pertwk Chapter 2313 An Inescapable Claw
Chapter 2313 An Inescapable Claw
Chapter 2313 An Inescapable Claw
Whoever takes over the position of mastermind, there will be a dramatic change within the Heavenly Palace. Some will laugh, some will cry, some will be happy, and some will be sad. This is the change of power.
Unfortunately, it's at this crucial juncture, a time of great turmoil.
……
The next day, the Heavenly Palace held a grand ceremony for the new Chief of the Cloud Palace to take office, and Mei Wu Niang also attended. Many maids came to express their condolences to Aunt Zeng, but Mei Wu Niang did not allow them to enter.
On the third day, she was going to take Aunt Zeng down the mountain to return to her hometown.
The servants placed Aunt Zeng's body into a specially made ice coffin. Inadvertently, the back of her head hit the bedpost, and the nasal suffocation pill fell out.
Tong Yiyi retorted angrily, "How dare you be so clumsy!"
After saying that, he rushed forward and put the bead back in its original position.
Before descending the mountain, she and her other maids would enter the Pantheon to worship the gods.
It is said that this is also part of the process of the transition between the old and new chief officials.
The Pantheon remains as magnificent as ever. The parts that were burned down by the torch have been restored to their original state. Every statue is solemn and dignified. No matter from which angle Mei Wu Niang bows in worship, she feels as if their eyes are looking at her.
Ugh, this feels awful.
Since it's called the Pantheon, there are at least several hundred statues of gods inside. After Mei Wuniang finished praying with the crowd, her back and waist ached, but she dared not show it.
After finally completing this procedure, she led a coffin-carrying team down the mountain at high speed.
The moment she left the territory of Xushan, Mei Wuniang looked back in the direction of the Heavenly Palace and let out a long breath.
She's out!
Even the air in this mortal, turbid world seems to have become fresher.
God knows that every minute and every second of those past dozen or so hours has been torture for her.
What if we get caught? What if we're discovered?
Fortunately, the "if" did not happen.
Now, there is another danger she needs to be investigated.
It was a bright, sunny day. The town they passed through was filled with leisurely, laid-back residents. An ordinary place, ordinary days.
Mei Wu Niang had a small knife tucked into her sleeve. She deliberately walked into the sunlight and then looked around at the streets on both sides, turning her head left and right.
Then she noticed a faint red line stuck to her left shoulder!
The thread was very thin and faint, one end clinging to her shoulder, the other end seemingly reaching towards the infinite distance of the sky, with no end in sight.
Such a thin red thread, as fine as a spider's web, made Mei Wu Niang's heart feel as if it had fallen into an ice cellar.
She was "connected"!
The Nine Nether Emperor once said that gods can mark living beings to activate a location function. This is also a kind of divine art called "Divine Gaze." The observed being will have a dark line attached to it, which ordinary creatures, and even immortals and demons with supernatural powers, cannot detect.
But as long as she holds the small knife given to her by the Nine Nether Emperor and stands in the sunlight, she can see it—like right now!
The Heavenly Palace has a new leader. Shouldn't the gods' attention be on Lu Yongxin and on the relationship between the Heavenly Palace and the Demon Emperor?
Why would anyone pay attention to such an insignificant maid?
Mei Wu Niang's heart was pounding, but she had to try her best to keep a normal expression in front of the group.
Having finally escaped the Heavenly Palace, she was still not free from the clutches of the gods!
Mei Wu Niang recalled that the red thread was probably planted when she worshipped the gods at the Pantheon.
She was about to leave the Heavenly Palace, so the gods laid out a long line to lure her in.
Now how to do?
The Nine Nether Emperor once said that the "Gaze of the Gods" rarely exists alone these days; there are usually several other eyes watching from the shadows. Therefore, it is difficult for her to send out the intelligence she has.
What made Mei Wu Niang most uneasy was why the gods were watching her.
She led the team forward while pondering deeply.
The moment she discovered the red thread, she had only one thought:
He exposed himself!
But after calming down and thinking about it again, something didn't seem right.
She was just a lowly maid. Not to mention that her identity was actually exposed, even if the gods had the slightest suspicion about her, the Heavenly Palace could easily detain and interrogate her. Why would they need to send her down the mountain to her coffin?
But if she hadn't been exposed, why would the gods have placed a red thread on her?
The purpose of the red thread was to make it easier for the gods to find her.
What did the gods want to observe?
Mei Wu Niang pondered for a long time and felt that only one hypothesis was most plausible:
Is it possible that the gods weren't targeting her?
Her timing in descending the mountain was quite sensitive. The old and new chief envoys of the Heavenly Palace were changing, and the old chief envoy's personal maid, Zeng Guizi, had even died for her master. Needless to say, news of the change in power in the Heavenly Palace had surely spread throughout the upper echelons of Bega. Just then, Zeng Guizi's first-class maid was sent down the mountain…
Damn it! Mei Wu Niang cursed silently.
Was she used as bait?!
No wonder they let her lead a team on land; the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Gods, they really aren't any good people.
If this coffin-carrying team was indeed bait, it meant that someone would likely come knocking on their door soon. Mei Wuniang desperately wanted to escape before that happened; after all, she harbored many secrets and didn't want to be involved in any more unexpected events.
She can't withstand scrutiny.
But she knew she couldn't leave.
Besides being "watched by the gods," there are likely people secretly following her. If she were to sever the red thread herself, it would be tantamount to exposing herself, and the other party would likely come to arrest her immediately.
What should I do now? Mei Wu Niang brushed a strand of hair from her forehead, her head throbbing.
After traveling another hundred miles, the group left the territory of Lingxu City, and it was already dark.
After much hesitation, she finally made an important decision:
Keep sending coffins while pretending you know nothing.
The fact that the gods wanted to use her as bait suggests that an unexpected event is likely to occur. Only in troubled waters can one fish; that might just be her chance!
If everything goes smoothly without incident, it will be harder for her to escape the control of the gods.
Having figured this out, she ate and slept as usual, traveling during the day and finding lodging at night, and regularly checking the coffin.
It takes about ten days to travel from Xushan to Zengguzi's hometown.
Mei Wuniang did almost the same thing every day, hoping that the people tailing her would get tired of her schedule and relax their surveillance on her.
On the fourth night, she found another inn for the team to stay at, and of course, she asked for a quiet and undisturbed large room for herself.
She read for a while, then went to check Aunt Zeng's coffin before returning to her room and lying down on her bed to rest.
It's quiet at night.
After blowing out the light and covering herself with the blanket, a small gray pearl slipped out of her sleeve and landed in her palm.
At first glance, these are the sealing beads used on Aunt Zeng's body. Several beads are used for each body.
However, this particular bead was placed in Aunt Zeng's ear on the day Du Yun, the mastermind, passed away; a few days later, on the day Aunt Zeng was placed in her coffin, she replaced it with another bead.
She gently stroked the gray pearl twice, then pricked her palm with her fingernail, letting a little blood stain the sealed pearl.
These actions were all kept hidden under the covers.
On the surface, she was lying down with her eyes closed, obediently covered with the blanket, without making any unnecessary movements.
(End of this chapter)