When learning about the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragments, Ye Tiancheng and his companions certainly wouldn't reveal that they were searching for the Fuxi Qin fragments.
After all, they had to consider whether the entity carrying the fragments was aware of its existence and whether it might develop any greed. Therefore, they leaned more towards indirect questioning.
The result of their indirect questioning was that this girl was most likely unaware of it.
She didn't seem like she was lying.
Nie Chongyang and the others then made an excuse, stating that they had detected an abnormal aura on this girl, which was the reason for their investigation. Thus, they requested the girl's cooperation with the Special Operations Group and wanted to examine her belongings.
Because this girl preferred to live among people, she was quite willing to cooperate with the Special Operations Group. In the end, she agreed to take out her personal belongings for Ye Tiancheng and the others to inspect.
However, the results of Ye Tiancheng and the others' inspection showed that most of the items this girl carried had a strong aura of the Fuxi Qin fragments.
It was likely because the Fuxi Qin fragment aura on this girl was very strong, which had then contaminated her personal belongings.
However, there were no Fuxi Qin fragments among the girl's personal belongings.
This once again brought their work to a standstill.
But directly questioning the girl would indeed involve a certain degree of risk.
Finally, during the questioning, the little fox suddenly had an idea.
He asked the girl, "After detecting the aura we've been tracking within the university, we found this clue and have been active in this vicinity. Currently, you are the one with the most concentrated aura."
The girl immediately became very nervous. "But I haven't done anything bad! I'm innocent and have never done anything wrong!"
The little fox smiled and comforted her, explaining, "Don't be too nervous. We're not saying you have a problem. It's just that because you carry this aura, we inevitably have to ask you for information and clues, don't we?"
"Isn't it the same process for ordinary cases when they are being investigated?"
After being comforted, the girl indeed calmed down considerably and was no longer so nervous and afraid.
The little fox continued to say to the girl, "We've examined your belongings and found that these items should have nothing to do with this aura. It's likely because you have a strong aura on you, so they were contaminated."
"Since it's not the items, and assuming it's not because of you, we'll determine if it might be related to a place you've been to."
"And given that this aura, besides being on you, is also most concentrated within the scope of your school, we preliminarily judge that the entity we are looking for is still within the school's boundaries. Therefore, we'd like to ask you, what are the places you usually frequent within the school?"
As the little fox said this, Ye Tiancheng and the others also reacted.
The strong aura the girl carried might also be related to the places she had visited.
Then, that place could effectively conceal the aura and whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragments, but this girl visited that place and brought out the aura. Therefore, they could only sense the girl's aura and could not find the true location of the Fuxi Qin fragments.
This possibility also existed.
What the little fox said and the judgment he made had a high degree of reference, and the probability was very high.
The girl had also heard about Ye Tiancheng and the little fox. After all, two very good-looking auditing students had recently arrived at the school, and they wandered around the school aimlessly all day without attending classes. This was known to most students.
Their whereabouts could be seen anywhere in the school.
Today these two might be here, tomorrow they might be there. Before, they might have thought that these two were idle and didn't know why they had the status of auditing students, nor did they attend classes.
As a result, after this investigation, these people saw Ye Tiancheng and the little fox during the third stage of the investigation, and only then did they finally understand why they had come to their school.
And the one most terrified of this was Yu Manman.
Upon realizing that Ye Tiancheng and the little fox were likely members of the Special Operations Group, and remembering what she had done before and that she had offended them, Yu Manman became extremely scared.
When facing Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, Yu Manman didn't dare to speak much, fearing retaliation.
However, Yu Manman had no idea that although Ye Tiancheng and the little fox sought revenge for grievances, they were not petty to that extent. Even if Yu Manman had offended them, as long as Yu Manman was sensible enough afterward and didn't go further, they would pretend not to see her if they met her again.
They wouldn't pay much attention to it and wouldn't deliberately do anything like retaliate.
From ancient times, it has been said that those who provoke first are the ones who suffer. As long as one doesn't provoke, one will naturally not die. People don't die if they don't court disaster.
Therefore, Yu Manman trembled for a long time. In the end, when Ye Tiancheng and the others let her go easily, and she didn't hear Ye Tiancheng mention her previous offense, Yu Manman was utterly disbelieving.
However, after this incident, Yu Manman's personality gradually changed. After all, she knew that she was not a significant person and relied entirely on her family.
As a result, because of her impulsiveness this time, her family suffered greatly.
Yu Manman was also criticized by her father and no longer dared to cause trouble for her family like this.
She thought they were insignificant minor figures, but they turned out to be important figures who could not be offended. One cannot judge whether they can afford to offend someone solely by sight.
Therefore, it was better to be cautious with words and actions, lest she accidentally offend someone important again.
It was fortunate that Ye Tiancheng and the others were willing to let her go this time, and it was also a testament to their magnanimity. But in the future, if Yu Manman accidentally offended someone else, she might not be so lucky.
And this time, this girl, who was a turtle spirit, was generally aware of these matters.
Therefore, when this girl later discovered the true identities of Ye Tiancheng and the others, she was very surprised.
Now, upon hearing the little fox's words, the girl couldn't help but exclaim, "Before, we all thought that you two came to our school as auditing students, didn't attend classes, and wandered around the school aimlessly, thinking you had nothing better to do. We didn't expect that you were actually investigating a case and had important matters to attend to."
The girl misunderstood something, but investigating a case was a good excuse, so she wasn't refuted.
The girl said in surprise, "So you are from the Special Operations Group. I remember that Yu Manman, the daughter of Chairman Yu, offended you. This time, Yu Manman must be terrified to death."
The little fox smiled and completely bypassed this point.
Although he didn't know Yu Manman's name before, there was only one girl in this school who had offended him so far.
He found Yu Manman annoying, but Yu Manman hadn't caused trouble again. The little fox was too lazy to bother with her. It wasn't worth getting upset over such a person. As long as Yu Manman didn't come looking for trouble, it was possible to let her go by pretending that nothing had happened.
The little fox didn't want to invest more energy in such a person.
He also skipped these matters and didn't elaborate to the girl. Instead, he said, "Those are trivial matters and not worth discussing. What's important now is the main business. Are there any places you frequently visit within the school for extended periods?"
"Can you narrow down some areas, and then we can conduct our investigation?"
The girl nodded and turned her attention back.
She thought for a moment and then said to the little fox, "The places I frequent, to be honest, are not that many, right?"
"Actually, speaking of it, since I'm a spirit, I don't have family or anything. After starting university, I don't often stay outside except for school. In fact, most of the time, I stay within the school."
"During holidays, I basically stay in school. I choose to stay on campus. Even when the school doesn't allow students to stay on campus, you know my identity, so it's not too difficult for me to stay. Therefore, my main area of activity is still within the school."
Hearing the girl say this, Ye Tiancheng and the others understood. No wonder the aura was most concentrated within this university.
After this girl was contaminated with the aura of the Fuxi Qin fragments, she had been active on campus, so the range of the aura had naturally been confined to the school.
If Ye Tiancheng and the others hadn't cleared everyone out of the school this time, and the aura had gradually faded, leading Ye Tiancheng and the others to identify this girl, they would have had to put in more effort to find the whereabouts of the fragments.
Now that there was a clue, Ye Tiancheng had a premonition that this girl should be the breakthrough.
The girl continued to say to the little fox, "So, if you ask about the places I frequent, broadly speaking, it's definitely within the school. Except when I go out to play or eat, I stay in school at other times."
"And if we narrow it down within the school's scope, one is naturally the dormitory. Students, after all, have to live in school most of the time, except for those who choose to live off-campus. However, I am not among them."
"Then, it should be the classrooms."
"And besides these, when I go out to relax, there isn't a place in the school that I haven't been to. However, if we talk about the frequency, it's definitely the dormitory and classrooms."
Although the girl said this, Ye Tiancheng and the others had been investigating within the school for a long time, so they were more inclined to believe that it wasn't these two places, but rather some other places.
So, Ye Tiancheng added from the side, "Besides these two places, are there any other places you might frequent more often?"
"To determine a more likely range, please try to recall carefully and tell us everything you can think of."
Ye Tiancheng's question was reasonable, so the girl thought harder, trying to recall if she had overlooked any important places.