Evil Thing, You're Too Seductive

Evil Thing, You're Too Seductive

While Song Jinsong gathered people, Wei Fan paced over to the city lord's corpse and lifted the white cloth.

There were no visible wounds on Cloud City's city lord. His body was intact, yet he had been dead for less than a day and was already blackening all over, as though he had been poisoned to death.

"He died a miserable death, all right!"

What pleased Wei Fan was the twisted expression on the city lord's face. It looked as though he had suffered torment before dying, without the slightest trace of peace.

That bastard had been Cloud City's city lord for decades and had never done a single decent thing. He allowed demons and monsters to eat people inside and outside the city without intervening. Even when the clerks under him colluded with demons and monsters, he refused to punish them—and he had even suppressed Wei Fan.

Now that he had been killed by demons and monsters, it was retribution at last.

"Song Jinsong, why did you call me here? I'm busy rushing to Su City. You'd better give me an explanation!"

A voice brimming with fury suddenly rang out.

Wei Fan looked over to see a young man in brocade robes striding through the doors of the squad room.

"His name is Pan Yun. He's the city lord's second son, a spoiled playboy. His father has died, yet he's acting as though nothing happened," Hu Qing whispered beside Wei Fan.

Wei Fan nodded. He had not even met the city lord before, so naturally he did not know who the city lord's sons were.

Wei Fan did not know whether Pan Yun was truly a spoiled playboy, but he certainly did not look like someone whose father had just died.

Song Jinsong's expression darkened at his words. Your city lord father is dead, and you still think you're somebody?

"We are investigating the demon or monster that murdered the city lord. Everyone who was here last night must be gathered. Second Young Master, please cooperate."

Pan Yun sneered. "What can trash like you possibly find out? Don't delay me from going to Su City to take refuge!"

Anger appeared on Song Jinsong's face, but he did not flare up.

The Pan Family was not without backing if it could hold the position of city lord in Cloud City for decades. Pan Yun remained this arrogant after his father's death because he had something to rely on.

At that moment, Wei Qingyuan ran eagerly toward Pan Yun and muttered into his ear.

"What? That dog slave Wei Fan is here? Song Jinsong, why haven't you hurried up and arrested this man who colluded with demons and monsters?"

Pan Yun suddenly flew into a rage. Clearly, Wei Qingyuan had told him that Wei Fan was here.

Song Jinsong did not move. He said in a deep voice, "Second Young Master, please do not heed slander. There is no evidence that Captain Wei colluded with demons and monsters. If he had, he would not have come here again.

"Now that the city lord is dead, the best course is to find and eliminate that demon or monster. Otherwise, I fear something may happen to you before you even reach Su City.

"Everyone knows that Clerk Wei's elder brother-in-law's family colluded with demons and monsters and was uprooted by Captain Wei. He hates Captain Wei to the bone. Second Young Master, think carefully. Those dying now are members of the city lord's residence, not Clerk Wei's family. Even if Captain Wei is arrested, it will not be his family that dies."

As soon as these words came out, Pan Yun's expression shifted repeatedly.

Song Jinsong was right about one thing: those dying were all from the city lord's residence. Even if he intended to flee to Su City for refuge, he could not guarantee that he would not die on the road.

Wei Fan might have stood by and allowed his father to die earlier, but if Wei Fan were truly arrested now, Wei Qingyuan would be the only one to benefit. Meanwhile, the city lord's faction would continue to suffer the slaughter of demons and monsters.

Now was not the time to deal with that constable named Wei Fan.

"You dared use me as a spear?"

Pan Yun backhanded Wei Qingyuan across the face, making blood spill from Wei Qingyuan's mouth.

"Song Jinsong!"

He did not dare strike back. Instead, he turned and glared viciously at Song Jinsong, who had ruined his plans.

"This must be Captain Wei. You truly are a man of outstanding appearance. Investigate as you please. If anyone dares throw obstacles in your way again, I'll deal with him for you!"

Pan Yun changed faces faster than turning the pages of a book.

One moment, he had demanded that Wei Fan be arrested; the next, he was fawningly praising him.

He hid it well, but Wei Fan still caught the killing intent deep in his eyes.

After a while longer, most of the people had been gathered. Song Jinsong came over and said to Wei Fan, "Other than the two remaining captains, who have matters they cannot get away from, everyone else is here. I even gathered the maids and servants from the city lord's residence."

Whether they truly could not get away or simply did not want to come, Wei Fan did not care.

The demon or monster that had killed the city lord was unlikely to be either of the two captains.

"Thank you for the trouble, Captain Song. I'll do my best."

Wei Fan gripped the hilt of his blade and began examining the gathered people one by one. He started with those from the city lord's residence. After looking over more than a dozen of them, the panel suddenly flickered:

Evil Thing: True Demon Second Rank, born from gathered resentment, feeds on human souls

Kill it to gain 100 years of cultivation

Demons and monsters—yet demons were demons, and monsters were monsters. They were different things. Demons were stranger and far more vicious than monsters.

Wei Fan's mind stirred. He had truly found the demon lurking among them.

Before him stood a pretty woman dressed revealingly, the two huge mounds on her chest nearly bursting through her clothes.

As Wei Fan's gaze fell upon her, she revealed a shy expression and lowered her flushed face.

"Truly strange."

Wei Fan looked her up and down but discovered nothing unusual. Her essence, energy, and spirit were all normal, and she lacked the foul stench that clung to monsters.

If not for the panel's prompt, he would never have realized that the woman before him had been possessed by an evil thing and turned into one herself. No wonder so many captains and constables had not the slightest idea what to do.

Unless they killed every last person in the City Lord's Manor, there was simply no way to find the demon.

"Y-you... why have you been staring at me?"

Seemingly unable to bear Wei Fan's gaze any longer, the woman suddenly spoke in coy embarrassment.

The moment she said this, Song Jinsong and the others all wore strange expressions.

This woman was the City Lord's most favored concubine. Even when the City Lord had fled to the yamen for refuge, he had not forgotten to bed her. It was clear just how irresistible this concubine was.

They were all men, so naturally their gazes had been drawn to her as well.

What was more, these constables had seen her naked that morning, and even now they were still savoring the memory.

"Because you're too slutty!"

Wei Fan suddenly spoke, causing everyone to freeze instinctively. They all thought he was teasing the City Lord's concubine—even the demon itself was stunned, never expecting Wei Fan to say such words in public.

But in the next instant, a clang rang out. A flash of blade light swept through everyone's eyes, and with a puff, the City Lord's concubine was cleaved in two.

"Wei Fan, what are you doing? Even if you were teasing her, there was no need to kill her!"

Hu Qing cried out. The others stared, dumbfounded, at the City Lord's concubine, whom Wei Fan had chopped into two pieces.

Wei Fan growled, "Idiot! She's the demon! Back away, now!"

Boom!

At those words, everyone came to their senses and fled in terror. So the demon had already possessed the City Lord's concubine.

No matter how audacious Wei Fan was, he should not have flirted with her and then killed her.

Moreover, they all noticed something strange at this point: not a single drop of blood had flowed from the City Lord's concubine, who had been split in half by Wei Fan.

"Shriek..."

A piercing scream came from within the City Lord's concubine's corpse. Immediately afterward, a phantom floated out of the body and charged at Wei Fan.

The phantom had disheveled hair and emitted a faint red glow, as though it had been soaked in blood.

There was no demonic aura, no evil aura, nor any soul-stirring presence—yet it was even more terrifying.

"Busybody!"

A teeth-grinding voice came from the phantom's mouth. It transformed into a streak of red light and instantly tried to burrow into Wei Fan's body.

Wei Fan remained expressionless. A flicker of violet true qi flashed across his blade. Then he gave a flick with the tip of his saber, sending the red light flying away like a ball. By sheer coincidence, it shot into Wei Qingyuan's body not far away and vanished.