Chapter 149: Start Forming a Team
"Let's go and see what's going on."
Tang Chuan and Dugu Bo exchanged a glance, their faces slightly gloomy.
Dugu Bo nodded, and the two moved swiftly, leaping across rooftops like shooting stars toward the source of the blood scent, covering several streets in moments.
Minutes later, they silently descended into a remote alley.
A horrific scene greeted them.
Several Soul Masters lay sprawled on the ground, their bodies desiccated as if drained of all blood, resembling mummies with skin clinging to bones, their faces frozen in terror.
"What a cruel method... Something clearly sucked the vitality from their bodies," Dugu Bo said, squatting to inspect, his expression growing darker.
Tang Chuan crouched beside him, examining the corpses closely. He noticed unnatural fractures in their ribs and limbs, as if they'd been crushed by something thin and constricting.
He gestured for Dugu Bo to check the marks. "This looks like strangulation, maybe by a snake-like Spirit?" Dugu Bo mused, frowning.
Tang Chuan shook his head, measuring the wound's width. "No. Your Jade Phosphor Serpent would leave wider marks. These are only palm-width."
He paused, his face darkening as a realization hit. "These marks… they're similar to that of Blue Silver Grass..."
When Dugu Bo heard Tang Chuan say that these people were strangled to death by Blue Silver Grass, he immediately raised his head and stared at the latter with a strange look.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I was with you just now." Seeing this, Tang Chuan's eyes turned white and he said speechlessly.
Dugu Bo shook his head, a complicated expression on his old face. He said in a deep voice, "It's not that I doubt you, but when I heard you mention Blue Silver Grass, I thought of someone."
"Are you talking about Tang San from Shrek Academy?" Tang Chuan raised an eyebrow.
Dugu Bo nodded, lowered his head again to look over the bodies of these people, and said, "Let's look for other clues together."
After carefully examining the dried corpses in front of them, the two men suddenly stopped moving at the same time.
They found that there were eight tiny holes neatly distributed on the backs or chests of these corpses, and the arrangement was very strange.
"This is...!?"
Their pupils shrank slightly, and Dugu Bo and Tang Chuan's expressions instantly became solemn.
"This... is this the wound left by the Eight Spider Lances? It's a pity that we were a step too late and let this guy get away." Tang Chuan said angrily with a dark face.
Dugu Bo nodded, a flicker of regret in his cloudy eyes. He said, "I can't be wrong. Blue Silver Grass plus Eight Spider Lances... he really is Tang San from Shrek Academy. I just didn't expect that the son of the dignified Clear Sky Douluo would embark on an evil path for power, becoming the degenerate that everyone hates."
"This beast!" Hearing this, Tang Chuan clenched his fists violently, his knuckles making a crackling sound, veins popping out on his forehead, and his voice was filled with uncontrollable anger.
"Don't let me catch him red-handed, or I'll destroy him myself!"
Dugu Bo looked at Tang Chuan's unusually excited reaction in surprise and asked doubtfully: "Why are you so angry? Oh, I remember I asked you before. You both have the surname Tang, he is Tang Hao's son, and you know Tang Hao..."
Having said that, he suddenly paused, and a look of realization flashed in his eyes.
"Are you two relatives?"
Tang Chuan turned his face away suddenly, and then turned his back to Dugu Bo. He did not choose to answer the question directly, but said in a low voice: "You'll know the relationship between him and me sooner or later. I'm not telling you because I'm ashamed to have any relationship with such a person."
"Let's go, we should go back to the academy."
After saying that, he walked out of the alley, his figure gradually blending into the thick night.
Looking at Tang Chuan's receding back, a glimmer of enlightenment flashed in Dugu Bo's eyes, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his old face, as if he had guessed something.
A month passed in a flash.
During this month, people in Heaven Dou City were in panic. People died from time to time, and their bodies were all dried up, exactly the same as the victims who were first discovered.
The Heaven Dou royal family sent people to investigate many times, but the murderer acted meticulously and nothing was found.
Even Dugu Bo and Tang Chuan went out at night several times, trying to catch Tang San in the act.
But this guy is extremely cunning, and the time and place of his crimes are not fixed at all.
Today he is in the slums in the east of the city, tomorrow he may be in the aristocratic district in the west of the city, and the day after tomorrow he will appear in the commercial street in the north of the city. In the huge Heaven Dou City, no one can predict where he will strike next.
"It seems that it will be very difficult to catch this beast in this huge Heaven Dou City." Standing on the roof overlooking the whole city, the night wind blew the loose hair on Tang Chuan's forehead.
Dugu Bo was also standing on the roof at this moment. He turned to look at Tang Chuan and said in a deep voice, "If we want to catch this guy in the act, I think we have to use bait to lure him."
"Bait?" Hearing this, Tang Chuan waved his hand, the moonlight shining on his slightly tired face. He said, "It's okay. Even if we don't catch him now, there will still be a chance later."
As he spoke, a playful smile flashed across his face.
"Given Tang San's personality, he'll definitely continue to commit crimes on the field once the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition begins. Then, we can set a trap and catch him red-handed, bringing ruin to both him and his teacher, Yu Xiaogang."
"That's a good idea." Dugu Bo nodded and smiled.
Then he changed the subject.
"By the way, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition will begin in a few months. Seven people are needed to participate in the competition. How many people do you have now?"
"How many people?" After a moment's silence, Tang Chuan unconsciously rubbed his chin with his fingers and said, "Me, Rui'er, your granddaughter, and Xue Qinghe's sister..."
Having said that, he sighed, and a hint of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
"There are four of us here now, and we're still short of three more."
"No, there should be two more people missing. Xue Qinghe told me a few days ago that Ning Fengzhi will send his daughter to our academy soon."
As he finished speaking, the night wind blew by, and the two of them stood on the roof in silence for a moment.
Only the sound of the night watchman's clapper in the distance slowly echoed in the night.
"What should we do with the two remaining people?" Dugu Bo frowned after pondering for a moment.
Tang Chuan waved his hand, jumped down from the roof, and said seriously: "It's easy to solve this problem. Let's go back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and ask the people from the Royal Dou team if anyone is willing to join us."
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