From time to time, I encountered monks wearing monk's robes passing by. Most of them looked serious, but they also walked in a hurry.
Su Fei followed the handyman team, observing the surroundings with God-tier Insight Technique calmly.
He noticed that Moon Wheel Temple's defense was quite tight during the day, with monks patrolling every few dozen meters.
Soon, everyone was taken to the kitchen in the back mountain. The kitchen was large and filled with smoke, and more than a dozen handymen were busy washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, and lighting the fire.
Su Fei Seeing that there is pork and fish here, it seems that these monks are living a very good life.
Several monks in yellow robes stood aside and gave instructions in a stern tone.
"Hurry up, lunch needs to be provided to the senior brothers in the front hall, and you can't bear the delay."
The outside deacon handed Su Fei and others to the monk in charge of the kitchen.
"Steward Liu, I have brought you people. They are all very agile. You can take care of the arrangements."
Steward Liu is a fat monk with a face full of flesh. He glanced at Su Fei and others.
"I know, let's go."
Then he turned to Su Fei and others, and his voice suddenly became stern.
"Listen to me, all of you. Let me tell you about the rules of the kitchen. First, you are only allowed to move around in the kitchen and the utility room. You are not allowed to wander around, especially in the back mountains. Don't go thousands of miles away. Second, you have to work quickly and don't be lazy. Third, don't ask what you shouldn't ask and don't look at what you shouldn't see. If you violate one of these rules, you will be kicked out immediately without any payment."
"Got it."
Everyone responded quickly.
Steward Liu pointed to a corner filled with vegetables and said to Su Fei.
"Go and wash the vegetables. Clean all the radishes and cabbages for me. They must be washed before the afternoon. If they are not cleaned thoroughly, you will not be allowed to eat dinner."
Su Fei nodded, picked up the bucket and walked to the well to get water to wash vegetables.
While he was washing vegetables and working, he observed his surroundings.
This little bit of work is nothing to him.
Su Fei was busy in the kitchen until evening, and then waited for Steward Liu's rest order.
He followed other busboys to the busboy canteen. In the cafeteria, there was only brown rice and bland vegetable soup. The busboys wolfed them down one by one, and no one said anything.
Su Fei took a few bites and then followed everyone back to the service room.
The so-called utility room is a simple adobe house with five bunk beds inside.
As soon as they entered the door, several handymen had been working all day. They lay down on the bed and fell asleep immediately. After a while, they heard snoring one after another.
Su Fei is different from them. He is not sleepy at all. For Body-tempering Grandmaster Realm martial artist, this kind of work is not even a warm-up.
Lying on the bunk in the corner, closing his eyes to rest, he was actually observing in secret. When everyone's breathing gradually became calmer, it was obvious that everyone was fast asleep.
At midnight, the moonlight was covered by dark clouds, and the temple was completely dark.
Su Fei stood up slowly without disturbing anyone.
He pushed open the door, cast Floating Light Shadowy Movement Skill, and passed through the handyman area, heading towards the back mountain.
The body shape is like a big bird.
If I am not allowed to go to the back mountain, I will go there.
There are indeed fewer Moon Wheel Temple guards at night than during the day, and the intervals between patrolling monks are very long.
Su Fei used the blind corner to avoid, God-tier Insight Technique predicted the guard's route in advance, and the road was smooth.
Just when he saw the outline of the mountain behind, he suddenly smelled a strange aroma in his nose. The aroma was mixed with sandalwood, stronger than what Vajra Temple had smelled, and also had a hint of sweetness.
Hey, this is it?
Su Fei With a thought in his heart, he quietly walked forward following the scent, and soon he saw a place that looked like a medicine garden.
There are no guards around this medicinal garden, only a fence surrounding it. Hundreds of red lotus flowers are planted inside, and the fragrance is emitted from these lotus flowers.
Su Fei climbed over the fence and came close to the edge of a red lotus, just about to reach out and pick one.
Then I felt dizzy, and my whole body's real energy suddenly became stagnant.
He was shocked, there was indeed something wrong with the lotus.
Fortunately, he reacted very quickly and immediately activated Nine Yang Divine Art. The color True Essence washed through the meridians like a tide, instantly dispelling the strangeness in his body, and the discomfort quickly disappeared.
"What a domineering poison. Even I, Master, have fallen victim to it. If this was refined into a pill and put on the battlefield, it would bring many armies to a standstill."
"No wonder there are no guards here, but there are no guards at all."
Su Fei stared at Honglian, his eyes a little solemn.
The fragrance exuded by this lotus can silently paralyze the warrior True Essence. If it were an ordinary warrior, he would have been stunned.
Yes, the monk Vajra Temple was poisoned by the red lotus and was killed without any resistance.
He carefully observed these red lotuses and found that the roots of each red lotus were sunk in the black soil, and there was still a faint smell of blood in the soil. These red lotuses were actually watered with blood.
"Using blood to raise this kind of red poisonous lotus, Moon Wheel Temple's plot is not small. They must have done a lot of killing and extermination of families. They absolutely can't help but investigate. If we report Imperial Guard Pacification Office now and let them investigate, I will definitely make a lot of contributions."
However, since the Vajra Temple family murder case is about to be investigated clearly, let's get to the bottom of it first.
Su Fei did not stay here for long. He remembered the appearance of Honglian in his heart and searched the medicine garden again. No other abnormalities were found, so he temporarily quit.
Cast Fleeting Light Shadow and continue towards the back mountain.
Su Fei watched as the outline of the back mountain continued to deepen. In the night, the outlines of several attic buildings gradually became clearer.
Most of these attics are stone and wood structures with simple shapes. Most of them are dark at the moment. Only the deepest attic shines with a faint golden light, which is particularly eye-catching in the night.
"Let's see where we go first."
Su Fei's eyes were focused, and he used Floating Light Shadowy Movement Skill to fly to the roof of the attic. He pointed his toes on the tiles without making any sound.
He leaned close to the eaves and pressed his fingers slightly. A thin crack immediately opened on the edge of the tiles. With God-tier Insight Technique running, the scene inside the house came into view clearly.
On the altar in the center of the attic, a golden relic the size of a child's fist was suspended on the altar. It was emitting a soft but bright light, illuminating the entire attic as bright as day.
The surface of the relic is engraved with fine Buddhist seals, and golden light flows around it. It is Gilded Sarira given by the emperor Great Xuan.
Su Fei held his breath and glanced at other places in the room, where there were two other people.
On the left side stands a monk in yellow robes. He is about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, with a haggard face, and his brows are full of sorrow and regret.
Su Fei noticed that his robes were very different from those of monk Moon Wheel Temple.
On the right is a woman wearing Western Regions style clothing.
Wearing a goose-yellow gauze skirt that outlines her graceful figure, with a crescent-shaped jade pendant hanging around her waist, deep eyebrows, skin as good as snow, and a high nose, she is a perfect Western Regions beauty.