Chapter 923 - He Is Still Bai Xiaofei! (1/2)

Xue Ying left, taking with her Bai Xiaofei’s promise while leaving him with three pieces of advice.

First, the purpose of Shadow Death was far from being as simple as it seemed, and they were not interested at all in Ethereal. Second, Bai Xiaofei’s guesses so far were all correct. Moreover, the puppetsmith creating the human puppets did not want to cooperate with Shadow Death any longer. Third, Bai Xiaofei had thoroughly become a target of Shadow Death!

As for anything deeper, Xue Ying knew but was somehow restricted from mentioning. What she had revealed was already the result of her skirting around the edge of the rules.

However, for Bai Xiaofei, these three pieces of advice were precious enough. At least, he knew that his direction was correct.

With the departure of Xue Ying, Bai Xiaofei no longer had any scruples. He hadn’t dared to go full-force before for fear that it would put her in a dilemma. After all, Shadow Death didn’t seem friendly even toward its own members.

He had not expected that as soon as he was idle, Shadow Death gave him another surprise: Human puppets once again made an appearance!

Right on the night Xue Ying left, the Holy Puppetsmith Mountain was ambushed by human puppets, who, out of all the puppetsmiths on the mountain, only attacked Nanmo Sheng’s residence. No matter whether it was Nanmo Sheng himself or the garrison sealing his area, all were regarded as targets!

Once the news got out, the whole imperial city went into a hubbub. Everyone had been paying attention to the movement of the garrison, thinking that Ethereal was making progress in finding the suspect. Therefore, the ambush of the human puppets instantly pushed Nanmo Sheng into the spotlight, with two of the three major views on the matter being unfavorable to him.

One was that Nanmo Sheng was the evil puppetsmith and the people he cooperated with sent the human puppets to silence him after the human puppet technique had been completed.

Another was that he was being framed so as to divert the public attention from the real mastermind.

The third one was more complicated as the combination of the first two and was quite brain-challenging, which was, to sum it up, Nanmo Sheng made the human puppets attack himself to clear him of suspicion and win the support of the second type of people who thought he was framed.

Still, no matter what everyone thought, they all agreed that Nanmo Sheng had to be investigated!

However, neither Ling Yue nor Ling Hai moved against Nanmo Sheng because he had been heavily injured, and they also wanted to ask for Bai Xiaofei’s opinion…

“That’s what happened. Those human puppets were very fierce, and definitely came with the intent to kill Nanmo Sheng,” reported the general in charge of guarding Nanmo Sheng after telling Bai Xiaofei’s group about what had happened in detail.

“Alright, General Guo, thank you for your hard work. You can go back and have a good rest now,” said Ling Fan.

After General Guo withdrew from the room, all eyes fell upon Bai Xiaofei.

“Brother Bai, what do you think?” asked Ling Yue, obviously regarding Bai Xiaofei as their strategist.

“The first possibility can be ruled out. Since Shadow Death was still within the capital, they still need the support of this puppetsmith. They absolutely don’t want him dead. As for the other two views, I can’t come to a conclusion. This is perhaps what they want: to see us in a dilemma. If I’m not wrong, those envoys from other countries are unable to sit still, right?” Bai Xiaofei asked Ling Yue.

Ling Yue couldn’t help but give a long sigh. Although it was an internal matter of Ethereal, when it concerned the human puppets, he could not refuse the demands of those envoys. The last time human puppets had appeared, the major empires had come together and made a treaty about this.

“Shadow Death has taken into account everything. At first glance, they’ve completely won this round while we’ve not only made no substantial progress and also had to bear more pressure but in fact…” Bai Xiaofei’s lips curled up.

Seeing this expression, the dejected five princes were immediately delighted.

“Brother Bai, you have some insight?” Ling Hai couldn’t resist asking. The Holy Puppetsmith Mountain could be regarded as his territory. He would be the one feeling most frustrated if things went south there.

“I’ve had dealings with Shadow Death more than just once or twice. They always do things with the purpose of diverting your attention. If you think from a normal person’s point of view, you will be easily led by the nose. We need to change the angle to consider.” Bai Xiaofei’s smile deepened. “Think from their point of view!”

These words had everyone confused.