On the way there, I told Li Mazi and Chief Liu my assumption.

“What if Zhu Fengchun is dead when we arrive?” asked Li Mazi.

“He can only blame himself. We went to his house, but he scolded us and asked us to leave!” cursed Chief Liu.

However, he still showed his care for Zhu Fengchun. I saw the responsibility of a policeman on his face.

“If he’s dead, we’ll need to find clues from the three other dead bodies. But if he’s not dead yet…”

I paused, my voice growing colder. “He’s the murderer!”

I hadn’t seen the real face of the shadow thus far, but considering the sword, I guessed he was an otherworldly spirit.

Ghosts didn’t have weapons. Only otherworldly spirits had them, and most of the time, the weapons were the otherworldly items they were hiding in. It was the same principle behind Lu Bu’s spirit using the Sky Piercer.

A spirit could live together with humans under some special conditions. Since...