Nie Chongyang glanced at the notes and let out a "Hoo."
"You really didn't have a idle morning."
Ye Tiancheng raised his hand and rubbed his nose with his index finger, saying, "Since there are four of us, and if we weren't in such a terrible place, for safety reasons, we wouldn't need to stick together all the time."
"However, even so, as long as we're in the same hotel, a short separation for everyone isn't a big problem. It just so happens that I have some things I want to ask the hotel owner, so I stayed behind."
Nie Chongyang said, "You did the right thing. If there were no other way, if we always acted together, our efficiency would be too low."
Little Fox also went over to Nie Chongyang and briefly looked at the notes Liang Ping had made.
Afterward, Little Fox said, "That Lin Yanqin wasn't human to begin with, yet she could act like a human, and so close to a human state. Although it was aided by her memory field and obsession advantage."
"The memory field that was constantly in illusion, and Lin Yanqin's obsession, although they bound Lin Yanqin, also made Lin Yanqin stronger in a way."
"This place, in another sense, is entirely Lin Yanqin's personal domain. To plot against Lin Yanqin in her own domain is more than just a lack of brains."
Ye Tiancheng shook his head and said, "Are there not enough foolish people in this world?"
Little Fox also let out a snort.
He said, "In any case, Lin Yanqin is definitely not to be trifled with. No matter how fragile she appears, it's the same. You don't need to look at whether her appearance is harmless or how beautiful she is. Just look at whether she resembles a human."
"Although humans are far inferior to some non-humans in certain aspects, humans are also the rulers of all spirits. You can imagine, all non-humans, their lifelong goal is to make themselves more and more like humans. And those non-humans who can become closer and closer to humans, the more powerful they become."
"Even ghosts that have transformed from humans are the same."
"The closer they are to the state of the living, the more powerful they become."
"Lin Yanqin is so much like a human. Although she is too beautiful, which makes her seem less like a human, she probably looked like this before she died. It has nothing to do with whether she died or not."
"Lin Yanqin was able to recover so well, she must be very strong."
Ye Tiancheng pondered for a moment and said, "But she doesn't seem to have any intention of harming people. Aren't they supposed to be fierce?"
The fierceness here doesn't refer to a fierce temper in the conventional sense.
Little Fox understood.
He said to Ye Tiancheng, "It might be related to Lin Yanqin's life. Perhaps her disposition was good in life, perhaps she was kind, so she wouldn't have many harmful thoughts. Moreover, although the cause of her death is a mystery, Lin Yanqin's obsession is not with her own cause of death."
"What Lin Yanqin cares about most is the ruby pendant left by her mother."
"In this situation, although Lin Yanqin should be quite powerful, if you don't provoke her or offend her, Lin Yanqin should still be relatively easy to get along with, the communicative type."
At this point, Little Fox paused slightly.
He thought for a moment and added, "However, one thing needs to be noted. Although Lin Yanqin's state is relatively stable and communicative, and easy to approach, if she is stimulated by something, she will still become fierce. You cannot let your guard down just because she appears too harmless and seems to have no intention of harming others."
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping both indicated that they wouldn't lack such vigilance.
After all, Lin Yanqin was now a non-human.
It might sound unpleasant, but there's a saying, "Those who are not of our kind are bound to have different hearts." While this saying might be detrimental to peace in the outside world, it has some truth from a certain perspective.
After death, in another sense, one is no longer human. They have become another group.
Ye Tiancheng didn't need this reminder.
His vigilance was very high, far above others.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping also knew that Little Fox was saying all this to remind them, so they both spoke up and expressed their intentions for this reason.
In short, it's not wrong to give everyone a heads-up.
After saying this, their conversation returned to the new clues about Lin Yanqin.
Nie Chongyang told Ye Tiancheng, "This time, it can be basically confirmed that someone did sneak into Lin Yanqin's room at night. However, whether the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room last night is the same person who stole Lin Yanqin's ruby pendant, there is currently insufficient evidence, and we cannot confirm it yet."
"However, because the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room last night was also quite audacious, or perhaps inexperienced, they left quite a few traces. They did leave some useful clues."
Ye Tiancheng immediately perked up.
He was most interested in clues now. They had been running around like headless flies, with no direction, and nothing had gone smoothly. It had been a long time since they had completed anything so smoothly. Ye Tiancheng was also surprised to get clues so easily.
Ye Tiancheng asked Nie Chongyang, "What are the new clues?"
Nie Chongyang explained, "It's nothing more than the traces left by the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room last night. They were quite obvious, and we tried our best to preserve the evidence. Little Fox and I noticed useful clues in the room and took pictures with our phones."
After he finished speaking, Little Fox took out his phone, brought up the pictures on his phone, and sent a copy to Ye Tiancheng and Liang Ping each.
Ye Tiancheng and Liang Ping received the pictures and lowered their heads to examine them carefully.
Nie Chongyang and Little Fox had indeed not wasted their morning.
Nie Chongyang told them that based on the traces left at the scene, it could be basically determined that the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room was an adult male, whose age was unknown, but he should be physically strong, and his height should not be less than 1.8 meters.
Moreover, this person should have known Lin Yanqin.
However, this point should be obvious. Whether the person who took the ruby pendant or the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room last night are the same person, both of them should be related to Lin Yanqin and know Lin Yanqin.
It's even harder to say, Lin Yanqin might also know the other person.
It's just that Lin Yanqin probably didn't know that the other person would sneak into her room at night. She only knew that someone had sneaked into her room, so it was inevitable that her emotions would be a little unstable and she would feel very uneasy.
There was one point that could be confirmed.
The fact that the other party went out at night and was able to sneak into Lin Yanqin's room, based on this point, these events should indeed be a reenactment of the past, rather than some chaotic existence interfering and causing trouble for Ye Tiancheng and the others.
Little Fox touched his chin with some doubt and said, "Regardless of whether these two people are the same person or not, the purpose of the first person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room was very clear, which was to get the ruby pendant. I'm afraid there was no other purpose."
"However, for the second time, what was the purpose of the person who sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room to do so?"
"Nothing was lost from Lin Yanqin's room this time, and Lin Yanqin herself was not harmed. However, according to Nie Chongyang's judgment, Nie Chongyang told me that based on the traces at the scene, the person who entered Lin Yanqin's room should have lingered by Lin Yanqin's bed, and might have even knelt on one knee by the bed for a while."
This indeed sounded very strange.
Ye Tiancheng hesitated for a moment and said with some uncertainty, "Could it be for the sake of 'love'?"
Little Fox was stunned.
Nie Chongyang smiled and said, "The probability of it being related to 'love' is indeed very high. Judging from experience, the possibility is not low. Can't Little Fox figure it out?"
Little Fox said somewhat uncertainly, "Perhaps... after being reminded... I can figure it out?"
Nie Chongyang laughed heartily.
He said to Little Fox, "Is it because Little Fox has never been in love? So you don't understand these things and can't figure it out immediately?"
Little Fox was indeed single.
However, although he was willingly single, as he had no suitable partner and was wholeheartedly following his elder brother Ye Tiancheng, knowing this and willingly being single, and joking about being a single dog, were two different things.
Little Fox glared at Nie Chongyang and said, "As if you're not a single dog! Do you have a wife?"
Nie Chongyang immediately clutched his chest.
He said, "That hits the nail on the head, my heart!"
With how busy Nie Chongyang and the others were, where would they have time to date? Even if they did date, they were afraid that the girls wouldn't be able to endure it for long and would proactively break up due to being left waiting.
Moreover, after getting used to it, Nie Chongyang and the others had also come to understand.
Unless they could stabilize a little, it's better not to delay the girls.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping's work was extremely dangerous. They never knew when they might be martyred in the line of duty. Therefore, matters of romance should be left to fate.
However, Nie Chongyang was just joking with Little Fox at this moment, just playing around with words, and wouldn't really take these jokes to heart.
Little Fox was the same.
Liang Ping also took the rare opportunity to say, "Among us here, only Ye Tiancheng has a wife and a daughter, a winner in life!"
Ye Tiancheng smiled helplessly.
The thought of Hou Mingzhu caused him a dull ache in his heart, making it difficult not to feel worried and troubled. However, Ye Tiancheng also knew that everyone was just joking and had no ill intentions, not deliberately trying to poke at his sore spot.
Ye Tiancheng didn't want to show these emotions, lest others feel guilty.
This was not a big deal in the first place.
Once everyone had joked around, they had joked around.
Returning to the main topic, Ye Tiancheng said, "If it's related to love, could it be that on the seventh day, Lin Yanqin will have an accident, possibly a crime of passion?"
"We also cannot be certain that the place Lin Yanqin lived a hundred years ago was a black inn."
"If, hypothetically, two people did sneak into Lin Yanqin's room separately, and they both knew Lin Yanqin and had emotional entanglements with her, and then a conflict arose, accidentally causing Lin Yanqin's death, perhaps the possibility is also very high?"
Nie Chongyang said, "This possibility is also very high, but we cannot completely rule out other possibilities because of this."
Ye Tiancheng said, "I understand that."
In short, they now had a relatively clear direction.
Nie Chongyang asked Ye Tiancheng, "Regarding what will happen in the next few days, did the hotel owner reveal anything else?"
Ye Tiancheng replied helplessly, "That person is indifferent to matters that don't concern him. He stays behind closed doors most of the time. Even when trying to get information from Lin Yanqin, it's rarely about the following days."