Chapter 18: Inferences

With a pop, the picture constructed in Ji Xiao's mind was like an image in the water being thrown into a stone and becoming fragmented. The annoyance in his heart subsided after a while.

The leaves of the golden wind and jade dew in front of him were all curled, and the vitality was much dimmer.

It was already sick, and it was only after being healed by Ji Xiao that it began to regain its vitality, but it only took more than a day to recover. Just now, in order to obtain information, Ji Xiao inevitably let it lose some life, but fortunately, it was not fatal.

And the strangest thing is how the golden wind and jade dew could appear here, and what exactly does that mean. Ji Yu didn't dare to think deeply, but he always felt that the owner of the eyes was vaguely related to Lichun, which was due to an intuition.

"Who is it. Ji Xiao's heart tightened, and he looked outside the hall.

He was very fast, almost to the limit, but he didn't even touch the corner of the other party's clothes.

"Gu Weirui is you. He said word by word. He smelled the unique fragrance of a girl, very faint and light. If a gust of wind blows, I'm afraid that even Ji Xiao's sense of smell won't be able to catch this aroma.

Gu Weirui must have used a special method to hide her aura, but when she acted, she still inevitably leaked a little. Maybe others can't detect it, but Ji Xiao's sense of smell is too sensitive to find it.

There was no sound of breathing, no sound of heartbeat. But Ji Xiao didn't believe that she could walk so fast, she must be nearby. In fact, he was right, and a man appeared on the roof of the hall. She wore a white gauze dress, as soft as a cloud of smoke, standing pretty, as if she could melt into the breeze at any time.

Her eyes were lonely and empty, without any human feelings. But her eyes were staring at Ji Xiao clearly, and she was reluctant to leave for a long time.

Ji Xiao used his hearing to the extreme, but he couldn't detect her on the roof. But his intuition told him that Gu Weirui was nearby, not far from him.

didn't get a response, and Ji Xiao's heart became heavier and heavier. He said, "You come out." ”

The girl didn't move, just looked at him.

They were at a stalemate, and only the moonlight and starlight recorded everything wordlessly.

Ji Xiao ran wildly in the yard, and after a while, he walked all over the corners. Still nothing has been found. He leaped to his feet and followed the wall to the roof. He's going to search this place inch by inch.

The girl moved, she had to move, because Ji Xiao was coming. She leaked her breath as soon as she moved, and Ji Xiao was prepared this time and refused to let it go.

But the girl was too fast, as if she didn't need to touch the ground on her toes, and quickly distanced herself from Ji Xiao.

When I chased it into the alley outside the courtyard, I couldn't catch a trace of the girl anymore.

Ji Xiao couldn't imagine that after only half a day, how could the girl's martial arts have been so greatly improved. The speed that the girl showed just now, even if he has the skills of the original owner of the body, I am afraid that it will still be a little worse.

He had a direct battle with the stinger last night, and now compared to it, the girl's speed is also much faster than the stinger.

Is that the speed that a human being should have, Ji Xiao couldn't help but ask himself.

But he couldn't care about it, and he found another person at the mouth of the alley.

It's Qingming.

He was leaning against the wall, trembling. There were no injuries on his body, but he seemed to have received great mental stimulation, and something was abnormal. Ji Xiao sighed and lit up Qingming's sleeping hole.

Qingming may know the answer, but in his current situation, how can Ji Xiao bear to ask him.

took Qingming away, still returned from the same way, found the boat, and returned to the heart of the river. The river breeze was gentle, the water was roaring, Ji Xiao was sitting alone in the bow of the boat, he was calm now, and he could finally think of more details.

The first point is that the murderer is likely to be Gu Weirui, but she has no motive.

The second point, if you don't guess wrong, plus Gu Weirui, him and Qingming, only the twenty-four solar terms today will not arrive at the secret meeting place. He knew that the monthly secret meeting of the 24 solar terms was by no means for everyone to come, and everyone could choose not to come, as long as they guaranteed to participate four times a year. What is the reason why everyone is coming? This is also a big suspicion, if it is artificial, it means that the other party already knows the 24 solar terms well. Ji Xiao ruled out this possibility, because with the original Ji Liao's meticulousness, the twenty-four solar terms he created would never be known to outsiders, and even apart from him, even the members themselves did not know each other's roots. If it's not artificial, it's even more terrifying. But Gu Weirui's change seems to have become the most powerful evidence for this inference.

The third point is that although Gu Weirui has changed a lot, she has not become murderous without blinking, she should still retain her self-awareness. Because he didn't kill Ji Xiao, and for some reason, he let Qingming go.

Fourth, that pot of golden wind and jade dew should have been in the mansion, but it was a very bizarre thing to appear at the scene of the murder in the hall. If the Golden Wind and Jade Dew were brought by Gu Weirui, then she must have arrived before the others. If she arrived first, she would not appear until later, naturally in order to catch them all. But she didn't wait for him to come, nor did she wait for the sting to come. There's something special about that? If Gu Weirui let him go because of her feelings for Ji Xiao, then why would she let go of the sting. Of course, it may also be because the sting happened not to come, but Ji Xiao felt in his heart that there must be other reasons, otherwise, if he treated everyone equally, Gu Weirui should have waited for a while, instead of starting to do it after arriving at the twenty-two people, including Qingming.

But this inference can only be argued after Qingming wakes up, at least Ji Xiao has to say that Qingming himself said that he was in the hall at the time to confirm this.

Originally, it was just an ordinary secret meeting, but such a big change suddenly happened, Ji Xiao couldn't imagine it before going down the mountain. What's more, the girl was still lingering with him the night before, and she also visited the garden with him during the day, strolling in the rain, and now that she thinks about it, it seems to have become a very long time ago, and it is very unreal.

In any case, he still has to go to the government.

He hoped that Qingming would wake up early, so that he could be sure of many things and make better judgments.

Ji Xiao waited until the early morning, he waited all night in the wind and dew, but he didn't think it was bitter, he just wanted to know the answer as soon as possible, and he hoped that Qingming would be okay when he woke up.

Qingming shouted, and suddenly woke up, he found himself on the river, on a small boat. I couldn't help but be at a loss in my eyes, maybe everything last night was a dream.

Definitely not a dream.

Qingming saw Ji Xiao and breathed a sigh of relief, Ji Xiao was still alive.

"I know you're still a little confused, but I can tell you that last night I went to the site of the secret meeting and saw twenty-one corpses, as well as Lichun, who had encountered martial arts that had become extremely terrifying. Ji Xiao said quietly.

"Sure enough, it's true. Qingming had a hint of fear on his face.