Yang Zhai was hiding outside the village leader's residence. He was trying to find out if the village leader was also involved in the killings of the mortal kids.
If the village leader was involved in this, then it would be easy for Yang Zhai to move forward with his investigation.
The second round of the competition had two months and a week left to start.
When Yang Zhai left the Bai village, he came here, there were two reasons behind it.
The first reason was to avoid the schemes of the Ma clan and the Bai clan against him, which endangered his life.
The second was that he wanted to investigate the ones who were killing the newly awakened cultivators. He had already encountered these people two times and had killed them.
"Now that I am dragged into this mess, I have to be prepared. In the future, I may have to face the ones behind this. After all, even though I have already silenced the manager and the libertarian, I am not a fool to believe that they would always keep quiet. And I also have many uses for them, so I can't kill them now."
"I have to take every step carefully. I am confident that a few higher-ups of the clan are also involved in this. And as I live in the Bai village, I will be dragged into this again and again." Yang Zhai was pondering over the current situation, meanwhile, he was also keeping an eye on the surroundings.
Even the librarian and manager were involved in the killings. It was definitely not just a plan decided over a few months ago, but a long time may have passed with these killings.
Kids went missing and nobody from the Bai clan did anything, why?
Five days had passed since Si Yu and Li Na had awakened their aperture.
And Yang Zhai had been watching the village leader's residence for the previous three days.
Yang Zhai was pondering over the situation when he saw three people entering the village leader's residence.
"Strange, it's past midnight, who would come at this moment?"
Yang Zhai felt that there was definitely something wrong here: thus, he followed the three people.
He didn't go from the front gate as there were two guards there, instead, he went from over the wall from a dark and inconspicuous place.
Yang Zhai saw that the three people did not enter the house from the main door, but took a round around the residence and entered from the back door. After the three people entered, the door was closed.
Yang Zhai looked around the residence for a way to enter the building.
Yang Zhai was looking around when he came to a stop as he heard beautiful music coming from the front.
Yang Zhai stealthily walked forward.
After a while, he saw a yard with a small pond in it. In the pond could be seen a few shining golden fishes swimming. Around the pond were beautiful small rocks and red flowers.
A beautiful girl with long black hair sat beside the pond and was playing an oud. She wore blue attire.
Her eyes were closed as she focused on playing the oud.
Yang Zhai did not think that it was weird that someone was playing music at this hour of the night. People had different desires and wishes.
A zeal could lead people in doing anything.
Nonetheless, Yang Zhai had no interest in this. He looked around and saw that the door to the room attached to the yard was opened.
Yang Zhai quietly entered the residence of the village leader and began to search. He did not touch anything, except the doors and furniture.
While he was looking around the residence, he heard a few voices coming from a room.
"Hey, did you find out anything? Our two groups were killed in only two to three months."
"No, we could not find anything. Should we inform the lord?"
"Are you crazy? Anyway, he already knows about it, but doesn't care and wants us to deal with it ourselves. If we tell him that we were unable to find anything, he will kill us. In any case, do something about the new recruits, we need to add new people to fill up the losses we endured because of the two groups being eliminated."
"I am already trying to recruit new people, but it is very difficult to find people who hate cultivators to the core and are ready to give up their lives."
"No worries, I am sure you will find a few people. And where is Loi? I heard he is missing for almost a week. "
"I don't know either. But he did succeed in angering people by burning a woman alive in the bazaar. It can surely raise the anger of the people toward the cultivators. I will go to the bazaar tomorrow to look for a few people to recruit, secretly."
"Who are you fooling around? You know as well as I do that Loi can't endure anyone rejecting him or going against him. He would have killed someone even if we did not ask him to anger people."
"Whatever, I will go to the bazaar tomorrow. And as for Loi, I don't know where he is. In the end, he also hates us and only listens to us when we give him essence stones. "
Yang Zhai was hearing everything from behind the door. He now understood that the one who killed Li Na's mother was actually sent by them.
But he had followed the man for three days and had not found anything unusual about the man. The man had not even once come to the village leader's residence, nor did the man talk to anyone suspicious.
Could it be that they hired him from time to time and the middle-aged man himself did not know about this group's ambitions and objectives? It should be like it; otherwise, I would have definitely found something when I followed the man for three days:Yang Zhai pondered.
He listened to the people for a while more and noticed that these people had started normal unimportant conversations. They did not talk about important things anymore. They were now just enjoying themselves.
After listening to them for half an hour, Yang Zhai left the residence the same way that he came from.
The girl was still playing the oud and was sitting at the same place.
Yang Zhai exited the residence and hid outside the residence, waiting for the three people to come out.
He wanted to see their faces and remember them because he now had a plan.
When these three people entered the residence, he had noticed that they were not hiding their faces, the reason Yang Zhai had not managed to see their faces was that when they entered the residence, he could only see them from the side.
And now, he hid in a place from where he could see their faces clearly.
After an hour, all three people came out of the village leader's residence.
When they exited the front gate of the residence, Yang Zhai managed to see their faces because of the lamp's light.
Yang Zhai watched the village leader's residence for a while more before going back to his house.
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The next day, in a bazaar of the mortal village.
Yang Zhai was walking through a bazaar, looking around. This time around, he had not covered his face and could be seen clearly. Even then, it was not recognizable.
After a while, he muttered with a smile,
"Oh, there he is."
He walked forward and saw a person who was acting all weird and was saying again and again,
"I hate them, I hate them all. I wish they never existed. These people only make our lives a misery. I can help you kill them if you want, kill all the cultivators, hahaha!"
"Hey, what's up with him? Is he crazy or something? " Someone from the crowd asked
"He is a deranged man. He appears from time to time and keeps on shouting nonsense."
"Why don't cultivators kill him for talking like this?"
"Simple, it's because whenever he appears, there are no cultivators around. He is really lucky."
"And how do you know he is deranged?"
"He does not only talk nonsense, but also does crazy things. No person with the right mind will do the things he does. Such as, he starts beating himself sometimes, and many more crazy things."
Yang Zhai silently kept on listening to these things with a calm expression.
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