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In the evening, at the square table under the wooden shed.
Chen Mu prepared dinner, two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, as well as a large bowl of silver bead rice mixed with yellow sprout rice.
"You outsiders are so unlucky." Mr. Hao joked with a smile while eating.
"Dong Cheng was about to go to the lower house to become a disciple. But he suddenly disappeared. Let me say, this person is probably dead." Old Hao pointed at the air with chopsticks.
"He always cheated newcomers before, and there are even rumors that he caused a death."
"So the inspector suspects that the person who killed him is among you newcomers." Old Hao looked at Chen Mu with an expression of watching the fun.
"You are from the borderland, and the people Dong Cheng pits the most cruelly are people like you."
"It is only natural that I am being questioned."
Chen Mu was angry: "I just want to farm honestly."
"How could such an incident happen?"
"When the city gate catches fire, the fish in the pond will be affected."
Facing Mr. Hao's teasing look, Chen Mu sighed helplessly.
"Ugh……"
"An unexpected disaster!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 199 Jade Plate
Tongtianfang, grain store.
Chen Mu changed his appearance and bought 200 kilograms of yellow sprout rice at a time, which was his food for a month.
After leaving the grain store, I walked towards the east gate of Tongtianfang, browsing around at will.
Soon, we discovered that there were many more patrol officers in gray clothes on the streets.
"Who is Dong Cheng?"
"Is it worth the inspection office's investigation?"
He appeared to be indifferent, but he glanced at the gray-clad patrolman out of the corner of his eye.
"The fact that the Inspection Office is searching on such a large scale shows that they haven't found any clear clues yet." Chen Mu felt relieved.
Immediately, he couldn't help but complain to Dong Cheng: "Why did you provoke me?"
"Now it's over. I'm gone, and I'm making everyone worried."
"Even death can't let people rest in peace." Chen Mu sighed.
"I'd better stay at home and farm and practice recently."
Just when he was thinking about his future low-key training plan, he saw two patrols suddenly stop a strong man over two meters tall.
"Song Wei?"
"Me?" The sturdy man was puzzled.
"Do you know Dong Cheng?"
The sturdy man immediately looked furious: "I would recognize that guy even if he turned into ashes!"
"Are you on patrol?"
"Has he committed any crime?"
"Great! I'm going to report him! He set people up!"
"What did you say?! You still want to turn Dong Cheng into ashes? How fucking cruel!" One of the inspectors looked at the burly man with surprise.
"No, did you hear what I said clearly?" The sturdy man looked confused.
"Don't move!" Two inspectors grabbed the strong man's hands from the left and right.
"Dong Cheng's disappearance must be related to you!"
Without waiting for the sturdy man to struggle, the two patrolmen firmly controlled him and quickly dragged him into the alley next to him.
Chen Mu: “…”
Is the situation already so serious?
Are the patrols starting to arrest people randomly?!
He immediately found a dark alley and put the yellow rice into the Five Ghosts Bag.
He changed his appearance and clothes again, returned to the grain store, and bought 400 kilograms of yellow sprout rice in one go.
"I'll try not to go out in the next three months."
What if an inspector accidentally catches him?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the sturdy man from before appear indignantly, his face so gloomy that it seemed like water could drip out.
Getting rid of suspicion so quickly?
Before he could figure it out, two patrolmen appeared at the entrance of the alley, each fiddling with a white jade coin in their hands.
"Taking the opportunity to blackmail?" Chen Mu suddenly realized.
Humph! These dirty tricks are inevitable wherever you go!
……
Low mountain courtyard
"It seems that this thing is a treasure." Chen Mu took the white jade plate as big as a human face and looked at it carefully.
The disc is one finger thick, with a mirror-smooth bottom, intricate patterns carved on the front, and a circular depression in the middle.
If the depression had not been opened, Chen Mu would have thought that this was a large white jade coin.
This thing came from Dong Cheng's mustard seed talisman and was placed at the bottom of the wooden cabinet.
At that time, it was casually wrapped in a piece of velvet and placed in a pile of unpolished jade ore.
In his cabinet, apart from the white jade coins, everything else was unknown minerals and medicines.
Chen Mu originally thought that this jade plate was made of a special material. But now it seems that this thing is not simple.
"At least it's a magical weapon."
"Dong Cheng is just a peddler who trades goods on the market."
"He must have some treasure in his hand!"
"It will allow him to become a disciple of the lower house."
"It's the one that made the Inspection Office conduct such a high-profile investigation."
Chen Mu stared at the patterns on the jade plate.
"Should we put the white jade coin here?" He stroked the center of the disc and immediately took out a white jade coin and stuffed it into the depression.
The next moment, the star-shaped pattern on the white jade coin suddenly began to flash with bright white light.
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.
This might really be a precious jade plate!
……
three days later.
A courtyard on a low hill.
Chen Mu sat under the wooden shed, closed his eyes and recited the Baiyang Zhenjie Sutra.
On the low table beside him was a white jade plate. A white jade coin was flashing with fluorescent dots in the center of the plate.
After a long while, Chen Mu opened his eyes and carefully compared various skills and experiences.
Cloud Mirage Spirit Armor Technique, improves by three points in one hour!
Bai Yang's true solution, improve ten points in one hour!
Chen Mu felt the cool touch coming from the silver lines between his eyebrows.
"Earth spirit energy?"
Ever since he got the white jade disc, Chen Mu has been trying to test it.
He discovered that as long as he placed white jade coins in the depression of the disc, the concentration of earth spirit energy within three meters around the disc would increase exponentially.
In the past, when I was by the well, it felt like a drizzle was falling between my eyebrows, and I felt a slightly cool touch.
But at this moment he was far away from the well, and it seemed as if a drop of ice was placed between his eyebrows.
This allowed the Spirit Armor Technique, which originally only increased by one point per hour, to be directly increased to three points.
Looking at the white jade coins shining on the round plate, Chen Mu had a strange expression on his face.
"What is this? Spending money to buy earth spirit energy?"
"Why do I feel like I'm buying a data plan in my previous life?"
Just as he was thinking about it, the light of the white jade coin in the center of the disc became weaker and weaker, and finally flickered a few times and went out completely.
Chen Mu picked up the white jade coin. The originally clearly visible silver pattern of stars on it had become dim.
"It's not about spending money to buy the earth's spiritual energy."
“It’s because the money contains earth spiritual energy!” Chen Mu suddenly realized.
White jade is just a carrier, and the earth's spiritual energy is the key to the value of white jade coins!
The jade plate can extract the vital energy from the white jade coins and artificially create an area with extremely high concentration of vital energy.
"This thing must not be discovered by anyone!" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.
As long as he has this disc in his hand and the white jade money on him, he can practice quickly anytime and anywhere.
"No wonder the Inspection Office invested so much money!"