Nightwatcher

Six-toed, Chai Xian? !

This was the first thought that flashed through Xu Qi'an's mind, and countless thoughts flashed through his shocked mind in an instant, unable to think calmly.

After a few seconds, he calmed down, took a deep breath, and carefully examined Chai Jianyuan.

The sixth toe was visibly misshapen, clinging to the little toe, ugly and unsightly. .

He touched Chai Jianyuan's face to confirm that there was no disguise, and there were other ways to judge the age of a corpse besides the most intuitive appearance.

For example, skin quality, bones, teeth, etc., the difference between middle-aged people and young people is very big.

For the experienced Xu Qi'an, it was not difficult to determine who this corpse was.

"It's really Chai Jianyuan. He also has six toes, which is interesting."

Xu Qi'an pried open the mouth of the corpse, and heyed after looking at the teeth.

Chai Xian has six toes, and Chai Jianyuan also has six toes. Is it a coincidence?

"Chai Jianyuan has only one adopted son, Chai Xian. Chai Xian is an orphan, and his parents have nothing to do with Chai Jianyuan. And Chai Jianyuan himself has sons and daughters, and only one adopted son, which shows that he himself has no interest in adopting adopted sons.

"These are nothing at all. It can be understood that Chai Jianyuan and Chai Xian hit each other, but both of them have six toes, which is very interesting.

"According to Chai Xing'er and other people in the Chai Mansion, Chai Jianyuan disagreed with Chai Xian's request and insisted on marrying Chai Lan to the Huangfu's family. Although the idea of ​​maximizing benefits is reasonable.

"However, it is also reasonable to marry a daughter to an adopted son, to make the adopted son serve the Chai family with all his heart. It is also reasonable to marry a daughter to an adopted son and love disciples everywhere.

"But, what if the adopted son is an illegitimate son?

"If Chai Xian is Chai Jianyuan's adopted son, both of them have six toes. It is impossible to hide such obvious features from everyone. Does Chai Xing'er know that Chai Xian is Chai Jianyuan's illegitimate son?

"If she knows, then killing her brother and framing Chai Xian can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Because according to the development of the plot, Chai Xian will definitely become the heir of the Chai family and the head of the Chai family in the end."

Just when Xu Qi'an's reasoning was getting better, he suddenly realized an unreasonable bug.

"Wait, if Chai Xian is Chai Jianyuan's illegitimate son, then there's no need for Chai Jianyuan to hide it. A powerful Huajin warrior, the head of the family, what's wrong with having an illegitimate son?

"It can be disclosed to the public in a grand manner, and there is no need to hide it at all. The forces in the world are not rich and powerful families who pay attention to red tape, and they must consider etiquette, integrity, shame and reputation.

"Unless there is some reason that Chai Jianyuan has to conceal Chai Xian's life experience.

"Chai Xian must not know his own background, otherwise he would not like his own sister. And if he knew, then the motive of committing the crime "for love" does not exist.

"Therefore, as long as you meet Chai Xian and ask him whether he knows his life experience, you can basically determine who killed Chai Jianyuan."

While muttering, he took out the fragments of the book on the floor and tapped the back.

The peace knife drilled out from the world inside the mirror, making a "buzzing" sound, conveying the idea of ​​both grievance and excitement.

Then, it automatically came out of the scabbard, and the tip of the knife "ding ding ding" hit Xu Qi'an's back to express his enthusiasm.

"Don't bump, don't bump, it hurts me to death"

Xu Qi'an held the handle of the knife with his backhand, pressed the tip of the knife against Chai Jianyuan's throat, and cut it open forcefully.

Chai Jianyuan was turned into an iron corpse. If he wanted to dissect it, he needed a peerless weapon like a Taiping knife to cut open the flesh accurately and sharply.

The reason for his autopsy was that he suspected that Chai Jianyuan had been poisoned before his death.

There are two reasons: First, the Chai family does not have four grades.

Whether it's Chai Xian, Chai Jianyuan or Chai Xing'er, they are all five-grade energy.

As we all know, warriors are famous for their endurance, even if they sneak attack, it is difficult to kill each other in a short time.

And once the battle cannot be resolved quickly, the masters in the Chai Mansion will definitely react in an instant, so there will be no such situation as "when I rushed to the study, I found that the Patriarch was killed by Chai Xian".

Second, Chai Jianyuan suffered a lot of injuries.

Chai Jianyuan was indeed not killed instantly. After careful inspection just now, apart from the fatal heart wound, Chai Jianyuan had many hidden wounds on his body.

This proves that he experienced an extremely fierce battle before his death.

So, under what circumstances would the fierce fighting end quickly?

Unilateral beating.

Chai Jianyuan had almost no power to fight back, and was violently unilaterally broken. The defense of copper skin and iron bone was quickly broken, and he died under the murderer's butcher's knife.

The reasonable explanation is that Chai Jianyuan was poisoned.

The dark red flesh was cut open, and the throat was checked, but no obvious signs of poisoning were found.

So he cut open the stomach pouch again, and finally made a discovery.

In Chai Jianyuan's stomach pouch, blackish substances remained, which were more likely to be formed after the reaction of toxins and gastric acid.

Xu Qi'an made a preliminary analysis through the ability of the poisonous Gu, and only analyzed the components of three kinds of poisonous weeds. The time interval is too long, and there will be no more.

These three poisonous plants have hallucinogenic and nerve paralyzing effects.

"Composite poisons are quite advanced. With the pharmaceutical level of this era, compound poisons are basically a simple and crude mixture of several poisons. This will inevitably produce odors and colors. No matter how the poison is poisoned, it will not be able to hide the crisis of the warrior. Premonition and a keen sense of smell and taste.

"This poison should be colorless and odorless. Most people can't make poison of this level. There are only two professions that can do it, Warlock and Poison Gu Master. By the way, Chai Xing'er, she implanted love Gu in Li Lingsu's body.

"She has been to the Southern Border Pleading Gu, and it is not difficult to ask for a strange poison that can silently and quietly poison a strong martial artist."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help pinching the center of his eyebrows. Wouldn't it be easier to kill Chai Jianyuan directly if he could refine this kind of poison?

Why bother.

Xu Qi'an is a smart person, so he immediately thought of the reason: "Of course you can't kill him with poison. If you do, how can you prove that Chai Xian killed him?"

This is a game against Chai Xian.

"Now there is a way to quickly advance the case, and that is to arrest Chai Xing'er and torture her to extract a confession."

Xu Qi'an immediately dispelled this idea. First of all, he didn't have the qi-watching technique, and he didn't have the commandment ability of Buddhism. The first floor of the Buddha Pagoda is the commandment of "not killing", which is solidified.

"Don't kill" and "Don't lie" are obviously not related.

The pagoda spirit doesn't even know the discipline spells. The pagoda spirit is the pagoda of the Buddha, and it is impossible to display the abilities that the pagoda of the pagoda does not have.

Heart Gu can temporarily affect intelligent beings, and Chai Xing'er is a warrior who transforms energy, and the current power of Heart Gu is not enough for her to answer every question.

Secondly, she must be rude to Chai Xinger, and Shengzi's attitude is second to none. Afterwards, she must have turned her face because of this and told the Buddhist sect about Xu Qian's existence.

In this way, the focus of purifying the heart will shift from eliminating demons and defending the way to oneself, and even directly contact Duan Vajra.

In this way, not to mention investigating the case, even the Dragon Qi will be taken away by Buddhism.

"Let's make do with it here tonight, just to use the temperature of the corpse in the cellar to raise the corpse gu."

Xu Qi'an sat cross-legged on the ground with his back against the wall, and the corpses on both sides stood quietly.

He was contented in such a quiet and terrifying environment, he felt as if he had returned home, and the corpse gu felt extremely satisfied at this moment.

The back of Xu Qi'an's neck was slightly swollen, and a cockroach-sized insect pierced through the skin, followed by a second, and a third.

They are corpse Gu sub-gu bred by Qijue Gu.

Corpse Gu can only give birth to four child Gu at most now, one of which parasitizes on the corpse of the first Heng Yin in Sanhua Temple, and the remaining three have just been born.

As soon as the child Gus were born, they excitedly crawled towards the surrounding corpses. The two chose the nearest iron corpse based on the principle of proximity.

There was only one left, and after a few rounds in the secret room, I chose a female corpse with a slightly bulging chest.

"The young man has a future!"

Xu Qi'an clicked his tongue, then closed his eyes, and sensed the situation of the three iron corpses.

There is no life in their bodies, the two iron corpses only retain the original strength and defense of the physical body, while the female corpse retains part of the ability in front of them - the foresight of danger.

This ability can be directly fed back to the master who manipulated the corpse.

This means that the female corpse was refined into a walking corpse shortly after her death, so she retained some of her abilities.

"The service life of walking corpses is no more than five years. The method of refining corpses is a bit rough and not authentic enough. That's right, the ancestors of the Chai family were born as slaves in southern Xinjiang. Whether it is stealing or getting a teaching from the Corpse Gu Department, it must not be authentic. secret technique."

Xu Qi'an withdrew his control over Zi Gu, and concentrated on analyzing what he had gained tonight.

"Chai Xian is very likely to be Chai Jianyuan's illegitimate son, but for some reason, Chai Jianyuan has been hiding his life experience."

"Chai Jianyuan was poisoned before his death, so he was killed in the study. The poisoner was someone close to him. Chai Xian, Chai Xing'er, and the missing Chai Lan are all possible."

"The next direction to investigate is why Chai Jianyuan concealed Chai Xian's life experience; investigate Chai Xing'er, um, this depends on the Son of the Sea King."

While thinking, he absorbs the corpse gas in the cellar and warms up the corpse gu.

After an unknown amount of time, I suddenly heard a strange movement and immediately opened my eyes.

The candle has burned to the end, and it will burn out in a while. In the faint firelight, the female corpse lay on the ground, sticking out her buttocks.

A male corpse was lying on the back of the female corpse, and another male corpse was lying on "him".

What are you doing? Xu Qi'an almost couldn't control his expression, he immediately controlled the three child Gu with the absolute majesty of the "Mother Gu", and finally understood what they wanted to do.

They are doing instinctive reproduction.

What are you doing, don't you take off your clothes after mating? Bah, isn't it good to be a tool bug? A tool must have the self-awareness of a tool. You don't have the right to mate.

He suddenly understood why some corpse gu masters couldn't control their impulses, and had a relationship with walking corpses that surpassed that of masters and puppets.

That was influenced by the reproductive instinct of corpse gu.

It was the same late night, far away in Wenren's Mansion in Leizhou.

In Miss Wenren Qianrou's boudoir, the charcoal fire was raging, the room was as warm as spring, and her facial features were soft and beautiful. Except for the signs of high hair, Wenren Qianrou was basically flawless. She was covered with a brocade quilt and breathed long.

"The girl is Wenren Qianrou?"

The plain and indifferent voice woke Wenren Qianrou from her sleep.

She stood up suddenly, looked around the room vigilantly, and shouted: "Come on!"

While shouting, she saw clearly the uninvited guests in the room. There were three people in total. They were a meticulous middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a black Taoist robe;

As well as a young, heroic, pretty and charming girl in her twenties.

The girl's hands are tied with a rope, and the other end of the rope is held in the hands of a female priest with a lotus crown.

Why in someone else's dream, I still have to be tied up by my master Li Miaozhen complained feebly.

"Who are you?"

Wenren Qianrou didn't wake up the maids and guards, which made her realize that the three people at the table had extraordinary identities.

"The name of the poor Taoist is Xuancheng, and he is the leader of Wuwang Peak in Tianzong. Can the girl know Li Lingsu?"

The middle-aged Taoist said lightly.

The other two Kun Dao remained silent.

"Who are you."

Wenren Qianrou's expression changed slightly.

"Li Lingsu is my disciple."

Taoist Xuancheng said lightly.

Wenren Qianrou turned pale with shock, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, bowed and bowed: "Disciple Wenren Qianrou, I have seen Master."

Wenren Qianrou knew that Li Lingsu was the son of Tianzong.

Tsk tsk, this is calling herself a daughter-in-law. Li Miaozhen glanced sideways at the uncle's reaction, but didn't respond.

Daoist Xuancheng was expressionless: "Half a month ago, Li Lingsu had been to Leizhou, where has he been now?"

Wenren Qianrou shook her head, "Li Lang was afraid of hurting me, so he didn't tell him where he was going."

Afraid that Taoist Xuancheng would not be clear about the situation, she told the whole story.

Daoist Xuancheng and Yuanjun Bingyi listened patiently, even though they had already made a thorough investigation before coming here.

After Wenren Qianrou finished speaking, Taoist Xuancheng asked:

"Does Miss Wenren know the identity of Xu Qian?"

Wenren Qianrou shook her head: "That senior's identity is mysterious, even Li Lang doesn't know it well, he only knows that he is a senior who has lived for hundreds of years, and has a close relationship with the supervisor of Si Tianjian."

"Have a lot to do with the supervisor?"

Taoist Xuancheng frowned, but he never found out.

Wenren Qianrou nodded and explained:

"Li Lang said that the senior not only had an unusual relationship with the supervisor, but also played chess against the supervisor and won a game with the supervisor. It can be seen."

Daoist Xuancheng and Yuanjun Bingyi looked at each other after winning the first round of supervision, they were as indifferent and indifferent as they were, so they couldn't help being a little surprised.

An expert who has won a round of supervision and has lived for hundreds of years. It's him, that's right, this familiar style. Li Miaozhen almost covered her face with her hands.

This bastard Xu Qi'an still has the bad habit of talking big. Li Lingsu will find out his real identity in the future. Let's see how he behaves. With his insidiousness, Li Lingsu probably has "full of loopholes". After the real identity is revealed, Li Lingsu really has no face Thinking of what happened to him, Li Miaozhen thought angrily.

Taoist Xuancheng asked, "What else do you know?"

Wenren Qianrou thought for a while: "I heard from Li Lang that Senior Xu owed him a favor. It was this senior who rescued him from the hands of the Dongfang sisters and saved him from the miserable life."

Taoist Xuancheng nodded slightly, and after asking a few more words, said lightly:

"I hope you will forgive me for disturbing the girl's clear dream."

After all, the three disappeared into the room together.

Wenren Qianrou opened her eyes and found that she was still lying on the bed. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether what happened just now was a dream or real.

Leizhou City, a certain inn.

Daoist Xuan Cheng sitting cross-legged on the big bed, and master and apprentice Li Miaozhen sitting cross-legged on the small bed, the three of them opened their eyes at the same time.

"Junior Sister, have you ever heard that there is a person named Xu Qian in the Transcendent Realm?"

Taoist Xuancheng frowned and asked questions.

Bingyi Yuanjun shook his head: "I'm going to hide from the world, don't ask the world of mortals, the news will inevitably be blocked. However, in this world, there is someone who can win a round of supervision."

She thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid even Tianzun dare not say that it will be possible."

Daoist Xuancheng gave a "hmm" and said without expression:

"Perhaps the prisoner hasn't put in all his strength. There are too many possibilities here, so don't be persistent. The plan for now is to follow the trail of this person and find Li Lingsu."

Bingyi Yuanjun answered the words:

"It can be confirmed that this person has no malicious intentions, but if Li Lingsu refuses to go back with us, this Xu Qian will probably stop him. We don't know how deep he is now, just a third rank, and the two of us are enough. If it is a second rank, or even a first rank. "

If it's the second grade, you have to discuss it nicely. If it is a first-class product, what the other party says is what it is.

If you want to take Li Lingsu away, you have to go back to the mountain and ask Tianzun to come forward.

From the corner of Bingyi Yuanjun's gaze, he noticed Li Miaozhen's lips pursed and a suppressed smile on his face.

The ageless beauty said indifferently: "Miaozhen, what are you laughing at?"

"I didn't laugh!"

Li Miaozhen did not admit it.

"You want to laugh."

Bingyi Yuanjun's tone was indifferent.

"Master, I don't. I'm a saintess of Tianzong, and I cultivate too much forgetfulness. I won't laugh when I'm idle."

Li Miaozhen's indifferent attitude.

No, no, no, I can't help it anymore. The little soul in Li Miaozhen's body is slapping her thigh and laughing wildly.

Bingyi Yuanjun looked at her indifferently, then turned his head and talked about business with Taoist Xuancheng again.

"According to the information we obtained, Xu Qian took away the Buddha Pagoda from Sanhua Temple, and Buddhism will not stop there. If we find out the whereabouts of the monks from the Western Regions, we may be able to track down Xu Qian."

The iceberg beauty said indifferently.

Master is still as smart as ever, Li Miaozhen sighed.

early morning.

Li Lingsu was still asleep when she was awakened by a short knock on the door and a woman's call.

"Auntie, something is wrong with Auntie."

Chai Xing'er opened her eyes, and the beautiful wife with a cold and weak temperament was lazy and said softly:

"Li Lang, open the door for someone."

Li Lingsu frowned: "Get dressed first."

Chai Xing'er shook her head, her voice was lazily weak: "I told you that there is something urgent, so go quickly."

Dressing for women is more troublesome.

Li Lingsu put on a robe, walked to the door, and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a woman from the Chai family, named Chai Ping, wearing a neat bunt and accompanied by her cultivation base.

Chai Ping was full of anxiety, but her gaze fell on Li Lingsu's handsome face involuntarily, and her well-proportioned chest was exposed in front of the girl's eyes in her half-open robe.

Chai Ping forced herself to look away, saluted, then crossed the threshold and entered the room.

At this time, Chai Xing'er had already sat up, and was wearing a white undershirt, covering her bright green bellyband.

"Auntie, the cellar has been broken into again."

Reported by Chai Pinghui.

Chai Xing'er kept dressing, calm and composed: "Has a corpse been stolen?"

"No, but the body of the Patriarch was dissected." Chai Ping said.

Chai Xing'er paused her hand slightly, then nodded slowly: "Understood."

She sent Chai Ping away, put on her skirt, twisted up the jade hairpin with bare hands, and simply tied her hair in a bun, saying:

"Li Lang, I'll go to the cellar to have a look. If you're still sleepy, sleep a little longer."

Li Lingsu said "Oh", and suddenly grabbed Chai Xing'er's hand.

Under her confused gaze, he pulled her into his arms, and then, on Chai Xing'er's fair and delicate cheeks, gave a hard "bah" and said with a smile:

"I will always be with you."

Chai Xing'er looked at him blankly, there seemed to be water in her eyes, and she smiled sweetly.

The door was closed again, and Li Lingsu sat alone at the table, thinking about what Chai Ping reported.

"Chai Jianyuan's body was dissected? It should be done by Senior Xu. He said that he will investigate this case clearly, and I don't know if there is any gain."

Li Lingsu suddenly felt a sense of anticipation, wanting to find Xu Qian immediately and ask him what he found.

Just as he was thinking, the unlocked door was pushed open a crack, and an orange cat came in.

PS: I have checked a lot of information and consulted friends who are medical students. Polydactyly is mostly caused by deformities, but there is a genetic phenomenon, but the probability is very small. I found many examples of family inheritance in some related forums and hospital websites, indicating that although the probability is very small, it does exist. If there are readers who study medicine, you can correct it, or popularize it.