C36 Half a month to find the murderer

Just as Mo Xian was deep in thought, Li Yaoxing couldn't help but run out to vomit.

What did he see?

Mo Xian also walked forward and stepped on the blood clots. They seemed sticky and indescribably strange.

There were three other people in the room, two of them being the yamen and the other being Qi Huaizhao. He stood in front of the corpse on the ground, staring at something.

Seeing him, Mo Xian's heart inexplicably calmed down. Coincidentally, she also wanted to see it too, so she stepped forward.

He saw the corpse of a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties lying on the ground. The only fatal wound on his body was in his mouth. His upper and lower lips were no longer there. Compared to cutting them off, it was more like something had bitten off them.

Blood gushed out from the wound and dripped down along his cheek. There was a puddle of black blood on the ground. Half of his face was covered in blood. Without a tongue in his mouth, Mo Xian's heart trembled, and suddenly felt cold.

It was as if she suddenly understood what the marks and shapes on the wall were. Someone had taken his tongue and splattered it with blood all over the room. Thinking of this, Mo Xian felt like vomiting.

There was actually such a monster of a murderer? Mo Xian felt that the Penglai Inn was becoming more and more terrifying.

Suddenly, a male voice rang in his mind: "Trigger Sub Mission, find the killer of Penglai Inn within half a month. Reward of quest: 500 gold coins, 1000 experience, failure will be eliminated."

Mo Xian frowned, "Within half a month?"

System: "Yes." It was rare for someone to not have a shameless mouth.

Mo Xian: "Alright, I understand."

System: "Then you have to accept it, Big Sis."

Mo Xian: "????? "Accept."

Mo Xian, who was about to vomit, swallowed his anger back down when she saw Qi Huaizhao. She changed her mind because she knew that the damned quest had a time limit, so she had to speed up the process.

"Have you seen anything after watching for so long?" Mo Xian tried to inquire further, and fortunately, the yamen here did not restrict people from entering. Like how it was in the modern world, the place had long been sealed to prevent people from touching it.

"Only a dead man."

Mo Xian:????? He said it as if he didn't say anything.

"It looks like it wasn't made by a human." After pausing for a while, Qi Huaizhao still added.

Mo Xian was interested. "What do you mean?"

"Instinct."

Mo Xian smiled, why did she feel that Qi Huaizhao was asking for a beating more and more?

There were no signs of a struggle in the room of the deceased, nor was there any lack of valuables. Was it someone who had a grudge with him, or someone who had randomly chosen to kill him?

Originally, she only wanted to quickly settle this issue so that she could complete the main quest. Who knew that the main quest would come right away, and with a time limit, it would be easy for Mo Xian to panic. However, he could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

After carefully inspecting the room, Mo Xian walked out, not waiting for Qi Huaizhao who was still inside.

Just as he stepped out, Li Yaoxing pulled her from the side. The youth's appearance was normal, but his skin was white, which was his greatest strength. However, after vomiting, his face became sickly white.

"What is it?" Seeing his serious face, Mo Xian could not help but become serious as well.

"Young Master Mo, actually, I heard some noises last night."

Mo Xian suddenly remembered that he was also on the fourth floor and it was right next door. Maybe he really could hear some important clues! Hope sprouted in his heart!

"What is it?"

"It's like there's something slapping next door, and it feels like something is being dragged on the ground." The youth seemed to have thought of something and his face turned even paler.

Listening to his words, Mo Xian remembered what she heard on the bed last night. Someone was dragging something with them.

She somewhat regretted being lazy last night. If she didn't get up and take a look, she might have been able to solve the case a long time ago!

"Could it be the murderer?" Li Yaoxing asked.

"I don't know, let's record this first." Actually, even if he had written it down, it would have been of no use. He hadn't been able to read it at the time, and now this clue had become invalid. The worst thing about ancient times was that there were no surveillance videos.

Mo Xian pacified him a little, then left.

Everyone upstairs was discussing, and the two yamen s were about to fall apart.

The killer of the knife scar had not been found, and now there was a second one. It was truly terrifying, could there be a third and a fourth?

Most of the people in Penglai Inn had the same thought, the more they thought about it, the more afraid they became, no one knew if they would be the next one.

Mo Xian thought it was strange, she could not even see Jiang Huaige at the scene, where did she go?

There were a few people seated at the banquet table on the first floor. Mo Xian went upstairs to change his clothes, washed his hands, and then walked over. Sure enough, no matter how panicky they were, the living had to fill their stomachs.

She also ordered a few dishes, and just as she was about to start eating, she saw Qi Huaizhao walking towards her from afar.

This was the first time Mo Xian saw him wearing such dark clothes, making his jade-like face look even more beautiful. She instantly felt that Qi Huaizhao was even more beautiful than a woman.

This time, it was rare for Qi Huaizhao to take the initiative to sit with her, so when he sat down, Mo Xian asked: "Have you washed your hands?"

The man was startled, his black eyes stared at Mo Xian, and said halfway: "If you don't wash up, don't tell me you're going to chase me away?"

Mo Xian rubbed his nose, as though he had tacitly agreed to it. Earlier, they were all in a dead person's room. They couldn't afford to be careless. In modern times, they still needed to be disinfected. Right now, they were merely washing their hands and changing their clothes.

Qi Huaizhao laughed, his meaning unclear, "Washed."

Hearing his words, Mo Xian's heart calmed down, and his eyes curved into a crescent moon: "Alright, I'll treat you to a meal!"

The two of them continued to eat leisurely. Mo Xian's ears were sharp, but he heard the conversation of the people beside him.

"Now, I don't know if I should walk out of this door or not. I feel like I will be killed no matter where I stay. " A man that Mo Xian didn't think looked familiar said.

"That's right. Just yesterday morning, Master Luo wanted to leave through this door. At night, his tongue was cut off and he died."

Mo Xian paused in his actions, the vegetables on his chopsticks fell back onto the plate. Qi Huaizhao looked at her in confusion, but she was too busy to pay attention.

She had forgotten to ask about the identity of the deceased person. It was unexpectedly Master Luo who had a conflict with Jiang Huaige yesterday morning! Mo Xian immediately thought back to what he had heard before. Master Luo seemed to have insulted Jiang Huaige a little.

So his tongue was gone!

Her attention suddenly shifted towards Jiang Huaige. Even if it wasn't her doing, it could have been her doing. Jiang Huaige seemed to be resourceful, but what exactly was his background?

She planned to ask the locals living in the tavern about it. According to her knowledge, the village number one next to her was White Water Town. In order to get close to her, Mo Xian finished eating and walked over to his table.

The man had a long whip wrapped around his head and his forehead was a sheet of white. Seeing Mo Xian coming over, he was not surprised, and after speaking a few times, he was no longer unfamiliar with it.

She sat down and talked to him for a long time before finally getting to the point.

"Big brother, our boss Jiang is a truly extraordinary woman. He must be well-known in your local area."

The man took a sip of his wine and smacked his lips, "Jiang Niang is indeed famous in our town. Countless people have stepped over the threshold to propose to her, rich, powerful, handsome, all sorts of things, but she doesn't want anyone. They all say that she has someone she loves, but I don't even see that man. "

Mo Xian allowed him to speak, but he did not stop him. He added another direction to the conversation: "Is this Boss Jiang also a local? Her marriage can be decided by itself? "

"She moved here a few years ago. Both her parents died, so there's no one left to decide for her. Of course, it's her decision."

Mo Xian paused for a moment. It would be difficult to find out what Jiang Huaige's background was, and it would be difficult to find any traces of her in this world even if one did not have any connections in society. And to solve the case, he needed traces.

She exchanged a few more pleasantries with the man and then retreated back to her original position. Qi Huaizhao did not ask where she was going and was still concentrating on eating his peanuts. Mo Xian asked curiously: "Qi Huaizhao, why do you like peanut?"

"If you like it, you like it. Is there a reason for it?" He didn't even open his eyes.

Mo Xian paused, that's true, why was this person saying that everything happened?

At the same time, a man with a goatee on the table next to them continued to mutter. Mo Xian saw that he was rubbing his hands the whole time, and his expression did not look good.

She couldn't remember what it was. Paint? rouge? Or blood?

In the afternoon, the yamen checked again, but didn't know if they found any clues. To be honest, that long faced yamen also had a conflict with that person yesterday, so he needed to avoid suspicion. However, according to the ancient investigation, the people involved seemed to be able to participate.

When the two of them had finished investigating and were walking out of the room, Mo Xian suddenly remembered what Qi Huaizhao had said in Master Luo's room. He did not seem to have done it personally when he said that Master Luo's death. Inexplicably, Mo Xian believed it.

However, if it wasn't a person, then what was it? What the hell did these people provoke? She couldn't feel any ghost aura at all from here. Had that ghost really become this strong?

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't think of anything, so Mo Xian slowly fell asleep.

However, just as she was falling asleep, someone quietly got up.

He walked to the long corridor, carrying a bag on his back. However, before he could reach the stairs, he was stopped by two strange shadows.

The two shadows were born in a peculiar fashion. Under the dim yellow light of the lantern, their faces could not be seen.

The man in the bundle shouted in a low voice, "Get out of my way!"

The two black figures laughed in a jovial tone. The originally tall figure suddenly rose up and went against the ceiling of the corridor.

The man with the bundle opened his mouth in panic and tried to scream.

At the same time, the woman in the next room, who had a light night's sleep, heard the noise and thought someone was arguing. She put on a coat and went out to have a look.

However, what she didn't know was that with just one look, she had already lost consciousness.

"Wake up." Someone pushed her.

Only when the woman woke up did she realize that she had fallen asleep at the door.