Chapter 53 - The Last Assassins
‘They won’t even let you have an intact corpse’.
He only said a few words, but these words made the atmosphere extremely heavy. Not only those five old men, who performed the autopsy, but even Luo Kedi and Ma Liang’s faces instantly turned pale. Luo Kedi let out a cold humph and took a step forward, placing his palm on the handle of his sword. On the other side, Ma Liang grunted and extended his hand, stopping Luo Kedi from doing anything. After that, with both hands on his back, he walked in front of Lu Quyuan, who was crying his heart out.
“Sixth Young Master of the Lu Family. Please tell me what happened during the mountain expedition, in detail.”
After some sobbing, Lu Quyuan finally raised his tearing face up and answered, stammering, “Scouting Officer Yan Bugui had given us an order. He said that those who dare to leak out any insight about the mission will die, and that all the titles and official positions of his family would be striped away, and the entire family would be condemned to lifelong exile.”
Ma Liang’s mouth was hanging wide open. He was immediately intimidated by what Lu Quyuan said.
Wu Qi nodded his head silently. Lu Quyuan indeed was from influential family. He didn’t tell Lu Quyuan say that, but he was able to use Yan Bugui’s name and bluffed Ma Liang all by himself. He really proved himself to be the sixth young master of the Lu Family.
Luo Kedi, who was standing beside him, stamped his feet forcefully and snapped, “Then, tell us how the Marquis died!”
When Lu Quyuan heard the question, he once again cried his lungs out and even slamming his head on the ground few times. After that, with his remaining arm, he grabbed on Luo Kedi’s thigh, blowing his nose and tears on Lu Kedi’s combat rope. With a stammering voice, together with endless sobbing and coughing, Lu Quyuan began to explain how Liu Suifeng was horribly killed in the forest, which, of course, was a story made up by Wu Qi and himself.
Basically, most of the things he said were true. There was nothing much worth suspecting in this account of Liu Suifeng’s death. Old Devil and Lord Flame were both killed by barbarian beast warriors, this was a fact that Lu Quyuan could vow for, genuinely, even if he was standing in front of all the mighty gods. As for Liu Suifeng, he was killed by the deadly poison from some mysterious bugs. Once again, Lu Quyuan swore on the souls of all his ancestors that Liu Suifeng was really killed by a poisonous bug.
Lu Quyuan repeated over and over again, while Ma Liang kept throwing him all sort of questions. However, all the replies had been tested and modified countless times by Wu Qi. How could there be any mistakes? Although Ma Liang was Lord Puyang’s most intelligent subordinate, compared to Le Xiaobai’s god-level intellect, he was still far behind.
Lu Quyuan’s replies covered all the bases, and there was nothing at all to pick at. Wu Qi even designed some inconsistencies in Lu Quyuan’s statement purposely, blurring some minor details. Such imperfections actually made Lu Quyuan’s replies more trustworthy.
Ma Liang’s heart became heavier and heavier, as he could verify what Lu Quyuan said was trustworthy. Liu Suifeng was really killed by those barbarians in the forest. Swiftly exchanging a look with Luo Kedi, Ma Liang gritted his teeth and shouted, “Then how was Liu Zhong killed? Sixth young master Lu, please tell me everything you know about this, in detail!”
How was Liu Zhong killed? Of course, there was nothing that could be faulted with Lu Quyuan’s answers. He and Wu Qi had practiced and practiced the answers to perfection.
Since there was no fault in his answers, Ma Liang could only blink his eyes and lower his head in frustration, sinking into deep thoughts.
Clearing his throat, Luo Kedi pushed away Lu Quyuan’s arm, which was hugging his thigh, and, with a cold voice, said, “So, Mayor Lu, I still have the same question. Our Marquis was protected by two Embryonic Breath Stage Xiantian Realm cultivators. Why did he die in the forest, but all of you are still alive?”
When Lu Chengfeng was about to answer, Wu Qi suddenly laughed out loud, saying, “It is really funny for General Luo to ask this! So, in your mind, all of us were suppose to die in the forest as well?”
Luo Kedi kept staring at Wu Qi, and, with a cruel tone, said, “Our Marquis has died. Both of the cultivators, who were supposed to protect him have died, but why are you still alive?” The skinny body of Luo Kedi moved slightly and, in an instant, a warm energy shots out from his body, and light red natural energy in surrounding area began to quickly flow into his body.
He was a warrior in Xiantian realm as well. Also, judging from his the energy around him, he had broken through to ‘Physical Strengthening’ Stage of the Xiantian Realm. When those fire energies flowed into his body, all his skin started glowing with a faded red light, and his war robe caught on fire. The flame was covering Luo Kedi and, in just a short moment, his war robe had been burned into ashes, leaving him in his blood red armor.
Wu Qi took a few steps back without saying anything. With a wave of his hand, a few hundred City Guards in the surrounding area had raised up their nine-bolt crossbows and aimed them at Luo Kedi.
“Take it easy, let’s not do anything stupid!” Wu Qi sneered and said, “Even General Luo is a Xiantian realm cultivator, with so many nine-bolt crossbows shooting at the same time, I’m sure you will be riddled with bolts. I don’t think you want to taste that, do you?”
Ma Liang, again, cleared his throat, and, with a slight tremor of his body, Luo Kedi retracted the light red fire energy back into his body.
“Sorry for being so rude!” Ma Liang held his fist toward Wu Qi and said, “Old Luo has always had this hot temper, but he actually had no bad intentions. He just couldn’t accept the tragic death of the Marquis. I hope Mayor Lu will let us bring the Marquis’s coffin out from the city. We’ll return to the capital immediately.”
Lu Chengfeng nodded his head and asked, “You don’t want to spend a night here and rest?”
Ma Liang breathed out a sigh and said, “What’s done is done, and we aren’t in the mood to rest. The earlier we bring the Marquis back, the better.”
Wu Qi continued and asked, “Turning Marquis into this messy state... Was your own idea or Lord Puyang’s order?” Wu Qi pointed at Marquis Liu, who had all his internal organs removed. A Marquis had his corpse chopped and sliced up, this was something really weird.
Ma Liang breathed out a sigh again, “How is it possible for us to have this amount of courage? It was Marquis himself who wanted to know the exact way his son was killed.”
Wu Qi asked again, “So, both of you just want to bring Marquis’s body back in this manner? Do you want me to look for some skillful men to stitch the Marqui’s body back together?”
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