Chapter 92 Returning to the Floating Mirror Lake. Sang Zhitao watched curiously from the side...
Sang Zhitao watched curiously from the side, and only asked after everyone had finished their work: "Can this spaceship be expanded further?"
The red-haired woman smiled and turned around to explain, "Yes, it can go even bigger, but it also consumes a lot of energy. We're afraid we won't have enough energy, so we're only expanding it to this extent for now."
Seeing Sang Zhitao nod thoughtfully, the woman spoke again: "By the way, my name is Jingyi, and her name is Jingtu."
“My name is Lan Xing.” Sang Zhitao had just finished speaking when she suddenly remembered something and asked curiously, “Do the girls of the Mirror Clan all have ‘Jing’ in their names, and the boys all have ‘Tou’ in their names?”
“Yes.” Jingyi nodded with a smile.
Sang Zhitao nodded, glanced at the screen out of the corner of her eye, and suddenly asked, "Where are we going now?"
“A floating mirror lake,” Jingtu said.
“Where are the Dark Duke’s men guarding? Wouldn’t we be walking into a trap?” Sang Zhitao frowned, somewhat puzzled.
Jingyi and Jingtu exchanged a glance and explained with a smile, "Actually, the Mirror Clan's territory has a special defense system, so they can't attack it."
“Huh? Then…” Sang Zhitao was about to ask how the Mirror Clan was wiped out, but she immediately realized that this was the other person’s heartbreak, and quickly swallowed the rest of her words.
Jingyi shook her head dismissively, her eyes dimming, her voice hoarse: "It's a traitor. Someone in the clan has betrayed us and opened the protection system."
She didn't say anything more, but Sang Zhitao understood that the sudden disaster would inevitably be a scene of hell on earth.
"Your father is the traitor!"
"Your father is!"
While the three were momentarily lost in thought, the sound of children making noise came from not far away.
Sang Zhitao instinctively walked in that direction, and Jingyi and the other person quickly followed.
When they arrived at the noisy place, Sang Zhitao discovered that Tou Lan and Tou Huang had already restrained the two arguing children.
"What's wrong?" Sang Zhitao asked, frowning. Now that they were on the run, she really didn't want any trouble.
With a troubled expression, Tou Lan looked at this person and then at that person. After a long while, she sighed and said, "Tou Wen said that Tou Mian's father was the traitor who opened the protection system, while Tou Mian said that Tou Wen's father was the traitor. So the two children started fighting."
Sang Zhitao looked at the two boys. Tou Lan pointed to the taller one, whose skin was grayish and who had an arrogant look, and the shorter one, whose skin was slightly blue and who had a delicate look, was Tou Wen.
She first looked at Touwen, somewhat unable to believe that this well-behaved-looking boy was the one who started the trouble, and frowned slightly as she asked, "What evidence do you have?"
Touwen was taken aback at first, bit his lip, thought for a moment, and then shook his head.
Sang Zhitao looked at him with some displeasure: "Then why did you say that?"
Seemingly sensing her displeasure, Touwen hesitated for a long time before saying in a low voice, "But... that's what everyone says, they didn't see his father's body or see him in the lab."
“It’s also possible they escaped, since many of your clansmen are currently hiding outside,” Sang Zhitao continued.
Touwen opened his mouth, but it took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "But someone said that he saw his father at the Duke's place."
Sang Zhitao nodded thoughtfully, looked around, and then raised her voice, saying, "Touwen said that someone among you said they saw Toumian's father at the Duke's place. Who said that? Can you step forward?"
After waiting for a long time, no one in the crowd spoke.
Touwen's face turned pale, and he murmured, "I really didn't lie."
Sang Zhitao patted him on the shoulder: "I believe you."
She then looked at Toumi beside her: "And what about you? Young man, why did you say Toumi's father was a traitor?"
Toumian looked at Toumi with disdain, and for a moment did not answer Sang Zhitao's question.
Holding his yellowish skin, I couldn't help but pat him lightly: "Say something."
Toumian turned around and glared at him, but when she saw Touhuang raise an eyebrow, she subconsciously shrank back before replying, "I also heard from someone that the Dark Duke saw his father there."
"Do you remember who told you that?" Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised, and asked curiously.
With his chin raised and a defiant look on his face, Toumen said, "Why should I tell you? Who are you?"
Before Sang Zhitao could explain, the boy in the yellow shirt standing behind her smacked her: "You brat, how can you talk like that?"
Toumian stared wide-eyed, hopping mad at Toumang, and shouted, "Brother, whose brother are you anyway! Why are you always siding with outsiders!"
"This is Prince Stardust, you mustn't be rude!" Translucent Yellow couldn't help but give him another slap.
Toumian was stunned for a moment before looking at Sang Zhitao in disbelief and exclaiming, "Impossible! I've seen Princess Xingcui, she doesn't look like this at all!"
"Never mind that for now, tell me first, who told you that Touwen's father is a traitor?" Sang Zhitao waved her hand dismissively and continued to press for an answer.
Toumian was hit several more times by Touhuang before rubbing her head and asking with a wronged expression, "He's a short man, and he's very ugly."
He nodded emphatically as he spoke: "It's extremely ugly."
"Not only is it ugly, it also smells bad, it has a strange odor," Touwen added from the side.
“Yes, yes, yes!” Toumian nodded repeatedly. “His color is black and white, a very dirty black and white.”
“Yes.” Touwen nodded in agreement.
"It's the same person?!" Sang Zhitao was somewhat surprised, and Tou Lan and the others next to her were also a little astonished.
"Speaking of which, there seems to be someone who told me that Jingtu's brother is a traitor," Jingyi interjected after thinking for a moment.
“I think I’ve encountered that before,” a member of the Mirror Clan next to him chimed in.
"I encountered that too."
"I have one too!"
More than a dozen people have said they've encountered such people, most of whom are children.
"Do you believe it now?" Sang Zhitao asked.
The adults shook their heads, but the children hesitated, lowering their heads and glancing shyly at the people around them.
"It must be deliberate provocation. He mostly chose children, probably to prevent the Mirror Clan from uniting among themselves," Tou Lan sighed.
“The methods are too low-level, not like those of the Dark Duke,” Touhui interjected from the side, his younger siblings on either side, gripping his sleeves tightly.
"Let's not worry about that for now. Since we know they're the ones stirring things up, let's just talk it out." Sang Zhitao thought for a long time but couldn't come up with anything, so she had no choice but to speak first.
Jingtu and Jingyi seem to hold a high position in the Mirror Clan, as they readily agreed to the persuasion.
Tou Lan then pulled Sang Zhi Tao to a corner and asked, "What do you think of the Stardust Princess that Tou Mian just mentioned?"
Sang Zhitao said, "I already knew that, so it's okay. We'll deal with whatever comes our way."
“But… so many years have passed, what if the Empress treats her…” Tou Lan frowned, somewhat worried.
Sang Zhitao smiled and said, "Then there's nothing I can do. I can't give up the throne for everyone's sake."
"They said she had royal features before, could she actually be from a collateral branch of the royal family?" Tou Lü asked cautiously from the side.
Sang Zhitao's smile faded considerably before she said, "No, I think she might be related to Test Subject Zero."
“Is this... possible? Back then, the emperor was incompetent…” Touqing suddenly spoke, but Toulan grabbed her sleeve and quickly fell silent.
Sang Zhitao noticed Tou Lan's movement and quickly said with a smile, "Don't worry about it, it's okay."
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something and looked up at Touhui: "Remember what Touhui said? They were injected with a drug, so they were no longer bound by the power of their bloodline and were no longer absolutely loyal to the royal family. I suspect it's also related to Zero."
"...It's not impossible, but is Zero really what we think he is?" Tou Lan said hesitantly, her brows furrowed.
“Ninety percent, I guess.” Sang Zhitao sighed. “After my father passed away, his death was kept a secret. His body was kept in the palace, but no one had ever seen it. If his body was the zero test subject, I think it’s very likely.”
As she spoke, she looked at Touhui and said, "Only the power of royal blood can make the Mirror Clan disregard the absolute loyalty to the royal family inherent in their bloodline."
“But…” Tou Lan hesitated for a moment before saying, “We suspected that the people who betrayed the Mirror Clan at the beginning were the ones who had been modified. Later, Tou Hui said that he was definitely in the first batch, which overturned this guess. If the fake Stardust Princess was prepared by the Dark Duke long ago, then wouldn’t that mean… our guess is true?”
As soon as Tou Lan said this, the group fell silent, frowning as a chill ran through them.
If this is true, which member of the royal family would be the first to be experimented on?
Thinking of this, the group subconsciously looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao shrugged: "I was just a baby back then, so I really don't know."
Seeing their serious expressions, she smiled and said, "It's alright. Once I ascend the throne, I'll check the death records and we'll know who it is."
“What if… the corpse is fake?” Tou Lan said, frowning.
"It doesn't matter. Once we capture the Dark Duke, everything will be resolved," Sang Zhitao said nonchalantly. After thinking for a moment, she added, "There's one more thing you should pay attention to."
"What?" The group looked at her in surprise.
Sang Zhitao pulled a few people together, heads bowed, and whispered instructions.
The Mirror Clan members around them would occasionally look at them in surprise, listening to the gasps of astonishment coming from among them.
It took quite a while before Tou Lan and the others finally parted ways, their faces still filled with bewilderment and disbelief.
"We're almost there. Let's go down and activate the protection system first, then you can come over." Jingyi and the other person had already collected data on the non-Mirror Clan members on the spaceship to prevent them from being excluded once the system was activated.
After they disembarked from the spaceship, they were quickly enveloped in a transparent dome, from the lake where they had fallen after crossing the mine to the edge of the forest.
After the light shield opened, several screams rang out, then disappeared in an instant.
The sound startled many non-Mirror Clan members, but seeing the happy faces of the Mirror Clan members, they didn't dare to say anything.
"Let's rest first. We'll send out a message as soon as possible to let the Mirror Clan know we're back," Jingyi instructed her clansmen before speaking to Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao and the others were indeed tired during this period, so they didn't say anything more and just found a few treehouses to sleep in.
The changes in the Mirror Clan have attracted considerable attention.
Whether it's the Dark Duke currently in the palace or the Bright Radiance who just launched a riot.
"Boss!" Touka excitedly touched his arm, where a faint glow was visible.
Mingcai looked at her arm, unable to hide her excitement, but when she saw Touka, her expression changed, and she said coldly, "I know, let's prepare for our business first."
Toka nodded repeatedly before asking, "Shall we continue?"
"Fight, find other bases and continue, try to send a batch away." Mingcai nodded.
Seeing this, Touka didn't mention going home, nodded, and ran off to make arrangements.
The Dark Duke in the palace listened to his subordinate's reply, coldly waved him away, and then glanced at a certain spot, his eyes deep and unfathomable, as if he were deep in thought.
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