"Huh?"
Qi Zixiao exclaimed in surprise: "How could this be?"
"What did you calculate?"
Wu Guodong was scratching his head anxiously. When he saw Qi Zixiao's reaction, he immediately went over to ask.
"It's a bit strange, but it's definitely him. However... I have to see it with my own eyes to know what's going on."
Qi Zixiao did see the end of the causal line and found the "person", but the other party was completely different from what she imagined and what Wu Guodong had calculated.
Wu Guodong's calculations could be described as a 'suspect portrait', but it was rather vague. However, to some extent, Qi Zixiao felt that it made sense.
She also believed that the murderer should be a man who was superstitious and not young.
But at this moment, what he saw was completely different from this "portrait", completely different!
Did I see it wrong?!
impossible!
Qi Zixiao knew very well that the Great Evolution of Heaven and Earth could see through cause and effect, especially now that he had true essence in his body. Even if his cultivation was only at the foundation-building stage, he could still see the cause and effect line, and thus see the people or things on the other end through the cause and effect line.
For ordinary people, their fate is relatively clear and cause and effect are easier to see.
Coupled with the assistance of the opening altar ritual, the change of direction enhances this ability, which is equivalent to "touching" the person on the other side along the line.
It's impossible that the causal line could be wrong, right
So, she is now a little unsure and plans to go and see with her own eyes what the situation is.
"See it with your own eyes? All right, then where is he?"
"Not far, about..."
"Dozens of miles."
…
The night deepens.
Qi Zixiao and Wu Guodong did not stop and rushed to an ordinary commercial residential area...
There aren't many such places in the county, but they're not rare either. They're relatively common and hardly attract other people's attention.
Besides, there were already many people in the residential area, so the two of them walking through it would not attract anyone's attention.
When they arrived at the bottom of a building, Qi Zixiao raised his head slightly and gestured.
"good."
Wu Guodong nodded and turned on the eavesdropping device he carried with him...
He would never forget that it was this method that was used to make Wang Mazi submit.
Then, he whispered again: "This guy must be a ruthless person, and his subordinates have killed people. How about we take him down directly later?"
"Let's see first."
Qi Zixiao's expression looked a little strange.
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
Wu Guodong took a deep breath, touched the thing on his lower back, and after making sure that there was no problem, they went upstairs together.
13th floor, room 13.
When Qi Zixiao stood at the door, Wu Guodong suddenly felt his scalp tingling and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his vest.
This number again!
The so-called 'big yin' number made him cautious.
What now
Wu Guodong made faces, afraid that his words would be heard by the people inside.
"Just ring the doorbell."
Qi Zixiao was relatively calm and rang the doorbell.
The ding-dong sound was very crisp several times in a row.
About half a minute later...
Crunch.
The security door is open.
Wu Guodong looked at it intently, and the result was...
No one?!
wrong!
Someone who is nothing more than a child?!
He looked to be in his early teens, wearing glasses, and seemed a little sleepy: "Uncles, who are you looking for?"
"child?!"
Wu Guodong was stunned, but he quickly reacted: "We are here to find your parents."
"Mom and Dad haven't come back yet."
The 'kid' rubbed his eyes and said, "But they told me not to let strangers in. How about you wait outside?"
After saying that, he reached out and opened the door.
However, at this moment, Qi Zixiao put his hand against the door and said with a smile: "Don't listen to his nonsense, we are here to find you."
"Looking for me?"
The child was stunned, looking a little nervous: "I don't know you, are you... bad guys?"
"Let go, I don't know you!"
"I'm going to call for help!"
Call someone
Qi Zixiao curled the corner of his mouth and waved his hand, and a soundproof barrier was set up.
The next moment, before Wu Guodong could react, the child had already screamed...
"Everyone, come quickly, help, there are bad guys!"
"Woo, woo, help!"
The child screamed at the top of his lungs, and Wu Guodong was stunned...
However, Qi Zixiao just watched with a smile.
He called for two or three minutes until his throat was hoarse, but still no one showed up. The child became even more panicked and frantically tried to close the door.
"I don't know you, I'm scared, please go away!"
He yelled and tried to pull the door, but it wouldn't move...
"Fear?"
Qi Zixiao finally spoke quietly: "I almost got it wrong because of my 'calculation'. It turns out that it wasn't wrong."
"You can scream as much as you want. Unfortunately, even if you scream your throat out, no one will hear you."
The child was even more panicked: "You, what did you do?"
Not to mention him, even Wu Guodong was shocked at this moment!
This is not a new community and the occupancy rate is extremely high. Just now he was almost ready to reveal his identity as a policeman. Otherwise, what would he do if he was mistaken for a bad guy by a group of neighbors
But now it seems... no one else can hear it
What is going on
Creepy!
Even though many of the things he had experienced before could no longer be explained by science, at this moment, Wu Guodong still couldn't help feeling creepy.
"Nothing, just so that only a few of us can hear our conversation."
Qi Zixiao spoke lightly.
"This is impossible!" the little boy exclaimed, "Are you a human or a ghost?!"
"What do you think?"
Qi Zixiao suddenly had some evil taste, and he grinned, his smile was so sinister that the child was frightened and screamed...
"Brother, is this too much?"
Wu Guodong was a little dizzy, and pulled Qi Zixiao's sleeve and said, "He is just a child..."
"Child?"
Qi Zixiao sighed softly: "Don't you understand yet?"
She looked at the child, her eyes narrowed slightly: "Let me ask you, how old are you this year?"
"Ten... twelve years old, what's wrong?"
The child was trembling and looked very frightened.
"It looks similar." Wu Guodong muttered softly.
"It looks about the same, but it's actually much different. If I'm not mistaken, fifty-two years old?"
"ah?!"
Wu Guodong almost bit his tongue.
The kid looked confused: "What?"
"Don't pretend. This thing can't be faked."
Qi Zixiao said quietly, "Modern medicine can measure your age. How about going for a walk?"
"… "
"So what?"
The child frowned.
"this… ?!"
Wu Guodong was stunned: "Witchcraft?"
"You're thinking too much." Qi Zixiao shook his head and chuckled: "You should have heard of a disease where a person's body will always remain the same as it was when they were young, and won't continue to grow, right?"
"Dwarfism? Or maybe it's dwarfism."
Wu Guodong reacted and thought about the other person's age and gender: "Him?!"
"That's him."
Qi Zixiao nodded: "I also felt strange at first, and thought it was really a child, so I have to see it with my own eyes before I can make a conclusion."
"Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I find that there is no deviation. It is him."
"The reason why you wear glasses, and black-framed ones, is to hide the crow's feet at the corners of your eyes, so that you can more perfectly pretend to be a child, right?"
"I don't know what you are talking about!"
The 'child' was no longer 'terrified' and looked directly at the two people: "Is dwarfism illegal?"
"Is it illegal to wear children's clothes?"
“It’s not against the law.”
Qi Zixiao said quietly: "But killing people... is against the law."
"Murder? What murder?"
The child frowned: "If you keep threatening me like this, I will call the police."
"Why do these criminals always think that as long as they deny it, no one will be able to find out anything?"
"Mao Xiaohua."
"you?!"
The child finally panicked: "Who is Mao Xiaohua?"
"You know it well enough."
Qi Zixiao suddenly lost interest: "I thought there was still a small chance of finding a 'fellow practitioner', but perhaps this fellow practitioner is an evil one."
“But now I see that I am greatly disappointed.”
"What on earth are you going to say?!"
Mao Xiaohua was a little crazy and glared at him.
"Soul-dividing needle."
Before this, Qi Zixiao might not understand the meaning of those things, but at this moment, the cause and effect were clear and right in front of him, so how could he not understand
When he heard these three words, Mao Xiaohua's pupils suddenly shrank.
"Soul-calling technique, soul-dropping stone, gold, wood, water, fire, earth..."
"Wrong."
Qi Zixiao said dimly: "Everyone checked wrong at the beginning."
"No traces were left. That means no traces of adults were left. But in fact, there were still traces left."
“But everyone ignored it.”
"That is... the trace of the deceased himself."
"You can just put on his shoes and walk away without anyone suspecting anything..."
Mao Xiaohua's face became increasingly ugly.
Wu Guodong suddenly realized...
"Yes! At the beginning, we were indeed looking for traces of other people. There were no other traces, and the deceased died of suffocation, so it was defined as suicide."
"But, naturally, no one would check the footprints of the deceased..."
It’s not the fault of the people who investigated the case at the time.
Who would have thought that the perpetrator was actually a "child" and that the size of his feet was exactly the same as the deceased's? !
When Mao Xiaohua heard this, he lowered his head, and no one could see his expression...
"In terms of motivation."
"Many people in the community speculate that there are evil Taoist priests who practice evil magic, raise ghosts, or cause the souls of the dead to fly away and never be reborn."
"Most people think that you have a grudge against the deceased's family, so you were so cruel next time."
"But the police investigated and investigated but could not find any grudges between the deceased's family and anyone else. Even if they had a quarrel, there was almost no evidence."
"In this way, there is no motive, and the possibility of suicide is slightly higher."
"But, no one expected that there would be a dwarf like you who couldn't grow up. He didn't think it was a disease, but thought it was because his soul was incomplete. He randomly found a few so-called Taoist books and learned a few so-called Taoist techniques."
"So I thought, use soul to replenish soul."
"What does it mean to replenish the soul with another soul?" Wu Guodong was extremely curious, but at the same time, he was terrified.