Let Him Live a Little Longer

"They're all dead!"

On her way back to her hometown, Wang Shi learned that the pregnant women who had come to the city with her had all died. She turned pale with fright and kept thanking Zhou Qing.

If he hadn't stopped her then and taken her to Miss You Hui's house, she might have been disemboweled and killed.

"Holy Soul Village is still the best!"

"Auntie Wang, you must never leave the village with just anyone for money again. They might have ulterior motives," Tang San advised.

"I'm not going out anymore! I'm not going out anymore!"

Wang Shi was still in shock when she hurriedly nodded in agreement.

If she dies, how will her husband, who is lying in bed, and her twelve-year-old son survive?

Zhou Qing comforted Auntie Wang for a few words and told her to rest well in the carriage. He then got off the train with Tang San and walked with the guards arranged by the Spirit Hall.

"Qing Ge, why didn't you just take out the ' Death Diary ' back then? Didn't you want revenge?" Tang San couldn't suppress his doubts.

"Yes? That's the most compelling evidence!"

Xiao Wu was also puzzled, as were Romantina and You Hui.

"First of all, we can't possibly return Hu Fangyuan's body, right?"

Zhou Qing glanced at the Spirit Hall guards walking ahead, deliberately lowering his voice, but not hiding anything from You Hui, "Secondly, a mere diary is easily forged by Dales and can't prove anything, after all, Hu Fangyuan is already dead."

Tang San pondered for a moment and asked, "The last point is that you don't want to borrow the Sword Douluo's influence?"

"I do have similar thoughts... Although I want to fight for all forces that are in our favor, in order not to be controlled by these forces, we must at least have the power to counter them."

Zhou Qing had his own theory. "Moreover, killing Dales with the help of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would affect their reputation, and the favor owed would be huge. I'd probably have to sell myself to repay it."

Hearing this, Tang San couldn't help but smile, and his mind cleared up. He stopped asking about this point, but a question remained, "But, since Hu Fangyuan is already dead, do we still need to go back and go with Dales to arrest the Fallen Ones? He shouldn't have any other accomplices, right?"

"Who cares if he has accomplices or not? They'll all end up with them anyway."

Zhou Qing analyzed for everyone, "Dales's behavior proves that after Xiao Wu forgot to close the door, he didn't go down to check. Perhaps it was out of respect for Hu Fangyuan, or perhaps he knew what kind of experiment Hu Fangyuan was conducting downstairs and dared not look directly..."

In short, the important thing is that he didn't know Hu Fangyuan was dead. Now that the incident has occurred, he has to immediately sever ties with Hu Fangyuan, both morally and logically.

The guards who led Auntie Wang and the others to Falling Star City probably escaped the moment Dales returned to his residence, after he gave them a secret signal... Tang San, do you think Dales will spare their lives to prove his innocence?"

Tang San denied it.

If Dales wants to clear his name, he must eliminate everyone who knows the inside story, or even those who might know it.

Once Dales recovers, those people will surely die!

"So I fought for the possibility of them living a little longer."

Zhou Qing raised one index finger.

"Dales doesn't know that Hu Fangyuan is dead, but he probably wants him dead too. In order to prevent Sword Douluo from getting involved, he even said that he would gather people later to sweep through the mountains and forests and hunt down the Fallen Ones."

Secretly, he would definitely order people to search for information about Hu Fangyuan, but since Hu Fangyuan is already dead, it would be fruitless. So, to make his self-defense more convincing, do you think it's possible that he would label those people as ' Fallen Ones ' and use them to eliminate them, making a final use of what he had?

Black!

It's really dark!

Tang San was shocked. He never expected that the city lord of Falling Star City would be so cunning.

"Will those people obediently listen?" Romantina asked.

"This is exactly what you've been waiting for," Zhou Qing winked at Romantina and chuckled.

"???"

Romantina was stunned, her eyes widening o((⊙⊙))o, "What do you mean I'm happy to see this?"

"They must have families, Dales is using that to blackmail them..."

"Oh, I understand."

Romantina immediately understood, but then her cheeks flushed slightly. "You actually say this is something I'd like to see? Do you think I'm a complete pervert in your heart?"

Zhou Qing ignored this and continued to say to Tang San, "So, I decided to play along, grant his wish, and then conduct an experiment."

"Experiment?"

Xiao Wu was drowsy and even confused by what she had heard, but she still managed to figure out one thing: Dales was a wicked villain who did all sorts of evil.

"To answer the question about the Tang San earlier, revenge is necessary, but this isn't just a personal grudge between me and Dales; he's the murderer of my birth parents..."

"He was also the murderer who killed my parents." Before Zhou Qing could finish speaking, You Hui also spoke up, clenching her fists—her parents' names were also recorded in the "Death Diary."

As previously speculated, the cause of death was that they noticed Hu Fangyuan's situation and wanted to investigate, so they were silenced.

"That's why he can't die easily; he has to live a little longer," Zhou Qing said Youyou. "We're not the only ones who have a grudge against him. We need to make him infamous for eternity."

"That's unlikely, isn't it?"

Although Tang San also felt that this was the most satisfying way, unless Dales did something that would incur divine and human wrath, he would probably be forgotten in ten or twenty years, let alone ten thousand years.

Perhaps blaming Dales for the Soul Tool Core Formation in Falling Star City might prolong the time he's vilified by the world, but it's unlikely to exceed a century.

"Where there's a will, there's a way," Zhou Qing said.

"The words are good, but are they appropriate for this situation?" Tang San suspected that Zhou Qing had once again given the originally inspiring words other strange meanings.

"Perfect!"

Zhou Qing laughed loudly, no longer caring about the Spirit Hall guards nearby, and said loudly, "If this succeeds, then Dales will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever, and will be despised by future generations again and again, until the end of time."

"How is that possible?"

Romantina shook her head. "Even if Dales really becomes a disgrace, the historians will not record it in detail; at most, they will just mention it briefly."

"Therefore, this history must be written by me and by all of us!"

Zhou Qing shouted loudly.

Xiao Wu exclaimed excitedly, "We're writing our own history? That's really interesting!"

Romantina was taken aback, then suddenly realized, "I see. We're going to write it ourselves? Then I must make sure I portray myself as very impressive."

You Hui said weakly, "Actually, I can write it for you. When I'm researching Soul Power cultivation, my favorite thing to do is write a diary."

Only Tang San remained silent, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned—

[Qing Ge has regained the youthful spirit he had in Holy Soul Village!]

I need to work harder to finish that gift quickly!