ebookland Chapter 203 The Cicada in the Back
Chapter 203 The Cicada in the Back
A projection dressed in purple robes appeared out of thin air. It was Meimeng. He looked at the stones on the ground with a mocking expression: "What, still haven't gotten the stuff? Did the judge intercept it?"
Ren said reluctantly, "The judge... he is very strong and very intelligent."
“Sweet Dream, your sudden appearance earlier really gave me a pleasant surprise,” Shen Yiyan said. “The information about the Other Shore Flower is very useful. But now, I want to know more about the Judge.”
Mei Meng shook her head and refused: "Alliance Leader Shen, your people have already disappointed me."
Shen Yiyan's face darkened: "Meimeng, I'm not begging you now, I'm ordering you to serve me. What will happen to you if I hand over the evidence of your betrayal to the Illuminati?"
“No one is worthy of my loyalty. Besides, can your so-called evidence really be presented to the Divine Envoy?” Mei Meng laughed wildly. “Alliance Leader Shen, you need to understand one thing. I am the eyes of the Divine Envoy, and he can only see what I want him to see.”
Suddenly, all the electronic devices in the room were turned on, and even Shen Yiyan's projector began to flicker erratically. Meimeng, on the other hand, sat comfortably on the leather sofa as if she were back in her own home.
"If this small world is filled with many gods from the past, then in the world accessible through the internet, I am your god."
Shen Yiyan gave himself an out: "Mei Meng, my business partner, I was just joking, don't take it seriously."
The divine messenger seems to have something on Mei Meng. The overly arrogant divine messenger's trust in Mei Meng has reached a certain level, and he really can't do anything to her now. This short-term cooperation at the auction is already an unexpected bonus.
Now is not the time to completely break ties.
Mei Meng saw through it but didn't say anything: "Oh, in that case, Alliance Leader Shen, let's have another chance to cooperate."
As soon as she finished speaking, Meimeng's figure gradually disappeared into the air, leaving Shen Yiyan with a meaningful look.
The former followers of the God of Prophecy have become ambitious figures in the Federation. But did the God of Prophecy, who could see into the future, truly not foresee Shen Yiyan's betrayal?
Or perhaps this is part of a plan devised by the god of prophecy?
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Meanwhile, Leng Ran finally made it home after a long journey. For safety reasons, she did not use any means of transportation, but walked back instead.
After all, "Mo Li" is resting at home today and won't be anywhere else.
Leng Ran skillfully activated the grappling hook, climbed onto the balcony of her room, and before she even touched the ground, she saw a hand with distinct knuckles reach out to her, trying to pull her up.
Zhao Yuheng's face, wrapped in bandages, appeared before her: "Mo Li, you're finally back. What did you find tonight?"
He ignored the hand, retracted his grappling hook, and jumped steadily onto the balcony: "I can get up here by myself."
Zhao Yuheng smiled and said, "I know, it's just for show."
He gave Zhao Yuheng a cold, speechless look: "There have been some gains, but now I have some tricky things to deal with."
She opened the glass door to the balcony, walked straight into her bedroom, and then turned on the Illuminati quantum computer she had been wearing that night.
The quantum computer kept vibrating throughout the journey. The divine messenger had learned of what had happened tonight and was calling an emergency meeting—no, it should be called a censure session.
Leng Ran started the video conference. On the screen, the divine messenger was still wearing his signature golden mask, which concealed his true expression.
To her surprise, the spider lily didn't attend the meeting, but her dream came true.
The divine messenger, suppressing his anger, said, "Judge, tell me, how exactly did the things in the vault go missing?"
Leng Ran recounted the events from his own perspective. He explained how he had specifically assigned the Spider Lily to guard the vault, how he rushed to the vault to provide support immediately after the power system was destroyed, and how he chased the attacker into the corridor, only to be too late and fail to retrieve the item.
Hearing Leng Ran insist that she hadn't gotten her things back, Mei Meng, who had just left Shen Yiyan's place, glanced at her without saying a word.
The divine messenger remained silent, while Leng Ran was filled with remorse: "Father, I am guilty. I trusted the power and...loyalty of the Other Shore Flower too much. But I still don't understand, which faction did that person come from? And how did he get into the vault?"
“Judging from the battle at the vault, it should be ‘Decapitator – Blade’ from the Freedom Alliance,” Mei Meng continued. “In addition, I checked the vault’s opening records. It’s certain that there are no signs of external damage or intrusion on the vault door; on the contrary, it was opened from the inside.”
A thought flashed through Leng Ran's mind. She had only said that to make her provocation less obvious. She genuinely didn't know how Ren had gotten into the vault, but the claim that the Free Alliance and the Other Shore Flower had conspired to open it... she remained skeptical for the time being.
On one hand, she knew very well that the Spider Lily hated the Freedom Alliance. On the other hand, she was the one who put the Spider Lily in the vault; it wasn't the Spider Lily who brought it up herself.
What else was Mei Meng trying to hide after helping her kill the spider lily?
A bold conjecture surfaced in Leng Ran's mind: Could it be that the door was opened by a beautiful dream?
“I understand. The spider lily... let me consider what to do with it.” The divine messenger stood up. “But right now, recovering the item is the top priority.”
Leng Ran feigned surprise: "The Red Spider Lily, isn't she already dead?"
“She won’t die, at least not in the short term,” the divine messenger sneered. “However, at this rate of energy depletion, she’s not far from death.”
Leng Ran decided to get to the bottom of it, looking at the divine messenger with a bewildered expression: "Why does Father say that? I don't understand."
The divine messenger looked out the window: "Twenty-five years ago, she was still the genius scientist Hua Yulu. In her despair, she found me and made an indelible pact with the former 'God of Fairness - Greed and Anger'."
"Greed and anger granted her wish and cut her soul into pieces, nurturing them within the red spider lilies constructed by divine power. Ninety-nine red spider lilies emerged from this. As a price, each of the deceased clones could not be resurrected, and the soul fragments within them belonged to Greed and anger."
"Until all her clones died, her soul also vanished, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation again."
Leng Ran recalled the two red and white spider lilies she had seen before; indeed, they were another masterpiece of God.
The God of Fairness, named Greed and Anger, is the third deity to appear before her, following Spirit Eye and Dream Weaver. Including the god behind Lu Tianyun and the God of Prophecy of the Free Alliance, there are a total of five.
According to the divine messenger, all ninety-nine spider lilies should have come from the red one, so what about the white one?
The final answer should still lie with Dean Hua.
The divine messenger steered the conversation back on track: "I will handle the issue of the spider lily. As for your dereliction of duty tonight, Judge, I will not pursue it for now. You two, wait for my news."
Mei Meng/Leng Ran: "Yes."
The divine messenger hurriedly logged off, and the gazes of Meimeng and Lengran met for a moment before simultaneously looking away.
An accountability conference ultimately ended with the other shore flower, who had no memory of this incident, taking the blame.
Who is the real oriole, unaware of the danger?