After hearing her master's words, Miaomiao wasted no time and took Wei Ziqi to Liao Che's home.
They arrived just in time. When they got there, Liao Che was engaged in a fierce fight with two masked men in black. His anxious parents stood by the side, and he was at a slight disadvantage.
Seeing this, Miaomiao quickly stepped forward to help. These two men weren't that highly skilled in martial arts. They were just relying on their numbers, taking turns to wear Liao Che out. Judging from the mess in the room, they must have been fighting for quite a while.
Many of the neighbors were woken up, but they didn't dare to go out when they heard the ruckus, for fear of getting involved.
Miaomiao helped Liao Che capture these two men alive. Then she quickly called her second uncle and had someone take them to the police station.
While Liao Che's parents were tidying up the mess, Miaomiao pulled Liao Che aside and asked anxiously, "Liao Che, when we had a martial - arts competition when we were kids, did you use hidden weapons to hurt me or yourself?"
"Ah? I intended to attack you." Liao Che was a bit confused, not knowing why Miaomiao was asking him such a question.
"Okay, I see." Hearing this answer, Miaomiao was a bit disappointed. Their guess seemed to be wrong.
Maybe the person who framed her master in the martial - arts competition and the one who instructed Liao Che to use hidden weapons were not the same person?
"Wait, Miaomiao. Although I don't know why you're asking this, through today's chaos, I kind of understand. You must be investigating the affairs of my former sect, right? I never received an order to hurt myself during a competition, but I heard that others did. At that time, I was still young. I had good martial - arts talent and was the favorite disciple of my master, so no one would give me such an order. But for other less important disciples, when participating in important martial - arts competitions, if they encountered a strong opponent, they would harm themselves to frame the other side. In the milder cases, they would lose all their martial - arts skills but would be well - supported by the sect until they died. In the more serious cases, they would lose their lives. Since all the people in our sect were orphans adopted by my former master, there was no need to compensate their families. Such situations were rare because large - scale martial - arts competitions were held relatively infrequently, and the chance of encountering a much stronger opponent was even smaller, but it wasn't unheard of. During the more than a decade I was in the sect, two disciples died in this way."
Liao Che stopped Miaomiao who was about to leave and told her everything he knew.
"It seems that it might really be the same group of people. Liao Che, do you know about gu worms?" Wei Ziqi was overjoyed. This might be the breakthrough. With a lead, it wouldn't be difficult to continue the investigation.
"Gu worms? I don't know. I've seen a lot about them in online novels, but I've never seen them in real life." Liao Che thought carefully and shook his head.
"Do you recognize the people who came to cause trouble for you today?"
"I don't recognize them. But I'm sure they were using the martial arts of my former sect. There were a large number of people in the sect. It's not strange that there are new disciples I don't know after I've been away for so many years. Judging from their martial - arts skills, they're probably not core disciples. Most likely they're just cannon fodder."
After this series of inquiries, Miaomiao firmly believed that all this was the doing of Liao Che's sect. Although she didn't know what their purpose was, now that she had a target, she could just go and ask them.
"Liao Che, can you give me the address of your sect?"
"Sure. I'll send you the address by text message later."
"Okay, thank you."
After getting a positive answer, Miaomiao rushed to the police station in a hurry. The two people who attacked Liao Che must know something. They had used killing moves just now, clearly intending to kill Liao Che. Without any deep - seated hatred, this was probably an attempt to silence them.
"Second uncle, I'm back. Have you found out anything from the two people we just caught?"
"Not yet. They just arrived at the police station. Miaomiao, did you get any useful information there?" Seeing Miaomiao come back, Second Uncle Lin looked up from a pile of documents and asked eagerly.
"I found out some things. My master's family was destroyed when he was young because he was framed for using gu worms. Also, when I was a kid, I almost got ambushed during a martial - arts competition. The person who tried to ambush me was later saved by me and became my friend. He's now in Nancheng. The two people we just caught were going to kill my friend. My friend told me that in his former sect, some people would harm themselves to frame others when they couldn't win a competition, which is exactly the same as the frame - up my master suffered. So I suspect that his sect is the real culprit who hurt my master."
"Do you have any substantial evidence? If it's just based on a few coincidences and guesses, this reasoning doesn't hold water and can't be established. But we can start from the matter of his sect harming others. Is his sect in Nancheng?" Second Uncle Lin asked after thinking for a while.
Ah! She almost forgot about this.
Miaomiao quickly opened her phone. The address Liao Che sent was in the imperial capital, not Nancheng.
"It's not in Nancheng. It's in the imperial capital."
"The imperial capital. That's a bit tricky. I have to contact the police in the imperial capital first. After getting approval, we can start joint investigations..."
Second Uncle Lin's words were interrupted. Suddenly, the office door was opened. A young policeman outside looked extremely anxious and said, "Something's wrong, Chief. The two people we just caught suddenly died!"
"What?! How could this happen? They were fine when they were brought in. How could they suddenly die?!"
Second Uncle Lin was greatly shocked. Just when they had found a clue, it was cut off like this?
If what Miaomiao said was true, these two people would be the most powerful witnesses.
"We don't know what happened. They were really fine when we brought them in. As soon as they were sent to the interrogation room, they started twitching all over. They died within a minute. We didn't even have time to rescue them."
The young policeman seemed to be new to the job. He had never seen such a scene before and looked very flustered.
"Send the bodies to the forensic department for an autopsy. Note that you must take good safety measures. No one is allowed to touch the bodies with their skin. Thoroughly clean and disinfect the place where they were held, leaving no corner untouched."
Such a strange death made Second Uncle Lin very worried. The human trafficker they caught before also died suddenly during the interrogation, and there were gu worms all over his body. If someone touched them, it would be bad if they got infected.
"Miaomiao, don't be too anxious. After the autopsy report comes out, if there are gu worms on their bodies, we can justifiably follow this lead. Then I'll contact the police in the imperial capital and start the interrogation. As long as they've done something wrong, we'll always find some clues."
Second Uncle Lin still didn't forget to comfort the extremely anxious Miaomiao. But when Miaomiao heard this, she knew that it would probably take a long time and the procedures would most likely be very complicated.
"So how soon can it be at the earliest?"
"If the autopsy report is sent to the imperial capital smoothly, it will probably take about a week."