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Chapter XXVIII. Words without argument
When Lu Yi, who was still in shock, heard the commotion, she turned around to look at Jin Jian. Her eyes were filled with fear.
”What's wrong?” Lu Yi stood in front of Jin Jian. Although Jin Jian couldn't see what was going on in the room, he could smell the stench of blood. He could not help but ask in surprise.
Lu Yi looked at Jin Jian, while her eyes flickered with uncertainty. ”She, they …”
”What is going on?” When Jin Jian saw her flustered, he reached out his hand and pushed her aside. When he saw the scene in the room, he immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
A man and a woman were lying on a bed in the room. Their bodies were soaked in blood and they had stopped breathing. Both of them had been drained of blood and died. Their faces were pale, filled with astonishment, their eyes protruding out like dead fish.
The two of them were tied together by a long rope. That long rope was the jade colored rope that had previously hit Jin Jian.
Jin Jian looked at Lu Yi. ”You killed them?”
Lu Yi immediately shook her head and said, ”It wasn't me, it really wasn't me!”
Jin Jian pointed at the two corpses in front of him. ”But why are your chains tied to them?”
”This …” ”I, I just tied them up! ”I, I really don't, I didn't, you believe me, I, I knew it, I knew it, you would definitely suspect me, I knew it, you would never believe me, because I'm from the Blood Family!”
Jin Jian saw that her hands were covering her head as she continued to speak further and further away. He was extremely flustered, ”If you didn't kill them, then why are you so flustered? Why did you lie to me that the owner of this house was two old ladies when you didn't let me come in to bid them farewell?”
Lu Yi's heart chilled as she suddenly felt a sense of despair. She felt that she couldn't explain herself clearly this time around.
However, Jin Jian refused to let them go. ”And your long chain wouldn't be tied to these two people for no reason either! Can you tell me what's going on? ”
Lu Yi's mind was in a mess. ”You, don't ask me, okay? I really don't know what's going on.” Let me tell you, from the extreme cold, you are unconscious, understand? I put you up behind my back, but because you have a pair of fins behind your back, people here think you're a Strigoi, and no one wants to keep us, do you understand? I was very tired then, and I was even more afraid that something would happen to you, do you understand? ”
”I understand.”
”You don't understand, do you think I'm lying to you!? You think I killed them, this old couple, they were the last family I ever asked, they agreed to stay the night, but then they saw you, they wanted to throw us out, they cursed me, no one ever cursed me. I was mad. I just, knocked them out and tied them up. I thought you wouldn't wake up tonight. ”
”You don't need to say these …”
Then what do you want me to say? I really don't know how they died! That's right, I harmed them. If I didn't tie them up, they wouldn't have died so silently. It was all my fault, it's all my fault, alright! ” ”Green Yi screamed wildly. Finally, she hugged her head and crouched down, sobbing.
”What happened to you?” Jin Jian walked over to her and looked at her. ”I just want to know.”
”You don't need to say anymore. I know you suspect me. I know that I myself am not a good person.”
Jin Jian took a deep breath and said, ”I don't know if you are a good person or not, but I don't think you killed these two!”
Lu Yi's body shuddered as she raised her head to look at Jin Jian. ”What did you say?”
Jin Jian looked into her eyes and said, ”I said, I know that you didn't kill these two people.”
Lu Yi blinked.
Jin Jian continued, ”But you suddenly became excited and even said a lot of things that I don't know what's going on.”
Lu Yi blinked, wiped her tears, and said, ”I'm afraid you won't believe me.”
Jin Jian pointed to the corpses of the two old men and said, ”These two don't know martial arts. If you want to kill them, it's very easy. Why do you need to tie them up before making a move?” This is too out of tune with your Eldest Miss's temper. ”
Lu Yi's eyes were watery as she stared at Jin Jian and said, ”Does that mean you believe me?”
Jin Jian said, ”I believe you.”
Lu Yi and her pair of eyes were fixed on Jin Jian's face, causing his face to turn red. She turned around and examined the corpses of the two old men.
”Wah!” Lu Yi suddenly threw herself on Jin Jian's back and started crying.
This scared Jin Jian senseless. He wanted to turn around, but Lu Yi hugged him so tightly that he couldn't move. He could only say, ”You, what happened to you? What are you crying for? ”
Lu Yi said, ”You scared me to death. I thought you wouldn't believe me. I thought you'd suspect me.”
Jin Jian said, ”Are you afraid of me?”
Lu Yi said, ”I'm not afraid of you. I'm just afraid that you won't believe me.” I can really do this kind of thing, but I won't do it in front of you. I'm afraid you think I'm a bad person. ”
Jin Jian said, ”Whether it's a good person or a bad person, it's not something others feel. It's something that's made by oneself.”
Lu Yi said, ”But I only care about how you feel.”
Jin Jian was stunned. ”What do you care about my feelings?”
”En!”
”Do you only care about how I feel?”
Lu Yi looked into her eyes. ”That's right!”
Jin Jian only felt his heart suddenly begin to thump wildly as he thought to himself, ”It's over, this is the trouble that master said, right?” She hurriedly pushed Lu Yi away and said, ”You … don't you hate me the most?”
Lu Yi frowned. ”Idiot, when did that happen? I forgot.”
Jin Jian said, ”Those things happened not long ago, and happened less than two months ago. Aren't you forgetting it too quickly?”
Lu Yi clenched her teeth, ”Then what do you want to do?”
Jin Jian said, ”I want... ”That's not right!” With that, Jin Jian suddenly turned around to look at the two corpses on the ground.
Lu Yi asked, ”Where's the mistake?”
Jin Jian looked at the two corpses in front of him and said, ”The culprits are invisible. The blood of the two dead have already been drained, but there are only two small wounds on their necks. Furthermore, when they were committing murder, they did not alarm the two of us.”
Lu Yi said, ”So what?”
Jin Jian said, ”If that's the case, then it's impossible that this murderer doesn't know about our side room.”
Lu Yi scratched her head. ”Why do they know we'll be sleeping in the side room?”
Jin Jian said, ”Because you tied them up using your dragon tendons and jade rope. Anyone would be able to tell that there are experts nearby. As long as they see that there are experts nearby, they will search everywhere and it will not be difficult to find us.”
Lu Yi said, ”But they didn't notice us.”
Jin Jian said, ”That's not right. It's because they already knew we were here.”
Lu Yi's body shuddered. ”What did you say?”
Jin Jian said, ”It's because they knew we were here that they did not suspect the jade rope that bound them and did not track us down.”
Lu Yi nodded. ”I seem to understand a bit, but why would they do that?”
Jin Jian said, ”Because...”
At this time, a voice suddenly came in from outside the door, and a person said:
”Are you here?”