CH 326

326: Secrets

The five villages joined forces and sent thousands of people after Yanaimo and her group. As a result, her group was ambushed as they left the cave. The villagers nearly succeeded in killing them.

But fortunately, Yanaimo’s father loved her dearly. He spent a fortune to invite two masters to protect her.

Between the two masters, one was good with using poison while the other was good with the sword. But they weren’t good people. After discovering the incident, they went in and massacred nearly all the villagers before escorting Yanaimo and her group out safely.

Yanaimo and her group kept silent about the map and the key. Even Yanaimo’s parents didn’t know about it.

In order to return to the island, Yanaimo acted spoiled and asked for the island as a birthday present. It was easy for her parents to get an unprotected island.

They didn’t understand why their precious daughter wanted such a small island, beautiful as it was. It had no minerals or other natural resources, but they loved their daughter and saw no reason to deny her, so they purchased the island for her.

Yanaimo remembered how the villagers had chased and tried to kill her, and she wasn’t one to let go of grudges. She bribed murderous criminals to massacre all the villagers partly for revenge and partly because she was afraid they would leak the information about the map and key.

Yanaimo didn’t leave anyone alive.

She came back to the island this time in order to pick up the map and the key. From there, she would get the inheritance and rank among the top powerhouses.

“So you were here to get the treasure, why did you bring so many other people with you?” Wouldn’t it make more sense to involve as few people as possible? What kind of trouble were they courting, bringing so many other people on the trip?

Jier didn’t believe Yanaimo and her group would do something so stupid. The more people they had, the higher the odds of information leaking.

“This...” Airon looked between Jier and Ming Xi awkwardly.

“Was there a reason you brought so many people with you to the island?” Ming Xi saw the look and immediately guessed things were more complicated.

“Spit it out!” Jier was losing his patience. He hated these kinds of half-baked revelations. Just get to the point already.

“OK, I’ll talk, but keep it secret. If it gets out, things will get really complicated.” Airon still had the audacity to threaten them.

“Yanaimo was the one who proposed bringing everyone here. In fact we’ve been to this island twice more since the first time, so this is technically our third time, but the restrictions were too hard for us to break through. Yanaimo looked up several books on the matter and finally settled on a blood-sacrifice ritual.”

“Blood sacrifice! Oh a woman’s heart is vicious!” Jier and Ming Xi exchanged glances. Neither had expected this. It turned out their earlier hypotheses were wrong.

A blood sacrifice was a demonic ritual that allowed a person to borrow a demon’s power temporarily and forcefully break a seal. However, it was a cruel ritual that killed those sacrificed by draining them completely of blood.

To be able to do this to her own classmates, Yanaimo was something else.

“So you guys were the ones who committed all the murders? Don’t bother denying it. There’s no way Yanaimo would let you off the hook and let you do nothing while enjoying the benefits of the treasure!”

The woman was too vicious to let anyone take advantage of her.

Airon smiled. “The twelve of us promised we would work together, but we didn’t kill the others directly. We knocked them unconscious with drugs and then we dragged them to the forbidden place so we could perform the blood sacrifice. But something happened before we could act. . . ”

“You mean, before you did it, someone else beat you to it. Then this person continued to kill the sacrifices, thus ruining your plan.” Ming Xi’s eyes were dark.

Airon nodded. “Yes.” He could see that the maid and guard in front of him were not ordinary people.

Yanaimo wouldn’t have sacrificed a master, so she would not have chosen any masters to come to the island. He didn’t know why these two had mixed in with them, so he had to proceed one step at a time.

“I understand.” Ming Xi’s eyes were now clear. All the dots were finally connected. Now they just needed the answers to a few more questions.

“Let me ask you. Of the twelve people who know the secret of Songwei island, how many are still alive?” They would definitely be on the list to be killed.

“All dead, except for myself and Yanaimo. At first, I thought she was the one doing the killing, so I went and had a fight with her.

She denied it and I believed her, but we still parted on bad terms. It wasn’t until I saw Chamai today that I knew for certain she didn’t have anything to do with it.”

Honestly, he would have preferred it if Yanaimo had been the culprit. Dealing with a known enemy was easier than dealing with an unknown one. The latter was the worse kind to deal with as it wore on, not just the mind, but the heart as well.

Only two out of twelve people survived?

It looked like the murderers wanted to save Yanaimo for last. Her sweetheart would definitely go before her. Otherwise she would miss out on the torture of losing her beloved.

Jier and Ming Xi helped call people over after they got all their questions answered.

The others were in an uproar upon finding out Chamai had tried to kill Airon. None of them could imagine the warm and talkative boy as a killer. They carried his body to the center of the lobby.

Everyone was called over in part because they wanted to observe everyone’s expressions. Chamai’s accomplices had to be in the crowd.

“It’s Chamai! I can’t believe it! Doesn’t he admire Yanaimo? Why would he do such a thing?!”

“Great! Now that we’ve got the murderer, we don’t have to be worried anymore!”

“That guy is horrible! What kind of vendetta did he have with us that he would treat us like this?!”

“Man! I always knew he wasn’t a good person!”

“Yeah! Yeah! He was a hateful jerk! Why couldn't I kill him? Two of my sisters died because of him!”

Those still living talked as they glared at Chamai’s corpse. They were full of hate and vitriol, wishing they could take his body out and whip it.