By day, the Shack District outside the city was even more deathly silent than at night.
Everyone who lived here would go to their workplaces, contributing their own share to the prosperity of the immortal sect's border city.
Bang, bang, bang!
Fewer than ten Blood Eagle Gang members were rushing about in a frenzy, pounding on every door in one section of the Shack District.
Only after rushing to the scene of the corpse in the street did they realize how thorny the situation was!
Late last night, when all was still, Luo Heng had been walking down a narrow, filthy street when Du En ambushed and killed him. There had been no witnesses, and he had left behind no traces.
At the same time, the people living here had basically all gone out. There was no one waiting at the scene for the Blood Eagle Gang to come investigate.
Could the Blood Eagle Gang be bigger than Nanmo Border City?
The gang members knew the answer in their hearts.
No!
So they did not dare mutter about it. The group had initially looked fierce and menacing, but in the end, they could only stare at one another blankly. After searching all around, they still had no clue at all. Finally, they could only steel themselves and pound on doors one household at a time, hoping to find someone nearby.
Bang!
When they pounded on one of the doors, the wooden door that could not be properly locked suddenly flew open, causing the gang member knocking on it to freeze instinctively.
"M-Master, is something the matter?"
A young, frail woman with low cultivation was still at home. She had heard the commotion earlier, but with the way they had blocked the door, she had been unable to leave. Her heart had been filled with unease. Now, she hurriedly forced out a stiff smile and asked cautiously.
The Blood Eagle Gang member came back to his senses, leered at her, then looked over the simple room. Seeing nothing suspicious, he said, "I'm with the Blood Eagle Gang. I'm going to ask you something, so you'd better answer honestly!"
At the words "Blood Eagle Gang," the woman's pupils instantly shrank.
Before she could even begin trembling, he impatiently asked, "What were you doing last night? Did you notice anything happening outside?"
"I-I was at home, on the bed. I didn't notice anything outside."
The woman pressed her lips together and lowered her head as she answered.
The Blood Eagle Gang member furrowed his brows, growing somewhat irritable. "You really didn't go out? You didn't hear anything?"
"No."
"Tsk!"
They were in a great hurry. Seeing that he could not get anything out of her, and judging at a glance that a lamb-like woman such as her could not possibly be the murderer, he immediately grabbed his hair and hurriedly turned to leave.
If he failed to find any useful clues before the gang leader arrived, he would be berated.
He might even be beaten...
At the thought of that, the man could not help shuddering. He hurried away with hurried steps.
The woman had not suffered any abuse or angry scolding, which left her feeling bewildered. She edged over to the doorway and cautiously looked outside, only to see several Blood Eagle Gang members still pounding on doors in the vicinity.
As they gradually went farther away, she gathered her courage, left home, and headed toward her workplace.
She was already late. If she skipped work entirely, she had no idea how the overseer would punish her!
Thus, she could only steel herself, keep close to the walls, and sneak along the road.
Following the quietest route, she had not gone far before she saw Luo Heng from a distance. He was lying dead in the street beneath the morning sunlight, his corpse in a terrible state and already beginning to stink.
Her eyes suddenly widened, and she instinctively covered her mouth.
It took her quite some time to recover. She blinked, and a barely suppressed delight flashed through her eyes as she desperately restrained the emotion that had grown so intense it nearly brought her to tears.
Dead!
Good riddance!
He had finally been killed!
Amid her delight, she suddenly froze.
Why had she not been suspected? Why had they not followed the principle of "better to kill the wrong person than let the guilty go"?
She stopped in a corner and frowned, pondering for a while. Then she thought of something and abruptly turned around to look toward her home.
No footprints!
Luo Heng's footprints!
So last night, someone had come across injustice and eliminated that villain for me?!
Thinking this, the woman fell silent for a moment, her heart filled with a hundred tangled emotions.
Finally, she let out a breath.
"No matter what, there are still good people in this world."
"Thank you!"
She had already escaped her sea of suffering.
Even if it might only be temporary.
That was enough. She could not ask for too much more.
She eased the emotions in her heart. Seeing the sun rapidly climb higher, she did not linger and hurried away toward her workplace.
Her footsteps had become much lighter.
Not long after she left, the gang leader, Zhang Lin, who had just finished asking for leave, also hurried over with several others.
Once they gathered, there were more than a dozen of them in total.
The gang members who had found nothing in their investigation stood around Luo Heng's corpse with their heads bowed.
"Useless! A bunch of useless trash!"
Zhang Lin could not help cursing them.
Someone steeled himself and said, "Sir, it's not that we didn't work hard. The thief was simply too cunning, and so much time has passed. They didn't leave behind a single clue!"
"You still dare make excuses!"
Fuming, Zhang Lin walked straight over and slapped him hard. The blow sent blood spraying from his mouth and sent him flying into a shack, collapsing it.
The others immediately trembled in fear, shrinking their necks and lowering their heads. None dared look directly at him, a man who had cultivated for more than twenty years and was at the Mid-stage Qi Refining realm.
"Hmph!"
Zhang Lin snorted coldly. Looking again at Luo Heng's stinking corpse, he examined it closely and could not help frowning. "What a clean ambush. It only took two strikes. No, the first strike alone was already fatal. Hmm, the killer should be at the Mid-stage Qi Refining realm."
Hearing this, the gang members who had come to search the scene secretly let out a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness they were too useless to find the murderer or any traces he had left behind. Otherwise, if they angered him and he marked them as his next targets, they would be finished!
"Tsk! Every Mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator outside this city is known by name. Which bastard made this move? Someone who isn't afraid of my Blood Eagle Gang and dares offend us like this... Could it be the Iron Hand Gang?"
As Zhang Lin pondered, his brows drew tighter and tighter.
Wherever there were people, there was a jianghu. A business like collecting protection fees would naturally attract greedy competitors.
The Blood Eagle Gang, the Iron Hand Gang, the Green Robe Gang... In this fairly large Shack District outside the city, organizations of bullies like these occupied the niche of acting lawlessly and wickedly. They were competitors, and clashes over territory frequently erupted between them.
Especially over the past few years, the Blood Eagle Gang had repeatedly clashed with the upstart Iron Hand Gang. In the nearly two months since Du En had become a corpse-burier alone, the corpses of members from the two gangs buried by him already numbered more than ten fingers could count.
Therefore, the first gang Zhang Lin suspected now was the Iron Hand Gang!
"Sir!"
At that moment, several people who had gone to investigate Luo Heng's residence also ran over to report.
They presented Luo Heng's belongings, mainly the household's possessions.
Zhang Lin weighed them in his hand and asked with a frown, "Nothing was looted?"
"No, it's all here. Also, his home looked completely normal. There wasn't the slightest sign of anything unusual."
"Is that so? What about the things on Luo Heng himself?"
As he asked this, Zhang Lin unhappily looked at the people who had come to investigate. He felt they were truly too stupid and lacking in perception—he actually had to ask them himself.
They merely looked silently toward the person who had just been slapped away and still had not moved.
The perceptive ones immediately ran over and searched him thoroughly, returning with everything of value.
Not only Luo Heng's belongings, but the man's own as well.
"Nothing is missing..."
Zhang Lin furrowed his brows in thought as he stuffed the possessions into his pocket.
Was this really the work of the Iron Hand Gang?
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