But behind him, apart from people coming and going, nothing unusual was seen.

  "Chu Ci, what's wrong?" Su Chen asked as he saw her turn around and gaze into the distance.

  Chu Ci furrowed his brow and turned back, shaking his head and saying: "Let's go take a look at the Lanz family first."

  "I'm afraid it's gone for good. I asked around when I came, and they said that the Blue House was burned to ashes in just one night two days ago."

  Upon hearing this, Chu Ci's eyes sank even further: "I don't know who set the fire and committed murder?"

  Su Chen nodded and replied: "It's said that the fire was set in the middle of the night."

  Chu Ci thought for a moment and said, "I understand now. There must be an informant of the murderer in the city, who knew we were coming to Qingzhou to investigate the case. And perhaps there was a clue we wanted in this Blue House Fort, but it was burned down by them."

  Qiqi angrily flung open her folding fan and fanned the air, saying: "This time I must catch these scoundrels!"

  "Let's go take a look at Lanzhou first." Chu Ci felt that it was inappropriate for several people to just stand on the street, so he thought of going to Lanzhou Fortress first.

  Because Chu Ci and his mother had visited their great-grandfather in Qingzhou several years ago, they were quite familiar with the route to Blue House Village. At the end of the bustling main street was a large road paved with white jade stone, lined with tall and straight bamboo trees, whose green leaves overlapped each other, casting dappled shadows. Behind the bamboo forest was the location of Blue House Village.

  However, when Chu Ci led Su Chen and Cheng Qi past the bamboo forest, they involuntarily stopped in their tracks, and even Cheng Qi took a sharp breath.

  The once magnificent and luxurious Blue House is now a desolate ruin as far as the eye can see.

  That magnificent Blue House was completely destroyed.

  Chu Ci suddenly heard a low sobbing sound coming from behind the half-collapsed stone wall, and Chu Ci furrowed his brow to locate the source of the sound.

  All that could be seen was a small, emaciated body crouching behind the stone wall, trembling violently. The child wore a dirty, tattered shirt that had lost its original color, and was about to bury his head in the ashes and cry, but soon became extremely uneasy and scurried towards the corner of the wall as he heard footsteps coming from behind.

  "Hey kid, don't be afraid! We're not bad people!" Cheng Qi shouted loudly at the child.

  "......" Chu Ci: "In the ninth month, the first day of the moon, I set out from the capital city..."

  Su Chen: "......"

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  As expected, the child was even more frightened, trembling all over and sobbing with his face covered.

  Chu Ci sighed and slowly walked forward, bent down and gently patted the little guy's shoulder, "Kid, how did you..."

  "Be careful of Chu Ci! He has an evil aura on him!"

  Su Chen suddenly shouted loudly behind him.

  Chu Ci suddenly narrowed her eyes, and when she came to, the little boy had already lifted his face up at her. Chu Ci then saw that his still somewhat childish eyes were burning with a faint, evil flame, which was fiercely and sinisterly rushing towards her. However, just as the little boy grabbed her hand in an attempt to invade her body with the evil flame, but in the next moment, he seemed to have been scalded by something on her hand, letting out a sharp cry of pain, and unexpectedly fainted.

  Chu Ci was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.

  Su Chen reached out and pulled up the child's wide sleeve, and sure enough, she saw a shallow black plum blossom mark on the child's arm.

  "It's really a person of the Witch tribe." Su Chen said with some deep hatred and resentment.

  Upon hearing this, Cheng Qi was so angry that he drew his sword to kill the unconscious demon child, but was stopped by Chu Ci, "What are you doing?"

  "Chu Ci, you get out of here! I've always hated those ghostly things from the Wu tribe. I'll kill one every time I see one!"

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