Chapter 128 Anyway, it's Gu Gan who's troubled.
The order of all the gatekeepers in the dormitory was randomized, and the disciples living together were of different ranks.
This left some of the disciples standing in the corridor wondering what to do, while others fell into deep thought.
The agricultural sage Ou Rushuang repeated his voice three times, as if advising the other party to hand over the Milky Way Water voluntarily.
The Five Elements Light Core that Yu Sui placed on Mei Liangyu's floor was stuck to the corner of the eaves, quietly observing the people on the scene. He also noticed the Fangji master, Changsun Zi, who came out from the teaching team.
Changsun Zi is Nian Qiuyan's master and highly values and appreciates this disciple. With her divination and astrological abilities, it is not impossible for her to know that Nian Qiuyan stole the Milky Way water.
But if it's true that Nian Qiuyan's three divinations can block the three saints, then the first one to guard against is Changsun Zi.
Nian Qiuyan quietly followed behind Changsun Zi, watching as Changsun Zi instructed the instructors to search the disciples' dormitories.
Each instructor carried a green bamboo stick, the bamboo emerald green and emitting a faint, jade-like green light. After unlocking the door, they entered the room, using the bamboo sticks to explore and search for the presence of the Milky Way Water.
Nian Qiuyan's dormitory is at the back; it's not his turn yet.
Changsun Zi didn't speak to him either. Instead, she surveyed the disciples in the corridor with her gaze and said calmly, "Anyone who knows about the theft of the Milky Way Water but conceals it will be punished as an equal."
This statement seems intentional.
Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu remained expressionless, simply listening and letting it go.
One of the disciples muttered under his breath, "We also want to know which bastard is so fierce."
As soon as Changsun Zi finished speaking, Ou Rushuang's voice came from the dormitory, repeating her words: "Regarding the matter of stealing and hoarding the Milky Way Water, anyone who knows about it but fails to report it will be punished as an accomplice."
The message was passed down layer by layer.
Sheng Fei leaned lazily against the door, feeling that there were many things to do tonight.
Mu Mengbai craned his neck to look ahead and whispered, "We've been searching for the Milky Way for months. Where did you get this information tonight?"
Sheng Fei casually replied, "Wasn't it a message from the Communications Institute?"
"How did the Communications Institute find out? By looking at the Wind Listening Ruler?" Mu Mengbai took out his Wind Listening Ruler. "Could it be that the person who stole the Milky Way Water told someone on the Wind Listening Ruler that they stole the Milky Way Water, and then the Communications Institute found out?"
Sheng Fei wasn't interested in this: "Go ask the Communications Institute yourself."
"No, that's the point!" Mu Mengbai pointed at the Wind Listening Ruler and said solemnly, "If this is how it's discovered, wouldn't the Communications Institute know what we've been sending all this time?"
Sheng Fei felt that his concern was a bit too late: "If the Communications Institute wanted to, it could indeed, but the six countries have explicitly prohibited it. If information is stolen without official orders, the Communications Institute itself will suffer the consequences."
Mu Mengbai was even more puzzled after hearing this: "Then how did the Communication Institute find out?"
"Use your brain to think about it." Sheng Fei couldn't stand his stupidity and lowered his voice, "If the academy gives an order for the Communication Department to crack our Listening Ruler, the Communication Department can legitimately see these messages. It means that the person who stole the Milky Way Water is stupid for exposing the message in the Listening Ruler."
"The second possibility is that someone reported it to the Communications Institute using a wind-sensing device."
Mu Mengbai gasped, his mind racing as he followed Sheng Fei's train of thought: "The First Academy must have ordered an investigation long ago, but the Communication Academy didn't find any useful information. Tonight's incident was obviously sudden, so someone must have reported it to the Communication Academy!"
Sheng Fei didn't care who reported him or who stole the Milky Way Water; it had nothing to do with him.
Today, he received a letter from his second brother, who was far away in the capital of Qingyang, from Blackbeard. The letter began with simple greetings from his brother and an update on Madam Sheng's recent situation, telling him to relax. At the end, the letter mocked him for meddling in Yu Sui's affairs all the time.
If you're going to be an older brother, then be a good older brother. If you don't have the intention of being an older brother, then don't cause trouble for others.
Sheng Fei was so angry that he tore up the letter.
It's as if he's been a good older brother!
After Sheng Fei finished speaking with Mu Mengbai, the matter came to mind again. He felt a tightness in his chest, and his thoughts drifted away. He didn't hear what Mu Mengbai said.
The sages who came from this level are Legalist saints, Yu Sheng.
The old man's expression was indifferent, and his eyes seemed to say "unapproachable."
Mu Mengbai whispered to Sheng Fei, "With this old man here, even without the Milky Way water, we're bound to find something out."
When it comes to the Milky Way, Gu Gan is undoubtedly the most talked-about figure.
When Gu Gan heard the academy's announcement, he was still somewhat incredulous. As the Dragon-Sealing Lock was activated, Gu Gan's heart skipped a beat as he stared at the door he couldn't enter.
I thought this was just a routine dormitory inspection, but I didn't expect it to be related to the Milky Way. The fragments of the Pagoda are still in the room. Even if the teachers who are checking the rooms might not recognize them, it is still not good to be found out.
Since it concerns the Milky Way, a saint will surely come tonight.
Gu Gan was lost in thought, but the people around him kept casting probing glances at him, and he heard more and more whispers.
It was nothing more than the incident where he had previously broken into the Hanging Moon Cave and been falsely accused of stealing the Milky Way Water. Now, upon hearing the academy's report that the Milky Way Water was hidden in a disciple's dormitory, he immediately began to suspect Gu Gan again.
"Are you alright?" Yue Xiameng asked Gu Gan in a low voice, "Won't the academy investigate our room first?"
Huo Xiao said, "It's not impossible."
Ji Meng panicked: "But haven't we cleared our name? Yinhe Shui really isn't a suspect."
He immediately fell silent and gestured to Gu Gan with his eyes, asking what to do with the things inside the room.
They should have brought them out back then.
Gu Gan said, "It won't be that easy to find."
As long as it's not a saint who comes.
After all, I've never heard of a saint coming to the dormitories for a random inspection.
"Where did the Communications Institute get the news about the Milky Way?" Ji Meng muttered.
Gu Gan and Huo Xiao both thought of a certain possibility. Huo Xiao said, "Someone must have reported it to the Communications Institute."
Whenever Gu Gan thought of anything related to the Institute of Communications, he would always think of the mysterious inscription that he had collaborated with.
Gu Gan also tried to find this mysterious person.
He targeted disciples of the Taoist, Yin-Yang, and Fangji schools, because only these three schools had the potential to access the secrets related to the Listening Wind Ruler, and excluded all those below the first-level disciples.
I had my suspicions about the target, but I couldn't find any concrete evidence.
Gu Gan thought for a moment, took out the Wind Listening Ruler, opened the mysterious person's communication interface, and asked him, "Did you do this?"
Of course, no reply was received.
The instructors on this floor arrived late and were trapped in the malfunctioning dragon staircase. As more and more news came from the academy, the disciples' voices grew louder and louder in the corridors where there were no instructors to suppress them, making it the liveliest floor.
Outside the wall, unseen by anyone, Wei Ren, draped in sturdy yet transparent spider silk, clung to the wall, able to reach out and touch the window of Gu Gan's dormitory. The window was tightly closed. He looked down; it was pitch black nearby, and in the distance, a peach blossom grove.
There was no one there.
Wei Ren lowered his voice and asked, "Is finding the Milky Way Water also part of your plan?"
The Wind Listening Ruler lit up, and Yu Sui replied, "Yes."
“What about the arrangements made by the sage?” Wei Ren said. “If a sage comes to this level, I’m not confident I won’t be discovered.”
Yu Sui: "No saints will come to this level."
The message she sent to the Institute of Communications is currently keeping everyone at the institute very busy.
Not every floor will have a Saint, but the Academy will use the information from the Listening Wind Ruler, obtained by the Communication Institute, to identify suspicious floors and then send a Saint there.
Therefore, the eldest grandson Zi is on the Nian Qiuyan floor.
Shengfei's floor contains Yu Sheng.
But no saint will come to this level of Gu Gan.
Aside from the fact that it was related to the Milky Way Water, the saint who revealed the fragments of the Floating Pagoda would not have wanted Gu Gan to cause any trouble because of the Milky Way Water. He was clearly investigating the Milky Way Water, but he unexpectedly discovered the fragments of the Floating Pagoda.
If something unexpected happens on this floor, the person who will arrive the fastest will be the saint who knows that Gu Gan has obtained the fragments of the Floating Pagoda.
Yu Sui told Wei Ren, "After you get the things, go to the first floor immediately and pretend that you have just come back from outside and did not have time to go into the dormitory."
At this time, those who are outside are the safest and least suspected.
Yu Sui asked Blackbeard to give her extra Wind Listening Rulers, set the transmission time, and then destroyed them after sending them.
On the other hand, she had Blackbeard send a few people to the academy's Orchid Division, saying that she suspected someone was using Orchid Poison, or had seen something similar to Orchid Poison somewhere, and suspected that there was Orchid Poison nearby, and then pointed the clues to the academy's disciples.
The twenty-four saints each had their own purposes. Some wanted to conceal the Lan Poison, some wanted to conceal the fragments of the Floating Pagoda, and some did not take sides.
Although she cannot currently harm the saints of Taiyi, saints can interact with each other. As long as she sends out the message, a saint will naturally take action.
The news was given so suddenly that no one else was prepared, and in the rush, something was bound to be exposed.
Yu Sui released five elemental light cores and saw several familiar saints.
Leng Rouyin, a military strategist; Jiang Shulan, a physician; and Zhu Lao, a renowned scholar.
There's more.
In the corridor, Gu Gan looked around and whispered, "Try to unlock the Dragon-Sealing Lock."
It would be more reassuring to take out the fragments of the Pagoda.
Ji Meng and Huo Xiao covered for him, letting Gu Gan tinker with the Dragon Sealing Lock.
Someone stared at him and shouted, "Gu Gan! What do you mean by activating the Dragon-Sealing Lock? Do you really have the Milky Way Water in your house?"
This shout attracted the attention of the other onlookers, drawing more attention to Gu Gan and forcing him to stop what he was doing and turn around to look at him coldly.
The person who started the trouble was Sha Qian, a Legalist disciple who had always been at odds with Gu Gan, because of Xun Zhiya.
Sha Qian firmly believed that the Milky Way Water was stolen by Gu Gan, who entered the Upside-Down Moon Cave, and demanded that the Legalists judge him and expel Gu Gan from Taiyi Academy.
Just when they were about to succeed, Nangong Sui appeared and rescued Gu Gan with the Di Su Tian Libra.
Sha Qian suffered retaliation from Gu Gan and others, and his points were almost deducted, demoting him to a D-level disciple. He was filled with resentment.
Now, having heard about the Milky Way Water, he was even more convinced that Gu Gan was definitely up to something. He watched Gu Gan's every move closely, and when he saw him about to open the Dragon-Sealing Lock, he became even more excited. He stepped out from the group, pointed at Gu Gan, and shouted, "It's you, isn't it? The one who hid the Milky Way Water in the dormitory! Ji Meng and Huo Xiao are your accomplices. You should both be expelled from the academy!"
Gu Gan sneered: "If you're going to go crazy, get lost."
Taking advantage of the commotion outside, Wei Ren used a spider web to open the window and nimbly climbed inside.
The room had been tidied up and looked clean and tidy, with everything neatly arranged, clearly in preparation for the dorm inspection.
Since the instructors were checking the dormitories, it didn't matter whether the door was locked or not, as it would have to be opened anyway. Gu Gan and the others wouldn't go far; they would stay right at the door, so the door wasn't closed.
This made things convenient for Wei Ren.
Wei Ren was in a hurry, so he didn't pay much attention to anything else and went straight to Gu Gan's room according to the information Yu Sui gave him.
The door was soundproof, and Wei Ren was very good at this, so no one outside noticed.
Yu Sui kept an eye on the activity inside and outside the room for him, and told Wei Ren the location of the fragment: "On the table against the wall, in the second row, the leftmost box."
"Use spider silk, don't touch it with your hands, or you'll leave fingerprints that he'll find out."
"There are famous locks, and the correct name is required."
Wei Ren used spider silk to entwine the square black wooden box, then took it from the second-tier wooden shelf and placed it on the table. The black wooden box then emitted a faint golden light, revealing a secret array of diagrams created by a master.
Yu Sui told him the secret text to decipher the diagram: "Wood is dry, water is born, Kun is fixed, and the center is formed."
Wei Ren quickly entered the information and solved the diagram. There was one last lock from a master; only by entering the correct name of the box could it be opened.
Gu Gan is the owner of the box; only he knows his name.
Unfortunately, Yu Sui saw it.
“Sheng Yao”.
Following the information provided by Yu Sui, Wei Ren successfully opened the black box.
Wei Ren remained calm while handling the matter, his heartbeat unwavering. His gaze was fixed on the slowly opening box, where he saw a turquoise ring radiating a gentle light.
Yu Sui glanced at the instructors still inside the dragon ladder. The instructors were quite cooperative, deliberately delaying their arrival to prolong the time the disciples were in disarray.
The instructors stalled for time, and during this time, not a single saint arrived.
This indirectly confirms her suspicion that among the Taiyi Saints, someone knew that Gu Gan had obtained the fragment.
Furthermore, she deliberately leaked some shady secrets to other disciples through the Listening Ruler, enraging those who knew the truth. At this moment, several floors were filled with cursing and arguing, and the quarrels became increasingly intense. Some onlookers fanned the flames, and the floors where the instructors had not yet arrived soon broke into a fight.
Wei Ren had no time to lament how ugly the fragments of the Pagoda had become; he quickly took out the dust-free clay and began to copy them.
The engraving process won't take long.
A moment later, the dust-free entity spat out the fragments.
I only vomited one.
Real fragments of the Pagoda.
Wei Ren: "..."
Yu Sui raised an eyebrow slightly upon seeing this.
Wei Ren tried again. No dust adhered to the fragment, and the soil moved and grew on its own, completely enveloping it. After a moment, the dark brown soil spat out the fragment intact and fell back into the box, returning to calm.
“It can’t be copied.” Wei Ren said calmly. “It seems that the Pagoda is special and cannot be copied by the dust-free soil.”
Even if it's fake, it won't do.
Yu Sui glanced at Gu Gan and the others in the corridor and said decisively, "Take it and let's go."
Wei Ren took the fragments of the pagoda, put the empty box back, and obediently returned the way he came.
There's no time to think about what Gu Gan will do after losing the fragment he just got last night. This is a rare opportunity, and if we don't take it now, who knows when we'll get it again.
Who cares!
Anyway, it's Gu Gan who's troubled.
Gu Gang, who was outside, turned back into the house and felt uneasy about the night.
[Author's Note]
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