The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#687 - Siren

Xia Huai didn't really hear what the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin was saying.

Right now, she only felt incredibly hot, and her clothes were already soaked with sweat, so she finally couldn't help but reach out and take off her outermost garment.

But that still didn't cool her down much.

So, while continuing to undress, Xia Huai looked around, searching for something that could lower her temperature.

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And her gaze was quickly drawn to Lu Jing.

Without much thought, primal instinct led her to stagger towards Lu Jing.

Seeing this scene, the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin curled the corners of her lips upward, revealing a mischievous smile, while also commenting.

"Tsk tsk, who knew, she's actually so well-endowed."

Her gaze first fell on Xia Huai's chest, then she glanced at her own and sighed.

Then she said to Hongzhu, who looked a little frightened, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just leave her to me."

After she finished speaking, she took a few steps forward, but then sensed something was wrong and stopped.

However, it was already too late.

Lu Jing pointed his fingers like flying, and quickly tapped several acupoints on Xia Huai, immobilizing her, then draped his long robe over Xia Huai, helping her to cover her exposed skin.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. By the time the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin realized that things weren't going as she had expected.

Lu Jing had already pounced on her.

The girl with the dragon-bud hairpin couldn't help but lose her composure. Abandoning her target, she turned around and decided to make a quick escape.

It must be said that her lightness skill was indeed outstanding, especially when combined with her supple waist. Her transition from advance to retreat was seamless, truly worthy of the saying 'gone as soon as she decided to leave'.

Her bare feet lightly touched the ground, and she was already floating twenty feet away.

The lightness skill practiced by the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin was obviously of a higher grade than Lu Jing's Surging Tides, and it was also at the Perfected Realm. This was why she had been able to easily tail Lu Jing before.

However, in this kind of straight-line sprint, skill only accounted for a small part.

Lu Jing relied on his profound internal energy and tough meridians, taking a step forward, his whole body like an arrow shot from a bow!

He quickly caught up with the retreating dragon-bud hairpin, and then swung his staff.

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, the latter could only choose to meet it head-on with a pair of jade palms.

To Lu Jing's surprise, the dragon-bud hairpin girl's internal energy cultivation was not as bad as she had said.

But the effect could only be said to be mediocre, indeed not as good as other second-rate experts.

After exchanging two moves, a flash of inspiration struck Lu Jing's mind, and he blurted out, "Are you from the Joyful Union Palace?"

The first time Lu Jing heard the name of the Joyful Union Palace was when the wisp of obsession in that murderous secret manual told him that the enchantresses of the Joyful Union Palace could absorb other people's true energy for their own use.

Lu Jing was fascinated at the time.

Unfortunately, he couldn't find the organization, and in the end, he could only give up regretfully. Now, thanks to Young Master Song, he has embarked on a path of consuming internal energy with poison, and his thoughts about the Joyful Union Palace have faded a lot.

In addition to that somewhat terrible nightmare before, Lu Jing has basically given up on the route of being wildly sucked by enchantresses.

But seeing someone from the Joyful Union Palace was still a bit unexpected.

Because the Joyful Union Palace is the most mysterious existence among all the demonic paths. They have never appeared in the world, but the identities of their disciples have always been secret, using brothels as a cover.

And judging from the age of the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin and her internal energy cultivation, she is definitely not just an ordinary disciple in the Joyful Union Palace.

Why would she be involved in this matter?

The most reasonable guess is that there were people from the Joyful Union Palace among the fifteen dead female musicians before, and the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin came to investigate the cause of death of her sect's disciples.

Moreover, she was obviously earlier than Lu Jing and Xia Huai, and should have been investigating for a long time, mastering some evidence that Lu Jing and Xia Huai didn't know.

That's why she was targeting the woman who was planning to jump off the building tonight.

Thinking of this, Lu Jing glanced in the direction of Hongzhu again, only to see that the woman who had been lying on the ground unconscious had woken up at some point. Not only that, but she had also taken Hongzhu hostage.

She held a hairpin to Hongzhu's throat.

Seeing this, the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin also opened her mouth, seeming to want to talk to Lu Jing about shaking hands and making peace, but in the next moment, Lu Jing, who had figured out her details, no longer held back, and directly tapped her acupoints, making her unable to move.

Then Lu Jing turned around and said to the woman who was holding Hongzhu hostage, "You know you can't escape, right? Let her go, and I can guarantee I won't kill you."

The woman didn't answer Lu Jing's question immediately, but instead glanced at the girl with the dragon-bud hairpin with some reluctance, and said resentfully, "Damn it, if it weren't for this guy's interference, this matter should have ended perfectly."

"Your acting is indeed good, and most importantly, it can be seen that you have done a lot of preparation. Whether it's that jade bracelet or Hongzhu's story with that scholar named Zeng, they were all planned by you, right?"

Lu Jing said, "You deliberately guided things in a certain direction, making us mistakenly believe that this is our case, and this also shows that you know a lot about our methods of handling cases, and the place behind us... Let me guess, are you a person of Mr. Ji? If so, you kill people to... um, refine strange objects?"

The woman was quite annoyed, "That's right, I know that killing so many people will make the Surveillance Division suspect me, so I disguised this matter as a strange object haunting the place. I just didn't expect that there were people from the Joyful Union Palace among the people I killed. If I had known this, I would have changed my target."

"Those who commit many injustices will perish," Lu Jing shook his head, "What you are doing is evil. Do you really think you can hide it forever if you can hide it for a while? Even if you get through this time by luck, as long as you don't stop, next time, and the next time, you will always be caught."

"You know nothing," the woman sneered, "The cataclysm is coming. As long as you get through this, your Surveillance Division will be unable to protect itself. How can you have the mind to care about my business."