Chapter 467: The Impostor Lord Han (1/10, Autumn Subscription)

"Captain Ye, what exactly is this…"

The crowd asked in confusion.

But Fang Yue didn't answer them, because he was just as much in the dark.

After carefully examining the corpse, Fang Yue finally looked up at Captain Wu.

"Captain Wu, what did this guy say to you?"

"He called himself Lord Han, said he felt his remaining lifespan was nearly up, believed I was the best candidate to inherit his legacy, and wanted to pass his inheritance on to me. Then he handed me a black bracelet and told me to put it on, saying the bracelet was the key token to activate his inheritance, and that I had to wear it against my skin."

A bracelet?

Fang Yue was stunned for a moment and instinctively glanced at Captain Wu's wrist, but didn't see any bracelet.

"Where's the bracelet?"

"It shattered."

"It shattered?"

"Mm. I don't know much about Lord Han, and I mistakenly thought Lord Han really did intend to pass his inheritance to me. So I put the bracelet on right away. But the instant I put it on, that person suddenly grabbed my hand with terrifying strength, almost dragging me away by force.

I tried to cry out, but no sound came out. I tried to channel my power, but discovered that the internal force in my body had been frantically drained the moment I put the bracelet on. All my strength was gone, even my lifespan was rapidly slipping away…"

"Only then did I realize it wasn't that his strength was terrifyingly great, but that my power had been sealed and drained by the bracelet!"

"At that moment I knew that whether it was Lord Han or this thing, something was wrong. So I used my last bit of strength to shatter the bracelet, broke free of his grip, and killed him with a single punch!"

He said it was his last strength, but the actual situation at the time was far more dire than he made it sound now.

With his Postnatal Second-rate Realm cultivation, he had been suppressed utterly by that strange bracelet, like a helpless child being kidnapped by a trafficker, completely unable to resist.

In the end, it was when golden threads burst from his eyes and that special power intervened that the bracelet was blasted apart with a roar, and almost simultaneously a fist slammed into that person's head.

"So the remnants of the bracelet should still be in this body's head on the ground."

Fang Yue was stunned, lowered his head to look carefully, and sure enough, within that half-shattered head that looked like a mosaic painting, he spotted some large fluorescent-glimmering granules.

Having people pick these granules out, they could piece together, scattered as they were, the broken outline of a bracelet.

The fragments of the Fluorescent Bracelet at this moment were utterly ordinary, completely lacking the effect Captain Wu had described.

But Fang Yue understood that once an item was damaged, its internal structure was destroyed as well.

In other words… this was a man-made artifact. It wasn't the item's natural effect, but a special strange object crafted through later processing by an expert!

"I suspect a sealing-type array is embedded inside it. Fitting an array into such a small bracelet places extraordinary demands on craftsmanship. If we start from that angle, we should gain something."

Captain Wu said thoughtfully.

After all, he had personally experienced the Fluorescent Bracelet's effects firsthand, so his opinion carried weight.

But after thinking it over, he added: "I'm only guessing. It's best to have the Qingsi Division people look into it."

He wasn't a professional after all. As a Captain Wu who came from Mo Cun, his experience was certainly far broader than Fang Yue's, but compared to a Government force like the Qingsi Division, he was on a completely different level.

"Fluorescent Bracelet… Lord Han…"

Fang Yue frowned tightly, a hint of worry in his heart: "Why do you think they wanted to capture you?"

No one would believe the impostor's nonsense about the bracelet being an inheritance token, but the opponent's true purpose left Fang Yue unable to see through.

"I don't know. I can't figure out the reason either."

Captain Wu had just arrived in Qingsi County, unfamiliar with the place. If he had to say who he'd offended, it would be the Qingsi Division.

But the Qingsi Division wouldn't do something like this, and combined with the fact that the other party was impersonating Lord Han, it made things even more baffling.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Fang Yue's mind.

"Captain Wu, I suddenly have an absurd idea, but one that seems very close to the truth."

"What idea?" Captain Wu asked, puzzled.

"I suspect… this person trying to capture you was actually Lord Han's intention!"

"Lord Han's intention?"

Not only was Captain Wu stunned, but the others were all dumbfounded as well.

What kind of reasoning was this? Would Lord Han harm his own people?

Fang Yue didn't play coy either, and said in a lowered voice.

"Think about it. According to your account, the impostor Lord Han's original target was actually me, right?

But I was in closed-door cultivation, and you couldn't risk forcing me to break out of it and trigger Qi Deviation.

So the impostor Lord Han settled for the next best thing and came to you.

In other words, his target was me! And if I had been the one to face this person at the time, my understanding of Lord Han would have let me see through the imposture. I could have subdued and counter-controlled him, and extracted more leads… So I believe this is a distress signal Lord Han released after being trapped in some situation!"

Captain Wu was half one of their own, so Fang Yue didn't hide much from him. He told Captain Wu that Lord Han had actually lost his cultivation, only instructing him to never spread the word and never let the Qingsi Division people know.

Still, at this point, Fang Yue felt a headache coming on.

Because Lord Han might have been captured, and along with him, probably Lin Ling as well—after all, Lord Han had gone looking for Lin Ling's whereabouts when the incident occurred.

Gathering everyone closer, Fang Yue said in a low voice.

"We'll investigate Lord Han's whereabouts from two angles.

One is the Fluorescent Bracelet—this is a must, and it's also the most obvious lead.

The other is to trace the trail of Lin Ling's disappearance and gather information.

Lord Han vanished while looking for Lin Ling, so if we follow this path, we should find something."

The Fluorescent Bracelet angle would require borrowing the Qingsi Division's power, so naturally Fang Yue would handle it.

The others would be led by Captain Wu to help search for leads.

"I…"

Captain Wu hesitated for a moment.

He was desperate to ride his Qingsi Horse and leave, to find the horse-head masked man, to find the Wonderful Method, to interrogate the ox-head masked man, and find out An Dong'er's whereabouts.

But Fang Yue clearly needed his help here—Gu Yue Cun truly had far too few fighters who could step forward.

"Captain Wu, I too am worried about An Dong'er's safety. She is my sworn sister, the very person Divine Doctor An once entrusted me to look after!

But going to Yingzhong Cun to wait by the stump for a rabbit is merely a matter of probability—there's a very real chance it will all come to nothing.

I won't try to talk you out of this notion; I only wish to ask you to lend us a hand.

As I just said, the reason Lord Han has ended up in his current state is precisely because he fought the Wu Yu Tribe to the death…"

Fang Yue did not continue speaking after that.

Because Fang Yue knew Captain Wu had already been swayed by his words.

Captain Wu clenched his fist, nodded, and said: "Exactly! The grace Lord Han showed me was like avenging my blood feud for me! I cannot sit idle on this matter!"

(End of chapter)