Chapter 52: The Missing Ancient Book

In that room, there was actually no major change at first glance.

A flat bed, a cabinet for the TV against the wall at the foot of the bed.

Further inside, there were three large wardrobes.

It could be seen that there was also a thin layer of dust in the room, but no handprints or footprints were left.

Seeing Chu Tianshu opened the door, raised his hand to block, let Second Grandfather stay outside first, and walked in himself.

What he was staring at was the bed sheet, especially the area near the head of the bed.

Although grandfather's room wasn't lived in, Seeing Chu Tianshu would also go in and turn around when he was bored and walking to digest food.

Especially the bed, he would adjust the horizontal stripes on the bed sheet to be perpendicular to the trend of the bed board when he was bored.

Not just perpendicular in words, he had measured it with a triangle ruler.

His own bed, sweating and rolling around every day, even if he used several quilts in rotation, the bed sheet would have been deformed long ago, and he couldn't make it so perpendicular and regular.

Grandfather's bedroom bed was easier to handle, so he would make it extra tidy.

And now, the stripes on this bed sheet were clearly crooked.

Seeing Chu Tianshu walked to the wardrobe, opened the rightmost cabinet door, poked his head in, pressed the wooden board, and with a surge of telekinesis, triggered the special mechanism, popping out a secret compartment.

The secret compartment drawer was empty!

The original copy of "Ghost Gate Witch Doctor Annotation" should have been stored here.

That book was simply an antique; Seeing Chu Tianshu used a handwritten copy when he learned it, which was kept in his own room.

That antique original had always stayed by grandfather's side, occasionally flipped through, and preserved in this secret compartment.

After grandfather left, Seeing Chu Tianshu also felt that keeping the original copy here was both safe and familiar, so he didn't specifically transfer it.

Now it had actually been stolen!

Seeing Chu Tianshu stared at the drawer, his breathing slightly heavy, his eyes suddenly brightening.

With his insight technique, he swallowed and breathed deeply, feeling the strange aura left by the thief in this room, especially on this drawer, in order to trigger the special mechanism.

Seeing Chu Tianshu walked to the living room with the drawer.

Chu Second Grandfather felt the anger on him and saw the empty drawer, pondering for a moment.

"The things grandfather left behind were lost? What did he leave that was worth stealing, could it be that secret manual original?"

"Yes!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu responded dully, placed the drawer on the table, took a transparent plastic box that came with instant noodles, and walked to the corner of the wall.

The several medicinal wine jars in the corner of the living room were all large glass jars, and also had water dispenser faucets.

He estimated the weight, connected three kinds of medicinal wine, added mineral water, and stirred with a silver needle.

"Calm the heart and cut the water, the water cuts the heart and calms, the heart and mind are clear and quiet, waves are not surprised... walk to the end of the water, sit and watch the clouds rise, the sky is bright and clean, dyed clouds protect the body!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu muttered words, his hands stirring non-stop.

More than half a box of amber-colored wine, under his incantation and stirring, became transparent, like clear water.

He put the plastic box into the drawer.

The wine was still swirling, not swirling fast.

But after a full ten seconds, it still maintained that speed, not fast and not slow, which seemed a bit mysterious.

After a while, fragments like bamboo charcoal ash appeared in the wine.

The vortex became slower and slower.

Chu Second Grandfather could also clearly see those fragments, as if generated out of thin air, floating from the bottom of the water to the surface.

"Xia Yi Protecting Heart and Body Incantation," when used on a person, is an incantation to calm the heart and spirit, dispelling external evil.

But if the incantation is used on this kind of medicinal wine, it will produce a peculiar effect similar to "Yin and Yang attracting each other."

It will absorb the meaning of external evil into the medicinal wine.

"Not enough!"

Chu Second Grandfather also knew this usage.

"The person who stole the thing shouldn't have come in the last few days; the aura you can collect now is very little."

Seeing Chu Tianshu thought about it and walked to the bedroom door again.

There were only his own footprints in the bedroom.

That person should have used a small trick like blowing wind before leaving, blowing up all the dust in the house and letting it fall again, eliminating the footprints.

If he had carried a small electric fan and blown it around, Seeing Chu Tianshu really wouldn't have had a way, but since he also used magic in the house...

Seeing Chu Tianshu deployed the insight method again.

The internal and external insight method could capture external details to the extreme, and of course, it would also pull a little evil aura.

However, that little bit of evil aura absorbed due to observation would be offset by the martial artist's strong yang energy as soon as it touched the body.

Seeing Chu Tianshu brewed for a while outside the door and said: "Second Grandfather, come and help; if you feel an unusual aura, collect it."

Chu Second Grandfather walked over, touching a jade pendant hanging around his neck.

The jade pendant was carved with a crane on one side and a crow on the other, white on one side and black on the other; he bought it at a high price when he was young.

"Dragon God two characters seeking mountain formula, God is spirit, Dragon is quality. Don't say that high mountains have dragons, but come to the flat land and lose the true trace..."

"Dragon to the flat ocean, don't ask for traces, just watch the water winding, it is the true dragon. If you recite the Dragon Sutra without eye power, ten thousand volumes of hidden truth are also empty."

Chu Second Grandfather took the black side up, held it in his palm, his left hand pinched the incantation and recited the spell, wiped it horizontally in front of his eyes, but his face was a bit puzzled.

"I can't feel any unusual aura in this room."

"Don't be anxious!!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu's eyes expanded and contracted, and he began to breathe deeply.

The length of this breath made Chu Second Grandfather's eyes change from puzzled to surprised, unable to stop looking.

During the process of breathing, the aura in the room that was too subtle for Chu Second Grandfather to perceive flowed toward the door.

As if gathering steam into dew!

Chu Second Grandfather felt that in front of Seeing Chu Tianshu's mouth and nose, a strange aura was appearing and disappearing.

The black jade pendant was pushed out, shook in front of Seeing Chu Tianshu's mouth and nose, and snatched the aura.

"This should be enough."

Chu Second Grandfather hurriedly walked to the table, pressed the black side of the jade pendant to his forehead, slid it to the tip of his nose, hurriedly sniffed, and blew a breath toward the wine.

On the surface of the wine, as if an invisible hand was poking and pointing with a black pen, dozens more fragments appeared.

A simple sorcerer can use telekinesis to stimulate yang energy, or use telekinesis to suppress yang energy, temporarily accommodating external evil.

When necessary, they can complete some simple spell-casting steps with their own mouth and nose.

Grandfather used to be very clean when piercing people with needles, but when piercing evil things with needles, he liked to lick the needle tip first.

That was because licking it like that could either increase yang energy or absorb evil aura.

Exactly what effect was added this time, only the person who licked it knew, which was very convenient.

Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't have this habit, just held the needle tip in his hand, recited the incantation a few more times, and placed the silver needle on the water surface.

The silver needle didn't sink, located in the center of the water surface, suddenly turned, like a compass.

However, the tip of this needle pointed to the southeast.

Seeing Chu Tianshu covered the plastic box, grabbed it, and walked out.

"Wait a minute, ride a bike, walking on two legs is too laborious."

Chu Second Grandfather went to the corridor to push Seeing Chu Tianshu's electric scooter and said, "Where is the key?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at it and said: "It hasn't been charged for a month."

Grandfather left a car before, but later it was smashed by a patient who was possessed when Seeing Chu Tianshu drove it to treat the illness.

Although he got the reward and compensation afterward, Seeing Chu Tianshu's medicine dosage increased, so he didn't change the car, just bought two electric scooters for backup.

"Second Grandfather, you go home first, I walk quite fast now."

He just walked to the outside of the river when he saw a car with the word "Security" printed on it, driving down from the high slope at the head of the village.

This was a coincidence, so he stopped and waited for a few minutes.

The car drove over, and Lin Suozhang pushed the door and got off. 【52-86

"What, did you really run into a burglar?!"

Lin Suozhang handed a mobile phone in a sealed plastic bag to Seeing Chu Tianshu, then caught sight of the box in Seeing Chu Tianshu's hand.

"Is it that silver needle tracking routine again? You haven't even seen the thief, and you can still track them like this?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "This person is no ordinary thief. Director, can you give us a lift?"

Lin Suozhang asked nervously, "If he's not an ordinary person, then what did he steal?"

"I hope it's not some major case; I'm almost at retirement age."

Despite saying that, he still reached out to open the passenger door and asked, "Wait for me to make a call and find a few helpers at the station."

Chu Erye walked over: "Forget it. You grassroots guys don't usually carry guns, just the 'three-piece set' of flashlights, batons, and anti-riot forks; it doesn't make much difference whether you call for people or not."

"Tianshu and I will go together. We'll take a look when we get there; we don't necessarily have to rush into action."

Chu Erye opened the rear car door and sat in.

After getting in the car, Seeing Chu Tianshu watched the direction of the silver needle to give directions.

They climbed the high slope at the edge of the village, turned a corner, drove a short distance on the main road, and then turned into a small path leading to the neighboring village.

It was only when they descended from the edge of the neighboring village that Lin Suozhang remembered.

"Driving the police station's car directly over there, won't that be a bit too conspicuous?"

Chu Erye sighed: "Old Lin, you've really lived too comfortably these years. You make such a fuss over the slightest thing. This is just a police station car, not one of those city bureau cars that wails all the way."

It is actually not uncommon for police station cars to drive through nearby villages and towns.

Lin Suozhang retorted: "City bureau cars don't necessarily all wail either. Most of the time they go out in plainclothes, and you wouldn't even recognize the cars they drive."

Just as they were saying this, they saw from a distance.

About two hundred meters ahead, there were several cars parked on the bridge and the small path of a household in this village.

A large group of people were going in and out, some in plainclothes and some in uniform.

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked down at the silver needle; it was pointing exactly at that house.

Lin Suozhang's expression changed.

"Oh no, it really looks like it's from the city bureau."

He drove the car closer, unbuckled his seatbelt, and got out to investigate.

Seeing Chu Tianshu also got out of the car, but he didn't approach, just stood outside the car watching the house.

He focused his attention; not only could he hear Lin Suozhang's conversation with the people there, but he could even hear the movements in every room inside that house.

Chu Erye got out of the car, looking suspicious: "Isn't this Kong Wenju's home?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu turned his head: "Second Grandfather, you know him?"

"We live in the neighboring village, and we're both in the same line of work, so of course we've dealt with each other."

Chu Erye said, "But your grandfather and I weren't clear about exactly what he practices; we only knew he seemed to have some attainments in antiques and curios, and he opened an antique shop in the city."

"Bah, his house might have some genuine items, but the things in that shop are pure crafts."

Chu Erye said, getting angry, "Back then, your grandfather even treated him for an illness. If this shameless guy really stole your family's things, I'll have to spit in his face!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu said softly: "I'm afraid you won't be able to spit on him."

According to what this group from the city bureau said, Kong Wenju had indeed committed a major crime, but this matter wouldn't fall on Lin Suozhang and his team.

Because Kong Wenju had stolen rare calligraphy, ancient books, and treasures from several collectors in the city.

The methods were very bizarre; the victims couldn't even explain how they were stolen, and the safes where they were hidden had actually been opened, almost as if they had taken the things out themselves and handed them to the thief.

But it seemed he was a first-time offender and had no experience in this area.

Bizarre methods alone were useless; he had stolen from people he had long known and dealt with frequently.

After questioning several victims, the city bureau people drew up a network of relationships and directly circled several suspects, including him.

Then they came to investigate and found his antique shop sold off and the man gone on a long trip days ago—it was practically a confession.

As for exactly where he went, the city bureau people were more security-conscious and didn't disclose it.

Seeing Chu Tianshu sat back in the car and first borrowed his Second Grandfather's phone to call Brother Bai Sui.

(End of chapter)