Chapter 88
Qiu Chi walked to a secluded place before stopping.
After Lou Yu caught up, seeing Qiu Chi stop, he wanted to make a move without a second word. The final result, naturally, was that he was crushed by Qiu Chi.
“You still want to fight me? Have you forgotten your own strength?”
Lou Yu was pinned down and beaten by Qiu Chi.
Lu Yuan, who had been secretly pleased to see the two of them fighting, finally stopped dawdling and hurried forward to persuade them, “Yue'er, what are you doing? Let go of Brother Lou quickly. I know you're very upset about the Shangguan family's matter, but that was the evil work of the Demon Sect. You can't blame Brother Lou for it!”
Lu Yuan naturally didn't believe that Lou Yu couldn't defeat Qiu Chi. She thought Lou Yu was willingly letting Qiu Chi beat him, and now she wanted to kill Qiu Chi even more.
Her tone was anxious as she said, “Brother Lou, you're still injured. The Shangguan family's matter really isn't your fault. Quickly, make Yue'er stop!”
Lu Yuan knew the Lu family was involved in the massacre of the Shangguan family because she had overheard her father talking to someone else. However, she didn't know that Lou Yu had actually played a significant part in it.
So now, her persuasion could be described as extremely sincere.
Qiu Chi ignored Lu Yuan and continued to pin down and beat Lou Yu.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan bit her lip hard and said, “Yue'er, I don't want to do this either, but Brother Lou is still injured. I can't just watch you keep hitting him like this.”
She called out to the Lu family members following behind her, “Quickly, rescue Brother Lou.”
She only said to rescue Lou Yu, but didn't say what to do about Qiu Chi. Those men naturally understood Lu Yuan's subtext.
When they stepped forward to stop her, they had no intention of showing Qiu Chi any mercy. But they never expected that as soon as they approached, they would be kicked several meters away by Qiu Chi.
Qiu Chi stepped on Lou Yu's body, glanced at them coldly, and finally fixed her gaze on Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan still hadn't quite processed the fact that Qiu Chi had just kicked someone.
Then she heard Qiu Chi say coldly, “It's none of your damn business that I'm beating this dog Lou. Interfere again and I'll kill you.”
Lu Yuan finally came to her senses, her face pale and her expression one of deep distress. “Yue'er, how could you become like this? You…”
Qiu Chi couldn't be bothered to listen to her nonsense and kicked Lou Yu onto her.
Lu Yuan directly became Lou Yu's human cushion.
Qiu Chi said, “So you're this much of a weakling, you can't even catch a person?”
Lu Yuan, pinned down tightly, “…”
Qiu Chi then turned her gaze back to Lou Yu, looking down on him. “It's useless to keep looking. Next time, I'll still beat you on sight.”
Lou Yu was indeed very resilient. Even when beaten half to death, he gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound.
But what's the use of being resilient?
Qiu Chi shook her head, tutted twice, and then left directly.
Those Lu family guards happened to be standing in her path.
Qiu Chi raised an eyebrow. “You want to block me?”
The Lu family guards looked at each other, then quickly moved around Qiu Chi to help Lou Yu up and rescue their young miss.
Only then did Qiu Chi leave at a leisurely pace.
Lu Yuan wanted to send people after her, but Lou Yu stopped her. “Don't bother. They can't beat her. They'd just be going to their deaths.”
Lu Yuan bit her lip and said, “Brother Lou, how has Yue'er become like this? And you, are you just going to let her beat you like that? The Shangguan family's matter clearly wasn't your fault…”
“Enough.” Lou Yu cut her off with a cold shout, stopping Lu Yuan's words, but he didn't offer her any explanation.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Qiu Chi was still very leisurely.
The two sects and three families had all issued wanted posters, saying a thief had stolen their things and that there would be a handsome reward for catching the thief.
However,
“Don't you think they're hilarious? They only say a thief stole their things, but not what was stolen. Forget that, there's not a single piece of information about the thief either, only that it was likely a group job. Isn't that too vague?”
“Exactly! How is anyone supposed to catch them? You can't just look at everyone and think they're a thief, can you?”
“It probably wasn't anything important. They're probably just doing this because they feel provoked.”
“Hah, it's the business of the great families and major sects. We should meddle less and worry less. It has nothing to do with us anyway.”
“That's true.”
Qiu Chi leisurely took a sip of tea, a faint smile on her face.
The items were naturally very important. Not only important, but also particularly heavy. Unfortunately, they couldn't say that publicly.
As for the lack of information about the thief, it was because they were too useless to even know if the person who took their things was male or female.
Most importantly, they couldn't imagine how she had managed to empty them out in such a short amount of time.
They were probably coming up with all sorts of conspiracy theories.
Qiu Chi wasn't wrong. They had indeed started to theorize conspiracies.
“The imperial court partnered with us to deal with the Demon Sect before. They wouldn't be trying to deal with us now, would they?”
“Even if it is the court, how did they move so many things away so silently? You have to remember, we're not the only ones who lost things.”
“But besides the court, who else could pull off something on this scale?”
“Even if the court has that many people, it's impossible to move the items away without a sound. Do they really think we're pushovers?”
“But the fact is, so many things have disappeared without a trace!”
As the last sentence fell, the hall fell completely silent.
They hadn't found any tunnels, nor had they seen traces of many people passing through.
And in some very tightly secured places, places only the sect master or villa master could go, the items were gone too.
Could a human really have done this?
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