After all, there were no cameras in this era, and the portraits drawn were rather distorted.
If Xue Huan had not been able to search souls directly and see the crime scene with other people's eyes, she would not have known the importance of a painting of a beauty in this case.
Those pictures of beauties must have some connection with the case.
Xiao Jue: "We must find the beauty painting before the next victim appears!"
Xue Huan: "I suspect the murderer is not a human, but a demon. You should continue to investigate the case with your men and pretend that you don't know about the Beauty Painting, so as to avoid leaking the news and alerting the enemy. As for finding the Beauty Painting, leave it to me."
Xiao Jue looked at her with concern in his eyes: "Ah Huan, please be careful."
"Don't worry, I'm different now."
Xue Huan returned to the painting building and handed the task of finding the beauty painting to He Zhu and Fox Demon. Of course, she herself was not idle either.
One man, two demons and three groups of soldiers.
Following the instructions of the compass, Xue Huan came to a familiar place - Chunyang Tower.
Isn't this the brothel where she sold Wei Ze before? Could it be that this time, the murderer's target is someone in this building?
It's normal to think about it. The murderer only targets good-looking people, and Chunyang Tower is not short of good-looking men.
Xue Huan put on an invisibility talisman and walked in openly. She came to a room on the third floor. With a sweep of her spiritual sense, she saw a woman riding on a handsome young man. It seemed that they were having fun, but in fact, the woman was peeling off the young man's face!
Coincidentally, the young man was exactly Wei Ze, the one with a human skin mask stuck on him by Xue Huan!
Recently, he has become the most popular waiter in Chunyang Tower and one of the twelve flower girls.
The human-skin mask needs potion to be removed from the face, but the murderer can even peel the human skin off the face alive, not to mention a mask, which of course can be torn off by force.
When the mask was torn off, the murderer was shocked. He didn't expect this man to have two faces! This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
No, the layer he tore off was not human skin at all, but just a mask similar to human skin!
In fact, this person is not good-looking, the only good-looking thing is the mask on the outside.
I don’t know how this mask was made, it’s so realistic. If he hadn’t torn it off, he would have been fooled. No, he had already been fooled.
Thinking of this, the murderer was suddenly shocked. Could it be that this man was wearing this mask on purpose to lure him out?
After all, humans have always been cunning!
The murderer immediately turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared into the painting of a beauty hanging on the wall of the room. He was not in a hurry to leave, but wanted to see what kind of expressions the people who set the trap would have when they came in and saw that he, the murderer, was not there. It would definitely be interesting.
Anyway, those people never imagined that the murderer of the serial killers was actually a painting.
To be precise, it is a painting monster.
The door was pushed open, and to Hua Yao's surprise, the people who came in were not a group of government officials, but an elegant and handsome young man.
He walked straight towards his original form.
Hua Yao couldn't help but have a bad feeling in his heart. Who is this person? Could he have seen through him?
Impossible. How could he, a human being, see through me?
Hua Yao comforted himself in this way, but when he met the man's eyes, he suddenly became uncertain.
"Got you," he heard the man say.
Now the painted demon could no longer deceive himself and turned into a wisp of black smoke and fled.
As a painting monster, he has an advantage that other monsters cannot match, that is, he has strong camouflage and is not easy to be discovered. After killing someone, he hides in a painting and no one can find him.
But his disadvantages were also obvious. Because he was limited by the paper itself, he was afraid of everything that paper feared. Ordinary water and fire could seriously damage his vitality. Moreover, every movement required the consumption of magic energy.
So he doesn't like to move around unless necessary.
But now, he had to escape.
Xue Huan did not pursue him, because she had already set up a net outside, and the painted monster could not escape at all.
As expected, when the black mist that was the incarnation of the Painting Demon rushed to the window, it was stopped by a transparent barrier with flowing runes. The spiritual power of the rune array hit the Painting Demon, and its blood became unstable, and the black mist began to surge irregularly.
Xue Huan turned around, raised her hand, and clasped her five fingers together. The talisman formation that was originally set up outside the entire room instantly shrank several times with her as the center, becoming only the size of a ball, floating in her palm. The painted demon was trapped in the formation and was forced to shrink as well.
The main body was forced to stay in a small space as big as a ball, rushing left and right, trying to break through the talisman formation and escape, but the result was of course in vain.
Xue Huan put away the painted monster and the talisman array, came to the bedside, and looked at Wei Ze. He was not dead yet, but just unconscious.
By coincidence, the mask that was put on him was torn off, so the revenge on him ends here.
From then on, all the grudges between this man and her were written off.
Xue Huan turned and left.
Let’s get back to the present.
Xue Huan captured the Painting Demon and brought it to Xiao Jue's villa. The two were interrogating the Painting Demon, asking him how he committed the crime, what his motive was, the process of committing the crime, how he chose his targets, etc.
There is no denying that the Painted Demon is the real murderer of the serial skinning murder case, but we still need to confirm it again and record his statement.
At this moment, Xiao Jue's subordinates came over and told them that the Fourth Prince had caught the real murderer.
Xue Huan laughed out loud, "Come on, let's go see what the 'real murderer' that the Fourth Prince caught looks like."
She summoned the spirit boat and carried Xiao Jue quickly to Prince Xiao's Mansion in the city. The two walked out of the room and got on a carriage to the government office.
In the court, the other princes were already in their seats, and Xiao Jue and Xue Huan were the last to arrive.
The Jingzhao Yin sat at the top, and several princes sat in the audience seats on both sides. The "real murderer" had his hands and feet tied and was kneeling on the ground.
"Who is this person in the hall? What crime have you committed? Tell the truth now!" Jingzhao Yin slammed the gavel and asked repeatedly.
The "murderer" kneeling below looked honest, but he was shocked by the slam of the gavel from the Jingzhao Yin. He kept glancing at the Fourth Prince, swallowed his saliva, and said hesitantly: "I, my humble servant Cai Song, have committed murder."
Seeing him like this, the Sixth Prince questioned him: "Could someone so cowardly and unable to speak clearly be a murderer? Or a serial killer?"
The Fourth Prince said calmly, "Sixth brother, haven't you heard the saying? Don't judge a person by appearance. The more honest and timid a person appears, the more ruthless they will be once they are provoked."
The Sixth Prince snorted, clearly unconvinced: "Really?"
The Jingzhao Yin in the hall continued to ask: "Who did you kill? How did you kill him?"
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