Chen Miemie pondered for a long while.
In the end, he nodded at Yi Shuangzi. “All right. I’ll help you this time.”
A delighted look appeared on Yi Shuangzi’s face. She hadn’t expected Chen Miemie to agree without even naming his conditions.
Once they had settled the matter, she didn’t stay long and soon left.
Chen Miemie sat on the sofa and sent Fengling a message, asking to meet under the pretext of catching up.
The reason he had agreed to help Yi Shuangzi wasn’t their former classmate relationship. It was because of the way Yi Shuangzi handled things—it was genuinely comfortable dealing with her.
She hadn’t held on to crucial information and tried to sell it to the highest bidder. Instead, she had openly shared everything from the start, then made her request afterward. Whether he agreed or not, she would have given him the information regardless.
Besides, strictly speaking, she had also uncovered important information for the city this time, which counted as a contribution. The Yi family had merely been caught in the crossfire and shouldn’t be allowed to fall victim to Moretti’s schemes.
3:50 p.m.
Chen Miemie arrived at the academy.
The same old place.
The academy infirmary, Room 1 in Area C on the third floor.
The moment Chen Miemie entered, he began complaining. “Teach, you’re the acting dean now, yet you’re still working out of this tiny infirmary? You don’t even have your own office yet. Are people trying to push you out?”
As soon as Chen Miemie stepped inside, the door behind him slammed shut.
More than a dozen eyes appeared all over Fengling’s body, while hundreds more emerged from the walls around the room.
Every single eye fixed its gaze on Chen Miemie.
The sight made his skin crawl. “What are you looking at? Never seen a handsome man before? Keep staring and I’ll start charging admission.”
Only after a full minute did the eyes gradually vanish from the walls.
Fengling returned to her normal form as a young girl.
“You really can’t tell just by looking, but once you take a closer look, you’re clearly no ordinary person. You’re practically carrying the military strength of an entire organization on you.”
Chen Miemie flatly denied it. “Don’t slander me. I’m just one person.”
“True. You’re just one ‘person.’ So, why did you come to see me?”
Fengling was straightforward, and Chen Miemie got straight to the point as well.
“Yi Shuangzi came to me. She said you were pursuing her and asked me to plead on her behalf—to have her wanted notice withdrawn.”
“Then you’ve come to the wrong person. I’m only the one pursuing her. If you want the wanted notice withdrawn, you should go to City Hall.”
“Seriously? You’re passing the buck to me too?”
“Want me to kick you instead? Go learn some basic common sense. Wanted notices are issued by the city government. I work for the academy!”
“Then why are you pursuing her?”
“You think I want to? Old Man Deng assigned me the job.”
“Dean Deng? Isn’t he the one who looks after Yi Shuangzi the most… Oh, I get it. So you’re actually protecting her.”
Chen Miemie immediately caught on. What Dean Deng and Fengling were doing now was much like what had happened at the Moon Library, when the underground world had issued a contract to assassinate Chen Miemie and [Silence] had taken the job himself.
It was called a pursuit, but in reality, they were claiming authority over the operation so they could quietly go easy on her.
“How boring. So you’ve all been throwing the match this whole time. Then why did Yi Shuangzi say you were pursuing her so relentlessly that she had to ask me to plead for her?”
“Because I really do want to catch her.
“Yi Shuangzi is different from you. Her shapeshifting ability is an auxiliary-type [Mystery]. Apart from catching people off guard, it gives her very little combat power.
“She only graduated six months ago and hasn’t grown much stronger since then. Yet she keeps charging into dangerous places. If she slips up even once, she’ll lose her life. Someone like her should be caught and locked up.
“There isn’t even a bounty on her wanted notice. You don’t need to worry about it. Aside from me, no one is actually pursuing her.”
“Yi Shuangzi said she sent Dean Deng and City Hall messages about what she saw in the cellar. You still don’t believe her?”
Fengling shook her head.
“How could we completely dismiss something that serious? We’re simply lying low for now so we don’t alert anyone. This Bishop Moliti is an exceptionally difficult opponent, not someone ordinary. He came to Sixiang City alone and, by himself, stood against every faction in the city without falling behind. He absolutely cannot be underestimated.”
Chen Miemie nodded in agreement. He rarely lost an argument, but Moretti had managed to outargue him while leaving him no excuse to flip the table and start a fight.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Miemie offered his simple and brutal solution. “No matter how powerful he is, he’s still only one person. Can’t we just wait until night, throw a sack over his head, and deal with him?”
Fengling shook her head again.
“If only it were that simple.
“Moretti is extremely deep and ruthless. He’s equally adept at conspiracies and open schemes.
“His first move was Rainbowlight Brew. He openly told every faction that he could make the injured addicted to it and control them, while also having a large number of believers backing him. That’s an open scheme.
“His second move was the mysterious ritual in the cellar. He carried it out in secret. No one knows what he’s actually planning, when it will erupt, or how much damage it could cause. That’s a hidden scheme.
“At that point, as you suggested, we could simply use a decapitation strategy and kill him.
“But he has a third move.
“After analyzing the situation, we suspect that the blood he’s collecting in the cellar may not be for some sacrificial ritual at all. He may have deliberately exposed it to Yi Shuangzi so that we would make a move against him.”
The cowlick on Chen Miemie’s head sprang upright. “Why?”
Fengling let out a long breath.
“By now, the whole city knows that he provides free medical treatment in exchange for only a tiny amount of blood. He has already spread the idea that the rich and powerful don’t want poor people to receive treatment.
“If we make a move against him—whether openly or through some covert operation—as long as he disappears from sight, everyone who can’t afford medical care will rise up. That’s his third move: another open scheme.”
Chen Miemie felt a headache coming on.
People in Sixiang City always played so dirty. Compared to them, the wiser and more powerful Moon Library seemed as innocent as a bunch of children.
“So you’re saying you really have no way to deal with him?”
“We had one option before. But things are different now.”
“What’s different?”
“There’s one more person among ‘us’ now. You, Chen Miemie. You’d better contribute.”
“Hey, why am I involved?”
“Because you walked right into the trap yourself and started asking questions. Besides, Sixiang City is part of the territory of the new race behind you, isn’t it? You can’t just let people run wild here, can you?”
“No, I can’t.” Chen Miemie also wanted to get his dignity back. “Tell me your plan.”
“Moretti’s open schemes are impressive, and he’s powerful in his own right. We can’t move against him directly.
“But suppose some monster that doesn’t understand all those principles happened to wander into the cellar and accidentally destroyed the blood he had stored there. Then, when we heard about it and rushed over to help, we just happened to expose his true nature.
“What do you think? Wouldn’t that make his hypocritical mask come crashing down?”
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