The woman gasped, looking at Ling Feng with increasing dread.
"Who exactly are you?" she asked, her voice trembling.
"My name is Ling Feng. And yours?" Ling Feng replied calmly.
The woman paused, her eyes warily scanning Ling Feng and the other man. She then took a deep breath. "My name is Shi Mengran, the legitimate successor of the Shi family!"
"Legitimate successor? So, the person we encountered earlier wasn't a true Shi family member?" Yang Fei stepped forward, his expression grim as he pressed for an answer.
Shi Mengran shot Yang Fei a sideways glance, her allure undiminished. "I don't know who you encountered! How can I tell if he's a traitor to our Shi family?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Fei looked to Ling Feng. Seeing Ling Feng nod slightly, Yang Fei stated with a composed face, "That person's name is Shi Kun!"
Hearing the name, Shi Mengran's face indeed turned a shade paler. "Shi Kun! You actually killed him? His Corpse Gu technique is very powerful, especially his skill in cultivating Bronze Armored Corpses!"
Ling Feng's lips curved slightly. It seemed catching up with Shi Mengran had yielded some results, at least in gaining more understanding of the Shi family.
"To be precise, Shi Kun wasn't killed by us. When we captured him, we intended to interrogate him about some matters. However, before he could finish speaking, he burst from the Gu worms within him!" Yang Fei clearly remembered Shi Kun's gruesome death. If Ling Feng hadn't warned him in time, Yang Fei might have also been affected by those Gu worms!
"So that's how it is. They have indeed pledged allegiance to that person!" Hatred flickered across Shi Mengran's face.
Ling Feng's expression turned icy. "Who is this person you speak of?"
Sensing the killing intent emanating from Ling Feng, Shi Mengran took two steps back before shaking her head. "If I knew who he was, I wouldn't be running around investigating!"
"What do you mean?" Ling Feng's brow furrowed slightly.
Shi Mengran shook her head again. "You still haven't told me who you are! Why should I tell you so much? Hmph, I haven't settled the score for today's events with you yet! You dead man, remember this!" With a delicate snort, Shi Mengran turned to leave.
Yang Fei looked embarrassed. He hadn't known Shi Mengran was a woman, and such a beautiful one at that, or he wouldn't have pinned her down.
However, Ling Feng wouldn't let Shi Mengran leave just like that. "Who we are is not important. What's important is that the person you're looking for, we are also looking for! The enemy of my enemy is my friend, you've heard that saying, right?"
"Hmm?" Hearing Ling Feng's words, Shi Mengran indeed stopped. But she still eyed Ling Feng's face with suspicion. Instinctively, Shi Mengran felt that Ling Feng was too unfathomable, and thus maintained a high degree of vigilance towards him!
"Do you know that person well? What are you looking for him for?"
"He took away the bodies of my loved ones. During our previous encounter, I severely wounded him, but I still need to finish him off myself!" Ling Feng didn't hide anything. Shi Mengran was clearly a very suspicious woman, and to glean information from her, he had to offer her sufficient trust.
"Hmm... You still haven't told me who you are? I can sense a strong Gu worm aura on you, and your martial arts strength is too formidable. I don't feel safe when I'm too close to you!" Shi Mengran remained highly cautious.
Ling Feng could only sigh in exasperation. Safety? He wasn't trying to be Shi Mengran's boyfriend, why would she need safety?
"Don't you want to cooperate with someone powerful?" Ling Feng uttered calmly.
This made Shi Mengran's heart waver. She then glanced back at Yang Fei before nodding. "Alright, you don't seem like bad people. This isn't a good place to talk, let's move somewhere else!" Saying this, Shi Mengran prepared to leave again, but this time she intended to bring Ling Feng and Yang Fei along.
Seeing this, Yang Fei couldn't help but interject, "Hey, where are you going? We've already booked a room upstairs!"
Booked a room? Shi Mengran's pretty face flushed slightly, and she turned to give Yang Fei a coquettish glare. "Don't you dare think of doing anything bad!" The moment she said this, it made people's imaginations run wild.
The three of them then entered the elevator. Ling Feng didn't look at Shi Mengran much. Although in the elevator's light, Shi Mengran seemed even more radiant, especially her fair skin. It was precisely because of Ling Feng's uprightness that Shi Mengran became even more curious about him.
"You are not from Nanyun."
"No," Ling Feng replied truthfully.
"Then how do you know the art of witchcraft? The witchcraft of Nanyun has always been kept secret!" Shi Mengran kept asking questions.
"I learned it recently after arriving in Nanyun." Ling Feng frowned slightly. He had initially wanted to learn more from this woman, but it seemed this woman had many questions herself.
"Impossible. You only learned it recently, yet I feel the Gu worms on you are so powerful? Where did you learn it from?" Indeed, Shi Mengran's curiosity about Ling Feng was unbridled, and she voiced all her questions.
Ling Feng's voice grew colder. "The Witch God Hall!"
"The Witch God Hall? Oh, so you're from the Witch God Hall. No wonder!" Shi Mengran appeared to have a sudden realization. "I was supposed to go to the Witchcraft Conference a while ago, but those rebels from my Shi family made some moves again. They are simply detestable!"
Seeing Shi Mengran shift the topic back to herself, Ling Feng seized the opportunity to press further. "The defectors from the Shi family? What have they been doing?"
"They frequently go to the 'Wenxiang' gathering to deal with corpses, and I also heard they snatched an ancient Corpse Gu technique auctioned by a family! They even stole a large number of Bronze Armored Corpses from our Shi family's ancient tombs!" Shi Mengran said with immense indignation, clenching her small fists as if she intended to bring the defectors to justice.
But upon hearing this, Ling Feng and Yang Fei found that the doubts from previous events were now completely resolved!
"The Bronze Armored Corpses you're talking about were likely stolen by that Shi Kun. We discovered those Bronze Armored Corpses in a mountain village earlier. They were used in some sort of sacrificial ritual! They nearly caused the deaths of three thousand people in several villages!" Yang Fei's face was grim as he recounted the incident!
"It really was Shi Kun. How detestable! Since he has appeared, the others must also be making some big moves!" Shi Mengran's expression grew even more somber, as if something terrifying was about to happen!