In addition, Su Jing released his spiritual force to carefully detect the area where the small white mouse had smelled the sweat. He found that there were obviously some traces of friction left behind.
However, based on these clues alone, Su Jing could only say that he had found suspicious points, and he couldn’t determine exactly what had happened or where Xiao Rui might be.
Even if he called the Battle Wolf and searched for Xiao Rui based on his scent, it would be a matter of luck whether they would be able to find him in a city filled with so many different smells.
Su Jing released his spiritual force to carefully probe the surroundings, trying to analyze what had happened through these clues. Suddenly, an idea occurred to him.
He remembered the bronze mirror that he had just dug out from the “The Immortal Gourd” universe garbage. This bronze mirror could directly show him what had happened in the past, without the need for any analysis.
“Look around and see if you can find any items that Xiao Rui might have left behind,” Su Jing said.
“Okay,” Mao Jingyu replied, although he felt that Su Jing was just messing around. He thought it would be better to call the police at this point.
However, he had some understanding of Su Jing’s identity and still held a certain level of respect for him. So, he followed Su Jing’s instructions and began searching the area.
Su Jing waited for Mao Jingyu to walk a few meters away before taking out the broken bronze mirror and injecting True Qi into it. On the bronze mirror, the scene suddenly appeared, but instead of showing Xiao Rui, it showed Su Jing and Mao Jingyu.
Su Jing rested for a while, waiting for his True Qi to recover, and tried again, but the result was still the same. The bronze mirror could indeed show what had happened before, but only for the past ten seconds.
“It doesn’t seem to be working. I won’t be able to use this mirror until my True Qi becomes stronger,” Su Jing said with a sigh of frustration.
He then picked up Xiao Rui’s sweaty clothes from the ground and opened the Spirit Beast Bag, releasing countless mice that began to sniff around, picking up Xiao Rui’s scent. They then entered the sewer and disappeared from view.
These mice had been specially bred by Su Jing. Although they weren’t trained as elites and hadn’t been fed much Magical Beast meat, they were still much more powerful than ordinary mice.
After a while, some of the mice returned, each carrying something in their mouths.
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The mice that returned had something in their mouths – a piece of tattered cloth, which made Su Jing frown. The small white mouse sniffed it and made a couple of squeaks.
“Squeak-Squeak-Squeak.” This indicated that there was nothing wrong with it and that it had Xiao Rui’s scent on it.
“Where did you find it?” Su Jing asked.
“From there,” One mouse said, pointing east.
“Over there,” Another mouse said, pointing south.
Other mice also reported finding the cloth in different directions.
This made Su Jing’s face darken and a very bad feeling arose in his heart.
More mice returned with pieces of cloth in their mouths. Su Jing asked the small white mouse to use its Stand ability to repair the cloth. As he had expected, the pieces quickly came together and formed an undershirt.
“It seems that Little Rui is in deep danger,” Su Jing said, frowning. The smell of sweat was so strong that the mice could detect it, so the undershirt must have belonged to Xiao Rui.
The fact that it was shattered into pieces and scattered in all directions couldn’t have happened by accident, which meant that someone had likely done it on purpose.
This also means that Xiao Rui was likely caught and that the other party had probably been investigating him, at least knowing about his animal tracking ability. They used anti-tracking methods to tear up Xiao Rui’s sweatshirt and scatter it in various places so that Su Jing wouldn’t be able to find them.
“What do we do now? Even the Battle Wolf and the Mice can’t track him by scent. Little Rui has been caught and I don’t know what might happen to him and I can’t delay for a moment,” Su Jing said, becoming extremely anxious.
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He gritted his teeth, took out the bronze mirror again, took a deep breath, and injected all of the True Qi into his body, hoping to see what had happened earlier.
A picture appeared in the mirror, but there was no one in it. Su Jing subconsciously thought that he had failed again and that the result was the same as before, but after thinking about it, his eyes lit up.
After he arrived at this location, it took him at least ten seconds before he took out the bronze mirror and used it for the first time. That’s why he and Mao Jingyu appeared in the bronze mirror.
Later, Mao Jingyu was ordered to go away by Su Jing, but Su Jing himself had been there for more than ten minutes. If the bronze mirror still only showed the past ten seconds, then Su Jing should still be in the picture.
But without Su Jing, didn’t that mean that the bronze mirror was showing what had happened ten minutes ago?
Sure enough, after a few seconds, Su Jing and Mao Jingyu appeared on the screen of the bronze mirror, and the two had just arrived. However, the screen soon disappeared and Su Jing’s True Qi was also exhausted. The entire process lasted for about twelve or thirteen seconds.
“Could it be that I was wrong before? When I use this bronze mirror, I can only see a dozen or so seconds from the past, but the specific ten or so seconds I see are completely under my control,” Su Jing thought happily.
He quickly sat down by the tree and worked hard to recover his Green-Wood True Qi. Then, he tried using the bronze mirror again and the result was exactly as he had thought.
He could control it to see more than ten seconds in the past – for example, one hour ago, two hours ago, or even five hours ago.
“Little Rui went out for a run, it should have been after 7 o’clock. He goes to work at 9 o’clock, so his accident should have happened between the past 8 hours and the present. Let’s first adjust the time to 8 hours ago,” Su Jing thought, and the bronze mirror quickly switched the screen.
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