Demon Realm Slaughter Trial 4

Early in the morning, Xie Guijin was preparing to have breakfast when the witch came to announce that the eldest prince had arrived.

Xie Guijin, guessing the purpose of the eldest prince's visit, smiled and said, "Please invite my brother in quickly."

The eldest prince entered the room. He was a large, imposing figure, wearing a long robe with dark patterns, a cold and stern face, and a crimson flame-shaped demonic mark on his forehead.

Xie Guijin stood up to greet him, gesturing for him to join her, and said with a smile, "Brother, your timing is perfect. I was just about to have breakfast. Have you eaten yet? Why don't you join me for some?"

The eldest prince sat down with a stern face and said in a deep voice, "Sixth sister, you really have a lot of leisure time. I've been waiting for you to come to me since the day before yesterday, but I haven't seen you yet, so I had to come to find you myself."

"Brother Wang, what do you mean by that? I don't recall having any agreement with you. Could it be that I'm mistaken?" Xie Guijin asked with a smile, her eyes sparkling.

"Why pretend to be confused, sister?" the eldest prince sneered. "Sister, you've caused such a commotion, shouldn't you have informed your brother?"

Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin had a sudden thought and said, "Brother Wang, are you referring to this research trip? Oh dear, I was just thinking about some trivial matters and didn't dare to bother you. Brother Wang, why did you come all the way here in person for this? If you had just sent someone to inform me, I would naturally have gone to apologize to you."

Although Xie Guijin couldn't decipher the mystery in a short time, it didn't stop her from instinctively using basic skills of modern cattle and horses, and refusing to take on responsibilities she shouldn't have.

"Is that so?" The eldest prince took the black iron wine cup offered by the witch, took a sip of wine, and said, "I thought my sister was held up by something."

Xie Guijin understood the hidden meaning in the eldest prince's words, but to save face, she put on a shameful expression and said, "I hope that my brother will forgive me for my youth and ignorance."

“There’s no need for such formalities between us siblings,” the eldest prince said, setting down his wine cup. “I’m just reminding you, sister, that you should inform your brothers and sisters before doing anything in the future. Other demons may not be as easy to talk to as I am.”

"Thank you for your guidance, Brother Wang." Xie Guijin nodded respectfully in response.

The eldest prince stood up and said, "Alright, you can have your meal now."

Xie Guijin followed beside the eldest prince, earnestly seeing it off.

"Oh, by the way," the eldest prince suddenly stopped and turned his head, "did you know about the little accident that happened in the suburbs yesterday?"

Xie Guijin's eyes showed a hint of confusion as she said, "I've been busy with trivial matters these past two days, so I haven't heard anything about it."

The eldest prince gave Xie Guijin a deep look, then stepped out of the palace without saying another word and left using magic.

Xie Guijin returned to the dining table, but couldn't eat. She managed to eat two bites before getting up and going to the study.

She wrote down her conversation with the eldest prince.

Xie Guijin took the written paper, looked at it again and again, pondered it repeatedly, and finally understood something.

The first matter is that the eldest prince will take charge of civilian affairs in the demon realm. Xie Guijin should inform it in advance. Since the eldest prince is its elder brother, Xie Guijin should go in person.

It was indeed Xie Guijin's oversight that she didn't know in advance, but she can't be entirely blamed.

This research is the first of its kind in the Demon Realm, with no precedent to follow.

Xie Guijin was originally just a modern real estate marketer, not a manager. Her daily work only required cooperation from various departments within the company, but conducting customer surveys and creating customer profiles were her personal work habits.

She has a corporate slave mentality, while the eldest prince and the sixth princess have a politician mentality, and they are politicians from the demon race, which is different from that of humans.

Xie Guijin rummaged through her memories of a few minor political maneuvers from movies and TV dramas, realizing that she had probably said the wrong thing about the second matter.

The outskirts of Shanghai may seem desolate, but since it is the outskirts of Shanghai, any disturbance there will inevitably alert the city's middle and upper management. Even if they don't know the specific details or that Xie Guijin is in danger.

But they must know that an assassination attempt took place in the suburbs yesterday.

Since the Sixth Princess has the ambition to seize the throne and holds real power, how could she not know the news even if she doesn't leave the palace for a day?

If this matter has nothing to do with the Sixth Princess, then Xie Guijin shouldn't be completely unaware of it, given that the First Prince was testing her by chatting with her casually.

It seems that the eldest prince came for two purposes: to demand an explanation and to test him.

Xie Guijin's inappropriate handling allowed it to achieve its goals.

Thinking of this, Xie Guijin slumped onto her desk, exclaiming in frustration, "Ugh, this is too complicated! I'm just an ordinary person; this isn't something I should be doing. I can't keep up with the thought processes of these Machiavellian masters. What should I do? Ahhh!"

She vented for a long time, but the system didn't dare to respond, fearing that Xie Guijin would take the opportunity to ask it for something again.

Fortunately, Xie Guijin muttered to himself for a while without forcibly calling out the system.

The system breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Guijin lay sprawled on the desk like an octopus.

The witch gently knocked on the door and said, "Your Highness, Master Chu Gui requests an audience."

Xie Guijin reluctantly straightened up and said in a soft voice, "Let him in."

"Host, look, he's ignoring you again and showing up in front of you," the system added fuel to the fire.

Xue Linchuan, mentioned by the system, bowed and placed a stack of documents on the desk in front of Xie Guijin. He said softly, "All the information we can find so far is here. I'll go out first. If you have any questions, please call me anytime."

"Host, what does he mean by this? He personally delivered it and is now leaving. If that's the case, why not just have the Demon Palace envoy deliver it?" The system couldn't understand.

Xie Guijin stopped Xue Linchuan and asked, "Do you think the witches and demon servants in the Demon Palace are untrustworthy?"

“I didn’t notice anything wrong,” Xue Linchuan shook his head and said, “I just thought the Demon Realm was dangerous, so I decided to deliver it personally because I thought it was better to be safe than sorry.”

At this point, Xue Linchuan hurriedly added, "It's not that I'm not listening to you, please, please don't be angry."

"Host, he's lying. He's clearly making excuses to see you." The system said smugly, thinking it had seen through Xue Linchuan's little scheme.

Xie Guijin lowered her eyes and whispered to Xue Linchuan, "Thank you."

"No, don't be so polite. It's what I should do. It's my fault for not protecting you properly before," Xue Linchuan said incoherently.

Xie Guijin's eyes turned cold upon hearing this.

Xue Linchuan immediately realized his mistake and hurriedly said, "I've said something wrong again. It's all my fault. I'll leave now. Don't be angry."

As he spoke, he hurriedly went out and closed the palace door.

“Host, look how scared you are,” the system continued, “but you’re easy to anger in his heart.”

Xie Guijin blocked the system, rubbed his temples, and then opened the document.

Xue Linchuan, after all, had once been the trusted Prefect of the Capital, a position trusted by the Empress. In a short time, he was able to discover quite a lot of information in unfamiliar surroundings.

Yesterday's assassination attempt was indeed not aimed at the Sixth Princess, nor at Xie Guijin, the visitor from another world, but at the Sixth Princess's 157th concubine brother.

The younger brother's mother was a witch who sold wine, and she had a one-night stand with the Demon Lord Chunfeng, resulting in his birth.

The Demon Lord did not recognize him and bring him back to the Demon Palace.

It doesn't possess much demonic energy and doesn't like cultivating, but it did learn brewing skills from its mother and even surpassed her.

Due to its superb brewing skills and its bloodline to the Demon Lord, it became the largest wine merchant in the Demon City shortly after reaching adulthood, and most of the wine in the Demon Palace was offered by it.

Seeing this, Xie Guijin shifted her gaze and glanced at the black jade wine cup on the desk.

Drinking alcohol in the demon realm is like drinking water in the mortal realm.

Xue Linchuan has not yet found out who assassinated the wine merchant prince.

The only information found was that the wine merchant prince was always accompanied by several powerful demon generals. Yesterday, he was investigating whether the spring water was suitable for brewing wine in a remote mountain forest of the demon realm, but he disturbed the demon beasts, resulting in the deaths of the demon generals.

Before the wine merchant prince, who had fled back to the nearby Demon Town, could replenish his manpower, he received news that his mother had suddenly fallen seriously ill and needed a miraculous medicine to save her life. So he sent out his remaining manpower to find the miraculous medicine, while he himself used a return spell to try to return directly to the Demon Capital.

However, the talisman went astray and sent it to the outskirts of the Demon City, where a trap had been set.

If Xie Guijin hadn't been a little earlier and ruined the vine...

Xue Linchuan destroyed the swamp again to save Xie Guijin, and the wine merchant prince with weak demonic energy is doomed to die.

This matter is full of strange twists, and what's even stranger is that the wine merchant prince is insignificant to the demon realm. Who would go to such lengths to kill him?

With limited time, Xue Linchuan wrote down the facts of his investigation, along with his views on the case, his speculations about the mastermind behind it, the impact of the wine merchant prince's death, who would benefit from it, and what conspiracies might emerge in the future.

After reading it, Xie Guijin felt extremely irritated.

This is the most unsuccessful realm she has ever been in since she came into this world.

With the third day almost over, the main quest of selling the house has made no progress whatsoever. He even shielded Bie Mo from an assassination attempt and nearly lost his life. He doesn't know who the real culprit is, and he doesn't know if this accident will drag him into a bigger conspiracy.

The entire Demon Palace was in turmoil, and she could no longer remain secluded.

Xie Guijin's personality and behavior are very different from those of the Sixth Princess. If she behaves abnormally again, she will definitely arouse suspicion.

To this day, she no longer believes what the system said: "This place is all an illusion. Do whatever you want. There is no need to worry about the original owner's personality. Others will rationalize her words and actions and will not doubt that she and the original owner are not the same person, so as to avoid causing unnecessary trouble."

Being recognized as coming from another world in other realms did not cause her any real trouble; in fact, it even brought her convenience.

But the Demon Realm is clearly different. If discovered, those contenders for the Demon Lord's position might really use this as an excuse to destroy her soul and the Sixth Princess's body.

Xie Guijin dared not gamble, nor could she gamble.

But she really lacked the confidence to face those competitors with ulterior motives.

Xie Guijin was restless and subconsciously opened the interface to look for suitable items, inadvertently unlocking the system's protection.

This time, the system didn't hold a grudge and quickly said, "You humans are so complicated. Xue Linchuan is good-looking, capable, gentle and considerate to you, and loves you more than his own life. How can he be a perverted stalker?"

“Yeah, I thought after all those bad relationships, I’d finally met my soulmate,” Xie Guijin blurted out without thinking, “Who knew he’d turn out to be such a jerk? What a pity.”