Chapter 1441: "Knocking on Death's Door Again (1)"
The City Lord was sipping on a new batch of tea he had acquired as his lovely spouse knelt by his feet to massage his legs, looking highly relaxed and leisurely.
But not a few moments had passed when a servant in the City Lord's Manor came running inside in a rush, his face ashen as he fell to his knees with a thud before the City Lord.
"What has gotten you in such a fluster. Where are your manners?" The City Lord grumbled in displeasure with a frown upon his face as he lifted up his cup of tea.
"My Lord! There's trouble! !" The servant exclaimed loudly.
"Trouble? The Clear Breeze City has always been steadily peaceful. What could happen here?" The City Lord said nonchalantly.
"Liu Er..... Liu Er still has not come back....."
The City Lord's brows creased up. Liu Er was a hired thug he kept by his side in the manor. Under the instructions of the revered one, the City Lord had always worked hard to portray an image of righteousness for himself and all his underhanded deeds were left in Liu Er's hands to deal with. He had asked Liu Er to go up to the city's north today to stir up trouble in those lofts.
"He has not returned? This lazybones Liu Er is starting to slack off on his tasks." The City Lord said in a displeased tone.
However, the servant replied: "It's not that..... Your servant sent someone up to the city's north to take a look and he heard that Liu Er and his men had all been killed up there!"
A crash sounded. The teacup in the City Lord's hand had dropped to the ground, breaking into pieces. His eyes flared wide as he stared at the servant, his eyes highly incredulous.
"What did you just say? Who could have killed Liu Er! ?"
"Your servant does not know, but only heard that the entire gang of people Liu Er brought with him up to the city's north were all killed but no one seems to know who the person who did it was."
"A useless good for nothing!" The City Lord stood up with a swoosh. Liu Er had helped him complete quite a number of tasks and although he was a person that was a little of a braggart, he was rather nimble minded and knew how to use the stick and carrot approach rather well, never having ever committed any big mistakes. He would never ever have thought that by asking Liu Er to make life difficult for those useless refugees up in the city's north and driving those parasites out of that place, Liu Er would end up being killed by people for no reason!
What was even more terrifying was that his people had not even been able to find out the culprit responsible for it!
"What exactly happened! ? Have the entire bunch of you been living in vain? There were more than ten lives lost! How could those lives have been taken without a single person knowing anything about it! ?" The City Lord's face had turned an ugly shade. He had thought that the issue up in the city's north could be dealt with easily and he had even instructed the shop to release news about the availability of loft units that would be put up for sale.
But after just barely half a day had passed and things had taken a turn beyond anything he could have expected!
The servant got a severe dressing down and he replied in a mournful voice: "I have already gotten people to infiltrate into the place to try to find out the truth behind Liu Er's death from the refugees there, but god knows what happened with those people! They had initially looked like they could be easily manipulated but when the mere mention of the incident was brought up, every single one of them avoided the matter like a plague, unwilling to say a word about it and we were unable to find out anything from them."
"Useless trash! Just a bunch of good for nothings!" The City Lord's good mood immediately dissipated into the wind like smoke. He did not care about Liu Er's death itself. What frustrated him was what was happening in the city's north now. If he was not able to drive those refugees out of those lofts in the city's north, the revered one would surely place the blame on him.
"Do it right now! Go get them ready for me immediately! Gather up a troop of the city's soldiers and follow me to the city's north! I would really like to see just who it is that dares to be so atrocious within the Clear Breeze City!" The City Lord screamed out in rage. He could afford to not bother with it if this had been any other matter, but when it implicated the interests of the revered one, even he would not be able to answer for it. At that moment, he could no longer make himself continue to remain on his seat!
Chapter 1442: "Knocking on Death's Door Again (2)"
Very soon, the big bellied City Lord with his wide girth was leading a troop of soldiers, marching aggressively towards the city's north. This was his first time coming here and when he saw the row after row of loft units, the itch in his heart was hard to contain, but he knew he had to get rid of those refugees first.
When the refugees suddenly heard that the City Lord had lead a large troop of soldiers to come here at the city's north, everybody's faces lit up with delight. No matter what kind of living conditions they had been made to survive under before, their hearts still felt that the City Lord of the Clear Breeze City who had been willing to offer shelter to them was a kind hearted man who loved the people. Even seeing the large troop of soldiers he had lead to this place, they were all not feeling the least bit nervous.
"The City Lord has come! The City Lord must have come here because of the incident from before!"
The City Lord is a kind man. If he knew that thugs were terrorizing the common citizens, he will surely stand up for them in justice!"
After having witnessed with their own eyes a bout of bloody massacre, the refugees who still held terror within their hearts were actually feeling a sense of relief when they saw the City Lord appear, all of them rushing forward one by one, their mouth full of praise for the City Lord.
The City Lord fought hard to maintain an amicable smile upon his face, his heart filled with hatred and disgust towards the refugees surging up to surround him. When he thought of the fact that these parasites were occupying such a nice place which impeded him from making a good sum of money, he wished so much that he could just order the soldiers to stab all these pieces of trash to death!
His heart cursing for all the refugees to just die and get themselves quickly reincarnated, but in order for him to continue to portray an image of benevolence, the City Lord forced his face to show a kindly and smiling mask, doing his best to use a amiable tone of voice to speak.
"All of you have suffered over this period. Although the CLear Breeze City is not really a highly prosperous city, but as long as I am here, I will not let all of you here suffer atrocities to be done upon you! Today, I heard that someone came here to create trouble which made me very angry. Although all of you are not original residents born and bred here in the Clear Breeze City, but from the very day all of you set foot into the Clear Breeze City, I have already regarded you as a member of us here. If anyone dares to bully any of you, I will surely seek for justice on your behalf!" The City Lord said firmly, looking like a strict and impartial official, his words sounding very pretty to hear.
The refugees who had all already been grateful to the City Lord immediately broke out in a appreciative show of gratitude.
"My Lord, you can rest assured. Those thugs have already been dealt with cleanly!" Someone said gleefully, never noticing the vicious glint that flashed very briefly within the City Lord's eyes.
The City Lord sneered in his heart, but his face showed an expression of delight. "Oh? Already dealt with? I had just received the news that several highly tyrannical and rowdy brutes were here terrorizing the citizens and I had immediately brought my men here to arrest all of them to throw them in jail. I would never have expected that all of you would be able to react so quickly but I am now relieved. I hope none of you got hurt?"
The refugees fell over themselves trying to give their account of the nefarious deeds the thugs had done to the City Lord but when they spoke about what happened to the elderly lady with her grandchild and the woman with her son, their faces showed traces of guilty embarrassment and unease.
"Don't worry my Lord, the matter has been resolved and Young Master Jun has also sent people to give the old lady treatment for her injuries."
The City Lord smiled as he nodded, and his words took a sudden turn as he asked: "I wonder who lent a hand to resolve the matter? Such matters are actually my responsibility as the City Lord to prevent and I have failed by not resolving it in a timely fashion. Hence, I would like to personally thank the person who had so selflessly helped all of you."
Upon hearing the City Lord's words, two of the refugees were just about to open their mouths to speak but they felt a tugging upon their clothes from the other people behind them and they immediately clamped their mouths shut, none of them daring to reveal the slightest clue about the real culprit behind the killing of Liu Er.
Chapter 1443: "Knocking on Death's Door Again (3)"
The refugees' strange behaviour very quickly attracted the City Lord's notice and he cursed secretly in his heart, though his face maintained that same gentle smile.
"What's wrong? Is there anything that's inconvenient for you to say? All of you can rest assured that I just want to thank that hero properly myself. All of you are people that I allowed to come into this city and I will naturally not allow anyone to bully any of you as you are all now also considered to be citizens of my Clear Breeze City as well. Since that person had been able to protect all of you, he had also helped eased another one of my worries, hence, I will not do anything to make things difficult for him." The City Lord said highly movingly, and the hesitant refugees began to show signs of relenting.
Several of the refugees buzzed among themselves in a bunch for a long while. The City Lord's words sounded highly reasonable. The fact that they had been able to come into the city to seek refuge was due to the City Lord's benevolence who had been willing to offer help to a bunch of refugees like them who had nothing on them, so he could not be a bad person.
"Regarding that..... My Lord..... That benefactor had taken the lives of people..... But..... But he is still a benefactor to all of us. If not for him, none of them would have been able to live in a place like this today. Will..... will you..... because he killed someone..... place blame upon him?" A refugee bolstered up his courage to ask.
The City Lord laughed coldly inside his heart as he knew he had managed to find a crack among these people. His smile grew deeper and in his most amiable tone, he said: "Why would I! ? He punished evil and helped the kind, it is something that is highly commendable instead, why would I make things difficult for him? I can't wait to thank him instead!"
As expected, once the City Lord said that, those refugees who had been rather nervous immediately heaved a sigh in relief and turned to look at each other all around. Finally relaxing their guard, they began to reveal the truth to the City Lord.
And just as the City Lord was secretly smiling to himself in glee for having been able to pry open the mouths of their refugees, a woman leading a child stared coldly at the City Lord who was tightly surrounded by refugees. Her face still had wounds on it and she was that mother that Jun Wu Xie had previously saved.
At that moment, anxiety appeared upon her face. She looked all around her and grasping her child's hand tightly, she quickly sped off towards the individual loft unit separated from the rest!
Ye Jie she sat in the hall upon the first floor, bored to tears as she plopped herself over the table, teasing the Hell Rodent nibbling upon a peanut when she suddenly saw the highly flustered woman barging in. She stood up suddenly and blocked herself before the mother and child.
"This place does not allow just anyone to enter!" Ye Jie said with a frown upon her face.
The woman stared in surprise at the little girl wearing a half faced mask before her eyes but could not afford the time to determine the girl's identity. She knew very well that the loft their benefactor resided in did not normally allow anyone in and the refugees had all always conscientiously kept their distance from here to not disturb, but.....
"This young lady, I have something very urgent to see Young Master Jun about!" The woman said, her face highly anxious.
Ye Jie instead replied while looking rather perplexed: "Young Master Jun has said that without his permission, no one is to disturb him." Ye Jie was being extraordinarily stubborn. For someone who was able to remain within a sealed up tomb for close to a thousand years to guard her Lord's slumber, her thoroughness in carrying out her orders was to be expected.
The woman was unable to convince Ye Jie and no matter what she said, she was unable to get through to Ye Jie, driving her into a greater state of panic. Left without any other choice, she fell to her knees with a loud thud before Ye Jie which frightened so badly the innocent little girl stood there completely stunned.
"Young lady, I really hold no bad intentions. If you do not allow me in, it's alright. But you must definitely bring this news I have to Young Master Jun." The woman said anxiously.
Chapter 1444: "Knocking on Death's Door Again (4)"
"Stand..... Stand up to talk....." Ye Jie was rather flustered.
The woman however just went on to say: "The Lord of the Clear Breeze City brought a troop of soldiers here and is now asking everyone about the incident today. The City Lord is not really a kind person and I beg for Young Master Jun to be careful against him!"
"Huh?" Ye Jie was getting confused.
The woman thought that the little girl did not believe her words and her face became red from anxiety as she explained in a panic: "On the surface, the Lord of the Clear Breeze City portrays himself to be a good person. But If he did care for the refugees, why would he let all the refugees to be cooped up in such a dirty place? He came here with his soldiers today saying that it's to capture the thugs but this is the Clear Breeze City right! ? He is the Lord of the Clear Breeze City! It is impossible that he should be finding the circumstances strange only at this point. The only thing that he is concerned about finding out is the person who killed those thugs, that shows that there is something fishy!"
"The people here were being highly naive and they should have told him that it was Young Master Jun who struck those men. Young Master Jun had been forced to strike in order to save me and my child and he is a great benefactor to both of us. I beg that the young lady will bring these words to Young Master Jun!" Finishing her words, the woman kowtowed and hit her head with a loud thud against the ground, no longer persistent on intruding as she led her child away.
Till after the mother and child pair had left, Ye Jie was still standing there blankly, her mind a gooey whirl.
If the woman had known that Ye Jie had a serious problem in expressing herself in words, she would definitely not dare to ask Ye Jie to convey her words to Jun Wu Xie.
"It's her....." A soft voice suddenly sounded from the stairs and Ye Jie looked up in confusion, to see Jun Wu Xie standing upon the steps with Jun Wu Yao behind her.
"Arh!" Ye Jie opened her mouth, wanting to tell the words the woman had said to Jun Wu Xie. She knew exactly what she wanted to say in her heart but when the words reached her mouth, she did not know where to start from.
"I heard everything," Jun Wu Xie said, seeing how difficult it was for Ye Jie.
Ye Jie looked at her blankly for a moment before she revealed a brilliant smile at her.
"That mother and child pair, if my memory serves me correctly, should be the ones that you saved earlier?" Jun Wu Yao said with a very faint smile, leaning easily with an arm resting against the railing in the stairs.
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
"That's a smarter one at least, knowing to reciprocate." Jun Wu Yao was highly satisfied with that woman's reaction.
Jun Wu Xie did not respond. She had never expected anything in return from all these people and that woman's reaction had surprised her greatly. She knew that the Lord of the Clear Breeze City wore a hypocritical mask of kindness but the refugees did not know anything about it. But that woman had been able to detect the City Lord's duplicitous nature from among all the fine details and come here at the first instance to tell her about it. All other things aside, at least that mind of hers was a lot clearer than all the others, and she knew to repay benevolence shown to her.
"The rats are becoming unsettled and are coming out in waves. So, has Little Xie already thought of how you are going to deal with them?" Jun Wu Yao asked smilingly.
Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly: "I want to grab the viper at the head. These people are not my target." Regardless whether it was the thugs or the City Lord, even Luo Xi would also be beneath her notice. She was doing all this only to force the mastermind behind to show himself.
And judging from the current situation, they seemed like they were getting rather anxious. Just within a single day today, they had repeatedly come here to seek death and such reactions made Jun Wu Xie feel rather satisfied.
"I'll go take a look first." Jun Wu Xie said as she patted Jun Wu Yao on the back of his hand, indicating that he need not show himself, before walking out from the loft on her own to make her way towards the City Lord who was surrounded by the crowd of refugees.
Chapter 1445: "Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (1)"
Jun Wu Xie's arrival attracted the notice of the people and when several of the refugees saw the figure of Jun Wu Xie appear, their hearts were slightly startled. Although filled with respected, their eyes could not help but show a sliver of fear.
The might of Jun Wu Xie's Purple Spirit and witnessing that bloody slaughter from before had left an indelible impression upon the hearts of the refugees. Although they were grateful towards Jun Wu Xie for the kindness and righteousness shown for being willing to take them in, but to common citizens like them, the scene they witnessed had been a little too much to bear. At the same time that it had dealt with the thugs, it had also caused them to involuntarily develop a sense of fear and wariness towards Jun Wu Xie.
The City Lord had just finished hearing out the refugees when he suddenly saw a youth with delicate features walking over in approach. When all the gazes of the refugees turned to focus upon that figure, he was able to instantly determine the other party's identity.
And right at the moment he became certain of Jun Wu Xie's identity, his eyes suddenly flashed with malice!
"You are Young Master Jun?" The City Lord suddenly broke into a smile, looking at the cold faced Jun Wu Xie.
"What is it?" Jun Wu Xie replied coldly as she looked at the brilliantly smiling City Lord.
"I am the Lord of the Clear Breeze City and this is Young Master Jun's first time here to the Clear Breeze City and it is said that people come from afar are all deemed as guests. I had heard from all these people here earlier that when those thugs came here to stir up trouble earlier, they were fortunate to have righteous Young Master Jun lending them a hand to kill off every single one of those thugs. Heroes indeed rise out from the young. Can I ask if what all these people said is true?" The City Lord asked, his face looking like he was filled with admiration for Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes were chilly as she watched the City Lord's hypocritical expression on her face as she said: "So what if it is? And what if it's not?"
The City Lord smiled and replied: "It's nothing much really, but I am just moved by Young Master Jun's sense of justice. But there is one thing that I do not really understand and I might need Young Master Jun to explain it to me a little."
"What?" Jun Wu Xie's face was still as cold as ever.
The City Lord's face was smiling but in his heart, he was cursing Jun Wu Xie a million and one times but did not dare to show his disdain in the slightest. The refugees had told him earlier that Jun Wu Xie had killed Liu Er and his men and although Liu Er's powers were not really that great with his bunch of underlings holding rather insignificant powers as well, but they had the strength of numbers. The refugees told him that Jun Wu Xie had massacred the whole lot of them by his own strength alone and such dominating power caused the City Lord have no choice but to tread carefully. But as none of the refugees had been willing to reveal the extent of Jun Wu Xie's true power, the City Lord was unable to determine just how strong Jun Wu Xie really was and he was guessing that it would roughly be at the yellow spirit level.
I heard that these lofts here were built by Young Master Jun as well? May I also ask if that is true?"
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze over the City Lord's face that was so fat and pudgy. "Yes."
The City Lord laughed in spite of himself and shook his head as he said: "Young Master Jun is highly righteous and that is highly admirable. But I really cannot for the world understand this. With Young Master still so young and highly talented, why do you persist in pursuing such insubstantial fame, to usurp the homes of others, a dove in a magpie's nest, that is not an act befitting of a gentleman!"
The City Lord's words immediately caused all the refugees around to stare wide eyed at him.
Ignoring the looks directed at him, the City Lord then went on to say: "These lofts here were in fact houses I had ordered people to build for the refugees who just came into the city and I do not know why Young Master Jun would come up with such a ridiculous idea to actually claim that these lofts were your idea instead? With Young Master Jun being so young, it's rather understandable that you would be highly exuberant and want to gain a good reputation for yourself. But although at your age where one is filled with vigor, you still lack consideration in many other aspects in the way you do things. In order to build these lofts, I had depleted all my life savings and I did not do it for fame or good repute. I think that Young Master Jun is still very young and you still have much time to achieve great things, you shouldn't commit such despicable acts like claiming the credit of others to become yours like this."
Chapter 1446: "Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (2)"
The City Lord's words, instantly elicited a wave of uproar over the crowd as everyone stared incredulously at Jun Wu Xie.
What was just said, had been put across very directly, both insinuating and blatantly claiming that the lofts were not built by Jun Wu Xie at all but she had just leapt upon the chance before the City Lord could lay claim to it, stealing credit not due to her by insisting she had built them!
At almost the same moment the City Lord's voice dropped, countless pairs of suspicious gazes were cast straight upon the figure of Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed and an icy glint flashed as she looked at the City Lord who had inverted the truth with such falsehood.
The City Lord saw that Jun Wu Xie was not answering and he could not contain his glee. But before he was able to ascertain Jun Wu Xie's power, he did not date to clash head to head against Jun Wu Xie. Afterall, for a single youth to be be able to kill Liu Er and his band of more than ten men, the youth was to be wary of.
But.....
[If physical force doesn't work, he still has other ways of doing it!]
[He's just a young and inexperienced youth, how can the lad be a match for him?]
"Young Master Jun, seeing that you are still young and ignorant, I will not hold the matter against you. But as the construction of the lofts have not been fully completed, there are still many unsafe elements existent within. For you to have rashly deceived all these people to come live in them just to gain recognition to improve your reputation, aren't you taking the lives of so many people too lightly?" The City Lord continued to push the issue, putting on a highly pained look as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
At that moment, the eyes of almost all the refugees looking at Jun Wu Xie had turned strange.
They had all thought that the construction of these lofts had been a little strange. They wouldn't be able to know how much the construction of something that was of such big scale would really cost, but anyone would guess that it would be an astronomical amount. [Young Master Jun was of such a young age and wasn't even a original citizen of the Clear Breeze City. Would he really be willing to fork out such an immense sum of money to build such a magnificent shelter for a bunch of people completely unrelated to him? Whichever way one looked at it, it would feel rather strange.]
Some of them had even held doubts in their hearts as they felt Jun Wu Xie was just too young and that the City Lord was sounding more convincing. Afterall, constructing these lofts was not small undertaking and as the City Lord had always been kind towards the refugees, they thought that it was more believable if it was said that the City Lord was the one who built these loft units.
Faced with the City Lord's blatant slander and the suspicious looks that the refugees were throwing upon her, Jun Wu Xie was steady as Mount Tai, her icy gaze not showing a ripple under all that pressure.
The City Lord was showing himself to possess a little bit of smarts, having so smoothly pegged such a crime onto her head and was even blatantly trying to seize all these lofts to make them his own. That was a rather good ploy here.
Jun Wu Xie laughed coldly to herself in her heart but showed nothing on her face.
Jun Wu Xie's silence only caused the City Lord to become more and more conceited in glee, to laugh at Jun Wu Xie's youthful innocence which had made him lose his senses so quickly when confronted with a problem. The lad had actually become so panicked that he was at a loss for words!
The City Lord wasn't that scared that Jun Wu Xie would physically strike at him as he had his soldiers standing behind him so he had nothing to fear. And once Jun Wu Xie made a move, he would claim that Jun Wu Xie had flew into a rage out of shame and by then taking over these lofts would be easy as pie!
However, just as the City Lord was ready to splash that all that dirty water onto Jun Wu Xie's face, the corners of Jun Wu Xie's mouth curled up into a chilling smile as she said: "You've finished?"
The City Lord was suddenly taken aback.
Jun Wu Xie then went on to say: "If you're finished, then it's my turn." She clapped her hands together once, and the towering figure of Ye Sha suddenly materialized beside her!
Chapter 1447: "Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (3)"
Having Ye Sha appear suddenly caused the City Lord's face to darken a shade. The towering figure of Ye Sha with his cold and stern face gave people an invisible kind of pressure.
"To whom this place really belongs to will soon be revealed to everyone." Jun Wu Xie said with an icy glint in her eyes.
The City Lord suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart.
Ye Sha suddenly pulled out a thick stack of papers and when those papers were taken out, the City Lord's face immediately changed colour!
These here are the title deeds for the original houses and these are the deeds to the land these loft buildings are built on. These here are the accounts for constructing all these lofts and every one of these papers has been stamped with the seller's handprint." Jun Wu Xie said as she stared coldly at the pale face of the City Lord before she turned to nod her head at Ye Sha, and Ye Sha displayed the contracts one by one before the eyes of everyone there.
The characters in black ink were cleared stated upon the white parchment that every inch of the land here belonged to "Jun Wu", which was the assumed name Jun Wu Xie had taken up!
With such clear and irrefutable evidence, it immediately turned to become a slap that struck the City Lord squarely across the face. The refugees who had initially been highly doubtful had their eyes filled with utter surprise after seeing the contracts, the suspicions within their eyes quickly fading away as they turned upon the City Lord.
"If you do not believe me, the City Lord can jolly well fetch the shopkeeper of the shop standing beside the magistrate's office and have him come verify whether these handprints had come from him." Jun Wu Xie said with her chin slightly lifted. When she had bought these lands, she had made full and foolproof preparations, just to protect herself against incidents like this!
The City Lord suddenly fell silent as the eyes of the refugees surrounding them stared at him with suspicion. He had initially wanted to use the reason that the manors that had stood here had been demolished and wanted to forcefully take over the lands themselves, but he had forgotten that Jun Wu Xie had splurged such a great sum of money then, to not only buy the deeds to the manors alone!
She also held the deeds to the lands for the next fifty years!
Jun Wu Xie's retaliation was carried out swift and clean, highly efficient which immediately shut down all of the City Lord's excuses.
The City Lord's face was seen to have turned so pale it appeared green, his joy from having received all those gold bars was at that moment completely flushed away, to be left with a strong urge in his mind, wishing for nothing more than to drag that shopkeeper in front of him and have him clubbed to death!
"If there is nothing else here, the City Lord can leave now." Jun Wu Xie said as she swept her glance over the City Lord whose face had turned deathly pale from holding himself back, her eyes flashing with a chill.
Trying such petty tricks like framing someone else for the crime, that pudgy pig was still too green.
Seeing that Jun Wu Xie was turning away and about to leave, the City Lord's heart suddenly burned with a raging flame. As the Lord of the Clear Breeze City, no matter whether it was in the past or present, only before the revered one and Luo Xi did he have to bend his knee in humility! He had never had to suffer such outrageous humiliation!
This youth had just sprouted out from nowhere and dared to slap him so soundly across the face today! How was he supposed to take that lying down! ?
"Wait a minute!" The City Lord's eyes narrowed as he stared at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes ablaze with a venomous chill.
"Young Master Jun, the words I said just now was just my way of giving you a way out of this embarrassing situation for you as that is not the reason why I am looking for you! The people here told me earlier that you had struck and killed more than ten citizens of the Clear Breeze City! For this matter! What do you have to say! ?" The City Lord was furious, and he no longer cared about anything else, immediately tearing off his kindly and benevolent mask.
The eyes of all the refugees standing around them went wide. [That..... That's not what the City Lord said earlier! ! !]
Having believed that the "kindly" City Lord had come here to commend Young Master Jun for his heroic deed where he eradicated the thugs, the refugees could not believe that they had been so naive to have actually pushed their benefactor into the jaws of the tiger!
Chapter 1448: "Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (4)"
For the few refugees who had opened their mouths earlier to tell the City Lord what had transpired, their faces had immediately gone white, their eyes in shock.
"Oh?" Jun Wu Xie's brow lifted up slightly as she looked at the City Lord who was no longer able to hold himself back and then said nonchalantly: "No such thing happened. If the City Lord does not believe me, you can very well search through every inch of this place and of you manage to find any dead body here, I will be willing to take on the charge of being a murderer."
"Guards! Search the place! I want it done thoroughly! Do not miss a single spot!" The City Lord spat out through gritted teeth as he stared at Jun Wu Xie. With that order, the soldiers the City Lord had brought with him surge towards him.
The refugees stood in their spots unmoving and they kept silent from fear. The few of them who had been too talkative earlier had now gone pale, their jaws clenched tightly as their knees shook, hearts overcome with endless guilt. They had not once thought that their highly naive minds would bring so much trouble to their benefactor, and what was even more unexpected was that the "kindly" City Lord would so suddenly transform into an entirely different person, to go back on his word without batting an eyelid!
It took only an instant for the City Lord's kindly image to be completely shattered within the hearts of the refugees. The accusation that had been thrown at Jun Wu Xie was quickly and irrefutably countered by Young Master Jun and the City Lord had then pinned the crime of murder upon Jun Wu Xie's head.
Unless one was a complete idiot, or else who wouldn't be able to see that the City Lord was intentionally trying to find fault with Jun Wu Xie?
The gazes that the refugees were looking at the City Lord with fully told what their hearts were feeling at that moment. The pairs of eyes that all were looking at the City Lord were no longer filled with respect and gratitude.
But the City Lord couldn't care any less about that anymore. In his eyes, all these refugees were all destined to be unable to live many more days and they were bound to die sooner or later. Once this batch of them were all dead, in the eyes of the refugees coming into the city after them, he would still be the same old "kindly" City Lord once again.
The City Lord was strongly determined to lock Jun Wu Xie up in prison and once he was able to pin the crime of murder upon the youth, he would then have a very good excuse to confiscate all these beautiful lofts.
But after the soldiers had searched for an entire two hours and had carefully inspected every nook and cranny throughout the loft buildings from top to bottom, they had not been able to find the slightest trace of any dead bodies. They did not even manage to find a single drop of blood.
Such a result, immediately caused the City Lord to become stupefied with shock.
Liu Er and his men had only been killed by Jun Wu Xie just earlier today and based on what the refugees had told him, Liu Er and his men had died a miserable death with their blood splashed across the ground. That had only been several hours ago and even if Jun Wu Xie had been prepared, it was impossible that all traces of their deaths could be so completely erased.
"Go search again! This time, dig up every single inch of the earth in this place!" The City Lord clenched his jaws and stared malevolently at Jun Wu Xie. Jun Wu Xie's face was just as chilly as before and was completely unreadable. That highly indifferent calm, stoked the fire burning within the City Lord even further.
But even after the soldiers dug three feet into the ground, it still did not yield any results. The City Lord forced himself to stay in the city's north till the moon grew hazy but he still did not manage to find the evidence he seeked to find.
Coming up empty handed, the City Lord almost wanted to grab at Jun Wu Xie's collar to ask where those dead bodies were really hidden!
"Satisfied?" Jun Wu Xie asked with her arms crossed over her chest, calm and unruffled as she stared at the City Lord who had developed a twitch near his mouth, her clear eyes icily chill.
The City Lord discreetly gritted his teeth tightly but found no chance for him to kick up a fuss and he could only glare at Jun Wu Xie viciously before turning himself around to leave with his tail between his legs.
Not only the City Lord had found it strange, but all those refugees who had witnessed with their own eyes Liu Er and his gang being killed were completely baffled no matter how much they thought about it. They could not fathom just when and how Jun Wu Xie had managed to erase every single trace of the evidence.
Chapter 1449: "Who's Interrogating Who (1)"
The refugees who had spoken up realized the error of their ways and wanted to go up to Jun Wu Xie to apologize but did not have the courage to face her. Before Jun Wu Xie produced the irrefutable evidence, they had been half suspicious and doubtful where some of them had even fully believed the City Lord's words at that time, blindly buying into it. They had all been slapped across their faces and they found that they were now lacking the courage to even say a single word to Jun Wu Xie.
On the other hand, Jun Wu Xie did not say anything but just turned around to leave. The refugees left behind could do nothing but stare after her, watching her back as Jun Wu Xie walked away for there.
The City Lord was cursing and swearing his entire way back. He had really been humiliated to no end this time. He had not only been unable to successfully snatch those lofts from Jun Wu Xie's hands, he had even been forced to unmask himself before all those refugees which infuriated the City Lord even further.
"All of you are just a bunch of useless trash! So many people were killed and all of you had not even been able to find one clue! What are all of you still doing standing around here in a daze! ? All of you get out of my sight! The very sight of you just irks me!" The City Lord shouted, berating all those soldiers as he stormed into his City Lord's Manor.
All was still and quiet inside the City Lord's Manor. The City Lord had returned but he still did not see a single servant rushing up in greeting, which just made his already infuriated heart even more furious.
"Has everyone in this house died already! ? Ain't any of you going to get your sorry behinds out here right this instant! ?" The City Lord admonished loudly as he walked into the hall. But the moment he set foot inside the hall, he suddenly froze up in shock!
Upon a chair in the large hall, a youth with delicate features sat nonchalantly right in the middle. And that youth sitting there in plain sight was that very same one he had just met in the city's north, Jun Wu Xie! !
The City Lord's heart almost leapt out of his chest!
He had wanted to immediately bolt out through the door but the figure of Ye Sha had already silently slipped up behind him and raising up a foot, he had brutally kicked the City Lord right upon his back, immediately sending the City Lord to fall onto his face as he landed right before Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie lifted her eyes to gaze at the deathly pale City Lord, before she slowly put the teacup she held in her hands onto the table.
"Oh my, hadn't the esteemed City Lord been so aggressive and highly overbearing just a little while ago? Why is the colour of your face looking so ugly now? I was thinking since you have so many crimes that you wanted to pin onto my head, I might as well deliver myself to you and give you an opportunity to carefully interrogate me in detail. Isn't that just great?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes were slightly narrowed and her tone of voice very light. But when those words fell into the City Lord's ears, they sounded like they were whispers from the devil's mouth, sending chills to run up his spine.
"Wha..... What..... What are you going to do....." The City Lord was in a flurry to get up but before he could steady himself, Ye Sha kicked him once again in the pit of his knee and he crashed back onto the ground before Jun Wu Xie on his knees.
The back of his knee was throbbing in pain like it had been Ye Sha crushed by Ye Sha. Large beads of sweat rolled down from the City Lord's forehead as he struggled, attempting to move.
If you cannot remain kneeling properly, I would not mind having both your legs broken, to have you kneel for the rest of your life." Jun Wu Xie's cold voice struck like a thunderous bolt onto the heart of the City Lord, frightening him so badly he did not dare to move himself another inch.
Jun Wu Xie then looked at the City Lord in satisfaction and then said cooly said: "Alright, you can start the interrogation now."
The City Lord only felt like crying. He had never interrogated anyone in such a manner before throughout his entire life. He was made to remain on his knees while the person to be interrogated was sitting high up on a chair right before him, staring down at him from a higher vantage point.
Jun Wu Xie rested her chin upon her palm nonchalantly and staring at him through narrowed eyes, Jun Wu Xie then asked: "Was it Luo Xi who asked you to find trouble with me?"
Chapter 1450: "Who's Interrogating Who (2)"
The City Lord's heart thumped hard a beat and the eyes looked up at Jun Wu Xie was filled with terror. His gaze became shifty and he gulped silently before he said: "What..... Luo Xi?..... I have no idea what you are talking a..... ARGH! ! !"
Before the City Lord could finish, a silver glint flashed behind him and his left ankle was suddenly broken by a merciless stomp of Ye Sha's foot, the heart rending pain immediately causing him to fall to the floor to roll around in pain.
Jun Wu Xie's cold gaze eyed at the City Lord who was bathed in cold sweat and she said in a light and almost fleeting voice: "This is the first time. Lie one more time and you can forget about having legs."
The City Lord lay in a heap upon the ground as he stared in terror at the cold faced youth before him. He looked so very young but the level of viciousness the youth was capable of in order to get his way made even the City Lord himself feel his scalp crawl. He was absolutely merciless. Seeing that side of Jun Wu Xie, the City Lord was completely subdued and he did not dare utter another single lie.
"It's Luo Xi! Luo Xi was the one who asked me to do it! He told me to do it! It wasn't my idea at all! I beg for you to spare me....." The City Lord begged as he wept. If the Heavens had let him known earlier that Jun Wu Xie possessed such a vicious streak within, even if Luo Xi had talked till he went hoarse, the City Lord would not have dared to cross Jun Wu Xie in the slightest!
He was presently in living Hell!
"You had to listen to him?" Jun Wu Xie asked, an eyebrow arching up.
The City Lord nodded.
"Why?"
The City Lord suddenly went dumb and did not dare to speak.
"Ye Sha." Jun Wu Xie's icy voice flashed like another bolt to strike him upon the heart and the City Lord immediately could not wait to say: "I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Because Luo Xi is closer to the revered one and all orders from the revered one are given to me through Luo Xi. If I do not listen to him, the revered one will then place the blame on me....."
The City Lord on the floor was crying bitterly with mucus running down his face. Jun Wu Xie viciousness had made him realise that if he did not give Jun Wu Xie satisfactory replies, he might not be able to see the sun rise tomorrow.
"Who is this revered one?" Jun Wu Xie's tone suddenly turned chillier. As expected, behind the actions of both the City Lord and Luo Xi, a person was hidden behind who controlled them both. If she was not guessing wrongly, the incidents with the Poison Men must have something to do with this "revered one".
"I..... I do not know..... I really do not know..... I only know that the revered one possesses remarkable abilities and hold unparalleled powers. It was Luo Xi who brought the revered one to come seek me, commanding me to carry out all of the revered one's instructions. That person was just too powerful and I did not dare to disobey!" The City Lord answered honestly.
Jun Wu Xie then asked: "Releasing the refugees into the Clear Breeze City was also the revered one's idea?"
"Yes..... it is....." The City Lord nodded.
"Why did he ask the two of you to do this?" Jun Wu Xie continued to probe.
The City Lord swallowed hard and replied: "The revered one needed the refugees to do something for him. He made me bring in three hundred of the elderly and frail ones everyday into the city and after seven days, they were to be brought to Luo Xi's Fortune Spring Hall where Luo Xi would then make them ingest a kind of medicine. The medicine would addle the minds of the refugees to make them highly dazed before losing their awareness and after that..... After that, the revered one would then sent those people to various places....."
[Sent to various places!] Jun Wu Xie's eyes flashed with a chill. Piecing together her deductions and what the City Lord was telling her, she had a rather good idea what the revered one needed those frail elderly and weak women for!
In her past life, Jun Wu Xie had once heard of an unconventional type of biological warfare. A certain power had used humans as carriers, where they injected a highly contagious kind of bacteria into some humans, before sending them into places that the enemy armies were.