After dozens of rounds, Lü Qingqing clearly felt her stamina waning, and the two men were not doing any better.
Clang!
Lü Qingqing threw her dagger to the ground, "I'm not fighting anymore, I'm tired!"
Lü Qingqing was probably the first person to act so petulant on the battlefield.
This completely confused the two men. Heh, this little girl was throwing a tantrum. "Since the young lady is tired, would you like this old man to help you relax?"
Lü Qingqing smiled charmingly, "Okay, then let's see which of you two has better stamina."
The two men grinned at Lü Qingqing and even took two steps towards her, "Tsk tsk, such a beautiful little lady, but unfortunately, your tricks won't fool me."
Lü Qingqing's lips curved upward, "Is that so?"
Although the two men remained wary of her, due to the reduced distance, Lü Qingqing didn't hesitate and brought her hand down in a chop, striking the back of the opponent's neck.
Seeing this, the other man was about to raise his saber when Lü Qingqing unleashed a backward kick, causing the man to cry out in pain and drop his weapon.
Lü Qingqing then rolled on the ground, casually picked up her dagger, and before the man whose neck was struck could react, she plunged it into his chest. She then quickly grabbed the saber from his hand and threw it at the other man.
The saber whirled, flying swiftly.
It hit the door panel squarely, with the man himself standing just two centimeters away.
He was terrified.
Night, village ancestral hall.
"Speak up, who are you people?" Lü Qingqing had the man subdued.
"The Blade Wielders!" the man replied.
Smack.
A crisp and loud sound.
"Answer what I ask, and don't give me any attitude. Who are you people?" Lü Qingqing's eyes flashed with a cold light, making the man tremble inwardly.
"Sister, our organization is called 'The Blade Wielders'."
Uh.
Lü Qingqing: "..."
Damn, what a stupid name!
"What are you doing here? Did you hurt my brother?" Thinking of Luo Wenwu, who had already been sent to the hospital, Lü Qingqing's anger flared.
What a honest and good-natured young man, now beaten into a muddled mess.
"We just received an order to stay in the village for ten hours, but we didn't do anything." The guy was so scared of this shrew Lü Qingqing that he spilled everything.
The Blade Wielders was merely an underground organization that survived by collecting protection fees and occasionally helping people collect debts.
This time, they had received an order to go to Jinyun Mountain to find a rare type of monkey, said to resemble humans. However, after searching for a week, they hadn't seen a single monkey that looked like a human, let alone a human that looked like a monkey.
Yesterday, the organization ordered a retreat and they were temporarily assigned a mission to stay in Huayan Village for ten hours. But just as they were preparing to withdraw, a bald man rushed out.
That's right, that bald man was Luo Wenwu.
In the middle of the night, in the dense jungle, a shining marinated egg jumping out of a temple, who wouldn't be scared?
A young man in the organization, startled by this, instinctively threw his saber.
The bald man was also taken aback by the sudden attack and instinctively fought back. Thus, the fight began.
"But I didn't kill him. I don't know who did," the man continued to explain, making Lü Qingqing want to light some incense.
So, all this trouble was because of a marinated egg flying out in the middle of the night?
Lü Qingqing really wanted to brand a few Buddhist precepts onto this marinated egg so people could tell the difference, this was a marinated egg with facial features.
Everyone in the village ancestral hall was speechless. Hu Jia directly waved his hand, "Marinated egg!"
...
After a sleepless night, the arson case also yielded comprehensive information.
Gangwa's wife, Liu Li. 24 years old, married to Gangwa for two months, they were in the prime of their honeymoon phase. At the time of the incident, she was home alone, while Gangwa was working in a town 20 kilometers away from Huayan.
As for why she suddenly appeared at home, according to Gangwa, who rushed back from town that morning, it was because the couple had quarreled.
His wife suddenly wanted sugar-roasted chestnuts, but Gangwa, in a hurry to make a delivery, hadn't bought her any. As a result, his wife went back to her hometown. Gangwa said he planned to come back that morning after his delivery to appease Liu Li, but he never expected to be separated by death.
Last night, Hu Jia also conducted a thorough search of Gangwa's house.
Since this family didn't live there often, the house was cold and bare, without even a box of matches. All signs indicated that this fire was not an accidental one, and even if it were accidental, Liu Li could have escaped.
What was even stranger was that besides the bed where Liu Li was lying, no other part of the house showed any signs of burning. It seemed as if the fire was deliberately set to target Liu Li.
And the house itself was well-maintained.
The interior was spacious, and unlike most newly married couples, Gangwa's new house was decorated very simply, with just a bed and two bedside tables in the master bedroom.
This was probably because Gangwa and his wife didn't live there often.
Furthermore, the house's door lock was intact when the fire broke out. The rescuers said they had to break the window to get in.
Liu Li was found lying on the bed, but her posture was a bit strange. Her legs were dangling on the floor, which was neither a normal sleeping position nor a casual resting posture at home.
In short, everything was bizarre.
Afterward, Hu Jia performed an autopsy on Liu Li's body, and as expected, Liu Li had been strangled, as obvious marks were found on her neck.
"So someone wanted to destroy the evidence by burning the body?" Lü Qingqing asked.
"Indeed!" Hu Jia replied.
...
While the arson case was handed over to Hu Jia, Lü Qingqing naturally had to continue investigating Wang Xia's case.
She met with her senior brothers from the institute early in the morning. Yesterday, everyone had visited the families of different missing persons, and they were ready to consolidate their information.
The final statistics showed that the skeleton did not match any of the missing persons.
The reason was simple: the skeleton had a wound on its left toe, but the legs and feet of the missing persons had no such wounds.
Detective Chen was somewhat confused by this conclusion: "What if the wound on his leg was left during dismemberment? Then it couldn't prove that the deceased had a leg injury before?"
In response, Lü Qingqing provided an explanation.
When a bone is struck by a knife, it can fracture or crack. The fracture line is also called the fracture line.
If the fracture is recent, the ends of the fracture will be very sharp, the fracture line will be clearly visible, and the surrounding bone cortex will be noticeably rough, separated, and displaced.
However, if it's an old injury, there might be no fracture line because the broken bone has completely healed, and the gap formed by the fracture is gone.
Near the cut marks on the remains, apart from the signs of the cut, the surrounding fracture lines have disappeared, indicating that the fracture site had completely healed while the deceased was alive.
If it were a wound from dismemberment, how could it be almost healed?
The detective repeatedly praised Lü Qingqing's explanation, concluding that reading more is indeed the key.
So, since it has now been determined that this skeleton does not belong to any of the missing persons in the village, who is the deceased? Could it be an outsider?
Hearing everyone's speculation grow wilder and further afield, Lü Qingqing grew anxious. She wanted to shout, go investigate Wang Yanlin.
But she couldn't, because Wang Yanlin was still alive, and Tong Meng was watching nearby.
Even though she now suspected that Tong Meng's purpose for being here might be related to the inscription in Wang Xia's old house, she still kept a watchful eye.
When can't that inscription be scraped off?
Who can't scrape that inscription?
Why did this person have to come and scrape it off at this specific time?
Therefore, Tong Meng was still suspicious.
She had to find a way to redirect everyone's focus onto Wang Yanlin.
She absolutely had to!