Chapter 3180 — A Warm Phone Call
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The phone rang several times, and no one answered. After a moment it switched to the automated message: "Hello, you have reached the home of Shu 007, the universe's number-one, invincible, adorable, genius, prophetic, confidential, all-purpose detective and spy. To leave a message for little Shu, press 1. To leave a message for Brother Arrowbrand, press 2. To leave a message for Sister Yaoyao, please hang up—she has gone far away..."
"Pfft..." Gu Mengyao nearly burst out laughing at that last line. She knew the earlier part of the recording—it had been there when she was still at home—but that final sentence had clearly been newly altered by Shen Yushu.
Yet a moment later, Gu Mengyao was puzzled again. Where had everyone in the villa gone? Why did no one answer the phone? She glanced at the time without thinking, and only then realized it was already the small hours. Cultivating day and night as she did, she scarcely paid attention to time anymore. In the Palace of the Dark Night there were disciples on duty both day and night, and those accomplished cultivators largely replaced sleep with cultivation.
But even at this hour, Wei Zhao ought to be answering the phone. And at this hour, there ought to be all the more people at home, oughtn't there?
Somewhat puzzled, Gu Mengyao dialed Wei Zhao's cell phone, intending to ask where he was.
On Wei Zhao's end, he had just had Wu Chengtian and Feng Sanmang deal with the corpses of the Pure Yin Heavenly Venerable and Dongfang Yinxing, and had only just returned to the villa when his phone rang.
Seeing the familiar caller ID, Wei Zhao's heart gave a sudden leap! This was... the eldest miss calling?
"Yaoyao?" Wei Zhao answered, his voice betraying a trace of startled uncertainty.
"Yes, it's me. Wei Zhao, are you all right?" Gu Mengyao's voice seemed very calm, just as it always was whenever she called him—carrying a natural warmth.
"I'm fine. And you?" Wei Zhao did not mention that two experts at the peak of the late Heaven rank had just come calling; he was afraid Gu Mengyao would worry. The matter was over in any case, so whether he spoke of it or not made little difference.
"I'm doing well too. My standing in the Palace of the Dark Night is even higher than Xiaoxiao's in the Ice Palace. The Grand Elder hardly bothers with me now, so I'm still quite free." Speaking of this, Gu Mengyao felt a touch of pride. It seemed she was not the most useless after all—at least, among Wei Zhao's women, she was rather formidable!
"That's good." Wei Zhao nodded. This was what he had worried about most; if Gu Mengyao was safe and well in the Palace of the Dark Night, then he could rest easy. "You've begun cultivating already, haven't you? How is your progress?"
"Quite well. The cultivation method I'm practicing is called the Silkworm-That-Drives-the-Phoenix Manual. What a strange name—it's just like your cultivation method. They're both odd!" Gu Mengyao did not mention the connection between the two; she trusted that with Wei Zhao's intelligence, he would easily make the association. The eldest miss could drop hints now too.
"The Silkworm-That-Drives-the-Phoenix Manual?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He knew who the First Silkworm was—the wife of Emperor Xuanyuan. And the name of Gu Mengyao's cultivation method was very similar to his own, indeed matched to it. Wei Zhao did not believe Gu Mengyao had failed to notice, and he suspected that in bringing it up, the eldest miss might be hinting at something. So he laughed and said, "Yes, it's much like mine. Who knows—perhaps they were split from a single method, and we could even practice dual cultivation!"