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Chapitre 5

After a long while, she finally came to her senses, looked around with lingering fear, and yawned: "It must be eleven or twelve o'clock now, almost midnight. It's so late, he... he wouldn't be here, would he?"

The three of them were taken aback.

Eleven or twelve o'clock? What does that mean? But no one asked her.

Sure enough, the sound of a watchman's drum rang out in the distance.

"It's midnight now, so it seems there's really nothing wrong," Nangong Xue breathed a sigh of relief. "With the two of you here, he probably won't dare to come again. Why don't we go back and rest first, and talk again tomorrow when we're refreshed?"

Li You smiled slightly: "Alright."

He Bi didn't speak, but was the first to stand up. Yang Nianqing was already sleepy, but hearing them say this, she was overjoyed and immediately stood up as well.

In that instant, a dark shadow silently swept past overhead.

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Don't they know who's here? How could such a commotion escape their notice? Sure enough, He Bi's eyes flashed, and he leaped up, over the railing, and onto the roof.

Li You sighed.

In the short time it took to sigh, He Bi had returned to the three of them. Not a single drop of rain had gotten on him, as if he hadn't moved at all.

Yang Nianqing stared in disbelief. When she came to her senses, she noticed that there was a black thing in his hand.

It was a cat!

Black cat.

The three of them stood there stunned, and He Bi's expression was not good either—he was known as the number one detective in the martial arts world, but he had actually chased the wrong cat!

“There was indeed someone just now,” Li You said, looking at his hand. “There were words on it.”

He Bi was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned the cat over. Sure enough, on the black cat's snow-white belly, there was a blood-red mark drawn with some kind of paint—

It's not a character.

The four of them were stunned again. (2e)

—A face grew out of the cat's belly!

A smiling face.

It has eyebrows, eyes, and a mouth—everything is there, and it's clearly smiling, but at first glance, the smile looks rather distorted, as if it's mocking everyone.

Yang Nianqing gasped and took two steps back.

Seeing that He Bi had let go, the cat let out a mournful and piercing cry, seized the opportunity to leap down the stairs, and escaped with that eerie smile on its face.

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A cold wind swept by, the lanterns swayed, the shadows of the trees swayed, and countless branches and leaves collided overhead, the rustling sound ringing out again, with branches occasionally brushing against the eaves.

The atmosphere was quiet yet eerie.

Perhaps it was because the raindrops had gotten into her neck, but Yang Nianqing felt a chill down her spine and couldn't help but tug at Nangong Xue's sleeve: "Let's go."

To everyone's surprise, the gentle and elegant Nangong Xue remained motionless, like a wooden statue. Looking at He Bi and Li You, they were also stunned, just like Nangong Xue, all three pairs of eyes staring at the same spot.

Yang Nianqing inexplicably followed their gaze—

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A white shadow drifts in the wind!

Hanging in mid-air like a ghost, it swayed back and forth like a swing, appearing particularly eerie and terrifying, yet incredibly real, against the backdrop of the shadows of the trees.

It's right before our eyes.

Gradually, that face slowly turned around.

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"Ah—!!~~~~~"

With a deafening scream, Yang Nianqing closed her eyes and collapsed towards He Bi beside her...

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Updated on Shuxiang Chinese Website: 2008-02-26 10:50:34 Word Count: 5382

With a loud thud, she was thrown heavily to the ground, almost screaming in pain, and then she lost all desire to faint.

But she clearly fell towards He Bi, so she shouldn't have fallen to the ground! Lying on the ground, Yang Nianqing stared at He Bi, only to see that in the blink of an eye, he was already standing by the railing.

"you……"

"It's fine if you faint," He Bi glanced at her coldly, "It's just a pity that I'm not one to show mercy to women."

Yang Nianqing still didn't react.

Nangong Xue shook her head: "Did Miss Yang fall?"

Li You's handsome face appeared above her head, looking at her with sympathy: "Next time you faint, remember, it's better to fall on Brother Nangong than on him."

Yang Nianqing gritted her teeth and angrily got up, patting herself off: "Why!"

“Humans are always more compassionate than gods, at least,” Li You looked at Nangong Xue and coughed, “at least the First Benevolent Person won’t let you lie on the ground.”

“Yes,” Yang Nianqing’s eyes blazed, “God’s heart is as hard as stone!”

"If you're soft-hearted, you can't handle cases." A cold voice.

Yang Nianqing was speechless. (01)

These people are really strange!

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Beneath the tree, the corpse lay flat on the ground. Just as Nangong Xue had described, its face was purplish-black, its lips were bluish-black, and its eyes were wide open, the whites of its eyes already turned purplish-red, like congealed blood.

Startled, Yang Nianqing was wide awake and looked at the corpse with trepidation: "Who is he?"

Nangong Xue liked to think for a while before speaking, which showed that he was very cautious in his words and actions. Sure enough, after pondering for a moment, he answered: "It is Zhang Mingchu, the 'One Slash to Slay Jiangnan' who went missing at the beginning of the month."

"Do you know?" 8d

He nodded: "I met him once, but that was five years ago."

"Then how can you be sure it's him?" Yang Nianqing suppressed her nausea and looked at the corpse. "He wasn't carrying a knife."

“But the calluses on his left hand must be from long-term sword training, and it’s a single-edged sword. Zhang Mingchu is left-handed,” Nangong Xue smiled slightly. “He is known as ‘One Sword Cuts Down Jiangnan,’ and he uses a Moon-Slaying Xuanming Blade, which is quite heavy. Moreover, he has practiced the Cinnabar Palm. Look at his left hand, isn’t it a bit bigger than his right hand?”

This is practically an autopsy report!

Yang Nianqing was incredibly impressed; he could identify this person just by looking at him twice!

And where is the murderer? Is he hiding somewhere? She looked around, then leaned closer to Nangong Xue, her voice trembling as she asked, "Who killed him?"

nonsense!

“He just released the cat to lure Brother He away, and he’s probably already far away,” Nangong Xue sighed, looking around. “The sound of a cat’s footsteps is similar to the sound of a person using light-footed skills, and with this rain and wind…”

He stopped talking.

Gazing silently at the corpse on the ground, a hint of sorrow and reluctance flickered in his noble phoenix eyes. Yang Nianqing couldn't help but sigh inwardly; this handsome man was indeed incredibly kind.

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"You...you're not going up there too, are you?"

Nangong Xue looked up at the tree and shook her head: "I can't go up even if I wanted to." Seeing her puzzled, he smiled slightly: "I was born unable to practice martial arts and have no internal energy, so naturally I can't go up."

Yang Nianqing was stunned. (37)

It turns out he doesn't know martial arts!

But he could see through her weaknesses at a glance, and with such knowledge of martial arts, no one would associate him with someone who had no martial arts skills. Yang Nianqing suddenly felt ashamed; he was just like her, but not as timid and afraid!

Thinking of this, she straightened up.

Nangong Xue found it strange.

Murder was commonplace in the martial world; people even starved or froze to death on the roadside. Death was not uncommon in those days. Had she never seen a dead person? Unless she was a noblewoman from a wealthy family, but even noble ladies could behave and speak like her... extremely rare.

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Above their heads, two figures, one black and one white, descended.

A corpse lay beside them, and given the eerie atmosphere, if Yang Nianqing didn't know who they were, she would have mistaken them for the legendary Black and White Impermanence, the men who would steal souls.

The shadowy figure moved swiftly and agilely, like a ghost.

In contrast, Bai Ying exuded elegance and grace, like a white flower quietly blooming in the night, appearing as if in slow motion.

Strangely, the two figures, seemingly moving at different speeds, landed at the same time!

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Nangong Xue glanced at the two of them, then at the corpse on the ground: "There is no martial art in the world that could turn a person into this state. You..."

Li You sighed: "It is indeed poisoning."

"But after trying many times, I found no poison in his body."

silence.

Yang Nianqing couldn't help but ask, "Are there any clues up there?"

He Bi gave her a cold look and remained silent. Li You's face also lost its usual amused expression, and he only had a thoughtful look on his face.

Nangong Xue frowned and asked, "Have you two discovered anything?"

After a while.

He Bi's hand trembled, and something immediately fell to the ground.