Hidden moth

Chapter 67 The Cause of the Paradox

Although he found out online that there were staff members regularly collecting mail from mailboxes at various locations, He Kao did not dare to believe it completely. So he decided to go to the Qiyuan City Post Office for peace of mind, as the mailboxes there should be easy to use.

Driving the car borrowed from Xiaopang's family, He Kao fulfilled Gao Xue'e's wish to visit the local farmers' market on the way.

He spent 40 yuan to buy two pairs of flat shoes, one for him and one for Gao Xue'e, and spent 30 yuan to buy himself a jacket and 15 yuan to buy a hat.

Nowadays, there are surveillance cameras everywhere, so appropriate disguise is necessary. Regardless of the quality, it is cheap enough. He Kao also suspected that he had overpaid. Because he was in a hurry, he did not bargain with the stall owner much.

I bought envelopes and stamps somewhere else, packed the materials separately, affixed the stamps and printed the address, and it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at the Qiyuan City Post Office.

He Kao parked the car across the street to make sure no one was watching.

The way to confirm it was simple: he could open the portal after avoiding Gao Xue'e's sight. He Kao didn't need to enter the portal, he just had to make sure it could be opened.

Gao Xue'e remained in the car. He Kao put on his hat and mask and changed into new shoes. Two hundred copies of the materials were too many, so he first took twenty to explore the route, tucked them under his clothes, walked out of the street, turned two corners, and arrived at the General Post Office.

There was a mailbox outside the post office, but the size of the delivery port was limited and the envelope containing the materials was a bit too big, so he walked into the business hall on the first floor.

Stamps, postcards and various souvenirs are sold here. Parcels and registered mail are also accepted. There is a mailbox in the corner of the hall. The delivery port is so large that even brown paper file bags can be stuffed in.

He Kao put on gloves and took out the materials to deliver them, but found someone observing him... When he was outside the post office, he found this person standing at the door.

When he walked into the hall, the man followed him in and pretended to look at the promotional posters, but his attention was actually on him.

What was going on? He hadn't even sent the materials yet. Was he being targeted? Gao Xue'e explained that postal boxes had become almost exclusively used as drop-off points for letters of denunciation. Could someone be taking precautions here?

He had guessed right! Ever since the news of the safe deposit box spread, Gu Yunteng had sent people to monitor more than a dozen major postal boxes in Qiyuan City, specifically recording who had dropped off letters.

Gu Yunteng predicted the actions that He Kao and Gao Xue'e would take after their discussion.

It is difficult to find people like Lao Hong who can do dirty work in a hurry, but Gu Yunteng can send out a lot of people to do this kind of tiring work. After all, it is not illegal to wander around in public places!
Nowadays, very few people use this method to send letters, so whenever Gu Yunteng's men saw someone doing something, they would secretly watch them, pretending to check their phones and take pictures of the delivery person.

Would this work? If someone really did send in damaging information about Gu Yunteng, would it have to be during this time and at this location? Gu Yunteng was just trying it out, a shot at it, and there was no need for him to personally stake out the situation.

After this discovery, He Kao wanted to make further confirmation. He collected the materials without putting them in the mailbox, turned around and walked out of the business hall.

The man followed him out again stealthily, taking pictures of him with his phone. Unfortunately, He Kao never showed his face and walked across the intersection into the green belt across the street.

Across the street is a river with railings along its banks, and next to the railings is a scenic walking path for citizens to stroll along. Qiyuan City has a lot of sycamore trees, most of which are quite old and have grown very large and thick.

He Kao disappeared behind a tree. The man followed him, looking around with his phone in hand, pretending to be passing by.
Suddenly losing sight of He Kao, the man was confused and walked to the riverside, leaning on the railing to look down. He Kao suddenly came out from behind the tree, made sure no one could see him, and kicked the man in the butt.

The man cried out, tumbling headfirst into the river, his phone flying out of his hand. The water wasn't deep near the shore, and the riverbed was covered in soft mud and aquatic plants, so he wasn't going to die from the fall, nor from drowning.

By the time the man, covered in mud, climbed up the railing, He Kao had disappeared.

He Kao had no idea where the man came from. If he had only been observing him at the post office, there was no reason for him to do anything. But after he had left the post office, the man continued to take photos and followed him into the green belt across the street, clearly looking for trouble.

So he kicked without hesitation, and at the same time he realized how useful the hidden moth's ability was. It was simply impossible to defend against it! After experiencing a series of events in the past two days, He Kao had also undergone subtle changes. At least he was more decisive in his actions.

After making sure no one was still following him, He Kao circled around and returned to the car. Gao Xue'e asked, "How's it going? Have the materials been sent out?"

He Kao: “No.”

Gao Xue'e: "Why didn't you send it? What happened?"

He Kao: "I've thought about it and decided that we shouldn't send the materials to Qiyuan anymore. Let's go to other provinces."

Gao Xue'e: "Outside provinces, where are you going?"

He Kao: "Let's go traveling tomorrow. It's the last day of the long holiday, so we have to go out and have some fun. Let's go to Jinghu Lake."

Although Qiyuan was the capital of Jianghai Province, it was very close to neighboring provinces. Driving to Wucheng City across the province took only two hours, and Jinghu City took just over an hour. But it was definitely too late to make it today. On the way there and back, He Kao also observed the various surveillance cameras in the streets and alleys. He found that some of the surveillance was "effective" and that if he was exposed to the surveillance, he would be unable to open the portal.

But some surveillance seemed "ineffective". Even if he stopped there and faced the camera, he could still open the portal.

He Kao speculated that the ineffective surveillance was either broken or abandoned, or no one checked it during the effective record storage period.

This is actually normal. With so many surveillance cameras, who can possibly view all the surveillance records? Moreover, they were installed by different units. After a long time, some units may have forgotten about them.
In most cases, each unit is responsible for installation but not dismantling, because dismantling costs money and they usually don't have the budget for it.

There is another situation where many cameras only have real-time monitoring functions, or the storage function is not turned on, which means that they will not leave information storage records.

So when someone is watching the surveillance, it is effective, and when no one is watching, it is ineffective.

Today, He Kao had more time to go home, so he bought some vegetables on the way and planned to cook for himself. The main course for dinner was beef stewed with radish. Gao Xue'e asked in surprise, "Xiao Kao, you can actually cook?"

He Kao asked back, "If you want to have something to eat, you have to know how to cook. Don't you know how to cook?"

Gao Xue'e said shyly, "I can learn."

He Kao: "Then let's start learning from today."

In short, Gao Xue'e praised the dinner that day and even said she was full. He Kao was quite clear about this. He knew that his cooking skills were not bad, but not as exaggerated as Gao Xue'e's praise.

Gao Xue'e finally went to bed early today and drank another cup of Chonghe drink before going to bed.

After she fell asleep, it was just past eleven o'clock when He Kao returned to his room. He was going to try what he had thought of last night, which was to enter the portal and practice the Yin E Guan.

He was used to practicing while sitting on the bed, so he simply placed the portal on the bed. After entering the portal, he immediately entered the state.

He Kao himself named the "Hidden Moth Contemplation" the "secrets of contemplation" that he summarized. The state of concentration required by the Hidden Moth Contemplation is extremely difficult to enter, and even more difficult to maintain once entering, but the state that remains after entering the portal is practically tailor-made for this purpose.

Or to put it another way, the person who created this set of exercises was describing this state and required practitioners to achieve this state in a state of concentration in the real world.

By practicing in this way, He Kao directly entered the deepest state of concentration, and then suddenly comprehended a set of magic formulas.

In this place of nothingness, a memory seemed to appear and directly entered his consciousness. He only had pure consciousness in the portal...

After He Kao exited the sect, he sat on the bed and digested the information silently for a long time, because he had just obtained the magic formula, which turned out to be the secret magic formula of the Yin Mo Sect!

However, among the seven known schools of magic, there is no Hidden Moth School. Whether it is Wu Yanjun, Qian Guran, or Lin Qingshuang, they only know the legend of the Hidden Moth, but have never mentioned the existence of the Hidden Moth art and the Hidden Moth School.

The legend of the hidden moth began over a thousand years ago. It had always been a person, representing an identity and an ability. Only now did He Kao understand that behind this identity, there was actually a set of secret inheritances.

The so-called hidden moth object now seemed to him like a portal, or an invisible artifact. Invisible artifacts attached to tangible objects became the key to open portals, such as the animal claw pendant he was wearing.

Neither his father nor Huang Xiaopang's father had truly received the inheritance. As for Huang Xiaopang, He Kao was even more certain that he hadn't received the inheritance, and even if he had, he hadn't mastered the art of cultivation.

The prerequisite for receiving the inheritance is to master the art of Hidden Moth. But how can one master the art of Hidden Moth without receiving the inheritance? This creates a paradox.

The solution to this paradox is simple. You just need to obtain the skills of the Hidden Moth Technique through another method, start practicing it, and then happen to inherit the Hidden Moth item... Well, just like He Kao.

The method of observation that He Kao practiced was the introductory technique to the Hidden Moth Technique. While there were slight differences between the inheritance he received from the sect and the secret techniques he had compiled, they were clearly the same set of techniques.

When it comes to practicing esoteric techniques, even a little difference can make a huge difference. Without Lin Qingshuang's comments, He Kao wouldn't have been able to even begin practicing. Lin Qingshuang had never seen the Hidden Moth Technique, but the requirements for entering the esoteric techniques were always similar, and these were the key points of her comments.

This is just an introductory technique, not a formal technique that can be practiced after entry.

The secret manual of observation summarized by He Kao has twelve pages. He had only practiced the first two pages before. The content of the third page involved the techniques after entry, but the difference between it and the real hidden moth technique became increasingly greater, and more and more specious.

He Kao had just obtained the first technique of the Invisibility Technique in the portal, or in other words, he could only comprehend the first level of the technique at present.

So, according to that inexplicable legacy, could it be that he is already a first-rank sorcerer of the Hidden Moth Sect? Anciently known as a Stalker!
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