Ye Tiancheng told Lin Yanqin, "My surname is Ye, my given name is Tiancheng. These are all my brothers and friends."
Then, he introduced the names of Little Fox, Nie Chongyang, and Liang Ping one by one.
Although Ye Tiancheng and the others supplemented their words, urging Lin Yanqin not to be too polite, Lin Yanqin was still quite particular and only willing to address them with respectful titles like "Mister."
Seeing that they couldn't persuade Lin Yanqin, Ye Tiancheng and the others eventually stopped insisting.
Since they had to help Lin Yanqin find the ruby pendant, they still needed to go to Lin Yanqin's room, which was currently the earliest point of occurrence for the incident. Only after inspecting it could they make a preliminary judgment.
Fortunately, even if it was a recreation of the past, even if it wasn't exactly in the past time and many years had already passed, it was still likely that clues and evidence from the past would remain and be seen by Ye Tiancheng and the others, even if not at the true location where the event occurred.
As for the loss of the ruby pendant and the need to retrieve it, there was no doubt that Ye Tiancheng had to bring Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping.
Among the people present, who else could be more professional and suitable for this task than these two?
Although Lin Yanqin was born a century ago and was very polite, perhaps because her family did overseas business and had contact with foreign countries, Lin Yanqin's thinking, while not what one would call modern, was not overly conservative.
Therefore, Lin Yanqin did not act overly shy about taking Ye Tiancheng and the others to her room.
Moreover, she was too eager to find the heirloom left by her mother.
From Lin Yanqin's attitude, it was easy to see how important the ruby pendant was to her.
After Lin Yanqin invited Ye Tiancheng and the other three into her room, she began to carefully introduce them to the situation as she knew it.
Although Ye Tiancheng and the other three had accompanied Lin Yanqin to her room, and the hotel owner had said that Lin Yanqin was not dangerous, Ye Tiancheng and the others did not dare to be careless.
Who knew how clearly the hotel owner understood the situation, and whether things would change after Ye Tiancheng and the others got involved.
Such lingering souls with deep obsessions could sometimes be quite terrifying.
When they erupted, they were completely unreasonable and could not be persuaded. Unless their obsessions were resolved or they were directly scattered into soul fragments, there was no room for maneuver, as they simply wouldn't listen.
However, so far, Lin Yanqin's behavior had been normal.
She still appeared to be trapped in a loop of past memories, with no other abnormalities, and had no idea that she had long since passed away, even having been dead for over a hundred years.
She might have even been quite young when she died.
Perhaps her death was closely related to the disappearance of her ruby pendant.
Even if Lin Yanqin would not pose a threat to Ye Tiancheng and the others, perhaps Lin Yanqin's true cause of death could become a threat to Ye Tiancheng and the others. Even a mere loop and reenactment of past memories often meant that the owner of the memory might once again suffer a crisis from the past.
The owner of the memory was the most dangerous, followed by those like Ye Tiancheng who were caught in danger.
The crisis would not simply repeat itself.
It would inevitably threaten anyone existing within this memory.
Lin Yanqin led Ye Tiancheng and the other three around her room, roughly demonstrating and explaining everything she had done before going to sleep. She had simply gone through her normal routine of washing up and changing clothes, and before sleeping, she removed her jewelry. Her treasured ruby pendant was even placed under her pillow.
In this way, if someone wanted to take Lin Yanqin's ruby pendant without disturbing her, it would certainly be difficult.
It was not easy to enter Lin Yanqin's room in the first place.
No matter how you looked at it, a typical hotel's security would not be so bad. After all, if it were this dangerous, no one would dare to stay in that hotel.
Moreover, Lin Yanqin from a hundred years ago was, after all, a young lady of the Lin family.
Lin Yanqin's mother, after losing her utility to Lin's father and becoming tiresome, had indeed fallen out of favor, but this did not affect her child's status.
Lin Yanqin also had two capable elder brothers who firmly held onto the Lin family's business and eventually inherited it smoothly.
Under these circumstances, Lin Yanqin could not have been mistreated.
Therefore, Lin Yanqin would not have been short of money. The current situation in Xiao Jing City could not be entirely compared to the reality a hundred years ago, and the possibility of Lin Yanqin staying in a dilapidated black inn was extremely small.
So, first, let's assume that Lin Yanqin was not staying in a black inn and make deductions based on that.
Since Lin Yanqin had carefully put away the ruby pendant, and she valued it so much, under these circumstances, the possibility of the ruby pendant being accidentally lost was very small.
If it were simply lost, Lin Yanqin would not have been unable to find the whereabouts of the ruby pendant, nor would the loss of the ruby pendant have become Lin Yanqin's lingering obsession after her death.
Therefore, there must be something else going on.
However, if someone had taken Lin Yanqin's ruby pendant, then according to Lin Yanqin's memory, that person must have taken it while Lin Yanqin was still in the room, and even without her noticing.
Moreover, after Lin Yanqin woke up and could not find the pendant anywhere, she would have immediately searched everywhere, and the initial focus of her search would certainly have been in the room.
In that case, the person must have already left by then.
Otherwise, under what circumstances could the person have taken Lin Yanqin's pendant without being discovered, remained in the room without leaving, and still not be discovered?
After finishing her story, Lin Yanqin said to Ye Tiancheng and the others, "This is all I remember. I really can't figure out how my ruby pendant was lost, but it happened nonetheless."
"I don't care about other things, but the ruby pendant is of great significance to me. I absolutely cannot lose it. If you can help me find my pendant, I will reward you generously and thank you."
Ye Tiancheng simply smiled and said, "We're just trying to help find it. We don't have absolute certainty, but we will do our best."
As for Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping, they were already carefully observing the room for any clues that might have been left behind or were present.
They meticulously studied the layout of Lin Yanqin's room, as well as its various structures and furnishings. Lin Yanqin's room, of course, was different from the dormitory beds Ye Tiancheng and the others had rented.
If Ye Tiancheng and the others hadn't been wealthy enough to book an entire room, one could imagine how poor the room conditions would have been. In any case, they were definitely no match for Lin Yanqin's room.
As a young lady of the Lin family, Lin Yanqin would have stayed in the best single room.
In such a room, there would definitely be places where one could hide. If one searched with intent, one could certainly find such places, and by following the clues that might have been left in these places, one could deduce what had happened.
Assuming that someone had indeed sneaked into Lin Yanqin's room while she was not there, hid in a place that was not easily noticeable, and then took the opportunity to steal Lin Yanqin's ruby pendant, this possibility definitely existed, and if it had happened, there would inevitably be traces left behind.
For now, Nie Chongyang and the others would follow this most obvious and most likely scenario to investigate.
However, other possibilities could not be ruled out.
For example, even if the hotel Lin Yanqin stayed in was not small, it was very unfortunate that Lin Yanqin had ended up in a black inn, just a very large one.
Or, there might be other secrets hidden behind the ruby pendant, which might require connecting with certain event clues to make deductions.
Or, Lin Yanqin might have lied to them.
These possibilities all existed, and they had to rule them out one by one before they could say that a certain direction was entirely impossible.
If there were hidden circumstances behind the incident, and the victim chose to conceal them but was still bothered by them, Nie Chongyang and the others, having handled cases for so long, had seen such things many times. If one worked long enough, one would see all kinds of people.
First of all, based on Nie Chongyang and their experience, the places where people could hide were easy to deduce and find.
However, checking for traces might not be so easy.
Firstly, this was a memory reenactment. Although some traces could be preserved, to some extent, it would also be influenced by Lin Yanqin. If there were details that Lin Yanqin simply didn't notice, or if Lin Yanqin had certain meanings for certain things, then some clues and traces might not appear here.
When these clues and traces were hidden, the difficulty for Nie Chongyang and the others to deduce the events would increase significantly.
Besides that, there were naturally other issues.
While Nie Chongyang and the others were carefully searching for clues, Ye Tiancheng and Little Fox were mainly responsible for talking with Lin Yanqin, to see if they could elicit more details from her that might have been overlooked.
Ye Tiancheng asked Lin Yanqin, "The ruby pendant was left to you by your mother, Miss Lin. You also said it was your only heirloom, and being a pendant, it must be quite valuable."
Lin Yanqin nodded at Ye Tiancheng and replied, "Indeed, the ruby pendant my mother left me is very precious and quite expensive. However, to me, the value of the ruby pendant is secondary. It is precious to me because it is the only thing my mother left me."
Ye Tiancheng said, "Oh, I understand."
"But speaking of which, such a precious item should easily attract others' covetousness. I think perhaps someone noticed your pendant and then had wicked intentions, stealing it, it's not impossible."
Lin Yanqin's expression became somewhat troubled upon hearing Ye Tiancheng's words.
She said, "I understand the preciousness of the ruby pendant, but it means a great deal to me, so I usually kept it well, storing it in a safe place. And I placed it under my pillow before sleeping. If someone really stole it, then how did they do it?"
Lin Yanqin thought for a moment, then couldn't help but shake her head and continued, "If there really was such a person, perhaps they weren't doing it for money."