At this point, Lin Qiye hesitated again.
"But I've seen the tavern owner in the video. He's a short, bald, greasy middle-aged man. His body type is very different from the one in the video."
"For someone with super-fast regeneration, it is not difficult to change body shape in a short period of time." An Qingyu's voice came out again, with a faint echo.
When Lin Qiye heard the voice, he asked in surprise: "You are not in the tavern? Where are you?"
An Qingyu did not answer. He walked down step by step along a dark and narrow stone staircase. The faint fluorescence from the screen of his mobile phone illuminated his calm face.
Soon, the stone steps under his feet came to an end, and a rusty iron door appeared before him.
He pushed up his glasses and placed his right hand on the surface of the iron door. The next moment, extremely cold frost began to spread from his palm. When the entire iron door was frozen, he lightly clicked his fingers and the iron door shattered.
As soon as he opened the door, an indescribable stench hit him in the face, the smell of rotting old wood mixed with a strong smell of blood, which made him frown tightly.
After An Qingyu walked into the door, he looked around carefully. This seemed to be a storage room that had been abandoned for a long time. It was full of cobwebs, and on the opposite wall, there were two scarlet bloodstains.
An Qingyu lightly touched the bloodstain with his finger and rubbed it with his fingertips. The blood was fresh.
Not only that, there were four new nail marks on the wall.
An Qingyu picked up the phone and said calmly: "I'm at the first scene."
"Did you find it?" Lin Qiye was shocked by An Qingyu's efficiency.
An Qingyu glanced at the stone steps he had come from. "I analyzed the overall layout of this tavern and found that it was somewhat different from other commercial units on this street. It occupies a few square meters less.
Later I found that a small piece of land that originally belonged to the pub was occupied by the hot pot restaurant next door. The owners of the two stores must have reached some agreement, and the pub took the initiative to sell the land and built a wall between them.
Now the land is used by the hot pot restaurant to store its sundries, so from the perspective of the layout, this land belongs to the hot pot restaurant next door, not the pub. The police were also fooled by this trick when searching the scene. "
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly, "In this case, it can be confirmed that the owner of this tavern is the mastermind behind all this, but... why did he use such strange killing methods as nailing the wall and cutting off fingers, and why did he perform such a ritual? He is a human, and the wronged ghost's promotion ritual has no effect on him.
Could it be that... he is not performing the ritual for himself?"
Lin Qiye had reason to believe that this wronged ghost promotion ceremony was really going on, otherwise a person with special abilities would have no need to use such complicated means to randomly kill several innocent passers-by.
If we want to find a reasonable explanation for all this, there is only one: the boss really wants to complete the promotion ceremony, but this is not for himself, but for the mystery of another wronged ghost...
Is he being mysteriously controlled
If everything is based on the "completion of the ceremony", then the tavern owner will definitely come to this area to complete the final ceremony.
But why was he in such a hurry to leave Cangnan
He went to so much trouble to set up this plan, is he just going to give up like that
Lin Qiye looked down at the dark neighborhood below him, his mind was in a mess, he always felt that there was something he had overlooked...
Rituals, areas, killings, sacrifices...
Just as Lin Qiye was thinking hard, an airplane flew across the sky. The red lights on the wings attracted his attention. He looked up at the sky and was suddenly startled.
A bold idea suddenly appeared in his mind!
Wouldn’t he...
Lin Qiye stood up suddenly and looked down at the time. It was 3:11 in the morning.
"Qi Mo! What time did the tavern owner buy the plane ticket for?!" Lin Qiye's voice suddenly sounded in the originally quiet channel, scaring the others.
However, Wen Qimo's voice did not appear.
Lin Qiye called a few more times, but Wen Qimo's channel was still dead silent.
At this time, Chen Muye frowned slightly, "Wen Qimo, can you hear us?"
Eleven minutes had passed since the last report. Eleven minutes ago, Wen Qimo was still speaking normally, but now no matter how they called him, he did not respond.
"Lin Qiye, what did you find?" Wu Xiangnan saw that Wen Qimo did not respond and knew something was wrong, so he asked.
"Deputy Captain, please ask Xiao Hei first, what time is the tavern owner's flight?"
"good."
A few seconds later, his voice came out again, "Take off at 3:20, what's wrong?"
Lin Qiye's heart skipped a beat. Without the slightest hesitation, he turned around and flew into the darkness, saying loudly:
"Stop that plane! Don't let it take off! There is no such thing as an unknown mystery. This is all caused by the tavern owner! I'll tell you the details later.
He wants to complete the ritual, and he will indeed come here, but not on the ground, but...
in the sky!"
Lin Qiye looked up at the dark night sky, and the others were stunned.
"The ceremony can be performed in the designated area. The tavern owner knew that we were lying in ambush in this community, so he did not choose to complete the ceremony on the ground. He took the plane not to leave Cangnan, but to wait until the plane flew over this area and complete the ceremony on the plane!
There were more than 200 passengers on the plane, which did not necessarily meet the conditions for sacrificing souls, so he used Xiao Hei to trick Wen Qi Mo over, wanting to use his soul to fill the remaining vacancies. "
After hearing what Lin Qiye said, the other members of Team 136 felt their hearts sank. Chen Muye gave the order without any hesitation:
"Contact the airport immediately. Stop the plane from taking off at all costs. Xiangnan, Hongying, Qiye, Xiaonan, go to the airport now and catch him.
Leng Xuan, you and I will continue to guard here to prevent the tiger from leaving the mountain."
He believed in Lin Qiye's reasoning, but as the captain, he had to take the overall situation into consideration. Since the ceremony could be completed both in the sky and on the ground, it was not ruled out that the tavern owner might have made a feint and held the ceremony on the ground while everyone else was heading to the airport.
Thousands of lives were at stake, so he had to be careful.
Wu Xiangnan, Hongying and Si Xiaonan quickly got into the car. By this time, Lin Qiye had already disappeared. In the deserted city at night, he could jump over buildings at will, and his speed was no slower than that of a car.
As the car hummed, the black van quickly disappeared into the darkness.