Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 383 - 360: The Killer Is Actually Myself!?_2

Chapter 383: Chapter 360: The Killer Is Actually Myself!?_2

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Just as the murderer merged with a gust of wind and rushed outside, he was struck in the back midair by a slash from Zhang San.

"The speed of a person turning into the wind and the speed of the wind itself are different. With so much water around, if these water droplets are evenly distributed in all directions, once there’s a burst of excessive wind speed in any location, that’s where you’ll be."

The murderer, hit by Zhang San’s blade, was enraged and as he turned around, he condensed a wind blade into a long sword, swiping it towards Zhang San.

But just as his wind blade was about to strike Zhang San, he immediately withdrew his sword.

At that moment, three martial artists from the Town Demon Office who had been lurking nearby, ready to move, suddenly leaped into action.

However, one figure was even faster than the three of them, and that was Chu Can.

Chu Can realized that the people from the Town Demon Office were trying to steal Zhang San’s credit.

If credit was going to be stolen anyway, why couldn’t it be him?

Zhang San immediately used a wind technique on Chu Can next to him.

But at that moment, from afar, a streak of firelight came hurtling in, and with a bang, it slammed the murderer to the ground, making him spew a mouthful of blood.

No one expected that the highest-ranking person deployed by both the Town Martial Office and the Town Demon Office would only be at the Military Chief level, and yet suddenly there was a Principal Officer of the Town Martial Office—Vermilion Bird.

Vermilion Bird landed beside the murderer, looking down at him with a cold gaze.

"Ximen Chuixu! A wind technique master among the younger generation of the Heavenly Punishment Sect. Although you’ll only ever reach the Spiritual Platform Realm in your lifetime, you have an astonishing talent for Wind Series Techniques! Kid, you now belong to our Town Martial Office."

After speaking, Vermilion Bird glanced over at Zhang San, who had just landed from midair.

Although he now felt an overwhelming desire to slap Zhang San to death upon seeing him,

he also knew that, at the very least from the perspective of the Town Martial Office, Zhang San truly had contributed to their cause this time.

Especially after Li Moxian had sought him out for a private conversation, suggesting that there might have been some misunderstanding between Zhang San and her son’s death.

As Vermilion Bird was pondering whether to praise Zhang San, at that moment, Ximen Chuixu, lying on the ground, stared at Zhang San with wide eyes, screaming in unwillingness and rage, "Saint Heir, why are you arresting me? I could have escaped! And besides, this was the task you assigned to me!"

"Ah!?"

Zhang San had been feeling that the situation was not good since he knew the other party belonged to the Heavenly Punishment Sect,

but as those words were shouted out, Zhang San was completely flustered.

At that moment, Wen Ruyu immediately led the people from the Town Demon Office to rush up, and she confronted Zhang San, "Zhang San, what exactly is going on here?"

Zhang San looked utterly bewildered, pretending to be ignorant and said, "I don’t know this person at all! What Saint Heir? Is someone considered leftover if not married before twenty? That’s a lot of malice towards men!"

At this time, Ximen Chuixu on the ground roared furiously, "You are the Saint Heir of our Heavenly Punishment Sect! Why won’t you help me, yet you arrest me! It was you who had me come here to arrange the formation and kill those four people using wind techniques, mixing their blood into the formation. Why are you turning on me now!?"

Hearing this, Zhang San was even more baffled.

Because at that moment, Zhang San didn’t know if this plan had indeed been his own.

Then Zhang San looked around and asked, "Haven’t the Crown Prince’s men come? Isn’t the Crown Prince up to something again?"

Vermilion Bird, who had originally wanted to say a few words of praise, was now looking at Zhang San with a cold expression.

"Since now you, Zhang San, are also suspected of colluding with the Heavenly Punishment Sect, come back with me for an investigation!"

As Vermilion Bird spoke, he reached out his hand to seize Zhang San.

"Hold on!" Wen Ruyu stepped forward and shouted, "Zhang San is a member of your Town Martial Office. What if you protect him? This matter is tied to the Floating Corpse Case, so it’s only fair that Zhang San be handed over to our Town Demon Office!"

Vermilion Bird Principal Officer glared at Wen Ruyu and shouted angrily, "Take advantage of the fact that I’m not in the mood to kill right now and scram! If you’re too slow, the Wen family may have to set up another spiritual altar!"

Wen Ruyu was so frightened that he shrank his neck directly.

The other party obviously didn’t even care about his own grandfather, clearly showing that this Vermilion Bird Principal Officer was more domineering than he had imagined.

Just then, a voice came from afar.

"Wait before you strike! The Wang led the Princess Consort out to enjoy the night scenery and just happened to pass by here. Vermilion Bird Principal Officer, it’s been a long time,"

Vermilion Bird turned his head and saw that it was King Jin with the Princess Consort of Jin. He nodded slightly towards them as a greeting.

Vermilion Bird had always been stationed in the south of Great Sui, and since King Jin had made meritorious deeds in quelling the rebellion in Chen Country to the south, the two had met many times.

"After all, Zhang San is a martial artist from the Town Martial Office. I’m not worried about the Town Martial Office being unfair, but I am concerned that others might be misled by rumors. It’d be better to send him to the Ministry of Punishment’s prison. When the Town Martial Office wants to interrogate him, someone from the Ministry of Punishment can witness it, providing an explanation to others as well,"

Vermilion Bird felt there seemed to be some sense to this and thus nodded in agreement.

Soon, Zhang San was locked in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

The surrounding prisoners saw that a new guy had been brought in, and looking so young at that, plus this area was originally for detaining officials, they couldn’t help but feel curious.

"Young man, where are you from? Why were you captured in the middle of the night?"

"How can you say young people nowadays are careless? I embezzled for over twenty years before I was caught. Look at you, you probably haven’t even reached twenty and already been captured. You’re just not skilled enough!"

"What’s this about skill or lack thereof, in the end, isn’t it all about not having a strong enough backer?"

"Sigh—what’s this about being convicted or not convicted, in the end, we just lost an internal fight,"

Zhang San couldn’t be bothered to engage with the people in the next cell, but rather furrowed his brows in thought, as to why Ximen Chuixu claimed it was him who instructed the killing and the arrangement of the formation.

But he also happened to know his identity as the Saint Heir.

But I never arranged this matter!

Could it be that I had set up the task a year ago and then waited until after I died in my previous life, only for this event to unfold after I had crossed over?

Am I insane, or was my predecessor?

Just as Zhang San was indulging in his wild thoughts, Ximen Shuxiang and Vermilion Bird, both Principal Officers from the Town Martial Office, along with the Minister of Punishment Shen Wei, came to the front of Zhang San’s cell.

Zhang San chuckled and said, "So you’ve quickly found out I’m innocent and you’re going to release me, right? I was scared to death tonight. Aren’t you going to invite me for a midnight snack, Vermilion Bird Principal Officer, as compensation?"

Ximen Shuxiang looked at Zhang San and sighed helplessly.

"Zhang San, we have just interrogated Ximen Chuixu, and, in collaboration with several interrogation experts sent by the Han Family, we applied the Name Punishment Technique to verify his statements,"

"He said, you are the Saint Heir of the Heavenly Punishment Sect."

"It was you who assigned him this task a year ago, instructing him to begin preparations."

"You provided him with the formation patterns from the Floating Corpse Case to kill the designated four young men."

"It was you who, behind the scenes, dispatched experts from the Heavenly Punishment Sect skilled in various techniques and martial styles to commit crimes throughout the Capital."

"It was you, secretly operating within the Capital, orchestrating a conspiracy so grand that even he was unaware of it, but which inevitably would be earth-shattering."

At this point, Ximen Shuxiang sighed helplessly, looked at Zhang San, and said softly, "According to his testimony, Zhang San, you are the true mastermind behind the Floating Corpse Case, the real murderer!"

In that moment, Zhang San’s mind buzzed.

The murderer turned out to be... myself!?