Chapter 1194: Chapter 20: The Sinister Duo

It was late at night, inside the Mayor’s Mansion in Crescent Spring Town.

Inside the room, there was no light.

Yun Sheng sat in the shadows, her dark eyes shining brightly, and a faint smile hung on her lips.

Bo Bo, comfortably nestled in Yun Sheng’s arms, saw its master’s smile, and a mischievous gleam flickered in its black bean eyes.

Bo Bo loved it when its dear master was up to tricks—it liked its master’s wicked side.

As the saying goes, one becomes influenced by their surroundings. Unknowingly, Bo Bo had been subtly transformed by Yun Sheng from a cute sheep into a sheep with a charming exterior but a dark interior.

At this moment, far away in the Netherworld, Mingri suddenly had a very ominous premonition.

"I always feel that letting Weak Egg remain in the Human World was a very wrong decision. Oh well, if I have the chance, I should take a trip to the Human World," he frowned, his brow looking handsome.

Yun Sheng had just learned about the conversation between He Lai and the Cangdu City Guard from the Night Charm Queen.

Two schemes to seize the Crescent Spring Town without a single soldier?

The first scheme was to use the spies in Crescent Spring Town to entice the Half-Beasts in the prison to escape.

The second scheme was to poison the water source in the Mayor’s Mansion.

What a He Lai, as rumors say, he is indeed a person with outstanding tactics.

These schemes of He Lai, seen on the Eight Desolates continent, are indeed unexpected, and certainly insidious and vicious.

However, He Lai never imagined that he would not be facing an ordinary member of the Human Clan.

He would be facing Yun Sheng, a descendant of Yanhuang with modern awareness.

Yun Sheng claimed to have received higher education from both the East and the West, although she was not proficient in the ancient wisdom her ancestors left behind like Sun Tzu’s Art of War or the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

However, she was at least a modern person who had seen countless melodramatic dramas and palace intrigue dramas.

In her eyes, He Lai’s schemes were child’s play.

"Dear master, that half-beast is so vicious. Do you want to storm Cangdu and make a mess of them?" Bo Bo said with a knife-sharpening expression.

Anyone who underestimates the dear master will be chopped into pieces!

"Bo Bo, although you are an unemployed Realm God, you should know that military strategy says winning without fighting is victory; any war ultimately harms civilians. The Human Clan is weak and cannot endure a bloody battle anymore. However, those who calculate against me must pay a heavy price," Yun Sheng said, stroking Bo Bo’s wool with an expression of deep meaning.

Bo Bo seemed to understand but also not, asking what the dear master meant.

"Bo Bo, do you know what it means to turn their tactics back on them," Yun Sheng chuckled.

"Dear master, what does that mean?" Bo Bo looked perplexed.

"Soon, you’ll understand. Reciprocity is the principle for us Humans to host friends from afar," Yun Sheng winked.

A few days later, several spies from Cangdu quietly infiltrated the prison of Crescent Spring Town.

"Is this Xiong Ce?" the spies from Cangdu already learned from the Half-beast doctor that a powerful Half-Beast was locked up in the prison.

He was a close confidant of the former Town Mayor Hu Yixue of Crescent Spring Town and incited the Beastman uprising. Starting with Xiong Ce was the most assured.

Xiong Ce in the prison nodded.

"We are spies from Cangdu. Master Helai sent a letter. Three days later, at midnight, Master Helai will lead two hundred warriors from Cangdu, lurking outside Crescent Spring Town. By then, you seize the chance to escape, inside and outside working together to surely retake Crescent Spring Town." The spy handed a letter to Xiong Ce.

Xiong Ce received the letter without expression.

Once the spies left, the prison gate next to Xiong Ce opened.

A person walked out from inside, it was Yun Sheng.

"I have done as you instructed. This is Helai’s letter. You also must fulfill your promise," Xiong Ce said with a grim face.

Earlier today, Yun Sheng visited the prison again, telling Xiong Ce that soon spies from Cangdu would come to contact him.

"Rest assured, I will do as promised. That concubine from the Mayor’s Mansion, I already sent someone to deliver her to your house. Once you leave the prison, you can take her and elope," Yun Sheng smiled.

Everyone has weaknesses, and although Xiong Ce was a tough man, his infatuation was his biggest weakness.

"Hmph, even if I helped you get the secret letter, we won’t help you against Master Helai," Xiong Ce was a bit indignant, thinking Yun Sheng threatened him.

Yun Sheng was indifferent.

She opened the secret letter, the handwriting was flowing like water, and the words in between were very enticing. If these simple-minded Half-Beasts read it, they would undoubtedly fall for it.

This He Lai is truly a talented person.

Being talented, there are only two outcomes—either enlist them or eliminate them.

Yun Sheng’s lips curled up.

Three days later, she couldn’t wait to see how the Think Tank from Cangdu would clean up the mess.

After the secret letter was delivered, He Lai and a group of warriors from Cangdu had arrived at a temporary gathering place outside Crescent Spring Town.

He Lai had laid out his plans meticulously, disguising himself and his subordinates as a caravan when they set off, no one discovering their whereabouts along the way.

Several spies lurking in Crescent Spring Town, upon receiving the signal, also came over.

From the spies, He Lai learned his letter had already reached the prison and he trusted the Half-Beasts would riot the night he took action.

"In recent days, has there been any movement from that female Human mage?" He Lai asked again.

"No sign of anything unusual. That woman is also very peculiar; she spends her days wandering around the town, just wandering through tea houses and shops. The place she frequents the most is the clinic. Besides that, there’s nothing unusual," Yun Sheng’s behavior baffled even the spies from Cangdu.

This appearance hardly resembled a sign of battle.

"What medicine is that woman selling in her gourd? Let’s go, we’ll enter town for a look," He Lai said, leading several warriors into Crescent Spring Town.

Upon entering the town gate, the notice prohibiting Humans and Demon Beasts from entering had already been removed.

Caravans and members of the Human Clan came and went incessantly, everything seeming normal.

"Master, why does the entire town look no different? Not only are the Humans, but even the Half-Beasts appear to be living a peaceful life," said the Half-Beast warriors who arrived at the town with He Lai, witnessing the scene in confusion.

If not for the Half-Beast doctor’s own words, these Half-Beasts could hardly believe Crescent Spring Town had been occupied by Humans.

Now Crescent Spring Town looked no different from other towns they passed by on their way here from Cangdu.