Fatal Game Syndrome

After finishing their meal and returning to the room, Ling Jiushi told them about the clues they had just found, which made Tan Zaozao and Cheng Qianli indignant.

"Is there something wrong with this woman's brain? Can't she tell right from wrong?"

Cheng Qianli nodded, "That's right! If I look for a wife in the future, I will definitely not look for someone like this!"

Ling Jiushi was ashamed. Cheng Qianli was looking for a wife? I don't know why, but it seems that no one has ever thought about this kid looking for a partner!

"When Wu Huai comes out tonight, maybe we can find some clues about the key. Did you find anything when you go out?"

"no!"

Li Dongyuan raised his head and fell on the bed and sighed deeply. "The area around the sacrifice site is full of weeds, without even a tree. If there was a door standing there, it would be easy to see, but there is really nothing nearby."

Cheng Qianli also sighed, "We walked around the nearby streets, and every household had so many doors that we almost went blind, but we didn't see a single door that looked similar."

"useless!"

Ruan Lanzhu leaned against the window with his arms folded, sneered, and glanced at the three people opposite with disgust.

Li Dongyuan and Cheng Qianli didn't react much, but these three words aroused Tan Zaozao's anger. After walking for a whole morning, the soles of her feet were almost worn out, and he actually scolded her for being useless!

Seeing her eyes blazing with fire, Ling Jiushi quickly changed the subject, "Let's go to Wu Huai's house again this afternoon. I always feel that it's impossible that nothing will happen! As for other places, let those people across the street go."

For a key NPC like this, there is always a door and a key that is in a place where he often appears. They didn't find it in the morning perhaps because they didn't look carefully enough. Also, they only looked inside the house and didn't look outside the shop.

"Row!"

Ruan Lanzhu looked at him with a smile in his eyes and nodded, "Tell them to ask about the route to the river god before setting off. Don't waste time aimlessly. If they follow this route, they may find something."

In the afternoon, all the visitors went their separate ways according to the plan. When Ruan Lanzhu and his companions arrived at the market, it was already deserted. There were not many people selling vegetables, and only a few stalls had not been closed yet.

The five people searched Wu Huai's shop carefully, but it was empty to begin with, and they searched for a long time in vain.

“There’s nothing aa ...

Tan Zaozao turned someone's rice jar upside down and placed it on the ground, and a bunch of black bugs fell out. They jumped three feet high with a loud noise, almost jumping onto the beams of the house, and their screams almost broke several people's eardrums.

Cheng Qianli was also frightened by her and jumped directly onto Li Dongyuan's back.

“It’s not like there’s nothing!”

Li Dongyuan tore off the dog-skin plaster on his body, reached out to pick his ears and frowned, "There are still worms here!"

Seeing Tan Zaozao quickly running to Ling Jiushi and hugging his arm, looking around with her neck hunched, Ruan Lanzhu felt very unhappy, "What a fuss!"

Dragging the family along is the most annoying thing!

"Brother Lingling~"

Ling Jiushi grinned and looked down at the pouting Tan Zaozao, then looked at Ruan Lanzhu who looked unhappy, and finally pulled his arm out and smiled at her, "It's okay, it's just a bug!"

"Humph!"

Seeing that his backer was not on his side, Tan Zaozao could only glare at Ruan Lanzhu.

"There is indeed nothing!"

Li Dongyuan brushed the dust off his hands. They had poked all the rat holes and were almost done with lifting up the floorboards, but still found nothing.

"Let's go out and take a look. There's also that dog hole. Zhang Jiuzhi escaped a disaster in it before. Maybe there's something special in it."

Ling Jiushi also dusted himself off, turned around and led them towards the dog hole that the butcher shop owner had mentioned in the morning.

The dog hole is in the corner of the wall next to the market entrance. Inside there is a row of wooden racks leaning against the wall. They look like discarded stall racks. Outside is a straw shed, which is a tea shop. There are quite a lot of people here at this moment, but Ruan Lanzhu and the others stood behind the wall and listened for a while. These people are all stall owners from nearby. Business is slow at this moment, so they all gathered inside to drink tea and chat.

Ling Jiushi touched Ruan Lanzhu's shoulder and said, "I suddenly thought of a question!"

"what?"

Ruan Lanzhu looked at him. Ling Jiushi's innocent puppy eyes were half-closed. "Just now the butcher said that Wu Huai came out with a knife. Did you see him with a knife last night?"

"no!"

Ruan Lanzhu shook his head with certainty. Although the man in black robe was wrapped tightly, the wind was so strong last night that Wu Huai's robe was flying all the time. He did not see any weapons on him.

"So where do you think his knife went? Or rather, the key is hidden inside that knife!"

Li Dongyuan also nodded, "It's possible!"

Ruan Lanzhu stared at Ling Jiushi for a while and suddenly laughed. Ling Jiushi felt inexplicably uncomfortable being stared at by him. What was this person looking at?

"Lingling is getting more and more powerful!"

Ruan Lanzhu tapped his forehead and said, "That's very thoughtful. From now on, it will be your turn to protect me!"

"it is good!"

Ling Jiushi enjoyed it very much and smiled brightly at Ruan Lanzhu.

The three people nearby couldn't help but shudder, and then quickly moved away from the two people who were emitting pink bubbles. It was too corny, showing off their affection anytime and anywhere, how annoying!

"Go check if there's anything in the dog hole!"

Li Dongyuan pressed Cheng Qianli's head to order him around, but this stubborn head would never bow, "Why! Why don't you go and see!"

"Apparently, I'm still too tall!"

Cheng Qianli was even more unhappy after hearing this. Not only did he order him around, but he also implied that he was short???

It’s really not a thing!

"Isn't Sister Zaozao more suitable?"

Tan Zaozao gave him a sharp look and Cheng Qianli immediately lost interest. He was puzzled as to why he had ended up at the bottom of the food chain?

Cheng Qianli pulled aside the shelf leaning against the wall, squatted down and took a closer look. There was something blocking the outside, so it was dark from this end. They had just looked outside and it should be the stove of the tea shop blocking the entrance.

Cheng Qianli picked up a stick and dug around in the cave, but there was only some gravel inside, nothing else.

"Nothing!"

Cheng Qianli threw away the stick and clapped his hands, with a spider web covering his head.

"Go out and ask the tea shop!"

The people in the teahouse were very enthusiastic. As soon as Ruan Lanzhu opened his mouth, everyone started talking at once. However, what they said was almost the same as what the butcher said, and there was no important information.

"You just said that Zhang Jiuzhi hid in the dog hole at the back and was not killed by Wu Huai, but isn't there a stove blocking the way? How did he hide there?"

"Whoa!"

When talking about this, the tea shop owner slapped his thigh and said, "I didn't put the kettle on the stove after I closed the stall at night. The stove is much lighter, and that guy just squeezed in with all his brute force."

"You guys also saw his huge body, right? He managed to fit into such a small hole!"

"It didn't matter that he squeezed in, but he directly collapsed my stove! The fire in my stove was not even extinguished yet, and it almost caught fire!"

"Then do you know where Wu Huai's butcher knife went?"

Ling Jiushi asked again.

"Wu Huai's knife?"

Everyone in the tea shop was stunned. Wu Huai was a butcher and he had so many knives in his shop. They didn't know which knife the young man was asking about.

"That's the one he used to chase Zhang Jiuzhi and chop him!"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him in confusion, Ling Jiushi explained.

"That one!"

The tea shop owner understood, "That knife is the one that killed people. Wasn't Zhang Jiuzhi's sister hacked to death by that knife? That's the murder weapon!"

"So where did you go?"

Tan Zaozao was a little anxious. These NPCs were quite talkative!

"At the time, he was holding this knife and following the team that was offering sacrifices to the river god. He kept it in his hand all the way to the river. We didn't know where he went!"

The tea shop owner spread his hands and said, "Why are they concerned about the knife that killed someone? It's unlucky, okay?"

After chatting for a long time without any results, Ruan Lanzhu lost his patience.

"Let's wait until night and see if we can communicate with Wu Huai. This is probably all these people know!"

It was still early, so after coming out, the few people did not go back directly. Instead, they walked along the route of worshiping the river god as the tea shop owner had just told them, all the way to the river. At this time, another team of people had already followed the route.

"Did you find anything?"

The sun was a little strong at this time, and several people were resting outside a small shop at the bridge head. Li Dongyuan walked over to the man and sat down. Seeing that the girl who winked at him in the morning was next to him, he quickly moved aside, which made the girl roll her eyes.

"no!"

The man shook his head. They walked along the route for offering sacrifices to the river god from Yu Fu's house, and then started searching back bit by bit from the riverside. However, there were hundreds of shops in the row across the bridge head alone, and they had not searched half of them yet!

"Do we really have to search room by room? It will take forever to find them."

The girl who was disliked by Li Dongyuan looked at Ruan Lanzhu with a bitter face. The latter pretended not to hear and turned his head to look at the street outside. Seeing that this man ignored her, the girl looked at Ling Jiushi again.

"That's all for today. It's almost time for dinner. Let's go back and discuss how to find it!"

Ling Jiushi was also a little helpless. The route for worshiping the river god passed through three streets from beginning to end, two of which were horizontal and one was vertical, almost forming a triangle. There were hundreds of businesses along the way.

If we continue to look for clues in this way, I’m afraid we won’t be able to find the way out until the end of the River God Festival!

Thanks to the wandering little cotton for sending me Bobo milk tea and flowers, love you

Thanks to Ai Haiwu Apo, Fuyao Zhishang Qi Wanli, Lan Jiu sent candy today, Yaofeng baby for using love to generate electricity, and the pen core