What are you doing in the middle of the night?
"Uncle, it's only eleven o'clock!"
Uncle Bin told Lin Yue not to argue with this person.
Lin Yue changed his tune: "Did you see Lan Xi come back? I told her today that she would call me back when she got home, but I haven't heard from her yet. I'm a little worried."
"Hey? Aren't you the boyfriend that Xixi brought today... the one who got seriously injured in a fight?"
"Holy crap?" Lin Yue was so shocked by these words that he almost fainted. Rumors really do spread like wildfire.
"Ah, right, right! Lan Xi... no, no... has Xi Xi come back yet? I'm so worried about her." Lin Yue prayed in his heart, "Lan Xi, please don't kill me the next day."
"Wait a minute." The uncle seemed to sense some youthful energy from this young man who was worried about his girlfriend, and he dashed inside to find Lan Xi's mother.
Uncle Bin thought Lin Yue's lie was quite plausible and asked directly, "So that's what you really want, isn't it?"
"Shut up, you old monster! We'll settle this score with you later!" Lin Yue elbowed Uncle Bin in the stomach, almost making him bend over in pain. He thought to himself, "This force... damn, it's for real."
The two waited anxiously.
The uncle came back in a flash and told "Xixi's boyfriend": "Young man, Xixi hasn't come back yet."
"What the fuck? I clearly walked her to the street corner!"
"So you're actually here to tell your mother-in-law that Xixi slept at your place tonight, right? What's going on? Young people these days are so dishonest." The uncle looked at Lin Yue and then closed the gate.
"..." Lin Yue ignored the idiotic gatekeeper who had a screw loose. The fact was, Lan Xi hadn't gone home! Where had she gone?
Lin Yue told Uncle Bin what he knew about Sixth Street.
“I clearly dropped her off at the intersection of Sixth Street tonight, right where we parked! She’s only a few steps away from the ancestral hall. Even if she were robbed on that short stretch of road, someone would surely have noticed. People here look out for each other.”
Uncle Bin continued to help Lin Yue deduce: "Think of it this way: the criminal used a method to take Lan Xi away."
"Hypnotic? Ether?"
"It's unlikely. If a stranger approaches, as you said, everyone looks out for each other, so someone would probably notice and stop them."
"So, the criminal took Lan Xi away in a very inconspicuous way?" Lin Yue guessed.
“It’s not that we don’t pay attention, but everyone ‘accepts’ it and thinks it’s a normal method. Are they acquaintances?” Uncle Bin asked.
“No, Lan Xi’s family all live in the ancestral hall, and they have very few friends,” Lin Yue replied.
"Are you sure that after she broke up with you, she didn't just suddenly go off to clear her head?"
"Impossible, impossible. This afternoon, we went to another place to relax and cheer up. In the evening, I saw that she said she was very tired, so I took her back to the intersection."
"They have a really good relationship."
"Damn it, be serious."
"So, it seems the culprit used a method that everyone considered perfectly normal to take Lanxi away? And what was that method...?"
Lin Yue and Uncle Bin realized it at the same time. They went to ask around and confirmed it. The neighbors also felt a little uneasy at the time, but there was nothing they could do about it.
“But that doesn’t prove that ‘that person’ taking Lanxi away is related to the sacrifice case. Haven’t we been looking for the culprit at the school?” Uncle Bin said.
Lin Yue thought for a moment and said, "Indeed. Shall we start by looking for a breakthrough from the clues we've gathered in the past?"
Uncle Bin recalled everything that had happened, and after a dozen seconds, he exclaimed, "Oh no!" He hoped it wasn't too late.
"how?"
"We had been looking for clues at the school, but we made a big mistake!"
"Hurry up and tell me. I don't have time to play puzzle games with you right now."
"Now, through the description of high-level sacrifice in the 'Grimoire of All Magic,' we have confirmed that the cases in the school and outside the school are connected. All three victims were sacrificed to summon a certain demon king."
The fact that the crime occurred both inside and outside the school suggests that the perpetrator may not necessarily be someone from the school! It's possible that an outsider committed the crime!
"Indeed, I really didn't expect that." Lin Yue, being a detective himself, was also amazed by Uncle Bin's reasoning ability. He acknowledged it and helped Uncle Bin add more details:
“Holy Cross Academy is a boarding school, so finding the list of people who entered and exited the school during this period will narrow down the scope…”
Lin Yue thought for a moment, then changed his mind: "No, I don't think that's necessary. There are two people who can somehow enter the school to commit crimes, and they can also take Lan Xi away in a way that seems 'normal' to those around them!"
1. "However—" Uncle Bin said something regrettable, "Even if you guessed who the culprit is, you can't find him now! If it were me, once I found the final sacrifice, the 'spirit,' I wouldn't go anywhere else; I'd immediately go to the designated location to perform the final step of the sacrificial ritual!"
"So where is that specific place you mentioned?"
"A hen!"
"Hurry up and think! You old monster, aren't you supposed to be awesome? Wasn't your reasoning just now top-notch?" Lin Yue roared.
"Tsk tsk..." Uncle Bin found a map of the city nearby. "Guess, guess, guess! The most suitable place in the city for a sacrifice! It must be a place related to an ancient ritual or with a legend of sacrifice!"
"As far as I know, this city is only a little over a hundred years old and there are no historical sites worth mentioning."
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