Chapter 149 – Story (1) for ally “Neil_LY”.

“Found it?” Xu Qi’an blurted out, unable to hold back any longer, twisting her head in excitement and staring at the orange cat.

The orange cat stared warily at the night watchman’s court and said, “Just a short while ago, I sensed a fragment of Six’s earth book …. But on my way over to you, the connection between the Earth Book fragments broke.”

“Then number six ….” Xu Qi’an’s face changed slightly.

The orange cat shook his head, “I don’t know the specifics, my previous guess was right, he was indeed sealed, and just now it should have been for some reason that the seal unlocked.”

At this point, the orange cat paused and didn’t continue on.

Why was the seal suddenly lifted? There are no more than two possibilities: one, Six was transferred. Two, number six is gone.

“Quickly go inform Wei Yuan.” The orange cat urged.

The cat’s expressionless face was hard to peek at, but Xu Qi’an heard the Taoist master’s secret anxiety in his tone.

Although the Taoist Master is an old silver coin, he is still very attentive to the internal members of the Tiandi Association …. It’s a good thing for me to be able to turn to him for help when I encounter trouble in the future …. Xu Qi’an nodded and said, “I’ll go right away.”

He spread his legs and ran into the courthouse.

When his back was out of sight, the orange cat snorted softly, pondering in her mind:

What the hell was Luo Yu Heng thinking, she didn’t make a move from start to finish. With her cultivation and age, the calamity shouldn’t have come yet, so it didn’t make sense that she wouldn’t make a move.

Both wanting to be the State Master and not willing to double-cultivate with the Emperor, I don’t know what the hell she’s playing at. Hey, save Six first, if he’s still alive.

Just as he was thinking, Taoist Master Jinlian heard a cat call and tilted his head to see that a big gray cat came over, circled around him and kept sniffing around.

Jinlian Taoist ignored it and continued to think about his mind, and suddenly the big gray cat came around behind him and plopped down ….

Uh-huh? Daoist Master Golden Lotus first froze and immediately reacted, bursting into a rage and turning back to give the big gray cat a set of king’s fists.

…..

Xu Qi’an was running, furiously rushing into the Haoqi Building without wasting any time waiting for a pass, pulling out his gold medal as he ran and berating the guards, “Hundred thousand fire, get out of the way.”

When he came to the seventh floor, he saw Wei Yuan standing in the lookout hall with his arms folded and took the initiative to speak, “What is it.”

“Lord Wei, there may be news of Heng Hui.” Xu Qi’an opened the door without any unnecessary nonsense.

“How did you find it?” Wei Yuan turned around.

“Daoist Master Golden Lotus of the Heaven and Earth Society finally locked onto the location of Number Six not long ago through the sensing between the fragments of the Earth Book.” Xu Qi’an said:

“No. 6 of the Tiandi Association is Heng Hui’s senior brother, a monk from the Green Dragon Temple, with the Dharma name Heng Yuan. He disappeared for no reason while investigating the whereabouts of his senior brother, Heng Hui. I suspect he was sealed up by Heng Hui or the demon race.”

In other words, where number six was, there was either a demon race or Heng Hui. Either way, it was worth paying attention to.

Wei Yuan nodded and returned to the tea room, putting pen to paper on the case and stamping the jade seal, “You take my order and go to Yang Yan, tell him to mobilize all the golden gongs and assemble in the front yard of the Yamen within a quarter of an hour. You don’t need to care about the rest.”

“The Golden Lotus Taoist Master is just outside the courthouse, and he is needed to lead the way …..” Xu Qi’an whispered.

“I know.” Wei Yuan nodded.

“There’s another problem,” Xu Qi’an hesitated, “Heng Hui is in the inner city, so if there’s a battle, it’s inevitable that ordinary people will be killed or injured.”

Dispersing the surrounding people on a large scale would definitely be detected by the other side. Although the formation of the Heavenly Superintendent was arcane, it could not be set up in advance and was equal to useless.

“It’s unavoidable.” Wei Yuan gazed at him and mentioned, “This is what I’ve been trying to tell you, I equally abhor the existence of contempt for human life, but there are times when we have to know how to make tradeoffs.

“Heng Hui is concerned with the Sang Po case, the sealing object, and the conspiracy of the demon race. Whenever there is an opportunity, capture, or kill at any cost.

“Never take the lesser and give up the greater because of a moment of morality. That will only lead to more serious consequences.

“I’ve read the dossier on the Ping Yuan Bo extermination case, the sealing object prefers to devour blood and qi to strengthen itself, Heng Hui isn’t causing any killings right now, but there’s no guarantee that he’ll stay quiet and dormant. With the power of the sealing thing, once it recklessly devours the qi and blood of ordinary people, it will cause even more serious casualties.”

Wei Yuan is cautioning me not to make the same mistake as last time ….. The knife beheading of Zhu Yinluo, he didn’t say anything on the surface, but didn’t agree with what I did …. He is a schemer, and I am a policeman, although I am keen to appease the big sisters of the Education Department …. Well, it’s not scum, it’s trying to give them a home.

Between flashes of thought, he clasped his fists and said, “Yes.”

Xu Qi’an led the order to retreat.

He instantly went to Yang Yan and met this paralyzed golden gong in the Hall of Divine Guns, meeting the other party’s questioning gaze and handing over Wei Yuan’s handwritten letter.

Yang Yan read it and his sculpted and stiff face showed some gravity, “What happened, why did righteous father summon all the golden gongs?”

“The suspected hiding spot of Monk Heng Hui has been discovered.” Xu Qi’an said.

Yang Yan’s eyes suddenly sharpened, he got up, stretched out his hand, the silver lance on the wooden shelf “swoosh” flew into his hand.

“Yang Jinluo ….” Xu Qi’an shouted and asked curiously, “Without the golden gong sitting in the court, will Duke Wei’s safety be jeopardized?”

“I don’t know.” Yang Yan shook his head.

Didn’t know? Xu Qi’an looked at him blankly and listened to him explain, “No one knows how many and how powerful the defense force around Righteous Father is.”

Security force secrecy? False and elusive …. Wei Yuan is really an old conspirator who plays with his mind.

Soon, the sitting gongs were summoned to meet in the front yard of the Yamen.

Also summoned were thirty silver gongs, no bronze gongs. In the event of a clash, the bronze gongs going as many as possible would be giving away food.

Xu Qi’an ran out of the entrance of the night watchman’s court, looked left and right, and saw the orange cat by the stall selling wontons not far away.

“Daoist Golden Lotus, come here, come here…” beckoned Xu Qi’an.

The orange cat didn’t care about him in the slightest, eyeing the cauldron and sniffing the scent wafting out of it.

What’s wrong with Daoist Master, hungry? In her bewilderment, Xu Qi’an heard a familiar voice from behind her, “I’m here.”

Looking back, a large gray cat stood behind him, watching him quietly.

“Why did you change your cat?” Xu Qi’an was surprised.

“That is a female cat ….” The big gray cat explained, seemingly unwilling to say any more, and digressed, “I’m with you guys, what’s Wei Yuan’s attitude there?”

“Lord Wei is willing to cooperate with you.” Xu Qi’an said.

The big gray cat nodded and lightly jumped onto Xu Qi’an’s shoulder, laughing softly in his ear, “Lord Wei… your respect for Wei Qingyi is far more profound than Emperor Yuan Jing.”

“As of now, I don’t see any repulsive flaws or character in him.” Xu Qi’an whispered as he walked:

“Number Six is temporarily residing in the Sanatorium in the eastern part of the outer city, which is in a state of disrepair, and the court is in arrears of silver, so that the old people and children in the institution are almost unable to get out of their homes. I revealed Six’s information to Duke Wei, and he didn’t touch Six, but paid up the charity. But the Sanatorium is not a field under the jurisdiction of a night watchman.”

“Heh, you really have been leaking internal information about the Tiandi Association to him.” Daoist Master Golden Lotus smiled in a mocking tone.

This… Xu Qi’an’s expression stalled with the shame of being a second fiddle and being caught red-handed by his boss, but he quickly recovered and shrugged:

“I took the letter from Lord Wei in order to get more information to enrich our intelligence system of the Tiandi Association. The starting point is good …. Why doesn’t the Taoist Master say anything?”

“Too shameless to want to talk.” The big gray cat snorted, “You’re quite suitable for the career path.”

“But Wei Yuan said I can’t mix with the government.”

“Although shameless, the bottom line is still there, and it’s easy to lose.” Daoist Golden Lotus commented.

“Suddenly remembering one thing, when the State Master met me, he also sensed my specialness and asked for my birth date, but didn’t calculate it.” Xu Qi’an said helplessly.

After a moment of deliberation, the orange cat asked, “What do you think yourself?”

Xu Qi’an deliberated for a moment, “My special …. Look to the right (see here what the chapter says).”

Orange Cat: “….”

….

Xu Qi’an mounted a small mare and clattered along at the front, followed by a group of golden and silver gongs.

The big gray cat crouched over his shoulder, guiding the way.

After walking for two incense sticks of time, it suddenly said, “Stop, before you is …. that small courtyard? the scent of the Earth Book fragment is there.”

Xu Qi’an strangled his horse’s reins, and the golden and silver gongs behind him, made a synchronized motion of strangling their horse’s reins, and the large troop came to a halt.

He gestured behind him, pointing to the small courtyard ahead.

The ten golden gongs looked at each other wordlessly, and silently disappeared onto their horses, their figures each appearing in a different direction of the small courtyard, blocking the direction of possible escape.

The silver gongs were surrounded in a more outer circle.

Xu Qi waited quietly for a few moments and realized that the golden gongs did not make a move, but instead frowned and looked at the courtyard.

What happened? Did you escape?

He jumped onto the ridge of a house next door, from which he could see into the small yard.

A modest courtyard, planted with two willow trees, in which two monks sat cross-legged, one with his hands folded, chanting in a low voice.

One man, clad in black robes, hung his head low and was voiceless.

It was none other than Master and Brother Heng Hui and Heng Yuan.

What had happened? Xu Qi’an glanced at the big gray cat on her shoulder and found the same doubt in its eyes.

“Go over and take a look.” The big gray cat’s tiny head, greatly puzzled, made a sound to urge Xu Qi’an.

At that moment, he saw Yang Yan carrying a gun and leaning over.

“You guys are one step too late, he has already gone to the Ultimate Bliss.” Hengyuan’s voice was hollow, without joy or sorrow. Yet it was greatly saddened.

Dead? This result caught Xu Qi’an off guard, and subconsciously felt that it was a conspiracy, a sham, and a delay.

Yang Yan used the tip of his gun to pick off Heng Hui’s hood, and there was a gray face, eyes closed and lifeless.

Yang Yan nodded slightly towards the crowd of golden gongs, confirming that Heng Hui was dead.

“Between me and death, he chose the latter and was seized by the devil’s hand to live.” Hengyuan recited a dharma word in a low voice.

“Yang Yan, take a look at his right arm.” Jiang Lizhong said in a deep voice.

Yang Yan shook the tip of the gun, the qi strangled the black robe, Heng Hui’s right arm was empty, and that demonic hand was nowhere to be found.

No more …. Xu Qi’an’s pupils shrank as he looked around warily, feeling that his surroundings were no longer safe, harboring heavy crises.

The silver gong who witnessed this scene, likewise, instantly drew his sword, wary of the pedestrians around him.

“It’s gone …..” Monk Hengyuan said in a deep voice, “I will stay here and wait for you all.”

Six is pretty sure we’re coming? Yes, Daoist Golden Lotus can sense the Earth Book Fragment, so he’s waiting for …. Xu Qi’an drifted off.

“Monk, what are you trying to say?” Nangong Qianrou pressed the knife with one hand, still not letting her guard down.

“He didn’t give up on revenge, he just gave me the burden.” Everest whispered:

“I would like to tell you all a story that happened about a year ago.”

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