Eternal Night

Chapter 56 Suspicion
(PS: Yesterday I saw a friend talking about typos, so I apologize to everyone here. Indeed, there are typos in many places. Firstly, I wrote the book in one go, and I often make typos without knowing it. Secondly, I deleted a lot of drafts because of something a few days ago. I am rushing to save drafts recently, so I ask everyone here, if you see typos, please leave a message in the book review, and I will modify it if I see it.

Sorry for the trouble.)
National Master Guo Jing!

This is the biggest enemy of the three of them right now, no doubt about it.

Because of the intimidation of Chu Minghao, the "immortal", and the promise of rewards in five years, it is basically impossible for the Zhao Song Emperor and the civil and military officials to become enemies of the three of them, and they will also provide some help that does not involve their own lives and property. This can be confirmed.

Apart from Nightmare who is bound to be their enemy, only the National Master Guo Jing is their mortal enemy, and they will never stop fighting until one of them dies. Even Chu Minghao's deterrence is useless, so the first test task Chu Minghao gave to the three people is to kill Guo Jing.

Xu Shilan said, "Brother Wu, do you have any information about Zhe Ge Cai Sheng?"

Wu Xianxiao nodded, and he recalled as he said, "Dismemberment and cutting of life can also be called cutting and cutting of life. This is a common terrorist act in the old society...feudal society, or in troubled times. It is usually seen by human traffickers or beggar groups. They will use cruel means to break the bones and cut the skin of kidnapped women and children, or even some thin adult men, to artificially create disabilities or monsters, and use them as a tool for begging or defrauding money."

Xu Shilan and Yamade both attached great importance to the information and knowledge that was lost before the three wars. After listening carefully, Xu Shilan said, "The description of the cutting and harvesting of life in my technique is even more terrifying and... weird."

"They are the evil arts of creating animals, vases, and painting skins. Then there are the tricks of praying to gods, raising corpses, and breaking Yin. There are also Yin arts such as worshipping spirits, summoning souls, and offering sacrifices. According to the description, using vases, raising corpses, and summoning souls, you can create something similar to artificial intelligence."

Wu Xianxiao didn't understand for a moment, so he subconsciously asked, "What is the relationship between quasi-artificial intelligence and Guo Jing?"

Xu Shilan explained: "From the images after the two golden warriors were shattered, we can see that there are two children's souls inside. Why did two souls come out of the two puppets?"

Wu Xianxiao said, "Evil magic and the like, there are many such things in the dream world, whether it's nightmares, ghosts, or even all kinds of weird things, this shouldn't be surprising, right?"

Xu Shilan nodded, but still said: "It's not surprising, but the key question is... why are there children's souls in the two puppets? You mentioned Gundam before, right? That's used to describe mechas, right?"

Wu Xianxiao nodded, and Xu Shilan said, "If it is not necessary, do not add entities. This is especially important in mecha design. I think that even if the Golden Warrior is not a mecha, it is also a kind of structure. If it is not necessary, why would Guo Jing add a child's soul into it? This child's soul must play a role in it. I have two guesses, one is the energy system, and the other is the control system."

Wu Xianxiao opened his mouth. He was going to say that these strange and evil methods were unscientific, but this was not the time to argue, so he just followed Xu Shilan's guess.

After a moment, Wu Xianxiao said, "So this method of restraining the soul is the evil magic of the Jieqiesheng technique?"

Xu Shilan spread her hands and said, "After all, I am not familiar with these things. I am not as familiar with this era and this world as you are. This is just my speculation and analysis of the existing intelligence. This is also our only clue now."

Indeed, they currently have no clues about Guo Jing's whereabouts and problems.

"Where is the old emperor?"

Yamade, who was still eating fruits, suddenly said.

The two looked at him at the same time. Yamade said unconsciously while eating fruits: "Doesn't the old emperor know Guo Jing's background? Guo Jing is the national teacher appointed by him, but he didn't investigate his identity and background? Doesn't he know what Guo Jing is doing? Not paying him wages? Not providing him with supplies?"

Wu Xianxiao and Xu Shilan's eyes lit up. They looked at each other, and Wu Xianxiao immediately said, "Yes, the old emperor couldn't be unaware of this. That thing was made right under his nose!"

He sighed again and said, "Then how can we find out the truth? The old emperor is afraid of Chu Minghao, the 'immortal', not us, the children of the immortal family."

"It doesn't matter."

As Xu Shilan spoke, she stood up and picked up a stack of business cards from the table in the front hall. All of them were invitations to three people to a banquet.

She picked out one of the cards addressed to King Kang, and said with a smile, "Don't think of the emperor as a god on earth. He is just a mortal. If he wants to do something, he must pass it on through one person after another to form an organization to do it. The emperor is like this, the organization is like this, and the company group is like this. Whether it is collecting materials or cutting and taking life, as long as it is done, it will leave traces."

"I don't believe that no one knows about these traces!"

On the other side, in a secret room somewhere in the palace, Emperor Zhao Ji said to Guo Jing who was lying in bed: "Master, please take a rest. This place is quiet and secret. We will never let the disciples of the immortal family find you. When you recover from your injury, we can supervise the creation of the golden army."

Guo Jing was filled with gratitude and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Your Majesty. I will do my best to help you until my death!!"

Zhao Ji smiled and patted Guo Jing's arm to show his favor, then asked the accompanying eunuch chief to put down some supplements such as hundred-year-old ginseng. After a moment, Zhao Ji walked out of the underground secret room.

After leaving the secret room for a long distance, Zhao Ji said to the chief eunuch beside him in a deep voice: "Haven't you mastered the ritual of the Golden Legion yet?"

The chief eunuch bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, there are all kinds of people among the worshippers. They have also analyzed the composition of the rituals of the Golden Army in detail and confirmed that there are evil methods such as dismemberment and witchcraft. But apart from that, there are some contents that they have never heard of. Judging from the analysis of the rituals, they are either from the guardian gods, fox gods, or... demon magic."

Zhao Ji said impatiently: "This Guo Jing must have something on his body, otherwise why would I enthrone him as the national teacher? And give him such honor? But now it's not possible... One year, I will only give you and the Gongfengyuan one year. If you don't master the ritual method, then you don't have to come to see me!" The chief eunuch trembled all over, and immediately knelt down and said: "I obey the emperor's order!"

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "Get up. It's not that I'm impatient or cold-hearted. It's just that an immortal has appeared in the world. How can I let go of this rare opportunity? This is a great virtue and blessing that even the First Emperor didn't have... Do it well. If I am destined to achieve enlightenment, I will definitely take you and your family to heaven."

Needless to say, the eunuch chief was filled with gratitude.

In that secret room, Guo Jing buried his head in the bed, his eyes filled with coldness, ferocity, murderous intent, and madness...

On the other hand, Wu Xianxiao ordered the butler sent by the royal family to pass on the news that they would attend a banquet at Prince Kang's mansion. Because it was a dinner party, the three of them had nothing to do during the day, so they each began to practice their own skills.

What Wu Xianxiao practiced were naturally the Tiger Demon Skill and the Green Python Shedding Skill. He only practiced the Tiger Demon Skill for three weeks and stopped after almost two hours. Now his Tiger Demon Skill has reached the pinnacle level and is only one level away from the highest level of Ultimate Manifestation. The effect of his practice is now very slow. Judging from the personal information data interface, after three weeks of practice, there has been no increase of even 0.01%. The cost-effectiveness is too low.

On the contrary, the Green Python Shedding Skill, a set of human immortal martial arts, was still at the entry-level stage. He practiced from morning to afternoon, for more than four hours, and directly raised his entry-level proficiency from 1.6% to 2.3%.

Moreover, he also discovered that the requirements of the human immortal martial arts for perception and character were very low. In addition to practicing boxing to improve proficiency, he had a tiger bone and deer blood soup at noon, and his proficiency actually soared by 1%. Now his proficiency in the Green Python Shedding Technique has reached about 3.3%!
"Yes, I don't know what's behind the Human Immortal Martial Arts, but at least from the perspective of training the skin and the flesh, it's all about training and strengthening the essence of the physical body, which is different from Chinese martial arts that control strength, so if there is something tonic, it can really greatly speed up the accumulation of my Human Immortal Martial Arts."

Other dream worlds might not be able to do this, but this world can.

He was the imperial teacher appointed by the Emperor of Zhao Song and was supported by the government, which meant he did not have to do anything but received money and food every year. Moreover, his rank was not low. He, Yamade and Xu Shilan all received the salary of second-rank court officials, and they also received occasional rewards from the emperor, which was enough to buy those tonic things.

"Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji..."

The three of them had practiced martial arts for a whole day, and it was now almost four o'clock in the afternoon. They were preparing to go to the banquet at five o'clock. At this time, the three of them were resting, drinking tea, and eating some cakes.

Yamade was fiddling with some metal parts, while Xu Shilan was writing something on a piece of paper with a plucked cocktail feather. They both heard Wu Xianxiao repeatedly reciting the name of the emperor of the Zhao Song dynasty. Yamade asked in a casual tone, "What? Do you want to kill him?"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "Not really. As you know, I am not familiar with history. I only know the general idea. I vaguely remember that Zhao Ji seemed to be dying soon or abdicating. Then Zhao Song will have a new emperor, who seems to be this King Kang Zhao Gou."

Hearing him say this, Yamade lost interest. Instead, Xu Shilan asked, "If that's the case, then we can actually manipulate it and continue to gain more fame and reputation, which will be good for upgrading our shelter level."

Wu Xianxiao nodded and said, "I'll try my best to recall... And this Guo Jing, I'm really familiar with him, not Guo Jing, Guo Jing was born after the Jingkang Shame, and Guo Jing, Guo Jing, it seems that in history he created a Liujia formation or Liujia method, which required 7,777 people to form the formation, and was said to be invincible... Could it be 7,777 golden warriors?"

Xu Shilan smiled and said, "If there really are 7,777 golden warriors, then the Song Dynasty is truly incredible, and it can even unify the world."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head. He couldn't say anything. Firstly, he had no confidence in his memory. Secondly, he didn't think that Zhao Song could really create 7,777 golden strongmen.

The agreed time soon arrived, and the three of them got on a luxurious carriage and headed for Prince Kang's Palace.

When the three of them arrived outside Prince Kang's mansion, they got off the carriage and saw Prince Kang Zhao Gou standing at the gate with a smile on his face. Behind him were his officials and guards, all standing respectfully.

Besides this, there was another person whom Wu Xianxiao had never thought of...

The little girl whose eyes looked like a little mute seemed to be the princess of Zhao Song.

Just as Wu Xianxiao and the other two got off the carriage, the bird on his shoulder suddenly flew up and flew towards the little girl.

Unexpectedly, the little girl was not afraid at all. Instead, she stared at Jiujiu with her eyes wide open, then stretched out her hand to help Jiujiu stand up.

Jiujiu stood on her palm and tilted its head to look at her. The little girl also tilted her head. Both the bird and the person looked cute at the same time.

Wu Xianxiao felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

Jiujiu is actually very shy. Normally, she wouldn't even let Yamadea and Xu Shilan touch her. But now, she is willing to let this little girl touch her, and even stand on her hand.

At that moment, Wu Xianxiao made a decision in his heart.

He was going to ask Zhao Gou about the little mute and the little girl at the banquet!

(End of this chapter)