Who hid My Corpse!

Lu Ji's house was turned upside down by the knights under Kelsay's command.

Kelsay stood outside the house, watching coldly. To tell the truth, he had already guessed what the truth might be, but he still had some disbelief in his heart, disbelief that Ulu could do such a thing.

So he was waiting here for evidence.

It wasn't long before a knight came running out of Lu Ji's room, reporting to Kelsay, "Knight Master, we've indeed found a large amount of bloodstains in Priest Lu Ji's room. Would you like to have a look?"

"Of course."

Impatiently pushing the knight aside, Kelsay strode directly into Lu Ji's room.

In this era, there was no way to identify a person by their blood, but with the aid of magic, a stain soaked in blood could be revealed (of course, only within a certain period of time).

And as soon as he entered the room, Kelsay saw such a scene.

With the help of the pale blue magical dust floating in the air, the crimson bloodstains stood out like blood spilled on pure white snow, almost covering the entire room's floor, as though all the blood had been drained from a person's body.

Without a doubt, with this amount of blood loss, survival would be impossible without the help of specific spells or divine arts.

Kelsay narrowed his eyes, murmuring softly, "It seems we have found the real location where Priest Lu Ji died."

His mind then flashed back to Lu Ji's corpse, whose entire abdomen was decayed, with over a dozen stab wounds on the body. These injuries didn't seem like the normal result of battle; the person who killed Lu Ji seemed more like they were venting their anger.

Regardless, at least it confirmed that Lu Ji did indeed die here, and not at the bar in Joy House.

That left just one last question.

Who killed Lu Ji?

The answer to that question was actually quite clear by now, given that there were only two people living in this courtyard, and the other person's room was less than fifty meters away from this one.

Could the person fifty meters away not know anything after Lu Ji was killed?

…it wasn't impossible, but the Rhein Knights didn't really need evidence, especially regarding Visas's Corpse Blocks.

But in Kelsay's heart, there was some resistance, resistance to the possibility that it was Ulu who had killed Lu Ji. He really did not want to believe it.

It wasn't because he couldn't accept that "an old friend of his could do such an atrocious act"—after all, in terms of friendship, Lu Ji was more of a friend to Kelsay than Ulu was. If Lu Ji was the one who betrayed Rhein, Kelsay wouldn't have a difficult time accepting that; he even felt that it wouldn't be surprising for that cunning bastard to do such a thing. But it was Ulu, problematic because, in Kelsay's eyes, Ulu was nothing more than a dog they raised.

They had picked him up during that winter twenty years ago, fed him, taught him to read, made him a priest, and then…

This was like raising a dog, providing food and clothing for the dog, letting it grow strong, not to stand on an equal footing with oneself, but to keep pleasing oneself.

But now, this dog… had bitten back.

It had killed its master.

This filled Kelsay, also a master, with indescribable rage.

Therefore, Kelsay would rather believe that a cultist used some special method to kill Lu Ji without Ulu's knowledge than believe that Ulu, the dog, had indeed turned on his master.

Unfortunately, more evidence pointed to the very fact that Kelsay least wanted to believe.

"Knight Master! Bloodstains have also been found outside the house!" Not much later, another knight reported from outside.

Kelsay immediately walked out and saw the knight pointing to a patch of dug-up soil.

Even without getting close, Kelsay could already smell the stench of blood emanating from the soil.

"What's happened here?" Kelsay asked.

"Based on my analysis, Priest Lu Ji's body seems to have been buried here for a period of time," the knight said. "But not for long, it was dug up the next day."

Before Kelsay could respond, another knight came running from Ulu's house.

"Knight Master!" The knight presented a blood-stained priest's robe to Kelsay, "This was found in Priest Ulu's room."

Kelsay's eyes narrowed slightly.

Now everything fell into place.

In Kelsay's mind, he was able to reconstruct everything that had happened here.

Ulu had killed Lu Ji, and he had buried the body. The day Kelsay arrived, Lu Ji's body was buried just fifty meters away!

At the thought, Kelsay felt a shiver down his spine.

That person, that dog, the toy that he and Lu Ji had suppressed for twenty years... had dared to do such a thing!

Kelsay's body trembled slightly, not from fear, but from anger.

It was the anger of a master threatened by his own raised dog.

"That guy," he spoke softly, "where is he?"

Although it was not yet apparent, the knights familiar with Kelsay knew he was on the verge of exploding.

But they truly did not know where Ulu had gone, so they didn't know how to reply to Kelsay.

But just then, a knight came in pushing three servants.

"Knight Master!" The knight forced the three trembling servants down, then said, "These three were the last to see Priest Ulu."

Kelsay's gaze swept over the faces of the three servants, nodding slightly.

"Good," he said softly, "tell me, where is he?"

...

Ulu stood on a familiar yet strange dirt road and stopped in his tracks.

He hesitated as he looked at the road leading out of the town.

The reason he found the road familiar was that he had walked it for many years.

But the reason it was strange was that he had not been here for twenty years.

Ever since he had set that fire with his own hands, he had never come back.

He hadn't thought that one day he would return to this road.

"What's wrong?" Bai Wei's voice echoed in Ulu's mind. "Is there a problem?"

"No, Lord Visas," Ulu came to his senses and shook his head. "No, there are no problems."

Taking a deep breath, the cold wind with a chill nicked his nostrils, just like... back then.

Then he lifted his foot and stepped onto the road that once led to his home.