Legend of the Tang Dynasty

After listening to Mo Buwan's talk about what happened last night, Su Qing pissed Mo Buwan off first and said, "Why do you have such fun every time you go to Pingkang, why didn't you take me with you yesterday?"

"You didn't say you wanted to go..." Seeing that Chen Yuming didn't look at him, he whispered to Su Qing, "I'll take you next time."

Su Qing smiled in satisfaction, then Shen Yin asked again: "Then if what Gu Pingsheng said is true, why don't His Majesty and the Empress even ask about such a big matter?"

"I think it's because His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven have been in the Eastern Capital, so let's keep these visions of the Daming Palace a secret for now." Chen Yuming, who hadn't spoken yet, said.

"Qi Ming, what do you mean, this is true?" Shen Yin said

"The Chen family has always been in charge of river and sea transportation. Everyone knows that many years ago, I did hear my father talk about a flood in the Yangtze River. What Gu Pingsheng said is true. The only thing I can't confirm is the vision in the Palace of Longevity, but Since there is no doubt about the matter of inviting spirits back then, it is not false to think that the demon spirits are causing trouble now." Chen Yuming said

"In that case, let's start the investigation!" Mo Buwan excitedly said

Chen Yuming glanced at him and said, "How to check?"

Mo Buwan didn't expect that he would ask himself, he was taken aback for a moment and said, "Go...to the Hall of Eternal Life to check..."

"The important place of the palace, we can enter it if we want." Chen Yuming said calmly

Mobuwan let out a breath and said, "Yes, what should I do then?"

"The point of the problem now is that the palace people keep secrets and don't report the vision. If the demon hunter asks to investigate the case rashly, it will definitely arouse public opinion, so we have to find a way to make those palace people panic and dare not hide it anymore." Chen Yuming road

"That's right." Suqing said with a suddenly enlightened expression

"I have an idea." Mo Buwan said suddenly: "Although the imperial palace is strictly confinement, but now the Holy Majesty and the Empress are not in Chang'an, the Daming Palace must be lax in guard, plus we all want to fly over the eaves and walk over the walls, it is not easy Well, let's just go to the Hall of Eternal Life and create another demon statue, and then deliberately let people see it."

"No." Chen Yuming said decisively: "Although this move can achieve the goal, but this kind of false deception will not be done by the evil spirit."

Could it be that he knew that he would say that before it was too late, and he immediately relaxed and said, "Qi Ming, we can't wait until there is a murder case before investigating, can we?"

Accompanied by Mo Buwan's lazy voice, the guards in the department rushed in and panted, "Sir... my lords..."

Chen Yuming frowned, and said indifferently: "What are you running for? How decent is it?"

The guard hurriedly straightened his body and said: "Young master, there is news from the palace that someone is dead in Daming Palace, and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment has already sent people to go. Director Chen has asked several adults to go too!"

Several people got up suddenly, Su Qing admired: "Brother Mo, you have opened your mouth!"

"Stop joking, clean up and let's enter the palace as soon as possible." Chen Yuming said

After a while, several people changed into their official uniforms and brought their spiritual artifacts, and they all came to the courtyard to gather. This was the first time for the five of them to wear official uniforms for a trip after they got together. Want to see each other more.

The five rode their horses all the way to the imperial city, and when they arrived at Danfeng Gate, a guard stopped them and said, "Which department are you from...?"

A few people didn't find it strange at all. All the people who didn't know about the demons had this expression after seeing them. They were clearly wearing official uniforms, but they just couldn't tell which department they belonged to.

Chen Yuming took out the token and said, "Dali Temple, arrest the demon master."

The guards immediately withdrew their hands and said respectfully: "It turns out that you are the masters of the anti-monster division. The superiors have instructed that if the masters come, you can go directly to the Hanyuan Hall."

Maybe it was the first time to come to the imperial palace. When I was at the Danfeng Gate, I was shocked by the majestic city gate, and when I walked to the north of it, I was facing the majestic Hanyuan main hall.

When a few people came in, there were already quite a few guards and colleagues handling the case around the palace. The palace maids and maids were all trembling aside, and most of the people who were questioned couldn't speak well.

When the official who took over the investigation saw the demon hunter coming, he hurried over and said, "Young Master Chen."

"Master Wang." Chen Yuming nodded slightly and said

"Come on, come in and have a look." Lord Wang led the way

After a few people entered the main hall, they saw six maids who had been strangled to death hanging brightly in the hall. Their bodies were already soaked in blood. Chen Yuming looked at the ground based on common sense, but there was no blood on the sapphire brick floor. .

Several other people scattered to search for clues. Master Wang sighed and said to Chen Xie: "Tell me what it is called. There is such a murder case in the main hall of Daming Palace! You are not the first wave, just now The sight, that's even more chilling..."

"Has the crime scene been passive?" Chen Yuming interrupted

"The hanging person hasn't moved, but if you look carefully, these maids are all missing arms and legs. When I came here just now, they were corpses all over the place..."

Chen Yuming took a closer look. Those court ladies were all wearing long skirts. If you didn’t look carefully, you couldn’t really see that they were missing arms or legs. Chen Yuming looked back and asked, "What about the ground? Have you cleaned it?"

"No, I just picked up those broken corpses and left the rest untouched. Do you want to see those broken corpses? I'll order someone to bring them." Daren Wang said

"No need for now." Chen Yuming turned around and looked at him and said: "My lord, this case is fully entrusted to the anti-monster division."

"Demon killer...isn't he helping to solve the case? Young Master Chen, there is no evidence to point out that it is a monster. I'm afraid I can't hand over the authority?"

Chen Yuming looked at the corpses again and said, "As soon as I came in, my eyes were full of evidence of monsters."

"This... Young Master Chen, can you explain one or two things?"

"I just asked if there was any movement at the scene of the crime. Since Mr. Wang said that it hadn't been moved, how dare you ask why there is no blood on the ground or on the wall when the scene is so bloody?" Chen Yuming said

"Perhaps this is not the first crime scene." Mr. Wang tried

Chen Yuming had expected that he would infer in this way, and then said: "Hanyuan Palace has eleven master rooms, seventeen deputy rooms, plus the Xiangluan Pavilion and Qifeng Pavilion on the east and west sides. Invasion and destruction?"

Mr. Wang shook his head in a daze, and Chen Yuming continued: "Since this is the case, if this is not the scene of the first crime, then the murderer can only start in the garden where people are avoiding people."

"That's right! That's very possible." Darren Wang said

"Then why didn't he simply bury the corpses under the forest, but took a lot of trouble to drag the six corpses to the main hall and hang them up?"

Mr. Wang was left speechless by the rhetorical question, and Chen Yuming said: "So the reasoning goes back to the first step, why did he kill in the main hall without leaving any blood, because the murderer was a water monster. Everything he did was like water passing by, and the blood stains were naturally washed away."

Mr. Wang originally wanted to find out Chen Yuming's flaws, but he walked into his reasoning line step by step, and when he nodded in agreement, he suddenly felt something wrong and said: "No, this is all Young Master Chen's deduction!"

"It is indeed Chen's inference, so I have to prove it to Mr. Wang." Chen Yuming waved his body and walked: "Bring up the corpse."

When Chen Yuming was deducing the case, he received his eye signals before long, and went out silently to search other palaces to see if he could find any clues. Su Qing went to question the palace people as usual.

Shen Yin walked around the Hanyuan Hall and said to Ze Chuan, "A monster belonging to water?"

Bian Zechuan nodded and said, "The water stains on the corners and the top, and the fishy smell in the air are right."

Lord Wang just ordered someone to carry the dismembered corpse up, and after hearing their conversation, he sniffed hard and said, "Masters, maybe it doesn't smell like blood?"

Bian Zechuan looked at him and said, "It's not blood, it's water."

Mr. Wang felt confused, and Bian Zechuan didn't intend to explain further: "Ordinary people can't detect the strange smell of evil spirit."

After hearing this, Mr. Wang had no choice but to leave in embarrassment, muttering in his mouth: "What's wrong with these demon hunters? How can one choke people better than the other..."

Su Qing also came in from outside the door at this time and said: "I asked a few court ladies and eunuchs, and they all said that at midnight, they first heard a slight noise, and the guard maids went in to have a look. At first, they didn't find any problems. There are fewer and fewer palace people around Hanyuan Hall, and I didn’t see this scene until I opened the door at dawn at Maoshi.”

"That means one less person came in this night?" Shen Yin asked

"Yes." Su Qing nodded.

Chen Yuming thought for a while and said, "Suqing, you can ask again to find out how many people have entered and exited the Hanyuan Hall since midnight."

"Okay, I'll go now." Su Qing said

"Qi Ming, what do you suspect?" Bian Zechuan asked

"I'm wondering if this monster is picking someone. If it wants someone, it will kill it when it comes in. If it doesn't want it, it will make an illusion that nothing happened to deceive people until it finds all the people it wants. The few people it needs, after getting what it wants, they left openly." Chen Yuming said

"So you need to know how many people have come in, and if anyone left safely, it means that's the case." Bian Zechuan said

"Yeah." Chen Yanming said

At this time, Lord Wang's subordinates had already carried the dismembered corpses in, and several people surrounded him. Lord Wang covered his mouth and nose with a white handkerchief and said, "Young Master Chen, what's your opinion?"

Chen Yuming looked at these broken limbs and arms as he expected, and said: "My lord, please look at the fractures of these limbs. The fractures of these limbs are extremely uneven, and the fascia on the exposed joints is damaged and not attached. It is obvious that they were pulled off forcefully. .Even if it is a person who has been practicing martial arts all year round, I would still believe if he tore off an arm. If he said that he could tear off a thigh, or so many, Chen would never believe it."

In fact, there is no need for Chen Yuming to say that. Mr. Wang didn't dare to look carefully at these broken arms and legs before, but now that he looked carefully, the finger marks on the severed limbs were obviously left by beasts.

Master Wang felt unlucky and waved his hand to signal the guards next to him to carry the severed limb down: "Young Master Chen, what about the other palaces? Shall I send someone to investigate again?"

As soon as the words fell, Mobuwan jumped in from the door and said, "No need, I've already seen it all."

When Mobuwan came in, Mr. Wang realized that the person who was following Chen Keming didn't even know where he was going. Seeing that Mobuwan came back, Chen Jiaoming asked softly, "How is it?"

"It's okay, what you just said is absolutely right, this is definitely the first scene." Mo Buwan crossed his arms and hugged Chi Yandao

Chen Yuming looked at Darren Wang with more confidence and said, "Master Wang, is there any question?"

Without saying a word, Master Wang shouted to the official who was still recording outside: "Come here, transfer the case to the Demon Police Department!"