One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

Zhang Tianyi picked up one of them and weighed it in his hand.

It was cool to the touch, and its weight perfectly suited the shape of his hand.

As soon as the Qi was injected into the body, a layer of flowing light immediately appeared on the blade, clearly indicating that the Qi conduction rate had reached an astonishing level!

"Divine craftsmanship... truly superb skill."

Zhang Tianyi swung it lightly, and there wasn't even a sound of it cutting through the air, which showed how sharp it was.

Zhang Chulan leaned over for a look and was completely dumbfounded:

"This...this is a weapon that Old Ma made for you?"

"He's already run away, why would he go to all this trouble to leave you two watermelon knives?"

"What is this? A parting gift?"

Zhang Tianyi remained silent.

He casually tossed the two knives into the food bag.

Then he turned around and looked at the empty room.

His expression unusually carried a hint of doubt.

"The formation is intact, there are no signs of spatial tearing, and there are no fluctuations of soul extraction."

Zhang Tianyi walked to the window and gently tapped his fingers on the windowsill.

"To take a living person away from my formation without anyone noticing..."

He stopped tapping his fingers and turned to look at Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing.

"Little Wang, Little Zhuge, you two are proficient in Qimen Dunjia and divination, have you figured out anything?"

Wang Ye shook his head, his brows furrowed: "No. It's so clean here it's like... like it never existed at all."

Zhuge Qing also closed his folding fan, his face solemn.

"This method is too bizarre. It can even completely ignore your formation, senior. I have never heard of such a way of detaching from reality."

Zhang Tianyi leaned against the windowsill and touched his chin.

Instead of getting angry, he grinned and his eyes lit up with interest.

"interesting……"

"It's so interesting."

Zhang Tianyi looked at the empty room and chuckled softly:

"I've lived for over a hundred years. After taking a nap, I thought there was nothing new left in this world."

"I never expected to actually run into one today."

"Someone actually managed to make a living person disappear right under my nose, without breaking the formation or leaving a trace."

Zhang Tianyi stretched, his tone revealing the excitement of seeing a prey.

"How exactly did it all happen? And who is this elusive guy hiding behind the scenes?"

"Tsk, it seems the waters of this world of supernatural beings run deeper than I imagined."

"Chu Lan, go and investigate this thoroughly!"

Chapter 183 The Locked Room Disappearance Case: Bao'er's Hardcore Evidence Gathering!

"Alright, stop standing around here."

Zhang Tianyi turned around, looked at Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing and others who were crowded together at the door, and casually waved.

"Go do what you need to do. This little thing isn't worth ruining your dinner mood."

He walked up to Zhang Chulan, patted the boy on the shoulder, and spoke in a very lighthearted tone:

"Grandson, this house is now yours."

"Haven't you been working at the company for quite a while? Use the same skills you have when checking water meters everywhere, and turn this place upside down."

"If you can't even find a mouse hole, you'll only get pickled vegetables and cornbread for breakfast tomorrow."

After saying that, Zhang Tianyi strolled out the door and headed towards the front yard without looking back, his back view showing a very relaxed demeanor.

Zhang Chulan stood there, sighing with a bitter expression.

He knew that the second clerk was testing his ability to handle affairs.

Elders may be protective of their children, but if all they know how to do when trouble comes is cry "Master, save me!" then their value in the Celestial Master's Mansion is over.

"Old Wang, Old Qing, you two should go and rest too. Bao'er and I can manage here."

Zhang Chulan rolled up his sleeves and turned to look at Feng Baobao, who was in a daze:

"Sister Bao'er, let's get to work!"

Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing exchanged a glance.

Both men were intelligent and knew that this was an internal investigation between Longhushan and the company, so they tactfully withdrew and closed the door behind them.

Only Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao remained in the room.

Zhang Chulan took a deep breath, his brain starting to work at lightning speed.

He walked to the window, checked the latch, and then lay down to look through the crack in the door, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper.

"The door lock was deadbolted, and there were no signs of forced entry."

"The window was latched from the inside, and the glass was intact."

Zhang Chulan muttered to himself as he paced back and forth in the room:

"The minefield that the clerk laid outside didn't trigger any alarms... This is practically a textbook example of a locked-room mystery!"

He scratched his hair in frustration.

"Old Ma is a living, breathing person, not water vapor. How could he just disappear into thin air? Could he have been stuffed into a sewer and flushed away?"

Just as Zhang Chulan was pacing around in a panic.

"Zhang Chulan, stop spinning around like that, you're making my eyes blurry."

Zhang Chulan stopped and turned around, his face immediately darkening.

It was clear that Feng Baobao wasn't looking for any clues at all.

She was on all fours, like a police dog, lying under the bed where Ma Xianhong had slept before, her nose pressed against the ground, sniffing intensely.

"Sister Bao'er..."

Zhang Chulan covered his face helplessly: "What are you doing? Are you a dog? We just sprayed air freshener in this room yesterday, what could you possibly smell?"

Feng Baobao ignored him and crawled out from under the bed with her bottom sticking out.

Then, she went to the round table in the center of the room, circled the table legs twice, and continued to sniff the floor with her nose.

"It smells good!"

Feng Baobao suddenly straightened up and uttered three words expressionlessly.

Zhang Chulan was taken aback and quickly moved closer: "What's that smell? The stench of Old Ma not having showered for days?"

"No."

Feng Baobao shook her head, her eyes fixed on a crack in a blue brick under the table:

"There's a... smell of dead bugs and rust. It's faint, but it's definitely there."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chulan's expression instantly turned serious.

He knows Feng Baobao too well.

Although this girl's thought process is abnormal, her intuition and five senses are ten times more acute than scientific instruments!

Since she says it has a smell, there's definitely something fishy going on!

"Where is it? Let me see!"

Zhang Chulan lay down on the ground and looked in the direction Feng Baobao pointed.

That was a tiny gap where the blue brick floor was pieced together.

To the naked eye, there was nothing inside except for some dust.

"Get out of the way."

Without any hesitation, Feng Baobao used her toes to push Zhang Chulan aside.

She skillfully pulled a black wire hair clip from her pocket.

He crouched down and carefully used a hairpin to pry open the crack in the brickwork.

Soon, a tiny, almost imperceptible amount of powder was picked up by the hairpin and landed on the surface of the blue brick.

If you don't look closely, it's no different from ordinary dust.

But Feng Baobao leaned closer and even stuck out her tongue, wanting to lick the powder.

"Hey! Shut up!!"

Zhang Chulan was terrified and grabbed Feng Baobao's chin, forcibly lifting her head.

"My goodness! You're willing to put anything in your mouth! What if it's highly poisonous?!"

"I won't die, I have a strong immune system."

Feng Baobao mumbled indistinctly, but obediently withdrew her tongue.

She dabbed a little powder with her fingertip, held it under her nose, and smelled it.

"This stuff can put you to sleep. It's similar to the strong sleeping pills Xu Si used to buy me, but it's stronger and the effects wear off quickly."

Zhang Chulan carefully took out a clean plastic evidence bag and swept the powder into it.

He looked at the inconspicuous ash in the bag, and a clue flashed through his mind like lightning.

"A powder that can instantly put someone to sleep... evaporates extremely quickly..."