Chapter 128: Peeling Back the Cocoon
This time, Qi Wanli's investigation of the seaside hut has changed his thinking.
He dismisses all currently visible clues as a misdirection, actively avoiding the direction that is led by these obvious clues.
On the surface, Qi Yu took Lin Feifei to the outside of the hut, walked into the house, sat down with Huo Ying and drank a bowl of mushroom soup, and then disappeared. Holding a small book, Qi Wanli quickly wrote down the clues that had been recorded so far, so that he could think about it.
"What if this situation is reversed? They didn't drink mushroom soup? No...... It should be that they didn't disappear at all, and continued to drink soup and chat here, but all the traces after that disappeared, so on the surface, it was as if they had disappeared. ”
"There are no traces of the earth, no flowers and trees have recorded the traces of their movements, there are no traces in the room, but is it possible, they just chatted and talked normally, went out of the room together, went to a certain place together, and only covered it up half......way?
Qi Wanli decided to abandon the judgment that the dark element theoretically does not exist that can completely erase the traces, and purely rely on his own intuition to find clues.
"Sherlock Holmes said it well, excluding all impossible outcomes, and the one that remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth. Oh no, that's technically Conan Doyle's words. ”
He closed the notebook, knowing that there was nothing left to investigate in this seaside hut, and then, he just needed to take a trip to the Temple of Life with this anti-routine mentality.
......
In the Temple of Life, Qi Wanli did not go to Lan Caiyun, but found the person they had saved that day by Bai Qiyu.
The patient named Fang Shan, who was suffering from ALS, had been taken away by Chen Jiangxue, she was busy with affairs and didn't have so much time to stay, even if Huo Ying disappeared, she had to rush back.
As for the soldier and the old woman, they were still receiving follow-up treatment in the sea of red baby flowers in the Temple of Life.
Something really went wrong with the soldier, the brain was traumatized for too long and too deeply, so that his language ability changed, although he did not lose his memory, but now he is in a state where he cannot express his thoughts, he can't write words, he can't speak, as long as he opens his mouth, he can only make strange breaths, which is not something that other people can understand at all.
Although he saved his life, he has since become a mute who can't even write, and can only communicate with people through gestures.
The old woman had the best recovery, and a group of powerful life dependents worked together to save her, most likely to remove all the cancer cells, and injected a lot of life force into her body during the operation, and now the old woman looked full of energy and good health, but she was not sure if she had fully recovered, so she was still observing in the temple.
"Thank you so much for that, little girl. The old woman said to Qi Wanli with a smile.
Qi Wanli smiled and chatted with the old woman for a while, then asked, "Old man, speaking of which, did you find that the relationship between the few people who treated you that day was not good?"
"Is there one?"
The old woman thought for a moment and said, "I don't feel that way, they are on good terms." ”
Qi Wanli patiently asked, "Aren't they in a game? Aren't they taunting, despising, and slapping each other?"
"Hehe, old man, I don't know what you're talking about, young man. The old woman smiled and said, "At that time, the adults were very kind, treated several of our patients very well, and the relationship between them was quite good, and there was no quarrel." ”
"I see. ”
Qi Wanli continued to ask a few questions, and asked the details of the time clearly, the old woman is old, and her memory is not very good, but for her, at that time, several life dependents talked about important things that were directly related to their lives, and many days passed, and they almost didn't forget it, except that they couldn't restore it word by word, the general meaning could be expressed.
The reason why he didn't go to Lan Caiyun and came to find this old woman was that Qi Wanli had his own considerations.
The people of the Temple of Life, or for one reason or another, would have made some minor changes to the facts of the time. Of course, this old woman will most likely process her own memories, but the direction of their processing is most likely different.
The people in the Temple of Life knew that Qi Wanli was looking for Bai Qiyu and Huo Ying, and the focus of the description would definitely be biased towards the interaction between the two of them, so the part of their subconscious processing and modification of their memories would also be in this part. Maybe an ordinary eye contact between the two of them can be interpreted differently by them, so that the judgment of Qi Wanli is even more misleading.
But the old woman knew nothing but that everyone was going to save her life, she didn't know who was who, and she didn't even necessarily understand what they said, and she could only convey those professional words in a very simple and non-standard way, but in fact she did not deviate much from the truth.
Even if the old woman processes her memory, it is more likely that she will be so kind and painstaking to those life-loving people.
Qi Wanli quietly listened to the description and noticed something.
"Old man, you say, they took out an arm-sized piece of jade, aimed it at the soldier's head, reached in and pressed it, and it was over?" he asked.
"That's right. The old woman said, "Listen to them, it looks like some kind of human finger, and it's terrible! ”
Qi Wanli's eyes rolled, and he smiled: "It's still the old man, your eyes are sharp, maybe, it's not a finger at all." ”
"That is, if I have heard that potions can save people, extraordinary adults can save people, and I have not heard that fingers can save people, they must be bluffing me. The old woman was very happy by Qi Wanli, and said, "I can see clearly the old man, the qi that the little girl poured into the head of the young man who was a soldier floated out of herself. ”
Qi Wanli's eyes froze.
The expression on his face remained unchanged and asked, "Old man, why are you so sure?"
"Oh, I was lying next to me. The old woman said triumphantly, "The little girl is sideways, and the other transcendent adults can't see it, but my perspective is just right." ”
I see!
Qi Wanli felt like he had caught something.
He took the old woman and talked about some things, and finally gave her a bottle of potion to strengthen her body as a thank you, and left the temple of life alone.
"Perhaps, I found a reason for Qi Yu to find Huo Ying. ”
Qi Wanli returned to Xiaoyao Academy and wrote down his thoughts in a small notebook.
He first wrote "Scales Falling Off" at the top of the blank page, and then wrote a small parenthesis below, writing: "The cause is unknown, and there is a high probability that it has caused irreversible damage to Bai Qiyu's body." ”
Then, he drew several lines, pointing to "Huo Ying", "Huo Man's finger", and "special treatment tools", among which after "Huo Man's finger", he marked a big question mark, and pulled a small arrow, hooking Huo Ying.
"Regardless of whether what the old woman said is true or not, one thing is basically certain, Huo Ying does have a so-called artifact in her hand, or an object similar to a god's relic. Whether it's the function of the thing itself, or whether she's using her own abilities under the guise of this thing, she can do it...... Special treatments. ”
Judging from the information fed back by the old woman, this treatment can regenerate the severed limb, and even restore the part of the soldier's brain that has been damaged for a long time and huge damage, which is something that ordinary life dependents can't do, even if they have reached the sixth order, they don't have this ability, they can only use the endless life divine power in the earth to make themselves immortal, and it will take a long time to regenerate the severed limb...... Only a seventh-order earth spirit can do it. ”
"However, Huo Ying was able to do it with that object. If it was indeed Huo Man's finger, of course, it was reasonable to say that the ninth-order world spirit was an existence comparable to the World Tree, with infinite vitality, and there must be a steady stream of life divine power in one of his fingers, and it might even be the life divine power of the origin. But if this power comes from Huo Ying herself, is it genetic?"
Qi Wanli thought about it while writing down the keywords in these guesses.
In short, there is a high probability that Qi Yu went to Huo Ying to use her ability to help herself. Whatever caused the changes in her body, it must have been very painful for her. Otherwise, she wouldn't hide it from me, and she wouldn't have secretly gone to look for Huo Ying in the middle of the night. Moreover, she thought that she had already made many attempts, but they had not succeeded, so seeing Huo Ying's ability gave her new hope......
Thinking of this, he narrowed his eyes.
"Could it be that they had a conflict in that seaside hut?!"
This possibility is actually very large, Bai Qiyu wants to borrow Huo Ying's ability, but even her body is a seventh-order peak white dragon can't do, Huo Ying wants to do it, the price must be not small, they are very likely to have a conflict because of this matter, which eventually led to the disappearance of the incident.
Thinking of this, Qi Wanli recalled the decisive battle between them and Dongfang Qionghan, Bai Qiyu created a "small black hole" with full firepower, and his heart couldn't help but feel cold.
"Dark element. He asked, "Is it theoretically possible that the small black hole created by accident during the battle between Qiyu and Dongfang Qionghan in the Shaoshan Forest at the beginning of the Shaoshan Forest?"
"It's not a black hole, it's a space collapse. Dark Yuan said lightly: "The things that have appeared, of course, exist in theory. ”
"Don't give me this. Qi Wanli said coldly: "Before it appeared, could you have predicted this situation?"
After being silent for a few seconds, Dark Yuan said: "The probability of occurrence is infinitely close to zero, and it can be judged that the theory does not exist in terms of probability, but it may not happen." ”
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Qi Wanli scolded a swear word with a flat expression, closed the small notebook hard, and let out a heavy "snap".