"Wolf King Tie Sheng!"
A grasslander, and a young man at the Nine Apertures Unity of Heaven and Man realm—Meng Qi could only think of this one person.
How had he gotten there first and killed Snake King, that phony Half-step Outer Scenery?
To silence him?
Or did this seemingly insignificant child trafficking case actually involve the grasslands?
Meng Qi had originally only gone to confront Snake King. He believed that a black-market tycoon at the Half-step Outer Scenery level would not stoop to something so vile.
After all, Snake King made his living in Maoling. Even a Rabbit did not eat the grass around its own burrow, and he had far more profitable and efficient ways to make money.
Yet they had only just arrived to question him when Snake King was immediately silenced by Wolf King.
This had to make Meng Qi think deeply.
"Could the grasslands be plotting something? There have been cases before of gifted children from the Central Plains being abducted. Could that child have been one of the rejects? Then Snake King's subordinates secretly took him to make money, and when the matter was exposed, they silenced him?"
Zhong Buping looked utterly astonished. He had clearly recognized Wolf King as well.
"That is somewhat possible."
Meng Qi nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this. The other man was, after all, from the Beggar's Clan and had surely encountered such matters before.
However...
Rumor had it that although Wolf King was bloodthirsty by nature, he had always preferred ambushes. This style of assassination was more like something Xu Yue and he would do.
Or was Six Doors' intelligence incomplete as well?
With that, the clues came to an end, only bringing the even more troublesome Wolf King into the picture.
The matter even alerted Six Doors and