Although Lin Fan's Fire Serpent Technique had greatly reduced the power of the Green Silk Curse, this case was not over yet. The culprit was not the curse, but the culprit.
Led by Lin Fan, the higher-ups of the Jingye Bureau were determined to dig up the culprit even if they had to dig three feet into the ground.
Thus, the Jingye Bureau began to get busy. More than two hundred people were sent out to search the troupe of Three Celebrations Garden for clues.
They searched for a whole month, first secretly investigating, then openly investigating. The group of people almost turned the entire Qingzhou upside down, but in the end, there were no clues at all.
Sai Jinyu and the troupe of Three Celebrations Garden seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. There was no trace of them.
However, Lin Fan and the others were not discouraged. They must give the victims an explanation.
Lin Fan decided to expand the search area and secretly investigate the surrounding areas of Jiangzhou.
At this time, the target of their investigation was no longer limited to the troupe of Three Celebrations Garden, but also the culprit.
For this reason, Lin Fan looked for historical materials related to the Green Silk Curse and found that the case of the Green Silk Curse was indeed as Gong Ziyu said. It was not the work of ghosts, but a man-made disaster.
Moreover, it was not purely a disaster caused by the Green Silk Curse. The ultimate goal was to obtain a large amount of fresh blood. This meant that the culprit was cultivating some kind of Qi and blood technique.
For example, when Lin Fan trained his body with blood, if he had a large amount of blood essence, his cultivation would have improved very quickly. However, whether it was innate conditions or moral bottom line, Lin Fan would not do such a heinous thing.
However, what was certain was that the person who had committed such a heinous crime was most likely someone like him, who used Blood Tempering as a foundation and cultivated Qi and blood related cultivation methods or spells.
Based on this, he could narrow down the scope of his search. After all, there were not many martial practitioners who had cultivated the Blood Tempering Body. Furthermore, martial practitioners who could cultivate the Green Silk Incantation, or martial practitioners who had used the Green Silk Incantation to gather Blood Essence for Blood Tempering Body, were definitely very powerful.
They were definitely not ordinary people.
Therefore, even if they usually kept a low profile, they would still show up.
Just like him, Lin Fan. Although he hadn't started his career early, in just over a year, he was already one of the top figures in Qingzhou.
Furthermore, based on his intuition, Lin Fan felt that the caster was most likely not within the borders of Qing Province. Thus, the four of them disguised themselves and went to the four prefectures outside of Qing Province to investigate.
On this day, Lin Fan came to Jiangzhou alone.
He came to Luoshui City, the capital of Jiang State. After asking around, he finally found out that there was a Blood Training martial artist in Luoshui City. He was mediocre at the beginning of his martial arts practice, but unexpectedly, his cultivation improved by leaps and bounds in the past two years. At the age of twenty, he was already at the peak of Internal Training and had begun Qi Cultivation. Moreover, he possessed a powerful Qi Cultivation Method, and his strength far exceeded that of martial artists of the same level. This person was called Wang Chao.
After receiving this news, Lin Fan was very excited. However, this did not mean that the Black Silk Mystery Case was the work of this dynasty. After all, Jiang District was vast and had many talented people. There were still some people who practiced Blood Training. Therefore, Lin Fan secretly investigated the dynasty.
After a week of investigation, Lin Fan basically figured out the general trajectory of Wang Chao's activities.
For three days in a row, Wang Chao would bring a prostitute to a remote courtyard every night.
As he was afraid of alerting the enemy, Lin Fan did not enter the house and only observed from outside.
Lin Fan thought that Wang Chao was visiting prostitutes, but the three women did not come out after entering the house. This inevitably made him suspicious.
In order to investigate clearly, Lin Fan decided to investigate after Wang Chao left the house.
On this day, early in the morning, Wang Chao left the house. Lin Fan followed him from afar for a while. After seeing that he was far away from the area, Lin Fan decisively turned back and directly entered the house.
At this moment, Lin Fan felt a little guilty. After all, this was not the territory of Qingzhou and was not within the scope of his investigation. Furthermore, he did not contact the Jingye Bureau in Jiang District. It would be fine if he could discover something strange. However, if he did not discover anything strange and was bumped into by someone, then he, Lin Fan, would be suspected of theft.
There was no one in the courtyard. Because it was remote, it was completely silent. There was a main hall with three rooms on the left and right. Although it was not luxurious, it was still elegant.
However, it could be seen that the house was very empty. Lin Fan poked open the paper window and peeked inside. He saw that there was not much furniture and there was no fire in the kitchen. Presumably, Wang Chao was the only one living here. This was very normal.
However, what was abnormal was that where were the three prostitutes?
In order to find out more about Wang Chao as soon as possible, Lin Fan did not sleep for three nights and kept watch outside the house.
Unless the three women were transformed from evil ghosts, they must have died in this courtyard.
After finding out that something was strange, Lin Fan became much bolder and directly broke in. Lin Fan carefully checked all the rooms. Although he did not find the three prostitutes, he finally found something strange.
On one of the beds, Lin Fan discovered a few strands of hair that were stained with blood. Looking at the strands of hair, Lin Fan naturally thought of the Green Silk Curse.
When he picked up the bloody hair to check, he found that the hair was very hard, like steel wire. Seeing this, Lin Fan's gaze turned cold. He felt that he was one step closer to the truth.
Thus, he began to carefully check every inch of the ground inside and outside the house, including the yard. When he walked to a locust tree in the yard, words suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. "Corpse Aura + 1."
His eyes flashed and he looked down at the ground under his feet. Using his foot, he found that the soil was quite soft. He twisted the tip of his foot in the soil and actually probed into the soil. At this time, words flashed in front of his eyes again. "Corpse Aura + 3, Corpse Aura + 6."
After increasing to 10 points, the Corpse Aura stopped increasing. This meant that the soil under his feet was a corpse that had just died not long ago. Otherwise, the Corpse Aura would have dissipated long ago.
Without hesitation, Lin Fan dug fiercely and as expected, dug out a female corpse. The female corpse was the prostitute that Wang Chao had brought back to the house last night. This was already expected and was not the main point.
The main point was that the prostitute's long hair was gone and she had become completely bald. Moreover, the corpse was shriveled up as if it had been sucked dry. It was very strange.
Seeing this, Lin Fan could already confirm that this Wang Chao was definitely related to the Green Silk Curse. He was most likely the caster of the Green Silk Curse.
At this time, the sound of footsteps came from outside. Lin Fan's heart trembled and he turned to look. He saw that Wang Chao had already pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. His eyes were fixed on him. There was not the slightest hint of surprise in his eyes, only anger and brutality.
He closed the door behind him and said in a calm tone as he walked over, "I found you last night."
"Is that so?" Lin Fan stood up and turned around. He stared at him and said, "Then why didn't you do anything to me last night?"
"Last night, the restoration of the Green Silk Curse's power was still a little short. Fortunately, it's completely restored now …" Wang Chao stopped three meters in front of Lin Fan. His eyes were vicious, but his tone was still calm and even had a hint of gentleness, as if he was chatting about daily life.
"Uh …" Lin Fan nodded. Not only was his tone calm, but he also had a warm smile on his face. "I've been looking for you for a month and thought I wouldn't be able to find you. Unexpectedly, there was a big surprise today …"
"I'm afraid that the surprise will turn into … a shock!"
After Wang Chao finished speaking, he moved his ten fingers and muttered at the same time. In the next moment, strands of long hair sprang out from the three-meter square where Lin Fan was standing. They grew wildly like wild grass, and there was even blood on the hair. The blood-red hair looked very strange …