After Fei Si reported it, he got Meng Yan's agreement and hurriedly returned to Cloud City.
Seeing Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli again, he first sent a message to the former: "Master Zhu, the Fire Persimmon Immortal City and the Lava Immortal Palace are currently under siege, and we must unite and cooperate to work together to tide over the difficulties."
"At present, we still need to rely on the strength of Song Fuli and his gang to be more confident in resisting the tide of monsters and tiding this crisis."
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"I have obtained the authorization of Lord Meng Yan, and I can discuss compensation with Song Fuli."
"I'm afraid this person will open his mouth...... Alas, our situation is indeed passive."
"In this way, I hope that Master Zhu will help you for the sake of being a citizen of Nandou!"
Zhu Xuanji nodded and quickly replied: "Meng Yan and I are officials in the same dynasty, and we are one body.
"Don't worry, I will also participate in the negotiations. I also have the right to make some decisions about the royal family."
Whether it was his own position or the verbal contract he had just secretly made, Zhu Xuanji actively participated in the negotiations.
With Zhu Xuanji's reinforcements, Faith secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He invited Song Fuli to the city lord's mansion and asked Zhu Xuanji to accompany him, and started a business meeting.
It is obviously impossible to trace the stolen treasures within two days and send them back to the cloud merchant.
The city lord's mansion wants to unite with cloud merchants to fight against the tide of monsters.
In order to show sincerity, they simply negotiated compensation to win over Song Welfare by negotiating compensation.
Negotiations are difficult, the three parties are entangled, and the situation is quite complicated.
On the surface, it was Zhu Xuanji and Fei Si who joined forces with each other to discuss with Song Fu.
Secretly, Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli also had a tacit understanding, and they both wanted the city lord's mansion to bleed more.
Two hours later, the compensation negotiations finally came to fruition.
Song Fuli's hearty laughter came from the living room.
Feisi's face was extremely ugly. The City Lord's Mansion paid a huge price, and he almost didn't keep the bottom line left to him by Meng Yan.
Zhu Xuanji wiped the sweat stains on his head, he also represented the Nandou royal family and paid a lot of price.
Song Welfare has made a lot of money!
Not only could he properly participate in the competition of the Lava Immortal Palace, but he also took advantage of the monster tide to make the City Lord's Mansion and the Nandou Royal Family pay high fees in exchange for their assistance.
After calculation, not to mention that the pit of stolen treasures was completely filled, he also made a lot of money!
The three parties finalized the details and quickly signed the contract.
There was a knock on the door, and a monk from the City Lord's Mansion came to report.
At this time, there must be a major incident.
Faith thought there was a problem with the city defense, so he hurriedly let his subordinates in, but he heard about "corruption and dereliction of duty by the warehouse guard".
It turned out that the monster beasts attacked the city, and the Fire Persimmon Immortal City was passively defended, and it took a lot of thought to mobilize fire persimmons and make explosives on a large scale to use them as a trump card at a critical juncture.
As a result, when the subordinate took the fire persimmons from the warehouse, he found that a large number of fire persimmons were gone!
Since the fire persimmon festival was picked, the warehouse has been sealed off, and only the management can enter and exit.
Therefore, the spearhead was aimed at the officials managing the warehouse.
If he is not corrupt, who else could it be?
This immediately made Fei Si angry enough.
"Good, good, good, very good!"
"At this juncture, corruption really gives me the face of the city lord."
Fei Si's face turned a little pale with anger.
He regretted summoning his subordinates and exposing this matter to Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli.
Especially Song Fuli, he once again cast a distrustful gaze.
"I was also dizzy, I was so unwise, handling official business in front of outsiders!"
"Alas......
Faith lamented that the negotiation just now really made him rack his brains, exhaust his words, and be in a state of absence.
At this time, he was glad that they had just agreed on a plan for compensation and joining forces, and signed a contract. Otherwise, Song Fuli is likely to despise the city lord's mansion even more because of this incident, thus asking for more and more sky-high prices.
At this point, in order to save his reputation, Fei Si simply ordered: "Bring the corrupt official up!"
Soon, the official was escorted and knelt in front of Fei Si and the other three Jindan monks.
"Say! How you embezzle! What method was used to forge the magic circle record? Who are you selling that batch of fire persimmons to?!" Faith shouted.
The warehouse manager at the foundation building level was so frightened that he cried and said, "My lord, Master Faith is wise!"
"The villain is wronged, and the villain is not corrupt at all."
"Those fire persimmons, since they were picked during the festival, were sent directly to the warehouse through the teleportation circle."
"The villain is only responsible for checking, and he doesn't dare to touch it at all."
Fei Si's eyes were sharp: "You dare to quibble!"
"Then you have checked many times, why didn't you find a large-scale deficit until the fire persimmon was activated today?"
The little official exchanged tears: "Although the villain is inspecting every day, he only checks the surrounding appearance, but he doesn't find that the pile of fire persimmons has been hollowed out!"
"The villain is extremely negligent in inspection, this is indeed the fault of the villain!"
"But the villain really didn't embezzle, the villain swore to the heavens, he really didn't touch a single fire persimmon."
The minor official cried and complained, sincere.
"Okay, okay, you know how to avoid the heavy and take the light, you must have expected it, and you have been studying our country's laws all day long, right?" Faith's face was gloomy, revealing his murderous intent.
Zhu Xuanji sighed lightly, he saw that Fei Si wanted to quickly cut through the mess in order to kill chickens and monkeys and save the reputation of the city lord's mansion.
This is impatient.
Zhu Xuanji couldn't look at it, so he stood up: "I just used a means to see it, but this person is not lying."
"How many fire persimmons have you lost?"
Fei Si's face was gloomy, staring at Zhu Xuanji like an eagle.
The two confronted each other with their eyes for a while, but after all, Faith didn't want Song Fuli to see the infighting in Nandou Kingdom, so he had to take a step back and report a compromise.
Zhu Xuanji's eyes flashed with gold, and he immediately recognized that Fei Siyan was insincere and lied.
Obviously, in this situation, Faith could only report less.
This immediately made Zhu Xuanji's brows furrowed, and his face sank: "So much?!"
A lot of fire persimmons have been lost, especially many ten thousand years and thousands of years of fire persimmons.
Fire persimmon is analogous to fire spirit, so many fire persimmons, if used by people with ulterior motives, are likely to cause huge damage to the Lava Immortal Palace, especially at the stall where the monster beast tide is constantly impacting.
If the fire persimmon explodes, causing the front line to collapse and causing the monster beasts to rush into the city, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties.
"This matter must be clarified and cannot be ignored!"
Zhu Xuanji stared at the official, his eyes full of gold.
This is really bad news, and this is even more important than the theft of cloud merchant goods.
Song Fuli spoke: "It was easy to steal the treasury of the City Lord's Mansion, and it was not discovered until now, could it be the same group of people?"
"Not an empty door?" Faith's eyes flashed, "Very likely!"
If it weren't for Zhu Xuanji, he would have been sure immediately. No matter what, he can't carry this pot on his body, which will affect his career.
Zhu Xuanji had a bottom line, and said: "We still need to investigate to determine the real culprit!"
He originally thought that if he got rid of the cloud business, he would be able to return to the Lava Immortal Palace immediately, but he didn't expect that there would be a fire persimmon theft case.
He went to the warehouse non-stop and immediately went to the warehouse to conduct an on-site survey.
Under the golden eyes, everything is almost hidden.
Soon, Zhu Xuanji made an amazing discovery!
"Black Shadow Demon Cultivator?!"
Tracing back to the source, Zhu Xuanji "saw" a scene that once happened here.
The Black Shadow Demon Cultivator hid in the Fire Persimmon Warehouse, took away a large amount of Fire Persimmon, and then covered himself in black smoke, like an ink python, easily getting out of the warehouse.
There were six layers of magic circles in the warehouse, but the ink python came and went freely along the gaps between the magic circles!
"It turns out that the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator has been hiding here? But is he the original Black Shadow Demon Cultivator?"
In the Jindan melee, several black shadow demon cultivators once appeared. Zhu Xuanji relied on this past image alone and could not judge the true origin of this black shadow demon cultivator.
"Is it the Meng family guarding and stealing? Or is the City Lord's Mansion just a simple victim?"
In an instant, the fog enveloped Zhu Xuanji's heart.
Seeing Zhu Xuanji's changing expression, Faith asked eagerly: "Did Master Zhu find any key clues?"
"It was discovered that the one who stole the fire persimmon was the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator!" Zhu Xuanji thought for a while and simply told him frankly.
Faith stared: "Black Shadow Demon Cultivator?!"
He was stunned for a moment and reacted: "Wait, doesn't that mean that anyone can do it?"
After the Jindan melee, the identity of the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator was considered a rotten street, and anyone could play a role.
Zhu Xuanji nodded slowly.
He said: "The Fire Persimmon Mountain often shakes, even if there is a lava fairy palace to suppress the bottom of the mountain, it is inevitable."
"The city defense formation has not changed all year round, and the repair work can be seen all year round due to the damage caused by the mountain shaking."
"When the six-layer magic circle was first arranged, it was close to each other, and there was no room for the formation."
"But as time goes by, there will always be gaps due to the vibration of the mountain."
"Sombra Demon Correction uses these gaps to enter and exit the warehouse."
Faith stared again: "Can you drill into people in such a narrow gap?"
Zhu Xuanji sighed: "It seems that some kind of spell was used, or it may be a supernatural power."
Faith was speechless.
After a moment of silence, he reacted completely.
Immediately, Faith bowed deeply to Zhu Xuanji and said sincerely: The side of the city lord's mansion is definitely a victim, this is by no means a self-directed and self-acted thing.
Zhu Xuanji's eyes flashed with golden light, and he kept staring at Faith.
"I know you weren't lying. However, just because you didn't do it doesn't mean that the city lord's mansion didn't do it, right?" Zhu Xuanji transmitted the sound.
Faith was dumbfounded.
The implication of Zhu Xuanji's words was that Meng Yan secretly arranged it and hid it from Fei Si.
This is indeed possible.
After all, it is taboo to use magic chess pieces in the righteous path, and the fewer people know about it, the better.
This kind of thing really exists, Fei Si would rather not know it!
The more he knows this secret, the more dangerous he becomes.
Faith subconsciously looked at the top of the Fire Persimmon Mountain, and immediately realized that this action was inappropriate.
He frowned, and immediately promised that he would issue an order for his subordinates to thoroughly investigate the front line and the key points in the Immortal City.
"But over there in the Lava Immortal Palace, I can't do anything." Faith then sighed and asked Zhu Xuanji in a helpless tone, be sure to follow this clue to the end!
Zhu Xuanji also sighed: "I need to consider it comprehensively."