"Hm? You're interested in corpses too?" An Qingyu immediately became interested.
"Don't lump me together with a lunatic like you." Lin Qiye shrugged. "I just have another use for them."
"Fine, I thought I'd found another kindred spirit..." An Qingyu shook his head regretfully, his gaze falling on the Tavern Owner as he slowly rose to his feet. "Still, someone with Super Regeneration won't die that easily."
Lin Qiye rested a hand on the hilt of the blade at his waist. "I know."
The iron nail in the Tavern Owner's brow popped out on its own, and the bloody hole healed at a visible rate. He narrowed his eyes at the two uninvited guests before him, his expression turning ugly.
"Interesting... How did you find this place?"
"As long as you deduced that you were the murderer, then added a bit of wild imagination, finding you didn't seem all that difficult." Lin Qiye spoke calmly.
The Tavern Owner's brows furrowed slightly. "I shouldn't have left behind any clues."
"No clues at all?" An Qingyu chuckled. "Honestly, your ideas for setting this up were pretty good, but your attention to detail is worse than a snake's."
Lin Qiye said calmly, "At the beginning, you really did fool everyone. You made us believe that this string of murders was a ritual prepared by a Vengeful Spirit-type 'Mystique' seeking to advance, causing us to instinctively overlook the possibility of a human culprit.
"For the first three murders, you merely disguised the scenes as serial killings committed by a deranged murderer. You left behind no information related to a 'Mystique,' preventing the Night Watchmen from discovering your intentions in advance and intervening before the final ritual, thus ruining your plan.
"By the fourth murder, you realized the time was ripe. You used recordings and