After sending a message to Dai Mubai on his phone, Oschin put away his soul-guided camera and the small wooden box containing what appeared to be bat excrement, and quickly flew towards the threshing ground on his anti-gravity soul-guided skateboard.
Beside the threshing ground, Tang San and Zhao Wuji, having completed their autopsies, were resting in the village's wooden Spirit Hall. Having tracked their movements using his soul-guided device, Oschin directly flew into the Spirit Hall on his anti-gravity soul-guided skateboard. He was still traumatized by the corpses scattered on the ground and avoided looking at them if possible.
Jumping off the skateboard, Oschin first asked Zhao Wuji, "Teacher Zhao, Dean Flander should have arrived in Hulan Motuo City by now, right? Did he tell you anything about the Spirit Hall?"
"That birdman Flander has indeed arrived in Hulan Motuo City, but he hasn't rushed to report this to the Spirit Hall. Although judging from the situation in the other five villages, it seems the Spirit Hall has indeed begun investigating this case of evil spirit masters massacring villages, considering that no news of evil spirit masters has come from Silves City and Sentan City, which are very close to Hulan Motuo City, we must be wary of the possibility that the Spirit Hall in Hulan Motuo City has been infiltrated by evil spirit masters.
You know, the complete slaughter of the villagers in five villages by evil spirit masters is no small matter. According to the Spirit Hall's usual way of doing things, the Spirit Hall in Hulan Motuo City would request cooperation from the Spirit Halls in neighboring cities for the search. However, judging from the actions of us teachers last night, the Spirit Halls in these surrounding cities are unaware of the evil spirit master case around Hulan Motuo City, which is very abnormal."
"The Spirit Hall can also be infiltrated by evil spirit masters?" Tang San felt somewhat incredulous after hearing Zhao Wuji's words.
Although the massacre of villages around Hulan Motuo City was extremely heinous, Tang San, who had just talked with Zhao Wuji, knew that the perpetrator of such a case was likely a single evil spirit master, not a large organization of evil spirit masters. The Spirit Hall, a behemoth spread across almost every corner of the Douluo Continent, should theoretically be impossible for a single evil spirit master to influence.
"It might not be the Spirit Hall; the City Lord's Mansion is also a possibility. Although the Spirit Hall has its own communication channels, these kinds of wanted notices are generally relayed by the City Lord's Mansion. If the evil spirit master who committed the crime could control the information flow through the City Lord's Mansion, they could also block information transmission."
Compared to Tang San's surprise, Oschin was quite calm. He had already vaguely guessed that the evil spirit master who committed this crime might have the ability to control creatures like bats, so even if the evil spirit master could block information flow between cities to a certain extent, Oschin wasn't too surprised. After all, at this stage, communication methods on the Douluo Continent were still at the level of ancient Chinese postal stations and carrier pigeons.
"What Xiao Ao said is a possibility, but let's leave the judgment to Flander and Master who have already entered the city. You two might as well tell me what clues you've found this morning. Tang San, you've rested for a while, so you go first."
"Alright, I've examined all the bodies on the threshing ground this morning, and I have two main findings.
First, I'm pretty sure that, apart from the few villagers on the outskirts who showed obvious signs of struggle before death, the other villagers were unconscious until their deaths. There was no struggle; they were just sleeping peacefully.
This proves Xiao Ao's earlier guess that these villagers left their homes in the early morning "voluntarily," that they were all hypnotized, and that the evil spirit master possessed powerful group hypnosis abilities.
Second, my other finding concerns my guess about how the villagers' blood was drained. I found two small, bluish-black holes on each villager's neck, with traces of blood around them. Given that these were the only external injuries on these villagers, I have reason to suspect that their blood was drained through these two holes."
"Hmm, your conclusion is basically the same as Flander's conclusion last night. The only thing missing is that you didn't find out which direction the evil spirit master retreated from afterward."
"I do have a guess about that," Oschin spoke up before Zhao Wuji could reveal the final answer. "The evil soul master passed through the wheat field southwest of the village and went directly into the large pine forest in that direction."
"No problem, but how did you know that? Could Cowen already track a scent he'd never smelled before amidst such complex atmosphere?"
"No, not at all. I discovered it by chance in the southwest wheat field during a drone aerial reconnaissance and a wide-area scanning survey. It looked like a trail left by a soul master using soul power to quickly pass through.
I had Cowen check it, but the trail only had a very faint smell of blood, and even that disappeared after entering the pine forest. Cowen couldn't track it by scent."
"A soul tool, I have reason to believe it's something that can advance the development of Douluo Continent. Let's talk about other discoveries. Flander and I didn't find any valuable clues in the villagers' homes last night." "But your expression tells me that you found something during the search."
Nodding, Oschin handed the two small wooden boxes and the soul-guided camera to Zhao Wuji and Tang San respectively.
"This is all my findings. There was only one evil spirit master who perpetrated this massacre, not the two I had previously suspected. This evil spirit master doesn't have the ability to hypnotize, but he does have the ability to control beasts. He can control a group of bat-like spirit beasts, which helped him hypnotize over three hundred people in the entire village.
Furthermore, according to Xiao San's observations, these bat-like spirit beasts were likely the key to helping the evil spirit master drain all the villagers' blood.
The two boxes contain the fur and excrement of those spirit beasts, respectively. I collected the fur in the open space on the threshing ground, and the excrement was collected under the rafters of the villagers' houses. The photos in the soul-guided camera are the claw marks left by those spirit beasts on the rafters.
My understanding of spirit beasts is insufficient to analyze what kind of spirit beasts they are, but I know that a group of flying spirit beasts cannot hide their tracks as easily as a single person. This might be the breakthrough to finding the evil spirit master's whereabouts."
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