LWDC Chapter 150

Chapter 150: The Place He Rushed To

Ning Fei left with the devilish curse of “one death per week” and disappeared into the night, riding the wind. No one in the palace could catch up.

No matter how good Duan Yunhong’s physical skills were, he could only chase him to the palace gates. Before he could even say “Wait,” Ning Fei’s figure had vanished. Duan Yunhong stood silently at the entrance for a while, until the night wind seemed to penetrate his clothes and seep into his skin, before he came back to his senses.

Then, he quickly went down the steps, called for a carriage, and left, completely forgetting about the palace, the banquet, and the quasi-saint.

The palace was already in chaos. The scene was a mess, and people were even more distraught. The queen’s birthday had turned into such an ending, and everyone was angry, suspicious, and uneasy. The royal family, the church, and other nobles all cursed Ning Fei on the surface, certain that his words were just a scare tactic. But secretly, everyone was panicking. Especially Mia’er, who had just provoked Ning Fei face to face, and did not have the status and composure of a clergyman, was now pale.

“Get up! Lying on the ground like this, what does it look like? Do you want to surrender to the devil?!”

The clergyman who had risen first sternly rebuked Mia’er, then looked at the crowd, his face cold, and shouted loudly: “Don’t believe the devil’s words, this is all the devil’s trick to bewitch people. His goal is to make people distrust each other and kill each other! Think about it, if someone’s name really appeared on the square, it would only bring endless resentment, wouldn’t it?”

Another clergyman looked at the king: “Your Majesty, we will immediately send people to exorcise the devil. There is no need to worry, let alone believe the devil’s words.”

With these two clergymen speaking (performing), the panic on the nobles’ faces finally subsided a little.

“Okay, thank you for your efforts, and thank you for your contributions to peace. We await your good news.” The king was frantically tidying up his hair and clothes, so anxious that he used his own hands, but he still had to maintain a calm expression for the sake of appearances. “But he can manipulate the wind like that. Does the church have any good way to suppress him?”

“He only borrowed the power of the devil to have such inhuman and terrifying abilities. But devils fear light. Several people in the church have received the favor of the God of Light and are naturally gifted with light magic. As long as the church sends these people, that civilian possessed by the devil will have nowhere to hide!” The clergyman vowed, “Your Majesty, the devil’s followers are creatures that eat people and drink blood. If the devil is not exorcised in time, I am afraid it will cause greater disasters in the country. Please lend the church the heavy crossbowmen to help us!”

“…Okay, in my name, lend twenty heavy crossbowmen to the church.” The king emphasized, “It must be quick! This devil despises the royal family and should be executed according to the law. We must not let him really kill someone after seven days!”

The clergyman naturally agreed, and then left the scene with the people from the church. Mia’er’s legs were still weak, and he was half-carried and half-dragged away from the banquet by the church’s attendants. Only now did he realize that Earl Andrew was long gone.

The king watched the church’s party leave menacingly, but he was actually hesitant in his heart.

Not to mention the king, almost all the nobles were thinking: I haven’t offended that person, I don’t even know him, he shouldn’t come to kill me the first time, right?

— Besides, the church is sending heavy troops to exorcise the devil, they should be able to defend against him, right…

— If it really doesn’t work, I’ll close the doors and windows at home and find a few more guards to protect me.

Various thoughts flowed through the minds of the powerful. Most people still took the royal family as their backbone, or simply didn’t want to lose face, and stubbornly stayed at the banquet instead of going home to hide.

At this moment, Duke Bartley, whose leg had been knocked and he couldn’t stand, finally slowly got up with the support of his attendants. He looked around and realized that his own person was also missing.

Where’s Cyrus?

Cyrus wanted to inform Ning Fei, and took the chance to run away while his father wasn’t paying attention.

Duan Yunhong arrived at Ning Fei’s house even earlier than him.

But no matter how fast his carriage was, he still couldn’t catch up with Ning Fei, who was riding the wind. When Duan Yunhong’s carriage stopped in front of Ning Fei’s house, the door was wide open. Ning Fei himself was nowhere to be seen, but several children were running around, moving things from inside to the outside.

A servant told Duan Yunhong that the short-haired “little boy” who looked to be about ten years old was Ning Fei’s servant – Shalai.

Duan Yunhong immediately noticed a purple velvet box in Shalai’s hand, which was the box that contained the gift for Ning Fei. The man jumped out of the carriage and grabbed the tomboy: “Stealing things from others?”

Shalai instinctively struggled, but no matter how strong she was, she was just a child from the commoner’s street. She immediately hugged the box warily and glared at Duan Yunhong: “What stealing things, this is mine. What do you want to do?!”

“Bullshit. This is what I gave to Ning Fei. A little thief is stealing from him?” Duan Yunhong glanced at the other teenagers who wanted to take the opportunity to act, and realized something. “Ning Fei isn’t here?”

Shalai struggled and said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, let go of me!”

The other teenagers wanted to come up and snatch him, but the Earl’s guards drew their swords. Duan Yunhong lifted Shalai up even higher: “I am not Ning Fei’s enemy, and I am too lazy to deal with you. Answer the question honestly – has he already run away?”

“I don’t know!” Shalai still gave the same answer, “Anything in this house can be taken, whoever gets it gets it!”

Duan Yunhong took off the jeweled brooch from his chest and stuffed it into her arms: “He told you to take it? Do you know where he’s hiding?”

Shalai’s eyes rolled, and she only answered half of the question: “He’s gone, and told me to leave quickly, otherwise it will bring disaster. Anyway, he doesn’t want anything in his house, so I’ll just take some.”

“He’s right. Someone will definitely come to hunt him down soon. If you stay here greedy for money, it’s normal for you to be implicated.” Duan Yunhong said coldly, “Can you contact him? Tell him to find ‘someone surnamed Duan’.”

Shalai didn’t understand “someone surnamed Duan,” but still replied: “I really don’t know where he went. If I see him, I’ll tell you. But I’ll only say this one sentence, I don’t care what his reaction is.”

“I don’t expect you to have much weight in his eyes.” Duan Yunhong scoffed, and threw her back to the ground, “Run away. You are Ning Fei’s servant. If they can’t find Ning Fei, they will find you, torture you, and make you wish you were dead.”

Seeing that he really didn’t seem to be here for revenge, Shalai curiously asked: “What exactly did Ning Fei do? He just came back in a hurry and didn’t take anything with him. Has he offended some noble or church person again?”

“‘Again’?” Duan Yunhong remembered what Ning Fei had said about killing two church members who had come to loot and kill, and asked, “Do people often come for revenge?”

“It’s happened before, but they were just some small gangsters.” Shalai replied, “This time it’s not small gangsters?”

“Tch, it has nothing to do with you, get lost.” Duan Yunhong was too lazy to answer. He glanced at the box in Shalai’s arms again, and couldn’t help but ask two more questions: “Did you see him take anything away? Did he take the gift from Earl Andrew?”

“Huh? What Andrew?” Shalai was confused. She had become so lazy in helping Ning Fei receive gifts that she didn’t remember who sent them at all, let alone distinguish what the sources of Ning Fei’s things were.

“Tsk, get lost.” Duan Yunhong realized that he couldn’t count on this little kid at all, turned his head and went back to the carriage.

Shalai looked at the man, who was obviously a noble, who suddenly appeared and suddenly returned to the carriage, with a puzzled expression. But she really didn’t have much time left, and immediately ran to a small cart not far away, piled the things on the cart, and continued to run back and forth. The other teenagers with her were also carrying things in the same way, and two were watching next to the cart. Obviously, they were planning to take more before leaving together.

This movement quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding residents. They opened their doors to observe the situation, and soon joined the “zero-dollar purchase” trip. The residents asked Shalai what happened, and where the Ning doctor who lived here went, but they didn’t stop their hands, and kept stuffing things that looked valuable into their clothes. Shalai didn’t answer, just quickened her pace and carried things back and forth. Besides Ning Fei, she knew best what was most valuable in this house. Until the cart was full and piled high, the teenagers and Shalai carried their things together and pushed the cart away.

During this period, Cyrus also came. But he hurriedly jumped out of the carriage, squeezed into the crowd of commoners and rushed into Ning Fei’s house. After confirming that Ning Fei was not there, he quickly left.

Only Duan Yunhong’s carriage remained parked in the shadows of the street not far away.

It turned out that the church was loud in their calls, but their actions were actually quite slow. Almost three hours had passed since Duan Yunhong arrived here, and it was already late at night, when the demon-exorcising expedition team finally arrived late.

There were so many people who came that they filled the street, and you couldn’t see the end of them at a glance. And although it was a team from the church, they didn’t have the slightest thought for the people who were resting. The sound of iron hooves, carriages, and footsteps spread throughout the commoner’s street, making it impossible for the residents to sleep, and they all peeked out of the windows and door cracks. By the moonlight, the team wearing armor and carrying sharp blades walked through the streets, and the atmosphere of solemnity and killing was so strong that people dared not speak.

However, they could only find an empty house.

Not to mention that Ning Fei wasn’t there, Ning Fei’s house was almost empty. Shalai and the others had already left, leaving only some other neighbors who didn’t know what was going on to frantically empty the house. The people from the church drove these people away, rudely throwing them out the door, and then wanted to enter the house to find some clues about Ning Fei, but naturally they couldn’t find anything useful.

The demon-exorcising team began to break into nearby houses again, asking and even searching without permission to see if Ning Fei was hiding inside. After getting nothing, a knight-like person loudly read out a document in front of Ning Fei’s house. The general idea was that Ning Fei was possessed by a demon, and was now completely inhuman and would kill people everywhere; anyone who saw him had the obligation to capture, kill, and report him to the church, and anyone who helped him was bewitched by the demon and would also be purified by the church.

Then, the church piled the remaining wooden furniture, clothing, cloth, and other things in the house onto the street and set them on fire, also calling it “purifying the aura left by the demon.”

The raging fire illuminated the street. This was a warning, and also a deterrent.

The church was telling people that whoever dared to shelter or help Ning Fei would end up like this old furniture.

However, the church people did not wait for the fire to burn out. While the fire had not diminished, they evacuated. These people did not care at all whether the fire would be successfully extinguished afterward, or whether it would affect other places on the commoner’s street. They said that Ning Fei was a demon, but it was they who made the commoner’s street restless in the middle of the night and even threatened it with fire.

Not far away, Earl Andrew’s carriage was still parked in the darkness. Duan Yunhong looked at the fire that was higher than the roof, and sneered silently.

“Let’s go.”

*

The carriage drove back to Earl Andrew’s castle, where the butler came to greet him. Duan Yunhong was about to order something about Ning Fei when he heard the butler report that Mia’er had sent someone to invite Earl Andrew to the church’s manor for a meeting.

You could tell with your toes what that stupid thing wanted to do.

Duan Yunhong was even too lazy to ask more questions, and only glanced at the attendant from the church before walking past him into the depths of the castle.

“I’m not going.”