Chapter 435 The Source of the Tragedy

From the other dream fragments of the beggar, we know that this girl has no name or surname, but everyone calls her "Xiao Zhen". The beggars in Mengze City have a circle of communication. Most of them are nameless and abandoned and wandering children since childhood. It is normal for them to give each other nicknames and names.

Xiao Zhen has a grudge against those young beggars. The reason is that they have recently been involved in a big case.

There is a Zhou Yuanwai in the west of Mengze City. He is a famous wealthy family. A few months ago, his son was found dead in a drainage ditch. The government is investigating the case and finally found that it may be a beggar.

These beggars usually steal chickens and dogs. The county government thinks they are pitiful and mostly gives them light punishments. Unexpectedly, they gradually indulged them and finally committed a murder case.

The county magistrate was furious and arrested the leader of the local beggars without saying anything. He interrogated him and determined that it was him who did it.

Because among all the beggars, this guy has the worst behavior.

The beggars who surrounded Xiaozhen knew that their boss was wronged, so they went to plead for mercy, but no one believed them.

One of the beggars claimed that he had witnessed Xiaozhen and Mr. Zhou's son having an encounter and an argument, so he guessed that it might be Xiaozhen's fault.

So they surrounded her in a dead end, wanting her to go to the government office to surrender herself, only in this way could they rescue their boss.

After that, they met the mermaids. The mermaids killed all the beggars and rescued the girl Xiaozhen. Because they didn't want the body to be discovered and cause a commotion in the city, affecting the next action, they hid it in a wooden box.

Li Changxiao's eyes flashed. Now that immortals and mortals are intertwined, a mortal murder case may have a far-reaching impact.

Li Changxiao had actually heard about this "Mr. Zhou's son's death case" a long time ago. Uh... Actually, it wasn't too early. He only knew about it after entering the city yesterday.

After all, dealing with dream fragments is a very tedious task. Among a large amount of useless information, there are one or two seconds of useful information.

It requires a lot of patience.

So while Li Changxiao is constantly picking up dream fragments, all kinds of gossip and miscellaneous things will also pass through his mind. What couples talk at night, market rumors, even if you don't pay attention to them deliberately, you will know more or less.

This "Zhou Yuanwai's son's death case" was a sensation in Mengze City at the time, and almost the whole city was discussing it. Li Changxiao had picked up a lot of dream fragments related to this case.

At first, he thought it was just an ordinary homicide case, but he never thought it would be related to the mermaids and the dream god.

He has heard many versions of Zhou Yuanwai's son's death case, and they are all widely circulated.

Some people say that this case is completely a conspiracy. Zhou Yuanwai doesn't like that son, and has always wanted to change a main wife, so he designed a conspiracy to kill that son. The beggar who was caught is completely a scapegoat.

Others said that Employee Zhou was overbearing and had countless enemies. It was his enemies who had killed people and fled long ago. The beggar cried out injustice in the dungeon all day long, but could the county magistrate not know that he was wronged?

Others said that Employee Zhou's son was arrogant and domineering outside, and it was a good thing that he died. When he grows up, he might do things like robbing women.

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In short, rumors in the market should not be believed completely, just listen to them as a story.

Li Changxiao wanted to find out the whole story, so he had to investigate carefully and piece together the scattered clues.

The appearance of the girl Ah Zhen made Li Changxiao's actions clearer.

The mermaids bought some candied fruits and cakes before killing the couple in the dessert shop, presumably for the girl.

In addition, Li Changxiao saw the girl Xiaozhen many times in the dream fragments he picked up along the East Street, following the mermaids.

Combining all kinds of things.

The correct direction is to investigate around the girl Xiaozhen.

With a direction in mind, Li Changxiao patted the sword, and the Qingping sword was unsheathed and hovered in the air. He jumped lightly, stepped on the sword, flew high in the air, and flew towards the west of the city.

Mengze City is quite large. If you just walk, you may have to walk for half an hour to get to the west of the city.

However, flying with a sword only takes a few breaths.

After Zhou Mansion appeared in his vision, Li Changxiao pinched the sword formula and flew directly down. It was very light, like a breeze blowing. He landed in front of the gate and the long sword was inserted into the scabbard.

The plaque engraved with the words "Zhou Mansion" was stained with blood, and the guards in front of the door fell to the east and west.

When he came to Zhou Mansion, Li Changxiao had no intention of admiring the scenery of the mansion, although the courtyard was indeed well built.

He first went to Mr. Zhou's room, picked up Mr. Zhou's dream fragments, and found that some rumors in the market were completely bullshit.

Mr. Zhou never thought of killing his son. On the contrary, he loved his son very much, but he was just a little strict with him.

As for the room change, it was even more fabricated. But it was no wonder that rumors were flying everywhere. Although Mr. Zhou was good to his family, he was not a good person.

He also did a lot of things to oppress the people, and the number of people he killed directly or indirectly was countless.

Li Changxiao went to the room of Mr. Zhou's son "Zhou Zuo" again. He had a very absurd feeling in his heart. He actually felt that Zhou Zuo would be the source of the destruction of the city.

Soon, he came to Zhou Zuo's bedroom.

Zhou Zuo was still young, only about twelve or thirteen years old, but he was very precocious and loved to collect porcelain and ancient bronze coins.

The dream fragments left by Zhou Zuo in the bedroom were very simple, and there were no useful clues. Most of them were scolding his father.

Zhou Zuo behaved submissively in front of his father, but outside, he was a complete dandy.

He especially liked to visit the "Drunken Dream Tower".

A dream fragment showed that Zhou Zuo was young, but he had been a frequent visitor to the Drunken Dream Tower for a long time. He had known the courtesan for a long time and had done a lot of things between men and women.

Li Changxiao made two clicks of his tongue. This Zhou Zuo was really cool and more playful than his father. From the dream fragments, this Zhou Zuo had many hobbies, but Li Changxiao was no longer surprised.

This Zhou Mansion did not have the clues that Li Changxiao wanted.

He thought for a moment, flew up again on his sword, and flew to the east of the city.

He remembered that the government office of Mengze City was located in the east area of ​​the city. If he could find Zhou Zuo's body and see more dream fragments of him when he was alive, he might get some useful clues.

Flying with a sword was indeed convenient. It didn't take long for them to cross half of the city. Li Changxiao jumped directly into the county government office from the air. With a gesture of his finger, the Qingping Sword flew back to its scabbard.

Very worry-free.

The constables in the government office were scattered all over the place, and several battles had taken place. Many walls collapsed, the ground cracked, and there were knife marks, sword marks, and whip marks everywhere.

Apparently, there were three martial arts masters hidden in the government office, using three kinds of weapons, namely knife, sword, and whip. They fought against the mermaids together.

The result was obvious. The three warriors who resisted died much more miserably than the others.

The others were all killed in one blow, but the three warriors who resisted, two men and one woman, were teased before they died.

They had their legs and one arm torn off, thrown on the same level, and crawled out of the government office little by little.

Then the mermaid who committed the crime slowly chased them and crushed their heads one by one. Just like stepping on ants to death.

The fear and despair can be imagined.

Even after several months, Li Changxiao can still sense the hatred.

It lingers.

"If I meet you, I will try to help you get revenge."

Li Changxiao whispered.

The breeze blew away the resentment.