Without too much delay, the few people quickly returned to their residence.

It's just that when they saw the lanterns swaying back and forth at the door from a distance, as well as the several beggar disciples who came in and out, their hearts were clear.

Sure enough, it was too late......

"Eh~ where is your Elder Fang?" Yang Xiaocheng stepped a little under his feet, and his body quickly appeared beside a disciple.

Seeing that it was Yang Xiaocheng, the disciple hurriedly bowed and said, "Yang Shaoxia, Elder Fang has just left, let's hurry up and clean up Elder Yi's residence, and at the same time look for any clues about the murderer." ”

After saying this, the disciple bowed again, and then rejoined the group of those searching disciples. Yang Xiaocheng didn't stop him anymore.

"It seems that we don't have to go in," Lan Yiting stepped forward and looked at the beggar disciples who were busy going back and forth, "What are the clues, it is estimated that they have already been cleared by the murderer." ”

Lan Yiting's words can be regarded as an idea that everyone recognizes. What is cleaning up the scene, cleaning up the scene in such a hurry, it is estimated that this is just an excuse for the murderer to 'destroy the corpse and destroy the traces'.

However, in this way, Chen Hanyu and others felt more accurately that Fang Chengjun had a ghost. After all, the order to clean up the scene was given by him, although the order itself is understandable, but it also indirectly shows that Fang Chengjun wants to fool things over.

"One hundred secrets, one sparse......" Wei Fangfei shook his head and sighed, it was too late to say anything now.

It had been a full quarter of an hour since they left and now they had returned, and Fang Chengjun, who was the object of their suspicion, happened to be present, with Fang Chengjun's posture that had been hidden for many years, it would be too unbelievable if there were still clues.

Seeing that everyone had the intention of retreating, Zhen Yingying stomped her feet, and said with a small mouth: "No, it's all here, at least you have to go in and have a look!" After speaking, he pulled Chen Hanyu's sleeve beside him: "Hanyu, you can go in with me......"

"This ......" Chen Hanyu turned his head to look at the others.

"It's imperative that we find the monkey first. Lan Yiting objected, "You have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death." If the murderer really destroys the corpse, we will lose even the last clue. ”

"But the monkey must have died long ago. Ding Jianling stood up to help Zhen Yingying speak.

"I think it's better for everyone to go in and have a look, what if they find a clue?" Chen Hanyu said.

Chen Hanyu felt that there was still some hope for going to the elder's residence to find clues. After all, there is no such thing as a clue, and it is not something that can be prevented by careful planning and careful action by the planner. In many cases, it is precisely because of some subtle negligence on the part of the plotter that his deeds are finally exposed.

Moreover, it is unrealistic for Chen Hanyu to also look for monkeys. After all, the murderer has been gone for a while, and there is no trace of him. Where are they chasing now?

"Oh, they just want you to accompany her in, and we don't get involved. Just when Chen Hanyu looked at Wei Fangfei, Wei Fangfei suddenly smiled, clasped his hands around his chest and said leisurely.

"Fang Fei, now is not the time to joke. You glanced at Wei Fangfei.

"I'm not kidding," Wei Fangfei spread his hands, but saw that Chen Hanyu and the others were all looking at him with a serious face, feeling bored, so he shrugged his shoulders casually and stopped talking.

"I don't think so. Yang Xiaocheng suddenly said, "Our soldiers split into two routes, one part went to Elder Yi's residence to look for clues, and the other part went out to look for monkeys. ”

His approach quickly won the approval of the crowd, and they immediately split up. Chen Hanyu, Yang Xiaocheng, Zhen Yingying, and Ding Jianling went to Elder Yi's residence together, while Lan Yiting, Wei Fangfei, You Qingsheng, and Gu Yuxing went together to find the whereabouts of the monkey.

It was easy to decide, and Chen Hanyu and the four of them quickly entered the room where Elder Yi died.

"The elder's body has been carried out by the disciples. A disciple who looked like the main person in charge here said to Chen Hanyu and the others.

However, after this disciple said this, they didn't speak when they saw Chen Hanyu. Most of them left their minds on the case, so they didn't bother them anymore, but retreated with the other two disciples in the room, leaving this place to Chen Hanyu and the four of them.

After they all withdrew, Zhen Yingying glanced around and said stupidly: "It seems that the clues here have been cleared, and there is not even a trace of blood left." ”

"Blood?" Chen Hanyu repeated in a low voice.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Hanyu's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he remembered something, he turned around abruptly and walked quickly to the only bed in the room.

"Huh?"

The three of them all turned their heads to look at Chen Hanyu, and they didn't move for a while, wanting to see if he had found any clues.

I saw Chen Hanyu staring at the bed for a long time, during which he brushed the folds on the bed with his hand, and then looked down at the ground under his feet. After a long time, he raised his head suddenly, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, "I see." ”

Chen Hanyu's reaction immediately aroused the curiosity of the three of them, and Ding Jianling hurriedly asked, "What did you find?"

"Hehe!" a smile appeared at the corner of Chen Hanyu's mouth, "This should be something that the murderer didn't expect, Elder Yi hasn't slept in bed for a long time." ”

Chen Hanyu's words made Yang Xiaocheng stunned: "You mean, he hasn't slept for a long time?"

Zhen Yingying sneered, didn't look back, and retorted coldly: "Who told you that if you don't go to bed, it means you won't sleep?"

Zhen Yingying's indifferent answer made Yang Xiaocheng a little embarrassed, he scratched his scalp, but he didn't mean to quarrel with Zhen Yingying.

Ding Jianling walked to the bed, stretched out her hand and gently twisted it on the bed, and then said to herself: "The folds have been formed, and it seems that they have been maintained for a long time. In this way, it is true that Elder Yi has not been in bed for a long time. ”

"But if he doesn't go to bed, where will he stay at night?" Yang Xiaocheng wondered.

"If you are a reader, it is not impossible to stay in the study all night. Chen Hanyu thought for a while and said, "Why don't we go to the study and have a look." ”

The study was a small room next to the bedroom, and the four of them quickly looked at the entire layout of the study. Compared to the bedroom, which is the main crime scene, there are no disciples walking around in the study, so now there are only Chen Hanyu and the four of them here.

"You're right, Elder Zhen does stay in the study a lot. Zhen Yingying looked at the many books spread out on the table, and the oil lamp with fresh oil at the foot of the table, and came to such a conclusion.

"However, there is still no trace of a crime here. Yang Xiaocheng shook his head.

At this time, they also figured out a key question. Looking at the entire case, on the surface, he was attacked and killed while sleeping in his bedroom. But under their analysis, it was not necessarily in the bedroom that he died. It is possible that he died somewhere else, and then the murderer moved his body to the bedroom to create the illusion that he was dead in the bedroom, leading everyone's thinking in the wrong direction.

Now it seems that the traces of Yi Shao's activities in the study are indeed much higher than in the bedroom, but these alone are not enough, because this is not enough to show that Yun Shao was killed in the study.

The clues still haven't been connected......

"Huh~" Ding Jianling sat down on a chair and looked up at the ceiling idlely.

"You see, there's an attic up there. Suddenly, I heard Ding Jianling exclaim.

Hearing Ding Jianling's voice, Chen Hanyu and the other three raised their heads suddenly, and their eyes were locked on the center of the ceiling. Yes, there was indeed a recessed square plank in that place, which should have been the partition between the attic and the study.

After staring at the partition for a long time, Yang Xiaocheng shook his head: "The keyhole is rusty, and the board is covered with dust and cobwebs, and no one has been up for a long time." ”

Zhen Yingying curled her mouth and leaned towards Chen Hanyu: "Hanyu, you said that there are no other entrances to this attic?"

"Other entrances?" Chen Hanyu didn't know how Zhen Yingying came up with this idea, "The attic is generally used to place important items, it belongs to a hidden place, how can there be other entrances?"

"Maybe there is?" Zhen Yingying seemed a little anxious, "For example, what kind of mechanism is on the roof...... Oh, anyway, I just think this attic is suspicious. As he spoke, he pushed Chen Hanyu with his elbow.

Chen Hanyu frowned, and always felt that Zhen Yingying had become a little strange. However, he didn't want to go against Zhen Yingying's intentions in this matter, so he said, "Then let's go up to the roof and have a look!" After that, he said to Yang Xiaocheng: "You stay down first." ”

Seeing that Yang Xiaocheng nodded as a default, Chen Hanyu and Zhen Yingying walked out of the study together. Both of them were masters of light skills, and it was not at all a problem to jump onto the roof of such a hut.

"Yingying~" Chen Hanyu glanced at Zhen Yingying: "You and Yang Xiaocheng ......"

"Don't mention him to me!" Zhen Yingying's pretty face sank and she whispered.

When they came out just now, Chen Hanyu suddenly figured out the key to this. In the words just now, Zhen Yingying seemed to have been choking Yang Xiaocheng all the time. Yang Xiaocheng said the east, and Zhen Yingying must say the west. Yang Xiaocheng said that no one had ever been to the attic, so Zhen Yingying had to find a reason to refute him.

Judging from what Chen Hanyu knows, these two people don't seem to have any festivals, if they really want to say that there are festivals, that is, the festivals of the Hengshan Yinxue faction and the Songshan Split Rock faction, which can be said to be a deep feud in the sea of blood.

In this way, Zhen Yingying's attitude towards Yang Xiaocheng seems to be reasonable.

Smiled helplessly, Chen Hanyu said again: "Not all the disciples of Songshan are bad! At least Brother Yang is not bad." ”

"He's stupid~" Zhen Yingying said a little angrily: "The whole pig's head." ”

Chen Hanyu felt funny in his heart: "How can you say that he, Yang Xiaocheng, is also one of the several masters of the younger generation, and was evaluated as a pig's head by you Zhen Yingying?"

"Hey, what are you doing there? Seeing that Chen Hanyu was still in a daze, Zhen Yingying couldn't help but shout with her hands on her waist, "Are you also a pig's head?"

She didn't say this as softly as she had just said. You must know that in order not to be heard by Yang Xiaocheng and them in the room below, Zhen Yingying spoke softly when she talked to Chen Hanyu just now, and she almost didn't transmit the sound directly. But now she didn't give Chen Hanyu face at all, and bluffed directly.

Chen Hanyu smiled helplessly: "Don't you see everything on this roof?

At the same time, Chen Hanyu also took a few steps towards the top of the roof, and standing in this position, he could see the full extent of the roof more clearly.

Looking down at the roof, Chen Hanyu was stunned.

didn't say anything to Zhen Yingying, Chen Hanyu moved his feet, and his body appeared directly in a position on the edge of the eaves, and then flicked it with his feet.

"Where ......" Zhen Yingying's eyes lit up, and she appeared beside Chen Hanyu in the blink of an eye. With a wave of her hand, a dark yellow tile was lifted and flew out of the roof, falling somewhere.

But where the tile flew out, a square hole was revealed. Interestingly, the rest of the tiles around the hole, which were supposed to be covered by the tile, were reflected in the moonlight, apparently with a freshly coated adhesive on top that re-bonded the tiles together.

The re-glued tiles, that means that someone has just been here!

Glancing at each other, Chen Hanyu and Zhen Yingying worked together, and quickly removed several rebonded tiles. At this point, a hole about a foot long in the roof was exposed, just enough for one person to pass through.

This is a small attic, less than three zhang long and more than one zhang wide. The attic is in the shape of an inverted triangular prism, and when they enter through the square hole, the two of them have to bend down slightly, and when they get close to the middle, the top of their heads is only about half a person's height.

The light was very dim, but for a master like Chen Hanyu and them, everything inside could still be seen clearly.

In the attic, the objects were piled up in a very messy manner, with dilapidated tables and chairs, wardrobes, and some boxes leaning against the corners of the walls, some iron shelves and ropes entwined, and the traces of cobwebs on them showed that these things had not been used for a long time.

"The cobwebs over here have been destroyed. Chen Hanyu looked at a rope with a spider web hanging on his left, "It seems that someone has indeed come in here." ”

"And judging by the dust on the ground, it was clear that the boxes had been moved. Zhen Yingying said and walked to a large wardrobe on the right.

said that it was too late, Chen Hanyu stepped on his feet, and suddenly appeared beside Zhen Yingying, and at the same time grabbed Zhen Yingying's arm with one hand: "Don't go over!"

In Zhen Yingying's stunned gaze, Chen Hanyu let go of Zhen Yingying's arm and slowly blocked her with his body. At the same time, Zhao Xue's sword was raised in front of his chest, his left hand held the scabbard horizontally, and his right hand was placed on the hilt of the sword, and he slowly pulled it out.

"Bang!"

At the same time as the voice sounded, Chen Hanyu's Zhaoxue sword was already out of its sheath. In the faint light, I saw that the sword slashed out of the sheath the moment it was unsheathed, and collided with a finger that shot at a speed that was almost impossible to react to.

But when he saw that Zhen Yingying could react, Chen Hanyu snorted. The left hand quickly grabbed Zhen Yingying's right arm, and at the same time, her body suddenly retreated a few steps, and when the backs of the two were about to lean against the attic wall, they flashed to the left violently, allowing the ensuing palm to hit a dusty hemp bag, causing a cloud of dust to roll.

It all happened so fast, not even a breath of time. It's just that Zhen Yingying has already made up her mind, it turns out that the murderer has not left the attic.