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[2. Zhou Yitong had a very close personal relationship with Fang Min and Luo Yuan. 】
[Mission success: reward 1000 achievement points. 】
[Mission failed: 1000 achievement points, Tianluomen's hostility. 】
There are not many changes in this mission update.
Even the hints are exactly the same as before, only a new hint has been added.
Su Anran is not a fan of brainstorming. He likes to watch film and television works that infer murders, just because these works are quite interesting. If he can really sort out and deduce a complete crime chain from scratch, it will be obvious. is impossible.
Even now relying on the system's prompts and sorting out these tiny clues with almost cheating methods, Su Anran can't determine who the real murderer is.
His current intuition told him that Luo Yuan was the most suspect.
But if Luo Yuan is the murderer, what is his motive?
Moreover, why did the other party not kill people when Zhou Yitong sold the Huanggu Shenmu five years ago, and why did he have to wait until now?
Could it be that……
Su Anran was taken aback for a moment, and then asked: "Is Zhou Yitong the only one who likes to eat that candy shop in the village? Does anyone else in Tianluomen also like to go to their house to eat candy cakes?... What I mean is, do your senior brothers Fang Min and Luo Yuan like to eat it?"
The monk thought for a while before saying, "Senior Brother Luo Yuan doesn't seem to like sweet things. But Senior Brother Fang Min seems to like it quite a bit."
"Okay, I see." Su Anran nodded.
Chapter 019
Tianluomen is not far from the small village, and it takes about half an hour for a monk to reach it. Even for ordinary people, it is probably a little bit harder to climb the mountain, and it may take two or three hours.
Su Anran actually doesn't understand why most of these sects in the mysterious world like to build on this mountain or that mountain.
For example, the Xiandao Sect he had been to before, the entire island belonged to them, but their sect was still built on a mountain; the Guya Sect was also on a mountain, and the Great Mofang was at the foot of the mountain; everything else The general meeting hall of the building seems to be quite high, and the Dainili Tathagata Sect has refined the entire Lingshan Mountain into a secret realm.
Now, even the small introductory school of Tianluomen, the sect is established at an altitude of several hundred meters.
Can't you just learn from their Tai Yigu?
It is directly a valley, and the mouth of the valley is open all year round. It has never been covered up, and it looks like anyone can enter it if they want to. At the beginning, people misunderstood it as Taoyuan Township, which is enough to show how big Taiyi Valley is. easy-going.
After getting off the gate of Tianluomen, Su Anran soon came to the village.
Of course it was impossible for him to listen to such an outer disciple.
Su Anran used the same question to ask two other outer disciples who were closer to Zhou Yitong, and got a clue from them.
[Clue 3: Zhou Yitong seems to like to eat a kind of sugar cake called white jade cake, and often sends his outer disciples to help buy it. 】
This is why Su Anran decided to go to the pastry shop.
Because he believed that it was impossible for the system to give such a clue for no reason.
This clue points to the pastry shop, so it proves that there must be some secrets in this pastry shop.
There is only one pastry shop in the whole village, so Su Anran found it without much effort.
Maybe it was because of Zhou Yitong's sudden death before, so now the village seems a little deserted, and even the pastry shop is closed to thank customers.
"Hello." Su Anran knocked on the door.
The architectural style in the village is not uniform.
There are conventional courtyard houses.
There are also shops similar to those common in ancient shops on the earth, with wooden boards as the door, making a living downstairs and resting upstairs, and then opened up a backyard to plant something or use it as a workshop.
This pastry shop happens to belong to the latter.
When Su Anran knocked on the door and the other party didn't open the door, he walked around the house.
What made him feel a little strange was that when his spiritual perception enveloped the entire pastry shop, he found that there was no one there.
Su Anran glanced around, and found that most people were timid and did not dare to look directly at him, and even chose to close the doors and windows when he looked over, as if he was some kind of disaster.
Su Anran sighed.
He was also a mortal, but he was lucky enough to have power, so he was no stranger to this kind of behavior.
Immediately without saying anything, I found a blind spot in my perspective, turned over and jumped into the backyard of the pastry shop.
He saw some workshop tools here, which should be used to make pastries.
There are several bags of rice beside it, one of which has been opened and half used.
Su Anran checked it out, with a look of surprise on her face.
This is actually new rice.
He doesn't have much contact with the secular world, but as far as he feels from the whole mysterious world, this secular world should be in a period similar to the Han Dynasty in China. The rice husking, polishing and many other techniques are definitely not as good as the modern ones, and they are even more advanced. It is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, so even if there is rice under normal circumstances, it is impossible for it to be as shiny as a pearl as what Su Anran saw in front of her eyes.
Just lightly grabbing a handful with her hand, Su Anran could smell the very clear fragrance of rice.
He didn't know whether it was the world's technology tree that was crooked, or whether this pastry shop had any special processing methods.But at least he knows that if this kind of japonica rice, which is like pearl rice, is used to make pastries, it is not surprising that the monks of Tianluomen can linger.
Su Anran put down the rice grains in her hand, turned around, walked through the gate from the backyard, and entered the kitchen.
After passing through this simple kitchen is the front hall.
The room is not big, especially after the kitchen is separated, the front hall is almost just a small shop that can only accommodate five or six people.However, Su Anran took a look. There were no tables and chairs in the front hall, and it seemed that they did not provide dine-in service. Maybe it was just takeaway?
He looked around at a showcase-like thing in the front hall, which contained a lot of pastries that should be samples.
The shape seems to be similar, but the sauce on top is different.
Su Anran opened this showcase-like thing, and a fruity aroma mixed with the fragrance of rice and the sweetness of dessert immediately permeated the air.
This made the astonishment on Su Anran's face even greater.
He put his hand into the display cabinet, and immediately felt a kind of warmth - this temperature is very hot for ordinary people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is high temperature, but for Su Anran today, it is just Just a little bit warm.
Then, Su Anran soon saw that there was a row of long gaps under the display cabinet, and the temperature came from here.
Following Su Anran's inspection, there is a detachable slat at the bottom of the display cabinet. After the slat is taken apart, there are a total of five copper basins inside, and charcoal is still burning in the basin, and these are not ordinary. Charcoal is a kind of smokeless charcoal that alchemists only use - it can generate high temperature when burned, but there will be no black smoke. It is a wonderful idea to use it here to keep these cakes warm The sky is open and just right.
But Su Anran's eyes suddenly focused, and she broke the floor of the second floor with one step, and jumped directly to the second floor of the shop.
The smokeless charcoal that the alchemist burned during alchemy cannot be ignited by ordinary means. After all, it belongs to the world of cultivation, so naturally only by using the methods of the world of cultivation can this kind of smokeless charcoal be ignited.
How could an ordinary pastry chef in a small pastry shop ignite this kind of charcoal?
The second floor is obviously where the pastry chef lives, but at this time everything here is quite clean. Obviously, the monk who pretended to be a pastry chef has already left, and the other party can even clean it calmly. Erase all traces and clues.
At this time, Su Anran realized that Zhou Yitong's death was not as simple as a simple silence, and the other party might even be involved, or involved in some troublesome matter.
He reopened his task panel, and began to study the clues on it carefully.
"White jade cake?"
Su Anran returned to the kitchen and rummaged around, but she didn't see any baked goods in the kitchen. The whole kitchen was cleaned up quite cleanly, which was obviously the cleaning work of the other party.So Su Anran had no choice but to go back to the front hall and pack all the remaining cakes together, because he didn't know what white jade cakes were, so he had to go back to Tianluomen to let the outer disciple see which of these cakes were white jade cakes too bad.
Without any delay, Su Anran quickly returned to Tianluomen, looked for the outer disciple, put all the cakes in front of him, and asked him about it.
"There is no white jade cake." But the answer given by this outer disciple made Su Anran a little stunned.
"No?"
"No." The outer disciple said with certainty, "It seems that few people like to eat white jade cake. Apart from being soft and creamy, the taste is too sweet for most people to swallow. And I don't know why, I After stealing it once before, I felt uncomfortable for a long time. During that time, I felt that my meridians seemed to have a sense of stagnation, and my luck was very blocked."
"Did you steal it?"
"Yes." The outer disciple nodded, "Later, Senior Brother Zhou Yitong told me that those white jade cakes were filled with some special things, which were already regarded as spiritual food, and he personally asked the boss to order them. Like Qi-gathering realm disciples like me died suddenly after eating it, which is already a very lucky thing, so since then I never dared to steal white jade cake again."
"Spiritual meal..." Su Anran frowned slightly.
In the next second, the system's notification sounded immediately.
[Clue 4: The white jade cake seems to be a kind of spiritual meal, with some special ingredients added to it. 】
"Your brother Fang Min, does he also like to eat white jade cake?"
"Eh?" The outer disciple was stunned for a moment, "No, this is what Fang Min likes to eat, peach osmanthus cake."
Su Anran picked up this so-called "Peach Osmanthus Cake" and put it in his mouth to taste it. Suddenly, a sweet smell so sweet that it made people feel greasy filled his mouth, and Su Anran almost spat it out. .
There is no aura in the mouth to dissipate, and there is no aura to separate after being eaten.
After she couldn't swallow it any longer, Su Anran spit out the pastry directly.
The outer disciple next to him looked at Su Anran with disgust on his face, dared to be angry but dared not say: This is my room, bastard!
Looking at the fourth clue that suddenly appeared, Su Anran asked, "What were the specific symptoms of adverse reactions after you ate the white jade cake?"
"Hmm..." The outer disciple frowned and thought hard, and then said after a while, "The acupoints are like needles, and they seem to be broken at any time, and the true energy that I had already stored in the acupoints is gone. A slight sign of dissipation began to appear, although it was not very strong, but it really scared me to death at the time... Moreover, there was also a strange feeling of tingling all over my body, it was this tingling feeling that made my efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy also drop gone."
For this outer disciple, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy has dropped, and the acupoints that have been tempered with great difficulty still show signs of loose kung fu, even a monk would panic.
But because of this, he obviously remembered very clearly.
After listening to the other party's words, Su Anran knew.
The content of this clue four is obviously for him to investigate and understand what this unknown special material is and what effect it has.
If it is an ordinary person, the task will probably be deadlocked if it progresses here.
After all, investigating this kind of special material is not an easy task, maybe it will take many days.At that time, it is very likely that by the time the special material is figured out, the murderer will have already run away, and even some clues that should have existed will be cut off.
However, is Su Anran an ordinary person?
He chuckled lightly: Master is just hanging out.
This is quite a difficult and thorny problem for others, but it is not a problem for him.
So after leaving the room of this outer disciple, Su Anran took out a sound transmission talisman, and then started making international calls.
"Hey, big sister, I have something to trouble you."
"Oh, no, no, it's not a big deal, I can take care of it, you don't have to let Third Senior Sister come over."
"It's really fine! The sixth senior sister doesn't need it anymore, I can take care of it."
"Yes, yes, small question, I just want to ask you, is there anything that can make people's acupuncture points..."
After preventing the senior sister from seeming to let the third and sixth senior sisters come out of the mountain, he hurriedly reported to the senior sister what the outer disciple described.
"So it's like this, okay, okay, I understand." Su Anran nodded, "By the way, how is Qingyu?"
"Have you enjoyed eating every day? Oh oh oh, that's good, that's good. Elder Sister, I have nothing to do, so I'll hang up first. I'm going to start showing off my skills here and pretend to be a detective! … Okay, okay, I’ll tell you when I get back to the valley.”
Putting away the sound transmission talisman, Su Anran smiled happily.
Don't be silly, I have a senior alchemy master at the master level as a senior sister.
Pharmacology, toxicology, who am I afraid of?
Chapter 020 There is only one truth
Su Anran sorted out the four known clues in detail.
[Clue 1: Zhou Yitong once had an adventure. 】
[Clue 2: Zhou Yitong had a very close personal relationship with Fang Min and Luo Yuan. 】
[Clue 3: Zhou Yitong seems to like to eat a kind of sugar cake called white jade cake, and often sends his outer disciples to help buy it. 】
[Clue 4: White Jade Cake is a kind of spiritual meal, which contains dream-returning grass. 】
After Su Anran learned about the medicinal properties of the dream-returning grass from the elder sister, his clue four changed accordingly.
Dream back grass is a relatively rare spiritual plant.
Rare, not rare.
The reason why it is rare is that this kind of dream-returning grass has a very single effect. It can produce a special effect of stagnation and freezing in the monk's meridians, so that the monk needs to spend more spiritual energy to break through this stagnant blockage. It sounds like It seems to be a spiritual plant for self-abuse.
But the monks are all against the sky and eager to become stronger, so how could they take this kind of thing that obviously slows down their own cultivation?
But everything has cause and effect and pros and cons.
Although the dream-returning grass seems to be a kind of poison, in fact, its special medicinal property is also a kind of panacea for certain types of symptoms of insanity.
The common symptoms of these types of insanity happen to be that the aura absorbed is too large, with many impurities and difficult to sort out, which will cause the true energy in the monk's body to run away at any time, and thus become insane and irreversible.Of course, it is also possible that the absorbed spiritual energy cannot be digested and converted into true energy for a while, so it is necessary to use this stupid method of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause to suppress the true energy that may go berserk.
So in any case, it is absolutely obvious that there is a problem with Monday Pass.