After using a spirit item to send the information about the great beast surrendering to the sect, Rein returned back to the city. There he met up with Mei who had successfully completed her given assignment. Rein praised her for a job well done and they started to exchange information.
What Mei was doing all this time was to find suspicious individuals. Rein had slightly leaked the news that he was planning to go and deal with the great beast on behalf of the Divine Scale Pavillion. This was bait which had a very high chance to lure out the culprit who was behind all these incidents.
Mei was hiding in a high place while using her special skill to keep an eye on everyone who was coming close to the place where Rein and his party were living. Obviously just one day of observation was not enough to find the culprit so Rein gave more baits to lure that person out.
The investigation was still on an early note but Rein was going to stay in the city for about a week to firmly lock onto his target. This amount of time should be enough to find the real person behind all these problems. Mei still needed to work hard for a little bit more time.
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Lu Shi was feeling extremely vexed right now. She had been trying to create a situation that could destroy this city for a long time but her plans failed each and every time. It would have been fine if it was her fault that the plans failed. She could have revised her ways and would learn from the mistakes to not make them a second time.
But unfortunately for Lu Shi all the failures she experienced were because the luck was not supporting her. She made absolutely no mistakes but still ended up failing in executing her plans. But that was not enough to stop her from continuing trying again and again.
Lu Shi went inside a small ordinary looking shop. After going to the counter she whispered something in the ear of the girl who was standing there. After that this girl escorted Li Shi to the back of the shop. There was a hidden staircase in the back of the shop which was going down. Lu Shi immediately took the stairs and went down.
Seeing her going down, the girl who was standing in the counter bowed toward her once and went back to her position.
But Lu Shi was not ready to give up without a fight and so she got ready to do a last struggle with her life on the line.
But the powerful lady who appeared did not attack her. Instead she started talking in a cold and detached voice.
"Miss Lu Shi, we know your involvement with all the troubles that are targeting this city. As my young master is interested in your motive and your intelligence he wants to meet you. I will not allow any objection. Follow me to have a meeting with my young master."
Lu Shi just took a single moment to decide her next best course of action. She knew that for the time being she was completely stuck. So she decided to follow this powerful lady to the place where this young master was staying. Only then she might get a chance to run away in the future. So she naturally took the decision to follow this lady.
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After two days of observing all the suspicious people Rein was again impressed by the intelligence of the culprit behind all these. There was not just a single person who was keeping an eye on them but there were several. All of them were working independently and had very little information about the person who had given them the job.
So Mei, Rein and Himiko had to work very hard to go through all the people one of one to see which one among them had genuine information about the culprit. Fortunately the best one among the spies was quite a capable person and he had managed to even gather some information about his employer. That was how Rein managed to get a little bit of information about the culprit.
Then the next step was simple. Rein made the expert informant to schedule a meeting with Lu Shi who turned out to be the real culprit behind everything and Mei went to bring this person to Rein.
Now the encounter between Rein and Lu Shi was about to happen.