Chapter 65: Wrongfully Accused

Seeing the bodies of Zhao Li and Wu An lying on the street, Zhou Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, jumped directly into the hole where the two fell.

Zhou Chen went straight to Sun Ping'an's room. As he expected, Sun Ping'an was lying in a pool of blood. Judging from the wounds on his body, they should be caused by a humanoid monster. Zhou Chen bent down and helped him close his eyes with his hands.

Afterwards, Zhou Chen found a piece of white cloth to cover the bodies of several people and left. When he returned to the county government office, he told Lord Xia about this matter. Lord Xia was shocked when he learned that three people had been killed.

"What did you say? The three masters of the Demon Suppression Bureau were killed?"
"That's right," Zhou Chen then told Lord Xia everything that happened tonight. Lord Xia pondered for a while and said, "I will report this matter to the Demon Suppression Bureau. Be careful recently."

In the following days, the poisoned people in the city had basically recovered. Not only that, but the people outside the city were also getting better. As for the human-shaped monster, it never appeared again, as if this incident had never happened at all.

However, people still dare not go out at night. Five days later at noon, Zhou Chen was accompanying Leng Yiyao and the other two to practice swordsmanship when suddenly a constable came here and said, "Master Zhou and Master Xia want to see you."

Zhou Chen replied, "I understand," and then asked Leng Yiyao and Xia Rong to practice on their own, while he followed the constable to the meeting hall. As soon as he entered, he saw that in addition to Lord Xia, there were two other people inside whom he did not recognize. Judging from their clothes, they should be from the Demon Suppression Division.

Without waiting for Lord Xia to speak, an official from the Demon Suppression Division raised his hand and attacked Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen instinctively raised his hand to block and grasped his fist. This guy was very strong, with a strength of over 900, which was basically the same as Zhou Chen.

"You have quite some strength, little brother," he said, and retracted his arm.

Zhou Chen also retracted his stance and said, "Sir, you are also very powerful."

Lord Xia then said, "Please take a seat, both of you." After Zhou Chen sat down, Lord Xia said, "These two were sent by the Demon Suppression Division to investigate the case."

"My name is Qin Yong, this is my colleague Cui Li. The purpose of our visit is to investigate the monster case in Qinghua County, and by the way, to find out the cause of death of Sun Pingan and the other two."

Zhou Chen told them everything he knew. After listening, the two asked, "Brother Zhou just said that you followed the three of them to investigate the case that day?"
"That's right."

"If that's the case, then why did my three colleagues die while you, brother Zhou, were totally unharmed?"
Zhou Chen's face changed and he asked, "What do you two mean? Do you suspect that I was the one who killed the three adults?"
Cui Li on the side said, "It's not impossible."

Zhou Chen slammed the table and stood up suddenly, saying, "Sir, you have to provide evidence when you speak."

"If it's not you, then why are you so excited?"
Seeing that the situation was not right, Lord Xia quickly tried to smooth things over and said, "Okay, my lords, I know Brother Zhou's character. He would never do such a thing. I can assure you of that."

"Sir Xia, why are you guaranteeing him? Do you have so much information about him?"
Zhou Chen's eyes were cold and the two of them also felt an invisible murderous aura spreading over them, "Oh, why do you want to kill us too?"
"Lord Xia, it seems that these two lords are very dissatisfied with me. In that case, I will take my leave." After saying that, he left without paying any attention to the two of them.

Late at night, a humanoid monster sneaked into the county government office. No one inside the government office noticed it until it came to Zhou Chen's room. Zhou Chen, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes.

The monster on the roof was about to leave when suddenly a vine emerged from the ground and grew rapidly, directly entangling the monster on the roof.

At this time Zhou Chen's voice came over, "I didn't expect that there would be a monster in Qinghua County." The strength of this monster is not low, it has reached 956, which is much stronger than the previous one.

A smile appeared on the humanoid monster's lips. Zhou Chen wondered what he was laughing at, and then he saw him rushing towards him. Zhou Chen didn't have a knife in his hand, so he stepped back to avoid his attack. Then he activated his magical power of the Eight-Armed Wolf Spider, and eight spider legs grew behind him in an instant.

Just when Zhou Chen was about to attack, the humanoid monster turned around and ran away. Zhou Chen would never let him get away, so he immediately jumped onto the roof and chased after him. The man and the monster started chasing each other on the roof. Before they had chased for long, Zhou Chen heard a voice, "How dare you come to the government office and act so recklessly." Zhou Chen turned around and saw a blood-red knife slashing towards him.

Zhou Chen controlled one of the spider's legs to block the attack, and at the same time his body flew backwards quickly.

After the previous attack, the humanoid monster had already run far away. It was too late to chase it now.

At this time, two adults from the Demon Suppression Bureau also came in front of Zhou Chen, and the long swords at their waists were already out.

"Why are you stopping me? The monster has already run away, why don't you chase it?"

"Humph, compared to that little beast, I think you are much more harmful than him."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Chen suddenly thought of the eight spider legs behind him, "You misunderstood this as my magical power, I am not a monster."

The two of them snorted coldly with disdain, "Hmph, do you think supernatural powers are cabbages that can be bought on the roadside? Not to mention you, even we two brothers have not succeeded in comprehending supernatural powers. How can you, a mere casual martial artist, have so many supernatural powers?"

"Brother Qin, take down this kid," he said, drawing his knife and rushing towards Zhou Chen to kill him. Qin Yong stood aside and did not take any action, but waited for an opportunity to act.

Cui Li's strength reached 960, which was the same as Zhou Chen. Although Zhou Chen did not bring a knife, he was not at a disadvantage thanks to the eight spider legs behind him. On the other hand, even though Cui Li had an extremely sharp Demon-Suppressing Knife in his hand, it did not leave any marks on the spider legs.

Zhou Chen's eight spider legs were extremely flexible and forced Cui Li to retreat step by step. However, he did leave some room for him and did not kill him. If he had accidentally injured this guy, it would have been even more difficult to say what would happen.

Seeing that Cui Li was defeated, Qin Yong, who was watching from the side, also drew his sword and joined in. Zhou Chen sneered. Even if Qin Yong joined in the close combat, Zhou Chen was still able to handle it with ease.

After the three of them exchanged dozens of moves, an official seal came flying towards them. The three of them sensed the danger in advance and stepped back to avoid it, saying, "Stop fighting, we are all on the same side."

Seeing Lord Xia coming, the two of them decided not to embarrass Zhou Chen anymore and left the roof after a cold snort. Zhou Chen put away the eight-armed wolf spider behind him and gave Lord Xia a helpless smile.

Lord Xia and Zhou Chen landed at the same time, "Xiaochen, you have given me another surprise. In fact, sometimes I wonder if you are a monster in human form."

"Indeed, the eight spider legs behind me can easily make people suspicious, but please believe me, I am definitely not."

After the two returned to their rooms, the humanoid monster appeared again in the county government office. A smile appeared on the monster's lips, and then it jumped away from the county government office.

On the second day of Qingchen, when Zhou Chen and Leng Yiyao were practicing swordsmanship, Zhou Chen noticed that someone was secretly spying on him not far away. As for who it was, there was no need to think about it, and Zhou Chen did not care and continued to practice martial arts with Leng Yiyao.

Leng Yiyao has a good talent. Now his Liuhe swordsmanship has reached the entry level and his strength has reached 20 points.

(End of this chapter)