Chapter 388: Curiosity

Lu Yu did not offer much explanation, simply walking straight ahead.

Seeing this, the crowd hurriedly and consciously cleared a path, silently watching Lu Yu walk to the elevator, after which his figure vanished from their sight.

Kang Yuan and the others could not help but swallow hard again; for some reason, today's Lu Yu gave them an unprecedented sense of danger, as if a terrifying power were hidden within him.

Yang Dongwen swallowed nervously and stammered, "How about we go in and take a look?"

"Yeah, why would the President be sitting on the floor?"

"The President?"

As they spoke, the few of them hurriedly rushed into the conference room.

However, when they saw the scene inside, they were instantly frozen in place with fright.

A man was lying on the floor in an extremely strange and twisted posture, his eyes wide open, blood flowing from his lips, and the surrounding carpet had long been soaked through by blood, stained a deep crimson.

"President!"

"President! What on earth happened?"

Jiang Yao and the others hurriedly stepped forward, carefully helping Song Tian, whose face was as pale as paper, up from the floor and having him sit in a nearby chair.

Those who entered behind them also gaped in shock at this sight.

Dead, is he dead?

That's not right; if their memories served them correctly, this person should be the one who came from headquarters, right?

Although he was not wearing a mask, his attire was no different from before; it was indeed the same person who had appeared previously.

But the problem was, how could he be lying here in such a posture? And by the looks of it, he was nine times out of ten already... dead...

"I-I'm fine." Song Tian shook his head with a bitter smile and waved his hand weakly.

He was indeed shaken quite badly by that remark from Lu Yu.

"If a god stands in my way, I will kill the god; if a Buddha stands in my way, I will kill the Buddha"—this meant that if one day Lu Yu found Xiao Zhan and, after uncovering the truth, wanted to kill him, and if the President were to intervene, would Lu Yu... dare to kill even the President?

One had to know, that was the President! He possessed absolute authority within the Association and was the undisputed number one!

Could Brother Lu really be a match for the President?

"My god, the person on the floor is really dead."

"That's for sure, he's been lying there for so long without moving; if he's not dead, what could he be?"

"He's from headquarters, right? If he dies here, won't headquarters come to hold us accountable?"

The discussions of the crowd at the door rose and fell, like buzzing flies, ringing incessantly in their ears.

Song Tian glanced at them and said slowly, "This matter has nothing to do with you, and it won't have any impact on you. Everyone put your hearts at ease and go back to doing what you were doing."

Since the President had spoken, even if the others were filled with questions, they could only turn around helplessly and leave in twos and threes.

In the blink of an eye, only a few Martial Artists of the Entering Strength level remained in the conference room.

"President, what, what exactly is going on here?"

Kang Yuan could not suppress his curiosity and asked cautiously.

Everyone's discussion just now was correct; this person on the floor was sent by headquarters, so how could he have died here so inexplicably?

Could it really be that Brother Lu did it? If that were true, once headquarters found out, the consequences would be unimaginable!

The others also looked nervous, fine beads of sweat appearing on their foreheads.

Some even felt the corpse on the floor looked a bit familiar, as if they had seen it somewhere before, but they couldn't recall it for the moment.

"Knowing about this won't do you any good; just pretend nothing happened." Song Tian sighed deeply, a trace of exhaustion showing in his eyes.

"This..." The few looked at each other, their hearts full of conflict.

Everyone has curiosity, especially when what happened before their eyes was so bizarre and strange that one couldn't help but want to get to the bottom of it.

"Wait!" Chang Lei suddenly exclaimed, taking two steps in one to hurry over to the corpse on the floor.

When he saw the face of the corpse clearly, his pupils instantly contracted sharply, and he blurted out, "President, this person, is this person Huo Yun?"

"What? Huo Yun!"

"Huo Yun!"

These words were like a heavy bomb, instantly exploding among the crowd.

The rest of them were so frightened that their faces turned as pale as paper, and they all hurried forward.

Some even took out their phones, logged into the Association system, found Huo Yun's profile picture, and carefully compared it to the corpse on the floor.

In an instant, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence, so quiet that one could clearly hear a pin drop.

Kang Yuan and the others felt their scalps go numb, their hair almost standing on end, and they stared at Song Tian with incredulous eyes.

Huo Yun—that was a famous, thunderous name! And yet, he had died here?

Were they hallucinating? This was all just too unbelievable.

"Sigh." Song Tian sighed heavily once more.

"I'll say it again: just pretend everything that happened here never happened. I am doing this for your own good, understand?"

If Kang Yuan and the others had previously been like ants on a hot pan, full of curiosity and unwilling to stop until they got to the bottom of it.

Then now, they were so scared that their faces turned from blue to white; even if Song Tian were willing to tell them the full story, they wouldn't dare to listen anymore.

Because even a fool could see that this matter was far from ordinary and must hide a huge secret behind it.

"President, then will this matter later bring us..." Kang Yuan said hesitantly, his voice tinged with fear.

"Rest assured, this matter has nothing to do with me or you. You go on as usual; go out to hunt Fierce Beasts when you should, and stay in the Base to cultivate when you should."

"Okay, okay." The few felt a sudden sense of relief, their tense spirits relaxing slightly.

"Then President, what about this?"

"I will handle it." Song Tian nodded, his tone carrying unquestionable resolve.

"Okay, okay."

"President, since that is the case, we will head out first."

"President, if you have any other matters you need our help with later, you can call us at any time."

"Mm, go ahead."

The few people hurriedly walked out of the conference room, and only when they reached the elevator entrance did they let out a long sigh of relief.

Although they were not clear about what exactly had happened, or why the person sent by the headquarters had died here, they understood in their hearts that this matter definitely had something to do with Lu Yu.

Huo Yun was very likely killed by Lu Yu, even though this sounded like a fantasy.

After all, Huo Yun was known as the number one person under the True Essence Realm in the Association, and Brother Lu seemed to be only at the Transformation Strength stage; even if he were in the Vein Refining Realm, he absolutely could not be his opponent.