3 weeks later.
Boundless sea
The Sea god fleet had reached the place where the soul beasts were seen the most. Chen Xinjie told his crew to drop the hangers.
He looked at all the Vice Hall Masters and Vice commanders. He signalled them.
All of them went towards the four cardinal directions to search for the soul beasts.
Chen Xinjie was in the Sea god flagship. He was on the lookout in case Fan Lin appeared in the Boundless sea.
He will immediately cease the search order and then try to change the topic and return. As for fighting. There was no chance of the Sea god fleet surviving Fan Lin if they met him.
He had experienced it himself and he didn't want to die so soon. He still needed to spend the rest of his life that was left with his wife.
He was fully alerted and was checking every part of the surrounding environment.
Just in case. Who knows.
Five minutes later.
He got the information of the two beasts. He immediately went to the place and captured them. It was easy.
His martial soul was the Ocean itself and he could control every thing in it. Plus the soul beasts were not even on the level of great beasts.
It was an easy job. He put a strength controlling seal on them and them delivered it to the Sea god fleet.
They returned and Chen Xinjie decided to sat sail.
He didn't want to be seen by someone in this state. Especially by a certain someone.
"Commander, we got an intel that a small fleet is coming this way. The technology it uses is similar to the ones used by the Star Luo Empire."
"Oh, a lucky day. Both of you, go and destroy the fleet. After that meet us at this point."
Chen Xinjie ordered a Vice commander and Vice Hall Master to do the job. He showed them the place where they had to meet after finishing the job. It was a point that they will be able to easily reach.
They immediately went tp finish the job.
"Set sail at full speed right now. We need to get out of here as soon as we can."
Chen Xinjie ordered all the men to haste the preparation for the speed mode. He also used his martial soul and other abilities to increase the speed of the fleet.
On the other hand.
The two Vice commander immediately went to wipe out the Star Luo Empire's fleet.
They went at moderate speed as they already had their meeting place decided.
"So what do you think about that Fan Lin kid? Why are you so interested in him?"
The Vice commander asked Vice Hall Master.
"Do you know the first incident of the massacre? The one that happened in Glorybound City."
The Vice Hall Master asked. His tone was a little weird.
"I do. I have read the report. It was a really big slap to the Federation as the Federation has just promised that they would spread peace and protect the citizens the day before that massacre. The Federation even sent a person to the case."
The Vice commander answered.
"Well, I was that person. The Federation and the Battle God Hall both promised the public safety. After the incident, it was like a slap to our faces. At that time, I was not the Vice Hall Master but just one of the lieutenants under the Vice Hall Master of that time. The job was given to me."
Vice commander : huh, really. You must have been proud then.
Vice Hall Master : No. *Says while shaking his head* It was my first big case. When I reached Glorybound City. The situation was weird. No one was sad about the massacre. No one was weeping or feeling down. Everyone was doing their work with great zeal. Everyone was happy.
Vice commander : Of course they would be.
Vice Hall Master : I asked the gaurds there and found out that all the criminals, corrupt government officials and evil doers were dead. Just them. Not a single person was innocent among the people who died. All of the died from poisoning but there was no traces of being poisoned left when I reached there.
Vice commander : That is his pattern.
Vice Hall Master : I personally checked the bodies and literally, not a single drop of poison was found. The people were dead. They died by poisoning but the reports when checked again showed it as a natural death. They just died suddenly. That's what the report said.
Vice Hall commander : I checked everything. I checked the bodies and I checked all the people who could have done that. During those checks, I got the a small clue where one six year old kid said that she heard a kid who said that she would not have to starve anymore, the next day she didn't as all the corrupt government officials died and the people got the rations that they were allocated with.
I didn't paid that much attention towards that clue. I just thought that it may be some kid that said it to her to give her hope.
After a month, I was still empty handed. There was no clue of the perpetrator. So I framed some people. All of them criminals from the surroundings towns.
Vice commander : That is unfortunate. You could have put an end to him at that time. Alas! Don't pay heed to that mistake that much. We can't change the past and even if you went to investigate him, you would still not have found anything. He could have just said that he said that to give her hope. You won't be able to do anything or he could just point the blame to someone else.
Vice Hall Master : That was not all. That was just the beginning. Listen to the full story.
So as I declared the criminals to be the genociders and created a fake gang called the mysterious gang.
It all started to happen a year later. He or let's say the mysterious gang attacked five more towns.I went to check all of them and the pattern was the same. It was the same poisoning and ransom demand. And just like before, the poison have vanished from the bodies. The only thing we can find out was that all six poisons were different. So were there effects.
At that time, the Vice Hall Master demoted me as I was unable to solve the problem the second time. So to get my position back. I tirelessly checked everything. Every person and their alibis and I didn't find a single thing. I was frustrated from everything.
The next year it happened once more but the attacks were getting bigger. The Vice Hall Master sent two people that were under him.
I was working under them. And just like the previous incidents, the same pattern but different poisons meaning the same pattern anyway.
It was already more than 30 attacks at that time. The Vice Hall Master also got a little serious on this issue. He sent Titled Douluos to investigate with us.
The Titled Douluo, being the Titled Douluo found the information of how the process was done but even he was not able to find the perpetrator or Fan Lin if we take him to be.
What he found, shocked all of us. The preparation of the poisoning incidents and massacre was done three months before.
How was the mysterious gang able to do that? We never got the answer. The one speculation that was the closest to answer that we got was that he first prepared everything a long time ago.
Then he just went to the towns on that day and started the plan and then went away.
It was like that but we found this after Fan Lin took the responsibility of the mass genocide.