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Chapter 2316 Freedom, Freedom
Chapter 2316 Freedom, Freedom
Her observations and the secrets she knew are valuable.
Mei Wu Niang hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.
The leader cracked his knuckles, about to teach her a lesson, but Mei Wuniang spoke up before he could do anything: "I know."
"Oh?" The leader deliberately tested her. "Who is this person, and where is their stronghold?"
Mei Wu Niang frowned, trying hard to recall, and said before the leader urged her again, "There are thirty-one of them in total, and they have five strongholds, but they usually operate at the Huilong Pawnshop on Muduliyang Street. There are many and diverse people coming and going there, so it is not easy to attract the attention of the authorities."
She spoke very fluently, to the leader's surprise. Without torture, the information just poured out like beans spilling from a bamboo tube?
However, this girl is a delicate celestial maid, not a warrior or a spy. She has not undergone special training or experienced life-or-death trials, and people are easily subdued when they are afraid.
The key point is that he knew there was indeed a Huilong Pawnshop on Muduliyang Street, and it was quite a large storefront. Tong Yiyi, having been selected as a maid to the Heavenly Palace at the age of sixteen, was unlikely to have been to Mudu. Unless she had access to information or intelligence, how would she know the specific location?
So the leader pressed on, "The name, the name of this 'central hub'!"
“He…” Mei Wu Niang hesitated for a moment, “His name is…”
"Hmm?" Her voice was too soft, and the leader instinctively leaned forward, only to be met with a flash of light—
Tong Yiyi pulled out a knife and stabbed his Adam's apple!
This move, from this angle, wasn't difficult to defend against, and she wasn't using much force. So the leader grabbed her wrist, twisted it forcefully, and took the knife from her.
With a sharp pain in her wrist, Mei Wu Niang couldn't help but cry out in pain, but she still kicked the other person in a vital spot.
The leader struck first with his elbow, delivering a punch to her abdomen, sending her flying more than half a meter away.
Mei Wu Niang was in excruciating pain in her internal organs and had a metallic taste in her throat. She vomited blood and lay on the ground for a long time, unable to get up—with each breath, her abdomen felt like it was about to burst open.
She had prepared by circulating her inner energy throughout her body beforehand as a form of defense, otherwise one or two of her ribs would have been broken.
That guy was really ruthless.
The crowd immediately rushed forward and surrounded her.
Someone tried to kick her again, but the leader stopped them by raising his hand:
"Wait a minute."
The sun had already pierced through the clouds, and the open space where Mei Wu Niang was lying was enjoying the direct, golden midday sunlight.
Then the leader noticed that a thin red line had appeared on her shoulder, stretching to the endless distance of the sky.
"What is this...?" What is this, and when was it connected?
Before he could finish his question, Mei Wuniang barely raised her head, a trace of blood still clinging to the corner of her mouth, and said fiercely:
"Do you think your crimes are beyond reproach? Our God is all-knowing and all-seeing! Just wait, divine punishment will follow! It will certainly not forgive you utterly disrespectful scoundrels!"
If there were someone lurking in the shadows, they should have acted immediately, unless she had misjudged the situation from the start.
In their line of work, a misjudgment could very well cost them their lives.
The leader frowned. "Omniscient and all-powerful?" Is this red thread related to the gods?
Yes, this maid came from the Heavenly Palace. Perhaps the Heavenly Palace uses this red thread as a means of tracking. He did know that the gods seemed to have ways to track mortals.
The most urgent task is to sever the connection between the god and this maid!
The leader, holding a small knife, didn't hesitate and swung it, severing the red thread on her shoulder.
To his subordinates, however, it seemed as if their leader had simply swung his sword at thin air.
"Take her away!" the leader ordered, pointing at Mei Wuniang. "Go ask her somewhere else; it's not safe here!"
"Yes!"
Just as everyone was about to make their move, another rainbow light suddenly flew out from the forest.
The person who reached out to grab Mei Wu Niang had their chest pierced through!
Enemy attack.
Everyone hurriedly drew their weapons, but the rainbow light spun around as if no one was around, and then thrust out again.
This time, the target is Mei Wu Niang!
Mei Wuniang paled.
The leader threw out his dagger, which struck the rainbow light with a clang, deflecting it.
The knife slammed into the ground with a "thud," landing just two feet in front of Mei Wu Niang.
Without thinking twice, she picked them up first.
At this moment, about ten more people emerged from the forest. The leader had a cold and ruthless face and a vicious look in his eyes. The rainbow light flew back to him and transformed into a flying sword that kept flying around.
This kind of flying sword is purely designed to fly and injure people at the command of its master, and is not intended for hand-held use to harm enemies. Therefore, it has no hilt or hand guard, and is shaped like a large embroidery needle or a sharp point.
Mei Wu Niang recognized this person's face; he was Ye Zhao, the Heavenly Palace Lantern Bearer and one of Lu Yongyan's confidants.
Besides his divine magic as the Lamp Bearer, Ye Zhao's cultivation level was also quite remarkable.
When Mei Wuniang saw him, a chill ran through her heart.
Ye Zhao had a rather unpleasant nickname in the Heavenly Palace: "The Cleaner." Zeng Gu Zi had told Mei Wu Niang that there were always some people and things in the Heavenly Palace that were inconvenient to deal with openly, so they had to send someone like Ye Zhao to handle them.
Clearly, Mei Wuniang has now become someone who is "inconvenient to clean up in the open."
The guards behind Ye Zhao were all skilled fighters, far superior to the rookies in Mei Wu Niang's team.
"You Mu people really have no bottom line; you even steal from the dead!" Ye Zhao waved his hand, and the people behind him rushed forward.
The two sides started fighting in the blink of an eye. The bandit leader's men were about to grab Mei Wu Niang and retreat when the latter suddenly took a light breath, made a diving motion, and plunged into the ground!
He grabbed nothing.
Then the Heavenly Palace forces attacked.
After Mei Wuniang got to the ground, the fighting and noise in the mountains and forests disappeared from her sight. Without looking back, she stealthily traveled more than three hundred feet to the west until her talisman power was exhausted. Only then did she emerge from the ground, gasp for breath of fresh air, and even spit out two mouthfuls of blood.
Her internal organs were badly injured, and every breath felt like it was on fire, but she checked again to make sure her ribs weren't broken.
That's good.
Mei Wu Niang fed herself two pills and regulated her breathing for a few moments before the pain subsided slightly.
"Two bunches of bastards, not one of them is any good!" She originally wanted to throw away the talisman paper, but after thinking about it, she picked it up again, burned it clean with a small amount of true fire, and then wiped away the bloodstains on the ground.
Infiltrating the Heavenly Palace as a spy is a high-risk mission. She has a lot of emergency equipment, such as various pills and this specially made earth-escape talisman from Songyang Prefecture, which has a range of more than three times that of an ordinary talisman.
The forest is very dense; once she escapes the sight of those two groups, she will be basically safe.
The two groups of people were probably fighting to the death, and Mei Wuniang didn't want to go and join in the fun, so she ran in the opposite direction.
She moved with unusually heavy steps, and with each step, the internal injuries in her chest and abdomen caused her excruciating pain.
But she felt very relaxed.
She was free. She was free. The "divine gaze" that had been attached to her had been severed, and the gods could no longer monitor her.
(End of this chapter)