This Constable Solves Cases Like a God

"This must be the work of demons."

"Shopkeeper Wang was such a good man, how could Li Gui have targeted him?"

"I heard that Shopkeeper Wang used to prescribe a miscarriage-inducing formula for a courtesan. But he didn't control the dosage properly, and she died. This is probably that vengeful spirit coming back for revenge."

Early in the morning, outside a pharmacy on the street, a crowd gathered behind a cordon formed by constables, chattering amongst themselves.

Just then, a hand as large as a cattail fan pushed through the crowd, shoving its way in.

Those pushed aside felt displeased and were about to curse, but upon seeing the figure like an iron tower, they immediately shut their mouths.

This man was nearly two meters tall, his gray-blue official uniform stretched taut by his muscles. His long hair was casually draped over his shoulders, like a lion's mane.

He carried an exaggeratedly long saber on his back, and the ground seemed to tremble with his every step.

The constables, who had been standing around haphazardly, straightened up immediately upon seeing this figure and shouted, "Greetings, Constable Kong!"

Kong Wu nodded casually and walked inside.

A young constable hurried forward to report the situation.

"The deceased is the proprietor of this Wang family pharmacy. Last night, a petty thief scaled the wall into the backyard, intending to steal some money from the counter. Instead, he discovered Shopkeeper Wang's body. In his terror, he cried out, and our patrol brothers heard him."

"According to your usual procedure, no one has approached the body. Only a few of our agile brothers went in to check the pharmacy, and they found all the doors and windows locked from the inside."

Kong Wu nodded and looked at the shattered door panel beside him. Seeing this, the young constable explained, "This was broken open by our patrol brothers in a hurry last night. They said they hit it several times but couldn't get it open, so they had to chop through the door with their sabers."

"Besides that, the back door of the pharmacy was pried open by that petty thief."

At this point, the young constable swallowed and whispered, "Constable Kong, could it really be something unclean? A living person couldn't kill someone and then lock the door from the outside."

You just haven't seen Conan, this is clearly a locked-room murder, Kong Wu thought to himself, glancing at the young constable.

Having transmigrated to this world over a year ago, he had learned from others that mysterious forces like ghosts and demons existed.

For a time, he had believed that these so-called demons and ghosts were merely the ancient people's imagined explanations for phenomena beyond their comprehension.

If only...

Kong Wu shook his head, pulling himself back from his thoughts.

While it was true that this world contained mysterious beings with abilities beyond ordinary people, he didn't believe this case was the work of demons.

The serial dismemberment cases that had occurred in the county before were also attributed to some man-eating demon, simply because each victim had a portion of their flesh and blood missing.

But in the end, wasn't it my brilliant deductive skills that revealed all the cases were committed by a deranged butcher?

Kong Wu estimated that this case was also committed by a human.

It was just that the method of operation was rather sophisticated.

He looked at the body on the ground, its eyes bulging, its mouth agape, with purple-blue handprints imprinted on its neck.

Seeing Kong Wu in deep thought, the young constable couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

All the constables present knew that Constable Kong was not only powerful in combat but also skilled in solving cases.

Many unsolved cases in the county that others couldn't crack were always solved once Constable Kong took them on.

It was precisely because of his outstanding abilities that he had become the constable of Qingshan County within a year. There were even recent rumors that the County Magistrate was planning to recommend him for the position of Chief Clerk.

Therefore, with Kong Wu on the case, the young constable was confident that a conclusion would be reached quickly.

Indeed, after a moment of contemplation, Kong Wu suddenly looked up at the onlookers.

From left to right, he slowly turned his head, scrutinizing everyone, then suddenly stopped.

He then strode forward, extended his thick arm, and pulled a person out from the crowd that kept retreating.

The person was grabbed by the collar and dragged in front of Kong Wu. Looking up at the burly man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he said with a trembling voice, "Constable Kong, what are you doing..."

Kong Wu didn't speak. He simply lifted the man by his collar.

Feeling his feet leave the ground, the man struggled and shouted, but Kong Wu remained unmoved. He simply carried him into the pharmacy's backyard.

The surrounding citizens watched this scene with trepidation but dared not intervene.

However, the constables seemed accustomed to this. Seeing Kong Wu's actions, they actually seemed relieved, and some had already begun whispering about where they would go for drinks and gambling after their shift.

Not long after Kong Wu took the man into the courtyard, muffled thuds of flesh hitting flesh and chilling cries of agony could be heard from inside.

In less than half an hour, Kong Wu emerged, his fist still stained with blood.

The young constable skillfully handed him a towel. Kong Wu took it, wiped the blood from his fist, and said casually, "Alright, he confessed. It was him! You guys take the rest of them back and interrogate them properly."

"Constable Kong's judgment is divine!"

The surrounding constables shouted in unison.

The onlookers, however, stared at the scene in stunned silence, collectively shivering.

Thank goodness he didn't grab me...

"How can they be so reckless with human lives? Won't the County Magistrate do something about it?"

Someone lamented in a low voice.

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean'? Are you all covering for each other?"

One person sneered and said, "I heard that Constable Kong is taking advantage of the County Magistrate's eagerness to solve the case. He just grabs people and convicts them. Before, when Old Man Liu died at home in the east of the city, this guy immediately arrested Old Man Liu's twenty-year-old wife and insisted she was the one who killed him."

"That's not all. I heard that Fatty Bai from the butcher shop was falsely accused of being a serial killer because he sold underweight meat, and he's already been executed."

"And Steward Liu from Hexi Village had both his legs broken by him, and then he was blamed for the granary fire last year."

"I heard that when he was out playing in the mountains, he encountered a tiger and beat it so badly that it spat out human words and admitted it was just a tabby cat..."

A group of people were muttering about the vicious Kong Wu, lamenting the decline of public morals and the hardships of life.

Meanwhile, Kong Wu walked out of the crowd and strode down the street, as steady as a bear.

In his eyes, every pedestrian in front of him had a floating box above their head.

[Li Ergou][Life: 59][Strength: 1.2][Skill: None][First Impression of You: Fear (This fist probably can't kill me in one blow).]

[Sun Mazi][Life: 43][Strength: 0.8][Skill: None][First Impression of You: Disgust (So this is that King Yama Kong who tramples on people's lives. He looks ill-intentioned).]

[Jiang Zihong][Life: 78][Strength: 1][Skill: None][First Impression of You: Contempt (All muscle, how crude!).]

This was why Kong Wu had directly identified the culprit before.

Because at that time, the person's head displayed:

[Zhang Chao][Lifespan: 45][Strength: 1.2][Skill: None][First Impression of You: Smug (Can this muscle-bound idiot figure out my exquisite technique?).]