Chapter Sixty-Three: Ill Omens Must Die (Part Nine)

What?

The fact that Huang Leji suddenly changed his tune, claimed he had found a clue, and even produced the person directly, evidently shocked a crowd of people.

How much better if you had just done this earlier! Fu Qian shook his head.

Regardless of what excuse Huang Leji used, he simply did not believe that mobilizing the full strength of the Huang family would fail to turn up any clues.

Failing to find an Omen was one thing, but if they couldn't even track down a third party who stood a woman up, then the Huang family's century-old reputation had truly gone to the dogs.

Furthermore, Huang Leji’s behavior today was abnormal to begin with.

He had shown up before the appointed time, sincerely admitted his mistakes on the spot, and even dispatched his gold-medal enforcers and elite squads to be placed entirely at their disposal.

He had lowered his stance far too much!

Combining these two factors, there was only one explanation—they had found the person, only to unhappily discover that Fu Qian had been right all along, and that fellow was indeed connected to the Huang family.

Considering that the head of the Huang family had boasted just yesterday that they had absolutely no connection to the Huang family, this was a massive slap to the face.

Therefore, to preserve the family's dignity, he had come prepared to put on a righteous attitude while stubbornly denying everything.

Unfortunately, there wasn't that much time to play games with him.

"It seems I was mistaken then. My apologies, beautiful lady."

Now that Huang Leji had finally caved, Fu Qian wore a look of shock and shame, solemnly apologizing to the woman called Xiaoying.

Hmph!

The woman called Xiaoying was clearly in a very bad mood, letting out a huff through her nose as a response.

Without needing to look, this woman was obviously the one who had released the bugs into the room last night.

The reason he hadn't had Su Gao finish her off on the spot was precisely to deal with situations where the Huang family failed to cooperate properly.

Originally, mentioning eyewitnesses yesterday was just something he casually threw out to drag the Huang family into the mud; if things really blew up, Huang Leji could still argue he was being slandered, especially since he didn't have much solid evidence.

However, the crime of monitoring and spying on the Nightwalkers' operation was set in stone, and Su Gao could completely verify it.

Only now was the Huang family truly pinned down and unable to wiggle out of it.

Huang Leji clearly realized this, so he honestly conceded defeat.

I must admit, the Huang family's efficiency was quite good; after the group awkwardly waited for less than half an hour, a certain fellow was escorted in.

This man was in his early twenties, with a slick and greased appearance. The first thing he did upon entering was rush toward Huang Leji and wail miserably, though he was hauled back by others before he even got close.

"Consultant Fu, this is the suspicious individual we discovered, Huang Jinyong, the person invited by yesterday's victim."

Huang Leji introduced him without a trace of embarrassment.

"Although this person is a scion of the Huang family, considering the gravity of the matter, I had him brought over at the first possible moment."

Oh?

Fu Qian looked at Huang Jinyong, who was half-crawling and half-kneeling on the floor.

"Do you know a woman named Geng Yue?"

This...

Huang Jinyong subconsciously raised his head to look.

"Answer whatever is asked of you honestly."

Huang Leji said coldly.

By now, the Huang family had no face left to speak of; continuing to cover things up would only make them a bigger laughingstock.

Besides, he had already questioned this troublemaking bastard thoroughly beforehand, confirming that he had nothing to do with any Omens.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken the risk to cover for him and given that fellow surnamed Fu a chance to rub it in his face.

"I... I know her!"

Huang Jinyong was startled and answered honestly.

"She invited you to lunch yesterday?"

"Yes..."

"Then why did you kill her and go on the run?"

...

"No, I didn't! I really didn't! I didn't even go, how could I kill anyone?!"

Huang Jinyong's voice was already tinged with a sob.

"You didn't go even though someone was treating you to a meal? That behavior in itself is very abnormal. Why should I believe you?"

"It's true, really true! I've been hiding from her for half a month. She kept pestering me, insisting I come out to talk..."

"Hiding from her? Why don't you clear up the details?"

Fu Qian raised his eyes and caught more than one gossipy gaze, so he simply decided to let these people satisfy their curiosity.

"It's like this..."

Terrified out of his wits, Huang Jinyong didn't dare to conceal anything at this point, quickly spilling the details of his relationship with Geng Yue.

According to his account, Geng Yue was a woman he had picked up a year ago, and the two of them had been carrying on a clandestine affair for over a year.

Things had been sweet and harmonious in the middle, but recently Geng Yue became increasingly brazen, intending to dump her husband and live a life for just the two of them, which caused him to start hiding and avoiding her.

Heh, what a heart-stirring romance story!

"It's impossible for me to actually be with her. I've been lying to her all along."

Huang Jinyong wore a mournful face.

"The reason I was able to hook up with her in the first place was because I told her I was an Awakened, but I'm actually not!"

"And you expect her to just believe that?"

"...I am a member of the Huang family."

Understood.

Fu Qian nodded.

"Did she ever mention anything about her husband to you?"

"Not much. She just said he was a petty merchant, very boring, and frequently had to go on business trips, while she deeply yearned for the world of the Awakened..."

Fu Qian looked up, and Captain Qiao and the other two all wore stiff expressions.

This fellow looked like a complete soft-boiled egg at first glance, and what he said was most likely the truth.

Yet, if things were truly as he claimed, Geng Yue's husband was utterly tragic.

As a genuine Awakened, he gave up a superior status to marry his childhood sweetheart, starting a plain and ordinary life from then on, only to have his wife stolen away by a fake Awakened.

What kind of tragic romance novel script was this!

"The Huang family has been unfortunate to produce such an unworthy descendant, truly bringing disgrace to our lineage. We have made you and the Executive Judge Su laugh at our expense."

Huang Leji spoke at this moment, putting on a posture of righteousness.

"Let this person stay here to assist with the investigation, after all, it's not yet certain whether what he said is true."

Hearing this, Huang Jinyong burst into another round of wailing and crying.

"Old Master Huang is very thorough in his considerations."

Fu Qian offered a polite remark, completely bypassing what the other man had said yesterday.

He wasn't someone who liked to split hairs; as long as the objective was met, that was enough.

Huang Jinyong himself was completely unimportant.

Fu Qian didn't care about their romantic affairs either; in fact, he had always felt that the probability of Geng Yue's death being related to the Omen was quite low.

Going through all this trouble wasn't just to listen to some gossip.

Fu Qian's target had always been the Omen.

Judging from the current outcome, it seemed no valuable information had been obtained, but many times, getting no result was a result in itself.

As a century-old elite family, the Huang family had been pushed to this point and yet could only dig up such a piece of trash. To a certain extent, this hinted at a possibility—this Omen was hiding within the Huang family itself.

Think about it, how conspicuous is an external Awakened, let alone one who needs to ruthlessly murder people everywhere they go? How could they leave no trace whatsoever under such a search?

Unless it was right under their noses in the family's blind spot, and the culprit was even using the family's protection to cover their tracks.

Next, they could try using this direction to narrow down the scope.

Hopefully, there was still time.

Right at that moment, someone behind Huang Leji hurried over and whispered something into his ear.

The latter's expression instantly changed drastically as he looked at Fu Qian, speaking word by word.

"Someone in the Huang family was just murdered. It might be the work of the Omen!"