Chapter 138
He went back to his room and changed clothes . After that, he went to the main area of the inn . He felt burdened by it all . Apart from the members of the Far Ink Professional Organization, there were no other customers .
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The other customers had been killed the day before . There was noone left except for them .
Mu Yi entered and all the armed escorts stood up as a sign of respect . They looked at Mu Yi with admiration . They would have all died without Mu Yi .
“Hello, Master,” said Uncle Cai .
“Are you all alright?” asked Mu Yi .
“We’re all fine . Thank you very much, Master,” said Uncle Cai .
“What do you intend to do now?” asked Mu Yi .
He glanced at the crowd . Mo Ruyan hadn’t shown up yet so he spoke to Uncle Cai .
“We’re only a few li away from Luoyang . We want to go to Luoyang and deliver the goods . We’ll go back to Qingjiang Prefecture after,” said Uncle Cai . “Master, aren’t you coming to Luoyang with us?”
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He looked at Mu Yi . Even though Mu Yi hadn’t said anything, he guessed that something had changed .
“No . I already obtained what I came here for . Luoyang is of no importance to me,” said Mu Yi .
He wanted to leave this place . He initially wanted to go to Luoyang because of the Qu Mortuary . The Qu Mortuary wasn’t even in the city of Luoyang . Besides, when he had fought against Qu Yang, he had found out the man was stronger than he had expected .
He also knew that he couldn’t possibly obtain information about Li the Cripple from Qu Yang . Uncle Cai didn’t ask Mu Yi about his reasons . He wasn’t really interested in that . He was just going to miss Mu Yi .
Of course, he knew that all good things had to come to an end . Mu Yi was a client of the Far Ink Professional Organization . He couldn’t stay with them forever . He had to leave at some point . Initially, they had thought he’d leave after arriving in Luoyang but it was only a bit earlier than expected .
“Since it’s that way, we wish you much success . Before you leave, we need to give you something,” said Uncle Cai .
“What?” Mu Yi said in confusion .
Two armed escorts entered the room with an old man who had his arms tied behind his back . It was the old man who could summon insects . During the battle, Mu Yi had thrown two evil spirit slaying charms at him . He had stopped paying attention to him soon after .
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He hadn’t thought he’d survive . However, he had and they had captured him . Another armed escort arrived . He was holding two boxes .
“We wanted to kill him, but after we captured him . He kept insisting that he wanted to see you . We didn’t dare take any initiative so we captured him . We thought we’d let you decide what to do with him,” said Uncle Cai .
“Ah . It’s alright to kill him,” said Mu Yi .
The old man was evil . He had probably killed the owner of the inn . Besides, he had also killed some of the armed escorts . Mu Yi didn’t feel like being lenient when it came to such people .
“Master, no . Please spare my life . I will tell you Qu Yang’s secrets . I know Li the Cripple . Please don’t kill me,” said the old man .
He was panic-stricken and his voice cracked . His words still managed to draw Mu Yi’s attention . Mu Yi made a gesture with his hand to tell the armed escorts to stop . He looked at the old man .
“You know Li the Cripple? If you lie to me, I will find someone who will make mincemeat of you . I’ll keep your soul sealed and make you suffer for dozens of years . ”
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“No, no . I wouldn’t dare lie to you, my Lord . I swear I am telling the truth,” said the old man .
He was terrified . Mu Yi had scared him even more with the threat against his soul . It wasn’t a threat ordinary people could make, but Mu Yi could . After all, Taoist priests were known to fight against ghosts and capture ghosts’ souls . It seemed that the old man and Qu Yang knew each other so he probably knew a lot of things about him .
“Alright, then tell me what you know about Qu Yang and Li the Cripple,” said Mu Yi .
“Alright . Qu Yang…” the man started .
“Wait . Let us leave,” said Uncle Cai .
The escorts dispersed and Uncle Cai smiled apologetically before leaving Mu Yi and the old man alone in the room . Uncle Cai had been traveling half of his life . He knew it was better not to listen to certain people’s conversations . He knew that if you knew too much, someone would want to kill you .
He didn’t know why Mu Yi wanted to come to Luoyang . He wasn’t interested in finding out . He wasn’t interested in Qu Yang either .
“They don’t have balls and they still travel the world…” muttered the old man .
Mu Yi gave him a stern look . It made the old man tense up .
“Master, after I tell you about Qu Yang, will you release me?” he asked .
“Speak first,” said Mu Yi coldly .
He didn’t intend to let him off, but he couldn’t tell him . When the old man heard Mu Yi, his heart pounded . He knew that Mu Yi had the situation under control . He could compete with Qu Yang . He could kill him like a tiny little insect . Therefore, he couldn’t afford to play games with Mu Yi .
He quickly started to tell what he knew about Qu Yang . Most people didn’t know who Qu Yang was but most of them knew of the Qu Mortuary . They were even scared of the Qu Mortuary . They held an important position in the region .
All of this was due to the nature of their business . It was all related to corpses . Qu Mortuary raised corpses .
There were two schools in the industry, those who captured corpses and those who raised them . They were similar and intrinsically connected . People described the Qu Mortuary as a place where the living dead were everywhere . They considered Qu Yang as someone utterly evil and morally wrong . He was guilty of unpardonable evil, but he led a good life .
Many people attacked the Qu Mortuary, but very often, they became part of their army of living dead . As for Li the Cripple, he was a corpse catcher . The relationship he had with Qu Yang was complicated but one thing was sure, they hated each other .
Bei Ming’s family name was Li too . That fact seemed rather important .