Wang Ling had never thought that his silent contemplation would actually cast such a huge psychological shadow on Chen Qin.
Usually, when Wang Ling was thinking carefully about something, he would enter a meditative state like just now. Even if his eyes were open, everything in front of him would temporarily turn into nothingness, like a cloud of smoke and fog that constantly changed in front of his eyes as his thoughts ran through his mind, thus giving him certain hints.
His hearing would also be isolated to eliminate all external disturbances, and it could be said that he was truly undistracted.
As for his body, it would automatically enter a state of being seized by the system.
At that time, his body would automatically identify malicious intent around him and enter a 100% evasion mode, causing all attacks to miss and directly entering a state of ineffectiveness.
Wang Ling had a premonition that this matter was very complicated, so he had activated this "meditative mode" to think about it. Generally speaking, it was only the final exams that qualified him to use this ability.
It was just that Wang Ling had overlooked one thing, and that was that Chen Qin was still here and had been frightened by his mode.
"Sorry," Wang Ling said.
He rarely took the initiative to apologize to anyone, and this was his first time doing so.
When he saw Chen Qin's expression relax again, Wang Ling somehow felt that he was a little closer to being a normal person.
"Classmate Chen Qin, don't be too afraid. When Wang Ling is thinking … he's like this."
"Well, actually, I'm not afraid. I'm just curious. "
"Curious?"
"Why is a person who is as focused as an old monk in meditation when he's thinking about something, why does he score average in every exam? Super Chen keeps telling me that he suspects Wang Ling is deliberately keeping his scores down. "
Wang Ling: "…"
Hearing this, Lotus Sun laughed and hurriedly changed the subject. "But we're not here to talk about exams today. Um … you said earlier that you've sorted out new clues?"
"Yes!"
As Chen Qin spoke, she took out a stack of washed photos from her pink school bag.
In addition to the cell phone screenshots that Wang Ling and Lotus Sun had already seen, they found that among the clues provided this time were some photos of the video blogger's daily life.
"Where did you get these photos?" Lotus Sun asked curiously.
"These are the photos she posted on other social media platforms before the video was deleted. I found them through her ID. But it seems that she's already logged out of other social media platforms … I don't know if she was logged out, "Chen Qin said.
"Why didn't you take it out earlier?"
"Because I remembered wrongly. These photos were in another phone. Later, I used the cloud drive function of the phone I'm using now to find them."
Wang Ling looked through each photo carefully, and finally fixed his eyes on one.
It was a photo of the vlogger and a man in a Taoist costume. Unfortunately, the face of the Taoist was covered with a thick layer of mosaic.
Seeing that Wang Ling was particularly concerned about this photo, Lotus Sun asked tacitly, "Do you remember when this photo was released?"
"I remember I saved it half a month ago. But she should have posted the photos on the Internet much earlier. Also, this is the only photo she took with someone on that platform, "Chen Qin said.
"In other words, the Taoist priest in the photo might be the last person to see her."
…
After obtaining a new lead from Chen Qin, Wang Ling and Lotus Sun immediately set out on the next step of their operation.
Wang Ling took Lotus Sun to Line 19, the terminus of the subway at Qingshan Lake.
It was on the outskirts of the city, and there were almost no people living there. There were only a few people camping there on weekends, and almost no one could be seen on weekdays.
Seeing that there was no one in the carriage, Lotus Sun asked cautiously, "Wang Ling, you should be able to restore the mosaic in the photo, right?"
"Mm."
Wang Ling nodded, then handed over the photo in his hand. Lotus Sun was stunned to find that Wang Ling had actually removed the mosaic.
Standing next to the vlogger who looked very much like Chen Qin was a female Taoist priest. She didn't look very old, and looked to be about the age of a high school student. She wore a long white robe, and her beautiful black hair was coiled up with a purple Taoist hairpin. She held a pink horsetail whisk in her hand and wore cute straw sandals.
Lotus Sun was flabbergasted. She was clearly such a cute girl … but she was actually a female Taoist priest?
If this girl was in a proper high school, she felt that she would definitely be the dream girl of many boys.
But on the other hand, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Good, good …
She was a female Taoist priest.
Otherwise, she would have had more strange competitors!
But having said that, there was one thing that astonished Lotus Sun.
Wang Ling was actually able to tell which Taoist temple this cute little female Taoist priest came from just by looking at the photo. That was a little too inconceivable.
Nowadays, Taoist temples mostly wore plain clothes like cyan, white or black, and they didn't have any special logos on them. There were more than one hundred thousand Taoist temples of all sizes in the country, and each one had a different name. Apart from the fact that most Taoist temples were located on mountains, there didn't seem to be much in common.
She felt that Wang Ling had probably deduced this female Taoist priest's identity before.
Who would have thought that when they arrived at the entrance of the Taoist temple …
When a child who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old but was dressed in Taoist robes saw Wang Ling, a stunned expression appeared on his face. He hurriedly put down his broom and ran into the Taoist temple, shouting, "It's Scholar Wang! Scholar Wang is here! Senior Sister Yue Qing! "
Lotus Sun's expression froze slightly at this sudden announcement, and only after a moment of daze did she see the Taoist temple's plaque clearly.
The three words "Wind and Thunder Manor" were written on it.
This was a Taoist temple that Lotus Sun had never heard of before. She knew about Qingshan Lake, but she had never known that there was such a Taoist temple on a mountain about five kilometers away from it.
A trace of doubt flitted across her mind.
Wang Ling had found his way here just by looking at the photo. Lotus Sun had thought that this was the result of a deduction, but judging from the little Taoist priest's reaction just now, she suddenly felt that perhaps Wang Ling and this remote little Taoist temple had some kind of strange connection?
No way …
It couldn't be that coincidental, right?
Her heart was pounding.
At that moment, the petite and adorable female Taoist priest from the photo walked out of the Taoist temple with a smile on her face, her pink horsetail whisk in her straw sandals.
"Long time no see, Scholar Wang."
She took the initiative to step forward and looked at Wang Ling's face without any hesitation.
There seemed to be some ambiguity in her eyes.
After a long while, she turned her gaze to Lotus Sun on the side, then flung the horsetail whisk aside and stretched out her hand. "Hello, female Taoist priest, I am You Yueqing, the eldest senior sister of Wind and Thunder Taoist Temple."
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