Volume 1

45 Target of Criticisms

Nie Zun seemed to have gleaned my inner thoughts, but he simply glanced over me. He continued with his analysis, "I know that Jie Pa has been carrying on his own investigation. Jiao S, you should know that Jie Pa's intel has always reached far and is trustworthy. At the time, we didn't know there were such experiments going on, or that the insects on the dead man's body were a failed experiment. That's why Jie Pa's investigation hadn't yielded any results, that is, until we came to the Southern District, where everthing seems to have become clear. Now I have a question for you. How exactly did the five B-rank members of your clan die?"

A deep pain flashed across Jiao S' eyes. It disappeared quickly, but I know I saw it.

"The first four died at the same time that you first came to see me. And the fifth, you were witness to his death yourselves. The deaths of the first four were all the same. Their bodies were chopped to pieces and arranged into the word 'death'."

When I recalled that someone had died just upon my arrival to the Eastern District, I felt my mouth twitch. Since...