"What are you playing dumb for? Don't you know who he is?"
Hearing Hua Qiang's furious roar, Chen Hao couldn't help wanting to laugh. "What kind of bullshit logic is that? Am I supposed to know?"
"You..." Hua Qiang choked on his words at Chen Hao's retort.
Gui Jianchou raised a hand, reining in Hua Qiang's anger, then smiled at Chen Hao. "Early this morning, our people discovered Hua Bei's body on the mountain behind us. Hua Qiang told me he saw you returning from there before dawn today, young Hao Chen. So I wanted to ask whether you saw anything yesterday."
Listening to the old fox, Chen Hao felt nothing but contempt. What a thief crying thief. "I do have a good habit of going for morning runs, but I didn't see anything during yesterday's run."
"You really didn't see anything?" Gui Jianchou asked with a sinister smile.
Chen Hao answered with absolute certainty, "I really didn't see anything."
No sooner had Chen Hao finished than one of the Ghost Gate disciples standing beside Hua Bei's body stepped forward and accused him. "You bastard Hao! You were the one who killed Hua Bei last night!"
"That's right!"
With someone taking the lead, the others immediately stepped forward to accuse him as well.
At this, Hua Qiang snorted, pointed at Chen Hao, and barked, "You little brat! With so many people identifying you, let's see you deny it now. Do you know the price of killing one of our own?"
Seeing them all working together, chiming in one after another as though he were some monkey they could toy with, Chen Hao's face turned cold. "That's fucking bullshit! You think a few mouths babbling away are enough to convict me? If you have evidence, bring it out right now. Don't