Chapter 1170

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Chapter 1170 Who Says Linjiang Has No Mystery

After hearing these words, Lin Qiye’s mind automatically visualized a teenage Shen Qingzhu, bare-chested, walking down the mountain covered in blood.

As expected of the cool guy… Lin Qiye sighed in admiration.

“Little Quan, this child lost his parents’ love at a young age and grew up in such an inhumane environment. It’s inevitable that his psychology became distorted and pathological…

What you see now is already much better. When Shen brought him back years ago, he would either sit motionless like a wooden statue or scream like a madman. He even tried to harm himself and attempted suicide twice.

Little Yan, Qian Cheng, and the other children were terrified back then and didn’t dare approach him. Only Shen stayed by his side, guiding him step by step back to a normal child’s life.”

Old Liu looked at the open iron gate and sighed deeply:

“For Little Quan, Brother Qingzhu is his everything…”

“I see.” Lin Qiye nodded.

As if remembering something, he asked again:

“By the way, Director Liu, could you tell me more details about the fire that happened four years ago?”

“The fire?” Old Liu was startled, “Why are you asking about that?”

“I just suddenly remembered that Shen Qingzhu mentioned it before. It seems to have left some psychological trauma on him… I want to confirm if there’s anything I can do to help,” Lin Qiye made up an excuse.

“Psychological trauma? That kid can have such things?” Old Liu looked suspicious for a moment, but still continued,

“I don’t remember much about that fire… I just recall that day, I was sleeping in my room when suddenly a big fire broke out outside, completely surrounding the children’s dormitory.

I was terrified at the time. I didn’t even put on shoes, just wet myself down and ran straight into the fire. But just as I rushed in, falling beams blocked the doorway, trapping me and the children inside.

The smoke in the fire was extremely thick. The children cried for a while before passing out. Just when I was about to suffocate, I heard Little Quan crying and Shen shouting from outside, so I knew they had returned…

After that, I felt the air tighten, and then I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed.

They say Shen carried us out one by one on his back.”

Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, “What about the cause of the fire? What was it?”

“That’s what I found strange too… The fire started in the small dormitory, but there weren’t any flammable materials there. Those experts came to investigate but couldn’t reach any conclusion.

Fortunately, no one was hurt or killed, otherwise it would have been a major incident.” Old Liu’s face showed lingering fear.

“At that time, did you see anything strange? Like… monsters?”

“Monsters?” Old Liu shook his head repeatedly, “I didn’t see anything like that.”

“…I understand.”

Lin Qiye nodded and fell into deep thought.

Judging from the unknown cause of the fire, this incident could indeed have been triggered by a “Mystery” manifestation. The sudden suffocation Old Liu mentioned was probably Shen Qingzhu’s [Qi Min]. He just didn’t know whether Shen had just awakened his forbidden domain at that time or had been awakened for a while.

Before coming here, Lin Qiye had asked Shi Wenxuan to check Lingjiang City’s Night Watchman archives. The last suspected “Mystery” appearance case was this orphanage fire, but since no one had seen the “Mystery” itself and there were no casualties, it was only classified as a “suspected case.”

In other words… after that fire, no “Mystery” had appeared in Lingjiang City again?

It’s a pity Shen Qingzhu wasn’t here. Otherwise, he could just ask him what happened back then and know everything.

Wait.

Besides Shen Qingzhu, wasn’t Wu Quan also present at that time?

If he could ask him, he might find some other clues.

Lin Qiye pretended to walk around the room, took the “forgotten” items, and was about to leave when Old Liu grabbed him.

Seeing Old Liu’s hesitant expression, Lin Qiye asked puzzledly, “What’s wrong?”

“Young man, tell me honestly…” Old Liu struggled for a moment before carefully asking, “Shen… has he met with an accident?”

Lin Qiye was stunned.

“No,” Lin Qiye firmly shook his head. “Director Liu, don’t worry unnecessarily. He’s really fine.”

Looking at Lin Qiye’s determined eyes, the doubt in Old Liu’s heart diminished somewhat. He nodded, “Alright… I understand. When he finishes his secret mission and returns, ask him to send a letter home… so we can feel at ease.”

“I’ll tell him when he returns.”

Lin Qiye said goodbye to Old Liu and turned to walk toward the alley.

He held his umbrella, walking in the rain while pondering the sequence of events.

So far, whether it was the Li family’s massacre or Lingjiang City’s strange phenomenon of having no “Mysteries,” there had been no substantial progress. Next, he could only place his hopes on finding that flying “Mystery”…

Just then, Lin Qiye seemed to sense something and suddenly stopped.

By now, he had already left the orphanage far behind and reached a crossroads in the alley.

Heavy rain poured down from the sky. Looking around with the naked eye, it was difficult to see distant scenes through the misty water vapor… In the desolate alley, only the endless sound of rain remained in the silence.

Lin Qiye’s gaze swept around, his eyes narrowing slightly.

“This is…”

He held the umbrella with his left hand, while a magical light flashed in his empty right hand. The next moment, a snow-white long blade appeared in his palm.

Boom!!!

A black figure, like a meteor, crashed precisely onto the ground in front of Lin Qiye!

It was a giant with bat wings, three-toed feet, holding two blood-colored cleavers in its left and right hands. Above its red curved horns on its head danced a crimson flame.

It raised the blood-colored cleavers high and smashed the back of the blades toward Lin Qiye’s body!

Lin Qiye slightly lifted his umbrella, his eyes calmly scanning through the rain. A flash of snow-white blade light appeared, and the [Zhan Bai] blade steadily blocked the two cleavers!

The circular shockwave from the collision of forces instantly rolled back the surrounding rainwater in mid-air.

“The ‘Mystery’ that wiped out the Li family… you’ve actually come looking for me?”

Lin Qiye snorted coldly, swinging his blade to repel the giant’s body, his form like a rock in the rain, unmoved.

The “Mystery” before him was only at the “Boundless” level, completely no match for Lin Qiye.

Just as Lin Qiye was about to swing his blade to cut off its head, his extended mental power seemed to discover something, and he suddenly turned to look around.

He saw black shadows rapidly approaching from all directions of the intersecting alleys through the rain.

Lin Qiye frowned and cursed under his breath:

“Damn it… who said there were no ‘Mysteries’ in Lingjiang City?”