Lu Yuan casually replied to Zhu Jiayi with an "I know" emoji, then tossed his phone aside and collapsed onto the bed.

After a day of preparing for the auction, he was starting to feel a little tired, but before going to sleep, he summoned Red Phosphorus from his spatial storage.

"Keep an eye on the noise outside. If you hear any sound from the next room, call me!"

"Hiss~"

Red phosphorus flicked its tongue, indicating that it understood.

Lu Yuan then lay down on the bed and closed his eyes to rest.

Until the next morning.

Lu Yuan was still fast asleep in bed when he suddenly heard Chi Lin's voice.

"Hiss~!"

Lu Yuan sat up instantly, his eyes clear, as if he hadn't been the one who was just sleeping.

"Has someone made a move next door?"

"Hiss~"

Red phosphorus nodded, its tongue flicking out.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan walked to the window and looked down. Sure enough, not long after, he saw Zheng Ran walking out of the hotel in ordinary casual clothes, hailing a car and leaving.

See here.

He didn't rush to follow, but instead opened the door and went into the corridor, standing at the door of Zheng Ran's room.

I listened at the door for a while, but couldn't hear anything.

Just to be on the safe side, Lu Yuan raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Hello, room service! Would you like your room cleaned?"

He knocked several times, but there was no response from inside the room. So Lu Yuan took out the spare room card that Zhu Jiayi had given him beforehand, opened the door, and went inside.

The room was empty at the moment.

Moreover, apart from the hotel's original furnishings, there was nothing else in the room that belonged to the guests.

If it weren't for the signs that someone had lived there, Lu Yuan would have even doubted whether he had come to the wrong room.

To avoid being discovered, Lu Yuan only gave the room a cursory look around and did not search it thoroughly.

It was eventually discovered that, besides Zheng Ran, there were other signs that someone else had stayed in the room. It is likely that the other two men in black also stayed in this room, but they avoided the hotel staff's attention, which is why Zhu Jiayi did not notice.

Apart from that, there were no other clues in the room.

However, judging from Zheng Ran's daily routine of leaving home in the morning and returning in the evening, they may have other meeting places.

After leaving room 638, Lu Yuan did not stay in the hotel and returned to the Divine Beast Pavilion by car.

At this time, the Divine Beast Pavilion had already opened for business. Zheng Meng was sitting behind the counter waiting for customers to come in. When she saw Lu Yuan return, she immediately got up to greet him.

"Manager, you're back!"

"Yes." Lu Yuan nodded to her, then asked, "Is Old Mu back?"

“Brother Mu is in the room in the backyard! He said if you come back, just go to his room to find him!” Zheng Meng replied.

"Okay, you can continue with your work."

After saying that.

Lu Yuan went straight to the backyard and knocked on the door of Mu Ruxing's room.

"Old Mu."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the door to the room was opened from the inside.

"Young Master Lu, you're back! Come in and talk!"

After entering the room, Lu Yuan casually sat down in a chair and immediately asked a question.

"How did it go last night?"

Mu Ruxing didn't waste any words and directly handed the compiled information to Lu Yuan, saying at the same time:

“A total of thirteen outsiders appeared at last night’s auction. The people in charge of tracking and investigating followed them after the auction and found that three of them belonged to the Divine Martial Pavilion, two to the Spirit Medicine Hall, and the other seven seemed to be just there to join in the fun and did not even bid or participate in the auction. Suspicion was finally focused on the last one.”

"As expected, it's still the same three."

Even without Mu Ruxing pointing it out, Lu Yuan knew that the most suspicious people were the three men in black.

"Where did the three of them go after the auction last night?"

Although Lu Yuan had a general idea of ​​Zheng Ran's actions, he was still unclear about the specific timing and trajectory, as well as the situation of the other two.

"The three of them took a car to the vicinity of the Lihao Hotel. Then, the man in black named Zheng Ran went directly into the hotel. The other two had a cup of coffee in a coffee shop not far away before leaving the hotel and did not appear again all night."

After hearing Mu Ruxing's answer, Lu Yuan's expression showed slight surprise.

"So, all three of them went into the Lihao Hotel and haven't come out since?"

"Yes." Mu Ruxing nodded.

Upon hearing this...

Lu Yuan lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

No wonder when he investigated the room this morning, he found traces of more than one person living there, as if other people had stayed there before.

Based on Mu Ruxing's investigation, it should now be confirmed that the other two people entered the room when the hotel staff were not paying attention, and the three men in black stayed in room 638 together.

Seeing Lu Yuan deep in thought, Mu Ruxing did not interrupt him.

He knew that Lu Yuan had checked into the Lihao Hotel with Zhu Jiayi's help in order to better investigate the identities of the three men in black, but he didn't know if Lu Yuan had gotten any clues.

Just as I was thinking about it.

Lu Yuan suddenly spoke again.

“This morning I saw Zheng Ran leave the hotel alone. The other two men in black were also not in their rooms. I don’t know where they went. Send more people and make sure to find out where they are.”

"Don't worry!" Mu Ruxing nodded knowingly. "The people I sent to track them have already caught up and should be able to send back news soon. As for the other two, I'll send two more people to keep an eye on them one by one!"

“Okay!” Lu Yuan nodded. “Also, don’t forget to keep tracking the others. Although we can now be pretty sure that these three people are involved, there’s always a chance things could turn out differently.”

"clear!"