I am a cannon fodder, so what's wrong with grabbing an opportunity?

After Qin Qi left, Xie Zhiqiu returned to the room and took out the photo stone from his body.

The scene changed rapidly. She remembered everything that happened in the beginning, until she risked her life and pierced Tiejun's dantian. She was so shocked by the impact that she could not remember what happened afterwards.

Her spiritual power was first quickly absorbed by Tiejun, her hair slowly turned gray, and she increased the strength in her hands.

A huge amount of spiritual power rushed out from Tiejun's dantian and rushed straight towards her, only a part of it scattered.

After a long time, Qin Si and others arrived.

Xie Zhiqiu estimated that the spiritual energy absorbed by the spirit gathering array was not enough to support her seven days of practice.

It is very likely that the spiritual energy that broke out entered her body, which allowed her to successfully advance to the middle stage of foundation building.

Day two.

Xie Zhiqiu went to the morgue first, wanting to check the three bodies and continuing to investigate the task agreed upon with Xia Qiao.

Unexpectedly, the guard said that the case had been closed and the three bodies had been destroyed.

Xie Zhiqiu took the case file and looked at it. It stated that the three people colluded with Tiezhuang to steal the nightmare beast.

With this file, Xie Zhiqiu found Xia Qiao.

"Manager Xia, this is the case file of the theft of the Nightmare Beast. Please take a look."

Xia Qiao took the file and started flipping through it. It recorded the entire case in detail.

Originally, I thought the Qin family was behind this and that I could use this opportunity to suppress the Qin family. I didn't expect that there were six people harboring evil intentions and colluding with both internal and external forces.

Seeing that Xia Qiao didn't mention the reward, Xie Zhiqiu couldn't blame her for asking for it herself.

"Manager Xia, I discovered the Tiezhuang incident, I solved it, and I completed the mission. You can't deduct my reward."

Xia Qiao could only use a delaying tactic to delay the situation. "Okay, this mission requires a large number of spirit stones, so we need to prepare them. I'll send someone to notify you when they're ready."

"I'll wait for your good news. Remember to give me the points first."

After leaving Xia Qiao, Xie Zhiqiu went to find Qin Qi first, to show his concern for the lost nightmare beast, and to find out which spirit beasts the city guards had to assist in the investigation.

It is euphemistically said that if you want to investigate a case, you must first know the auxiliary beast.

The two of them were joking around and talking about this and that.

"By the way, no one from our city guards was injured that day, right?"

When Qin Qi mentioned this, his face suddenly darkened, and he said in a low voice: "In fact, six bodies were brought back that day."

"When we rushed there, there was only a black fog. Before we had time to investigate clearly, the black fog dissipated. Apart from Xia Miao, the only living person was the Nightmare Beast and six corpses."

"Have you found the murderer?" Xie Zhiqiu asked.

Qin Qi shook his head and sighed, "No, but according to Xia Miao's confession, he said there was another nightmare beast that traded with him."

"But I later double-checked and found that the number of nightmare beasts registered in the city matched, and there was no shortage."

"Where did the nightmare beast you told Xia Miao about come from? Why is it so hostile to our Hibi City?"

Xie Zhiqiu pondered for a while and asked to see the other three bodies.

Qin Qi agreed readily. After all, he said this just to ask Zhao Qiu for help.

The two went to another morgue and listened to the coroner's statement.

The three people were extremely frightened before their deaths and seemed to be in critical condition, but the real cause of death was that they were stabbed several times and died from excessive blood loss.

After knowing the real cause of death of the three people, Xie Zhiqiu felt relieved. If Nan Ke really killed them, he would never cooperate with it again.

The biggest suspect is Xia Miao.

The coroner left, and Xie Zhiqiu asked Qin Qi: "Did you ever doubt that the person who did it was Xia Miao?"

Qin Qi was somewhat surprised that Zhao Qiu was so straightforward and said, "You are really brave."

Xie Zhiqiu did not deny it, but said: "Did I say something wrong? I believe you know more about the Nightmare Beast's killing methods than I do."

Qin Qi had to admit that what Zhao Qiu said was exactly what he was thinking, "There is no evidence, and Xia Miao bit himself to death and passed out, what can we do to him?"

Xie Zhiqiu could also understand that it might not be that easy to touch Xia Miao.

Then he asked another question that concerned him: "Are these three people from your Qin family or the Xia family?"

Qin Qi knew what Zhao Qiu wanted to ask, so he told him everything he had found out.

"They are from the Xia family, and these three have no grudge against Xia Miao. On the contrary, they often help him."

"That's really interesting."

The two of them talked a lot in whispers and then went their separate ways.

On the second day, Qin Qi said with great fanfare that as long as the cause-detecting beast was found, the city guards' speed in handling cases would be greatly improved, and he sent a lot of people to search for it.

On that day, Xia Qiao received a letter with a photo stone attached, asking him to meet at Chengmenglin at midnight, otherwise he would give the photo stone to Qin Si.

Xia Qiao angrily crumpled the letter in her hand.

At midnight, the dream forest is clear.

Xia Qiao arrived at the appointment as scheduled, and standing opposite her was Nan Ke.

Looking at Nan Ke, Xia Qiao felt a little regretful: "It was you. I shouldn't have spared your life. Now you have become a disaster."

"When your Xia family hunted down our Nightmare Clan, you should have expected this day to come." Nan Ke roared at Xia Qiao.

"Since you said so, I'll ask you to review it. Your companions are here anyway."

Inside the city.

Xia Miao was caught in his sleep, defenseless, and was captured by Zhao Qiuqinqi and his men.

When Xia Feng knew about this and wanted to save him, he was stopped by Qin Si.

"Xia Feng, think carefully. There is irrefutable evidence that Xia Miao murdered a member of the city guard. Are you trying to cover up for him?"

Seeing this, Xia Feng wanted to look for Xia Qiao, but found that he was missing. When he brought other reinforcements, Xia Miao had already been executed by Qin Si.

Xia Lin looked at the silent Xia Miao and pointed at Qin Si: "Qin Si, how dare you?"

"Brother Lin, Xia Miao murdered three city guards and should be executed according to the law. You can take a look."

The photo stone projects the scene of that day.

Nan Ke appeared in the picture first, and then Xia Qiao brought three people.

Said to Nan Ke: "I have brought the person to you."

Suddenly, a black mist enveloped the three people, and then three stitched-together corpses and a nightmare beast appeared in front of Xia Qiao.

It dispersed after a while. The three people who were originally shrouded in black fog were roaring, loudly accusing and insulting Xia Miao.

Nan Ke stuck close to Xia Miao and said something to her.

Xia Miao was like a possessed person. He took out a short blade and stabbed Nan Ke first, attacking him madly.

Unfortunately, Nan Ke avoided them all easily.

Nan Ke controlled the black hand, grabbed a man, and started fighting with Xia Miao.

The three of them were like puppets, allowing Nan Ke to manipulate them, but every time someone got hurt, Nan Ke would replace them.

Without the fourth puppet, Nan Ke disappeared directly, and the three injured people fell into a coma.

Then Xia Miao stabbed each of the three people several times while they were sleeping, saying, "Don't blame me."

Seeing that the three were almost done, he stabbed himself a few more times and fell beside the three.

After reading it, Xia Lin knew he couldn't refute it, so he took Xia Miao's body and left. He glanced at Xie Zhiqiu, then looked at Qin Si, and said, "Qin Si, this matter won't end so quickly."

Qin Si did not show any fear and responded loudly: "I am looking forward to your coming."

Xie Zhiqiu learned from Qin Qi that the person Xia Feng invited was Xia Lin, the son of Old Xia, and Xia Miao was Xia Lin's adopted son, who was placed in their city guard team for training.

Qin Qi looked at Zhao Qiu, who looked like he had lost all hope in life, and patted Xie Zhiqiu on the shoulder, "It's not too late to know now."

Xie Zhiqiu put down his hands that were covering his face and forced a smile, "Then please protect me, thank you."

"It is better to rely on yourself than on heaven or earth."

Xie Zhiqiu punched Qin Qi in great displeasure.

After returning to his residence, Xie Zhiqiu immediately added a few more protective formations and told Chao Yun and Chao Mu not to go out recently.

Sure enough, someone attacked that night.