Chapter 98

Player B: So, if we hadn't spread the news yesterday, he might have successfully defeated the others and become the final winner? I would say he must have other motives!

Zhou Yaqi: Even if he has other purposes, it is not a reason for him to find a scapegoat. He has brought this upon himself, huh!

Player B: Good morning, group leader. Why are you awake so early?

Zhou Yaqi: I didn't sleep! This injury is so painful, it's keeping me wide awake, but I dare not move! I'm wrapped up in bandages like a mummy, lying straight in bed watching the group chat. I can't do anything else. I'm so angry!

Player B: Uh, is there a possibility that you can log off?

Zhou Yaqi: ...

Zhou Yaqi: Okay, maybe I was crazy because of the pain.

Ning Pan: Wait, didn’t we find a man in black dressed as a woman in the Cen Mansion?

Player Geng: I haven’t heard about it. Is there any new news about the deputy group leader?

Player A: Comrades who read this article, gather together! There's a melon!

Player B: How long have you been offline? You're not afraid of sudden death.

Player A: Let’s go after eating the melon.

Ning Pan: What's the big deal... Never mind, it's not something that will be blocked by the system anyway.

Ning Pan: Wasn't I taken to the Cen residence last night? Just as I was about to escape, a group of men in black came outside the woodshed and killed several of the thugs outside. One of the men in black was a lecher. Seeing a beautiful girl imprisoned next to me, he wanted to take her away and take advantage of her. When he failed, he even wanted to kill her to vent his anger.

Ning Pan: While the others were away temporarily, the girl and I worked together to knock him out. Then, to vent our anger, we changed him into women's clothes, dressed him up a little, and finally threw him back into the woodshed.

Ning Pan: Didn't anyone find him? Maybe he was burned to death?

Player Geng: That shouldn't happen. There's nothing valuable in the woodshed. Who would have the time to set fire to it?

Player Geng: Don’t worry, deputy group leader. I’ll ask someone right away. Maybe I can find that person.

Players were discussing the events in Luodan City in their group chats, and Luodan's own residents were also discussing them. The first people to learn of the incident at the Cen family were those living nearby, but they didn't know the specifics of what had happened and didn't dare to go out to investigate. However, a nearby night watchman saw a distant fire and a group of men in black climbing into the Cen residence.

The Cen Mansion had been robbed before, and the night watchman didn't take it too seriously at first. After all, the fact that the Cen Mansion still existed despite its shady behavior was largely due to those thugs. As for the fire in the courtyard, it wasn't surprising. After all, the Cen family had offended so many people, and there were so many people who wanted to set the Cen Mansion on fire that if they gathered together, they would probably outnumber the officers and soldiers at the government office.

It has been a long time since I have seen such an unlucky guy who doesn't believe in evil. The Cen family is full of people who love to resort to lynching... The night watchman shook his head, hung the gong on his waist, and was about to move forward when he suddenly felt that something was wrong: Why did those figures he just saw look so familiar... Damn, that's not right!

The night watchman, recognizing several of them, turned and scrambled to report to the police. Meanwhile, other courtyards in the Cen Mansion also began to catch fire. When the patrolling constables got the news and rushed over, they happened to encounter the group of black-clad players leaving.

Among the detectives were game staff, so he couldn't arrest players. Seeing a colleague trying to stop a player, he persuaded them to prioritize their work. As for how he knew they were players... The aura of the Fourth Calamity was truly unique when it was being created, a sense of unbridled disregard for the lives of others, even their own.

Arriving at the Cen residence, the constables didn't immediately enter. Everyone cherished their lives, and with the current situation at the Cen residence unclear, no one dared to barge in rashly. However, the opportunity was rare, and it was impossible to do nothing. The prefect sent his best subordinate, masked and skilled in light martial arts, inside to investigate. If they could find evidence against the Cen family, even better.

"Sir, if we do this, will we offend...that person?" A timid captain cautiously raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the capital: Isn't it said that the cousin of the Cen family has an engagement with a member of the royal family?

"Do you think your uncle is so stupid as to not want to wear this black hat?" The prefect slapped the little constable on the back of the head in annoyance: "I didn't ask you to go, so stay here and don't go out tonight!" Although he wanted to gild his nephew, the situation today was obviously not suitable for this silly boy to get involved.

The subordinate who was sent was nicknamed Feiyan, and he had some unpleasant things with the Cen family before. Now that he had the opportunity to find evidence against the Cen family, he didn't even consider how dangerous it was. His main concern was confidence.

Covering her face carefully, Feiyan bravely climbed over the wall and entered the Cen Mansion. She searched every room, even the floor tiles and beams. After getting what she was looking for, Feiyan did not delay and went to report to the prefect.

After finding what he wanted, the prefect sent someone to strike the gong three times outside the wall of Cen's mansion.

At the sound of the gong, the various factions still fighting in the courtyard froze for a moment before speeding up. After repelling the enemy, they grabbed their gains and quickly left. When they encountered the constables outside the courtyard, they ignored them and did not attempt to stop them.

After waiting for about half an hour, the prefect, figuring most of the people inside had evacuated, sent his men into the Cen residence. They painstakingly captured the occupants—or, more accurately, the ones still alive. They were still struggling to put out the fire when a heavy rain fell late in the night. While the downpour drenched the detectives who hadn't left, it did at least put out the fire.

"Uncle, you haven't slept yet?" The young captain passed by the study when he got up early for morning exercise and found that the prefect was still busy inside. The candle on the table in the room had burned out.

"Go to bed after you've dealt with it." The prefect yawned and picked up the teacup on the table to rinse his mouth: "Go talk to Lao Yan and follow up on today's matter."

"I see, uncle... So that royal family member is really not a big deal?"

"...If you still can't learn to use your brain, don't leave Lordan City anymore!"

Coincidentally, the players' task-filling group was also discussing the royal family, although no one knew who the royal family was.

Player Ding: I don’t know if the royal family will be furious if they know about this. His good fiancée is gone just like that.

Player B: If you ask me, this happened too quickly and too strangely. The attitude of the government is also quite strange.

Player Geng: Speaking of this, it reminds me of something.

Player Geng: Everyone's heard about my cousin's engagement to a member of the royal family, but in reality, no one has ever seen the imperial decree granting the marriage. Someone once saw the royal family member from a distance, but I'm afraid only the Cen family knows what he looks like or his name.

"It's been a pleasure working together." In an inconspicuous corner outside Luodan City, a black-robed man escorted the heavily armed cousin down from a carriage. If a member of the Cen family were passing by, they would undoubtedly have noticed a resemblance between this man's features and those of the royal family they had met earlier. "I'll take the balance. Do you want this token? If you'd like to work together again, you can always contact me."

"No need. The damn guys are almost all dead. If others don't provoke me, I'm too lazy to bother with them for the time being." The cousin lowered her cone hat and said tiredly, "I'm really too tired."

"Alright, but you still have the token. You're quite an interesting person." The black-robed man put the token on the cousin's sleeve and said, "When you said your plan was related to the royal family, I thought you were going to announce your name and assassinate the queen."

"Oh, with the nine clans of the Cen family, you dare to be compared with Her Majesty the Queen?" The cousin rolled her eyes: "Goodbye." That was Her Majesty the Queen who fought north and south to defeat the demon clan! The Cen family, even with eight generations of ancestors, is not worthy of being compared with Her Majesty the Queen.

The nine clans of the Cen family: What? Just because my nine clans were not executed, I should say thank you to you?

"Princess." After the cousin of the Cen family left, the guards hiding nearby appeared one after another.

"Well, let's go." The man in black robe changed carriages with the help of the maid: "Although I'm not my real fiancé, but if you say I'm from the royal family... I am indeed! Absolutely genuine."

"My Lord, do you intend to take that woman under your wing?"

"No, although she's affectionate, she's also quite heartless." The cousin initially collaborated with someone to deceive the Cen family because they'd secretly murdered her own family. She'd worked so hard for so many years in the Cen family, her sole purpose being to avenge them. But despite caring so deeply about her family, the cousin remained indifferent when the Cen family's young master sought a scapegoat.

"She is a sharp enough sword, but I don't have the leisure to be a scabbard." The princess changed out of her black robe and straightened her temples that were messed up by the wind.

Perhaps someone could restore Miss Cousin's empathy, but the princess, who possessed no shortage of talent, would not consider such a move. Pretending to be the royal fiancé was merely a way for her to control the situation. Luodan City was too close to the capital.

"That young master is looking for a scapegoat to pretend he's uncompetitive, but my cousin's fiancé might be fake, so that young master's plan might be part of my cousin's plan. This wave of nesting dolls has the flavor of a dramatic reversal..." After digesting the group chat, Bei Qiao logged into "A Different World of Martial Arts". As he opened the door, he considered whether to go to Luodan City to watch the excitement or leave Qingtian City directly. "The Cen family is gone, and it seems there's nothing much to see... No, Cen Xi is still alive! Could he be the final winner?"

According to the group, all the members of the Cen family have been arrested, and Cen Xi is the only one who escaped.

"The final winner? No." The waiter who had spoken to Bei Qiao yesterday came over with a mop and whispered to Bei Qiao: "That guy ran away early in the morning. It seems that he was afraid that those whose property he swallowed up would come to cause trouble for him." Even if he didn't run away, he would have to hide his identity in the future.