Fu Qian walked onward, rapidly sorting through the information in his mind.
He was deeply suspicious of one person—Deng Feizhou.
The incident had now been officially classified as a conspiracy between Chen Mingda and the Native Council.
The accepted version of events was that Chen Mingda, desperate to make up for his innate deficiencies, had teamed up with the Native Council to help them obtain Blood of Thorns.
In return, the Native Council had helped Chen Mingda break through his bottleneck.
To achieve their goal, they had targeted Henrik, eventually manipulating his mind and stealing Blood of Thorns.
Their original plan had undoubtedly been to make it look as if Henrik had been corrupted by the demigod's corpse and stolen Blood of Thorns.
Then they would control him as he went on a killing spree, turning him into a brain-eating monster, before eliminating him at the right moment and bringing the whole affair to an end.
But Fu Qian had become an unexpected variable. They hadn't anticipated that, just as everything was going according to plan, someone would sneak into the Night Watcher base in the middle of the night.
And they certainly hadn't wanted things to spiral out of control and blow up into a major incident.
So they'd quickly begun investigating what happened, and Fu Qian had caught their attention because of his behavior at the banquet.
That was also why Wen Li had been followed.
First, Chen Mingda had gone to Wen Li's home under the pretext of visiting her, to probe Fu Qian.
Then came that strange game. They had tried to control Fu Qian, failed, and ultimately lost one of their puppets.
The next day, Wen Li had taken Fu Qian to Deng Feizhou's home. Fu Qian had deliberately made up the story about Yuan