Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 553 - 130 The Secret Shen Qingxi Knows

Li Mumu opened her eyes and let out a huge yawn.

Due to the backlash from her soul leaving her body, she could hardly remember anything about her journey back.

It was like a college student who had stayed up all night at an internet café, returning to the dormitory and falling asleep instantly, impervious to any alarm clocks.

What was even rarer was that Li Lingling behaved like a human being this time, without causing any trouble from start to finish.

"You have to give me a share of the money, and remember to transfer it to my account the next time we meet."

Indeed, pursuit of benefits is human nature.

Now looking back, Li Mumu couldn’t help but wonder if this guy was taking advantage of his familiarity with history to come to this point in time just to share the spoils with her?

And when will they meet again?

You do realise that these time travels of yours must have some cost, right? Just jumping through time willy-nilly?

Could it be that you, Li Lingling, are the true protagonist of destiny, and the system has granted you special privileges?

Li Mumu turned her head and saw Wendy sitting on the couch next to her, holding a ghastly pale human skull in her hand.

"This is..."

"Shen Qingxi."

"Well, the shape of the head looks alright. Did you manage to extract any information?"

"She was a bit reluctant at first, but after soaking her in the corrosive solution for an hour, she began to talk, and she even said more than you wanted to know."

"What about the whereabouts of the Ma Family?"

"That’s a long story..."

Wendy placed the skull on the table and turned to look at Li Mumu, her button-like eyes twinkling with a strange light.

"You know about the Joshua People, right?"

"Yes, I remember you telling me your father was one of the Joshua People."

"Correct, the Joshua People, like the Witch Families, only recognize maternal bloodlines, which is why I bear the Freud name, and am not considered one of them. Of course, that’s not the point. Since you know about the Joshua People, you must have heard of the story of Saint Moses guiding them out of Egypt, crossing the Red Sea to reach the land flowing with milk and honey, right?"

"Isn’t that common knowledge?"

Li Mumu was puzzled as to why she was starting from this point. How was that different from starting a story about Ming mythology with Pangu creating the world?

"But did you know that about a decade ago, the Joshua People tried to break away from Europe and came to the Far East in search of their new Promised Land?"

"I haven’t heard about that, just tell me the conclusion."

Li Mumu was not interested in the historical grudges of the Joshua People; she just wanted to know the whereabouts of the Ma Family and the reason for her own uninvited disaster.

"Shen Qingxi didn’t know too much, but it was enough to support a complete story—this story begins with the changes that the last great tide brought to the world."

"Wait, what is the Great Tide?"

Li Mumu keenly noticed a highly contaminative point of knowledge.

"Shen Qingxi doesn’t know either, but judging from the consequences alone, the Great Tide brought about the collapse of the Cretan civilization, the teetering of the Roman Empire, and the failure of Jesus Christ to be born successfully."

"The Joshua People realized the changes in the timeline; they found their history was not as solid as they imagined. If they were to experience a few more sweeps of the Great Tide, the entire Western civilization might cease to exist. Thus, they set their sights on an ancient empire in the distant East."

"On that ancient land, there was an abundance of historical depth and temporal scope."

"Therefore, the Joshua People targeted the black soil in the northern territories of Ming Country and made thorough plans for it. On one hand, they bribed former dynasty officials heavily, hoping to fabricate legal grounds that the land belonged to the Joshua People. On the other hand, they incited the Rakshasa to push eastward, attempting to invade that territory. Although the People of Ming were not in the habit of selling land, the Rakshasa didn’t mind—they had previously sold Alaska."

"However, both plans failed, so they devised a new one, which was to replicate the classic plot from the Old Testament, allowing their ancient religious faction to revive within Ming Country."

"This plan was divided into several parts, and the one Shen Qingxi came into contact with was called the Moses Plan, personally overseen by Duke Tartalos, one of the seventy-two Demon Gods under King Solomon, known for his skill in indoctrination and beguilement of hearts."

"The core of the plan was the Fox Demon who defected during the war between Ming Country and the Rakshasa and had now returned in the guise of the Dark Mother Goddess. She established a sect, erected statues, and gilded them, packaging herself as a persecuted figure, leading her followers back to the northern black land."

So, this was the Moses in question?

Li Mumu suddenly saw the light, finally understanding the whole situation from cause to effect.

The Fox Demon went from a traitor to a victim?

Wanting to lead the black-furred rodent species to the North? Their large size clearly suggests they’re a southern species...

But none of these mattered, for definitions can be tampered with.

One very important reason for the consistently bad reputation of the Joshua People in history was their unreliability, their penchant for making contracts and then picking apart the wording to interpret them in a way that favored themselves.

For example, if the contract said two pounds of eggs for ten dollars, they would offer a ten-dollar Nether Banknote to buy your eggs, and if you refused, you were breaching the contract.

Such incidents were not uncommon in history.

The Moses Plan was similar. In the eyes of the Ma Family, they were there to punish the traitor and clean their house. However, the Fox Demon pulled out a script that said, "Fortunes change, do not despise the young for being poor."

People not in the know naturally tend to choose the version that sounds more appealing to them.

That’s the charm of journalism.

As for whether the followers in the sect founded by the Fox Demon were actually black-furred rats, that was even harder to say. In Tianmen, she could use black-furred rats as stand-ins, spreading the faith without easily arousing others’ attention and suspicion. But once she went back to Yunlan Sect... no, returned to the Northeast, the followers she took might not necessarily look the same.

Li Mumu, as an outsider, could imagine a lot of leeway for operations.

"The collaborator the Joshua People chose within the country was the Shen Family behind Shen Qingxi. The compensation they offered to the Shen Family was also quite generous, granting them the right to control the Guanyin Followers."

"What are the Guanyin Followers now? Is it this complicated?"

Li Mumu felt her mind was starting to be overwhelmed and had to pull out another one.

"Duke Tartalos was only in charge of the ’Moses’ plan, but behind him was an overall responsible person, the Hell Monarch Mephisto, who colonized Fusang back in the day. This Great Monarch held many secret societies such as the Holy Grail Church, Pure Land Sect, National Salvation Warriors Association, and Guanyin Followers."