Xiong Hui wanted to ask Liu Qingquan for more advice, but was scared off by Tan Xiao's threatening gesture of pinch him. "You dare say more?"

Tan Xiao walked over and carefully studied the stack of draft papers. Although Xiong Hui was talking nonsense, his words just now reminded Tan Xiao and gave him some ideas.

As soon as Tan Xiao turned around, Xiong Hui shook his head and said to everyone in a very low voice, "The wrath of the emperor."

Everyone: "............"

Tan Xiao stared at the draft paper. Mu Fei had used a variety of divination methods. He had been looking at the hexagrams just now, but they were too numerous and difficult to speculate, and he had no idea what Mu Fei was calculating.

When Xiong Hui mentioned the Yellow River Chart, Tan Xiao suddenly wondered kind of thing would require so many divination methods? And repeated calculations at that.

If it's not the case at hand, but the Celestial Book, wouldn't it also make sense?

After all, Mu Fei doesn't have any major cases on hand right now. As for the runes at the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh, they are still a hot topic that many people continue to pay attention to. It's not impossible for Mu Fei to study it privately herself.

Xiong Hui's words were truly an eye-opener.

Tan Xiao had also seen the patterns at the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh on the news at the time. He thought, if he were to solve it, what divination method would he use? His gaze slid over the hexagrams on Mu Fei's stack of draft papers and landed on the Nine Palaces.

Mu Fei's divination methods included the Nine Palaces, which also originated from the Yellow River Chart. The patterns at the bottom of the lake were relatively regular. If it were him, he might also consider starting from the Nine Palaces.

To verify his idea, Tan Xiao took a blank sheet of paper, found a screenshot from the news, and started calculating.

The Taoist priests took a look and, as insiders, thought, he had a way!

"Could it be that Director Mu was calculating the runes of Yunmeng Marsh?"

"It's very likely! These days, there are many people in the Taoist community who are interpreting these patterns. Some are consulting ancient books, some are drawing them into talismans, and some are even offering rewards. Director Mu thought of directly divining them?"

"We'll know by looking at the calculation results."

Tan Xiao had already converted the patterns into numbers. In comparison, although the order was different, it was consistent with the content of Mu Fei's draft paper. It could be determined that before Mu Fei fell into a coma, she was indeed interpreting the patterns at the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh!

She first transformed them into the Nine Palaces, obtained numbers, and then used them to calculate and transform into various other hexagrams.

"I was only thinking about Mu Fei's cases at hand!" Liu Qingquan slapped his forehead, feeling very regretful. How could he not have thought of that?

This was a case of being too close to see clearly. Everyone's first thought must have been Mu Fei's own work.

"So what's the current situation with the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh? You guys haven't found out anything internally either?" Tan Xiao remembered to ask. This matter was widely talked about outside, and the people from the Bureau 404 were actually also investigating in Yunmeng, but he didn't know the results.

"No, Yunmeng Marsh is really too big, and there are many different types of creatures there. It would take who knows how long just to visit them all. And that pattern doesn't seem to have any harmful effects for now, so we've temporarily put it on hold." Liu Qingquan said. This is how it is when there's not enough manpower and too many cases.

Speaking of harmful effects...

"So does this have anything to do with Director Mu's coma?" Duan Yang looked around and asked cautiously, "Does anyone have any clues?"

The orange cat in the arms of the Elder Baoping playfully pawed at the draft paper. The elder held it securely and pointed at the paper.

"I understand what the elder means. If there is a connection, the premise must be that Mu Fei discovered something, or even deciphered the meaning of the runes. If we also try to solve it, we may have the answer." Liu Qingquan understood and said, "Let's follow Mu Fei's train of thought and give it a try."

That makes sense.

There are many hexagrams here, and it's unknown which one Mu Fei ultimately chose.

"Fortunately, there are many of us here. Why don't we each take one and interpret it ourselves?"

An elder Taoist priest suggested, and everyone agreed. They each set up their own formations and started studying a hexagram.

Tan Xiao, however, did not move. Interpreting hexagrams was really not his forte.

"What's wrong with the Spirit Master? Want to divine together?" Duan Yang didn't know why Tan Xiao was spacing out.

"No... um, where's Sister Mu's cell phone?" Tan Xiao asked.

"Here, here." Xiong Hui brought Mu Fei's cell phone over from the bedside and handed it to Tan Xiao.

This was Mu Fei's work phone and had no password. Tan Xiao directly unlocked it and swiped up, finding that the recently used apps were WeChat, Photos, Calculator, Eight Trigrams Arrangement software, etc...

He couldn't see anything unusual. They were all normal for calculation purposes.

But the others' interpretations of the hexagrams yielded different answers, saying all sorts of things. One even calculated, "Hmm, it seems that next year's dry season in Yunmeng Marsh may come earlier."

Xiong Hui, on the other hand, was staring at the accessories on Tan Xiao's body. Tan Xiao always had a bunch of cultural and creative products jingling on him. Xiong Hui's eyes fell on a peacock jade ornament. "Could this be..."

"Oh, this was given by Kong Xuan." Tan Xiao had originally planned to put it away, after all it was a cultural relic, but Kong Xuan insisted that he wear it on him like a keychain, the same as himself.

Tan Xiao even thought that if he encountered an expert like Old Ji who could tell the authenticity at a glance, he would probably be turned over to the state.

Hearing Tan Xiao's words, Xiong Hui's eyes turned wisely and he said, "I read in history books that back in the day, the Chu people made the He's Jade Disc. Qin Shi Huang obtained it and made it into the imperial jade seal, engraved with 'Mandated by Heaven, long life and eternal prosperity'. Later, when Qin Shi Huang toured Yunmeng, he once threw the imperial jade seal into the water. There were rumors that the imperial jade seal that was lost and found again eight years later was a fake, and the real one was still at the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh. If this is really related to the Celestial Book of Yunmeng Marsh, then I will accompany the Spirit Master to Yunmeng Marsh to retrieve everything that belongs to the Spirit Master!"

Tan Xiao: "...You really read a wide variety of books."

He was willing to read all kinds of official and unofficial histories, and seemed to have read quite a few novels too.

But without clarifying the major premise, even if they went to Yunmeng Marsh, was it to let him go find the imperial jade seal? It was to figure out what happened to Mu Fei!

Tan Xiao made up his mind. He couldn't wait any longer. He couldn't be afraid of affecting everyone's signal just because there were many people here.

He made a crane hand seal and chanted, "Great God!"

The other elder Taoist priests hadn't even reacted yet. After all, they had never seen anyone with such a short invocation chant. It was equivalent to setting a speed dial on the phone. A flash of divine light appeared in the room, and a figure appeared suspended in midair.

Kong Xuan was wearing a black robe and was not wearing a headdress today, his hair simply tied up. He was holding a pen in his hand, which he tucked into his sleeve when no one was looking.

He slowly descended a little and stepped on Xiong Hui's head with his foot, "Why have you summoned me?"

The stunned crowd: "!!!"

Ah! What!

What just happened! Why did someone suddenly speed dial, and the god descended in a second!

The half-done movements froze, and everyone was dumbfounded. What's the situation?

"I invited the god to solve a problem," Tan Xiao smiled at everyone, "Can the great god help take a look?"

Everyone: You shamans don't go too far...

Kong Xuan's divination skills were not precise. As he said, he didn't need to care about other things and could directly do things. But imprecision is relative. He looked at Mu Fei's situation and understood it in his heart. He took the draft paper and started calculating out of thin air.

"She had already calculated it." Kong Xuan pointed with his finger, and the numbers of the Nine Palaces changed and combined, jumping out a set of numbers, arranged together, and the ink characters fell on the paper again.

"This?" Everyone was stunned. Mu Fei used the patterns to calculate the numbers of the nine palaces, and then used the numbers to calculate the hexagrams, but in the end, she abandoned the hexagram images and went back to calculate those nine palaces?

Tan Xiao looked at the set of numbers Mu Fei had calculated, "What is this... wait!"

He thought of the software Mu Fei had used recently and opened her WeChat on her mobile phone again.

Duan Yang saw him open WeChat, and his pupils shook, "No way, no way..."

Tan Xiao searched for that string of numbers in the address book, and under Duan Yang's excited gaze, it turned out that he didn't find anything.

"You scared me to death. Could it really be the QR code of some Dragon King that netizens mentioned?" Duan Yang thought that would be too explosive.

"Try another phone, maybe it's blocked?" Kong Xuan said from the side.

The others timidly said, "Even if it's blocked, it should still be searchable, right?"

"No, what you said is deletion..."

In fact, they were not particularly familiar with WeChat functions. They talked over each other, and someone even took the opportunity to say that their WeChat always couldn't delete people, which was very strange.

Tan Xiao really tried it with his own phone, searching for the number, and the WeChat information immediately appeared on the screen.

The avatar was a rippling water surface with a shadow underneath.

WeChat name: [Yunmeng Fang Zhu]

Location: Chu Province, Yunmeng

Signature: May all the good fate in the world arrive as scheduled.

Everyone: "...Oh my god!!"

Duan Yang almost screamed, "Add it, add it!"

Tan Xiao clicked to add to contacts, but the other party's settings made it impossible to add.

"Is it this guy?" Tan Xiao looked up at everyone, also feeling very shocked, "What's the situation, posting his own WeChat number and then blocking all the people who add him? Really taking himself to a small black room?"

I don't understand, what kind of logic is this.

"Classmate, you are still too young to understand the subtext." Duan Yang said anxiously, "This is obviously matchmaking, just like those matchmaking corners where people post personal information and contact information.

"It posts contact information at the bottom of Yunmeng Marsh, indicating that I can access such a place and am very capable. Then you can decipher my information, which also counts as passing the initial threshold. Then after chatting, if we hit it off, you'll be taken to Yunmeng Marsh to be a bride!"

"Sister Mu is not even a spirit." Tan Xiao muttered, matchmaking, chatting and losing your soul, it's telecom fraud!

"It's not discriminating against human-spirit love, and our Director Mu still has a braid, which is very popular, okay."

"It's just that we don't know the other party's identity, whether it can be a flood dragon or not. If so, it makes sense. In the past, it was always human shamans throwing people down to offer new brides to them. Now they have to find them themselves..."

Tan Xiao: "..."

How come the arrow turned around and stabbed him.

Tan Xiao said awkwardly, "It shouldn't be a flood dragon, right? Didn't they say that Yunmeng Marsh has several swallow-tailed iron shackles suppressing them, so how can the flood dragon cause trouble. Besides, the time Sister Mu added him must not be long. With her personality, she would definitely report it the first time she made such a discovery, where would she have time to chat and hit it off."

This makes sense, but such details cannot be investigated now. It can only be confirmed that Mu Fei's coma is indeed related to the Yunmeng Marsh matter.

"Anyway, I really thank you all, thank the shaman and Your Highness." Liu Qingquan expressed his sincere gratitude, and the others said they didn't dare to accept it.

Since this matter is indeed related to the Yunmeng Marsh pattern, and the owner of the WeChat account can leave a message at the bottom of the marsh and remotely collect souls through WeChat, he must be a very powerful existence in Yunmeng Marsh and even the monster cultivation world. This must be a major case.

"It's okay, just let me know if you need anything. I hope Sister Mu wakes up soon." Tan Xiao was also anxious for Mu Fei. He was on winter vacation anyway and didn't mind taking a trip.

Xiong Hui hesitated under Kong Xuan's feet, it also really wanted to go...

......

After Tan Xiao said goodbye to old acquaintances such as Duan Yang and Liu Qingquan, he went home and waited for another two days. Sure enough, 404 contacted him, hoping that he could take over this case.

Liu Qingquan smiled bitterly, "We checked this WeChat account, but there was no trace and it was impossible to locate. Water attribute monster cultivators are inherently free-floating and elusive. This fiend may have profound cultivation. Now the old Taoist priests of the responsible unit are all accepting the cases Mu Fei was handling. If the shaman could go with me, that would be the best."

"I know, it's possible." Tan Xiao said as expected, "Let's make an appointment, and I'll pack my luggage."

Liu Qingquan's side was already prepared. He sent the train number. As long as Tan Xiao agreed, he could buy the ticket.

After agreeing, Tan Xiao went to find Tan Chunying and said that he wanted to go to Yunmeng Marsh to travel with a few classmates.

"Oh, that's fine. We Chu people have never been to Yunmeng Marsh. It's good for you to go and see." Tan Chunying became curious, "But in the past, you usually only went out after finishing your homework, right?"

Tan Xiao was at a loss for words for a moment.

"Oh, it's good to relax a bit, there's no need to finish everything at the beginning." Fortunately, Tan Chunying was originally dazed. She laughed a few times and let it go, and even remembered something and joked with him, "Is there someone you like among your classmates?"

Tan Xiao: "..."

"But if you get caught for puppy love by your school, you will be punished..."

Tan Chunying was still talking, and Tan Xiao ran upstairs, "Don't talk nonsense!"

As soon as he went upstairs, he saw Kong Xuan standing at the top of the stairs. He showed what should be a helpless expression, "My mom, sigh..."

He found a suitcase, packed travel supplies, and finally the outfit. The mask was wrapped in foam paper, put in a wooden box, and then put in the suitcase.

"Great God, just stay in the mask and go with me."

Kong Xuan raised an eyebrow and said unhappily, "Why? Can't I go together with a physical body?" Why must he stay in the mask and not let him come out.

Tan Xiao said pitifully, "No, it's because this time Senior Liu Qingquan is going with us. He can take the hidden path, while I'll take the high-speed rail. The ticket needs to go through the reimbursement process, so I'd like to minimize the hassle and not reimburse for two people."

Kong Xuan: "..."

Kong Xuan reluctantly said, "Alright then..."

Before leaving, Tan Xiao also brought along the secret cultivation manual from Pan Longxiang. Since he was going to Yunmeng Marsh, it might come in handy.

It was quite close to take the high-speed rail from Nanchu City to Yunmeng City. After getting off, he took a taxi to the hotel to check in first.

Tan Xiao was pulling his suitcase to handle the check-in at the front desk. He glanced around and noticed that there were a lot of elderly people in the hotel, probably a senior tour group being received.

Two old men were handling their check-in right behind Tan Xiao and struck up a conversation with him. "Young man, you're also from Nanchu, right? We were even in the same train car."

Tan Xiao was stunned for a moment, he couldn't remember at all, but they indeed had a Nanchu accent. So he politely said, "Yes, what a coincidence."

"Meeting a fellow townsman while traveling really makes you feel close. Are you here traveling alone?" The old man asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I'm here on vacation. Are you two as well?" Tan Xiao also asked back out of courtesy. Compared to his light luggage, the two old men not only had suitcases, but also very large backpacks.

"No, we're here for bird shooting." The old man pointed to the people coming and going in the hotel, "The people staying in this hotel are probably all here for that."

"Huh?" Tan Xiao didn't understand. Bird shooting, like hunting?

"Oh, it's birdwatching! Bird photography!" The old man got excited when talking about this. "Is this your first time in Yunmeng? You've come at the perfect time. This is the best season for birdwatching in Yunmeng. Every winter, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds come to Yunmeng to overwinter. Yunmeng even holds a birdwatching festival, we come every year."

Tan Xiao remembered, that's right, Yunmeng is a birdwatching paradise, and it is indeed the migratory bird season now. The old man also mentioned a birdwatching festival being held, so wouldn't there be a lot of tourists? Tan Xiao felt a little worried in his heart. It shouldn't be a problem, Yunmeng Marsh is so vast.

"If you don't have equipment, it doesn't matter. I'll tell you, just rent a pair of binoculars." The old man said enthusiastically, "When you go birdwatching, remember to keep your distance and not make too much noise. Those are wild birds. As for clothing, camouflage isn't necessary, as long as you don't wear bright red, it generally won't attract attention."

Tan Xiao glanced at his suitcase. All the other clothes were fine, but his Taoist robe was red... There was no choice, the classic color scheme of the Chu shaman's uniform was black and red.

Birdwatching was a major highlight of Yunmeng tourism. The old man enthusiastically shared his experience, and even took out his tablet to show Tan Xiao the bird photos he had taken in Yunmeng over the years. There were spectacular scenes of flocks of birds dancing under the sunset glow, as well as detailed close-ups of individual birds.

"So beautiful!" Tan Xiao was captivated by this natural beauty. Such dense flocks of birds couldn't be seen in the city. Especially when the old man swiped to the next photo, it was a close-up of a particular bird species.

The large bird spreading its wings was covered in white feathers, with only the outer edges of its wings being black, even gleaming with a metallic sheen under the sunlight. Its legs were a striking red, and its slender body looked ethereal and graceful, as if it had flown out of a Chinese ink painting.

"What, what bird is this?" Tan Xiao couldn't help but ask. Its elegance was simply unparalleled, displaying a graceful demeanor with extremely simple colors.

"This is called the Oriental White Stork!" The old man, being an expert, immediately answered, "There are only a few thousand of these in the world, a national first-class protected species. Look at this color scheme, it's known as the panda among birds."

The black and white main colors indeed resembled a panda. The old man showed Tan Xiao a few more photos he had taken of the Oriental White Stork. "If you want to see it, pay attention to the shallow water areas, they forage in shallow waters."

"Okay, thank you." Tan Xiao thought to himself, if they could rescue Sister Mu, he could really take some time for birdwatching, it seemed quite interesting. "You take amazing photos, this bird is so beautiful!"

Just as Tan Xiao finished speaking, his suitcase beside him suddenly made a loud "bang" and heavily fell to the ground.

The old man was startled, "Oh, why did it fall, there's no computer or anything inside, right?"

Tan Xiao: "..."

"It's okay, I accidentally kicked it." Tan Xiao picked up the suitcase, "I should go up and put away my luggage first. Thanks, see you later."

"Oh..." The old man scratched his head and said to the young fellow townsman, "Wait a moment, do you want me to send you the photos? I see you quite like the Oriental White Stork..."

Before he could finish, he saw the young man suddenly look flustered and quicken his pace towards the elevator. "Thank you! No need to trouble you!!"