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At two o'clock in the afternoon, the ancient apricot garden.Zongci and the others went straight to Gujing.

Since the garden closure notice was issued early in the morning, there were no tourists along the way.

The barbed wire above the wellhead has already been opened, and even a miniature lifting device has been placed beside the well to access the bottom.

"Zong Ci, the boss has said something, don't damage the overall appearance of the ancient well." Fu Shenglin said the request of the leader above.

"I understand." Zong Ci approached, looking down.

The bottom of the well is not big enough to accommodate so many people going down at the same time.

"Xixi, come down with me, Liu Huo, you guys wait up there." Zong Ci said.

As a woman, Yu Ruyi would naturally not go to a place like the bottom of the well.And Liuhuo is also used to obeying Zongci's instructions.

"Okay." "Well, be careful."

The height of the ancient well is not a problem for Zongci at all.

He jumped straight up and landed lightly. He raised his head, looked at the mouth of the well several meters high, and said loudly, "Xixi, come down slowly, and I will follow you."

"it is good."

Shen Xi didn't have the skill of Zongci, he put on the protective equipment conscientiously, and used the lifting facilities to go down to the bottom of the well.

It's just that as soon as he landed, his feet sank a little.

The ground seems a bit muddy.

Shen Xi looked down, and saw that the bottom of the well was covered with a layer of fallen flowers, some of which had already rotted, and there was a luxurious and intoxicating fragrance in the air.

"It rained lightly two days ago, and the bottom of the well was a bit slippery." Zong Ci held Shen Xi's arm and reminded, "Be careful."

"En." Shen Xi agreed.

There was a shout of fire coming from the mouth of the well, "Xixi! Are you all right? Have you reached the bottom?"

"Here we are!" Shen Xi said, while unlocking the lock on his body, "Liuhuo, you should raise the rope up first."

"Okay." A reply came from above.

Being in a dry well, surrounded by walls on all sides, like a prison cell from which it is impossible to escape, made Shen Xi feel a little uncomfortable.

Shen Xi's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but hold Zong Ci's arm.

Sensing the emotions of the people around him, Zongci turned on the flashlight, and in an instant, the cave was bright.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, relax and take a look with me."

"Okay." Shen Xi calmed down a little, and carefully checked the surrounding environment.

The well wall is not a regular square, but raised with a little curvature.Perhaps after a few spring rains, the walls of the well felt a little wet.

In a dark and humid environment, a lot of moss grows.

Shen Xi looked around the rock wall carefully, and found that the moss on the wall of a certain well showed signs of peeling and breaking.

"Zongci, come and take a look here."

Zong Ci heard the words and looked in the direction of his finger.

"Looking at the breakage of the moss, didn't it fall off naturally?"

In March, the moss is green. When the spring is warm, it is when the moss grows. How can there be a phenomenon of natural peeling?

"It didn't peel off naturally, it fell off due to external influence." Zong Ci affirmed.

Shen Xi still had some doubts, "External influence?"

"Well, for example..." Zong Ci said, he used a touch of spiritual power and hit the moss on the wall of the well.

In just a moment, the same breakage appeared on the originally flat moss.

"Is this the work of spiritual power?"

Zong Ci withdrew his hand and nodded, "En."

"Le Chaoyang's backpack appeared at the bottom of the well, and now there are traces of using spiritual power on the well wall..." Shen Xi guessed, "Is there any relationship between the two?"

Zong Ci reached out and touched the moss on the well wall, Tess was still wet.

It seems that this fault has just been formed in these two days.

He glanced at it from the corner of his eye, his expression changed slightly, and he fixed his eyes on a certain place.

A few seconds later, he turned to Shen Xi and deduced, "It is very likely that Le Chaoyang met the perpetrator, and there was even a fight, from the outside of the well to the bottom of the well."

Hearing the affirmative tone, Shen Xi was puzzled, "Why are you so sure?"

"The traces on the moss, and..." Zong Ci pointed to a ground, "footprints."

Shen Xi was shocked, and quickly looked in the direction of Zongci's finger.

Just less than half a meter away, a string of messy footprints were left.

Shen Xi took the lighting lamp in Zong Ci's hand, took a step closer, squatted down, and examined it carefully.There are fewer fallen flowers here, and a few footprints can be vaguely seen from the muddy ground at the bottom of the well.

Shen Xi stretched out his hand and carefully compared it.

"Looking at the imprint on the sole, and the length... it seems that they are all from the same person?"

"Well, it should be male." Zong Ci agrees, "Could it be Le Chaoyang's?"

Shen Xi thought for a while, and said in distress, "I really didn't pay attention to his shoes before..."

"It's okay, let's look again. If there is a fight, there should be more than one person's footprints," Zong Ci rubbed his head and said.

Shen Xi stood up with his arm.

I carefully checked the surrounding ground, and as expected, I found footprints in another place!

"here!"

The sharp-eyed Zong Ci also saw the footprints, and immediately frowned.

"Is the sole of the shoe flat? It's still so small?" Shen Xi was surprised and puzzled, "This... this is the footprint of a child.

"Xixi, let's go up first." Zong Ci did not jump to conclusions, but said, "Let Lao Fu send professional people over to collect!"

For things like footprints, it is better to collect them as soon as possible.

"Oh, good." Shen Xi didn't object.

When the two returned to the top, Zong Ci immediately told Fu Chenglin about it.

Hearing this, Fu Shenglin immediately called for professional personnel.

After more than an hour, Fu Shenglin got a set of data.

"Time is urgent, I will give you a set of initial data first."

Zong Ci took the photos and materials in his hand and looked at them.

Footprint 26.5, male, 175cm in length, based on the depth of the footprints, preliminarily judged, the height is about 65, and the weight is about [-]kg.

Footprint 9.5, gender unknown, about [-]cm in length.

"The judgment of the male's footprints looks like Le Chaoyang. But this second footprint...what's going on?" Shen Xi was puzzled.

"The smaller the footprint, the harder it is to judge." Fu Shenglin said.

There is always a difference in the length of the feet of adult men and women, but this small footprint is not so easy to judge.

Yu Ruyi on the side leaned over, glanced at the photo of the footprints, and said with a smile, "It's not easy to judge the footprints, it's a woman's."

"A woman's footprint?" Liu Huo was surprised, "Are you sure it's not a child's?"

"There is a saying in ancient times that women's feet are bound, also known as the three-inch golden lotus." Yu Ruyi glanced at Liu Huo and smiled, "Your sister and I... have been mixed among women since ancient times. This kind of thing, I Can you not understand?"

Yu Ruyi's body is originally a small and exquisite jade article, and naturally it is mostly handled by women.

"Ruyi, are you sure?" Zong Ci said seriously.

Yuru corrected her attitude after seeing this, "Well, I'm sure. And the shape of the footprints shows that they are wearing small flat-toed cloth shoes. These shoes are rare now."

Zong Ci and Shen Xi looked at each other.

They didn't doubt Yu Ruyi's words.

"Ancient times, bound feet, women? Those who are missing are all men..." Shen Xi whispered these key words.

Liuhuo interjected, "We joked before, 'The perpetrator is a woman, for the purpose of stealing sex'...it can't be true, right?"

"It's not easy to be sure." Zong Ci didn't make uncertain inferences, "Let's go to another place to see."

"where?"

"The place where Su Lan disappeared last night."

The inspectors have already gone through monitoring and investigation, and determined the place where Su Lan lost her mobile phone, which is most likely the missing point.

After the accident last night, Xingyuan has been closed. Even the place where the mobile phone was found was cordoned off.

Go see it now, the scene must not have been destroyed!

***

Several people rushed over quickly, and sure enough, they were surrounded by a forbidden line.The mobile phone is dropped, and a dot mark is deliberately made.

"Everyone pay attention to see if there are similar footprints on the ground." Zong Ci said.

Everyone understood the meaning of Zong Ci, and after responding, they divided several areas and began to investigate.

After a few minutes.

Liuhuo stood under a tree and suddenly shouted, "Team Zong, this way!"

Everyone heard the words and immediately walked over.

The footprints are very shallow, just because they are relatively intact under the tree.

Compared with the photo, it is almost the same!

And here, there is less than two meters away from the place where Su Lan lost his phone!

"In the same footprint, Le Chaoyang's backpack was found at the bottom of the well, and here, Su Lan's cell phone was found..." Shen Xi said.

All kinds of coincidences together are enough to explain a problem: the owner of this footprint is a woman with bound feet.Moreover, it is very likely to be the perpetrator!

Of course, the perpetrators cannot be ordinary people.

"Team Zong, what should we do now?" Liu Huo asked.

Zongci lowered his eyes and remained silent, wondering what he was thinking about.

Shen Xi responded even faster, "The surveillance cameras outside the park did not capture the missing person, so that means the missing person is still in the park?"

"Is it possible that the perpetrator has been destroyed in the garden?" Yu Ruyi hypothesized.

"Impossible." Zong Ci vetoed, "Last night, Xixi and I used spiritual power to detect it, and there was no evil spirit at all."

There is no blood, grievances, or evil spirits.

If the corpses had been destroyed, the garden would not be so peaceful.

"The missing person is still in the garden, so he shouldn't be dead yet." Zong Ci deduced.

"Not dead? Still in the garden?" Fu Shenglin was puzzled, "But in this garden, the Inspectorate has sent people to check repeatedly."

Shen Xi looked at Zong Ci and said, "Zong Ci means that a barrier has been laid here."

As soon as the word enchantment came out, Yu Ruyi and Liu Huo immediately understood.

The perpetrators set up an enchantment here, so the personnel of the Inspectorate could not find those missing persons.

"But where is this enchantment?" Liu Huo asked.

Shen Xi frowned and shook his head.

For a moment, everyone's eyes turned to Zong Ci.

Seeing everyone's gazes, Zong Ci speculated, "Go and have a look under that ancient apricot tree."

"Ok?"

Zong Ci didn't wait for everyone to ask questions, and explained directly, "This is the Apricot Garden, and the geomantic omen on this land has been taken up by that ancient tree."

The so-called feng shui refers to the flow and change of vitality, field energy, and spiritual power.

The number of apricot blossoms in this garden, the reason why they can survive for hundreds of years and stand upright is because of these Fengshui factors.

If there is a mystery hidden in this apricot garden, the most likely location is that ancient apricot tree!

***

Everyone went together.

The ancient apricot flower book stands in the center of the garden.

Over the years, the trunk is thick and the branches overlap, forming a canopy.On the top, there are apricot blossoms all over the tree.

A gust of wind blows, it is a rain of flowers.

Liu Huo was stunned and couldn't help admiring, "Wow! It's really beautiful."

"It's really pretty." Yu Ruyi nodded.

If it weren't for the fact that she was handling a case, she really wanted to take a few photos.

"Xixi, Liuhuo, Ruyi, look around and don't let outsiders in." Zong Ci ordered.

"it is good."

After hearing the three people's answer, Fu Chenglin, as an ordinary person, stepped aside consciously.

Zong Ci approached, stood in front of the flower tree, and put his palm close to the trunk.It didn't take long for a wave of spiritual power to flow through his body, passing through the palm of his hand and crossing the flower tree.

In just a moment, the entire canopy of the tree radiated pale pink spiritual power, carrying Hua Yufei and rolling towards Zongci.

"Zong Ci!" Shen Xi yelled, he was dazzled by the flowers and was very anxious.

Unexpectedly, in an instant, Zong Ci moved to his side.

"I'm fine, don't panic." Zong Ci pulled him back and comforted him in a low voice.

The powerful Huayu's attack stopped suddenly, and the petals fell freely, as if nothing happened.

"Team Zong!"

"Zong Ci!"

Liu Huo and the others walked quickly to Zong Ci, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Zong Ci said calmly.

"Just...what happened?" Fu Shenglin asked.

Zong Ci glanced at the flower tree, his eyes narrowed slightly, "This flower tree has gathered spirits and become a spirit."

"Chengjing?" Yu Ruyi thought of the previous spiritual power circle, and was the first to react, "It seems that there must be an enchantment here?"

Zongci nodded, and said again, "This tree occupies the topography of Fengshui, and it is very old. I can't break the barrier for the time being."

In the demon world, there are many kinds of enchantments.

Whether a barrier is strong or not is not only related to the spiritual power of the donor, but also depends on the local geomantic omen.

If it were in the Qiancheng Kingdom, Zongci, as the fox emperor, must have set up the most powerful barrier.

Similarly, if it is in the East Lihai, the enchantment set up by the mermaid clan royal family will also be the strongest.

Shen Xi vaguely understood the meaning of Zongci, and was quite distressed, "Then what should we do now?"

If the missing ordinary person and Le Chaoyang are both inside the barrier, this barrier must be broken as soon as possible!

"Don't worry, although I can't break it, someone can." Zong Ci said, with a calm expression on his face.

Yu Ruyi was rather curious, "Who?"

"Hundred Flowers God."