The aftermath of the Ninth Village incident was left to the Security Bureau to handle.
The array has been broken, and whether it’s Evelyn or the other eighteen won who were once similarly cursed, from now on, they will no longer be forced by the curse to marry soone from the Ninth Village in every life.
As for the originally concentrated fortune of the Ninth Village, it will completely dissipate in a short ti.
Those once outstanding clansn will also return to diocrity.
Returning to the Capital tropolitan, at the mont of parting, Evelyn sincerely thanked her,
"Thank you."
As she spoke, she hesitated for a mont, tentatively asking,
"Can I call you Scarlett?"
She rembered that Scarlett had ntioned on a show that she didn’t like strangers calling her by her na.
Scarlett Jennings just offered her a slight smile,
"Sure."
Evelyn’s face instantly lit up with a joyful smile.
It was a truly relaxed smile after being freed from the bonds of reincarnation.
And in every life from now on, she would live according to her own heart.
...
Stella Gibson and Greta left earlier with the Security Bureau people, bid farewell to Evelyn and the others, leaving only Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalrs in the backseat of the extra-seated business car.
Only until this ti did she look at Samuel and ask him,
"Do you know that Evil Master nad Shu’e?"
Although it was a question, her tone clearly carried so certainty.
After all, Samuel was not the type to be curious about others.
His inquiry must have been prompted by a discovery.
So, what did he discover?
When Samuel heard that na from her mouth, he thought of the person and instinctively wanted to obscure the other’s identity.
But as his gaze t Scarlett’s, he inexplicably recalled the scene in the bookroom at Chang’en that day.
She had asked about the fine lines on his wrist, and he had rely said, "It’s nothing," only to see her eyes fill with a renewed sense of distance.
After the Azure Sea incident, he should have understood.
Scarlett Jennings doesn’t like being kept in the dark.
Even if the intention is for her good.
Scarlett knew from his lack of imdiate response that this was probably another question he couldn’t tell her.
A faint disappointnt swept over her heart, but she no longer felt sorrow because of his concealnt.
If he wouldn’t tell her, she could investigate it herself.
She didn’t necessarily need him to solve the mystery.
She also didn’t want to waste a Truth Talisman.
"Just forget I asked."
As she said this, she turned her head to look out the window, only to be caught off guard by Samuel’s voice,
"Shu’e is the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog escape."
Scarlett was taken aback and suddenly turned her head to look at him,
"You knew already?"
Regarding the identity of the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog, even Cassian Wolf and the Security Bureau hadn’t explicitly reported it. She only knew that the Security Bureau and the Mystic Regulation Office had been secretly tracking that person’s whereabouts these past days.
"I only guessed it might be him when I was trapped by the Divine Refining Array at the Azure Sea. As for why I just asked about him..."
Samuel said, suddenly opening his palm toward her.
Scarlett saw a mass of golden light gather above his palm.
As the golden light slowly dissipated, she saw a small, golden light-condensed orb floating in his palm.
The orb was small, and through the orb, one could vaguely see a black, fog-like fragnt inside.
It resembled the Ghost Fog yet seed like a condensed fragnt.
"This is what I extracted from the worm when the array was broken just now and from a crack in the ground."
"What is this?" Scarlett asked.
"Malice."
Samuel said,
"Shu’e isn’t an Evil Master skilled in Voodoo Ritual, as he’s essentially the incarnation of mortal malice. The fragnt condensed from this malice was stripped from his body."
That’s why he had asked for the Evil Master’s na.
Because he knew that even if he wandered the world as an Evil Master, he wouldn’t intentionally hide his real na.
It was a trait unique to his arrogance.
The worm he gave the Nova Kinship was just an ordinary worm, but covered by malice and fed by centuries of resentnt, it had long since beco a Malice Worm.
If the worm survived by devouring other insects to beco a King of Insects, then the Malice Worm was nurtured by devouring malice.
Unlike worms, it doesn’t have its own form, but it’s particularly repelled by golden light.
So, when the Nova Clan Leader summoned the worm and it got trapped by his Golden Light Barrier, it already escaped by severing its tail.
And this "tail" was the malice fragnt Samuel discovered.
Hearing Samuel’s explanation, Scarlett finally understood why the disturbance had completely vanished after that.
Originally, she had been prepared for the appearance of the King of Worms once the array was broken.
However, now hearing this, it didn’t seem like it fared any better.
Although it escaped by severing its tail, it did indeed escape.
A Malice Worm fed by the Nova Kinship for centuries, even if it lost half its power, was still a troubleso existence.
"Shu’e isn’t one to enjoy being manipulated. There must be a reason why he ddled in the Ninth Kinship’s affairs centuries ago."
Samuel spoke of Shu’e with apparent familiarity.
Scarlett was not interested in pursuing his past acquaintance with Shu’e. She was now more concerned with what he had just ntioned,
"Do you an the Clan’s annihilation in ten generations?"
Fortune mixed with resentnt, annihilation in ten generations.
The people of the Ninth Kinship seed unaware, but Shu’e must have known.
Or perhaps, the annihilation in ten generations wasn’t just a natural demise.
But rather, after ten generations, that Malice Worm nurtured by nearly a millennium of a clan’s power would be truly refined.
The Ninth Kinship had been Shu’e’s chosen experint from the beginning.
Considering Ghost Fog’s previous plots with the Undying Bone, Devil Bone, and Boundary Breaking Array... if all these were Shu’e’s directives,
then this person... really liked conducting experints.
Too bad they all failed.
As Scarlett thought this, a flash of insight crossed her mind. She looked at Samuel,
"Do you think that after the Malice Worm’s refinent failure and escape, it might follow the malice back to its real master?"
Samuel’s eyes twitched upon hearing this, and he instantly understood her aning.
"You an..."
Scarlett nodded, "Finding this worm might lead us to Shu’e’s location."
As the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog, letting him continue hiding outside was definitely not a good thing.
So saying, Scarlett imdiately sent a request to Simon on the other end.
She wouldn’t involve herself in the aftermath of the Ninth Village.
But she could take responsibility for tracking the escaped Malice Worm.
Samuel listened to her negotiate with Simon, and after a while, he suddenly spoke,
"I can assist you with the tracking."
The Malice Worm feared his golden light, and besides, facing Shu’e alone would put her in danger.
His presence would allow him to protect her.
Scarlett heard Samuel’s words, glanced at him with an expression full of indescribable emotion, but ultimately consented.
From then on, she continued to work alongside him.
On the other end of the phone, Simon: ...
Next ti, you can decide these things on your own. There’s really no need to consult .
...
Anyway, the one who eventually needed to report and obey decisions was soone else. Haha.
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