Hidden moth

Chapter 351 A Night of Unintentional Mistakes

Hu Weidong asked using his divine sense, "What have you discovered?"

Julie used her divine sense to focus her voice and said, "This person may have cultivated a wide variety of things and is very good at concealing his spiritual energy. I can't tell where he came from."

Hu Weidong: "That's normal. There are always people in the world who master multiple arts and achieve great success, like that geomancer Gu Chun."

Julie added, "This person's cultivation is not weak. If I use any methods, he might notice, so I didn't track his whereabouts just now."

Hu Weidong: "That's how it should be. As partners, we shouldn't ruin our relationship."

Julie: "So I only traced where he came from. He came in from outside the east gate. At least when he arrived at the school gate, he did not take a car. He must have walked. But not far outside the school gate, there was no trace of him."

Hu Weidong: "With your mastery of celestial divination techniques, you can't see anything more?"

Julie: "The other party is very cautious and has many spells that can conceal their tracks."

Hu Weidong: "I was referring to other information. Didn't you notice any of it?"

Julie: "I can't directly use magic to investigate him. Is there nothing he left behind here?"

Hu Weidong: "He left nothing behind this time, not even a single hair, nor any trace of his presence."

Julie sighed. "Clearly, he doesn't want us to know his identity. If we don't want to antagonize him, we shouldn't investigate his background anymore."

Hu Weidong: "Of course I don't want to antagonize anyone; I actually want to maintain good relations. There's no need to investigate this person's identity or make wild guesses; I already know what's going on in my mind."

Julie: "Whether you can guess it or not, just don't reveal it."

Hu Weidong: "I have already asked this person to inform the Clan Court about Wenger's matter. We will make arrangements for you after we have figured out the way."

Besides Wenger, Julie also wants to inherit the art.

Even without the help of the magic sect, Wengers still has a chance to break through to the sixth-order mastery level, because the Free Alliance has cultivated more than one sixth-order illusionist in its history.

However, without the help of the magic sect, it would be almost impossible for Julie to break through to the sixth level. There is no precedent for this in the history of the Xiaomeng, and since ancient times, no spy has ever been able to infiltrate the Lingxi Sect.

Therefore, Julie also wanted to secretly join the sect, receive a second inheritance, and be guided by a master. As she was also an elder of the Supreme Council of the Xiaomeng, she discussed with Hu Weidong the idea of ​​sending Wenger to scout ahead first.

Hu Weidong: "Mr. Huo Qing just confirmed that Peter Jiao will not be appearing again. It is certain that he was either turned or captured; in any case, he has fallen into the hands of the Shu Sect."

Julie: "Jiao Peter's intelligence failure caused the Xiao Alliance to lose so many experts, and then he himself disappeared. Everyone suspects that he betrayed the Xiao Alliance and joined the Shu Sect."

I personally questioned the woman named Luo Mingzhi and confirmed that she knew nothing about it.

Hu Weidong: "The truth is simple. Jiao Bide's identity was exposed, and he was captured and taken away by the magic sect. Someone disguised himself as that woman and ambushed him; then someone else disguised himself as him and appeared openly at Qiyuan University."

Julie: "Don't you find it a bit strange? Just capturing Jobid would have been enough, why bother having someone impersonate him? In the end, they'd both just disappear, so the result is the same..."

Jiao Bide came to Qiyuan as a visiting scholar. In just one and a half years, he had in-depth interactions with five women at Qiyuan University alone, including three students and two teachers.

Luo Mingzhi was one of them, and her situation was the most special. After Jiao Bide disappeared, she was once listed as a key suspect by the police.

On the night Jiao Bide disappeared, someone saw Luo Mingzhi go to his apartment, and surveillance footage also showed that Luo Mingzhi carried a cello case downstairs when she left. After that, Jiao Bide never appeared again.

Police soon discovered her private relationship with Jiao Bide, which resembled a romantic entanglement, murder, and body disposal.

Luo Mingzhi firmly denied seeing Jiao Bide that night, but the evidence was overwhelming, and she was taken away by the police... until Jiao Bide inexplicably reappeared and then mysteriously disappeared again after returning to the apartment.

The Alliance had already obtained the relevant information, and Julie simply confirmed it again, but was puzzled by a detail.

Hu Weidong explained, "Of course there is a difference. At least the female teacher is cleared of suspicion of murder and body disposal, and the lawyer has a way to get her out of trouble."

Julie: "Someone reappeared disguised as Jiao Bide just to clear Luo Mingzhi of murder charges? Even if they didn't do that, the police had no evidence and would release Luo Mingzhi sooner or later, at least they couldn't convict her."

At first, I also suspected that Luo Mingzhi was related to the magic sect, but it turns out that she has no connection with the magic sect at all. She is just an ordinary person and knows nothing about this matter..."

Hu Weidong pondered for a moment and said, "I can understand why, but some people don't want to implicate the innocent."

For that female teacher, being a suspect without sufficient evidence to convict her is a completely different matter from not being suspected of murder, and being released as soon as possible also makes a difference in the outcome.

She was just an ordinary person who knew nothing about it, yet she was burdened with such suspicion and kept in that kind of place. A person would break down after a while, and even if she eventually got out, she'd probably be ruined…”

Julie: "Are you sure it's just that simple a reason?"

Hu Weidong: "I'm almost certain."

This was an answer that Julie hadn't expected, but she sneered, "Don't want to involve the innocent? Hypocritical!"

Hu Weidong frowned and asked, "What makes you say that?"

Julie: "You didn't see the teacher in person. Her life, including her career and social life, has been destroyed. She is not far from collapse, both mentally and physically."

To feign kindness when one has already ruined her life is nothing but a hypocritical self-comfort that changes nothing.

Hu Weidong's expression was always gentle when he spoke to Julie, but at this moment he became unusually serious: "Julie, there are some things I don't require you to agree with, but we still need to make things clear."

That was a victim, a victim of the conflict between the Free Alliance and the Technique Sect. Someone later realized that innocent people had been affected, so they tried to make amends.

The other party did do what he could, but he didn't do more.

It's like someone rescuing a person from a fire, but that person is still burned; however, this outcome doesn't diminish the significance of the rescue!

Julie laughed, turned around and said, "I understand!" Then she added, "But maybe they set that fire?"

Hu Weidong shook his head again and said, "It's different. If it were Arthur's group, do you think they would do such a remedy?"

Julie shrugged. "Of course not."

Hu Weidong: "This is why I have more faith in the techniques. And you should note that the person impersonating Luo Mingzhi and the person impersonating Jiao Bide cannot be the same person. Rather, someone else is taking action to make amends."

The reason why it is said that they cannot be the same person is because Jiao Bide and Luo Mingzhi are of different genders, and their physiques and body shapes are also very different.

Julie: "Such a brilliant disguise. According to my investigation, it's almost impossible to tell the difference."

Hu Weidong: "It could be a special technique, or a special magic weapon, or both. Our Xiaomeng also has similar methods, but they are not as sophisticated. Today, Mr. Huo Qing did not appear in his true form, but I cannot see through him."

Julie: "Even you can't see through it?"

Hu Weidong: "During our last meeting, he was clearly hinting to me that he was Yin'e. This time, he was hinting again that I shouldn't investigate Yin'e's identity."

Julie: "Are you so sure?"

Hu Weidong: "Either you've misjudged, or that's exactly what I mean."

According to your judgment, those two plates of fruit, lychees and cherries, were picked less than an hour ago when they were placed in front of me. They were picked almost simultaneously in two places thousands of kilometers apart in the East.

No one in this world, except for the legendary Shadow Moth, could do that! I originally thought the Shadow Moth didn't exist, until then I realized the legend was actually true.

Julie: "But then you said that the contact you met might not be Hidden Moth."

The two plates of fruit were merely evidence of the existence of the Hidden Moth, but they did not prove that the Fire Blue that appeared in front of him was the Hidden Moth. This is precisely where Hu Weidong's logic is rigorous.

It's entirely possible that Yin'e picked the fruit, then handed it to Huoqing, who then appeared before Hu Weidong with the fruit. Without saying a word, she could still mislead Hu Weidong significantly.

Hu Weidong: "Does he look like Gu Chun?"

Julie: "I'm just a fifth-level guide, not a real god, and I've never even seen Gu Chun, so how could I possibly tell?"

Hu Weidong: "I've never met Gu Chun in person either, but I feel that the Huo Qing I just saw is not him at all! But in any case, we can confirm one thing: the Clan Law Hall is related to the Hidden Moth, or the Hidden Moth is working for the Clan Law Hall."

Julie: "Do you have any evidence?"

Hu Weile shook his head: "I have no evidence, and those two plates of fruit can't be used as evidence either. If I don't have any evidence, then no one else has any either."

The other party didn't say anything, but these kinds of things are best left unsaid.

If you hear something directly, you might not believe it; but if you think you've found evidence with your own eyes, you might believe it wholeheartedly.

This is a traditional martial arts routine called the "stringing beads" technique, which you haven't learned before.

The Zongfa Hall's actions were likely well-intentioned and also intended to protect me, since I had not engaged in any private dealings with anyone from the Shumen sect.

As for Yin'e, she is currently just a wandering cultivator and has not yet officially returned to the sect. Even if some things are leaked, I am only investigating and trying to win over the legendary Yin'e, which is perfectly reasonable.

Perhaps there's another possibility: the Clan Court didn't want me to suspect Gu Chun, so they deliberately set up this scheme to make me believe I had met Yin'e, but Yin'e and Gu Chun are not the same person.

Julie blinked and said, "You're probably overthinking it. How would the Clan Law Hall know that you suspect Gu Chun is Yin'e?"

Hu Weidong: "Perhaps I'm overthinking it."

In fact, Hu Weidong wasn't overthinking things; he was incredibly perceptive. Rather, He Kao had been careless or perhaps made some assumptions during their last meeting, which led to his flaws being exposed.

Because Hu Weidong's thinking was too sharp, he actually imagined a whole new scenario.

He Kao, who mingled with the crowd and left, knew that Julie had come to Qiyuan and could guess that Julie was nearby. This was not something he discovered on his own, but rather something he had received a tip-off from Elder Li Xiuyuan beforehand.

The Zongfa Hall assigned He Kao to be in charge of the offline handover with "Mr. Mi" Hu Weidong, which was inherently very dangerous and was also a top secret within the Shumen (art school).

Therefore, the Zongfa Hall could not possibly fail to provide him with sufficient intelligence support, including information about the movements of the disciples of the Shumen Sect and the members of the Xiaomeng Alliance.

Before meeting Hu Weidong, He Kao had received intelligence that Julie, a senior member of the Supreme Council of the Xiaomeng and a fifth-level guide of the Lingxi lineage, had also entered the Eastern Kingdom and came to Qiyuan with Hu Weidong.

At first, the Zongfa Hall thought she was sent by the Xiaomeng to secretly monitor Hu Weidong, but after some investigation, they found that this was not the case, and the two were suspected to be allies.

The Zongfa Hall has gradually come into contact with intelligence regarding the series of recent events that have occurred in the Supreme Council of the Xiaomeng Alliance.

The Zongfa Hall realized that Hu Weidong was not a newly promoted lone figure in the Supreme Council of the Xiaomeng, but already represented a considerable force. Although they were not quite sure how he had done it, the Zongfa Hall's attention to this person increased dramatically.

He Kao was also surprised when he received the news, and then realized that he had been somewhat careless last time.

The Lingxi Technique is very mysterious, and even many disciples of various arts sects are not very clear about its wonderful uses. They only know that the Lingxi Sect's practitioners can predict the future. In fact, many Lingxi Sect disciples did travel around as fortune tellers in history.

The Lingxi Sect possesses an applied technique called the Heavenly Secrets Technique, which requires at least a fifth-level cultivation to learn and master. The Heavenly Secrets Technique is said to allow one to glimpse heavenly secrets and predict the future, but in reality, it only allows one to see the past.

For example, Wei Luo can discern the origins of various ingredients in a single sip of spicy soup. This ability would be incredibly valuable in criminal investigations, allowing him to reconstruct crime scenes and uncover many hidden secrets.

If you can see what happened in the past, you can know what others don't know, and thus predict the future.

Julie is also a fifth-level guide. If she were to directly investigate He Kao, she would probably find it difficult to discern his origins. However, if she could obtain some of He Kao's everyday items, she could gather a lot of useful information.

He Kao was usually very cautious. Although he had not mastered the Lingxi Technique, he was very familiar with the wonders of the Lingxi Sect's techniques due to his relationship with Jiang Daozhen and Wei Luo, and he was always on guard against this.

If someone were to break into his office or home and try to find clues in his everyday belongings, they might find a lot of information, but they probably wouldn't be able to find out that he is Yin'e.

The last time I met Hu Weidong, he played the role of a wise man very well, but now that I think about it carefully, he must have left some flaws, especially those two plates of fruit.

There's a saying in Northeast China: "Showing off too much will cause you to lose your feathers." It seems he's gotten a bit cocky lately.

Perhaps it was because his cultivation level had increased, perhaps it was because he subconsciously relied on something, or perhaps it was because things had been going too smoothly for him recently, but he no longer acted as cautiously as before.

He Kao naturally assumed that Hu Weidong's private contact with the Zongfa Hall must have been done in a very secretive way. Since even his children didn't know the inside story, it was even less likely that he would tell the others in the Xiaomeng.

There is only one fifth-tier guide in the Free Alliance, and that is Julie, a senior member of the Supreme Council. In He Kao's mind, Julie couldn't possibly know about this, so there's nothing to worry about.

Hu Weidong was an ostracized member of the Eastern Kingdom faction in the Xiaomeng. He entered the Supreme Council through his cultivation and an unexpected opportunity. Julie, on the other hand, was a pure-blooded Anssa white and a veteran member of the Supreme Council. How could the two be on the same page?
As it turns out, you should never ignore low-probability events; these two seem to be in cahoots.

If Julie were to use her divination skills to examine the things he left behind last time, such as those large cherries and lychees, she would find some clues, either suspecting that he is Yin Moth, or suspecting that Yin Moth is standing behind him.

Since things have come to this point, let the doubts continue.

According to Hu Weidong, the highest council of the Xiaomeng was already guessing that Elder Gu Chun was Yin'e, and that Huo Qing, the alias He Kao used, was sent by the Zongfa Hall.

This seems to further confirm this speculation.

No wonder Hu Weidong made that request when we met today, hoping that his son Hu Hengli could become a disciple of the Yin'e Sect, as if he was certain that the Clan Court could help!
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