Someone reported to the government? Not to mention that the scholar was not familiar with the neighbors and had no contact with each other. It is unlikely that he would be discovered if he died in the house. Even if someone from the government comes to check, they will put a seal, right?
There are too many papers scattered on the ground and the area is too wide. It doesn't look like the scholar touched them in his death struggle.
"Someone should have entered here after his death to rummage through the cabinets, looking for something, and then took away his body."
Zhou Shi took the fire certificate and inspected it carefully indoors.
"There are no traces of fighting, no blood. It seems that the scholar's description is basically correct. It may be poison or some kind of magic... How can he get into trouble as a copywriter, so that others want to kill him?
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"Because of love? Looking at his dignified appearance, it shouldn't be possible... Because of hatred? He usually lives in seclusion and is always cautious, so he can't make any enemies... Because of money? His income is probably less than half of mine. His income is probably less than half of mine.
I haven’t received the money for the single ‘big job’ yet…huh?”
The scholar said before that he took a big job and the reward was ten taels of silver. But he died just after he finished copying the book!
Spending ten taels of silver to ask him to copy a book that can be copied by one person in three days is really too much. Either the employer is doing charity, or there is something special about that book!
Did the person who killed him come for that book?
Zhou Shi just thought of this and discovered another doubt.
"The scholar died suddenly after copying, so shouldn't the book he just copied should be placed..."
He looked at the empty desk.
"...On the desk? Then why are you searching for it? Does the murderer have other motives, or is it just to confuse the public?"
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Zhou Shi's eyes swept across the room. How could anything be hidden in such a small space...
Suddenly, his eyes locked on a piece of paper on the ground.
The piece of paper was filled with scholar's neat regular characters, but what shocked Zhou Shi was a pattern in the corner of the paper——
The password of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce.
He picked up the paper and read it carefully by the light of the burning folding paper.
"It's the end of a letter, but it only contains some polite words and no useful information...
"This code consists of four pseudo-characters. The first two are the same as those given to me by Xu Baocai, which means the Bashu Chamber of Commerce. I don't know the meaning of the last two. However, this letter is not signed, so it is probably written in code.
Believe me.
"This code can generally only be circulated within the Bashu Chamber of Commerce. Writing it here means that at least the recipient can interpret the code... Is it a letter to the Bashu Chamber of Commerce? Did the scholar copy it for others, or did he write it himself?" p>
Zhou Shi became interested and picked up the scattered papers on the ground one by one, trying to spell out a complete letter based on the context.
However, there is no part of this letter among the writing papers on the floor.
"I haven't found it under the bed yet..."
Zhou Shi lay down on the ground, reached under the bed and groped...
"Ah!"
The arm that was stretched out under the bed felt like it had been stabbed, and a sharp pain shot straight into the brain!
Zhou Shi withdrew his hand and saw two bleeding spots on the forearm of his left arm. He wanted to stand up, but suddenly Venus appeared in front of his eyes.
The burning sensation in my arm turned into a freezing sensation and began to tingle.
"There's something under the bed! It's poisonous!"
He knelt on the ground and stepped back, tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes with his teeth, and tied the poisoned left arm tightly to prevent the poison from spreading.
He took out Mr. Hu from the iron abacus and poured the Yin wine directly under the bed!
The Yin wine fell to the ground, and the ferocious grimace rose up, twisting and rolling in the narrow room. Zhou Shi also endured the pain of the Yin Qi invading his body.
Sure enough, stimulated by the Yinjiu, a black figure flew out from under the bed and got behind the bookcase! It was so fast that Zhou Shi couldn't even see what it was!
The numbness is getting stronger and stronger, and I may die at any time!
Gently flicking the bead, a golden light wrapped around his finger. Zhou Shi swung out the golden fishing line, hooked it on the bookcase, pulled it to the ground, and then poured out the Yin wine.
Huo Zhezi burned violently under the Yin Qi emitted by the Yin wine, illuminating the room as brightly as day. But under the cover of the ghostly face, the black shadow threw directly at Zhou Shi's face, leaving him no chance to react.
!
Only then did he see the true face of the black shadow—a giant centipede more than a foot long!
"Ah——"
Severe pain came, as if the entire face had been peeled off!
Vision and hearing were withdrawn at the same time. Zhou Shi covered his face and knelt on the ground, seemingly losing the ability to fight back.
None of the treasures stored in the iron abacus can detoxify!
But the sense of touch was still there, and he still held Hu Gongzun and Huo Zhezi tightly in his hands!
All in all!
Zhou Shi placed the Hu Gongzun in his left hand upside down directly on the Huo Zhezi!
The dark fire exploded, and the blue light covered the entire house!
The toxin temporarily blinded him and he could not see what was going on in the house, but the giant centipede did not launch any further attacks.
But the toxin still threatens his life!
There is nothing we can do...
Zhou Shi unscrewed a white porcelain bottle that appeared in his hand at some point, poured the contents into his mouth, and then groped towards the door.
His eyesight recovered a bit and he could see again, and the numbness in his body was much lessened.
"It is indeed the antidote!"
That small white porcelain bottle was exactly what Zhou Yongyong stole from the poison master by fishing with gold wire!
He didn't know what was in the white vial, but he just guessed it was poison. But the poisons used by poison masters were all in black bottles, so why did a white bottle appear again?
The colors are likely used to mark bottles with different contents.
For example, when using some extremely dangerous poisons that even the poison master's tempered body cannot withstand, you need to give yourself an antidote.
This is of course a big gamble. What if there is poison in the bottle? What if the antidote is ineffective against the centipede's toxin? But between life and death, Zhou Shi can only take a gamble.
"Hiss——"
The Yin Fire explosion just now also caused considerable damage to Zhou Shi's body, but it did the same to the centipede! As long as it is a living creature, no one can avoid being injured by Yin Qi.
This bought him time!
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Zhou Yong used his blurred vision to throw out the golden fishing line, hooked out two pieces of paper from under the bed, then picked up the flint on the desk and struck it hard, lighting the lampstand!
He threw the lampstand against the bookcase, turned around and went out, shouting: "It's on fire! It's on fire!"
Hearing noises from the houses on both sides, he climbed over the wall and fled.
"There's a fire! Put out the fire quickly!"
Human voices came from the yard behind me, awakening nearby residents.
A shirtless man ran out of the yard opposite the door and immediately saw Zhou Shi lying on the ground.
"Hey, what do you do?"
It’s broken! Zhou Zhi cursed in his mind. There was a sudden fire in the middle of the night. If he appeared here with a strange face, he might be suspected of being an arsonist!
Without having time to think about it, he took out a folding fan from the iron abacus and shook it open!
The fan of Xuanyuan is facing the man!
His eyes instantly became blurred, his mouth opened wide, and he stared straight at the fan.
His arms stretched forward unconsciously, and saliva flowed from his mouth...
While he was seduced by the illusion, Zhou Shi struggled to get up and ran towards the road.
"I'm sorry..."
Dragging his wounded body, he ran toward Fengde Tower with one staggering step.
"Mo Lao, cough, help!"
Arriving outside the door of Fengde Building, Zhou Shi opened the door panel and fell directly to the ground, trembling on the ground.
"Hey, isn't this the shopkeeper here?"
"What's going on? It seems to be seriously injured!"
The ghosts got up one after another and wanted to help.
"Don't touch him!"
Mr. Mo shouted loudly and rushed towards Zhou Shi holding the cigarette pole.
"Everyone, please leave tonight, this kid is about to die!"
After hearing this, the ghosts quickly went out and dispersed.
Mr. Mo put the cigarette rod in Zhou Shi's mouth and said, "Boy, take two puffs!"
Zhou Shi complied and took two puffs of cigarette into his stomach, which was like swallowing two balls of fire!
At the same time, he also regained some strength, and his body was no longer as cold as being in an ice cellar.
"Boy, get up and dance with me!"
Mr. Mo roughly pulled him up and started dancing by himself.
Zhou Shi vaguely imitated Mr. Mo's movements, forcing out the yin energy from his body little by little.