Chapter 19 (1/2)
Ice Fantasy Chapter 19 – The Real Feng Huang
When I woke up, I was still at the main hall and people around me started waking up as well. Huang Tuo was taking care of those who were poisoned and the strangest thing was – Chao Ya was also beside him. Yue Shen had already come back and she was standing at one corner of the hall, not saying a word.
I was about to ask Huang Tuo what happened, he gave me a look, telling me not to speak. I looked at his expression and felt that everything has started to become more and more unpredictable.
Yue Shen walked over and knelt before me. “My king, I’m sorry for not protecting you.”
“Yue Shen, I’m glad that you are fine. Did you manage to get that person?” I said.
“No. I kept chasing until I found the murderous aura getting weaker and weaker then I realized someone must have tricked me to get out of the inn. By the time I came back, you were already unconscious.”
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The next few days were snowing very heavily and the atmosphere in the inn was very depressed because people kept dying. Sometimes I could even hear the souls of the dears singing in the sky; those kind of despair, fear, destiny, betrayal, a.s.sa.s.sination, warm, blood, cherry blossoms and all other illusions were covering the black land together with the snow.
I had already gotten sick of the dark and heavy feeling that death brought and that feeling was so suffocating and fearful. But death didn’t stop happening in the inn. And this time the person, who died l, was actually Pian Feng.
It was twelve in the noon when Pian Feng died. When we heard Pian Feng’s scream, Huang Tuo was in my room and then we rushed out at the same time. Just when we were outside his door, Hua Xiao had also rushed down from Qian Cao Tang. “I heard…” She panted.
She didn’t complete her sentence because she had already seen the solemn look on Huang Tuo’s face and I believed I have the same look like him as well. But when we pushed Pian Feng’s door open, we found that the door was locked and it was locked from inside.
“The killer is still inside.” Huang Tuo said, looking at me.
Then I saw Hua Xiao staggered a few steps back. “You may want to step behind.” I turned to tell her.
And then Huang Tuo summoned a defensive enchantment that enveloped the two of us in it. When we tried breaking the door open, there wasn’t any response inside. I have already prepared to take the attack but the room was as quiet as a graveyard. In actual fact it was already a grave. Pian Feng was lying on the floor, his face looked twisted and frightened, just like the expression on Yi Zhao’s face when she got murdered.
Because Pian Feng’s room was right at the corner, there wasn’t any window and the door was the only exit. Obviously, the killer was still inside of the room.
“My king, let’s go find people.” Huang Tuo told me suddenly and turned to Hua Xiao. “You stay here and guard the exit so that the killer cannot leave the room.”
With that Huang Tuo pulled me out of the room, I wanted to ask him why did he leave Hua Xiao alone in the room but he showed him a weird hand sign when he pulled me out of the room and then I knew what was his intention. Hence I left the room with him. But when we were at the corridor, he stopped walking all of a sudden and he told me to watch silently.
From that angle, I could only see Hua Xiao’s upper body and her lower body was blocked by the fences. But we could still see her walking over, opening the room door and she has this creepy and mysterious smile on her face, but n.o.body walked out of the room. But when Hua Xiao turned her head over to look at the far end of the corridor, it seemed like someone had already come out of the room and disappeared around the corner of the corridor. I turned to look at Huang Tuo; his expression was as cold and firm as before. For that moment, I suddenly remembered a lot of things.
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The wine of this inn was pretty famous and Shang Lie was someone who loved enjoyment, this was why he loved holding banquets at the main hall. Of course the waiter loved entertaining such customer so everytime when he served the dishes, his smile would be exceptional happy. No one would be angry over the fact of getting richer.
Huang Tuo, Yue Shen and I were sitting at one table; Ya Zhao, Yu Po and Shang Lie on another table and Hua Xiao has yet to arrive.
Huang Tuo drank a cup of wine and turned to Shang Lie. “I can tell you who is Feng Huang now.”
Then I saw the cup dropped to the floor from Shang Lie’s hand, that s.h.i.+ny porcelain cup was shuttered into pieces and the wine was spilled all over the floor. Ya Zhao and Yu Po’s faces darkened as well.
“Who is Feng Huang?” Sheng Lie asked.
Huang Tuo activated his protection enchantment; Yue Shen’s moonlight elongated into a light saber and I have already summoned all my spiritual power with countless of icicles circling around me; Chao Ya’s music had started to get sharper and countless of white b.u.t.terflies kept flying out from the chords, filling the entire hall.
The atmosphere has become exceptionally intense, wind kept swirling within the room and everyone’s hair and robe were fluttering crazily in the wind. The light in the hall was flicking non-stop, even the floor was shaking because everyone was gathering spiritual power respectively. Shang Lie and gang had already known that a major war was going to start, so they curled their ring fingers up and summoned their respective weapons. Ya Zhao’s one was a narrow glowing purple ice sword; Yu Po’s one was an ever-changing three-spines sword; Tong Xie’s one was a icy blue summoning stuff and Shang Lie’s weapon was a fire bow, the red bow and arrows were the forbidden weapon in the legend of the Ice Tribe.
The waiter was too scared to say anything, he sat on the floor weakly and he wanted to crawl out of the hall but his body couldn’t exert any strength because of fear. He could only move at an extremely slow speed and kept mumbling non-stop. “Don’t kill me… Don’t kill me…”
Huang Tuo suddenly stepped out to block his way. “Don’t worry. I won’t kill you so easily because you have killed many people so I won’t let you off so easily, Feng Huang.”
And then the expression on the waiter’s face became exceptionally calm, as if he has changed into another person. His gaze has become sharper and firmer, and starting to emit murderous aura from him.
He turned around to look at me, Yue Shen and then Chao Ya. “How did you know that I am Feng Huang?”
Chao Ya chuckled. “Please allow us to play a song for you, Hua Xiao.”
Feng Huang’s face darkens upon hearing that. “You even know that I am Hua Xiao?”
Shang Lie looked exceptionally shocked. I knew that no one would think of Hua Duao. This was supposed to be a perfect a.s.sa.s.sination plan and a concatenated a.s.sa.s.sination plan as well.
Feng Huang turned around to face the window and said softly. “Wu Ya, you can come out now.”
Just when she finished her sentence, everyone turned to look at the window but there was only the dark night sky and then I heard the sound of a robe flying past. By the time I turned around, Feng Huang had already flown towards the window. I know she wanted to charge out of the hall because she didn’t have the ability to fight against the people inside.
But when she fell down all of a sudden when she got nearer to the window, she turned around to look at me angrily.
I walked over to her side and said, “I have already predicted that you might want to escape so I have already transformed the wall to ice including the doors and windows. No one is allowed to step out of here without my dispelling the spell.
The glow on Feng Huang’s face faded away and she had aged a lot.
”When did you start to suspect me?” She asked me.
“From the first day when you tried to kill me from the roof.”
“How did you know it was me?”
“Because you didn’t wear anything underneath your grey robe. Huang Tuo said the a.s.sa.s.sin wouldn’t have anything to change so it would be faster to strip out than to change into a new set of clothes.”