Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 986 Seeking Confirmation

Jingci Temple cannot be said to be a thousand-year-old temple, but it does have a history of two or three hundred years, and such a thing has never happened in the temple.

Everyone says that practicing Buddhism can calm the mind and reduce disputes.

But in fact, it doesn’t matter what you repair; the unpredictable human heart is the root of the problem.

Monks other than the Xuan generation were talking about this upon hearing it. Some did not believe it, some were discussing it, and some were bewildered.

However, the monks of the Xuan generation were all very calm. After all, what Yang Yiyi said expressed the aspect that they were most reluctant to think about.

"Good! Miss Yang really didn't disappoint me!"

The only person who was still in a strong mood to watch the show was Princess Mingzhu.

"Amitabha, although I don't want to admit it, it seems that the murderer is indeed among us."

Xuan Ci looked back at his fellow apprentices and sighed:
"If you have the ability to catch the murderer, please let me know what you need."

There are not only Xuan Ku, Xuan Bei and Xuan Ci monks of the Xuan generation, there are more than ten in total, but these three are older and more prominent.

Apart from these three people, more than half of the remaining monks of the Xuan generation are openly skilled in martial arts. As for the other small number who claim that they do not know martial arts, maybe they are just hiding their abilities.

This needs to be investigated.

So Yang Yiyi asked:

"Master Xuanci, where were you last night?"

"I was chanting in my room last night."

"Are there any witnesses?"

"Only a young monk came in, and there were no witnesses."

Yang Yiyi asked Xuan Ku again, and the latter said:
"I was practicing martial arts at the Dharma Academy last night."

"All night?"

"It didn't stop all night, but there were no witnesses."

It was Xuan Bei's turn. He was more important. Xuan Bei's Zen room was closest to Xuan Ku's Zen room, separated only by a wall and a small courtyard.

"Last night, I was in the main hall chanting sutras and worshipping Buddha."

"Are there any witnesses?"

"Ah, quite a few."

Several monks immediately jumped out and said that they saw Xuan Bei in the main hall, and some even chanted sutras with Xuan Bei, making it very clear that Xuan Bei did not leave the whole night and had been beating the wooden fish in front of the Buddha all night.

Xuan Bei sighed because if he had been in his own meditation room last night, he might have heard the noise and caught the murderer in the act.

This also further proves that the murderer must be someone in the temple, who calculated that there would be no one around to interfere.

I asked a few other monks of the Xuan generation, and their answers were basically the same. Except for Xuan Bei, no one had an alibi.

"Does Miss Yang have any clues?"

"I have never seen such a thing before. I am not very knowledgeable and dare not make any rash conclusions. I need to think about it and investigate further."

"Don't worry, lady. I just hope the murderer can be caught as soon as possible and my Buddhist sect can be free from all harm."

It is indeed unlikely to find the murderer just by questioning. After all, this person acted very cleanly and efficiently. If he didn't attack, it would be fine. But if he did attack, it would only be one strike. Xuan Ku was caught off guard and didn't resist at all.

Besides, Yang Yiyi was not the first to enter the scene. When she arrived, many people had already been there, at least the dozen monks of the Xuan generation had been there. Even if there were footprints or some information that could slightly lead to the murderer, they would probably have been destroyed. At present, the only clue about the murderer was that it must have been committed by an acquaintance in the temple. It was highly likely that one of the monks of the Xuan generation had a vicious palm technique that had been lost for nearly 40 years. Apart from that, there was no information that could indicate who the murderer was.

After asking around, they went to check Xuan Ku's body together. After confirming that there were no more clues, they moved the body out.

As for this meditation room, it can only be closed temporarily, and everyone should disperse and do their own things.

However, in this matter, Yang Yiyi lied about one thing, or rather, it was Li Chengxi who asked Yang Yiyi to lie.

That is the secret room.

Locked room murders often appear in detective novels, but the murderer does not use this method for fun.

Basically, a murder in a closed room is either intended to be disguised as a suicide or to clear suspicion.

But if you look at the way Xuan Ku died, it didn’t look like suicide at all, which is different from the host’s situation.

And since it wasn't disguised as suicide, was he trying to clear himself of suspicion?
Nor is it.

After all, this secret room has no function of clearing suspicion. Except for Xuan Bei, most monks of the Xuan generation have no alibis. If they want to pretend that it was done by someone outside the temple, they should leave some traces at the scene.

For example, there are branches, leaves, soil, etc. in the back mountain, but they are not there on the scene, and there is no need to make a secret room.

But the fact is that the murderer arranged the scene into a secret room. It is very puzzling that he took off his pants to fart and did nothing else.

So Li Chengxi changed his mind and realized that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding.

He always believed that the murderer and the secret room were bound together, and that the murderer had set up the secret room, but he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

There is no need to do so, and there is no way to arrange it. After all, this secret room really cannot be locked from the inside. Even with the classic fishing line, it won't work because the angle is wrong and the bolt cannot be hung.

The secret room exists and is flawless, which means there are only two possible situations.

One is that after the victim was fatally injured, he locked the door himself and went back to sit and wait for death.

This guess is not reasonable, at least it is nonsense.

Second, the person who set up the secret room is not the same as the murderer.

In other words, someone turned the room into a secret room after the victim's death, or at least after the murderer left.

It sounds outrageous. There is one more person. Since the secret room is flawless, how did this person do it?
Remember the ventilation windows?
As mentioned before, the size of the ventilation window is only large enough for a small child to crawl through. It is impossible for an adult to pass through unless he or she knows how to shrink his or her bones.

Li Chengxi had previously asked Yang Yiyi to get close to the ventilation window and observe, and found decisive evidence.

A stick of toffee with a filling, a candy center.

This thing could only be given by Li Chengxi to Yang Yiyi as a snack, and Yang Yiyi gave these sandwich toffees to the kids she met in the back mountain yesterday.

In other words, one or several of those children must have appeared in Xuan Ku's meditation room. When they climbed up to get through the ventilation window, they accidentally stuck the candy hearts on their clothes to the wall.

Of course, it is also possible that when Xuan Ku was still alive, a few children came to the meditation room and accidentally got on it. It's just a question of probability.

As for whether it is true or not, the only way to know is to find them and ask.

The reason why he didn't say it out loud was because Li Chengxi felt that the murderer must be among the crowd of onlookers, and the crime scene turning into a secret room might have exceeded the murderer's expectations.

If he had known that a few children might have come after he left, their ending would probably not have been a good one.

So Li Chengxi told Yang Yiyi that this matter could not be told, and she should find a time when she could avoid attracting other people's attention and go find those kids to verify it.

(End of this chapter)