Having learned his lesson, Shen Qingqiu was more careful afterwards. His expression was a frown the rest of the way because he wished for a peaceful and uneventful trip. Finally, they arrived at Shuang Hu City.
This city isn’t large but can be considered quite bustling. After entering, they visit the city’s richest man, the same Old Master Chen who led the others in pleading for help from Cang Qiong Mountain sect. Old Master Chen’s two beloved little concubines had both died tragically under the Skinner’s hands. With Shen Qingqiu’s arrival, he is filled with hope.
He touched the white jade hands of the third beautiful concubine. With mournful sighs and groans, his old man’s tears dripped down.
Such an important mission NPC, yet he’s making Shen Qingqiu’s face twitch.
He does not at all like looking at an old man in his sixties and a teenage girl fondling each other in front of him!
The good part is that Shen Qingqiu is a lofty expert. After briefly meeting them, he can coldly turn around and leave. Only Ming Fan is left behind greeting Old Master Chen. Lofty people have special privileges; toward experts, the regular people beside them cannot say anything. The more lofty they are, the colder they are, even as the people around them watch with admiring eyes.
Shen Qingqiu’s back faced her. Putting on a perfectly intellectual appearance, he lightly said: “If Ying-er wants to go out for a turn, find some apprentice-brothers to accompany you. I still have some things to do before we face the Skinner.”
Who she’ll bring with her, can Shen Qingqiu not know?
According to the information gathered from the nine victims, the Skinner picks young and beautiful girls. So those in Shuang Hu City with beautiful daughters, wives, and concubines all close their doors when night falls. But even this fails to stop the Skinner from coming and going.
After sunset, Ming Fan entered his room to report what he learned.
Finally, there was someone to talk with him. Shen Qingqiu’s half a day’s worth of loneliness finally dissolved: “Did you visit the coroner?”
Ming Fan said: “Yes. This disciple interrogated the coroner and carefully inspected the bodies.” Here, he stopped speaking. His expression was solemn as he offered something over.
Shen Qingqiu didn’t receive it in his hands. Examining closely, there were two stacks of yellow paper written on by cinnabar. The surface of the papers had already become a rotten black color.
If even the grave dirt had been saturated with evil energy like this, they can confirm that the Skinner’s identity is that of a demon. Finally, he knows what he’s up against.
Believe him, he really doesn’t want to speak these dramatic actor’s lines. But if he doesn’t say them, there’ll be OOC!
“……” Looks like this master-disciple relationship was built in the ‘you dictate, I worship’ model. Cooperation is a very happy thing.
Men will never think of the lives of those who worship them. Ming Fan’s ability to carry out tasks is exact, figuring out major stops along the road and arranging things in a timely manner; all of it was taken care of by him. If he hadn’t met the protagonist and found him displeasing to look at, experiencing a sharp drop in intelligence, he wouldn’t be a small evil school tyrant. He would be a good little seedling!
And facing this cannon fodder who was thrown by Luo Binghe into a pit filled with tens of thousands of ants and bitten to death alive, Shen Qingqiu shared the common feeling of being in the same boat……
“Descending the mountain this time is for the sake of gaining experience. This teacher will not be able to help you. Ming Fan, as the head disciple, you will need to vigilantly prepare so the demon won’t harm your fellow disciples.”
“Yes! This disciple has already laid out strategies. If the demon……”
Ming Fan hadn’t finished speaking when a person burst through the door and interrupted.
Shen Qingqiu’s heart thumped though his expression was still cold and calm: “What matter is there to shout so loudly, or be in such a panic?”
To be missing at this critical moment, it’s not a joke. Ming Fan listened and somehow restrained himself from leaping up: “Luo Binghe! You……”
Shen Qingqiu waved his sleeve, exploding the teacup sitting on the writing desk. Not only did he avoid OOC, he also temporarily stalled Ming Fan’s impending death.
Putting on an angry appearance, he said: “Since things have already happened, more words are of no use. Luo Binghe, come with me. Ming Fan, you bring along some fellow apprentice-brothers to ask the Chen family for their assistance to go search for your apprentice-sister.”
After assenting, Ming Fan hurriedly rushed out. Luo Binghe’s head hung low, not saying a single word.
Shen Qingqiu looked at his pitifully obedient appearance and wanted to rub his head, but had to restrain himself because of the system. He coldly said: “Come over here. Bring me to where you last were before the disappearance.”
Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying were near the bustling market when she was lost.
Shen Qingqiu: “……”
Could it be that the murderer be someone from the rouge shop?
But after entering the rouge shop, the thread of evil energy broke and completely dissipated.
“Could it be that the murder isn’t hidden in the rouge shop but had only come here before? Entering the rouge shop…… could the murderer be a woman?” Shen Qingqiu murmured.
This sort of mission getting assigned to him, without being able to reference any scene in the original work; his brain cells seriously aren’t strong enough!
Just when Shen Qingqiu was bitterly thinking back to the detective novels he read or deductive reasoning games he played in the past, the system urgently reminded him: 【Upon encountering difficulties, would you like to pay 100 Points and activate Easy Mode? 】
Shen Qingqiu: ‘Fuck, if there’s an Easy Mode why didn’t you say so earlier! Activate activate activate!’
His gaze focused on the ‘Yes’ option for three seconds. It turned green and disappeared. Then something caused goosebumps to rise all along his back.
Strong, what strong evil energy!
It’s as though someone is afraid the target can’t be found!
Easy Mode truly isn’t bullying me!
Shen Qingqiu isn’t ashamed at all at using Easy Mode, elatedly and slowly proceeding towards the evil energy. After five hundred steps, the path deviated sharply from the city area and he arrived at an abandoned and deserted house.
It’s really here! Look at that pale lantern, look at that poor and dilapidated front gate! It’s totally a haunted house, you can’t deny it!
Shen Qingqiu adjusted his expression, focusing on the silently following Luo Binghe: “Return to the Chen estate. Contact Ming Fan and tell him to bring all the sutras and apprentice-brothers to come here together.”
Shen Qingqiu woke up.
After waking, he saw Luo Binghe’s anxious expression. He was tied to the opposite side. Before, he seemed to have been staring at the sleeping Shen Qingqiu.
Shen Qingqiu felt a bit dizzy and didn’t know if whatever freaking thing the demon sprayed had any bad side effects.
His mood is very bad.
This Easy Mode is very simple and brutal! It delivered him straight to the mini-BOSS’s mouth!
The worst thing is, Qing Jing Peak’s lord is a mini-BOSS in front of his disciples but was knocked down! And just when he awoke, the system harshly said: 【OOC: -50 Points. 】
Earlier he’d opened Easy Mode and paid 100 Points. In the blink of an eye, another 50 Points have gone. How can his heart not hurt. Originally, the original Shen Qingqiu’s strength is in dealing with demons. It was like killing chickens with a master’s hand. But the shameful thing is that in this instance, the master’s hand didn’t manage to kill the chicken!
Very quickly, he found something that made his mood even worse.
He felt there was something wrong with his body. It was a bit cold and there was slight pain. Lowering his head, a ‘fuck’ almost blurted out from his mouth.
He! Had! Been! Stripped! Bare!
