Chapter 136: Beating and Intimidation

"Huoerfu?" Meiyin whispered her companion's name.

"Are you there?" Her sky-blue pupils shifted, looking around her.

However, apart from the blood-red mist filling the sky, she could not see anything else.

"Separated, then."

Taking a deep breath, Meiyin clasped her hands in front of her chest, recited the name of the Lady of the Dark Night, and walked into the depths of the mist.

Not long after she left, a group of figures covered in blood-red spots stumbled to the spot where she had previously stood.

"Howl."

The leading Bloodline Living Corpse growled in a low voice, pointing its hand in the direction the Young Girl had left.

"Howl!"

Successive howls rang out, and a large number of Bloodline Living Corpses and Blood-thirsty Ones rushed in the direction pointed out by the leader.

"What is that noise?"

Yun Mu, who was busy making her way, heard a vague sound and couldn't help but turn her head to look in the direction the sound came from.

"It's a howl; it doesn't sound like a human," the middle-aged Shadow Guard beside her said, having heard it more clearly than she did.

He stopped abruptly and looked at Yun Mu.

"Princess might be over there; I think we should go take a look," he said.

"Don't be impulsive." Seeing Yun Mu clearly moved, Lucy grabbed the corner of her clothes and reminded her: "The mist in this space has the effect of confusing Perception."

"What you hear is not necessarily correct."

"It's fine." Yun Mu looked at Lucy's hand gripping her own and shook her head.

She placed her hand on the back of the other's hand and smiled softly: "Just going to take a look."

"With Xiaoqie here, we won't get lost." She squatted down and patted Chester's Treasure Chest lid.

"Clack, clack, clack!" Chester rubbed against her palm affectionately with its Treasure Chest lid.

"It's not a question of getting lost... forget it."

Lucy glanced at the Shadow Guard behind Yun Mu, who looked like he would go take a look regardless of what was said, and spoke.

"Then it's decided, let's go!" Seeing Lucy's expression, Yun Mu smiled with a hint of apology.

She clearly didn't want to go there just because of that Shadow Guard.

It was just that her goal and her thoughts were similar to that Shadow Guard's.

Brenna might be there, so she had to go take a look, nothing more.

Click... click!

An orange-yellow flame rose, slightly dispersing the surrounding mist.

Huoerfu held a cigarette in his mouth, one hand shielding the wind, the other pressing the lighter's wheel.

"Inhale... exhale."

Thick smoke surged into his lungs, and the smell of burning herbs instantly made him much clearer-headed.

"Separated, huh."

Huoerfu gently exhaled a smoke ring and said.

"Could you give me one?" A slightly low male voice sounded behind him.

Huoerfu's pupils contracted almost subconsciously.

He turned to look behind him and saw a middle-aged man with slightly messy short black hair looking at him with a calm expression.

The other party was none other than Edward! "... Sure."

After a pause, Huoerfu took a cigarette case from his bosom, pulled out a cigarette, and handed it to the other party.

"Thanks."

Edward held the cigarette in his mouth, and Huoerfu took the lighter at the right moment to light the cigarette in his mouth.

"Let me introduce myself." After taking a deep drag of the cigarette, Edward said: "I am the owner of the Sisilaiya Cafe on Liuli Street."

"Edward Luokasina, Fourth-tier Master Wave-Treading Knight."

Sisilaiya Cafe on Liuli Street... does that mean he's one of us? Huoerfu raised an eyebrow, took the initiative to reach out his hand and said: "Huoerfu, no surname, Night Watchman of the Dark Night Church, nice to meet you."

"..." After a brief silence, a smile appeared on Edward's face, and he also reached out to shake the other's palm.

"I like your personality," he said.

"I am the Princess of the Frost Kingdom; if you can't even trust me, who else can you trust?"

In the blood-red mist, Brenna stood in front of two shivering Night Walkers, hands on her hips.

She released her Third-rank Expert aura without reservation, causing the two First-tier Apprentice Night Walkers' legs to go weak.

"O-okay, I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!" One of the Night Walkers couldn't help but kneel on the ground, raising his hands and saying.

"I, I'll talk too!" Seeing his companion surrender just like that, the other Night Walker immediately knelt on the ground as well, raising his hands and saying.

"Hmph, two spineless fellows, surrendering just from being scared a little." Brenna looked at their performance, arms crossed over her chest, and said: "If I weren't the Princess, or if someone else were impersonating me, would you have surrendered so quickly too?"

"With that iconic silver hair of yours, how could we mistake you," the Night Walker who knelt first said, sweating.

"But you are right, we really should check..."

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the Night Walker took out the wooden box used to test Molike from his bosom and said: "C-could you please drop your blood on this? Just one drop is enough."

As he spoke, he opened the wooden box, revealing the translucent bead inside.

"Are you sure you want to demand blood from a member of the royal family?" Brenna waved her hand and said: "Do you know what this implies?"

"I could completely assume now that you want to use my blood as a medium to cast a Curse on me!"

"No, no, no, I didn't mean that!" Hearing Brenna's words, the Night Walker opened his eyes wide, hurriedly took back the wooden box, and said: "No, no need to test."

"I believe you are definitely not someone Evil in disguise!"

"Oh?" Brenna raised an eyebrow and said, "What is the basis for that?"

"You aren't planning to judge my identity based solely on intuition, are you?"

"I, I..."

Lady of the Night above, what on earth are you trying to do?

This Night Walk member felt like crying but had no tears.

Beside him, the other Night Walk member who had not spoken a word felt fortunate that he hadn't spoken out of turn.

"Alright, the necessary procedures must still be followed; take out that wooden box," Brenna said, seeing that the purpose of intimidating the two had been mostly achieved.

"You, you won't convict me, will you?" Hearing her words, that Night Walk member asked cautiously.

"Sigh." Letting out a slightly speechless sigh, Brenna said helplessly, "I won't, hurry up and take it out."

"O-okay."

"Father Chelman sent you here?" Edward smoked his cigarette and asked Huoerfu with some confusion, "Who is that?"

"He is just an ordinary priest," Huoerfu explained, "He is only the middleman responsible for passing on messages; the one who truly ordered us to come here to investigate is a higher-ranking member of the clergy."

"It's just that we don't know who he is either."

"Can you be more specific?" Edward frowned, feeling a bit lost in the clouds.

"I can."

Huoerfu nodded and said, "The matter mainly has to be told starting from the time before the Dried Corpse Murder Case began..."

PS: My second aunt's family sent over five or six jin of pork.

My grandpa told me to go out and help him carry it back.

Oh my god, I'm exhausted.

Walking all the way back, I felt like my arms weren't even mine anymore.

My grandpa even laughed and said that when he was young, he had much more strength than I do.

I thought to myself, you're still stronger than me now; you can lift an iron wok full of stir-fried dishes with one hand without any effort.

I, damn it, my arm trembles even when I lift an empty wok with one hand.

No, I can't go on like this; I need to exercise!

【The I-don't-know-how-many-eth exercise declaration】

(End of this chapter)