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Chapter 26 [26] Grabbing the Handle of the Mastermind Behind the Scenes

The Spirit Control Remnant Mark is an extremely magical existence. When any creature is affected by the power of the Remnant Mark, its soul will establish an invisible connection with it.

From then on, no matter how far away, as long as the creature does not die, the connection will not disappear.

After sensing for a moment, Cheng Han distinguished the "missing" bird – a blue rock thrush.

He then thought of a crucial question: Was this a simple accident, or did Tan Zicheng discover the bird was spying?

If it was the former, it could only be said that the blue rock thrush was too unlucky.

If it was the latter, uh… it didn't seem to be harmful.

Because Cheng Han had specially prepared a set of anti-divination prevention methods, he didn't think that Tan Zicheng had the ability to trace it back to him.

The only trouble was that this guy would definitely be more vigilant, which would greatly increase the difficulty of monitoring. In the future, he must find other methods.

While Cheng Han was turning his thoughts, he pushed his bicycle and walked towards the entrance of the vegetable market.

He had only taken a few steps when a shout suddenly came from behind.

"Young man, wait a moment."

Cheng Han turned his head and looked over, only to see an old man with gray hair chasing after him, panting.

He stopped and asked politely, "Old sir, what's the matter?"

The old man asked directly, "Do you still have wild rabbits?"

Cheng Han shook his head: "Sorry, they're all sold out."

The old man was experienced and cunning, and asked tentatively, "Young man, you've caught so many wild rabbits, you probably still have one left, right?"

Cheng Han didn't answer.

The other party guessed correctly. He did have wild rabbits left, and not just one, but six in total. He planned to marinate them as a reserve food for the winter.

The old man tried to appeal to his emotions: "My third son's wife gave birth to a boy half a month ago. These days, her milk supply is not enough, and the little thing is often crying from hunger.

"Wild rabbit meat can promote lactation. I want to buy one to nourish my daughter-in-law, but I've been wandering around the vegetable market for most of the day and haven't seen a single wild rabbit."

The habits of wild rabbits are relatively special. Under artificial breeding conditions, they will become extremely irritable and attack each other, leading to a large number of deaths of young rabbits.

Wild rabbits are extremely cautious, and methods such as traps are difficult to work on them. Therefore, it is common for no wild rabbits to appear in the vegetable market for the whole day.

It was only because Cheng Han possessed extraordinary power and had an extremely capable black cat that he could catch so many rabbits in one go.

The old man gritted his teeth and began to lure him with benefits: "I'm willing to pay two silver coins to buy one!"

For ordinary people, this was a very tempting price.

But Cheng Han, with the help of the All-Knowing Eye, had picked up more than thirty silver coins in the past year. The other party's offer was not enough to move him.

The old man pleaded with hopeful eyes: "Young man, my little one's physique is not good to begin with. If he continues to starve, I'm afraid he won't survive the winter."

Cheng Han sighed secretly and muttered, "Deduction!"

He didn't completely believe the other party's one-sided words and decided to use his skill to verify it.

Mental value decreased by 1.2 points.

A series of illusions appeared.

After a moment, the picture disappeared.

Cheng Han raised his eyebrows slightly and said decisively, "Old sir, I'll go back first. Please wait for me at the vegetable market."

The old man hesitated a little: "You're not going to find an excuse to leave, are you?"

The man immediately realized that these words could easily offend people, and quickly apologized: "Young man, please don't be offended. I'm old and my mind is a little muddled."

Cheng Han replied "It's okay" and turned to leave.

*

A quarter of an hour later.

Cheng Han returned to the vegetable market on time.

When the old man saw a rabbit hanging on the bicycle's handlebar, he immediately smiled: "Young man, you really keep your word!"

He also complimented: "When I was young, I also wanted to catch rabbits to earn some money, but this thing is too clever. I worked in the wild for three days but gained nothing. Young man, you are amazing!"

Cheng Han smiled slightly and made up an excuse: "I was lucky. I wiped out a wild rabbit den with a few companions."

The old man looked at the rabbit a few times and took the initiative to raise the price: "This wild rabbit is probably six pounds, right? I'll offer two hundred and twenty copper coins, how about that?"

Cheng Han nodded: "Okay!"

The wild rabbits left at home were originally the larger ones, so it was only natural that the price was higher.

The two parties exchanged money and goods.

The old man carried the rabbit and happily went home.

Cheng Han watched the other party's back and said softly, "I really didn't expect that the old man's family affairs would actually involve Tan Zicheng."

The deduction results showed that this person's daughter-in-law had been suffering from nightmares recently, and her mental state had affected her body, which led to insufficient milk supply.

More importantly, the house she lived in was no more than fifty meters away from Tan Zicheng's house in a straight line.

Was this a coincidence?

He thought, no!

Cheng Han got on his bicycle and thought: "I actually overlooked this point. The neighbors are close at hand, and Tan Zicheng is most likely to attack them.

"This guy secretly made moves in the school's botanical garden earlier, it should have just been a whim, just like young people like to show off in front of their classmates."

He thought of the old man's daughter-in-law's nightmare, his expression uncertain: "When I first deduced the black cat, the shadow turned into a ghost hand, sucking the black cat into a cat skin.

"And in that woman's dream, strange and terrifying shadows appeared frequently, sounding a bit like a ghost hand, could this be the power of a foreign god again?

"The death of the blue rock thrush shouldn't be accidental. Its feathers are bright, Tan Zicheng probably discovered it had been lingering nearby for a long time, felt something was wrong, and killed this unlucky bird."

Cheng Han was a little fortunate: "Fortunately, I was very careful and didn't rashly go near Tan Zicheng's house to conduct an on-the-spot investigation, otherwise I might have suffered the same fate as the blue rock thrush."

He pedaled the bicycle hard, thinking: "After I deduce it later, I can verify my thoughts."

*

Night fell.

Cheng Han arrived at his doorstep.

He pushed open the door and immediately saw the black cat趴lying next to the wooden bucket containing the rabbits, as if guarding the spoils.

As for the two bird "sentries", they stood together on top of the cabinet, obviously having a serious psychological shadow of the black cat, so they dared not approach it.

"Meow~"

The black cat stood up immediately and sent greetings to its master.

The two birds fluttered their wings and flew down, landing on his left and right shoulders respectively.

Cheng Han stroked the cat's head a few times, and then stroked the birds' heads a few times, then opened a drawer in the cabinet and took out a feather from it.

It was the feather of the blue rock thrush.

To prevent accidents, before letting the three birds out, he had specially plucked a feather from each of them, acting as a tracing "related object."

Cheng Han stroked the feather lightly and smiled: "If you didn't touch my bird, I wouldn't be able to do anything to you, but you just touched the bird and directly became associated with it. Isn't this delivering yourself to my door?"

He concentrated his mind and muttered, "Using the feather as a clue, deduce the cause of the blue rock thrush's death!"