Shuiliandong Mansion, exercise ground.
Ma En was standing alone in the distance of the square, looking at the two disciples who were constantly practicing boxing and stick skills. They were fighting fiercely according to the posture, and they were constantly inducing spiritual energy to wash through their bodies.
On the first day of his apprenticeship, Ma En came out to teach Shen Tianyi and his senior sister the most basic Xiaoyao Kung Fu, and also helped them understand the operating logic of the technique through spiritual power, allowing them to guide their spiritual energy.
Although the young man is a bit clumsier than Luan Linghua in understanding the exercises, Ma En is always very busy and has limited time to answer questions every day. Fortunately, the senior sister is not stingy in using her free time and will be particularly patient. Teach the boy the parts he doesn't particularly understand.
In fact, when teaching Shen Tianyi, Luan Linghua also realized that his junior brother was actually very smart. If he hadn't received a good education, he might learn things faster than himself.
Moreover, the exercise method is not only to control spiritual energy to reshape one's body, but also to supplement it with boxing techniques to slowly solidify this change. In this regard, the young man's performance is much better than Luan Linghua.
Obviously the young man was also very grateful for his senior sister's help, so when Luan Linghua asked for advice in this area, the young man tried his best to tell his senior sister everything he knew, and he was more selfless and sincere than his senior sister.
After all, he did this with gratitude, so he would naturally have higher requirements for himself than his senior sister. This also made Luan Linghua naturally feel grateful, and began to help in other areas of life. His junior brother, and his grandfather who tried every means to use his connections to take care of him.
And their relationship has risen sharply with the mutual kindness and tenderness on both sides. Apart from being a little reserved because they haven't known each other long enough, they are even closer than many friends who have been friends for many years.
Although the reasons why they are willing to pay so much are not exactly the same. For example, the teenager does it more out of sincere goodwill and gratitude, while Luan Linghua does it because of the political education he received since childhood.
But even because of his education, the boy had never met anyone else who was as willing to really be kind to him as Luan Linghua, and Luan Linghua's kindness to others had never received such a strong response in the past.
Therefore, the relationship between them is extremely real. After all, Luan Linghua is only about twenty years old. She and the boy are far from the age where they can quarrel with each other, and they can't do one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes.
And they are not the kind of people who can't tell the difference between good and bad, right and wrong.
Therefore, when they meet other people who are kind to them, they will naturally develop a favorable impression.
They exuded a kindness that was rare in the social circles of politicians' families and poor country boys, and perhaps less common in other relationships.
This is also due to Xiaoyao's vision. It is certainly not unreasonable for him to choose both the young man and Luan Linghua as Ma En's apprentices. Xiaoyao chose the two of them because they will definitely get along well with each other.
Moreover, if Ma En sees such a relationship, he will definitely like it.
This is indeed the case, but only if there is no undercover agent of Serran.
During this period, Ma En was actually secretly observing his disciples. Throughout this month, he deliberately did not spend his time and energy on these two disciples, because he just wanted to let them develop a little.
And the way he monitored these two disciples was to have Seli follow them personally.
At the same time, Seri was also studying the "secret" characteristics of the moon god during this period, and used this power to cover up the fact that she was spying, but this was not the most important reason why Ma En asked her to do this.
The real purpose of him asking Seri to study the secret is to allow her to hide her true strength. Now that she cannot fully liberate herself, Seri is still some distance from the moon goddess she used to be. She needs to continue to study and adapt if she wants to solve this problem. The power he gained, and find out the resurrection ritual that the moon god has implanted in the minds of all mankind.
But this is actually not easy, because it is not the current Moon God who buried the resurrection ceremony, but the 6th-level Moon God who was not restricted before being defeated by the Titans, so now Seri has to rely on the Anti-Psychic Spirit Treasure.
And even if Serran doesn't remember the true strength of Luna, he can definitely draw the inference from Mohu. That's why Marn wants Serlie's level to be erratic. This started after Serrie gained power. .
When he met with Shadow during the negotiation, the other party obviously did not judge Serly's true level, and Ma En also hoped that Serane would have a similar feeling when she met Luna.
In addition, he did not intend to let Seri show her current appearance, but relied on the power of the Moon God and the secret to maintain a hazy state, so that Seraen could not determine the current state of the Moon God.
In fact, he is actually using secrets to prevent Seraen from noticing Seri's existence.
Although he did hope that Seraen would discover this, it was impossible not to set up any obstacles. Then his intentions would be too obvious, so he also asked Seli to do his best to prevent Seraen from noticing her existence.
That's right, he didn't even think about how to let Serane detect the "truth", and he didn't leave any loopholes.
Because he unconditionally "believes" in Serran's ability at this point.
"They are actually good children." Ma En said in his heart, "Not only do they treat people with the most basic respect, but they are also willing to study hard and practice hard.
"In my opinion, it is difficult for politicians or poor families to raise such children. The federation makes sense. After all, there are so many politician families who can always find decent children, and they also know very well that I am It's normal for someone to arrange her here.
"And Xiaoyao also said that the bones in her body are not that natural. Although it does not affect her practice, it can be seen that the federation has a strong purpose in finding these politicians' children."
A hazy silver-white figure that only he could see also appeared beside him.
"But that boy is different." Selly said with a questioning tone, "You think it is not difficult for the Federation to find such a young man, but it is not easy for a poor family to raise such a child.
"If you really want to say it, Shen Tianyi's character is countless times better than Luan Linghua's. Luan Linghua's character can be cultivated, but Shen Tianyi's character is completely unpredictable.
"After all, most human beings will always be shaken when faced with darkness as long as they have interests, but I can feel that his heart is filled with a gentle power that makes me feel warm, and this is actually true.
"It's incredible."
Ma En echoed:
"The most important thing is that he also has an excellent cultivation base. Although their current cultivation speed does not seem to be much different, Shen Tianyi's cultivation base is actually several levels higher than Luan Linghua's.
"If I were really a practitioner, given my personality, I would definitely like Shen Tianyi, and I would even want to really pass on my true heritage to him. In fact, I already like this kid quite a lot now.
"Having experienced hardships, he remains kind and gentle, knows how to respect others, and always maintains his kindness to Xiaoyao, who may not have good intentions but has provided help. If I really teach him to become a Nascent Soul monk, he will definitely stick to it. Remember my kindness firmly, only I am sincerely good to him.
"I doubt he would even be willing to die for me, almost a perfect apprentice...
"Perfect to the point of being false."
Seri, who looked at the young man, nodded slightly and said:
"If I remember correctly, you don't believe in coincidences."
"That's right." Ma En replied, "Especially when someone wants to kill me, this almost perfect coincidence at this time is a carefully set restriction in my eyes, but if I set it... …
"I would make the trap look a little less deliberate."
Sally asked:
"So you think he is the undercover agent behind the scenes?"
Although they were having a secret conversation at the moment, Ma En still spoke as if they had no idea who was behind the scenes, and Sally seemed to be pretending not to know anything.
Virtually all of their conversations outside of Anomaly Control strictly adhere to this standard.
Even if he was not facing an opponent like Serran, Maan would not give his opponent a similar opportunity, and if he had not been cautious enough before, Serran might have figured out the truth about the Camarilla by now. ,
Ma En said:
"Yes, I think the person behind the scenes dared to hand over Shen Tianyi to us because he was confident that there was nothing wrong with the child, and I think the actual situation is probably that there is indeed nothing wrong with him.
"But you should also notice that this young man's kindness is actually very gentle. He is not like Shen Xiao's evil-hating character. At that time, he also claimed that he could not become a warrior against evil.
"When faced with Xiaoyao's invitation, even though he realized that the other party might have bad intentions, he still insisted that Xiaoyao had been kind to him, and he had the obligation to repay the kindness. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have thought so."
Sally nodded:
"Yes, he is too gentle to be a warrior, but this is not a mistake, the world needs such people.
"And we should protect people like this."
Forcing gentle and kind people to fight is evil.
"Yes, his character is unusual." Ma En said, "I think this is the way the mastermind really controls him. His gratitude to Xiaoyao made me realize a way to completely control him. If...
"The mastermind behind this is his grandfather?"
Seli showed a surprised expression in cooperation:
"What do you mean?"
Maan explained:
"If his grandfather lets him betray us, do you think he will make a mistake because of his upbringing? I think his grandfather is probably the mastermind behind it, or the mastermind's means to control him.
"I'm even more inclined to think that his grandfather is some kind of incarnation of the mastermind behind the scenes. This gentle and kind-hearted child is the spy he started training a long time ago, and his original target was definitely not us.
"Think about it, what would happen if such a child were allowed to enter other organizations? He could lurk in organizations such as the Federation, the Holy Church, or the Salvation Alliance. I think if it wasn't to deal with us...
"He is likely to 'awaken' his abnormal abilities, and then join an abnormal organization by chance and become a spy who doesn't know he is a spy. He is a soft knife carefully crafted.
"Then the knife maker must be the grandfather who guided him to become what he is today."
Sally showed a surprised look:
"So the grandfather who raised him to be what he is today is a bad person?"
Ma En nodded:
"Because he wants to control a kind-hearted child, which actually explains his gentleness. His unwillingness to become a warrior determines that he will not resist his grandfather, and this is exactly the result his grandfather wants.
"Because this tenderness is a 'flaw' specially carved into his heart by the mastermind behind the scenes."
Seri asked seriously:
"are you sure?"
Ma En said:
"Of course, I just went to see his grandfather some time ago and collected information about him. Although I didn't find any conclusive evidence, I still noticed something strange.
"Shen Tianyi's growth trajectory as a child perfectly corresponds to his current appearance, but his grandfather's aloofness and aloofness are somewhat unreasonable, although it is not completely unexplainable...
"But this oddity is enough to prove my conjecture."
He did investigate Shen Tianyi's grandfather, and his speculation was indeed thought up this month. It was not just an excuse to "stimulate" Serran. After all, it was also the most reasonable answer.
The really weird thing is not that Shen Tianyi can become what he is now, but that his grandfather will raise his grandson in this way in the Southern Commonwealth. Combined with several coincidences, Ma En has been sure that there is something wrong with him.
"What do you want me to do?" Sally asked, "Do you want me to find someone else to help?"
Ma En also shook his head slightly and acted for the air:
"No, no need, I think you can handle it with your ability, and the identities of the other members of the Camarilla are still unknown to the outside world, so it's not worth exposing their existence for this.
"I want you to find his grandfather, and then weave a dream for him and Shen Tianyi to trap them at the same time, so that we have enough time to verify my idea, and don't let the man behind the scenes escape immediately and let him think there is a chance to pass through his The show deceives us, and all we want is to know the true identity of the man behind the scenes.
"Even if we can't capture him on the spot, we will be able to deal with him easily in the future."
Seri frowned and said:
"What if the mastermind left a trap there? You know he hasn't made a mistake yet. Maybe he actually made it deliberately for us to notice. What if we are in danger?"
Of course, Ma En and Seri are both aware of this possibility. In fact, when they discussed it in the Abnormality Control Bureau, they both felt that this was the real situation and that this was another flaw specially left by the other party.
But that's what they're really planning to do - make Serran think they've jumped into a trap.
"We are a secret alliance." Ma En pretended to be confident, "They are the ones who should be afraid."
Seli also nodded slightly:
“That’s right, if we encounter anything when the time comes, the Camarilla will be behind us.
"Then I'll set off."
It’s time to let the prey think he is the hunter.
