Chapter 729 - Reveal the Information on Purpose (1/2)

After finishing speaking, that old man revealed a dispirited expression.

Anyone, who had been waiting for his doom in despair, would become passive.

The old man told them all the strange things, that had happened in the town, without holding anything back.

After venting his frustration, the old man stood up with a wry smile and left the inn.

Qinghu turned around to exchange looks with Lin Mengya, only to find that she had just averted her eyes from the old man.

“Let’s go back to the room,” he said.

He, who had a tacit understanding with Lin Mengya, certainly realized that she must have some doubts.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have fixed her eyes on an insignificant person.

Moreover, after hearing what the old man said, Qinghu could clearly feel that although the residents in this town looked just like those in other places, they were obviously oppressed.

Only now did they realize that the residents here felt helpless because of being stranded by a kind of invisible power.

In the inn, the rooms on both sides of their rooms were all occupied by their companions.

Even so, Qinghu closed the door after looking around carefully, and then felt relieved to talk with Lin Mengya.

“Don’t you think it strange? What the old man told us is not supposed to be a secret in this town, and the person sitting beside him a moment ago didn’t even want to listen to it. Why do you think he insisted on telling us the whole story, especially when you, an outsider, were there? He seemed to be intentional to tell us,” Lin Mengya said.

She could always detect the doubtful point calmly at the critical moment.

Her words reminded Qinghu of something.

He instinctively touched his upright chin and said with a frown, “That’s right. It seemed that he didn’t care who the listener was. Could it be that someone deliberately used him to reveal the information to us? This person is probably up to something!”

In fact, Qinghu had been no less sinister and vicious than any opponent they had confronted before.

Especially in this situation where the enemy was in the dark and they were in the light, Qinghu felt like drawing out the rats hiding behind the scenes one by one and then slowly crushing them to death.

Therefore, the current situation piqued his interest.

“Don’t act rashly. Think about it, the old man mentioned the temple for the Mountain Deity repeatedly today. If I guess correctly, someone tried to lure us to the temple for the Mountain Deity,” Lin Mengya said.

She now kept an open attitude towards ghosts and gods.

After all, she had been carrying Master Yunfang’s relic, which had once saved her life, with her.

Nevertheless, she thought that if the Mountain Deity really existed, it should protect the people in this town. This was what people expected a god to do.

If the Mountain Deity killed people at will so that people had only fear and no respect for it, it was unqualified to be a god. What was more, the murderer was more likely to be a person.

“Shall we go or not?” Qinghu raised his eyebrows and asked.

He had always been inclined to smash this kind of conspiracy.

However, Lin Mengya pondered for a moment, and then shook her head gently and said, “If we don’t go, the enemy will predict that we may think of a way to turn his trick against him. We are definitely going to the temple for the Mountain Deity, but not now.”

She smelled the familiar scent of conspiracy. Sometimes, she really envied her father and brother for their being able to fight with the enemy directly on the battlefield.

To be honest, she, who had seen, heard and experienced too many of this kind of conspiracies hidden in the dark, had been tired of these now.

Moreover, she had an intuition that they were going to reach the bottom of all these strange things in this town soon.

It would not take long.

That night, Lin Mengya sat alone by the window, not knowing why Qinghu, who stayed by her side all the time, was absent at this moment.

She rubbed the part between her eyebrows, which was aching, and glanced helplessly at the man, who was sitting upright and reading a book on the art of war in the room.

Since she expressed her tiredness of seeing him around, Hou Yuetian had stayed away from her sensibly.

But after receiving the news of his two missing subordinates in the evening, Qinghu had to go to handle the matter personally.

As such, he had no other choice but to ask Hou Yuetian to come and protect her for the sake of her safety.

Lin Mengya had expressed her disagreement with Qinghu’s overprotection.

Unfortunately, Qinghu had rejected her request and left her alone with Hou Yuetian in the room, leaving no room for negotiation.

Actually, Hou Yuetian was not that annoying.

Because of Lin Mengya’s distaste for him, he didn’t even try to talk with her nor bring his guards with him. He just sat alone at her table and read a book on the art of war carefully.