Chapter 1169: Scapegoat
Before this, Melgor was somewhat aware Ren Xiaosu had been hiding his strength. However, he wasn’t clear just how much he was hiding.
One’s imagination was limited by their horizons. As such, Melgor thought that even though Ren Xiaosu was hiding his strength, it shouldn’t be by too much.
But after this incident, Melgor thought he was mistaken. He was far, far mistaken.
In the entirety of the relay station, he was the only one who really knew everything that happened.
Ren Xiaosu was not in cahoots with that bothersome Wang Congyang at all. It should have been a spur-of-the-moment decision by his steward to create chaos while he was pursuing his enemy.
Qian Weining looked at the caravan members and said with a sigh, “I’ll think of a way to speak with the House of Winston. But as you guys can see, too much has happened overnight. I’m afraid that I, a lowly vice president of the York County Chamber of Commerce, can’t handle it. So let’s wait patiently here at the relay station and not rush the matter.”
“So how long do we have to wait?” someone said with a bitter expression.
Qian Weining did not answer the question. To be honest, he was not sure either. This event was a complete surprise to him.
But after some thought, Qian Weining still advised, “The House of Winston will definitely be sending people to question those of us at the relay station soon. I hope everyone can cooperate when they arrive. Don’t resist. We must believe our innocence will prevail.”
After that, Qian Weining signaled to the guards to lock down the entire relay station before heading out by himself.
Melgor dragged Ren Xiaosu back to the room. He even deliberately closed all the doors and windows before asking in a whisper, “Were you responsible for all that?”
Ren Xiaosu scattered more than 60 Eyes of True Sight noisily onto the table. “Pick one. It’s better than always having to use your white Eye of True Sight. Look, I collected so many of them last night, but not a single one of them is white. Speaking of which, you’re really not doing great as a sorcerer.”
Melgor could swear he had never seen so many Eyes of True Sight in his life before. Moreover, they were all placed so densely together in front of him!
Looking at what was before him, Melgor trembled. “D-Did you get all of these last night?”
“No.” Ren Xiaosu shook his head. “I obtained a white and an orange one from two bounty hunters. Remember that incident where you were attacked by the Flame Pillar spell? I chased after one of them and killed him, then waited around to ambush the other one that arrived later.”
Ren Xiaosu did not mention this before because he did not want to reveal he had stolen some Eyes of True Sight. However, the truth of last night’s incident could not be hidden from Melgor anymore, so he simply confessed to everything.
Melgor looked at the Eyes of True Sight on the table and hesitated for a long time. “No, I can’t accept it since I can’t explain where I would have gotten it from.”
“I didn’t think you’d still be so clearheaded,” Ren Xiaosu praised as he put away all of the Eyes of True Sight into his storage space. “I’ll help you find an opportunity in the future to replace your Eye of True Sight. Don’t worry, no one will care where you got it from at that time.”
When Melgor heard this, his heart skipped a beat. Hearing that Ren Xiaosu was planning to continue his killing spree, he asked curiously, “So were you serious when you said you wanted to destroy the Kingdom of Sorcerers?”
“Yes, but now, the strategy has changed,” Ren Xiaosu said with a smile.
On the same afternoon, just as Qian Weining had expected, a large group of the Knights of the Hymn’s troops came to conduct a search of the trade caravan’s members and goods. The direction of their investigations was to find Wang Congyang.
The Knights of the Hymn believed that even if they did not know what the other two perpetrators looked like, they could find them as long as they could locate Wang Congyang.
However, they did not carry out the search seriously. After all, everyone knew the perpetrators had already broken through the city walls and left, so they would have to be crazy to return to Winston City during this period.
Therefore, the key search areas were in the cities to the north.
It seemed like Qian Weining had already found his liaison. After the Knights of the Hymn’s troops arrived at the relay station, they searched through all the goods except for the oak barrels that contained the “wine.”
In the evening, the Knights of the Hymn quickly assembled all of a sudden in full armor.
Half an hour later, a group of people left the city in a grandiose manner from the north gate. In the middle of the group, the House of Winston’s patriarch was being protected, along with dozens of other sorcerers of the Winston family, including Archmage Alston.
At first, many people thought the Winston family was planning to evacuate the city. But later, everyone felt that something was off. Even if the Winston family were evacuating, they shouldn’t be heading north, right? Their enemies were the House of Tudor and the House of Norman, both of which were located in the north.
Therefore, no one knew what the purpose of the Winston family’s patriarch personally leading the group was.
After the group set off for the north, they continued marching through the night with no intention of resting. Everything was done with a sense of urgency.
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Sun City, located in the north and a suburb near Winston City, was one of the key cities of the House of Winston.
At this moment, dozens of burly men dressed in light clothing were going about their day around a residential building. They were not doing anything specific and just discreetly keeping the building surrounded.
Among them, there was an exceptionally muscular man with a dagger tied to his belt.
No one could get close to this residential building. The moment someone passed nearby, they would immediately attract the attention of this group of men and get chased away.
It was heavily rumored someone very, very important had come here.
After sunset, a man came back from the market with a large quantity of cooked food.
The burliest man walked up to him without saying a word. Then he drew the dagger from his belt and picked up a piece of meat. He brought it close to the mouth of the person returning from the market. “Eat it.”
The man who delivered the food over gobbled up the meat in one bite and chewed for a bit before swallowing. Ten minutes later, when the burly man saw he was fine, he carried the food and walked towards the residence.
He knocked lightly on the door. “My lord, dinner is ready. The food’s safe to eat.”
“Mhm, bring it in.” A booming voice came from inside. “Are there any updates?”
“No. Based on the news I’ve received, we only know someone plunged Winston City into chaos. But I’m not too sure about the details yet,” the burly man responded.
The person in the house was none other than Archmage Kayle Jefferson William Kris Tudor, who said he would personally deal with Ren Xiaosu.
This man was a middle-aged man with a rosy complexion and graceful bearing. He instructed the burly man, “Gull, keep a close watch on the surroundings. I’m going to meditate after dinner.”
But just as he finished speaking, intense shouting came from the vicinity of the residence.
Archmage Kayle took out his gold Eye of True Sight and went outside. He frowned as he looked at the soldiers who had come to kill him and wondered why the Winston family would suddenly make a move on him.
But someone suddenly shouted, “Kayle has shown himself. This man ordered his subordinates to commit murder in Winston City, so we must execute him in Sun City today!”
Kayle was clearly taken aback. “… What the fuck are you babbling about?!”
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