Chapter 947 Three Suspects
Lanting came to the guest room to deliver clothes. Although he couldn't use the clothes, he couldn't just let Lanting leave. That would be impolite.
"Junior Sister Lan, come in and sit down?"
"Okay." Lan Ting walked in and found a half-eaten spiritual fruit at the door.
"I didn't hold it firmly and accidentally dropped it on the ground." Lu Yang took the spiritual fruit and said embarrassedly, then wiped it clean and continued to eat.
They both jumped onto the chairs with great effort, and Lu Yang took the initiative to talk about becoming smaller.
"Have you found out who murdered Laurel?"
Lu Yang vowed to bring the culprit who caused him to shrink to a smaller size to justice after catching him! "Not yet. According to the investigation, a total of 36 laurel trees were drugged. Some were bigger, some were smaller, and some were of various ages. The two trees used to make mooncake fillings and the ones you cut down were two of them."
Lu Yang held his forehead helplessly. There were laurel trees all over the mountains in the Fairy Palace, and he just picked one that was growing vigorously. He didn't expect that it had been drugged.
What luck.
The Immortal Palace also knew that this was a matter of luck and had nothing to do with Lu Yang.
If this matter is related to Lu Yang, then Lu Yang might have to live next door to Xue Shilou for a while. However, it is a good opportunity for the two of them to exchange their experiences in swordsmanship, so it may not be a disaster.
"Also, when the alchemy room counted its inventory, dozens of precious medicinal materials were missing, and some drug stains were found on the drugged laurel trees."
"The alchemy room counts its inventory every two months, and then goes down the mountain to purchase daily necessities. That's why we didn't notice the loss of medicinal materials."
"Is it really the work of someone inside the Immortal Palace?"
The place where the medicinal materials are stored must be protected by multiple formations. Anyone who can penetrate through the multiple layers of formations and steal the medicinal materials must be either an immortal or someone inside the Immortal Palace.
"Master is checking the suspects one by one, but there is no result so far."
"And Master couldn't figure out why the thieves wanted to experiment with the laurel tree. What was their purpose?"
Although Lan Ting wanted to help her master solve his problems, unfortunately she was just a child and couldn't help.
"How many suspects are there now?" Although Lu Yang's body had shrunk and his magic power had been completely lost, he thought his brain was still working well and he might be able to find some clues from it.
Lan Ting felt that it was okay to explain this matter in detail to Senior Brother Lu Yang, so he counted on his fingers, "There are three in total, namely Elder Miao, who was previously in charge of the Alchemy Room, Elder Mei, who is currently in charge of the Alchemy Room, and Senior Sister Bai, Elder Mei's eldest disciple."
"Only the three of them know how to open the formation and can freely enter and exit the medicine storehouse in the alchemy room."
"In fact, as the previous generation of the sect master, Uncle Qu Ling also knows how to activate the formation, but she is now imprisoned in the Sinner Hall and cannot get away. It is definitely not her."
“Although we cannot be sure who stole the precious medicinal materials, we can be sure of the time.”
"What do you mean?"
"Every time a formation is opened and the medicine storehouse is entered, there is a record of the time, who opened the formation, and what medicinal materials were taken away."
"According to statistics, during these two months, a total of sixteen large formations were activated, eight of which were activated by Senior Sister Bai, six by Elder Mei, and two by Elder Miao."
"After the elders who were good at formations carefully investigated the records of the opening of the medicine store formation, they found that the formation had been opened a total of 17 times, one more than the record!"
"This time it must have been opened by a thief!"
"Master investigated in detail what the three of them did that day."
Lan Ting struggled to pick out two spiritual fruits from the fruit plate in the middle of the table, one red and one blue, to represent the suspects. Lu Yang tactfully handed the half-eaten spiritual fruit to Lan Ting so that she didn't have to go through the trouble of picking out the third spiritual fruit.
Lan Ting laid out the two whole spiritual fruits and the half spiritual fruit.
She pushed the red spiritual fruit forward: "Elder Miao is good at the art of clones. His art of clones is so advanced that it is impossible for people of the same level to tell the truth."
"Originally, she traveled around after retirement, looking for an opportunity to break through, but happened to return to the sect a month and a half ago. It is said that she came back to the sect to borrow money because she owed a huge debt, but it is unknown how many spirit stones she owed and whether she borrowed enough."
"On the day of the incident, Elder Miao was reminiscing with another retired elder and had not left the cave."
Lan Ting pushed the blue spiritual fruit forward. "As the current manager of the alchemy room, Elder Mei is always very busy. The day of the incident was no exception. She said she had been staying in the room thinking about the new recipe and the shape of this year's mooncakes. She only left the room twice, saying she was walking outside to find inspiration, but no one saw her outside the alchemy room."
The remaining half of the spiritual fruit naturally represents Senior Sister Bai: "That day Senior Sister Bai was refining the elixir. Three junior sisters passed by the alchemy room and saw Senior Sister Bai refining the elixir through the window paper."
"The elixir that Senior Sister Bai refined is called Nine-Heart Lotus Seed Pill. It takes a whole day to refine. You cannot be distracted during this time. As for leaving the elixir furnace, it is impossible."
"Nine-Heart Lotus Seed Pill is a very difficult pill to refine. Even Senior Sister Bai only has a 10% chance of refining it successfully. Senior Sister Bai was in good condition that day and succeeded. Afterwards, she showed off to several senior sisters and junior sisters."
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"During the investigation, we also discovered that a week before the herbs disappeared, Senior Sister Bai and Elder Mei had a big fight. Senior Sister Bai applied to Elder Mei for three kinds of precious herbs to refine pills and improve her alchemy skills. However, Elder Mei believed that Senior Sister Bai's skills were not good enough and that the refining would definitely fail, so he did not approve Senior Sister Bai's application."
"Coincidentally, these three precious medicinal herbs are on the list of stolen elixirs."
After listening to this, Lu Yang showed a thoughtful expression. Thinking carefully, he realized that none of these three people had an alibi.
Elder Miao is good at the art of splitting himself into two, and it is difficult to tell the real one from the fake one. It is possible that he can use another elder as an alibi.
Elder Mei claimed to have left the room to look for inspiration, but there were no witnesses.
Senior Sister Bai could not be distracted while refining the elixir, but the three witnesses saw it through the window paper, and the figure they saw was not necessarily Senior Sister Bai.
And they all have motives for committing crimes.
Lu Yang lowered his head, a meaningful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
This is what is called the darkest place under the lamp.
"Brother, what did you think of?" Lan Ting saw Lu Yang like this, and he must have found some clues! "Xiao Lan, I know who stole it."
"These three people seem to be suspects, but they are not. Since they all have records of going to the medicine storehouse and taking away medicinal herbs, they can take the opportunity to enter the medicine storehouse and take away the herbs they want. There is no need for them to enter the formation for the seventeenth time and leave traces!"
"The only explanation is that it wasn't done by these three people!"
"Junior Sister Lan, you just said that Qu Ling, as the former Palace Master, knew how to unlock the medicine storehouse formation. Does that mean that the current Palace Master also knows how to unlock the formation?"
Lu Yang showed a painful expression. Although the answer was not good for Junior Sister Lanting, this was the truth, the cruel truth that Junior Sister Lanting had to face!
"In this case, the answer is obvious. The perpetrator is Luo..."
Before Lu Yang finished speaking, he heard the immortal fairy in the spiritual space use her immortal sense to see a surprising scene: "Hey, why is that little girl Bai Ye giving medicine to the laurel tree?"
(End of this chapter)