Hidden Moth-Chapter 471 - 267: Even After a Thousand Have Passed Through, It’s Not Over

Sesame Apartment has a total of five high-rise buildings, with more than two thousand apartments, let’s round it off to two thousand. Normally, the occupancy rate is about seventy percent, which means there are typically six hundred vacant apartments.

Now all six hundred apartments are rented out, which means at least a thousand new people have arrived!

This influx of people can’t all have issues. For example, there’s a veteran street artist who rented an apartment here. Some are normal tenants, but as for the rest, it’s hard to say.

No wonder Elder Li didn’t ask He Kao about any new clues he’s found recently, because everywhere you look, there’s a clue. The Ancestral Hall isn’t worried about having nothing to investigate, but rather that there’s too much to investigate.

Li Liang’s family acted quickly, so they were considered "lucky." Old Li came to look for an apartment before New Year’s Day, and coincidentally, the tenant of Building One, apartment 0916, moved out, so he smoothly rented it.

Mei Guyu only reported to Qi Yuan a week before the Spring Festival, but Xiaoliang’s family came to rent an apartment more than a month in advance, right across from her diagonally. What’s going on here?

It’s not that Qian Guran leaked information, but it has a bit to do with him.

Long before Mei Guyu came to report, Qian Guran voluntarily rented an apartment for her based on her request, specifically choosing Building One, apartment 0915.

Actually, the apartment’s orientation and location aren’t great, it’s right across the street from a huge neon sign, close to the road outside, with severe noise and light pollution, and not many people wanted to rent it, so it happened to be vacant at the time.

Qian Guran personally handled the procedures. The apartment was rented in Mei Guyu’s name, and there were preferential rates for company employees. Although Mei Guyu wasn’t present, a copy of her ID card was sufficient for signing the lease.

Although the rental contract wasn’t public, it wasn’t a state secret either. Those interested in investigating could still find out. So shortly, people kept coming to rent apartments, and most arrived before Mei Guyu herself.

After understanding the situation, He Kao puzzledly asked: "Why are there so many people?"

Qian Guran: "After the Magic Sect adopted information management, the number of formally registered disciples surpassed six thousand by the Spring Festival. This number isn’t very large.

But don’t forget the Guests of Fate, like Old Li and his wife. There must be tens of thousands of them, if not more. It’s something the Magic Sect hasn’t entirely figured out, and it’s tough to calculate accurately."

He Kao: "You can’t count people like that. Even if there’s a leak from the top, it should be limited in scope; there can’t be too many informed. Even if someone hears about it, they might not want to get involved... how come suddenly there are a thousand people?"

Qian Guran shook his head: "You’re talking about normal circumstances, but the situation now is clearly abnormal."

He Kao: "Is someone deliberately spreading rumors?"

Qian Guran nodded: "Yes, clearly someone is spreading rumors everywhere, mixing truth with falsehood.

If people knew the Ancestral Hall issued a gag order to protect Elder Mei’s safety and didn’t want anyone disturbing her practice, anyone rashly coming to snoop would be investigated by the Ancestral Hall... would Old Li and his wife still dare to come?"

But they don’t know! You could say the vast majority of people are uninformed; otherwise, would they dare move directly into Sesame Apartment, blatantly telling the Ancestral Hall they have issues?

The gag order by the Ancestral Hall is only meant for those in the know at the top. Others have no right to know, so they haven’t heard about any gag orders.

The news they’ve heard is just that Elder Mei is practicing worldly cultivation in Qi Yuan, searching for worldly karma, like those disguised visits in TV dramas, under the guise of an ordinary person.

If someone deliberately spreads such news, many people can’t help but be tempted. If there’s no pressing matter, visiting wouldn’t cause any harm.

Cultivation emphasizes experience and training, and it doesn’t matter where you train. Spending some time here might give them the chance to meet high-ranking individuals.

Normally, those elders are elusive like dragons, hard to find, not to mention Elder Mei, who is a young and beautiful lady... of course, some don’t even know this.

He Kao: "They don’t even know Elder Mei’s specific situation?"

Qian Guran nodded: "They don’t know whether Elder Mei is male or female, don’t know her age, or even her name. They just heard some news and came to test their luck... and there are quite a number of such people."

He Kao: "Wouldn’t they ask around?"

Qian Guran: "Asking around? Such people think they possess secrets. How would they easily divulge them, and they don’t know each other, so where would they ask?

The news they’ve heard might just be that the Magic Sect’s Elder Mei is concealing herself within the city, living at Sesame Apartment.

Let me tell you a joke. The noodle shop outside the main gate changed owners recently. The new owner is a man who looks to be in his forties and coincidentally shares the surname Mei. So many people speculate—could he be Elder Mei?

The noodle shop is thriving now, open from seven in the morning to nine at night, customers constantly coming in, unable to find a seat. The owner has even hired several new workers to work in shifts."

Are there such confused people? Certainly, for example, Zhang Jin Kui was one of them initially. Zhang Jin Kui didn’t know any sorcerers, let alone Guests of Fate, nor did he know Elder Mei’s name, age, or gender.

He Kao remembers the noodle shop at Sesame Apartment’s gate that serves Jiangnan-style covered noodles. The noodles are hand-rolled, and the toppings include about twenty different kinds. He’s eaten there many times.