When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

The Hundred Flowers Snake in front of me stood on guard, sticking out its black tongue, and the hissing sounds of snakes continued in my ears.

Xiao Yihuo glanced at his hands, then put them behind his back, looked at the snakes in front of him with cold eyes, smiled slightly, and said sarcastically: "Do you think these snakes won't come out if I don't overturn the coffin lid?"

Lin Lezhi thought about it carefully and felt that what Xiao Yihuo said made sense.

But even though what Xiao Yihuo said made sense, Lin Lezhi didn't want to be at a disadvantage from the bottom of his heart.

"That's better than all these snakes attacking us together. So what do you think we should do now?"

"Stay back!"

Xiao Yihuo lowered his eyes and spoke in a deep voice. He then drew out the folding fan from his waist and stood in front of Lin Lezhi, then released a powerful internal force from his body.

The internal force vibrated outward like a circle, causing everything around it to shake.

The white cloth covering the corpse, the fire beside it, and the unburned firewood beside it were all moved, and Lin Lezhi's clothes moved with it.

From the time he met Xiao Yihuo until now, he had seen Xiao Yihuo's lightness skills many times, but this was the first time that Xiao Yihuo demonstrated his own skills.

Lin Lezhi couldn't help but be amazed at such powerful internal strength.

As the internal force spread, the snakes surrounding him opened their mouths and hissed even more fiercely, then withdrew their attacking postures, crouched down and hid in the weeds and disappeared one after another.

Ok?

Why did these snakes suddenly run away?

After making sure that the snakes showed no signs of coming back, Lin Lezhi poked his head out from the side and said jokingly with a smile: "Good job, Xiao Fox, these snakes must have seen that you are not easy to mess with, so they were scared away by you."

Xiao Yihuo closed his folding fan, frowned slightly, and said with a slightly dark and suspicious look in his eyes: "I don't know why, let's take a look at the coffin first."

The two men looked at the coffin carefully. There was nothing unusual about it. It still contained the bones found in Wu Sanshan's cell, as well as some leaves that had fallen into the coffin.

In the cracks between the coffin lid and the coffin body there were snake skins left behind where snakes had crawled.

"It seems that the snakes crawled in through the cracks in the coffin. The two soldiers heard the unusual noise and came to check, but they were unable to dodge and were bitten by the snakes. The other soldier turned around and tried to escape, but was still a step too slow and died in the snake's mouth."

"But... why did these snakes crawl into this coffin?" Lin Lezhi looked suspicious, then looked at the coffin with a sly look in his eyes, moved the coffin and said, "Xiao Huli, help me."

With the help of Xiao Yihuo, the coffin was turned sideways, revealing the bottom of the coffin. Lin Lezhi's sight fell accurately on the upper lower part of the coffin bottom.

That spot was covered with more mud than other places, and had an irregular shape the size of a copper coin.

Lin Lezhi stretched out his hand and dug the soil off that location. The color of the area under the soil was darker than the surrounding area, and there was a crack next to it.

Lin Lezhi took a little bit with his fingers, placed it between his fingertips and twisted it lightly. It was a little sticky.

Looking at this copper coin-sized sticky object, Lin Lezhi inexplicably felt that he had seen it somewhere before.

"what is this?"

"It feels like some kind of thick, gooey substance, but I don't know what it is."

A trace of thought rose in Xiao Yihuo's eyes, and then he looked at Lin Lezhi and said affirmatively: "I remember when you came to the island today, you deliberately approached this coffin, and the place where your hand was reaching was here."

Hearing this, Lin Lezhi's eyes lit up, and then he said with a smile: "You have to provide evidence when you speak. What makes you say that I deliberately approached this coffin?"

"Because your acting is so poor, you have to show off your acting skills and work hard to carry the coffin. Why don't I enroll you in an acting troupe so that you can learn from it?"

"No, it's not necessary." Lin Lezhi smiled and said, "I went to help out with good intentions, but you said I was being polite. I think people who misinterpret others' kindness like this are the ones with ulterior motives."

"Good intentions?" Xiao Yihuo raised his lips and chuckled. He said calmly, "So, I was dazzled. Master Lin returned empty-handed and didn't get what he wanted?"

The smile on Lin Lezhi's face instantly dropped, and he looked speechless.

Everyone saw that I took the things, but you still said they were useless. It was obvious that you were making fun of me.

Lin Lezhi was too lazy to waste words with Xiao Yihuo, so he took out the thing from the inside of his shirt and placed it in front of Xiao Yihuo.

"Well, you want to see it, right? Go ahead."

Xiao Yihuo looked carefully and saw that Lin Lezhi was holding a leaf in his hand.

The leaves have lost a lot of water, and are slightly yellow, triangular and oval in shape. They are a bit dry, and traces of sticky substances can be seen on the leaves.

The shape of the leaf in Lin Lezhi's hand is different from the fallen leaves of the trees on the lake island. This leaf does not belong to the lake island.

But...

Xiao Yihuo looked in the direction of the coffin. When the coffin was overturned, a few leaves fell out. This leaf was the same as the leaves in the coffin.

The leaves in the coffin grew from the trees along the lake in Pinghai Town.

This tree also grows outside Wu Sanshan's yard.

It's a poplar tree.

"From your expression, I can guess that this leaf came with the coffin. It doesn't belong to this lake island. I think the sticky things on the bottom of the coffin also came with it."

Xiao Yihuo thought for a moment, then looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "Could it be that when the coffin was being moved, it accidentally got stained with something, and then got stuck to the fallen leaves? Could it be in Wu Sanshan's yard or basement?"