Chapter 14: The Long Pavilion
After Xiao Mu and Bai Wei left, the City Lord's Mansion really searched the city. The shopkeeper of the restaurant didn't even dare to raise his head and said tremblingly: "Wen guard, the little one really doesn't know where those two are, they left without even leaving the room, you see!" As he spoke, he took out his room card and bent down to hand it to Wen Xie.
Wen Xie took the room card and looked at it, glanced at the shopkeeper again, and then spoke: "Once you find the two of them, report to the City Lord's Mansion immediately!" β
"Yes!" The shopkeeper immediately bent down in response.
"Let's go!"
After Wen Xie left, the shopkeeper let out a breath and sat on the ground, and the shopkeeper hurriedly came over to help: "The shopkeeper!" β
The shopkeeper waved his hand: "When is this the head!" β
"How did those two outsiders provoke the City Lord's Mansion?" The shopkeeper asked puzzled.
The shopkeeper got up after a while and said, "You just take care of your duties, these things have nothing to do with you or me, go back and rest!" After saying that, he shook his head and went upstairs.
Bai Wei, who was hiding on the roof of the building in the city, looked at the team in the city and said to Xiao Mu beside him: "Sure enough, it's like what you said, but what is it about us to offend the city lord, just visit the city lord's mansion at night, they can't tolerate it like this?" β
Xiao Mu snorted coldly: "What offended? It's the things we know that we shouldn't know. β
"But we didn't see anything!" Bai Wei said.
"Have you forgotten about the light falling from the sky during the day?"
"That can only mean that there is a problem with the matter of choosing a saint and cultivating immortals." Bai Wei thought for a while and continued: "But when we visited the City Lord's Mansion at night, the City Lord actually changed the residence of those girls overnight, and we just checked their reaction a little. β
"What do you think is different from the outside?" Xiao Mu asked.
Bai Wei shook his head, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong: "The aura in Lingyun City is very strange, but I can't see what is strange. β
"Not bad!" Xiao Mu said: "I heard before that Long Qiusu relied on the blood of young girls to help him cultivate, and now it seems that even if it is not a matter of choosing a saint, it is strange. β
"So what do we do now?"
Xiao Mu looked around: "Go to the City Lord's Mansion!" β
"Still going?" Bai Wei looked at Xiao Mu, "Now the city is looking for us everywhereγγγγγ Half of the words said, Bai Wei looked at Xiao Mu as if he thought of something, and said, "Do you want to take advantage of the fact that no one in the City Lord's Mansion is going back to check the whereabouts of those girls?" β
Xiao Mu nodded: "Although I don't know what Long Qiusu wants to do, those girls are innocent." β
Bai Wei nodded in agreement with Xiao Mu's statement: "Then when are we going?" β
"Right now!"
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In the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Mu and Bai Wei were hiding in the corner to observe the movements in the City Lord's Mansion.
"Where do you guess Long Qiusu will hide people?"
"This... Bai Wei looked around and thought about it: "Generally, such a mansion will have a secret room!" Bai Wei paused and said, "But, since it is a secret room... β
"Shh~" Before Bai Wei's words were finished, Xiao Mu reached out and covered his mouth, "There are people over there!" Xiao Mu pointed not far away and said, "Come and have a look!" β
The two followed the man to the courtyard at the back of the City Lord's Mansion. "Isn't that the girl who ran during the day!" Bai Wei said.
"How do you know?" Xiao Mu asked.
"She's wearing clothes." Bai Wei pointed at the girl and said, "During the day, you only care about watching the high priest, and those girls who are participating in the election are all wearing the same clothes, although the white clothes are the same, but the patterns on them are unique. β
"Is she looking for something?" Xiao Mu asked.
At this time, Bai Wei looked up and realized that the girl was looking for something. "What is she looking for on the big night?"
At this time, there was the sound of the patrol outside, and I saw that the girl was panicked and looking for a place to hide, and when she saw that she had nowhere to hide, she was about to be discovered, and Bai Wei stepped forward and grabbed the girl and covered her mouth to prevent her from being exposed.
The patrolman briefly walked around and saw that there was nothing wrong and left. After those people left, Bai Wei let go of the girl and bowed her head and said, "The situation was urgent just now, offended." β
"Who are you?" The girl looked at the two warily.
"Who are you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night? Xiao Mu asked.
"You're from the City Lord's Mansion?"
"We're not." Bai Wei explained: "Most of the guards in the City Lord's Mansion tonight are missing to find the two of us, and I think you also found that most of the guards in the mansion were less than half to escape here!" β
"Looking for you?" The girl looked at Bai Wei: "What are you doing here?" Are your family members missing too? β
"Missing?" Xiao Mu looked at the girl: "Is someone in your family missing?" β
The girl nodded: "Well, to be precise, she disappeared after running for the Holy Maiden!" β
"Legend in the city, Long Qiusu held a sacrificial ceremony to select saints and help them cultivate to become immortals, how could they disappear?" Bai Wei asked.
The girl smiled bitterly: "What kind of immortal cultivation, that's just a pretense of deception." β
"Do you know anything?" Xiao Mu asked.
The girl looked back at the empty courtyard: "This used to be where my sister lived!" β
Xiao Mu and Bai Wei looked at the deserted courtyard, it was really hard to imagine that there were people living here before, Xiao Mu couldn't help but say, "Someone has lived here before?" β
Seeing that the girl didn't speak, Xiao Mu asked again: "You came to run for election to find your sister?" β
The girl nodded: "My name is Changting, my sister's name is Changyi, ten years ago I had a serious illness, when my family was poor and sick, my sister heard that she would give some silver subsidies to the Holy Maiden City Lord, so she went to participate in the sacrifice ceremony!" Changting turned to look at the empty courtyard and continued: "At that time, the family thought that my sister was going to cultivate immortals! β
"Isn't it?" Bai Wei asked.
"Of course not!" Changting turned around and looked at Bai Wei with some emotion: "They said that the saints they chose were to help them cultivate immortals, but in fact, they were all pretenses!" β
"What the hell is going on?" Xiao Mu asked.
Changting shook his head and didn't speak with a sad face, and Bai Wei continued to ask when he saw this: "You don't know why you still say that cultivating immortals is a disguise?" β
Changting thought for a while and said, "After my sister left, my mother missed it so much, so she came to the City Lord's Mansion to visit, but she was stopped at the door. I didn't think about it when I saw my mother's tea, so I sneaked in through the dog hole by the wall. β
"And did you see your sister?" Bai Wei asked.
"Nope!" Changting shook his head and looked at the courtyard with a dull gaze. Xiao Mu looked at Changting: "What did you see?" β
"I saw the chosen saint γγγγγ" Changting's tone trembled: "Killed!" β
"Killed?" Bai Wei and Xiao Mu glanced at each other and continued to ask, "Why was you killed?" β
Changting recalled the situation at that time: "At that time, when I was young, I was so frightened that I hid when I saw this situation, I was so frightened! Changting said: "They cut off her tendons and tendons and tied her to the shelf, and the blood kept flowing down the shelf... Changting looked back at the two: "What about you?" What are you doing here? β
"We are here to investigate the truth behind Long Qiu's selection of the Holy Maiden." Xiao Mu said: "But we need someone to do it for us in the City Lord's Mansion... β
"I do!" Changting interrupted Xiao Mu's words and said, "I want to know where my sister is, if you can help me find my sister, I am willing to be your internal response in the City Lord's Mansion." β
Xiao Mu glanced at Bai Wei, Bai Wei nodded and took out a drawing: "This is the drawing from the City Lord's Mansion, except for the place where you live now, everything else is right." β
"We'll find a way to reduce the number of guards in the mansion, you just need to help us keep an eye on Long Qiusu and find out where the secret room is." Xiao Mu said.
Changting took the drawing: "Hmm! Then I'll go back first, lest I be discovered. β
"Hmm!"
After the long pavilion left, Xiao Mu looked around the empty courtyard and said, "I heard before that Long Qiusu used the blood of a girl to help her own cultivation, but now it seems that whether it is true or not, there is a problem behind her choice of the Holy Maiden." β
Bai Wei also agreed with Xiao Mu's statement: "Then what should we do next?" β
"Wait!"
"What are you waiting for?"
Xiao Mu smiled: "Wait for dawn, and then send some gifts to the City Lord's Mansion." β
"Gifts?" Bai Wei looked at Xiao Mu in confusion.
"We want to keep the attention of the entire Lingyun City on us, so that the Long Pavilion can have a way to find what we want in the City Lord's Mansion."