Chapter 60: The Killing Sword
Chapter 60 – The Killing Sword
Inside the high mansion, the Xu family residence, the personnel were on alert and the atmosphere was solemn.
In the hall, Xu Zaichuan’s corpse was laid out in a coffin, and Xu Wanglang stood to the side, looking at the wound on his son’s neck with a somber expression.
“What a fast sword, what a ruthless sword!”
A sentence drifted out from between Xu Wang Lang’s teeth, and the temperature around him seemed to have lowered a bit. The maids and subordinates in the hall all collected their nostrils for fear of annoying the Xu Wang Lang of the moment.
“Master, you must must avenge Chuan’s son!” Xu ZaiChuan’s mother wailed loudly, her voice hoarse and piercing to the eardrums.
“Killing my Mister Xu’s heir, no matter who it is, he won’t be able to escape!”
Xu Wanglang turned his head to look at his butler, who hurriedly took a step forward and said in a low voice, “Master, I just ordered down that anyone who has a grudge against young master is now lining up today’s whereabouts. As long as there is a difference in their whereabouts, they will immediately be arrested first.”
“Snap!”
Xu Wang Lang slapped the butler’s cheek, and the butler’s entire body smashed against the pillar, a mouthful of blood spurting out.
The butler looked at Xu Wang Lang with a horrified expression, not knowing where he had done wrong. The surrounding subordinates all shivered and buried their heads a little lower.
“As long as there has been a grudge, all of them will be arrested and interrogated first, regardless of whether there has been any movement in their whereabouts today.”
Xu Wang Lang looked down at the butler and said grimly, “And anyone who has wandered around Chuan’er’s mansion today, arrest them all as well. Rather kill the wrong ones, don’t let any of the suspicious ones go. Do you, understand?”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll do it now!” The butler immediately climbed up and ran down with a swollen cheek.
“You guys don’t seem to be sad at all that young master is dead!” Xu Wang Lang suddenly looked at the subordinates around him.
All of the subordinates were jolted, and howling voices resounded through the hall, even reaching the outside of the mansion.
In Apricot Fen City’s Street Center Alley.
“How dare you, how dare you lift my store!”
“Master, everyone inside is dead, all killed by one sword!”
“Can you tell anything?”
“The traces left behind have all been wiped, so we can’t see anything yet. Master, I heard that Xu Zaichuan died today, also under a sword wound, as well as He Yuan Thu as well.”
“Oh? This is interesting.”
“Master, then what should we do now?”
“Check! Having a store lifted like this, if there’s no response, the others are afraid they’ll think we’re easy to bully!”
“Alright, I’ll go do it now!”
The atmosphere of the entire Xingfen City seemed to be tense all of a sudden. Searches were made, arrests were made, and some of the well-informed ones hurriedly hid in their homes, no longer hanging around outside, lest the fish in the pond be affected.
Cries and fights would resound somewhere in the city from time to time, but they quickly subsided.
The other families of Xingfen City acquiesced to King Xu Lang’s actions. After all, a favorite heir had died, and if they jumped out to stop it at this node, they were afraid that they would immediately feud with Xu Wang Lang.
And Xu Wang Lang in Xingfen City, is notorious for being vindictive. If there is a misunderstanding, there may not be anything now, but in the future, I don’t know which day, I will be stabbed by Xu Wang Lang.
Some families are not afraid, but they don’t want to incur such trouble.
The next day, the Xu family began to check the foreigners in Xingfen City. Anyone who had changed their appearance was all arrested and interrogated.
Dare to use disguise, it means you have a trick in your heart. Since there is a trick, then go to the Xu family’s prison to talk about it properly.
But Xingfen city outsiders, really too much, Xu family want to check one by one, too difficult, and also make too many enemies. Not all outsiders are easy to bully, there is no shortage of real experts.
Therefore, just two days, this kind of large-scale search of outsiders move, slowly stopped. There are still checking, but already can not be so reckless to find. At the same time, those who were planning to leave the city or the merchants were the key targets of the search. At the same time those merchant caravans were also told that if any of the people who joined them midway and were found to be suspicious, they could come back and get a large amount of bounty.
Apricot Fen City had not been so noisy for years, making people on edge, on the streets and in the restaurants, people became much less.
Xu family residence.
“Among these people?”
Xu Wanglang turned his head to look at Wu Changli, an envoy of the Qian Family who had been specially sent by the Qian Family to help Xu Wanglang.
Wu Changli’s cultivation was average, over half a hundred years old, and he had only stumbled to the Calcined Bone Realm in the past few years. However, in the Qian Family, Wu Changli’s status was on par with the average Marrow Realm martial artist.
It was only because Wu Changli had a skill that allowed him to control some parasites.
Among the strange and weird types of parasites, there was one that could find people based on the odor of their blood.
The Qian family had a normal relationship with the Xu family, but Xu Wang Lang had made Xingfen City a scene this time, so in order to prevent the situation from expanding, the Qian family had asked Wu Changli to take action.
Hearing Xu Wang Lang’s question, Wu Changli did not answer immediately, but instead gazed tightly at a winged parasite in his hand. This parasite was currently hovering in Wu Changli’s hand, and had no desire to fly out.
“It’s not these people.” Wu Changli shook his head and said.
Many of the people in the large prison had already been tortured beyond recognition, and some were even dying from serious injuries. Just now, they had all heard the conversation between the two of them, Xu Wang Lang, and had roughly understood some of it.
Thus, at this moment, hearing Wu Changli’s words, some of them couldn’t help but cry with joy that they could finally leave this place.
“You guys seem to be, well, happy!”
Xu Wang Lang was already a bit disappointed, and when he heard the change in the looks of the people in the dungeon, his heart grew more and more irritated. He had died a son, and these people, now they even dared to be so happy.
It was as if the people in the large prison had their throats pinched, not daring to make any more noise.
“There should still be some accomplices among them, interrogate them properly again, those who should be killed, can be killed!”
Xu Wang Lang threw down a sentence and turned around to leave the prison, Wu Changli shrank his neck and hurriedly followed.
Wu Changli had heard that Xu Wang Lang was temperamental before, and now he had seen it. Those people in the prison were also considered unlucky to have run into Xu Wang Lang.
I can only say that in this world, if you want to live well, sometimes it is not possible to stay out of trouble.
“Can Donor Wu track down my son’s murderer?”
Arriving at the lobby, Xu Wang Lang sat on a high chair and looked down on Wu Changli. Although he didn’t purposely give pressure, he still made Wu Changli’s body involuntarily tense up.
“If that person has yet to leave Xingfen City, I can try.” Wu Changli whispered.
“Then I’ll be grateful to Provider Wu!” The corners of Xu Wanglang’s mouth tugged slightly as he said.
“Not dare, not dare!”
Wu Changli hurriedly waved his hand, glanced at the parasite in his sleeve, and pulled out a piece of black soil the size of a fingernail cap from his pocket, placing it by the parasite’s mouth with some meaty pain.
The parasite’s body took a leap and directly plopped down on the black soil, but in a moment’s time, the black soil was eaten up.
The wings of the parasite trembled slightly and began to fly forward.
As early as half an hour ago, this parasite had licked Xu Jaichuan’s blood. Thus, at this moment, what this parasite was looking for was the same scent.
The same scent remained on that murderous sword.
(End of chapter)