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A vein at Fan Sheng’s temple twitched. He forced down his anger and only asked about the major incident from before. “Zhongsun Mou was swallowed by the monster he had put under wanted notice?”
On the way back, his subordinate had already reported the details of Zhongsun Mou’s mishap.
Fan Sheng had been badly startled as well.
Zhongsun Mou had met with disaster while he himself was also in Baishajue. Once this matter was investigated afterward, it would inevitably involve him too.
Which meant that everything he had been doing here would have to be explained in full.
County Magistrate Tian’s face turned even more miserable. This truly was one calamity piling onto another. At this rate, should he just resign his post to the ruler and head back to the countryside? “Y-yes. That thing swallowed Lord Zhongsun in one gulp, then burrowed into the sand and escaped.”
No matter how much Fan Sheng disliked He Lingchuan, at a time like this, he still had to ask, “Was that really the criminal you’ve been hunting?”
“I didn’t see it with my own eyes. At the time, you and I were still locked in conflict inside the Lotus Palace, remember?” He Lingchuan shrugged. “But from the witnesses’ descriptions, the aberrant creature that carried off Zhongsun Mou sounds very much like the snail toad Mai Xuewen used for monster hunting.”
Even someone as knowledgeable as Fan Sheng found it hard to believe. “That...
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