The next day, Mofan walked around the West Guard Pavilion by himself. Speaking of which, it was strange. Ling Ling had previously mentioned that the "Red Magic Magnetic Field" seemed to affect people's subconscious, causing the people in the Shuangshou Pavilion to become strange. Things that seemed out of place would always happen.
However, Mofan did not encounter anything similar. An old granny got lost in the West Guard Pavilion, and someone enthusiastically showed her the way. A drink accidentally spilled on someone's shoe, and just as a fight was about to break out, the two of them apologized to each other. They were so friendly that it made Mofan feel a little uncomfortable.
It was a fruitless day.
He originally thought that he could figure out Red Fiend's methods before the moonless night arrived. It would be best if he could lock onto a group of people who might become his parasites. Only then would he be able to effectively stop him.
In the end, he did not discover anything. Even the Red Magic Magnetic Field that was clearly affected by Red Fiend seemed to have disappeared.
"Why don't I take a walk around the city? I feel like Red Fiend is really wary of me," Mofan said to Ling Ling.
Ling Ling nodded. Ever since Mofan appeared, the Red Magic Magnetic Field had disappeared. The West Guard Pavilion, which was originally filled with strangeness and hostility, suddenly seemed to have been upgraded by more than one level. Even people who spat on the ground could not be seen!
Mofan was also very helpless. After all, Red Fiend Yiqiu had been living nearby for a long time, so he did not accept Shou Watani's challenge invitation.
Ling Ling leaned over to Mofan's ear and whispered a few words.
Mofan's eyes lit up. He felt that Ling Ling's idea was excellent. He immediately packed his things and pretended to go to the city to have some fun.
…
The idea Ling Ling gave Mofan was actually very simple.
Since Red Fiend knew how to parasitize and disguise himself, when he sensed that someone might affect his plan, he would hide and quietly wait for the moonless night.
Then why couldn't Mofan disguise himself?
Mofan had a camouflage artifact in his hands — the Eye of Deception of the Harpy Medusa. This artifact allowed Mofan to sneak into the heavily guarded Holy City.
Ling Ling asked Mofan to pretend to be someone. It would be best if the person was connected to the East Guardian Tower. That way, Mofan would be able to observe the situation in secret.
To be on the safe side, Ling Ling did not plan on letting Mofan tell her who he was impersonating. After all, the Red Fiend was a creature that knew how to control minds and steal memories. Ling Ling was worried that once she knew who Mofan was, the Red Fiend Yiqiu would be able to lock onto Mofan through some of her unconscious actions.
Therefore, only Mo Fan himself knew who Mo Fan was pretending to be.
As for who Red Devil Autumn was pretending to be, only Red Devil Autumn knew.
If Red Devil Autumn liked to play this kind of trick, then she would play along.
"Red Devil Autumn is already wary of Mofan. Even if he knows Mofan is hiding among the crowd, he will try his best to find Mofan so that Mofan won't ruin his plan. He will expose himself if he tries anything." Ling Ling quickly keyed in the names of some key people in the West Guard Pavilion on her laptop.
"Archangel Sharjah mentioned the evil energy before. This evil energy must be very powerful. It can easily leak out and affect the environment. These are the people who are affected. They might be close to the evil energy."
Ling Ling had read up on a lot of information before she came here.
Apas was also a member of the Evil Temple. She knew the legends of evil gods very well, especially the way evil gods with eight soul lattices evolved.
In order for the evil energy to work on the moonless night, it must be stored somewhere in the Shuangshou Pavilion, allowing the evil energy to adapt and change the surrounding environment. It was like creating a bacterial hotbed for Red Devil Autumn.
Since the evil energy had to be displayed, Red Devil Autumn had to guard it before the moonless night. In order to not attract attention, his perfect choice was to pretend to be someone in the Shuangshou Pavilion. Knowing that the entire Shuangshou Pavilion would soon be seriously affected and distorted by the evil energy, he acted very normal.
He was like a demon, waiting quietly for his evil fruit to ripen. At this time, he was very patient, calm, and low-key.
…
There were seven days until the moonless night.
It did not matter if Red Devil Autumn was aware that Mofan was purposely sabotaging the place, but it was getting harder to conceal the evil energy's magnetic field.
Ling Ling witnessed a group of soldiers being scared out of their wits by a sea monster with huge horns and fins. The soldiers were dragged into the ocean by the sea monster. The truth was, the creature was only a Commander-level sea monster. The soldiers could easily defeat it, as they had encountered a Ruler-level creature with huge horns and fins before.
In the West Guard Pavilion, the final selection of the National Training Hall's candidates was extremely complicated.
Initially, Gao Qiaofeng was supposed to be the representative of the national team, but he accidentally triggered the magic formation of the East Guard Pavilion in the middle of the night. Not only was he injured, his training was also affected. The students of the National Training Hall were spreading rumors among themselves, saying that someone was trying to steal Gao Qiaofeng's spot.
The guards of the East Guard Pavilion were in a mess, too. Ling Ling did not have the chance to learn the reason. She only knew that the guards were replaced the next day.
Ling Ling went to check on the matter that Ozawa had asked her to handle.
However, the result was rather disappointing.
Yong Shan's uncle, the guard who had accidentally killed an innocent person. He was under too much mental stress. Lingling had thought that she would be able to dig out some valuable information from him, but in the end, the information she got was very little.
"I wonder if Mofan managed to get any useful information from him. It's just some trivial stuff. It seems like it has been brewing in the West Guard Pavilion for a long time," Ling Ling was sitting in the beverage section of the restaurant, holding a cup of Matcha.
"Clang!" A stack of plates fell beside Ling Ling. Ling Ling was given a fright. She took off her earphones and saw a waitress cursing at her while pointing at the restaurant!
"What do you want me to do? Fold the plates? Wipe the table? Or is it because I'm not going to watch a movie with you tonight, nor do I want to go along with your plan? Is that why you keep troubling me to get back at me?" yelled the waitress furiously.
Even though it was late at night and there were not many people in the restaurant, the customers could not help but look in their direction.
The restaurant manager was also stunned. He looked at the young waitress from head to toe and said, "You can tell me if you're tired. It's not like I'm not allowing you to rest. Why would you say something like that? What do I want from you? I just want to keep the restaurant clean. Isn't that what I'm supposed to do as a restaurant manager?"
Ling Ling glanced at the two people arguing in public.
In fact, this kind of situation did not happen often in Japan. They were more concerned about their reputation.
However, as the moonless night approached, this kind of phenomenon had happened to Ling Ling countless times.
The Red Devil Yiqiu and the fruit of evil energy he was guarding seemed to have drawn out the 'Qi' in people's hearts and caused it to erupt in an immature manner. It turned the world of adults into a world of kindergarteners where they could cause trouble whenever they wanted to.
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