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Chapter 112 Preparation and the Long Watch
Mo Qian sat on the edge of his bed with a brush, scribbling steadily across a sheet of paper. He listed every person involved in the incident and drew a web of arrows between them, mapping the relationships and working through the sequence of events from every angle.When he looked at the page — dense with tiny characters, lines running in every direction — the fear in his chest had not gone away. He was still torn.His thumb and index finger began rubbing together slowly.Then something shifted in his expression. He smoothed the paper flat on the bed in front of him and said quietly, "Do it. Stop being afraid."He had made his decision.If he backed down now and the tree spirit method turned out to be a dead end two weeks later, he would have no room to maneuver. He would regret it for certain. By then, Xu Ruhu would likely have been moved somewhere else entirely, and whatever chance had existed would be gone.Once Mo Qian committed, he began to work in earnest. He laid out a detaile
Chapter 111 The Eye of the Storm
Once the needles were fully dry, Mo Qian found a cork, pressed the needles into it one by one with the tips buried safely in the cork, and slipped it into his trouser pocket.At least now, he had one more thing standing between himself and a bad end."This world is not easy to live in."He had just pocketed the cork when something flashed through his mind — quick, like a fish under dark water, there and gone before he could catch it.He had been doing other things all day, but beneath everything, the thread of thought about Xu Ruhu and Xie Lei had never fully gone quiet. It was like a vast puzzle, and it pulled at his attention.Just now, something had surfaced from within the fog of that puzzle — and then vanished before he could grasp it.Mo Qian began to pace the cramped dormitory.He turned it over again and again, but the more he chased it, the more elusive it became — like a shape retreating into deep water the moment he reached for it.He decided to start over from the beginnin
Chapter 110 The Crimson Lotus Needles
After drying his hair with a towel, Mo Qian stood in his small dormitory and turned his attention back to the sensation of throwing that stone.He was afraid the accidental insight would fade before he could fix it properly in his body. He acted on instinct.He stood where he was and tossed the towel across the room. It landed squarely on the rim of the wooden plate in the corner.Mo Qian allowed himself a quiet smile. With this hidden weapon technique, he thought, he would be a force to be reckoned with.He left the dormitory quickly, walked out of the Yuanshun Escort Agency, and turned onto West Street. He rounded a corner into a narrow alley and stopped at the entrance, looked both ways, then walked into the alley he had chosen.Along the wall of the alley, a man squatted beside a small wooden box — roughly one foot and a half square, with straps on both sides that let it be worn on the chest or set against the wall. It was a needle and thread peddler's box.In those times, needles
Chapter 109 The Connection of Techniques
There was only one entrance — the arrow tower gate. A living person, no matter how skilled, could not slip into a dungeon without being detected.And what was Xie Lei's reason? Why would he carry such a dangerous criminal out on his back and saddle both himself and his uncle with that kind of ruin?The puzzle genuinely fascinated him.Mo Qian said his goodbyes to Yang Zhen and walked slowly along West Street.The street had already been searched. Shops were beginning to open and things were returning to something like normal, but the faces of everyone he passed were tense and uneasy.The search in the southern part of the city was apparently still ongoing. People on the street spoke in low voices, their eyes moving.Mo Qian walked with his head slightly down, his thoughts running steadily beneath the surface.He already knew, with quiet certainty, that the city-wide search would find nothing.Because he had already figured out where Xu Ruhu was being kept.He was in Xie Lei's own home
Chapter 108 The Impossible Escape
Yang Zhen slapped his thigh. "Right! Where did I get to last night?""You said someone snatched the prisoner, and then a shuttle dart ended up in your leg.""Did I say that?" Yang Zhen had no memory of it at all. He picked up the thread anyway, mostly to have something to talk about. "When Xu Ruhu was first arrested, several of our men were injured bringing him in. After that, they had me and Brother Lei taking turns guarding him in the dungeon.""Brother Lei had already reached the second level of internal cultivation. Even among the older constables, he is considered capable. As for me — Jie Daohan saw that I had reached the first level in less than a year and a half and that I was quick on my feet, so he decided to groom me. I was assigned to work under Brother Lei."Yang Zhen paused there for a long moment, drinking his soup and chewing his sesame cake in silence.This was the second time Yang Zhen had deliberately let something like this drop in front of Mo Qian. First level of i
Chapter 107 The Shadow of the Jailbreak
Mo Qian's chest tightened. At the escort agency gate, Jie Daohan had said escaped from prison — but it seemed the old man had not told the whole truth. Xu Ruhu had been taken by force."Were you there?" Mo Qian's eyes sharpened. The wine had mostly cleared from his head. Since Yang Zhen was injured, there was a very good chance he had been."I was there!" Yang Zhen said, his voice carrying a flash of anger. "The person who broke him out... wore black. He was carrying Xu Ruhu right past me — of course I tried to stop him! I threw myself at him, and then... a shuttle dart went straight through my calf..."Yang Zhen's words came in fragments, broken up by the wine rising in his veins — and then, mid-sentence, his head dropped onto the table.Mo Qian shook him. "Then what? How do you always stop right at the important part?"He kept shaking, but Yang Zhen was gone.Mo Qian let him be and turned his gaze to the shuttle dart lying at Yang Zhen's feet.Shuttle DartInstrument Level: EntryRe
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