Chapter 246: Consume the Dead Ghost

The very next day after the email was sent, Shen Cheng set foot on the small island in the lake.

The female secretary who led the way introduced the situation on the island to Shen Cheng. She seemed to be very familiar with the place and it should not be the first time for her to receive visiting guests.

There are now more than 3,000 vampires living on the island, and the average living area is not very large.

Moreover, vampires have a long lifespan and their numbers are continuously increasing, so the average living area per vampire will only become smaller and smaller.

Some vampires who couldn't stand it had to quietly leave the federal capital and go to live in other cities.

This also indirectly weakened the strength of the Red Dinner Headquarters.

There is a large complex of buildings on the island, which has everything: entertainment, sports, catering, culture, medical care, etc., even kindergartens to universities. It is completely a small town.

Shen Cheng took the vehicle that came to pick him up and took a tour around the island, where he saw a scene of people living and working in peace and contentment.

If you don't tell them, no one would believe that these seemingly ordinary passers-by on the street are actually vampires.

However, careful people should be able to notice that these vampires that come out during the day all hold umbrellas to block out the almost non-existent sunlight.

After touring the island, Shen Cheng came to the center of the island, where the headquarters building of the Bright Red Dinner was located.

This is the first building on the island and has a history of nearly a hundred years.

Bi Lei and several high-ranking vampire leaders were at the gate to greet them. The scene seemed very shabby. There wasn't even a welcome ceremony, and no children were invited to present flowers.

But it's normal to think about it. Your branch and the headquarters are not on the same page, so there is no need to welcome you with fanfare.

Shen Cheng was not dissatisfied with the headquarters' contempt, as he was not a person who cared about ostentation.

After getting off the car, he slowly walked up to Bi Lei.

The two sides looked at each other for a few seconds, then stretched out their hands and shook them tightly at the same time.

"President Bi Lei, nice to meet you."

"I've heard of your great name for a long time, Mr. Zhong. Welcome to visit our headquarters."

Shen Cheng used the pseudonym he used in the branch, Zhong Yun. Even his current appearance had been modified using mind magic to be consistent with his vest.

If I use my original appearance, when Bi Lei sees it, he probably won't say I've heard of your great name for a long time, but will say "Don't run away, you damn well".

The two sides shook hands and praised each other for their business. Then Bi Lei began to introduce the senior executives behind him to Shen Cheng.

They were all minor extras who were not worthy of being on stage and did not even deserve a name, so Shen Cheng simply skipped them.

He turned to Bi Lei and asked doubtfully, "Is President Yi Xu not here? I came to the headquarters this time just to see him."

Bi Lei had to explain: "I have informed Yi Xu, he is on his way. The headquarters has been a bit busy recently, and Yi Xu has a lot of work on hand."

Shen Cheng smiled and said, "Are you busy looking for the murderer who killed Zhu Jing?"

The scene suddenly became quiet.

The faces of the senior executives standing behind Bi Lei suddenly changed.

Zhu Jing was murdered last night. Apart from Shen Cheng, there were only three vice presidents who saw the crime scene. They all chose to block off the scene and rest.

However, several of Zhu Jing's family members who stayed at the headquarters also died with him last night, and many people witnessed it with their own eyes.

Even though the news of Zhu Jing's death had been blocked, some rumors were still circulating privately, so these senior officials vaguely guessed the truth, but they were still not sure.

Now, this branch director who came from afar actually revealed this secret that had been kept secret.

The polite smile on Bi Lei's face had disappeared, and he stared at Shen Cheng's eyes closely.

"Minister Zhong, where did you get this news?"

He originally wanted to see what the branch director was up to by coming to the headquarters at this time, but he didn't expect the other party to throw a pair of trump cards in his face right from the start.

Shen Cheng smiled faintly: "Let's wait until President Yi Xu comes before we talk about it, so that I don't have to repeat myself again."

Bi Lei looked at Shen Cheng deeply, then nodded slowly to agree to his request.

"Then let's go in and wait."

The group entered the building, and Bi Lei was no longer in the mood to introduce the situation of the headquarters to Shen Cheng.

The senior executives following behind him were sent away by Bi Lei with just a few words. They, who were just there to watch, had no right to listen to the next topic.

Under years of suppression by the federal government, the headquarters is now filled with all kinds of useless people. Vampires with ideals, dreams and ambitions have long since fled to other states to start their own businesses. Only presidents like them who are on the government's list can't escape.

Bi Lei brought Shen Cheng to the reception room inside the headquarters building. The female secretary left after serving tea, leaving only two people in the spacious reception room.

Just sitting there did not work, so Bi Lei began to test the purpose of Shen Cheng's visit to the provincial capital.

However, Shen Cheng said that everything would be discussed after Yi Xu arrived.

He had read Zhu Jing's memories and knew that there were many conflicts between Bi Lei and Zhu Jing, and that he and Gong Ye Si were both suspected candidates for the murderer.

However, Yi Xu is Zhu Jing's close ally, so if he wants to unite all the vice presidents to catch the murderer, he must choose Yi Xu as a breakthrough point.

Seeing that Shen Cheng was unmoved and his attitude was quite cold, Bi Lei felt unhappy and his face turned cold.

Just as the two were sitting face to face, staring at each other, Yi Xu finally came back.

He entered the reception room and closed the door. His eyes swept between the two people and finally landed on Shen Cheng: "Is this Minister Zhong who came from afar?"

Bi Lei sat aside without saying a word, and had no intention of introducing the two people.

If he didn't want to know the purpose of Shen Cheng coming here, he would have left long ago given his personality.

"It's me, Zhong Yun."

Shen Cheng took the initiative to stand up and extended his hand to Yi Xu: "You are President Yi Xu, right? I have heard of your name for a long time."

Seeing that Shen Cheng was so enthusiastic towards Yi Xu, but gave him a sour face, Bi Lei's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he felt even more unhappy.

Yi Xu raised his hand and shook hands with Shen Cheng, and asked in confusion: "I heard that you specifically asked to see me?"

He received the news on his way here. The branch director who came to visit him suddenly not only asked to see him, but also knew the news of Zhu Jing's death, which was strictly blocked by their three vice presidents.

"I know you two are very curious about why I came here, and even more curious about why I knew Zhu Jing was dead."

Shen Cheng sat in front of the two again: "It's too troublesome to answer them one by one, I'll just start from the beginning."

Yi Xu also sat a little further away from Bi Lei, from this it could be seen that the relationship between the two was not very good.

The positions of the three formed a very standard triangle. Facing the puzzled looks of the two, Shen Cheng said, "I have another name, Jonghyun."

“Jonghyun?”

Bi Lei didn't react much to this name he had never heard of before, but Yi Xu frowned slightly because he seemed to have heard this name somewhere.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, but Zhu Jing knows it very well."

Shen Cheng added: "Because I used to be his servant."

"what?!"

Bi Lei and Yi Xu were both shocked and looked at Shen Cheng with wide eyes.

Zhu Jing’s servant turned out to be the director of the branch?
Are you kidding me?
Shen Cheng ignored their surprise and continued, "More than a decade ago, I was ordered by Zhu Jing to search for the whereabouts of the Eternal Blood throughout the Federation. During this period, I kept in touch with Zhu Jing and kept sending the Eternal Blood I found back to him..."

"wrong."

Bi Lei calmed down and interrupted Shen Cheng rudely: "If you are Zhu Jing's servant, why are you still alive?"

When a vampire dies, his followers will die with him because of the curse of his blood.

For example, after Zhu Jing died last night, his family members who stayed at the headquarters also died. Only then did several vice presidents realize that something had happened to him, and they quickly rushed to his home through the secret passage to check on him.

Shen Cheng calmly explained: "Because Zhu Jing and I have no blood relationship, I escaped from the Eternal Empire with him."

This statement surprised Bi Lei and Yi Xu again.

Yi Xu frowned slightly and asked, "Can you tell me about your escape process?"

"no problem."

Shen Cheng nodded, then processed Zhu Jing's memory a little bit before speaking it out.

Zhu Jing escaped from the Eternal Empire alone, but after Shen Cheng's processing, he and Zhu Jing escaped with the support of each other.

After listening to Shen Cheng's words, Yi Xuqing nodded involuntarily.

He and Zhu Jing were both good friends and allies, so he had heard Zhu Jing mention the process of his escape more than once. What he said now roughly matched what Shen Cheng said, with only some differences in details.

Yi Xu asked again: "Why are there some differences between what you said and what Zhu Jing said? Zhu Jing once told me that he escaped alone."

"Because Zhu Jing wanted to conceal my existence and didn't want the fact that I was looking for the Eternal Blood for him to be exposed."

Shen Cheng explained: "I lived with Zhu Jing in the federal capital for a period of time, and then quietly left. Some old people may still remember me."

Yi Xu couldn't help but nod again, because he finally remembered who Shen Cheng was. No wonder he felt familiar when he heard the name Jonghyun.

He remembered that when Zhu Jing came to the provincial capital, he was indeed accompanied by a younger servant, but after so many years, he could not remember what the servant looked like.

I only remember that the servant disappeared later, but Zhu Jing said vaguely that he sent the servant to perform certain tasks.

Everything is consistent with what Shen Cheng said.

Yi Xu no longer had any doubts in his heart, and there was some kindness in his eyes when he looked at Shen Cheng.

Because he also escaped from the Eternal Empire and was an outsider at the Scarlet Dinner, he became friends with Zhu Jing, who was also an outsider, and formed an ally.

Facing Yi Xu's kind eyes, Shen Cheng smiled in response, feeling a little happy in his heart.

He wanted to unite everyone to catch the murderer, but the biggest problem was that as an outsider branch director, how could he be qualified to participate in events at the headquarters?
He can be sent away by just saying "It's none of your business, get out of here".

So before coming here, Shen Cheng thought about it and finally decided to make some money from Zhu Jing, the dead man, no, the dead ghost.

He is now pretending to be Yin Hong's character.

Yin Hong stole Zhu Jing's eternal blood more than ten years ago, but Zhu Jing was afraid of being embarrassed, so he announced to the outside world that he sent Yin Hong out to carry out a mission.

This gave Shen Cheng a lot of room to maneuver. Only by portraying himself as Zhu Jing's loyal servant would he be qualified to intervene in the death of Zhu Jing and have the qualifications and reasons to catch the murderer, and no one would be able to find fault with him.

Moreover, this character setting would also help him convince Yi Xu to help him, which was really killing two birds with one stone.

Compared with Yi Xu who already believed, Bi Lei still had deep doubts about Shen Cheng's identity.

He had a bad relationship with Zhu Jing, but he had never heard Zhu Jing mention the process of his escape, nor did he know that Zhu Jing once had a servant who disappeared.

Yi Xu looked at Bi Lei and whispered, "There should be no problem with his identity."

Bi Lei remained silent and sneered in his heart.

If you say it's okay, then it's okay?
I even suspected that you were teaming up to deceive me!
His subtle expression was so obvious that both Shen Cheng and Yi Xu could see that he didn't believe it.

Yi Xu wanted to say something, but Shen Cheng smiled and said, "I know you still have doubts in your hearts. You can ask me some questions about Zhu Jing. After all, I have followed him for so many years, and I think no one knows him better than me."

Yi Xu and Bi Lei looked at each other and both thought that this was a good suggestion.

Bi Lei, who was skeptical, started asking questions first, and Yi Xu on the side occasionally made some supplementary comments.

No matter how they asked, Shen Cheng answered fluently.

Having already seen the answer in advance, he had nothing to fear. Now that he knew Zhu Jing better than anyone else, he knew the answer better than anyone else.

After asking a bunch of questions, even Bi Lei was speechless, because Shen Cheng's understanding of Zhu Jing was something that only extremely close people could do.

Even if he refused to admit it, Yi Xu beside him had already believed it.

"Then how did you know about Zhu Jing's death?"

"Because I didn't come here today."

Shen Cheng looked at Yi Xu and Bi Lei and said what he had prepared: "I have been in contact with Zhu Jing. Some time ago, he told me that he was increasingly affected by the Eternal Blood, but he found a way to combat the sequelae and hoped that I could come back to help him, so I quietly returned to the federal capital last night. But when I came here, I found that I could no longer contact Zhu Jing, so I immediately rushed to his house, only to see the dead Zhu Jing and... the murderer!"

Yi Xu and Bi Lei were shocked.

"Is it this person?"

Yi Xu actually took out a wanted poster with a sketch of Shen Cheng on it.

Shen Cheng secretly said in his heart, "Wow, you got the wanted warrant out so quickly."

He even began to doubt whether he had a wanted physique. Why was he always wanted wherever he went?
He shook his head: "This person is not the murderer."

Bi Lei snorted coldly: "You say it's not true? Do you have any evidence?"

He was already resentful of Shen Cheng's attitude just now, and now that he found out that this guy was actually Zhu Jing's servant, his impression of him became even worse.

(End of this chapter)