The music throbbed.
A sultry pink haze enveloped the whole place.
Flashing lights fell across mask after mask, wiping away the bar's air of deadly menace.
You Tiangui said, "First you hid under Ferocious Demon Tower's protection, and now you're sheltering under the church's. Are you really that afraid of us?"
Gu Qingshan lounged comfortably. "Unless someone pays me, I don't kill people. Otherwise, I'd rather have a little drink, whip up a few dishes, and enjoy the simple life."
You Tiangui looked at Gu Qingshan, an absurd feeling rising in his heart.
Was this really what this assassin was like?
According to the intelligence, Poison Elder had had a minor run-in with this assassin at City Lord's Mansion.
Then Poison Elder and his party had died that very night.
—If this Sin Prison Dragon King really had killed Poison Elder, then he had to be a cunning, ruthless old hand.
He wouldn't be sheltering under other people's protection wherever he went, refusing to fight.
—Could his judgment be wrong?
The facts he'd been so certain of grew murky. You Tiangui stood there, quietly thinking it over.
...No, that wasn't it.
There had to be two possibilities.
First, judging by the assassin's reaction, he really had been wrong. Someone else was the killer.
Second, there had to be some hidden reason why the assassin had killed Poison Elder. And now, the assassin didn't want a head-on fight because he had something else in mind.
Either way, this assassin still had to die.
Even if he wasn't the killer, his death could send a message to all of Void City: this was what happened to anyone who killed an elder of the Evil Ghost World.
That would wash away the Evil Ghost World's disgrace and lull the real killer into a