Chu Yao calmed her down and said, "Stay at my house for one night. It will be safer for the two of us."

Chu Yao can now use mysterious arts at will, so even if the Feng Shui master breaks in, she will be able to deal with it.

Chen Peiwen was really scared. Even after she fled her home, she couldn't help shaking.

In order to divert her attention, Chu Yao had to say, "Cousin, have you thought about what I said today?"

"W-what..."

Chen Peiwen realized that she was talking about the pieces of evidence they had collected, each of which had a marked word on it.

"I... can't quite remember which ones they are," she said embarrassedly.

Chu Yao thought for a moment, then she turned on Yuan's TV and used the screen projection function on her phone to project the photos she had taken at the police station onto it.

There are five pieces of evidence in total: the plane ticket, the marriage certificate, the screen at the train station, the temple sachet and the magazine's signboard.

In the order discussed by the police, they are "Sand" from Yinsha Airport, "People" from People's Commune, "Zhe" from Zhe County, "Temple" from Qian'an Temple and "River" from Xinhe Magazine.

Put together, it means "The murderer is the river."

Chen Peiwen stared at these words, and as she looked at them, she suddenly had an idea.

"What do you think? Could it be that this '河' is not the character '河'?" She held her chin up, "but refers to its radical '水'?"

Only the left side of the word "河" was dimly lit, while the "可" on the right side was completely dark.

Chu Yao pondered for a moment and said, "That's possible. If the kidnapper wanted to say 'water', then there is another explanation - who is the homophone of 'water'."

If you connect the first few words together, it becomes "Who is the murderer?"

He didn't want to expose the murderer directly, but wanted the Yuan family and the police to think about it.

Who is the murderer?

"The victim should refer to... Qu Huiqiao, right?" Chen Peiwen said depressedly.

The murderer refers to Yuan's father, but it is not just Yuan's father.

Because what killed her were the rumors of that era.

Her colleagues and everyone around her who mocked her were the murderers, and Yuan's father was just an inducement.

"Even if we know the answer, it doesn't make any sense..." Chen Peiwen said with a bit of disappointment, "This answer can't save her life either."

The person is gone, and this is a result that cannot be changed, just like they have figured out the answer to the puzzle but have no paper to fill in the answer.

"Oh, right." Chen Peiwen opened her handbag.

She searched for a while, took out a small box, and said, "When I got home just now, I found that Sister Mei's daughter had sent the key to me. It's late today, shall we go to her house tomorrow and help her send the things over?"

"Okay." Chu Yao agreed.

Today, Yuan's mother is not at home, so Chen Peiwen can sleep directly in her room.

Chu Yao, however, suffered from insomnia, not for any other reason but because once it was past midnight, she would only have less than twenty-four hours left.

But there are so many details in this kidnapping case, and she still has many questions to answer.

Chu Yao suddenly thought of what the system said "all key nodes have been completed". Does it mean that in the original timeline, Yuan Jiaxiang and Chen Peiwen did not have the subsequent experience, so they did not rescue Yuan Jiahao?

The evidence they found in the past two days is the key to breaking the deadlock.


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