Hidden moth

Chapter 122 How can one deceive the heavens in Qiushan

Li Weiping was originally just a country youth from Huiming City, but his sister Li Yu was a sorcerer.

Li Yu was a "good seedling" discovered by the Shi family. She was accepted as a disciple by an elder named Shi Zhiliao and taught magic. Later, she married a member of the Shi family named Shi Haotu.

The betrothal gift sponsored by the Shi family was quite generous.

Because of his sister, Li Weiping was fortunate enough to become a Zhiyuan guest and had the opportunity to learn magic, but he has not yet mastered the art. His brother-in-law Shi Haotu is in a similar situation, perhaps even worse.

Shi Haotu had the opportunity to learn the inheritance of micro-art since he was a child, but he has not been able to master it for many years, so his status in the family is not high.

Shi Haotu's greatest contribution to the Shi family may be marriage. After marrying a sorcerer, his situation in the family improved. Fortunately, the relationship between the couple is still pretty good.

Shi Haotu had advised his brother-in-law several times to stay away from certain sorcerers of the Shi family, especially to stay away from Shi Haowu's group... but Li Weiping refused to listen.

In Li Weiping's eyes, his brother-in-law is a waste. If he could get all kinds of training guidance and many resources like his brother-in-law did since childhood, he would probably have become a formal sorcerer long ago!

Since he was relying on the Shi family, Li Weiping certainly knew who had the thickest thighs, so he became a henchman who specialized in running errands for Young Master Wu.

Li Weiping never dreamed that he would be so "important" by Young Master Wu today. Usually he always wanted Young Master Wu to value him, but at this moment he felt very uneasy.

Originally, his only responsibility was to keep watch at the airport and notify Yang Lingxi upon her arrival, without any other duties. Unexpectedly, things went awry, and he was the first to discover the most important situation.

He was then sent by Young Master Wu to Zhupan Garden Community to reunite with other masters of the Shi family, and was then assigned a separate task.

Young Master Wu told him not to ride the bus with everyone else, but to take the subway alone. He took the nearest subway line all the way to the terminal, then rode his bicycle to a designated location in the suburbs...

He didn't know what this meant, and when he asked Young Master Wu, he didn't say anything. He just told him to follow orders.

He rode his bicycle to the suburbs, and the path designated by Young Master Wu became more and more desolate. Gradually, there were no street lights, and it was pitch black all around, as if there were many ghosts around. Only the stars in the sky illuminated the wild road.

This is a hilly mountain area in the northern suburbs of Nanhua City. In ancient times, it was a firewood mountain and mass grave for local villagers. In recent decades, with the expansion of urbanization, several residential communities have been built nearby along several newly opened roads.

This area of hills and mountains has been transformed into green space and named Forest Park.

There was no forest in the mountains originally. Decades ago, almost all the trees here were cut down, leaving only some shrubs and weeds. From a distance, it looked like the mountain was covered with spots of scabs. It was only two or three decades ago that it began to green again.

There are many flowers, plants and seedlings planted in this area. Due to the good climate and precipitation conditions, some trees have grown very tall. Some landscape buildings for people to rest have also been built beside the artificial trails.

But this place is not really a scenic spot. There is no wall and no entrance fee. On weekdays when the weather is good, nearby residents occasionally come for a stroll, but after dark, there are almost no people and there is no lighting.

Li Weiping abandoned his car and walked. Walking in such an environment would make any normal person feel inexplicably frightened, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy, vaguely feeling like he had become bait for fishing...

At this moment, he received the latest instruction from Master Wu, which was to ask him to - take off his pants!

Li Wei's way of traveling was not difficult for He Kao to track him. After all, he took public transportation such as the subway at the beginning. Riding a bicycle after dark could not be very fast, and he had to walk after entering the forest park.

The place the crew cutter went to was quite remote and secluded. Hiding in the woods at night, it was difficult to find him from far away. If someone was secretly observing from a nearby high point, the stalker behind him would be easily exposed.

But He Kao didn't need to watch him so closely, because he placed a positioning transmitter on Li Weiping, and the locator finally stopped in a corner of the forest park.

The place was surrounded by mountains, with a trail running through it. There was a pavilion on the side of the road. This might be the meeting place for Xiao Pingtou and his accomplices. Why did they choose this place? It must be because it was remote, with no one around and no surveillance.

If you look closely at the terrain in this area, you will find that there are three commanding heights around it, that is, three small hilltops covered with trees, which are roughly distributed in an equilateral triangle and just cover this valley.

To the northeast of the pavilion, at the bottom of the valley between two small hills, about two hundred meters away from the pavilion, Shi Haowu was waiting quietly, holding a small black triangular flag in his hand.

He was wearing dark clothes and concealed his presence among the rocks in the bushes. It was almost impossible to spot him from the trail, but he could clearly observe the movements on the trail and in the pavilion area.

Li Weiping arrived at the pavilion and stayed there for a while, then left bare-legged and in his shorts. The three Shi family masters lurking on the three surrounding mountains, as well as Shi Haowu who was nearby, did not notice the pursuer.

It seemed the enemy was clever enough not to follow closely, as this type of terrain would easily expose their presence if someone was lying in ambush nearby. The hidden moth might have come from the mountains and fields, observing from the shadows.

But as long as someone enters this area, no matter how well they hide, they will be exposed once the Soul Locking Formation is activated.

Time passed very slowly. Shi Haowu waited for almost an hour, and it felt like a whole night had passed.
The mountains and fields at night are far from quiet. Besides the occasional rustle of wind through the trees, there's also the chirping of countless insects. The southern region has a warm climate, so insects are plentiful even in winter, and there are even more of them in the mountains and fields.

If a sorcerer lets go of his perception, this environment is quite noisy. Could it be that the hidden moth didn't track him down? Just as Shi Haowu was thinking this, Shi Haosheng suddenly sent a message: "There seems to be movement in the sky!"

In the sky? Could it be that moths can fly?
It is not a fantasy that a sorcerer can fly. The Shi family has a magic flying weapon passed down from their ancestors.

Of course, Shi Tianjing back then also had a master, but that has nothing to do with the current Shi family. His master gave him this magic weapon, which was also passed down from generation to generation by the ancient ancestors and eventually fell into the hands of the Shi family.

Unfortunately, that treasure requires at least the sixth level of cultivation to use. Shi Tianjing could fly in the sky with it in the past, but none of the later Shi family sorcerers had such ability.

Elder Kang now has the sixth level of cultivation, but unfortunately his master Shi Gaoyu left this item in the Shi family and passed it to the next generation head of the family, Shi Zhizhai, and it became a family heirloom of the Shi family.

Shi Zhizhai was quite generous to his senior brother. Whenever Elder Kang needed something, he would generously lend it to him, but it was just a loan.

So it was almost impossible for the hidden moth to fly nowadays. Could Shi Haosheng have made a mistake? Just as Shi Haowu was wondering, he suddenly heard a faint sound, like the sound of a wasp flapping its wings.

Why are there wasps flying outside in the middle of the night? Shi Haowu soon discovered what it was. A drone had actually fallen from the sky!

It was a black multi-rotor ultra-silent drone with a grappling hook hanging underneath. The sound it made when flying in the sky was very small, and only when you listened close up did it sound a bit like the sound of a wasp.

He Kao is not a traditional sorcerer. If he had not accidentally inherited the hidden moth, he would be a programmer in a large company, a senior technical geek, who is proficient in software and hardware, and has a carpentry skill passed down from his family for seven generations.

So he had no idea how ancient disciples of the art school had worked, and their style was completely different from that of traditional sorcerers. He clearly already had a positioning transmitter, so why bother chasing after them in the mountains and forests? Wouldn't it be better to use a drone?
It just so happened that the little flat-headed drone was far away from the urban area of Nanhua City. This was not a restricted airspace area, and drones with good performance could fly very high... Of course, although the altitude at which He Kao flew did not threaten the safety of the waterway, it was still beyond the regulations.

Turning off the indicator light and operating blindly beyond visual range based on the terrain feedback captured by the camera is also a basic skill that He Kao has mastered.

In this case, even high-level cultivators would not be able to detect it, because the flying altitude exceeds the distance of the spiritual consciousness, and the opponent's attention cannot be on the sky.

As for where the drone came from? Why not just go back to the secret base and get it? It wouldn't take any time to get there!
When the drone descended to a certain height, the high-level monks with extremely sharp spiritual awareness and perception immediately noticed it. The first one to discover it was Shi Haosheng, code-named Erqian.

Although they are both fourth-level craftsmen, Shi Haosheng is much more skilled than Shi Haowu. He was obviously farther away, but he discovered the drone earlier than Shi Haowu, who was closest to him.

The four people lying in ambush were stunned. It turned out to be a drone. What should they do? Should they fight? The drone arrived outside the pavilion, adjusted its angle, and fired a burst of illumination light.

Through this beam of light, He Kao could clearly see on the screen that there was a stone table in the pavilion, with a pair of trousers and an envelope on the table.

Those were the pants the guy with the flat head wore at the airport. I guess a master on the other side had already discovered the locator and led him here on purpose, leaving a letter behind.

He Kao wasn't out in the wild at the moment. He was sitting in the living room of a home in a residential complex near a forest park. On the coffee table sat a laptop and a cell phone, their screens simultaneously displayed on a large, high-definition TV.

Almost all the houses in this community have been sold, but not many people live there on weekdays. The house that He Kao chose was empty, and it seemed that people only came back occasionally on weekends.

He Kao launched two drones at the same time. The dual-thread operation was quite busy. Each drone actually had two lenses, so it could barely be considered a four-thread operation.

Because the vision is unclear in the dark, He Kao specially installed an infrared lens. He doesn't ask for a very clear image, as long as he can see the general pixel outline.

Why did He Kao wait an hour before descending the drone to the pavilion? Because the drone had been hovering high in the sky for observation and had just returned to replace the battery.

As for the other drone, it was released to continue tracking the crew cutter. He Kao discovered that after the crew cutter left the forest park, he met up with his accomplices and took a car to a hotel in the city.

The hotel was surprisingly not far from Zhupan Garden Community, right by the river. He Kao had passed by that area when he rushed from the airport to Yang Yuhua's house. What a coincidence!

Theoretically, it is not allowed to fly drones in that area without permission. To be on the safe side, He Kao did not go close to observe.

In the infrared lens, the short-haired man moving on the ground was always conspicuous, but He Kao did not initially notice the four high-level sorcerers who were ambushing around the pavilion.

On the one hand, because of the obstruction of trees, the locations they chose were very hidden; on the other hand, the ability of a sorcerer cannot be measured by common sense. If a master deliberately restrains his aura, even the infrared signal will be very weak.

He Kao conducted an experiment on himself. When in stealth mode, although there was still an infrared signal, it was much weaker than usual.

Just now, when the drone was descending, someone might have been alarmed, or they might have been lurking for too long and become lax, finally revealing a flaw.

He Kao first discovered Shi Haowu who was lying in ambush nearby, and then he discovered Sanhu on the top of a small hill in the distance. He couldn't see clearly and it was impossible to know the other party's identity, but he could judge that someone must be hiding there.

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(End of this chapter)