Mu Yuanjing followed Su Qingmo back to the school, and Qi Wenrui's body was put down and fell to the ground.

Fang Mubei pointed to the back of the corpse, "Lord Wang, the clothes on the back of the deceased are damp, which does not match the time of the deceased's death. ”

"Qi Wenrui's death is somewhat unusual."

Mu Yuanjing told Qin Zhiyi's discovery.

Su Qingmo frowned, walked to the corpse and squatted down, her fingertips touched the damp fabric, remembering Qin Zhiyi's words, she asked Fang Mubei for a small dagger, endured the pain and cut her fingertips, and then dripped blood onto the corpse's clothes.

The moment the blood touched the fabric, it disappeared.

Su Qingmo squeezed a few more drops of blood, and the result was the same.

She straightened up and looked at Mu Yuanjing, her expression solemn, "Qi Wenrui was already entangled by the water ghost before he was killed, the water ghost attached to him and absorbed his yang energy, I guess the yang energy on his body should have been almost consumed last night, once the yang energy disappears, people will also enter a coma, and the person who is in a coma will not wake up again, and life will end with the passage of time." ”

Mu Yuanjing confirmed the conjecture in his heart, "After Qi Wenrui left again last night, the yang energy on his body was absorbed by the water ghost, and the person also fell into a coma, and the murderer did it at that time. ”

Wei Xu on the side was puzzled: "Why did Qi Wenrui go out in the middle of the night?" ”

Su Qingmo said: "It's not that he wants to go out, but the water ghost on his back made him go out, and then Qi Wenrui was killed in the school." ”

"Means the murderer can control the water ghosts?"

Su Qingmo nodded.

Wei Xu looked at her, his voice a little tight, "When he picked us up outside the academy last night, that person couldn't be Qi Wenrui anymore, right?" ”

Although the words were a little messy, Su Qingmo understood what Wei Xu meant, and she shook her head, "At that time, his consciousness was still awake, and after midnight, when the yin qi was at its heaviest, it was when his consciousness was completely swallowed by the water ghost." ”

Fang Mubei said loudly: "In this case, as long as we find a way to find the water ghost, it is possible to find out the truth." ”

"Water ghosts must rely on water to survive, is there a well in the academy?"

As soon as Su Qingmo's words fell, Qin Zhiyi, who had never left, suddenly interjected: "There are three wells in the academy, one is next to the student's dormitory, one is next to the kitchen, and one is close to the bamboo forest. ”

Qin Zhiyi heard the conversation of several people just now, but there was no difference on his face.

Mu Yuanjing had a lot of questions in his heart, but it was not good to investigate it at the moment, he asked Qin Zhiyi: "Is there any difference between these three wells?" ”

Qin Zhiyi thought for a while, "If there is really a difference, it is that the well next to the bamboo forest has not been used. ”

He thought carefully for a moment and said, "The well next to the bamboo forest was sealed half a month ago, because it is not clear what it is, and there are two other wells in the academy that can be used, so everyone didn't pay much attention. ”

"Who told the well to be sealed?"

Qin Zhiyi affirmed: "Dean Song." ”

Dean Song's name is Song Weizhe, and he is the administrator of Sifang Academy, and Mu Yuanjing is no stranger to him.

Sifang Academy has been established by the imperial court for 20 years, and most of the students enrolled are the descendants of some princes and wealthy families, Mu Yuanjing was still the sixth prince when he was also studying in Sifang Academy, when Song Weizhe was still a famous teacher, Mu Yuanjing graduated from the academy in the second year, Song Weizhe was promoted to the president of Sifang Academy by Emperor Chengde, Taishang.

This time, Mu Yuanjing came to the academy to help catch the murderer, and Song Weizhe was supposed to receive him, but he was delayed due to official business and could not return in time.

After making sure that there was nothing to ask, Mu Yuanjing let Qin Zhiyi leave.

After the people left, Mu Yuanjing asked Wei Xu, "Where was the person who first found the body?" ”

"The subordinate told him to wait somewhere else."

Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo left with Wei Xu, and the three of them left the school and turned right, walked for half a cup of tea, and came to a room guarded by hidden guards.

The occupants of the room saw the visitor through the open door, and hurriedly stood up and waited in a proper manner.

Mu Yuanjing inquired as usual, but did not get any new clues, so he let the people go.

Su Qingmo's gaze followed the back of the man leaving, and she didn't know what she was thinking, and after a long time, she called out: "Lord Wang." ”

Mu Yuanjing looked at her.

"I always had the feeling of being watched."

From Chen Xuan's case, no, it should be said that since she married into the palace, it seems that someone has led her in front, refining ghosts and moving gold, and the awakened ghosts of Anlan, including Qiao Wang, who was forced to divide the body in Qingshui Town, etc., there is always an unidentified man in black behind her.

Even this time, the murder that happened in the academy told her that she was inseparable from the man in black before.

Mu Yuanjing didn't say anything, he took Su Qingmo and walked towards the courtyard where the two lived.

Wei Xu followed silently.

After returning to the room, Su Qingmo slept under the persuasion of Mu Yuanjing, and she had a dream.

In her dream, there was a thick fog that could not be dispersed, so dark and heavy that she could not breathe, and just when she felt that she was about to die, a ray of sunlight shot out of the thick fog, first thinly, and then the beam grew larger and larger, until it enveloped her whole body.

Su Qingmo hooked the corners of her mouth comfortably, and woke up from her sleep, and in the hazy vision, she saw Mu Yuanjing's eyes with a smile.

"What did you dream about? Why are you so happy? ”

Su Qingmo smiled and didn't answer.

"Eat something, and we'll go see the sealed well later."

Su Qingmo raised her eyes and looked out the window, only then did she notice that the night had completely darkened, she walked to the table and sat down, moving quickly to eat.

Mu Yuanjing poured a glass of water and handed it to her.

After eating, Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo waited in the room for half an hour, until Wei Xu came and knocked on the door before leaving the room and walking towards the bamboo forest.

After walking for a long time, the three of them saw a small well in the distance, the body of the well was black, protruding high from the ground, and the mouth of the well was covered by an ebony wooden plank.

Su Qingmo stopped Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu's footsteps, did not approach rashly, and heard a crisp bell sound as soon as he stood still.

Wei Xu followed the sound and looked for it, and saw that the purple gold bell tied to Su Qingmo's waist sounded without wind.

Su Qingmo's expression was slightly solemn, he took out three red threads that had been soaked in chicken blood for half an hour, tied one of them to the middle finger of his left hand, and gave the other two to Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu, and explained that the two of them tied the red thread like her.

The red thread is tied to the middle finger for the waterproof upper body.

The three of them faced the bamboo forest, and the green bamboo standing in the winter snow was standing tall, and the leaves rustled in the cold wind.

Su Qingmo sighed a few times into her somewhat stiff palm, and then took out the palm mirror, and after activation, the originally vague mirror became clear, and she took a few steps forward, pointing the mirror in the direction of the well.

There was nothing, and there was nothing near the well reflected in the mirror.

Su Qingmo's eyebrows frowned slightly, and when he was wondering, he suddenly felt a clammy and cold breath from behind his ears.

She froze in place for an instant, not daring to move again.

Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu, who were holding the ghost avoidance beads in the rune realm, stubbornly resisted the desire to rush out, and cautiously stared at the water ghosts that appeared behind Su Qingmo.

Su Qingmo, who was outside the Fu Realm, never looked back, she craned her neck and listened to the wheezing sound of 'Hehe' in her ears.

The eerie sound of breathing seemed to come from the mouth of a man without a tongue.

The palm mirror in his hand slowly rotated, and when the mirror was facing behind him, Su Qingmo, who was already mentally prepared, was still taken aback for a moment.

A pale, disheveled 'man' was resting his head on her shoulder, his purple mouth blowing into her ear.

Su Qingmo saw a pitch black from the gap between his two lips.

'That person' seemed to sense Su Qingmo's intentions, and took the initiative to open his mouth wide, so that Su Qingmo could see more clearly.

The inside of the mouth is empty, there is no tongue!

Su Qingmo's wrist moved slightly, and the prepared rune paper was slapped behind her, and the 'person' that was still attached to her back before flashed away flexibly, and then appeared in front of her.

At this time, Su Qingmo saw clearly, the water ghost in the well was actually a woman, she was wearing the usual clothes of the students in the academy, standing motionless, looking at Su Qingmo with a gloomy gaze.

The water ghost's body was constantly dripping with water, wetting the dirt under his feet.

Su Qingmo was cautiously stalemate with her, and suddenly there was a sound not far behind her, she subconsciously looked over, and realized that she had been fooled when she found that there was nothing unusual, and the water ghost in front of her had disappeared.

After the water ghost disappeared, the temperature around him began to plummet, the cold wind mixed with fine snow drifted into the air, and Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu in the rune realm also disappeared with it.

Su Qingmo was left alone, the breath exhaled from her mouth turned into white smoke, she put away the palm mirror, the whole person curled up and squatted on the ground, her frozen hands were carried into her arms, and gradually, her body began to lose consciousness, and her consciousness became more and more chaotic.

In the moment before she passed out, she heard the laughter of the female ghost.

When she woke up again, Su Qingmo had already returned to the room, her body was covered with two quilts, and her body shrunk into the quilt and trembled from time to time.

Mu Yuanjing was sitting on the edge of the bed, and when he saw the person wake up, his face was still worried and disapproving, "Do you know that doing this will damage your body?" ”

Su Qingmo bit her lip and was silent, and Mu Yuanjing took out a bright white bracelet from his sleeve and put it on her hand.

"Pei Lin once told me privately that your blood is quite attractive to the ghosts of the dead, and the breath of blood will become rich after the death, which makes the ghosts closer to you unable to control their desires and are forced to act."

He looked at the bead string that was cleaner because of the one he wore on her hand, and there was guilt in his eyes, "I shouldn't have agreed to let you take off the bracelet that your master gave me." ”

Mu Yuanjing's voice even carried a hint of regret, "I shouldn't have let you get involved in the case of the Hidden World Palace. ”

Su Qingmo sat up a little eagerly, and grabbed Mu Yuanjing's wrist with both hands, "The water ghost in the well can leave the water and attach to the person's body, which means that the water ghost has become the climate, Pei Lin is not there, I am not completely sure to subdue the water ghost, so I can only take risks." ”

She looked at him with some pity, "I promise, not next time." ”

Su Qingmo's fingertips were cold, and Mu Yuanjing's heart trembled.

Seeing that he didn't let go, Su Qingmo looked at him persistently.

Mu Yuanjing sighed helplessly, "If you do it again next time, I can only lock you up in the palace." ”

She was stunned for a moment, then changed the subject: "What happened to the result?" Is it solved? ”

It turned out that Su Qingmo's behavior by the bamboo forest was agreed in advance by the three of them, she deliberately showed her flaws and walked into the hallucinations created by the water ghost, and when the water ghost was about to suck her blood after she passed out, Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu came out of the rune realm with the soul transformation talisman and the immobilization talisman, and with the assistance of An Lan and Ning Xi, the water ghost flew away.

Mu Yuanjing handed over a jet-black bead, "This is left behind after the water ghost flew away. ”

Su Qingmo picked up the beads and looked at them for a long time, but he never had a clue, so he had to give up and said, "Let him take a look when Pei Lin comes tomorrow." ”

When Su Qingmo spoke, Mu Yuanjing had already blown out the candle and lay down in the quilt, he dragged the person into his arms and hugged her carefully, and warmed her with his body.

As her body gradually warmed up, Su Qingmo fell into a deep sleep, and when she slept until the second half of the night, Su Qingmo was woken up by the heat, she pushed the extra quilt on her body away, and then lay down in a daze.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard the sound of a bang coming from outside the wall on the inside of the bed.

'Knock, knock', one after another, very regular.

Su Qingmo opened his eyes in the dark, and then the sound of knocking on the wall began to move, and the sound moved along the wall, passing by the window.

Mu Yuanjing had already woken up and was about to get up, Su Qingmo rushed over and hugged him, Mu Yuanjing was about to make a sound, Su Qingmo quickly covered his mouth again.

The two of them remained motionless, and Mu Yuanjing said in a breath: "I'll take a look." ”

Su Qingmo shook his head slightly, and said in a very small voice: "When the sound passed by the window just now, there was no human figure reflected in the window. ”

Mu Yuanjing instantly understood the meaning of Su Qingmo's words.

In other words, it's not people who make the noise.

Su Qingmo stared at the direction of the door for a moment.

After a while, the sound sounded, and there was still a regular 'knock, knock' sound, Su Qingmo counted it, and there were seven times.

The two waited and waited, and after making sure that the sound would not sound again, they lay down again.

Su Qingmo was about to speak, but was stopped by Mu Yuanjing.

"Sleep, I'll talk about it tomorrow when I've recuperated my spirits."

Su Qingmo obediently fell asleep.

The calm mood was disrupted when I woke up the next morning.

Looking at the traces on the door, Su Qingmo was a little unable to come back to his senses.