Evil of all ages

Chapter 84 Ordinary People
"Pretentious"

The voice came from the sixth prince, Li Wenyi.

He was in the cell next to Li Xingwen's.

Seeing Li Xingwen doing such a trivial thing and trying to gain others' pity, what else could it be but affectation?

"To shut up"

When Li Xingwen heard Li Wenyi's sarcastic remarks, he immediately retorted coldly.

"Heh... I'm not going to shut up, what can you do about it?"

He ended up in this predicament entirely because of Li Xingwen. Even though he can't do anything about it now, he won't let Li Xingwen get away with it.

"Poor thing"

Li Xingwen stared at Li Wenyi for a while, then sarcastically called him a pathetic wretch.

"Who are you calling a pitiful wretch? You motherless thing, you're the pitiful one."

Li Wenyi retorted angrily.

"Do you want to die?"

Hearing Li Wenyi call him motherless hit Li Xingwen's sore spot, and he glared fiercely at Li Wenyi.

"If anyone's going to die, it'll be you, you motherless thing."

Li Wenyi pressed his advantage.

"bump"

Li Xingwen kicked the wooden pillar wall, trying to break through the partition and enter Li Wenyi's cell to fight Li Wenyi to the death.

"You motherless brat, come on in. If you can get in here, I'll kneel down for you."

Seeing that Li Xingwen was unhappy, Li Wenyi became even more provocative.

Di Qingtian had been observing the situation without making any attempt to stop it.

However, Li Wenyi's behavior was a bit excessive; it's unacceptable to use someone else's mother as a pretext.

“Your Highnesses, if you haven’t had enough of this, I can leave now and come back when you’ve calmed down.”

Di Qingtian pretended to leave.

This action immediately silenced the two princes.

Even tigers don't eat their cubs, so the Emperor wouldn't kill them. There are only two possible outcomes for them.

First, he was demoted to a commoner.

Secondly, he was placed under house arrest in the Imperial Ancestral Mausoleum.

They will remain locked up until the outcome is certain.

The cells stank horribly. They were born into privilege, and even a day in prison was unbearable for them.

They wanted to get out as soon as possible, whether they were demoted to commoners and exiled or placed under house arrest in the imperial ancestral mausoleum.

So they have to cooperate; if they don't, they don't know how long they'll be locked up in the dungeon.

Seeing that the two princes had quieted down, Yin Tianying brought over a chair for Di Qingtian, who then sat down.

Di Qingtian glanced at the Sixth Prince. There was no need to investigate much; the Sixth Prince was rich, and with money, he could buy many things.

By following his income and expenditure, and by working on the people around him, we can thoroughly investigate the Sixth Prince.

His focus was on the seventh prince.

"Seventh Prince, everything must be based on evidence. I can't believe you just because you made a solemn oath."

"Basis? You say the Ghost King possessed you and orchestrated all of this, but what evidence do you have?"

Di Qingtian examined and asked.

"Detective Di, mortals are powerless against demons and monsters. How do you expect me to prove my innocence?"

Li Xingwen felt that Di Qingtian was either making things difficult for him or making fun of him.

A detective making a criminal prove his innocence is utterly ridiculous.

"I'm asking you for the basis of your suspicion, not for your self-justification."

"If you don't even have any evidence, yet you insist that the Ghost King has possessed you."

"Then I can also suspect that you are controlled by drugs, or that you have been misled into thinking that you are possessed by the Ghost King."

Di Qingtian said calmly.

"Impossible. At that time, I was absolutely certain that the Ghost King had controlled me."

Li Xingwen recalled his state at the time: he could hear and see, but he couldn't control his body. If it wasn't the Ghost King controlling him, then what was it?

Have you offended him?

Di Qingtian was asking about the son of the Ghost King.

Li Xingwen and the other man recognized who Di Qingtian was referring to and fell silent. "Your silence means that you sent those people."

For some time now, whenever Huang Taichu goes out, some people die mysteriously.

These people all died in accidents, so it's very strange.

They were carrying weapons, and the locations of their deaths were cleverly chosen—either the best spot for surveillance or the easiest place to commit the crime.

Without a doubt, these people's target is Huang Taichu.

However, none of them had any physical contact with Huang Taichu, and some of them didn't even show their faces before they died in accidents.

Even if he knew Huang Taichu had problems, he couldn't use someone who died in an accident to claim that he killed them, since there was no physical contact and the death was accidental.

These people had no identities, and no one came to claim their bodies.

But Di Qingtian had already guessed that these people were nothing more than people sent by the prince.

Who told his rebellious and disobedient sister to secretly correspond with Huang Taichu? Princess Pingyang was an accomplice.

By the time he realized it, it was too late.

The correspondence had been leaked and the princes had come to know about it.

This enraged him so much that he wanted to bury Huang Taichu alive, but his sister stopped him, nearly dying in the process.

Seeing his sister in such a state of near-death, his heart, as her older brother, was simply...

The man could no longer be buried alive, but from then on he became increasingly rude to Huang Taichu.

This is no longer a question of whether or not to investigate the case.

For him, whether the mystery can be solved or not is no longer important.

He just wanted to make Huang Taichu unhappy.

Because, aside from his sister's matter, he found that the more he investigated, the more he experienced a kind of indescribable tremor.

……

Previously, it was impossible to confirm which prince's people those who died due to various accidents belonged to.

It's now confirmed; they are indeed the two princes before us.

"Yes, that is my evidence. The Ghost King must have seen me harming his son, so he is taking revenge on me."

Li Xingwen also said, "What the hell?"

Di Qingtian remained silent, seemingly deep in thought.

"Detective Di, are you afraid of him too?"

Seeing that Di Qingtian did not respond for a long time, Li Xingwen began to suspect something.

"What did you say?"

Di Qingtian frowned and looked at Li Xingwen.

"I'm telling you, you're afraid of him."

Di Qingtian remained silent, waiting to see what the Seventh Prince would say.

"You're a brilliant detective, you've solved so many bizarre cases, but there's been no progress on the case in the South City Prison."

"I do not believe that after so long, you would not have found a single clue."

"Or have you already found out the results, but you're afraid to make everything public?"

"With your sister's matter added to my suspicions, I am even more convinced of this."

"Your sister has fallen in love with a jailer, even though this jailer is the son of the Ghost King, but your master is Master Shi."

“You hate this son of the Ghost King to death because of your sister’s affair. You could have relied on your master to kill him.”

"But you didn't!"

"He also used the pretext of investigating a case to spend almost all his days in the South City Prison."

"Are you feigning friendship with the Ghost King in the South City Prison, or are you trying to keep an eye on him and prevent him from causing trouble?"

After hearing Li Xingwen's words, Di Qingtian's fingers twitched slightly, but he remained expressionless.

"Heh... Ridiculous. Everyone knows that Detective Dee is the least superstitious person, yet you say that Detective Dee is afraid of the Ghost King in the South City Prison. You are more than just ridiculous."

“Detective Di, ignore him. He’s mentally unstable. He thinks you can’t help him, so he’s started acting crazy.”

The sixth prince, Li Wenyi, who lived next door, thought the seventh prince was talking nonsense, but he could understand it.

The shock of someone who was once high and mighty suddenly becoming penniless can indeed drive a person crazy.

“Di Qingtian, tell me, is what I said true? Are you afraid of him?”

Li Xingwen may have really gone a little crazy, or he may have thought that the renowned Di Qingtian was just an ordinary person and had given up on him.

(End of this chapter)