Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Chapter 252: Master and Servant Died in a Strange and Sudden Way

The next morning, the sunlight shone through the gaps in the window and onto the ground inside the house, forming golden rays of light.

Li Zhi woke up slowly, stood up and stretched. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he shouted hurriedly, "Uncle Cheng!"

Cheng Fengzi opened his eyes, glanced at Li Zhi, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

When he saw Li Zhi's expression, he realized something was wrong and quickly stood up. Then, he looked in the direction of Li Zhi's gaze.

Only to see that, on the other side of the room, the master and servant pair who had lived with them last night were both found dead in the house!

The two men were lying on the ground, their faces as pale as paper, their whole bodies shriveled up like skin and bones, they had long lost all life, and they looked extremely miserable.

Cheng Fengzi frowned, glanced at Li Zhi, and asked, "Did you hear any noise last night?"

Li Zhi shook his head. He was a light sleeper and could not hide any movement from him. But he did not sense anything unusual last night.

Just when Fengzi Cheng and Li Zhi wanted to go forward and take a closer look at the cause of death of the master and servant, the door was opened. The villager who brought them here last night came in from outside with a bucket of hot water and a happy face.

The villager came in and said, "Did you sleep well last night? I boiled some hot water for you..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw the horrific death of the master and servant. He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he stood there in a daze.

The next second, a shrill scream rang out from the room and echoed all around.

This sound attracted other people, and soon someone went to report to the authorities. The other villagers stood guard at the door and did not let Li Zhi and his men leave.

Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi looked at each other, both shook their heads and smiled bitterly.

But they could understand this, after all, in this situation, they were now a major suspect. Anyone who saw someone they lived with suddenly die, and who was in the same room with the deceased, would inevitably be regarded as the primary suspect.

Seeing that the villagers looked like they were ready to attack them, Li Zhi and his companions did not try to force their way out. Instead, they took the hot water and face towels that the villagers had brought them and washed themselves roughly.

Then, he waited quietly for someone from the yamen to come.

With such a murder case, the government naturally dared not be negligent. After hearing the news, the detectives immediately rushed to the village without stopping.

Not long after, we arrived here.

The people in the government naturally recognized the uniforms of the Night Patrol. When they entered the house and saw Li Zhihe and Cheng Lunzi, they knew that they were from the Night Patrol. They also understood that with the skills and methods of the people from the Night Patrol, if they were really the ones who did it, they would definitely not be able to kill two people and still be easily caught.

Therefore, the detectives did not regard Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi as suspects and arrested them directly. Instead, they allowed them to stay aside and cooperate with the investigation.

Seeing this, Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi rushed into action. During the meticulous examination by the coroner, they also observed carefully from the side.

Finally, with the joint efforts of everyone, Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi, with the cooperation of the coroner, finally discovered the cause of death of the two people.

Both the master and the servant had tiny mosquito bite marks on their necks, and their causes of death were the same: all the blood in their bodies had been sucked dry.

Captain Chen, who led the team this time, came closer and asked Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi, "You two, have you figured out what's going on? Is it a demon or something?"

Fengzi Cheng pondered and said, "Looking at the way they died, it is very likely that evil spirits were at work, but the strange thing is that there is not a trace of evil spirit on these two people. If they were harmed by evil spirits, there should be some trace of evil spirits left."

Li Zhi looked around the room and found nothing unusual, so he asked Captain Chen, "Captain Chen, has anything unusual happened around here recently?"

Captain Chen frowned and thought carefully, then shook his head and said, "Probably not."

Li Zhi looked up at the villagers who were crowded outside, frowned slightly, and then raised his voice to ask: "Have you encountered any strange things recently?"

Li Zhi's simple question was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly causing thousands of waves.

When the villagers heard this, they immediately started to chatter at once, like a pot of boiling water. The noisy voices rose and fell, interweaving together, as if a group of noisy birds were singing at the same time, making people's heads buzz.

Captain Chen stood aside, his head ached with the noise, and he could not help but frown. He waved his hand, signaling two officers to hurry over and take notes of the noisy villagers, so that the scene could be quieted down as soon as possible and useful information could be sorted out.

Li Zhi withdrew his gaze from the noisy crowd and turned to look at the villager who was still in the house with a bitter face.

He gently waved his hand towards the villager, who came over with a bitter face. He knew that Li Zhi was also an official, so he naturally did not dare to neglect him. He lowered his head and said, "What do you want, sir?"

Seeing this, Li Zhi reached out and gently patted his shoulder, trying to make him relax a little, and then asked in a calm tone: "Do you know where these two people came from last night?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the two bodies of the master and servant who had died suddenly on the ground.

Upon hearing this, the villager hurriedly shook his head and said, "I don't know. I only know that they came from the direction of Yunman Town. As for the rest, I really don't know."

There was a sense of helplessness in his voice. After all, he had only taken these two people in by chance and knew very little about their specific origins.

After hearing this, Captain Chen frowned and thought to himself. Yunman Town was no longer under their jurisdiction. If they were to go there to investigate, they would inevitably face many inconveniences.

Soon, the two officers who were called by Captain Chen to take notes for the villagers came over quickly with a stack of papers filled with notes. They walked up to Captain Chen and said, "Captain, everything the villagers said is written here, take a look."

Captain Chen took it and flipped through it. He then gave some papers to Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi, and said sincerely, "Thank you both for your help. Let's look through these records and see if we can find any useful clues."

Li Zhi and Cheng Fengzi nodded, took the stack of papers, and began to examine them carefully. The three of them carefully looked at every detail recorded on the paper, stopping from time to time to exchange a few words, picking out the contents that looked absolutely wrong and putting them aside.

After they sorted out all the suspicious incidents selected from numerous records, they conducted comparative analyses one by one.

After a careful comparison, I was surprised to find that among these seemingly insignificant things, they all pointed to Yunman Town without exception.

This discovery made the three of them look at each other, and an inexplicable sense of doubt and solemnity surged in their hearts, as if Yunman Town was hiding some huge secret, waiting for them to uncover.