The arrogant imperial concubine arrives, the favorite of the regent

Youming Jiuchong knew in his heart that, to a certain extent, the person who found the young master could propose three conditions to the top killer organization, Soul Stealer. The people of Soul Stealer and even the person who was looking for the young master would do their best to help that person realize his vision.

The Soul-stealing Yuanxi is the top killer organization in the Xingyue Continent, and its verbal promise is priceless.

The Netherworld Nine Layers has its own killer organization, but after all, it has only been established for a few years, and its foundation cannot be as solid as the killers that have been established for hundreds of years, and the range it can reach is wider.

Therefore, he also wanted to find the young master and get the three conditions that he could make demands on.

Over the past two and a half years, Youming Jiuchong has been leading people in the search and has sent people to various countries to investigate.

Whether it was the men of Regent Zhongyue or the men of Lord Ming of Mushi Jiuyou Pavilion, the two search routes continued in parallel, but still no results were found.

They only got some clues, which were not enough to support them to find the final result.

Half a month ago, Youming Jiuchong began to realize that perhaps they were searching in the wrong direction, which caused the scope of the search to deviate.

They should no longer focus their energy outside Zhongyue Capital, and should not even send extra people to investigate in other countries. Instead, they should focus on their own country!

To this end, he also adjusted new measures...

This plan really worked...

In fact, at the very beginning, that is, two and a half years ago, the Night King learned about the bounty order first issued by Soul Taker from Mu Shi Jiuyou Pavilion.

The Night King and the people in the Night King's Palace found out that the young master was lost at the Zhongyue border, and then seemed to appear inside the capital.

They immediately sent people to search the situation inside the capital city first, while the suburbs of the capital city and other places were put aside.

But after searching for a while, there were no new clues, so they shifted their focus back to the prefectures and counties outside the capital, but still no significant results were obtained.

After checking the area around the capital and finding no trace of the young master, they began to expand the search area from the provinces of Zhongyue to the four countries of Beihan, Xiyi, Nantai and Dongyang Empire...

The Night King combined the progress of the search over the past two months and came up with a new plan:

It was decided to shift all focus back to the center of the country's capital for the first time, as this is the most important search target.

Moreover, this was also the first time that a large number of personnel from the Underworld Palace were mobilized, using the identity of Netherworld Nine to intervene in the investigation and thoroughly investigate various institutions of the imperial court within the capital.

In the past, they spent a lot of manpower and material resources on other places outside the capital. Now it seems that they need to focus most on the center of the capital.

Night King and his men had analyzed that when they first started to search inside the capital, the young master had already been taken outside the capital or even to other places. When they focused on searching outside the capital, the young master appeared in an unknown corner of the capital...

Fortunately, this time, the search direction they supported was finally correct, and the final result came out!

The evening breeze blew in from the mountains, and the lanterns hanging on the tea stalls swayed, casting patches of dark yellow light.

Youming Jiuzhong's fingers were lightly clasping the tattered handle of the chair. There was a candle burning brightly on the table. The wick was swaying, casting a cold, dim light on Youming Jiuzhong's knife-like chin.

The man in black knelt on the ground with a trembling heart, and finally slowly revealed the result.

"Ming Jun, the person we are looking for...is no longer here!"

Except for Netherworld Nine, everyone at the scene felt extremely shocked and had an irrepressible feeling of disappointment.

From the report of this Hades Palace killer, Nether Nine Levels and his group slowly learned a lot of detailed information.

The young master is dead!

That’s right, the person they had been looking for had actually died a long time ago!

What’s more, even a complete body could not be found. After all, after such a long time, even the best preserved body would turn into a pile of bones.

Their people also found the location of the pile of bones. After verification by the coroner, it was confirmed that it was indeed the body of a boy around two years old.

The people in the Underworld Palace also discovered a detail: there was a silver lotus bracelet next to the pile of bones.

The bracelet was tied with a ribbon that had faded so long that its original color could no longer be seen. The bracelet was very small and it was obvious that it could only be worn by a child of two or three years old.

Nether Nine murmured: "A two-year-old boy..."

"Lotus bracelet with red ribbon..."

"Both pieces of information match Soul Taker's description of the young master..."

Netherworld Nine's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked again: "When did the corpse appear?"

"To answer Lord Ming, it was about two and a half years ago."

"I understand."

Wei Song said, "The young master was lost not long ago and died here. No wonder we haven't found him yet."

He turned around and asked the assassin in black, "How did you find out?"

The assassin in black looked at Youming Jiuchong and said, "We followed your instructions and started from Zhongyue Court. We found a long-lost file inside the Dali Temple. It was marked with a missing case of a two-year-old boy."

"In addition, we combined the information we found in other institutions of the Zhongyue court and learned that the young master was found in the capital more than two years ago."

"A little boy of about two years old was found in a dark corner of an alley outside the capital. It is said that it is the intersection of Doumen District and Wuxin District in the suburbs of the city."

While Wei Song frowned and thought, You Ming Jiu Chong blurted out: "Those two areas are in the suburbs of the capital."

That is, the ghetto.

The young master was thrown into the slums.

Therefore, they initially misjudged the direction in which they were searching for the young master. They should have searched the outskirts of the capital instead of the city center.

"Yes, Lord Ming." The man in black paused and added, "According to the records in the file, it was an elderly couple without children who found the little boy. They did not want to report the case, but wanted to keep it a secret from the outside world and adopt the little boy on their own."

Netherworld Nineth Level understood and continued, "So this volume of files that was almost completely lost, and the old couple who were hiding the truth, are the key obstacles that prevent us from finding the young master's whereabouts."

They started from the government office, but did not find any missing or adopted cases that matched the young master's information.

Later he guessed that perhaps someone had secretly taken in the young master, and that person and the young master lived together in a civilian area where the household registration management was not strict enough, in order to escape the routine household registration verification work of the government.

The fact was exactly as Netherworld Nine had expected.

Youming Jiuchong tapped the chair handle twice with his fingers and looked at the man in black again.

"Go on. I guess that the old couple had an accident, didn't they?"

"Yes!" The man in black was shocked. How could the Lord of Hell guess so accurately?

Netherworld Jiuchong spoke directly himself - "Not long after they adopted the young master, something happened to him and he passed away."

“Yes!” The man in black was even more shocked. “Amazing! Lord Ming, how did you know that?”