Chapter 96 (1/2)
Chapter 96
(The Confusing Truth)
<hr>
Half an hour later
As expected, they s from the soil, like the previous correspondences between Waitress Jing and Vagrant Qian
But the content expressed in those letters confor’s previous account completely, and it did yield any new leads
Hence, when they ended up with little to no gains after overturning the soil, Li Xiao Yu started rue bins in the courtyard helplessly
Surprisingly, Li Xiao Yu !”
Just as her voice landed, Li Xiao Yu picked out the bottle It wrote on top: “Strong Sleeping Potion, soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, just a little is required, once a small mouthful is consumed, i that, Yang Ye said: “I searched the garbage bins at the very start It wasn’t there when I was rifling through thehly likely that thebottle was probably hidden on their person just now”
Gu Liang pondered briefly before he opened his mouth to say: “This potion actually offers a better explanation for how Vagrant Qian died Previously, ere under the assumption that he drank, blacked out, and was subsequently killed But if he had a plan to kill, it’s true that he wouldn’t drink thatdrug, the doubts surrounding this small detail finally has an explanation
“Hence, even though we found this drug bottle, our deductions still reave hi one et drunk, so he drank it However, he didn’t expect that it would be spiked with sleeping drugs, and thus he fell asleep”
Li Xiao Yu could not help but ask: “Someone he trusted? Wouldn’t it be his disciples then?”
After posing that question, Li Xiao Yu’s gaze shi+fted towards Recluse wang’s person unconsciously
Recluse wang was still overturning the soil, and when she sensed Li Xiao Yu’s gaze, her hand movements ceased She said: “It wasn’t me I was completely unaware of the fact that my shi+fu was here too I didn’t knoanted to kill Proprietress Ling as well”
Gu Liang asked Recluse wang: “After so many years, were you ever in contact with your shi+fu?”
Recluse wang shook her head “shi+fu wanted e, just hand it over to , I shouldn’t wasteRecluse wang utter those words, Gu Liang and Yang Ye shared a look
Yang Ye nodded at Gu Liang Gu Liang looked towards Recluse wang and Gu Liang, “Can we have a private conversation?”
Li Xiao Yu sidled up to Gu Liang “I want to listen too”
Gu Liang thought about it before he instructed her: “Help ht throw soain”
Li Xiao Yu ht Recluse wang and Girlfriend Jia to the third floor of the inn However, this ti was staying in, na and Girlfriend Jia sat shoulder-to-shoulder, while Yang Ye and Gu Liang sat opposite of the the door to see theasked Girlfriend Jia: “Today at approxi’s roolances with Recluse wang subconsciously, not uttering a word
Gu Liang continued to ask: “Is it because you bu who had been stabbed with a knife, and decided to take advantage of her injury to do so? It’s not possible that both of you didn’t posed that query, the roo Ye spoke out: “If you don’t explain yourselves properly, your suspicions will be incredibly heavy We have reason to suspect that Recluse wang used the Incense Absorbing Arant Qian, and then kill Proprietress Ling Girlfriend Jia, on the other hand, brought Proprietress Ling towards the , and allowed her to be shot to death”
Recluse wang interrupted Yang Ye: “That’s not right I don’t have any reason to kill , “Soht, which made you decide to murder your shi+fu The Index of Hundred Ghosts states that there are tinise their own faeous for you is the fact that, even if you continue to deny it, you share a co to end If both of you are thethat you can cover up for each other Therefore, we have no way of believing either of you, unless you choose to explain your story in full”
Recluse wang furrowed her eyebrows “Nothing happened yesterday, I only asked Girlfriend Jia to help ation segment today that I learnt of the fact that my shi+fu was here at the inn too”
When Girlfriend Jia listened to this point, she could resist asking Gu Liang: “Who saw ’s roo He was the first to speak about his timeline Whereas both of you only chose to talk about your timelines after I expressed the hefty suspicions I harboured towards the both of you For the sa up another , I’ll speak honestly, I will still doubt you all the same
“But I still hope&k2014; perhaps you can persuade me that you are indeed not thebefore shehesitated for a long time before she finally nodded her head
Girlfriend Jia proceeded to say: “Recluse wang and I were essentially together ever since the start of last night Around 1:30 in the afternoon, we heard an extre frohtly and peeked out, andZhao Meili running upstairs, looking rather flustered The loud thuds on the wooden staircase was made by her
“Soon after, both of us saw an injured Proprietress Ling walking up too Proprietress Ling wanted to go back to her room but she was stopped by us We declared that we knew her identity and we had questions to ask her
“Proprietress Ling agreed, and ent to Recluse wang’s roo spoken to this point, Girlfriend Jia glanced at Recluse wang and said: “That amulet of yours, you should explain it”
Recluse wang took over and said: “If you’ve searched e, you probably saw that there are a lot of array and a on how to exorcise a powerful ghost for the past 18 years Didn’t I die a o? Prior to my death, I used my own blood to draw a talisman, and I cultivated that talis entered my room, I pasted that talis heard that, he went to the corridor outside the roo “Which talis picked up one of the books, flipped to the page, and pointed towards it with her finger “This one”
Gu Liang looked at the page, and only saw that it wrote: “[A Very Powerful Ghost-Killing Blood Talishosts who have cultivated for hundreds of years, but it requires the user to use their blood to cultivate the talisman Since the talisman requires heart blood for the cultivation, it demands a lot from the user, please use with the utmost caution
“Instructions: Paste the talishost’s face, use fire to burn the talishost
“Take note, the blood talishost immediately, in the instant where the talishost’s heart After 3 hours, the heart fire will turn into karhost is i could not help but frown: “Therefore, this blood taliset rid of Proprietress Ling This er exists, and you have no way of proving that you used this talis said: “Certainly, I have no way of proving it But I really didn’t know that my shi+fu was on the opposite bank of the lake, nor was I aware that he had a plan to deal with Proprietress Ling I only prepared the blood talis”
After alooked sideways towards Girlfriend Jia “What were you doing when you appeared at Recluse wang’s roo’s blood talisman was not coet rid of ghosts, but she never tested it herself We wanted to lock Proprietress Ling in her room for 3 hours and wait for it to take effect
“During this period of ti with Tourist Jia to retrievefro And around 2 o’ clock, I went back to Tourist Jia’s room to knock on the door, but to my surprise, he wasn’t back yet I couldn’t find the spare keys that Proprietress Ling stashed so I could only return to Recluse wang’s roo into Recluse wang’s room, it probably happened after I knocked on Tourist Jia’s roo to Recluse wang’s roo a question then, “Therefore, after breakfast, you basically didn’t see Tourist Jia for the entire day, and you never went back to his room either?”
Girlfriend Jia said: “I didn’t Proprietress Ling only gave us one key, and that key ith Tourist Jia the entire ti want to ht, all of you know this After breakfast, Tourist Jia was going to hike the mountain and he locked the door before he left I was completely locked out of the roo, Gu Liang asked Yang Ye: “Didn’t you push Tourist Jia off the mountain? Is it possible that he actually died and he turned into a ghost? It’s just that we don’t kno he learned of Vagrant Qian’s existence, and of Vagrant Qian’s plans”
Before Yang Ye could answer, Girlfriend Jia spoke first: “That isn’t really possible As a Taoist practitioner, I’hosts In my story, Tourist Jia was huhosts capable of distinguishi+ng their kind? Is Tourist Jia a ghost?”
“He’s not” Recluse wang said in a resolute tone “Once I saw Proprietress Ling, Waitress Jing, and Chef Huang, all of us knew that the other party was a ghost But my story never host as well”
That’s awfully strange
Tourist Jia was not a ghost, and realistically speaking, the possibility of hih, which correspondinglyto the opposite bank of the lake to commit the crime was very small However, his character ay too soy sauce; this was not normal in the least
Unable to conjure any new brain holes for the ti could only continue to question Recluse wang: “What happened afterwards? Can you talk about Girlfriend Jia and your timeline in detail?”
“At 1:40 in the afternoon, I used the blood talis, whichteo out once because she wanted to retrieve her peach wood sword, but she returned empty-handed Both of us could use our powers to trap Proprietress Ling”
“Despite everything, Proprietress Ling’s poay too strong After another 20 s we casted on her e relaxed our vigilance, and she ju recorded down their ti: “Therefore, if your blood talisman took effect, a karmic fire will burn her from inside out 3 hours later You used the blood talis should be burned to death by the ghost fire at 4:40 If the karmic fire burned her to death, what kind of sy went silent for a long moment before she replied: “You’ve touched on a vital question We don’t knohat kind of traces the karmic fire will leave behind This is the reason why Girlfriend Jia and I didn’t dare to confess”
Taking a figurative step back, Recluse wang explained: “School Senior Hua, you’ve already seen this clue, it doesn’t state if there will be any marks left on her body if she was burnt to death by the karmic fire, nor does it say if she will become scattered ashes and dispersed smoke instantaneously…