Are you stupid? I am the villain behind the scenes

What Zhang Dingkai said made sense. The team calmed down again and continued patrolling.

Hua Xi is still walking at the end.

Her thoughts moved slowly forward with her footsteps, and she replayed Zhang Dingkai's words over and over again in her mind.

The requirement for the Li family to recruit guards this time is that the martial artist's level must reach the seventh level, which means that those who died were not ordinary guards, but high-level guards.

A group of senior guards died, but the Li family chose to block the news. There must be something strange about this.

Something must have happened to those guards who died.

But what exactly happened that could cause the deaths of dozens of senior guards?

A martial artist at level nine could do it, but as far as she knew, those martial artists at level nine had no obvious motive to kill the Li family guards, with the exception of Gu Tu.

However, Hua Xi did not think that it was Gu Tu who did it. If he really was the one who killed someone, there would be no need for the Li family to hide it.

So it shouldn’t have been done by a ninth-level martial artist.

What other methods are there?

Hua Xi thought of a possibility, that is poisoning.

But she quickly rejected the idea.

It couldn't be poison. If so, how could the poisoner do it without anyone noticing, and why did he specifically choose a martial artist at level 7 to target?

It can't be that it is intended to weaken the Li family's defensive capabilities.

Since these two possibilities were ruled out, Hua Xi only had one last guess left in his mind -

Those guards were not really dead, but were locked up.

The person who has this ability must be from the Li family and be a powerful person, such as Li Qingchi.

That's why he ordered people to keep silent.

Hua Xi did not make such a guess without basis.

She remembered that during the visit by Shen Lingtan in Desperate Situation, Yi Mu had mentioned that Li Qingchi seemed to be secretly capturing high-level martial artists.

Arresting people...drawing blood...is there any connection between the two?

Did Li Qingchi capture people just to draw their blood?

Targeting her, also for her blood?

But if that is true, why does Li Qingchi need the blood of so many people?

Hua Xi's thoughts came to a deadlock here.

She had too few clues, and they were just her guesses, with no evidence to support her ideas.

It seems that she has to take the initiative to look for clues.

Hua Xi thought that the place in the Li family that was most likely to involve confidential events was Li Qingchi's study.

So she planned to find an opportunity to sneak in and investigate.

……

Three days had passed since Hua Chaochao promised Li Qingchi that she would solve the haunted laboratory case.

However, during these three days, Hua Chaochao remained at home and did not step out of the house.

Anyway, Yi Mu had never seen Hua Chaochao go out.

She just stayed in the yard, either reading a book or basking in the sun, or watering the flowers and drinking tea, looking extremely leisurely.

Yi Mu followed her and drank a lot of tea these days.

The two of them seemed to have entered old age, without any sense of urgency to solve the problem.

In this peaceful atmosphere, Yi Mu sometimes couldn't help but fall into fantasy: it would be nice to just live an ordinary life with Hua Chaochao, even if she didn't like him.

Hua Chaochao did not move, and Li Qingchi was also very quiet, with no intention of coming over to remind him.

Li Qingchi is not a patient person. Even if he is afraid of Hua Chaochao, he shouldn't be so patient.

So Yi Mu tended to think that the matter had been resolved, but he just didn't know it.