The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 174: Ch 174: The True Culprit

After using a spirit item to send the information about the great beast surrendering to the sect, Rein returned back to the city. There he met up with Mei who had successfully completed her given assignment. Rein praised her for a job well done and they started to exchange information.

What Mei was doing all this time was to find suspicious individuals. Rein had slightly leaked the news that he was planning to go and deal with the great beast on behalf of the Divine Scale Pavillion. This was bait which had a very high chance to lure out the culprit who was behind all these incidents.

Mei was hiding in a high place while using her special skill to keep an eye on everyone who was coming close to the place where Rein and his party were living. Obviously just one day of observation was not enough to find the culprit so Rein gave more baits to lure that person out.

The investigation was still on an early note but Rein was going to stay in the city for about a week to firmly lock onto his target. This amount of time should be enough to find the real person behind all these problems. Mei still needed to work hard for a little bit more time.

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Lu Shi was feeling extremely vexed right now. She had been trying to create a situation that could destroy this city for a long time but her plans failed each and every time. It would have been fine if it was her fault that the plans failed. She could have revised her ways and would learn from the mistakes to not make them a second time.

But unfortunately for Lu Shi all the failures she experienced were because the luck was not supporting her. She made absolutely no mistakes but still ended up failing in executing her plans. But that was not enough to stop her from continuing trying again and again.

Lu Shi went inside a small ordinary looking shop. After going to the counter she whispered something in the ear of the girl who was standing there. After that this girl escorted Li Shi to the back of the shop. There was a hidden staircase in the back of the shop which was going down. Lu Shi immediately took the stairs and went down.

Seeing her going down, the girl who was standing in the counter bowed toward her once and went back to her position.

In the underground area there were quite a few small rooms that looked like jail cells. The doors of those rooms were very solid and nothing could be heard from inside them. This made the rooms to look more like a jail but that was not the case.

This was a special area created by a few influential criminals of the city. Those rooms were all enchanted with special spirit sigils that made sure that whatever was done inside would not be leaked to the outside.

At first this place was used as a torture chamber but after all the criminals involved in the creation of these rooms died this place had become a perfect spot for other criminals to hold secret meetings.

All the criminals were managing this place together and it was possible to buy a room by paying enough money. Lu Shi had booked one of the rooms for the night. She had been using many information brokers of the city to keep an eye on a group of people and tonight she was going to receive important news from him.

Lu Shi still had quite a few other plans to destroy the city. And quite a few of the plans revolved around that group of people, so she regularly needed information to make those plans more concrete. This was not the only person who was observing that group but among the people whom she had assigned to this job this man was the best. So she was hoping to get some useful information.

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As soon as Lu Shi entered the room she noticed that something was wrong. There was only the informant in the room and everything looked to be normal. But Lu Shi had a feeling that something very wrong was there in this room.

This conflicting sensation made her to hesitate for a moment and within that short amount of time the door behind her got locked and an overwhelming pressure paralysed her on spot.

But it turned out that Lu Shi was not a normal human and she had also managed to cultivate even though she was not part of any sect. Her realm still had not reached the Heavenly Platform realm but she was very close to forming her own heavenly platform.

So for a moment she was able to break out of the paralysed state and tried to run away. She knew that again a person of this calibre, she would have no chance in a fight so her best bait was to run away. But almost immediately a lady wearing simple clothing appeared before her and blocked her way. Now Lu Shi had nowhere to hide.

But Lu Shi was not ready to give up without a fight and so she got ready to do a last struggle with her life on the line.

But the powerful lady who appeared did not attack her. Instead she started talking in a cold and detached voice.

"Miss Lu Shi, we know your involvement with all the troubles that are targeting this city. As my young master is interested in your motive and your intelligence he wants to meet you. I will not allow any objection. Follow me to have a meeting with my young master."

Lu Shi just took a single moment to decide her next best course of action. She knew that for the time being she was completely stuck. So she decided to follow this powerful lady to the place where this young master was staying. Only then she might get a chance to run away in the future. So she naturally took the decision to follow this lady.

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After two days of observing all the suspicious people Rein was again impressed by the intelligence of the culprit behind all these. There was not just a single person who was keeping an eye on them but there were several. All of them were working independently and had very little information about the person who had given them the job.

So Mei, Rein and Himiko had to work very hard to go through all the people one of one to see which one among them had genuine information about the culprit. Fortunately the best one among the spies was quite a capable person and he had managed to even gather some information about his employer. That was how Rein managed to get a little bit of information about the culprit.

Then the next step was simple. Rein made the expert informant to schedule a meeting with Lu Shi who turned out to be the real culprit behind everything and Mei went to bring this person to Rein.

Now the encounter between Rein and Lu Shi was about to happen.