The moment he saw the two people dead, the first thought that arose in Meng Zhou's heart was whether this was his fault.
Eight middle-grade spiritual stones are a huge sum of money for these monks living in Wanwei.
If Bai Ya accidentally leaked the information on the way back, it would not be impossible for someone to kill him at night.
But after seeing the spiritual stones scattered all over the place, this speculation about robbing wealth and killing people was no longer valid.
Moreover, with Granny Bai's hidden strength in the late stage of Qi training, unless a strong person above the foundation level takes action, it is impossible for her to die so quietly, and the neighbors did not sense any abnormality.
Moreover, the uncollected spiritual stones in that place are also unexplainable.
Even if the foundation building financial resources are richer, it is impossible to turn a blind eye to so many middle-grade spiritual stones.
There are too many contradictions.
Moreover, looking at the state of the two people when they died, Meng Zhou also roughly restored the scene at that time, which should have happened shortly after Bai Ya returned home yesterday.
After thinking about it for a while, I didn't have any clue.
Meng Zhou suddenly felt a slight movement in his arms again, his heart moved, he reached into his arms, and he carefully took out the straw grasshopper that Bai Ya had given him.
At this moment, the green grasshopper lay quietly in the palm of his hand, but the pair of tentacles on its head rotated slightly as his palm moved its body, always pointing in one direction.
Meng Zhou tried again, moving and turning in circles. The tentacles of the grasshopper always pointed in a certain direction like a magnetic needle affected by the magnetic pole.
This shocked Meng Zhou to the extreme.
Just as he was looking at the straw grasshopper with curiosity on his face, its tentacles finally changed for the first time.
Two long tentacles hung down, and the ends connected with his palm, as if they were worshiping.
Two lines of cold air as thin as a hair seeped into his palms. Meng Zhou didn't even have time to be surprised by this, before his attention was attracted by another change.
Next to the gray portrait icon in the upper left corner of the field of vision, a flashing red dot appeared again.
Meng Zhou thought about it, clicked on the portrait icon, and a string of personal information data came into view.
With just one glance, he noticed the difference.
Under the original six pieces of information: name, lifespan, status, realm, technique, and skills, a new item of [Contract Oath] has been added.
[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 0/100]
This information made Meng Zhou confused.
After thinking about it carefully, I still don't understand it.
However, the only thing that is certain is that to be treated like this by the personal information panel, this straw grasshopper is far more magical than he thought.
Moreover, after its tentacles established some mysterious connection with it through skin contact, he could actually vaguely feel its hazy emotions.
Impatient, urging!
At this moment, its tentacles have been raised again, pointing steadily in a certain direction.
Meng Zhou guessed in his mind: "Where do you want me to go?"
He decided to go and have a look.
Even if you don’t trust this grasshopper, you should still trust the personal information panel.
Meng Zhou walked out of the room again, clenched the grasshopper in his fist, and exposed its two tentacles.
When he came to the street again and saw that the direction pointed by the tentacles was not Granny Bai's grocery store, Meng Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.
The place has now become a place of right and wrong. As an outsider, it is better not to mess with it.
He turned around and looked around, only to see more and more people surrounding Granny Bai's grocery store, and many local monks were attracted.
As he strode away in another direction, guided by the grasshopper's tentacles, there was another wave of more violent mana fluctuations coming from the direction of the grocery store behind him.
"Ah, there is a secret room!?"
"There is such a big secret room here!"
"..."
Along with the fluctuations in force, there were also noisy sounds of exclamations and discussions.
Meng Zhou was also surprised, but he didn't stop because of it. Instead, he moved faster and quickly moved away from this small neighborhood.
"This...is actually here!"
Meng Zhou followed the guidance of the grasshopper's tentacles and came to the strange mountain rock wall. The place where he stood was the place where Bai Ya sat and played twice before.
Meng Zhou opened his palms, and there was a straw grasshopper lying on his palms, with a pair of tentacles pointed at the stone wall.
"Is it you, Bai Ya?"
Returning to the old place, the little girl with a kind heart and excellent craftsmanship had died. Meng Zhou felt heavy in his heart, thinking that the first reaction of the straw grasshopper was when his palm covered Bai Ya's face.
And this straw grasshopper is her work. Every time she weaves it, she puts all her efforts into it. Could it be that that contact led some lingering spirituality in her to the straw grasshopper?
With this suspicion, Meng Zhou approached the stone wall little by little.
Finally, the grasshopper's tentacles touched a shallow scratch.
Meng Zhou's line of sight extended up and down along this notch, like a ball of tangled silk thread.
When his eyes extended on the graffiti-covered stone wall, he suddenly discovered that there were many, many such shallow carvings.
But because it was too shallow, it seemed that it had been eroded by wind and rain over a long period of time, and some places were covered by new scratches with more obvious traces. If his sight was not guided by the grasshopper tentacles and he moved to search with purpose, it would be really difficult to find it.
Moreover, these scratches look like tangled threads. Even if someone discovers them accidentally, they will not care. At a glance, they are no different from a person drawing random circles with a pen.
But Meng Zhou thought about the second time Bai Ya came over and did not immediately sit down on the ground to play with straw. Instead, he stretched out his fingers and stroked the stone wall back and forth.
I also thought of the two pieces of rattan armor woven from ordinary rattan in Granny Bai's grocery store, but she dared to ask for ten low-grade spiritual stones for a high price.
Meng Zhou vaguely realized something in his heart.
More thoughts surged in his mind.
He officially came to visit, Granny Bai's violent reaction after announcing Bai Zhi's name, Granny Bai, and the various strange things revealed about Bai Ya's death.
Meng Zhou realized that these three Bai people had secrets, big secrets.
He looked at the carved pictures on the stone wall, his eyes moving along with the faint carvings. After only two pictures, Meng Zhou felt that his thoughts were being turned into a mess by the movement.
And he counted carefully, there were hundreds of carvings on the stone wall that looked like balls of thread that had been randomly kneaded!
Staying here all the time to observe is not only inefficient, but also easy for others to notice something strange after a long time.
Soon, Meng Zhou had a new idea in his mind. He turned around and left without stopping.
Ever since the straw grasshopper guided him here, either because his obsession had disappeared or because he had consumed too much, a pile of tentacles drooped limply, and there was no movement at all. Meng Zhou carefully put it back into his arms.
Returning to Wanwei, I entered a small shop on Laohuai Street that specializes in selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and bought a thick stack of white paper, a sufficient amount of pens and ink, and two brushes.
After packing his bags and leaving the store, he looked up at the sky. Thinking of the series of explosions that happened at Granny Bai's grocery store today, he went directly to the teahouse.
When he arrived at the teahouse, it was already overcrowded, at least several times the number of people at normal times.
However, Meng Zhou could be regarded as a regular customer here. He was personally led to a table by the teahouse owner and had a seat. They were also familiar acquaintances in the teahouse.
Therefore, they were not dissatisfied with Meng Zhou's interruption and nodded to him.
In the short time between arriving at the teahouse and sitting down, Meng Zhou found the hot headlines at this moment in the noisy environment.
There is no doubt that Grandma Bai’s Grocery Store outweighs everything else and becomes the undisputed center of conversation.
But those spiritual stones have rarely been mentioned, and the focus of everyone's discussion has become a huge secret room that was later discovered.
There are many ancient books inside, and almost everyone who has been in there has something to gain.
A monk at the same table with Meng Zhou was an eyewitness to the incident. He shook his head with regret: "I went in too late and only got a Xianshu Travel Notes. I heard that there are many cultivation methods and secret methods. I don't know who
So lucky."
He explained this to the people around him, but the others looked at him and didn't completely believe it. They seemed to suspect that he deliberately brought up the real good things and only used an unimportant gain to prevaricate everyone. After all, except for
As for him, who knows what he has gained.
He did not defend this, but directed the topic elsewhere:
"According to my judgment, that secret room appeared long before our two streets appeared!
It was at least two or three hundred years ago. What was the situation here at that time?
Moreover, judging from the layout of the secret room, it should be specially used for collecting books, but when we entered, only a very small part of it still contained books, and the other areas were all empty, or piled with some random items."
As he spoke, he shook his head.
Another monk next to him nodded in agreement: "It seems that this grocery store has a big secret!"
Another monk shook his head regretfully: "I am quite involved in the art of construction, but it's a pity that I learned about it too late. Otherwise, it would be great if I could go and see it in person."
Meng Zhou's heart moved and he took the opportunity to ask: "Can't we go over and see it now?"
The monk glanced at Meng Zhou and asked, "Just came back from outside?"
Meng Zhou nodded.
The monk shook his head and sighed, saying: "That place has been blocked by people sent by the Li family.
Now, no one can enter except the Li family!"
Meng Zhou's heart suddenly moved. The Li family was a cultivating family rooted in the head of Baiyue Bay, and was also the strongest cultivating force in Baiyue Bay.
More than eighty years ago, the Li family had become the strongest in Baiyue Bay. However, the gap with other forces was not that big, and more power was needed to formulate new rules.
But now, the other monks are trapped in two streets at the end of the bay. While working hard to make progress, they must always be on guard against someone trying to pull back their efforts.
However, the Li family at the head of the bay has been developing steadily for more than eighty years, and has long since opened up a gap with the cultivators at the end of the bay.
Although it may be slightly inferior in terms of quantity, in terms of quality, it is already on two different tracks.
Meng Zhou believed that if the general environment had not required Cuiyu Lake to maintain the appearance of "orderliness, peace and tranquility" and not given Qingxuanzong a reason to intervene, the Li family would have completed the annexation of the entire Baiyue Bay.
At this moment, several monks hurriedly ran into the teahouse. The teahouse, which had been noisy and noisy a moment ago, immediately became quiet, and all eyes turned to them.
After those monks entered the teahouse, they ran to the monks in the teahouse who had the strongest cultivation and vaguely had the status of talkers and whispered.
Seeing everyone paying attention to them, one of the yellow-faced monks frowned and told the monk next to him who wanted to lean in to whisper: "It's okay, just say so."
The monk straightened up. His voice was not loud, but it spread throughout the teahouse.
"The Li family has made new discoveries in that secret room, and it has been confirmed that the secret room should be a secret inheritance place prepared by the Yan family.
In addition, after inspection by the monks of the Li family, it was discovered that Granny Bai and Bai Ya are closely related by blood, which is not what everyone thought before."
As soon as he said these words, needles could be heard in the already quiet teahouse.
But when Meng Zhou and other outside monks squeezed in to join in the fun, they were a little confused when they saw this scene.
The calm yellow-faced monk also looked shocked, "So, Granny Bai and Bai Ya are actually remnants of the Yan family?"
The monk shook his head: "The Li family is not sure about this, but they have arranged for someone to notify the Mo family. I think it won't be long before someone from the Mo family comes to confirm this!"
All the cultivators looked horrified. The yellow-faced cultivator didn't have any bearing at all. He said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
After leaving these words, he got up and hurried out of the teahouse.
The other local monks did not stay long and left quickly. The teahouse that was crowded a moment ago suddenly became deserted.
Even the store owner himself turned a blind eye to the mess in the store and quickly picked up important items and put them away, as if he was preparing to flee.
A local monk who was on the fifth level of Qi training was taking a shortcut through an alley to go home. A voice sounded behind him: "Fellow Taoist, please stay!"
He didn't stay, but walked faster.
But the next moment, he felt a dark shadow flash before his eyes, and a tall figure was standing in front of him.
He took two steps back with a defensive look on his face and asked: "What are you going to do? This is not a place where you can be as arrogant as you want!"
Meng Zhou raised his hands slightly to show that he was harmless.
"Don't get excited, fellow Taoist, I just want to ask you something."
The man was unmoved and said: "You can find someone else, I don't have time now!"
"Don't worry, I won't delay you for long." Meng Zhou said as a spiritual stone appeared in his hand and was stuffed into the opponent's hand.
"Your performance just now is really scary. I don't feel at ease if you don't understand clearly... Is something bad going to happen here soon?"
This man looked at the spiritual stone in his hand, and his attitude changed from being repulsive and distant to being gentle and kind.
"Fellow Taoist, your guess is correct. Something bad is about to happen here. Listen to my advice and leave now. Don't stay here any longer!"
Meng Zhou said: "I still have nearly a month's room payment in the hotel!"
The man shook his head and said: "It's already this time, do you still care about this?"
Meng Zhouyi looked unwilling and said: "Then you must tell me the reason, at least let me leave in a clear way."
As he spoke, his eyes lingered on the spiritual stone in his hand for a moment, as if to say, my spiritual stone is not that easy to hold.
The man thought for a while and asked, "What do you want to know?"
Meng Zhou asked: "What is the situation in the Yan family? Why do you care so much when we talk about it?
What grudges do we have with the Mo family? Why do we need them to confirm whether Granny Bai and Bai Ya are from the Yan family?"
The man shook his head and said: "If you want to explain this clearly, it involves too much... You know Xingxiu Palace, right?"
Meng Zhou nodded: "I know this. I heard many stories about Xingxiu Palace and Qingxuan Sect in the teahouse."
The man nodded and said:
"Now that you know this level, it will be easy for you to understand when I talk about it."