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[Chapter 504, clue delivery]

The book Qi Ran was reading made Shao Qingge very confused. He didn't recognize any of the characters on it, like a strange spell. The little boy held the book and read it very seriously. Shao Qingge hid behind In the shadows, he did not go out to disturb him.

After a while, the boy seemed to hear something. He quickly buried the book under the tree and whispered: "Who is it?!"

Shao Qingge thought he had discovered him, and was about to leave when he saw Zhou Xiaoyun sneaking out of the hole and whispering: "Brother Ran, it's me..."

Qi Ran seemed to be relieved, and his tone softened obviously: "What are you doing out here?"

Zhou Xiaoyun's face turned pale and she said in a trembling voice: "I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I was caught by them and thrown into a pot to be cooked and eaten..."

Qi Ran walked up to her with a frown, patted the girl's shoulder gently, and said, "It's just a nightmare, don't be afraid. Uncle Ren and I are here, we will protect you."

The girl nodded and returned to the cave with him.

Shao Qingge waited for them to leave before walking to the tree. He dug out the book that Qi Ran had buried and looked through it carefully. Although Shao Qingge couldn't understand the spell-like ghost drawings, there were some drawings of human figures. I can still roughly guess the meaning.

Several of the pages depict scenes that look like "marionettes."

Ye Qi asked in his mind: "How is it? What is this book about?"

Shao Qingge said: "It should be related to the sorcery that confuses people. I don't know where I got this book from Qi Ran? Could it be that his parents had special status and passed it to him before they died?"

Ye Qi said: "It is possible that Qi Ran is a foreigner and not a local child in Qingfeng Town. I remember that there is no family named Qi in Qingfeng Town. Maybe his parents died here by chance, making him an orphan. , was rescued by Granny Sun."

Shao Qingge wrote down the pages in the book that described puppets, then put the book back intact, covered it with soil, stood up and said, "Is there anything going on over there?"

Ye Qi was about to say "no", but suddenly several strong men broke into the ruined temple where Aunt Qing was.

Those people were holding long knives with blood on them. They were obviously not easy to mess with. The leader, Scarface, said coldly: "This is our territory. If you don't want to die, get out of here right away!"

When Aunt Qing saw that there were so many people on the other side, she immediately took Qin Feng and Han Ningshuang and rolled away quickly.

Ye Qi followed them and said in his mind: "Yuezhou is not safe either. Suddenly a group of bandits broke into the ruined temple. Aunt Qing escaped with her two children. I followed them...ah..."

A short cry sounded in his mind.

Shao Qingge's expression changed and he immediately asked: "What's wrong?"

Ye Qi was trapped in a giant net falling from the sky.

Looking at the group of men in black in front of him, Ye Qi quickly calmed down and asked with a smile: "Brothers, what are you doing?"

Scarface narrowed his eyes and said: "I told you that this is my territory, but you are still hiding in the tree. Since you have thrown yourself into a trap, my brothers happened to be hungry, so I caught you to satisfy their greed." He said to him. The friends next to him waved their hands, and a group of people immediately gathered around, the knives in their hands shining cold white light under the moonlight.

Ye Qi's whole body was tied up with an iron net, and he could not use the guzheng, piano, flute and other musical instruments at all.

The group of people's eyes were red, and they were drooling as they surrounded Ye Qi, like hungry wild beasts who finally saw delicious food. Their bloodthirsty and crazy eyes made Ye Qi's heart feel chilly.

Being looked at with "food" eyes makes one's skin crawl all over the place!

Shao Qingge noticed Ye Qi's nervousness in his mind, and couldn't help but feel anxious, and whispered: "I will drag you over to the Peach Blossom Land."

Ye Qi said: "No, I can handle it..."

The next moment, Ye Qi simply used the Insect Ace.

The musical instrument card cannot be used, but the transformation of the Insect King can be activated at any time.

The besieging crowd saw the trapped young man's eyes suddenly light up. The originally dark and clear eyes were suddenly stained with a blood-red color. The young man's red eyes swept around, and sharp nails suddenly grew out of his outstretched hands. ——Those nails were like knives, actually tearing the metal mesh trapping him into pieces!

A group of people were frightened by the sudden transformation of the boy and took a step back.

Ye Qi transformed into the Insect King, but his consciousness was still clear. He knew that he and Shao Qingge came to this world only to investigate the case, and it was best not to do anything that would affect the outcome of the characters in this world. Therefore, after Ye Qi transformed, he was not eager to fight. He jumped up, stepped directly on the shoulders of a strong man in front of him, and quickly climbed to a nearby tree.

I saw the boy climbing and jumping along the tree, his body as light as a bird flying freely in the forest, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. A group of people froze on the spot. After a long time, the leading man shook his head suddenly and whispered: "Is this person a monster? Why did his eyes suddenly turn the color of blood?"

The brothers next to me finally reacted and said in a trembling voice: "S-I'm scared to death!"

Scarface twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Ignore him, just go and see if there is anything to eat nearby."

Because Ye Qi was intercepted by them, he lost track of Aunt Qing and the three of them, so he could only use the 500-meter range of the bug to search everywhere. When Shao Qingge realized that Ye Qi had resolved the crisis, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked softly in his mind: "Are you okay?"

Ye Qi chuckled and said: "It's okay, the Insect King is so awesome, those miscellaneous fish can't even

Not my opponent. "

Shao Qingge said: "You should be more careful..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a fire suddenly appeared in Ye Qi's vision.

The biggest weakness of the Zerg is their fear of fire. The instinctive fear made Ye Qi stop immediately. He looked at the raging fire in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but tighten: "Someone set a fire in Yuezhou City, and most of the entire city was burned down. The whereabouts of Aunt Qing and three others are unknown, I..."

Before he finished speaking, Shao Qingge immediately interrupted him: "Retreat immediately!"

Ye Qi frowned in confusion: "But, I haven't found out the whereabouts of Aunt Qing, Han Ningshuang and Qin Feng. Wouldn't this be a clue lost?"

Shao Qingge said: "Do you still want to rush into the fire?"

Ye Qi: "..."

Shao Qingge's voice was rare and serious: "Ye Qi, don't take risks." He paused and whispered: "Don't make me worry, just retreat quickly, okay?"

Breaking into the fire was indeed an act of "seeking death." Ye Qi looked at the raging fire not far away and had no choice but to say: "Well, then I will hide far away for a while, and then I will find a way to find those three people after the fire is out." Personally. I don’t know why there was a sudden fire..."

Shao Qingge said softly: "Stay away. We won't have time to investigate the cause of the fire tomorrow."

A gust of wind raged, and fire rushed towards his face. Ye Qi almost burned his eyebrows, and hurriedly stepped back dozens of steps, far away from Yuezhou City. He heard bursts of screams coming from the city, and many people fled everywhere with fire. , the body was burnt, gradually turning into a ball of black coal, and the air was filled with the smell of roasted human flesh.

Ye Qi hid in a tree in the distance and watched this scene with fear.

I wonder if Aunt Qing and the two children can survive the fire?

The fire burned for several hours, and then it suddenly snowed heavily in the middle of the night. The fire gradually became smaller, and it was completely extinguished when the sky was dark. Ye Qi hurriedly entered Yuezhou City. His eyes quickly swept around, and the streets were full of people. There was no trace of Aunt Qing or the three of them in the burned-down house and the bones of the people who were burned to death.

Ye Qi walked a full circle around Yuezhou City. Just when he thought Aunt Qing and the others were probably far away from Yuezhou, suddenly, a whimper came from the bug - it was Han Ningshuang.

Ye Qi followed the direction of the sound.

Han Ningshuang, who had half of her hair burned off, was seen kneeling in the corner of an alley, holding the body of a woman and crying so hard that she could hardly breathe - that woman was Aunt Qing.

Aunt Qing's face was covered in blood, and her head seemed to have been smashed by something. Judging from Han Ningshuang's reaction, Aunt Qing might have been accidentally killed by a falling object in the fire in order to save the child.

Qin Feng had disappeared long ago, but a shoe fell next to Han Ningshuang. Ye Qi remembered that he put the bug in the shoe. Qin Feng happened to drop the shoe, so it was difficult for Ye Qi to track him. 's whereabouts.

Shao Qingge sensed Ye Qi's emotional changes and couldn't help but comforted in a low voice: "There was a famine twenty years ago and everything was in chaos. It's not your fault that you lost the clue. Don't blame yourself too much."

Ye Qi smiled bitterly and said: "Aunt Qing is dead. Qin Feng and Han Ningshuang are separated. Han Ningshuang is holding Aunt Qing's body and crying. Alas... these children are also ill-fated. We come from twenty years later and know that Qin Feng is still alive. , but looking at Han Ningshuang's reaction, she obviously thought Qin Feng was burned to death too - there happened to be a little boy's burned corpse next to Qin Feng's shoe."

Shao Qingge was silent for a moment and said: "Han Ningshuang and Qin Feng were separated in the fire in Yuezhou City. Qin Feng was probably adopted by a kind person. It can be seen that he was very talented and learned as an adult. As for Han Ningshuang, he is an only son. How do people survive?”

Ye Qi said: "I will continue to follow her."

Shao Qingge warned: "Pay attention to safety."

After the fire, Yuezhou City was in a state of chaos and famine. Coupled with the fire, countless residents in the city were killed or injured. Han Ningshuang carried Aunt Qing's body and Qin Feng's missing shoe outside the city, dug a hole and buried it, knelt in front of the mound and kowtowed three times, then wiped away her tears and limped to find it. The group of people who had just driven them away from the ruined temple.

The leader with the scarred face saw the little girl leaving and coming back, and couldn't help but wonder: "This little girl is so brave, why is she back again?"

Although half of her hair was burned off and her face was dirty, the little girl's eyes were exceptionally clear and bright. She looked at the other party seriously and said, "Uncle, as long as you don't kill me and give me a mouthful of food, I will I am willing to make cows and horses for you. I can wash clothes, cook, and, by the way, I can also make kites, very beautiful kites."

Scarface met her eyes and was stunned for a moment. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Kites can't be eaten, so what's the use of making them?"

The little girl thought for a while and said, "You can sell it for money."

A group of people around her laughed at her innocent words. Some people sarcastically said in a low voice: "If you can't fill your stomach, what's the use of money?" "Who cares about money these days? Give me a chicken to kill and eat, it's better than ten taels." Silver is so much better!”

Han Ningshuang said seriously: "After the famine is over, the money will be useful. I can make hundreds of kites a day, and all the money from the sales can be given to uncle."

The ruined temple suddenly fell silent. The scarred man smiled, waved to Han Ningshuang and said, "Come here."

Han Ningshuang walked over obediently, and the man rubbed her head and said, "You little girl is quite interesting. In this way, you can follow me and be my apprentice from now on. You can't eat much as a child. We eat meat. I can always give you a mouthful of soup.”

Han Ningshuang immediately knelt down and kowtowed to him: "Thank you, Master!"

After dawn, this group of bandits took Han Ningshuang and left Yuezhou. They burned all the way

After killing and looting, they managed to steal a lot of food. Unexpectedly, Han Ningshuang would be accepted as an apprentice by the bandit leader.

Ye Qi said: "Han Ningshuang's ending should be to follow this group of people and survive. These robbers don't know how to seduce people, they are just rough men with knives to scare people. If she has been following this group of people, she will not be able to get through other channels. He has learned the magic of seducing souls, so Han Ningshuang shouldn’t be the direct murderer of Qingfeng Town’s ‘Li Gui Suo Murder Case’?”

Shao Qingge pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that Qi Ran is the biggest suspect."

Ye Qi said with a headache: "The murderer started committing crimes seventeen years later. We can't follow them for seventeen years... Based on the current clues, do you think the accuracy of guessing the murderer is high?"

Shao Qingge smiled and said: "I don't need 100% accuracy like Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang. It's normal to make profits and losses in business. There are risks in investing, and there is also the risk of guessing wrong in reasoning. Weigh the risks and pros and cons, and choose the best option. What is beneficial to everyone is my principle.”

Ye Qi listened for a long time and finally understood what he meant - that is, no matter whether it is right or wrong, just choose the method that is most beneficial to everyone. At present, they have no food in their hands and are hungry every day. They cannot influence people in this world to avoid causing plot changes in future generations. They cannot follow Han Ningshuang and Qi Ran for seventeen years in order to get the correct answer.

Ye Qi asked curiously: "What do you want to do?"

Shao Qingge said: "When answering multiple-choice questions in exams, sometimes you have to rely on deception. Let's take a gamble. Choose one of three, Qi Ran, Han Ningshuang, and Zhou Xiaoyun. Now Han Ningshuang's suspicion has been greatly reduced, and Zhou Xiaoyun's character does not look like the scheming one. Man, I think Qi Ran is the most likely murderer. The book in his hand, his attitude towards the death of his mother-in-law, the characteristics of his severed fingers, and the scars left on his face after recovering from chickenpox are all like He is a personality that will become psychologically twisted and vengeful when he grows up."

There are four options A, B, C, and D. Among them, option D Qin Feng was temporarily eliminated by Xiao Lou and the others twenty years later. Among the remaining A, B, and C, the two girls B and C don’t look very good. Like, option A is indeed the most likely correct answer.

As Shao Qingge said, when you encounter multiple-choice questions in an exam, if you are really not 100% sure, you sometimes have to rely on gambling.

Ye Qi agreed: "I also think Qi Ran is more likely. But how should we leave these clues to Professor Xiao?"

Shao Qingge asked: "What can be stored for 20 years without being damaged?"

Ye Qi scratched his head: "Can it be preserved for 20 years? In modern times, it must be the data in a USB flash drive or something like that, but now in ancient times, something that will not be broken in 20 years... I can't think of it at the moment."

Shao Qingge said with a smile: "Silver."

Ye Qi: "..."

It is very normal for rich people to think of money first.

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