Lin Muqing’s eyes gradually dimmed, and her body slowly collapsed onto the ground.
What was the reason Li Xiuzhu gave at that time?
She could hardly remember it now.
Was it because of insufficient blood supply to her brain?
But it must have been a very warm, very desirable reason.
Lin Muqing slowly closed her eyes, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly, just like the hopeful smile she had seen once before.
"Even if I die… as long as you’re here… it could surely succeed, right?"
"What a pity, I won’t be able to see it."
When Zhou Shan was about to activate the Sword technique again, wanting to destroy the body and all evidence.
Suddenly, a black humanoid Heavenly Demon intervened, "Wait a second, this woman’s body is useful to me."
Xia Li coldly looked at the Heavenly Demon, "You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You let Lin Muqing find you. Otherwise, with your structure, it wouldn’t have been so easy for her to detect you."
The Heavenly Demon slighted smiled, not saying a word, but thought to himself, ’I wonder if I can find the whereabouts of the twelfth Array from her memories.’
…
About half an hour earlier, 21:45
Upstairs in a small building, Zhou Bai was observing the dormitory block over three hundred meters away through a telescope, where Xia Li and Lin Muqing lived.
Zhou Bai had come here as soon as night fell, keeping an eye on Lin Muqing’s movements.
He planned to continue tracking Lin Muqing from a distance all day, until she went to her appointment at the skybridge, thus turning his passive waiting into active monitoring to see where Lin Muqing would go tonight and whether she had contacted anyone if today’s appointment was a trap.
Zhou Bai looked in the direction of the building, thinking to himself, "She hasn’t gone out since returning from dinner. Planning to wait until the appointed time before leaving?"
He glanced at his watch, "It’s almost time for the appointment."
Two minutes later, Zhou Bai’s focus sharpened as he saw Lin Muqing emerge from the entrance to the building, swiftly shifting his thoughts and gaze, using the telescope to sporadically scan her.
’Although I’ve heard that Lin Muqing is from the ’Earth’ Gemstone and mainly studies Arrays, not as sensitive as Gong Tu, it’s still better not to keep staring.’
Zhou Bai carefully followed her from a few hundred meters back, afraid that she might discover him.
He had thought that if he ever lost track of her, Christina would signal him from the side, but Lin Muqing seemed completely oblivious, and she also walked on the main road, saving Zhou Bai some effort.
"Indeed, she is heading towards the skybridge."
Suddenly, Zhou Bai paused, then saw Lin Muqing suddenly turn back and walked over to a corner of the wall, where she seemed to carve something.
Following her, Zhou Bai watched as she returned to the dormitory building.
"What does this mean? She’s going back?"
Zhou Bai found it strange and habitually checked the time; it was now 21:50.
After waiting about ten more minutes, Zhou Bai checked the time again, it was nearly past the appointed time, why hadn’t she come out yet.
"Huh? What’s happening?" Zhou Bai carefully observed the dormitory building, twitching his ears, and suddenly said, "Something’s not right, why is there no sound coming from this dormitory building at all? It’s as if there’s no one there."
This was because Xia Li controlled the Array, preventing any sounds or scenes from inside the building from leaking out, and created a false appearance.
If someone just passed by, they naturally wouldn’t notice this illusion.
But for Zhou Bai, who had been observing for over ten minutes, something felt off.
"It feels a bit strange," Christina returned to his mind and asked, "What’s up, Zhou Bai? Want me to go in and check?"
Zhou Bai thought for a moment, and then checked the time.
10:06 PM.
Only 5 minutes left until Lin Muqing finished inspecting the Array.
6 minutes until little Pei gets exposed.
8 minutes until Lin Muqing’s death.
Zhou Bai looked at the peaceful building in front of him and nodded slightly, "Go ahead, if you don’t come back, I’ll activate the gemstone in ten minutes."
Christina nodded, and in the next moment, she dashed out, looking left and right in a bush, then dashed into the dormitory building.
As soon as she entered the corridor, Christina immediately felt something was off; a cacophony of noises, collisions, and voices of people talking reached her ears, "Array?"
8 minutes later, Zhou Bai noticed that the originally silent building seemed to come alive again, with varying sounds of human chatter constantly emanating from within.
A minute later, streams of light fell from the sky—school guards were arriving.
"Something happened?" Zhou Bai saw teachers walking out from each dorm building, and as more and more people gathered at the entrance, he went up as well to see what was going on.
"Lin Muqing is actually from the Sky Flipping Sect."
"I heard she attacked little Pei, luckily Teacher Zhou Shan stopped her."
"To think she would attack little Pei, the villains of the Sky Flipping Sect are utterly ruthless."
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"How is little Pei doing?"
"Alas, I heard she’s severely injured, her life hanging by a thread, such a poor girl."
"Lin Muqing is dead? Little Pei is critically injured?" Listening to the conversations around him, Zhou Bai thought to himself, "How could this happen? Lin Muqing was from the Sky Flipping Sect?"
He thought to himself, ’What on earth happened? I’ll have to wait for Tina to come back and ask.’
But even after the agreed ten minutes had passed, Christina didn’t appear, and there was no response when he tried to retrieve her into his mind, so Zhou Bai didn’t hesitate to activate Time Reverse.
10:06 PM, time had returned to the moment Lin Muqing was inspecting the Array.
Zhou Bai and Christina reappeared at the spot from ten minutes earlier, and as soon as she appeared, Christina shouted, "Damn it, Heavenly Demon! So many from the Heavenly Demon!"
"Heavenly Demon?" Zhou Bai, "What exactly happened?"
Christina quickly recounted her ordeal, "Hurry and stop Lin Muqing! She’s stirred up a hornet’s nest with the Heavenly Demon; she’s going to get killed! And little Pei, she’s damn near turned into a Heavenly Demon herself!"
"That serious?"
Zhou Bai’s expression hardened, and the next moment he soared into the air, leaping dozens of meters high, then pulling out a light stone Xia Li had made for him, instantly activating its flash function, followed by a roar.
The dazzling and somewhat piercing light flickered continuously in the nighttime sky, convincing Zhou Bai that such a major commotion would soon bring the Dao School guards over.
Sure enough, within a short time, a dozen streams of light had landed beside Zhou Bai, one of the guards asked, "What are you doing?"
Another guard, noting Zhou Bai’s bare-chested and shoeless appearance, thought, "Another madman?"
Zhou Bai pointed at the dorm building in front of him, "I just saw something that looked like a monster enter this building."
The guards were somewhat skeptical, but just then, Lin Muqing also emerged from the dorm building startled by the commotion, looking at Zhou Bai in surprise, "Zhou Bai, what are you doing here?"
Relieved to see Lin Muqing safe, Christina sighed, "She’s alive, we saved her! Looks like she hasn’t been attacked yet."
Zhou Bai thought for a moment, then asked, "Ms. Lin, is everything okay with little Pei? I thought I saw something entering the building just now."
As they spoke, even more people gathered, all school guards and teachers.