Lu Ye pulled the knife from the guard's body, wiped off the blood, and turned to look at Arya and her father.

"What...what do you want?" Arya cried, sobbing. "Why did you kill my mother?! Killing her wasn't enough, did you want to wipe them all out?!"

"What!?" Iyeas seemed to be greatly shocked.

"Brother Lu Ye... is what they said true?"

“No,” Lu Ye said. “I killed the guards because they were trying to kill me, but Arya, I didn’t kill your mother.”

"Nonsense! Who else could it be but a despicable person like you?"

Arya looked pitifully at Ieyas and Shayu: "You guys aren't with that person, are you? Please, please save me. This guy must be after my family's property."

“Yes, we kindly took him in… and he did this!!” Arya’s father added.

At this point, only Iyeas and Shayou, these two seemingly capable country bumpkins, could save them.

“I…I…” Iyeas didn’t know what to do.

Lu Ye silently tossed something out.

It was a diary.

The diary that Arya and her father both recognized.

"Don't get me wrong, it's not me who's going to kill you."

As Lu Ye spoke, a dozen or so ragged people, both men and women, emerged from the doorway.

They were emaciated and suffered greatly, but they survived tenaciously.

—Thanks to Lu Ye's panacea, they were spared from death.

But only these people managed to escape with their lives.

Arya's expression changed instantly upon seeing these people.

Because of them, she had abducted them from various parts of the capital to use as victims of her abuse.

Upon seeing Arya and her father, the men gripped their weapons tightly, roared in fury, and charged towards them.

"No...no!!"

"Help! Ugh!!"

In an instant, Arya and her father were overwhelmed by these people.

Tears welled up uncontrollably in her eyes. The filthy dagger pierced through the expensive clothes and skirts, penetrating deep into the skin and reaching the bone, wreaking havoc inside her body. Even in her dying moments, Arya did not recognize that the daggers in these people's hands were the very instruments of torture she had used to inflict upon them.

The struggling arm fell limply to its side.

Even though life had ceased, the hatred of these tormented people did not stop.

"Let's go."

Lu Ye patted the stunned Iyeas and Shayou on the shoulder.

You must really want to know the truth, right?

Chapter 170: Became a Wanted Criminal

Looking at the hellish scene inside the warehouse, Iyeas couldn't help but cover his mouth.

"how so……"

The two seemed to be deeply shocked.

“This family doesn’t seem to be the kind of good people you thought they were.” Lu Ye handed the lady of the house her notebook to him.

Iyeas took the diary, and after briefly glancing at it with Shayou, he threw it away with disgust, as if it were the dirtiest thing in the world.

Even those of them who came from the countryside understood what was going on.

Arya's family helped them not out of kindness, but to turn them into livestock for their own cruelty, just like the poor people in the warehouse.

This family has no good intentions at all. Judging from their behavior last night, even the guards helped Arya deceive the outsiders. They are all in cahoots.

Seeing the complicated expressions on Iyeas and Shayou's faces, Lu Ye then recounted his guessing process.

Justified and convincing.

"In short, remember one thing: don't readily accept the kindness of strangers. There are many good people in this world, but there are also plenty of bad people. This city is not similar to your village, so it's better to be more careful."

He said this not only to Ieyasu and Sayo, but also to Violet.

In some respects, these three are equally naive.

Lu Ye thought that if he were a big bad guy, he could definitely fool these three people ten times over. Maybe they would be tricked into the mine and even help him count money with silly smiles on their faces!

Violet may be a bit slow-witted, but she's not stupid.

Even she should understand what happened by now.

"But if they want to harm us, why were they kind to us before?"

Violet had doubts about this.

“I’m afraid it’s to lower our guard…” Shayou said, gently stroking his chin. “After all, Iyeas has been boasting to this family about his experiences of killing dangerous species.”

"Strange... I suddenly feel a little dizzy?" Iyeas suddenly realized that something was wrong with his body.

"The medicine must be working," Lu Ye said.

"Medicine?! How could this be... But they were eating the vegetables too!"

"If the food itself is fine, what about the tableware?" Lu Ye said calmly. "Their tableware should be different from yours, right?"

If the goal is to lower the other party's guard, the family won't tamper with the food. Instead, they'll choose tableware and wine glasses, smearing a colorless and odorless drug on the bottom of the glasses and on the knives and forks, and then wait until dinner is over.

"It really is..."

Although Iyeas couldn't recall it, the more observant Sayo did remember that Arya's family's tableware was different from theirs.

She didn't pay much attention at the time, never expecting that the poison had been put on the tableware.

Fortunately, dinner was interrupted by Lu Ye not long after it started, so she and Iyeas didn't ingest much of the drug.

"Alright, let's make our escape before anyone discovers what's going on inside the mansion," Lu Ye said. "The people in this warehouse are beyond saving."

Those who went to seek revenge against Arya and her father were already doing the best the panacea could.

As for the remaining people... there's nothing that can be done.

"Then... what about those people from before?" Sha You asked.

She was referring to the people who had broken into the mansion earlier.

"Don't worry about them, they'll leave after they've vented their anger."

"Okay, Brother Lu Ye, I'll listen to you!"

Iyeas now completely trusts Luye.

He now truly understood what the coachman had said yesterday.

The human heart is something that is difficult to describe.

It can radiate a warmth that touches others in some people.

In others, however, there is something even more terrifying and vile than the dangerous species.

The capital city... what a terrifying place!

Just as the four were about to leave, Violet suddenly seemed to sense something and turned to look in the direction of the mansion.

Immediately, a gunshot pierced the night sky.

That sound came from the villa.

Violet tugged at Lu Ye's sleeve.

"You can't go this way; people are coming from both the front and back gates of the courtyard."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ye did not hesitate. He climbed to the top of a tree and peeked out to observe secretly.

At the gate of the mansion, for some reason, many of the capital's security guards appeared and were shooting at the door lock.

Is the Beijing police force really that efficient?

Lu Ye couldn't help but wonder.

The land surrounding the mansion belongs to Arya's family, and no one else lives there...

It must have been the servant who secretly slipped away who reported the incident.

There was nothing he could do. He could tolerate the guards who were in cahoots with him, but he wasn't sure if the servants in the mansion were also wicked scoundrels, and he didn't have that much time or energy.

Those who had been tortured by Arya earlier have also noticed the commotion and are fleeing into the forest to the east; they should be able to escape.

"There's no other way, let's climb over from the other side."

Lu Ye immediately made a judgment.

The group turned and ran towards the woods behind the warehouse.

A few minutes later, they successfully evaded the guards' sight and used the fence there to climb over the gates of the mansion.

Although the height of the wall is indeed difficult for ordinary people without tools.

But Lu Ye and his companions were all quite skilled, and they readily lent a hand.

Half an hour later, the group returned to the main street and found a hotel to stay in.

Three people were crammed into the small room.

They are Violet, Sayo, and Ieyasu.

Sha You was taking a nap with her eyes slightly closed.

Violet squatted by the bedside, gently blowing out the oil lamp and watching the flickering flame... She loved fiddling with these little objects.

As for Lu Ye...

He went out to keep watch for a while to make sure no one was following behind.

Iyeas leaned back on the edge of the bed and let out a long sigh.

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