Chapter 210: Who Am I

Star Chamber of Commerce.

Outside the gate.

A rickshaw passed through the commercial street and stopped slowly at the main entrance of the Chamber of Commerce. A man wearing a white wool coat with a dark blue scarf wrapped around his collar got up, casually took a silver coin from his pocket, and tossed it to the rickshaw puller.

When the puller saw the silver coin land in his hand, his eyes went wide. A smile as bright as a chrysanthemum immediately appeared on his face as he bowed and scraped to send the distinguished guest off.

Chu Muyun stood still at the entrance of the Star Chamber of Commerce, looking at the empty gate, and fell into deep thought...

That’s not right. The security at the gate used to be very strict. How come there’s not a single person here this time?

Where are the people? Where did everyone go?

Chu Muyun walked to the gate and politely pressed the doorbell a few times, but there was still no answer. The guard booth to the side was empty. If one listened carefully, one could vaguely hear continuous alarm sounds coming from deep within the manor...

"Did something happen inside the Chamber of Commerce..." Chu Muyun pushed up his silver-rimmed glasses. He didn't need to think to know who caused this commotion.

Now the question is... he came to the Star Chamber of Commerce to rescue Chen Ling, who had been kidnapped. Now that the entire Chamber of Commerce was in chaos because of him, should he still go in to rescue him?

Chu Muyun hesitated at the gate for a moment, then reached out and brushed the iron gate lightly. The heavy iron gate was instantly sliced open, the smooth, flat cut looking as if it had been carved by a scalpel. It collapsed with a crash at the empty entrance... An open and empty path was thus exposed before Chu Muyun’s eyes.

"The door was like this when I arrived," Chu Muyun muttered to himself. "I saw no one at the door, so I just came in... I’m just passing by."

As he spoke, he took a step and walked unhurriedly toward the chaotic interior of the Chamber of Commerce.

……

Amidst the shrill alarm sounds, a red-clad figure swept rapidly across the manor.

This figure was simply too conspicuous. The guards patrolling the manor immediately turned their direction and chased after that flash of red. A paper doll floated through the sky like a kite, rushing to the front, the distance between it and the man in red rapidly shrinking.

At this moment, the man in red knew he was completely surrounded, but his expression didn't change much... In his eyes, there was only the interrogation room that was getting closer and closer.

For him, life and death might not count for much; there were always things more important than life and death.

He looked at the numerous guards surrounding him, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. Without slowing down, he crashed into the crowd. In the chaos, he backhanded a sharp dagger, stabbed it into his own chest, and then sliced all the way down, almost disemboweling himself!

The power of this strike was more than just stabbing himself three times. As blood sprayed, a large amount of internal organs were exposed to the air, instantly putting him in a near-death state!

Blood soaked the bright red opera robe. His speed didn't decrease but increased, surging several times faster than before. He was like a red lightning bolt sweeping through the crowd. Under the high-speed running, fragments of his internal organs drifted out of his body, splashing onto this bloody path.

Seeing this, all the pursuing guards were stunned. They had never seen such a bloody and bizarre scene. As that red figure whistled past, everyone stood frozen in place, at a loss.

The man in red coughed violently, his vitality rapidly declining. But with the 【Blood Robe】 driven to its limit, his speed was suddenly on par with the flying paper doll, making him impossible to catch. At the same time, the interrogation room was rapidly approaching before his eyes.

Just as he was about to break into it, ink erupted from the void. With countless brushstrokes intertwining, a figure in black appeared out of thin air in front of him.

"Where do you think you're running?" the black-clad figure snorted coldly. "【Fix】."

As the last syllable sounded, a piece of calligraphy drifted from his fingertips, the characters fading away as if burning. A powerful binding force instantly locked onto the running man in red!

The man in red’s figure instantly froze in place!

"Just a Tier 2, and you dare to run wild in the Star Chamber of Commerce?" the black-clad figure said unhurriedly. "Do you really think we’re just for show?"

The 【Seal Character】 of the Tier 4 Book Divine Path was simply not something the current Tier 2 man in red could break free from. He didn't expect to see the other party here again. He glared at the black-clad figure, his eyes full of bloodshot veins.

In this brief pause, the paper doll had already floated lightly behind the man in red. The terrifying aura of a Tier 4 and a Tier 5 crashed down on the man in red’s shoulders!

Caught between front and back, even if the man in red broke free from the 【Fix】 character now, there was nowhere to escape.

Not far away, a group of figures walked over slowly.

"Red clothes, changing faces," the old butler said with a dark face, his eyes fixed on the red-clad figure frozen in mid-air. "This reminds me of someone... but he should be dead. I was at the scene the day he turned to fly ash."

"This kid’s methods are very evil; perhaps he still has some means of escape," the Paper Puppeteer replied hoarsely from the side.

"It’s him! It’s Chen Ling!!" Yan Xishou, supported by the old butler, rubbed the back of his head, wincing in pain. "He kept interrogating me about the heart... He’s here to take revenge for himself and his brother."

"No, I’ve seen Chen Ling. His face wasn't this young. This one is clearly just a teenager."

"Then who is he? Chen Yan?"

"But both of these people have been dead for a long time. No heart, no organs. Whether he’s the older brother or the younger brother, how could he appear here?"

"Then who else could be standing here? A vengeful evil ghost?"

"If only the Seven Districts hadn't fallen yet. We could send people to dig up the place where the bodies were buried at the time and see how many corpses are underneath. Everything would be clear."

“……”

Hearing the last sentence, the man in red’s pupils contracted slightly...

He suddenly remembered that when he arrived at the mass grave, he had never personally dug up that layer of soil... Or rather, he was about to dig it up, but was stopped by A-Yan, who appeared in his mind, so he didn't dig deep.

If he had dug up that layer of frozen, bloody soil at the time, what would have appeared underneath?

Was it Chen Ling? Or Chen Yan?

Or...

Everyone seemed very curious about the identity of the man in red. The old butler tried to compare his face with the face of Chen Ling, who had burned himself to death on the train at the time, but couldn't find the slightest similarity. He frowned at the strange young face, walked up slowly, and asked in a deep voice:

"Who, exactly, are you?"

The man in red was locked in place by the 【Fix】 character. All his strength was mobilized, struggling frantically to break free from the power of the Book Divine Path, to the point that his whole body was trembling imperceptibly...

He slowly raised those blood-soaked eyes, stared at the old butler for a long time, and gave a miserable smile.

"Yeah..."

"Who... exactly am I?"