Holder of Chaos City.
Ye Zichen.
There was no longer anything to hide for the surrounding villages.
Su Hu understood this very well.
Ye Zichen sat in the guest room of the city lord's manor and silently waited for Su Hu's arrival.
Approximately four hours later …
The village head, Su Hu, entered the room.
"Future brother."
"Sit."
Ye Zichen pointed at the seat in front of him.
Su Hu subconsciously glanced at Ye Zichen. For some reason, even though Ye Zichen didn't say anything, he had a bad feeling.
Ye Zichen silently sat down.
Since Ye Zichen didn't say anything, Su Hu didn't dare to ask.
The atmosphere in the guest room dropped. The deathly silence caused Su Hu to be unable to breathe.
"Future brother? I wonder if future brother has come to find me … "
"I want to know your village's progress in finding the fire monster," Ye Zichen looked up into Su Hu's eyes. After Su Hu spoke, Ye Zichen looked up into Su Hu's eyes. "Your village has been in charge of this matter. It has already been more than two months. How is your search going?"
"Uhm …"
Su Hu didn't know how to reply.
At the beginning, he did use a lot of power to search for the fire elemental commander.
The main reason was because he felt uneasy.
The existence of the fire elemental commander made him afraid that his village would be taken away again. He had to put an end to this. After searching for a month without any results or any progress, he started to gradually lose interest in the existence of the fire elemental commander.
More importantly …
That month, even until now, there were no traces of the fire elemental commander around his village.
Thus, he didn't search anymore.
"Future brother, to be honest, I already gave up on searching for him a month ago," Su Hu hesitated for a moment, then told Ye Zichen the truth.
"I guessed it."
Ye Zichen wasn't surprised by Su Hu's answer. He nodded and took a sip of tea.
This tea was unique to the Second Universe …
At least, Ye Zichen had never seen it in the First Universe.
"You didn't get any results after so long. If you keep searching, then I'm starting to doubt your efficiency," Ye Zichen put down the teacup and nodded. "Why did you give up halfway?"
"Uhm … I suspect that he's already dead?"
Su Hu crossed his hands and placed them on the table with a rather nervous expression.
He didn't know why he was acting like this. In terms of age, he was clearly much older than Ye Zichen. What's more, he was the village head of a village, so he could treat everyone with confidence.
Unfortunately …
In front of Ye Zichen, he felt as if he were sitting on pins and needles.
Could it be that she was afraid of the power behind Ye Zichen?
Chaos City had been developing very quickly in the past few months, and it had almost become the leader of the city. Even so, as the village chief, he shouldn't be acting like this.
I'm not his subordinate.
His village did not become a vassal either.
"He's dead?" Ye Zichen squinted his eyes and smiled. "Why would you think that?"
"It's like this …"
Hearing that, Su Hu told Ye Zichen the results of his investigation for the past month in full detail without hiding anything.
After everything had been explained clearly …
Only then did he look up into Ye Zichen's eyes.
"That's why I think he's dead."
"If you don't find him, then he's dead. Do you know that if he's alive, you want to see him; if he's dead, you want to see his corpse?" Ye Zichen's voice was low. "Let's not talk about that. Since you think he's dead, why didn't you tell me? If I didn't come looking for you, would you have never told me?"
"About that …"
Su Hu was speechless. In truth, he hadn't said anything because he didn't think there was a need.
As long as the village didn't find him …
Ye Zichen's people wouldn't go and kill him.
In that case, it wouldn't make much of a difference whether he told them or not. What's more, there were many matters in the village that required him, the village chief, to personally attend to.
Thus, he forgot about it.
"Why did you lie to me?" Ye Zichen suddenly asked.
The instant he heard this question, Su Hu shot up from his chair.
"Brother Future, what are you saying?"
"When did I lie to you?"
"You didn't say anything about my guess about the fire monster's death. I just forgot about it. That's not really lying."
"You know that's not what I'm talking about," said Ye Zichen.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Su Hu frowned. "I have a clear conscience, Brother Future."
"Alright!"
Ye Zichen nodded solemnly.
"Since you have a clear conscience, then I'll ask you properly. Why did you tell me that your village doesn't have any Star Level experts? Don't forget, I'm here. How could I not know whether your village has any or not? "
"I …"
"Also, why did you tell me that the fire monster clearly had four guards, but you said there were only three? My subordinates clearly told me that he has four Star Level subordinates. "
"Star Level?!"
Suddenly, Su Hu's eyebrows sank.
"Brother Future, the subordinates I'm talking about are not Star Level!"
"Not Star Level?" Ye Zichen was stunned.
"Yeah, I don't know what level they are, but they are definitely stronger than Star Level," Su Hu frowned. "Our village doesn't have any Star Level experts, and I can guarantee that I'm not lying. That's because those Star Level experts are all dead. "
"What happened?"
Ye Zichen sensed that something was wrong and frowned.
He frowned and said, "When the fire monster was still in my village, I asked a few seniors to assassinate him. I was nearby at that time. When a few Star realm seniors from our village tried to assassinate him, three guards appeared beside him and killed the Star realm seniors with one strike. " Su Hu's expression showed a hint of pain, perhaps regret. If it wasn't for his request, the three seniors wouldn't have died.
"Killed a Star Level in one strike? How many levels were they in? "
"One of them was already at the fifth level."
"…"
If that's the case, then the one who killed them had to be at least a Star Level or above.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"I thought Brother Future knew everything," Su Hu said. "Brother Future, please believe me. I've never lied to you. If I've lied to you, then I'll never be able to improve my cultivation again."
Su Hu's expression was sincere …
Ye Zichen could tell from Su Hu's gaze that he had indeed misunderstood him.
But if what he said was true, and the fire elemental commander had Star Level guards, then why didn't he send those people to capture me, Bai Se, or Qingyu …
"Brother Future, you came to find me for this?" Su Hu asked.
"Sort of," Ye Zichen nodded. "Actually, I have some bad news for you."
"What news?"
"The fire monster is still alive," Ye Zichen said. "Not only is it alive, it even injured Qing Hui. It sent me a letter, signed by Huo Xie."
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