You are a demon

After a sleepless night, Xie Ziju stood in front of the window and looked at Gaoshan far away.

What was hidden there? After the clouds were pushed away, it was a peaceful pure land, or the bloody truth. He suddenly stretched out his hand towards the faintly glowing direction.

"Something happened in the town, the Taoist priest will go back with me, or...",

Before dawn, Zhao Mu hurried in from the outside, his body still covered with dew.

"What happened?"

Xie Ziju withdrew his gaze and fixed his eyes on the person who broke in suddenly.

It was the first time that Zhao Mu showed such a flustered expression in front of Xie Ziju: "Someone uploaded a letter from the town, and the little genius doctor and Aunt Wei found it, but..."

Although Zhao Mu pretended to be very calm, the trembling in his voice still betrayed him, which seemed to be a very serious matter.

"Pindao can go back with you first."

Zhao Mu immediately showed a guilty expression: "But your friend hasn't been found yet."

I don't know if it's Xie Ziju's illusion, he always feels that someone is deliberately casting a net for him, and now he can only find Gu Sheng by following this clue.

"Needless to say, hurry up."

Zhao Mu nodded, and after Xie Ziju went out, he went back and extinguished the unburned lamp.

In the past, the street at this point had already heard the sound of hawking, but today it was surprisingly quiet, and there was no one in the streets or alleys.

Zhao Mu followed Xie Ziju: "Prince Taoist, please follow me."

Zhao Mu led Xie Ziju into a remote path, and stopped after going around seven or eight alleys.

"Is this the backyard of the yamen?"

Zhao Mu nodded, pulled the tiger-head door knocker in front of the small door and knocked it lightly. After a while, the door to the backyard opened.

A trace of ambiguity flashed in Xie Ziju's eyes. Although he and Zhao Mu had a good conversation, he did not reveal his identity. Naturally, Xie Ziju would not go into it, but now there are more and more doubts. Who is he? How could ordinary people from the rivers and lakes come and go in and out of the Yamen at will.

But no matter how many guesses, it's just speculation now, Xie Ziju followed him into the Yamen.

A kind-looking old man in a green robe came over, the other didn't say much, just said lightly: "You are here".

Zhao Mu saluted respectfully.

It was obvious that this man was the magistrate of the county, and the old green robe was put on him, as if trying to overwhelm his thin body.

He raised his eyes slightly, but his dull eyes did not fall on the two of them: "Come in."

Xie Ziju looked around at the guards in the courtyard, and the spirits of the people here seemed to be low, and their listless appearance was exactly the same as that of the county magistrate.

"Follow me in first",

Zhao Mu wanted to pat Xie Ziju's shoulder to comfort him, but suddenly remembered that he didn't like being touched by others, so he withdrew his hand and led Xie Ziju into the inner hall.

The front door of the yamen was closed tightly, the light inside was not very good, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

In the middle of the lobby, there were two people tied up, one old and one young, their mouths were sealed and they could only make low whimpers.

Seeing this, Zhao Mu asked, "Is the situation really that bad?"

No one in the hall answered.

"Then do you know why they became insane overnight?"

The magistrate of the county sits awkwardly on the grand teacher's chair, with a dilapidated and cracked pear wood plaque hanging on it, and the words "Mirror Hanging High" look very pale.

"I found you this time for this purpose",

The magistrate of the county opened his mouth with care, and his hoarse voice was depressing.

"Also, you come with me",

The county magistrate led the two of them into the side door, where the smell of blood came from just now.

"This is......"

Xie Ziju stepped forward to detect the breath of those people on the ground.

"The heart has been gouged out, where is the breath coming from",

The magistrate shook his head, his face full of sadness.

Xie Ziju looked back at him. Although the county magistrate looked sad, he couldn't feel any real emotions.

"Pindao will help Mr. Zhao investigate this case."

For Xie Ziju's sudden address, Zhao Mu turned around in surprise, and before he could ask, Xie Ziju returned the waist card that had fallen to the ground to Zhao Mu.

Zhao Mu took it in a daze, and said firmly, "I'm sorry".

Xie Ziju and Zhao Mu left the Yamen together.

"Is the Taoist priest angry?"

"no".

Xie Ziju just kept thinking about those people whose hearts were gouged out just now, so he was a little taciturn all the way, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Mu's expression was a little strange, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

"I didn't intend to deceive my identity",

Zhao Mu and Xie Ziju have known each other for many days, and have always claimed to be people from the rivers and lakes living in Wulian, homeless and jobless, but now they suddenly have an extra identity, which is not good at all.

Xie Ziju didn't think too much about the duckweed friendship.

"Presumably you have already decided to confess your identity when you brought Pindao here this time, but Pindao took the lead. Don't think too much about it. Are Aunt Wei and the little genius doctor planning to stay in the yamen forever?"

"The yamen will arrange people to look after them, and the Taoist priest has also seen their situation. If they are released like this, it will only make people panic."

Zhao Mu said with some worry.

Xie Ziju suddenly turned around when he heard the words: "Have the families of the deceased been notified?"

Zhao Mu stiffened his neck: "If it spreads out, it will only cause unnecessary panic."

Xie Ziju's shallow eyes reflected his guilty figure: "Pindao doesn't think this is a good idea. If you let a group of living people guard those corpses day and night, won't it cause panic?"

"The people in the Yamen are different",

Zhao Mu retorted.

"What's the difference?"

The empty streets have already explained the problem. This matter has already been leaked out, and they should also understand that it will not help if they keep covering it like this.

His words made Zhao Mu tremble all over, but he didn't wait for the next sentence.

"Where are you going, Daoist?"

"Go to the homes of those victims first."

Zhao Mu hurriedly asked: "Did the Taoist priest find anything?"

Xie Ziju glanced at him: "No."

Xie Ziju didn't understand their ways in the officialdom, the elder warned himself not to try to disrupt the order of the world before he went down the mountain, he still kept this in mind.

"Brother Zhao, do you know who those people were and where they lived?"

Zhao Mu nodded: "I know".

"Go to the clinic of the little genius doctor first."

"But it's locked down there."

Zhao Mu couldn't keep up with Xie Ziju's thinking, so he answered dryly.

"Pindao believes that brother Zhao has a way."

"Ah, ah?"

Looking at the back of Xie Ziju going away, Zhao Mupo twitched her chin, what's the matter with this familiar rascal feeling?

"Hey, Daoist, wait for me!"