The boss took a puff of his cigarette before saying, "The third mystery is the mystery of Hua Lianqing's life and death."

"Hua Lianqing was found dead in her bedroom not long after a duel. Her head had been cut off."

"Hua Lianqing's bedroom was ingeniously designed, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as 'impregnable, a dragon's pool and a tiger's den.'"

"The entire detached building where she was located was a building of mechanisms. Her bedroom was the center of the mechanism building. As long as she didn't want to come out, it was difficult for outsiders to attack."

"After the duel, Hua Lianqing had been living in seclusion, and few people had seen her face."

"A month after Hua Lianqing displayed the heads of those sorcerers, the family members and masters of those sorcerers found Beishui Town."

"According to the rules of the sorcerer's path, the duel is voluntary, and each party is responsible for their own life and death. Revenge is not allowed afterwards."

"However, when it really comes to revenge, who cares about the rules of the martial world?"

"The relatives and friends of those sorcerers gathered hundreds of good fighters and went to Beishui Town to question her. They surrounded Hua Lianqing's Xi Hua Lou (Cherish Flower Pavilion), which was her residence, and captured her subordinates one by one to be executed, including Hua Lianqing's personal maid."

"Among those people, Hua Lianqing's personal maid suffered the most miserable death. I won't tell you the specific details. I think you wouldn't want to hear it either. What I can tell you is that sometimes people are really not human, and they are more terrifying than ghosts when they torture their opponents."

"At that time, corpses were lying all over the ground under the Xi Hua Lou, but Hua Lianqing didn't even show her face."

"Since she didn't come out, those sorcerers didn't dare to retreat. They were afraid that if they didn't kill Hua Lianqing, they would be retaliated against. In the end, they chose to forcefully attack the Xi Hua Lou."

"A Xi Hua Lou that no one was guarding actually caused half of the other party's men to be lost. In the end, it took several mechanism experts working together to open the secret room of the Xi Hua Lou."

"However, all they saw was a corpse wearing Hua Lianqing's clothes."

"After seeing the corpse, those people were all dumbfounded, because, judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, Hua Lianqing's time of death should have been around the time of the duel?"

"At that time, no one expected such a result, so they didn't invite a coroner. They could only roughly determine the time of Hua Lianqing's death, but they couldn't estimate the exact date."

"If Hua Lianqing died before the duel, then who was the person who had a gambling duel with the Jianghu sorcerers on the stage?"

"If Hua Lianqing died after the duel, then who had the ability to sneak into the Xi Hua Lou silently and take her head?"

"The biggest mistake those people made was killing Hua Lianqing's personal maid and scattering her soul. The only person who was inseparable from Hua Lianqing was gone, so who could give them the answer?"

"After thinking it over and over, those people decided to burn down the Xi Hua Lou to put an end to it all."

"According to their plan, they would surround the Xi Hua Lou and set it on fire, only burning the Xi Hua Lou."

"As a result, as soon as the fire started in the Xi Hua Lou, the entire Beishui Town was engulfed in flames. No one knows why Beishui Town suddenly caught fire, and it surrounded Beishui Town from the outside in."

"The fire lasted for three days and three nights, burning Beishui Town and all the sorcerers inside to ashes. Beishui Town was wiped out of thin air like that."

"However, there are also legends that after Beishui Town was burned down, someone saw Hua Lianqing standing in the ashes for a long time, unwilling to leave."

"But no one can tell whether what they saw was a person or a ghost!"

The boss stopped here, and Ye Yang also asked, "What's the matter with this restored Beishui Town?"

The boss replied, "It was done by a man named Fan Fang, but no one knows why he suddenly wanted to restore Beishui Town."

"If you want to find the answer, you can go to Fan Fang's residence and have a look. He left himself an office in Beishui Town. It's in Building No. 5, and you can find it with the tourist map."

"He himself has only been to that office a few times. Whether there are any clues depends on your luck."

Ye Yang asked again, "Has this place completely restored Beishui Town? I mean, does it include the Xi Hua Lou?"

The boss said, "The location of the Xi Hua Lou is now a hotel."

"That hotel is the only place that is different from the original town. You'll know it when you take a look. You can see the Xi Hua Lou from the hotel."

"As for whether the Xi Hua Lou is the same as before, I don't know. It hasn't been opened to the public since it was built. I don't know if it's still the Xi Hua Lou of that time."

Ye Yang nodded slightly and asked again, "Does that Hua Lianqing have any characteristics?"

The boss tapped the cigarette ash on the table, "She has a red mole under her left eye. This is her only characteristic. Do you have anything else to ask?"

Ye Yang tapped the table lightly like I did and said, "Qing Ming, didn't you say that we can't use intelligence organizations for our mission? Why are you here?"

Xiao Ying was immediately stunned, "You said he is Qing Ming? That's impossible, right?"