Julie: "You haven't seen the female teacher in person. Her life, including her career and social life, has been destroyed, both mentally and physically, she's not far from collapse.
Her life has already been ruined, yet to pretend to do this kind of good deed is nothing but a hypocritical self-consolation, not changing any outcome."
When Hu Weidong spoke to Julie, his expression was always gentle, but now it turned rare serious: "Julie, there are some things I don't insist on us having the same opinion, but I need to make things clear.
She was a victim, a victim of the conflict between the Xiao Alliance and the Magic Sect, someone realized later that innocents were affected and tried to remedy it.
The other side did what they could, just couldn't do more than that.
It's like someone saved a person from a big fire, but that person still got burned. But this outcome does not diminish the significance of saving a life!"
Julie laughed, turned around, and said: "I understand!" Then she added, "But what if they were the ones who started the fire?"
Hu Weidong shook his head: "It's not the same, if it were Arthur's group, do you think they would make such remedies?"
Julie shrugged: "They certainly wouldn't."
Hu Weidong: "That's why I prefer the Magic Sect, and you should notice that the one pretending to be Luo Mingzhi and the one pretending to be Jiaobide cannot be the same person, someone else stepped in to make amends."
Why can't they be the same person? Because Jiaobide and Luo Mingzhi are of different genders and have greatly different physiques and statures.
Julie: "That's a brilliant disguise, according to my investigation, it's almost indistinguishable."
Hu Weidong: "It could be a special technique, or a special magical treasure, or both. Our Xiao Alliance has similar means but not as exquisite.
Today, even Mr. Huo Qing wasn't appearing in his true form, yet I couldn't see through it."
Julie: "Even you couldn't see through it?"
Hu Weidong: "The last time we met, he was clearly hinting that he was Hidden Moth. This time, he hints again not to investigate Hidden Moth's identity."
Julie: "Are you that sure?"
Hu Weidong: "Either you judged wrong, or that's the implication.
Back then, those two plates of fruit, lychees and cherries, as per your judgment, were picked less than an hour before being placed in front of me. They were picked almost simultaneously in two places thousands of kilometers apart in Eastern Country.
In this world, besides the legendary Hidden Moth, no one can do that! I originally thought Hidden Moth didn't exist until that moment, I confirmed the legend was true."
Julie: "But later you also said the contact person you met might not be Hidden Moth."
Those two plates of fruit were only evidence of Hidden Moth's existence and couldn't prove that the Huo Qing standing in front of Hu Weidong was Hidden Moth, which is precisely Hu Weidong's logical rigor.
It's entirely possible that Hidden Moth picked the fruit and then gave it to Huo Qing, who brought it in front of Hu Weidong, without saying a word, yet causing Hu Weidong significant misdirection.
Hu Weidong: "Does he look like Gu Chun to you?"
Julie: "I'm just a Tier Five Wanderer, not a real god, and I've never seen Gu Chun, how could I tell?"
Hu Weidong: "I haven't seen Gu Chun either, but I feel the Huo Qing from earlier wasn't him at all! But anyway, we've already established one fact, which is that the Ancestral Hall is connected with Hidden Moth, or Hidden Moth is working for the Ancestral Hall."
Julie: "Do you have any evidence?"
Hu Weile shook his head: "I don't have any evidence, those two plates of fruit can't be evidence, and if even I don't have evidence, then others have even less.
The other side said nothing, but such matters call for tacit understanding.
If something is stated bluntly, you might not believe it; but if you think you've found the evidence yourself, perhaps you'll be convinced.
This is the Jianghu routine of the Magic Sect, called the 'Stringing Beads on a Thread' scheme, which you haven't learned.
The Ancestral Hall should be doing this out of good intentions, and also to protect me, for I haven't made any private transactions with anyone from the Magic Sect directly.
As for Hidden Moth, the current identity is still that of an Independent Cultivator in the Jianghu and hasn't formally returned to the Magic Sect. Even if some things get leaked, I'm only investigating and recruiting the legendary Hidden Moth, which is justifiable.
There might also be another possibility, which is that the Ancestral Hall doesn't want me to suspect that Gu Chun is Hidden Moth, so they deliberately set this scheme to make me think I saw Hidden Moth, even though Hidden Moth and Gu Chun aren't the same person."
Julie blinked and said: "You might be overthinking, how could the Ancestral Hall know you're suspecting Gu Chun is Hidden Moth?"
Hu Weidong: "Perhaps I am overthinking."
In fact, it wasn't that Hu Weidong was overthinking, he was extremely observant. It was because, during the last meeting, He Kao was careless or rather took something for granted, which led to someone discovering a flaw.
Because Hu Weidong's thinking was too sharp, he mentally constructed a 'Stringing Beads on a Thread' scheme.
He Kao, who was blending into the crowd and leaving, knew Julie had come to Qi Yuan and could guess that Julie was nearby. This wasn't something he discovered himself, but was informed in advance by a tip from Elder Li Xiuyuan.
The Ancestral Hall assigned He Kao the task of offline liaison with "Mr. Mi" Hu Weidong, which was in itself quite dangerous and top secret within the Magic Sect.
So the Ancestral Hall had to provide him with ample intelligence support, including the movements of the Magic Sect Disciples and the Xiao Alliance members.
Before this meeting with Hu Weidong, He Kao received intelligence that Julie, a Tier Five Wanderer of the Lingxi Lineage and Elder of the Supreme Council of the Xiao Alliance, had also entered Eastern Country, and accompanied Hu Weidong to Qi Yuan.
