Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?-Chapter 39 - You Never Really Knew Me_1
Chapter 39: Chapter 39 You Never Really Knew Me_1
Chapter 39: Chapter 39 You Never Really Knew Me_1
While Yue Qianqian was speaking, the crowd around them had already gathered. They all curiously observed the dirt in Li Xuan’s palm, engaging in lively discussion.
“Sure enough, it’s a Thunder Meteorite!”
“This is really inconceivable, why would the Thunder Meteorite, the utmost yang and rigid evil-suppressing device, appear in this eerie altar?”
“Maybe it’s because the power of the evil energy was too intense, and this object was required to suppress it.”
“But what’s strange is why it’s in the form of gravel? Has it shattered or has it been cut?”
“It exploded!” Li Xuan looked around the crowd, putting on a mask of calm: “I found several smaller fragments of the Thunder Meteorite in the valley, all buried within the layers of soil. They must have scattered all around due to the impact. I estimate that there must have been a violent explosion of this Thunder Meteorite, powerful enough to blast its fragments to a great distance. Hence, more fragments should be found around the valley.”
“Well done! It was the right decision to have called you.”
Jiang Hanyun pounded Li Xuan’s chest with her small hand, then cast a sidelong glance at Lei Yun in the crowd, her voice soft, and her tone weird, “And this is far better than that Lei, who was complaining about us being in the way.”
The corner of Lei Yun’s lip twitched. He didn’t respond to Jiang Hanyun, instead, he looked at Li Xuan with surprise in his eyes.
“This observational power is not bad.” Ma Chenggong was also looking at Li Xuan with a strange look: “Are you really Li Xuan, Li Qianzhi? I strongly suspect that someone else has taken over your body.”
Now, even when Li Xuan faced the risk of his true identity being exposed, he remained unaffected, “That’s because Colonel Ma, you never understood me. This is normal. Who knew before yesterday that I am a rare gentleman of our time?”
At a loss for words, Ma Chenggong could not understand why he suddenly felt an intense urge to vomit.
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The crowd soon began to get busy. As expected by Li Xuan, they found a large number of Thunder Meteorite fragments and dust within and outside the valley. However, apart from that, they found nothing else.
Not wanting to linger, Jiang Hanyun led everyone to return after half an hour.
Li Xuan followed closely behind. But when he reached the valley, he found that the red-dressed female ghost had not followed him. Li Xuan couldn’t help feeling relieved, but when he turned his head, he found the ghost standing above the abandoned altar. The invisible clouds of blood hovering around her suddenly began to boil and then turned into several red blood dragons, winding towards the female ghost, finally merging into her embroidered vest.
Then, with a flash, the female ghost reappeared behind him.
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Li Xuan had no other choice but to focus his attention back on the road. At this time, Jiang Hanyun was talking to Yue Qianqian: “Qianqian, I need you to go back to the Zhuque Hall and help me find out about the whereabouts of those seventeen Thunder Meteorites as fast as possible. Can you manage that?”
Without any hesitation, Yue Qianqian responded, “I can, I should have the results within a day at most.”
“A day? That’s some bit slow. I estimate the people from Guixiu City and Huoya City will figure it out in half a day.”
Ma Chenggong grumbled discontentedly, “We shouldn’t have mentioned such an important clue as the Thunder Meteorite in front of so many people. Qianzhi, you’re just too young.”
“You’re narrow-minded!” Jiang Hanyun immediately glared at him with dissatisfaction, “In the face of such a horrifying tragedy, of course, it’s better to solve it sooner than later. It’s our duty to bring the culprit to justice as early as possible. So many people died in one blood sacrifice, who knows if there will be more follow-ups? How can we neglect our public duties for private gains?”
She then turned her head to comfort Yue Qianqian, who looked guilty and uneasy: “Don’t listen to him, just try your best. Although I want to turn the tide for Mingyou City, the premise is to act within our abilities.”
Ma Chenggong gave an awkward laugh, then his expression turned serious: “Not only do we have to investigate the Thunder Meteorite, but we also need to investigate the nine hundred boys and girls. Where did so many children come from? I haven’t heard of any large-scale child trafficking or disappearance cases in the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty recently, at least not in the vicinity of Nanjing City. This matter also needs to be resolved as quickly as possible, I guess that Lei has already started investigating.”
Yue Qianqian nodded thoughtfully: “I will review the relevant archives of recent years.”
She had also been puzzled about this matter before.
At this moment, Jiang Hanyun found that Li Xuan was lost in thought: “What are you thinking about? Why are you so absorbed?”
“I was wondering—”
Li Xuan looked confused: “Why does this blood sacrifice have to take place near Nanjing City? Isn’t that just adding risk?”
Although Nanjing City is not the capital or the best place under the emperor’s feet, it is after all a secondary city of the Great Jin Dynasty. The city is full of powerful individuals and houses the Vermilion Bird Hall of the Liudao Division. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t seem to be a suitable place for a large-scale blood sacrifice.
With so many remote mountains and wild ridges in the Great Jin Dynasty, why did they have to choose Jiangjun Mountain, which is not far from Nanjing City?
What really puzzled him and made him distracted was the red-dressed female ghost behind him. Her abnormalities in the valley made him suspect that the altar is greatly related to the red-dressed female ghost.
“You’re right, any evil cultivator with a normal brain wouldn’t choose this place, unless they have ulterior motives, or they need to use some kind of unique resource near Nanjing City.”
After agreeing, Ma Chenggong wryly said: “But we’ll have to wait for Vice Master Zhang to deduce the structure of the altar before we can know the truth. He said something about the changes of heaven and earth and the shift of the stars and galaxies, which makes it hard for us to understand. Little girl, how long do you think it will take Vice Master Zhang to restore the array?”
“How would I know? Vice Master Zhang’s cultivation is unfathomable, and his understanding of arrays is far superior to mine! But if it were me—”
Yue Qianqian hesitated for a moment: “Twenty years?”
Li Xuan and Ma Chenggong couldn’t help but look at each other and unanimously gave up on the hope of restoring the array. They thought that if Yue Qianqian needed twenty years, then no matter how powerful Vice Master Zhang was, it would be impossible for him to deduce the function of the altar in one or two months.
The group of people rushed back to Jinling City by sunrise. Yue Qianqian parted ways with them here and went directly back to the Vermilion Bird Hall.
Jiang Hanyun led the two others in another direction.
“We’re going to the Jiangning County Office, it is said that Liu Dachu returned from Gaoyou yesterday. This autopsy will be conducted by him personally.”
Li Xuan was suddenly moved, because this ‘Liu Dachu’ was none other than his nominal teacher, Liu Sanjie. Although the latter’s title was not high, he was a well-known Lingwu in the Liudao Division.
By the time they arrived, an autopsy was already being performed on the dead spell cultivator in the Jiangning County Office.
Liu Sanjie was only about forty years old, but he already had white hair and an old face, with a slightly chubby figure. He was very focused, completely oblivious to the arrival of Jiang Hanyun and the others.
Jiang Hanyun did not dare to disturb him, even though by rank Liu Sanjie was only a Six Paths Bureau Colonel. After they walked in, both Jiang Hanyun and Ma Chenggong didn’t dare make a sound, fearing to disturb him.
Li Xuan was also watching intently, his face solemn.
The skills and professionalism displayed by Liu Sanjie were not inferior to that of his teacher from his previous life. His methods even included some of the Lingwu’s techniques, which greatly broadened Li Xuan’s horizons.
About twenty minutes later, the autopsy was finally over.
After putting back all the tools he used into the box next to him, Liu Sanjie turned his head and looked at Li Xuan with profound meaning: “Li Xuan, can you tell me the cause of this person’s death?”
All eyes naturally turned to Li Xuan, everyone realizing that Liu Sanjie was obviously testing him.
Especially Lei Yun, his face showing anticipation. This would be a test to see if Li Xuan was all talk and no action.
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