Chapter 1972 (One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Two) Detour
After hearing this, Tie Hongyan immediately wrote some words on the paper and asked Wu Xunsheng if Hou Xueyian had taken anything out of the bag.
Wu Xunsheng recalled for a while and said: "It seems not. When he was near Qixing Zuirin Pavilion, he probably didn't touch the bag. I couldn't see clearly, but I think he wanted to observe the surroundings while also looking at the surroundings. There doesn’t seem to be much time to take things out of the bag to do those actions, right? Even if it is done with very small movements, I can’t see it.”
Tie Hongyan wrote some words and asked Wu Xunsheng if he felt that Hou Xueyian always standing in the same position had something to do with his practice.
Wu Xunsheng nodded and said: "Yes, that's what I think. I think he was in that position to do it to Qixing Zuirin Pavilion, and I feel..." Wu Xunsheng thought about it.
After Tie Hongyan looked at him, he wrote on the paper and told him to just tell him what he felt at that time.
Wu Xunsheng said: "I think Hou Xueyian was practicing the method before. He went to the Qixing Zuiling Pavilion just to practice the method. Moreover, I really feel that he needs to stand in a specific place to perform the method, otherwise he can be in a larger place. Practice in a hidden place. When Hou Xueyian sees others passing by, he hides in a place where he is not easily seen. Logically speaking, shouldn’t it be enough for him to just perform the practice in that place? Why should he always go back to where he was before? I think he's going back to that position just to do it."
Tie Hongyan also thought that this was probably the case. He wrote to ask Wu Xunsheng and Hou Xueyian what happened to them.
Wu Xunsheng told Tie Hongyan: "Later, Hou Xueyuan took another path and left. Out of curiosity, I followed him for a while. Although he took another path, he was actually taking a detour."
Tie Hongyan asked him if Hou Xueyian later walked on the same road he had walked before.
Wu Xunsheng said: "You guessed it right again. When he returned from the vicinity of Qixing Zuirin Pavilion, whether it was the path he walked on when he came or the path he didn't walk on when he came, later he could He walked to the main road he took when he came, so I said he was taking a long way around. In fact, he didn't have to take the small road at all. It would be much closer if he walked the same way he came." Tie Hongyan wrote. Asked Wu Xunsheng, he felt that the reason why Hou Xueyian took a long way around was because he wanted to prevent others from discovering something, or because he wanted to do something related to magic on the road.
Wu Xunsheng said: "I don't know, I didn't see anything in this aspect."
Tie Hongyan wrote some words and asked Wu Xunsheng if he thought Hou Xueyian might be practicing magic on the way back.
After Wu Xunsheng thought of this, he said, "Are you thinking that the fact that Hou Xueyuan took another path when he went back has something to do with the location of the practice, and then he secretly performed the practice on the way back?"
Tie Hongyan told him by writing that she thought this was one of the possibilities.
Wu Xunsheng said: "At that time, I saw that he didn't seem to be making any obvious movements, and he didn't seem to be practicing the magic on the way back. However, if he was practicing the magic secretly by silently reciting incantations, it would be hard to say."
Tie Hongyan wrote some words to express that what Wu Xunsheng said made sense. If Hou Xueyuan acted secretly, outsiders would not be able to understand it.
Tie Hongyan asked Wu Xunsheng again by writing whether Hou Xueyian looked around as before on the way back.
(End of chapter)