That man was Qin Wu, wearing an iron armor, and Hong Jun immediately went to call for someone. Qin Wu fell to the ground, choked up, and twitched, while looking up at Fudo Mingwang enshrined in the front hall. Fudo Mingwang glared at him under the moonlight, with his six-armed magic weapon raised high, showing his majesty.
With the sound of footsteps, Hong Jun brought Li Jinglong out in a hurry. Li Jinglong only took a look, and said, "Has the blood outside been washed away?"
Artest, Mo Zhigen, and Qiu Yongsi also woke up. Artest poked his head outside the door, then walked out quickly in his pajamas, the ring in his hand released water vapor, and swept across the entire long street with a whirlwind, washing away Qin Wu Bloodstains left behind. Then leave the alley and go to the main street to clean up.
"Put water on his whole body." Li Jinglong said, "Hong Jun is going to prepare the incense, hurry up!"
Qin Wu's armor was removed, and he was lying in the courtyard, his lips were trembling, and he smelled bloody. Mo Zhigen whispered: "I'll come."
Just like the nightmare that drove Hong Jun out that night, Mo Zhigen pressed his hand on Qin Wu's forehead to calm him down a little.
"I... killed them." Qin Wu said with a trembling voice.
"How many people did you kill?" Li Jinglong replied, "Surrender yourself early tomorrow morning. Xiao Wu, pay for the murder! Pay the debt! Why do you dare to act but not to be a man!"
Qin Wu's facial features were distorted, and with a crying voice, he said: "I went to Zheng's house to seek revenge. Zheng Wenbin was with my aunt... I killed him, his family... and my aunt..."
Li Jinglong: "A whole family?! Qin Wu! You are crazy!"
"Help me, save me..." Qin Wu choked up, clutching Li Jinglong's hand, Hong Jun was already stunned, but when he recalled seeing Qin Wu during the day, he felt the heavy atmosphere and the feeling of wiping his sword. The action, as if everything had been foreshadowed.
"Someone is holding my hand." Qin Wu was in great pain, grabbing Li Jinglong as if grabbing a life-saving straw, and said in a trembling voice, "I don't want to kill that child, I don't want to kill, I just want to marry my aunt and Zheng Wenbin These two..."
Li Jinglong threw Qin Wu away abruptly, walked aside, gasping for breath, Hong Jun raised his eyes to look at Li Jinglong, and saw that there seemed to be tears rolling in his eyes.
Artest returned after cleaning the traces outside the door, and replied, "Let's clean the house too."
Then Artest waved his fan, and the mist erupted, drenching everyone's faces. Li Jinglong roared, "Don't make trouble!"
Artest was yelled at inexplicably, and could only say: "Being struck by lightning with good intentions, why don't you wash it if you don't wash it, why are you so fierce?"
"Tomorrow morning, I have to surrender. If you don't go, I will escort you." Li Jinglong said to Qin Wu, "You take turns to look at him, Hong Jun give him some calming powder, don't overdo it." After entering the room, he slammed the door shut and made a loud noise.
"Who is this person?" Qiu Yongsi still doesn't know Qin Wu's identity, but Hong Jun feels a little strange feeling in his heart. Qin Wu seems to be very important to Li Jinglong.
"I don't know." Hong Jun replied listlessly, and Mo Zhigen asked everyone to go back to their rooms and continue to sleep, and he could just be responsible for the night watch.
"Chang Shi." Hong Jun even knocked on Li Jinglong's door. But he couldn't get an answer, so he had to give up.
In the early morning of the next day, when everyone came out, Li Jinglong's expression returned to normal, and Qin Wu in the courtyard had disappeared.
"He's gone." Mo Zhigen said, "I followed him to the gate of Dali Temple and never came out again."
Li Jinglong closed his eyes, sighed, and replied: "Many things are predestined, so what should we do?"
After breakfast, Li Jinglong was about to assign tasks to his subordinates, but Lian Hao came back with the file. Li Jinglong had no choice but to let Mo Zhigen go to rest, Artest, Qiu Yongsi, and Hong Jun screened the case and went out to investigate by themselves. As soon as he left the exorcism division, Hong Jun followed him on the back.
"Go back." Li Jinglong turned his head and said.
"They asked me to accompany you." Hong Jun insisted.
Li Jinglong stopped, didn't say anything, turned around and continued walking, and Hong Jun followed behind him. It was the first time he saw such a heavy hostility on a mortal last night. When Qin Wu rushed in with blood, Hong Jun He just felt like a monster who killed countless people.
Li Jinglong sighed and said, "I have to buy a few horses, otherwise it will be inconvenient to go out."
The two walked back and forth like this, Hong Jun felt that Qin Wu was very pitiful, but seeing Li Jinglong caring about him so much, he felt very uncomfortable. Obviously he treated Li Jinglong so badly, but Li Jinglong was very sad because of him. For a moment, Hong Jun seemed to have two carp demons arguing in his heart. One said angrily: It is my long history, but there is still this past, and it made him so sad!
Another carp demon scolded: "Qin Wu is so miserable, you still hate him?"
The first carp demon started to make a fuss: why? ! Why do you say? ! It's none of my business, if Chongming picks up another child one day, won't he snatch my father too? !
So Hong Jun was so entangled, and followed Li Jinglong all the way, through an alley, Li Jinglong asked: "Do you want to eat noodles?"
"Eat." Hong Jun laughed again.
Li Jinglong was in a better mood, and said, "Smile, everything is fine, why are you so unhappy?"
"You are sad." Hong Jun said truthfully, "I can't be happy either."
Li Jinglong asked Hongjun to sit down and ordered noodles. Now that he is rich, he can eat whatever he wants, but he still can't get excited, saying: "I also wanted to persuade him yesterday, but others can't persuade him about these things. I can rely on myself."
"He killed someone." Hong Jun said, "The first person that comes to mind is you, proof...um..."
He observed Li Jinglong's face, and gradually learned to look at people's eyes and speak, so he ate the second half of the sentence, so as not to make him sad again.
When Li Jinglong heard this, he seemed to feel something, glanced at Hongjun, and his frown relaxed a little.
Hong Jun: "?"
Li Jinglong: "Nothing."
The two had breakfast in this strange atmosphere, Li Jinglong said: "Don't eat too much, I can only eat one bowl today."
Hong Jun insisted, but in the end Li Jinglong couldn't resist, so he had to let him eat two bowls. Hong Jun said, "I will pay for it myself."
"It's not a question of money." Li Jinglong said, "I have money now when you grow up. It's enough to invite the boss home to make ramen for you every day. I'm afraid that you..."
"What are you afraid of me?" Hong Jun said, "Don't underestimate me."
"Okay, okay." Li Jinglong said, "You can eat enough."
This noodle stall is a well-known 50-year-old shop in Chang'an. It specializes in stewed goose noodles. After the wide noodles are cooked, they are arranged in a bowl. only.
The marinade is changed every year, and only high broth is added on weekdays. The goose meat out of the pan is extremely fragrant and tender. Golden and tender, Hong Jun ate two big bowls in a row.
An hour later, the two had just entered the underground morgue behind Dali Temple, and before they could take five steps, Hong Jun vomited.
Li Jinglong asked with concern: "Are you all right?"
Hongjun: "..."
Li Jinglong asked Wu Zuo to quickly fetch water for Hong Jun to rinse his mouth. Hong Jun vomited into a jar, and Li Jinglong said: "I told you not to eat too much and you didn't listen, and you told you not to follow in and you didn't do it. Look." ?”
Hong Jun waved his hand quickly, Li Jinglong pushed him outside and waited, Hong Jun said: "I'll just spit it out for a while."
Li Jinglong supported him with one hand, and held a piece of spice in the other, covering Hong Jun's nose, and walked forward with his arms.
When Hong Jun saw the scene in the morgue, it was shocking, including the headless corpse that Mo Rigen went to check last night, and the patient who was bled to death by the doctor. Those who died abnormally were sent here, and the cause of death could only be confirmed by Wu. Take the family back home.
Li Jinglong asked Hong Jun to stand up straight and wanted to cover his eyes, but Hong Jun waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it. Li Jinglong then circled his neck with his left hand, covered his mouth and nose with spices, and uncovered the blood-stained sackcloth with the other hand, revealing the corpse.
The corpse of the barbarian was chopped up in a mess, and the blood had already been drained.
"Injured by a sharp weapon." Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun: "No."
Hong Jun got a little better. Either he had never seen a dead person on the way to Chang'an, or he vomited out after being rushed by the corpse, and immediately signaled that he could do it.
Li Jinglong uncovered the sackcloth one by one, looked at them one by one, and said, "They were all killed by weapons, not monsters."
Hong Jun frowned and looked at it for a while, Li Jinglong saw one of them, and said: "This is suicide, the wound is smooth, the angle is tricky, and it goes straight into the heart..." As he spoke, he grabbed the corpse's hand and made a posture, which happened to be a self-stabbing heart One knife action.
"It's not a monster." Li Jinglong said, and then went to check the next one.
Hong Jun looked at the corpse, looked at his expression, and seemed to feel something.
"Don't touch it." Li Jinglong said, "You're not wearing gloves."
Hong Jun leaned closer and looked at it carefully, Li Jinglong asked: "What do you want to do?" He took off his gloves and handed one to Hong Jun, the silk gloves still had the temperature of his palm.
Hong Jun put it on, and buried his head in touching the cheek of the corpse. After being dead for a day and a night, the corpse had become very stiff. Hong Jun said, "Look?"
He moved the head of the corpse a little, opened the eyelids of the corpse, and what Li Jinglong saw was a face with eyes open and terrified.
Hong Jun just saw this expression last night, it was Qin Wu's distorted and ferocious facial features when he rushed into the Exorcist Division.
Li Jinglong frowned deeply, pondered for a moment, and said, "He saw something very scary."
Hong Jun said: "The reason why I chased the flying mastiff into Chang'an was because I was outside the city, and I heard screams while I was sleeping, and when I chased them out again, I saw the bitten dead body..."
"The same expression?" Li Jinglong said.
If it wasn't for what Hong Jun said, Li Jinglong would have missed it. He turned around and retreated, staring at the face of the corpse with Hong Jun. But when a mortal is about to die, whether he dies peacefully or unwillingly, the moment before death, his expression will be more or less frozen on his face. Although Li Jinglong knows this truth, he rarely sees people who are killed by monsters. to walk past him.
"Since he committed suicide." Hong Jun said, "Shouldn't be so frightened before he died."
"It will be frightening, but it should be another kind of frightening." Li Jinglong said, "Let's continue watching."
Hong Jun closed the man's eyelids, and said in a low voice: "Go to bliss, and don't fall into hell." He turned around and followed Li Jinglong, checked all the corpses, and came out of Dali Temple.
"Go to the scene." Li Jinglong began to think. He borrowed a horse from Dali Temple. When he went out, he happened to see Hu Sheng talking with Huang Yong. Seeing him lead the horse over, Hu Sheng took a deep breath and said to Li Jinglong: "Qin Wu, do you remember?"
"I already know." Li Jinglong said as usual.
Huang Yong was shocked and said, "How did Li Changshi know?"
"Prince Fudo Ming told me." Li Jinglong nodded politely and replied.
Hu Sheng said: "Jing Long, do you think you can plead for him in front of His Majesty and Prime Minister Yang?"
Li Jinglong got on his horse in front of the two of them, and said, "One thought, I will bear it myself. Hong Jun, let's go."
Hong Jun went up, still riding behind Li Jinglong, Li Jinglong flicked the reins, galloped the horse, and left Dali Temple.
On the way, Hongjun didn't dare to say more. When he got outside Zheng's house, Li Jinglong thought about it, and got off his horse and stepped inside. Yang Guozhong's housekeeper, Wen Xiao, the deputy commander of the Longwu Army, officials from the Dali Temple, and officials from the Criminal Department were all present. When they saw Li Jinglong coming, they knew that he was the most popular person in front of the emperor recently, so they nodded to him.
The scene was extremely tragic, the hall was full of blood, and blood trailed to the door, one could see the despair and pain of the dying person fleeing.
"This bloodstain is Zheng Wenbin's old mother." Wen Xiao said, "When she was nearly 70 years old, Xiao Wu stabbed her in the front first, and then chased her from behind, killing her."
Li Jinglong said: "I'm afraid that the brothers in the army don't know the inside story, so they can't help avenging Xiao Wu."
Wen Xiao sighed, and sent Li Jinglong out. If something like this happened, Long Wujun would be held accountable from Hu Sheng down, and it would be hard for anyone.
"The people's grievances accumulated by the Yang family are at their peak." Wen Xiao said, "The Shenwu Army and the Habayashi Army have all attacked them. Those who deserved to be beaten were beaten, and those who should be punished were also punished. The hearts of the six soldiers were fluctuating. I have long been dissatisfied with the deduction of military pay, and I am afraid that someone will make use of it, and I will not be able to suppress it."
When Li Jinglong was about to speak, he suddenly felt that Hongjun was still standing in the hall, and said, "Hongjun?!"
Hong Jun stood quietly, feeling the hostility of the whole family in the hall last night before their death, the resentment could hardly dissipate, he muttered a few words of the supernatural mantra, but it was useless, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind, it was Li Jinglong grabbed his wrist and took him away, telling him not to look at it anymore.
"There is a strong hostility in this blood." Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong led Hongjun across the long street on horseback, turned his head and said, "Hongjun, promise me."
"what?"
"Whenever, wherever, no matter what happens, when you can't control your anger, think of you and me first." Li Jinglong said word by word, "One thought caused such a catastrophe, and you are not the only one who suffers .”
"No." Hong Jun replied, "I'm not him."
"You're a good boy." Li Jinglong said casually, "But the power of an exorcist is far beyond that of ordinary people. It's often not understood by ordinary people."
Hong Jun thought that was true, but in any case, he would not lose his mind like Qin Wu and do things like massacring people.
The third place is the scene of the murder of the wife. The walls were also splattered with blood. The scene was horrible, especially a couch that was already soaked in blood, and there were bloody handprints on the walls. Hong Jun felt more hostility today than any other day, which made him feel heavy and uncomfortable.
Li Jinglong asked him to go out and inspect the room carefully, but Hong Jun noticed something in the corner and asked, "What is this?"
A piece of swarthy half-moon iron.
Li Jinglong replied: "In the blacksmith's house, there must be armor."
Hong Jun held the iron piece and stroked the sharp edge with his fingers. Li Jinglong asked, "What? Do you think there is something wrong with this thing?"
Hong Jun squinted his eyes, holding the iron plate and looking at it in the sunlight.
"Put it away." Li Jinglong said, "Go back and take a closer look."
The next place is to go out of the city and go to Pingheliang. Pingheliang is a prairie, and it was almost dusk when they arrived. Hong Jun stretched his waist, walked with Li Jinglong through the official road across the prairie, and inspected the scene.
"They're camping here." Li Jinglong found the embers of the bonfire and said, "We're going to drive into Chang'an the next day."
"Is all the goods there?" Hong Jun asked.
With a smile in his eyes, Li Jinglong glanced at Hongjun and said, "They're all here, not murdering for money. You are becoming more and more like an exorcist."
Hong Jun: "I just want to ask if there are any goods left, and find some dry food..."
Li Jinglong: "..."
"The man stabbed one to death first." Li Jinglong pointed to a bloodstain and said, "The dead man is here, and then he wiped the other man's throat and died...here." He turned to another place.
"This man is very strong." Hong Jun said, "The corpse is almost as tall as Qiu Yongsi."
"Well." Li Jinglong said, "It should be the bodyguard of the caravan, so the person he stabbed to death first was also two bodyguards. Next, killing the unarmed businessman is like slaughtering a lamb."
"Where did he die?" Hong Jun asked.
The scene had been destroyed, and Li Jinglong couldn't judge based on the blood stains. Hong Jun circled around a few times, and suddenly said, "Chang Shi, come and see!"
Hong Jun stood behind a big rock, which was also stained with blood, and said, "There is a person hiding here."
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and said: "But there is no blood nearby, it doesn't look like a survivor, you see the grass hasn't fallen, and there are no footprints nearby, it doesn't look like a sign of escape."
The two looked at each other, and Hong Jun understood Li Jinglong's inference. If the businessman was hiding, he would be dragged out of the stone after being discovered, and beheaded on the spot, leaving traces. That is to say—
"Hiding behind the stone is the executioner who killed suddenly, and the bodyguard who committed suicide in the end." Li Jinglong put Hongjun's shoulders, squatted behind the stone with him, looked towards the scene of the crime, and said, "He What are you looking at?"
Hong Jun hurriedly got up, ran to the bonfire covered in purple and black blood, and turned his head to look around.
Li Jinglong frowned and thought, walking slowly, Hong Jun turned around, looked at Li Jinglong first, then at the ground, the two looked together, and saw a very inconspicuous lodging path on the meadow.
Li Jinglong took a deep breath and walked along the lodging path to the edge of the meadow, where there was a forest with broken branches on the ground. The two looked up together, and Li Jinglong said: "Whether it's a human or a monster, I hid in the tree that night and watched them."
There was no sign of leaving, only a very faint trail from the trees to the vicinity of the campfire.
"Flying over?" Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun replied: "It is possible."
Li Jinglong: "What monster can fly?"
Hong Jun: "Many monsters can fly, I can't count until tomorrow morning."
Li Jinglong had no choice but to give up.