My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

The male and female assassins' expressions changed drastically, and they immediately stood back to back, as if facing a formidable enemy.

The crowd was separated.

A guard leader, dressed in a brocade robe and with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, walked out with his hands behind his back and a pigeon-toed gait.

The head of the guards was rather comical-looking.

His facial features were fairly regular, but he had a pair of very severe strabismus (crossed eyes). His two eyeballs were almost squeezed into the middle of his nose.

He strained his cross-eyed eyes and scanned the scene.

Finally, the gaze fell upon the two assassins, a man and a woman.

"Running? Why did you stop running?"

The cross-eyed leader sneered repeatedly, his voice shrill.

"How dare you break into our Zhou residence at night and assassinate our patriarch! Today, let's see where you two wicked duo fly to!"

That's all.

He turned his head again, his cross-eyed eyes struggling to focus on Li Chen.

The cross-eyed leader suddenly waved his hand and gave a loud order.

"Guards! Seize this accomplice as well!"

Li Chen, who was holding half a bamboo chopstick and preparing to explain, almost spat out a mouthful of blood when he heard this.

"Holy crap?"

Li Chen pointed to his nose with an incredulous expression.

"Brother Commander, you're calling me an accomplice?"

Li Chen threw the broken chopstick in his hand on the ground and angrily pointed at the two assassins next to him.

"Dude, are you nearsighted or farsighted?"

"Didn't you see I was fighting them to the death? I even smashed the noodle stall! They almost slit my throat!"

Li Chen patted his chest and shouted that he was innocent.

"I'm a law-abiding citizen! I'm helping you catch assassins, okay? How can you say I'm their accomplice?"

The two assassins were also completely bewildered, having no idea what Li Chen was up to.

however.

The cross-eyed leader heard Li Chen's explanation.

Instead of showing any remorse, he revealed a wise smile that said, "I have seen through everything."

He took two steps forward.

He pointed a finger at Li Chen, his tone full of smugness and mockery.

"Keep acting! Keep acting!"

The cross-eyed leader snorted and pointed to his own eyes.

"Do you think you can fool my discerning eyes by pretending to fight here?"

"That's called a feigned injury! That's called a diversionary tactic!"

He put his hands behind his back, shook his head, and began to analyze, as if he were a peerless sage.

"You deliberately created chaos in the streets, pretending to have internal strife."

"That was all to distract us so the two assassins could escape in the chaos, right?"

The cross-eyed leader stared intently at Li Chen, beaming with pride.

"Trying to fool these eyes of mine, eyes that can see through all illusions? Hmph! Your tricks are far too naive!"

Li Chen stood still.

Listen to this reasoning, which can only be described as divine logic.

He was completely numb.

He had seen stupid people, but he had never seen anyone so confidently and uniquely stupid.

"With your imagination, it's a waste that you're not writing novels."

Li Chen muttered a helpless complaint.

He glanced around at the hundreds of Zhou family guards, each wielding a steel knife and glaring menacingly at him.

Then look at your own empty dantian.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Li Chen.

"etc."

"I was just looking for an excuse to sneak into the Zhou residence to investigate clues about the teleportation array."

"Now these idiots are actively trying to arrest me. Isn't this like someone delivering a pillow just when you're about to doze off?"

Li Chen's eyes darted around.

He immediately stopped resisting.

He raised his hands without hesitation, making a docile surrender gesture.

"Alright, alright, you win. Your sharp eyes are amazing. I admit defeat."

Li Chen's face was full of helplessness and "submission".

"I admit it, I'm one of their accomplices. Come on, tie me up, I won't resist."

This sudden confession.

Not only were the two assassins dumbfounded, but even the cross-eyed leader was taken aback.

"You're smart to know what's good for you!"

The cross-eyed leader snorted coldly and waved his hand.

"Guards, bind all three of them with black iron chains! Take them to the Zhou family dungeon and await the patriarch's orders!"

A group of guards immediately pounced on them like wolves.

Li Chen readily extended his hands, allowing them to bind him tightly with heavy iron chains.

Seeing this, the two assassins knew they had no chance of escape and could only grit their teeth and give up resisting.

Half an hour later.

Inside the dark and damp Zhou family prison.

The air was thick with the pungent smells of mildew and blood. Dim torches burned on the walls, flickering on and off.

Li Chen and the two assassins, a man and a woman, were locked in two adjacent cells.

The massive steel fence faintly shimmered with the light of an array.

"Click".

The jailer locked the cell door and walked away, cursing.

The cell fell into dead silence.

The cell next door.

The two assassins, a man and a woman, were staring intently at Li Chen, who was leaning against the wall with his eyes closed, with an extremely fierce and murderous gaze.

"You despicable scoundrel!"

The female assassin finally couldn't hold back any longer and growled through gritted teeth.

"What exactly are you plotting? Why did you deliberately admit to being our accomplice and getting arrested along with us?"

Li Chen lazily opened one eye.

He rolled his eyes and shifted into a more comfortable position against the wall.

"Sister, can't you be reasonable?"

"You were the ones who held a sword to my neck first, and that cross-eyed guy insisted that I was one of your accomplices."

"What can I, a weak scholar with no strength to even kill a chicken, do but accept my fate?"

"You're talking nonsense!"

The male assassin sneered, "In our previous exchange, you were stronger than an ox. What kind of weak scholar are you!"

"Alright, since we're here, let's make the best of it."

Li Chen yawned and asked casually.

"Tell me, who exactly are you two? And why did you have to assassinate the head of the Zhou family?"

"I heard that the old man has a kind face and often gives out porridge and charity in the city. He doesn't seem like a bad person."

Upon hearing Li Chen mention the head of the Zhou family.

Instantly, boundless anger and hatred erupted in the eyes of the two assassins.

"Kind and benevolent face? Giving porridge and charity? Those are just hypocritical masks he uses to deceive people!"

The male assassin gripped the steel fence tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white.

"That old scoundrel is secretly colluding with foreign enemies! He somehow acquired an evil formation and is attempting to drain a tiny spiritual vein from beneath Qingyang City!"

The female assassin continued, her voice trembling slightly with anger.

"Once the spiritual veins are drained, the land within a hundred miles of this city will be completely barren, leaving nothing but desolation! Hundreds of thousands of people in the city will die in famine and disaster!"