Chapter Forty-Eight: The Dark Drawer
The moon shone deep in the atrium on the night, and Qi Lu sneaked into Liu Ting'er's residence with ease, followed by Lao Wu and Feng Qiniang.
After her death, Hu Qingyun personally led a team to search her room five or six times in order to find evidence that she had killed many elders, and almost turned the things in the room upside down, but still did not find any useful clues.
Qi Lu, who was crouching on the ground, had just turned on the flashlight, and was snatched away by Lao Wu and pressed it out.
"Why don't you have any vigilance, you want others to find out!" Lao Wu said to him angrily.
Qi Lu raised the back of his head embarrassedly, but then muttered again: "The house is dark, how can we find things if there is no light?" ”
"I have a way." Feng Qiniang laughed, pointed her hand to the curtain, the embroidered curtain parted, and the bright moonlight spilled in instantly. Although it is not as sunny as the daytime, you can still see the various furnishings in the house.
Qi Lu shook his head and said, "If you do this, you are afraid that you will be discovered by the security guards patrolling the clubhouse, so that they will know that we are in the house." ”
Feng Qi Niang said: "It's okay, since Liu Ting'er died, there have been rumors that her ghost wanders around the house all night, and many fox fairies who are not high in Taoism are afraid to approach her residence at night. Even if someone sees the curtains suddenly open, they think that the house is haunted and dare not come in. ”
"Isn't it, youkai are also afraid of ghosts?"
"Don't you humans often say that you don't do bad things, and aren't afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night?" Feng Qi Niang smiled.
"Don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business." Lao Wu asked Qi Lu: "The fox clan has turned upside down, are you sure we can find what we want?" ”
Qi Lu asked Feng Qi Niang in a low voice, "Did you do what I asked?" ”
"Hmm." Feng Qiniang said: "I accompanied Qingyun to search once today. ”
Qi Lu fumbled and took out the copper coin and asked, "Then you found a clue?" ”
"Yes, I originally wanted to take a photo with my phone and send it to you, but I was afraid that Qingyun would find out, so I waited until the evening to inform you."
"You're doing the right thing, where's the clue?" While speaking, Qi Lu smelled the faint fragrance emanating from Feng Qi Niang's body, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, he quickly got up and took a deep breath.
"Right here." Feng Qi Niang pointed to the wardrobe in the corner and said, "On the side against the wall." ”
Qi Lu hesitated for a moment, then beckoned Lao Wu to come over and help move the wardrobe out, trying not to make a sound from the wardrobe when moving.
Through the moonlight outside the window, Qi Lu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the patterns of copper coins painted on the wooden boards on the side of the wardrobe.
Although he was blinded by the clue in Liu Ting'er's room, he never expected it to be presented in front of his eyes in this way.
Qi Lu hesitated and leaned his eyes to the cabinet to check, and found that these copper coin patterns were full of the words Da Song Yuanbao, and he knew that Feng Qi Niang was not looking for the wrong place. However, a new problem also came to his mind, that is, there were nearly 100 copper coins painted on this wooden board, to say the least, and what did they mean?
When Qi Lu raised this question to Lao Wu and Feng Qi Niang, the two also felt that they had no idea where to start.
"Why don't we take this board off and you take it back to study?" Feng Qi Niang said.
"No way!" Qi Lu shook his head and rejected her proposal, saying, "That will make your clan find out that someone has secretly come to Liu Ting'er's room, I don't want to disturb Hu Qingyun." ”
Lao Wu squeezed forward and said, "Let me see what's so strange about this panel." ”
I saw him groping up and down with his hands, and from time to time he sniffed the smell of the planks with his nose.
"Do you see anything famous?" Seeing that Lao Wu didn't move for a long time, Qi Lu couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Lao Wu said: "This wooden board is a delicately designed hidden lock. ”
"How do you know?" Feng Qi Niang asked him curiously.
"Hmph, I'm the number one locksmith in the world, and there's no mechanism I can't open or discover. The little fox's mechanism is too simple for me. Lao Wu began to brag about his skills.
Qi Lu knew that Lao Wu was an expert in this area, so he hurriedly lowered his voice and asked him: "Since it is a secret lock, there is a keyhole, where is it?" ”
"The mechanism is here." Lao Wu pointed to a place in the lower right corner of the board and said, "The keyhole is in this place." ”
"This pattern is no different from other copper coins, how did you find out that it is a keyhole?" Feng Qi Niang saw that he was referring to the pattern of one of the copper coins, the surface was extremely smooth, and there was nothing strange at all.
"The difference is that the diameter of this coin is a little smaller than the others."
"You're not bragging, are you?" Feng Qiniang was amazed, but she couldn't see this slight difference.
"I'll prove it to you right away." Lao Wu took the copper coin from Qi Lu's hand and put it on any copper coin pattern in the wooden board.
At this time, Zi Qi Lu and Feng Qi Niang both saw the fame, and the pattern on the wooden board was slightly larger than the copper coin.
Lao Wu put the copper coin on the organ he said, and the pattern was completely consistent with the copper coin, as if it was tailor-made.
"Yours is yours!" Qi Lu was also amazed and asked, "How can I open the secret lock?" ”
Lao Wu turned the copper coin clockwise three times and counterclockwise three times, only to hear a "crack", and a small drawer popped up about one centimeter above the copper coin pattern.
Lao Wu swallowed and took out a small wooden box from the drawer.
Seeing that the mystery was about to be revealed, the three of them were a little excited. Lao Wu first checked the wooden box for a long time, and after making sure that there was no harmful mechanism in the box, he opened the wooden box with a slight trembling hand. Suddenly, a brilliant light came out of the box, illuminating the room as if it was day, and Lao Wu was so frightened that he immediately closed the box.
"Fox Spirit Bead!" Although it was only a short glimpse, Feng Qi Niang still recognized that the contents of the box were the lost treasure of the Zhen clan.
The fox spirit bead is the symbol of the patriarch, and has the same function and status as the scepter held by the ancient king.
"Does this little vixen want to be your patriarch?" Lao Wu also heard Qi Lu talk about the theft of fox spirit beads.
Feng Qi Niang said: "Theoretically, the person who owns the fox spirit bead can become the patriarch. ”
"Huh!" Qi Lu grinned and said, "What era is it, your set doesn't work." When the fox spirit bead was stolen, Hu Yuxuan was not ousted by you, and now Hu Qingyun has become the patriarch without this bead. ”
"That being said, let's hurry up and return the fox spirit bead to Qingyun."
"Hmm." Qi Lu nodded in agreement, although he didn't know the reason why Liu Ting'er stole the fox spirit bead, he was still willing to return this treasure bead to its original owner.
"Someone's coming!" Suddenly, Feng Qi Niang tugged at Qi Lu's sleeve and reminded them in a low voice.
"Someone, why didn't I see it?" Lao Wu stared out the window, but he didn't see anyone coming outside, and he didn't hear footsteps.
But Qi Lu's brows were already furrowed, and he sensed an extremely faint demonic aura coming from afar. This demonic aura had a sense of déjà vu, which reminded him of the dead monster Zhou Ji.
"We are different from you humans, we are born with night vision, and our vision at night is a hundred times stronger than yours." Feng Qiniang explained in a low voice that she did not have enough vigilance against the comers, but thought that the three of them were present, and no matter how strong the opponent's mana was, they would be defeated by the combination of the three. Dormant
"No wonder you could see the copper coin pattern on the wooden board just now when you were a meter away from the closet." Lao Wu suddenly realized.
Qi Lu said in a deep voice: "Don't play tricks, that guy is running straight towards us, I don't think he is a fox demon in the Semitic clan." ”
"What are you afraid of, when he comes, we will capture him on the spot." Feng Qi Niang said nonchalantly.
In an instant, a strong current was set off in the room, blowing so that everyone's eyes couldn't open it.
"What a strong demonic spirit!" Feng Qiniang exclaimed, only then did she realize that what Qi Lu said was true, and the demon power of the coming man was obviously several times more than herself.
"Hand over the fox spirit bead, I can spare you from death." A deep voice rang out in the room.
Qi Lu looked behind him in surprise and found that a masked man with a black scarf had appeared in the corner of the wall.
"The fox spirit bead is in my hand, you have the ability to take it." The disdain in Lao Wu's words was no different.
"Isn't it a sight to see, and you're dressed like a ninja?" Qi Lu was ridiculing him in his mouth, but he didn't dare to be careless in his heart, he had quietly pinched the spirit rune in his hand.
"Just let me meet him!" Lao Wu suddenly stepped forward and stretched out his finger to point directly at the eyebrows of the masked man!
This movement seemed gentle, but his fingertips instantly showed the short knife he carried with him. It can be seen that Lao Wu is ruthless, and he directly aims to take his life!
The masked man snorted, did not dodge or dodge, and waved his hand to blast at Lao Wu's short knife with a solid punch. Qi Lu's eyes widened in surprise, he didn't expect that the masked man would not be afraid of the blade at the beginning, and he would directly hit the hard.
"Boom" was a muffled sound, and the masked man's fist collided with Lao Wu's short knife, causing a burst of sparks, and his hand seemed to be made of metal, not afraid of Lao Wu's divine weapon at all.
Lao Wu secretly applauded, quickly backhanded backhand, and moved sideways with the help of force, passing over the masked man's body, and his footsteps had moved behind him.
This trick was so ingenious that Lao Wu's body actually made several changes in a very short period of time, and he couldn't wait to dodge several combos of the masked man.
After Lao Wu dodged the danger, he immediately kicked sideways and kicked the masked man's back hard.
But the masked figure had eyes on his back, and he didn't turn around to fight against Lao Wu at all, but just sealed it with both hands, and with a gentle push, he dissolved Lao Wu's flying legs and made his moves fall short.
Qi Lu asked in a low voice, "Who are you?" ”
The masked man did not answer, but his eyes sparkled in the night.
Lao Wu said: "Don't talk to him, let's go together, I still don't believe that he can fly with wings!" ”
As he spoke, the true qi in Lao Wu's body exploded rapidly, like a bobo tide superimposed, and in the blink of an eye, the surging true qi came out through the short knife and blasted towards the masked man!
Qi Lu was not idle, as soon as he flipped his hand, several spirit runes were sealed to the upper, middle and lower roads of the masked man!
Feng Qi Niang originally wanted to summon the Phantom Fox Technique to deal with the enemy, but she was worried that the movement would be too loud to attract the attention of the security guards patrolling outside, so she temporarily raised her jade hand and struck the masked man's left chest with a strong palm.
Lao Wu attacked on the right, Qi Lu's talisman hit the front of the enemy, and Feng Qi Niang happened to block his left side, and behind the masked man was the wall, according to the current situation, it was really as Lao Wu said, the enemy was winged and difficult to fly!
But the masked man didn't have a sense of crisis at all, but sneered.
Just when everyone was about to knock down the masked man, he suddenly disappeared in front of Qi Lu like a ghost!