Chapter 233
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Chapter 233: A Correction
Hmm? You’re also interested in corpses? An Qingyu suddenly became intrigued.
Don’t compare me to a lunatic like you. Lin Qiye shrugged, I just have other uses.
Well, I thought I had found another kindred spirit… An Qingyu shook her head regretfully, her gaze falling on the tavern owner who was slowly standing up. However, someone with super-speed regeneration isn’t so easy to kill.
Lin Qiye placed his hand on the hilt of his knife. I know.
The iron nail in the tavern owner’s forehead popped out automatically, and the blood hole healed at a visible speed. He squinted at the two uninvited guests in front of him, his expression somewhat unpleasant.
Interesting… How did you find your way here?
As long as you deduce that you are the murderer, and add a bit of imaginative thinking, finding you doesn’t seem too difficult. Lin Qiye spoke calmly.
The tavern owner’s brows furrowed slightly. I shouldn’t have left any clues.
No clues at all? An Qingyu chuckled lightly. To be honest, your layout is quite good, but your attention to detail is worse than a snake’s.
Lin Qiye said calmly: At first, you did successfully deceive everyone, making us believe that this series of murders was caused by a vengeful spirit seeking to ascend, and the rituals prepared led us to subconsciously overlook the possibility of human involvement.
In the first three murders, you merely staged the scene to resemble a serial killer’s work, leaving no information related to the mysterious, preventing the Night Watchers from discovering your intentions before the final ritual and intervening, thus ruining your plans.
By the fourth murder, you realized the timing was right, so you used video and reverse playback to create a nonexistent unknown mystery, immediately attracting the attention of the Night Watchers, who intervened in the investigation. Your goal was to make the Night Watchers aware of the existence of the ritual at this stage, allowing them to deduce the location of the final ritual.
Of course, you could have also staged the fourth murder as a serial killer case, secretly completing the final ritual, but you didn’t do that.
On one hand, you were worried that the soul strength required for the final stage of the sacrifice wouldn’t be enough, needing the soul of a forbidden domain owner to better restore [Bel Kland]. There are only a few forbidden domain owners in this city, all among the Night Watchers, so you cleverly deceived a Night Watcher who was neither strong nor weak.
On the other hand… it was because you wanted to use the final ritual to kill all the Night Watchers in this city in one go!
As for the means… perhaps it’s the 600 kilograms of explosives lying in the cargo hold?
At this point, Lin Qiye’s words caused An Qingyu and Wen Qimo to be momentarily stunned, a look of shock appearing in their eyes, while the tavern owner’s expression instantly darkened.
Long before he clung to the tail of the plane with A Zhu, Lin Qiye’s mental power had detected the large amount of explosives in the cargo hold and immediately understood the other party’s intentions. As for how they managed to sneak these explosives onto the plane without anyone noticing, it wasn’t difficult for someone with a mental-type mystery.
From the very beginning, you planned to crash this plane into the residential area where the Night Watchers were stationed, causing a large number of casualties. The other Night Watchers would inevitably rush over at the first opportunity, and then you could… boom!
I don’t know if sacrificing enough powerful souls in this ritual can enhance the level of ascension, but if it can, perhaps sacrificing all the Night Watchers could elevate [Bel Kland]’s power to a terrifying level!
Even directly boosting it to the immeasurable shouldn’t be too difficult.
Lin Qiye’s expression was very calm. I have to say, your setup is quite good. While completing the ritual, you could also wipe out an entire city’s Night Watchers by yourself, but unfortunately, you left too many flaws.
On the day of the banquet, to better distance yourself from this case, you deliberately drank a lot in front of the camera, creating the effect of being drunk. However, similarly, the alcohol also dulled your brain to some extent, causing you to make many small mistakes.
For example, when you completed the ritual to kill Sun Xiao in the basement, you messed up the steps, first having the Ten Cut Ghost Boy cut off his fingers, only to realize you hadn’t secured him to the wall yet, and then hurriedly nailed him to the wall, killing him.
Of course, the ritual didn’t specify an order, and in your assumption, we wouldn’t discover this basement at all, so this might not count as a mistake for you, just a minor hiccup.
But you overlooked one point: since he was lying on the ground when you cut off his fingers, the direction of the cut was different from usual, and the direction of the nails when securing his palm was the same. As long as you compared it with the direction of the nails in the video, the contradiction would become apparent.
With this, it wouldn’t be difficult to deduce that the video had issues.
Lin Qiye glanced at An Qingyu and continued, I admit that luck played a part in the subsequent events. Perhaps you never expected that a similarly super-speed regenerating lunatic would crazily use himself as a model to simulate the content of the video, thus discovering the secret of the reverse playback…
If it were me, I wouldn’t have thought of that at all.
But once you know the secret of the video and find the original scene, you can lock onto the murderer… which is you.
As Lin Qiye’s words fell, the entire cabin fell into a dead silence. The tavern owner stared intently at Lin Qiye, and after a long moment, he slowly spoke:
I didn’t expect that in this small Cangnan City, there would be such a prodigy…
Let me correct you. An Qingyu silently adjusted her glasses and raised two fingers—there are two.
Tavern owner: …
He glanced at the time, and his expression suddenly turned ugly. He glared fiercely at Lin Qiye, then turned to the Ten Cut Ghost Boy and said:
Kill them! I will continue the ritual!
The Ten Cut Ghost Boy let out a low growl, his body writhing violently. In the blink of an eye, he split off an identical version of himself from within, then split again, becoming four, and continued to split…
A few seconds later, the cockpit was filled with Ten Cut Ghost Boys, wielding short knives with incredible speed—exactly ten of them.
With so many Ten Cut Ghost Boys crammed into the small cockpit, there was hardly any space left, and Lin Qiye and the others were instantly surrounded!
Lin Qiye supported Wen Qimo, his brows slightly furrowed, while An Qingyu, on the other hand, looked as if she had discovered a rare treasure, her eyes shining with excitement!
This one is mine; you handle that owner. A frost appeared in An Qingyu’s palm as she licked her lips, her demure and gentle face filled with excitement.