Modern Waterworks

"Of course, if a Myriad-Edge truly had his heart set on dying, he would be hard to stop." The short man whistled and walked over to Young Master Zhou. "The witnesses and evidence are all here. You have nothing left to deny, do you?"

"I... you..." Zhou Sheng watched helplessly as the burly man gradually came apart in the flames, unable to utter another word for a long while.

Had the Affairs Bureau noticed this plan from the very beginning?

Even a Sentinel-level practitioner had disguised herself as a street thug and joined in, yet he had noticed nothing...

"Since... since when?" It took him ages before he could mutter those words.

"Naturally, when you began buying arsenic in bulk." The other party shrugged. "Though you hired quite a few people to purchase it separately, this stuff is one of the goods regulated by the Affairs Bureau. When sales suddenly soared over a few days, of course we had to pay attention. But Young Master Zhou, I never expected you to be able to contact a practitioner from the Seven Stars Bureau of Military Affairs. That was an unexpected bonus."

She was laughing at him.

Zhou Sheng could see it in the short man's eyes.

The plan he had believed so secret was utterly beneath notice in these people's eyes...

"Why didn't you stop me outright?" Young Master Zhou gritted his teeth. "Did you just want to see me make a fool of myself!?"

"Because Lord Xia also wanted to assess how well this waterworks could handle a crisis." The woman who had appeared later spoke coldly. "Otherwise, I would have wanted to grind your bones into dust long ago!"

Zhou Sheng immediately shuddered.

"Everyone in Jinxia City can live a good life now, so why would you do something