C11 Lock range

"Little Liu, come over here. I found something." Old Xu placed his hands on the table, looking at the map, and called out to Liu Zichen.

Liu Zichen hurried over. Even Zhao Yan, who was standing at the door with his head lowered, also went over.

He pointed at a few spots on the map and said, "There's a problem here, this, and the entire sewer. I saw from the police investigation that the time of death is estimated to be 12 o'clock at midnight, and if we assume that these beasts only came out after dark, then the entire area could be their hiding place."

"I'll send someone to check the locations one by one. There will be results soon." Zhao Yan was excited to see that they were chasing after the beasts. He looked at Old Xu and Liu Zichen and said that he would send someone to check on them and it would be done soon.

Old Xu nodded in agreement. "If you want to find out where the beasts are hiding in the shortest amount of time, you can only send out a large area of the ordinary people. But you have to be careful, even though these beasts come out at night, they are not completely defenseless during the day.

"I got it. I'll get someone to do it now." As he walked out of the room, Liu Zichen saw a trace of hatred flash at the corner of Zhao Yan's eyes. He reckoned that Zhao Yan was determined to take revenge, and would not care about the lives of the ordinary people under his command. He hesitated, wondering if he should stop Zhao Yan and let the few of them check on him.

After a moment of hesitation, Zhao Yan walked out of the living room and assigned some people to check the locations according to the map.

"You don't have to be so kind, these demon beasts rely on blood sucking for a living, every day they hurt people. You may be doing this for the safety of a few people, but if you don't let them go out and investigate, as long as you get rid of these demon beasts a few days later, they might harm even more innocent people." Old Xu seemed to be able to see through Liu Zichen's heart, instructing him with a single sentence.

Hearing Old Xu's words, Liu Zichen's heart felt a lot more relaxed. Just now, the feeling of guilt from having an innocent person investigate and send themselves to their deaths had lessened by quite a bit.

"Hehe, you feel that letting these ordinary people track the demon beasts is sending them to their deaths, but have you ever thought that you yourself are also sending yourself to your own death? If it's a soul, you might have a way to deal with it. But what method do you have to deal with a demon beast? " When Old Xu saw Liu Zichen's appearance, he suddenly laughed coldly and pulled out a short knife from his waist. The knife was about two feet long and shone with a cold light as he played around with it as if he was challenging Liu Zichen.

Liu Zichen had known Old Xu for a while, and cooperated with him twice. Although they didn't interact much, it couldn't be counted as little, but he had never seen Old Xu take out this short knife, so he asked curiously, "Eh?" What kind of blade is this? How come I've never seen you use it before? "

"I've been taught by Master to use it against demon beasts. You've never seen it before because there was no chance to use it before. This time, you've finally found a place to use it." Old Xu gently fiddled with his dagger, gesturing back and forth. It seemed that he had high expectations for the future extermination of the demonic beasts.

Suddenly, he remembered that he did not seem to have any kind of weapon, and also did not have any kind of method to fight the demon beasts. Usually, the people he dealt with were all soul bodies, and he had practiced several cultivation techniques to deal with ghosts. Now that he was about to go out and exterminate the demon beasts, he did not have any kind of means to protect himself.

Old Xu did not seem to feel the change in Liu Zichen's mood at all, as he continued to talk while excitedly gesticulating. Liu Zichen noticed and snorted coldly, finding a seat and sitting down. He wondered if he should practice some self-preservation techniques.

He vaguely remembered the old beggar's story about what kind of magic formation he used to deal with those beasts and what kind of incantation could increase his physical strength. However, when he was listening to it, he treated it as a story and neglected the most important thing that he should remember.

"If I had known earlier, I would have remembered everything the old beggar said. But why did he only hastily say it once? Even if it was, why did he only briefly bring such an important thing with him?"

Thinking about the old beggar, Liu Zichen's emotions became complicated. After going through some things, he felt that the old beggar should have left by himself, but he didn't feel that his life was coming to an end and he didn't want to die in front of Liu Zichen's eyes. But now, the more puzzling question was the origin of the old beggar, why would he leave, and why would the old beggar tell those stories.

He could only suppress the doubts in his heart once again. He hoped that after this matter was resolved, he could find the old beggar and ask all his questions one after another.

As he was thinking, he suddenly thought of the mnemonic that the old beggar had forced him to recite. He had told him so many important things, but the old beggar had only said them once in a hurry. Liu Zichen didn't care if he remembered or not, but this mnemonic was something that he had forced Liu Zichen to remember.

"What's so important about this chant?" Is there any other secret? " He was thinking about the chants that the old beggar had forced him to memorize back then. The customer looked at the wall and suddenly remembered the magical formation on the wall that could open the hidden door.

What are these connections?" It's both a mnemonic and a magical formation. The mnemonic that the old beggar made me memorize can strengthen my ability to sense souls, but can it strengthen other things? For example, a formation that can open a secret door in a wall?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it felt like it was going to happen, so he decided to give it a try. When he thought about it, he immediately stood up and walked towards the secret door on the wall, but then he thought for a moment and hesitated. After all, it was only in someone else's house.

"Old Xu, stop scrubbing that broken blade of yours. You said that you've been learning the demonic beast hunting training from your master since you were young?" What did you learn? I see that the diary your master left you has strange diagrams on it. Liu Zichen suddenly remembered that Old Xu's diary had recorded many different types of magical formations. He guessed that Old Xu probably had also learned magical formations, so he thought to ask him if he might be able to learn some useful things.

Hearing Liu Zichen's question about his things from primary school and the diary his master left him, Old Xu just chuckled.

I have learned a bunch of things from Master since young, and it has never been of any use. The diagrams and formations recorded in Master's diary are all used to deal with specific demon beasts, and different types of demon beasts naturally have different ways of dealing with them. In the past, Master let me skillfully memorize them, but unfortunately, I have not used them all the time and have forgotten too much. Old Xu chuckled.

Liu Zichen nodded his head and walked out of the living room. He found a pen and a piece of paper and drew out the magical formation that could open the secret door. He passed it to Old Xu and asked, "Take a look at this magical formation. Have you seen it before? "

I've never seen the exact same one before, but I've seen quite a few similar ones. The inner circle consists of a triangle, a square, a rhombus, and so on, and then a circle of strange characters.

Hearing Old Xu's words, Liu Zichen's heart skipped a beat, pointed at the strange symbols outside the array and said, "You said these are words? "Which country's writing is like this?"

"Tch!" If you don't know enough, must it be the language of some country? "I said that this was the language of a distant unknown domain, and that those monsters probably came from there." Old Xu curled his lips and said in disdain.

Although Liu Zichen really wanted to refute him, but after thinking about it again and again, he felt that what he said made sense, so he didn't immediately refute him. Instead, he humbly asked, "Then what do these words mean? What's the use of this formation? "

"How would I know? If you have nothing to do, then just try out this formation. After a few tries, you'll be able to figure it out." Old Xu shrugged and said nonchalantly.

"Didn't you say that this is a word? You don't even know what this formation is for, and you still have the nerve to say that these symbols are words? " Liu Zichen asked loudly, feeling Old Xu's mouth full of nonsense.

"I originally thought you were quite quick-witted, but now it seems that's it." Old Xu stared at Liu Zichen and snorted, "Can you read English? I don't think you understand? But you see an English sentence. Do you know that's English? "

"Uh, this …" Liu Zichen was rendered speechless by Old Xu's question. He felt that these were two different things, absolutely incomparable, but he couldn't find the right words to refute. He could only stand there in a daze with his mouth wide open.

Old Xu was very satisfied with his eloquence. Seeing Liu Zichen stunned on the spot, he smiled and nodded his head, then walked to the side and continued swinging his short blade.

Liu Zichen was depressed for a while, but then he felt it was funny. Old Xu had this kind of temper, he liked to argue with other people. It didn't matter if he couldn't beat him, so his attention quickly returned to the magical formation.