Chapter 97: Decocting Medicine

  She hung up the phone and looked at Qin Lang with a helpless gaze. To say that Captain Gao didn't believe it, even she felt like everything that had just happened was like a dream, both real and illusory.

  "What did you say?" Qin Lang frowned and said.

  "What else can I say? Can't digest it, you little brat always catch people off guard, I'm almost being messed up by you!" Bai Wuxiao wrinkled her nose.

  What's worrying her is that for now, they can only prove that the person they caught tried to drug and rape someone, but there's no direct evidence proving he's the serial killer, so the next steps of interrogation and finding evidence will be even more difficult.

  "Isn't interrogation your strong suit in criminal investigation? What are you worried about? Besides, I still have other evidence that I haven't told you yet. When Captain Gao arrives, I'll join your interrogation team too!" Qin Lang said, noticing the doubts in Bai Wumo's mind, and comforted him.

  "That's right, heaven has a wide net that nothing can escape from. With you added to it, what am I still afraid of?" Bai Wuxiao nodded firmly.

  "I'm just a lustful person, I saw you were pretty and had some bad thoughts... I'm absolutely a first-time offender, usually I'm a very good person." Wang Dongping heard the two people's conversation and immediately became evasive.

  "First offender?" Qin Lang sneered, "A first offender who knows how to use a compass to manipulate the five elements to prevent the corpse from rotting, you're unprecedented."

  Wang Dongping was taken aback, his eyes wide with shock and his tongue tied, staring at Qin Lang in incredulity, unable to utter a single word.

  He didn't expect this time he would meet his match and be killed off guard.

  Wu Xing? Corpse does not rot?

  Bai Wuxia saw Qin Lang use a sentence that was inexplicable, and immediately ground down the sharp aura of the murderer, as if one word had struck the murderer's weak point.

  She was startled and asked: "What are you playing dumb with him?

  "I've told you now, but you still don't understand. Let's just wait until your interrogation and then you'll slowly come to realize." Qin Lang sighed.

  "You're the one who knows best, we're all idiots!" Bai Wuxiao's eyebrows twisted into a knot as she looked at Qin Lang with a puzzled expression.

  "I'm telling you to hit him at the Fengmen acupoint on his thigh, why are you hitting his lower body?"

  "Where is Chongmen Hole? I heard you say kick his thigh, and in a fit of anger, I kicked him. What's wrong, are you jealous?" Bai Wuxiao smiled mischievously.

  Qin Lang responded faintly, "This time you're indeed quick and accurate."

  If it weren't for rendering the villain powerless, the opponent wouldn't be able to use the compass to resort to evil means. All in all, the villain's martial arts and tactics are not worth mentioning.

  This time, breaking through the Five Elements, even if it was just a small test of his skills, comparing himself to a novice, made him realize that this world truly had a Rationalist Sect. It also made him more determined on his path of cultivation, knowing that there was a way forward in this world.

  For him, today's life-and-death struggle is just the beginning of his journey of cultivation.

  Before long, Gao Feng rushed to the room where Bai Wuchang was staying. He saw that the innkeeper was unconscious on the first floor and realized that something big might have happened here.

  He saw Wang Dongping's six spirits without a master in the room, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air. He also saw Qin Lang's eyes projecting firmness, and he faintly felt that the murderer of this serial murder case had really shown his true colors.

  After Qin Lang and Bai Wuchuang explained the whole process, Gao Feng was shocked again when he heard about the thrilling scene. Bai Wuchuang really knew how to give him a "surprise"!

  Fortunately, I am now safe and sound.

  "Take him away!" With a single order from Gao Feng, Wang Dongping, who was handcuffed, was escorted out by several police officers. Wu Yong was also carried to the hospital.

  A criminal investigation team led by Gao Feng and Qin Lang, after several hours of tireless interrogation, finally uncovered Wang Dongping's true nature. In the end, he confessed to being the perpetrator of both the serial murders many years ago and the recent ones.

  However, he didn't reveal the truth about the five elements and the Luopan, but instead changed his words to say that it was a hypnotic drug. Qin Lang guessed that this should be an internal rule. And he also didn't deliberately expose it, after all, these things that are both real and illusory are not mainstream in this world, and if they were revealed, they might cause panic. And as for himself, he might even be treated as a monster by others.

  In Wang Dongping's underground residence, they found many colorful women's supplies. According to forensic judgment, these clothes were very likely the victims' clothing.

  "Damn it, this Wang Dongping is really a freak! High Peak said indignantly, "In my lifetime, I can catch such a killer maniac, and it's not in vain!"

  "These clothes, which have a lot of fingerprints and personal belongings on them, will soon become real evidence." Dr. Yan said as he put the clothes into an evidence bag.

  In a cabinet, Qin Lang found a rope specifically used for grave robbing. After careful comparison, he judged that this should be the rope that strangled the deceased!

  After the autopsy was completed, Dr. Yan asked Qin Lang, "Little Qin, now you can tell me, how did you confirm that this person is the murderer? To be honest, I have been a forensic doctor for so many years, and it's the first time I've encountered such a tricky case. Even with all the evidence in front of me, I still find it difficult to deduce that Wang Dongping is the murderer. His intricate and complex modus operandi has really stumped me!"

  Qin Lang thought for a moment, he had always been catching wind and shadow based on the yin energy on the deceased's body and the same yin energy on the murderer's body, so this question was really difficult for him to answer.

  Looking at the rope in his hand, he suddenly had an epiphany. "Based on the victim's strangulation marks, none of you have noticed that the marks were actually left by this special rope used for tomb raiding. And the rest is just my intuition and luck, such as accidentally discovering the old tomb raider and finding the cave, which was just luck."

  "Oh? Really?" Dr. Yan took the rope from Qin Lang's hand, "Little Qin, your observation skills are truly amazing! This rope, I must take it back for further examination!"

  At this time, Gao Feng and Bai Wuxia also heard Yan Fa's words and surrounded them.

  "Xiao Qin, I don't have time to tell you that you're still a high school student." Gaofeng praised: "It's really the rear waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and in the future, it will surely rise in the east, with boundless prospects!"

  "Captain Gao, don't praise him, or he'll fly to the sky!" Bai Wuxiao said with a pout. Her face involuntarily turned red, and she thought to herself, My invincible hero in my heart, how can he not be awesome?

  Qin Lang was numb to such praise, so he didn't show any signs of self-satisfaction.

  He asked again: "Uh... I'd like to ask, how much is my bounty in total? When can it be settled?"

  Several people were stunned.

  ……

  Assisting the police in cracking the case had taken several days, leaving Qin Lang exhausted. As soon as he returned to his old house on South Chen Alley, he fell into a deep sleep.

  The next day, Qin Lang, who had a good sleep, first made some simple processing of the two new materials he had just obtained, and then took out two large wooden barrels from the storage room.

  These two wooden barrels, half the height of a person, were old items left behind by Qin Lang's parents and had long been unused. If it weren't for Qin Lang needing to soak in medicinal broth this time, they would probably have remained forever in the storage room without ever seeing the light of day again.

  After washing and scrubbing, the dust on the wooden bucket was removed, and after testing two wooden buckets, there were no signs of water leakage. Qin Lang was satisfied and went out.

  He needs to go to the supermarket to buy a lot of food, because for a long time afterwards he will be staying in the old house, in a state of "closed door", and he does not yet have the ability to "ward off hunger", so he must stock up on food in advance.

  In a privately-run supermarket near Nan Chen Alley, Qin Lang went on a wild shopping spree and finally spent over 200,000 yuan after checking out.

  The supermarket owner rarely met such a "big customer" as Qin Lang, and his mouth was almost smiling, personally driving a small truck to send Qin Lang and the things he bought to Nan Chen Alley.

  "It's this family, thank you boss." Directing the boss to stop the car in front of the old house, Qin Lang said a word of thanks and jumped out of the car.

  "What are you thanking me for, little brother? You're taking care of my business so well, I'll help you deliver it to the door, it's my duty." The boss said politely and also jumped off the car. Seeing Qin Lang about to unload things from the back cargo compartment, he quickly pulled him back, "No no no, little brother, let me do this rough work, just rest on the side."

  Qin Lang didn't decline and nodded his head, then opened the courtyard gate and directed the boss to move the things from the car into the kitchen.

  Just then, a middle-aged woman walked by from the side road, looked around curiously and asked Qin Lang: "Young man, what are you doing?" She pointed to the cargo compartment full of various food packaging bags, "You're not going to open a small grocery store, are you?"

  Qin Lang knew that the other person was a neighbor living nearby, and shook his head: "No, I bought it back to eat myself." He casually grabbed several bags of food from the car compartment, and before the middle-aged woman could refuse, he stuffed them into her hands. "Auntie, you take it and eat it."

  "Oh my, how can I accept this?" The middle-aged aunt wanted to decline, but couldn't resist Qin Lang's sincerity, so she had no choice but to accept it. As the saying goes, "Eat a man's food and speak softly, take a man's money and shorten your temper", she immediately began to flatter Qin Lang with all her might.

  After a burst of flattery, the middle-aged woman seemed to remember something and said with a smile: "Oh yeah, young man, how's it going with your little girlfriend?"

  "Little girlfriend?" Qin Lang was taken aback for a moment.

  "Oh my, aren't you ashamed?" The middle-aged aunt laughed and said, "Last time I even gave your little girlfriend directions. Tsk tsk tsk, that girl is really beautiful, young man, you must grasp her tightly, such a good girl can't be let go."

  Qin Lang only then reacted, originally the other party was referring to Qi Lingluo, and she was the big mom who directed Qi Lingluo.

  The middle-aged woman saw Qin Lang not speaking, thinking that this young man was shy, so she didn't gossip anymore. After asking for Qin Lang's name, she said that if there was anything needed help between neighbors, just speak up, and then continued to walk her dog.

  The supermarket owner's movements were quick and efficient, and within half an hour, everything in the car had been unloaded into the kitchen. After asking Qin Lang to continue taking care of the business, he drove away.

  Qin Lang closed the back door and started rummaging around in the kitchen.

  The materials for the Fourteen Sons Nourishing Tendon Soup have all been gathered, now it's just a matter of decocting them into a soup. The process of decocting the medicine is not complicated and doesn't require any special equipment, the only thing that needs attention is the fire.

  Mastering the fire timing is the foundation for every alchemist, and Qin Lang, as a top-notch alchemist, naturally has no problem with it. However, due to the reason of crossing over and possessing someone else's body, he obviously cannot mobilize the heavenly fire at present, and can only make use of the liquefied gas in the kitchen.

  Liquefied gas is a gas formed from the residue of petroleum refining underground. It can also be considered as a kind of earth fire, but its firepower is far inferior to that of real earth fire.

  Moreover, the control of firepower is all on the valve, so in order to grasp the fire well, one must have extremely solid basic skills and a precise understanding of the flame.

  After spending the whole afternoon, the medicine soup was finally brewed successfully. A full pot of medicine soup, light yellow in color, steaming hot, but what's strange is that these swirling vapors rose and gathered around the edge of the pot, as if being sucked by a magnet, refusing to leave this boundary.

  This also leads to that after the successful preparation of the medicinal decoction, the kitchen cannot smell the fragrance of the medicinal decoction, and all these smells are locked up.

  If a master of refining medicine were to witness this scene, they would undoubtedly be shocked. This phenomenon of locking in the medicinal fragrance and preventing it from dispersing is an extremely profound technique known as "Condensing Medicine Method", and those who can grasp this method are few and far between.