The other man was in his thirties, with a rough face and short stubble on his chin. He glared with anger and looked very disdainful.

[Who is he? Why does he look like he's looking for trouble? ]

[Could it be that he is just like the ministers in the court who don't like girls being officials, so he always dislikes me? ]

"I……"

The official just opened his mouth to speak, but Captain Liu interrupted him: "Guardian, this one is..."

The gate supervisor introduced him: "This is Zheng Siya from our Six Gates. He was the one who first discovered the mummy. He has been following up on this murder case, so I called him along as well."

Captain Liu waved his hand to Zheng Siya, "Greetings, Mr. Zheng."

Zheng Si Ya saluted him back with a sour face: "Greetings, Lord Liu."

"Zheng Siya, Miss Mu is only here to help. You, a grown man, shouldn't embarrass a little girl."

There was a warning in the gatekeeper's eyes, telling him not to cause trouble.

Zheng Siya, however, was not convinced.

More than a month had passed since the first murder, and he finally had some clues, and was 70% sure who had done it, but Mu Nanjin showed up and immediately denied all his efforts and hard work. How could he not be angry? Not to mention that he didn't believe that Mu Nanjin could tell who did it just by looking at it, but her saying that it wasn't human was particularly ridiculous.

【Zheng Si Ya? 】

[Oh, it turns out that he solved a lot of strange cases and was promoted from a yamen runner with no rank to a fifth-rank official in just ten years.]

[Well, not bad, he has made many achievements and has his own way of solving cases.]

Zheng Siya felt a little proud when he heard her praising himself in her heart.

[It's a pity that he made two wrongful judgments. He had already noticed something was wrong at the time, but he didn't re-investigate in order to save his reputation and position, causing people to suffer in vain. Now he has lost his previous passion for solving cases and only cares about pursuing fame. ]

Zheng Siya was shocked.

When he realized that he might have solved the wrong case and arrested the wrong person, he did not investigate the matter any further, nor did he mention it to anyone. How did Mu Nanjin know about it? Everyone in the Six Gates looked at Zheng Siya in disbelief.

Those who once admired him were now extremely disappointed in him.

Zheng Siya was worried that everyone would believe her, so she pretended to be furious: "You are talking nonsense..."

Then, Mendu pressed his acupoints to make him unable to move, and pressed his mute point to make him unable to speak.

The gate supervisor said in a cold voice: "The dead are the greatest. Zheng Si Ya must not disturb Lord Du's rest."

“…”

Zheng Siya felt very regretful.

He had heard people say before that Mu Nanjin knew many things that many people didn't know, but he didn't believe it.

Now, all his efforts over the years are going to go to waste.

No, he couldn't admit it.

Moreover, after so many years, it might not be possible to find out that he had arrested the wrong person, so he had to take a gamble.

Zheng Siya was unwilling to let Mu Nanjin cut off his official career, so he winked at his deputy, signaling him to tell him what they had investigated.

As long as the supervisor believes in what they are investigating, even if they find that he has made a wrong judgment in the past, he can still take the blame and make meritorious contributions. Not only will he not be punished, but he can also keep his original official position.

The deputy was very embarrassed, but still said: "Mendu, I want to talk about what we found out before."

Mendo nodded.

"The recent victims were all sucked dry, and this method is exactly the same as the murders that occurred in Jiangnan two years ago. In order to confirm the truth, Lord Zheng took us to the Jiangnan government office overnight to verify the matter, and took the Jiangnan government officials to the capital to check the death of the mummified corpses. The results were exactly the same as the deaths in Jiangnan that year."

The deputy took out a book and handed it to the governor: "This is what we found out. Please take a look."

The gate supervisor took the letter and read it.

The deputy continued, "Back then, the Jiangnan police chief believed that the murder was the work of the Demon Cult. After our investigation, we found that the leader of the Demon Cult did have a technique that sucked the blood of humans. We also witnessed people in the martial arts world being turned into human corpses after the Demon Cult leader sucked their blood."

After reading the contents of the memorial, the gatekeeper said, "I also suspected that the cult leader killed the people, but this does not prove that he did it."

"Can……"

The deputy wanted to say something else when he heard Mu Nanjin's inner voice surfacing again.

[The leader of the Demon Cult is so pitiful. He was clearly not in the capital but was misunderstood as having killed someone. ]

[In fact, you can't blame others for thinking this way. He has always been labeled a bad guy, and it's hard for others not to misunderstand him. Moreover, he never explains what he has done, so everyone just puts the blame on him. ]

【He is definitely a scapegoat. 】

Everyone: “…”

The deputy gritted his teeth and said, "If it wasn't done by the leader of the Demon Cult, it could have been done by someone else in the Demon Cult."

[If it was someone else from the Demon Cult who did it, do you have any evidence? You just said it was the Demon Cult without any evidence. Is that how the Six Gates investigated the case?]

The deputy's face flushed red, and he was too embarrassed to look at anyone else.

The gate supervisor turned to Captain Liu and asked, "Master Liu, can you tell from Master Du's body who did it?"

Captain Liu: “…”

He had never seen the case files of a murder case, nor did he have any experience in investigating a case. What could he tell from just a corpse? Captain Liu threw the question to the other captains: "Do you know who did it?"

Three centurions: "..."

Aren't they just going through the motions?

Why are they still asking about their case? Moreover, they just took a glance at Du Bianxiu's body and didn't even see his appearance clearly, so how could they tell who did it?

Captain Liang coughed lightly and said, "We have just come into contact with the case and don't know the specific circumstances yet. It is impossible to know who did it just by looking at a corpse."

【Ask me, ask me, I know. 】

[Captain Liu, why don’t you ask me? ]

If you don't ask me again, I'll leave.

Captain Liu looked at Mu Nanjin and said, "Mu Nanjin, you look like you have something to say to us. If you have something to say, just say it. It doesn't matter if you say it wrong. We won't punish you."

[Hey, I have a cold face, how did Captain Liu know that I have something to say? ]

Captain Liu: “…”

[Could it be that we have worked together for so long that we have developed a tacit understanding? ]

What a tacit understanding.

Captain Liu rolled his eyes in his heart.

Mu Nanjin asked Madam Du, "Madam Du, can I prick Du Bianxiu's body with a needle? Just prick it lightly."

"Ah, this..." Mrs. Du looked at her son in embarrassment.

The Du family's son hesitated: "Just a prick?"

Mu Nanjin nodded.

The young master of the Du family was furious when he thought about his father's tragic death and the murderer still at large.

He gritted his teeth and nodded, "As long as you find the murderer without destroying my father's body, you can stab my father a few times."

Mu Nanjin said, "Find a needle."

The young master of the Du family ordered his servant to find a needle.

Captain Liu was worried that Mu Nanjin might mess up, so he asked, "Mu Nanjin, why are you checking Du Bianxiu's body? Are you testing for poison?"

Mu Nanjin said: "You will know in a moment."

Captain Liu: “…”

Soon, a servant of the Du family found an embroidery needle.

Mu Nanjin took over and said to everyone, "If the deceased was simply drained by the martial arts technique and turned into a mummy, then his body would just be an ordinary mummy. If the deceased was drained by something else, then there would definitely be something left that you would hardly notice."

The deputy knew that the other things she was talking about were not people, but he still deliberately asked, "What are the other things you are talking about?"

Captain Liu said: "As long as it is what you say, we will believe it."

He and the other three centurions had spent a long time with Mu Nanjin and believed in her words without a doubt, but it was hard to say for the others.

The deputy said, "As long as you can find evidence that it was someone else who did it, we will certainly believe you."

Mendu and others also thought the same thing. It was impossible for them to believe her one-sided words just because of her inner voice.

Mu Nanjin said: "The one who killed Du Bianxiu is a demon."

"Demon?"

Everyone stared at her in shock.

Aren't monsters something that can only be seen in books or heard from storytellers? How could monsters exist in reality?

The deputy chuckled: "Little girl, if you can't find out, then you can't find out. You still blame it on the monster. Aren't you ridiculous?"

The people from Liushenmen also found it ridiculous.

The gatekeeper frowned and said, "Miss Mu, are you mistaken? How can there be monsters in this world?"

He began to doubt whether it was right or wrong to ask Mu Nanjin for help. After all, she was just a little girl, how could she possibly investigate the case?

Even if she knew more, she would never be able to investigate a murder case.

People from the other six gates also believe that there are no monsters in this world.

Mu Nanjin looked at the four centurions. Although they were also shocked, they also looked a little scared, as if they believed what she said.

[These people are really strange. They believe that there are gods and Buddhas in this world, and they go to the temple to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of every month, but they don’t believe that there are ghosts in this world? ]

[Since people are divided into good and evil, there are gods and Buddhas in the world, and naturally there are demons and ghosts. Otherwise, do gods and Buddhas exist only to bless you with good health and wealth? Since you don’t believe in demons in the world, why do you buy exorcism talismans in temples on weekdays? You are really a group of self-contradictory idiots. ]

Everyone: “…”

[Well, they have never seen ghosts, so it is understandable that they do not believe in the existence of ghosts. ]

Captain Liu was upset when he saw that no one believed Mu Nanjin: "Mu Nanjin, they don't believe you. You can prove it to them and make them convinced."

[As expected of Captain Liu, you really understand my heart. 】

Captain Liu: “…”

I can hear your voice every day, it’s hard not to understand you.

"Um."

Mu Nanjin raised the needle and gently inserted it into the head of Du Bianxiu's corpse.

Everyone gathered around curiously.

Captain Liu and the other three captains hurriedly moved away from the coffin, swallowing their saliva with a look of great fear.

The deputy sneered in his heart, pretending to be quite serious.

Mu Nanjin inserted the needle and quickly took it out.

Immediately afterwards, a cloud of blue-black mist emerged from Du Bianxiu's head, and as it spread, the mist became thicker and thicker.

When it was the size of a person, it slowly turned into a human shape.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak—”

Black Mist's laughter was creepy.

"What, what is this?" The yamen chief took a few steps back in fear.

Everyone else was dumbfounded.

"Ah-ah-ah--" The black fog seemed to want to scare them. It suddenly screamed and pounced on them, then dispersed and disappeared in front of everyone.

“Ah ...

The timid ones were either frightened to faint or ran away, and some were so scared that they fell to the ground. Zheng Siya, whose acupuncture point had been determined, was so scared that he wet his pants. The room was immediately in chaos.

The rest of the people could only pretend to remain calm for the sake of face.

Captain Liu pointed his trembling finger at the place where the black fog disappeared and asked, "What was that just now?"

Mu Nanjin explained: "That is the evil spirit that remains in Du Bianxiu's body. Some demons like to play tricks on people, so they hide their evil spirit in the bodies of the dead to scare people."

Dumen gradually came to his senses: "Is there really a demon?"

Are there really monsters in this world? If there are monsters, how can they catch them? "There are monsters in this world, but not many."

[Except for the people in the prison, I have only seen three monsters so far. One of them is right next to me, and the other one has not yet formed. The other one is the monster in front of me, but I can only see the monster aura but not the person. ]

Prison? What prison? Everyone wanted to ask but couldn't. They were really anxious.

Captain Liu thought of the six strange men imprisoned in the Duwei Mansion.

And she said one of the monsters was right next to her, who was that?

Everyone hurriedly moved away from the people around them, looking at each other as if to say 'you are a monster'.

Those who couldn't hear Mu Nanjin's thoughts looked confused.

Captain Liang whispered to Captain Liu, "Are you a demon?"

Captain Liu rolled his eyes at him angrily: "You're talking nonsense. If I were a demon, would you still be alive and standing in front of me now?"

"Who is the demon then?"

The four centurions huddled together in fear.

Jiang Baihu cried and said, "If I had known there was a monster, I would not have come."

Captain Liu: “…”

That's what he wanted to say too.

Mu Nanjin was puzzled: "The monster is not here, what are you afraid of?"

Those who could hear her inner thoughts had sad and angry expressions on their faces. Since you said there was a monster right next to them, of course they had to be on guard.

They suddenly envied those who couldn’t hear Mu Nanjin’s thoughts.

Captain Liu lied to her and said, "We, we are not afraid that the monster will suddenly come back to find us. We are just ordinary people and cannot deal with him."

Mendu took a deep breath and said, "Miss Mu, I apologize for our distrust of you just now. We have never seen a monster, so we don't believe what you said. Please forgive us. Now I have two questions. The first question is, are the other deaths also caused by monsters?"

Mu Nanjin said: "Is it the work of a monster? You can try using a needle like I did."

"Will the evil spirit that escapes from a dead person harm people?"

"Generally they won't harm people, but if they are contaminated by evil spirits, they may go crazy or be controlled by the evil spirits. You don't have to worry about this. If you are really scared, go to the national master to ask for a talisman to ensure that the evil spirits of the monsters will not cause trouble for you."

Mendu now had the urge to find the national teacher: "I have another question, that is, what should we do if we can't defeat the monster?"

"It's better to find the national teacher. He can solve it."

"OK."

An hour later, the gate supervisor found the national teacher.

When the Imperial Master learned of his purpose, he asked, "Did you come to see me on your own? Or did someone else ask you to come?"

He didn't think that Mendu would be the first person to think of to find him to exorcise the monster after encountering it. Someone must have taught him.

Menduzhi said: "Mu Nanjin asked me to come find you."

Imperial Master: “…”

Sure enough, it was her again.

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