Chapter 288: Sacrifice - Curse Master?

It was a peaceful night. The official's wife prepared food early in the morning and asked someone to send it over from a few miles away. ♦♦  ♦♦

The official's name was Xian Tai. I don't know how capable he was, but at least he was responsible enough. He brought a total of 30 constables to solve the case this time. Although they were called constables, they actually played the role of "soldiers", so they were dressed like soldiers.

As for why this was the case, it was related to the system of this city. The constables in this city had to train like soldiers.

Let's go back to the Beauty Fragrance Inn.

Last night, 30 constables sealed the inn, and no one went out. Tenants like Li Changxiao were also locked in their rooms and controlled.

Last night, it was unknown what the other people felt. But Li Changxiao's group was playing and making a fuss. They lived comfortably with the mentality of making the best of it.

The key is that Mei Sanniang has an extremely unconventional personality, while Li Changxiao is easy-going by nature. When he is alone, he behaves unrestrainedly and sleeps on the floor. But if he meets someone with similar interests, he will follow the other person, respond to everything, and echo every word. He is not a boring dull gourd. In this way, Mei Sanniang, who has been responded to, finds it interesting and becomes more unconventional.

In addition, the cook appears to be taciturn, but he is not a really cold person.

How can these three people not have similar interests?

The three people have their own skills. How can a small inn trap them? But they are willing to treat others as ordinary people, not arrogant or impatient, and even if they have their own secrets, they will not explore them.

To a certain extent, the three people are very similar in some ways.

Even if they meet before the spiritual energy is exhausted, they can still become friends.

In the early morning, the official was too salty. After eating the food sent by his wife, his body gradually warmed up. There was a little snow outside, and he also put on a thick velvet cloak. He used local materials to make hot soup in the inn and sent it to each soldier.

Then he knocked on the door one by one, called out the tenants in the inn one by one, lined up and went downstairs in an orderly manner, and ate a bowl of hot soup as breakfast.

It was seaweed egg drop soup, with a little millet added in it. It was salty and tasted average. The three of them each had a bowl, found a table to sit down, and drank slowly to warm their stomachs and bodies, and felt comfortable all over.

Li Changxiao carried a small salt bag with him. He felt that the taste was too light, so he picked up a little salt and sprinkled a little on the soup. Then he looked at the cook and Mei Sanniang. They silently pushed their bowls to his side. Li Changxiao picked up a little salt and sprinkled some on the two of them to add some flavor.

This is not over yet.

Li Changxiao also brought a small seasoning bag with him. After all, he likes to cook with local ingredients when traveling around. He added seasonings little by little, and the simple egg soup was fragrant. Li Changxiao was serious about his daily meals. He unscrewed the wine gourd with a serious face, poured some wine into the egg drop soup, stirred it with chopsticks, and then drank it in one gulp.

Mei Sanniang followed the cook and asked Li Changxiao for some wine, poured it into the egg drop soup, stirred it slowly, and drank it in one gulp. The taste of various seasonings and the taste of wine burst in the mouth.

It tasted very strange.

A bowl of soup was drunk clean.

But I heard the sound of discussion from the next table.

It turned out that the four people at the next table were traveling together because they were trapped here because of this strange case, and they were complaining to each other about it.

They also had a companion who had not come down yet. The four of them were wondering if something would happen.

Official Xian Tai frowned, realizing something was wrong, and strode up to the second floor, opened the door and looked.

The scene inside almost made him vomit.

The man had already turned into a pool of meat paste.

Another dead person appeared.

After a brief surprise, official Xian Tai became more and more certain that the murderer was among them, and he would not stop until the case was solved.

But what he couldn't figure out was that all the tenants were locked in their rooms, so how did the murderer commit the crime?

He started another day of interrogation, naturally starting with the four people at the next table, questioning their relationship with each other, whether they knew other tenants present, etc.

Then the elegant man, his friend also died here, and there might be some connection, and then Li Changxiao and the other two.

He concluded that there must be some connection. He started from interpersonal relationships and tried to find the connection.

His thoughts changed. From the beginning, he thought it was "motivated by money and gathered to commit crimes", but now he felt that it was more like revenge killing. But he couldn't understand it, and the more he investigated, the more mysterious it seemed. It was simply beyond common sense.

He had never encountered such a troublesome case in his life.

Li Changxiao saw this, and he took advantage of his drunken nonsense to speak a few irrelevant words loudly, secretly reminding the official. After all, it was not a good thing to keep the stalemate.

The official Xian Tai seemed to have realized something, and went to check the fifteen corpses in black robes.

Sure enough, he found something strange. The fifteen corpses began to rot.

He invited the coroner to investigate. Seeing this, the coroner also frowned. It was winter now, and the corpses could not rot so quickly. He couldn't figure it out.

Official Xian Tai seemed to have thought of something.

He wrote a secret letter and sent it to a former friend. The next day, his friend came overnight to help him solve the case. With his participation, the case really made progress.

His good friend was the "Rain Master" of this area. The status of a Rain Master was extremely noble, loved by the common people and even friendly with the gods in the temple.

To be able to establish a relationship with the "Rain Master" of this area, this official, Xian Tai, was indeed quite capable.

When the rain master arrived, he had a strong aura. He was a handsome young man, but his temperament was a bit old-fashioned. I think he was actually quite old.

Li Changxiao also met a rain master. He was a boy, very different from this person, but both of them walked the path of longevity, and what they did should be almost the same.

When the rain master arrived, he joined the case. He went to check the bodies of the fifteen people and asked Xian Tai some details.

His face showed understanding.

The death of these fifteen people was indeed not simple. It was very likely that they were taken to hold some kind of ceremony.

The ceremony of worshiping Taoism.

The rain master guessed that they might be sacrificed and some kind of curse was cast.

If I guessed correctly.

This curse should kill fifteen people, because there are a total of fifteen sacrifices.

As soon as the rain master said this,

Everyone present had a changed look on their faces, feeling vaguely uneasy. However, the next words of the Rain Master made them even more uneasy. According to the phenomenon at the scene, the fifteen people who were destined to die under the curse... should be selected from this Beauty Fragrance Inn!

It could be random.

It could also be that the initiator had made preparations in advance.

On the night when the fifteen people died, a total of twenty-three people stayed overnight in the Beauty Fragrance Inn. If the waiter and the shopkeeper were counted, there were twenty-five people.

Now two have died.

There are twenty-three people left, which means... thirteen more people will die among these people before this matter ends.

Everyone was terrified.

More than half the probability.

One by one, they collapsed to the ground in fear. Li Changxiao and the other two looked at each other, with a gleam in their eyes.

Official Xian was too angry. How could he ignore such a bad thing? He immediately asked the Rain Master if there was any way to lift the curse.

The Rain Master nodded, "If we find the real murderer, then it's possible!"

As he spoke, he looked at the people present, his eyes sweeping across their faces one by one.

The priest said - the Curse Master is among these people!