章 33: The mysterious dead sect disciples

Now that Dai Xiaobo had stood up, the others would also naturally stand up and support their Senior martial brother in whatever he was about to say.

Dai Xiaobo straightened his back as he looked at them and answered, "We came here because of the reports."

The buffed-up man who was strongly against the Mayor looked at the clothes that were adorned by Dai Xiaobo and questioned in confusion, "Maple passion pavilion...?"

Dai Xiaobo nodded. Xu Lifen, Chen Qiao, and Fu Jie went over to his side as they all bowed in unison.

Xu Lifen, 'We are disciples of Elder Dayu from Maple passion pavilion."

Chen Qiao, "We are here to catch the ferocious ghost that has been haunting this city."

Fu Jie didn't give an introduction or anything like that and simply looked at them as he asked, "What do you mean six months?"

The two who had been talking to them suddenly took a step back in shock, "Y-you're from maple passion p-pavilion...?! Cultivators?!"

Xu Lifen smiled as she responded, "Kind brother, we didn't lie to you on purpose. Didn't I say that we came from far away?"

The two took another step back as they cried out, "We didn't do anything! We didn't say anything! We didn't!"

After having made such a ruckus, the two ran away as if someone were after their lives.

"Eh?" Xu Lifen was shocked and Chen Qiao was no different than her.

To gain such a huge reaction from the two... The only people who would be afraid of a cultivator like this were low-level ghosts.

The buffed-up man saw the two people running away but he didn't run after them and instead turned to face the cultivators as he asked, "You're really from that sect?"

Fu Jie nodded, "Do you not believe us?"

The man took a minute to respond, but in the end, he still nodded as he responded, "I believe you. It's just that... I didn't expect any cultivators to come here again."

This man sounded a lot calmer than he was a few minutes ago when he was screaming and shouting angrily at the two men who were standing up for the mayor.

Xu Lifen frowned lightly as she asked, "What do you mean 'again'?"

It seemed that Xu Lifen was done being that friendly, flirty beauty and had gone back to being the cold and strict beauty that she originally was.

The man looked at them in confusion as he questioned, "You haven't heard?"

"Heard what?"

"The group of cultivators who came here last time were all found dead. Their eyes gauged out, their tongue hanging out and their corpse, completely bloodless."

"What?! Cultivators from which sect?"

"They said they were from Maple passion pavilion."

"!!!"

From the shock that was apparent on the face of Xu Lifen, Dai Xiaobo, and Chen Qiao, it was clear that none of them knew about this, and since Fu Jie was already unaware about mostly everything that happened, it wasn't a big shock that he too, was completely clueless about it.

Xu Lifen looked at Dai Xiaobo curiously as if questioned the truth of the situation.

Dai Xiaobo shook his head as he answered, "I don't believe any disciples from Maple passion pavilion were sent out and... Killed."

Surely, if it were really cultivators from their sect, Dai Xiaobo and Xu Lifen would have known.

Chen Qiao was about to say something but at this moment, the eight jars of wine they had ordered arrived and as the waiter went back, he didn't forget to glare at the buffed-up man who had said more than he was supposed to.

Fu Jie was sure that he wasn't the only one who had noticed the waiter's glare.

When the waiter had walked away, the man bowed, "It's getting pretty late, I should head back. I hope you guys can find the ferocious ghost and help us."

"Wait!" Xu Lifen called out to him but the man left just like that and didn't even bother looking back at them.

Chen Qiao scratched his neck as he sat back on their table that had thankfully not been taken away because of Dai Xiaobo who kept on sitting here.

The others also sat back and Fu Jie was the last to sit down.

Fu Jie, "There's something wrong."

Chen Qiao suddenly smiled as he took one of the jars and opened it before happily encircling his arm around Fu Jie's neck and pushing the jar of wine towards him, "You haven't had anything to drink, that's what's wrong."

Fu Jie frowned as he took the jar that was offered to him.

Xu Lifen slightly smiled as she spoke up, "They are avoiding us on purpose."

Dai Xiaobo nodded as he added, "Someone ordered them to not say anything to cultivators from maple passion pavilion."

"If they don't want to say anything, let them not say anything. There's nothing we can do about it so let's not worry about it and drink the night away!" Chen Qiao beamed happily.

Fu Jie looked at the man and then back at the wine that is said to be one of the three great wonders of this world.

Xu Lifen shrugged it off as she took a jar and without bothering to pour it in a cup, she drank directly from the jar.

"..." Fu Jie had never expected Xu Lifen to be such a heavy drinker.

Just as Chen Qiao had suggested, they didn't worry about it and simply drank the evening away, or at least, the other three did while Fu Jie simply looked at the jar of wine in his hand.

If he wanted to drink this wine, he would have to take his mask off...

This was torture!

He wanted to taste the wine that was said to be heavenly!

After another half an hour spent here watching all of them drink, Fu Jie realized that he had been wrong in thinking that Chen Qiao had dragged them over to get information. The information part was just their luck and the real reason why this man had dragged them all the way here was simply because of this wine.

He really had come here just to get drunk.

Fu Jie looked at Xu Lifen, expecting to see her be super drunk by now but even after emptying out two entire jars of wine, her face was as pale as always and there was not even a hint of red on her cheeks.

Fu Jie suddenly wondered if she had really drunk wine or if she had gulped water down her throat.

Dai Xiaobo had only drunk a few cups of wine and this much was naturally not enough to get him drunk. However, whether he was really drunk or not was something Fu Jie would not be able to tell since this man didn't say anything in either case.

Chen Qiao was the only one who showed signs of being drunk. He swayed from side to side and finally encircled his hand around Fu Jie as he pulled the poor victim with him and forced Fu Jie to sway with him.

Chen Qiao was certainly drunk and how could he not be?! He had emptied out three bottles all by himself!

"Xia Didi, why aren't you drinking yet?" Chen Qiao slurred.

Fu Jie sighed as he pursed his lips and looked at the man as if trying to ask just how stupid he had to be to ask such a question.

"Ah!" Chen Qiao suddenly exclaimed as he realized the answer all by himself, "The mask! You can't drink if you have a mask on!"

"!!!"

Chen Qiao's hand reached out to pull the mask away from Fu Jie's face but Fu Jie reacted faster as he pushed the man's hand away rather rudely.

"What are you doing?!" Fu Jie glared at the man.

Chen Qiao seemed to be a bit stunned but he soon smiled as he tried to take the mask off once again, "Why are you so afraid?~ It's just us here. Xia Didi should drink comfortably."

"No need!" Fu Jie pushed the man away once again.

Chen Qiao was silent for a minute and Fu Jie thought the man had given up. Chen Qiao sighed in an exaggerated manner as he propelled his hand up from his elbow and rested his chin on his palm as he looked at Fu Jie with a blank gaze, "The curiosity is killing me..."

Fu Jie didn't say anything in return.

Chen Qiao, "I wonder what type of handsome face Xia Didi is hiding under that mask."

Fu Jie scoffed as he looked at the drunk man, "How can you be sure that it's a handsome face? Maybe I'm wearing the mask to hide my hideous face."

"No way!" Chen Qiao smirked as he looked at Fu Jie with his half-closed eyes, "A disciple of Elder Dayu would never be hideous!"

"..." Fu Jie couldn't help but want to laugh as he heard this.

"He's not lying," Xu Lifen commented as she looked at Fu Jie.