Chapter 374: Behind the Scenes

Under the cover of night, Li Fei carried Feng Feng Sanniang in one hand and jumped directly out of the sixth-floor window of the "Yuanxiang Pool"!

The two of them plummeted at an extreme speed; each time they passed a window, Li Fei would use his right hand to brace against the window frame, borrowing the force to slow the impact of the fall.

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

By this time, guards had already rushed out of the "Yuanxiang Pool" and were pursuing Li Fei.

Li Fei carried Feng Feng Sanniang and began to run, using his True Blood Energy to mask the operation of his Diamond Energy, simulating the formation of seals on his skin, and unleashed the Diamond Seal: Roc, disappearing into the night at an extreme speed.

After successfully running out of Zhu Fenghua Street, Li Fei did not encounter the interception he had anticipated.

Looking at the unconscious Feng Feng Sanniang in his hand, he took a talisman paper from his bosom and stuck it onto her forehead, then a green leaf symbol lit up between his own brows, and a wave of spell fluctuations emanated.

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

This is a very common "Breath-Concealing Talisman," which functions to block search and perception-type spells; once this is used, there is no need to use rooster blood anymore.

The Art of the Leaf Obscuring the Vision also has this effect, but currently, it works best when Li Fei uses it on himself, and the effect is a cut below when used on others, so he chose to use the "Breath-Concealing Talisman" on Feng Feng Sanniang and the Art of the Leaf Obscuring the Vision on himself.

Afterward, he carried Feng Feng Sanniang and wove continuously through the dark alleys, confirming he was not being followed, and then unleashed the Diamond Seal: Listen, and after enhancing his perception, he confirmed once more that no one was following, only then bringing Feng Feng Sanniang into a stronghold.

"They didn't send anyone to intercept, is it because they weren't sure, fearing to expose their identities? Or is it because the person behind the scenes is confident that Feng Feng Sanniang won't reveal the truth? Or perhaps, by this point, the other party no longer cares if I know the truth?"

Li Fei pondered to himself in the room.

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

The poison in her body had not been neutralized, the drug's effect was still ongoing, and the pain it brought was gradually intensifying, so she was jolted awake by the excruciating agony.

"Awake? Let's chat."

Li Fei walked to her side and crouched down.

Feng Feng Sanniang gritted her teeth, staring fixedly at Li Fei, fresh blood seeping out from between her teeth.

Li Fei somewhat admired this woman's perseverance; under such extreme pain, even a strong man with a firm will would likely be howling in agony by now, yet Feng Feng Sanniang was able to remain silent.

"How about we talk 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, as soon as the Zhang family was mentioned, the look in Feng Feng Sanniang's eyes changed.

"How did you..."

She realized that she had still let some things slip to Li Fei earlier.

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

Li Fei mocked.

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

But she still said nothing.

Facing such an opponent, Li Fei could not think of a very good method for the moment.

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

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

"You said before that I had no idea who I was going up against, and then you mentioned the Iron Blade Gate and Gu Vanguard Commander. But the Iron Blade Gate and Gu Vanguard Commander were both wiped out by the government; does this mean the person behind you is also from the government?"

Feng Feng Sanniang had been using her internal energy to soothe the pain in her body, but upon hearing this sentence from Li Fei, the energy within her body showed a slight fluctuation, which was keenly detected by Li Fei.

Li Fei had previously studied interrogation techniques specifically.

In fact, one does not necessarily need to get the answer directly from the mouth of the person being interrogated; many times, the other party's physical reactions will expose the answer.

"That's right, looking across the entire Feng Province, the only ones qualified to set up this game, and even sacrifice a major martial arts sect, could only be people from the government. So, the one you are cooperating with is from the provincial capital?"

Li Fei asked.

The government of Datong Prefecture had no reason to stab itself, so the most likely culprit was the provincial capital.

If this game was truly set up by someone in the government from the provincial capital, then Yan Yan Shijin's reaction would be explained.

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

That day, people from the investigation team suddenly rushed to the General Inspectorate, and subsequently, upon receiving the news, Yan Yan Shijin suddenly proposed wanting to see the convoy transporting the exotic beast corpses.

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

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

Now that he thought about it, that shooting could not possibly have harmed Yan Yan Shijin; it looked purely like a move to disgust people.

"Was the shooting Yan Yan Shijin encountered that day also arranged by you? Did you agree beforehand to use this shooting to give the investigation team more reason to target Datong Prefecture?"

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

This time, the fluctuation of energy in her body was even more obvious.

Already tortured by the poison, which had consumed too much of her mental strength, she found it difficult to cope with Li Fei's peeling back of the layers.

"Yan Yan Shijin's decision to go that day was a spur-of-the-moment idea; if the shooting was self-directed, it would explain why the assassin could strike so opportunely."

Perhaps Senior Bian Senior Bian Jingru and the others had also suspected whether this shooting was self-directed by the investigation team, only they could not produce evidence.

Li Fei was now guessing everything:

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

Pfft—

Feng 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 that randomly; he had not expected it to cause such a huge reaction from Feng Feng Sanniang.

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

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

Although because Datong Prefecture had a major martial arts university, a joke circulated in the official circles of Feng Province that the Garrison Commander of Datong Prefecture wouldn't trade his position for that of an Inspector General!

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

After all, Senior Bian Senior Bian Jingru could not fully command the martial arts university to do things for him.

Feng Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei with complex eyes.

She had not expected that Li Fei could deduce this much based on a single sentence she had said.

She endured the pain and spoke with difficulty:

"Even if you know the truth, it has no meaning. The overall situation is set; you cannot change anything."

Li Fei: "Since the overall situation is set, you might as well say more. Anyway, even if I know, I can't change anything."

Feng Feng Sanniang: "."

She was silent for a moment, then said slowly:

"The day Lord Yan was assassinated, he personally exonerated you and helped you lift the arrest warrant. After Shangguan Xiao was arrested, the investigation team did not let the case implicate you. The solicitation in this is already very obvious. Do you really have the need to fight to the end against those big shots above for the sake of a woman? Even the Iron Blade Gate was wiped out; if you continue to stand in the way, it is no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot!"

She began to try to persuade Li Fei.

As Shangguan Xiao's overt ally, after Shangguan Xiao met with trouble, he and his forces were indeed the most likely to be implicated.

But as the case has been investigated until now, neither the renamed Green-Faced Villa nor the Qingyuan Property Management Company in Xingcheng had been affected.

This was indeed a very obvious gesture of goodwill.

Unfortunately, these people did not know that the Green-Faced Ghost was not just the Green-Faced Ghost.

Li Fei looked at Feng Feng Sanniang and continued to ask: "The provincial capital setting up this game, it couldn't just be to take revenge on Hao Yi. What is their true purpose?"

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

Many of the enemies Hao Yi made back then were indeed now in the provincial capital; if one were to say that someone in the provincial capital wanted to take revenge on him, it would make logical sense.

But Li Fei's experiences in his past life made him deeply understand one thing: politics is the filthiest thing in this world, filthier than a prostitute's XX!

Political creatures have no humanity.

Stance determines choices, and interests determine motives.

If the person behind the scenes was truly a group of big shots in the provincial capital led by the Inspector General of Feng Province, then these people could absolutely not have set up such a game just to take revenge on Hao Yi.

There must be huge interests behind this!

Seeing that Li Fei was still probing for the truth and had no intention of giving up, Feng Feng Sanniang also felt the other party's determination.

However, she also possessed a determination that did not lose to Li Fei's in the slightest, so she said nothing.

Li Fei waited quietly for several dozen minutes, until the effect of the poison reached its maximum, and then, taking advantage of the fact that the pain the other party was enduring was at its peak, he launched another 【Blood Might】 and interrogated her just as before.

But this time, he still could not force out any new content; Feng Feng Sanniang was only subconsciously repeating the sentence, "The Zhang family members all deserve to die."

After the interrogation ended, Feng Feng Sanniang was nearing death.

She had first been severely wounded by Li Fei, then poisoned, and then hit by several full-power 【Blood Might】 attacks in succession; she was indeed at her end.

Li Fei had no choice but to give her the antidote first.

After the poison was neutralized and the pain gradually disappeared, Feng Feng Sanniang regained a bit of clarity.

She looked up at Li Fei: "Still don't intend 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 Feng Sanniang had shown, the possibility of counting on her to be a witness was almost zero.

Seeing Li Fei silent, Feng Feng Sanniang pleaded:

"Can you give me a quick end?"

Li Fei slowly stood up and drew his Ghost-Slaying Blade: "Alright."

In the end, he was not a person who liked to torture his enemies.

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

Feng Feng Sanniang suddenly spoke up.

The blade Li Fei was preparing to swing suddenly stopped.

"This is a place where the government distributes benefits to the common people; the Benevolence Hall regularly provides money to help the widowed, the lonely, and the critically ill."

Feng Feng Sanniang continued:

"Perhaps the original intention was good, but gradually, this place became a tool for big shots to put on a show. The Yu Yu Longqing you killed was a charity ambassador for the Benevolence Hall in Datong Prefecture."

"But even if it is just a show, at least these people are actually paying out money. What is most hateful is that some people use the power in their hands to line their own pockets and exploit the common people."

"Many years ago, there was a mother whose children were both critically ill. Her husband had died early, and she truly had no way to save her children, so she ran to the Benevolence Hall to ask for help. The person responsible for allocating the funds for medical aid hinted to this mother that as long as she was willing to sacrifice herself to accompany him, he could prioritize giving the money to her."

"To save her children, the mother agreed. However, she accompanied that person for a month, yet she still did not receive the money. Seeing that her two children were both about to give out, she ran to the Benevolence Hall in a panic and made a huge scene, blowing the matter out of proportion."

"In the end, to appease public anger, the Benevolence Hall gave the mother a sum of money and also dismissed that person."

"That person was a scion of a noble family; his family had sent him to the Benevolence Hall just to let him gild his reputation and prepare for future promotion. Now, after such a scene, he not only lost all face, but his future prospects were also affected. That man could not swallow his anger, and after some time, he led men to break into that mother's home."

"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 during the conflict. In the end, only a daughter remained in the family, and she was sold into a brothel by that man."

Feng Feng Sanniang finished telling this story with eyes that were almost dead.

Li Fei listened in silence until the end.

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

Feng Feng Sanniang sneered: "He is already dead."

"You feel that is not enough, and you still want to take revenge on the entire Zhang family?"

Li Fei asked.

"Should I not?!"

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

Li Fei did not comment on this, only asking:

"Why tell me these things?"

Feng Feng Sanniang looked into his eyes:

"I know the things you once did in Xingcheng. I want you to know that the things you are doing now do not represent justice!"

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

Li Fei looked at her with calm eyes and asked.

Feng Feng Sanniang gave a miserable smile: "I do not regret anything I have done!"

"Good."

Li Fei nodded.

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

With this, two of the 'Seven Kings' of Datong Prefecture had died under Li Fei's blade.

Before she died, Feng Feng Sanniang still kept her eyes wide open, her gaze full of resentment.

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

"I have never felt that I represent justice."

Under the same night sky, at the Datong Prefecture guesthouse.

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

So, he summoned the officials of the entire investigation team for a meeting that night.

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

"It looks like he cannot be won over."

"It is useless for him to capture Feng Feng Sanniang. The chess game has reached this point; tomorrow, I will make the move to checkmate!"

Yan Yan Shijin made the final decision.

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