Volume 2 Chapter 40 (1/2)
Chapter 40 Great Floating Water Prison
Multiple carriages sedately moved through the alleys of Changling. The person sitting in the cabin of the front carriage was Mo Qinggong.
Suddenly, his eyes showed wariness. A carriage came out through a nearby alley and moved towards them. He knew that the driver was Jing Mozong, one of w.a.n.g Taixu's people.
However, he had been in Divinity Bureau for many years, and the lessons of blood told him to not trust anyone.
When the curtain of the carriage lifted from far away, his expression relaxed. He said warmly when the carriage came closer, ”Why are you here?”
The people inside the cabin were Ding Ning and Shen Yi. Hearing Mo Qinggong's words, Ding Ning seemed to not feel the terror of this ”evil hound” of the Divinity Bureau. He moved into Mo Qinggong's cabin and motioned for Shen Yi to follow.
”I have not seen Official Mo for a long time. You look good in the new year.” Ding Ning bowed slightly to Mo Qinggong and said, ”I thought that Official may want to hear some details so I came first. The people of Fish Market are troublesome to find. I brought along my junior sect brother who was also present. Official will not need to expend great effort for the people of Fish Market.”
Mo Qinggong looked benevolently at Ding Ning without any of the sternness he usually treated his subordinates with. He smiled slightly and said, ”You are smart. Even if you have not come, I am going to find you next.”
Ding Ning said with a smile, ”I cannot have Official come find me. Of course I must come.”
Mo Qinggong studied Ding Ning for a few moments and said with a soft sigh, ”You have become very famous in Changling in the last half year. Ever since you entered White Goat Cave, you have been the youth with the fastest rising reputation. This proves that my judgement was not wrong in the past. But now it appears even if I took you on as a student, you would not have grown so quickly. Who would think Old Man Xue w.a.n.gxu is a grandmaster with a foot in realm seven.”
”Official Mo, do you have any clues?” Ding Ning said, slightly bewildered. ”I am just an ordinary youth. I do not have any enemies in Changling. Why have so many cultivators come to kill me?”
Mo Qinggong was exasperated and amused. He shouted, ”I have not questioned you yet, and you start to question me. Xue w.a.n.gxu displayed his cultivation on the highway and was so flamboyant when he went to Zhushan District. Who in the world doesn't know of his fight with General Liang at the gates of the North Tiger Wolf Army base? You were present for all those events, and you are also the cultivator to reach realm three the fastest in Changling. You are still an ordinary youth?”
”You should be more careful in the future.” Mo Qinggong warned after a slight pause, ”Just your relations.h.i.+p with w.a.n.g Taixu will bring you many calamities.”
”It is not possible to avoid calamities.” Ding Ning said calmly, ”I have to rely on Official Mo to investigate.”
Hearing the words, Mo Qinggong laughed mockingly.
Even he needed a support like Bureau Chief Chen to establish himself in Changling. He was not in control at many times. Youths like Ding Ning who came from ordinary families could only go along with the waves, even if they showed great talent. He had no room to make his own choices.
He started to ask about details of Fish Market.
Maybe because Mo Qinggong felt it wasn't important who in Fish Market had fought these three cultivators, or he was deliberately avoiding the topic, he didn't even ask who had acted in Fish Market during his interrogation.
As this interrogation finished, this carriage pa.s.sed into a wood of poplar trees in the countryside outside Changling.
A low flat building built along the Wei River appeared in Ding Ning's sight.
”This is the Great Floating Water Prison?” Ding Ning muttered. ”It doesn't look like much.”
People rarely talked to Mo Qinggong like he was normal rather than a terrifying official of the Divinity Bureau. So when Mo Qinggong heard Ding Ning's mutter, he only smiled and didn't mind. His tenseness finally eased.
In Changling, no one would dare to do anything near the Great Floating Water Prison.
”Are there many things unusual underground?”
Ding Ning became even more curious. He looked at Mo Qinggong and asked, ”Could you take me to visit?”
Mo Qinggong stilled and his expression grew stern. He said, ”You want to see?”