Chapter 5169 — A Letter from Cloud Terrace Island
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"Besides the secret letter from Dr. Lan, there is another that was sent from Cloud Terrace Island. Dr. Lan specially instructed that you are to deliver it into Wei Zhao's hands under the name of Center Express," the envoy said.
"A letter for Wei Zhao? But—hasn't Center Express suspended that service long ago? Why has it started up again?" Dr. Glasses asked in astonishment. He took the letter and glanced carefully at the envelope, casually about to tear it open and see what was inside.
But the envoy stopped him, saying with a solemn expression, "Before I came, Dr. Lan gave me special instructions. Anything concerning Wei Zhao is top-level classified—herself included. No one at the Center's headquarters in the mundane world may examine it. Those are the orders from above."
"This..." Dr. Glasses was momentarily struck dumb. Recalling how Lan Xiaoru had once specially warned him that he must never provoke Wei Zhao, his curiosity only grew. Just what was Wei Zhao's background, that those above should regard him with such importance?!
At that moment his feelings were like a hundred claws scratching at his heart. The more those above behaved this way, the more curious he could not help but be. Yet he knew full well that curiosity killed the cat. In the end he did not dare sneak a look at Wei Zhao's letter; if he accidentally set eyes on some earth-shaking secret, that would be the end of him. After all, the more one knew, the sooner one died.
"But how am I supposed to get this letter into Wei Zhao's hands? Am I to just send a man to deliver it to his door? Wouldn't that expose us in front of everyone?" Dr. Glasses said, nursing a headache.
"Dr. Lan said that is your problem. If you cannot even manage such a trifling matter, what is the point of talking about the Primordial Plan?" the envoy relayed.
Dr. Glasses's mouth twitched. Had this fellow not been Lan Xiaoru's envoy, that tone alone would have earned him fourteen thousand slaps across the face. In the end, though, he restrained himself and said in a low voice, "Very well. I will arrange it."
After turning it over and over in his mind, he concluded that he could not possibly send a man to deliver the letter straight to Wei Zhao—that would be to expose himself of his own accord before the Primordial Alliance, and he could forget about ever carrying out the Primordial Plan again.
But Lan Xiaoru had issued a strict order, and not delivering the letter was not an option either. Dr. Glasses cast an unobtrusive glance at Brother Dafeng in the distance, and a notion came to him: if he used this turncoat who fed on both sides to secretly leak the letter's contents into Wei Zhao's hands, that might not be such a bad idea.
Yet on second thought he rejected the notion. After all, this was a letter requiring a reply; Wei Zhao would have to send an answer back, and surely Wei Zhao could not again have Brother Dafeng smuggle his reply back to him—that would be far too absurd.
"No good. Center Express can under no circumstances appear in the Transfer Isles. At most this letter can be sent as far as the mundane world, and then it would be perfectly reasonable for their own people to bring it in," Dr. Glasses muttered to himself for a long while. Suddenly he smacked his forehead. "That's it—the Mystery Investigation Bureau!"
Though no one was left guarding Wei Zhao's villa, the Mystery Investigation Bureau could not possibly have followed him in. It was the essential prop by which he influenced and controlled every cultivation force in the mundane world. Once the letter was delivered to the Mystery Investigation Bureau, it would naturally end up in Wei Zhao's hands in due course.
And indeed, things went just as Dr. Glasses had expected. To ensure the stability of the forces in the mundane world, Wei Zhao came out every so often to confer with Feng Tianlong of the Mystery Investigation Bureau, and the letter was soon passed on to him.