The yell and pebble changed the situation instantly. Just as everyone present was stunned by this sudden arrival, the person in the dark suddenly leaped into the open. Where he appeared from was the exact opposite from the direction of the yelling. He did not show up near the location where Si Yanran was fighting Passing Rain but appeared several meters behind Feng Bujue.
The man had on the same outfit as the dead Wang Ao on the ground. They wore the same green outfit. Since he moved very fast and intended to hide his identity, even the closest Feng Bujue did not see his face clearly. All he knew was that the new arrival had a square face, possessed a large and muscular body, and was a kung fu expert.
Feng Bujue snapped out of it. He quickly turned around and moved into defense mode, but this new arrival's target was not him at all. The new arrival roared as he extended his palm and hit the dead body on the ground. He had been channeling this strike for a long time, and when it connected, the strike sounded like thunder in the air.
Feng Bujue understood the man's intention directly, but he was too powerless to do anything. Wang Ao's body practically exploded under the man's aggressive strikes. Half of the body where the darts poked out shattered into pieces, and the guts splattered everywhere.
After the man did that, he turned and yelled at Si Yanran, "Let's go!"
Then, he aimed a palm strike at the space before Feng Bujue, trying to force the latter back. The situation dawned on Si Yanran as well. She knew who the new arrival was. Therefore, she turned and escaped. At the same time, she threw out about ten darts to cover her escape.
The darts were weak in terms of force and speed. There were merely many of them, and they covered a large area. Xiao Tan and Passing Rain who were close to her had to either retreat or block them. Si Yanran's real purpose was to escape, so she focused most of her energy on her Qinggong, and the darts were merely to buy her some time.
The man and Si Yanran rushed in two different directions, and they both launched an attack while retreating. This meant that the players could not catch up to them even if they wanted to. With their expert Qinggong, of the five players, the only one who could catch up to them was Feng Bujue, and that was only if he could maintain Body Enhancement Spell for a long time. Passing Rain's physical ability was better than Brother Jue's, but she did not have the necessary status support. With just her pure physical ability, she was not going to reach these two's speed. That was probably possible only when she was level twenty-five but definitely not yet.
"What just happened?" Xiao Tan asked.
Before Feng Bujue answered him, Laughing Soul walked over and explained, "You still haven't understood it? Someone is planning to push this blame onto us."
"Huh?" Xiao Tan looked at her with confusion. Atobe had the same expression as Xiao Tan. "What do you mean by that?"
"The explanation is already before your eyes…" Feng Bujue had already deactivated Body Enhancement Spell. "The dead body cannot be recognized anymore. The two can claim their own version of what happened here."
He walked toward Wang Ao's body. "From the woman's actions and words, it is clear that she did not wish for others to know she had killed this man, and we just so happened to witness her murder.
"From her perspective, there were only two options.
"One, abandon the body and slip away, hoping that we haven't seen her face.
"Two, kill and silence all of us.
"She chose the second one. That means that… the kung fu or hidden weapon that she used is very recognizable in the martial world. She felt like even if we did not see her face, once we looked at the body, we would know her identity immediately. Therefore, once she saw me get near, she decided to continue the killing spree."
"Oh! No wonder at the start, you said 'I don't know you, and I don't know him' and 'you can deal with this body all you want' and so on." The truth finally dawned on Xiao Tan.
Feng Bujue nodded. "At the time, I already understood what she was planning. I tried to negotiate for a peaceful solution, but obviously, she did not trust us. Then again, that was not her fault. That is merely human nature. If I was her and I was witnessed by several strangers when I was committing a serious crime, no matter how sincere they promised to help me keep the secret, I would not have trusted them. In the end, they would only use this to threaten me, and honestly, if it did not evolve into something like that, I would feel incredibly unsettled."
As Feng Bujue said that, he squatted down next to the disgusting pile of guts. "The man that appeared later has probably been observing us from the dark for a long time already. He initially thought that he didn't need to intervene and that the woman could kill all of us herself, so he decided to watch from the side."
His brows creased in thought. "The kung fu experts in this scenario appear to be able to tell that none of us know kung fu, or rather, they can tell that we do not possess internal energy from a glance. I believe it is no exception for the man and the woman from before."
He used the wrench to pull out the darts from the glob of meat. He studied them before his eyes. "But our fighting ability was far beyond their expectations. At this point, the woman was determined to fight to the death. It was then that the man realized that the situation had gone out of control and thus came up with this solution…"
Feng Bujue searched the half of the body that was still rather intact and tried to find some personal effects.
"…Destroy the body." He continued in a surprisingly admiring tone. "Now that the body is in this state, they can easily claim that we killed him, and he and that woman just so happened to arrive and got into a severe fight with us. That was how the darts ended up lying around the area.
"Humph… before that man rushed out, he had been observing the situation for a very long time, and the solution covered all possible complications. At the dangerous moment, he yelled to distract our attention, and then he leaped forth and attacked the part of the body where the hidden weapons were poking through, destroying it with one move.
"If the body was untainted, one can tell the difference between when a hidden weapon was shot into the body when the target was still alive and when a hidden weapon was poked into the flesh after the target died. They could do so by tracing the vital wounds. But now… even if we are in possession of these hidden weapons, they cannot explain anything. With how the body looks now, you could even claim that he was killed by a wild beast."
"Then, will we take the blame no matter what?" Atobe-sama asked.
"It doesn't matter regardless," Feng Bujue replied. He did not find anything on the body. He stood up and shrugged. "There is no telling whether is a good thing or a bad thing…"
"What do you mean by that, Brother Jue?" Xiao Tan asked.
At this point, Passing Rain added, "You want to use this as a bluff?"
"Clever." Feng Bujue smiled and winked at her.
Laughing Soul added, "Well, that is an idea…"
Atobe-sama looked at them with befuddlement. "Can you all stop communicating in riddles? What are you talking about now‽"
Feng Bujue turned to him and Xiao Tan. He smiled. "Ha… you'll see when tomorrow comes."
