Chapter 509 Enemies And Friends

Xu Han had never expected that Ye Hongjian would actually spit out such a sentence.

He was stunned on the spot, his pupils suddenly widened, but the corner of his mouth twitched. His expression could be said to be extremely wonderful.

Puchi!

Seeing his appearance, Ye Hongjian couldn't help but chuckle. She did not continue to entangle herself with this question. Her expression became serious and she turned away from the topic and asked, "I saw you drawing on this map these past few days. How did you find a clue?"

Hearing this, Xu Han regained his senses. Naturally, he did not dare to continue chatting with Ye Hongjian on that issue. "Indeed, I went to the Mirror Division through Nangong Zhuo and saw the corpses of the eight people who were killed earlier."

However, it was mostly because of the panic in his heart. When Xu Han said this, his tone carried an extremely rare tremor.

This posture naturally attracted a burst of laughter from Ye Hongjian again.

Xu Han also felt that he had lost his composure. He forcefully suppressed the strangeness that had just arisen in his heart and pretended to be calm as he continued, "Those eight victims all had very different identities. Some of them were ordinary commoners, some were businessmen doing small businesses, and some were chivalrous people in Jianghu. There was no connection between them."

Hearing this, Ye Hongjian was also aroused. She put away her thoughts of teasing Xu Han and asked with a frown, "Are you saying that the so-called'monster 'only killed for the sake of killing people?"

"Of course, there may be such a villain in this world who only likes to kill people because he likes to, but this one is obviously not." At this moment, Xu Han finally entered his state. He continued, "Perhaps others don't know what similarities these eight people have, but they can't hide it from me."

"These eight people seem ordinary, but their corpses have been taken away. The blood in their bodies hasn't solidified after a few days. Clearly, they are cultivators who have cultivated their physical bodies."

Ye Hongjian also smelled something strange from this. But she couldn't connect them, Therefore, the gaze he looked at Xu Han became even more puzzled. "This is indeed a bit strange, but it is still impossible to find the murderer with just these. Moreover, even if they are all physical cultivators, it does not mean anything. There are not many physical cultivators in Great Xia, and this similarity is also unable to determine what kind of person the murderer is targeting."

Xu Han looked at Ye Hongjian with a puzzled expression. He smiled and continued, "Of course, this is not enough. However, not only did those deceased discover their physical cultivation, they also discovered something more important."

"What is it?" Ye Hongjian asked.

Xu Han blinked his eyes, as if he was intentionally taking revenge on Ye Hongjian's previous teasing. At that time, he kept his mouth shut until a burst of anger gradually appeared in Ye Hongjian's eyes. Only then did he say, "Demonic Qi."

"Demonic Qi?" Ye Hongjian's heart trembled. With her vigorous mind, she naturally thought of the Dark Asura Palace that Xu Han had told her about. As far as she knew, there was only one family in the world that cultivated their physical bodies with demonic power.

Seemingly able to see through Ye Hongjian's thoughts, Xu Han nodded, "You're right, it's the Dark Asura Palace."

"Although the stronghold of Dark Asura Palace in the Horizontal Imperial City has been eradicated by Fang Ziyu and the Sword Handling Pavilion, based on my understanding of Dark Asura Palace, they have always been pervasive. There are still some of their scouts lurking in the Horizontal Imperial City."

Ye Hongjian immediately understood, but soon a new question arose in her heart. She asked again, "Since you have found the target of his attack, why are you still alarming him and sending those swordsmen to patrol the city these days?"

According to Ye Hongjian's thoughts, the best way to catch the murderer was to find those Dark Asura Palace scouts who were still hiding in Horizontal Imperial City, and then set up men around them, waiting for the murderer to attack again, capture one of them.

However, not only did Xu Han not do this, he instead made the swordsmen patrol the Royal City with great fanfare. This was clearly to tell the murderer that he wanted to capture him. In this way, if the murderer wasn't stupid to the extreme, he would conceal himself no matter what. At the very least, he would not reappear until the rumors had passed.

However, at this moment, Xu Han's face did not see the slightest bit of self-awareness he should have after self-defeating himself. The corner of his mouth was still curled into a faint smile, "There are many people who want to capture him. For example, the Mirror Division of Great Xia has been able to place more than a thousand hidden lines in the Heng Imperial City these past few days, wanting to take advantage of this person to capture him." "But that fellow was able to escape the pursuit of the Mirror Division for so many days. He is obviously an extremely keen person."

"Of course, sending out these swordsmen will only alert the snakes, but it's not just the snakes that are alarmed. There are also the snake catchers who want to catch this snake."

"Whenever the swordsman went, the secret information of the Mirror Division would be exposed to the murderer and would naturally be temporarily concealed. They are the same as you think. If the swordsman wants to catch the murderer so blatantly, then the murderer will naturally not appear. As for the strange movements of those hidden lines, they allowed me to understand the distribution of the manpower that the Mirror Division had placed in the Royal City, "Xu Han said as he pointed to the map of the Royal City that he had sketched out.

Hearing Xu Han's words, Ye Hongjian once again looked at the map. Only then did she understand that the areas Xu Han had sketched were all the hidden lines of the Mirror Division that he had detected in the past few days.

"So what you've done these past few days is actually to avoid the eyes and ears of the Mirror Division and find a place where their surveillance network is relatively weak or simply doesn't exist." Ye Hongjian's gaze swept across the map one by one, and finally landed in a corner of Bitter Alley that had not been marked!

"Are you afraid that those people from the Mirror Division will discover the murderer? When you lure him out, you will ruin your plan and take away the credit?" Ye Hongjian said with a deep gaze. Her gaze towards Xu Han couldn't help but change. Of course, she knew that Xu Han was a smart person, but she never thought that Xu Han would be able to understand things so clearly in such a short period of time. Not only the enemy, but also some unstable factors existed.

The corners of her mouth rose slightly with a smile. The man she liked was truly extraordinary.

However, before such a smile could completely spread out at the corner of her mouth, Xu Han shook his head.

"I did not want the Mirror Division to participate in this matter, but I am not afraid that they will take credit for it. I want to save him."

As Xu Han spoke, a cold light suddenly lit up in his eyes, and his tone became gloomy.

"After all, the enemy of this enemy is a friend … at least not an enemy at the moment …"

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