After assigning the tasks, Lu Sangjiu warned, "Everyone should put personal safety first when taking action. Try not to separate the two of you. After completing the tasks I assigned, if you still have time, you can check other things according to your own ideas." "
"But everyone should pay attention to the time. If you don't come back after dark and the messenger does not respond, others will default to something happening and go out to search together."
After the matter was discussed, everyone quietly returned to their rooms.
Shen Yuzhao, on the other hand, returned to his house through the dug tunnel. When he left, he thoughtfully helped Lu Sangjiu install the floor, and said, "I won't fill in this tunnel for now. Junior sister, please pay attention." Don’t step on it and fall.”
Lu Sangjiu nodded in agreement, and then became a little curious, "Where did the soil go?"
Shen Yuzhao smiled shyly and said, "I have a lot of storage bags with me. I will put the soil in one of them and then find a place to dump it later."
Lu Sangjiu: "..."
Okay, the storage bag probably never dreamed that anyone would use it to hold soil, so it’s a novel experience.
After breakfast the next morning, Yan Zui asked the maid to take him to meet the city lord's wife.
Gu Jue stayed in the room and waited for her to come back before they could act together.
The rest of the people left the house together according to yesterday's assignment and went their separate ways.
When leaving, the maids said they could accompany him, but of course they were ruthlessly rejected.
The reason given by Lu Sangjiu was very high-sounding, "Sisters are like flowers, how can we be willing to let you suffer? And there are risks in investigating the case. If we encounter a bad person, it will be bad if we don't have time to protect you, right?"
The maid Xiaolu still refused to give up, "We are not afraid of hardship..."
Xie Ningyuan answered with a half-smile, "Oh, aren't you afraid of death?"
When he said this, he looked at Xiaolu with a particularly meaningful look.
Xiao Lu was so frightened by what he saw that she felt that his words were not about caring about her, but full of threats...
The smile on her face froze, and after a moment of silence, she tried to force out a smile, "I suddenly felt that what the fairy said was very reasonable. We'd better not hold you back, so be careful on the road."
Lu Sangjiu maintained his silly and sweet persona and smiled brightly at Xiao Lu, "Yeah, let's go first!"
After the people walked away, the other maids whispered worriedly, "Are you going to let them go like this? Then the city lord..."
Xiaolu gave her a warning look, "Just say that they insist on acting alone and we can't stop them. If the city lord is angry, he can only punish us."
"But those people..." She frowned and said with a little fear, "I have an intuition that if we have to follow them, they might find a place where there is no one and kill us, and then say The demon cultivators did it.”
When she said this, the other maids immediately shrank their necks in fear and did not dare to speak anymore.
Although Lu Sangjiu and the others were far away, their consciousness was still paying attention to that side. When he heard Xiao Lu's words, he couldn't help but hold back his smile and gave Xie Ningyuan a thumbs up, "Good cooperation!"
Xie Ningyuan snorted and said nothing, but the posture with his head raised and chest raised was full of embarrassment.
After leaving the city lord's mansion, the four of them went their separate ways.
Lu Sangjiu and Xie Ningyuan walked all the way to the city gate, talking to each other through voice messages on the way.
Xie Ningyuan: "Someone is following us."
Lu Sangjiu: "Well, about seven or eight."
Xie Ningyuan asked again, "Do you want to get rid of it?"
Lu Sangjiu thought for a while and replied, "Forget it, they know that we are going to the woods outside the city anyway. It doesn't make much sense whether we should get rid of us now. Let's wait until we get back from outside the city."
So the two of them didn't hide, and just walked out of the city in a big way.
According to the records, a few dozen miles west of the city is where the body was dumped.
Although the corpses have now been taken away and buried by family and friends, the places where the corpses were stored are mostly shrouded in gloom and will not dissipate so quickly.
So the two of them flew at a low altitude, their consciousness dispersed, and they quickly found the place where the body was dumped.
This is a large natural pit with piles of rocks, about two meters high.
The place below was quite spacious, so Lu Sangjiu and Xie Ningyuan jumped down directly.
The body was gone, but some hair, pieces of clothing and other things left behind could still be seen on the ground.
The two looked around in the pit and found nothing else strange.
Lu Sangjiu couldn't help but frown, "It's really strange. Logically speaking, it's easy for a monk to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces. Why did the murderer throw all the corpses here?"
And it wasn't just the place that was thrown here at the beginning. The file records say that after the body was discovered here, the body still insisted on being thrown here.
The city lord also specially sent people to stay here, including Miao Miaomiao and others.
But every time, the people squatting here, whether they were building foundations or golden elixirs, would fall asleep unknowingly, and when they woke up again, their bodies would be at the bottom of the pit.
However, the few people squatting on guard were not dead or even injured at all, which was very strange.
Later, the city lord was annoyed and personally went to guard the place for a few days. As a result, he stayed there for several days without the other party showing up at all.
He was too busy with work and couldn't stay there every day, and after he left, the body appeared again.
Xie Ningyuan thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the person who killed the person and the one who dumped the body were not the same person? I even think that the person who dumped the body was deliberately going against the murderer."
Lu Sangjiu nodded, "It's possible, but it doesn't rule out that the other party is setting up suspicions."
After a pause, she turned her head and looked at Xie Ningyuan, "I remember the city lord said that yesterday was the fifth day, and it's almost the day when the other party kills people?"
Xie Ningyuan understood what she meant, "Will you stay here tonight?"
Lu Sangjiu nodded, "The two of us seem to be ordinary Golden Core Stage. The other party has dared to attack the Golden Core Stage before. Maybe the two of us can catch fish if we stay here."
If the murderer could just throw himself into the trap, everything would be much simpler.
Xie Ningyuan naturally had no objection to this, "We'll just stay outside the city. Maybe we can wait until the city lord can't help but take action against us."
Compared with other people's activities in the city, the two of them are obviously more conducive to killing people and silencing them.
And no matter why the other party kills people, it is certain that they will only kill female cultivators. Lu Sangjiu is also a female cultivator, so the other party will not be able to help but attack her.
Fishing enforcement couldn't be better.
However, the yin energy at the bottom of the pit was still too strong, so the two of them jumped out of the pit without preparing to guard it.
As soon as Lu Sangjiu went up, he took out a large soft mat from the storage bag and laid it on the table. He also set up a tea table and some refreshments.
Finally, he took out a soft cushion and leaned back comfortably. He looked at Xie Ningyuan who was not moving across from him and said, "You're welcome, come and sit down!"
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