Chapter 1320: The person behind the scenes (1)
Chapter 1320: The person behind the scenes (1)
“Go to hell!” The shop owner let out a low growl. He took out a handful of white powder from his bosom and threw it at Xia qingchen.
The powder gave off a pungent smell, and it was obvious that it was not a light poisonous mist. Once it touched someone, it could hurt their eyes or kill them.
Xia qingchen raised his right hand expressionlessly. With a light wave of his sleeve, a hurricane rose up from his arm, blowing back all the White powder that was pouncing over.
Ah-
The shop owner was covered in dust. He couldn’t help but cover his face and let out a miserable scream.
His face, neck, and the back of his hands, as long as the skin came into contact with the powder, all of them rotted.
After rolling on the ground for a few weeks, the shop owner gradually lost his breath, and only twitched instinctively.
“Master, he’s an assassin?” Ling Long suddenly understood and quickly threw away the tea in her mouth, shocked.
Her reaction was slow enough.
Xia qingchen didn’t say a word. He stood in the teahouse and slowly surveyed the surroundings.
His sharp eyes scanned every corner.
The murderer behind the scenes was likely to be observing nearby to confirm whether he was dead or not.
All of a sudden, Xia qingchen’s eyes narrowed. He discovered a series of afterimages flashing past the dark alley.
“Wait here!” He gave a simple instruction and left.
In a few breaths, he rushed into the alley and saw a figure climbing over the wall.
He leaped onto the wall, looked down, and stopped his movement.
On the other side of the wall was an underground cave with four entrances.
He didn’t know which one the murderer went to, so he could only rely on luck to find him.
“You, Who are you?” Xia qingchen touched his chin and mumbled.
Only his father and aunt knew that he had set off for this dock. Yuren had no idea that he had left colored glaze capital, much less that he had come to this dock.
It was impossible for his father and aunt to betray him. The only possibility was that he had been targeted by an organization with a huge intelligence network.
That was why the other party could track his movements at any time and arrive at the teahouse to ambush him.
In the Three Realms, there was only one organization with such intelligence-Dark Moon!
The dark organization that was famous for assassinations!
Their members were spread all over the world, and they were the only force that could do this.
Even tingxue house was currently unable to do this.
“Who is it that wants to kill me?” Xia qingchen pondered. Could it be that back then, when he killed Wang Yue, it caused the Dark Moon to launch a second assassination?
He didn’t know.
In the depths of the cave on the far right, a masked Woman in Black clothes was leaning against the stone wall, gasping for breath.
She was slender, weak, and her skin was as white as ivory. At this moment, she was panting, and her face was slightly flushed.
She took off her mask, revealing a gentle and delicate face, like a girl next door, which made people want to love her.
However, his eyes had a coldness that ordinary people couldn’t.
If Xia qingchen was present, he would definitely be able to recognize her. She was his cousin, Zhao churan.
Or rather, she was the Holy maiden of the Dark Moon-Wang Qing!
After staring at the exit, Zhao churan silently walked into the depths of the cave, not turning her head back.
In the teahouse.
Linglong was extremely bored as she waited. When she suddenly saw that Xia qingchen had returned, she immediately asked out of curiosity, “”Master, who wants to poison you? I’ll poison him!”
She picked up a chopstick and dipped it into the poisoned tea on the ground as she said fiercely.
Xia qingchen stared at the corpse on the ground and shook his head in deep thought. “No need, the other party might not want to poison me.”
If the other party was really from the Dark Moon, why didn’t they hire Wang Yue, a gold-class assassin who was good at using poison, instead of hiring a black-hearted shop owner who was full of flaws?
Rather than saying that the other party was trying to kill him, it would be better to say that they were deliberately letting him know that someone was trying to assassinate him.
He had to be more careful in the future to avoid being poisoned.
“He might not want to poison you?” Ling Long tilted her head and couldn’t figure it out. She looked at the shopkeeper, who had rotted into corpse water.”Could it be that such a strong poison is for you to rinse your mouth?”
“It’s precisely because it’s so violent that it might not want to poison me to death,” Xia qingchen said calmly.
He looked at the cup of tea in front of him and said, “”The stronger the poison, the easier it is for it to react with foreign objects.”
“Is that so?” Ling Long leaned over and looked into the teacup. There was a layer of transparent impurities at the bottom of the teacup.
They were like crystals!
These were all the substances produced after the poison and tea reacted.
However, one might not be able to discover it if they did not look carefully.
besides, it’s winter, and the owner of the shop is sleeping on the table without a blanket. Isn’t he afraid of the cold? ” Xia qingchen spoke indifferently.
He had his suspicions as soon as he entered the teahouse.
In the cold winter, there was no reason to lie down and sleep in the open air and cold wind. He was afraid that the other party was not really sleeping, but pretending to sleep and waiting for people.
“Oh! So that’s how it is!” Ling Long’s face was filled with realization, and her eyes were filled with admiration. “Master is the smartest person I’ve ever seen in the world!”
Xia qingchen smiled softly and waited in the teahouse for a while.
Several members of the snow listening tower sent over two spatial Nirvana artifacts. my Lord, there are a lot of potions for replenishing physical strength, mental energy, and star power, as well as all kinds of alchemy and weapon-making materials.
“Yes.” Xia qingchen checked and confirmed that it was the item he wanted. He then walked to the dock with his hands behind his back.
Many ships were berthed and no longer went out to sea. Only a few small boats were silently waiting for guests.
On one of the slightly old boats, a boatman in a straw Cape and bamboo hat was fishing with his back to them.
“Going out to sea?” Xia qingchen ignored the other small boats and headed straight to this old boat.
The boatman did not move and only stared at the bobber in the water.”Where to?”
“Glittering jewel Island.”
The boatman raised a finger,”ten billion Liang Yuan.”
“Sure.”
The boatman turned his head and revealed an old face. He smiled warmly, “”Young master, young lady, please board the ship.”
Xia qingchen and Linglong jumped onto the boat. The boatman immediately paddled and sailed away from the shore.
Linglong glanced at the large merchant ships in the vicinity and then at the small boat she was on. She couldn’t help but hold her cheeks with her small hands and look at Xia qingchen with a grumbling expression.
master, although you think I’m stupid, no matter how stupid I am, I know that we can’t reach glittering jewel Island on this small boat. “Why can’t we take the merchant ship? we’re taking this little broken boat,” Ling Long said.
Xia qingchen smiled. it’s because the owner of this ship is the only person who wasn’t moved when I killed the black-hearted shop owner.
The teahouse was right beside the pier. The commotion just now was not small, so the boatman on the pier could hear and notice it.
However, the boatman of this old boat did not move at all.
It would have been fine if he was deaf, but he was obviously not.
Ling Long immediately slapped the table and pointed at the boatman’s back with a righteous look. “嘚! You’re a good killer. I’m here, and you still dare to make a move?”
“Hahaha …” The boatman smiled and put down the oars in his hands. He turned around and looked at the two, “”I was still discovered by you, but so what?”