Tianluomen is not far from the small village. It takes about half an hour for monks to reach it. Even for ordinary people, the mountain climbing will be a little more strenuous and may take two or three hours.
Su Anran actually doesn't understand why most of these sects in the mysterious world like to build on this mountain or that mountain.
For example, the Xiandao Sect he had been to before, the entire island belonged to them, but their sect was still built on a mountain; the Guya Sect was also on a mountain, and Damo Fang was at the foot of the mountain; apart from that, everything else
The general meeting hall of the building seems to be quite high, and the Great Sun Tathagata Sect has made the entire spiritual mountain into a secret realm.
Now, even Tianluomen, a small and popular sect, is established at an altitude of several hundred meters.
Can't you just learn from their Taiyitgu?
It is directly a valley, and the mouth of the valley is open all year round, without any cover. It looks like anyone who wants to can enter - at first, others misunderstood it as Taoyuan Township, which is enough to show how powerful Taiyi Valley is.
So easy-going.
After getting off the gate of Tianluomen, Su Anran quickly came to the village.
Of course, it was impossible for him to listen to such an outer disciple.
Su Anran asked the same question to two other outer disciples who were close to Yi Tong, and got a clue from them.
Clue 3: Zhou Yitong seems to like eating a kind of sugar cake called white jade cake, and often sends his outer disciples to help buy it.
This is why Su Anran decided to go to the pastry shop.
Because he believed that the system could not give out such a clue for no reason.
This clue points to the pastry shop, which proves that there must be some secrets in this pastry shop.
There was only one pastry shop in the entire village, so Su Anran found it without much effort.
Perhaps because of the sudden death of Zhou Yitong, the village now seems a little deserted, and even the pastry shop is closed to welcome customers.
"Hello." Su Anran knocked on the door.
The architectural style in the village is not uniform.
There are both conventional courtyard houses.
There are also shops similar to those common in ancient shops on Earth, with wooden boards as doors, people working downstairs, resting upstairs, and then opening up a backyard to grow something or use it as a workshop.
This pastry shop falls into the latter category.
When Su Anran knocked on the door and the other party didn't open the door, he walked around the house.
What made him feel a little strange was that when his consciousness enveloped the entire pastry shop, he found that there was no one inside.
Su Anran took a look around and found that most people were timid and did not dare to look directly at him. Even when he looked over, they chose to close the doors and windows, as if he was some kind of disaster.
Su Anran sighed.
He was once a mortal, but he was lucky enough to have power, so he was no stranger to this kind of performance.
Without saying anything else, he found a blind spot, turned over and jumped into the backyard of the pastry shop.
He saw some workshop tools here, which should be used for making pastries.
There are several bags of rice bags next to it, one of which has been opened and half used.
Su Anran checked it, with a look of surprise on her face.
This is actually new rice.
He didn't have much contact with the secular world, but based on the feeling that the entire Xuanjie currently gave him, this secular world should be in a period similar to the Han Dynasty in China. The techniques of rice shelling, polishing and many other processes are definitely not as good as modern ones, and even worse.
It was not as good as the Tang Dynasty, so even if there was rice under normal circumstances, it would not be as shiny as pearls as Su Anran saw before her eyes.
Just by gently grabbing a handful, Su Anran could smell the very clear fragrance of rice.
He didn't know whether it was because the technology tree of this world was wrong, or whether this pastry shop had some special processing methods. But at least he knew that using this kind of japonica rice, which was like pearl rice, to make pastries, it would make the world better.
It is not surprising that the monks of Luomen lingered.
Su Anran put down the rice grains in her hands, turned around, walked through the courtyard from the backyard, and entered the kitchen.
After passing through this simple kitchen, you reach the front hall.
The house is not big, especially after the kitchen is separated, the front hall is almost just a small shop that can only accommodate five or six people. However, Su Anran took a look and saw that there were no tables and chairs in the front hall. It seemed that
It doesn’t provide dine-in service, maybe it’s just takeout?
He looked around at what looked like a display cabinet in the front hall, which contained many pastries that should be samples.
They seem to be similar in shape, but the sauce on top is different.
Su Anran opened this display cabinet-like thing, and a fruity fragrance mixed with the fragrance of rice and the sweetness of dessert instantly filled the air.
This made the look of surprise on Su Anran's face even more intense.
He put his hand into the display cabinet and immediately felt a kind of warmth - this temperature is very hot for ordinary people, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is high temperature, but for Su Anran today, it is just
Just a little bit warm.
Then, Su Anran soon saw that there was a row of long gaps under the display cabinet, and the temperature came from here.
As Su Anran inspected, there was a detachable slat at the bottom of the display cabinet. After removing the slat, a total of five copper basins were placed inside. There was charcoal burning in the basins, and these were not ordinary ones.
Charcoal is a type of smokeless charcoal that is only used by alchemists - it can produce high temperatures when burned, but no black smoke will come out. It is a wonderful idea to use it here to keep these pastries warm.
The sky is open, just right.
But Su Anran's eyes suddenly froze, and she suddenly broke through the floor of the second floor with one step and jumped directly to the second floor of the store.
The smokeless charcoal that the alchemist burns when making alchemy cannot be ignited by ordinary means. After all, it belongs to the monastic world, so naturally only the methods of the monastic world can be used to ignite this smokeless charcoal.
How could an ordinary pastry chef in a small pastry shop ignite such charcoal?
The second floor is obviously where the pastry chef lives, but everything here seems to be quite clean at this time. It is obvious that the monk disguised as the pastry chef has left long ago, and the other party can even clean the place calmly.
All traces and clues have been erased.
Only then did Su Anran realize that Yi Tong's death was not as simple as silencing him. The other party might even be involved, or involved in some trouble.
He reopened his task panel and began to study the clues on it carefully.
"White jade cake?"
Su Anran returned to the kitchen and rummaged around, but did not see any pastries in the kitchen. The entire kitchen was cleaned very clean. This was obviously the other party's cleaning work. So Su Anran had to go back
He went to the front hall and packed up all the remaining cakes together. Because he didn't know what white jade cakes were, he had to go back to Tianluomen to let the outer disciple see which of these cakes were white jade cakes.
Without any delay, Su Anran quickly returned to Tianluomen, found the outer disciple, then placed all the cakes in front of him and asked him.
"There is no white jade cake." But the answer given by this outer disciple made Su Anran a little stunned.
"No?"
"No." The outer disciple said with certainty, "Very few people seem to like eating white jade cake. Apart from being a little soft and smooth, the taste is too sweet and it is difficult for most people to swallow it. And I don't know why, I
After eating it secretly once before, I felt uncomfortable for a long time. During that time, I felt that my meridians seemed to be stagnant, and my luck was also very unsmooth."
"You ate it secretly?"
"Yes." The outer disciple nodded, "Later, senior brother Yitong told me that those white jade cakes had something special put in them, which were considered spiritual food. He personally asked the boss to order them. Like
A Qi Gathering Realm disciple like me is very lucky to die suddenly after eating it, so from then on I never dared to eat white jade cake secretly again."
"Lingshan..." Su Anran frowned slightly.
The next second, the system prompt sounded immediately.
Clue 4: White jade cake seems to be a kind of spiritual food, with some special ingredients added to it.
"Does your senior brother Fang Min also like to eat white jade cake?"
"Eh?" The outer disciple was stunned for a moment, "No, what Senior Brother Fang Min likes to eat is this kind of peach and osmanthus cake."
Su Anran picked up the so-called "peach and osmanthus cake" and put it into his mouth to taste. Suddenly, a sweet smell that was so sweet that it made people feel sick instantly filled his mouth, almost making Su Anran spit it out.
No spiritual energy escapes from the mouth, and no spiritual energy separates after being eaten.
After she couldn't swallow it anymore, Su Anran spit out the cake directly.
The outer disciple next to him looked at Su Anran with disgust. He dared to be angry but did not dare to say: This is my room, you bastard!
Looking at the sudden appearance of the fourth clue, Su Anran asked: "What were the specific adverse reaction symptoms after you secretly ate the white jade cake?"
"Hmm..." The outer disciple frowned and thought hard, and then said after a moment, "The acupuncture points are like acupuncture, and they seem to be bursting at any time, and the true energy that I have stored in the acupoints is all gone.
Slight signs of dissipation began to appear. Although it was not very strong, it really scared me to death at the time... Moreover, there was also a strange feeling of numbness all over my body. It was this numbing feeling that made me absorb the spiritual energy more efficiently.
It’s gone down.”
For this outer sect disciple, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy has dropped, and the acupuncture points that have been finally tempered show signs of dissipation. Even a monk would be panicked.
But precisely because of this, he obviously remembered it very clearly.
After listening to what the other party said, Su Anran knew.
The content that appears in the fourth clue is obviously for him to investigate and understand what this unknown special material is and what effect it has.
If it were an ordinary person, the mission would probably reach a deadlock at this point.
After all, investigating this kind of special material is not an easy task, and I don’t know how many days it will take. By then, it is very likely that by the time it is figured out what this special material is, the murderer will have already escaped.
, even some clues that should have existed will be cut off.
However, is Su Anran an ordinary person?
He chuckled lightly: I am a cheater.
This is a very difficult and thorny problem for others, but it is not a problem for him.
So after leaving the outer disciple's room, Su Anran took out a transmission note and started making international long distance calls.
"Hey, senior sister, I have something to trouble you with."
"Oh, no, no, no, it's not a big deal. I can solve it. You don't need to ask Third Senior Sister to come over."
"It's really okay! There's no need for Sixth Senior Sister, I can handle it."
"Yes, yes, small question, I just want to ask you, is there anything that can help people's acupoints..."
After stopping the Senior Sister's idea of letting the Third Senior Sister and the Sixth Senior Sister come out, he quickly reported to the Senior Sister what the outer disciple had described.
"So that's it, okay, okay, I understand." Su Anran nodded, "By the way, how is Qingyu doing?"
"Do you enjoy eating every day? Oh oh oh, that's good, that's good. Senior sister, I have nothing to do, so I'll hang up first. I'm going to start showing off my skills and pretend to be a detective! ...
Okay, okay, I'll tell you when I get back to the valley."
Putting away the transmission talisman, Su Anran smiled happily.
You're stupid, I have a master-level alchemy master as my senior sister.
