Chapter 35 CASEFILE·4: Night Bandits (2)
Jiang You scratched her head. She didn't expect Xiaolong to be so strong on the outside but weak on the inside... Alas, how could a dragon be afraid of human corpses?
Jiang You himself was not that scared.
In her previous life, she had been a devoted fan of mystery novels and detective dramas. In the age of information technology, as a modern person, what kind of gory scenes had she not seen on television or on her computer?
Besides, Jiangyou has actually experienced life and death once, and now he has traveled through time and space to become an immortal undead creature. He is a skeleton himself, and he cleans his bones every day and takes off his head to use as a bag. His weird moves are endless.
After she was no longer human, even the instinctive fear of the smell of blood and corpses engraved in her DNA completely disappeared. The undead buffs on her body were already stacked to the maximum, and she was really not afraid anymore.
Even when he saw the dark soul shadows floating around the corpse, Jiang You only took a deep breath of the food aroma wafting from those soul shadows and asked Andrei a soul-searching question: "Can I eat those soul shadows?"
——After the racial change, the position in the food chain changed, and the view of food...ah, no, the perspective and mentality towards things naturally became different.
Andre:?
"What soul shadow?" Andre looked around the scene and saw nothing. He suddenly felt a chill on his back and couldn't help but move closer to Xiaogutou.
"Those dark shadows floating above the corpses." Jiang You sniffed and, relying on his lich instincts, concluded, "They're not the souls themselves, but the afterimages left behind when the souls left the body."
"Oh! I've heard of that!" Auntie Wolf popped her head out from behind Little Dragon. "When a person dies unexpectedly, their soul leaves the body so suddenly and their emotions are so intense that they easily leave behind this kind of energy afterimage! Generally, within minutes to hours, they'll run out of energy and disappear from the world. It's said that if someone stumbles upon this energy afterimage, they might even experience the deceased's last sights, sounds, and feelings!"
Andre hesitated for only a second before decisively saying to Jiang You, "You can eat it!"
Jiang You happily ran over and gently hooked the soul shadow. The shadowy shadow like black smoke flew into Jiang You's hand and condensed into a ball of black and red soul fire.
Jiangyou sniffed it and smelled a sweet, fragrant, iron-rich cherry flavor. He took a bite and found that it was big, flavorful, sour and sweet, and had no pits. It tasted like a premium cherry no matter how you ate it.
As she was eating, a picture appeared before her eyes.
In the dead of night, a horse-drawn carriage came rolling in from the corner of the street. The lights were on in the carriage, and the shadows on the curtains were hazy, vaguely reflecting the appearance of a woman with long hair.
A driver sat outside the carriage, driving the two horses pulling the carriage. A moment later, two more freight wagons turned the corner. The two wagons were piled high with cargo boxes, looking very heavy.
On the left and right sides of each carriage were two mounted guards, who looked tall and strong, with extraordinary skills.
The owner of the soul shadow was one of the knights, his memory clearly distorted. For some reason, the soul shadow had been depicted from a third-person perspective, but suddenly it switched back to a first-person perspective. Takumi Yu inexplicably found himself atop a horse, clattering along with the convoy, only to find himself soaring into the air.
The world spun around, and she fell to the ground with a thud. She rolled twice, and when she looked up, she saw the corpse of a headless man riding a horse.
Jiang You: "..." I retracted my preface. Even if the species and food chain status were changed, experiencing this scene from a first-person perspective was still a bit scary! It was like watching a horror movie!
She suddenly broke free from the illusion and crashed into Andre's arms. The warm temperature of a living person and the hard, thick muscles instantly made her feel at ease.
Andre had obviously been paying close attention to her situation. He supported Jiang You and said softly, "What did you see?"
"There were three carriages and twelve horses. Six horses pulled the carriages, and six horses carried the guards. The first carriage was occupied by someone, apparently a woman. The two following were freight wagons, completely packed with boxes."
She spoke briefly but did not miss a single detail, summarizing all the information contained in the image that had just flashed before her eyes. Her bone claws were still unconsciously pressing against the knight's chest, pressing and kneading it.
"The attack was sudden. The guard's head was suddenly sent flying into the air. He didn't even see who or what struck him. The weapon must have been incredibly sharp. He didn't even feel any pain. It was all over."
"Oh. I see." Andre said. He looked at the bone claws that were pressing against his chest and asked meaningfully, "Does it feel good?"
"What hand..." Jiang You followed his gaze and instantly shot out of his arms with a cry of "Ah!", his white frame showing pink. "It's, it's pretty good~ Hehe!"
Andre: “…” What a shameless little brat!
The only thing at the scene was an overturned empty truck and a dead horse, but the bodies of all six guards were there. Andre had already determined from the rutted tracks on the ground that the attack had taken place on a convoy, which matched Little Bone's description.
"Let's eat the remaining soul shadows and see if we can get any clues."
Takumi didn't refuse the delicious cherry soul fire that came with its own horror movie. It could be eaten, watched, and even solved crimes. It was a little scary, but wasn't summer night romance all about curling up in an air-conditioned room and watching horror movies? Besides, these guards had used the last bit of their life force to create the afterimages of their memories. If they were allowed to vanish naturally, it would be a shame for the meal... No, it would be a shame for the people who had passed away.
Since I have consumed the energy left by the dead, I must pass on their last words, help them catch the murderer and bring justice!
She ate this free 'midnight snack' seriously, taking both public and private interests into consideration.
The knights who had been searching everywhere also came back one after another, but they did not catch the murderer, and they did not even see any trace of carriages or horses.
Andrei couldn't help but frown.
He and Jericho rushed over as soon as they heard the screams, and it took no more than five minutes. He had deployed the night patrol knights in the city over the past few days, divided into several teams. He had designed the patrol routes himself, interweaving them to ensure that every area was patrolled at all times.
The knights came quickly after hearing the whistle, but the two carriages, more than a dozen horses and the murderer suddenly disappeared like ghosts. There was a sense of weirdness in this matter, and Andre was unable to figure it out for a while.
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