amaotonovel Chapter 299 There must be something fishy
Chapter 299 There must be something fishy
Lu Bai nodded gratefully, tears welling up in his eyes.
I secretly swore in my heart that I would repay Senior Sister Bai and the others in the future.
He quickly walked behind the screen in the room, wanting to see if there were any clues, but unexpectedly, he was accidentally tripped by a small box when he turned around. In order not to fall to the ground, Lu Bai supported himself on the screen with one hand, trying to steady his body, but accidentally pushed the screen to the ground, making a loud "bang" sound.
"What's wrong?" Bai Yaoyao and Chen Yingjie raised their heads and asked.
Lu Bai's face turned red, and he muttered in a low voice, "No, it's okay, I just tripped and almost fell..."
"Well! Keep your voice down. Although we entered the side hall of Jubao Pavilion under the name of Qi Meng to check, it would be bad if we attracted other people's attention."
"understood……"
Lu Bai agreed with a red face, squatted down and tried to lift the screen, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a faint light from the corner of her eye.
Lu Bai walked to the leg of the screen, where there was a small gap, and inside it was something that was glowing with a faint blue light. Lu Bai carefully took the thing out, and after looking at it carefully, his eyes lit up. He walked to Bai Yaoyao in two or three steps and handed the thing he had picked up to Bai Yaoyao.
"Senior Sister Bai! Look! I found this in the gap between the legs of the screen!"
Bai Yaoyao took the slice that Lu Bai handed over and looked at it over and over again.
"Is this... scales?"
Lu Bai nodded, "Yes! They look like scales to me, and they should be the scales of the mermaids!"
Chen Yingjie also came over when he heard the noise, took the thin piece from Bai Yaoyao's hand and looked at it, pinched the edge of the pick between thumb and index finger and held it in the air to look at it, only to see that the thin piece flashed a hint of lake blue luster from time to time under the light of the night pearl in the room.
"It is indeed a mermaid scale. Judging from the broken edge, it must have been torn off accidentally. It seems that our guess is correct. On the day of the auction, Lv Fengxian stayed with us the whole time in order to clear himself and did not leave the private room. The Lv Fengxian that Lan Qimeng mentioned meeting her during the auction must be someone else pretending to be him, and this person is the traitor from the mermaid tribe who worked with him from the inside!"
Bai Yaoyao recalled for a moment, with a look of joy on her face. "This half of the broken scale is lake blue, but I remember that the scales on the tail of Shopkeeper Canglan were lavender. This is enough to prove that it was not him who replaced Lu Fengxian to meet Qi Meng, but someone else!"
"That's true," Lu Bai next to him frowned.
"But there are many people coming and going in this side hall. Although the mermaids immediately sealed off the side hall after the Saint's return, there are still many mermaids coming in and out to investigate. Any of them could have left this scale. I see that most of the mermaids' tails are blue. I'm afraid it won't be easy to find this person, right?"
"We have already questioned the waiters and guards of Jubao Pavilion. There were too many people on the day of the auction, so they locked the side hall. After the Saint Girl went missing, the side hall has not been opened. So during this period of time, only the mermaid who met Qi Meng and the mermaid guards who investigated the case should have entered and exited. Screening these people may not directly find the murderer, but at least it can narrow the scope a little."
"Junior sister is right!" Chen Yingjie nodded, "This half scale can help us identify the suspect! Now the most urgent task is to tell Qi Meng about our hairstyle, at least we can clear the suspicion of Canglan Shopkeeper first. As for the rest, let's slowly discuss how to proceed..."
Bai Yaoyao sighed and muttered softly, "Home is still better. There are surveillance cameras everywhere. If I want to know what happened before, I can just check the surveillance!"
Bai Yaoyao's voice was very soft, but firstly, the three of them were standing close to each other, and secondly, they were all cultivators. No matter whether it was Chen Yingjie or Lu Bai, their five senses had been strengthened after their bodies were tempered with spiritual energy.
So Chen Yingjie and Lu Bai heard Bai Yaoyao's words clearly.
Although Lu Bai didn't know what surveillance was, Bai Yaoyao's words about wanting to know what happened before touched him, and he couldn't help but blurt out, "Tracing Mirror!"
After complaining, Bai Yaoyao, who was about to trigger the contract to summon Lan Qimeng, paused when she heard Lu Bai's words, "Tracing Shadow Mirror?"
Is that what she meant?
Fortunately, Lu Bai quickly answered Bai Yaoyao's questions.
"That's right! When I heard you say you wanted to know what happened in the past, Senior Sister Bai, I suddenly thought of the Shadow Mirror! The Shadow Mirror is a high-level spiritual treasure. As long as you have enough spiritual power, you can trace back to the past and find the source!"
"There is such a good thing!" Bai Yaoyao was overjoyed. "With this, can't we see what happened at that time? Where is this tracing mirror?"
Lu Bai scratched his head. "This Shadow Mirror is the magic treasure of Xuantian Sect's leader Xue Tianxi. I only heard about it from my master..."
"..."
Bai Yaoyao rolled her eyes, it was all in vain.
Who would have thought that the next second, Lu Bai continued, "I heard that the leader of Xuantian Sect was worried that his daughter might get into trouble in the Mirage Sea Secret Realm, so he gave this secret treasure to his daughter Xue Zhirou!"
"Xue Zhirou?!"
Bai Yaoyao and Chen Yingjie looked at each other and thought of the person they had rescued in the Shadow Mist Reef before.
After we parted at the auction, I don’t know what happened to her.
Bai Yaoyao nudged Chen Yingjie with her elbow and winked, "Senior Brother Chen, you and Xue Zhirou are close friends. Why don't you go and borrow this treasure from her?"
Chen Yingjie: “…”
Bai Yaoyao chuckled, "It's settled. You go borrow the Shadow Mirror from Xue Zhirou, and I'll give this scale to Qi Meng. We'll split up!"
Lu Bai looked at Bai Yaoyao, who was smiling strangely, and then looked at Chen Yingjie, whose face suddenly darkened. He touched his head and said, "Senior Sister Bai, what should I do?"
Bai Yaoyao thought for a moment and gave him a task, "Go find the people who witnessed the arrest of Shopkeeper Canglan that day and find out what happened. We came here halfway, and we only heard about what happened before. I want to know all the conversations between the Third Elder who came to arrest people and Shopkeeper Canglan."
"Okay!" Lu Bai agreed immediately, his mind was clear as ever, "Senior Sister, do you suspect the elder who came to arrest people?"
"That's right!" Bai Yaoyao nodded, "Qimeng clearly said that the great elder of the mermaid tribe sent someone to call Canglan over just to cooperate with the inquiry. But at the inn, everyone's statement was as sure as a foregone conclusion that the third elder came to arrest people and take them back to be punished, and the great elder originally told the third elder to keep a low profile, but in the end it caused a big fuss. There must be something fishy going on here!"