Chapter 14: Geomancy
"Why did you buy so many acacia beans? Are you going to confess your love to the girl?" Chen Duo gossiped.
Xu said , "This thing is called acacia seeds in the industry. It is useful if you buy it."
Chen Duo didn't understand either. Seeing him take out a velvet bag and put it on the table, she asked, "What is this?"
Xu said it was a compass.
"Compass? Let me see!" Chen Duo was excited. She had only seen this thing on TV and in novels.
He took the compass in his hand and looked at it over and over for a while, then looked at Xu Lai and asked, "What are you going to do with this compass later?"
After hearing Xu say yes, she immediately said, "Then I'll go too!"
"Aren't you going home?" Xu Lai wondered.
"I can't change my mind!"
"OK."
After the two finished eating and came out of the store, they walked along the street. Xu Lai took out a compass and held it in his hand, observing the movement of the compass as he walked.
Chen Duo followed him carrying a bag of acacia seeds, full of questions, but seeing how focused he was, she didn't dare to disturb him.
Passersby cast strange looks at them, but Chen Duo was born with the ability to see ghosts and ghosts, and had seen all kinds of strange things since childhood, so his psychological quality was needless to say, and he didn't feel uncomfortable.
"What are you doing?" Chen Duo finally found an opportunity to ask.
I only heard him say that he was calculating the five elements to measure the Feng Shui position.
"You're also a Feng Shui master part-time?" Chen Duo wondered. Using a compass to determine the Feng Shui position, isn't that what a Feng Shui master does? They help people find cemeteries and so on.
"A magician has to know everything." Xu Lai said as he observed the surrounding terrain.
"You are a jack of all trades and master of none of them. No wonder you are a half-baked person," said Chen Duo.
Xu Lai smiled, did not refute, and continued walking forward.
"Why are you calculating this?" Chen Duo originally thought that he had taken a job to check the Feng Shui of someone's house, but now it seems that's not the case. How can someone run around the streets to check Feng Shui?
"Looking for someone." Xu said.
"Looking for someone? Looking for whom?" Chen Duo was surprised. She really didn't know that the compass could also be used to find people.
Xu Lai stopped and carefully observed the surrounding terrain with a compass. He said, "Do you still remember the sister of the Zhao family that I mentioned?"
"Oh." Chen Duo was stunned for a moment and said, "You mean Zhao Wenjun?"
"He's also from your school. Do you recognize him?" Xu Lai asked.
Chen Duo shook her head. There were so many people at Jiangning University, it was impossible for her to know every one of them.
"She is a great beauty with great looks and figure." Xu said.
Chen Duo was so upset when she heard this. They were talking about serious matters, but why did they end up talking about beauties?
"The three tenants who lived in my room before were all pretty, right?" he continued.
"Of course. All three girls are models. They have good figures and good temperament," said Chen Duo.
"Kanglu is pretty, too, right?"
"That's all." Chen Duo said, and suddenly a thought popped up in her mind, "You don't think Zhao Wenjun was also murdered, do you?"
"It's hard to say now."
"No way." Chen Duo was surprised, "It's possible that he just went out to play."
"That would be the best." Xu said, and then asked, "Do you think that person is a man or a woman?"
The person he was referring to was naturally the one who harmed Kang Lu and the three model girls.
"Of course it's a man. Didn't you see that he specifically targets pretty girls? He must be a pervert!" Chen Duo gnashed with hatred.
"That's not necessarily true." Xu Lai said.
"How can it be certain? Otherwise, why would he specifically pick pretty girls?" Chen Duo disagreed.
"Kang Lu and the three girls have never been violated, right?"
"Yes." Chen Duo was an eyewitness to both of these events, so he naturally knew them very well.
Although Kang Lu and the other three were stripped naked, there were no signs of being violated.
Chen Duo also reacted quickly: "So what you mean is that the pervert is a woman?"
"Not necessarily." Xu said.
"So what do you mean?" Chen Duo was angry. She was almost confused by what he said.
"Haha, everything is possible. It's hard to say now." Xu Lai smiled.
Chen Duo despised.
"Then if you use this compass to calculate, you can find Zhao Wenjun?" she asked.
"I hope we can't find it." Xu said.
"Then what do you mean?" Chen Duo was angry. She was really confused by this guy.
Then I heard him say, "I'm calculating a few other places where accidents might happen."
Chen Duo immediately understood what he meant. Since this method was used to find the place where the accident happened, if Zhao Wenjun could be found, it meant that Zhao Wenjun had already been in trouble. Of course, it would be best if he could not be found.
"But can you find the next place where something will happen by calculating like this? Besides, are you so sure that the pervert will commit crimes again?" Chen Duo didn't believe it. This was even more amazing than a fortune teller.
Xu Lai surveyed the surrounding terrain and said after a while: "Have you ever read the Thirteen Diagrams of Sex Techniques?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Duo blushed and said, "I have seen a little bit." Ever since what happened last night, she specifically looked up the "Thirteen Illustrations of the Art of Sex".
These thirteen illustrations are actually thirteen pictures about the art of sex handed down from ancient times, and each picture depicts a posture of a man and a woman.
Then I heard Xu say, "Since that person knows about vaginal tattoos, he must not be an amateur like you."
"What do you mean by an outsider like me?" Chen Duo was angry, but what the other person said was true. She was indeed an outsider who knew nothing.
"So this man killed people according to the Thirteen Illustrations of the Art of Sex, and it was definitely not a whim or a sudden impulse. Instead, he had a purpose and was carefully prepared. So far, only four of the thirteen illustrations have appeared ." Xu Lai continued.
"You mean that pervert wants to kill until he has completed thirteen pictures? Damn, what on earth is this guy going to do?" Chen Duo suddenly came to her senses. Actually, from the current point of view, Kang Lu was rescued by them, so in fact only three pictures appeared.
"We should set up a formation." Xu said.
"Formation?" Chen Duo suddenly had an idea. "So you calculated the locations where the other pictures would appear based on the formation, right?"
"You're quite smart." Xu Lai said with a smile.
"Of course I need to say that!" Chen Duo was disdainful and quickly approached to ask, "Hey, what kind of formation is this guy setting up?"
Then he said, “I don’t know.”
"Don't know?" Chen Duo was stunned.
"Yeah, I don't know much about the art of sex." Xu said.
Chen Duo despised him. He could tell what position it was at a glance that day, and he didn't know much about the art of sex. When he thought of the situation at that time, Chen Duo was so angry that his teeth itched.
"How can you calculate it if you don't know what the formation is?" Chen Duo asked unhappily.
"We can only work backwards based on basic principles," Xu said.
Chen Duo doesn't know much about the magician profession, but after all, she is a top student who was admitted to Jiangning University. Although many things are in different industries, they all have something in common.
Xu Lai's story is like solving a difficult math problem. If you know the algorithm for the problem, you can just apply the formula and calculate it step by step, and you will definitely be able to solve the problem in the end.
But Xu Lai's current situation is like using the most basic principles of mathematics to deduce the problem without knowing the algorithm formula. The difficulty is extremely different.
"Can you do it?" Chen Duo was seriously skeptical. Even a great professor couldn't do something like this, let alone a half-baked student like Xu Lai.
The two walked and talked, and after a few hours, they turned two more streets.
"You must be tired, landlord. You should go back first." Xu Lai said as he continued the survey.
"This is nothing!" Chen Duo was not exaggerating. When she went shopping with her bestie, she walked much more than she does now. She took out her phone and checked it. It was already past twelve o'clock.
Then I heard Xu Lai smiled and said, "Aren't you sleepy? You still have to go to school tomorrow, right?"
Chen Duo was indeed a little sleepy. When he said that, she yawned twice in a row: "How long will it take you?"
"I guess I'll have to stay up all night." Xu Lai counted and realized there were still several places he hadn't visited.
"Ah? You don't plan to sleep?" Chen Duo was surprised.
"Let's finish the calculation and go to sleep."
"Is it so miserable to be a mage?" Chen Duo sighed.
"got used to."
"I'm telling you, you still need to improve your level. Look at those powerful masters, they live in mansions and drive luxury cars, why would they need to work as hard as you do?" Chen Duo taught.
"Those aren't magicians."
"what is that?"
“They are not qualified.”
"Tsk, I think you're just jealous!"
…
In the end, Chen Duo did not go back early, and she managed to stay up with Xu Lai until five in the morning. However, she felt unwell already, yawning constantly and staggering as she walked.
"Let's go, let's go back and sleep." Xu Lai finished work.
"Oh." Chen Duo responded in a daze and followed him.
After returning to Zijin Garden, Xu Lai sent Chen Duo home and went back to his room. He washed up and lay down on the sofa to sleep.
I didn't wake up until I was woken by the alarm set on my mobile phone. I opened my eyes and saw that it was already light outside. It was half past seven. I had probably slept for more than an hour.
He got up, washed his face, and prepared to go out.
As soon as I walked to the door, I found someone outside. I opened the door and saw a long-haired girl sitting cross-legged at the door, her head against the wall, squinting and dozing off. There was a large incubator next to her.
Xu Lai walked up and patted her on the shoulder.
The little girl was startled and woke up. When she saw that it was Xu Lai, she immediately got up and called out in a crisp voice, "Master Brother."
"Minmin, why are you here?" Xu Lai was surprised.
"Master brother, are you going out? Can you let me go in first?" Zhao Xiaomin said, rubbing his eyes.
Xu Lai smiled and let her in.
