I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 332 - 287: Faint Bloodstains (2)

Just as he was thinking about Jie Daohan’s drunken face for a moment, Fan Yuanhai suddenly shivered.

An intuitive feeling suddenly rose in his heart, a kind of intuition!

Perhaps Jie Daohan’s death is related to the case of Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu.

The person who committed the Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu case has always been within Xianggu County!

Fan Yuanhai had comforted himself countless times that he and Jie Daohan had tracked repeatedly without any clues, indicating that the perpetrator of the Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu case was no longer in Xianggu County.

However, sometimes, when you comfort yourself too often, the answer that emerges in the depths of your heart is quite the opposite.

There is a rat hiding in some corner, and it has cleared all traces leading to itself, so no one can track it.

Maybe Jie Daohan’s death was the rat suddenly revealing its flaws.

Fan Yuanhai carried such doubts, and at the city gate, he suddenly decided to return to the county office to take a look. He couldn’t be reconciled without checking!

Inside the Xianggu County Government Office, the copper lock on Jie Daohan’s Chief Constable office door had been locked.

This was locked by Jie Daohan on the first noon after the Talent Selection Conference ended, and now more than ten days had passed.

The Chief’s Room is considered an important place within the government office, with many important documents. According to government office conventions, without an order, access is not permitted.

After Jie Daohan’s death, without the County Magistrate’s order, Zhu Baogui dared not open and enter recklessly. On one hand, it wasn’t the usual practice, and on the other, he also feared gossip. People might say that as soon as the Chief left, he coveted the Chief Constable position and broke into the Chief’s Room rashly.

Zhu Baogui had roamed the Jianghu for many years, already tasting the power of those who spread rumors. Sometimes, things without evidence can also suppress people. The more at times like these, the more cautious one must be!

To the east of the Chief’s Room are three adjacent arresting officer rooms. Among them, the room next to the Chief’s Room is where the forensic doctor Liu Kui, Yang Zhen, and Zhu Baogui are.

After Jie Lei’s death, Yang Zhen almost became Jie Daohan’s follower, naturally staying close.

And the forensic doctor is considered a core of criminal justice, so Liu Kui often needed to report issues to Jie Daohan.

As for Zhu Baogui, he purely got along well, often showing goodwill to Jie Daohan.

These three people were in the arresting officer’s room close to Jie Daohan for their respective reasons.

At this moment, only Liu Kui and Zhu Baogui were in this arresting officer’s room. Next to Zhu Baogui, Yang Zhen’s seat was empty.

Yang Zhen hadn’t shown up all day yesterday, nor did he come in for roll call this morning.

Liu Kui, writing with his head down, suddenly glanced at Yang Zhen’s seat and said: "Old Zhu, go to Yang Zhen’s house and have a look. Is he sick? He hasn’t come in for roll call for two days."

Zhu Baogui smacked his lips, touched his chin, and said, "This guy is a bit strange, huh!"

"Indeed!" Liu Kui said, "And recently, things haven’t been peaceful. Even the Chief was killed, you’d better check it out, lest anything unexpected happens."

Zhu Baogui had his foot propped on the table, leaning lazily, but upon hearing Liu Kui’s words, he felt a buzz in his head, almost falling off the seat.

Because he suddenly thought, the Chief was killed, and this guy was the Chief’s follower, might it be...

Liu Kui was right; not coming for roll call for two days was indeed abnormal, which was not in line with this guy’s style.

Thinking of this, Zhu Baogui immediately jumped up from his seat, rushed out of the arresting officer’s room, exiting the county office, and headed quickly to Yang Zhen’s home in Wutong Lane.

Fan Yuanhai walked in shortly after Zhu Baogui rushed out of the arresting officer’s room.

In the arresting officer’s room, only Liu Kui was flipping through data there; he saw a shadow flash at the doorway and thought Zhu Baogui had returned again. Just as he wanted to say something, he already saw clearly that the person coming in was Fan Yuanhai.

Because of handling the Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu case, Fan Yuanhai later got close to Jie Daohan.

Thus, he had interacted with Liu Kui, and Fan Yuanhai had previously asked Liu Kui in detail about the autopsy details of the Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu case.

Seeing Fan Yuanhai come in, Liu Kui immediately stood up, clasped his hands, and said: "Greetings to the Imperial Envoy!"

"No need for formalities, Xiao Liu!" Fan Yuanhai said warmly, "I’m here for something."

Fan Yuanhai said, his facial expression suddenly changed: "How did Jie Daohan die?"

Liu Kui’s heart skipped a beat; he hadn’t expected the first person to inquire about this matter would be Fan Yuanhai!

Fan Yuanhai was a Sect Envoy, holding the Taiyi Order, with power over life and death in local affairs. He had the authority to inquire about this case.

The morgue was sticky, filled with a strong rotten, moldy odor.

Fan Yuanhai looked at the mutilated corpse in front of him, his brow twitching.

Jie Daohan’s death was tragic, his head cut into two halves!

The corpse was fished out of the cold lake water the morning before yesterday, and though the weather was chilling in spring, twenty-four hours had passed, and a dense assortment of corpse spots had appeared.

Despite the scattered corpse spots, Jie Daohan’s bright red skin, like a red-chain snake, instantly indicated some kind of mysterious toxin.

But Jie Daohan had True Qi protecting his body, and yet this toxin could erode his organs, spread throughout his body, which Fan Yuanhai found quite puzzling.

Fan Yuanhai asked: "What kind of toxin did he ingest?"

Liu Kui replied: "This toxin, I have not seen before. But it’s more potent than Corpse Rot Poison!"

"More potent than Corpse Rot Poison?" Fan Yuanhai’s face slightly changed.

"Indeed!"

To investigate Jie Lei and Xu Ruhu’s case, he had previously studied the Corpse Rot Poison closely, deeply aware of its severity. This Corpse Rot Poison, if used in large enough quantities, even a True Qi Realm expert would be overwhelmed and flustered.