The five of them gathered around a table in a small pavilion outside the bridgehead of Liyue Harbor, discussing all the investigations that had taken place in recent days.

Xiangling spoke first: "You may not believe me, I really don't know how to start..."

Walnut blinked: "Did you encounter some problem that you can't solve? It's okay, there is strength in numbers. If one person can't solve it, we can go together as five people."

Ye Luo also nodded: "No one bullies you, right?"

Xiang Ling shook her head and said, "I didn't encounter any major difficulties during the investigation, and no one bullied me. You don't have to worry about that."

"It's just that this matter is so outrageous that I don't know how to put it..."

Seeing Xiangling's embarrassed and helpless look, everyone had no choice but to ask her to explain in detail all the causes and consequences of her investigation into the Phoenix.

After listening to the whole process, everyone's faces turned green.

In short, this phoenix that only children can see is not a supernatural event at all.

There were just a few kids around three or five years old, and a kid leader appeared among them. In order to attract the attention of others, he made up a story that there was a phoenix in the sky.

The other children, regardless of whether they had seen it or not, all followed suit and shouted that they had seen it too.

Not only that, these children even believed it to be true and told the adults in their family about it, making it sound very convincing, as if they had really seen it.

In order to verify this matter, the adults took the trouble to gather several children together. Sure enough, after the children got together, they started talking nonsense without thinking.

Now, the adults had no choice but to believe it. They really felt that there were some things they could see that they could not see.

This is the cause and effect of the entire supernatural incident.

Later, the oldest child who first made the statement admitted that he was lying, and the rest of the children gradually admitted it one by one.

Otherwise, there is no telling how long this misunderstanding will last.

After Xiangling finished saying these words, the other four people all lay down on the table, looking as if they were shocked.

Chongyun covered his face and said, "Just because of these little brats' casual remarks, everyone in Liyue Harbor has been discussing for such a long time, and we have been looking for the Phoenix aimlessly for several days."

Xingqiu complained: "Who said that children can't lie? If they really lie, they will even lie to themselves!"

Ye Luo sighed and wiped his face, Hu Tao quickly wiped his sweat with a handkerchief: "I told you that you are still weak, so I asked you to have a good rest.

"We can investigate this later. I'm not stopping you from investigating. Look at you. Why do you have to torture yourself like this..."

Ye Luo smiled and said, "Master Hu, I'm really fine. Look, I look much better now."

Looking at Ye Luo's haggard face, Hu Tao couldn't say anything even if he wanted to make up something.

For this reason, Ye Luo hurriedly changed the subject: "Chongyun, Master Xingqiu, how are the situations over there?"

Xingqiu said: "I gathered some people from the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce and asked them to go upstream with us to investigate. As expected, we found something."

"Great!" Ye Luo smiled happily, "Finally there is some progress. Tell me about it."

Xingqiu said, “There is indeed a large slaughterhouse upstream, that’s true. So some people mistakenly believe that there is a hygiene problem with the slaughterhouse and that blood is being dumped into the river recklessly.”

Chongyun nodded: "But in fact, the boss of the slaughterhouse was also wronged. All the blood from their slaughtered pigs was disposed of in a reasonable way. The clean parts were made into blood tofu and blood sausage, and the unclean parts were packed together and decomposed. The slaughterhouse did not have any unsanitary conditions, but because of this incident, it was suspended for several days for investigation."

Ye Luo thought carefully: "What exactly is going on?"

Xingqiu said: "This is a problem that we all overlooked. It is true that there is a slaughterhouse upstream, but there is more than just one slaughterhouse. There are other large factories as well."

"After a thorough inspection, we finally set our sights on a ..."

"Dyeing workshop!"

Ye Luo, Hu Tao and Xiang Ling all tilted their heads and looked at them, confusion written all over their faces.

Ye Luo spread his hands and asked: "What does this have to do with the dyeing workshop? There must be many reasons involved!"

"It's not that complicated actually. It can be explained in one sentence." Chongyun clapped his hands. Xingqiu brought a box from somewhere. After opening it, it was filled with various fabrics.

"Wow, what beautiful material!"

Xiangling was about to take it when Chongyun stopped her: "Don't touch it, don't touch it!"

Xiangling was startled: "What...what happened?"

Chongyun explained: “This cloth is made of substandard materials and the dye is also toxic.

"In short, everything produced by this dyeing workshop is extremely substandard. Strictly speaking, it is toxic and harmful."

"That's what we found."

“The water gushing out of the well downstream is not actually blood, but the dye dumped by this dyeing workshop.

"This dye is different from normal, legal dyes because the material used is faulty. After a series of reactions occur when it mixes with river water, it will be diluted for a long time before it blends with the water and emits a strange smell similar to blood."

Ye Luo stroked his chin and sighed: "Ridiculous, too ridiculous, it's absolutely ridiculous!"

Walnut also agreed: "It's a coincidence that these things that are easy to cause misunderstandings may be discovered quickly if they happen under normal circumstances."

"But they all happened at the same time. People were already panicking and sensitive to things, and they regarded all these things as supernatural events."

"My trigeminal nerve hurts so much!" Ye Luo covered his head.

On the one hand, he felt that fortunately nothing serious had actually happened in "Liyue Harbor", but on the other hand, he felt that all his efforts over the past few days seemed to have been wasted.

Xingqiu said, "The dyeing workshop has been closed down by the Qianyan Army. Soon, Yujingtai and Yuehaiting will also step in. Lady Ningguang hates merchants who cheat consumers the most."

Walnut was very excited and encouraged the morale: "Everyone, now there is only one last thing left for us, and that is the matter of the paper figurines and straw horses carrying the sedan chair."

"We, the 'Liyue Five', are working together for the first time, and it's going very smoothly!"

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