Chapter 23: You Know Spiritual Arts? Blood Slave, Blood Vial
Third floor.
Upon entering the room, a strange stench could be detected.
The investigators responsible for examining the crime scene immediately began reporting information to Li Yunbin and Zhao Bin.
The crime scene was in the bedroom. The victim had cuts on both wrists and Achilles tendons, and several stab wounds on their body, with black blood flowing out.
This time, the method was even more brutal than the previous two!
“The deceased was originally a teacher at Cloud Lake Middle School, having taught for 36 years and just retired this year.”
“According to the investigation, the deceased had a good reputation within the school, was upright, and got along well with others in the community. There were no apparent conflicts.”
Li Yunbin nodded: “Mm, you two can leave now.”
After the two investigators departed, Li Yunbin looked at Qin Wanqing beside him.
Qin Wanqing then cast a Spiritual Art, and with a wave of her hand, a butterfly shimmering with spiritual light appeared and landed on the corpse.
A surge of evil black qi seemed to be provoked, but the butterfly flapped its wings, slowly dispelling it.
Bai Yu was somewhat confused, while Liu Feifei beside him explained: “The murderer uses extremely evil energy. If it’s not dealt with, it will pollute the spiritual energy in this area and even affect ordinary people. Wan Qing’s spirit butterfly can neutralize this evil energy.”
“So powerful!”
Though he said this aloud, Bai Yu was inwardly thinking about his second Golden Page, the Tracking Technique.
The Cultivation Experience specifically mentioned this Tracking Technique.
After activating the Golden Page with his Spiritual Energy, he also obtained information about the Tracking Technique.
His Tracking Technique could collect attribute information of Spiritual Energy. When a target was within a certain range, it would react.
If he wanted to reasonably assist the Group Leader in finding the murderer, having this Tracking Technique would obviously be more convenient.
‘Damn it! My Tracking Technique seems to be collecting this evil qi.’
Thinking this, Bai Yu couldn’t help but ask, “Um, Group Leader, can you stop dispelling the evil energy for a moment so I can collect the murderer’s spiritual energy aura?”
As soon as he said this, everyone else looked over.
Zhao Bin’s eyes lit up, but then he asked in confusion, “You’ve learned a Spiritual Art?”
He remembered Bai Yu saying yesterday that he could only see a picture.
That was a world away from learning a Spiritual Art!
Seeing everyone else looking over with ‘scrutinizing’ gazes, Bai Yu said awkwardly, “Well… I definitely couldn’t have learned a Spiritual Art this quickly.”
“However, my Golden Page has a hidden function where injecting Spiritual Energy seems to activate special techniques. The first technique is related to tracking, so I wanted to try it.”
Liu Feifei rolled her eyes; the little brother was hiding quite a bit.
“Hehehe~”
Ultimately, no one had any objections.
Qin Wanqing also stopped her actions.
Seeing this, Bai Yu took out the Golden Page containing the technique and injected a small amount of Spiritual Energy into it.
The Golden Page emitted a faint golden light, and strange runes appeared on its surface, seemingly the incantation for the Tracking Technique.
The next moment, a beam of golden light emerged from the page and continuously drifted above the corpse, with the black qi from within the body being continuously absorbed into the golden light.
It could even be faintly felt that the evil qi that had already spread out was also being drawn in.
In a short while, the blackness on the corpse had significantly faded.
Seeing the considerable commotion, Zhao Bin excitedly pressed, “How effective is your Tracking Technique?”
“It’s hard to say. If I get close to the murderer, the page should react.”
“If you have time, research this Spiritual Art more. It will be of great use to us! Also, with high case contribution, you can earn more contributions. The Investigation Bureau’s Treasure Vault has many good things.”
“Understood! I’ll do my best to research it.”
From their brief interaction, Zhao Bin, who usually appeared aloof, composed, and analytical, and naturally disinclined to smile,
showed his emotions on his face when encountering something he was interested in.
Qin Wanqing, sensing the spiritual energy in the air, patted Bai Yu’s head: “Little White, well done. It seems I won’t have to be responsible for this area anymore.”
She added, somewhat cutely, “Actually, this Spiritual Art is quite difficult to learn. I only reached Entry Level and it was a bit tiring.”
Her voice had a very gentle quality.
But Little White??? It felt a bit strange.
“It feels like you’re treating me like a child,”
he muttered to himself, but inwardly thought: Heh~ You guys are easily fooled by these little tricks? Bow down before me!
Following this, Group Leader Li Yunbin activated his Spiritual Vision ability, and the traces left by the murderer were illuminated.
The other team members quickly gathered information.
Bai Yu, meanwhile, looked at the information of the three victims on his tablet.
‘The first was a restaurant server, and the second, an electronics factory employee. They truly had no intersection in their lives.’
‘But I’m reasoning from a known outcome!’
‘The murderer is a dropout working at an electronics factory. From this point alone, the second victim definitely matches. The third victim, the teacher, can also be matched.’
‘More simply, searching the list of dropouts from Cloud Lake Middle School where this elder worked would further narrow down the scope!’
After thinking, Bai Yu sent a message to the Seventh Group’s case analysis team: “Please help search for students who had conflicts with this elder during his teaching tenure, especially those who dropped out and were considered good-for-nothings.”
“Received!”
After about fifteen minutes of busy work, it was concluded.
“Let’s go.”
Bai Yu had already obtained information on several targets and felt a little excited.
Suppressing his excitement for the moment, he asked, “Group Leader, where are we going now?”
He was thinking of understanding where the Group Leader was going and then guiding them towards the Yunan Electronics Factory as much as possible.
However, Li Yunbin said, “There’s a newly identified suspect at the nearby Thunder KTV. They’re a Blood Slave, not very strong, so you can practice on them.”
“Nani? (ω)! Are we not dealing with this case anymore?”
“The information has been collected, and someone in the group will analyze the case. Our Combat Squad’s mission is to apprehend.”
As he spoke, he sent the information to Bai Yu.
“Uh…”
Over the next three hours, Bai Yu apprehended a total of four Blood Slaves.
From the simple and crude interrogation, they all heard tempting voices and then found Blood Vials at home.
After drinking them, they discovered they had gained superpowers.
As for the origin of the Blood Vials, Li Yunbin only knew that the mastermind was a Vampire Baron.
After capturing four Blood Slaves, the car was still circling the Cloud Lake area.
Bai Yu couldn’t help but ask, “Captain, how many Blood Slaves have we captured so far, and where did the information about this so-called Vampire Baron come from?”
“Including the deceased, there are 53 in total, all modified after drinking Blood Vials. The information about the Vampire Baron came from Director Yang, the Senior you met at the entrance last night.”
Hearing this, Bai Yu fell into thought.
From the actions this morning, he had a general understanding of the Seventh Group’s operational logic.
A large logistics team analyzed vast amounts of information from surveillance and hidden spiritual energy cameras.
The Combat Squad was primarily responsible for on-site processing and apprehension.
They were not involved in the case-solving process.
However, this Vampire Baron was too much of a troublemaker, creating so many Blood Slaves!
‘There was intelligence that I died in the Blood Pool case at the end of the year. Could this damn Baron live until then???’
At this moment, the vehicle was passing by the Yunan Electronics Factory. Bai Yu thought that the perpetrator of the serial murder case was probably still working.
‘The excuse of wanting to see my cousin is too far-fetched.’
How could he make the car stop?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up. He extended his right hand, and the Golden Page appeared.
Liu Feifei twirled a strand of hair around her finger and asked curiously, “What are you doing?”
Bai Yu didn’t reply but injected Spiritual Energy, activating the Tracking Technique.
Based on the technique knowledge obtained from the Golden Page, if an enemy was within 100 to 1000 meters, there was a possibility of a reaction.
It mainly depended on whether the opponent was emitting energy fluctuations.
Enemies with strong concealment abilities would be more difficult to deal with.
But the target this time used external forces like the Evil God Dagger, so perhaps…
As a result, the Golden Page showed no reaction for a long time.
‘Alright, the Tracking Technique didn’t light up.’
Liu Feifei comforted him, “The fluctuation left by the serial murder case’s perpetrator at the scene was level 5 or higher, and their methods were so evil. They are definitely not ordinary fodder, not easy to catch.”
“Sigh, we used to try to pursue a case to the end, but it wasted a lot of time and energy.”
“This current model is definitely the most efficient. It can quickly eliminate these pests to a large extent.”
“Leave the case investigation to others.”
At this moment, Zhao Bin’s tablet lit up.
He carefully read the information, then glanced at Bai Yu, and then at Li Yunbin, saying, “Captain, regarding the perpetrator of this serial murder case, the Analysis Team has locked down an area and identified four suspect targets.”
