immortal. Without any movement, a burst of red light burst out of his body, completely dissipating all the ghosts and monsters in the underground secret passage.

Then he walked to the seven-star giant coffin and took a look inside. When others were about to come closer to check curiously, he stood in front of the others and said, "I heard some movement at the entrance when I came. Maybe the brothers outside saw us entering." There has been no movement for too long, and they are worried about our safety and want to come in. "

"The terrain here is complicated and there are forks everywhere. Guard the entrance and don't let anyone in without my order. I have marked the way along the way. You can get out by following the marks."

The Yin Qi here was so cold that it had exceeded the limit of ordinary people's Yang Fire. For safety reasons, Jin An asked everyone in the Criminal Investigation Department to step back and took Li Yanbian's pony away and handed it back to Li Dajin.

After the others left, only Jinan, the old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and the old dog were left here.

Seeing Jinan become so serious, the few people and the dog curiously crouched beside the seven-star giant coffin and looked inside. They saw a well in the coffin. There were many stone dragon heads inlaid on the well wall. The torch could not illuminate the end, and there were at least dozens of dragon heads.

Each dragon head was pierced by a chain and connected to the winch outside. Whoosh, there was a gloomy wind blowing out of the dragon-locking well. The dragon-locking well was not a dead end, there was another world.

And the sound like a cow or a dragon just now came from this dragon-locking well.

As the coffin lid was opened, the airflow inside and outside changed, causing all kinds of strange phenomena.

The old Taoist priest looked solemn: "It's just as I guessed, this is the dragon-locking pattern!"

"There are the seven-star giant coffins, the dragon-locking well pattern, and the ruins of the previous dynasty. Could all this be a Feng Shui situation?"

"Could it be that the dragon vein remains of the royal family of the previous dynasty are locked under the dragon-locking well!"

"Stepping on the seven stars, in charge of the world's soldiers, born to be an emperor, someone stepped on the dragon vein of the previous dynasty and rose to prominence by stepping on the dragon vein of the previous dynasty!"

If this truth is true, it is too shocking, so the old Taoist priest hesitated to speak just now. If this kind of talk is spread a little bit, it will implicate many people. The Wuzang Taoist Temple may not be afraid of these troubles, but the brothers of the Criminal Investigation Department have old parents and young children, and they often have no choice.

Fatty Li raised his hand and pointed above his head: "Master Chen, are you referring to the capital city rebuilt on the ruins of the previous dynasty?"

The old Taoist shook his head solemnly: "The previous dynasty has been destroyed, and the dragon vein has been cut off. It is a dead dragon, so the dragon-locking well is carved with a dragon instead of a real dragon. That's the difference."

"With the luck of a country pressing down on it, this dead dragon is like carrying the weight of a country's mountains and rivers, and will never turn over. So after Kangding replaced the previous dynasty, there was no need to build a dragon-locking well."

Fatty Li was a little confused: "Master Chen, what do you mean..."

The old Taoist looked at the dark environment around him, as if he was wary of ears in the wall, and lowered his voice and said: "Someone wants to step on the seven stars, step on the remains of the dragon vein of the previous dynasty, and become the king of everyone in the world! Wherever the army points, everyone will surrender!"

Hiss!

Fatty Li was shocked and stunned on the spot.

Who has such a big trick to make such a big layout under the eyes of the emperor and deceive the eyes and ears of everyone in the capital?

"Master Jin'an, what do you think?"

After Fatty Li came to his senses, he looked at Jin'an nervously: "Did Li Yan and the other four suffer a fatal disaster because of what they saw?"

Jin'an was calm and said in a calm voice: "When I was walking in the underworld, I saw the capital city in the underworld, which was a scene of hundreds of buildings. There are gusts of cold wind under this Locking Dragon Well. I suspect that this former dynasty ruins has more than one layer, and there are second and third layers..."

"So I asked the brothers to leave first. The yin energy is too heavy down there. When I go down to explore, ordinary martial arts masters will surely die if they follow me."

"As for Li Yan and the others..."

"It's not the first time they have come here to dump corpses. Maybe there is another reason for their deaths."

As he said, Jin'an threw a torch into the Locking Dragon Well to see how deep it is. The second layer of the former dynasty ruins has such a heavy yin energy, and the seal of the Four Symbols Bureau of Breaking the Sky and the Earth has been broken. There may be big monsters and demons hidden down there...