20demayo Chapter 369 Are you satisfied with this explanation?
Chapter 369 Are you satisfied with this explanation?
Yun Chen stood up, his eyes turning a little colder.
As soon as he found out about the butler, he was silenced. It seems these guys are quite cautious.
He stood up and walked into the house to see if there were any clues left.
But after searching around, I found nothing.
Just as Yun Chen was about to turn around and leave, hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the yard.
He dodged and hid behind the door, and saw several guards dressed in the uniforms of the City Lord's Mansion rushing in. They exclaimed in surprise when they saw the corpse on the ground.
"Hurry! Go report to the city lord!" The leading guard turned pale and turned to run out.
"No need." Yun Chen walked out from behind the door, his voice calm but with unquestionable majesty.
The guards turned their heads suddenly and saw that it was a strange cultivator. They were about to scold him, but they were oppressed by the cultivation level emanating from Yun Chen and felt suffocated.
"Who... who are you and why did you kill Butler Jin?"
The leading guard had an ugly expression and sharp eyes as he stared at Yun Chen.
Yun Chen: ? ?
"I didn't kill the person."
"There are witnesses and evidence, and you still want to deny it?" the guard snorted coldly.
"deny?"
Yun Chen sneered and waved his sleeves. A gust of wind blew over, and the beams in the yard rumbled. A thick pillar was cut in half and smashed towards the guards with a loud bang.
boom!
The guards were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground one after another.
For a moment, rubble from the eaves was scattered everywhere.
Yun Chen stood where he was, looking at the group of guards lying on the ground wailing with a sneer.
"If I really killed that person, I would have just killed you. Why deny it?"
"You...who are you?"
The guards were horrified. They had never expected that someone would dare to commit such a crime right under the nose of the Shenlei Palace.
Yun Chen didn't waste any words. He walked to the stone bench in the yard and sat down. He said calmly, "Go call the mayor of Panlei City. I have something to ask him."
The guards looked at each other, got up from the ground, and one of them ran towards the gate.
Not long after, an old man hurried over.
The old man was wearing a black brocade robe and had a jade pendant engraved with thunder patterns hanging around his waist. He was Zhao Chongshan, the lord of Panlei City.
As soon as he entered the yard, his eyes swept over the corpses and broken pillars on the ground, and his face instantly darkened.
"Who are you? Why are you injuring people and killing innocent people on my territory?"
Zhao Chongshan's voice was deep and carried a bit of the pressure of a superior, and his eyes were fixed on Yun Chen.
Yun Chen raised his eyes and said calmly, "Butler Jin and his mistress were killed by Japanese monks. These guards accused me of crimes without any evidence. I only gave them a slight punishment. But you, as the lord of Panlei City, shouldn't you explain why your butler colluded with Japanese monks?"
"Bullshit!"
Zhao Chongshan was furious: "Butler Jin has been loyal to me for thirty years. How could he collude with foreign enemies?"
Zhao Chongshan's hair and beard stood on end, and spiritual energy surged throughout his body. "You, a cultivator of unknown origin, have killed my men and slandered my confidants. If you don't give me an explanation today, you will never leave Panlei City!"
As he spoke, he flipped his palm and a long sword engraved with lightning patterns appeared out of thin air. The blade made a humming sound and actually attracted the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth.
Yun Chen didn't move at all, just looked at him with amusement.
"Are you sure you want to fight with me?"
Yun Chen snapped his fingers, and the token of the direct disciple of the Divine Thunder Palace turned into a golden light and hung in the air. The lightning patterns on the token flowed, and the pressure it emitted made Zhao Chongshan's spiritual power stagnate instantly.
Zhao Chongshan's pupils suddenly shrank, and the hand holding the long sword trembled slightly.
He stared at the token for a long while, then reluctantly put away his weapon, his face livid. "Even if you're a direct disciple of the Divine Thunder Palace, you can't slander Butler Jin with just one sentence! If he's really colluding with the Japanese, I'm willing to take the blame!"
"is it?"
Yun Chen had a playful look on his face and a teasing look in his eyes.
Zhao Chongshan was frightened by his gaze and could not help but take a step back. He gritted his teeth and said, "I believe Butler Jin."
"But before he died, he told me in person that it was you who instructed him to collude with the Japanese monks?"
Yun Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Zhao Chongshan with a playful smile.
Zhao Chongshan's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he was pricked by a needle. He subconsciously clenched his fists, and his knuckles turned white.
He moved his lips, wanting to refute, but he quickly raised his voice: "What nonsense! Butler Jin is clearly dead, how could he talk to you! You are deliberately framing me!"
His voice was filled with deliberate fury, but his slightly trembling tone and unconsciously retreating steps had already exposed his guilty conscience.
Yun Chen took in his reaction, and the teasing on his face intensified: "Who said Butler Jin is dead?"
"What? Not dead or not?" Zhao Chongshan's pupils shrank and he turned to glare at the guards behind him.
"City Lord, this is impossible... Butler Jin is definitely dead. I saw it with my own eyes..."
The guard opened his mouth quickly, but halfway through, he realized something and quickly shut up. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he looked at Zhao Chongshan in horror.
Yun Chen narrowed his eyes, and the playful look at the corner of his mouth could not be suppressed.
"I saw it with my own eyes... In other words, you saw who killed Butler Jin? And that's why you're still slandering me?"
"No...no, I didn't see it."
The guard's legs went limp with fear, and he fell to his knees with a thud. His voice trembled like a sieve: "I... I just saw Butler Jin lying on the ground, bleeding profusely, and I thought he was dead... I didn't see who the murderer was!"
"Oh? Just thought?"
Yun Chen slowly walked up to the guard and looked down at him. "Then why did you insist that I was the one who killed him? Did someone teach you to say that?"
The guard glanced at Zhao Chongshan in panic, then quickly lowered his head, his lips trembling and unable to speak.
This one look has completely exposed the mastermind behind the scenes.
Zhao Chongshan's face turned completely dark. He knew that the guard had revealed his flaws, and continuing to pretend would only make things more embarrassing.
He kicked the guard hard and shouted, "Useless trash!"
This kick seemed to be in anger, but in fact it was meant to make the guard shut up. However, the more he tried to hide it, the more guilty he seemed.
Yun Chen sneered and turned to look at Zhao Chongshan: "City Lord Zhao, why are you scolding him? Are you feeling guilty?"
"Who has a guilty conscience? I think you are just slandering me. I will go to the Divine Thunder Palace to sue you."
Zhao Chongshan roared at Yun Chen in frustration.
Yun Chen was too lazy to pay attention to him. He raised his hand and slapped him, making him stagger.
"You dare to touch this old man?"
Zhao Chongshan covered his face and stood up, glaring at Yun Chen.
"My clan brother is an elder of the Divine Thunder Palace. Even if he is a direct disciple, he must give me an explanation."
"Explain?"
Yun Chen stood up with a sneer and slowly walked towards him.
Then, in front of Zhao Chongshan's astonished gaze, he raised his hand and slapped him again.
"Are you satisfied with this explanation?"