Dressed as the last nine-tailed fox

Chapter 356: Destroying the City (3)

Under Fu Rou's frightened and shocked eyes, Pei Enze spread his hands indifferently, "As for the...back-up plan you mentioned." When he mentioned the word "back-up plan", Pei Enze pronounced the word more heavily, expressing his contempt clearly.

"Everything related to Fuxing City was done by Pei Yan alone. It has nothing to do with the Celestial Clan. If something goes wrong, he will naturally be held responsible for his own actions. As for me, after discovering what Pei Yan did, I immediately made him pay the price and sought justice for those imprisoned souls." Pei Enze paused, with a smile in his voice, "After all, the souls imprisoned in the underground of Fuxing City are just some human beings. You also know what the status of the human race is in the Three Realms. I will give them a little compensation, and in the eyes of all beings in the Three Realms, this matter will be over. The status and strength of the Celestial Clan are here. It is difficult for other creatures to offend the Celestial Clan because of such a small matter."

Seeing Pei Enze's confident look, Fu Rou believed most of his words and suddenly felt powerless and almost fell.

Fuzhu supported Furou's shaking body and asked anxiously, "Mother! Are you okay?"

Fu Rou finally stood still. She stared at Pei Enze intently, the words "make him pay the price" echoing in her mind. "You! You!" Fu Rou gritted her teeth, and the veins on her hand pointing at Pei Enze were bulging. She was obviously extremely angry and could hardly breathe. "How dare you kill my father!"

Pei Enze raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly: "So?"

"You..." Fu Rou didn't expect Pei Enze to be so indifferent, as if the discussion was not about his father's life or death, but just an insignificant matter. Fu Rou took a long time to find her voice, "I can't see you clearly, Your Highness."

Pei Enze still had a calm expression on his face. He just raised his chin slightly, motioning Fu Rou to continue.

Fu Rou's face was gloomy and she said in a deep voice, "I thought you were a kind and righteous person who came to Fuxing City to speak up for the trapped souls underground, but I didn't expect that you would do such a thing as patricide. To be honest, even though I have peeled off the skin of a living person with my own hands, I can't help but be shocked by your cruelty when I face you now."

This was probably the first time since she was born that Fu Rou was so clear-headed. At this moment, she knew clearly that Fuxing City would probably not escape the disaster today. How could a demon who could kill even the father who raised her be suddenly kind enough to let Fuxing City go?

Fu Rou was extremely desperate. She never expected that Fuxing City would be destroyed in her hands.

"Cruel and ruthless?" Pei Enze sighed and said seriously, "I should be the one who is shocked, right? I didn't expect to hear this word from you. However, since it is used to describe me, I will just take it as a compliment."

"Alas." Pei Enze suddenly sighed halfway through his mockery.

Fu Rou didn't understand why Pei Enze suddenly sighed. It was obvious that in front of Pei Enze, she was the fish on the chopping board and he could slaughter her however he wanted.

"With subordinates like you, why does Pei Yan think he can succeed?" Pei Enze calmly said the words he had thought about thousands of times since entering Fuxing City, "From the beginning, he was doomed to fail."

"But... he is your father! He grew up with you." Fu Rou saw a hint of sadness hidden under Pei Enze's calm appearance, so she tried to arouse the affection in Pei Enze's heart. "Although his method was a bit extreme, he did everything for you and for the Celestial Clan. When he was alive, he was respected. If he was spurned by the three realms after his death, how sad it would be."

Hearing this, Pei Enze lowered his eyes slightly, his proud eyelashes blocking most of his sight, making it difficult to see what he was thinking.

Seeing Pei Enze silent, Fu Rou quietly pushed Fu Zhu.

After receiving the signal, Fuzhu immediately understood, "Your Highness..." Fuzhu bit her lip, looking pitiful, "I didn't do those things."

"Oh? What are they?"

Pei Enze waited quietly for Fuzhu's reply without much movement, but through the eyes that were reflecting her own figure at the moment, Fuzhu felt vaguely in her heart that Pei Enze had seen through her thoroughly.

Fuzhu took a deep breath. The road ahead was a dead end anyway, so she might as well give it a try. Maybe she could get a chance to survive.

After some calculation, Fuzhu said, "The skinning matter and the soul-capturing matter." Fuzhu paused, and then said, "Just like when the Emperor chose to hide the matter of Fuxing City from Your Highness, my mother never let me get involved in these matters."

"I think..." Fuzhu raised her eyes slightly and looked at Pei Enze with a watery look, "There are no parents in the world who are not wrong. No matter what Tianjun did, he is always thinking about us like my mother."

"Really?" Pei Enze's expression seemed to relax.

"I understand that Your Highness is a kind person, so after knowing what happened in Fuxing City, he chose to stand up and seek justice for those imprisoned souls, but have you ever thought about it?" Fuzhu's eyes turned slightly red, and her voice was even more aggrieved, "I am innocent too."

"I had no choice about my birth." Fuzhu shed tears as she spoke. "Your Highness, please pity those souls imprisoned in the gold mines, but what about me? Am I not also trapped in Fuxing City?"

Fuzhu's voice was trembling as she questioned, "I have been trapped in Fuxing City since I was born and have never seen the outside world. Your Highness wants to massacre the city, but I have done nothing. Do I deserve to die?"

"But you are not innocent, are you?" In this small study, everything Pei Enze saw was glittering with gold. "Since you have enjoyed everything in Fuxing City, what qualifications do you have to talk about innocence?"

"Besides..." Pei Enze said mockingly, "Do you have blood on your body? Can't I tell?"

"I... didn't... wasn't..." Fuzhu kept rolling her eyes, trying to come up with a solution, but facing Pei Enze's all-seeing gaze, her mind went blank, "I..."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Pei Enze glanced at the window behind him, and a dark shadow was looming. If he looked carefully, he could even see the outline of the person's ear clearly. This really made Pei Enze speechless. It once again confirmed that the reason why Fuxing City had not been noticed by the Three Realms for so many years was probably not because of strength, but luck.

Thinking that he had been eavesdropping for so long, it was time for him to come out. Pei Enze's eyes showed a little more impatience, "Since you can't even explain clearly, let's not waste time."

"I haven't done it!" Pei Enze had just finished speaking when, as he expected, a fresh female voice rang out, "My hands have never been stained with human blood, I have never peeled off a person's skin, and I have never imprisoned a soul!"

Zhiyi rushed into the room, opened her arms, protected Furou and Fuzhu behind her, and faced Pei Enze. "Why are you here? You have nothing to do here." Fuzhu was covered in the shadow cast by Zhiyi, and there was some concern in her tone that she herself did not even notice.

"Leave quickly!" Fu Rou yelled at Zhi Yi, "When did you become qualified to interfere in the affairs of the City Lord's Mansion?"

Zhiyi curled her lips in self-mockery. She had long been accustomed to such ridicule and abuse. She turned her head and looked at Fu Rou with an unusually firm gaze, "Lord City Lord, I am a member of Fuxing City. Since this is related to the survival of Fuxing City, I am qualified to intervene."

Without waiting for Fu Rou to respond, Zhi Yi turned around. She had heard the whole thing clearly at the window. She bowed respectfully to Pei Enze and said, "Your Highness, I have never hurt anyone... As for 'enjoyment', you can go and ask around. Over the years, the life I have lived in Fuxing City is definitely not enough to be called enjoyment."

Zhiyi raised her eyes and asked seriously, "I wonder if I am innocent in your eyes?"

"Count it..." Pei Enze paused for a moment before continuing, "What can I do? If I don't count it, what can I do?"

Zhiyi finally understood what it was like to experience the ups and downs of life in a moment. Facing Pei Enze's half-smile, even if she was slow-witted, she could understand that Pei Enze was playing a trick on her. Zhiyi's expression instantly turned colder. She was about to say something, but her eyes involuntarily moved to the left and behind Pei Enze.

When outside the study, Zhiyi noticed Pei Enze's attendant. Although he was a attendant, he did not show any respect to the Prince of the Celestial Clan.

Zhiyi looked at the attendant carefully, but his face seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, so she couldn't see clearly. Zhiyi knew in her heart that she should not have the opportunity to know the people of the Celestial Clan, but for some reason, she felt a sense of familiarity from this attendant.

But now is not the time to think about these things. Zhi Yi pinched herself to suppress the weirdness in her heart, and then forced a smile towards Pei Enze, "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks I am innocent, please show mercy and give Fuxing City a chance."

Seeing that Zhiyi finally stopped staring at him, Kaitian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was forced by Yi Changle to act out this play, he felt a headache just thinking about the words he had said to Zhiyi. He just wanted Pei Enze to massacre the city immediately, so that his unspeakable past and Fuxing City would be buried forever in the yellow sand.

Zhiyi's eyes had been fixed on the servant. When she saw the servant suddenly relax, she finally understood where the familiar feeling about the servant came from. "Are you Young Master Tian?"

"I'm not..." Kaitian denied hurriedly.

Zhiyi couldn't hear Kaitian's denial at all, and was surprised and happy, "You are actually the Crown Prince's man! That's great! Master Tian, ​​you understand me, you should quickly ask the Crown Prince to spare Fuxing City."

……

Zhiyi's reaction didn't seem fake. Seeing this, Pei Enze cast a questioning look at Yi Changle.

Yi Changle was also very surprised at this time. She didn’t understand. The young master who was disguised as Tian in Kaitian looked completely different from now. How did Zhiyi recognize him?

Yi Changle didn't even glance at Pei Enze, but seeing Yi Changle's reaction, Pei Enze immediately understood that Zhiyi was telling the truth. After confirming that Kaitian had a past in Fuxing City, Pei Enze, who was always calm, had a look of uncontrollable surprise on his face. He looked at Kaitian in disbelief. Thinking of Kaitian's true identity, Pei Enze tried to convince himself, 'After all, Kaitian is a being at the beginning of creation. It is inevitable that he has eye problems as he gets older.'

Before Kaitian could deal with Zhiyi, he was startled by Pei Enze's heavy gaze, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Pei Enze patted Kaitian on the shoulder and comforted him: "It's all over. I'll get some pills to heal your eyes later."

“Eyes?” Kaitian was confused. “Aren’t my eyes fine?”

Pei Enze just smiled, and there was a hint of care in that smile.

Kaitian was frightened by Pei Enze's smile and angrily pushed Pei Enze's hand away, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't touch me."

……

The interaction between Kaitian and Pei Enze was seen by Zhiyi as a sign of a good relationship. Therefore, the smile on Zhiyi's face became even stronger, and she shouted in a soft and numb voice: "Young Master Tian~"

Kaitian shuddered, lowered his eyes, and made a decision in his heart. Then Kaitian took two steps forward, trying to let Zhiyi see his appearance clearly, and said seriously: "I don't understand what you are talking about."

"So this is what you really look like." After seeing Kaitian's facial features clearly, Zhiyi's love in her eyes became even stronger, and she was about to hold Kaitian's hand.

Kaitian hurriedly avoided Zhiyi and said angrily: "Miss, please respect yourself!"

Zhiyi seemed to be hurt by Kaitian's behavior, her eyes full of disbelief, "Why are you so cold to me? Have you forgotten the oath you made in front of the statue of Fuxing? Or..." Zhiyi moved aside a little, revealing Fuzhu behind her. She pointed at Fuzhu angrily and said, "She is the only one in your heart!"

Kaitian's face made Fuzhu unable to help but be amazed, but at that moment when everyone's eyes were focused on her, Fuzhu just wanted to bury her head in the ground. She forced out an awkward smile, tugged at Zhiyi's sleeve and said, "You recognized the wrong person..."

Pei Enze's eyes wandered between Kaitian, Zhiyi and Fuzhu with interest. He didn't expect Kaitian's past to be so explosive.

"He is Young Master Tian!" Zhi Yi retorted firmly, "No one knows Young Master Tian better than me. He must be Young Master Tian!"

Fuzhu felt that her sister's brain was stimulated to the point of having problems, "He is from the Celestial Clan! If he is the Young Master of Heaven, then why did he pretend to be a mortal to enter Fuxing City, and with the two of us...wait..." Fuzhu thought of what happened in the gold mine, and seeing Zhiyi's confident look, she stared at Kaitian with wide eyes, "Zhiyi is not mistaken, you really are the Young Master of Heaven!"

"You deliberately entered Fuxing City just to find out what happened in the gold mine, right? What about you?" Fuzhu looked at Pei Enze and Yi Changle almost crazily, "Which one of you is the old lady and who is the young master?"