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Nightwatcher - Chapter 549

Published at 21st of April 2023 06:41:22 AM


Chapter 549

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"Spied?"

Xu Qi'an was stunned and went to the window. He glanced around with sharp eyes. Suddenly, he took back his eyes: "how do you know you are being spied?"

He didn't feel peeped. Although sanpinwufu's cultivation was sealed, Tiangu would only be more sensitive in this aspect.

"It was after you left that it suddenly said someone was looking at us."

Mu Nanzhi some fear: "but I looked at the window for a long time, also did not find to be spied, scared me."

Xu Qi'an's face looked at the little white fox heavily: "do you have this kind of talent?"

Little white fox shook his head and said, "my talent is stealth and speed."

Xu Qian questioned: "is it not your illusion?"

Little white fox shook his head: "my intuition can never be wrong..."

"I see."

Xu Qi'an said, "you two are staying in the pagoda of futu for the time being. I have encountered some strange things in my recent investigation."

He called the second boy of the inn, prepared some dry food and water, and daily necessities, and then sacrificed lingfutu pagoda to bring mu Nanzhi and little white fox into it.

After all this, Xu Qi'an didn't leave immediately. He went to the table, spread out the paper, and habitually repeated the Chai family's case.

Although there was a certain concern and analysis before, Xu Qian always put the capture of Dragon Spirit in the first place.

Until today, after witnessing the death of a family of three, Xu Qi'an decides to put long Qi aside for the time being, devote himself to the case and have fun with the people behind the scenes.

"Follow me, kill people, watch mu Nanzhi, OK, play with you."

He has a lot of experience in criminal investigation, as well as the knowledge of criminal psychology, analyzing problems, far more accurate and sensitive than the smart people of this era.

"The source of all this is the murder in Chai's house two decades ago. The dead Chai Jianyuan, the suspect's adopted son Chai Xian, the eyewitness Chai Xinger and all the Chai family members. Love: because of the motive!

"Note: Miss Chai LAN is missing."

Xu Qi'an did not stop writing and continued to write:

"the motive is not enough to support the suspect killing his father or relatives, or for another reason, or being framed.

"Chai Xinger's ex husband died of Chai Jianyuan with resentment; Chai Jianyuan's offspring were mediocre and unable to inherit the family business. Therefore, Chai Xinger is the biggest beneficiary and has sufficient motive to kill people. "

After writing this passage, Xu Qi'an made a summary:

the first suspect Chai Xian; the second suspect Chai xing'er.

Although in his speculation, Chai Xinger is more suspect than Chai Xian, Chai Xian is the murderer, which has been proved. Investigation can not be idealistic, so Chai Xian is still the first suspect.

Xu Qi'an took a cup of tea, took a sip, and kept the posture of taking the cup. After more than ten seconds, he began to write the second stage of the case.

"Afterwards, Chai Xian repeatedly committed homicide cases in Xiangzhou and even Zhangzhou. He specially picked up the people in the rivers and lakes, and then spread to the common people!

"Note: this does not conform to the behavior of a suspect who kills his father for love."

In short, Chai Xian's motive is totally contradictory and unreasonable to his subsequent act of making trouble in Xiangzhou.

There are no more than three cases:

"the conclusion is that Chai Xian's motive can be overturned, not for love, but for other reasons; Chai Xian was framed, and there is something else in this case."

After sorting out the case, Xu Qian then wrote down two doubtful points:

"is the murderer in the small village the real murderer behind the scenes?"

"What's the purpose of committing homicide in Xiangzhou?"

Xu Qi'an put down his pen and analyzed it carefully:

"if it was the person behind the scenes who killed Chai Xian last night, then he (she) has the ability to ambush Chai Xian and eradicate him. But the people behind the scenes didn't do that. If the people behind the scenes are Chai xing'er, we shouldn't get rid of Chai Xian and then be quick? "

There are contradictions here again.

There are three contradictions in the whole case. If Chai Xian is the murderer, then the Chaifu murder case and the subsequent wanton killing case are contradictory.

Based on this contradiction, it highlights the possibility of Chai Xinger's vested interest to frame Chai Xian.

But last night's Xiaoshan village massacre once again contradicted the speculation that Chai Xinger was behind the scenes.

The first stage of the case, Chaifu murder, will be the suspect locked chaixian.

The second stage of the case, Xiangzhou frequent homicide, the suspect locked for Chai Xinger.

In the third stage, the case of killing the gate in a small village alleviates the suspicion that Chai Xinger is the person behind the scenes, and makes the case more complicated.

"Where's Chai LAN? Where did Chai LAN go?

"Assuming that Chai Xinger is behind the scenes, but Chai LAN is responsible for the Xiaoshan village massacre, then the previous conjecture can barely be established, and there is no need to overturn it. But what's Chai Lan's purpose?

"I can't speculate like this. Chai LAN doesn't appear from beginning to end, and there's no clue related to her. Making such a hypothesis rashly will only lead me to a dead end."At this point, Xu Qian vaguely felt that something was wrong.

This is the intuition of an old detective.

Xu Qi'an leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. This process lasted more than ten minutes. He opened his eyes and had the answer in his mind.

Chaos!

Yes, the biggest problem with the Chai family case is chaos. There are contradictions everywhere, but what really makes him realize that something is wrong is motivation!

"All the contradictions lie in unreasonable motives. Chai Xian's motive for killing Chai Jianyuan is unreasonable. The motive for killing so many people just to keep Chai Xian is also unreasonable.

"It's like a cannon beating a fly. If Chai Xian is an infatuated seed and is willing to kill his father for Chai LAN, he won't leave Xiangzhou as long as he hides Chai LAN and takes him as a hostage.

"So there is something else in this case, which is not as simple as it appears.

"Trace back to the source, start from the Chai family......"

Xu Qi'an shakes his hand to light the paper, turns it into ashes, throws it into the small celadon water tank for pen washing, and leaves the inn.

...

half an hour later, the innkeeper sat behind the counter, fiddling with the abacus and sorting out the account books.

There was a gentle voice chanting the Buddha's name:

"Amitabha!"

The shopkeeper looked up and saw that he was a monk with the characteristics of the people of the western regions. He was calm and introverted in his easy-going clothes.

"Do you want to stay in a shop or make a point?"

The shopkeeper was smiling.

He ran this first-class Inn in Xiangzhou for most of his life, and saw few monks. In the Central Plains, Buddhist monks are "rare things.".

The young monk put his hands together in a gentle voice:

"I want to ask if there is a couple living in the shop recently. The man is dressed in green, the woman is plain, and the mount is a war horse."

The monk's words seemed to have convincing power. The shopkeeper felt strange in his heart, as if the monk opposite was a dignified father.

"There's a couple of guests."

The shopkeeper told the truth: "if you say it's a pair of plain looking men and women, I'm not impressed, but if you say it's war horse, you'll know who the master is talking about. Unfortunately, the guest just checked out. "

Jingxin nodded and said, "thank you for telling me."

......

late at night, Chaifu.

A shadow sneaks in the dark, quietly. The torch of the patrol guards distorts the reflection of the green belt. For a moment, it reflects the shadow of this sneak.

But in the next moment, it disappeared silently, appeared in the darkness farther away, and continued to move towards its destination.

Soon, he came to a secluded courtyard.

I didn't enter immediately, because there are many more guards near the courtyard, among them there are many warriors who are in the realm of alchemy.

But the shadow didn't recede because of this. He went around and came to the back of the courtyard.

The room is full of light, and it's full of relish.

Since chaixian invaded the cellar, Chaifu has strengthened its defense.

Not only do they send more people outside, but they also have experts "stationed" in the house day and night.

Xu Qi'an was outside the house separated by a wall, and he felt:

"the three people inside were all Wufu in the realm of alchemy, and the sneak attack would only make them feel my existence in advance, thus attracting the guards outside..... If I was in the past, I would have to rely on wulimang to get in, but now I am no longer a vulgar Wufu."

Ten seconds later, under the foundation of the yard, in the cave, a sleeping mouse woke up and opened his blood red eyes.

This is not an ordinary mouse. It is full of poison. The toxin spews out with its breath and infects all the living things around it.

......

inside!

"Why did Chai Xian come back?"

Said a burly man.

"Listen to the clan old say, is to look for small LAN, this madman, think small Lan was killed, hide in the cellar."

Another man shook his head: "isn't Xiao Lan abducted by him?"

Just then, they heard the sound of "squeak". Looking at it, it was a fat black rat, standing in the shadow of the corner, with red eyes, staring at the three people silently.

As a Wufu who has a strong sense of danger, when the three men saw the mouse, their intuition began to warn.

Instinctively, they grab the weapons leaning against the table and shout to inform the guards outside.

But the next moment, the three fell on the table and fainted.

A few seconds later, a shadow came out from under the table. Xu Qi'an looked around and listened. He confirmed that the guards outside the courtyard didn't notice the movement inside. He turned to the entrance of the cellar and pulled open the heavy stone cover.Among the three people in the room, the poison has a strong paralytic effect and will not endanger life. At most, it will recover after a few days of weakness.

Take out the orange stone cellar, open the steps along the orange stone, ready to appear.

He walked briskly through the rows of corpses, feeling that this was the most secure and comfortable place in the world.

But the investigation was very important. He forced himself to resist the impulse of talking and interacting with the corpse and went straight to the secret room deep in the cellar.

There is a custom in Chaifu. After the people die, they are either cremated or the corpses are given to their families to be turned into walking corpses.

This is in case the bodies of the clansmen are dug up by outsiders.

Before the operation, Xu Qi'an had obtained information from Li lingsu that Chai Jianyuan's body was refined into a walking corpse by Chai Xinger and stored in the cellar.

Chai Xinger's saying is that the Chai family is in great need of strength to protect the family.

This reason won the consensus of the Chai family.

But Xu Qian believes that there is a selfishness of "tooth for tooth".

Of course, Chai xing'er's idea is not important. Xu Qi'an's sneaking in is from the autopsy.

The corpse can give a lot of information, such as the shape of the wound, the condition of the injury, and so on. It can tell Xu Qi'an whether he is an acquaintance.

Soon, he came to the secret room deep in the cellar.

The door of the secret room was locked.

The palm of Xu Qi'an's hand was stuck on the lock cylinder, and he made a strong force. With a bang, the lock cylinder was directly shaken away, shaking out the dust.

There were not many corpses in the secret room. There were four on the left and right. They were wearing hoods and uniform gray clothes. The style was the same.

From the slightly bulging chest, we can see that three of them are female corpses.

Xu Qian took off the head cover of the body. After identification, he recognized the third body on the left as Chai Jianyuan.

Interestingly, the third body on the right is a man with clean features. According to Li lingsu, "he" is Chai Xinger's ex husband.

"Tut, they look at each other. Chai Xinger really resents Chai Jianyuan."

Without delay, Xu Qi'an kicked down Chai Jianyuan's body, stripped off his gray clothes and examined the body with a candle.

There is a sutured wound on Chai Jianyuan's chest, but the body spots all over the body destroy the traces of other wounds.

Xu Qi'an moved the candle. The orange halo moved down from his chest and stopped between his legs. He stopped with his gray bag and took out the bird's egg.

"Get rid of the crotch!"

This position is relatively weak for the copper clad and iron clad Wufu.

Further down, the halo of the candle illuminated Chai's feet.

In the dark, Xu Qi'an's pupil was slightly enlarged and his eyes were fixed.

Chai Jianyuan's left foot has six toes.

PS: sorry, the latest update is weak. The number of words updated this month is 160000. It's a new low since the serial. I'm trying to recover.




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