The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 928

Chapter 928: Chapter 928: Incarnation of Malice

The aftermath of the Ninth Village incident was left to the Security Bureau to handle.

The array has been broken, and whether it’s Evelyn or the other eighteen women who were once similarly cursed, from now on, they will no longer be forced by the curse to marry someone from the Ninth Village in every life.

As for the originally concentrated fortune of the Ninth Village, it will completely dissipate in a short time.

Those once outstanding clansmen will also return to mediocrity.

Returning to the Capital Metropolitan, at the moment of parting, Evelyn sincerely thanked her,

"Thank you."

As she spoke, she hesitated for a moment, tentatively asking,

"Can I call you Scarlett?"

She remembered that Scarlett had mentioned on a show that she didn’t like strangers calling her by her name.

Scarlett Jennings just offered her a slight smile,

"Sure."

Evelyn’s face instantly lit up with a joyful smile.

It was a truly relaxed smile after being freed from the bonds of reincarnation.

And in every life from now on, she would live according to her own heart.

...

Stella Gibson and Greta left earlier with the Security Bureau people, bid farewell to Evelyn and the others, leaving only Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalmers in the backseat of the extra-seated business car.

Only until this time did she look at Samuel and ask him,

"Do you know that Evil Master named Shu’e?"

Although it was a question, her tone clearly carried some certainty.

After all, Samuel was not the type to be curious about others.

His inquiry must have been prompted by a discovery.

So, what did he discover?

When Samuel heard that name from her mouth, he thought of the person and instinctively wanted to obscure the other’s identity.

But as his gaze met Scarlett’s, he inexplicably recalled the scene in the bookroom at Chang’en that day.

She had asked about the fine lines on his wrist, and he had merely said, "It’s nothing," only to see her eyes fill with a renewed sense of distance.

After the Azure Sea incident, he should have understood.

Scarlett Jennings doesn’t like being kept in the dark.

Even if the intention is for her good.

Scarlett knew from his lack of immediate response that this was probably another question he couldn’t tell her.

A faint disappointment swept over her heart, but she no longer felt sorrow because of his concealment.

If he wouldn’t tell her, she could investigate it herself.

She didn’t necessarily need him to solve the mystery.

She also didn’t want to waste a Truth Talisman.

"Just forget I asked."

As she said this, she turned her head to look out the window, only to be caught off guard by Samuel’s voice,

"Shu’e is the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog escape."

Scarlett was taken aback and suddenly turned her head to look at him,

"You knew already?"

Regarding the identity of the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog, even Cassian Wolf and the Security Bureau hadn’t explicitly reported it. She only knew that the Security Bureau and the Mystic Regulation Office had been secretly tracking that person’s whereabouts these past days.

"I only guessed it might be him when I was trapped by the Divine Refining Array at the Azure Sea. As for why I just asked about him..."

Samuel said, suddenly opening his palm toward her.

Scarlett saw a mass of golden light gather above his palm.

As the golden light slowly dissipated, she saw a small, golden light-condensed orb floating in his palm.

The orb was small, and through the orb, one could vaguely see a black, fog-like fragment inside.

It resembled the Ghost Fog yet seemed like a condensed fragment.

"This is what I extracted from the worm when the array was broken just now and from a crack in the ground."

"What is this?" Scarlett asked.

The Ninth Kinship had been Shu’e’s chosen experiment from the beginning.

Considering Ghost Fog’s previous plots with the Undying Bone, Devil Bone, and Boundary Breaking Array... if all these were Shu’e’s directives,

then this person... really liked conducting experiments.

Too bad they all failed.

As Scarlett thought this, a flash of insight crossed her mind. She looked at Samuel,

"Do you think that after the Malice Worm’s refinement failure and escape, it might follow the malice back to its real master?"

Samuel’s eyes twitched upon hearing this, and he instantly understood her meaning.

"You mean..."

Scarlett nodded, "Finding this worm might lead us to Shu’e’s location."

As the mastermind behind the Ghost Fog, letting him continue hiding outside was definitely not a good thing.

So saying, Scarlett immediately sent a request to Simon on the other end.

She wouldn’t involve herself in the aftermath of the Ninth Village.

But she could take responsibility for tracking the escaped Malice Worm.

Samuel listened to her negotiate with Simon, and after a while, he suddenly spoke,

"I can assist you with the tracking."

The Malice Worm feared his golden light, and besides, facing Shu’e alone would put her in danger.

His presence would allow him to protect her.

Scarlett heard Samuel’s words, glanced at him with an expression full of indescribable emotion, but ultimately consented.

From then on, she continued to work alongside him.

On the other end of the phone, Simon: ...

Next time, you can decide these things on your own. There’s really no need to consult me.

...

Anyway, the one who eventually needed to report and obey decisions was someone else. Haha.