The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#159 - Vulture's Proposal

When Bulao first heard these words, she thought Lu Jing was just being stubborn, trying to anger her and trick her into revealing more useful information.

However, looking into Lu Jing's sincere eyes, Bulao couldn't help but feel a sense of panic rising in her heart.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something more, but found that her tongue had already swollen up, and she couldn't pronounce a single word clearly.

At the same time, her eyeballs began to roll back, and the cyan color on her face became as thick as ink.

With the last of her strength, she reached out and grabbed her neck.

It seemed she wanted to tear open her throat to breathe in fresh air again.

But just as Lu Jing had said, it was already too late.

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The poison she had swallowed had already taken full effect.

And so, the expression on Bulao's face was forever frozen at that moment.

With deep despair and incomprehension, she fell forward.

Seeing this, Vulture not only didn't feel sad, but excitedly jumped up, and then he rushed forward impatiently, kicking the corpse twice.

The female shopkeeper couldn't bear to watch and said, "No matter what, you two had some intimate moments before. Even if she just insulted you, you don't need to argue with a dead person anymore."

"Miss Nada is right," Vulture immediately withdrew his foot upon hearing this, nodding respectfully. Although the expression on his face clearly didn't agree with the female shopkeeper's words.

On the other side, Lu Jing was lost in thought as he looked at Bulao's corpse.

Tonight, following the trail of the Black Wizard, he had finally managed to find some clues related to the mastermind behind the scenes, but with Bulao's death, this clue was once again cut off.

This maid was indeed as clever as Vulture had said. She invited Lu Jing to meet under Vulture's name, obviously wanting to probe Lu Jing's investigation progress.

She instigated Vulture to act mysteriously in front of Lu Jing, while she herself was eavesdropping on the movements here in the neighboring courtyard. Seeing that the situation was not good, she also decisively swallowed the poison, not giving Lu Jing a chance to interrogate her.

Even though Lu Jing's reaction was quick enough, directly carrying Vulture over the wall, he still couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening.

However, Lu Jing wasn't completely without gains. First of all, Bulao's initiative to meet him already said a lot. Clearly, his recent investigation was about to touch the other side's forbidden zone.

Moreover, Lu Jing also learned from Bulao's mouth the ambition of her mysterious master. Combining this with the information he had collected earlier, he finally pieced together the cause of the disaster.

Obviously, someone had noticed the ancient surnames on the side murals of the City Lord's mansion, and then found the descendants of the family that originally established Marasar Khan, and learned the secrets related to the ancient tomb from them.

Then, that person probably secretly went to the ancient tomb, tampered with something inside, and, well, most likely secretly took something back.

Thinking of this, Lu Jing suddenly understood why the sandstorm had descended on Marasar Khan, and what the abnormal behavior of those iron-clad warriors was for.

The people here had misunderstood the intentions of those things from the beginning.

They weren't here to slaughter the residents of the city, or rather, that was just a side effect. As for their real purpose, it should be to find the thing that was stolen from the ancient tomb!

In other words, if the stolen item could be found and returned, then it was very likely that this disaster would disappear.

Of course, under normal circumstances, when Lu Jing realized this, he only had five days left.

He needed to find the mastermind behind the scenes within five days, snatch the thing from his hands, and also find the entrance to the ancient tomb and delve into it.

Time was still tight.

However, if that guy's purpose was really just to control those iron-clad warriors in the sandstorm and make them work for him.

Then Lu Jing realized that he… seemed like he didn't need to worry too much.

He hadn't lied to Bulao.

Because now the number of iron-clad warriors left in the sandstorm was less than twenty, which was only two rounds of work for Lu Jing.

If someone wanted to rely on these things to unify the entire Mingsha Desert, then their dream would probably be shattered.

However, seeing that the mastermind behind the scenes was about to surface, Lu Jing was considering revising his previous plan. He raised his head again and said to Vulture.

"You heard what she just said. You've lived in the City Lord's mansion for a while. In your opinion, who is most likely to be the person behind Bulao?"

"The old City Lord is becoming more and more wary of him, but he can't do anything about it. After all, Yazdan is still his son-in-law. He always has to think about his daughter and granddaughter."

"In fact, if the disaster hadn't suddenly descended, the old City Lord had already planned to abdicate to Yazdan," Vulture said.

Saying this, his face was also full of helplessness, "I really don't want to be enemies with such a person, but he doesn't know why he's been staring at me, as if he must kill me. So I can only fight him."

"It's a pity that with Bulao's death, we don't have any evidence again," the female shopkeeper couldn't help but sigh upon hearing this.

At this time, Vulture suddenly interjected, "Actually… we don't necessarily need evidence."

"What do you mean?"

"The old City Lord trusts me very much. Although I can't convince him to make up his mind to deal with his son-in-law, he should still be able to barely accept imprisoning Yazdan for a few days. This may not solve the problem fundamentally, but at least it can disrupt what Yazdan is currently doing."

"Preventing him from successfully mastering that army in the sandstorm in five days."

Vulture's proposal made the female shopkeeper's eyes light up.

Sure enough, even a waste paper has its uses, and a courtier like Vulture naturally has his uses.

Lu Jing didn't have any objections to this. Although time wasn't a big problem for him, it was good to have someone disrupt Yazdan's attention. And he could just take this time to investigate something else.

Lu Jing could feel that he was closer to the truth than ever before.