Chapter 138 World Four [24]

Dismemberment cases are the most time-consuming to investigate. It took the Criminal Investigation Brigade three days just to determine the identity of the victim.

One day was spent coordinating with the school, one day was spent demolishing walls and clearing rubble, and on the third day the forensic doctor roughly determined the victim's identity through the skull and some remains.

As for identifying the suspect, that is even more troublesome.

The renovation of the girls' dormitory took place during the summer three years ago. The teacher who was responsible for connecting with the construction team still has their contact information.

However, the other party had to resort to layers of subcontracting and quoted a renovation fee of 2.8 million yuan, but in the end the construction team was left with only a little over 1.5 million yuan.

Moreover, the construction team likes to hire temporary workers on a daily basis, and their daily wages are paid in cash. Even if the police find the contractor, they cannot find the specific person.

Therefore, the criminal investigation team could only start from the victim's social relations and use the most primitive method of visits to obtain information from three years ago.

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On the other side, after the wall was cleaned, Captain Cheng found Jing Ke with the small pottery jar, rusty ironware and corroded talisman paper he had found inside, and placed all three items in front of her.

"Senior Baihu, this is what was found in the wall. It was partially integrated into the wall when it was discovered. It must have been placed there at the same time as the body."

Captain Cheng asked cautiously, "Senior Baihu, can you use tracking techniques on these things?"

"Did anyone else encounter this while retrieving things?" Jing Ke asked.

Captain Cheng shook his head. "After I discovered the foreign object, I told them to stop. I cleaned it up all by myself."

"That's no problem. Captain Cheng, please wait for me outside." Jing Ke made a gesture of invitation.

After Captain Cheng closed the door and left, Jing Ke took out a piece of high-quality spirit stone from his storage space, then took out his ear and plucked a small tuft of hair from it.

Wen Ruyue watched from the side, with an imperceptible worry in her eyes, and she couldn't help but clench her hands on her legs.

After placing his hair on the three objects, Jing Ke held the spirit stone, closed his eyes, and recited a spell that sounded obscure but full of rhythm.

As words came out of Jing Ke's mouth, the hair on the object gradually merged with the object below, and the spirit stone held by Jing Ke began to glow slightly.

As the last word of the spell fell, the top-grade spirit stone broke away from Jing Ke's hand and began to move towards a certain discovery.

"Is this okay?" Wen Ruyue asked softly.

Jing Ke opened his eyes and held the spirit stone that was about to fly around. After noticing the worry hidden in his Taoist partner's eyes, a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

"Don't worry, this isn't a spell that requires my sacrifice. It's just a curse using my hair as a medium. The cursed person will be entangled by the caster's creation. This is a common tactic used by evil cultivators. I regard this spirit stone as my creation."

Jing Ke lowered her voice and explained that she had actually used an evil method in disguise to reach her destination, so Captain Cheng needed to leave temporarily.

"If the spirit stone breaks, will something happen to you?" Wen Ruyue asked with a frown.

Jing Ke shook her head. To reassure her Taoist companion, she explained in detail, "When an evil cultivator refines a creature, they bind it to themselves to keep it obedient. If the creature is destroyed, the evil cultivator bound to it will be attacked. But this spirit stone has nothing to do with me. At most, I will keep it with me for a while."

"Once the spiritual power in the spirit stone is exhausted, the curse will be over. If you need to continue to locate the owner of the evil creature, I will need to pull out a few more tail hairs." Jing Ke added.

"Then let's act quickly. It would be bad if there was a bald spot on the ear." Wen Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to pinch Jing Ke's ear.

"Don't worry, the spirit stones I chose are of very good quality, enough to last for a month. We won't be so unlucky that we can't find anyone for a month." Jing Ke leaned his head over.

After letting Wen Ruyue finish touching her, Jing Ke raised his head, held her face and kissed her more than ten times before stopping.

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A curse is like a maggot on the tarsal bone; once you are infected, it is difficult to get rid of it.

Similarly, after slightly replacing the curse with a tracking technique, the person being tracked can also be found.

Three years was a long time, enough for the evil cultivator who cultivated earthbound spirits to travel far and wide. However, the evil cultivator seemed very confident in his own skills. He settled in Dongzhou City, just a relatively remote suburb.

The incident was discovered in Dongzhou City, and the culprit also settled in Dongzhou City. Therefore, the Special Management Bureau of Dongzhou City has the obligation to solve this problem no matter what.

Director Hao also attached great importance to it. He skipped several lengthy meetings and asked the captain to drive behind him, preparing to go together to meet this daring evil cultivator.

The evil cultivator's residence was in a villa area in the suburbs. In order not to alert the enemy, the Special Management Bureau did not contact any department for any joint arrest.

After shoving the ID card with the national emblem in the security guard's face, Jing Ke and his group drove to the door of the corresponding villa.

After getting out of the car, the captain led the way, not only climbing over the wall and opening the door, but also setting up a confinement magic circle around the villa, making sure not even a fly could fly out.

Director Hao was the second to follow, and after the captain opened the door, he followed him in.

Captain Cheng was very confident in the strength of her director and team leader, so she chose to follow Zhu Qiuyu, the weakest of the six, to prevent her from being ambushed by the evil cultivators due to her lack of experience.

The moment the confinement array fell, the evil cultivators in the room sensed something was wrong and immediately took out their weapons.

A pitch-black spirit-calling banner, with a total of eight evil spirits and countless little ghosts locked inside. If all of them were released, it would definitely have the effect of a hundred ghosts parading at night.

The captain did not give the evil cultivator much time to react. When he saw that the villa door was locked, he kicked it open and broke it in violently.

Leaving the first floor to Director Hao to search, she rushed to the second floor with a black stick.

"Wow, the captain is so efficient." Zhu Qiuyu, who was the last one to come in, only saw the captain rushing up and couldn't help but sigh.

"The captain has always been decisive and efficient. He goes wherever the director points, and his efficiency in executing tasks is the highest in the branch." Captain Cheng said with a hint of admiration in his tone.

"In that case, your captain must be very busy, right? I haven't had much chance to meet him before." Zhu Qiuyu asked curiously.

"Fortunately, our team leader is very family-oriented and keeps public and private affairs separate. No one can contact her during her private time," said Captain Cheng.

After making sure the surroundings were safe, Captain Cheng walked towards the second floor, ready to help the team leader.

"I'll go upstairs. You guys go to the basement and check to make sure the person doesn't get away." Director Hao said, stepping onto the stairs first.

"Okay, Chief, I'll go check the basement." Captain Cheng responded without hesitation and immediately changed the direction of advance.

Zhu Qiuyu chose to follow Captain Cheng and asked curiously, "If there's an emergency at your station, won't you be able to contact the captain?"

"It doesn't matter. The director's phone is available 24 hours a day. If you encounter any problems, just go to the director." Captain Cheng said, turning to look at Wen Ruyue.

"Advisor Wen, Senior Baihu, let's go to the basement and take a look. The first floor will be left to you two." Captain Cheng called out, and when Wen Ruyue nodded in response, he quickly walked down the passage to the basement.

Zhu Qiuyu didn't even bother asking questions and hurried to catch up.

Jing Ke looked thoughtfully at the stairs leading to the second floor. "It seems that I don't need to take action this time. Director Hao and her Taoist partner can easily deal with that evil cultivator."

"Then let's look for any special mechanisms on the first floor. This is the lair of evil cultivators. Maybe we can follow the clues and find a lot of useful things." Wen Ruyue said, without refuting Jing Ke's words.

Captain Gu Jia, you can’t contact her during her personal time, so please contact the director if you need anything.

After connecting these three clues together, it became extremely obvious that Director Hao and the captain were a couple.

Among the group, Zhu Qiuyu, who was probably the only one who didn't know, was probably not very smart.

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Three minutes later, sounds of fighting were heard from the second floor, mixed with the sounds of breaking glass and shattering ceramic jars.

About ten minutes later, the thinnest man, holding his chest and spitting blood, rolled down the stairs and finally appeared in front of Wen Ruyue and Jing Ke with his hands and knees on the ground.

Jing Ke looked at him with some disgust and chose to take a step back to avoid having her clothes stained by the blood he vomited.

Wen Ruyue did not retreat, but she did not move forward either. She just picked up the long-handled umbrella at hand and pierced the evil cultivator's arm with the tip of the umbrella, nailing him to the ground.

"We've checked the second and third floors, and only he's been found so far." The captain walked quickly down the stairs. "Senior White Tiger, can you sense any other evil cultivators?"

"No, but there seem to be a lot of souls on the second and third floors?" Jing Ke asked.

"Well, the evil cultivator is not strong enough, so he took out all his cards. The director is trying to appease those souls, which will take about half an hour." The captain took out handcuffs that could seal spiritual power, ignored the evil cultivator's pierced arm, and handcuffed him directly.

Captain: "Thank you for waiting here for another half an hour. I can only release the confinement array after the director has calmed down those ghosts."

"It's okay. The Director and the Captain have worked hard. We're just leading the way." Wen Ruyue suggested with a smile, "Instead of just waiting, why not use this half hour to interrogate the evil cultivator? Maybe we can get something valuable out of him."

"Okay, but my interrogation method may be a little simple and rough. I hope you can forgive me." The captain gave the two of them a shot of warning.

The captain, who had been fighting on the front lines for years, hated these evil cultivators the most. In his eyes, the evil cultivators' behavior was even more hateful than those man-eating monsters.

Therefore, the captain's interrogation method was also very direct, which was to use the things that she found from other evil cultivators to torture people on this evil cultivator without reservation, achieving another degree of retribution.

The evil cultivator's jaw had been removed in advance. After seeing the evil cultivator rolling and squirming on the ground for more than ten minutes, the captain temporarily removed the tormenting device and replaced the evil cultivator's jaw.

"Where did you place the magical instrument that can breed evil spirits? Where is the body of the female ghost you imprisoned in the Dongzhou University dormitory?"

The captain said, "Tell me the answer now, and I'll send you to the Special Management Bureau's prison. If you don't want to tell me, I'll torture you to death. In the subsequent report, I'll write that you were shot on the spot."

After hearing this, the evil cultivator began to breathe heavily. When he saw the impatience on the captain's face and he wanted to remove his jaw again to continue to torture him, he confessed while spitting blood.

"Besides the Dongzhou University dormitory, there's only one place left. It's in the villa area, Villa 43. There's an earthbound spirit in the bathroom," the evil cultivator said with effort. "The body... I don't remember the body, but the head is useful to me. I had the rest shredded and thrown into the sewer as garbage."

"You are lying." The captain said expressionlessly, and quickly removed the evil cultivator's jaw and used the torturous magic weapon on him again.

The sound of exhaling continued to come from the evil cultivator's throat. He rolled from side to side with a look of pain on his face, and his fingers kept digging at his chest and back until he was covered in blood.

Captain Cheng and Zhu Qiuyu, who had just finished their investigation, came up at this time. After seeing the evil cultivator's appearance, the latter couldn't help but be dazed for a moment.

If she didn't know the whole story and only saw this scene, she might have confused justice and evil.

But it is really satisfying to see the evil practitioners who have committed so many evil things being tortured.

"Captain, some refined human remains were found in the basement. They all belonged to different people. The remains of the earliest victim should have been refined more than ten years ago." Captain Cheng said.

"We also discovered some magical weapons with ominous auras, which have been temporarily sealed." Zhu Qiuyu added.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. The evil cultivator just revealed that there is also an earthbound spirit in the bathroom of Villa No. 43. Can you go over and deal with it?" The captain was not very clear about Zhu Qiuyu's strength, so he used a question sentence in the last half of the sentence.

"Qiuyu, the best way to overcome fear is to face it head-on. Do you want to give it a try?" Wen Ruyue asked.

Zhu Qiuyu swallowed and nodded under the gaze of her senior sister. "Okay, senior sister, I'm a little braver now. Captain Cheng and I will go to Villa No. 43."

"I'll walk in front." Zhu Qiuyu added.

Being afraid of ghosts isn't really a flaw for ordinary people, but for cultivators, it's a significant weakness. If this weakness were known to evil cultivators, it would be even worse, so it must be overcome as soon as possible.

"Be careful." Wen Ruyue reminded him, but she was not too worried.

The strongest earthbound spirit in Villa No. 43 is only at the Qi Refining Stage. As long as Zhu Qiuyu is not so scared that he completely loses his mind, it is only a matter of time to defeat the other party.

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Twenty minutes later, the evil cultivator told everything he knew. He no longer expected to survive and only asked the captain to kill him quickly.

The captain carefully wrote down every word the evil cultivator said, then closed the notebook and said, "I'll give you one last chance. Tell me what I want to know, and I'll set you free."

A trace of struggle flashed in the evil cultivator's eyes. The experience worse than death had already brought his will to the brink of collapse. "I said, about six years ago, the divine fortune teller used the rest of his life to perform a divination."

The evil cultivator now breathes out more than he goes in, and it takes a lot of effort for him to utter a single word.

"Within ten years, a god or demon will emerge. As long as the Demon Lord wins, the world will be ours from now on..." The evil cultivator said with his eyes closed, "I've told you everything I know. Kill me now."

The captain gripped the notebook with a little force and subconsciously looked at Director Hao who appeared on the stairs after his soul was calmed down.

Director Hao also heard what the evil cultivator had just said, and his delicate brows knitted tightly together, "Don't let him die, take him back and interrogate him thoroughly."

"Okay." The captain quickly stuffed a pill into the evil cultivator's mouth, and then removed his jaw.

"Advisor Wen, it seems that you need to stay in Dongzhou City for a few more days. I'll need to trouble you with the follow-up interrogation work." Director Hao said.

Although she was not a member of the special task force, Director Hao's rank was high enough, and she was very clear about the reasons and purposes for establishing the special task force.

Wen Ruyue also realized the seriousness of the matter and nodded with a frown, "I will not leave Dongzhou City until I get some useful clues from the interrogation."

If the evil cultivators had already started preparing six years ago, how many vicious incidents similar to the one at Dongzhou University would there be across the country?

Gods and demons were born within ten years. Does that mean they only have four years left at most?

"Six years can change a lot of things. There's no need to think too much about the evil cultivator's words." Jing Ke said, inserting his fingertips along the gaps between her fingers and interlocking his fingers with Wen Ruyue's.

"It doesn't matter even if an evil demon really comes out. I'm still by your side. If you give him a claw, the evil demon might be reduced to ashes." Jing Ke showed a confident and arrogant expression.

After hearing Jing Ke's words, Wen Ruyue couldn't help but chuckle, raised her other hand and touched her head, "Yes, you are here, I am not worried."