The gardener turned even paler and began to shiver.
"What? You're not going to tell me yet?" Lan Ziye asked again.
"No...I don't know...I just arrived..." The gardener replied with trembling bloodless lips and no confidence.
Lan Ziye's eyes grew cold as he spoke, "If I'm not mistaken, those people should no longer be alive! They should have all become prey to the ogre's belly, and you, you so-called humans, are accomplices!"
The gardener slumped to the ground, his eyes a little dazed, his body shaking even more violently, but at the same time he pursed his lips even tighter, still showing no intention of speaking!
"Who is the ogre? Is it Xiaoyou or Zhong...the housekeeper?" Lan Ziye stared at the gardener's expression and asked word by word.
The gardener looked even more nervous, lowered his head and dared not look directly into Lan Ziye's eyes.
Lan Ziye raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "Looks like soul searching is unnecessary!"
The gardener suddenly looked up and looked at Lan Ziye in confusion. He didn't say anything!
Before the gardener could react, Chu Xixuan stood up and said coldly, "Then what should we do with this guy?"
Lan Ziye curled her lips and said calmly, "Kill them! There's no point in keeping them anyway, and..." She deliberately glanced at the gardener and continued, "Kill all the servants of the Chu family. They're all accomplices. There's nothing good about keeping them!"
"For harboring evildoers, Lanye Town should be eliminated!" Chu Xixuan said in a cold voice.
The gardener was really frightened this time. After a moment, he reacted and looked up at Lan Ziye and begged, "Young Madam, this matter really has nothing to do with us! We didn't kill anyone, we didn't..."
Lan Ziye seemed not to have heard the gardener's words. He stood up, looked at Chu Xixuan and said, "Just do as you said, destroy Lanye Town. It's just an insignificant town anyway, so it might as well be a warning to others! I'll go out first, and I'll leave this guy to you!" As he said that, he made a gesture to leave the room.
Seeing that Lan Ziye was about to open the door, the gardener was extremely anxious. He knelt down in front of Lan Ziye and said, "Young Madam, we were forced to do this!"
Lan Ziye raised a triumphant smile, but it was fleeting. He looked down at the gardener and asked, "What do you mean?"
The gardener took a deep breath and said, "Although Lanye Town is not far from Lanxuan City, it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. It is truly a small town in the valley! It was originally the territory of the demon clan. When I was very young, I heard my grandfather say that it was originally the territory of a demon king. The demon king liked to suck human blood. We humans are the demon king's livestock kept in the town so that he can always have blood to feast on!"
"The demon king allowed us to live and work peacefully in that valley, multiplying and prospering. All we had to do was pay a small amount of blood regularly, just like paying taxes! The amount of blood we had to pay was calculated based on the number of people in our family! That blood wouldn't kill us; we only needed to nourish it for a few days and it would recover. So, our ancestors were able to survive there for generations, and we gradually multiplied and grew into a town called Blue Leaf with a population of several hundred."
"As long as we are from Lanye Town, the Demon King will leave a trace of demonic aura on us, so no matter where we escape to, we will be found by the Demon King in the first place! This is also the reason why the young lady can smell the demonic aura on us!" said the gardener seriously.
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