Outside the morgue.
Ling Qingxue sat alone on the steps, with her eyes lowered, staring into the distance in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
The last rays of the setting sun fell on her face, outlining a delicate outline.
The cold winter wind blew her black hair, and the heroic girl holding the sword seemed a little lonely at the moment.
At this moment, a string of red candied haws with an enticing aroma suddenly appeared in front of me.
"Candied haws, would you like some?"
Ling Qingxue looked in surprise and saw Zhou Zhilu biting a hawthorn and looking at her.
"snort."
Ling Qingxue ignored Zhou Zhilu and turned her head away.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhilu suddenly let go, and the candied haws fell to the ground in front of Ling Qingxue. Just as it was about to fall to the ground, Ling Qingxue hurriedly grabbed it.
"What are you doing?" Ling Qingxue glared at Zhou Zhilu.
Zhou Zhilu shrugged. "Why are you angry when I gave you a candied haws? I'm repaying evil with kindness. Don't point a sword at me next time."
Ling Qingxue snorted coldly, "You spoke rudely to Master. I'm lucky I didn't kill you!"
Zhou Zhilu helplessly explained, "You know the situation at that time. I was just forced to fight back. Besides, you have such a bad temper. Why do you want to kill people at the slightest provocation?"
Ling Qingxue looked at Zhou Zhilu with disdain: "I don't want to be told that by someone who peeked at other people having sex at night."
Zhou Zhilu's face fell, and he explained, "I just saw Master Chen enter the maid's room, and I didn't actually lie in front of the door to peek at his specific movements. Besides, if I said I was doing this for cultivation, would you believe me?"
Ling Qingxue gave Zhou Zhilu a look that said, "Do you think I'm a fool?"
Zhou Zhilu sighed dejectedly and changed the subject, "By the way, I still don't know what this Fuyesi you all keep talking about is."
"Fuyesi is the imperial court..."
Ling Qingxue was about to explain when she was suddenly stunned. Why should she explain to him? Are they very familiar with each other?
He snorted coldly, turned around and left with the candied haws.
Only Zhou Zhilu was left standing in the wind again, looking confused.
…
The next day, outside Chen's house.
Zhou Zhilu, Tu Qing, Ling Qingxue and others came to Chen's house again.
When entering the courtyard, there was still a slight smell of blood in the air.
Zhou Zhilu looked at the marks of the corpse drawn on the ground, walked forward and squatted down, pinched a handful of soil on the ground, and rubbed it carefully a few times.
"What's wrong?" Tu Qing asked from the side.
Zhou Zhilu replied, "I heard from the jailer before that after the people in the Chen Mansion died, their deaths were clearly extremely tragic, but there was not a trace of blood on the ground. I thought it was a bit uncanny when I heard it, but now I see that it is true."
Tu Qing sighed, "Yes, the body is shriveled and the blood has disappeared. I'm afraid something has sucked it away. Combined with the mother moth's presence in the well, I suspect the blood has flowed into the ground."
Zhou Zhilu was surprised and said, "Underground? It flows so cleanly into the ground without leaving a trace. Is there such a magical method?"
Tu Qing shook his head and said, "I'm not sure either. This is all speculation. Once we find the well and go down, we'll know."
Then the detectives found a well in the backyard and everyone rushed over.
Tu Qing stood by the well and sprinkled some demon-dispelling powder into it. Sure enough, there were some green spots floating on the water, but they were very thin.
"It really is here..." Tu Qing said in surprise.
He then said to the people around him, "The situation down there is unclear. You guys stay up there, I'll go down alone."
After saying that, he jumped into the well.
Seeing this, Ling Qingxue said coldly, "You guys wait here."
After saying that, he jumped in immediately.
Seeing this, Liu Yong thought that as the head of the county government, he couldn't just sit outside and wait.
Then he said to Zhou Zhilu: "Brother Zhou, although you have some cultivation skills, you are not at the level of martial arts. Don't follow me."
After saying that, he looked at the deep well and hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and jumped down.
Zhou Zhilu curled his lips. The mentality of a police officer for many years in his heart was like an itch, constantly plucking at Zhou Zhilu's heartstrings.
"Oh! Never mind! You guys stay up there, I'll go down and take a look!"
After saying that, Zhou Zhilu pinched his nose, took a deep breath, and jumped down straight.
The remaining detectives stood by the well and looked at each other, with determination in their eyes.
"Let's just stay up there!"
"Okay! I agree too!"
…
After jumping into the well, Zhou Zhilu went downstream and found that the space was gradually widening. He had already entered an underground river.
Fortunately, I have some cultivation, although not much, but it is still relatively easy for me to hold my breath for twenty to thirty minutes.
Liu Yong, who was in the well, saw Zhou Zhilu following him and couldn't help but look at him with some blame.
Zhou Zhilu could only smile awkwardly.
At this time, Tu Qing in the distance called everyone over and unexpectedly discovered a passage.
The passage was not long. After entering and swimming upwards, the four people finally surfaced in a pool of water in an underground cave.
Liu Yong looked around, estimated the distance of the passage, and said, "This should be below the outer courtyard of the Chen Mansion."
Everyone climbed out of the pool and looked around. The cave was not big, but it was empty and there was no sign of the mother moth.
"Look up!" Ling Qingxue suddenly exclaimed.
Everyone looked up and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
I saw a mysterious formation that was completely blood red and full of complex patterns engraved on the top of the cave.
The patterns of the formation emitted a blood-red light and were filled with ominousness.
Looking more closely, I found that it was actually streams of red liquid flowing slowly along the lines!
"You're right! No wonder there's no blood on the ground. I'm afraid it was all absorbed here." Tu Qing said with a grim expression.
Just as everyone was carefully observing the formation, a black mist suddenly emerged from a dark corner not far away.
A black afterimage instantly burst out from the black fog.
"Be careful!" Tu Qing suddenly turned around and shouted loudly.
Everyone hurriedly turned around to check, but saw only a black shadow approaching in an instant, and a shrill cry suddenly sounded, shocking everyone on the scene into a trance.
It was just a moment of trance, but it turned into a fatal mistake.
"ah!!!"
Suddenly, a scream was heard beside Zhou Zhilu. When he looked over, he found Liu Yong collapsed on the ground with blood all over his abdomen and a look of pain on his face.
"What's going on?" Zhou Zhilu exclaimed, and hurriedly squatted beside Liu Yong to check his injuries.
"It's the female moth." Tu Qing said in a low voice.
As Tu Qing looked ahead, he saw a huge black moth lying on the wall not far ahead. Its four wings were four or five meters wide when spread out, and its five pairs of claws were covered with scales, with sharp hooked toes digging into the rock wall.
Its abdomen was covered with dense black hair, and the long mouthparts on its head shone with a cold metallic luster, with some bloodstains on them. Its six eyes flashed faint red light in the darkness, staring straight at Zhou Zhilu and the other three.
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