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Two constables in black uniforms stood outside the door. One of them wiped his sweat with his sleeve and asked, "We're from the Six Doors. Where's your boss?" Qiu Ying replied, "He's resting on the mountain behind. Is there anything I can help you with, sir?"
The constable said, "A demoness was injured and jumped off the city wall. She is currently on the run with serious injuries."
"We are in dire need of manpower to search the mountain. Your three senior and junior brothers and sisters from the Dragon Claw Sect are also martial artists. Please inform them and ask them to join the search as well."
"Also, be careful. Do you have any customers at your shop?" Qiu Ying replied, "Three stayed last night."
"Tell them to be careful too," the constable said. "That witch is very strange; she sucks people's blood and is suspected to be a ghost. She's injured now and might need to suck people's blood to heal herself. Those of you living outside the city should be careful at all times."
"If you discover anything unusual, report it to us immediately. By the way, we might requisition your inn later as a base for dispatching personnel from outside the city."
"If we still can't find that demoness by daybreak, we might have to requisition her for a few days. We'll have to see what the chief constable says."
"Go and inform your employer first!" Qiu Ying replied, "Yes, sir."
After the two constables turned around, they closed the small gate, picked up lanterns, and walked to the backyard. As soon as they entered the backyard and started climbing the mountain, they saw the owner of the house running towards the foot of the mountain.
“Sister Qiu Ying,” Fu Hai said, “I just saw from the mountain that the city gate opened and a large group of people rushed out. What happened?” Qiu Ying then told him what the constable had said.
Although the Dragon Claw Sect only had three disciples and their martial arts skills were not high, they were still martial arts practitioners.
Given the current manpower shortage, it's normal for the Six Doors to contact them; even a few more people to help search the mountain would be beneficial.
Although Fu Hai already knew about this from Lady Murong, he pretended to have just found out. So he rushed back to inform his two junior sisters.
Lingyue and Yuelan quickly got up and dressed. As they descended the mountain together, a faint glimmer of dawn appeared in the eastern sky. "A blood-sucking monster?" Xia Yuelan exclaimed in surprise, "Could there really be such a filthy thing?"
Song Lingyue said softly, "The world is vast and full of wonders! But since it can get injured, it shouldn't be considered a ghost, right? I hope we can catch that thing soon."
"Otherwise, if word gets out, no one will dare to stay here for the next few days, and the Lantern Festival will be affected."
The three arrived at the inn, where Qiu Ying had already removed the main gate panels one by one. Looking towards the city gate, they could still see many people arriving from within the city.
Song Lingyue said, "We need someone to guard the inn. Sister Qiu Ying only knows a little martial arts, and there are still a few guests in the inn."
“If we all leave, what if that ghost really sneaks into the inn and kills them without anyone knowing?” Fu Hai said, “Then Yue Lan will stay.”
Xia Yuelan exclaimed in surprise, "Why am I the one who stayed behind?" She was full of energy and loved excitement.
Fu Hai said irritably, "Your senior sister is more capable. If we really encounter that demoness during the search, she could be of help. With your abilities, you'd be useless."
Xia Yuelan was very dissatisfied: "Then why didn't you stay, Senior Brother?"
Fu Hai knew that there was something fishy about last night's encirclement and suppression. He hoped to find the "White Bone Demoness" before others, so how could he stay in the inn?
He said, "Because I'm the senior brother, you have to listen to me." He looked at the distant sky, where dark clouds were gradually gathering.
He said in a low voice, "I'm afraid it will rain heavily today, which will be a bit troublesome."
Although Xia Yuelan was unwilling, she had no choice but to take up a sword and remain at the inn to keep watch. Fu Hai and Song Lingyue arrived at the city gate first, reaching the temporary stronghold set up by the Six Doors.
Because Song Lingyue possessed the strength of the eighth realm, making her indeed more powerful, the Six Doors allowed her to lead a team, providing her with signal flowers and whistling arrows, without requiring her to enter...
The mountain was searched for clues along the western moat and its upstream and downstream sections.
Fu Hai, at the mere Ninth Realm, was only just beginning to enter the ranks. However, because the Dragon Claw Sect had a good relationship with Lady Murong, they gave him the position of Lady Murong and asked him to join.
Fu Haiming outwardly agreed, but given Murong Die's inherent "spy" abilities, there was no point in following her.
After leaving, they joined other teams to search the mountains, occasionally checking the "spies'" windows to see if Murong Die had found any clues. Around noon, a heavy rain began. Everyone was soaked to the bone, but they all knew that letting a tiger return to the mountains would have endless consequences.
Some were dressed in protective clothing and wore straw hats, while others simply braved the rain and continued their search. Fu Hai, also wearing a straw hat and raincoat, joined the group in searching through the mountains in the rain. It hadn't rained for many days, and now, a sudden downpour obscured the view, making it impossible to see anything along the way.
"What the hell!" someone shouted from the side. "How is it possible to find that witch like this?" The shout cut through the wind and barely reached the ears of the others.
"That demoness is injured; she can't have gone far." "What?"
"I said that the demoness was injured and couldn't have escaped far."
"Say it again!" The wind and rain were so loud that the man put his hand to his ear.
“I said that witch is injured and can’t have gone far!” another man shouted. “Do you need to tell me that?”
Fu Hai looked around in the rain shower in Cangfan.
He glanced at the "spy" window and realized that what Murong Die could see seemed to be the same place as this side.
Sure enough, they soon spotted several figures flying towards them from the other side. "Miss Butterfly!" he called out to the woman in the lead.
Murong Die, wearing a bamboo hat and a hemp robe, landed beside him: "You're here too! Have you found anything here?" Fu Hai hadn't spoken yet.
A young swordsman nearby offered his assistance, saying, "We're also searching diligently, but the rain is too heavy, and we can't see anything. We haven't found any clues yet."
"Don't worry, Miss Murong. We'll let everyone know as soon as we find anything."
Fu Hai leaned towards Murong Die and said, "Sister Die, are you really sure that demoness should be killed?" That night, he experienced the joy of fatherhood from the female knight.
However, in front of outsiders, even if you don't call her "Miss," you still have to address her as "Sister."
"I don't know!" Murong Die raised her hand and wiped the raindrops from her face. "But what else can we do?"
Chapter 32 Shocking! It's okay if he's a woman?
“Miss Butterfly,” Fu Hai looked around, “some of the people searching the mountain have rather strange origins; there’s probably more to the story.”
Murong Die turned back to look at him in surprise, not expecting that he could also see through this. She followed up with a resolute statement: "I know, but no matter what, let's find that ghost first."
“Someone did see her drinking blood last night. When I ran into her later, there were several mummified corpses at the scene.” Fu Hai nodded and said nothing more.
He couldn't refute the "night watchman's" testimony at this point; nothing else mattered. More importantly, everyone had already surrounded and killed the "White Bone Demoness" last night.
Now that things have come to this, even if we've made a mistake, we still have to keep cutting. This is the dark forest of the martial arts world.
Once enmity has been formed, why bother distinguishing between good and bad people?
Just then, someone shouted from afar, "Watch out for a landslide!"
Then came another rumbling sound. Murong Die was startled and flew over. Fu Hai followed.
A section of the slope suddenly slid down, leaving many trees half-hidden and leaning precariously. Several people nearby sat down in panic, panting in the rain.
"Are you all alright?" Murong Die asked. "Was anyone buried inside?"
Someone said, "Thank goodness... we escaped quickly." The others shook their heads, indicating that no one was buried. At the same time, Fu Hai checked the system.
[Ding! Detected that "Heroic Thief" Yoru Kaori is located three zhang to the left and in front of the host, critically injured and on the verge of death. This chivalrous woman will surely wreak havoc on the world in the future.]
The troubles that follow dominating the world.
[It is recommended that the host reveal its location on the spot and kill it to prevent future troubles.] Fu Hai suddenly turned his head and looked to his left front.
The area was buried under earth and rocks, but a large rock was partially exposed, with broken trees nearby. Was Ye Liuxiang hiding there?
At this moment, Fu Hai saw that, besides them, another group of martial artists wearing rain hats and gray tight-fitting clothes had gathered around. They were all scanning their surroundings.
These martial artists were of unknown origin, but he was convinced that they were inextricably linked to the Flying Flood Gang.
If he were to reveal now that Ye Liuxiang was trapped under that rock, Ye Liuxiang would surely die. But he did not intend to do so.
He was now quite certain that the mummified corpse case had nothing to do with Ye Liuxiang; what happened last night was a trap.
However, the execution of the young leader of the Flying Flood Gang was basically orchestrated by Ye Liuxiang. He had to say to that with a bitter expression... "Well done!"
He remained standing motionless in the torrential rain. The downpour was devastating, leaving the land a vast expanse of desolation!
"It's raining heavily, everyone be careful." Murong Die looked up and said, "Watch out for landslides." She looked at Fu Hai: "Let's go that way, what about you, little shopkeeper?"
“I’ll search this area more carefully,” Fu Hai said. “We won’t let any clue slip by. Once we’re sure that the demoness isn’t hiding here, we’ll search other places.”
"You must be careful too!" Murong Die tugged at his hand. "If you spot that demoness, escape first, then notify everyone to surround her. Your own life is more important."
In the rain shower, Fu Hai chuckled softly, "I know! Don't worry, Die'er."
Although her voice was soft, Murong Die, with her seventh-level strength, could still hear it clearly in the downpour. She gave him a charming glance... "I used to think you were a good kid!"
Which good child shouts "Butterfly, let me ride you!" while riding on someone else's back, making them crawl on the ground, and calling for their father at the same time?
I don't know where this girl, who always seemed like a perfectly respectable and well-behaved child, learned so many tricks from. She, a dignified female warrior of the seventh realm, has been reduced to just shouting and is completely bewildered.
Murong Die and her group left first, heading to search in another direction. Fu Hai pretended to look for clues in the vicinity.
Even relying on the meager lightness skill of a low-level ninth-realm expert, he leaped onto the partially exposed rock and peered down to investigate. The broken trees on either side were perfectly aligned with the rock, forming a space inside.
The intertwined branches were covered with some soil. He reached out and cut a branch down, and sure enough, there were white bones faintly visible below.
"Did you find anything?" Someone looked at him from a distance. "No! There's nothing here," Fu Hai shook his head.
He knew that if someone actually jumped onto the rock and looked down carefully, they might discover something.
So he took the branch and cut it a few more times, pretending to check carefully, but actually drawing away the nearby mud, rocks, and leaves to further obscure the view. "There's nothing there!" he repeated as he jumped away.
[Ding! Detected that the host has concealed the whereabouts of the chivalrous thief Ye Liuxiang. Confirmed that the host was lustful. New mission issued.]
(Task "Any woman will do (So what if I have special tastes as the future evil lord?): Successfully move Ye Liuxiang to a safe place, bind her and...)
He struck with a stick and pushed the essence through the palace, causing the Night Flowing Incense Sculpture to sink. From then on, it became the host of Jin Rui and joined the demonic path, becoming an important backbone of the Guan Xie Sect.
[Mission Completed: Special Item Gift *1! 1000 Points Gained!] Fu Hai's lips twitched.
He remembered all too well how he had used a staff to bully Lady Murong that night. Really?
Do you want me to unleash a powerful strike on this Night Fragrance Heroine and ejaculate into her palace?
Just thinking about the pale skull, the strange hand bones, and the foot bones that the female knight saw through the window last night...
Fu Hai suppressed the urge to immediately notify everyone to come and expose Ye Liuxiang's location, and to kill her on the spot.
He wore a rain hat and took a few deep breaths in the downpour, almost choking on the rain. This garbage system, does it really think it's okay just because he's a woman?
I don't have any strange or unusual hobbies. As a model student who embodies the "Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves" (a set of moral principles), I'm perfectly capable.
Fu Hai felt that he and this system were incompatible, their yin and yang were misaligned, they were completely different, they were out of step, they were each going their own way, their values were different, and they were irreconcilable enemies.
He decided that he would save the Night Fragrance Heroine, but he wouldn't bother with this lousy mission.
Even when the system offered him so-called "special items" and 1000 points, he refused them. What does he take me for?
Do you really think I'm some kind of lewd woman who can sleep with any woman in this chaotic world...? You're a demon!
At this moment, Fu Hai felt a deep sense of humiliation. He had to prove that he was still a model young man who upheld the five virtues and four beauties. Fu Hai knew that now was not the time to move Ye Liuxiang away.
This area is still very close to the city wall, and many people are searching in this area. We must wait until everyone can no longer find the "White Bone Demoness" here before expanding the search area further.
The rain had been falling for a long time.