That's true. Qian Chang wanted to lead the way in the plot, but Ye Zhan wasn't interested. Lin Shu and he were currently in a cold war. Yao Shu was being "entangled" by Fu Guan. Along the way, no one paid any attention to Huang Yingzong.
Shi Jinzhe took out his scepter, and Fu Guanzai turned around as if by telepathy.
Although his appearance had changed so much that even his own father wouldn't recognize him, the scepter that had betrayed him and run off with another man was instantly recognizable.
He dismissed the girls and lagged a few steps behind, asking, "Would it be convenient for me to take a look?"
Shi Jin handed it to him, and Fu Guan said, "Aren't you afraid I'll just take it away like this?"
“It can run away even if you take it away, and it will come back on its own. You can’t keep it.” Shekh made a mouthpiece, his words cutting to the heart without any mercy.
"..." Fu Guan pretended to be deaf, admiring the scepter before returning it. "Have you discovered something?"
Shi Jinzhe doesn't need the scepter right now. Taking it out is either to show off or to provoke him. He must have something he wants to do to attract him over.
Sheh handed the small note containing the message between the two to Fu Guanzai. "Look at that," she gestured for Fu Guanzai to look at Huang Yingzong, "what's going on?"
They arrived late, and Huang Yingzong was isolated; perhaps there was a reason for this.
Fu Guan's expression remained unchanged, but the slight surprise in his eyes did not escape Shehe's notice. He took out a privacy item called "Love Letter" from his system inventory and wrote down what happened to Lin Shu last night.
[That's what happened. The woman was following Huang Yingzong, and Lin Shu saw her in the mirror. She wasn't sure if the woman who left room 201 last night was the same one, and that Huang Yingzong had been staring at her all night, even saying he'd finally woken her up when he found out. That's why I made Lin Shu separate from him this morning.]
Fu Guan was thinking of protecting one person at a time, since Huang Yingzong had already been tainted by something dirty, so he should be abandoned.
But what Shekh wrote on the note also made sense. Their thinking was too roundabout; they hadn't thought about it directly. If that were really the case, they would fall into a trap.
Fu Guan asked, "What are your thoughts?"
Shi Jinzhe mouthed the word "difficult." He wasn't afraid of escaping the killing; with Sheh around, it wasn't a problem. But after a day and a night, he discovered that this instance was full of traps.
Leaving aside Aunt Qu's cooking, as he said to Sheh in the car yesterday, Huang Yingzong's act of asking for the red envelope back was an ineffective way to avoid risk. The plot has deviated from its intended course, and his entanglement with the blind woman and the red envelope is closely related.
There's also Jiang Xiaowan's soul-driving incense. Yao Shu's attempt to stop her was a clear trap. If she had actually lit it with the stove fire, or if she had been more selfish and wanted to light the incense alone in her room, the danger would have increased dramatically. Yao Shu is a target of hatred, and it would have been difficult for them to avoid the attacks of these two monsters with their skills.
If Jiang Xiaowan really did that, not only would they be unable to verify that the headless man and the eyeless woman were not ghosts, but they would also lose two more players this morning.
Shi Jin, with his back turned, didn't have a spare hand to write anything. He pointed at the bottle held by Sheh and said, "The Soul-Driving Incense is more like a clue than a prop. We need to change our conventional way of thinking in this instance. If the trap succeeds, Jiang Xiaowan and Yao Shu will be dead now. Not counting Sheh, the team should only have six people left. Huang Yingzong has already fallen for it, so there are still five people left. Sheh and Qian Chang will die later. What do you think about the rest of us: you, me, Lin Shuye, and Zhan?"
The vase made too little noise for Fu Guan to hear. Shehe relayed the message to him, and to prevent eavesdropping, he wrote it down and added his own insights.
[I lean towards Lin ≥ Fu > You ≥ Ye. Lin Shu's character doesn't match her real personality. If Huang Yingzong gets into trouble, the playboy will take advantage of the situation. Adultery always requires avoiding crowds, which creates an opportunity for him to be killed.]
Aquaman himself was in great pain, saying, "My surname is Fu."
Shekh: "I know."
Fu Guanzai: ...
So you just want to call it that, right?
He said seriously, "And what about these two behind them? One is deaf and mute, and the other is a little kid."
Shekh bluntly stated, "These two good-for-nothings are easy to bully. Keep them around to drain my life force."
Shi Jinzhe tightened his grip on her thigh, not wanting to hear those words.
"It's just a persona; I wouldn't do that."
"...No, you really know how to absorb life force?" Fu Guan was shocked. When he saw Shi Jinzhe's face that looked like he hadn't slept for three days that morning, he thought Shi Jinzhe was really weak.
Fu Guan glanced at him; he seemed much better now, recovering his health really quickly.
"Hey, what are you three doing in the back? Hurry up, we've made a new discovery."
Qian Chang stood in front of a broken wall and shouted, startling the birds in the forest.
Shi Jinzhe noticed a half-broken stone tablet next to him, with the words "Academy" written on it.
The academy is a great place to send clues.
He quickened his pace, switched his second skill to "Seeing the Essence," and took two steps at a time to climb the stairs, enter the abandoned academy, and get straight to the point.
Pushing open the long-sealed wooden door, several beams of white light shone down from the gaps in the fallen tiles. The group was surprised to find that there were books here.
Shi Jinzhe put down Sheh, picked up a book from the ground, and found that the pages, which had been soaked by the rain and were moldy and stuck together, were falling apart at the slightest touch. He touched it and found it damp.
"Look here, there are still some that haven't been damaged too badly." Fu Guan picked up a dictionary from the haphazardly tilted bookshelf, and could barely make out the words.
He carefully rummaged through the pile of books for a long time before finally finding a few that were still readable. "Let's see if you can recognize any of them."
A few people looked around and started making comments all at once.
"The words are all blurred like this."
"Is this cursive script? This is going to be a bit of a challenge for me."
"Stop talking nonsense, let's see how many characters you can recognize first."
Shekh was reluctant to touch it, so Shi Jinzhe picked up a coverless book and flipped through it.
The yellowed inner pages are printed with the date 1924, "Compilation of Local History of Banshan County," which is the local county gazetteer.
It seems he was lucky; he landed something important right away. A six-hundred-year-old temple, an eight-hundred-year-old town—only by understanding the local history and culture can one truly know what's hidden here.
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