Absurd deduction game

In other words, Xiao Magnolia had just turned six years old on the day she died.

Master Wanban's cessation of the Karmic River Flood also happened six years ago. Little Magnolia was just born at that time, so it is normal to have no memory of this aspect.

Even if the flood really caused the strange appearance of Fengtou Town today, by the time Xiao Magnolia can remember things, the people in the town should have been accustomed to this kind of life. Maybe their sanity has been affected by it, and they will not deliberately mention it. The difference between then and now.

So there is no answer to this question.

Yu Xing was very satisfied with the information that Xiao Yulan got out of him. Seeing that Xiao Yulan wanted him to get out of here, he chuckled and said, "Okay, the question session is over, and you have to do something for me next."

Xiao Yulan's eyes suddenly widened: "Didn't I say I only asked questions?"

"I didn't say 'only'." Yu Xing picked up the child and felt the stiffness of Little Magnolia's spirit body in his arms.

"Want to go out and take a look?"

Xiao Yulan struggled for a moment: "..."

She said weakly: "I want to go out, but my mother is here."

When she thought of this, her face turned ferocious for a moment: "My mother won't come back to me, but her body is here. What if she comes back again?"

It was with this thought in mind that she didn't go anywhere after becoming a wraith. She stayed in this dilapidated courtyard with four corpses.

"Xiao Yulan, people have to be buried after death. If the body is not collected in time, the body will rot and stink." Zhao Ruru told her, "No one has come to see your mother in the past few days, so your mother's body has not been found, but One day she will be discovered by the neighbors, and then she will not be able to maintain her current appearance and will become very ugly."

Xiao Yulan said ferociously: "No!"

"That's right, you don't want your mother's body to be so unrecognizable, right?" Zhao Ruru touched her head, her hands were cold, and she silently retracted her hand, "Wang Er Mazi bullied your mother, although she is gone. Life, but others still don’t know about his evil deeds! Why not leave the matter to us——"

She pointed at herself and then at Yu Xing: "How about we report to the official in the daytime and then bury your mother? If your mother really 'comes back', she will definitely be the first to find you, and You’re not looking for your own body! You don’t have to be trapped in the yard.”

Yu Xing looked at Xiao Yulan's face: "If you don't want others to know that your mother's innocence has been ruined, you don't have to report it to the official. We will bury your mother and Aunt Zhang, and then throw Wang Er Mazi's body to the dogs."

"...Okay." Xiao Yulan nodded.

To a certain extent, she is really a very good child. Children of poor people are already in charge, and they are orphans and widowed, so they know more.

Except for becoming violent after death, he was still very obedient in other aspects.

She knew that no one would help collect the body for no reason, so she asked softly: "What do you want me to do?"

"Please help us be a messenger for the next few nights. Brother will give you some portraits later. Remember the people on them. If you meet them in the city, don't cause trouble for them." Yu Xing said, "If brother wants you in the future, If you want to bring a message to one of them, you can go there for your brother."

It’s not that the deducers don’t have their own channels of communication. During the day, Zhao Mou could be said to have reached out in all directions.

But it is different at night. Without the available connections of the people in the city, if their own power is used on a large scale, it is easy to alert the snake and attract attention. At this time, it is very important to have a messenger.

The ghosts in the city also move in different ways. One like Xiao Magnolia, which can turn into white smoke, can be imagined to be very fast.

"Okay." Xiao Yulan had no other choice. He looked back at her mother's body in the house with some nostalgia, her mouth tightened, and she felt like crying.

But just now she was so scared that she cried out of fear, but now she was so sad that she couldn't shed tears.

Zhao Ruru sighed and said to Yu Xing: "Let me help him put his mother down from the beam first, and then arrange her body. You can take this time to draw a portrait?"

"Yeah." Yu Xing put down the child in her arms, and once again found that Zhao Ruru was really self-conscious. Although she would avoid big things if she could, she was so good at details that people would not think of her as a burden. .

The two were busy in the yard.

Xiao Yulan followed Zhao Ruru to see the corpse. Yu Xing didn't have a pen and paper in his hand, so he simply drew on the dirt in the yard.

He summoned a thin branch and took it out in his hand. He used the hardest and sharpest part at the top to outline the faces of Zhao Mou, Jiu Ge, Siren, Luo Yan, and the three people from the surviving investigation team. Go up.

The branch he held in his hand: "..."

Because Yu Xing's mind is relatively free when he is painting, his thoughts with these branches and tentacles are more free and active.

While he was painting, he felt a faint consciousness coming from the branches.

[Mastermind, are you calling me just to do this kind of thing? 】

[I am your eyes and your tongue, how can you treat me as a pen! 】

[Mastermind, are you out of your mind? 】

"..." Yu Xing knew that this was all diverted from his own consciousness, so that he could scold himself.

However, after he deliberately controlled it, the voice of consciousness no longer came from the branches.

After he finished painting, he called Xiao Yulan to recognize each one.

"This uncle is a doctor, his name is Zhao Mou, do you know?"

Xiao Yulan was afraid that she would be beaten by this scary brother again if she didn't do her job well, and the other sister had already wiped her mother's body, put on clean clothes, and combed her mother's hair again. She was a good sister.

So she responded obediently: "I know."

"This brother is an outsider. His name is Zhao Yijiao. He is in the same mental state as me. He may tease you." Yu Xing pointed at Guijiu's face, "Do you remember?"

"Remember. But..." Xiao Yulan was a little confused and a little doubtful, "Don't these two... people look similar? Why is one an uncle and the other an elder brother?"

Zhao Mou, who is not wearing a suit and has his hair slicked back, does look very young. He is almost 30 years old. When he wears ancient clothes, he has a few strands of hair on his temples, as if he is in his early twenties.

Zhao Yijiu is stronger than Zhao Mou, and although his face is a bit tenderer, overall, the age difference of only three years is not visible.

Yu Xing's selfish idea of ​​teaching children was exposed, and he touched the tip of his nose without changing his expression: "Don't ask, just shout."

"Oh." Little Yulan thought to herself, the people drawn by this elder brother are actually just like his elder brother, they are very handsome, and they look pampered at first glance, better than those raised by the richest family in their town.

These people must come from very wealthy places, right?

She also really wanted to see those places in the capital and Jiangnan. Every time her mother talked about these, she always looked forward to them.

After Xiao Yulan had recognized all the people, Yu Xing made sure that she had remembered them, and then wiped out all the traces on the ground with a branch.

Zhao Ruru also completed her work.

She cleaned the corpses of Widow Li, Aunt Zhang, and Xiao Yulan. Although she was not a professional embalmer, she still made the corpses look a lot more respectable.

She didn't care about the remaining Wang Erpazi.

"Is everything ready?" Yu Xing looked at it, "Then let's go to the mountain and bury the person first."

It's more convenient to do this at night.

There is a circle of mountains outside Fengtou Town. It is not difficult to find a way up the mountain. In addition, their location is not in the center of the city at this time, so it is easy to get to the outside of the town.

Yu Xing sensed it and picked up Aunt Zhang's body with one hand under Xiao Yulan's expectant eyes: "I forgot to ask, does Aunt Zhang have any family members?"

"No, her son died outside in his early years." Xiao Yulan mentioned Aunt Zhang with a calm tone, "She often comes to see my mother and says that my mother looks like her daughter, but her daughter married out of town. , never came back to see her once."

"Okay, then bury it together."

Yu Xing picked up Xiao Yulan's body with his other hand.

Widow Li's body was carried by Zhao Ruru. The two of them pushed open the courtyard door and placed Wang Ermazi's body in the middle of the road.

"Let him make a name for himself." Yu Xing snorted lightly. He knew that it was normal for men to have such desires. In this era, there were many people visiting brothels. During the daytime investigation, he also discovered a small brothel on the east side of the city. The entrance Two gardenia lamps were hung.

But for someone like Wang Ermazi, whose murderous daughter dominates a person's body and smashes an innocent kind-hearted aunt to death, it's easy for him to die like this, and he doesn't know where the ghost he turned into wanders after death.

Maybe Xiao Yulan, who is wandering around the city, will still meet the other party.

It is a rule that they cannot kill the ghosts in Fengtou Town alive. There is no restriction on who swallows whom among the evil ghosts and resentful spirits. There is injustice for injustice and revenge for revenge. Even if we talk about cause and effect, it is right for Xiao Yulan to let Wang Erpazi be wiped out in ashes. .

"Ang, I'm sure I'll scare the people around me tomorrow. Although I'm a little sorry for the people living nearby...hehe, I'll definitely scare those people who are with Wang Er Mazi!"

Zhao Ruru closed the courtyard door and said with a smile.

Xiao Yulan also walked out and stood at their feet.

Yu Xing looked up and saw that the street was still empty, and nothing had changed due to what happened in this small courtyard.

The time in the lower right corner of his vision showed that it was already past nine o'clock.

The lanterns on the eaves of every house emitted a strange light. Only the lantern at Widow Li's house was extinguished because of him. However, since there was no one in the house, there was no fear of the dripping ghost coming to harm anyone again.

Wait a moment.

Yu Xing's steps suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ruru saw that he had a different look on his face and asked. Xiao Yulan also stared at him.

Yu Xing didn't say anything, he just thought of two things at the same time.

First, I thought that if I took the initiative to turn off the lights in the yard and stay in the room for a night, I might be able to learn something about Yejiang Dashui from the dripping ghost.

It was impossible to turn off the lights in the Song Mansion. He could find a small courtyard like Widow Li's house.

Second, I thought... Since Widow Li's family has been dead for several days, how come the lanterns are still on?

Dead man, how do you light a lamp?

Since Yu Xing had already put out the lantern and didn't know what happened at Widow Li's house before entering the courtyard, he ignored this obvious anomaly over and over again.

Someone had to take the initiative to light the lantern, but Widow Li was still hanging on the beam in the house before they entered, and Little Magnolia had never left the yard!

Yu Xing said: "Wait for me a moment."

He placed the bodies of Aunt Zhang and Xiao Yulan against the wall, then walked to the lighted courtyard next door, squinting at the limit of the light's range.

He discovered that because the people in this city had to light lanterns every night and ensure that the lanterns would not go out all night, the lanterns in each household were specially made, and the candle bodies inside were made super large to ensure that they could Burn until dawn, and then the people inside will take the initiative to put out the lanterns.

Therefore, early the next morning, the neighbors can see who has a lantern on and who has not.

Yu Xing's eyes flashed slightly.

There has been a death in Widow Li's family, so it stands to reason that the lanterns will not light up at night. In this way, people will be discovered early the next morning. Even if not on the second day, someone will always notice that something is wrong on the third or fourth day. of.

There are risks at night, and I'm afraid people in Fengtou Town will pay more attention to this. If a lantern is not lit at all, or if the lantern is still on in the morning, it means that something may have happened to the family.

If the lantern at the door of Widow Li's house hadn't been on as usual, the neighbors on both sides would have discovered that something happened in the courtyard.

But...

Yu Xing thought again of what Aunt Zhang's ghost said, that there was a friend of Wang Ermazi in the figure on the wall, and she was always not allowed to enter the yard.

When she didn't think that she and Widow Li were both dead, Aunt Zhang's ghost state was quite special. She clearly had the habit of a ghost. She appeared at night and was not afraid of ghosts on the wall, but she still retained a trace of life in her mind. Her habits at that time were quite contradictory, and she was unaware of them.

At this time, Aunt Zhang thought that she had disturbed Wang Er Mazi's good deeds. Wang Er Mazi asked her friends to take revenge on her and not let her see Xiao Li. This was bullying for an old woman of her age.

But Yu Xing could tell something was wrong when he thought about it again. Wang Ermazi was dead, and the ghost had not returned to the yard. Why did his ghost friend need to guard the yard?

First of all, Wang Ermazi's good deeds were not disturbed by Aunt Zhang at all, and Aunt Zhang's idea was fundamentally untenable.

Coupled with the lantern that would light up inexplicably every night, the two things were connected, and Yu Xing chuckled unexpectedly.

really interesting.

There was a person who didn't want Widow Li's death to be known so quickly, so he took the initiative to light lanterns every night in order to fake the illusion that Widow Li was still alive. He also let a ghost on the wall with evil intentions stay here every night to prevent Aunt Zhang discovered everything.

Even if a living person passes by and sees the ghostly shadow in the light source, he will probably be scared away. If not, he will have to walk around. Who will notice the yard itself?

At most, during the day, the neighbors would mutter something about why they hadn't seen Widow Li come out or Aunt Zhang in these days.

The other party was very successful. If it weren't for the appearance of two strangers, Yu Xing and Zhao Ruru, who were not afraid of ghosts, Widow Li's death might have been hidden for much longer.

So what does this guy want to do?

After all, it's not about things between living people.

Otherwise, the situation in the yard would not have remained the same for so many days, with even Widow Li's body still hanging from the rafters.

It shows that this person's purpose is not to cover up the facts, nor to use a few freshly dead corpses to do something immoral.

Yu Xing then thought about it, Xiao Yulan's mother did not return home for no reason - with Widow Li's love for Xiao Yulan, even after being humiliated and committing suicide, she would never leave Xiao Yulan alone, and would definitely come to Xiao Yulan as soon as possible. , took my daughter away from this dirty place.

The ghost of Xiao Magnolia's mother has disappeared.

Coincidentally, the ghost of Wang Ermazi did not appear for some reason.

Therefore, the purpose of the person who covered up the fact of Widow Li’s death was the soul of Widow Li or Wang Ermazi!

The ghost did not appear because it was taken away. The souls of the two are deeply involved. Once they meet, there is no guarantee that they will cause trouble. It is not known who is affected by whom. The person got the ghost he wanted, and it was convenient. Take away the ghost of another person who might cause trouble.

Aunt Zhang's ghost is not that important. It may be because her memory is confused, and maybe taking it away will involve more trouble, so the person only let the ghost on the wall prevent Aunt Zhang from approaching the yard.

Yu Xing thought that this person just needed a period of time to cover up things that could not be exposed to others. He did not want others to find out the clues through the coincidence of time, so he created such a time gap.

So what is involved has nothing to do with ordinary people. After all, even if ordinary people know that Widow Li and Wang Ermazi are dead, they will not know the whereabouts of their ghosts.

This person didn't want to be targeted by someone who was also involved with ghosts.

Yu Xing's eyes lit up.

There are probably many talented people in this town. The ones we already know include the witch in the mission and the Master Wanba who was involved because of Master Feng's birthday.

Maybe, it’s related to the main plot!

After the deducer goes to find the witch, he will definitely be involved in the grievances of the special forces in this limelight town.

Yu Xing glanced at Xiao Yulan, who was staring at him a little helplessly, completely confused as to why he didn't leave after leaving the yard.

"Xiao Yulan, your mother..."

He paused, squatted down and asked in a low voice: "Your mother, did you do anything special before you died? For example, you met someone you haven't seen before, or you brought back something special, or you muttered something Something you don’t understand?”

Xiao Yulan opened her eyes wide, recalled something and then said: "No."

"After my father died, my mother rarely went out. She only did some embroidery work at home, and then asked others to sell it for money."

"She doesn't want to have contact with outsiders. Aunt Zhang is the only one who usually comes to our house. She doesn't bring anything special. She only buys me pastries occasionally. Do pastries count?"

Yu Xing shook his head: "Not really, but have you ever heard her say anything strange?"

"No, definitely not!" Xiao Yulan's eyes were fierce, "Mom just told me that the idle Wang Ermazi may come to trouble recently. If someone knocks on the door when she takes the embroidered things to the shop, Please don’t drive it!”

Yu Xing: "...That's it."

If we assume that the person who came to light the lamp was for the ghost of Widow Li and not the ghost of Wang Ermazi, then Widow Li probably didn’t know that her soul was being targeted before she died.

This shows that the person did not plant anything on Widow Li in advance.

He thought for a while and grasped another important point: "Xiao Yulan, do you remember your mother's birth date? What is her name?"

Xiao Yulan has a really good memory, and she knows everything about her mother very well. It can be seen that the relationship between him and her mother is really deep.

When Yu Xing asked, Xiao Yulan recited Widow Li's birthday and name, and then continued to look at him helplessly.

The little grimace turned serious.

It was obvious that the eldest brother was thinking about something related to the disappearance of her mother's soul.

She had been filled with resentment before, thinking that her mother didn't want her after her death. Now that she was reminded, she realized that her mother definitely didn't want her on purpose. Since she didn't come back, she was probably kidnapped by bad things!

"Ruru, let's figure out whether her mother's fate is special." Yu Xing woke up Zhao Ruru who was hanging up at the side.

His name without a surname gave Zhao Ruru goosebumps. The fact that he could call her like that showed that what she needed to do was really important and there was no room for error.

Zhao Ruru rubbed his arms and said, "What's wrong? What on earth did you think of?"

"I suspect that her mother has a special destiny and has been targeted for a long time... Maybe even Wang Er's pockmark was deliberately facilitated by someone." Yu Xing said in a low voice.

Although it is a guess, combined with various clues, this is very close to the truth.

How come Widow Li, who doesn't go out much at all, is targeted by Wang Ermazi? Of course, it is possible that Widow Li was noticed by Wang Ermazi when she was delivering her embroidery work to the shop, but Wang Ermazi said he was bold and dared to kill people, and he said he was timid and would panic when he was alarmed. To die.

If no one encouraged him, would he really have the guts to take the risk of being caught by the government for committing a crime?

When Zhao Ruru heard this, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and started counting.

The fortune teller showed its effect at this time, with clear birth dates, and she had already seen Widow Li's face, so it was not difficult to tell people's fortunes.

The only variable is the yin energy of the black sky. There is a rule that you should not perform hexagrams at this time, because this is the gloomiest time of the day. Hexagrams can easily harm your own luck, and the results of the hexagrams may be changed.

But after the limelight fell into the dark sky, it was like a ghost cave. Although it was only Xu Shi now, the Yin Qi had already exceeded the Zi Shi in a normal place.

Zhao Ruru had magical skills and could block some of them, but she did not dare to say that she would not be affected at all. After closing her eyes and muttering for a while, she still took out her sacrifice.

A game of chess.

Yu Xing's eyes fell involuntarily.

He had seen Zhao Ruru perform divination before, using nothing more than copper coins, chopsticks and other common items. It can be understood that this girl is very accomplished as a divination master and can do it casually.

Although Zhao Ruru also had a sacrificial copper coin, the efficacy of which was unknown, but its appearance was no different from the ordinary ones.

This was the first time he had seen Zhao Ruru bring out a sacrifice with obvious bonus properties as an auxiliary tool for fortune telling.

This chessboard-shaped sacrifice is very formal at first glance. The shape of the chessboard is simple and thick. It is a very rare kind of sacrifice that does not have the slightest bit of spooky spirit. The energy on it is extremely peaceful and upright. Even Yu Xing feels like it when he looks at it. There was a moment of silence.

It's not fortune-telling items like tortoise shells and divination poles.

The girl sat directly on the floor, placed the chessboard cross-legged, opened the cup containing the chess pieces, and noticed his intense curiosity, and said softly: "This is Lingqi, and its origin comes from the Lingqi Sutra."

After saying this without any further explanation, Zhao Ruru turned around and told Yu Xing: "Please, surround me with your curse. Don't let my breath leak out and be discovered by ghosts."

"Also, your curse can't affect me."

What an embarrassing request.

Yu Xing smiled and did not summon the black mist this time.

Although he doesn't understand divination, he still vaguely knows some words such as "Qi" and "Fate". If the entire space is sealed to protect Zhao Ruru's aura, then Zhao Ruru will not be able to capture the Qi in it. Useless for fortune telling.

Therefore, in order to complete this delicate work, the black tree-shaped lines on Yu Xing's hand gradually appeared. He stretched out his hand, and strands of solid black threads turned from solid to imaginary, dragging upstream from his hand into the air.

The black lines are like threads, like an untouchable net, forming a sparse circle around Zhao Ruru. At first glance, it seems to blend in with the ink color of the night.

These curses blocked Zhao Ruru's own breath, but allowed the "qi" between heaven and earth to flow unimpeded through the large loose grid.

Zhao Ruru opened his eyes wide.

She was obviously in a blocked position, and the Yin Qi seemed to be separated from her by a barrier, but the sound of flowers and plants blowing and the buzzing of insect wings in her ears were particularly clear.

She originally wanted Yu Xing to help her share the risk of being disturbed by ghosts and causing her fortune-telling to fail, but she didn't expect Yu Xing to have such a skill!

This is definitely not the effect of the power of curse. It should be said that anyone who can play a certain power to the extreme and have absolute control over it can achieve this step. The focus is on this filter, and making the filter The material of the net is not that important.

She hid the hidden fear in her eyes, took a deep breath, and told herself to calm down and not think about other things while making the hexagram.

Xiao Yulan felt a little uneasy about this turn of events.

She looked around and could detect some similar auras wandering nearby.

She was not afraid of these similar people, but she heard that Zhao Ruru might be disturbed by these similar people, so she raised her face and grabbed Yu Xing's pants.

"Big brother."

She glanced at Yu Xing's hand with some fear, but still asked: "Will my being here affect eldest sister?"

Fortunately, after Yu had completed the "filter", his head felt a dull pain.

Fortunately it's not serious.

He lowered his head and responded: "No, don't worry, you are outside the network, just stay there."

He looked at Zhao Ruru.

The spaces in the middle of the filter condensed by the power of the curse are each the size of a basketball and do not block his sight.

But inexplicably, Zhao Ruru's whole body gradually became blurred, as if she was shrouded in a layer of mysterious protection, making her movements unclear.

Zhao Ruru had already begun to divine, reciting some kind of mantra in his mouth. His voice was not so quiet that Yu Xing could not hear it. However, again - Yu Xing couldn't hear clearly at all, as if he was covered with a cognitive filter.

Very good, his filter filtered himself out.

Maybe...it should be that "Lingqi Jing" has its own secret ability, right? This kind of thing is the most mysterious.

After a while, Zhao Ruru stood up.

Yu Xing put away the curse, the black line slowly retracted, and raised his eyebrows waiting to hear the result.

Zhao Ruru's face looked as usual, even a little relaxed.

She took back the sacrifice and confirmed Yu Xing's guess: "Li Huaihua is indeed a woman with a special destiny."

Li Huaihua is Widow Li’s real name.

"Her horoscope is extremely Yin, and she is destined to be evil. She owed others a life debt in her previous life and has not repaid it. She is doomed to have two disasters in this life."

Zhao Ruru glanced at Xiao Yulan as he spoke and found that Xiao Yulan was also listening attentively.

"The first one was when she was fifteen years old. I looked at her fortune when she was young. She should have come from a wealthy family and was well-off. But when she turned fifteen, things would change in her family. Not only would her family be in trouble, but she would also be in danger of losing her life. , only by surviving the gate of hell can we settle the debts of the previous life with this life."

"If she is still alive at the age of fifteen, her life will become ordinary, neither rich nor poor, and she will marry a man who does not love her that much, but is very dedicated. Until she is twenty years old, her destiny suddenly becomes weird, like I was influenced by something, and faced the second disaster at the age of twenty-six."

"The villain is destined to commit crime, and evil spirits will reach out, and her husband will die and her children will be tired. She will also die this year."

Li Huaihua is just twenty-six years old this year. When she was twenty, her career was in turmoil, and it was also the time when Yu Xing guessed that the black sky in the limelight would change.

Her husband died in an "accident" six months ago. Now it seems that it may not be an accident. She and her daughter also died on the same day, exactly what Zhao Ruru saw.

Xiao Yulan hugged Yu Xing's legs and didn't let go, burying her face in his pants.

"The villain is destined to commit crime, and the sinister hand reaches out." Yu Xing murmured these two sentences, "Is this also the debt she is destined to pay?"

"No, the debt was paid off when she was fifteen. I saw that when something happened in her family, she and her parents were stopped by bandits on their way to escape. Both her parents were stabbed to death. The bandits wanted to kidnap her up the mountain. Be a slave.”

"She probably found an opportunity to jump off a cliff on the way. It's a very high cliff. At least the bandits were not willing to go down to see if she was dead. This is the first calamity. Whether she survives or not depends entirely on her."

"This second calamity is an unreasonable disaster. The villain is destined to be the villain. This villain should be Wang Ermazi. The evil spirit stretched out his hand to indicate that her death was not entirely caused by human causes, but was dragged down by some irregular ghosts. "

"Her subsequent lifeline was so weak that it was almost non-existent. In other words, the probability that she could survive this calamity was almost zero, unless there happened to be an expert who came to help and interfered with her destiny. Unfortunately, this did not happen before she died. The master appears."

Zhao Ruru touched his chin: "Generally speaking, there is indeed something coming towards her, trying to borrow her extreme Yin horoscope and Yin evil fate. This calamity is related to water, and I can't figure it out no matter how much."

"The amount of information is already huge." Yu Xing praised.

Zhao Ruru is really awesome when he is serious. No wonder he can do both right and wrong now. In his early years, he quietly passed through the most vulnerable period of growth and protected his weaknesses early on.

Even Zhao Mou mentioned that she is not simple, and if there is any suspicion about her, special attention must be paid to her.

With her habit of keeping things secretive, I'm afraid this prediction is not the limit of her ability. After all, it is just a calculation of the fate of a dead person, and it does not involve her own life or death.

"So, there is indeed something in Fengtou Town that has set up a trap to get Li Huaihua's soul and control the exact time of Li Huaihua's death." After Zhao Ruru calculated what he still didn't understand, Li Huaihua was Being used as material.

She was just a little confused, how did Yu Xing find out? I just looked at Li Huaihua's neighbor's lantern for a while, and was in a daze for a while. Why did the topic jump to Li Huaihua's fate?

And looking at Yu Xing's face, you can tell that the things she calculated about the second catastrophe are caused by evil spirits. Yu Xing has already guessed it, and he just wants to find an extra layer of confirmation from her. How can this be done? of?

Zhao Ruru admires the big man's brain every day.

"Mom..." After hearing everything, Xiao Yulan was so angry that resentment surged all over her body, and she almost scratched Yu Xing's trouser legs to pieces.

Zhao Ruru used very easy-to-understand words, and the only two elegant sentences were explained so that even little Yulan could understand them completely.

She didn't know that her mother had encountered bandits when she was young. Her mother had never told her about this, but she could tell that someone wanted to harm her. Without that person, her mother would never have been killed by Wang Er. Even if Mazi is bullied, he will not die!

Maybe her father won't die either!

Her father died in another place. Little Magnolia didn't know that only in Fengtou Town people turned into ghosts after death. She always thought that after her father died, he wandered around the city where he died, got lost and could not come back.

Now, she suspected that her father's ghost had also been captured. Her eyes were dark and ghostly: "Brother, I want to find my mother! And my father! You said you would help me!"

"Xiao Yulan, we might be able to help you find your mother's soul, but your father... probably can't." Zhao Ruru scratched his face in embarrassment.

I don’t know whether it’s luck or misfortune, but his father died in a normal place in another place and didn’t turn into the ghosts in Fengtou Town at all. He should have been reincarnated by now, right?

Xiao Yulan's father was probably the least aware of the whole thing, because it involved his wife's fate, and the people behind the scenes probably didn't want him to interfere with the plan, so they got rid of him early.

After all, only without her husband could Wang Erpazi dare to bully "Widow Li" who had no one to protect her, and this series of things could happen.

"Woo..." Hatred and sadness intertwined. Xiao Magnolia whimpered a few times and found that her eyes were still dry and she couldn't shed tears at all. On the contrary, the anger in her body was rising steadily, turning into a steady stream of resentment. Eroding herself.

"Then I want to find my mother!"

Yu Xing felt that Li Huaihua's soul had been taken away by a trap and might have been consumed by the person behind the scenes. It was possible that even if they found and exposed the plan of the person behind the scenes, Li Huaihua would not be able to come back.

The only hope is that since the people behind the scenes have done things like delaying time and making up for the time difference, maybe Li Huaihua's soul will be "used" later.

Then there is help.

"I promise you, I will do my best." Yu Xing did not make any absolute promises to the child, so as to prevent the other party from having too much hope. When the time comes, he will completely lose his mind when disappointed and become a resentful ghost who only knows killing and has no ability to think. .

[You have triggered the hidden mission: Soul Seizing]

[Task Tips: Through the death of Li Huaihua, you are keenly aware of the darker corner of Fengtou Town and learn that someone is brewing a conspiracy. 】

[At the current stage, please investigate the clues related to the soul-stealing conspiracy, and make responses and choices in the subsequent mission stages. 】

[Task progress: 7%]

[Get the buff limited to this game: Sitting (when you have this buff, when you encounter clues related to hidden tasks, a system arrow prompt will appear to help you collect clues!)]

[Task reward: Every time the task progress increases by 20%, the scope of the silk buff will increase accordingly. When the task progress reaches 100%, the buff will be converted from a limited buff skill for this game to a permanent buff skill, which can be bound to other tasks in other games. 】

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[You have triggered the side mission: Soul of Sophora Flower]

[Task Tips: You have fulfilled the prerequisites for finding Li Huaihua’s soul (starting the hidden mission “Soul Seizing”), and received the commission from Xiao Magnolia (ghost)! 】

[Please help Xiao Yulan find her mother's soul and complete the task to obtain unknown rewards. 】

[While the mission is in progress, obtain the buff "Little Magnolia Messenger". While the buff exists, Little Magnolia will not betray you, and because she wants to do the job you assigned her well, the probability of being discovered when delivering messages is reduced by 70%]

Hidden tasks and side tasks appeared one after another. Yu Xing was stunned for a moment, and then felt that it was expected.

Also, he discovered a corner of a deeply hidden conspiracy and was willing to investigate in depth, which might lead to another side of the main plot.

But this mission doesn’t seem to be a team mission?

He subconsciously glanced at Zhao Ruru.

Zhao Ruru: "...I received it, don't look at me like that, I'm scared."

It is not a team task, which means that this task requires competition. The buff with 100% progress of the task can only be obtained by one person.

The existence form of [Silk Drawing] is relatively novel. It is neither a sacrificial prop nor some kind of bloodline ability, but serves as a buff, an established state, to provide assistance to the deducer.

Yu Xing is quite interested in this function. The effect of [Silk Drawing] is also good. It is a huge improvement in the efficiency of pushing tasks. If it can also be used in Yin Yang City...

Um?

He seemed to instantly realize the meaning of the so-called Buff.

It is because most of the sacrifices cannot be used in Yin Yang City, so the system came up with a "Buff", trying to use the buff to secretly deliver the effects that only certain sacrifices have to the deducers.

Maybe Yin Yang City can't help buffing? Don't have this rule?

Yu Xing wants to get this permanent buff and study it carefully.

At present, only he and Zhao Ruru have received the hidden mission, but in the future, other deducers may find other entry points. The "soul of the Sophora japonica" is only a small part of the soul-stealing mission, and there may not be more in the city. There are other poor people like Li Huaihua who were set up to take away their souls.

The bigger the conspiracy, the more people die quietly.

I don’t know how many houses behind the lanterns in every house in the city have lost the breath of life.

After receiving the mission, the speculation had been settled. Yu Xing picked up the body that he had placed on the wall again, and said to Xiao Yulan, who was still very unstable: "You have to control yourself, otherwise when you find the bad guy, you will be dead." I don’t have the consciousness to remember the other person’s face anymore.”

Xiao Yulan's eyes were bloodshot and she nodded with red eyes.

After an episode, they resumed their plan to bury the body in the mountain.

The two of them left the town quickly and saw some ghosts along the way, but they did not cause any trouble and nothing happened.