#904 - A different son of heaven
Wei Changtian didn't spend too long thinking about this question.
It wasn't that he had already figured it out, but that he didn't have a clue.
Who knows where that old beggar got his information from.
He didn't even know his name.
And that Child of Destiny, who knows who it is.
Shaking his head and standing up, Wei Changtian's expression couldn't be considered depressed at the moment.
After all, no matter what, he had obtained a lot of information tonight.
Not only did he finally find that mysterious person, but he also learned that he had at least two Children of Destiny under his command.
More importantly, according to the current situation, he was fully capable of competing with him.
“. ”
Walking to the window and opening the wooden window, he took out a piece of matching jade from his pocket.
This jade had been hot a quarter of an hour ago, but Wei Changtian didn't have time to pay attention to it at the time, so he didn't have time to respond until now.
As time passed, Wei Changtian, holding the matching jade, finally received news from Li Zimu.
The two assassins died just before confessing, and the cause of death is still unknown.
Of course, although Li Zimu and the people of the Nine Truths Sect didn't know why they died, Wei Changtian knew it very well.
Without a doubt, it must have been done by that faceless luck beast.
And this also revealed a little about the abilities of this Child of Destiny.
Before this, the only luck beast that could directly fight in a "virtual state" was Chu An's Zhulong. Others like Huanglong and Yingyu could only rely on specific artifacts to "transform from virtual to real" and thus have combat abilities.
Oh, and there was also a special one, Bai Youheng's Gu Diao.
Although Gu Diao couldn't directly cause damage in the "virtual state", it could bewitch people's minds.
And now it seems that the abilities of this faceless beast should be somewhat similar to Gu Diao.
Although it can't directly "take action" to kill people like Zhulong, it can achieve this goal through other means.
As for how exactly it does it...
After thinking for a moment, Wei Changtian decided to personally go to the courtyard to take a look at the deaths of the two assassins to see if he could analyze anything.
“Pa!”
With a wave of his hand, the candle went out in response.
Wei Changtian didn't hesitate, and after making up his mind, he pushed open the door and walked out of the guest room, preparing to go to the courtyard again.
And just as he walked out of the room, a plainly dressed scholar also happened to push open the door of the next room.
Huh? Where's Gu Pan'er?
Turning his head to look at the scholar, his gaze passed through the door and glanced at the pitch-black room.
Wei Changtian immediately noticed that Gu Pan'er was no longer living here, so he couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
But that's not right, didn't she say she wanted to redeem herself?
Smiling at the scholar, Wei Changtian quickly retracted his gaze and didn't continue to think about it.
Gu Pan'er's "farewell without saying goodbye" was not a big deal, and it had nothing to do with him, so of course he wouldn't waste his energy on such a question.
However, having said that, when Wei Changtian walked down the stairs to the front hall of the inn, he casually asked a waiter.
“Where is Miss Gu who lived in the room next to mine?”
“Ah, Young Master Wei.”
The waiter looked up and replied in a low voice: “Don't you know? Her room was robbed.”
“Robbed?”
Wei Changtian was stunned: “When did it happen?”
“This little one doesn't know, but according to Miss Gu, she was only out of the room when she had lunch today.”
The waiter sighed: “Alas, the shopkeeper said that she lost five thousand taels, which was originally the money Miss Gu planned to use to redeem herself.”
“I don't know if the government will take care of this matter...”
“. ”
The waiter was somewhat sympathetic to Gu Pan'er, and muttered endlessly.
On the other side, Wei Changtian frowned, and then asked:
“Then where has she gone now? Did she report to the authorities?”
“She was taken away by the madam of the original brothel.”
The waiter looked around, and mysteriously replied: “Young Master Wei, you and Miss Gu are good friends, you should know that she used to be a prostitute in Manxiang Tower.”
“Now that Manxiang Tower is gone, their chief manager has sold all the girls in the tower to another brothel.”
“If the silver hadn't been stolen, Miss Gu might have been able to take this opportunity to regain her freedom.”
“But now...”
“People are not stupid, how dare they leave her alone outside, of course they took her away immediately.”
I don't know where the waiter got so much "inside information" from, but in short, he said it with great certainty.
Wei Changtian roughly understood what had just happened after listening.
Good fellow, it really is quite a coincidence.
After complaining in his heart, Wei Changtian didn't doubt the authenticity of the whole thing, but he didn't say much, just nodded with a calm expression.
“Okay, I know.”
“Oh, by the way, do you know which brothel Miss Gu went to?”
“This little one doesn't know.”
“It doesn't matter...”
“. ”
After giving the waiter a few coins as a reward, he walked out of the inn.
Wei Changtian turned his head and glanced at a wooden window on the second floor, and then disappeared into the moonlight.
About two quarters of an hour later, Wei Changtian came to the courtyard again.
The four members of the Nine Truths Sect and Zhang San had been waiting for a long time, so as soon as he arrived, they immediately took him to the secret passage where Li Zimu had interrogated the two assassins.
Looking at the closed door of the secret room, Wei Changtian squatted down next to the two corpses and casually ordered:
“Let her out, she didn't kill them.”
“. Yes, Young Master.”
Looking at each other, the four members of the Nine Truths Sect didn't know why Wei Changtian had come to this conclusion so simply, but they still obeyed and immediately went to release the person.
At the same time, Wei Changtian carefully looked at the two corpses at his feet.
Perhaps in order to "protect the clues" as much as possible, the four members of the Nine Truths Sect didn't do much processing except dragging the corpses out of the secret room, so the two corpses still retained the extremely frightened expressions they had before their deaths.
However, Wei Changtian's gaze didn't stay on their faces for too long, he just glanced at them, and his gaze fell on the two shallow strangulation marks on their necks.
“What exactly happened, tell me again from the beginning.”
Without turning his head, Wei Changtian squatted on the ground and suddenly asked.
Li Zimu, who had already come out of the secret room and happened to walk behind him, immediately replied:
“Young Master, this servant didn't feel anything unusual at the time...”
“. ”
Soon, Li Zimu told all the details of what happened at that time in detail.
Wei Changtian didn't speak immediately, and after thinking for a while, he pointed to the two strangulation marks and asked again:
“Are you saying that these two marks appeared out of thin air at that time?”
“Yes, it's like there really was an invisible rope.”
Li Zimu replied softly: “And the deaths of the two people did look like they were strangled to death.”
“Strangled to death, Zhang San.”
Wei Changtian turned his head and asked Zhang San: “What do you think, if you want to strangle a second-rank expert to death, how deep would the marks left behind be?”
“This...”
Zhang San didn't expect Wei Changtian to suddenly ask him, so he couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
But he still quickly gave the answer based on his "rich" experience.
“Young Master, such shallow strangulation marks are not enough to kill even ordinary people, let alone second-rank experts.”
“Is that so?”
Wei Changtian narrowed his eyes.
“This time is a bit interesting.”
