The First Marquis of Daxuan

Chapter 35: Nancheng Murder Case (Please read, collect, and vote for the monthly ticket)
After an unknown amount of time, Fa and Su Mu woke up from their coma.

Every inch of his skin felt like it was piercing him with sharp pain. Just moving a little made him grimace in pain. He dared not move even a little bit.

Although he was in pain all over, Su Mu could clearly feel the changes in his body.

There seemed to be a hot current flowing under the membrane, and he could even clearly feel the strength of his body increasing.

The severe pain in the body is caused by too many skin sheddings in a short period of time.

As time passed, the pain gradually subsided, and Su Mu finally sat up.

He touched the skin lightly with his fingers and clearly felt that the skin's toughness had improved a lot compared to before.

After a moment of hesitation, Su Mu pulled out the knife and the blade gently scratched his skin.

It felt like cutting thick cowhide, and there was a noticeable sense of resistance in my hands.

The blade only left a white mark on the skin, but no blood was seen.

Su Mu showed surprise on his face. Although he didn't use much force, it was a blade after all.

In the past, there would have been bleeding.

"The minor level of skin hardening has already had this effect. If the skin hardening is perfected, then ordinary people with ordinary weapons will find it difficult to pierce my skin."

Su Mu was very satisfied with the effect of the Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method.

He stood up and made a few knife moves.

"The increase in strength is not that big, but my physical strength has increased a lot. Before, I was afraid that I would be exhausted if I used Fu Bo Sabre Force once with all my strength, but now I should be able to use it twice."

Su Mu evaluated his own changes.

Even though you can only perform the Fu Bo sword technique one more time, it could mean the difference between life and death at a critical moment.

After entering the Body Tempering Stage, there is already a gap between him and an ordinary adult male. This gap may not be big now, but as his strength increases, this gap will become bigger and bigger.

If the skin is tempered perfectly, he can beat three to five adult men with his bare hands.

[Name: Su Mu]

[Identity: Constable (officer)]

[Points: 10 points]

[Kung Fu: Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method (Minor Success)]

[Martial Arts: Fubo Sword Skills (Perfect), Archery (Beginner)]

After becoming familiar with the power of the Skin Tempering Skill, Su Mu called out the system panel.

He turned his attention to the golden scale skin quenching method.

"Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method, from minor to major success, requires 300 points."

Su Mu muttered to himself when he saw the prompt appearing on the panel.

"If you earn 15 points a day on average, it will take 300 days to earn 20 points."

Minor success in five days, major success in twenty days, this progress of skin hardening is unimaginable for ordinary people.

Even those children of large families have no shortage of spiritual fluids for cultivation, but the amount of medicinal power that their bodies can withstand each day is limited. It takes at least one or two years of hard work to fully temper their skin.

However, with the help of the panel, Su Mu's skin tempering efficiency has been improved to the extreme. Although the process is a bit painful, the result is very satisfactory.

If you start from a worse point than others and don’t work harder, how can you expect to catch up with the accumulation of several generations of others?

"With the Golden Scale Skin Tempering Technique, I only need to be careful and dormant. At most, it will take a year or two for the skin to be tempered completely. By then, combined with my Fu Bo Blade Power, there won't be many people in the outer city who can threaten my life."

Su Mu said to himself.

With the perfect skin tempering and the Fu Bo sword power, ordinary people at the second level of body tempering may not be his match.

In the outer city, there are only a handful of people who have reached the third level of Body Tempering, and those who have reached the second level of Body Tempering are already extremely rare masters.

As he was thinking, Su Mu felt a little tired, so he tidied himself up and went to bed.

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The next morning, at dawn, Su Mu had already arrived at the Nanchengsi Yamen.

During these days, he has been the most dedicated constable in Nancheng Division. He comes the earliest and leaves the latest, killing his colleagues and exhausting himself.

In the past, the yamen was almost empty at this time. But today, when Su Mu arrived at the classroom, there were already seven or eight constables gathered together, whispering about something.

Su Mu walked over with some curiosity.

"Twenty-one people, twenty-one people from top to bottom, not a single one was left alive, the deaths were so tragic."

The speaker was an old constable named Zhang San.

"There is not even a complete body now. Even the coroner who performed the autopsy vomited several times before he was able to piece the body together."

Zhang San danced with joy and said, "It's just that I have more experience. If you were there, I'm afraid you would vomit more violently than that coroner."

Su Mu stood outside the crowd and listened for a while, and finally understood what was going on.

A murder occurred in South City last night.

The outer city has always been in chaos, especially at night, with various gang fights happening all the time and deaths are not uncommon.

But this murder case is rather special, not only because many people died, but also because the victim was a wealthy man in South City who was also related to a big shot in the inner city.

"In my opinion, the perpetrator is most likely one of the wanted criminals."

Zhang San concluded.

"Everyone, be careful when you patrol the streets these days. Don't run into this vicious man. If you do run into him, run away if you can."

Another old detective said.

"hey-hey."

Zhang San chuckled, "If we really run into this, it's just good luck. Sima said that whoever can catch the murderer will be promoted to squad leader immediately."

"That requires life."

All the detectives were very sober.

The criminals on the wanted criminal list are at least strong men who have reached the first level of body tempering. If they had that ability, wouldn’t they have become team leaders long ago?

After they discussed for a while, it was already dawn, so they dispersed, yawning.

"Hey, I don't know what bad luck this Zhao family has. Not long ago, Mr. Zhao was killed, and now the whole family is wiped out. It's a pity that the family wealth is left without an owner."

When the show was over, Zhang San spoke in a drawling tone, like he was singing an opera.

Su Mu paused for a moment. Mr. Zhao? Sounds familiar.
By the way, Zhang Chong from the Chai Gang once suspected that he was the murderer of Mr. Zhao.

Su Mu shook his head. What does it have to do with him?
His top priority now is to lie low and accumulate strength secretly, thinking it is better to do less than more.

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In the next few days, Su Mu continued to perform his duties diligently and responsibly, without slacking off at all.

It was originally thought that the Zhao family's massacre would be like previous cases in Nancheng and would soon be settled and become an unsolved murder case.

But this time, things did not calm down, but instead escalated.

After the Zhao family massacre, two more tragedies occurred in succession in Nancheng.

Like the Zhao family, it was a tragic case of family annihilation, and the victims were all wealthy people in South City.

Su Mu also experienced the scene personally. The yard was full of broken limbs and arms. For several days afterwards, his nose was still filled with the smell of blood.

Sima He Yuxing and acting chief constable Zhao Ji also began to get anxious. They asked the constables to increase patrols, posted notices to appease the people, and threatened that they would definitely bring the murderer to justice.

"I heard that our Lord Sima was originally going to be promoted, but now there have been a series of tragic cases of annihilation of families, which will most likely affect his evaluation. No wonder he is so anxious. Anyone who catches the murderer will be rewarded with 300 taels of silver and promoted to the head of the class. Tsk tsk."

Several black-robed constables were walking slowly on the street, and one of them spoke.

"If I had three hundred taels of silver, I would go to Cuihonglou and call two girls, no, three! I would have fun all night long!"

Another constable said.

"Look at your lack of ability. If you want to work, you have to go to Jiaofangsi or Cuihonglou, which are for low-ranking people. You dare not even dream of being big. You deserve to be a small errand boy for the rest of your life."

A constable curled his lips and said, "If it were me, I would definitely sleep with that courtesan!"

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(End of this chapter)