deadly mantra

Chapter 168 Your limit is only my starting point

As the location, Mo Jiuji chose a remote mountain village in Lincheng County, twenty miles east of Qixia City.

The village was filled with smoke and moss.

The ruined houses and the traces left by the fire seemed to prove that this place had suffered a tragic accident.

Silence and silence, water and dust, one after another, shuttled through the desolate streets.

Mo Jiudi looked back, his eyes full of excitement and amusement, and asked:

"That place has the best view. Let's go up there and have a look?"

He tilted his head, glanced at the broken wall in the ruins, and signaled Shui Qingchen.

Shui Qingchen flew up to the dilapidated and dangerous roof and took a look around.

It looks like no one has lived here for a long time, so there is no breath of life at all.

Mo Jiudi is plotting something again.

Thinking secretly, Shui Qingchen's eyes narrowed when he moved his eyes to the front left.

Mo Jiudi knew that he had seen it, and he couldn't help but show a proud look on his face, and said loudly:

"Did you see a cemetery?"

Shui Qingchen's clothes were fluttering, and he was full of righteousness. He flew to the ground and said in a gentle tone:

"Master Mo is always trying to sow discord between me and Xiaoyin. Even if I am not interested, he will definitely be unable to hold himself back and want to tell me the story about this village, right?"

"Hey~" Mo Jiudi smiled like a cunning fox, and spoke casually with interest, "Master Shui, the smarter you are, the more I want to challenge your limits."

Shui Qingchen took his time and responded with a smile:

"I'm afraid your limit is just my starting point."

Mo Jiudi's eyes narrowed, and a trace of anger flashed across his eyes, but soon he suppressed his displeasure and started explaining happily:
"This village was like this many years ago. There is nothing worth talking about."

"Hmm~" Shui Qingchen smiled leisurely and listened to what he said.

Mo Jiudi took big steps and walked forward:

"The only thing that deserves to be brought up and brought up again is because this place is related to a murder case that happened in Qixia City."

Shui Qingchen followed up slowly and said softly:

"The second murder happened suddenly. It should have been a temporary act. So, is it the first one? Is this related to the tragedy that happened at Yongchang Escort Bureau?"

Mo Jiudi stared at Shui Qingchen quietly for a while, then his thin lips suddenly raised, showing an evil smile, and said with emotion:

"I usually don't praise people for being smart, because people in the world are so ignorant, but I have to say that your mind is very smart."

After hearing his compliments, Shui Qingchen only showed a smile so faint that it was almost invisible, and motioned for him to continue speaking.

Mo Jiudi spoke:
"Have you seen the list of murdered girls from Yongchang Escort Agency?"

Shui Qingchen shook his head:

"I only saw part of it, not the whole thing."

Mo Jiudi raised his thick eyebrows:
"Have you been to the crime scene of Yongchang Escort Agency?"

Shui Qingchen answered truthfully:
"I've been there."

Hearing the sound, Mo Jiudi smiled playfully and added a topic temporarily:
"Then what do you think is the strength of the person who caused this murder?"

Shui Qingchen gave a fair assessment:

"Not bad."

Mo Jiudi smiled, his phoenix eyes gleaming with pride, turned his head, looked at the ruins along the path, and continued the topic:
"There is a little girl in this village, and her name is on that list. Putting aside all the truth and what happened, if I tell you that the tragedy in this village and the Yongchang Escort Bureau was all the work of one person, guess what, Who will be the object of doubt in your mind, I will give you three chances."

Shui Qingchen looked graceful and elegant. He looked at Mo Jiudi and said softly:

"Mo Jiudi."

Mo Jiudi said "huh?", and after reacting, his eyes sank and he said seriously:
"If I had taken action, Yongchang Escort Agency would have been a deep hole by now and would have disappeared from this world."

Shui Qingchen was just joking. When he raised his eyes, he accidentally saw a low house, which was the only complete one in the entire village.The fence gate of the low house was crooked and unusable.

Shui Qingchen stood outside the fence, which was only as high as his waist, and took a look at the desolate and dilapidated yard.

A ginkgo tree planted in the corner has died due to neglect.

Shui Qingchen walked slowly forward along the fence wall for a few meters.

Under the ginkgo tree, a small mound of soil suddenly appeared.

An intuition rushed into Shui Qingchen's mind like lightning and thunder——

grave.

Shui Qingchen turned around and took a look.

Mo Jiudi leaned against the fence lazily, with his hands folded in front of his chest, and his wide sleeves flying freely in the wind.

His striking phoenix eyes watched his every move with great interest.

"What? You don't dare to take a closer look? Are you afraid of discovering the truth that you can't bear?" Mo Jiudi was provocative.

The water was clear but he smiled and said nothing, his clothes were fluttering, and he walked leisurely under the ginkgo tree as if he was strolling.

I see.

In front of the small mound, the crooked tombstone has been severely weathered.

In fact, it is said to be a tombstone, which is a temporary piece of broken wood.

On the surface of the monument, familiar and unfamiliar words, four words were written -

"Lexi's Grave."

Shui Qingchen's eyelashes trembled slightly, but he remained calm on the surface, unwilling to let Mo Jiudi succeed.

In my heart, I was overwhelmed and hit hard.

In an instant, all the clues were connected together.

The sharp sword marks left at the crime scene, and the scroll with the man's face in the secret room.

Liao San, who had appeared at the crime scene and then appeared in the abandoned courtyard of Ji Mansion.

So, that Liao San didn’t appear for no reason?
There is also the person's real handwriting on the folding fan that promises love...

Shui Qingchen closed his eyes, opened his black eyes again, and took another look without giving up.

Compared with the words on the fan, the words on the tablet are a little childish. From this, we can deduce that she was still a child at that time...

The shipping document that appeared in the Yongchang Escort Bureau was investigated by Ghost Slave and it turned out that there was a girl named Tian Jia who appeared in the Buddha's Holy Kingdom and disappeared out of thin air at the border between the Buddha's Holy Kingdom and the Chixia Kingdom.

So……

Can he boldly speculate that the imposter Tian Jia is actually a little guy?

That's why the escorts at Yongchang Escort Bureau have pictures of the little guy.

Shui Qingchen was calm and composed, strode out of the yard, and continued walking forward, as if he had discovered nothing.

Mo Jiudi was surprised for a moment, raised his eyes, glanced at the ginkgo tree in the yard, quickly caught up with him, and said:
"You still have two chances, why don't you try again?"

Shui Qingchen said calmly:

"No need."

"What do you mean?" Mo Jiudi glanced back, wondering how he could lure Shui Qingchen back to the fence garden.

After all, that was the only place where clues were left.

Just as he was thinking about it, Shui Qingchen's eyes flashed, and he suddenly turned around with a stride, and a penetrating energy came out of his fluttering wide sleeves.

The fence wall was crumbling under the impact of the powerful force. There was a small "boom" sound, but the tombstone was catalyzed into powder, which was scattered like flying dust in the wind.

Mo Jiudi's phoenix eyes swayed slightly, and the smile on his face disappeared.

(End of this chapter)