Chapter 34: Unexpected Gains

Chapter 34: Unexpected Gains

Shopkeeper Qian said this with great anger and grief, and it sounded like he wanted to kill Zhou Heng right now to avenge Zhao Yuan.

Zhou Heng was slightly stunned when he heard this.

Damn, is the number one suspect so arrogant?

However, before Zhou Heng could respond.

Meng Xing shouted in a deep voice: "Qian Buduo, stop talking nonsense, you are also a suspect!"

Shopkeeper Qian lowered his head and stopped talking.

Zhou Heng looked at Meng Xing in astonishment, wondering: "Shopkeeper Qian has also become a suspect?"

Qian Buduo was also brought here as a suspect?

I didn't say what I was thinking.

"Hmph! I really don't know how you detectives handle cases!" Shopkeeper Qian looked at Meng Xing with disdain and said, "I am an honest man. Zhao Yuan and I are classmates. How could I kill him? You actually suspect me?"

"Be honest!" A young detective next to him kicked Shopkeeper Qian and snorted, "How can you talk to our Mengtou? Do you know the rules?"

"Xiao Wang, take this guy in first. Miss Li is already inside." Meng Xing also looked like a cold-faced detective and said coldly, "If he talks nonsense again, give him a taste of his own medicine!"

"Yes!" The young detective nodded, and then dragged Shopkeeper Qian directly into Wuxiang Martial Arts Hall.

"Sorry to make you laugh, Mr. Zhou." When Meng Xing looked at Zhou Heng, he put on another gentle expression and said, "Please follow me, Mr., someone is already waiting at the crime scene."

The speed of his face change made Zhou Heng stunned.

I wondered if this guy had learned Sichuan Opera?

His face change was amazing!

However, why are these police chiefs so kind to me?

It's weird!

Is it really because I'm too handsome?

...

The crime scene refers to the bedroom where Zhao Yuan was killed.

Except that Zhao Yuan's body has been removed, everything here remains the same.

Including the bloody words -

Murderer Zhou Heng!

When Zhou Heng and Meng Xing arrived at the crime scene, they found that Qian Zhanggui and the police officer named Xiao Wang were already here.

In addition, there was a young woman.

She looked to be in her twenties, wearing a light yellow skirt, with fluffy hair, beautiful appearance, cold eyes, standing alone in the corner of this bedroom, silent, with a very low sense of presence.

When Shopkeeper Qian saw Zhou Heng coming, he sneered, "Zhou Heng, open your eyes and see clearly what is written there!? If it wasn't you who killed someone, who else could it be?"

"Shut up!" Meng Xing glared at him, and then said to Zhou Heng, "Mr. Zhou, you can just look around here, and leave the rest to us."

"..." Zhou Heng frowned slightly when he heard this, and he didn't understand what Meng Xing wanted to do. Just letting the suspect look around the crime scene, can he determine the real murderer?

It's not very realistic.

Of course, he would not miss this opportunity to observe the crime scene carefully.

If it was really a ghost, there should be ghost energy left here.

——Since the first time Zhou Heng came into contact with ghost energy at Cheng Jiangjian's place, he has a certain degree of perception of ghost energy, but it is limited to the ghost energy left on normal people or objects.

But with his insight level of +1, after looking through this bedroom completely, he didn't find any place that could be seen, and there was no trace of ghosts at all.

Could it be that it was not a ghost?

Or is this ghost good at hiding and avoiding ghost energy?

Zhou Heng was confused and was about to end his observation when he suddenly met the young woman standing in the corner and saw her clear eyes like a spring.

"I'm fine."

At this moment, the woman suddenly spoke, turned her eyes, raised her hand and pointed at Shopkeeper Qian, saying: "Captain Meng, let's control this man first. When he looked at this bedroom just now, his expression was problematic and he is a major suspect."

"What!?" Shopkeeper Qian was stunned and said in astonishment: "This, this is impossible, I am innocent, I am innocent, you, you are slandering me!"

"Catch him!" Meng Xing ordered directly.

"Yes!" Constable Xiao Wang nodded.

At the same time, three constables rushed in from outside and were subdued by Shopkeeper Qian at once.

"What do you want to do!?" Shopkeeper Qian was shocked and shouted: "You can't do this!"

"Take him away! Put him in the cellar first and wait for your punishment!" Meng Xing said in a deep voice.

Shopkeeper Qian was taken away by Xiao Wang and four other detectives, and the bedroom became quiet again.

"..." Zhou Heng had some guesses in his mind, but more of them were doubts. He looked at Meng Xing, "What's going on, Captain Meng."

"It's like this. Come, let me introduce you." Meng Xing walked to the girl standing in the corner and said to Zhou Heng, "Mr. Zhou, this is Miss Li Jingxin.

"She can judge a person's psychological activities by observing his facial expressions. Just now, she saw that Shopkeeper Qian's expression was wrong, so she determined that he might have a problem. "

"Can it be like this?" Zhou Heng was stunned when he heard this. This was too magical. "So there is nothing wrong with my expression just now?"

"No." Li Jingxin was frugal with words and said lightly, "Your eyes are looking for clues. There is no panic, no fear, and no surprise. "

"In that case, I will send Mr. Zhou back first." Meng Xing smiled.

"That's unnecessary." Zhou Heng shook his head and said, "I can just go back by myself."

He always felt that Meng Xing was too attentive, a little too attentive. Especially after seeing Meng Xing's attitude towards shopkeeper Qian just now, the contrast became even more stark.

"How can this be done?" Meng Xing said, "I'm really sorry for asking you to come here this time. If I don't take you back in person, I'll feel uneasy. Please do so."

"...Okay, that's all." Zhou Heng had no choice but to agree.

In my heart, I felt that the development of this matter was very strange, but I couldn't tell where exactly it was.

…

On the carriage ride back.

Zhou Heng, who originally seemed to be concentrating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and his expression turned extremely ugly.

"What's wrong, Mr. Zhou?" Meng Xing asked confused when he saw this.

"It's nothing, I just had a nightmare." Zhou Heng shook his head and said, "Meng Baotou, please stop at the gold shop in front. I can go back by myself."

"Young Master Zhou wants to exchange for gold?" Meng Xing asked in surprise. He had heard that this Young Master Zhou was quite shy about his money.

"Well, it has some special uses." Zhou Heng nodded with a bitter expression.

On the way just now, he was idle and bored, so he meditated on the "Thunder Palm" method in his mind, just in case he needed it from time to time.

Although he didn't feel ghosts at the crime scene just now, and shopkeeper Qian was arrested, he still felt a little uneasy, so it would be safer to learn this technique.

Progress was rapid, and it didn't take long for him to learn the technique.

Palm thunder seems to be a Tao method specifically targeted at ghosts. Even if you are just a beginner, it can cause extremely strong damage to ghosts. Once you have mastered it, it will have the effect of killing ghosts.

But then he discovered a very terrifying situation.

The art of palm thunder actually requires money!

Whether you are practicing or actually performing this Taoist method, you need to use gold as a magic guide.

One or two gold at a time.

This is simply fatal! !

"If you need gold, Master, I have some here." Meng Xing suddenly took out a cloth bag from his arms and opened it. There was a piece of gold cake inside, and he handed it to Zhou Heng and said with a smile: "Go and use it first."

? ? ?

Zhou Heng looked at Meng Xing with a confused look on his face, then looked at the gold cake, and said in astonishment: "Meng Captou, what exactly do you want to do?"

"The young master is favored by the master of the palace and will definitely have a bright future in the future. I just want to make good friends with the young master now. I have no other ideas." Meng Xing did not hide anything and directly explained his thoughts, "Please accept the young master."

"..."

Zhou Heng was slightly silent when he heard the words, hesitated for a while, then nodded and accepted, saying: "Thank you very much."

Money is such a good thing.

…

Fucheng Yamen.

The master of the palace, Wu Zongshan, was handling government affairs in his study, when suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in." He said calmly.

Then the door opened.

Meng Xing walked in, bowed his hands in a respectful salute, and said, "I have met the master of the palace. Regarding the death of Zhao Yuanshen, the master of Wuxiang Martial Arts Hall, my subordinates have new information to report.

"Following your suggestion, my subordinate asked Shopkeeper Qian and Zhou Heng to visit the scene of the crime, and asked Miss Li to observe their expressions. Finally, it was determined that Shopkeeper Qian had a problem.

"He has now been detained in the cellar, awaiting your mercy."

"Just close it first." Wu Zongshan said calmly: "No one is allowed to open the cellar door without my order."

"Ah?" Meng Xing was confused when he heard this and said, "What about the meal?"

"Send it off once a day at noon." Wu Zongshan said.

"Yes!" Meng Xing bowed and left.

"Let's go slowly first." Wu Zongshan suddenly said, "What was your attitude when you went to tell Zhou Heng."

"Of course I don't dare to forget your Majesty's instructions." Meng Xing said quickly: "I will obey your words and treat Mr. Zhou gently. I don't dare to be negligent in the slightest."

"Okay." Wu Zongshan nodded slightly and said, "Go."

After Meng Xing left.

Suddenly, a beautiful figure walked out from behind the screen in the study, wearing a light yellow skirt and fluffy hair. It was Li Jingxin who was the "observer" before.

"Father, why do you want me to forcefully determine that shopkeeper Qian has a problem?" Li Jingxin frowned slightly and said, "Actually, I didn't find anything unusual about his expression."

"For the entire Huangtong City." Wu Zongshan sighed slightly, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "Jingxin, are you satisfied with this answer? Go back and rest early."

"...Well, my adoptive father should also go to bed early." Li Jingxin nodded and said goodbye.

At this time, Wu Zongshan was the only one left in the study.

He took a deep breath.

Turn around and come to the bookshelf, twist a mechanism, and a secret compartment will open immediately.

Inside was a stack of apricot-yellow paper, a writing brush, and a box of cinnabar.

The outermost piece of apricot paper has words written in cinnabar.

"There are traces of suspected ghosts in Huangtong Mansion City. They are roughly at the seventh level of strength. Their special abilities involve hiding their tracks and sealing off the area. Please ask the Zhoutian Patrol Division to send the Star Envoy to kill the ghosts."

Below this paragraph of text, there is a blank space.

At this time, there was a bright silver light like a star, slowly outlining a word on the apricot paper - OK!

When Wu Zongshan saw this word, he felt relieved and let out a long sigh of relief.

…

In the cellar of Wuxiang Martial Arts School.

It was dark and cold, with no one around.

Shopkeeper Qian was sitting in a corner, looking very calm and without any annoyance. After seeing the moonlight shining through the crack at the cellar entrance, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a smile.

"Wu Zongshan, do you think you can hold me back like this? In fact, all this was within my expectation. I had known for a long time that you would be suspicious of me, so I used a trick to let you lock me up.

"Now you think that I can't get out here. It's the safest situation outside. I can safely ask for help from the people of Zhoutian Xunjie Division and wait for their people to kill me.

"What a pity, you still know too little about ghosts. Now that I have completely entered the 'control' stage, how can this small cellar contain me?

"Although my control of this body has not yet reached the stage of 'seizing the body', devouring Yang Qi will cause a lot of waste, but the matter is at this point, and I can't care so much.

“We must leave before the people from the Zhoutian Xunjie Department arrive!

"Zhou Heng, delicious Yang Qi, I'm coming, hahaha!"

Today's shopkeeper Qian is no longer the Qian Buduo he once was.

After muttering in his mind, the smile on his face turned cold, and then his figure swayed slightly, and his whole body instantly softened and became flat.

In the end, it turned into a seemingly formless shadow!

The shadow walked up the cellar wall, easily passed through the gap at the cellar entrance, and escaped.

At this time, the three young detectives guarding the cellar were taking a nap.

Detective Xiao Wang is also among them.

The shadow suddenly pounced and immediately enveloped Agent Xiao Wang.

In just a few breaths, the shadow swallowed and absorbed it, then continued to swim on the ground and left here.

The whole process was silent, and the other two detectives didn't even notice that Xiao Wang had been killed.

Still napping.

…

In a wasteland on the outskirts of Huangtongfu City.

The palm of Zhou Heng's right hand held half of the gold cake, exactly one tael.

The left hand is making tricks.

Thunder Seal!

At the same time, he mobilized his inner energy and poured it into the palm of his right hand.

Start to catalyze the half of the gold cake in the palm according to the Qi movement method of the thunder in the palm.

This is the preparation process for Taoism.

Normally, it may only take a few breaths.

However, because Zhou Heng's inner breath was weak, it was his first time practicing this Tao method, and he was not familiar with the way of moving Qi, so this preparation process took a very long time.

A full half an hour passed before a few hair-thin arcs appeared on the half of the gold cake.

After another half an hour, the gold cake finally turned into liquid gold and gathered into a small ball the size of a quail egg, with its surface surrounded by dense electric light.

Palm thunder!

Done!

It’s finally done!

"Hahaha! It's finally better!"

Zhou Heng couldn't help laughing, looking at the electric golden ball in his hand, he felt very excited.

This feeling of controlling lightning is really exciting!

At the same time, under the hazy moonlight, an erratic shadow swam over and approached Zhou Heng, ready to pounce and devour him.

"What a pure Yang Qi, what a rich Yang Qi! No wonder I was attracted to come here. This kind of Yang Qi is second only to the Zhiyang Divine Soul. It's great, it's great!

"Although swallowing him in my current state will waste some Yang Qi, it is also very likely that I can break through to my current level, which is equivalent to the sixth level of a human!

"Great opportunity, great opportunity! My delicious meal, here I come!"

Shopkeeper Qian, who turned into a shadow, was ecstatic and looked forward to a bright future.

But at this moment——

Zhou Heng suddenly raised his right hand and threw the palm thunder in his hand.

"The Nine Heavens Mysterious Temple turns into thunder! The brilliant power of heaven is attracted by gold!"

Zhou Heng shamelessly assigned a spell to his palm thunder because he felt that this was the first Taoist method he had performed and it must have a sense of ritual.

Boom!

The thunder in the palm exploded, making a deafening roar. The dazzling golden thunder light illuminated the surrounding area of ​​more than ten feet as bright as day, and the fiery breath swept around like a storm.

Before the shadow could even take action, it was shattered into pieces by the sudden thunder and lightning. After barely reuniting, it immediately fled.

From beginning to end, Zhou Heng was not aware of the existence of this shadow.

"You successfully cast the Taoist technique "Thunder in the Palm" [Level 8], and your proficiency is +5."

The system prompt sounded in Zhou Heng's mind.

Such an increase in proficiency made him feel a little relieved. Fortunately, it was not that he could only increase his proficiency a little once, which was still good news.

But then, another system prompt sounded.

"Congratulations! You defeated the invincible enemy Feng You. The lucky bag [Silver] +3."

What! ?

Zhou Heng was stunned, what happened? ?

This is a big chapter of 4,600 words. I originally wanted to divide it into two chapters, but the two chapters feel separated, so I’ll just put them in one chapter. The remaining words are almost 100,000 words. I have created a book club group. Everyone is welcome to chat and play group number :1031664369