Chapter 224: Behind the Scenes

Under the night, Li Fei lifted Feng Sanniang with one hand and jumped directly out of the window on the sixth floor of 'Yuanxiang Pool'!

The two fell at an extremely fast speed; every time they passed a window, Li Fei would use his right hand to brace against the edge of the window, borrowing force to slow down the impact of the fall.

A few seconds later, Li Fei landed steadily on the ground.

At this time, guards had already rushed out of 'Yuanxiang Pool' and were chasing Li Fei.

Li Fei started running with Feng Sanniang, using True Blood Force to cover the operation of Jin Gang Force, simulating hand seals on his body surface, performing the 'Jin Gang Seal: Roc', and disappeared into the night at an extremely fast speed.

After successfully running out of Fenghua Street, Li Fei didn't encounter the expected interception.

Looking at Feng Sanniang, who had already fainted in his hand, he took a talisman paper from his bosom and stuck it on her forehead, then a green leaf symbol lit up between his own eyebrows, and a burst of technique fluctuations spread out.

The next second, the talisman paper on Feng Sanniang's forehead burned without fire.

This was a commonly used 'Breath-Concealing Talisman', whose function was to block search and perception-type techniques; using this made it unnecessary to use rooster blood again.

The 'One Leaf Blinds the Eyes' technique also had this function, but currently, Li Fei's effect was best when performed on himself, and the effect when used on others was a cut worse, so he chose to use the 'Breath-Concealing Talisman' on Feng Sanniang and the 'One Leaf Blinds the Eyes' technique on himself.

Afterward, he shuttled through the dark streets with Feng Sanniang, confirmed he wasn't being followed, and after performing the 'Jin Gang Seal: Listen' to enhance his perception and confirming again that no one was following him, he brought Feng Sanniang into a stronghold.

"No one was sent to intercept, because they weren't sure, afraid of exposing their identity? Or because the person behind the scenes was confident Feng Sanniang wouldn't reveal the truth? Or perhaps, by this time, the other party no longer cared about me knowing the truth?"

Li Fei pondered to himself in the room.

A moment later, Feng Sanniang was woken up by pain.

The poison on her body hadn't been lifted, the drug effect was still taking effect, and the pain it brought was gradually increasing, so she was woken up by the intense pain.

"Awake? Let's chat."

Li Fei walked to the side of the other party and squatted down.

Feng Sanniang gritted her teeth and stared fixedly at Li Fei, blood seeping from her teeth.

Li Fei somewhat admired this woman's perseverance; under such extreme pain, even a strong man with a firm will would probably be wailing loudly, but Feng Sanniang could manage to be silent.

"Why not chat about the Zhang family? Why do you hate the Zhang family so much?"

Li Fei asked, intending to change his approach to obtain information.

Sure enough, once the Zhang family was mentioned, Feng Sanniang's eyes changed.

"How did you..."

She realized she had still been tricked into saying some things by Li Fei earlier.

"What, can't this be said either? Or do you feel that your revenge is actually not something that can see the light?"

Li Fei mocked.

Upon hearing this, the emotions in Feng Sanniang's eyes clearly changed.

But she still didn't say anything.

Facing such an opponent, Li Fei couldn't think of a very good method for a while.

He began to recall the previous conversation with Feng Sanniang, wanting to find some clues from it.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he looked at Feng Sanniang at his feet:

"You said earlier that I had no idea who I was going against, and then mentioned the Mount Tiefeng Sect and Gu Xianfeng. But the Mount Tiefeng Sect and Gu Xianfeng were wiped out by the government; does this mean the person behind you is also a government official?"

Feng Sanniang had been using force to soothe the pain in her body, but after hearing Li Fei's words, the aura in her body showed slight fluctuations, which were keenly detected by Li Fei.

Li Fei had specifically studied interrogation techniques before.

In fact, it wasn't necessarily required to get the answer directly from the interrogated object; many times, the other party's physical reaction would expose the answer.

"Also, looking across the entire Feng Province, the only ones qualified to set up this trap, and even sacrifice a Martial Arts Grand Sect, could only be government officials, so the one you are cooperating with is from the provincial capital?"

Li Fei asked.

The government of Datong Prefecture didn't need to stab itself, so the most likely one was the provincial capital side.

If this trap was really set by government officials in the provincial capital, then Lord Yan Shijin's reaction could be explained.

Thinking of this, Li Fei suddenly recalled the day he transported the corpses of the two rank-5 exotic beasts of Yu Longqing back to Datong Prefecture.

That day, people from the investigation team suddenly ran to the General Inspection Academy, and afterward, Lord Yan Shijin, upon receiving the news, suddenly proposed wanting to see the convoy transporting the exotic beast corpses.

It was also on that day that Lord Yan Shijin encountered a shooting.

From then on, the investigation team began to continuously exert pressure on Datong Prefecture.

Thinking about it now, that shooting couldn't possibly have hurt Lord Yan Shijin; it looked purely like it was to disgust people.

"Was the shooting Lord Yan Shijin encountered that day also arranged by you? You had discussed it beforehand, wanting to use this shooting to give the investigation team more reason to target Datong Prefecture?"

Li Fei looked into Feng Sanniang's eyes and continued to ask.

This time, the aura fluctuations in her body were even more obvious.

She was already tortured by the poison, consuming too much of her mental energy, so at this moment, facing Li Fei's peeling of the cocoon, she was somewhat unable to cope.

"Lord Yan Shijin went on a whim that day; if the shooting was self-directed, it could explain why the assassin could take action so timely."

Perhaps Governor Bian Jingru and others had also suspected whether this shooting was self-directed by the investigation team, just unable to produce evidence.

Li Fei was now all guessing:

"So the person behind you is Lord Yan Shijin, the entire investigation team? Or is it a higher level? It wouldn't be the Inspector General of Feng Province, would it?"

Pu—

Feng Sanniang suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

"It really is?!"

This time it was Li Fei's turn to be shocked.

He had truly just guessed randomly, not expecting to cause such a big reaction from Feng Sanniang.

The Inspector General of Feng Province, the highest official of a province, a fifth-rank cabinet official, a true frontier official!

If the person behind the scenes was an existence of this level, it was no wonder Feng Sanniang would sneer at what Li Fei said earlier.

Although because Datong Prefecture had a Martial University, a joke circulated in the officialdom of Feng Province, saying that the Garrison Commander of Datong Prefecture wouldn't trade for an Inspector General!

But in reality, the energy that an Inspector General of a province could mobilize was still stronger than that of Governor Bian Jingru, this Garrison Commander.

After all, Governor Bian Jingru couldn't completely command Martial University to do things for him.

Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei with complex eyes.

She didn't expect Li Fei to be able to reason to this point just based on a single sentence she said.

She endured the pain and said with difficulty:

"Even if you know the truth, it has no meaning; the overall situation is set, and you can't change anything."

Li Fei: "Since the overall situation is set, you might as well say more; anyway, knowing it won't change anything."

Feng Sanniang: "..."

She was silent for a moment, then said slowly:

"The day Lord Yan Shijin was assassinated, he personally exonerated you and helped you lift the wanted order. After catching Shangguan Xiao, the investigation team didn't let the case implicate you; the solicitation in this is already very obvious. Do you really have the need to fight to the end with those big shots above for the sake of a woman? Even the Mount Tiefeng Sect has been wiped out; you continuing to stand in front is no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot!"

She began to try to persuade Li Fei.

As the open ally of Shangguan Xiao, after Shangguan Xiao had an accident, he and his forces were indeed the most likely to be implicated.

But the case had been investigated until now, and whether it was the renamed Green-Faced Villa or the Qingyuan City Management Company in Xingcheng, neither had been affected.

This was indeed a very obvious goodwill.

It was a pity these people didn't know that the Green-Faced Ghost was not just the Green-Faced Ghost.

Li Fei looked at Feng Sanniang and continued to ask: "The provincial capital set up this trap; it couldn't just be to avenge Hao Yi. What is their true purpose?"

He had read Hao Yi's file and understood the events of over thirty years ago in detail.

Many of the enemies Hao Yi made back then were indeed in the provincial capital now; if one were to say someone in the provincial capital wanted to avenge him, it made sense logically.

But Li Fei's experience in his previous life made him deeply understand one sentence: politics is the dirtiest thing in this world, dirtier than a prostitute's XX!

Political creatures are all inhumane.

Position determines choice, and interest determines motivation.

If the person behind the scenes was really a group of big shots in the provincial capital led by the Inspector General of Feng Province, then these people absolutely couldn't have set up such a trap just to avenge Hao Yi.

There must be huge interests behind this!

Feng Sanniang saw that Li Fei was still exploring the truth and had no intention of giving up at all, and she also felt the other party's determination.

However, she also had a determination that was not at all inferior to Li Fei's, so she didn't say anything.

Li Fei waited silently for dozens of minutes, waiting for the drug effect to reach its maximum, and then, taking advantage of the fact that the pain the other party was enduring was at its maximum value, he launched another 【Blood Might】 and interrogated her as before.

But this time, he still couldn't interrogate any new content; Feng Sanniang just kept repeating the sentence 'The Zhang family all deserve to die' in her subconscious.

After the interrogation ended, Feng Sanniang was near death.

She had first been seriously injured by Li Fei, then poisoned, and then hit by several full-power 【Blood Might】 in succession; she was indeed dying.

Li Fei was helpless and could only give the other party the antidote first.

After the poison was lifted and the pain gradually disappeared, Feng Sanniang regained some clarity.

She looked up at Li Fei: "Still not planning to kill me? Could it be you are still counting on me to come forward as a witness and help you overturn the case for Shangguan Xiao?"

Li Fei was silent.

With the willpower and determination Feng Sanniang had shown, the possibility of counting on her to be a witness was almost zero.

Seeing Li Fei silent, Feng Sanniang begged:

"Can you give me a quick death?"

Li Fei stood up slowly and drew the Ghost-Slaying Saber: "Alright."

He was not a person who liked to torture his enemies after all.

"... There is a welfare institution in Datong Prefecture called the Rong'en Institute."

Feng Sanniang suddenly spoke.

The saber blade Li Fei was about to swing stopped immediately.

"This is a place where the government distributes welfare to the people; the Rong'en Institute will regularly take out money to help some widowers, widows, orphans, and the lonely, as well as those who are seriously ill."

Feng Sanniang continued:

"Perhaps the original intention was good, but gradually, this place became a tool for big shots to show off, and Yu Longqing, whom you killed, was the charity ambassador of the Datong Prefecture Rong'en Institute."

"But showing off is fine; at least these people really paid money. What's most hateful is that some people used the power in their hands to fill their own pockets and fish for the people."

"Many years ago, a mother had children who were seriously ill; her husband died early, and she really had no way to save her children, so she went to the Rong'en Institute for help. The person responsible for allocating money to save the sick at that time hinted to this mother that as long as she was willing to sacrifice herself to accompany him, he could prioritize considering giving the money to this mother."

"The mother agreed in order to save her children. But she accompanied that person for a month and still didn't wait for the money. Seeing that her two children were about to be unable to hold on, she ran to the Rong'en Institute in a hurry and made a big scene, making the matter big."

"In the end, to appease public anger, the Rong'en Institute gave the mother a sum of money and also dismissed that person."

"That person was a descendant of a noble family; his family sent him to the Rong'en Institute just to gild him and prepare for his future promotion. Now, after such a scene, not only was his face lost, but his future prospects were also affected. That person couldn't swallow his anger, and after a period of time, he brought people to break into that mother's house."

"He humiliated that mother to death in front of her two children... The mother's son, in order to protect his mother, was beaten to death in the conflict. In the end, there was only one daughter left in the family, who was sold into a brothel by that person..."

Feng Sanniang finished this story with almost dead eyes.

Li Fei listened silently.

He said slowly: "Was that noble descendant from the Zhang family? Who was it? What was his name?"

Feng Sanniang sneered: "Already dead."

"You feel it's not enough and want to avenge the entire Zhang family?"

Li Fei asked.

"Shouldn't I?!"

Feng Sanniang said sharply, "They enjoy the glory and wealth brought by the Zhang family, enjoying the same blessings as those beasts, so naturally, they should go to hell together with those beasts!"

Li Fei didn't comment on this, just asked:

"Why tell me these things?"

Feng Sanniang looked into his eyes:

"I know what you did in Xingcheng; I want you to know that what you are doing now does not represent justice!"

"Anything else to say?"

Li Fei looked at her with calm eyes and asked.

Feng Sanniang smiled miserably: "I don't regret anything I've done!"

"Alright."

Li Fei nodded.

Then he swung his saber across the neck of this 'Queen'.

Thus, two of the 'Seven Kings' of Datong Prefecture had died under Li Fei's saber.

Before dying, Feng Sanniang still opened her eyes wide, her eyes full of resentment.

Li Fei squatted down, reached out to gently close the other's eyes, and whispered:

"I never felt I represented justice."

Under the same night, Datong Prefecture Guest House.

Lord Yan Shijin had already received the news, knowing that the Green-Faced Ghost had taken Feng Sanniang away.

So he summoned all the officials of the investigation team to a meeting overnight.

"This Green-Faced Ghost, I gave him face, but he didn't take it."

"It seems he can't be solicited."

"It's useless for him to catch Feng Sanniang; the chess game has reached this step, and tomorrow I will make the checkmate move!"

Lord Yan Shijin made the final decision.

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