Zhiyuan was stunned by my question, and said to the monk with a gloomy face: "Zhihui, don't speak nonsense before you find out the facts."
Monk Zhihui said unhappily: "Brother, am I wrong? Everyone knows that there is only one magic box in the world, so how did they get the magic box in their hands?"
Zhiyuan said: "Even if you have doubts, you can't be so arbitrary. The world of magic is unpredictable and anything can happen. Even if there is only one magic box in the world, the magic box in Master Wu's hand may not be a fake."
Zhiyuan's words immediately calmed me down.
Zhi Hui said unhappily, "Brother, do you not believe my judgment? If Wu Zhao can prove that the magic box in his hand is not a fake, then I will kowtow to him and apologize immediately; if he cannot prove it, then I will personally arrest him and bring him to the elders' meeting to explain."
Zhiyuan was silent for a moment before saying, "Let's wait until we have investigated this matter thoroughly before making any conclusions!"
Zhiyuan bowed slightly to me, turned around and walked towards the gate of the manor, and rang the bronze bell hanging there. Soon, a large number of monks from the Prajna Temple gathered at the gate, and Zhiyuan also said loudly: "Please ask the donors Sun Yue and Lu Xiaoying to come out and see us."
Not long after, Lu Xiaoying and Sun Yue each walked out of the manor with their men. Zhiyuan asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Sun, is the magic box still in your hands? Can I take a look?"
"No problem, I'll arrange it right away." Sun Yue whispered a few words to the warlock beside her, and the latter quickly led the Ice and Snow Twins out. In their hands was the magic box we saw yesterday.
After Zhiyuan and Zhihui looked at each other for a long time, Zhihui turned around and said, "Wu Zhao, what else do you have to say now?"
I raised my hand and threw the magic box I found to the ground: "I still say the same thing, this magic box suddenly appeared in my base, and I don't know what happened!"
As I spoke, I kept my eyes on Sun Yue, who couldn't help but reveal a shocked expression.
Zhi Hui sneered, "Haha, even if you are good at speaking, what can you do? Why didn't the fake magic box appear in my Prajna Temple, why didn't it appear in the Xuanjing Division, but appeared in your hands? Leave your words to the elders to explain!"
At this moment, as if God was deliberately trying to slap Zhihui in the face, Sun Xiaomei suddenly rushed over with the Xuanjing Division's experts and shouted from a distance: "Old Third, did you lose your magic box? How did it appear in our base?"
Everyone looked at Sun Xiaomei at the same time. She was holding an identical magic box. Sun Xiaomei was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you all looking at me? Why are there two magic boxes here?"
Sun Yue asked sternly, "Old Five, where did you get your magic box?"
Sun Xiaomei said: "Just now, I found that a sentry left outside had not returned, so I took people to look for him. As a result, the sentry was dead, and there was a magic box on him."
Sun Yue couldn't help but gasp: "Where's the dead body? Bring it to me quickly!"
Zhiyuan and Zhihui's faces were extremely gloomy. No one had expected that there was only one magic box, but it would be divided into three and appear in the hands of different people.
When we were all silent, a middle-aged monk ran over in a hurry and whispered something in Zhiyuan's ear. Zhiyuan's eyes widened instantly: "Where is it? Bring it here quickly!"
After a while, the monk came over with a magic box in his arms. The crowd was in an uproar, and many people wanted to squeeze forward, but were rebuked by their leaders.
Zhihui was also confused for a long time before asking, "Where did you get this from?"
The monk said, "Just now, my uncle rang the alarm bell, and I found that one disciple had not come to the gathering, so I took people to look for him. Unexpectedly, he had died at his post, with the magic box in his arms."
I said quickly, "Did you move the body?"
The monk subconsciously said: "No, we just moved the magic box."
While we were talking, Sun Xiaomei's men had already carried the body over. Sun Yue, Zhi Yuan, and I walked over together. I reached out and held the body, turning it over and over: "The fatal wound is on the neck. It looks like a poisonous snake bit the throat. But judging by the distance of the wound, the snake head must be at least as big as a football, otherwise the upper and lower teeth marks would not be right on both sides of his neck."
The fox demon Sun Yue waved back: "Nangong Ling, come over and take a look."
Nangong Ling pulled out a silver needle from her sleeve and stabbed it into the wound on the corpse's neck. When she pulled out the needle, half of it had turned dark black. Nangong Ling put the needle under her nose and sniffed it before saying, "He was poisoned by a snake, and the poison is very strong. Even if the wound was not on the neck, this person would not survive ten breaths."
Sun Yue asked: "Master, would you mind taking us to see the body of the murdered master?"
"Please come this way." Zhiyuan waved his hand and led us to a bush.
There was indeed a secret sentry post there. After clearing away the weeds that camouflaged the sentry post, there was a bunker underneath that was big enough for one person to sit or lie down in. The monk in charge of guarding the sentry post at Prajna Temple died in the bunker with his legs crossed while sitting cross-legged. His legs did not move, but his upper body was twisted towards his left leg. It seemed that he must have slapped his left leg before he died.
After I used a dagger to pry open the dead man's trouser leg, I saw four round tooth marks on his leg.
I looked up a distance from the corpse's legs and said, "The snake that killed the monk should have swam into the sentry post from this direction. It was very fast and had already scurried into the sentry post before it made much of a sound."
I pointed with my hand and said, "Judging from the fallen grass branches nearby, the front half of the snake should be about the same width as an adult, and the tail is much thinner."
I went back to the corpse and said, "After the snake bit the monk's thigh, he swung his palm and hit the snake's head, tearing off a piece of hair from the snake's head."
I grabbed the corpse's palm, and sure enough, in his palm was a piece of human hair attached to the scalp.
Monk Zhihui took a deep breath and said, "A human head and a snake body? What kind of monster is that?"
I looked at Sun Yue and said, "I'll have to ask Sun Yue about this."
Sun Yue said without hesitation: "Last night, a transformed snake appeared in my camp, but we killed it on the spot. If necessary, I will have someone bring the snake's body here immediately."
Monk Zhiyuan was silent for a moment before he said, "Let's go into the manor together and take a look!"
Just as we were about to turn around, Zhihui suddenly called out, "Donor Wu, wait a moment."
I looked at him coldly: "What else do you want?"
Zhishang took two steps forward and knelt on the ground: "I acted rashly and misunderstood you, I apologize to you."
"Wait a minute!" I saw that he was about to kowtow to the ground, and wanted to reach out to stop him, but Zhihui had already knelt down. I quickly stepped aside, but Zhihui kowtowed three times in a row in all seriousness.
I was just thinking about how to teach Zhihui a lesson, but now I am at a loss. In fact, even if he pretends that nothing happened, I will not ask him to fulfill his promise and kowtow in public under such circumstances.
But Zhihui did this anyway. What on earth was he trying to do
Did he want to use his three kowtows to push me to the opposite side of Prajna Temple
When I squinted my eyes and looked at Zhihui, Monk Zhiyuan couldn't help but sighed: "Don't worry, Donor Wu, my junior brother is just like that, he acts arbitrarily and impulsively, but he always keeps his word. Donor, you will know in the future."
When I looked at Zhihui, I believed Zhiyuan's explanation 80%. If Zhihui was really a scheming person, he would have to pretend to be wronged to gain sympathy, but he naturally stood next to my senior brother and had no intention of continuing to pester me.
I didn't think much about it and immediately followed the group back to the manor. When I saw the body of the snake, I was shocked - the whole snake had been broken into several piles by the Xuanjing Division and neatly placed on the long table.
The fox demon Sun Yue said: "We were studying this transformed snake yesterday, so we completely cut it apart from skin to bones."
Sun Yue pointed at the snake skin spread out on the ground and said, "This snake has no signs of being put together temporarily, from its skin to its bones. It looks like a monster that has just hatched. However, the internal organs of this snake are a little strange to us."
Sun Yue pointed to the pile of internal organs on the table and said, "These are obviously human internal organs."
I looked at the internal organs carefully and felt that what the other party said was right. No matter how much the upper body of the transformed snake resembles a human, its internal organs should be more like those of a snake, especially the junction of the human body and the snake body, but those internal organs do not show any characteristics of snakes.
The fox demon Sun Yue looked at me and said, "There are some things I need to ask Mr. Wu to help me with."
After a moment of hesitation, I told him exactly what I had seen. After hearing this, Zhiyuan couldn't help but chant a Buddhist mantra: "I didn't expect the magic box to be so strange! Donor Wu, are you sure that the magic box compass was pointing to the Kan position at that time?"
"That's right!" I nodded. "The big position must be Kan. Later, my attention was all on the snake, and I didn't see clearly what was behind it."
"Yes!" Zhiyuan said, "Mark the four magic boxes and bring them all here."
The four magic boxes were all in the hands of their respective people and were not mixed up. After we put all four magic boxes together, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Not only are the four magic boxes exactly the same, even the directions indicated by the compasses on them are exactly the same.
Zhiyuan was silent for a while before he said, "What do you think?"
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