There was no need to investigate to know that no useful clues could be found from these assassins whose identities had been exposed.
Danyang Prefecture was still within Central Patrol Commander Jing Zhan's jurisdiction. Heavenly Patrol General Feng Jiumo swiftly contacted the Central Patrol Commander's men and followed the trail of that assassin commandant, hoping to uncover something.
Unfortunately, in barely an hour, all the results had come in.
Several tokens connected to the Devil Race were found on that guard commandant. Nor was he the only one—almost every assassin carried something linked to the Devil Race.
From that point alone, it could be determined that this was an assassination operation arranged by the Devil Race.
But upon further investigation, all the assassins were either unregistered people with no household records anywhere in Great Zhou, or else solitary individuals whose family members had either vanished or died in recent times.
As for that guard commandant's family, they had all mysteriously disappeared the day before.
Had it not been for the mysterious disappearance of the guard commandant's family, Ye Zhen might have suspected the Devil Race's handiwork. After all, he and the Devil Race had forged no small amount of enmity.
But the disappearance of the guard commandant's family confirmed that this series of assassinations had been ordered by Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu.
Ye Zhen had other enemies as well, but not one of them possessed such immense means.
Unfortunately, this confirmation existed only in Ye Zhen's own deductions. In truth, there was no evidence at all.
If they made a fuss over it, not only would they be unable to deal with Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu, they would also bring enormous trouble upon Central Patrol Commander Jing Zhan.
Even now, Central Patrol Commander Jing Zhan had a tremendous