255: Chapter 255: Mingwang Pavilion 255: Chapter 255: Mingwang Pavilion “Three mean and sinister guys came to the village, looking all weird.
They were asking about you.
I thought they were up to no good, spoke a couple words to them, and they got violent.
The villagers who tried to reason with them got beaten!”
“Aunt Yun, calm down and tell me, what did they look like?”
Ning Fan’s eyes gleamed fiercely, his demeanor growing colder, a chilling aura emanating from him.
“Just three of them, including a woman, all looking odd, as if they had been soldiers and killed people.
The village dogs kept barking at them, as if they were really scared of them!”
Aunt Yun briefly described these three people.
“Wuu wuu wuu, Ning Fan, what on Earth is going on?”
Aunt Yun’s crying could be heard again through the phone, and a daunting cold light flashed in Ning Fan’s eyes.
“Aunt Yun, rest assured, I will take care of it, don’t worry!”
After comforting her for a few moments, and once Aunt Yun’s emotions had stabilized a bit, he hung up the phone.
Standing at the doorway, Ning Fan was deep in thought.
Three people, very peculiar looking.
According to Aunt Yun, not ordinary folks, with a murderous vibe, like they had killed before.
As for whether they were soldiers, Ning Fan wasn’t sure, but he thought it very likely that these three were assassins or something of the sort.
Speaking of assassins, the only recent contacts Ning Fan had were with the Yun Ci Guild and Mingwang Pavilion.
At the Yun Ci Guild, Ouyang Feifei had helped him a few times, and Ning Fan had had no conflicts with them; it probably wasn’t them.
That left the most likely option being people from the Mingwang Pavilion.
Previously, because of the Nine Souls Jade, the deputy master of Mingwang Pavilion, Dikas, had died at Ning Fan’s hands.
These three inquiring about him could very well be from the Mingwang Pavilion.
“Just would not go away…” Ning Fan squinted, taking this seriously once he figured these three might be from the Mingwang Pavilion.
They had already found their way to his village, which meant these three had also investigated close to Ning Fan.
This time was the village, next time, who knows where they would turn up!
“Dikas…” Ning Fan remembered this dead man, his expression suddenly changed, “Not good, Lan Kexin is in danger!”
The only other person who had contact with Dikas that day, besides Ning Fan, was Lan Kexin.
Initially, that guy had thought about making a move on Lan Kexin.
Since it was people from the Mingwang Pavilion, they could very likely track down Lan Kexin.
Realizing Lan Kexin might be targeted by people from Mingwang Pavilion, Ning Fan hastily returned to the villa, ignoring the reactions of the three women, left a word, and hurried off.
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As the sun set in the west, the sky gradually darkened, and Lan Kexin parked her car and walked into the residential area.
Along the entire road, the streetlights were dimmed, the surroundings deathly silent, no one around but Lan Kexin.
Suddenly, a chilly wind started without warning, causing Lan Kexin to stop in her tracks.
“Hehe, this little lady isn’t half bad!”
A voice came from behind Lan Kexin, she instinctively turned around to look, but saw no one.
However, when she turned her head back again, Lan Kexin’s face turned pale, and she gasped, stepping back several paces in fright.
Somehow, a man with half a face and one eye was now standing in front of Lan Kexin, his grotesque face wearing a sinister smile.
“Dulong 3, are you interested in her?”
An unusually distinct voice drifted on the cold wind, coming from Lan Kexin’s lower right side.
“Indeed, she has a pretty face!”
This time it came from the left, a woman’s voice, ominous and chilling, like a wandering ghost out to claim lives.
To Lan Kexin’s left and right, stood a man and a woman respectively.
The man was a dwarf, short like a monkey, with an aged face and eyes narrowed to slits.
From those slits shone a sinister gaze.
The woman, too, had an unusual appearance, tall, rivalling a robust adult male in stature, yet her face was that of a little girl.
She looked harmless, but her eyes were dangerously sharp.
“Tell us, who killed Dikas?”
The woman spoke, her voice eerily unfitting for her childlike face, as a chilling breeze seemed to sweep through the surroundings.
The trio were dressed in black, each looking more bizarre than the last, clearly not ordinary people, an unsettling stench of blood faintly emanating from them.
Lan Kexin’s eyes widened in fear, her face deathly pale.
At this moment, she dared not breathe heavily, let alone look at the eerie trio beside her.
“The person you’re asking about, I have no idea!”
Lan Kexin was terrified by these strange three, who Dikas was she did not know.
The man known as Solo Dragon Three, who had half a face and one eye, began to smile sinisterly.
He glanced at the woman with the little girl’s face.
“Oh, such a pretty face, it would be a pity if it were to be ruined!”
The strange woman somehow produced a sharp knife from nowhere.
The cold blade pressed against Lan Kexin’s cheek, sending shivers of cold straight through to her heart, fear clearly reflected in her eyes.
“I really don’t know anything, you’ve got the wrong person!”
Lan Kexin pleaded desperately, her pale face looking pitiful.
But the eyes of the three strangers only grew colder.
They had come from Mingwang Pavilion, specifically to investigate who killed the assistant Pavilion Master, Dikas.
The half-faced, one-eyed man who resembled a ghoul was called Solo Dragon Three, and the dwarf was named Ams Strange.
Lastly, the woman who now had her knife pressed against Lan Kexin’s flawless face was Poseimi, tall and with a benign childlike face, a mismatched sight and voice like that of a female ghost.
“Not knowing won’t do, for the sake of your pretty face, you really should think harder!”
Poseimi said coldly, her gloved hand tenderly caressing Lan Kexin’s face as though she was valuing a precious object.
They found Lan Kexin, but only after various checks did they pinpoint her.
Now with Lan Kexin constantly saying she knew nothing, how could they possibly believe her?
Moreover, they weren’t just investigating who killed Dikas, but also the Nine Souls Jade that Dikas possessed.
Lan Kexin kept shaking her head, seemingly denying any knowledge as the expression of the three beside her grew uglier.
“Remember that private estate party that night?” Poseimi’s giggling voice rose by her ear, prompting her with those words.
At first, Lan Kexin was utterly confused, but after a second, her eyes widened as she seemed to recall something.
She remembered the night’s events clearly, though there were parts she didn’t know, her wit allowed her to make some guesses.
“I, I… I really don’t know anything!”