“Knock knock!”
A knock on the door suddenly sounded.
The three people inside the room immediately stopped talking and exchanged a look with each other before Zhao Yun shouted to the outside, “Who is it?”
“Express!”
Only then did the trio’s expressions relax.
Zhao Yun quickly walked out, only to see a courier standing outside the door, holding a parcel in his hand.
The courier sized up Zhao Yun and asked, “Who are you?”
“I live here, who do you think I am.”Zhao Yun said, “Give me the parcel.”
The courier didn’t hand the parcel to Zhao Yun, instead he said somewhat warily, “You don’t live here.”
Zhao Yun felt a little strange and asked, “How do you know I don’t live here?”
The courier said, “I come here every week to deliver couriers, but I’ve never seen you before, and it used to be Brother Chen who came out to pick up the courier.”
“Which Brother Chen?”Zhao Yun asked again.
“Dong Chen!”After the courier finished, he looked at Zhao Yun with surprised eyes and asked, “You don’t know Dong Chen? Who the hell are you?”
“Hahaha, how could I not know Dong Chen, he’s my cousin.”Zhao Yun laughed, “I used to work in my hometown and just came over today.”
“No wonder I said how I haven’t seen you before.”The courier dropped his guard and asked, “Where’s Brother Chen?”
“Went out on an errand.”
“Then help sign for Brother Chen.”
The courier handed the parcel to Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun took the parcel and quickly signed for it, however, he found that the courier stood still and didn’t mean to leave.
“Why aren’t you leaving?”Zhao Yun asked in confusion.
The courier said, “In the past, after Brother Chen signed for the courier, he would give me a hundred yuan tip.”
“Really?”Zhao Yun’s heart fluttered as he asked, “Then tell me, what does my cousin look like?”
“No way, you don’t even know what your cousin looks like? Are you Chen’s cousin or not?”
“Nonsense! I’m not his cousin you are! I just want to confirm whether you recognise my cousin or not, after all, there are too many crooks these days, I don’t want to be cheated.”
Seeing Zhao Yun looking a bit angry, the courier laughed, “So that’s how it is, okay, I’ll give you a description of what Brother Chen looks like.”
“Brother Chen has a round face, very short hair, and a black mole the size of a small thumbnail above his chin, right?”
“What else?”
“And there’s also the fact that Chen’s face is a bit paler than normal, I asked Chen before and he said that he had an illness when he was a child, and his face looked like that after he recovered from the illness, right?”
“Then do you know how tall my cousin is?”
The courier took another look at Zhao Yun and said, “You’re a head taller than Brother Chen.”
“Looks like you didn’t lie to me, you really do know my cousin.”Zhao Yun pulled out a red banknote and handed it to the courier.
“Thanks.”The courier rode away with a joyful smile.
Zhao Yun returned to the house and asked, “You all heard what the courier said just now, right?”
Ye Qiu and the Dragon King nodded.
“It seems like this Dong Chen, should be someone from the Witch God Cult.”Zhao Yun said.
“Regardless of whether he’s someone from the Witch God Cult or not, since we already have his physical features, let’s immediately send out a Wanted Notice in the Jianghu and ask our brothers to help find him.”The Dragon King instructed Zhao Yun, “Tell the brethren that whoever finds Dong Chen will be rewarded one million.”
“Yes.”Zhao Yun took out his mobile phone and made a quick call.
At this time, Ye Qiu’s eyes fell on the parcel.
It was only four square and tightly wrapped, he weighed it in his hand and found that the parcel wasn’t heavy before tearing off the tape.
“Be careful.”Dragon King reminded.
“Hmm.”Ye Qiu’s movements were light and slow, and it took him thirty seconds before he tore the tape on top of the package.
Opening the box, he found two piles of cash inside.
Ye Qiu took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, the cash was all real, a total of twenty thousand.
“Strange, there are still people mailing cash these days?”Ye Qiu muttered in a low voice.
The Dragon King laughed, “This is actually not strange, nowadays hurry up is very developed, mailing all sorts of things.”
Ye Qiu followed and added, “This sender mailed cash to Dong Chen, it seems like they have a good relationship.”
The Dragon King nodded slightly, agreeing with Ye Qiu’s statement, saying, “Earlier that courier said that he would come here every week to deliver couriers, let’s boldly reason it out, if the courier delivers cash every time, that means Dong Chen would receive at least 80,000 in cash a month, so the question arises, who would give him so much cash? And what is the purpose of this cash?”
“Could it be activity funds?”Ye Qiu asked.
“I think your guess is right.”The Dragon King said, “This is the Jiangzhou branch of the Witch God Cult, and besides Dong Chen, there must be other people who have to spend money every month. This money should be the funds that the Witch God Cult gives them for their activities.”
“I still have one more question, if this money is really the Witch God Cult’s activity funding for the Jiangzhou branch, then why didn’t they transfer it to Dong Chen via bank transfer, or Alipay, instead of using this method of mailing cash?”
“I think that the Witch God Cult might be thinking that the mailed method is safer, after all, online payments and bank transfers are easy to check.”
Ye Qiu took another look at the parcel, the mailing address on it was blurry, and he could only vaguely see the word “Jiangzhou” written at the beginning, which meant that the courier was sent from somewhere in Jiangzhou.
Moreover, the date of mailing was eight o’clock this morning, which meant that the sender didn’t know that Dong Chen had already left the branch.
Ye Qiu hurriedly asked, “Dragon King, can you find out the address of this sender?”
“You want to find the sender?”
“Yes.”Ye Qiu said, “Based on our reasoning just now, we can conclude that this sender is most likely someone from the Witch God Cult as well, and if we can find him, then there might be unexpected gains.”
“This is a very good thought of yours, let’s split into two steps, we’ll search for Dong Chen on one side and this sender on the other, no matter which one we find, we can find the murderer who assassinated the Nine Thousand Years along the way.”The Dragon King said to Zhao Yun, who had just finished making a phone call, “I’ll leave both of these things to you, is there a problem?”
“No problem. If this shipping address is real, it will be found soon.”Zhao Yun started making calls again, arranging for someone to find the sender’s address.
Time passed by minute by minute.
In the blink of an eye, they had been in this courtyard for almost an hour.
Zhao Yun’s phone kept ringing, yet no particularly valuable clues were found.
Ye Qiu decided not to wait and used the tracking talisman once again, trying to track down Dong Chen’s whereabouts.
He quietly put his hands in front of him to make a seal, and recited an incantation in his mouth, when suddenly-
Puff!
A mouthful of blood spurted out.
Ye Qiu’s eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
