Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 445 - 358: The Pleased Earl Huichang_1

Chapter 445: Chapter 358: The Pleased Earl Huichang_1

"Li Xuan?" Luo Yan turned to Li Xuan, puzzled: "How did you get here, Li Xuan?"

"I was about to ask you the same. Why are you in the Jinkui Stone Room?"

Li Xuan walked up to Luo Yan, noticing that her hand was motionless on a bookshelf. He furrowed his eyebrows: "What’s wrong with this bookshelf?"

"It’s a trap, an activated one."

Luo Yan chuckled bitterly: "The person who set this trap is exceptionally skilled with arrays. If I release my hand now, the entire Jinkui Stone Room’s talisman array would collapse, all the documents, all the records, all the evidence will be burned."

A chill ran down Li Xuan’s spine, he figured this case from Inspectorate wasn’t as straightforward as it seemed.

He looked at what Luo Yan was holding. It turned out to be a letter: "This the evidence from the case of the Xunjian Yushi of the two Huai rivers, Xia Guangwei?"

So, this was what attracted Luo Yan here?

Luo Yan bit her bottom lip, her eyes bordered in red: "I wouldn’t have cared so much, but in the unburned record, I saw that in these evidentiary documents, there is a will left to me and my mother by my father."

She stared at Li Xuan: "The person who laid this trap, not only knew my identity but he also understood me very well."

"But he must have targeted me, otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone to such lengths."

With mere seconds of contemplation, Li Xuan realised the evil intentions of the one who set the trap. He thought that if he hadn’t arrived here in time today, no matter what Luo Yan did, it would be wrong.

If she lets go and leaves, all the evidence records in the Jinkui Stone Room would be burned. Luo Yan would certainly be accused of destroying the evidence and might never uncover the truth behind her father Xia Guangwei’s case of corruption. However, if Luo Yan chooses to stay here, the Inspectorate has officers who conduct periodic inspections of the Scripture Room and the Jinkui Stone Room.

Even before the guards of the Scripture Room and Jinkui Stone Room come for inspection, the person could use the excuse of looking up old case files to bring people into the Jinkui Stone Room and directly arrest Luo Yan.

Regardless of which outcome, it would mean that Luo Yan’s identity as the ’Demoness Zidie’ will be exposed.

What would be the consequences? If Luo Yan just leaves, it wouldn’t harm her, at most she would have to abandon her identity ’Luo Yan’.

But as Luo Yan’s friend and superior, Li Xuan would inevitably be involved and face criticism. The opponent may even have other plans, leading to some unexpected consequences.

For this matter, Long Xuhu and Qiu Qianqiu could handle it in Nanjing, but not in Beijing.

"You better leave." Feeling slightly guilty towards Li Xuan, Luo Yan, with reddened eyes, looked away: "They should be here soon. Don’t worry, after you leave, I will escape. This is still better than being arrested. It’s not reasonable to risk my own life for these evidences and my father’s relics, right? Even if I get caught, I won’t say anything rashly, I absolutely won’t implicate you."

Yet, Li Xuan laughed at this, flicking Luo Yan’s forehead: "How can you be so stupid? The one who needs to leave now, is you, Yan."

Taken aback by his words, Luo Yan stared at him, puzzled.

"This plot is targeting your identity. But if you’re not here, how could they arrest you at the Liudao Division?"

Already, Li Xuan’s hand was pressing onto the letter.

He knew the pattern of this trap, it was similar to an activated landmine. It only needs to maintain physical contact to prevent activation.

Luo Yan felt Li Xuan’s body lean in from behind, his hand indomitably covering the back of her hand. She couldn’t help but change colour: "But what about you, Li Xuan? Breaking the seal of the Jinkui Stone Room, trespassing into the Jinkui Stone Room, intending to destroy evidence, these offences are not minor."

"But it’s much better than having your identity revealed, Yan. No matter whether you choose to leave or escape, as your superior, I will be implicated. Don’t worry, after you leave, I have my ways. They may use this case to confine me, but they won’t be able to convict me."

Li Xuan looked calm and confident, smiling faintly at the worried Luo Yan: "If you don’t leave soon, Yan, I will stay here with you. Both of us would end up getting caught. Without our wings, let’s become a pair of Mandarin ducks tied to each other by fate."

"You!" Luo Yan was stunned. She glared at Li Xuan, and then seeing his serious gaze, she was dumbfounded.

Her ferocity instantly diminished, she gritted her teeth: "You’re telling the truth, right? Li Xuan, you really have a way to escape punishment? You’re not lying to me, are you?"

"Only a little dog would lie to you."

Li Xuan laughed at her words: "Don’t worry, I still need you, Yan, to help me manage the Shenyi Department! If all else fails, you can come to my rescue, and we can travel and live together."

A confused Luo Yan stared at him. This guy, who always looked so lazy, was causing her heart to flutter. Just being close enough to smell his scent makes her heart palpitate.

In the end, she gritted her teeth, abruptly pulling her hand away from the bookshelf: "Alright, I’ll believe you this once."

Luo Yan was decisive, once she had made a decision, she would act immediately, undaunted.

But as she reached the entrance of the stone room, Luo Yan couldn’t stop herself from turning around and looking at Li Xuan once again. He looked as elegant and poised as always, his demeanor cool and relaxed. But the Luo Yan at this very moment had a completely different feeling. She gazed at him for a moment, and then gritted her teeth: "If anything happens to you this time, Li Xuan, I swear to make the entire Great Jin Dynasty pay."

Li Xuan gestured for her to leave quickly.

He had his own plan and was not afraid of what the person who had set the trap could do to him. No matter what happened, he would remain unscathed.

——It would be too exaggerated for the entire Great Jin Dynasty to be buried with him!

Luo Yan left in a hurry. To prevent any mishaps, she had enhanced her Illusion Technique when she stepped out of the stone room. She vanished without a trace, heading toward the exit. However, upon reaching the stairs, she furrowed her brows and looked back.

She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but she felt like someone had just passed by her.

But when Luo Yan looked back, she found no one. She scoffed at herself, thinking it was her imagination and that she was suspecting ghosts.

How could someone have passed by her completely undetected by her senses? Even among the heavenly level, only a handful could do such a thing.

Just as Luo Yan was leaving the Jinkui Stone Room, shaking her head in disbelief, Li Xuan was holding the letter with one hand and using a handkerchief with the other to erase all of Luo Yan’s traces.

This world didn’t have fingerprint or DNA verification technology, and the methods of trace investigation were rudimentary, but endless magical techniques were available.

Who knew what methods the other party could employ to prove that Luo Yan had been here?

Luo Yan was naturally very careful, always hiding her form with the Illusion Technique and concealing her presence, but being even more cautious wouldn’t hurt.

However, just as Li Xuan started using his Mana and Zhenyuan to remotely control and expand the range of the handkerchief’s cleaning, he heard a bell-like voice outside the stone room, "Li Xuan? What are you doing here?"

Li Xuan jumped in surprise, almost letting go of the letter he was holding. He looked at Sun Chuyun, who had suddenly appeared outside, "Are you a ghost? How did you appear without making any sound?"

He then looked at her in confusion, "Miss Sun, why are you here?"

"I followed you,"

Sun Chuyun took out an Evil Suppressing Gourd from her sleeve and waved it in front of Li Xuan, "I have found and suppressed the grudge ghost. Then I came back to find you. But you, Li Xuan, rode so fast. Even with the help of a magical instrument, I couldn’t catch up."

Li Xuan thought to himself that it should be Sun Chuyun who is fast. How long had it been since he handed over the case to her, and she’s already solved it?

Next, he looked at her with a strange expression, "Miss Sun, didn’t your father tell you not to enter the Inspectorate tonight?"

"No, my father almost became furious when he heard that I had joined the Liudao Division. He hasn’t seen me for several days."

Sun Chuyun had already come to Li Xuan’s side and looked at his hand stretching into the bookshelf, "Li Xuan, what are you doing?"

Li Xuan didn’t know how to explain, so he quickly came up with a lie, "There is something wrong with this letter I’m holding, Miss Sun could you take it for me?"

Sun Chuyun thought, I’m not that stupid. When she entered, she noticed that Li Xuan was in a state where he couldn’t move.

The letter in Li Xuan’s hand must be the root of the problem,

She carefully looked at a few items nearby, then questioned, "Are these documents and evidences from the Xunjian Yushi Xia Guangwei’s corruption case? Li Xuan, did you break into the Jinkui Stone Room of the Inspectorate to find these things? Hmm—"

At this moment, she had noticed something wrong with the letter, her eyebrows creasing slightly, "This person is so vicious! If you let go now, everything here will be destroyed."

Sun Chuyun also gave Li Xuan a disdainful look, "This letter is problematic, but you want me to take it. Li Xuan, you are so bad."

"What do you mean by bad? I wouldn’t harm you." Li Xuan replied with an innocent expression, he genuinely did not mean to harm Sun Chuyun.

However, with the letter in Sun Chuyun’s hands, it would make things easier for him to handle.

"Hurry up and reach out to grab it. Now, you are part of the Liudao Division. You should listen to your superior, okay?"

Sun Chuyun didn’t believe him, she carefully looked at Li Xuan, then suddenly laughed, "So you mean, Li Xuan, you can’t move right now, can you?"

Li Xuan immediately looked at Sun Chuyun with a guarded expression, "What are you planning to do? I am warning you, no matter what you are thinking, don’t mess around. This is a trap set by someone. Someone might come soon."

He regretted a bit, he should have brought his Fumo Vajra and Divine Blood Azure Phoenix Niulang with him.

What neither of them knew was that at almost the same time, Earl Huichang, Sun Jizong, was proudly walking into the east Scripture Room of the Inspectorate in the company of the current Deputy Zuodu Yushi, Lin Youzhen.

Ahead of them was an elderly man dressed as a 7th-rank official who was responsible for the documentation and storage of the Inspectorate’s official documents and evidence.

The elderly man walking ahead said, "Please enter, the files Earl Huichang needs to check are in the north Zhili room within the Jinkui Stone Room."

However, at this moment, the old man frowned slightly, realizing that the entrance and security of the Jinkui Stone Room was open.