In the dead of night, the kitchen, which has long been turned off, looks particularly deserted. At this time, even the slightest sound will become particularly clear.
There was no one in the kitchen, but two figures appeared.
"Why are you urging me? Why don't you come over and get it done!" Another person said dissatisfiedly, his voice still trembling.
"What are you talking about?" The person who spoke before slapped the other person on the back of the head unceremoniously.
Hula——
A trace of firelight flashed in the dark kitchen.
Ling Xuewei could clearly see everything in the kitchen even without the light of the fire.
The two people talking in the kitchen were one tall and one short. Judging from the clothes they were wearing, they must be the master chefs in the inn's kitchen.
The short man was lighting a fire in front of the stove, while the tall man watched nervously.
If it's just a fire in the back kitchen, it's not anything special at all. There's no kitchen without a fire.
However, at this moment, the thatch in the kitchen had long been scattered all over the floor, spreading from the edge of the stove to the corner where the firewood was piled.
As long as the fire here is lit, the entire kitchen will be quickly ignited. Next to the kitchen is the inn, and most of the inns are wooden structures, so they must not be immune.
The fire will definitely spread to the entire inn at a speed that no one can imagine.
At midnight, all the guests in the inn were fast asleep.
If the inn really burned down, no one would be spared!
These two people actually wanted the lives of everyone in this inn!
Ling Xuewei waved her hand, and the little flame that the short man managed to create was completely extinguished by a gust of wind.
The two master chefs, one tall and one short, looked like they had done something bad for the first time. Not only did their voices tremble violently, but their hands also trembled violently.
My whole body was trembling, and it was really not easy to light this fire.
"Where is the wind coming from in this house..."
When the short man saw that the fire he had worked so hard to create was extinguished by the wind, he was so frightened that he refused to do it again.
"You should light the fire! I really have no choice!"
Without saying a word, the short man shoved all the things needed to make a fire into the tall man's hands.
"You're really useless!" The tall man took everything in anger and pushed the short man away from the stove, forcing him to go into battle himself.
Although the tall man was also very scared, his movements were much faster than that of the short man.
The light of the fire appeared in the kitchen again.
However, before the tall man and the short man could breathe a sigh of relief, Ling Xuewei was not polite at all and extinguished the flame created by the two of them again.
Tall man: "..."
Short man: "..."
The kitchen fell into an eerie silence.
After lighting the fire twice in succession, it was blown out by the wind that came out of nowhere. Neither of them could think of any other explanation except that it was a ghost.
The tall man and the short man stared at each other, wondering whether they should continue to put down the fire.
Ling Xuewei was no longer interested in accompanying them to continue playing the game of setting fire to the inn. She appeared quietly behind the two of them.
"If you are timid, don't come out to imitate others and do bad things!" Ling Xuewei said with a cold face.
Both the tall man and the short man had their hairs standing on end.
The sudden sound from behind made them want to scream.
But the tall man and the short man still knew clearly that what they were doing now could not be discovered.
The back kitchen of the inn is not as good as the room. As long as they kick it, all the other waiters in the inn will definitely be attracted.
In this way, they can't hide what they want to do in the kitchen.
The tall man and the short man covered their mouths and turned around hard.
None of them could see Ling Xuewei's appearance clearly, so they knelt down on the ground with a thud.
"Hero, spare your life! We have no choice! We have no choice!" the tall man said quickly.
"You don't want to do bad things!" The short man almost cried, "We were forced. Some people said that if we didn't do what he said, our family would never see the sunrise today!
"
"I can spare you. Tell me quickly, what is going on?" Ling Xuewei asked in a deep voice.
Looking at the appearance of the tall man and the short man, Ling Xuewei could guess that they must have been under some kind of coercion.
This method of arson was really low-level, and these two people didn't seem to be the type to do bad things.
"We were both on duty at the inn today. When we were resting in the room, we heard a voice telling us to set fire to the inn, and the fire must start in the kitchen."
The short man felt that he had met his savior and told Ling Xuewei everything.
"At first we thought someone was joking with us, but apart from the two of us, there was no third person in the room. Then the voice became clearer and clearer, as if someone was talking to us in front of us.
It's the same, but we can't even see anyone."
"Female... female hero..."
When the tall man finally realized that the person standing behind him was not a man, he quickly changed his name to Ling Xuewei. He continued what the short man said and continued to Ling Xuewei.
"At first we thought it was an auditory hallucination, but how could it be possible that both of us had the same auditory hallucination at the same time? We were so frightened that we wanted to leave the room, but at that moment the doors and windows were all sealed for no apparent reason.
Why don't the two of us go out."
Ling Xuewei listened to the tall man and the short man talking about what happened without saying a word.
The voice that told these two people to set fire must be the cultivator.
But Ling Xuewei didn't feel any cultivators coming in or out of this inn the whole night.
Qingzhou City is not a town where cultivators like to gather, and most of the guests staying in this inn are business travelers.
There are only two reasons why Ling Xuewei couldn't feel that a cultivator had approached the inn. One was that the cultivator had never been close to the inn, and the other was that the cultivator's cultivation level was much higher than Ling Xuewei's, so Ling Xuewei didn't know how to do it at all.
You can't detect the other person's presence.
"You were afraid, so you agreed to the other party's request?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"That's not the case!"
The short man felt very aggrieved.
"We dared to do something like setting fire to a store. We were so frightened that we couldn't even speak a word."
Ling Xuewei nodded. Judging from the details the short man said, Ling Xuewei knew that he was not lying.
It is normal for an ordinary person to be frightened when encountering such a thing.
"Then what?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"The voice seemed very impatient. He first threatened us with the lives of our family members. He also said that he would burn the inn tonight. Even if we didn't do it, he would kill us and then go find others. He also asked us why
Is it worth risking my life and that of my family in this matter?"
The question of whether it’s worth it…
Ling Xuewei believes that it is very difficult for an ordinary person to insist on a certain principle at the risk of his own family's lives.
"We really have no choice but to gamble with our family's lives."
The short man's statement was the same as what Ling Xuewei thought.
"At that time, we felt clearly in the room that we were being watched. As long as we dared to say no, our heads would fall to the ground. So we could only agree to him, but we just nodded. What did we do at the beginning?
The door to the room that we couldn't push open suddenly opened by itself, as if that person asked us to go to the kitchen and light a fire immediately."
The tall man and the short man experienced a scene that was like a horror movie. They were not frightened and fainted, and they were already quite courageous.
"So you came here and set up such a fire scene?"
Ling Xuewei saw that the thatch used to start fires all over the kitchen floor was too dangerous. She used the wind spiritual power in her body, and a strong wind blew through the ground of the kitchen.
The thatch used to light the fire scattered everywhere on the ground was blown away by the strong wind caused by Ling Xuewei.
The fire scene that the tall man and the short man had worked so hard to arrange was completely destroyed by Ling Xuewei.
"We are also forced, the heroine has mercy on us!" she cried and begged in front of Ling Xuewei.
"It doesn't matter whether I spare you or not, you two should go and explain to your boss!" Ling Xuewei said with a cold face.
Just when Ling Xuewei wanted to hand over the two chefs in the back kitchen who secretly set the fire, Bai Ze's voice rang in Ling Xuewei's mind.
"Xuewei, don't be in a hurry to hand over these two people. I have discovered something else."
Bai Ze has been in a state of invisibility during this period.
Basically, he won't show up for anything that isn't particularly important.
"What discovery?" Ling Xuewei quickly asked.
Something that can make Bai Ze appear must be very important.
"I just sent out micro-mechanical bees to explore the area around the inn. It would be better for you to take a look for yourself."
The scene captured by Bai Ze's micro-mechanical bee appeared directly in Ling Xuewei's mind.
There were some strange symbols painted around the inn, and a bunch of dark things were scattered around the symbols. Ling Xuewei couldn't tell what those things were from the picture.
"I have marked the locations of these strange symbols around the inn."
A floor plan of the inn immediately appeared in Ling Xuewei's mind.
If these strange symbols looked alone and had nothing special, they would most likely be thought of as naughty children's graffiti on the wall.
However, looking at the entire inn, Ling Xuewei's expression changed.