Free Web NovelChapter 2351: Chapter 1315: Part 2
This bit of cold wasn’t anything serious for her.
After all, she’d lived in the north before, and her hometown was also a very cold place.
After Luo Youyou entered the room, she cast a Purification Magic on herself to clean her body.
Then she sat cross-legged on the bed, with no intention of sleeping. You could say that ever since she started cultivating, apart from occasionally dozing off during live broadcasts under other people’s gaze, she never slept at home or wherever she was staying.
Luo Youyou faintly felt that this place still wasn’t all that safe; that sense came from a Cultivator’s instinct.
Maybe it was because of what happened in the daytime, because of those people in the daytime.
Had they left and would never come back?
So many of them had been caught; maybe some still weren’t reconciled. As for why they were doing this again?
Were they coming for her, or for someone else?
This might be a large gang.
These people needed to be eliminated; after all, their identities were very special.
Luo Youyou had also suspected there might be a betrayer among the guests, but the other party hadn’t exposed themselves too much. She suspected it, but it was only suspicion.
Mo Jingyan was also dressed in a Vestment robe, his shoes were boots as well. After entering the house, he too cast a Spell on himself to clean his body; he didn’t even need to wash his face or brush his teeth.
There was a quilt on the bed, but he had no intention of using it to sleep.
He sat cross-legged on the bed, not even taking off his boots, simply because this pair of boots was also a Magic Artifact.
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Mo Jingyan’s thoughts were roughly the same as Luo Youyou’s. Tonight might be a sleepless night. Whenever they had time, they cultivated, and there was also that faint uneasiness in their hearts.
Because something had happened here, more protectors had been called in. The people who came this time were ones they could handle, but what about the next wave—would they still be able to cope?
Although Mo Jingyan was cultivating now, and had cultivated before, the combination of the two sets of Cultivation Methods had made him much stronger.
He knew how to use hot weapons and Magic Artifacts; even so, his abilities still weren’t as good as Luo Youyou’s.
He was worried that perhaps someone would make a move tonight.
Their worries turned out not to be misplaced. On this solemn and silent night, some people had been badly frightened during the day, were a bit feverish in their groggy state, babbling nonsense.
Some were having nightmares; the bolder ones didn’t dream of anything terrible. They didn’t need to sleep two to a bed, or share a bed with their companions.
Whether staff or guests, some still felt completely unprotected. Even those who had brought bodyguards stayed in the same room as them. Even if the bodyguard was male and the guest was a girl who couldn’t share a room with a man, they couldn’t very well have the bodyguard sleep inside while they stayed outside freezing.
Those sleeping on the heated brick bed let their protectors warm themselves by the stove to one side as they kept watch over their masters.
The master who had been frightened during the day, Ye Qingning, had nightmares and talked in her sleep, showing faint signs of a fever. Her bodyguard waited by her side and gave her antipyretics.
They had brought their own medicine anyway; this small matter at night didn’t warrant bothering the director or anyone else.
After all, the staff working in the dark were cold enough themselves.
Even though Fang Zizhou was a bit braver, he still had nightmares. He didn’t have a fever, but he had still been frightened.
As for Liang Sisi and Lai Chuanyu, there was no need to even mention them. They were just ordinary people; after going through something like that, how could they not be scared?
They had nightmares too, and although they didn’t have fevers, many people still slept restlessly that night.
That couple with the surname Liang didn’t seem to be making any commotion, but they quietly sent messages out.
They leaked the information about this place.
The people coming were skilled. Luo Youyou was the first to sense strangers approaching, and it wasn’t just one person; they were using special skills to hide themselves.
Maybe they were holding their breath to avoid alerting others. Normal people truly wouldn’t notice they could get this close while hiding, and they were also using other tools to conceal their bodies.
These people were still dressed in white, with hats and robes. In the dark night, in the snow, it was relatively easy for them to blend in. They walked very lightly, were very good at concealing their breathing. If not for her Divine Sense, she really wouldn’t have noticed anyone approaching.
Mo Jingyan was the second to notice; those people were already close to their residence, even though there were people quietly guarding the perimeter.
After what had happened in the daytime, people were already in place to prevent anyone from coming to rescue these people. Those people had failed to get their way and had their own people captured; wouldn’t they want revenge?
Wouldn’t they try to snatch these people away?
If they grabbed some of the high-status individuals among them and used them as hostages to force a prisoner exchange, perhaps the authorities would have no choice but to agree.
The ones captured during the day had long since been escorted elsewhere.
The ones who came tonight had split into two groups: one went to rescue, the other came here to capture.
When the two of them noticed outsiders approaching, those people were carrying hot weapons, highly dangerous ones.
Although these weapons weren’t particularly dangerous to the two of them,
for ordinary people, these things could put them in extreme danger.
They noticed those people had changed tactics. They weren’t trying to stage some terror incident or the like; instead, they were quietly planting things.
They hid things along the routes people had to pass. Perhaps they’d already changed strategy, laying traps so that people would walk into them on their own.
No frontal confrontation, maybe because there were people here they couldn’t handle.
Luo Youyou and Mo Jingyan realized that these people were planting things and not coming to clash head-on with their group or toss something to wipe them out instantly.
They surrounded the place, and along every route people had to walk or might walk, they planted things.
Luo Youyou realized her guess had been a bit off. It wasn’t other cultivators coming to deal with them.
It was someone using another method to target them, avoiding direct confrontation because they were likely afraid they couldn’t win.
After all, from the daytime live-stream footage, some people had already noticed that the incident of the guests being abducted was a bit too bizarre.
Those so-called bad guys seemed possessed. They clearly could have whisked people away quickly, but instead they lingered on the spot and were caught up with. And without anyone needing to lift a hand, those people carried the guests back.
It was like a drill. The viewers in the live-stream all thought that, apart from the wolf incident—the wolf fight being real—the abduction of the guests might have been scripted.
The authorities hadn’t given any explanation; only people online had recorded clips while watching.
Only the guests themselves knew, and only insiders knew, that this was not some script.
Some of those who had gotten away during the incident also knew that this time, it was all real, not a scripted act.
Hence this change in strategy: no frontal clashes, no more sacrificing their own people. If they couldn’t capture anyone, they’d just destroy them.
In any case, it was happening in this place. Even if something happened here, suspicion wouldn’t necessarily fall on them.
Even if people suspected, as long as there was no concrete evidence— and even if there was—only small fry would be implicated.
This wave after wave of people was actually a test, probing the abilities of certain people in Mysticism.
Especially Luo Youyou and Mo Jingyan—the Immortal Qi on them was a power many a Cultivator would covet, yet Cultivators wouldn’t easily pass their abilities on to others.
Even their colleagues wanted to learn, wanted to become disciples—but were abilities and Secret Manuals so easily handed over?
When Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou realized people were planting those things, each time those people buried one, they quietly removed it.
It turned out to be a kind of landmine—just passing by, even without stepping directly on it, you’d still be hit.
To be safe, those people weren’t only burying them along the routes they themselves used. Around where everyone was staying, they assumed that tomorrow or within the next two days, someone would pass by.
If one person stepped on one and set it off, it would drag many others down with it.
These mines were very powerful. Once one was triggered, the surrounding houses and people would all be blown up, like a kind of earthquake. One explosion would set off the others.
In this village, only their group was living here, so the targets were clearly them.
And the routes people had to walk weren’t just for their group; if villagers went up or down the mountain tomorrow, they too could trigger them.
