Chapter 89 Fruitless

Zheng Shuang snarled at the shivering Li Shanpao with his eyes wide and livid as if he wanted to swallow him whole, "Think closely! What else did your teacher leave you recently?" "Two pieces of talisman!" Li Shanpao gasped with a shaking voice, "My teacher had made them and he instructed me to keep them safe. But he did not mention their uses and how they could be used!" Zheng Shuang took out two strips of talismans from the table and showed him. "Are these the ones you refer to?" he asked and his detainee replied quickly with a "Yes". I slipped a quiet word into Zheng Shuang's ear, and I took the talismans with me and left. We left the police station and adjourned to another soiree of barbecue skewers. Oddly even to ourselves, we had found ourselves plunged into a never-ending craving for barbecue skewers ever since we had tasted grilled wolf meat at Mongolia. We were then rejoined by Zheng Shuang and we spent the afternoon discussing on how we should deal with Bai Chuanwei. "These two talismans look identical to each other, but Bai Chuanwei did not teach Li Shanpao how to use them," I began deducing and said, "But Li Shanpao has long been his student. He would surely know how to use them if these were the talismans that they usually use! I'd guess that this means that these talismans are new to them both! Bai Chuanwei must have procured them or made them recently! This begs the question: what are the recent changes in their lives?" But none of the others understood what I was trying to imply. They stared blankly at me in bewilderment. "I am quite sure," I revealed to them with a smile, saying, "That the talismans are used to summon the spirit rodent!" To their revelation, Zheng Shuang, Yuan Chongxi, and Lin Feng emitted loud "Ohhhs" as they finally understood my plan: we could use the talismans to ensnare the spirit rodent!