Chapter 442 - Gathering Intel
Lin Mu walked into an old restaurant that had a faded name board. There were a few villagers sitting around on the tables while chatting amongst themselves.
"What would you like?" A tanned middle aged woman walked asked Lin Mu.
"Ah, I’d like some breakfast. Whatever you have." Lin Mu replied.
"I’ll send some right over, you can take a seat with the others. We don’t have private seats left now." The woman replied.
"Sure, that won’t be a problem." Lin Mu said before sitting at a table that already had six people sitting on it.
It was evident that due to being the only restaurant, it was popular and the people who were too busy to cook would come here to have their meal. Things like these were common in villages where a majority of the population consisted of farmers.
They would need to work on the farm most of the time thus often wouldn’t have time to cook. Those that had families wouldn’t have to do the same as their wives would cook for them.
Lin Mu glanced at the appearance of the six men and found them to be relatively common looking.
"What’s the current news around the region, brothers?" Lin Mu questioned.
The men stopped talking and looked at the newcomer.
"It’s the same mostly, but after the incident two years ago things have become a bit volatile. The northern tribes have become active again and the perpetrator of the incident is still at large." One of the men spoke with a sigh.
"Oh? I see. I saw the poster at the square while coming here, is he the perpetrator?" Lin Mu asked.nôvel binz was the first platform to present this chapter.
"Yes. That is the person who has made the lives of us commoners difficult. We now need to pay higher taxes as the army has been deployed."
"Aren’t the cultivation sects doing anything? I mean, isn’t it their duty as well to stop the Northern Tribes?" Lin Mu replied.
"We don’t know much about that we are mere peasants. We can’t deal with the matters of the immortals, perhaps only in the city you will find more information about them."
"I understand." Lin Mu said before his food arrived.
"It’s a tracking and marking formation array. It is used to tell how many people are currently going in and out of the city and who is around it as well." Xukong answered.
~Sigh~
"This just gets more and more complicated..." Lin Mu muttered.
It was evident that the formation was recently set up while he was gone. Lin Mu didn’t know if it was done under the directions of Gu Yao or the kingdom, but whatever it was, it had only caused trouble for him.
Lin Mu came to an isolated corner of the city wall and phased through it to enter the city. He knew he was already discovered the moment he stepped into the formation array’s range, but he was betting on the fact that they will not be tracking each and every person closely.
Besides, even if he was found out, he was simply going to escape after that.
Entering the city, Lin Mu could see the increased security everywhere. There were even checks at the entrances of the different districts. Lin Mu simply crossed them by either phasing through the ground or blinking past the guards.
His destination was the Ancestral temple which was the main site of the incident. But upon reaching there, Lin Mu found the area to be cordoned off and there was even a strong barrier formation surrounding it.
Lin Mu spotted some Tri cauldron peony sect disciples guarding the area. Lin Mu knew that he wouldn’t be able to cross the barrier without causing a lot of commotion thus, avoided it for now.
He changed his aim and went to the Mayor’s Manor instead. He also wanted to check up on Wu Hei but reckoned going to the manor would be better for now. Lin Mu knew it was likely that Wu Hei had been controlled too as there was no way Gu Yao would leave his nephew alone.
Appearing at the manor, Lin Mu discovered it to be empty. There were only some servants and guards left there.
Lin Mu spent some time gathering more information and learned that they all had moved from the city.
The Mayor was now in the capital and was given a high position due to his contribution of preventing the Red tide incident from spreading further.
The Red tide is what they were calling the Human controlling blood curse now. But they had been misled and made to believe the red tide was made for just killing, as the commoners that were affected by it had been killed. The mayor claimed that he and his family managed to suppress the red tide caused by Lin Mu.
The claim gained support from the Tri Cauldron peony sect and a few other minor sects as well. The shocking thing was these sects were none other than the ones that had participated in the tournament.
"Seems like they managed to get the sects over to their side as well. But to what extent are they being controlled, that is the question." Lin Mu muttered to himself.
"From what I’ve seen and analyzed. I doubt Gu Yao can control so many people like this multiple times. He is probably going to only control the stronger cultivators like the supreme elder. He didn’t want to waste his power in controlling the commoners and thus killed them.
This also allowed him to make a narrative of the curse being used for killing instead." Xukong said.