Chapter 280 The town mayor has someone from the capital as his backer

"Luo Xi, are you sure this is the place?" Lin Jize asked uncertainly when he saw Lin Luo Xi's burning gaze fixed on the mansion.

"Judging by a bear's keen sense of smell, it should be here," Lin Luoxi replied confidently.

"But this is the home of the mayor of Black Rock Town..." Lin Jize couldn't finish his sentence, his eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at the house with the plaque that read "Mayor's Residence."

Xiao Jingchen and the others who had followed him looked at the town mayor's mansion with grim expressions after hearing Lin Luoxi's words.

"Whether it is or not, we'll find out once we go in and take a look." Lin Luoxi hadn't expected the town mayor to be so ambitious.

Even though he's already in the position of town mayor, he still keeps a bunch of local bullies around to do his dirty work. The officialdom is truly dark and corrupt.

"If we just barge in openly and honestly, and there's nothing there, wouldn't we be wronging the mayor of Black Rock Town?" Lin Jize still couldn't believe that the mayor of Black Rock Town would dare to do such a shady thing as colluding with the underworld.

"Alright, then we'll sneak in quietly." Lin Luoxi instructed the bears to continue searching the area near the town mayor's mansion, and to kill any local bullies they found.

Bears not only have a keen sense of smell, but also a good memory; once a bear has smelled a stranger's scent, it will never forget it.

Having the bears surround the mayor's house would be the most appropriate thing to do.

After explaining things to the bear, he sprinkled some powder on its body and gave it the antidote before flying into the town mayor's mansion with peace of mind.

Lin Luoxi didn't wander around the rooftops. She scanned the rooftops of the town mayor's mansion with her eyes before heading straight for the two-story house.

Lin Luoxi flew as fast as the wind, and in an instant, she was over there.

"Hey, wait for me..." Lin Jize saw Lin Luoxi fly away without saying goodbye, and he anxiously called out to her in a low voice from behind.

"General Lin, if you're worried that the people below won't hear you, then shout as loudly as you can."

Xiao Jingchen, who was following closely behind, couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard Lin Jize's words, and gave him a low warning.

Hearing Xiao Jingchen's words, Lin Jize quickly shut his mouth and caught up with Lin Luoxi as fast as he could.

The group finally stopped on the roof of the two-story house. When Lin Ruoxi lay down on the roof and lifted the tiles to look down, they imitated her in a similar manner.

“Master, that Lin Luoxi is truly living up to her reputation. We’ve really messed up with her today.”

"Not only is she highly skilled in martial arts, but everyone around her is also highly skilled. None of us brothers are a match for them."

"Most of the brothers I led are dead; only we are left." The man kneeling before the table spoke with a sorrowful tone, his body trembling as if he were either afraid or grieving for his fallen brothers.

"Useless! She's just a country bumpkin. No matter how powerful she is, how powerful can she be? I think you guys have been living a comfortable life for too long and underestimated her, that's why you're all like this..."

Because Lin Luoxi was positioned directly above the man behind the desk, she couldn't see what the man in the crescent-shaped robe sitting at the desk looked like.

However, judging from the other person's voice and thick, black hair, the other person was not very old, probably around thirty years old.

"Master, it's not that we didn't try our best. Lin Luoxi's kung fu is not only formidable, but she also has a team of bears. Those bears are impervious to swords and spears; no matter how we slashed, we couldn't break through their tough hides. Our brothers were simply beaten to death..."

The man kneeling on the ground was questioned by the man sitting behind the desk, but he was still trying to defend himself.

"And there's a bear team too, haha, this country girl is getting more and more interesting..."

No one knows what the man was thinking, but he suddenly picked up a pen and wrote a few dozen words on a piece of paper, then rolled it up and suddenly whistled out the window.

Not long after the whistle ended, a carrier pigeon flew in from outside and landed on the brush holder on the desk.

"Go, send this letter back to Kyoto." The man tied the letter to the pigeon's beak, gently stroked the pigeon twice, then picked it up, walked towards the window, and released it.

"Puff puff..." Lin Luoxi and the others, who were perched on the eaves, stared wide-eyed as the carrier pigeon flew out, hesitating whether to shoot it down.

"Whoosh!" Just as the pigeon flew over everyone's heads, Lin Luoxi shot a silver needle from her fingertip, hitting the carrier pigeon directly.

By sheer coincidence, the carrier pigeon landed squarely on Lin Luoxi's outstretched palm.

"Your Highness, here you go..." Lin Luoxi handed the envelope from the carrier pigeon's leg to Xiao Jingchen.

It's perfectly fine to leave the affairs of Kyoto to Prince Xiao Jingcheng.

After all, this is not just about the imperial court granting Lin Luoxi a thousand acres of wasteland; it's about someone within the court who is building up their power here and losing their head.

"Hmm!" Xiao Jingchen's face already looked quite unpleasant when he took the envelope.

At first it was just speculation, but I never expected that the local bullies in Black Rock Town who bullied men and women and seized fertile land were actually related to some big shots in Kyoto.

The carrier pigeon had already been knocked down by Lin Luoxi, so Lin Luoxi didn't care about anything anymore. She directly used her internal force to quickly shatter the roof around her, revealing a hole for one person to go down. She jumped down without hesitation.

"Hey, not bad." As they landed, Lin Luoxi also saw the man, the town mayor, who was staring in disbelief both inside and outside the house.

When she saw the man's true face, Lin Luoxi even raised an eyebrow.

"He's good-looking, but his heart is too black." He has an upright face, but secretly he commits heinous crimes such as murder, arson, looting, and murder.

After seeing Lin Ruoxi descend from the cave, Lin Jize, Xiao Jingchen, and Ji Feng each used their internal energy to shatter the roofs around them and descended as well.

Just as they were about to scold Lin Luoxi, they discovered that their roof had been smashed and broken. Looking up, they saw that it was riddled with hornet's nests, which angered the two men inside, but also frightened them.

"Master, that village girl is Lin Luoxi." Before the man called the town mayor could even ask who Lin Luoxi was, his subordinate had already introduced Lin Luoxi to him.

"You are Lin Luoxi. Do you know what the consequences are for privately keeping the residence of an official of the imperial court?" Whether out of fear or a momentary lapse of judgment, the man actually used his position as town mayor to pressure Lin Luoxi.

"No matter how high your official rank is, you're just a town mayor, not even a big shot in the government."

“No matter how lowly I am, I am still a sixth-rank village head. When you see me, you have to kneel down and greet me.”