Star Trace Gate

In the main room, a group of people from the Zhou family rushed in with murderous eyes, and were about to attack Ren Ye.

"Haha, Mr. Zhou." Butler Zhu suppressed his unhappiness, still bowed and clasped his fists, and said respectfully: "The Gao family came here to celebrate the birthday of my master. I hope you will not be angry for the sake of the friendship between our two families."

Zhou Congcong stared at Ren Ye, his smile becoming increasingly gloomy.

Butler Zhu added calmly, "No matter what happened here, I will investigate it thoroughly and give an explanation to the master and the young lady, as well as to the guests."

The meaning of his words is almost straightforward. Translated, it means, you are an outsider, why are you always stealing the show and taking over my lines? Get out now and stop wasting my time.

Not to mention, Miss Wang Lili from the family "values" Ren Ye very much. Even if he is really a worthless servant, it is impossible for Butler Zhu to allow Zhou Congcong to abuse him at will.

What kind of thing is it to let outsiders enforce the law on your own territory? Where is the face?

After a long silence, Zhou Congcong looked at Butler Zhu with a bright smile, then turned around and walked out without saying anything.

He left on his own initiative after calm thinking. The family's strongest ace agent was already dead, and now making enemies with a small figure like Butler Zhu would not be conducive to the subsequent action of obtaining the treasure.

"You get out too." Butler Zhu was not so kind to Adjutant Zhou and others. He turned his head and urged them in a cold tone.

After the voice fell, Adjutant Guo and others also left the room and closed the door.

In the room, Ren Ye and Lao Zhu were the only ones left. The two looked at each other, and the latter said politely, "Mr. Li, someone died in this mansion. I am just doing my job. I hope you understand. Let's go through the formalities and clear your name."

The other party's words were polite, so Ren naturally restrained his "acting skills" and the dissatisfied expression on his face eased a little: "No problem."

"Please come in." Butler Zhu replied with a smile.

Under the light, Ren Ye sat on a chair and began to take off his clothes carelessly.

……

Outside the yard.

Zhou Congcong walked over to Wang Lili and whispered, "That servant is guilty of his crime and is very resistant to being checked. He is also sneaking around. If he really has a wound on his body, how will you deal with it?"

Wang Lili said indifferently: "The evidence is irrefutable, murder must be punished with death."

After hearing this, Zhou Congcong said no more. He just stared at the main room anxiously, waiting for a result.

About five minutes later, the door was pushed open with a creaky sound. Zhou Congcong took two steps forward and saw Butler Zhu coming out first.

Seeing this scene, his eyes were filled with surprise and his brows were furrowed.

Sure enough, Butler Zhu stood on the steps and calmly shouted to Wang Lili, "Miss, Mr. Li is very cooperative. I have also carefully checked and there are no wounds on his body."

Not him? Was my feeling wrong?

Zhou Congcong was stunned for a moment, unable to hide his disappointment. But this was not just because he wanted to target Ren Ye, and in his eyes, the other party was just an insignificant servant. He mainly wanted to find out the cause of death of the family's strongest agent.

Behind Butler Zhu, Ren also tied his belt and gave Zhou Congcong a look that said, "Are you an idiot?" before he took the initiative to ask, "Anything else?"

He had indeed been injured in the right arm by the poisoned dagger of Shopkeeper Qiu, but when he returned to the reception courtyard, he had already used the dilute water of life to forcibly heal the wound.

The poison from the dagger wound was indeed very strange. It took six drops of Water of Life to offset the venom and heal the wound.

Moreover, just after Shopkeeper Qiu died, the soldiers outside the mansion saw the red light flashing in the main building and immediately blocked the core area. It took Ren a lot of trouble to get back to the reception courtyard a little later.

As soon as he arrived, Butler Zhu led the soldiers to block the front door. In terms of time, the two sides were only one or two minutes apart.

There was nothing Ren could do, so he had to quickly think of a way and get into the dry toilet. He carefully checked his wounds, rolled up his sleeves at his wrists, and actually took a shit.

In the courtyard, after hearing the reply from Butler Zhu, Wang Lili took the initiative to speak: "I was startled three times in the middle of the night. I'm sorry for disturbing you all."

Butler Liu stepped out and said, "If you need any help, please let me know, Miss Wang."

"Yes." Wang Lili nodded slightly: "Tonight, we will increase the number of patrol soldiers inside and outside the mansion to ensure everyone's safety. Please go to bed early."

After that, she did not take the initiative to talk to Ren Ye. She just turned around and asked Zhou Congcong with some thorns in her words: "Captain Zhou, do you still want to go to the dry toilet and check the poop of that servant?"

"...!"

Zhou Congcong knew that what she meant by this was her dissatisfaction with him for taking the spotlight just now.

"No need." He replied stubbornly.

"Ah."

After the two men exchanged words, the group prepared to leave with the soldiers.

But at this moment, Zhou Congcong, who was about to leave, suddenly turned around and stared at the steps in front of the door of the main room with sharp eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Wang Lili turned her head and asked.

There were several obvious footprints on the bluestone steps, which were just left by Ren Ye, and the footprints were stained with some dirt and flowers.

"Where did you come back from?" Zhou Congcong suddenly looked up at Ren Ye and asked in a hoarse voice.

Ren also heard the question and his heart skipped a beat. He immediately noticed the problem of the footprints, but he still pretended to be confused and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Why are there mud and grass on your shoes?! Is there grass in the backyard toilet?"

"brush!"

When he said this, Ren Ye looked down at the footprints and replied calmly, "I told you, I had a stomachache and was in a hurry to go to the dry toilet. I don't know when I stepped on the soil and flowers... If you think there is a problem, go to the toilet and look for footprints yourself."

Zhou Congcong glanced at Ren Ye's expression and turned to look at Wang Lili.

The two looked at each other. After a long silence, Wang Lili's eyes were filled with confusion: "Do you really want to go to the dry toilet to see what he poops?"

"...!"

"Or can you conclude that he killed someone just because there was some dirt and plants on his feet?" Wang Lili asked again.

With just one glance, Zhou Congcong understood that the other party seemed to favor that servant.

Again, in this chaotic era, if you really suspect a servant, why would you need evidence? As long as you feel that he is wrong, you can just drag him to a corner and torture him, or even kill him.

"Haha, someone died in your family, so if you say you don't want to use it, then don't use it." Zhou Congcong replied.

Wang Lili said nothing more and just walked away.

……

after an hour.

The security in the Wang Mansion was tightened. Not only were there many patrolling soldiers outside the reception courtyard where Ren Ye and his companions were staying, but even outside the houses where other guests lived, there were armed personnel with live ammunition.

On the fifth floor of Wang Mansion, in a suite.

Zhou Congcong sat on the sofa with an extremely ugly expression on his face, not feeling sleepy at all.

He sat there, legs crossed, feeling quite depressed.

Zhou Congcong knew that the Wang family had a dragon vault, but he had no idea where it was, what mechanisms were there, how to enter, or how to escape.

Only the family's strongest ace agent, Shopkeeper Qiu, had some understanding of the location. Before leaving, my father also said that Shopkeeper Qiu had secretly drawn a map of the Dragon Treasury and a directory of its mechanisms.

But now, he is dead.

The birthday banquet will start in two days. Without Manager Qiu to lead the way and help, it would be extremely difficult for Zhou Congcong to enter the Dragon Treasury quietly.

He was different from Liu Tang and others. He had a high status and lived in the main building of the mansion. He had no time and it was not appropriate for him to secretly investigate the Dragon Treasury before entering.

Why did Shopkeeper Qiu die?

The Dragon Treasury map and atlas in his hand were most likely stolen by thieves.

He was eager to find out the truth and wanted to know what exactly happened in the office tonight.

But unfortunately, Zhou Congcong was a guest and had no right to "investigate the case" in Wang Mansion. It was also extremely difficult to find clues privately.

After the murder, the Wang Mansion was on even tighter guard tonight. There were soldiers everywhere inside and outside the main building, and they had no chance to act alone.

If you want to take action, you must find a suitable reason and excuse, and it must be done quickly and not dragged on.

Otherwise, once the birthday banquet started and Wang Shoucai returned home, he would completely lose his opportunity.

Also, for some unknown reason, Zhou Congcong had a strong intuition that the behavior of "that servant" was a little abnormal, especially the soil and flowers under his feet, which made him feel a little weird.

But the other party is from the Gao family, so it is not easy to investigate. Wang Lili also seems to be willing to protect him.

How to do?

Zhou Congcong frowned as he thought.

"Captain, aren't you going to sleep yet?" Adjutant Zhou was so sleepy that his head drooped down, and he was forced to remind him helplessly.

Zhou Congcong looked up at him: "I have to find a suitable excuse to participate in the investigation of tonight's murder."

"What do you mean?" asked Adjutant Zhou.

Zhou Congcong slowly stood up, and after thinking for a while, he said softly: "Wait, wait until dawn."

"?" Adjutant Zhou didn't understand what he meant.

……

At the same time, in the wing of the reception courtyard.

Yu Weifeng said with a gloomy face: "It's troublesome, it's really troublesome now. There was a murder in the mansion... The security here will be even stricter, and it will be difficult for us to take action later."

"Moreover, the mechanisms in the underground passage are too strange and complicated." Old Qu also interjected, "We don't know the specific settings of the mechanisms or the construction drawings. It would be very difficult to explore the way forward based on enthusiasm alone. It is very likely that more people will die, and once an alarm mechanism is triggered, the Wang family may react."

"Yes, that mechanism is difficult to break." Yu Weifeng nodded.

At this moment, before Ren Ye could reply, A Pu suddenly said, "Mechanism? How difficult can it be?"