Returning to Haijia, Lin Jin raised his eyelids as he passed outside the main hall.
An old man knelt in front of Hai Cheng and cried. Lin Jin's heart moved and he stepped forward to ask what was going on.
It turned out that the kneeling old man was the old housekeeper of the Hai family. His one-month-old grandson was stolen yesterday, so he came to ask Hai Cheng for help.
After comforting the old man for a while, Hai Cheng sighed and said, "You must have heard about the recent incidents of boys and girls being stolen in the imperial city, right?"
Lin Jin nodded and wanted to ask Hai Cheng for his opinion.
"I wonder what Hai Family Master's guess is? Can you guess who did it?"
"Guess? Alas, even if you give me some clues, I may not be able to guess it, let alone such blind guessing."
"Actually, Lin Jin already has the answer in his mind, but..."
"Oh? Does Fellow Daoist Lin know who did it?"
"I don't know who is behind the scenes. I'm going to take a look tonight... Is there anything wrong in the Imperial City since the disappearance of the boy and girl started?" Lin Jin did not clarify what he meant, but revealed Wei Wei.
There are some signs.
"Something is wrong? Well... yes, there is. I heard that the Imperial City has been a little quiet and scary recently. In the past, there would be female concubines playing songs and dancing every night. It can be said that singing and dancing have brought peace to the world. But now the different phenomenon has made many people...
I don’t want to get close to the Imperial City anymore...Do you think, Fellow Daoist Lin, that the Imperial City..."
"..."
It was extremely quiet at night, but there were still some chirping sounds of insects and birds from time to time. A crescent moon hung high in the night sky like a woman's eyebrow, but its faint light could not shine into the place where Lin Jin was staying at this time.
"There is something really unusual in this imperial city. Logically speaking, the monarch would not go to bed so early, right? There is not a single sound."
Lin Jin was squatting in a corner outside a palace on the left side of the imperial city. The dark surroundings allowed Lin Jin to hide very well.
Since he didn't know where the unusual aura was in his heart for the time being, Lin Jin thought to himself: He could only find the monarch who "went to bed early" first.
After some twists and turns of searching and dodging some patrolling guards, Lin Jin finally found the palace where the monarch slept. In the darkness, Lin Jin grinned and disappeared into the darkness.
In the palace, a middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe sat on a chair and looked at the burning candles with dull eyes, as if he could find some solace in the small flame.
"brush!"
A black shadow flashed across the room, and the candle suddenly went out. The middle-aged man was startled, and just as he was about to scream, the candle lit up strangely again.
But at this time, a man stood in front of the middle-aged man.
"Don't make a sound!" Lin Jin smiled.
As soon as the middle-aged man saw Lin Jin's face, an expression of lingering fear appeared on his face, as if he had returned from a walk through the gates of hell.
"Are you..." the middle-aged man asked hesitantly.
"I am a cultivator." Lin Jin answered directly.
"Cultivator... cultivator? You won't kill me, right?" The middle-aged man instantly became a little frightened, fearing that Lin Jin would kill him if he didn't like him.
"I have no grudge against you, so why do I want to kill you? I won't beat around the bush, I just want to ask, why is there an abnormal atmosphere in the imperial city?"
"Abnormal...aura? That cultivator who practices evil methods...sigh..."
"..."
Quietly looking at the back garden in front of him, Lin Jin thought to himself: If that person is not lying, it seems that this evil cultivator is the one who ordered the Imperial City soldiers to steal boys and girls. I don't know why this evil cultivator is like this.
, is it for practicing evil methods?
"call!"
Suddenly there were some sounds in my ears, as if someone was coming from the other side of the bush nearby, and they were also cultivators!
Lin Jin was shocked, had the evil cultivator discovered him?
But when I am concentrating my breath, even those who are one or two levels higher than myself should not be able to notice me.
"rustle……"
The sound of clothes rubbing against the trees calmed Lin Jin down. It seemed that he was not an evil cultivator, but he still couldn't be sure if he was an enemy.
"Thirty years of Hedong!"
Lin Jin was startled by a sentence that came out of nowhere from the side of the bush. Could it be a code?
"Thirty Years in Hexi."
Lin Jin thought that was enough, but he didn't expect the other party to speak again.
"Thirty beauties."
Lin Jin was almost shocked by the other party's words, but he still quickly answered.
"It's me!"
After saying that, Lin Jin noticed that there was no sound. He didn't know what the other party was thinking. He was about to get up and leave, but he didn't expect that there was another sound next to him.
"I don't know who the Taoist friend is..."
Immediately, the other party stepped out. In the darkness, Lin Jin discovered that this person had an average appearance and was neither tall nor short. But there was one peculiarity: this person had no arms!
Lin Jin stood up, cupped his hands and said, "I'm Lin Jin, a first-level casual cultivator. I wonder if you..."
The man chuckled in the darkness and said, "It's fate. The inferior Shijutian is also a first-level casual cultivator." Seeing Lin Jin seeing the empty sleeves on both sides of his robe, he said, "I have been disabled since I was a child.
There are no arms."
"Haha, you are a man of great perseverance! Lin Jin admires me! I didn't know you..."
"I came here on this trip because I found some clues about my enemy, so I came here. I guess you are also here to explore the evil cultivators in the imperial city."
"That's right, how about we come together? It would be nice to have someone to take care of you." Lin Jin suggested.
I already know in my heart Shijuetian's true cultivation level. He is actually a monk in the early stage of the Taoist Realm! But it seems that he has just advanced to the level.
Shi Juetian nodded, looked at Lin Jin for a while, and said: "I can't see your cultivation level. It seems that you must have a treasure to block your aura, but your cultivation level must be about the same as mine, right?"
"Originally, I thought you were the person I made an appointment with, but it seems he still doesn't dare to come... Fortunately, you... can be my partner."
Lin Jin almost fainted after hearing what Shi Ketian said. What does "you can partner with me" mean?
However, since Shi Jie Tian gave such a high evaluation to his own cultivation, Lin Jin just made mistakes without explanation.
The two of them slowly sneaked into a secret passage in a rockery in the back garden, and the evil spirit in the air became increasingly thick.
"Shijutian, why did the evil cultivator offend you?"
"He killed someone very important to me...wait, here we come."
After the two people walked out of the secret passage, they came to an underground cave. The space was not large, only about seven or eight feet long and wide.
There was a pool in the center of the cave that was soaked with countless corpses. The bright red blood filling the pool was shocking, and the strong smell of blood and putrefaction made the two of them frown.
"Whoosh!"
A bone still covered with traces of flesh and blood was shot towards the two of them quickly. The two of them turned sideways at the same time, and the bone disappeared into the hard stone wall with a "click", showing its strength.
"Haha...Shi Jutian, you are really following me closely. Do you want me to kill you?"
A man wrapped in a wide red robe sat on a stone seat at the end of the cave. Two blood-red eyes in the red robe stared at the two of them playfully, but when they saw Lin Jin, they were a little confused.
Shi Juetian snorted coldly: "Gao Tianhu, the hatred for killing my wife is irreconcilable! If I don't kill you, I can't vent the hatred in my heart!"
Lin Jin on the side was also staring closely at the man in red robe named Gao Tianhu. He didn't know much about Shi Juetian's hatred, but when he saw the bones in the blood pool, no matter it was Lin Jin, anyone with feelings would want to kill him.
The instigator.
One pool of blood, two people, three pairs of eyes.
For a time, an unusual and eerie atmosphere lingered in the cave.