The day after Qiyu was buried, Zhao Fangxu called Wu Xie, telling him to conceal his identity and rush to Lupanfang immediately, while also outlining his specific mission.
After hanging up, Wu Xie explained the whole sequence of events to Zhang Qiling and Fatty.
It all started over a month ago. On the very night Zhang Qiling and the others accompanied Feng Baobao to Banai—specifically, when Feng Baobao was sitting in the field of flowers that had once been the former residence of Xia Chan—Liao Zhong, the head of the Nagetong Lunan branch, was murdered. The killer was none ofling else than his own temporary worker, the Gu-infused sacred saint Chen Duo, whom Wu Xie and Meng Sixiang had rescued from the Yaoxian Cult years ago.
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