Mountain and sea lantern

Chapter 605 Lost me

So all that attention was for the purpose of killing him?
Alan was secretly surprised and suspicious. This Li Hongjiu had some reputation, and was known as the number one person of the new generation, but in the eyes of the Empress, he was just a nobody. She really didn't know why the Empress would make a fuss over such a nobody.

They gave detailed instructions, especially to such a minor person, as if afraid of making a mistake.

She was genuinely confused, and hesitated to ask something, but ultimately obeyed the order and quickly went to the side to make arrangements.

He then returned to the woman in red and reported, "I have sent out the Demon Eye to monitor Li Hongjiu's aura; he can't escape now."

The woman in red nodded slightly and continued turning the pages of her book with an unperturbed expression...

In the dimly lit prison, smoke drifted in. Bai Qiru, leaning against the corner of the wall, puffed on her pipe, the flickering firelight illuminating the dazed look on her face.

This time, her pipe hobby was not confiscated during her arrest.

After being caught and released repeatedly, she realized that something was wrong and vaguely sensed that the situation was no longer under her grandmother's control. It seemed to her that the Bai family was not taken seriously at all...

Meanwhile, inside the Divine Mountain Prison, Yin Fei, who was on patrol, paced back and forth in the passageway outside the cells. When he reached the end of the passageway, he greeted Granny Qi politely through the cells: "Granny, are you getting used to the food here? If you don't like the food on the mountain, you can try the food in the city. You can tell me if there's anything you want to eat, and the dishes from the restaurants in the city can be sent up the mountain."

The tone of the phrase "The food at the restaurant in the city is ready" was slightly different; those who understand will naturally understand.

There's no other way to be so careful now. There are too many people imprisoned on the sacred mountain, and there are also people imprisoned next door. There are also more guards, and everyone can see what I do here.

Grandma Qi, who was under a restriction this time, stood up with the help of the wall upon hearing this. She didn't even touch her cane. She walked to the railing and sighed, "Yin Fei, I'm just an old man with no appetite. But the food last time was quite good. Let's do it the same way."

Yin Fei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll bring it to you later."

After exchanging a few more polite words, he left.

As soon as he stepped out of the prison gates, a figure peeked out from behind a house outside, staring at Yin Fei's retreating figure. Then, the figure appeared and followed at a leisurely pace...

As soon as the carriage left the city, the horses galloped away, the grass on both sides already reaching their knees.

After driving a bit further, the driver, using his right eye's special ability to repeatedly observe the surroundings and confirm that no one was following, turned back and said, "Brother Jiu, let's abandon the car and go."

Li Hongjiu poked her head out of the car and looked around. Fang asked suspiciously, "You just abandoned the car like that?"

Shi Chun: "Sigh, a car isn't worth much."

Li Hongjiu emerged from the carriage, the wind blowing through her as it jolted along. "That's true, with all the money you swindled from the ten major sects of the weapon-refining world, you could never spend it all. But then again, being with you, even though there's nothing going on, why do I always feel like I'm doing something wrong?"

"Let's go." Shi Chun stood up from the carriage shaft, took one hand with Wind Scale and the other with his arm, pulled them up and launched them into the air. The flying Wind Scale quickly enveloped the two of them and carried them away.

The carriage continued its rapid journey across the land.

While speeding through the air, Li Hongjiu turned his head to look at Shi Chun's arm that he wouldn't let go of. That wasn't the main issue; the important thing was that Shi Chun had cast a spell to envelop him, making it hard for him not to be suspicious. He asked warily, "What do you mean by this?"

Shi Chun didn't completely deceive him, revealing part of the truth: "I was once chased by the demonic path in the library. Fortunately, Sword Saint Fu Que intervened in time. Later, a senior told me that the demonic path has a demonic skill called 'Demon Eye,' which can track a person's aura. He taught me how to conceal my aura. You should be patient for now and let go once you've run far away."

"..." Li Hongjiu stared at him blankly for a while before saying with some difficulty, "The Demonic Path? You've made enemies with the Demonic Path? Shi Chun, I'm telling you, you've offended both the righteous and the evil paths. Are you trying to kill yourself?"

Shi Chun: "Those from the Extreme Fire Sect do not represent the entire righteous path, and the demonic disciples who are chasing me do not represent the entire demonic path. It's not fair to say that I have offended them all."

Li Hongjiu looked up at the stars and chuckled as if in a dream, "You're full of trouble, and if you drag me down with you, I'm afraid I'll be dragged down by you."

As the two were whispering to each other, their carriage was stopped by someone on the roadside, someone who had been secretly following them.

Actually, we were quite far away when we saw a figure fly into the sky before we rushed over to check.

Sure enough, the carriage was empty.

The leader quickly took out a talisman and sent a message to his superiors for instructions.

In the inn, the lights in Wei Mo's room were off, but a light screen had appeared instead.

The scene inside the light screen was mostly dark, but the starlight, after being adjusted in angle, did provide some illumination, making it seem as if one could see a starry sky directly in the room. Wei Mo and Young Master Nan were now playing chess using this faint light and shadow.

Of course, I've also lost interest in playing chess for the time being.

After Shi Chun and Li Hongjiu flew away from the carriage, the two stopped playing chess and focused their attention on the two who had flown away.

The two figures, now flying amidst wind scales, are within the light screen, which remains locked onto them.

This light screen is none other than the treasure "Sky-Gazing Mirror," which Young Master Nan is quite familiar with. The screen's image can be enlarged or reduced in size, but at this moment it has simply shrunk to fit within the room.

Wei Mo came here with a supreme mission, backed by the powerful resources of the Eastern Sheng Royal Court. As long as the mission can be completed, Right Assistant Marquis Jia Huan said that all the support he could provide would be given.

The precious treasure "Sky-Gazing Mirror" was on Wei Mo's list of items requiring support, and it was delivered to him without any resistance.

Of course, there was a reason why Wei Mo was able to suddenly appear in the interrogation room after Nan Gongzi was arrested and interrogated. It was not a coincidence, because Nan Gongzi was also on the list of supporters that Wei Mo had asked for. He asked Youbi Hou Jia Huan for Nan Gongzi, which is also the reason why Nan Gongzi was brought to Jukuzhou.

The person controlling the treasure was right next to the mirror, watching it while manipulating a floating sphere. A follower standing nearby suddenly pulled out a mother-and-child talisman, examined it, and reported to Wei Mo: "The people tracking us have discovered that the carriage is empty, but they dare not approach for fear of being discovered. Now that they have lost their target, what should we do?"

Wei Mo calmly replied, "It's right not to get too close. Just tell them the location of the target and let them follow from a distance."

"Yes." The attendant accepted the order and quickly picked up the mother-child talisman to carry it out.

Wei Mo then gestured towards the mirror image with his lip, "Can you see the coachman's face clearly?"

The person operating the overhead camera replied, "He was wearing a straw hat with the brim pulled low, so the image couldn't be viewed from below. The lighting was also poor, and it was impossible to see clearly even from an angle."

Wei Mo turned to the young master Nan, who was playing chess, and asked, "He's holding Li Hongjiu's arm, and Li Hongjiu is chatting and laughing with him casually. Brother Nan, based on your understanding of Shi Chun, judging from his physique, do you think this person could be Shi Chun?"

Nan Gongzi's heart skipped a beat. In fact, he had the same suspicion, but he said something else: "I don't think so. Li Hongjiu is always casual and carefree. He's like that with everyone. This is not a reliable basis."

Wei Mo glanced at his expression and reaction, using him as a mirror for illumination, and said "Oh," before turning back to his subordinates and saying, "Let's see what they're going to do first, and when the time is right, we can reveal the true face of the coachman."

The attendant acknowledged the order and replied, "Yes."

He then took out the mother-child talisman and continued working.

The young master Nan, who was listening in, silently picked up his tea and sipped it slowly.

Wei Mo shifted his gaze from the mother-and-child talisman in his subordinate's hand to Young Master Nan's face, and asked, "Brother Nan, don't you have a mother-and-child talisman to contact Shi Chun? Send a message to Shi Chun. If the person in the mirror image takes out the mother-and-child talisman to check the message, it will be obvious who it is. What do you say?"

Young Master Nan's heart skipped a beat again, his cheeks tightened slightly, but a smile appeared on his face. He put down his teacup and said, "Brother Wei is right. Why don't we give it a try?"

As he spoke, he reached out to touch the mother-child talisman.

Wei Mo, who had reached out to pick up the tea, blew on the tea and added lightly, "I'll leave the mother-child talisman I used to contact Shi Chun with me for now."

Upon hearing this, Young Master Nan paused slightly in his gestures.

He had been thinking of just pulling out another mother-child talisman to deal with it, but after being dismissed by the other party's words, he dared not do anything reckless. If Shi Chun fell into their hands later, they would know that he had tampered with it when they compared the two.

So he took out the one that was actually used to contact Shi Chun, and under the watchful eyes of several people, he sent a message to Shi Chun. Then he stared intently at the image in the mirror, feeling his heart racing.

He knew that as soon as the coachman wearing the straw hat made a move to take out the mother-child talisman, even if he didn't reply to the message, the experts here would immediately rush up to arrest him.

Most of the other people in the room were also staring intently at the mirror's reaction, but Wei Mo, who was slowly sipping his tea, was secretly observing Nangong Zi's expression and reaction.

While flying at high speed, Shi Chun did indeed sense the message transmitted by Young Master Nan's mother-child talisman. The mother-child talismans in the storage space were not piled up randomly; they were all arranged separately. As soon as the commonly used one reacted, one would know whose message it was.

However, Shi Chun was too busy to pay attention to this at the moment. He had to control the wind scales to fly with one hand and hold Li Hongjiu with the other to maintain the cover of his technique. Now was not the time to reveal his true intentions, since he was afraid of the Demon Eye.

Furthermore, he already knows who Young Master Nan is with now, so it's okay not to contact him for the time being. He will send a message later if anything comes up.

In the mirrored image, the coachman who was flying alongside Li Hongjiu did not make any move to take out the mother-child talisman.

After waiting long enough, long enough for the messages on the mother and child tokens to disappear without any response, Young Master Nan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He placed the mother and child tokens on the edge of the chessboard, pushed them to the opponent, and laughed, "This coachman shouldn't be him."

Wei Mo, staring at the mirror image, thought with a playful tone, "Could it be that he was busy helping someone up with one hand and controlling the Wind Scales with the other, and didn't have time to reply to the message?"

Young Master Nan laughed and said, "I've never heard of anyone in the Wind Scales who absolutely has to be helped. Li Hongjiu's cultivation is no less than Shi Chun's, so there's no need for him to keep helping her. It's not like you'd forget to check the Mother-Child Talisman for the sake of helping someone."

“Yes, there’s no need to keep supporting him. So why is the coachman keeping him supporting him? It’s not normal for him to keep supporting him like this. There must be some reason why he has to support him.” Wei Mo said, turning his head to stare at the mother-child talisman that had just been pushed over, then glancing at Young Master Nan. “It has been proven that Shi Chun is in Jukuzhou, but he hasn’t replied to any messages.” As he said this, he pointed to the coachman in the mirror image who hadn’t checked the mother-child talisman’s movements.

Young Master Nan fell silent instantly.

Wei Mo turned back and instructed his subordinates, "This Li Hongjiu is no ordinary person. He had the strength to contend with a fifth-grade magic weapon when he was a high-level martial artist. Now, it is said that he has reached the peak of the Human Immortal realm. He is probably far superior to him. We must not be careless. Send two more experts to wait for orders immediately."

"Yes." The attendant acknowledged and carried out the order once again.

On the road through the grassland, two figures shrouded in cloaks descended from the sky and landed beside a carriage parked by the roadside.

Finding the car empty, the eerie, red-eyed demon looked around and then pulled out a mother-child talisman to send an urgent message.

Inside the antique-style pavilion, Alan, who was preparing incense at the table, glanced at the message on the mother-child talisman on the table and was slightly surprised. She quickly got up and went to the recliner to report: "Your Majesty, Li Hongjiu has been lost."

That's as far-fetched as it gets.

A pair of cold eyes slowly emerged from behind the book, staring coldly at her, and asked coldly, "Didn't you say you absolutely couldn't escape?"

Alan broke out in a cold sweat and continued awkwardly, "I was afraid of being discovered, so I didn't dare to get close to follow him. When I finally followed the trail, I found that Li Hongjiu's aura suddenly stopped, which caused me to lose track of him and not know where he went. However, I found the carriage he was riding in, and I found a lot of auras of people flying away near the carriage. I don't know if they went in the same direction. I think we can still give it a try."

The red-clad woman with a stern expression decisively ordered, "Chase him! And inform our people at Xunmen that if they find Li Hongjiu, capture him immediately and do not allow him to leave Jukuzhou!"

(End of this chapter)