usatvline Chapter 190 Suspicion...
Chapter 190 Suspicion...
Seeing Zhu Wuyao taking the initiative and crawling into the mine herself, the old man looked up from his thoughts, stared at her for a while, then nodded and ordered someone to throw her back down.
This time, the escorts were a little better. Although it wasn't exactly respectful, they at least didn't treat it like a dead object and deliberately abuse it.
Eleven "days and nights" have passed since the last time at the mine, and she noticed that there seemed to be little change in personnel.
There doesn't seem to be any job rotation or shift change.
Zhu Wuyao even spotted one of the two brothers who had initially captured her.
It seems that since the last time they came in, they haven't come out again?
Thrown back into a familiar place, Zhu Wuyao immediately stood up, stepped out of the barrier, and began searching for Ye Xiaozhou.
It's easy to find her.
Ye Xiaozhou was swinging a hammer and chatting with the people around him. Several people had gathered around him, some there to join in the fun and others to curry favor.
As Ye Xiaozhou moved, Zhu Wuyao also saw the restraining ring on her wrist.
Is this fake, or is it useless to her?
Catching Zhu Wuyao's gaze, Ye Xiaozhou, while boasting about her past drinking with the demon realm's Purple Dragon at Beiwang Mountain, transmitted her voice:
"Stop looking. This restrictive ring is real, but what's binding your spiritual power is the entire mine. Do you want me to undo it for you?"
"However, it's just the two of us at most. It's also thanks to your low cultivation level that the two of us would have caused abnormal fluctuations in the spiritual energy here and attracted attention."
"Don't look down on me now. You don't know that on Beiwang Mountain, the hosta flowers are everywhere. I call Zilong my sister. She calls me Sister Zhou, and I call her Sister Zi."
Someone nearby chimed in and asked:
"Why is no one treating me as a younger sister? Sister Zhou, how is the generational hierarchy determined?"
"You don't understand. When I make friends with people, I'm never condescending, nor am I ever inferior!"
While Ye Xiaozhou was boasting nonsensically, he transmitted his thoughts to Zhu Wuyao:
"If you want me to help you break the seal on your spiritual power, you'd better call me Sister Zhou, hahaha!"
Zhu Wuyao, who was quietly mining, readily agreed with the teasing remark and shouted:
"Sister Zhou, you were so capable back then, how come you got thrown in here too?"
Ye Xiaozhou glanced at her sideways, raised his head, and said:
"I'm just unlucky!"
Then he transmitted his voice, saying, "You don't need to worry about me. I can come and go as I please in this place. It can't hold me back."
Zhu Wuyao felt somewhat relieved, and then said:
"Yeah, the people who got thrown in here are all pretty unlucky. I was in seclusion at the time, lost consciousness, and came in as soon as I opened my eyes."
She first explained to Ye Xiaozhou how she got in.
Another meaning is that it asks whether everyone needs to work together to escape.
Ye Xiaozhou transmitted his voice:
"Tch, isn't what you just want to know—whether these people can come along?"
"I have been to this place before when I was traveling the world, but I could not make a way through it. I need something that is not in the law of cause and effect to clear the way."
"Back then, I originally intended to steal the purple aura from the Star-Picking Tower and cause a huge uproar, but who knew that old man would hide and chase me across twelve mountains!"
This passage contains a lot of information.
First of all, Ye Xiaozhou had once come across this mine, and fortunately he didn't make a big fuss about it at the time, otherwise the city lord of Xuan would probably have destroyed the evidence and made it impossible for anyone to find any evidence, and then continue to arrest people after the storm had passed.
Secondly, the mine is difficult to exit, which confirms my guess.
Finally, the purple aura swirling around the top of the Star-Picking Tower was actually something that was untouched by cause and effect and outside the Five Elements.
Thinking of this, Zhu Wuyao said casually:
"What a pity about my storage bag and my broken sword."
Ye Xiaozhou chimed in:
"Luckily, I didn't have many treasures. When I was captured, I only had a few spirit stones on me. Otherwise, it would have been a real pity if I hadn't spent all my spirit stones by the time I got here!"
Then he transmitted his voice and said, "Your sword is not bound by karma, but it is ultimately the power of one person, and it may not be able to cut through."
Zhu Wuyao wanted to say something more, but someone relayed a message that Hu San was looking for her.
Knowing that he had returned from the old man's place, he was now eager to maintain their relationship.
Zhu Wuyao nodded in agreement, packed up the ore he had carved out but hadn't yet peeled off the stone core, and went to Hu San's place.
Hu San was not fond of smiling by nature.
But perhaps because Zhu Wuyao was a special case, he managed to force a smile, albeit a somewhat amiable one.
Rong Si is here too.
Zhu Wuyao noticed that there were two more people participating in the private meeting this time.
He must be a person of considerable standing.
She sighed inwardly, wondering what she had done to deserve that these powerful figures who wielded considerable influence in the outside world were sitting there obediently, listening to her fabricate nonsense.
Under the expectant gazes of everyone, Zhu Wuyao pondered for a moment before beginning to tell them the freshly made lie.
This time, because of Ye Xiaozhou's arrival, Zhu Wuyao deleted those excessive lies.
To avoid things getting out of hand, the old man glanced over here a couple more times and noticed Ye Xiaozhou.
"Old Shu's condition is even worse. His face is extremely unpleasant, as if he has encountered something that displeases him."
Yes, the old man probably heard me saying bad things about him, so he treated me very badly.
"Moreover... Old Master Shu seemed a bit distracted. He was clearly very interested in what I was saying, but he sat there lost in thought and ignored me for a long time."
Indeed, he was contemplating the indeterminacy of metaphysics, the laws governing the development of things, and the dialectical relationship between time and space.
"Before leaving, he looked at me for a long time, as if he had a thousand words to say, but in the end he didn't say anything."
I suspect that the old man wanted to teach me a lesson.
But out of respect for the expert, he held back.
Thus, Zhu Wuyao spoke "part of the truth," and even if the old master himself were present, he would not have been able to find fault with what he said.
But the story told to the public was quite different.
They looked at each other, and simultaneously had the same thought—
Perhaps a conflict of interest has arisen between the managers inside the mine and the actual power holders outside the mine, and they may be on the verge of internal strife.
Rong Si pondered for a long time, then looked at Zhu Wuyao and asked:
Can you guarantee that everything you say is the truth?
Zhu Wuyao slowly raised two fingers of his right hand and solemnly said:
"I swear, the old man's condition today is exactly as I described. If I have made it up, may I be punished by heaven."
Even if what she said was all true, so what?
She was already quite unlucky; being struck by lightning a hundred times or a hundred and one times made little difference.
At most, the difference lies in the degree of burning; there are some differences in the cooking time.
Rong Si stared at her for a long time, seemingly trying to see through Zhu Wuyao.
But then, she suddenly stood up, smiled, and said:
"What do I care about the changing times? My brothers and sisters are just looking out for a good meal. I'm off."
After saying this, Rong Si turned and left with his men.
The remaining people all seemed to have their own agendas.
Zhu Wuyao looked at Rong Si's back, then at the way the remaining three were sizing each other up.
Feeling relieved.
Suspicion...