Cui Hao's corpse lay on the ground.
His neck was twisted at a bizarre angle.
His eyes were wide open. He probably had not understood what had happened even at the moment of death.
No wonder.
After all, he was a Special Ability User.
He even had a Vicious Ghost on him, yet he had been strangled to death so easily. Even the Vicious Ghost inside him had died along with him.
Who could possibly make sense of that?
Jiang Qiao stood where he was, about to say something to Shen Boxia.
Suddenly, a chaotic clamor of footsteps came from outside the Prefectural Yamen.
"Prefect Cui! Prefect Cui!"
"Something terrible has happened! Over at the Sea God Temple..."
"Lord Prefect, what exactly is going on in Locust Tree Alley in the Eastern Suburbs..."
The footsteps drew closer and closer as a group of people flooded into the backyard of the Prefectural Yamen. The leaders wore brocade robes and were clearly prominent figures in Spring City, followed by a crowd of attendants and guards.
But the moment they entered the courtyard, they saw the corpse on the ground.
The leaders came to an abrupt halt.
All their expressions changed.
"Prefect?!"
"What... what happened here?!"
"Who are you people? Why are you in the Prefectural Yamen?"
"Did you kill the Prefect?"
The scene erupted in commotion as everyone stared at Jiang Qiao and Shen Boxia in shock.
Jiang Qiao said nothing.
He glanced at Shen Boxia.
He had no interest in dealing with this sort of situation. Shen Boxia had always been the one handling such matters.
"Everyone."
Shen Boxia swept his gaze across the crowd.
He spotted a familiar face among them.
It was the hunchbacked innkeeper from Twinwood Village.
Yan Bingwen.
At this moment, he had removed his disguise and