Volume 3, Chapter 239 – The Wolf Demons Are Still in the City!

Sister Wei?!

The muscles on Chi Xiyan’s cheeks stiffened unnaturally.

Yu Lizhi, can you sweetly call anyone “sister” like that?

Yu Lizhi, just whose sister are you?

“Inspector Wei.”

Chi Xiyan’s face still wore that smile unique to prestigious family young ladies, polite yet reserved.

“Today’s timing was rushed, and my sister just escaped danger and is still in shock.”

“Another day, Xiyan will prepare a generous gift with Zhizhi to thank Inspector Wei for your assistance.”

A flash of surprise crossed Wei Qingyu’s eyes.

Having long navigated official circles, how could she not hear the other meaning in Chi Xiyan’s words?

Little Xiyan has grown up and now has her little schemes.

However, what a pity. Sister Wei can’t grant your wish.

“Xiyan,” Wei Qingyu smiled and said, “If possible, I’d like to borrow a few moments of your sister’s time.”

“There are some things I still need to understand from her.”

Chi Xiyan frowned. “Inspector Wei, my sister was injured at the hands of wolf demons. Right now, she needs rest. Can’t whatever it is wait to be asked later?”

Wei Qingyu said earnestly, “As long as that wolf demon is still roaming within Beihe Commandery, she remains a hidden danger to this commandery. Therefore, I need to capture her as quickly as possible.”

“This is for Her Majesty the Empress, and also for the common people of Beihe Commandery.”

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Chi Xiyan still frowned.

Lu Zhuxin heard their conversation. She knew Wei Qingyu wouldn’t give up so easily.

“Sister,” Lu Zhuxin reached out and tugged on Chi Xiyan’s sleeve.

Chi Xiyan turned to look at Lu Zhuxin, a trace of displeasure at the corner of her eyes. “What is it, Zhizhi?”

Lu Zhuxin shook her head at Chi Xiyan. “Sister, I’m fine. You don’t need to worry about me.”

She pressed her small hand against her chest and said, “When I was captured by those demons before, I was indeed very afraid. Not afraid of death, but afraid I’d never see Sister again.”

“Yu Lizhi has already died once. Sister gave me rebirth.”

“So now that I can return to Sister’s side, I won’t feel afraid anymore.”

Lu Zhuxin turned to look at Wei Qingyu. “Sister Wei, whatever you want to ask, you can ask me.”

“I’ll tell Sister Wei everything I know.”

Wei Qingyu looked deeply at the girl before her.

Although her cheeks appeared somewhat sickly pale from blood loss, in those bright eyes of hers, there was no unusual color.

Firm and pure.

A kind of purity completely unstained by any filth.

This wasn’t the kind of gaze a young lady from a merchant family should possess.

Wei Qingyu still remembered this girl’s behavior when captured by the wolf demon earlier.

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She actually had a good impression of this girl.

If there weren’t so many suspicious points about this matter, Wei Qingyu wouldn’t want to doubt such a seemingly pure and clean girl.

“Little sister Zhizhi, I don’t have many questions to ask,” Wei Qingyu said. “The first question, do you know whether that group of wolf demons left the city or not?”

Wei Qingyu’s tone was gentle, like a neighborhood big sister casually chatting about everyday matters.

But her spiritual consciousness firmly locked onto Lu Zhuxin, carefully sensing her heartbeat, gaze, and changes in breathing.

Lu Zhuxin inwardly went “tsk.”

As an Eighth Realm great demon, how could she not sense the spiritual consciousness locked onto her?

Heh.

Lu Zhuxin’s acting skills could even deceive a sword sect’s Venerable Saint.

A mere Sixth Realm cultivator still wanted to see through her facade using spiritual consciousness?

Naive, too naive.

Right then, Lu Zhuxin furrowed her brows slightly with a thoughtful expression.

After a moment, Lu Zhuxin shook her head. “Sorry, Sister Wei, I don’t know.”

“If the soldier uncles who rescued me hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t even have known I’d been brought to the city gate area by those wolf demons.”

Wei Qingyu frowned and asked again, “You didn’t see which direction they left?”

Lu Zhuxin shook her head once more and said, “After they released me, they knocked me out. I don’t know which way they went either.”

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Wei Qingyu fell silent.

The girl’s answers provided no clues.

However, when she answered, all her natural bodily reactions were normal.

This girl was just an ordinary person. She didn’t have the ability to deceive a Sixth Realm cultivator.

Although such reactions should be normal, that faint sense of incongruity in Wei Qingyu’s heart still hadn’t dispersed.

Demon Suppression Bureau constables shouldn’t rely on intuition to work. But intuition was warning Wei Qingyu that there might be something wrong with this girl before her.

Wei Qingyu paused, then asked, “Zhizhi, then where do you think that group of wolf demons might be now?”

Chi Xiyan, standing to the side, frowned upon hearing this. “Inspector Wei, what do you mean by this? Zhizhi doesn’t know anything. Asking this question has no meaning.”

Lu Zhuxin subtly glanced at Wei Qingyu.

How could a Demon Suppression Bureau inspector ask such a question for no reason?

She definitely had suspicions but no evidence.

So she was using this question to test Lu Zhuxin.

Ha, women.

However, it didn’t matter.

Normally, Lu Zhuxin should answer “I don’t know” as Chi Xiyan suggested.

That would be a normal girl’s reaction.

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However, Lu Zhuxin didn’t want to answer that way.

She asked in return, “Sister Wei is a Demon Suppression Bureau inspector. In pursuing and capturing demons, you should have more experience than us ordinary people. Why would you ask me this question?”

Wei Qingyu smiled and said, “You spent this time together with that group of wolf demons. You were in a better position to observe those wolf demons than we were. So I want to hear your thoughts.”

“Mm…” Lu Zhuxin slightly pursed her lips and said, “I think… they should still be inside the city.”

“Oh?” Wei Qingyu’s eyes showed surprise. “What do you mean?”

“Normally, bandits only release hostages after confirming their own safety,” Lu Zhuxin said.

“But wolf demons are cunning.”

“They could also be exploiting this very point, deliberately releasing me to create the illusion that they’ve already escaped safely.”

“I just saw at the West City Gate that directly outside the gate are large mountains.”

“Towering peaks and steep ridges are the most suitable places for demon clans to hide.”

“And all of this is precisely the false impression the wolf demons deliberately created.”

“Misleading us, making us think they really succeeded in escaping through the West Gate.”

“When in reality, they’re still lurking within the city. When we become complacent because we think they’ve already left, that’s when they’ll truly escape the city.”

This was the answer Lu Zhuxin gave. To dispel Wei Qingyu’s suspicions, she first needed to gain her trust.

In the small fox clan courtyard, Bu Lianshuang suddenly shivered violently.

“I never imagined,” Wei Qingyu looked at Lu Zhuxin, her mouth unstinting with praise. “Little sister Zhizhi, you could actually have such insight.”