"It might be," Lin Fan said.
It was too easy, too obvious.
As if someone was trying to let them finish their work and be on their way.
"Maybe, but we don''t have anything else. We will get the Constable here to decide for himself."
Soon after, they made their way back to the vige.
Lin Fan and Sun Hai woke up Constable Leong, who was sleeping soundly, and briefed him on what they discovered.
Upon hearing the good news, Constable Leong ordered his men to knock on gongs to alert the vigers.
Much to the dismay of the vige head.
Gong!
Gong!
Gong!
The gongs were loud, and all the vigers were up in an instant.
"What time is it?"
"What the hell?"
"Constable Leong, what are you doing?"
The vigers asked Constable Leong what had happened in their groggy state.
"The cultivators from Qing Feng sect have apprehended the culprit. Follow me if you want to find out."
"What? So fast?"
"The culprit is nabbed?"
"Thank you, dear cultivators! I will eat vegetarian and pray for you for the rest of my life."
Vigers were surprised that Lin Fan and Sun Hai were able to catch the culprit so fast.
Some already started to thank Lin Fan and Sun Hai.
They tried to get close to Lin Fan and Sun Hai, but the blood and stains on their robes made them think twice.
With no time to waste, the vigers followed Lin Fan and Sun Hai to the scene where the white toady.
When they saw all the blood and bones, the vigers couldn''t hold it in and puked.
It was a scene not for the faint-hearted.
Much more so for the parents.
"My child! You must have been so scared in yourst moments."
"Ah Gou, can you hear me? Ah Gou, I''m sorry I failed you."
They couldn''t hold it in and wailed with tears.
Constable Leong, with his fingers on his nose, went over to the body of the white toad.
He checked the remains all over the ce and reached the same conclusion as Sun Hai.
This white toad was the culprit kidnapping all the kids.
It must have been an ordinary toad but somehow mutated to be able to cultivate and got to this state.
By eating children.
"Thank you for apprehending the culprit. Hu Kou vige shall forever be indebted to you."
The vige head cried out loud and bowed to Lin Fan and Sun Hai.
He continued and said, "I''ll ask my servants to prepare a feast for you. Please do not reject our hospitality."
"Yes, we still have a chicken in our house."
"I will contribute amb for the feast."
The vigers also chimed in with whatever they could to thank the cultivators.
With that decided, the Constable and his men carried the carcass of the white toad, and the vigers made their way back.
When they got back to the vige, vigers went back to their homes first, getting their chicken andmb for the feast.
But even before Lin Fan could reach the vige head''s house, a loud scream echoed in the air.
Other houses followed with screams.
"My daughter is gone!"
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"Now my twins are gone."
Families with their kids still around suffered the same fate.
But how could it be?
Hadn''t the white toad been apprehended?
Vigers started to doubt that the white toad was the culprit.
They started to curse and swear at the Constable.
The Constable could only try to pacify them.
"Please give us time. The cultivators will get to the bottom of this."
Constable Leong pointed to where Lin Fan and Sun Hai were standing, but they weren''t there anymore.
This triggered the vigers.
The cultivators were the first to run away!
It was, however, a misunderstanding.
Lin Fan and Sun Hai ran over to the vige head''s house the first moment they heard the screams.
And they were right.
When they barged into the vige head''s house, in the living room, they saw a kid.
He was pale white, sitting down and nibbling on something.
By his side, servants were dead or unconscious, lying on the floor.
Lin Fan didn''t want to look but shouted, "Stop it!"
But before he could walk over and stop the kid, a familiar sound erupted in his mind.
[Ding!]
[Detected soul with malevolent intent iing!]
[Terminate person with malevolent intent for 20 vengeance points.]
It was the vige head.
He lunged at Lin Fan with a cleaver, but he was no match for Lin Fan.
Lin Fan with a palm strike made him fall onto the ground.
"My son!" Low Fang Bai tried to crawl over to where his son was.
Lin Fan pulled him back.
By now, Constable Leong and his men had arrived, and what they saw shocked them.
"Low Fang Bai, are you out of your mind!"
Constable Leong shouted at the vige head.
"Out of my mind? It''s the only chance for my son to live beyond his sickness!" Low Fang Bai cried out.
Constable Leong pointed at Low Fang Bai''s son, "Look at him, you call that being alive?"
"No... It can''t be... The Dark Envoy can''t be wrong!" Low Fang Bai started to talk hysterically.
When Lin Fan heard the words Dark Envoy, it finally made sense to him.
The Dark Envoy must have seduced the vige head with some dark cultivation method to prolong his son''s life.
Which required his son to use the flesh and blood of kids to cultivate.
As for the white toad, it must have been feeding off the leftovers of what the vige head''s kid couldn''t finish.
And when Lin Fan and Sun Hai came, he had to get rid of them as soon as possible.
The only thing Low Fang Bai didn''t anticipate was that his son would go out hunting when he was away.
"My Son!"
When one of the vigers saw what the vige head''s son was nibbling on, he went mad.
The other vigers affected also got into a frenzy.
They tried to kill the vige head and his son.
But Lin Fan had to ensure the vige head stayed alive for information on the Dark Envoy.
They had no idea what the Dark Lotus sect was nning with all these devious actions.
Seeing that they had no chance with the vige head, the vigers turned their anger onto his son.
"Stop it!" Lee Mei came out and tried to stop the mob.
But it was toote.
With the anger still burning inside of the vigers, they did what they had to.