Not even the government office can determine Xu Ling's whereabouts. In this big city with millions of people, searching by yourself is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Publish a notice... Offer a reward of one hundred taels of silver to see if anyone can provide clues."
Zhou You said softly.
One hundred taels of silver is a huge sum of money.
As the head catcher, Lu Ming's annual salary was only a dozen taels of silver.
Of course, this is only apparent income.
"Okay. I'll make arrangements." Lu Ming nodded slightly.
He first called a painter over.
The artist painted Xu Ling's appearance based on Zhou You's description.
This painter is very skilled, and within a short while, a middle-aged man with a resolute face appeared on the paper.
After Zhou You took a look at it, he handed it to Lu Ming: "Troublesome, Lu is going to arrest the head."
This portrait is 90% similar to the real person Xu Ling.
In this era without cameras, it is already very rare.
For the next time, Zhou You stayed in the archives room and looked at all the files.
During this period, someone also walked into the government office holding a notice with Xu Ling's face on it, claiming that he had seen Xu Ling.
But after Zhou You asked a few questions, he knew that this guy was here to cheat the reward, so he broke his arm and threw him out of the government office.
Three more guys came later who wanted to fish in troubled waters, but Zhou You saw through them all. After breaking one of their hands and throwing them out of the government office, no one dared to come here again.
.....
After looking around all the files, I discovered an interesting place.
All the girls who have disappeared in the past few years...are all girls from ordinary people's families, and none of them are rich or powerful.
This is interesting.
The monsters and monsters always attack regardless of who the other person is. Even if you are a princess or a prince, if you meet a monster or monster, you will kill them without fail.
Obviously, this is a bit artificial.
At the very least, the missing girl must have been investigated by someone, and she was not the victim of a wealthy family.
The reason for doing this is actually easy to understand for Zhou You. After all, in this dark and turbulent era, the lives of ordinary people are worthless, and they will be gone if they are gone.
Even the government did not pay attention to it at first. It was not until Lu Ming discovered the seriousness of the case that it attracted attention.
If she is the daughter of a rich family, I am afraid that if one of them is lost, the whole city will be in trouble.
There are also differences between people.
The discovery of this point is the only meaningful clue so far.
Zhou You glanced at the sky and found that the golden crow was falling in the west, and the vast twilight slowly shone through the screen window, forming different mottled silhouettes.
Before I knew it, it was getting dark.
Zhou You calmed down and returned to the inn.
He first went to the kitchen to take a look and found that lychee wood was also used as firewood here.
After buying a lychee wood with a copper plate, Zhou You returned to his room.
Find an iron basin and put the lychee wood in it.
Zhou You directly put his hand on it....
Soon, with the blazing special effect of Jiuyang's inner energy, his hands became as red as a soldering iron.
Tsk~
The lychee wood also began to burn.
The red flame was sucked into the body.
"The Chiji Fire Shield absorbed a ray of lychee sun fire and started practicing hard."
It didn't take long for the lychee wood to turn into charcoal, so Zhou You stopped.
"We have to speed up the progress tomorrow, we can't continue the investigation slowly like this."
Zhou You sighed.
It has been almost twenty-five days since Xu Ling disappeared.
But this disappearance case is so complicated, as mysterious as a fog.
...
midnight.
The moonlight tonight is extremely dim, and the sky and earth are dark.
On a dark moonlit night with high winds, people are killing people and setting fires.
Lines of vigorous black shadows jumped onto the roof of the inn like civet cats.
Soon, they seemed to have found their goal.
A black shadow hung upside down on the eaves, using a slender bamboo to quietly pierce the window paper.
A wisp of white smoke drifted out from the bamboo.
This is an intoxicating medicine made from mind-bending grass. It is extremely powerful. Not to mention ordinary people, even warriors in the body-forging realm cannot withstand the power of this medicine.
The action continues....
Unknowingly... everyone in the inn was drugged and passed out.
A man in black stood on the roof of the inn and made a gesture.
Soon, twenty men in black emerged from the dark shadows, with steady steps and fierce momentum. They were obviously all practitioners.
These people all held long knives in their hands and sneaked into the inn like ghosts.
Soon, we arrived at the leftmost room on the second floor.
Creak~
The door was opened gently.
Ten people stayed outside to guard.
The ten people instantly burst out with murderous intent, rushed into the room, and slashed at the bed.
Pfft~
Blood splattered and pieces of flesh were everywhere.
The person on the bed was chopped to pieces, and it was a terrible sight.
"No...this is a monkey...he has a mole on his face!" Someone noticed something was wrong.
"How is it possible? Aren't the monkeys watching the wind on the roof?" the leader of the men in black shouted in a deep voice.
Upon hearing this, Zhou You, who was lying on the roof like a spider, suddenly lit up.
He just wanted to know who was the leader among these guys.
He had already been alarmed when these men in black climbed onto the roof.
As for the so-called smoke, as soon as it was inhaled, the body was burned by the Nine Yang internal energy, and it had no effect on him at all.
Taking advantage of the extremely short period of time when these people entered the inn and reached his room, he went to the roof to kill the flies and put one of them on his bed.
A thud.
Zhou You landed directly on the ground without any hesitation and said with a smile: "Are you looking for me?"
The expressions of the ten men in black changed.
The man in black at the head reacted the fastest and shouted: "Kill!"
boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, he was punched by Zhou You.
The huge impact directly knocked his body away, broke the window, and fell heavily.
Swish, swish, swish!
The next second, nine long knives fell on Zhou You.
Dangdang~
A series of sounds of gold and iron clashing sounded.
These men in black were suddenly shocked. They felt as if their long swords had landed on this man's body, as if they had landed on an extremely hard piece of steel.
The force of the counter-shock almost caused their swords to be thrown out of their hands.
"Have you not eaten?"
Zhou You grinned, showing his white teeth.
The defense power of the three-layer Chiji Fire Shield has reached an extremely terrifying level.
These smelly fish and rotten shrimps, not to mention breaking the defense, were not even strong enough to cause Zhou You to feel any pain.
The ten men in black outside the room heard the noise inside and came in too.
Zhou You smiled ferociously, not even bothering to use the demon-slaying sword, and directly used the powerful ape demon fist.
boom!
A man in black was instantly punched in the chest by him, and his whole bones were sunk in, as if he had been hit hard by a wild bull, and he flew out violently.
Boom!
Even the walls of the room could not withstand the impact and were directly smashed into pieces by the man in black.
"It will be your turn soon!"
Zhou Yougui laughed.
For a moment, boundless fear arose in the hearts of the dozen or so men in black present.