Chapter 477: Chapter 167: Using Seduction to Bewitch Daoist Priest Fan? Fan Wu Treated as Material! (10,000-word mega Chapter, subscribe please)_2
He defended loudly, "This has nothing to do with me, it definitely has nothing to do with me, I’m a victim too! All of us are victims—the people who sold me the meat, and that freak who practices Witch Gu sorcery, they are the real culprits!"
He looked at Fan Wu and the others with inexplicable horror: "Even if you... even if you want to settle scores, you should go after them, not an innocent civilian like me!"
I listened to this fellow, sentence after sentence, defending himself and shirking the blame.
Xing Fengzi frowned because he felt that what this guy was saying did, in fact, have some merit.
How could such a petty merchant wield the power to perpetrate such an act?
What’s more, this merchant knew no sorcery at all.
So this guy must have been used, and for over a decade, no less.
He was even still being manipulated!
It went without saying who was using him—the prime suspect was the Witch Gu Cultivator.
That made it even more certain that the Witch Gu Cultivator was likely still within Neihai County.
The culprit had been rampant in Neihai County for over a decade.
The number of people he had killed was innumerable.
Xing Fengzi felt that if he wasn’t wrong, this place must be where the Witch Gu Cultivator disposed of the bodies.
What other method could be more convenient? Just let the people in the county town eat it, and it would turn into piles of excrement, erasing any trace of evidence forever.
Hiss!
Xing Fengzi couldn’t help but draw in a cold breath. How vile must this evildoer be?
Wouldn’t someone committing such acts be afraid of divine retribution? Don’t they fear that the heavens would unleash punishment?
Audacious to the extreme!!!
At this moment.
Xing Fengzi heard Daoist Fan Wu suddenly speak up, "So you’re saying... you think you are one of the victims of this incident, and you’re innocent? The real villain is the person destroyed by Witch Gu sorcery?"
"Yes! No... that’s right! That’s exactly what I mean!" The merchant immediately seized upon this point: "I am innocent! Don’t drag me into this when you report to the authorities!"
"Are you truly innocent?" Fan Wu slowly advanced a few steps, looking down at the merchant nearby with an exceedingly calm gaze.
He could see that the man was trembling with fear, the pressure Fan Wu was exerting on him was extraordinary.
"Do you think the Taoist Priest you shot with a hunting bow back then would think you’re innocent?"
Fan Wu countered the man with this question.
The merchant, who had been clamoring about his innocence, was suddenly choked up by this sentence.
Like a duck whose neck had been seized.
The merchant was at a loss for words.
Because when it came to this matter, he truly did not know what to say in his defense.
The merchant’s complexion turned ashen.
Fan Wu gently patted the man’s shoulder, then said to the merchant, "It seems to me that at this moment, you should reveal some information about your suppliers... For instance, where do they live? What places do they frequent? How many are they?"
Each of Fan Wu’s sentences resonated like a death knell in the merchant’s ears.
He was so terrified that his tears and snot.
Poured out together.
Facing Fan Wu’s questions, the merchant dared not remain silent. He trembled as he replied, "I... I’m not quite sure how many of them there are! I... I only know that shortly after I killed that Taoist Priest, I used the gold ingots given to me by that strange person to take over a shop."
"Then... then I just thought of doing some business. Just as I was pondering what to do, someone approached me. They knew I had been a hunter and asked if I wanted to buy the game they had hunted?"
"At that time, a light bulb went off in my head. Why couldn’t I sell food? Apart from hunting... my skills in roasting meat were also pretty decent."
"They even had me taste the game they had caught, and every piece of wild game they had was delicious."
"After I reached an agreement with them, they said they would supply me regularly at a specific place, and I just needed to send someone to collect it. That place was in the hills to the west of Neihai County."
"There was a place like a small, quaint village."
"That... that’s where they lived. I always took people with me to collect goods from them. I... I really didn’t know their goods were like this!"
The merchant wept bitterly, "If I had known, I would never have partnered with them, even if it killed me!"
Neihai County, to the west.
The back hills?
Xing Fengzi and Yun Jiuqing exchanged glances upon hearing this. They hadn’t expected that the initiators of this whole affair would brazenly reside within Neihai County itself!
They had even formed a settlement akin to a village within this county town.
These people were far too defiant of the law!
Were they not afraid that one day their deeds would come to light and they would be hunted down by the Great Zhou Imperial Court?
Or was it that...
They simply were fearless from the very beginning?
After all... given the current state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, with its pervasive poverty and chaos, it’s quite possible that the Imperial Court would hardly notice something happening in a small county town.
