Chapter 114: Chapter 105: The Oriole Behind
’Dead or not, it’s safer to make sure.’
He felt no sense of accomplishnt. The three were already injured. They might have been able to handle ordinary people, but fighting back against an Eighth Grade Martial Artist like him was just wishful thinking.
Even if they hadn’t been injured, he would have started with his bow and arrow, not his blade. Besides, he wasn’t sure he would have been afraid of them even if they were at full strength.
’A High-Tier fighting a Low-Tier... if you play it safe and are still scared, you might as well never leave ho.’
Next, he violently broke open all the doors. Without bothering to check each room individually, he took all the dicinal materials.
Since Chang Younian had used these dicinal materials to set an ambush, he wasn’t about to be polite and leave them behind.
’I’m already a wanted man, so why be polite? Better to add fuel to the fire. If I can get rid of Chang Younian, maybe the bounty on my head will be withdrawn.’
After taking all the dicinal materials, Cheng Zongyang didn’t linger and made a swift retreat.
Less than ten minutes after Cheng Zongyang left, the sound of nurous, hurried footsteps approached from outside.
However, when they pushed open the courtyard gate and saw the three constables lying in the yard, they all froze on the spot.
At their head was the Black-robed Steward.
He walked up to the three constables with a blank expression, took a torch from one of the governnt officials, and used his fan to lift the clothing over their wounds, examining each one by the firelight.
Finally, his gaze fell upon a broken blade.
He picked it up for a look. The break was clean—it hadn’t been snapped, but sliced through.
But for the break to be so smooth!
"This is..."
Seeing how smooth the break was, the Master seed to realize sothing, and his expression suddenly turned grave—far more of a shock than the constables’ deaths.
"What happened?"
Just then, Qi Yue and Wang Tianfeng returned, the latter carrying two corpses.
When Qi Yue saw the scene in the courtyard, his face twisted in anger. "Who did this?!"
As he spoke, his accusatory gaze fell upon the Black-robed Steward.
Wang Tianfeng hastily dropped the corpses he was carrying and rushed over to examine the bodies of his three subordinates.
The Black-robed Steward picked up the Broken Blade and said calmly,
"You two should know better than I what happened. Investigate and report to the Magistrate. I’ll be taking my leave."
With that, he left the courtyard, taking the two halves of the Broken Blade with him. No one dared to stop him.
Wang Tianfeng’s face darkened as he said,
"Sir, this must be the work of an Eighth Grade Martial Artist or higher. Li Xia’s chest is caved in, all of his ribs shattered. There’s a fist print on his chest, and he has fragnts of his internal organs in his mouth. A Ninth Grade couldn’t possibly generate this much force, only an Eighth Grade or above. Also, the wounds on all three are extrely sharp. The attacker was carrying a very sharp blade! The throat slits must have been the finishing blows. Their thods were both ruthless and cautious. Sir, should we investigate?!"
They didn’t have to think to know who was responsible: the Four Great Gangs or the An and Miao Families.
But investigating them seed pointless.
They never imagined that while their opponents had co with five people, only four had revealed themselves, leaving one in reserve for the end!
After luring them away, that person made their move, killing the constables who had stayed behind...
At this thought, Qi Yue’s expression changed, and he rushed toward the rooms.
When he saw all the doors flung open and the rooms inside completely empty, he slamd a fist into a wall, bringing it down, and roared in fury,
"Get all our n out there and search! It’s impossible for one person to have carried off so many dicinal materials! Go!!"
Startled, Wang Tianfeng hurried to see for himself.
The next mont, his expression turned just as grim. He quickly led everyone away.
The dicinal materials were crucial to a plan involving the County Magistrate and the four great families. Most of the dicinal materials in the city had been gathered here. The remainder was sealed away in the families’ warehouses, ready to be deployed at a mont’s notice.
With so many dicinal materials missing, the plan’s effectiveness would be drastically reduced, even if it could still proceed!
Even ordering more from other county towns, or even the Commandery City, would take ti—ti in which all sorts of uncontrollable variables could arise!
Once the County Magistrate learned of this, the consequences would be severe!
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