Are you crazy? Who asked you to hunt for treasures in the emperor's harem?

More than an hour later,

Ye Fan, Liu Mengying, and Ning Zimo arrived at the reed marsh three miles southwest of the east gate.

"Ye Fan, Mengying, you guessed it right. Judging from the traces at the scene, it was the monster who moved it..."

"It's just that this time it's different from before. The crime scene is very messy, with all kinds of blood sprayed and splashed... This should be the first crime scene... Unlike the victims found before, there are other things at the scene besides Except for the abnormality of a piece of human skin and scattered bones, everything is normal..."

After some investigation, Ning Zimo nodded.

"It's really that monster..."

Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Ning Zimo, and said solemnly: "Zimo, can I see the condition of the other victims? To be precise, they are human skins!"

"this is OK………."

Ning Zimo thought for a moment and nodded.

Immediately, Ning Zimo took out a cylindrical object from his arms and pulled the black rope at the bottom. A small fireball shot out from the cylinder and went straight into the night sky, exploding into a dazzling red light for a long time. Not dissipated.

"Eh~ Fire attribute mysterious energy?"

Seeing this, Ye Fan was quite surprised.

"Brother, those are signal fireworks. A rather special kind of fireworks, made from waste materials around the Xuan Qi Stone!"

"Because the material of signal fireworks is different from ordinary fireworks, they can remain in the air for a considerable period of time after being set off. They are generally used to notify emergency matters, and are most commonly used in the military!"

"According to what my father said, red signal fireworks indicate that the matter is very urgent and you need to go immediately... Yellow means general situations, mostly investigations and ordinary requests for help... Black means there is no hope of survival, the local area is extremely dangerous, and it is not necessary Do not go to…”

It was obviously not the first time Liu Mengying saw it, and she immediately explained to Ye Fan.

"That's it~"

..........

Soon,

There were many policemen holding torches or black stone lamps around the reed swamp. They were the policemen who came after seeing Ning Zimo's signal.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Ye Fan and Liu Mengying had already hid in a remote place. Only Ning Zimo was left to direct the scene. After she explained to the police officers, she left...

.........

The capital, the imperial palace,

"Hey, Yu Youwei, why are you so stunned? Tell me, yesterday the groom sent by King Yuanzheng to your side was severely injured, and you actually turned a blind eye. Aren't you afraid of arousing the suspicion of that old guy, King Yuanzheng?"

The speaker was a young girl wearing plain white clothes, with exquisite facial features, graceful curves, no makeup, and slightly messy hair. It was Su Qingying.

"Qingying, the groom sent by King Yuanzheng was beaten. It was normal for me to ignore it... If I had asked about it, it would have been abnormal..."

"In contrast, I'm more worried about another thing!"

When Yu Youwei spoke, she frowned and looked in a direction, which was exactly where Ning Zimo had just sent out the signal fireworks.

"Oh, your mind is still clear!"

There was an unspeakable meaning in Su Qingying's voice, "I thought the mooncakes you ate before made you lose your mind!"

Hearing this, Yu Youwei finally turned around and said, "Qingying, the mooncake is real...and there is absolutely no way that mooncake was hidden by me or someone many years ago..."

"To be honest, with that kind of taste, before I met Ye Fan, I thought no one in the world could make that kind of mooncake!"

At the end, Yu Youwei was quite emotional.

Su Qingying sighed slightly and looked at the place where the red signal flares had just erupted. "No one has launched red signal fireworks in the capital for several years..."

Immediately, Su Qingying changed the subject, "Youwei, tell us about that Ye Fan!"

"Qingying, this is what I just said I was worried about!"

Yu Youwei looked serious, "The location of the red signal fireworks just now is the place where I asked Ye Fan to meet last night..."

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the other side,

Ye Fan, Liu Mengying and Ning Zimo came to an ice cellar.

"Ye Fan, these on the left are the relatively well-preserved corpses of victims of vampire monsters... The corpses on the right were extremely damaged due to wild dogs eating them..."

When Ning Zimo was talking, Ye Fan was looking at the shriveled human skins on the stone platform. As he looked over, the expression on Ye Fan's face became more and more serious.

Liu Mengying, on the other hand, was a little afraid to look at those scary human skins...

After a while, Ye Fan finished looking at dozens of human skins in the ice cellar. He took a deep breath and said, "These victims and the person last night... were all killed in the same way..."

"Same way?"

Ning Zimo's eyebrows arched, "Ye Fan, are you saying that they all died after all their flesh and blood was sucked out?"

"no!"

Ye Fan shook his head, "These victims, except for those eight...the other victims' meridians and source points all over the body have been punctured and cut very accurately..."

"I guess the monster must have drained the victim's profound energy from the meridians to the source points... As for the flesh and blood, it was probably to confuse the audience..."

As soon as Ye Fan finished speaking, Ning Zimo's doubtful voice rang out, "Ye Fan, the skin of these victims is full of various scratches and wounds. It looks like they were used to bleed and cut flesh... Such dense wounds , will naturally cover the meridians and source points..."

"You're right!"

Ye Fan nodded and continued, "You mentioned before that these corpses were not found at the scene of the first crime, right... The dense wounds on the surface of these corpses should have been caused later... …”

"The corpse, or human skin, we just saw in the reed swamp... Last night, for some unknown reason, the monster walked away in a hurry... The wounds on the human skin, except for the meridians and source points, The location is obviously much shallower..."

"and………."

Having said this, Ye Fan turned to look at the eight corpses in the southeast corner, "Zi Mo, those eight corpses were not sucked into the meridians and source points. They were most likely used to confuse the audience... .”

"It's not that the meridians and source points were sucked...Ye Fan, are you saying that the eight corpses and other corpses were not caused by a monster?"

Ning Zimo frowned and said.

"It's the same monster!"

Ye Fan shook his head.

"Wait a minute, Ye Fan, I'm a little confused by you! You just said that the real purpose of the monster is to suck the meridians and source points of the victims... But these eight corpses were not sucked from the meridians and source points, then It stands to reason that it was not done by that monster...but you said it was done by a monster?"

Ning Zimo's brows furrowed even more tightly.

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