After getting enough sleep, Liu Nian ate something simple and then walked downstairs.
As Liu Nian walked down the stairs listlessly, Ruan Xin, the receptionist, waved the two letters in her hand and teased, "You slept until the afternoon. I didn't expect you two to have so much fun."
"Come and get your letter."
Who are you talking to? This is completely baffling!
You're just naturally outgoing, don't go overboard and become a show-off, okay?
However, he didn't say anything. He took the letters from her hand and looked at them. One was an invitation from the city lord, and the other was unsigned.
First, we opened the city lord's box; the contents were nothing more than another banquet.
Not very interested.
He then opened another letter, and after reading it, Liu Nian's brows furrowed, but then relaxed.
Looking at Ruan Xin in front of him, Liu Nian asked in a calm tone, "Who delivered this letter?"
"Which one? Never mind."
Without looking up, Ruan Xin wiped the wine glass in his hand and replied, "One letter was delivered by the city lord's steward. He knocked on the door for a long time but got no response, so he asked me to pass it on. The other letter was from a brat. He didn't say anything, just threw down the letter and ran away. What's wrong? Is he one of your admirers?"
Seeing Ruan Xin's gossipy expression, Liu Nian ignored her.
A child? It seems the trail has gone cold.
That makes sense; who would personally deliver such a letter?
Furthermore, Ruan Xin wasn't exactly joking; as for the admirers she mentioned, there really were some. Liu Nian was unaware at this time that his glorious deeds had already spread among the crowd.
Those few front-line guards who had defended the city with Liu Nian and were still alive had almost all been promoted more than one level. After a morning of spreading the word, it spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred.
Liu Nian's image spread throughout the city, and rumors circulated about a powerful mage dressed in jet black within the World Society.
I wonder how he will react to this news.
"By the way, didn't Momo tell you about the banquet at the City Lord's Mansion? She came looking for you first thing this morning." Ruan Xin asked, mistakenly thinking Liu Nian was referring to the contents of the first letter.
Are they on their way here? Liu Nian keenly identified the key point, but the information was still too scarce to be certain.
"How do you know so much? Have you contacted her?" Liu Nian didn't answer the question but asked in return.
“Yes, she came to find you after finishing up with all the little things at the company around 7 o’clock. I went to her room at 10 o’clock, but she wasn’t there.” Ruan Xin looked at Liu Nian with ambiguous eyes and smiled maliciously.
Liu Nian could tell from her eyes what she was saying: "I didn't realize you could last so long with such a delicate frame."
"Is there no way to get out?" Liu Nian asked, feigning doubt.
"No way, you've been exhausted all night, do you still have the energy to go out? And do you think girls are like you guys, going shopping alone?" Ruan Xin looked at Liu Nian with disbelief, as if she were looking at an alien.
That's impossible to refute! I have no experience in this area.
Between 7 and 10 o'clock?
No, no, no, there's still something I've overlooked!
It takes about ten minutes to walk back from the city lord's mansion, so something must have happened during that time.
Once you're at the Rose Hotel, or even in the vicinity of it, it's extremely difficult to make a level six warrior disappear without a trace.
Moreover, Zhou Momo is a ruthless character who can make a level 6 warrior disappear without batting an eye, even when facing an elite unit like a bear.
These people have a lot of power, because in a one-on-one fight, it would be impossible for her not even to call for help.
Having just experienced a major battle, the streets and alleys are full of people, except... in residential areas.
Residential area? Liu Nian suddenly came to her senses.
The civilians in the residential area were all relocated to other places, creating a vacuum.
If I were to choose a battlefield, I would also choose that place, and the dark alleys in the residential area lead directly to the Rose Hotel.
That makes sense if it's a residential area.
Now that we have the place, where are the people? Who could they be?
He needs to know about my relationship with Zhou Momo, and he also wants to be my enemy.
The only people I can call enemies are Zhu Xiaotian and the Eye of Truth.
Li Ming? He doesn't have the guts.
Zhu Xiaotian definitely has remnants in his faction, but if it were him, why wouldn't he look for more valuable people? I'm clearly not even in the running.
The rest is clear: the only ones who can connect to me are you bunch of persistent ghosts!
The Eye of Truth!
It can't be wrong.
After figuring this out, Liu Nian left the hotel.
As he passed through a deserted area, he tore the letter in his hand to shreds.
A gust of wind blew by, and the letter turned into countless fragments that flew everywhere.
The note contained only one sentence: "If you want to save people, come to the mass grave in the north of the city at eight o'clock tomorrow night."
North of the city, a mass grave.
This place was originally a wasteland. Unclaimed corpses, mixed with the corpses of monsters, were dumped here, and over time it became a mass grave.
"Hurry up, hurry up, get it done quickly, then we'll call it a day!" The foreman stood on the truck bed with his hands on his hips, shouting energetically.
Behind him was a transport team, mainly responsible for moving the corpses of monsters from outside the city to this location.
The previous few trips had already piled up the mass grave to a considerable size, making it impossible for vehicles to drive in, so the rest had to be moved in by manpower.
"Damn it, all he does is rush me. Why doesn't he move it himself?" the porter muttered under his breath as he struggled to carry the monster's corpse.
"He has a younger sister, whom he gave away to someone higher up. If you're not happy about it, you can give one away too," the porter behind him said jokingly, tightening his mask.
He was probably speaking a little too loudly, because the people behind him burst into laughter.
Upon hearing this, the supervisor was furious, but there was nothing he could do.
If he dares to intervene, they dare to strike.
As for fighting them?
How could I, a mere scholar, stoop to their level?
I have no other way to deal with this except by deducting their wages.
In this day and age, if you withhold someone's wages, they'll dare to take it out on you.
There's a proper place for everyone, and the former foreman went too far, getting killed by his angry subordinates while walking at night.
Otherwise, how do you think you got to the position of supervisor?
They turned a blind eye to this matter, since to them, the person in that position was just a nobody.
Wouldn't it be better to push them out as scapegoats to appease public anger?
Although he did marry his sister off to someone else, he didn't regret it. His sister trembled at the sight of an infected person and couldn't survive in this era. He wanted to at least ensure that she could live a decent life.
Survival is more important than anything else!
Just like this group of people who dislike me but can't get rid of me.
As for the harsh words they said, I've endured them, even the harsher ones. What's so bad about that?
Seeing the porters ahead stop, he got out of his vehicle and snapped, "What are you doing? Dragging your feet, don't you want to go home?"
There were piles of corpses on both sides, as high as small mountains. He quickly squeezed past the porters next to him.
The stench of decay was so strong that he unconsciously frowned.
The sight before him filled him with horror; a chill ran down his spine to his brain, and then a sound involuntarily escaped his lips: "Ah~"
Terrified screams echoed across the wilderness!
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