Chapter 245 There must be something fishy about this matter!

At this moment.

Ning Rongrong looked up at Zhou Qing and found that his eyes had become extremely bright. They were no longer as deep as the night sky, but sparkling like the stars in the night sky.

It seemed as if from this moment on, every word he said could be believed.

“Are you… okay?” Ning Rongrong asked tentatively.

“Yes, and it’s a big deal.” Zhou Qing looked at Ning Rongrong with gratitude, “You made me see clearly what I want.”

“baffling.”

Ning Rongrong pouted, but also took the opportunity to say, “Anyway, I was the one who helped you, right?”

“Yes.”

“Then how are you going to thank me? Why not give me the eggs of the Goddess of Light Butterfly as a thank you gift?”

“It’s a beautiful thought.”

Zhou Qing chuckled, “Do you want me to pledge my love to you? You will give me the entire Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect as a gift?”

“I’ll return your words to you: That’s a nice thought.” Ning Rongrong raised her lips and smiled happily – in the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, no one had ever dared to talk to her like this.

After leaving the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, people she met along the way were extremely respectful to her after seeing the carriage she was riding in and looking at the fabric of the clothes she was wearing.

This “Qing Zhou” was very respectful to me when he was in the hotel, but now I think about it, how can that be called respectful? It’s obvious that he was joking with me!

Zhou Qing squatted in front of Ning Rongrong and said, “Come up, it’s a return gift.”

“Hmph, you know what’s going on!”

Ning Rongrong jumped up, crossed her legs over Zhou Qing’s shoulders, and straddled his neck.

“Hey, I didn’t tell you to ride on my head.” Zhou Qing staggered and almost fell, muttering to himself, but he still supported Ning Rongrong and slowly stood up and walked onto the busy street.

Along the way, Zhou Qing bought whatever Ning Rongrong wanted to eat, but as long as the price was more than one gold soul coin, he would ignore Ning Rongrong no matter how she made a fuss.

“You are such a stingy guy.” Ning Rongrong complained while chewing on rice cake.

“You are not the head of the household, so you don’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.”

“Huh, didn’t I ask you to spend my soul card?”

“Please, do the small vendors on this street have soul coin machines that can swipe soul cards? Do you think this is a big city like Tiandou City?” Zhou Qing rolled his eyes and argued with Ning Rongrong, no longer speaking carefully.

He had figured out that the more respectful he was to Ning Rongrong, the more she would take it for granted, and would even instinctively put on airs like a young lady.

If she is not treated so politely, she will put the other person on a more equal position with herself.

It’s similar to Stockholm syndrome, but not as serious. Zhou Qing is sure that if someone really dares to persecute or threaten Ning Rongrong, she will definitely resist very strongly.

Therefore, he had to strike a balance so as not to go too far and cause the little witch to really go crazy, which would not be soothed by a few words.

【ε=(ο｀*)))Alas, I have discovered that every one of the Shrek Seven Devils in the original novel is different from ordinary people in terms of mental and psychological aspects! 】

“How could this mischievous little witch get along so well with an outsider?”

The people who were secretly guarding Ning Rongrong were all shocked.

“That kid is quite capable.” Someone was amazed at Zhou Qing’s ability to coax children.

“It must be a disguise! With Rongrong’s temper, how could he be so close to him? The boy’s companions before were very rude!”

Some people don’t believe that Ning Rongrong would be so obedient.

“I think Princess Rongrong might want to get the white jade-like thing from the boy, so she’s trying to get close to him.”

Someone guessed the truth.

But no matter how these people speculated, they could not hide one thing, that is, Ning Rongrong, who was riding on Zhou Qing’s back at this time, was smiling happily…

Tang San, Xiao Wu and Romantina, who acted separately, had no idea that Zhou Qing had “neglected his duties”. They were still conscientiously investigating the horror legends in Falling Star City and what had happened in the past six years in their own ways.

As for hunting down the Soul Sect——

How could it be more important than finding out the truth for Zhou Qing?
Naturally, they were pushed back.

Moreover, the Soul Sect ran to this Falling Star City to hide, and there is a high probability that he has a secret connection with Darles:

In the past six years, many people have gone missing inside and outside Luoxing City, but they are all small-time figures with no relatives or friends, and the places where the missing people live are very scattered.

Although looking at the problem from the perspective of the entire Douluo Continent, there must be a large number of people missing or dying every day due to various accidents, but for those missing or dead people, ordinary people would at most say something like “bad luck”, so how could it become a “horror legend”?
Especially in a small city like Luoxing City, although there are large areas of mountains, forests and plains outside, which have not yet been truly reclaimed, soul beasts are already rare and rarely hurt people.

In other words, apart from death from old age, illness, and accidental “collision” with soul masters or nobles, all other deaths and disappearances must be caused by someone else.

In particular, the residents inside and outside the Falling Star City had been missing for six years, and the city lord and officials seemed not to have noticed it and really regarded it as a “horror legend.”

Either Darles is just sitting there doing nothing but making profits for himself without caring about the safety of the people in the city.

Either he knows the inside story, or this matter is related to him, so he doesn’t want to care or doesn’t care about it, and he may even secretly use this matter to gain greater benefits.

If Darles is really the murderer of Zhou Qing’s parents, and he is also connected to the Soul Sect, and is also related to the disappearances of people in the city in the past six years, then maybe we can kill three birds with one stone!
Tang San’s investigation method was very direct. He first went to another empty alley, then took out a black night suit from Yue Ziming on the twelfth floor, put it on quickly, left the bustling night market, and sneaked into the dark streets of the city. Relying on the far superior vision brought by the Purple Demon Pupil, and with the help of moonlight, his figure flashed quickly in these streets like a ghost, and soon came to a relatively open area.

As far as the eye can see, there is only a tall and spacious mansion twenty meters ahead, and its area is no smaller than the Xiao Mansion in Notting City.

As the saying goes: Capture the leader first.

Instead of going to the city to ask someone for information, Tang San thought it would be better to be direct and sneak into Darles’s mansion to look for intelligence – for him, this method is very familiar.

In a small city like Luoxing City, the guards are at most first-ring soul masters, or maybe not even soul masters, so there is no need to worry.

The only trouble may belong to Darles himself, whose martial soul is the Fanged Boar. He has just obtained the third soul ring and his soul power has reached level 31.

However, from Tang San’s point of view, for a man like Darles who is broad and fat and has the strength of a Soul Master, it would be good enough if he could exert 60% to 70% of his strength.

So, after thinking for a moment, Tang San jumped up, climbed over the wall, moved quickly along the corner, and came to a courtyard.

After walking quickly along the wall for a distance, he saw five servants carrying seven or eight food boxes and more than twenty plates of food walking by in the corridor not far away. Tang San had to hide behind a nearby rockery.

However, he also looked at the moon hanging high in the sky with doubt, and thought to himself: “For a family of officials and dignitaries like this, no matter what unseen habits they have in private, they value etiquette the most. It’s past mealtime, and if they’re hungry, they’ll just have some snacks at most. Why do they need five servants?”

“If we were hosting a banquet, this mansion wouldn’t be so quiet.”

“There must be something fishy about this matter—”

(End of this chapter)