Rongcheng in October was still shrouded in heat, and even when night fell, the evening breeze was suffocating.
Brother Wei, carrying a bag of braised snacks and a dozen iced beers, went to Yan Shouyi and Long Feicheng's dormitory to find them for a drink, but he found it empty.
"They wouldn't have actually gone to help Huang Shuhui find a corpse, would they? What a fantasy, what a fantasy!"
Brother Wei muttered to himself for a while, and then could only sadly enjoy these delicacies alone.
At the same time, at the west gate of the school, Huang Shuhui stood in a corner outside the gate, waiting anxiously.
She had endured eight years of hardship. At an age that should have been pure and innocent, Huang Shuhui had to shamelessly cause a commotion at the school just to seek an explanation. Now, someone was finally willing to officially address this explanation, but Huang Shuhui, who had been deceived countless times, still found it hard to believe.
She wouldn't be surprised even if she waited here in vain for the entire night.
"Huang Shuhui?"
At this moment, someone patted Huang Shuhui's shoulder from behind, startling her so much that she trembled and almost cried out.
Turning her head, she saw a man who had appeared behind her at some point. Due to the darkness of the surroundings, she couldn't see his face clearly.
"Who, who are you?" Huang Shuhui asked fearfully.
"I'm a security guard from Shanghang Art School. Didn't our captain arrange to meet you today? He's inside the school now and asked me to come out and pick you up," the man said with a smile.
"R, really?" Huang Shuhui asked skeptically, "Why doesn't he come out himself?"
The man replied, "The captain seems to have found some clues and is investigating. He's tied up, so he sent me to pick you up."
Upon hearing that Yan Shouyi had clues, Huang Shuhui immediately became excited, casting aside her worries. "Then I'll go with you, hurry and take me inside!"
"Okay, follow me."
The man led Huang Shuhui into the school. The security guards on duty did not stop them, and Huang Shuhui's doubts subsided.
After all, she had caused trouble so many times that the security guards at Shanghang Art School all recognized her. Their overlooking her entry this time must have been prearranged by Yan Shouyi.
Huang Shuhui's figure, following the man, walked into the depths of Shanghang Art School and gradually disappeared...
...
A few minutes later, Yan Shouyi, Lin Zitong, and Long Feicheng arrived at the west gate of the school. After waiting for a while, they still hadn't seen Huang Shuhui.
"Brother Yan, could that girl Huang Shuhui have stood us up?" Long Feicheng said unhappily.
Lin Zitong, dressed in a black tracksuit with a small crossbody bag, said, "Perhaps she doesn't trust us yet."
"Let's wait a bit longer. If we really can't wait for her, we'll go look for her ourselves," Yan Shouyi said patiently.
But Long Feicheng was already impatient. "Brother Yan, don't you know the Six Ren Divine Technique? I heard it's very accurate for calculating things. Why don't you calculate where Huang Shuhui is now!"
Yan Shouyi was speechless. "Do you think the Six Ren Divine Technique can be used for just anything? Divination consumes one's lifespan and merit. It's not worth wasting lifespan and merit for such a trivial matter!"
"Oh... I was originally hoping you could help me calculate the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow."
"Dream on. If I could really calculate it, I'd die of sudden collapse tomorrow."
Hearing that Yan Shouyi would die of sudden collapse, Lin Zitong immediately gave Long Feicheng a warning look. "You're not allowed to ask him to calculate any more nonsensical things."
Long Feicheng flinched back a step and then surrendered with his hands up. "Sister-in-law, I was wrong!"
Hearing Long Feicheng call her sister-in-law, Lin Zitong actually smiled with satisfaction and didn't bother to argue with him.
Long Feicheng felt a pang of frustration. Was it popular now to lure in single dogs and then kill them?
The three of them waited outside the school gate for a long time before confirming that Huang Shuhui would not come. Lin Zitong glanced at the time; it was already past midnight.
Yan Shouyi sighed softly. "Forget it, she probably doesn't fully trust us yet. Let's not wait, we'll go investigate ourselves."
Lin Zitong and Long Feicheng had no objections, and the three returned to the school.
Because the lights were turned off, the streetlights in the campus were also shut down, with only the moonlight faintly illuminating the ground. The three walked forward by moonlight and arrived at the school's sports field.
Shanghang Art School had three sports fields. The one under their feet was located to the north of the art school and was the earliest to be completed. The other two sports fields were paved in the following years, but even so, this sports field was a standard four-hundred-meter track surrounded by a rubber track.
Recently, it was heard that due to the years of disrepair of the track, a section in the corner had been cordoned off and was being prepared for reconstruction.
"The sports field is so large, and a corpse could be buried in any corner. How could we possibly find it!" Long Feicheng said dejectedly.
Lin Zitong crouched down, picked up a small twig, and drew a simple map of Shanghang Art School on the sand. At the same time, she divided the school into eight directions based on the Bagua pattern and finally drew a circle in the center.
She pointed to the map and said:
"The Nine Dragon Dissipation Formation is a formation created based on the Yin Bagua and supplemented by the concept of Tai Chi. The Nine Dragons refer to the Yin Bagua and the central Tai Chi. The formation eye of this formation could be in any position within the central Tai Chi. The Yin Bagua has the eight directions of Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Si, Jing, Kai. The sports field where we are located is half in the Xiu Gate and half in the Si Gate, so we can eliminate half of the area."
Yan Shouyi praised Lin Zitong. "It seems you've learned quite a bit at the Lvshan Sect."
"Naturally!" Lin Zitong proudly raised her chin.
"But it doesn't have to be that troublesome."
Yan Shouyi smiled and suddenly blew a clear whistle into the sky.
A moment later, a bird flew from a distance, circled Yan Shouyi's head three times, and finally landed on his palm.
It was the wooden bird Yan Shouyi had sent out to investigate!
"It flew for a day and a night?" Long Feicheng recognized the wooden bird and asked in surprise.
Yan Shouyi didn't explain much, but whispered something into the bird's ear. The bird opened its mouth but made no sound, and miraculously, Yan Shouyi listened intently.
"Yin Wood Soul Lock..." Da Feng Novel Network
Lin Zitong observed the wooden bird, greatly amazed. "Luban's craftsmanship, if it were applied today, would surely shock countless people."
But she also found it strange. Yan Shouyi didn't seem like someone who would use Yin Wood Soul Lock. Whose soul was locked in this wooden bird?
Long Feicheng quietly explained to Lin Zitong. Upon learning the truth, Lin Zitong showed understanding.
In fact, Yin Wood Soul Lock was an extremely evil technique in the Luban Classic.
It involved finding yin wood that grew in extremely yin places, soaking it in extremely yin water for forty-nine days, and then carving it to seal another person's soul within. Unless a descendant of Luban agreed, that person's soul would forever reside in the yin wood, never to be reincarnated!
However, if the soul in the wooden bird was Yan Shouyi's younger brother, Lin Zitong wouldn't find it strange. But what she was curious about was that she had never heard Yan Shouyi mention this younger brother in the past.
Her impression was that Yan Shouyi's grandfather had never mentioned him either.
Therefore, Lin Zitong guessed that this younger brother was either not related to Yan Shouyi by blood, or Yan Shouyi himself only reunited with this younger brother after leaving the Lin family.
As Lin Zitong was lost in thought, Yan Shouyi suddenly said:
"Kan Bei, Qian Liu... Found it! The aura of death is drifting from not far ahead. There must be a corpse there!"