When I returned to the inn where I was staying, it was already nightfall.

Lu Jiu didn't rush back to the room, but found a table on the first floor, not far from the gas chandelier, by the window, and asked the shopkeeper to serve a few side dishes.

He first took out the newspaper that he had left in the drawer of the newspaper office from his shoulder bag, and then took out from his backpack a map of Anqing Province that he had bought after leaving the train station.

Use charcoal to mark the start and end points, and then mark the entire route on the map according to the stops recorded in the notepad.

'In the twenty-third year of Shenglong, on April 26, the heart-swatting ghost robbed and killed several people outside the city of Changyi, and then disappeared. ’

Looking back and forth through the newspaper, Lu Jiu was able to determine that this information should be the area where the predecessor was able to obtain the nearest place of the heart-ripping ghost at that time, and the name of the place and the information involved in the newspaper were indeed highlighted in pencil.

Looking at the map, it is not surprising that the train's route does pass through the city of Changyi.

"Your dish is here. ”

The shopkeeper put down a plate of Kung Pao chicken, filled Lu Jiu's cup with tea, looked at it half-open, and continued,

"Guest, you are sitting here to watch the Oiran parade in the Peony Tower, do you want to open all the windows for you?"

"Hmm. ”

Lu Jiu replied casually without raising his head, his attention was still on the map, he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of diced chicken and put it in his mouth, the sweet and spicy taste was quite good.

Thinking about things in his head, he didn't take out the chopsticks again, but just subconsciously gnawed with his teeth.

Until now, Lu Jiu is still very confused about his predecessor's behavior of looking for the Heart-Ripping Ghost.

If it is said that it is to buy the ancestral house back so it is desperate, you have to be sure to do it, and you can't just make it a goal just because you see a wanted notice marked with a high reward.

Just by finding out about Changyi City based on the newspaper, you dare to take five days off and go with most of your savings to find a murderer full of evil?

This kind of behavior is put into a popular game, which is to grab a frying pan and rush the four people to guard the house.

Is this to arrest people or to deliver "couriers"?

Moreover, through the past memories of his predecessor, Lu Jiu believes that his personality is actually conservative, not like a person who can do such a thing.

Leaning back on the seat, Lu Jiu couldn't help but wonder if it was possible to think in the wrong direction from the beginning?

Soon, Lu Jiu realized that there might be another possibility.

The key source of information comes from the note containing the treasure information from the crow's mouth.

The mourning crow had personally admitted that part of the reason he wanted to kill Lu Jiu was because of the note, and Lu Jiu didn't think he had the need to deliberately lie about it.

And just like the missing backpack, Lu Jiu didn't find the note in his home, and the content of this part did not exist in his memory, he had every reason to believe that his predecessor carried the note with the treasure information with him.

Compared with the heart-gouging ghost whose whereabouts are difficult to determine, the information on that note is undoubtedly more direct.

Moreover, the mourning crow was eager to do it on the first night after he returned to his residence, which meant that he had been squatting nearby for a long time, and his predecessor should have been the note with the treasure information that he got before going out, otherwise he would have been killed by the mourning crow long ago.

In this way, the timing can be regarded as coincidence.

What's more, Lu Jiu is indeed carrying a foreign body now, and the image of that dark golden heart appears again and again in his mind, Lu Jiu will not be stupid to think that it is just his imagination.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Jiu made another difficulty, if he went to hunt for treasure, how to explain the scar on his chest and the chest that was always silent, and the Changyi City he knew now was related to the heart-slashing ghost, and the predecessor did not leave any information about the location of the treasure hunt.

It is highly likely that the note was inside the missing backpack, whose whereabouts are unknown.

On the one hand, the destination is in front of him, but the motivation is insufficient, on the other hand, the motivation is obvious, but the destination is unknown, and each of the two possibilities has evidence to support its establishment, but it lacks the most critical puzzle pieces, which makes Lu Jiu quite bored for a while.

Clang~

The sudden crisp ringing sound woke Lu Jiu up from his contemplation, and his ears suddenly became lively, and the sound of people was outside the window.

His gaze subconsciously turned to the source of the sound, and Lu Jiu's eyes suddenly lit up.

On the long street, two rows of beautifully dressed girls carrying flower baskets and splashing flower petals in front, and behind them was a tall float slowly moving forward, the chassis was several times larger than ordinary vehicles, and the body had changed from an iron box to a cascading and richly decorated platform.

More than a dozen musicians, each holding their instruments, played melodious music in the white mist sprayed by the mechanical pipes at the four corners of the ground platform, and at the top of the stage in the middle of them, stood a beautiful woman in thin veil, holding a pipa in the moonlight, and the colorful ribbons wrapped between her arms fluttered with the night breeze, like a fairy in the clouds.

Of course, this is only for passers-by on the street, Lu Jiu, as a person who came from the era of the information explosion in his previous life, is just amazing at first glance, compared to the beauty under the moon who can't see his face clearly, he is more interested in the music played by those musicians.

Hum a few times to the tune to relax your tense mind and adjust your state.

Suddenly, he sniffed, Lu Jiu looked at the float, then retracted again, wiped his thumb over his nose, frowned a little puzzledly, and glanced at the crowd on the street outside the window a few times, and when the float and the crowd passed by the window, Lu Jiu's gaze turned back to the food on the table.

Just watched a performance, and couldn't help but feel much lighter, Lu Jiu temporarily turned the negative emotions in his mind into appetite, took a big bite of food, and began to sort out his thoughts.

At the moment, I am afraid that speculation alone will not lead to anything, and further investigation will be required.

In order to verify his conjecture, he still has to go to Changyi City, but not now.

It's not because of my own work, after all, quitting my job is just a trivial matter compared to the need to find out my own situation.

What really cared about Lu Jiu was that he didn't know much about his own state, and the sudden situation in the station just now made him almost out of control, not to mention that he couldn't even solve the problem of blood that supplies his body's energy right now.

If you really want to go to Changyi City desperately, what if you have other physical problems on the way?

Prioritize.

Only by ensuring that you can continue to survive can you take the next step.

After eating this dinner, Lu Jiu also clarified his goals for the next period of time:

Deal with the blood matter first, and figure out your current abilities and flaws as much as you can within your ability, at least have a general understanding.