EBE Chapter 242
Chapter 242
"Who is this powerful person? I just happened to pass by. If you have any grudges to avenge, please let me and other irrelevant people live!"
The person who was about to run with the bag first also found himself trapped. After trying several times to open the barrier without success, he began shouting in the center of the inn, but no one answered.
There was also a very young monk standing there, patrolling around, and then quietly hiding beside a table in the corner of the inn.
There were two brothers dressed as businessmen who looked like ordinary people. They had no idea what was going on and just stood aside without saying a word. They saw everyone busying themselves in a panic, but no one was able to leave this strange inn.
Ni Yangzhou looked at the crowd and made some calculations in his mind. There were four people on the first floor of the front building of the inn, and two of them died. There were twelve guests on the second floor, and two men and one woman died. Now there were nine people left in total.
Myself, the waiter, the shopkeeper Liu, a Taoist priest whose wife had died, and a mortal woman whose husband had died. The latter two were still upstairs.
A pair of business brothers, a manic Taoist priest who yelled to leave aggressively, and a silent young monk.
Shopkeeper Liu shouted for a long time, and everyone ran around in panic, trying to destroy the barrier in various ways. It was not until Shopkeeper Liu was so angry that he used his spiritual power to slap a table with a "bang" and the table surface was shattered into powder that everyone finally turned around and gradually became silent.
Shopkeeper Liu saw that everyone's attention was finally focused, and he didn't dare show an expression of concern for the table. He just stepped aside, revealing Ni Yangzhou who was standing behind him.
The young man was originally deep in thought, when he suddenly felt all kinds of eyes cast on him, and heard Shopkeeper Liu say righteously:
"We are all trapped here, so we must work together to find a way out. As the shopkeeper here, I can pat my chest to guarantee that it was not me who did this. I just heard that two of my guys died. If you don't believe me, we can go and check it out together later. For now, we must first find a way out. We have tried to do it on our own, but it didn't work. Now we have to hire someone who can do the job, and we will find a way."
"This is the eldest disciple of the Minghong Sect's Guanjie Zhenren, Taoist Master Huaiyu. If you fellow Taoists are here to participate in the election, you must have heard of Guanjie's name. I suggest that Taoist Master Huaiyu come to investigate and answer your questions!"
There is nothing wrong with what Manager Liu did. All the dead were killed at night and their deaths were strange. Except for couples and brothers, none of the guests staying here knew each other. It seemed like the attacks were random rather than purposeful vendettas. In this case, it is safer for everyone to gather together with a leader than to disperse.
Besides, numbers give courage, so the two merchant brothers nodded repeatedly as they listened, and immediately realized their position of following the orders of the emperor.
The problem was that Manager Liu thought Ni Yangzhou was a high-level cultivator, the kind who was willing to show himself as a young man.
Ni Yangzhou was not too embarrassed to be placed in a high position, as he had some ideas that needed to be verified.
The young monk hiding in the corner looked very nervous and did not express any opinion. Only the radical Taoist priest who was still slashing the barrier with the peach wood sword disagreed and said with his eyes wide open:
"Who knows if you guys are teaming up to cheat us!"
Shopkeeper Liu sighed, "Why would I cheat? Both of my employees signed a ten-year contract. If they died, I would lose a lot. I sent the servants I brought with me out for two days yesterday, and something like this happened today. I was still worried!"
The Taoist holding the sword pointed the tip of the sword at Shopkeeper Liu: "Perhaps you are the mastermind behind this! A ghost in disguise!"
Shopkeeper Liu was about to speak when Ni Yangzhou stepped forward, clamped the sword tip with one hand, and forcefully pushed the opponent's peach wood sword down. The Taoist chanted a spell and tried to pull the sword back, but found that the tip of his sword did not move at all.
Ni Yangzhou said, "Recognize the situation and don't get entangled. Do you understand?"
This young man's magic power is much higher than mine.
In fact, they are not much higher. One is at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and the other is at the first level of Foundation Establishment. It’s just that the young men are so powerful and famous that people can’t doubt them.
The manic Taoist priest stopped beating his gun, pouted his lips in anger, and sat on a small stool beside him, bowing his hands:
"The disciple of the real person is really extraordinary."
Ni Yangzhou didn't bother to pay attention to the sarcasm implied in the words. He also knew that this cultivator with such a wild and rough personality probably had some backer, but he didn't want to pay attention to it now.
The young Taoist priest in the corner suppressed his panic and took the initiative to surrender. He walked over and bowed to Ni Yangzhou: "Junior Zhongpeng, Taoist priest, please investigate thoroughly, find the murderer, and give everyone the truth."
The manic Taoist priest who was sitting there also bowed and said while shaking his legs nervously: "Feng Haobo".
Ni Yangzhou nodded and shouted upstairs, "The two of you on the second floor, please come down first. There is safety in numbers."
After a while, the Taoist priest with disheveled hair came down unsteadily, his eyes red and his expression bleak. Another mortal woman also came down, but she was not single. She staggered and carried the body of her husband on her back.
Feng Haobo's face turned green: "Why are you doing this behind his back? It's bad luck!"
The mortal woman's eyes were swollen from crying, but she didn't even look up when she heard the words. She just dragged her stiff husband to the stairs, knelt beside him, and still sat with her head down.
The Taoist priest with disheveled hair walked downstairs, understood the situation, and bowed in the direction of Ni Yangzhou: "Lin Chunshui. That..." The Taoist priest said, almost crying: "My Taoist companion, Lin Qiushuang."
Seeing that everyone had gathered, Ni Yangzhou didn't waste any more time and started questioning directly:
"Do you have any enemies?"
The two merchant brothers, the waiter, Zhong Peng, and the mortal's wife all shook their heads. Manager Liu hesitated for a moment and said, "We have a business feud, but it's not a life-and-death struggle."
Feng Haobo said in a bad tone: "When it comes to cultivation, strength is everything. It's not uncommon to encounter people who are not as skilled as you but are full of bullshit."
Lin Chunshui seemed to have suffered a great blow. He was a little dazed at what he heard. After everyone had expressed their opinions, he shook his head.
Ni Yangzhou sat in the middle, with the jade pendant on his chest exposed. He stood straight and looked mature and dignified.
"Why did you come here? What were your whereabouts yesterday? Where were you going today? Tell me everything. If you have hidden anything..."
Ni Yangzhou made a hand gesture and a silver-blue sword appeared out of thin air, floating beside the young man, radiating light. It was obvious that it was no ordinary item, and he calmed the situation steadily.
Starting with Shopkeeper Liu, Ni Yangzhou listened to the stories one by one.
Everyone was content with their own duties, and there was nothing special about what they were doing. The two business brothers lined up and waited to speak, and sat quietly at the table next to them. Feng Haobo said disdainfully, "It stinks."
The two men didn't dare to say much. The older one apologized with a smile and said, "It's hard work to travel around as a businessman. I was too tired yesterday and didn't have time to wash up." After that, the two men slipped to a table in the distance.
Zhong Peng came closer and said, "I came here for the Minghong Sect's disciple election. I arrived at the inn at 10:00 yesterday. As it was getting late, I meditated and rested. I don't know why I fainted at night. If nothing unexpected happened today, I would have set off to the Taoist temple to participate in the election."
Lin Chunshui continued: "I came to participate in the selection with my junior sister. It was still early, but we went shopping in the market at 3 pm. We wanted to get enough rest at night, so we went to bed early. Who would have thought..."
Feng Haobo said with a sour face: "I encountered such a thing when I was looking for a place to stay. I should have known that living in the wilderness would be better than this!"
Ni Yangzhou raised his eyelashes, Feng Haobo turned his head away, refusing to watch: "I just wanted to join in the fun of other sects recruiting disciples. I didn't come to participate. I don't know what time it was. Anyway, it was still daylight when I came. The shabby inn didn't even have good wine. I went out to eat something, and came back to practice when it got dark. I fainted at night, and then, it was like this."
Feng Haobo pointed at the corpse on the stairs and looked away in annoyance.
After everyone finished speaking, there was nothing suspicious.
Ni Yangzhou patted Manager Liu on the shoulder:
"Boss, please help me, let's put the dead together first."