In such a precarious situation, I thought that of all the thirty-six stratagems, admitting to my mistake was the best!
Then Yu Longting asked, "What did you do wrong?"
"Wrong... everything was wrong..." I earnestly explained the whole situation to him while pointing at my fingers.
Except for Zhao Zheng's identity as an Immortal, I told Yu Longting everything else truthfully.
Yu Longting's sudden appearance earlier scared me to the point of a drastic IQ drop.
This simple technique of deceiving the heavens completely escaped my muddled mind.
Now, all I could do was to make up for it.
After finishing, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I told the whole truth, seamlessly, without a single loophole, so Yu Longting shouldn't have any doubts, right?
Yu Longting, with his chin resting on his hand, listened indifferently to the end.
He seemed convinced, but then turned to Zhang Zidao and asked, "Zhang Zidao, is that so?"
"Your husband and wife harmonize like a qin and se, and my obedient disciple tells you everything. Is there any need to hide anything?" At the crucial moment, Zhang Zidao finally pinched his goatee and gave me a hand.
"Just for that little thing, was it necessary to be... so incoherent?" Yu Longting pulled me back to the main hall.
He took out a water talisman and sprayed clear spring water to wet a handkerchief.
Bending down, he gently wiped away the blood on my face.
Although Yu Longting still had doubts, under his gentle movements and gaze, I naturally let down my guard a little and laughed awkwardly in explanation, "Seeing you... I was too excited, you know, got a bit flustered in the head."
"Su Wan..." Yu Longting slowly parted his lips, calling my full name which sent shivers down my spine. Can we not be so frightening?
Yu Longting, with his eyelids drooping, said, "You're really not suited for lying."
I felt like crying but had no tears. Was this the rhythm of being exposed again?
It's not that I'm not suited for lying, but that I'm simply unfit to lie in front of the detective Holmes Yu Charlotte Longting.
Yu Longting's handkerchief was soaked with fresh blood and was no longer presentable, but he managed to clean my face enough that my features were recognizable.
He carefully folded it and placed it in his pocket.
Then, he turned around, bent down, and touched Zhao Zheng's ashes on the ground, "Su Wan, this ash looks... neither human nor demon..."
"Is that so? I have no idea what's going on," I feigned innocence and denied it outright.
Nobody had ever seen a Deity; he surely couldn't recognize divine bones, could he?
Yu Longting raised an eyebrow, and his razor-sharp gaze fell once again on Zhang Zidao.
Zhang Zidao, worthy of being a Great Grandmaster, replied with composure: "The Old Taoist Priest doesn't know either."
"Fine, I'll take it back and study it slowly." Yu Longting unbuttoned the cuff of his left sleeve, and numerous snakes crawled out to help clean up the main hall.
They not only collected all the ashes cleanly but also carried Yang Xi's body out of the Doubting Tomb and even closed all the mechanisms of the opened tomb traps.
Seeing that the crisis was resolved, I started attending to my own affairs.
First, I tucked the Ice Silkworm, which was sleeping among a pile of feces, into my sleeve.
Then I pinched the pressure point on Chen Ahmao, who was sprawled on the ground, tied the healing bandage around his wrist, and woke him up from his unconsciousness.
He must have had a serious internal injury because when he woke up,
his eyes were dull and his expression was somewhat vacant.
"Ahmao, Ahmao~" I called him a few times, but he showed little reaction.
Zhang Zidao was also busily occupied on the side; he actually took off the blood-stained Taoist robe and then removed the inner layer as well, stuffing the ice silkworm feces into it. "These are treasures; can't let them go to waste."
"Eh... Longting, why is your snake crawling all over the place..." I was watching Zhang Zidao gathering a full big bundle, probably over ten pounds of feces, with a speechless expression,
when suddenly an ice-cold, slimy thing slithered over my leg. A snake had climbed up my leg onto my wrist.
The next second, the cold, firm body of the snake tightly coiled around my wrist. The snake's head hooked itself onto Yu Longting's belt and just like that, linked us together.
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This was truly... tied... to the belt...
Yu Longting looked over coldly, "Any objections?"