Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 507 Found
Pei Ye really didn't expect who would dare to steal his money.

Young Master Pei now talks and laughs with great scholars, and has no unlearned connections. Those he associates with are all well-known and talented people. If there is any flow of money involved, the only person who is at the bottom is Young Master Pei himself.

How could it be possible that one day his banknotes would be swapped by someone?

He must have read it carefully when Qi Zhaohua handed it to him. Although it was the first time he saw it, he looked at it carefully from front to back and was amazed that this thin page was worth fifty taels of silver.

Later on, he definitely didn't forget about it, and every time he opened the backpack, he would check to see if it was still there - but who knew that this damn thief didn't steal but switched the bags!

A month had passed since he borrowed the fifty taels from Qi Zhaohua.

Since Pei Ye couldn't tell the difference between real and fake silver bills, he naturally didn't know when the theft occurred.

How can this be traced?

Xie Chuantang looked at Pei Ye silently, and Pei Ye looked at Xie Chuantang pitifully.

"Okay, I'll accept it. Don't worry too much." Xie Chuantang never thought that he would use these familiar words on a young man one day. "Just wait for the news from the government office."

"Hmm." Pei Ye was depressed.

Xing Zhi looked at him with amusement: "How can someone reach into your purse, Master Pei? Isn't the divine dragon always squatting on your shoulder?"

Pei Ye turned to look at the kitten, who calmly shook his head.

"It has been running to Xiuwen Hall quite often in the past month." Pei Ye sighed, "and the bag is not always with me."

"Didn't you leave the bag in the sword training courtyard? Who would dare to sneak into your courtyard?" Xing Zhi raised his eyebrows. "There are many wanderers in the capital. You were probably robbed while walking on the road."

However, what he did most these days was wandering around, from East City to West City, from the Sword Academy to the Literature Academy. At this moment, he couldn't think of which time it was. Sometimes he felt that there was nothing wrong with any of them, and sometimes he felt that everything was suspicious.

Finally, he sighed and turned his eyes to the lock in his hand: ".Is this taken from the complete shackles?"

"Yes."

Pei Ye was silent for a while and said, "So, if this lock is not opened, the scale monster will not have the strength to break out of the cage."

"That's right." Xing Zhi clapped his hands, leaned back on the big vat, and held the edge of the vat with both hands. "I think so too. It's not that Nan Jinfeng made a mistake. With this lock, the scale monster can't break free. It's just that an unexpected accident happened."

Pei Ye slowly lifted up the small lock and looked inside it with a frown. It was as clean as new, without any signs of damage. In other words, the lock fell off directly.

"Someone sneaked in and opened the lock?" Pei Ye frowned, then denied, "That's too strange. If he wanted to release the scaly monster, why didn't he just bring it out? If he wanted to make trouble in this secret cabin, he should have released more and more thoroughly. Why would he just unlock the inner button?"

He looked at the lock again. The delicate and dense springs inside were interlocking. After experiencing many violent impacts such as the broken cylinder, explosion, and cabin crash, the lock was still intact. It was much stronger than he had imagined.

Xing Zhi looked at him and said, "So I think it opened the lock by itself."

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"Perhaps the creature they transported was not a 'stable' one. During the process, the scaly monster suddenly underwent a change that they did not expect - perhaps it was indeed very rare." Xing Zhi said slowly, "So it suddenly mastered some ability to open this lock."

"What kind of lock is this?" Pei Ye immediately grasped the key point.

"It's not a lock you can buy, but the principle is not special - use spiritual patterns to ban the spiritual mysticism and deprive the energy, and then use fine iron machinery to lock the muscle and bone joints." Xing Zhi said, "This is a very mainstream practice now. Compared with using powerful spiritual mystic prohibitions to imprison the mystic, and using strong shields to defend against sharp spears, people prefer to isolate the spiritual mysticism first, and then lock the body, so that they can tie up mortals with hemp ropes."

"This lock is the same. Its lock is purely mechanical, with seven connected springs, and it is made too strong - it is completely engaged and sealed inside." Xing Zhi said, "The only way to open it is to activate the spiritual pattern on the outside - it records a specific set of mysterious energy, and only that kind of mysterious energy can open it."

"But the spiritual pattern is not activated."

"No."

So it directly cracked the innermost mechanical part and miraculously removed the spiritual lock from the inside out.

Pei Ye looked at it again. Just as Xing Zhi said, its mechanical part was only used to guard against mortals, and for mortals, this was a chain that was impossible to break.

Nothing like thin wire or the like can be inserted into it, not even a hair.

It is just as Xing Zhi said, to unlock this machine, one must first open the spiritual patterns on the upper layer. There is no way that the thousands of mechanisms inside can be opened inch by inch without moving the spiritual patterns.

But Pei Ye stared at the small lock and suddenly said, "Water."

".What?"

"Water." Pei Ye said confidently, "The only thing that can penetrate is water. Thousands of springs are wrapped in water. If it wants this lock to open, this lock can open."

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Xing Zhi stared at him in a daze, and suddenly said: "I have been practicing Shui Ling since I was a child, and I can only achieve this kind of fine control after entering the Xuanmen."

"So Nan Jinfeng was caught off guard."

"But Lingxuan is not open at all, how can it control water?"

"Didn't you find any trace of Lingxuan in Caohe River?"

".How could there be water in the cabin?"

"The iron bulkheads were all covered with water."

The three of them were silent for a moment, and Xing Zhi said silently: "It doesn't rely on Ling Xuan's water control."

Pei Ye looked at her and thought of something at the same time.

"Let's just ignore it for now." Xing Zhi collected his thoughts and turned to walk towards the desk. "Also, based on the half of the scale you brought back, I took it back to the Immortal Terrace and tried some spiritual arts. I roughly locked onto an area like this."

A large map of the capital was spread out on the table, outlining an area of ​​the southwestern city with about five or six districts and hundreds of streets.

"I checked the area early this morning, but I have not found anything yet." Xie Chuantang said. Pei Ye was still thinking about his speculation about controlling water. With such a spiritual water nature, it seemed that a memory was about to be called out. But he still didn't catch it. At this time, he lowered his head and looked at the map, and slowly fell into deep thought again.

"I'll go shopping with you." he said suddenly.

However, when Xie Chuantang took the letter and went out, he saw that the young man did not go in the direction indicated on the map, but first spotted a tall restaurant and climbed up directly.

The young man walked to the railing on the top floor and leaned over to look. Xie Chuantang walked up to him from behind.

"how?"

Pei Ye looked at it for a while and pointed, "Look, the West Pond is clearly on the east side of Caohe River."

Looking from here, a large part of Shenjing City is clearly visible, and the wedge-shaped West Pond not far away is like a clear eye pupil.

"If you were it, how would you escape from the blockade of Caohe River?" Pei Ye looked at Xie Chuantang.

Xie Chuantang understood what he meant: "Of course, we should take the shortest route to the West Pond. The West Pond is deep and wide, easy to hide in, and connected to all the waters in the capital, so there is no place that cannot be reached."

"Yes, if it wanted to hide, the best option would be to go straight after landing. Why would it turn back west and dive into the streets?" Pei Ye frowned and nodded, "This is a conscious behavior."

Xie Chuantang also put his hand on the railing and looked to the west: "Besides, from Caohe to these several blocks, we have to pass through that big thoroughfare anyway."

The thing that Shenjing lacks the least is people. There are countless cultivators living in these prosperous markets. It would be difficult for a scaly monster like this to pass through such a large area without being discovered, whether it is passing through doors or climbing eaves or walls.

What's more, the scales do not point to terrestrial creatures such as lizards, but to aquatic bodies.

The two of them thought endlessly as they looked down at the area and agreed on several possible routes based on the starting point and the end point. They went downstairs and listened to the conversations of the drinkers from top to bottom, as if all the ups and downs of the world were gathered in this city.

People said that Yuan Shangshu once again submitted the "Promoting Talents" in the court, which made the whole hall silent; the new Jingzhao Yin took office and made drastic changes everywhere, and there must be a strong pillar behind him; others said that Zheng Da, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, had not been to the government office for several days.
As the thriving Taipingcao Gang collapsed, a young knight named Pei became famous, and people began to talk about the prominent names in the Shenjing City, arguing about who was the most powerful; the merchants returning from the north said that the barbarians seemed a little unstable and business was a little difficult.

Listening from the twelfth floor to the first floor, in fact, most of the things they talk about are the same, but the angles and depths are very different. If it weren't for important tasks, Pei Ye believed that he could listen here for a whole day.

And the “important tasks” are indeed boring.

Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang, along with the public servants, carefully checked the designated route, but they did not get any valuable information from either investigation or search. Some seemingly plausible clues always turned up nothing, and the scale monster seemed to have the ability to become invisible, clearly moving through the streets without revealing any trace.

After a tiring day, seeing the sun setting again, Pei Ye leaned on the railing on the fifth floor and sighed. Xie Chuantang leaned beside him and also let out a rare sigh.

"I always feel that our work is in vain." Pei Ye looked down at the dim clouds above the city, "We have run into a dead end with no result. How can such a dangerous thing as a painting sneak into the workshop without causing any trouble?"

Xie Chuantang rubbed his brows and said softly, "When Lao Ding took me to investigate a case, he said that there are not so many wonderful and strange cases in the world. Many times when the criminal you imagined starts to become too mysterious, it is probably just your own fault."

Pei Ye was silent for a while: "An old senior who is very good at investigating cases also said something similar to me."

"But I am the daughter of a tiger father and a dog daughter." Xie Chuantang sighed.

"I am also a useless person." Pei Ye sighed.

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"Why don't you go and handle the case of the lost silver for me first?"

"Do not."

".I am also puzzled!" Pei Ye frowned and slammed the railing, "You said that Taiping Cao dare not show off, so it is fine if we can't catch it, but our Jingzhao Prefecture has made such a big fuss, how come we can't find any trace of it?"

"Even if he left the city from somewhere unknown, there should be some traces. With so many cultivators, is it possible that no one noticed?"

Xie Chuantang folded his arms and looked at the neatly arranged blocks of land below, but suddenly he froze in a daze.

She suddenly turned her head and grabbed Pei Ye's arm: "What if someone finds out?"

Pei Ye was stunned, and his head was startled.

Four eyes facing each other.

Yes.

They have always regarded it as an alien lurking in human society, but what if it actually got help from humans?

It was in this scenario that Pei Ye suddenly felt that the knot in his mind was suddenly shattered, and all the confusions he had previously encountered were solved one by one.

More than just getting help from humans, it actually placed its hopes on a human the moment it came ashore!
So of course it didn't go to Xichi, but went to the market, because that person wanted to take it back home!

So there is no need to climb over walls or walk on tiles. All you need is a horse-drawn carriage - or any ox or donkey cart - to transport it back from the main road of the capital!

So no matter how they visited, they could not find any trace of it.

However, Xie Chuantang still didn't react. He frowned and said, "But who would protect such a dangerous monster? Besides, we didn't find him that night--"

She was speechless.

Pei Ye looked at her, his face tense and he began to grit his teeth.

Who else could it be?

The hesitant boy, the scaly monster's unusual water ability, the magic tricks that amazed everyone on Pingkang Street, his own wet skirt, and the unexpected encounter on the Nanjin Wind. On the demarcated map, a small street was so inconspicuous, but Pei Ye stared at it.

——"Grandpa is the little catkin from Weeping Willow Street!"

"Where is this kid?!"

(End of this chapter)