After leaving the cedar forest, there is a vast white snowfield. Beyond the snowfield, a tall tower stands in the decaying courtyard wall.
"It's snowing." Ji Luluo stretched out her hand to catch the snowflakes that fell in her palms.
Liu Lidao: "The heavy snow seems to have covered up all traces."
Duan An shook his head: "No, snow can cover up conventional traces, but this is a secret place, a world composed of the spiritual realm. My Netherworld Pseudo Realm can detect traces that are difficult to detect."
He walked to the door of Tower 5, squatted down, and touched the snow with his hands.
"He went that way." Duan An pointed in a direction: "Let's go there."
Liu Li thought to himself that this realm of Netherworld and Pseudo Realm was so powerful that he saw nothing, not even footprints or other traces.
Ji Luluo said nothing and just walked behind silently.
"There are indeed traces."
Following Duan An's footsteps, he came to another cedar forest. At this time, Liu Li spoke. He found traces of broken branches and pointed them out.
"I saw it too." Duan An checked the branches and frowned.
"What's wrong?" Liu Li asked.
"It's okay, keep looking." Duan An said.
Liu Li thought to himself that it would be impossible for Duan An to discover any flaws in him. This was not the place where he and Zhang Sheng would fight.
It's best that he discovered Zhang Sheng's flaws!
But since Zhang Sheng dared to assassinate other people, he must have been fully prepared, and he must have expected that he would be investigated after the incident.
Continuing to move forward, Liu Li saw that there were so many traces left in the cedar forest that he could easily follow them without Duan An's guidance.
Broken branches, dagger scratches on the cedar trees, trampled fallen leaves...
"There are too many traces." Duan An said, "Liu Li, what did you think of?"
"Me?" Liu Li thought for a while and said casually: "Did he make these marks to deliberately guide those who came after him to follow the path he took?"
Duan An asked: "What's the point of doing this? Did he notice someone following him when he left the Enlightenment Tower? He felt that as a strong man in the Youyi Realm, he was brave and wanted to sneak attack on his opponent. One wave?”
"If this is the case, our inference about the murderer may need to change. The murderer may be a gang fighting, not one person. Someone was targeting Zhang Sheng from the beginning and took action very late."
"That would be a bit troublesome. Among the mystics who come for further training and training, a human traitor is not bad, but he is mixed into a gang, tsk tsk tsk..."
They continued to follow the traces, and later encountered areas with no traces in the forest, relying on Duan An to find their way.
"Why does he keep wandering around in the cedar forest?" Duan An complained: "There are no opportunities here at all. The mysterious people who enter the secret place go straight to the ancient temple area, fog area, lake center island and other places."
"Almost no mystical person will stay in the cedar forest for a long time. He is not in the exorcism realm. It is impossible for a mystical person who has reached the mountain dwelling realm or above to get lost in the natural environment."
Ji Luluo said: "Did he find traces of opportunity in the cedar forest and look for opportunities? Didn't many cedar trees have his marks on them before?"
"It makes sense." Duan An nodded and looked at Liu Li: "Should this kind of thing be said by a knowledgeable person like you? Do you have any intuition?"
Liu Li thought to himself that I was thinking about it too.
He thought: "If Zhang Sheng keeps wandering in the cedar forest, where will he have time to go out and assassinate others?"
"Wait a minute, let's deduce it again. What would have happened if Zhang Sheng had not met me, successfully assassinated two people, and then left without incident?"
"The dead will inevitably be exposed. When the time comes, the City God Organization will also conduct an investigation, and there is a high probability that a mysterious person like Duan An who has the realm of Netherworld and Pseudo Realm will be dispatched!"
"When they don't know who the murderer is, they will investigate every suspect. The number of mysterious people who enter the secret place is limited. It is completely possible to investigate everyone. They will send a section to arrange to check everyone's traces and find the suspect... "
"The inaccessible cedar forest has been wandering inside, leaving obvious traces..."
"correct!"
"Alibi!"
"This is Zhang Sheng's alibi to exonerate himself!"
"But, how did he do it?" Liu Li frowned.
Why go out and kill someone and leave an alibi at the same time?
He shook his head and said he had no idea.
The three of them had no choice but to follow the traces and continue moving forward.
Going in circles, a few people walked in the cedar forest for several hours.
"Liu Li, are you tired? If you can't maintain the super-sensory state, let us do it." Duan An said.
Liu Li shook his head, he didn't feel any burden at all.
Duan An said: "I'm a little desperate. I don't need to go through the tunnel to find his traces. The traces he left are too obvious. Let's just follow the traces."
The three of them simply followed the trail, and finally came to an extremely remote woodland in the cedar forest. There were no trails here, and they came here completely following Zhang Sheng's traces.
"Is there such a place in the forest?" Duan An was surprised.
Liu Li was also surprised. They saw a secret cabin in the forest. The wooden cabin had collapsed under the weight of snow. There was a small yard next to the wooden cabin. There was a human-shaped stone sculpture sitting cross-legged. It was covered with snow and faced a piece of land. The stone is full of carvings, as if it is trying to comprehend something.
Liu Li was about to go over and check, when he suddenly saw the human-shaped stone sculpture standing up.
That's not a stone sculpture!
That's a person!
Liu Li looked at his back, thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed.
That, that's Zhang Sheng's back!
Isn't he dead? Why is he here?
Liu Li felt as if he had seen a ghost. The man turned around, shook off the falling snow on his body, and smiled at Liu Li and the other three.
"Zhang Sheng!"
Duan An screamed, he saw a ghost!
He also recognized that the person in front of him was Zhang Sheng, the one who had been autopsyed by him himself!
Liu Li saw Zhang Sheng's face. His face was too pale, not like a human being, but more like a ghost.
Looking at this scene, Liu Li felt cruel in his heart, thinking that you can't beat me when you are alive, but you can beat me when you are dead. Just as he was about to gather his mind blade, he suddenly heard Zhang Sheng speak.
"Zhang Sheng" said: "Friend, I found an opportunity here. The carvings on this stone seem to be telling a certain sword technique. If you don't dislike it, how about we learn it together?"
After saying that, he turned around again, looked at the stone, and understood the carvings.
Liu Li was stunned by the call from his friend.
Liu Li asked: "What's going on? Isn't Zhang Sheng dead? Why isn't he dead?"
"How the hell do I know, what the hell!" Duan An quickly retreated behind Ji Luluo.
Zhang Sheng ignored their noise and sat cross-legged on the snow, studying the stones carefully, as if he was completely immersed in them.
"Don't panic." Ji Luluo took two steps forward and stood side by side with Liu Li. She dissipated the sword-shaped mind blade in her hand and said calmly: "He is not Zhang Sheng."
"He is a jade sculpture of degree. You can understand it as a kind of robot in the spiritual realm, which can execute some pre-set programs."
She took a step forward, very fast, and was behind Zhang Sheng in an instant. Then the sword flashed and struck Zhang Sheng on the back of the neck.
"Zhang Sheng" shrank in size and turned into a miniature jade sculpture, which was held in Ji Luluo's hand.
"A 'magic weapon' that exists purely in spiritual form." Ji Luluo said: "I don't know how to recycle it, so I can only use this stupid method. I hope I don't destroy the evidence."
Liu Li said: "What on earth is this?"
"Duhua jade carving, I think I've heard of it, etc." Duan An thought hard: "Damn it, isn't that what it is?"
"Then what?" Liu Li was even more confused.
"The technology of the Qingji Order." Duan An said: "The treasures given by the leader of the Qingji Order to every assassin are also proof of their identity."
Liu Li took a deep breath to avoid the joy that rushed into his brain and made him coma. He was shocked and said: "Could it be that the murderer is Zhang Sheng? He is a member of the Qingji Order, and he used jade carvings to create an alibi. , the real body will hide and go out to assassinate... After the assassination is completed, he will recover the Duhua jade sculpture, and investigators will trace his traces and find that he was walking in circles in the cedar forest, and there is an alibi."
"It's just that he died? He was killed, so we thought he was also a victim?"
Duan An and Ji Luluo looked at Liu Li.
"It seems to make sense?" Duan An murmured.
Liu Li said boldly: "I'm afraid that's it. My intuition tells me that it makes perfect sense!"