Chapter 2252: Chapter 1942: Why Should the Zhen Nan Prince Manor Fear Schemes?

Currently, the matter of the wolf demon and the evil spirits near the capital city slaughtering villages has not yet been resolved, coupled with the increasingly strange evil spirits in Dazhou. If the Deceit Suppression Bureau falls into chaos at this time, I’m afraid it won’t be long before the Qi Fortune of Dazhou drastically declines. Therefore, Xiong Qingcang wants Fan Yaodong to return to the Deceit Suppression Bureau.

The Deceit Suppression Bureau’s development to its current scale owes much to Fan Yaodong. If he can return to the bureau, even if he doesn’t take action himself, he can quickly stabilize the situation.

As for the Empress Dowager wanting to blame the Deceit Suppression Bureau, that’s out of the question. Nowadays, anyone with a bit of intelligence can figure out why Fan Yaodong suddenly put down the position of Commander of the Deceit Suppression Bureau and left. It’s obvious he doesn’t want to take the blame.

Xiong Qingcang voluntarily suggested in front of Pei Shuhua to let Fan Yaodong return, indirectly expressing his unwillingness to take the blame and reminding Pei Shuhua that since the evil spirits are becoming increasingly rampant, the Deceit Suppression Bureau cannot fall into disorder.

After hearing Xiong Qingcang’s words, Pei Shuhua coldly said, "Since Director Xiong has no intentions for this position, please leave. Whether or not to let Fan Yaodong return is not something you should worry about."

Xiong Qingcang then saluted and said, "I take my leave!"

As he finished speaking, Xiong Qingcang turned and left the Imperial Study Room. Upon seeing Xiong Qingcang’s departing figure, the Black Evil around Pei Shuhua suddenly burst forth, rampaging throughout the Imperial Study Room.

She discerned that everyone in the Deceit Suppression Bureau was a bunch of cowards afraid of death, and probably none of them were willing to take the blame.

If the Deceit Suppression Bureau is unwilling to cooperate, that would be troublesome.

She couldn’t personally order Lu Chen to be assigned tasks, could she?

Initially placing Lu Chen in the Deceit Suppression Bureau had already exposed her intention to move against the Zhen Nan Prince Manor. If she personally ordered assignments for Lu Chen, the Zhen Nan Prince Manor would certainly blame her immediately.

But speaking of which, since she had already sent Lu Chen to the Deceit Suppression Bureau, the Zhen Nan Prince Manor was already on opposing sides with her, and now the Zhen Nan Prince Manor had allied with Emperor Zhou.

At this point, using more aggressive means seemed to be acceptable, anyway, the strong ones of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor understood she was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Since the Deceit Suppression Bureau refuses to cooperate, then there must be ways to force them.

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Several days later, news spread from the Deceit Suppression Bureau that the new Commander, He Dongqi, was severely injured by the wolf demon and bedridden, and voluntarily submitted his resignation.

Initially, Fan Yaodong’s resignation drew some people’s attention, but it wasn’t widely discussed. But now, such an important department as the Deceit Suppression Bureau had two Commanders severely injured by the wolf demon in succession, this couldn’t help but provoke ordinary people into feeling anxious and scared.

What terrifying power does that wolf demon, who entered the capital city, possess to severely injure two Commanders of the Deceit Suppression Bureau at once? If even the Commanders couldn’t match the wolf demon, what could ordinary people do but face slaughter by that wolf demon?

This time, that wolf demon brought great panic to the capital city’s residents, causing many small families to consider leaving the capital city.

Even some officials in the capital city began to worry. Most officials could guess why Fan Yaodong and He Dongqi were severely injured by the wolf demon, suspecting if they were avoiding taking the blame by escaping this way.

But they could only suspect, what if those two were indeed severely injured by the wolf demon? After all, it’s an Earth Realm wolf demon, and not every official’s household has Earth Realm strong ones for protection.

Perhaps one night, the wolf demon might come to their homes and massacre their entire families.

For a while, officials at the court were writing petitions one after another, requesting the mobilization of the army to assist the Deceit Suppression Bureau in slaying the wolf demon.

Under normal circumstances, the army isn’t allowed to enter the city because there’s no telling when the army might rush into the Imperial Palace for a coup d’état.

However, the wolf demon’s incident caused too much commotion, making everyone uneasy and, most importantly, two Commanders of the Deceit Suppression Bureau have already been severely injured. Many people in the capital city have lost confidence in the Deceit Suppression Bureau’s ability to handle the wolf demon.

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Zhen Nan Prince Manor.

Lu Chen sat in a pavilion in the outer courtyard, listening to a conversation between some Deceit Suppressing Guards from the Deceit Suppression Bureau, and couldn’t help but want to laugh.

He hadn’t expected the position of Commander of the Deceit Suppression Bureau to become something nobody wanted.

This was when Lu Chen spoke up and asked, "I heard that Director Xiong of the Deceit Suppression Bureau is also an Earth Realm. Why not let him assume the position of Commander?"

One Deceit Suppressing Guard was sorting through some files while saying, "Director Xiong says he lacks the capability, and instead asked Commander Fan to return to the Deceit Suppression Bureau to take control of the situation."

Lu Chen said, "Since nobody wants to be this Commander now, why not give this Commander’s position to someone from the Royal Family?"

Hearing Lu Chen’s words, the eyes of the Deceit Suppressing Guards sorting through files suddenly lit up. Yes, they could temporarily assign the position of Commander to someone from the Royal Family.

This way, any royal attempts to take down Lu Chen and shift the blame could be thwarted.

The Deceit Suppressing Guards assisting Lu Chen with sorting the files were quite familiar with the affairs of the Deceit Suppression Bureau and aware of the current court situation. Hence, they saw a great feasibility in Lu Chen’s suggestion.

Moreover, there indeed was a royal family member suitable to assume the role of Commander. Although her current power wasn’t that impressive, what the Deceit Suppression Bureau needed most now was not powerhouses but someone who could stabilize the situation.

This was when one Deceit Suppressing Guard reminded Lu Chen, "Master Lu, aren’t you afraid that after becoming the Commander, this royal family member will assign you to dangerous tasks?"

Lu Chen nonchalantly replied, "Why would the Zhen Nan Prince Manor be worried about such schemes."

Hearing Lu Chen’s words, the Deceit Suppressing Guards instinctively glanced at Zhao Yu and the two others not far away, thinking to themselves, indeed, with three Earth Realm powerhouses as protection, killing him wouldn’t be easy.

At this point, one Deceit Suppressing Guard, holding a pile of files, said, "Master Lu, these files need to be sent to the Deceit Suppression Bureau. I’ll return to the bureau first."

Lu Chen said, "Okay."

The Deceit Suppressing Guard then left the outer courtyard with the files in hand.

After the Deceit Suppressing Guard left, Lu Chen looked at a file in hand and asked, "Has there been a lot of these evil spirit village massacres happening recently?"

The files Lu Chen was sorting through were collected from various places, and while browsing, he discovered many records of evil spirits slaughtering villages. The most important thing was, at no place did the Deceit Suppression Bureau identify what kind of evil spirits they were, only that the culprits would excavate hearts.

One Deceit Suppressing Guard said, "These past few days, the officials in the Deceit Suppression Bureau have been troubled by this, with the wolf demon issue unresolved, and recently, another evil spirits village massacre case occurred near the capital city."

Hearing this, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then continued flipping through the files, without dwelling too much on it.

He’s perusing these files to understand the strange evil spirits of this world. He was curious if there were other similarities between the eerie of this world and the Deceit Realm.