CHAPTER 79: CHAPTER 64 STRANGE OLD ZHANG? (6.7K)

"Become an immortal? Old Zhang, are you saying this murderer, him? Is he cultivating now? Ascending?"

With Zhang Feng’s words, everyone understood.

So it’s not murder, but some kind of premeditated flight using ’qi’ to ascend?

As they thought about it and looked at the bizarre corpse, even in the midst of the hot August of Great Xia, their backs felt chilled, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Zhang Feng." Captain Wang was also sweating palms from listening, but he seriously looked at Zhang Feng, "Are you sure you’re not joking? You’re pretty much half a veteran in our team, now you’re talking about supernatural forces?"

"How come I’ve never heard you mention these ways before?"

"You never asked before." Zhang Feng spoke the truth; in his memories, he and Captain Wang rarely talked in private.

They weren’t good friends, so such topics might not even come up.

"Is this false?"

At the same time, others also felt the factory was filled with chilling winds.

Giving a feeling reminiscent of ghost stories heard as children.

Especially when there’s truly a corpse with an eerie death stance lying nearby.

’Could it jump up?’ A young officer thought and moved towards the perimeter.

"Cultivation is definitely fake." Zhang Feng shook his head, ignoring the skeptical gazes from those around him, "I was just speaking according to his thought process, about what he might do."

"Only that previous speculation perfectly fits the current scene signs."

Zhang Feng walked to the incense ash.

"Besides causing nausea, Black Dust Incense theoretically has a qi-gathering effect."

In his mind, perhaps it’s to gather qi, borrow qi.

But it could also be intentionally left, making our minds unclear, delaying investigation time."

"Delaying is definitely true." Captain Wang rubbed his temples, "I’ve been feeling nauseous all along, young ones can’t take it even more."

"Same here." The old detectives around were not much better off.

Though some are now mentoring apprentices, they can’t just run outside to vomit like youngsters.

Wouldn’t that ruin the master’s image?

"According to your hypothesis." Captain Wang was more concerned about the case, asking Zhang Feng: "Can you use these talisman papers and the scene to speculate more psychological profiles of the murderer?"

"Such a person is hard to guess." Zhang Feng was blunt: "Because right now, I can only guess his motive."

"As for whether my guess is right, although it sounds harsh, indeed, it depends on his next crime method."

"If it’s the method of extracting the other ’Four Swords, Four Qi’, then he is indeed gathering qi."

"If truly so, then he is cultivating."

"In terms of psychology, he might look like a ’seeker’ who doesn’t care about societal views or human lives."

When Zhang Feng thought of this person, he felt somewhat expectant inside.

Because cultivation is fake, through this incident, Zhang Feng speculated that this person has some insights into ’the five elements of the internal organs.’

It’s possible there might be related practices.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t go through such a hassle.

Of course, he could also be blindly making trouble, thinking it’s quite interesting.

Such a person’s thoughts are even harder to guess.

"Seeker? You mean..." Captain Wang was concerned about something else, "If the murderer is gathering qi, then at some point in the future, will there be four more victims appearing one after another?"

"Hmm." Zhang Feng nodded, glancing at the corpse again.

If such people were dying, then let them die.

Drawing that person out could also be a good thing.

"How to prevent?" Another detective asked another question, "Do we have a way to preemptively identify the next victim?"

"Can’t lock in." Zhang Feng glanced at him and looked at the corpse one last time, "I’ve read some I Ching and heard Xiaoli talk about this person’s basic information and birth date."

"Though the exact birth time is unknown, nor the true solar time."

"But just based on the Eight Characters of the previous birth data, this person has no interaction with Heart Fire."

"So there’s a high probability the opponent is indiscriminately killing."

"This is a major hidden danger." Captain Wang nodded heavily, then mustered up energy, preparing to continue collecting evidence before medicine arrived.

Zhang Feng also stayed busy, helping out.

However, the cameras near the factory were all broken, which wasn’t good news.

But in subsequent collections,

Captain Wang and others successively found fingerprints suspected to belong to the criminal suspect on the wooden sword.

Fingerprint, record it first.

Then the wooden sword was sent to the city bureau to see if related personnel could collect biological information (DNA) from it.

Human skin constantly secretes oily substances, leaving these behind.

...

The next day.

People inside and outside the factory, as long as they didn’t have an alibi at the time, were questioned one after another, and fingerprints were taken.

Captain Wang and others prepared to first scrutinize the people around the victim, to see if they could find ’the murderer.’

Including the victim’s social relations, which Captain Wang and they contacted to investigate.

Perhaps because Zhang Feng understood some Taoist concepts, it was helpful for psychological profiling the suspect.

Then the bureau exceptionally arranged, asking Zhang Feng’s opinions, inquiring if Zhang Feng could act as a consultant, following the case.

Zhang Feng naturally joined.

On that day, because the case was exceptionally difficult and complex, and after media reporting that day, the external influence was enormous.

The 8.03 special task force was established.

Zhang Feng immediately assisted in ’initially enhancing choice’ for the major case."

Zhang Feng was happy.

Then, after being busy for two consecutive days.

Zhang Feng was unhappy.

Because police and manpower were limited, he had to strive to solve it once and for all.