The people from the Demon Eradication Department have left, and Yin Shui'er said they would investigate the case of Xiaokang Village thoroughly in the future.
"Such a big piece of cake."
Xu Mu sighed with a hint of melancholy, then lowered his head to look at his palm:
"This... preliminarily determined to be metallic, its surface is entirely dark black, and the front end seems to be able to open."
Xu Mu brought it up to his eyes and examined it carefully, then gently pulled. With a "snap," the pen cap came off, revealing a sharp, silver-white metal tip. Engraved on the tip was "water."
Xu Mu couldn't help but frown. A strange ghost lurking in the village, like a tiger among wolves, yet it hadn't done anything for more than twenty days. Why was this?
Xu Mu couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it. In fact, all this information was useless; he hadn't observed any special problems.
But this could prove that the mastermind behind this operation had not entered this room recently.
Because if that person had entered, they would have surely left clues, which he would have discovered. This was a matter of absolute confidence.
So where would he be?
"Infecting Widow Sun was aimed at causing internal destruction within Fengqing Village."
"But last night, he didn't control Widow Sun to come out and cause trouble, which means he must have watched the entire process of me keeping watch at the scene. So he didn't want to make a pointless sacrifice?"
Xu Mu's eyes narrowed slightly. The steel pen in his hand continuously sketched lines on the cloth strip, some thick, some thin. In an instant, he roughly drew several undulating mountain ranges, all of which were high grounds near Fengqing Village.
"If I were him, where would I choose?"
Xu Mu slowly moved the pen to a mountain range: "This is the closest to the village, but the visibility is limited."
So Xu Mu drew a cross on the first mountain range.
"This is the highest point, offering the widest visibility. The southwest corner isn't fully visible, but that's completely opposite to the direction from which the strange ghost attacked last night. So it's not here either."
Xu Mu frowned. Then only one place was left, which was the cemetery mountain he could see as soon as he left the house.
As the name suggested, that mountain was full of dead people's graves. But he couldn't understand why the person behind the scenes didn't choose Wuxing Mountain, where the dark energy was the densest and the amplification of the ghostly night was more fierce. If he had induced the strange ghosts there to attack Fengqing Village, he wouldn't have been able to drive them away so easily last night.
"The southwest corner, that part can't be seen, but what is in the southwest corner?"
Xu Mu flipped the cloth strip over and, based on the impression in his mind, quickly drew the layout of the southwest corner on the back. It was a mountain hollow, and also the place with the fewest people in Fengqing Village.
"The tree."
Xu Mu's eyebrows shot up. The only thing in that mountain hollow that could be seen, and was worth seeing, was that ancient tree.
But what was worth the great effort of mobilizing strange ghosts to slaughter a village for a tree that had been dead for more than ten years?
"Could the death of this tree also be related to them?"
Xu Mu closed his eyes, racking his brain while his hand never stopped.
And so, inadvertently, the steel pen in his hand seemed to grow wings, freely splashing ink on the cloth strip. With strokes and turns, it sculpted intricate details, and the mist covering the scroll was blown away.
On the rough cloth, mountain ranges and underground rivers intertwined, treacherous terrains and villages were mixed, the craftsmanship was exquisite and meticulous... this was undeniably a complete topographic map of the domain of the ghostly night!
The moment Xu Mu stopped thinking, the thing in his hand was also finished. The stream of consciousness stopped, and he lowered his head.
"Crack!"
The pen fell to the ground. Xu Mu looked at the vast map in his hand and was suddenly awakened.