Jiang Chen said in a deep voice: "Actually, Miss Gan gave me a suggestion just now - take out Madam's old clothes and use divination to divine Madam's location."
"Divination?" The girl in green clothes opened her eyes wide, "It doesn't sound reliable!"
"Do you have a more reliable way?"
Chi Yang sighed and said: "Oh, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor! You have to give it a try!"
Although the old housekeeper looked strange, he still ordered his servants to do it.
Soon, a group of maids held the lady's old clothes on trays, formed a long queue, and filed in.
"Madam loves cleanliness. The clothes she changed were washed on the same day. I'm afraid there won't be any clues left..." The old housekeeper obviously didn't think much of them.
"It doesn't matter. Where there is cause and effect, there will be traces." Jiang Chen grabbed a bunch of clothes, closed his eyes, muttered something in his mouth, and twisted the fingers of his right hand.
Everyone in the room stared at him.
In Jiang Chen's field of vision, there was a dark void, with the clothes in his left hand as the center, and clouds of smoke-like dust gradually dispersed.
The dust was like ice and snow, dancing all over the sky, emitting a faint silver light, spreading outward, and gradually outlined the outline of a mansion.
Wherever the dust goes is where the owner of this old piece of clothing has walked.
The mansion outlined by the dust in the void closely corresponds to the Jia Mansion in reality. Every road leaves traces of the footsteps of Mrs. Jia Mansion.
This is Jiang Chen's magical power - "Trace of the Void".
It's perfect for tracing cause and effect and finding people and things.
It's just that this piece of clothing has gone through several hands. In addition to being worn by the wife, it has also been washed by the maid and the mother-in-law. The cause and effect are complicated and intertwined in this Jia's house, making it impossible to trace the more precise details.
Fortunately, for more than a month, there is no need for too precise details.
The dust spreads further outward.
The streets of Xiliao City, large and small, have left deep or shallow footprints of Mrs. Jia. But it is none of these.
Only the road out of the city and straight to the southern jungle is the direction where Mrs. Jia disappeared!
"Pah!" Jiang Chen opened his eyes and snapped his fingers, "Let's go!"
"Where to go?"
"Southern Jungle!"
The old housekeeper prepared fast horses for the three of them, and they hurried slowly all the way. They left the city before noon and headed south along the official road, where the trees gradually grew thicker.
The three of them tied their horses to the outside and entered the jungle on foot.
Monsters often appear in the southern jungle. Except for smart and powerful hunters, few people are active in this area.
There are towering trees and overgrown grass.
A month has passed, and even if someone has been here, the traces have long been covered up by wild animals and vegetation.
Even a professional hunter like Chi Yang would be hard-pressed to find any clues about Mrs. Jia. He couldn't help but start to doubt whether Jiang Chen had really found the right path.
"Xiao Jiang, are you really good at divination?"
"False." Jiang Chen saw Chi Yang's footsteps paused and smiled again, "But my nose is very good, so this direction is correct."
The girl in green clothes who was strolling aside turned her head curiously: "How spiritual is it? Is it more spiritual than a wild dog?"
"Not polite! How can you compare me with dogs?" Jiang Chen waved his hand disdainfully, "I'm much better than them!"
"But how come you didn't smell the smell of corpses under the bed last night?"
"That's different!"
"Oh, I see. Although you smelled the smell of corpses, instead of feeling the smell, you were intoxicated by it and even had an erotic dream, right?"
"That's nonsense!"
Chiyang in front seemed to have discovered something. He took two steps forward and squatted down in front of the corpse of a beast to look at it.
The bones should have been newly deceased, and were generally still intact and had not been eaten by other wild animals. There was a slender dark red strip inserted in the middle of its skull, which was probably the direct cause of its death.
Jiang Chen also moved closer, reached out and pulled out the slender hidden weapon from the skull, held it in front of his eyes and examined it for a while, with a puzzled look on his face: "Are these...chopsticks?"
He bent it with a little force, and the slender weapon broke with a snap. The jagged wood stubble at the crack showed that it was indeed a chopstick!
"He's a master!" Chi Yang muttered, looking at the hole in the beast's skull where the chopsticks had been inserted. "One blow was fatal, clean and neat. That man's hand must be very strong! It's a pity that it took so long that the footprints were all Cover it up, otherwise you can observe his movements."
"Are there still people in Xiliao City who use chopsticks as weapons?" The girl in green clothes tilted her head and stretched out her hand curiously. Jiang Chen handed her half of the chopsticks in an understanding manner.
The girl in green clothes twitched her nose: "This guy's taste is very strange. Using chopsticks to kill people, aren't you afraid of being unappetizing when eating?"
"Maybe he likes the smell of blood and thinks it's more delicious."
"An interesting guy, I want to meet him." The girl in green clothes licked the corners of her red lips, squinted her eyes slightly to observe the half-cut chopsticks in her hand, and sighed softly, "Unfortunately, this guy is probably not a human being. "
"Not a human?" Jiang Chen blinked in confusion.
"His fingers are as thin as yours, but twice as long. Do you think they are human?"
Following the description of the girl in green clothes, the image of some kind of beast's claws appeared in Jiang Chen's mind. He shuddered and said, "Could it be that Mrs. Jia fell into the hands of this guy?"
The girl in green clothes chuckled and threw away the chopsticks in her hand: "If we go further, maybe we can find Mrs. Jia's body and give Fourth Master Jia an explanation."
She crossed Chiyang and stepped forward to clear the way.
Jiang Chen followed behind, frowning and muttering to himself: "That's wrong! If she dies, the cause and effect will be broken. After a month, she shouldn't leave such heavy marks..."
"What's wrong? So many people in Xiliao City die in the mouths of monsters every day. Isn't this a very common ending?" The girl in green clothes said without turning her head, "The love between two people is no match for the separation of life and death. .”
A few more scattered chopsticks were found in front of them. Some were lost by mistake, and some were inserted into the bones of beasts. The further they went, the more densely they appeared.
This gave Jiang Chen a new guess - Mrs. Jia might have eloped with someone on her own initiative! The person she eloped with was this master who liked to use chopsticks as weapons!
Otherwise, in addition to humans, monsters that eat raw hair and drink blood wouldn't be interested in chopsticks, right? And there’s no way to collect so many chopsticks, right?
As for what the girl in green clothes said, the expert's particularly long and slender fingers may just be due to his unique bones and special shape. As a master, there is always something different!
After trekking through a dense forest tangled with vines, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
A wooden house located on a hillside caught the sight of the three of them.
"Sure enough, there is someone!" Jiang Chen shouted in surprise.
There are signs of human habitation everywhere here——
There is a fence surrounding the wooden house and countless vines climbing on it.
A string of chopsticks hung at the door of the wooden house, just like the dried chili strings in some southern towns, swaying gently in the breeze, making a crisp clinking sound.
With so many chopsticks, the three of them immediately felt that they had found the right place.
Chi Yang stepped forward first, uncovered a corner of the rattan, and pushed the door open.
