Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?-Chapter 48 - Finally Got a Meat Shield_1

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Finally Got a Meat Shield_1

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Finally Got a Meat Shield_1

Just before the Hour of Wu, four days later, outside a three-story wooden house in the suburban area of Nanjing, Li Xuan was lying flat in the grass, his eyes peering mysteriously into the house.

Behind him, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue also huddled their bodies as much as possible, trying to camouflage themselves among the surrounding grass and trees; the petite Yue Qianqian held her hands in a gesture, using the ‘Mini Blinding Spell’ to enhance their stealth.

“Is this the place?” Zhang Yue looked eager, “Why aren’t we making a move yet?”

He had been assigned under Li Xuan’s command just yesterday, Jiang Hanyun had made an exception for him, allowing him to follow Li Xuan’s actions as an apprentice.

Zhang Yue was quite proud of himself. As expected, his two buddies couldn’t do without him, the martial backbone of their trio.

At the same time, like Peng Fulai, he was also quite curious about the various affairs of the Liudao Division. Especially today, he was particularly excited about this capture of a criminal.

However, his question was met with a sharp glare from Li Xuan, “Shut up! If you dare disturb the demoness—no, if you dare disturb the prisoner, I’ll have a bone to pick with you.”

Zhang Yue immediately fell silent, suddenly recalling that his superior was the notorious ‘Blood Hand Butcher’!

Just then, a flare shot up from not far away, exploding in the sky.

“Action!”

Li Xuan immediately got up, rushing towards the house like a rabbit, and nimbly vaulted over the courtyard wall. His figure darted like a bolt of lightning, even leaving a few afterimages in his path, with sparks of electricity vaguely swirling around his feet.

Zhang Yue, who was acting at the same time, was left behind by Li Xuan by three whole body lengths when vaulting over the wall, causing a hint of surprise to flash in Zhang Yue’s eyes.

Over such a short distance of less than ten zhangs, how could this guy have outpaced him by so much? Although his Zhang family hadn’t ever focused on agility, not long ago, he had achieved the Fourth-Floor Territory, his running speed had greatly improved, a vast difference from before.

Li Xuan had never been this fast in the past, had this guy taken some kind of drug? Or used some kind of talisman?

In just that instant, Zhang Yue’s sense of superiority in martial arts had been halved, filled with doubts.

By the time the two of them, one after the other, stormed into the house, the fight had already been resolved. Over twenty Xunjian and Youjiao from the Liudao Division had swarmed in from all directions, practically tearing the small building apart. Ma Chenggong, leading from the front, had nailed an elderly woman in her sixties to the floor as soon as he stormed in.

Li Xuan rushed into the backyard, only to find that there was nothing for them to do here either. Jiang Hanyun was standing in the middle of the courtyard, her clothes fluttering, and next to her was a smoking stone hut.

Peng Fulai curiously walked into the stone hut for a look, and when he came out, he promptly threw up a storm.

Unable to contain his curiosity, Li Xuan went in too. And then he saw that in the middle of the room were five infant corpses that had been eviscerated, arranged according to the directions of the five elements, with the rotten, stinking organs that had been dug out placed next to them.

In the center was a black wooden coffin, which also contained an infant corpse, but it was completely charred and looked like a piece of charred wood.

Unsurprisingly, this was likely the handywork of the Blood Hand Butcher, Jiang Hanyun.

Li Xuan felt his stomach churn, and he quickly retreated a few steps, barely managing to keep himself from throwing up on the spot.

At this moment, Ma Chenggong came out cursing from the building: “This old venomous woman truly lost her mind. She got her hands on a ‘Wuying Lianzi Formation’ from who knows where, thinking she could resurrect her deceased child by kidnapping and killing other people’s children. Damn her ancestors, that is just the method used by evil cultivators to refine ghost babies. Resurrecting the dead, how could that possibly be easy?”

“When people feel desperate, they can resort to anything. Yet the cruelty of this woman is extraordinary.”

This was another Six Path Bureau Colonel from the Mingyou City, named Si Qianhui, a woman in her thirties with distinctive features and an assertive demeanor. Both her temperament and appearance reminded Li Xuan of an actress from his previous world named Yang Ziqiong.

She asked with a furrowed brow, “So, the disappearance of these children does not indeed have any connection with the Jiāngjūn Mountain blood sacrifice?”

“Not related! However, they both are similarly nefarious deeds.” Ma Chenggong shook his head, his face turning a pale shade of green, “According to the old hag, she took eight children in total; three died due to her amateurish operations, their organs shattered when she tried to remove them and they couldn’t be used. The bodies of the three infants were buried by her in the back mountain. This woman deserves a thousand dismemberments in hell, I wish I could stomp her to death right now.”

As he spoke, Ma Chenggong’s hair stood on end.

Li Xuan and his colleagues felt a chill running down their spine, their bodies bristling with rage.

No matter how angry they felt, the children were dead and the perpetrator was under custody.

After venting her anger, Yue Qianqian raised her eyebrows. The missing children’s case they had solved today was based on the leads she found scribbling through old records these past few days.

If even this case was not related to the blood sacrifice on Jiāngjūn Mountain, she truly had no idea where to start investigations from.

The hundreds of child abduction and dissappearance cases reported in South Zhili this year seemed to have no connection with the Jiāngjūn Mountain blood sacrifice.

“Don’t be disheartened.” Li Xuan understood her feelings and comforted her with a smile: “Look on the bright side, if not for you, this venomous woman would still be at large. The dead children would have been possibly transformed into ghost babies by her, tormented forever without the chance of rebirth. As for the boys and girls offered in the Jiāngjūn Mountain blood sacrifice, we will eventually find the origin. Hasn’t the Xiaowei stated already? She is trying to exercise some personal connections to access the archives of Nanjing’s Ministry of Punishments, we will eventually find the track of those evil cultivators.”

Yue Qianqian nodded, her smile slightly strained.

Nanjing’s Ministry of Punishments and Liudao Division’s Zhuque Hall had different roles; the former managed all the judiciary reports of the provinces in southern Jin Dynasty while the latter was only responsible for the cases involving cultivators and demons in South Zhili. Naturally, the number of case files handled by both entities differed. Even the various files of Beijing’s Ministry of Punishments were typically duplicated in Nanjing’s Ministry of Punishments as per custom.

However, Yue Qianqian was part of a unique family with connections of their own. So, in these past few days, she had read a good portion of the case files from the Ministry of Punishments, with minor omissions. Yet, she had found no substantial trace connected to the case.

The hundreds of boys and girls from Jiāngjūn Mountain seemed to have come out of thin air–

“In fact, if we just shift our perspective a bit, since there hasn’t been large-scale kidnappings around Jinling City, how did they manage to transport so many people to the vicinity of Jinling City?”

Peng Fulai stroked his chin, a knowing smile on his face: “And how did they manage to feed and accommodate so many people?”

Jiang Hanyun happened to pass by them, she rolled her eyes at them, “Lei Yun has already started investigating. Three days ago, soldiers were set up along the river to scrutinize the trade ships and ferry crossings, asking for specific information. The Yingtian government has deployed thousands of Yayi and thousands more soldiers from Jingying are making a combing search operation through each inn, restaurant, manor, and crossing. They are not just looking for Xue Wuya’s whereabouts. Don’t think you’re the only smart one——”

Peng Fulai instantly blushed, at a loss for words.

As for Li Xuan, he had known about the situation for quite some time. Two days ago, the district housing Earl Chengyi’s mansion was searched by the government and the Sixth Path Bureau. As for the two beside him, they had been hanging out in brothels during their time off-duty.

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