Mu Jinyu looked at Ah-Huang and said, "Not long ago, I caught another demon and sent it to the storage room to be sealed, but something almost happened there."
"What happened?" Ah-Huang and others asked anxiously.
Mu Jinyu said indifferently, "The Golden Coffin was pierced through by someone with bare fingers, and all the Corpse Water flowed out..."
"How could that happen?"
Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words, everyone's face turned shocked and awful, ashamed of their negligence.
Then, they all looked towards Ah-Huang, also understanding why Mu Jinyu had just asked that question.
At that time, they were all quite afraid of the sinister demon, fearing that the Golden Coffin would not contain it, so they hurried away after laying it down, only Ah-Huang, shaking, almost fell over.
They thought it was because Ah-Huang was weak due to the lack of oxygen in the underground storage room that he almost fainted.
But now it seemed very likely that the intact Golden Coffin had its lid punctured at that very moment by him.
"Ah-Huang, raise your hand!"
Suddenly, someone commanded.
Ah-Huang, pale-faced, raised his hand unconsciously upon hearing that.
Everyone looked closely and saw some gold dust in the crevices of his fingers.
"This..."
Ah-Huang also saw the gold dust in his fingernail crevices, widened his eyes, somewhat in disbelief that he had indeed caused the puncture in the Golden Coffin.
Everyone looked at Ah-Huang with complicated and somewhat frightened eyes.
They had not expected Ah-Huang, who always appeared normal, to have been eroded by the demon unknowingly, without showing any symptoms.
They were grateful that those days were their days off.
Otherwise, if they had gone out on a task with Ah-Huang, who knew when he might suddenly stab them and then die at the hands of the demon without them knowing!
"Dragon Master, I'm sorry, I really... I really didn't know it would turn out like this..."
Ah-Huang's face turned ashen, and he lowered his head, his hands trembling, somewhat incoherently apologizing.
Mu Jinyu said, "It's not necessarily proven yet that it was you who did it, Aunt Mu, please review his records and recent experiences to check if there's something wrong with his memory."
"Okay," Mu Hongchen nodded and agreed.
Mu Jinyu naturally could not conclude that the person who had damaged the Golden Coffin and nearly released the Zombie Demon was Ah-Huang based on just these few pieces of evidence.
A more rigorous investigation was needed to avoid temporarily isolating Ah-Huang, only to find out later that the real culprit was someone else, wouldn't that be terrible?
Then they wouldn't know how many people might have fallen victim to the Tide of Chaos that tampered with memories!
Mu Hongchen quickly brought up Ah-Huang's records and the details of his recent months' activities.
Then she started questioning him based on this information.
"Where did you go two weeks ago?"
"What is your favorite food?"
"..."
Mu Hongchen stopped after a few questions and with a sigh of resignation, turned to Mu Jinyu and said, "Dragon Master, his memory indeed has major issues and a lot was missing. Like the fact that his mother passed away long ago, yet two weeks ago, he went to pay respects at her grave but believed he was going on a blind date..."
Mu Jinyu nodded, ready to have Mu Hongchen scrutinize a dozen others as well.
Yet Ah-Huang suddenly exclaimed with a changing face, "My mom is dead? Then who did I bring home this morning?"
"What?!"
Upon hearing Ah-Huang's words, everyone's face changed drastically.
Ah-Huang's mother had long died, and Mu Hongchen had discovered from the questioning that his memory had been tampered by the Tide of Chaos, causing some mistakes, potentially a side effect, so they hadn't taken it too seriously.
But now, according to what Ah-Huang said, it seemed he was not merely mistaken about his mother being alive; instead, he seemed to have brought someone back?
Could he really be bringing home a human given his current situation, or is it a demon?!
"Quick, first isolate Ah-Huang, then let's go check out his house," Mu Jinyu immediately decided and shouted.
Although Ah-Huang had big problems, Mu Jinyu couldn't just kill him outright; he had to imprison him for now and see what happens later.
Ah-Huang also understood that he was in big trouble and did not resist the decision Mu Jinyu made.
He even felt a bit relieved.
If it had been any other more ruthless leader, who would kill without hesitation, he would probably be dead by now.
Mu Jinyu sent people to take Ah-Huang to detention, got Ah-Huang's home address, and hurriedly had someone drive him there.
As for Mu Hongchen and Su Zijin, Mu Jinyu naturally wouldn't let them come along.
After all, they hadn't succeeded in their cultivation yet; going there would be useless and might only cause chaos.
If they were successful in their cultivation, he wouldn't mind taking them along on missions that weren't too dangerous.
Soon, Mu Jinyu arrived at the residential area where Ah-Huang's home was located.
But the area had a power outage, and he couldn't use the elevator, so he had to climb the stairs himself.
Ah-Huang lived on the eighteenth floor.
Mu Jinyu took a little more than a minute to climb up.
Then, he stood at the door of Ah-Huang's home, his eyes wary, and kicked the security door open with his last step.
"Clang!"
"Bang!"
The security door slammed onto the tiles, making a heavy sound.
If there were anyone inside, they would surely be startled and come out to check at this moment.
But as the dust gradually settled,
the inside of the house remained silent.
Mu Jinyu sent his Divine Sense inside and eventually detected a strange power in the study that blocked his probing.
"It's here!"
Mu Jinyu instantly realized that what Ah-Huang brought back, supposedly his "mother," was indeed a demon currently hiding in his home's study.
Then, Mu Jinyu cautiously stepped up to the study door, covered his palm with True Yuan, gently touched the doorknob, ready to turn it.
He dared not simply kick the door in, not knowing what level the demon inside was; it could be lethal if provoked.
Wouldn't he be done for if he kicked the door open?
"Creak..."
Carefully opening the door, a putrid smell of rotten corpse wafted out from the room.
Mu Jinyu held his breath, not daring to smell it, since his probing with Divine Sense was being blocked by the demon's power; he could only cautiously look inside the room.
He saw...
In the study, in front of a row of bookshelves, stood a woman dressed in a red wedding dress, who from her silhouette appeared incredibly graceful and exquisite.
But the intense stench of corpse told Mu Jinyu that this odd Bridal Gown Bride was the demon Ah-Huang had brought back.
"What kind of demon is this? Ah-Huang said he was bringing his mother home, why do I feel like he brought back a date instead?" Mu Jinyu thought to himself.
As the study door opened, the Bridal Gown Bride, who had been standing elegantly in front of the bookshelf, browsing through books like a well-bred lady, turned her head to look at Mu Jinyu.