Chapter 2509: Chapter 107: For Whom
The initial meeting with Lin Youxie was actually not pleasant.
At that time, Zhongxuan Sheng used Zheng Shi’s favor to hang a Qing badge on his waist, allowing him to leave the Qi Boundary openly and go to Yun Country to visit An’an quietly.
He joined the Patrol Inspection Bureau’s arrest team led by Yue Leng in Bei County, with the intent to just put on a show, wrap up the task superficially, and leave.
But Lin Youxie seemed to have set her sights on him.
This unusually serious and persistent Qing brand catcher, due to suspecting his connection with Hell Has No Door, kept pestering him. She continuously watched his movements, seizing any opportunity to question, and later even followed him overseas.
Jiang Wang once gnawed his teeth at this woman, even considering resorting to violence.
There were confrontations, there was indifference, attempts to intimidate, attempts to threaten and warn...
In the end, he could only accept the fact that he’d been targeted by the Qing badge.
For his rising star status in the Great Qi Empire, for his influential friends around him, like the brotherly Zhongxuan Sheng who favored him greatly, Jiang Wuyou... Lin Youxie seemed completely unconcerned.
In that woman’s eyes, she seemed to only see the laws of Qi Country.
With more interaction and understanding, his perception of Lin Youxie slightly improved, but he chose to respect her from a distance, hoping to continue on their paths separately, without interfering with each other’s affairs.
When did the real change occur, when he started considering this Qing brand catcher a friend?
It’s hard to tell.
But every time he sees places like morgues, Jiang Wang always recalls Lin Youxie calmly dissecting bodies in front of him, deliberately teasing him with extremely detailed autopsy procedures.
He still remembers those cadaver gloves that nearly made him vomit on the spot.
He cannot forget learning from Li Youjue that Lin Youxie had suffered from panic disorder since childhood, requiring medication to endure the autopsies, leaving him deeply shocked and admiringly silent.
Yes, he admired Lin Youxie greatly.
From Lin Youxie, he felt an astounding bravery, an unwavering persistence, and an unyielding sense of responsibility!
She was disliked by many, yet the reason the sky isn’t bright enough is precisely because there are too few people like Lin Youxie!
She truly embodied the spirit of the Legalists. However, due to parental ties, she was born constantly observed by that endless black wall.
The four Qing badge aristocratic families’ heritage, an unmatched famous catcher’s only daughter... Her birth was merely the tail end of a tragedy.
"A corpse is composed of clues."
Jiang Wang will always remember this cold narration.
He remembers Lin Youxie’s determination in treating herself as a clue.
And Lin Youxie is already dead.
Died right here.
Died less than three thousand feet from where he’s sitting.
Died in a location he could have reached in a flash!
Died on May 1st, in the year 392 of the Dao Calendar...
That day, with her help, Zhongxuan Sheng timely found Shisi.
A pair of newlyweds were reunited; meanwhile, she was departing.
At that time, they were joyously preparing for the wedding in Linyi City, while she held only one thought, left lonely in the neglected wilderness.
Jiang Wang can even imagine that he was sitting on this horizontal branch, practicing that day.
Zhongxuan Sheng and Shisi were confessing their hearts outside the woods.
And not far from him, Lin Youxie was brutally murdered and all traces erased. Yet he was completely unaware!
What a painful picture.
He’ll forever regret not saying more words to Lin Youxie on that day, regret not persuading her to stay for Zhongxuan Sheng’s wedding banquet, regret not escorting her departure.
Who is that person?
The one who killed Lin Youxie...
Who is it?!
The heart lake churned into a storm.
Fierce waves of anger rolled.
Jiang Wang desperately utilized Mind Dust to sense, yet the black cat formed from that heart thought had already completely dissipated.
At that time, that feeling...
From Mind Dust, the emotions felt from Lin Youxie did not include fear.
She merely... wished to use her mind’s eye to record the final picture seen with her own eyes.
As she said in life, as a competent Qing brand catcher, both her and her corpse were parts of the case.
But she didn’t clearly see that face.
Or rather, she didn’t have time to use Mind Dust to record more information.
The last thing she saw was simply that one hand that destroyed her, pale with no blood.
Whose hand was that?
Jiang Wang, inside his inner thoughts, gazed solemnly!
"Indeed, something’s wrong!" Zhongxuan Sheng suddenly spoke in the forest clearing, sorting through stacks of intelligence.
He frowned again: "Wang, what’s wrong with you?"
Lone and cross-legged on the bare horizontal branch, Jiang Wang opened his eyes.
At this moment, his gaze was so calm, showing not a hint of emotion.
Yet there’s an ultimate suppression, a volcanic eruption sensation, undercurrent within.
"What’s wrong with you?" Zhongxuan Sheng stood up again and asked.
Shisi also looked over with a concerned gaze.
"Lin Youxie is dead." Jiang Wang calmly stated.
"Why say that?" Zhongxuan Sheng evidently wasn’t surprised by this result; he was surprised by how Jiang Wang concluded this.
"Lin Family has a Secret Technique, called Mind Dust." Jiang Wang’s voice drifted in the nocturnal forest like the night: "I’ve also mastered it; just now I was nearby and captured the information she left."
