Upon hearing the butler's personal admission, the subordinates burning paper were stunned on the spot. They still couldn't believe it; the butler, who usually treated his subordinates kindly, could commit such a heinous act as killing his benefactor!

Just as Han Lengyue said, the butler often said, "The master has treated me with grace as mountainous as his. I would risk my life to serve Miss and venture into life and death."

In the past, everyone who heard these words would be moved by the butler's loyalty and righteousness. But now, as the same words echoed, all they could feel was a poignant sarcasm.

"I need an explanation," Han Lengyue stared directly into the butler's eyes, completely unaware of the horrendous smile shown by the man beside her under the dimming firelight. It looked extremely eerie.

The next moment, the man abruptly fished out a dagger from his pocket and stabbed it towards the butler without hesitation.

The butler was taken aback instantly, but before he could react and dodge, Xiao Feng gently tapped the man on the back of his neck, causing the man to collapse like a boneless entity.

This interlude sent the butler on an emotional roller coaster; it took him a long time to recover before he said, "I did kill the master, but I was forced without a choice. If I didn't do it, my wife and children would have died."

He then knelt directly before Han Lengyue, tears streaming down his face, saying, "Miss, I've wronged you, I've wronged the master!"

Han Lengyue remained unmoved. Everyone has moments of wrongdoing, and apologies and repentance cannot change anything.

It's like a widely circulated saying: if apologies were useful, what would we need the police for?

"Who threatened you using your wife and children?" Xiao Feng asked. Now that the murderer of Han Wangfu had been unveiled, the next question to focus on was who had framed him all those years ago.

For now, it appeared that the person who threatened the butler to kill Han Wangfu could very likely be the one who framed him secretly.

However, the butler shook his head: "I don't know his name, nor do I know his identity."

"So you haven't seen him face to face?" Xiao Feng frowned, clearly not satisfied with the butler's answer.

"I saw him once when you left Jiangcheng, and that was the only time," the butler recalled. "That man was leaning on a cane with a snake carving hissing on it, not tall, with slicked-back hair, and spoke with an imposing presence..."

Boom!

Xiao Feng felt a loud bang in his mind, a momentary blankness. The butler's description increasingly matched the image of Mu Shihan's grandfather he had in his mind!

"Does the person you mentioned wear a string of black Buddhist beads on his neck?" Xiao Feng asked with eyes closed, "When he sits, does he have a habit of resting both hands on the cane?"

The butler's eyes widened: "How do you know?!"

This retort implicitly confirmed Xiao Feng's assumption.

Xiao Feng frowned deeply, feeling as if countless clues were intertwined in his mind. He wished to find the most pivotal one, yet the numerous leads continuously misled him onto wrong paths.

Initially believing he could resolve years' long mysteries, now with apparent clues, Xiao Feng felt instead that he had stumbled into an even larger mystery, surrounded by dense fog, unable to see his own hand.

"Do you know this person?" Han Lengyue asked. To her, finding the answers was still elusive. The murderer of her father had been found, but clearly, the mastermind commanding was the key.

Why would someone threaten the butler to kill her father?

What does Xiao Feng know?

But at this moment, the butler suddenly squatted on the ground clutching his head, emitting a howl that was not human, as if suffering extreme pain.

"Mr. Liu, what is this..." A subordinate stepped forward to check, only to see the butler raise his head, showing a bizarre smile, with saliva dripping on the floor, making a "drip-drip" sound, his eyes blood-red, resembling a beast starved to the extreme.

"Ah!" The man checking jumped back in fright, screamed and fell sitting on the ground.

The next moment, the butler grabbed him by the collar and suddenly bit down on the man's carotid artery.

The blood sprayed out like a fountain. Everyone present was dumbfounded, unable to predict that such a scene, only found in disaster movies, would realistically happen.

The man bitten on the neck shrieked, used all his strength to push away the butler, clutching the wound tightly, but the injury wasn't one that simple pressure could stop the bleeding. In mere minutes, he would die from excessive blood loss.

Attempting to prevent such an outcome, terror in his eyes gradually turned into despair, finally collapsing in the pool of blood, death terribly grisly.

"What's going on here?" Han Lengyue watched as the butler, his mouth full of flesh, chewing a chunk bitten from the subordinate's neck muscle, couldn't help but step back, her tone grave.

Xiao Feng looked into the butler's eyes: "He has lost his sanity. Perhaps someone injected him with some kind of virus in advance, with the purpose of preventing us from obtaining further information from him. But regardless, he has lost his value; even if he could recover, irreversible damage would inevitably occur to his brain."

"Is there such a virus that can turn people into beasts?" Han Lengyue jumped in shock, this incident being unheard of before.

As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed the butler eyeing her, with saliva continuously flowing down his mouth, generating an unspeakable gross feeling.

While the subordinate initially burning paper for Han Wangfu yelled in fear, tumbling out of the place.

In the blink of an eye, only the butler, the man knocked out, Han Lengyue, and Xiao Feng remained in the room.

The butler, eyes blood-red, charged at Han Lengyue. Xiao Feng swiftly grabbed Han Lengyue and ran out. Whether he could defeat the butler was secondary; the key thing was what defeating him would even accomplish?

Xiao Feng never had interest in meaningless battles.

But at this moment, as the butler approached, Han Lengyue instinctively kicked at him, attempting to fend him off away from her.

Nonetheless, the butler caught her leg, prompting Han Lengyue to cry out: "Ah!"

Xiao Feng, pulling Han Lengyue out in escape, realized something was amiss, quickly turned to see. Witnessing the butler about to bite Han Lengyue's calf, he promptly struck a heavy punch.

The punch broke the butler's bridge of the nose, blood gushing out instantly, yet the butler seemed utterly immune to pain, retreating a couple of steps before launching forward again.

Xiao Feng dared not delay further, lifted Han Lengyue and fled outwards, cursing under his breath, "Why are you so senseless? Clearly able to run straight out, why did you bother kicking?"

Han Lengyue intended to retort, believing it was an instinctive reaction beyond conscious control. But seeing the butler chase out from the room, she promptly closed her mouth, not daring to utter a sound.

Only when they sprinted out of the hotel, Han Lengyue spoke, "No need to run anymore; he seems... dead?"

The voice harbored some uncertainty.

Xiao Feng, having run to the opposite street, stopped to look back, only to see the butler lying still on the hotel steps.

"It seems he ingested or was injected with a virus, having a time limit," Xiao Feng exhaled, "Just now his burst of strength exceeded his body's limit; this should be the side-effect."

Han Lengyue finally breathed a sigh of relief, blushingly said, "Could you... put me down first."

Xiao Feng paused, then put Han Lengyue down with distaste, remarking, "Do you think I wanted to carry you running around? Stupid and clumsy, not helping but adding trouble!"

"You!" Han Lengyue's face flushed furiously, but after careful thought, found Xiao Feng's statement seemingly correct. If not for his quick reaction at the critical moment, she might have already been killed by the butler who lost his mind.

Thinking of this, her anger diminished, intending to express gratitude, only to find Xiao Feng on the phone.

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