Upon hearing this, Xu Yuehuai and the others were secretly delighted, but they did not show any emotion on their faces.
“Okay, village chief, we can do all of your requests.”
They then selected some people to come out and hand over all the weapons they had.
The people Xu Yuehuai and the others selected were all capable guards of Qi Guze, including Pei Xuan and several other guards.
After everyone was selected, Xu Yuehuai and his group were not locked up, but the rest of the people were imprisoned in a courtyard by the villagers and prevented from leaving.
"In the coming period, I will have some people following you. You only have three days."
"If you can't find any clues or prove your innocence within these three days, then we will have no choice but to treat you as the murderers."
"They've harmed so many of our livestock. We'll give the culprit a good beating and make him pay for everything he can. He'll also be detained in our village for several years, doing manual labor until he pays off all the money he can mortgage before we release him."
Those were all the livestock of the entire village; in the eyes of these villagers, they were priceless treasures.
Many villagers may have raised these livestock their entire lives. Now that their livestock have died, it's as if the most important thing in their lives has disappeared. Their entire lives will be severely affected, which is something that is very difficult for them to accept.
Xu Yuehuai and the others had no objections to what the village chief said, and immediately nodded in agreement.
Seeing how easy-going they were, the village chief didn't make things difficult for them. He then assigned several good-natured people to stay with them and keep a close watch on them for the next three days.
After dealing with these matters, the village chief told some of the other villagers to go home first and wait for further news at their own homes.
Then, Qi Guze and Xu Yuehuai set to work, searching for clues in other parts of the village.
At the beginning, they found no other clues at all.
There were only some deep bloodstains in the village, and no other footprints were left around there.
The animal carcasses were gone, leaving only some tattered fur and deep claw marks.
After searching for a long time, they still found no other clues.
Xu Yuehuai said to Qi Guze, "Aze, there are no other traces left in this area. Could it be that this wasn't done by someone?"
"Or was it made by some other winged animal?"
If it were some large birds, they could probably create a crime scene like this.
They took all the villagers' livestock without leaving any trace of themselves at the scene.
Qi Guze carefully examined the surrounding situation, then shook his head and said.
"If there were large birds, these livestock would definitely have resisted when they were taken away, but judging from the traces at the scene, no other traces were left besides the livestock."
"In other words, the other party must have used some other very secretive method to erase all traces of themselves."
"But it definitely couldn't be any other animal, since other animals don't have the intelligence to clean up the scene."
Perhaps the culprit behind this wanted to mislead the investigators, which is why they created this crime scene.
Now, all that remains at the scene are traces of animal blood and some animal remains; nothing else.
After hearing this, Xu Yuehuai thought about it carefully for a while.
“What you said makes a lot of sense, but if the injuries to those livestock were indeed caused by someone, then who could it be?”
"What methods did that person use to create the scene we see today?"
Qi Guze squatted down again, ran his fingers along the soil on the ground, and smelled it.
I didn't smell anything else; everything seemed perfectly normal.
He searched the surrounding area for clues, but found nothing that could be used.
"Since we can't find any clues during the day, why don't we wait until night to come back?"
Then Qi Guze told the villagers who were guarding them about the situation.
Seeing how hard they were investigating the clues, the villagers began to believe that they were not the murderers behind the incident, and their attitude towards them improved. They agreed to all their requests.
The villagers then escorted Qi Guze and his group back to the courtyard where they had been resting.
After Qi Guze and his group returned to the courtyard, when it was almost time for their meal, some villagers brought them some simple food, which was much worse than what they had been treated to the day before.
However, since they were now on someone else's turmoil and caught up in this mess, they couldn't ask for too much. So they simply ate some food and that was it.
After everyone finished eating, they gathered in the courtyard. Their house was dark, and they could only talk about the matter by the faint moonlight.
"We've searched the area around the village for many clues, but haven't found any trace of them."
"We don't know who did it yet, but it's highly likely that it was done by someone."
"During the day, we noticed someone acting strangely; he might be involved in this matter."
As Qi Guze began to analyze the situation in his mind, he spoke to Xu Yuehuai and the others.
"We'll send a group of people to investigate that suspicious person later."
"The others then went on to search for the traces left by the dead livestock."
Those around him nodded in agreement.
Then Qi Guze began to arrange for everyone to take their own actions.
Qi Guze took Xu Yuehuai to investigate the suspicious person, while Pei Xuan led the others to investigate clues about the deaths of livestock in various places.
A short while later, both sides immediately took action.
Qi Guze led Xu Yuehuai cautiously to the young man's house, with two villagers following them.
Arriving at the young man's house, I first checked the surroundings and found that everything was normal and there was nothing unusual. So I climbed over the wall to see if there was anything unusual in the young man's yard.
The man's yard was very clean and tidy, and it seemed that he did not have any dead livestock.
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