The sun had completely risen in the east, and the early morning glow shone in every corner of the temple, seemingly diluting everything that had happened last night.

Lin Yi stood in front of a big tree, motionless, tilting his head and staring at a monk who was sweeping the floor under the tree, his eyes like a hungry wild cat staring at a mouse.

And the sweeping monk didn't react at first, but after Lin Yi stared at him for nearly five minutes, the monk finally became a little uncalm, Lin Yi's outrageous eyes made the monk gradually feel frightened, blocked the big broom in his hand, and stared vigilantly at Lin Yi step by step back.

The monk had been standing beside Lin Yi, looking at Lin Yi's strange behavior, and couldn't help asking, "Master Lin, what are you doing here?" ”

Lin Yi didn't look back at him, and said, "Generally, the hidden monks in the temple either sweep the floor or guard the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, this monk is very suspicious!" ”

Hearing Lin Yi's words, the monk almost fainted, it turned out that this was the reason why Lin Yi stared at this monk for half a day.

"Master Lin, I said, what kind of theory are you? This is my junior brother, and he is also a precept generation, and he has been in the temple for a shorter time than me, how can he be a hidden monk? ”

"Really? But why does he look so much older than you? Lin Yi still insisted on his point of view, pointing at the monk and asking.

After hearing this, the monk suddenly cried and laughed, and said: "I'm just more mature, in fact, I'm only eighteen years old this year, Lord Lin, don't wronged me, okay?" ”

"Well, that's my fault for you, so let's go."

Lin Yi didn't apologize to him, and directly let the monk leave, then looked around, and said helplessly: "Really, why are all the young monks sweeping the floor of your Wuxiang Temple?" What else can be found out in this way? ”

The monk glanced at Lin Yi and said, "Master Lin, why do you have to look for clues in the sweeping monk?" There are rules in my Wuxiang Temple, sweeping monks must be younger generations, disciples who have not been in the temple for a long time, and senior brothers and uncles who have a little age experience only chant sutras and chant Buddha in the room during the day. ”

"I see, if you didn't say it earlier, I was staring here for a long time, alas"

Although Lin Yi said this, listening to the words of the monk before, a trace of spiritual light suddenly seemed to appear in his heart, but when Lin Yi thought about what it was, he couldn't firmly grasp that trace of spiritual light.

"Lord Lin, where are we going now? Do you want to go and see Uncle Huikong's corpse first, and then look for the first scene where he was killed? ”

Lin Yi couldn't remember the glimmer of inspiration just now, so he simply didn't think about it, shook his head and said: "No, the first scene is useless to us, now what we have to do is to find out the reason why your master left halfway, I always suspect that there should be two murderers in this incident." ”

"Two murderers? Why? After hearing this, the monk asked suspiciously.

"I don't know, my brain is also in chaos now, this is just a guess, because the deaths of your two uncles are according to the eighteenth layer of hell, while your master and the Buddha statue have lost their heads, two completely different ways of killing, I don't know if the murderer did it on purpose, or if there are two different murderers at all?"

Speaking of this, Lin Yi shook his head vigorously and said: "Forget it, it's useless to say anything now, after all, there are too many misleading clues in this case, and we should not jump to conclusions until we are completely sure, in short, let's go and see your master's corpse first." ”

After the two discussed, they came to the main hall of the Wuxiang Temple again, because the body of the host usually has to spend a period of time in the main hall before it can be cremated.

The corpse presided over by Huitong lay flat under the statue of the Buddha who had lost his head in the main hall, and a large number of young disciples knelt in front of the corpse around, clasped their hands together and chanted Buddhist scriptures continuously, ignoring Lin Yi and the monk who had entered the main hall.

After the two walked into the main hall, they first bowed slightly to the corpse presided over by Huitong, and then Lin Yi, after getting the consent of the disciples who surrounded the Huitong host, walked to the corpse of the host of Huitong, slowly lifted the white cloth sheet covering him, and carefully examined the headless corpse.

The monk seemed to be very afraid of seeing his master's corpse sad, and lowered his head and asked, "Master Lin, I have always had a question, when the master died, the door of the room was closed from the inside, but when we went in, we didn't find the murderer." ”

Lin Yi replied without raising his head: "The question you asked is simply idiotic to the extreme, not to mention the level of the murderer, even if I can use my energy to mobilize the door lock and lock the door lock from the inside when I go out, besides, I can also go out from the skylight, so the so-called secret room is just a trick for the murderer to deal with idiots like you, huh?" ”

Lin Yi said, suddenly confused, and gently reached out and pressed on the chest of the corpse hosted by Huitong, and found that the chest did not collapse, and the whole corpse was intact except for the headless.

"The cause of your master's death was not that his internal organs were crushed by internal strength, but that his head was cut off directly!"

The monk also tried to press it, and then said, "Yes, I found out about this last night, is there any problem?" ”

When Lin Yi found out about this situation, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and only said after a long time: "Do you remember what kind of posture your master was in when we went in?" ”

"Remember, the master was sitting cross-legged on the ** at that time, what's wrong?"

Lin Yi nodded slightly and said: "That's right, if you follow my reasoning, your master must have been called back by a person on the way to come, and when the two were sitting in the room talking about something, that person suddenly took action and cut off your master's head, killing him in one move!" ”

Speaking of this, Lin Yi raised his head slightly and said, "If this is the case, people like your master who can cultivate will not be able to react, and the strength of the murderer may really have reached an unfathomable point!" ”

After hearing this, the monk frowned slightly and said, "But I don't remember that there is such a person in my Wuxiang Temple." ”

"If you don't remember, it doesn't mean that you don't, if this kind of person has the intention to hide, it will be easy to find out, at least now it is certain that this person is known to your master, and now you must increase the intensity of investigation, first starting with people you are not familiar with."

As he spoke, Lin Yi inadvertently saw the hand of the host of Huitong, and said suspiciously: "Look, what is this!" ”

The monk followed Lin Yi's gaze, and saw that there were some golden things in the fingernails of the Huitong host, and if you looked closely, it was clearly the gilded fragments on the Buddha statue!