Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 678: Old Resentments (Please Subscribe)

Now Pei Yan already believes in what Hu Wenjun taught him when he first joined the Investigation Hall. After one's strength reaches a certain level, a person's perception of killing intent and crisis will be greatly enhanced. Upon feeling this murderous and venomous intent, Pei Yan's brows furrowed tightly. His first reaction was to look at the waiter who came in to deliver food. After confirming that the sense of crisis did not come from him, as he was just an ordinary person, he pretended to be relaxed, closed the fan in his hand, picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of the newly served dish, and slowly chewed while releasing micro nanomechanical insects to slowly infiltrate the entire tavern.

Before the nanomechanical insects had completed their arrangement, Pei Yan quickly discovered his target. Looking at the images transmitted by the nanomechanical insects to his brain, he was so surprised that his chopsticks nearly fell from his hand. After confirming the person's identity multiple times, Pei Yan was first furious and then fell into deep confusion and puzzlement.

Seeing Pei Yan's abnormality, Wang Wenze, who had just finished serving food to Liang Qian, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Your face didn't look right since just now. What's going on?"

"Someone's tailing us, and it's an old acquaintance!" Pei Yan put down his chopsticks, opened his folding fan, and covered half of his face, responding softly.

"Who?" Upon hearing this, Wang Wenze stiffened and immediately became alert. When he heard the name Pei Yan mentioned, he was initially stunned and pondered for a while but couldn't remember who it was, so he asked again, "Who did you say it was?"

It wasn't until Pei Yan repeated the name and revealed the person's past actions that Wang Wenze suddenly realized, almost standing up in shock. Fortunately, Pei Yan was prepared and held him down, allowing Wang Wenze to conceal his shock while picking up food and quietly asking, "Are you sure it's really him? How is that possible? Wasn't he captured?"

"I'm sure, I'd recognize him even if he turned to ashes!" Pei Yan said, instinctively touching his left eye with hatred.

At this moment, the other people at the table also noticed the oddity between the two and cast curious glances. Wang Wenze waved his hand to signal that everything was normal and continued to ask, "So what do we do now? Go and catch him?"

"No rush. I've already tampered with him. Since he dares to come to our door, he must be fearless. I believe he wouldn't have the guts to act so big on his own. We'll cast a long line to catch a big fish and see if we can catch them all in one go." Pei Yan put his hand down, having recovered from his initial shock and anger, returning to a state of calmness.

"Alright." Hearing Pei Yan's words, Wang Wenze felt more assured and didn't make any further noise, maintaining his composure as he re-engaged with the meal, while Pei Yan casually glanced at a corner downstairs through the beaded curtain at the door. When he saw that slightly unfamiliar figure among the crowd of diners in the bustling hall, a faint smile formed at the corner of his mouth as he marveled at the curious twists of fate.

Half an hour later, everyone was finally full and satisfied. After Sword Stand Man hurried to pay the bill, the group stood up and left Fan Tower, heading back to the Heroes Pavilion fully loaded. On the way, Pei Yan appeared to be chatting and laughing, but secretly kept an eye on the person's movements. Upon realizing he had ceased following them after a certain distance, Pei Yan breathed a sigh of relief while glancing in the direction the person left, feeling a sense of anticipation rising in his heart.

Watching their team members return to Yirong Pavilion one by one safely, Elder Lin and the others, who had been anxious all day, secretly rejoiced that nothing troublesome had happened. Just as Gu Shenghui was about to slightly reprimand the group for returning too late, Pei Yan suddenly grabbed his wrist and signaled him with a look. Sensing something amiss, he kept silent and followed Pei Yan into a room with a puzzled expression.

"What? Are you sure?" Gu Shenghui exclaimed in shock after Pei Yan finished whispering in his ear, "How could it be him?"

Pei Yan picked up a drink from the table and took a sip, lamenting, "I wanted to ask you that. Li Songtao, if I remember correctly, wasn't he supposed to be detained by the Immortal Palace? Didn't the Hall send people to assist in his interrogation?"

At the mention of this name, Pei Yan's eye twitched uncontrollably. Li Songtao, a formidable adversary from the Daoist Realm whom Pei Yan accidentally encountered during his first formal mission, not only almost took his life but also took his left eye. To this day, the intermittent brain-splitting pain was all thanks to him. However, after that battle, he was captured by the Investigation Hall and then transferred to the Daoist Realm, taken over by the Immortal Palace due to poor interrogation results. Pei Yan thought they would never meet again, believing their grievances ended, but didn't expect this guy to haunt him and seek him out today.

Only Pei Yan knew how shocked and delighted he was when he discovered that the person tailing and surveilling him was Li Songtao. The joy was such that he had to repeatedly suppress his emotions to control the impulse to rush down and eliminate him immediately.

"Sigh, this is my fault for not telling you. After Li Songtao was sent to the Immortal Palace, despite several interrogations, there was no significant progress, so they had to secretly detain him temporarily. Until recently, when the Six Mansions of the Immortal Palace announced a full-scale assault on the Underworld's Eighteen Courts, both sides indeed engaged in several large-scale battles. During one of these battles, the Underworld's demon cultivators launched a surprise attack on a dungeon where the Immortal Palace held demon cultivator prisoners. Li Songtao happened to be in that prison and was rescued along with them. When I received this news, you were still fighting in the Hell Plane. To avoid distracting you, I temporarily kept the matter under wraps, not expecting him to show up today." Gu Shenghui tapped his fingers lightly on the table, speaking with heavy doubts.

"Hmph!" Pei Yan couldn't help but sneer disdainfully after hearing Gu Shenghui's explanation, "A sitting duck, and it still flew away. I really don't know if it's the Immortal Palace's incompetence or if they are doing it intentionally."

Saying this, Pei Yan raised his head and muttered to himself, "Gu Chu, do you think this is a trap?"

Gu Shenghui chuckled upon hearing this and retorted, "You really want to know if the Immortal Palace is behind this, right?"

"Isn't it? Just like you said before, the city is filled with the Immortal Palace's surveillance methods like the Ten-Eyed Well. When an Elder Zong comes to our place, they have to be very cautious to avoid attention. Yet, a fugitive dares to openly appear in the most bustling tavern. If the Immortal Palace has nothing to do with this, then it just means they're incompetent." Pei Yan did not speak but conveyed his thoughts through the headset in Gu Shenghui's ear.

"Since you already thought of that, the possibility of it being a trap is high. Perhaps, as we suspected, this is another setup orchestrated by those secretly manipulating within the Immortal Palace against us, identical to the Celestial Sword Manor incident. If that's the case, how do you plan to deal with Li Songtao?"