"There’s no scent of demon fiends!"
Wei Fan watched as Su Guangwen’s nose twitched; he remembered that in their introduction, this guy mentioned his nose was quite keen.
"No, there’s a faint scent of blood!"
He sniffed around one spot after another, finally making a discovery in Jiang Feng’s backyard.
Eventually, he focused his gaze on a stone slab on the ground.
"The blood scent is coming from here. Although it’s been cleaned, they missed something!"
Su Guangwen scratched the ground, and finally stood up with a rice-sized piece of dried meat from the stone slab’s crevice.
Wei Fan was amazed; the people from the Demon Suppression Bureau indeed have some skills.
It seemed that Su Guangwen once said his abilities were due to practicing martial arts that enhanced his sense of smell.
"It’s human flesh, no doubt about it!"
Everyone grew serious. Although it’s just a small fragment of flesh, it’s almost certain that a crime happened here.
As for whether it involves Jiang Feng, it’s uncertain for now!
"There’s something wrong in this village, everyone be careful!"
Li Fengyi reminded them, and they jumped out of the courtyard wall, finding that the old man from earlier was still waiting there.
Li Fengyi stepped forward and asked, "Old man, has anyone gone missing in the village recently?"
The old man thought for a moment and replied, "Does going missing in the mountains count?"
Li Fengyi nodded.
"In that case, there have been three lately, gone hunting up in the mountains and never returned, no way to find them.
Why? Is there a problem, sir? White Cloud Village depends on the mountains for livelihood; everyone lives by hunting, and this situation happens a few times every year!"
Li Fengyi frowned again; frequent incidents like this made it hard to connect them to Jiang Feng’s case.
"Old man, is there someone named Wei Hongying in your village?"
Li Fengyi suddenly recalled Wei Hongying.
If Wei Hongying had retired here, she might know something.
Upon hearing the name Wei Hongying, the old man showed a surprised expression: "Oh? You know Lady Wei too, since she moved to our village, she’s helped many people, several times when villagers went missing, she was the one who went to find them back."
"Please, old man, lead us to Wei Hongying!"
Under the old man’s guidance, Wei Fan and the others quickly reached the end of the village and saw the female knight Wei Hongying.
A few wooden houses, a courtyard surrounded by a fence, filled with many flowers and plants, and a few tree stumps made into stools.
The once famous female knight in Su City, Wei Hongying, was dressed as a farmwoman, flipping herbs in the courtyard.
Seeing Wei Fan and others in their Demon Suppression Bureau attire, she politely invited them into the courtyard and brewed some tea.
Wei Fan did not drink Wei Hongying’s tea, noticing that Li Fengyi and the others didn’t touch theirs either.
Su Xuerong originally wanted to drink but was pulled back by Su Guangwen, reluctantly giving up.
"Seems like Lady Wei’s life after retirement is very peaceful!"
Li Fengyi looked at Wei Hongying before him, feeling somewhat relieved.
Why is Wei Hongying admired by many women in Su City? Because her first half of life was magnificent, she was a renowned female knight, and later she met her beloved man and retired for love.
In the eyes of Su City’s ladies, Wei Hongying was as perfect as a character from a storybook, and she herself was an extremely beautiful and elegant woman.
Wei Hongying showed a contented expression: "Even if it’s plain living, as long as there’s a beloved person beside, life is enough."
Su Xuerong nodded vigorously: "Lady Wei said it well, if one day I find my beloved, I would also be willing to leave everything and retire with him."
Huff...
This statement made the brotherly protective Su Guangwen somewhat intolerable.
Ning Xuan casually remarked, "If you retire with a man, your brother would kill him!"
Li Fengyi and Peng Mingjie couldn’t help but chuckle, as Su Guangwen glared fiercely at Ning Xuan.
Wei Hongying took a sip of tea, the siblings’ reaction making her smile gently: "You all aren’t drinking my tea, afraid there’s an issue? I understand, the Demon Suppression Bureau typically doesn’t trust outsiders.
You’re here, not because you care about my life after retirement, right? Please, speak directly, I need to prepare dinner for my husband later."
Li Fengyi was about to speak, but suddenly heard Wei Fan’s voice: "Prepare dinner for your husband? Aren’t we the dinner you’re preparing for your husband? You can call him out to eat now."
With that, the atmosphere seemed to freeze.
Li Fengyi and the others all turned to look at Wei Fan, who kept his gaze fixed on Wei Hongying’s face, which grew somewhat stiff.
From the corner of his eye, two lines of large words appeared on the panel:
[Wei Hongying: Acupoint Opening Fifth Layer, husband a demon, kills to feed husband]
[Kill her, can gain 50 years of power]