Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 265 - 229 This is the Truth_1

Chapter 265: Chapter 229 This is the Truth_1

"This is the menu of the night of the incident? Are you sure there’s no mistake?"

Li Xuan only walked out with the menu in his hand, seemingly lost in thought, after receiving confirmation from the kitchen supervisor.

"Is there anything wrong with this menu?" Luo Yan, who was following next to him, snatched the document from Li Xuan’s hand.

After she glanced at it, her eyebrows slightly raised, "There really is a problem! This should be a breakthrough, right? Yet, why do you look as if you’ve lost some money, Duwei?"

Li Xuan gave a bitter smile, didn’t say anything, hurriedly walked to the stairs, and dashed up to the thirty-seventh floor where the Red-Scale Snake was kept.

When he arrived at the snake demon’s cell, the snake demon immediately coiled up its body, spat out its snake tongue, and hissed piercingly at him.

Li Xuan paid it no mind, directly picked up the yellow dust in the cell to sniff, then furrowed his brows.

According to the information summarized for him by Yue Qianqian, the Liudao Division captured a total of four snake demons this month. Li Xuan didn’t miss out, he went to see each one before leaving the floor dedicated to holding snakes and insects.

Luo Yan was extremely curious, she was now one hundred percent sure that Li Xuan had identified the real culprit.

Even though she had followed Li Xuan through his entire investigation and was aware of the clues he had, she still didn’t know who this person was——

Next, she saw Li Xuan standing in the lobby on the first floor, frowning and looking in the direction of the main entrance for quite a while.

Just as Luo Yan’s curiosity became almost unbearable, she heard a very familiar voice outside the main entrance, "Taishan, after you go in, throw me your identity token."

The one speaking was Peng Fulai, who had presumably returned with Zhang Taishan after accompanying him for treatment.

Sure enough, Zhang Taishan’s voice came from outside, "Throw my identity token to you? Peng, what are you planning to do?"

There was a hint of confusion in his words.

"I want to see if I can enter using your identity token——"

"Huh? Where’s your own identity token? Why use mine?"

"Of course I lost it!" Peng Fulai’s voice was full of frustration and helplessness, "That damn Li Xuan took it to scrape some stuff, how could I still use it? The Internal Affairs Building said they could issue me a new one, but it’ll take at least three to five days."

"But wouldn’t this be futile?" At this point, Zhang Yue had already entered the main gate. He said it was futile, but still threw his identity token to Peng Fulai outside the gate.

"Even if you can deceive the tower’s ’Zhenwu Fengmo Array’, do you think the two lions standing next to it are stupid?"

"Just trying, it doesn’t matter. If there’s really no other way, you’ll have to get Qianzhi, or Youjiao Luo could come down to pick me up. He should also have the authority——"

When their conversation reached this point, Luo Yan saw the light in Li Xuan’s eyes growing brighter and brighter.

"Just tell me, who is this person?" Luo Yan felt as if a cat’s paw was scratching her heart.

"I have a conjecture, but the evidence is still insufficient."

Li Xuan said thoughtfully with a complicated look in his eyes, "All I can say is that our previous direction was indeed wrong."

He didn’t want to say the person’s name because he couldn’t believe his own inference; he would rather be wrong.

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Two days later in the early morning, when Peng Fulai came to Mingyou City with a stack of official documents, he had mixed feelings.

At this time, Li Xuan was working at his desk, dealing with all kinds of documents accumulated in Mingyou City.

Next to him was Xue Yunrou, who was sitting with a gentle smile on her face. She was supporting her chin with her hand, looking tenderly at Li Xuan, and occasionally taking out grapes, lychee, and the likes from the fruit plate next to her and peeling them for him to eat.

While admiring Li Xuan’s luck, Peng Fulai quietly asked Luo Yan, "Isn’t she watching over the Qinhuai River? How does she have leisure time to spend here?"

Although he had spent the past few days at Zhuque Hall and hadn’t been back to the small courtyard outside, he knew that the situation at Zhuque Hall wasn’t good; of the demons that fled into the city, only about thirty were caught.

Shenhui and Xue Wuya, as well as the two Fourth Gate powerhouses who were rescued from the Demon Tower, were still at large. In addition, many Maitreya followers were gathering around Jinling City. At this point, Jinling City was fine, but in the suburbs, the activities of these evil cultivators and demons were blatant.

As the current Sea-suppressing Divine Needle of Mingyou City, Xue Yunrou should be suppressing evil spirits at Qinhuai River rather than returning to Zhuque Hall to accompany her beloved.

Luo Yan glanced at Xue Yunrou, then answered while bored, "Today she had a brother from Tianshi’s Mansion take her shift. It’s said that he’s a strong hand approaching the Fourth Gate, so she naturally doesn’t have to worry about Qinhuai River."

Peng Fulai twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking that this maneuver was also possible? This brother of Xue Yunrou really loved his Lady Xue.

Li Xuan finally noticed Peng Fulai and the documents he was holding, and his face darkened, "Why are there so many again?"

At this point, he missed Jiang Hanyun, who was under house arrest, and Yue Qian qian, who was still at Zhuque House.

If the former were here, more than half of these documents wouldn’t have reached him; the latter being a human encyclopedia, she could just be a secretary if needed.

"What do you think? The jurisdiction of our Mingyou City has doubled."

Peng Fulai said gleefully, "With both Ma Chenggong and Duwei Si not around, of course they have to find you. Other than these various documents, there are two documents calling for arrests that need to be processed as soon as possible. They involve nobles, the people below couldn’t make decisions and it’s rather urgent."