Chapter 35 Suspected of a traitor
"City Lord, there is no need to belittle yourself." Jiang Yu grabbed a few chestnuts from Yuan Heng and played with them in his palm while comforting Wen Ren Huai, "They trust and love you very much, which is enough to show that you are a very good city lord."
Regardless of how strong he is, at least he cares about the people of Lingdu, is willing to understand them, listen to their ideas, and get along well with them.
Wen Renhuai smiled slightly, stopped outside the main hall, handed the things in his arms to the servants who came to greet him, and personally opened the curtain for them: "Everyone, please."
Jiang Yu and others entered the house one by one.
As soon as he sat down, a maid came up with tea.
Jiang Yu had just picked up the warm tea when Wen Ren Huai, who was sitting at the top, coughed twice and went straight to the point to talk to them about what was happening in the city.
"Since half a month ago, people have been disappearing one after another."
Jiang Yu immediately put down the teacup in his hand, sat up straight, and concentrated all his attention, not wanting to miss any word that Wen Ren Huai said.
Wen Ren Huai continued, "At first I didn't pay much attention to it. I thought someone had accidentally gotten lost, so I just sent a few guards from the mansion to help look for them."
"Unexpectedly, the people I sent out didn't come back, and more and more people went missing in the city. Later, some people began to die tragically at home. Someone reported it to me, and then I realized that this matter might be much more serious than I thought."
"I took a few guards with some skills and guarded the city for a few nights. We finally saw the murderer, but he was ambushed by his accomplices hiding in the dark and was unconscious for a few days."
As he spoke, he coughed twice and said, "These days, thanks to my wife at home who has been supporting me, otherwise, I don't know how much trouble the city would have because of that murderer."
At this point, Wen Ren Huai lowered his eyes, his face gloomy, and his complexion was even paler than before: "These days, she has fought with the murderer several times and suffered many injuries. After I woke up, she became like me again and fell into a coma."
"Is your injury serious?" Jiang Yu leaned forward slightly, his face showing concern. "I have a lot of medicinal pills on me that you can use."
There were more than just a lot of pills. Jiang Yu counted the things in her storage necklace. Even if Wen Ren Huai said that the other party only had one breath left today, she was confident that she could rescue him.
Wen Ren Huai was stunned, not knowing whether he did not expect Jiang Yu to be so generous or he did not expect something else, his expression was a little surprised for a moment.
But he quickly adjusted his expression: "Thank you for your kindness, young lady. I have already asked a doctor, who said that there is nothing serious and I just need to take good care of myself. It is difficult to find a panacea, so I will not waste your medicine."
Jiang Yu tilted his head slightly, looking at him looking frail and not quite convinced of the ability of the famous doctor he mentioned.
But at least the other party rescued Wenren Huai and woke him up.
Jiang Yu didn't say anything else about this matter.
Yuan Heng asked, "Has the city lord seen the true face of the murderer?"
Fang He and Sang Yang both looked over.
Under the expectant gazes of several people, Wen Renhuai slowly shook his head: "It was dark at the time, and they were wearing masks, so I didn't see what they looked like clearly. But they are evil demons, not people from the city, so it would be useless even if I saw them clearly."
"Evil demons?" Yuan Heng was not surprised. The only ones who could do such things, apart from the fallen cultivators, were the demons and devils who were bent on doing evil and wanted to unify the three realms. "There are two of them?" Wen Renhuai shook his head and said with a wry smile, "More than one."
"After these things happened, people no longer dared to go out at night, but some people believed that evil spirits only appeared at night, so they wanted to escape from Lingdu during the day."
"That won't do!" Fang He said in shock. "There's no saying that evil spirits can only appear at night. They don't enter the city during the day, probably because they're afraid of being discovered by the patrolling guards. Maybe they're guarding outside the city. If they leave the city gate, then - then they'll really be at the mercy of the evil spirits."
"Yes, this is also the reason why I sealed off the city." Wen Renhuai nodded, "If they leave the city, it will be exactly what the evil demon wants."
He continued, "Except for one person who managed to escape from the evil demon, all those who left the city fell into the hands of the evil demon."
"It was this man who said there were countless evil spirits outside the city, so he waited in the woods outside the city for someone to leave. Unfortunately, his injuries were too severe, and he died not long after."
Sang Yang thought about it and was a little surprised: "So, it seems that we just need to catch all the evil demons outside the city?"
This doesn't sound like it requires much brainpower. As long as you have enough cultivation, solving this problem will be a piece of cake.
After all, if there were no evil demons in Lingdu City, they wouldn't have to bother searching one by one to find out where the evil demons were hiding.
Thinking about it this way, this mission is not that difficult.
Before Sang Yang could breathe a sigh of relief, Wen Ren Huai spoke again: "It's mainly the evil demons outside the city, but——"
He seemed to be a little hesitant, until the other five people in the room looked at him with doubt, he continued: "I suspect there is a traitor in the city."
He lowered his eyes and stared at his reflection in the teacup on the table. He clasped his hands together and rubbed them uneasily, explaining, "Lingdu City has been built for a long time. Although the security and protection cannot be said to be impregnable, there are still the necessary formations. These formations were passed down by our ancestors. Even if they cannot kill some evil demons with high cultivation, they should be able to play a blocking role. However, the evil demons that sneaked into the city cleverly avoided these formations. These formations are located in tricky positions and are specifically targeted at evil demons. If you are not careful, you will fall into the formation. Except for the people who set up the formation, few people know about it. If no one helps, the group of evil demons cannot avoid these formations."
Yuan Heng immediately asked, "Who set up the formation?"
"There are two of them." Wen Renhuai answered, "One is my wife's trusted maid, and the other is me."
A trusted maid?
Jiang Yu was somewhat confused. It wasn't that a maidservant couldn't practice cultivation, but it just sounded incongruous.
The awkward part is that she is making arrangements as a maid, so how can she convince other people in the City Lord's Mansion?
And since she can even set up formations for the entire city, why does the City Lord's Mansion still let her be just a maid?
Jiang Yu was still thinking, and Wen Renhuai, who was at the top, seemed to see her doubts and took the initiative to explain: "This maid was originally a disciple of Changyun Sword Sect. She had good cultivation and had studied battle formations. After leaving Changyun Sword Sect, she was attacked by a demon and fell off a cliff due to accidental injuries. She was rescued by my wife and has been in Lingdu ever since. My wife and I saw that she had some cultivation, so we wanted to let her be a teacher in the mansion, but she said that she would leave after she had paid her gratitude and didn't want to be too far away from her benefactor, so we let her go. Later, she became my wife's personal maid."
Wen Renhuai was silent for a moment: "She can't be the traitor. She was injured by the evil spirits in the past and almost lost her life. She hates evil cultivators the most. She has killed many evil cultivators for Lingdu over the years."
(End of this chapter)
