After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 2415 Everyone gets the stolen goods

Chapter 2415 Everyone gets the stolen goods

Shangguan Biao was startled and dodged the blow to the head, shouting at the same time, "Why are you tying me up!"

"You've committed a crime, and you don't even know it?" Supervisor Zhao sneered. "Come back with me immediately and await your fate!"

"Wait, wait!" Shangguan Biao shouted while dodging, "The Earth Mother's Nest just experienced a sudden earthquake, and Senior Brother Wang fell into the abyss on his own. It really has nothing to do with me!"

"Senior Brother Wang? Wang Hefeng?" Supervisor Zhao frowned. "What does this have to do with him?"

"The sect is after him, not because of Senior Brother Wang's death?" Shangguan Biao shouted, "Then what is it? Zhao Da, I've always treated you with utmost respect and never been negligent!"

"Colluding with outsiders and smuggling elixirs," Supervisor Zhao said coldly. "What are you pretending for? Your accomplices have already betrayed you."

"What?" Shangguan Biao was shocked. He stopped in his tracks and stood frozen in place. The crowd rushed forward and pinned him down. A three-finger-wide chain was immediately fastened to his joints.

These chains can bind the cultivation of criminals, imprisoning their power. Once Shangguan Biao was bound, his body felt as if it were filled with lead and sand, turning him into a mere mortal.

"What smuggling of elixirs? Who did I collude with? Where's the evidence?"

He bombarded him with questions, but Foreman Zhao couldn't answer them either, so he simply gagged him and ordered his men:

"Take him back; Elder Wu wants to interrogate him personally."

Aunt Zhu, having overheard this through the eyeball spider, exclaimed in surprise and asked He Lingchuan, "Smuggling elixirs? Didn't that fellow surnamed Xu mention that earlier..."

“Most likely.” He Lingchuan nodded. “Someone from Duzhishan was caught stealing and selling spiritual herbs. ‘Senior Brother Xu’ said the thief implicated an accomplice, and that this accomplice usually seemed diligent and hardworking.”

"The thief implicated Shangguan Biao?" Aunt Zhu wasn't stupid. "How likely do you think he was framed?"

Without hesitation, Immortal Mingke replied, "Over 90%."

He Lingchuan also said, "Although Shangguan Biao just killed someone, given his current mindset, he is still trying to earn merit and get promoted. Smuggling spiritual medicine is such an unreliable thing. If he gets caught, he will ruin his future. He can't do that."

Only those who know they have no future will pursue such interests.

Sure enough, after Shangguan Biao was escorted back to the three-row house, he saw Elder Wu sitting upright.

He never expected to have to deal with the high and mighty sect elders so close to him under these circumstances.

There were two other people kneeling on the ground, also bound by chains. He recognized them; they were both herb farmers from Duzhishan.

A large group of disciples were watching from the side.

As soon as Shangguan Biao arrived, Elder Wu pointed at him and asked, "Is it him?"

The two men looked up at Shangguan Biao and nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, it's him, Shangguan Biao!"

Shangguan Biao was both shocked and furious: "I've never offended you, why are you framing me so viciously?!"

He was demoted from a disciple to a medicinal herb farmer in Duzhishan. He already had several cases against him. If he were to be falsely accused again, it would be more than just adding insult to injury!

The sect will definitely punish him severely; he will probably never be able to recover!

The two servants lowered their heads, avoiding direct eye contact with him.

Shangguan Biao suddenly looked up and said to Elder Wu, "Empty words are not enough. If they can convict me just by making baseless accusations, then who can't they frame in Duzhishan?"

Just as Elder Wu was about to reply, two disciples rushed in, presenting a package:

"Elder, we found this in Shangguan Biao's room; it was hidden in the hollow wood by the bedside."

Hollow wood at the head of the bed?

Shangguan Biao knew that the piece of wood had long been eaten away by termites, so he blocked it with the headboard, but he never put anything in it.

Elder Wu reached out and opened the package, inside were three or four storage rings.

He picked them up one by one, weighed them in his hands, and probed them with his divine sense, his expression becoming increasingly serious.

Then, he emptied everything from his storage ring onto the ground.

The first ring contained more than twenty packets of herbs, all tightly bound with kraft paper.

The second ring contained only three ginseng roots, but these were very old blood jade ginseng roots. A ginseng root the thickness of a thumb is considered a hundred years old, but these three roots were almost as thick as two thumbs.

The third ring contained four jars. Elder Wu opened one, smelled them, and nodded: "These are all secret ointments made within the sect. Good, very good!"

He looked at Shangguan Biao: "Didn't you want evidence? What else do you have to say?"

"I...I am..." Shangguan Biao's lips trembled, his throat was very dry, and he couldn't even utter the last three words, "wronged."

He's not stupid; it's obvious someone set him up!

With physical evidence and witness testimony prepared, there's no point in denying it.

If he wants to prove his innocence, he needs "evidence," but now he has no proof whatsoever.

Elder Wu's eyebrows furrowed into a stern line: "At first I didn't believe it. Foreman Zhao told me that you were performing exceptionally well at Du Zhishan and would be transferred in a few months. Why would you ruin your future?"

Shangguan Biao gritted his teeth until they were about to break, then squeezed out a few words: "It wasn't me! I want justice served, I want a reconsideration!"

Over a hundred years ago, a major case also broke out in Changfeng Valley. A disciple was found guilty of a crime, and the executioner beat him to death on the spot without any explanation. However, eight years later, the real culprit was caught, which brought to light the truth of what happened back then, and everyone realized that the wrong person had been wrongly accused.

However, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

Since then, Changfeng Valley has added a review procedure, allowing criminals a period of time to gather evidence and prove their innocence.

"Want to appeal? Sure," Elder Wu said in a deep voice, "but remember, if the appeal fails, the sect will punish you even more severely!"

Initiating a review process will consume the sect's resources and time. There's a price to pay for this.

"Yes!" Shangguan Biao had no choice but to take a desperate gamble. "I admit it!"

"Take him away."

……

On their way to the Earth Mother's Nest, He Lingchuan and the other two witnessed everything that happened under the Ghost Claw Locust Tree through the Eyeball Spider.

Aunt Zhu couldn't help but ask He Lingchuan, "We outsiders all know that Shangguan Biao was framed, but don't these people from Changfeng Valley know that?" "So what if they know?" He Lingchuan stretched, "Anyway, they've been caught red-handed. If Shangguan Biao doesn't make a strong counterattack, this accusation will be firmly pinned on his head."

But all three had read the later history and knew that Shangguan Biao eventually seized the opportunity and safely escaped the trap.

The question is, how did he do it?

Immortal Mingke habitually kept a watchful eye on everything around him: "Where exactly is the master of the secret realm hiding, and why hasn't he made a move yet?"

How exactly does the master of this secret realm plan to deal with these uninvited guests?

He Lingchuan replied, "Perhaps he has already made his move."

"You mean?"

"The more I thought about it, the more I felt that there was a very vicious trap attached to that golden lotus."

(End of this chapter)