Yang Ye and Gu Liang immediately walked in the direction of the voice when they heard the words.
Then they saw that the person who found the silver needle and yelled such a sentence just now was the fire head.
And this place happened to be located deep in the bamboo forest.
Waterfalls, Shitan, and Xuanji Stone are all in one place.
To the south of this place is the place where Leng Xianjun and the evil apprentice practice swords, and further south is the bamboo house where the two of them live.
And this place goes north, across a bamboo forest, is the range of the nine-storied pagoda.
Now this needle is in the bamboo forest, which is the only way from the waterfall to the nine-storied pagoda.
Both Gu Liang and Yang Ye understood the meaning of the needle appearing here.
They analyzed before that if the murderer was not Fairy Xue, then someone else should have killed Fairy Feng by other means, and then put the blame on Fairy Xue.
The murderer probably stopped her on the afternoon of the fifth day of March, when Aunt Fengxiang was on her way to the Nine-Storied Pagoda, and then attacked her.
At that time, Gu Liang and Yang Ye only put forward this kind of speculation. After all, they did not find another method to kill Feng Xiangu, but now, this method appeared - silver needle.
Only now a new problem has arisen.
They previously thought that the murderer was either Fairy Xue, who used nectar to drink Fairy Drunk and killed her with a sword.
If the real culprit was not Xue, then the nectar was just a means of putting blame and a cover-up, and the accompanying sword wound was naturally an illusion. After all, it is almost impossible for someone to kill Feng Xiangu in one move while she is awake.
Then, it was not the sword wound on her chest that caused Feng Xiangu's death. It was after she died that someone wiped nectar on her mouth and stabbed her in the chest.
That is to say, if the murderer is not Xue Xiangu, then there are other methods of killing, such as the one discovered now—suspected poison needle killing.
It's just that Gu Liang and Yang Ye found clues to the poisonous needle in Aunt Xue's room just now, which seems a little strange.
Yang Ye couldn't help asking Huoshouzuo: "How did you find it? The bamboo forest is so big, but the needle is too small."
"Didn't I just finish searching the Nine-Storied Pagoda, so I continued to walk around? I thought, this bamboo forest is quite big, there might be something buried in it, so I'll come and look for it."
Huoshouzuo raised the rush grass in his hand, "I brought this grass here. Other places in the sect were illuminated by it, but this bamboo forest is a bit dark after all. So I brought this grass to illuminate."
"Walking in the bamboo forest, my eyes suddenly flickered and I felt some kind of reflection. Although the reflection was only a little bit, I grasped it sensitively. Then I found this needle. It is not big, but it does not mean that It's very small, and it's quite long."
At this moment, footsteps sounded again in the bamboo forest.
Gu Liang turned his head and saw Jin Shouzuo and Yun Xiangu, and after a while, Feng Xiangu and Xue Xiangu also came over.
It seems that Huoshouzuo's voice is really loud, except for Mushouzuo, who is estimated to be investigating a little farther away, and couldn't hear Huoshouzuo's roar just now, the rest of the players have appeared at the moment.
Gu Liang simply invited everyone to the waterfall and had a short discussion.
Gu Liang first asked Fairy Xue: "I found a poisonous needle in your room. Are you planning to use it against Fairy Feng?"
Fairy Xue nodded happily, and said, "But I haven't used it yet."
"It's useless? Then—" Gu Liang pointed to the silver needle in the hand of Huo Shouzuo, "You don't admit that this needle is yours?"
Fairy Xue shook her head happily. "None of me! I don't know. I haven't used it yet."
Gu Liang asked: "But you have murderous intentions towards Feng Xiangu. Because she knows about your dereliction of duty. Back then, the death of the young master, when traced to the root cause, both of you are actually responsible."
Fairy Xue explained: "It's been more than a hundred years, and I haven't killed her. I have thought about it, but I haven't really made up my mind yet."
Hearing this, Gu Liang exchanged glances with Yang Ye, and then at Fairy Xue: "When Fairy Yun asked you to drink, did you think that she wanted to get you drunk?"
——Only when you think about this matter, will you have the thought of pushing the boat along the way and killing Feng Xiangu.
Xue Xiangu still shook her head: "I don't know. You can go and look up the "Historical Records of Qing Qiong", which is in the Library Pavilion in Qianshan. There is no special evidence in it, I have read it all. But it tells about my master's The story, and the reason why everyone chose me to be the elder."
"You should also know by now that she was the only elder who guarded the Xuanji Stone back then. She tampered with the prophecy for her own selfish desires and almost caused a catastrophe. Therefore, everyone selected me from her apprentices to succeed her. position."
"I became Elder Shangxue first, and guarded the Xuanji Stone alone for a short period of time. Later, Aunt Feng suggested that the Xuanji Stone be placed behind the waterfall."
"The reason why I mentioned the order of this matter is for a reason. The reason is that they chose me as Elder Xue because they thought that I was different from my master. My master caused trouble because she was capable and ambitious. Also big."
"But I'm different. I'm a fun-loving person who doesn't make progress. They chose me as an elder because they thought I had no ambitions. Even if I guard the Xuanji Stone alone, I won't do the same thing as my master. "
"Not only am I not self-motivated, I'm not smart either. I'm the worst one in the division. I can't possibly have the brains to plan anything."
"I have prepared something that can kill Fairy Feng, because she has something to do with me. I have no real skills, and this elder's position is already unstable. If she leaks her words, I will definitely be dismissed collectively due to dereliction of duty. .”
"It's just that although I have thought about killing her, I have been hesitating. Feng Xiangu has always been okay with me, so I have never really done it for more than a hundred years."
After Fairy Xue said this, Fairy Yun, who had always hated her before, said something for her: "My story also mentioned this point. I was still surprised when Fairy Xue was chosen as the elder. Because In terms of cultivation, mechanism skills, etc., she can't compare to her senior sisters. She has always been a good-for-nothing, and she can be an elder?"
"It turns out that what everyone likes is her lack of ambition and stupid brain."
Then, if this is the case, the truth of the matter should be closer to the second possibility that Yang Ye mentioned before.
——Someone intercepted and killed her on Feng's way to the Nine-Storied Pagoda, and the nectar and sword wounds were just means of blaming her.
Now it seems that this "road" refers to this bamboo forest.
As for the real murder weapon, it was the poisonous needle.
The murderer may have brought more than one poisonous needle, one of which silently entered Feng Xiangu's body, killing her to death, and the other poisonous needle accidentally fell into the bamboo forest.
However, the poisonous needle did not come from Fairy Xue, but from someone else.
Feng Xiangu's force value is too high, and the other leaders and elders are unable to kill her head-on, so they can only think of heresy ways. Well, if Fairy Xue can think of killing people with poisonous needles, maybe others can too.
Gu Liang looked at Xiangu Xue, and asked again: "Who did you ask for the poison needle in your room?"
Fairy Xue said: "Well... About seventy years ago, Qingqiong held a competition meeting. At that time, many people came here, including people from all walks of life. There was a person named [Master of Hidden Weapons] in it. He It's quite exaggerated, and he once molested me. I played with him every time, and we were together for a while, drinking and talking every day. After I got to know him well, I asked him, if I want to kill someone with a higher level of magic than mine People, what should I do."
"It didn't take long for the competition meeting to end, and he left too. He only said that he would help me find a way when he returned."
"After that, I received a letter from him. There are three silver needles in the letter. The clue you see is his letter, right?"
"In short, the letter said, put the needle together with the thing I want to kill, and the needle will be able to recognize his breath, and thus have the function of chasing souls—"
Gu Liang recalled it for a while, and asked her: "Everyone in Qingqiong participated in the discussion conference. I also have an impression of that hidden weapon master. So, besides you, other people may also have contact with this hidden weapon master." ?”
Fairy Xue nodded: "Yes. But I don't know who it is. Every time I met him, I was almost drunk. I can't remember the details of getting along with him. I don't remember whether he said, I know everyone else besides me."
When Feng Xiangu heard this, she quickly looked at Xue Xiangu: "Wait. Then I remembered. Seventy years ago, shortly after the end of the competition, you asked me for a hairpin because you wanted to kill me ?”
Back then, Feng Xiangu was a little strange.
One day, Fairy Xue asked herself if she could give her a hairpin, saying that she thought her hairpin was too pretty.
Fairy Xue is not a person who likes to beg for things, and she probably has an eye for her hairpin, so she has the cheek to ask for it.
Therefore, Feng Xiangu didn't think otherwise, and gave her the hairpin.
Only now does Feng Xiangu know that there is such a reason behind this.
Fairy Xue was a little embarrassed. "Yes...but didn't I not do anything?"
Gu Liang looked at the rest of the people: "Are there any places you haven't searched? Do other people have needles in their rooms?"
Snow Fairy thought of something and said, "Feng Xiangu, Feng Xiangu has a lot of needles in her own room."
Feng Xiangu showed a bit of helplessness, as if she thought that what Xue Xiangu said was very funny: "It's just because I am practicing how to throw hidden weapons. Besides needles, I have many other hidden weapons, including plum blossom darts and so on. .”
"In my place, there are swords, guns, halberds, daggers, hidden weapons, whips and iron chains. I like to practice these, and I collect them all. But the ones I have are not poisonous. Besides, I don't know that at all. Who is Feng Xiangu?"
There are many weapons and even many armors in Aunt Fengxian's room, which Yang Ye mentioned just now.
Gu Liang frowned, and only asked, "What about the others?"
Yun Xiangu stepped forward and pointed to the Huoshou seat.
"He! He also has needles in his room! Besides, I think... Mu Shouzuo, he also has needles there!"
Thinking of a key point, Gu Liang asked Feng Xiangu: "This kind of needle needs to stay with the utensils on the victim's body for a period of time. I tentatively think that this needle has the functions of recognizing smell, storing smell, and tracking smell."
"Then, besides giving the hairpin to Fairy Xue, have you ever given any other personal belongings?"