Xu Dao looked at her actions and asked, "Do you think there is something wrong with the Chenghuang Temple?"
Bai Xing nodded: "I think those two children, at least that night, were still in the Chenghuang Temple. There must be some mechanism here, but we didn't find it."
The three of them started looking for it, checking the floor tiles, walls, and various corners. After searching for a long time, they couldn't find it. Until noon, the three of them got together again, looked at each other, and shook their heads while panting.
"There must be something I haven't noticed." Bai Xing frowned, wondering, could it be that she had made a mistake?
Song Cheng looked at her frowning brows and was silent for a moment. He got up and walked outside. He randomly found a stone from the grass, put it in his hands, clasped his hands together, and muttered: "Secret passage, secret passage, secret passage." Tao." Then he threw the stone casually, and the ordinary stone fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and stopped at the feet of the Bodhisattva.
Song Cheng raised his head, looked at the solemn statue, clasped his hands and bowed: "Amitabha, no offense, saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. You, the Bodhisattva, will definitely understand me." Then he started to look around with his hands, and suddenly , he paused, stood on the high platform, stretched out his hands hard, stood on tiptoes, and fumbled for the jade purification bottle held by the Bodhisattva. Suddenly, he looked happy and pressed his fingers hard on the dewdrops on the celestial grass in the jade vase held by the Bodhisattva.
With a slight sound of the mechanism, a hidden hole was revealed behind the Bodhisattva statue.
Bai Xing didn't have time to complain about the power of metaphysics, so the three of them hurried down the secret passage. The secret passage was narrow and spiraled downwards. It was very dark inside the secret passage. They grabbed each other's clothes and groped their way down little by little. After walking to the end, there was a spacious On the stone path, the torch on the wall was not lit. Bai Xing touched it and found a thin layer of ash on it. Their sight was very obstructed in the darkness, so they could only grope forward.
Suddenly something kicked down with her toes. Bai Xing exclaimed softly, asking them to stop. She squatted down and fumbled for a long time. It seemed to be a small pearl earring. She put the earring away and everyone continued to move forward.
Walking all the way to the end, there was another upward staircase. There was a cover at the end of the stairs. Xu Dao walked at the front and rubbed the cover. It was made of wood. A subtle light came from the gap in the wooden cover. Xu Dao signaled them to retreat. Finally, he carefully pushed up the cover a crack, carefully observed the outside, listened for a long time, and found no movement, so he boldly opened it a little more, and after confirming that it was safe, the three of them filed out.
This is a courtyard overgrown with weeds. It has been uninhabited for a long time. The weeds in the courtyard are waist-high. Standing in the courtyard and looking up at the sky, even the sky seems to be covered with a layer of gray. The house is also deserted. , a thick layer of dust fell on the old furniture in the house. They searched around and found no clues, quickly cleaned up the traces and left here.
Before leaving the alley, Bai Xing looked back. The alley was very deep and completely unpopular. It was like a forgotten corner of the city. The other houses on both sides also seemed like no one had lived in them for a long time. The doors were closed. The Spring Festival couplets on the wall were dilapidated, and the vermilion paint had faded into a shabby dark color. The door of the dilapidated house they came out of had a plaque hanging on it. The plaque was densely covered with dust and cobwebs, and the words on it were vague and blurry. .
Bai Xing narrowed her eyes and had a vague idea in her heart.
The three of them were walking on the street. The lineup of two beggars and a rich young man was too eye-catching. Pedestrians on the road glanced at them with strange expressions. They decided to act separately. Song Cheng continued to go back to the City Lord's Mansion to see if there were any clues. And she and Seo Do went to check out the earrings.
The three hit it off and parted ways.
Bai Xing came to the candy store again. The owner of the candy store was surprised when he saw the earrings in their hands, and seemed a little scared.
"Where did you find this?"
"Is there something wrong with this earring?" Bai Xing did not answer this question, but asked his own question.
"This is the pearl earring that Butcher Zhang gave to his daughter on her birthday. She likes it very much and can often see her wearing this earring." The fat boss said, "Butcher Zhang's daughter is an escort, and she is a very capable person." She felt sorry that her father was working too hard every day to kill pigs and sell meat, so she directly joined the escort agency. She often traveled all over the world as escorts. It was said that she made a lot of money, and every time she went home to celebrate the New Year, she could bring a lot of New Year gifts. A car. Children in the city also like her very much, because when she comes back from escorting, she often brings some novel candies and toys bought outside to share with the children."
The fat boss shook his head and sighed: "When something happened to our family, she even came to visit us. She specifically went to comfort the old boss, saying that she would also pay attention to him when she went out as a escort. If there was any news, she would tell her as soon as possible. Him. But in the end, our two families are not very lucky, and we still can’t find him."
"But just a year ago, she came back as a escort and was suddenly found dead at home the next day. It is said that the escort had an enemy and was killed by the enemy. The daughter who was dear to Zhang Butcher's heart was killed. , the qi and blood attack the heart, and the person vomits blood and dies."
Bai Xing nodded, pulled Xu Dao and prepared to leave. Before leaving, she asked one last question.
"During this period, has anyone lost a child at home?"
Xu Dao walked on the road and looked sideways at Bai Xing. His expression was tangled for a while, but he still couldn't help asking: "Why did you ask that question in the end? Do you already have the answer in your heart?"
Bai Xing nodded: "I'm not too sure, but I already have a guess in my mind."
Xu Dao looked puzzled: "After those two children were lost, there were other children missing later, so what?"
Bai Xing pulled her lips and smiled a little coldly: "Uncle policeman, do you know that if three people share a piece of cake, they can only cut it twice, so how do you get the most cake?"
"I'm not." Xu Dao seemed to whisper something, but Bai Xing didn't hear it clearly and looked at him in confusion, but he began to think about Bai Xing's problem.
For a moment, he seemed to understand something, and smiled coolly: "I know, the way to distribute the greatest benefits is that two people kill one together first, and then divide the cake equally, and each of the two people takes half of the remaining cake. Is it right?"
The space was slightly distorted, and transparent water ripples rippled in the air.
Bai Xing immediately realized that they had triggered the space-time mirror fragment again, and looked at each other with Xu Dao. Their figures disappeared like water waves, and the people on the road seemed not to have seen this scene.
The truth is about to emerge.
