Chapter 134 Two-in-One "God, this way!"...
Two hours ago, at the Demon Hunting Bureau headquarters.
The new Mo leader Gong Li walked into the government office built by the Mohists themselves.
The government office is magnificent and majestic, with flying eaves and carved beams and painted buildings. It has five floors in total, and each floor is equipped with a teleportation formation.
The brass pipes inside were crisscrossed, and each section was engraved with red talismans. From time to time, a clerk in a green robe and black shoes would rush around and take out secret letters from various branches of the Demon Hunting Bureau from a pipe labeled with words like "Wen'an County of Shuzhou" or "Zhibu County of Liangzhou".
Gong Li was a frequent visitor to the Monster Hunting Bureau. When the clerks saw her, they would bow, say that the chief was on the fifth floor, and then go back to their own business.
She nodded slightly and walked straight into the deepest part of the government office. She stuffed a silver ingot into the eye of the teleportation formation with ease. Her body was then wrapped in runes. The world spun before her eyes and the next moment, she appeared on the fifth floor.
"Chiyangzi, your Monster Hunting Bureau is still the same. Anyone can come as long as they are paid." Gong Li strode into a suite with an open door. Sure enough, he saw this man doing his most common job - issuing corresponding amounts of bonuses based on the number and quality of monsters captured by the Monster Hunting Bureaus in various places.
Hearing her voice, he didn't even look up, but carefully counted the amount of silver and money. After confirming that it was correct, he sealed the storage bag and stuffed it into the brass pipe beside the table.
Gong Li walked into the house by himself, came to the treasure chest, and examined the evil relics displayed on the shelf with relish.
There are clay figurines that look like they are smiling but can make anyone who sees them cry, shadow puppets with strings attached to their bodies that seem ready to move at any moment, human faces covered with yellow slime, and eyeballs with double pupils that are still active and move from time to time...
Gong Li became interested in the eyeball and was about to take a closer look when Chi Yangzi's voice came from behind him: "You'd better not touch him."
Gong Li withdrew his hand: "Have you finished your work?"
Chi Yangzi asked, "What are you doing here?"
"His Majesty is summoning the developers of firearms and has ordered the promotion of improved looms." Gong Li smiled and turned around, spreading his hands, "Chiyangzi, you lost the bet."
"I'm just saying that your majesty will definitely realize the impact these two things will have on the Great Zhou, and will definitely be highly vigilant against them." Chi Yangzi said calmly, "But I neither denied that your majesty would agree to this, nor did I join your bet."
"Tsk." Knowing that this fellow couldn't produce a big one, Gong Li shook his head, pressed the table with his backhand, leaned over to look at Chi Yangzi, his face still smiling, but his eyes were as calm as an ancient well, "Chi Yangzi, considering that we are all called running dogs of the court by our peers, I will give you a batch of the latest developed muskets to ensure that the casualties of your demon hunters are reduced by half! In exchange, you only need to tell me what the Duotian Sect is, and why your Demon Hunting Division cooperates with them so much?"
Chi Yangzi said: "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed."
“Bullshit!”
Just as Chi Yangzi was about to explain, Gong Li said in a deep voice, "In ancient times, there was an unknown great witch who entertained the gods with dances, and then killed them when the opportunity arose, thus opening up a land for mortals to thrive. Now, Mo Zhe will be the great witch of this era, and Mo Zhe's weapon will be the weapon that completely kills the gods... Within a hundred years, the mystery will surely fade away, and the world will return to the hands of mortals. Chi Yangzi, tell me, do you choose to stand on the side of the gods, or the people?"
Chi Yangzi naturally knew that what Gong Li said made sense. If the research results of the Mohists could really be promoted, the next hundred years would surely usher in a great era for mortals.
If everyone does not need to pray to any gods and can have enough food and clothing even in years of disaster, the gods will naturally lose the foundation of their faith.
But the premise of all this is that mortals can survive this hundred years.
Chi Yangzi couldn't tell her the prophecy in the "Great Zhou Treasure Scroll", nor could he tell her the truth about the Duotian Sect. As he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath.
On the table, the pure fragrance that lasted all year round flashed for a moment, and then was cut off in half.
Gong Li took a breath, lowered his head, and saw that his fingers were turning purple, which seemed to be a symptom of poisoning.
The two looked at each other, seeing the shock in each other's eyes, and immediately realized that it was not the other party who did it, but another enemy who sneaked into the Monster Hunting Bureau.
Although Gong Li ridiculed Chi Yangzi for only caring about money and not people, he also knew that with Chi Yangzi in charge, the Demon Hunting Division was loose on the outside but tight on the inside. If it were so easy for demons to break in, the position of the head of the division would have been unstable long ago.
The enemy in the dark is very strong!
Chi Yangzi immediately stood up and rang the wind chime by the window. Logically, when the bell rang, the entire Demon Hunting Bureau could hear the same volume of sound. The tone was neither too high nor too low, as if it was right next to his ear.
However, at this time, not to mention the demon hunter downstairs, even Chi Yangzi and Gong Li who were standing next to the wind chimes did not hear any sound.
Gong Li paused, as if she had thought of something, opened her mouth and said something loudly, but Chi Yangzi could only see her mouth opening and closing.
【The air was stolen.】
She mouthed it.
She has studied environments without air, and the smell of incense is gone, the chest is stuffy, and sounds cannot be transmitted, all of which match her experience.
Hearing the word "steal", Chi Yangzi's pupils dilated slightly, and the next moment, the person disappeared from the room.
Gong Li took out a blue bottle with a mask from his arms, put the mask on his face and took a deep breath. His hands and feet regained some strength, and then he quickly ran out of the room and rushed to the stairs.
I saw that Chi Yangzi had appeared on the fourth floor. The demon hunters here had also discovered something unusual and were using various means to save their lives.
Gong Li thought he was going to give an order, asking the demon hunters to quickly activate the defensive formation, but unexpectedly, Chi Yangzi swept his gaze among the demon hunters and landed directly on one of the young women in a black crown and blue clothes.
The woman in dark blue was originally practicing qigong and hand gestures in panic with everyone else. When she noticed his gaze, she raised her head, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly revealed an eerie smile.
The next moment their eyes met, they rushed towards each other.
A white light of spiritual power collision suddenly exploded when they met. In just a breath, Chi Yangzi had exchanged hundreds of moves with the woman in blue clothes. Just when Chi Yangzi made a hand gesture and was about to take the woman down, the latter bounced heavily like a dehydrated fish, and then fell limply to the ground.
Chi Yangzi released his hand seals and glanced at the faces of the other demon hunters who had not yet reacted. He picked up a pen and paper and quickly wrote a line of words:
[The enemy is a believer in Tianzun and can steal everything. 】
Gong Li who ran downstairs and the puzzled demon hunters, after seeing the last four words of this sentence, reacted one after another.
The reason why the woman in blue clothes fought with the Lord of Si was because her identity was stolen by the followers of Tianzun.
Realizing this, all the demon hunters spontaneously divided into groups of three and began to check each other's conditions. The entire fourth floor was checked in less than ten breaths. They were all comrades who had lived and died together, and they could tell whether the other person was one of them with just a glance.
There are no more Tianzun followers among the demon hunters, but the stolen air has not returned, which means that Tianzun followers have not left. The only suspicious thing left is...
Everyone's eyes were focused on Gong Li.
Gong Li: “…”
She swallowed, her scalp tingling as she thought, how could she prove that she was still herself in this situation?
Before she could think it through, Chi Yangzi glanced at her, shook his head, and disappeared again.
Gong Li was startled, and the next moment he saw the demon hunters shift their gazes, or run towards the center of the formation to activate the defense formation, or write down the enemy's information and go downstairs to report it.
——Chi Yangzi confirmed that there was no problem with her identity.
Gong Li had a complicated expression. He took another deep breath and did not follow Chi Yangzi downstairs.
Her advantage is not in fighting alone, so she'd better not get involved in the affairs of Tianzun's believers.
Listening to the sounds of fighting coming from downstairs, Gong Li walked to the window. The window was clearly open. She reached out to touch it, but was blocked by an invisible wall of air and could not reach her hand out at all.
She tried several windows in succession, and the same thing happened with all of them.
It seems that the Demon Hunting Bureau has caught someone in its own lair.
Gong Li pondered for a moment, then returned to the fifth floor and walked to Chi Yangzi's desk. He then turned the shiny round ball in the dragon's mouth below the desk from left to right according to the number of the Nine Palaces.
After she spun the last ball, a series of clicking sounds from the rotation of the machinery reached everyone's ears. Each room began to move horizontally up and down, left and right. The gaps created by the movement allowed outside air to flow in. Gong Li loosened the mask on his face and breathed a sigh of relief.
The followers of Tianzun can steal everything, but they can't do anything to her mechanical city. Gong Li raised the corners of his lips in pleasure, enjoying the rumbling vibration coming from the soles of his feet. After a while, this room on the fifth floor had moved to the third floor.
She was planning to take control of the overall situation here, but she saw that in the opposite corridor, Chi Yangzi was fighting fiercely with three Tianzun believers who had occupied the bodies of the Demon Catchers.
The four people noticed her gaze and turned their heads to look. Three of the Tianzun believers vaguely understood what was going on. One of them drooped his eyelids and fell backwards.
The body lost control and fell to the ground with a heavy thud. Gong Li cried out in his heart, "Not good!", but it was too late to turn the mechanism again. His mind became stiff and sluggish in an instant, and was forcibly invaded by an external consciousness.
"Get out of here." She yelled in her mind, and the next moment, the thought was stolen away.
She watched her body rise up and crash headfirst into a raised beam.
Just at this moment, a green-robed demon hunter covered in blood fell from mid-air with a scream. He caught a glimpse of this scene from the corner of his eye, twisted his waist with all his strength, and pushed Gong Li back, but he was caught by the rising beam and his spine made a cracking sound.
The demon hunter died instantly.
Gong Li stared blankly at her face as it disappeared along with the beams and pillars. He was so agitated that he drove away the consciousness of the Tianzun believers and regained control of his body.
The believer of Tianzun who had lost his support was exposed to everyone's eyes. It was a bloated and ugly ghost, filled with things stolen from everywhere. There were four or five brains alone, stuck to the only head, as if layers of mushrooms had grown on its neck.
Chi Yangzi's talisman paper flew onto the ghost's forehead and ignited without fire, burning him to death amid his shrill howls.
…
It was when Chi Yangzi killed the second Tianzun believer that he realized that this attack was not aimed at the Demon Hunting Bureau.
The Demon Hunting Bureau is certainly a force that fights against the gods, but in terms of strength alone, it is far from being a serious threat to the Heavenly Lord.
Their primary mission has never been to slay demons and monsters, but to protect the royal family.
Before the next person with greater royal aura appears, His Majesty the current one is the greatest reliance for maintaining stability in the world. With the gods outside watching covetously, order is the most important thing in this world. It is not an exaggeration but a fact that the safety of the country depends on one person.
The sneak attack by Tianzun's followers was probably just to delay the Demon Hunting Bureau and prevent them from protecting the emperor.
If something happens to the emperor and chaos comes again, the consequences will be disastrous.
Chi Yangzi couldn't help but unfold the "Great Zhou Treasure Scroll" to see if there were any new prophecies. Since the Heavenly Venerable was challenging His Majesty, there must have been a new breakthrough.
When he first opened it, he vaguely saw the word "牝" on the scroll. However, when he looked at it more closely, the word had disappeared, leaving behind a pool of fragrant ink.
This is the Taoist magic of the Zhixing Sect. Chi Yangzi thought that in order to prevent the power of the gods from overflowing and polluting the minds of mortals, a master used his own Taoist ideas to obscure the information of the gods.
Although the complete prophecy failed to reveal itself, Chi Yangzi had been the chief of the Demon Hunting Department for so many years after all, and he already had an encyclopedia of demons and monsters in his mind. After thinking for a moment, he remembered the god of fertility and harvest who had escaped from the Central Plains.
Is this matter related to the female god?
In other words, regardless of whether the female god was willing or not, the current Tianzun received her help.
The following scene appeared before Chi Yangzi's eyes: the people thanked the gods for their gifts in front of mountains of flour and rice, and were willing to believe in the gods and attack the rulers who were just sitting there doing nothing.
No one could accuse them of being short-sighted, or convince them that these gifts came at the cost of exhausting the land for a hundred years, and that future generations would suffer famine as a result.
Behind all unearned gains, there is a price paid in blood. Mortals can only rely on themselves forever, and every god is unreliable.
The worst emperor is better than the best god.
Chi Yangzi put away the "Great Zhou Treasure Scroll" and sent a message to the Demon Hunting Office where air circulation had been restored, asking people not to get entangled with the Tianzun believers anymore and to find a way to open a passage to leave this place and go to the palace to rescue the emperor.
Almost at the same time he issued this order, the Forbidden Palace was surrounded by a mob of people running wildly barefoot, holding imperial edicts and with disheveled hair.
The left prime minister led a group of ministers to the outside of the palace and asked the emperor to follow him. His words were earnest, as if he was worried that the emperor was not feeling well.
However, in the Purple Palace, the emperor sneered and signaled the guards to pass on the message: "Please invite the left prime minister in to talk!"
The left prime minister, wearing a purple robe and a golden belt, walked over the high threshold with his head held high, but he did not see the scene he had imagined. The emperor was not at all panicked, and his posture as he sat on the throne could even be said to be calm.
With a smile on her face, she ordered the eunuch to give the left prime minister a seat. When the latter could no longer suppress his anxiety, fearing that the mob would soon rush into the palace, she said slowly, "I heard that there is a villain around me. Please tell me, left prime minister, who is this villain who has caused such a dark cloud and agitated the people?"
The left prime minister calmed himself down and looked at the emperor's expression. Although this emperor was cruel to the royal family, he was a wise monarch who was humble and willing to accept advice when dealing with his subjects.
He did not want the emperor to make drastic changes to cut off the power of the aristocratic families, but it was not yet to the point where he had to replace the emperor. If Your Majesty could follow his wishes and issue an edict of repentance, temporarily suspend the reform of the imperial examination system, recruit more talents from aristocratic families, and abolish the new law that allowed women to enjoy equal inheritance rights, then he would still be willing to continue to assist Your Majesty.
Thinking that all the recent new policies were operated by the Right Prime Minister, and that in order to promote the new policies he even disregarded his own relatives and sent most of his clan members to the Dali Temple, the Left Prime Minister felt a toothache, and when he raised his eyes, his expression was righteous.
He stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the villain I am talking about is the Right Prime Minister who serves in the same court as me."
The left prime minister swallowed his saliva, stood up, and was about to denounce the right prime minister's actions.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Pei Shanggong, the "Prime Minister" beside the emperor, came out from the side hall, holding a thick stack of memorials and presented them on the imperial desk.
The emperor casually took out the book in the middle and threw it at the feet of the left prime minister, still smiling. However, his voice sounded like thunder in the ears of the left prime minister.
"My dear minister, you and the right prime minister are thinking the same thing. Do you know that she also accused you of occupying good farmland, accepting bribes, appointing people based on personal connections, and bending the law for personal gain?"
The left prime minister was startled, bent down to pick up the memorial, and read it quickly. He saw that every crime was clearly stated, including the time, place, people involved, and the amount of money involved... If the handwriting was not clearly from the right prime minister, he would have thought that his account book had been checked by the emperor.
He raised his head and looked at the smiling emperor, and suddenly understood why those royal relatives trembled like sieves when they saw her.
His Majesty, who has firmly sat on the throne, seems to be taking off the false guise of courtesy and respect for the wise and humble, and taking real action against the clans and families.
The left prime minister instinctively hunched his back at first, then straightened up again. He threw down the memorial with disdain, glanced at the remaining stack on the imperial desk, half-closed his eyes, and looked at the emperor: "When your majesty ascended the throne, there were many voices of dissatisfaction in the court and the public. Your majesty came to my home several times, which made me panic. I also made up my mind that I must lead my entire family and serve your majesty in this life. In the past 21 years, my children and grandchildren have produced three Jinshi, and each of them has worked hard for the country. Now, we old people are like burnt firewood, and your majesty will not feel bad if you throw it away."
Every word he spoke was eloquent, and as his voice fell, the guards' scolding sounded, but it only lasted for a moment before it died down.
The light in the Purple Palace dimmed, and the imperial guards, who were supposed to be loyal to the emperor, escorted many ministers into the palace. They stared at the emperor with expressionless faces, a foul smell emanated from their bodies, and a maggot fell from their sleeves from time to time.
The left prime minister looked at the emperor, whose expression changed slightly, and brushed off the invisible dust on his purple robe. He led all the ministers to stand still, holding the ivory tablet in his hand, and bowed to salute: "Your Majesty, please execute the treacherous ministers first, and then issue an edict of self-blame to calm the people's hearts."
His voice echoed heavily in the empty hall, as if to support his words. Outside the palace, the shouts of the mob were heard again: "The emperor has angered the gods, and the gods are about to bring down divine punishment!"
A smug smile slowly formed on the left prime minister's drooping face. He straightened up little by little, stared into the emperor's eyes, and repeated again with more than 20 officials of prominent family backgrounds: "Your Majesty, please execute the treacherous ministers first, and then issue an edict of self-blame to calm the people's hearts."
The overlapping voices of more than twenty people were enough to deafen the ears. The ministers looked at the emperor with a smile, waiting for this cruel majesty to fail.
Separated by a wall, the common people, who were promised endless food and clothing for the rest of their lives, had no idea that the emperor had fallen into this situation because he wanted to take back the resources that had been stolen from them.
They shouted enthusiastically: "Please ask the emperor to issue an edict of repentance and give up the throne to a virtuous person!"
The smile on Zuo Xiang's face grew uncontrollably. He opened his mouth and was about to say something when he heard a loud "bang"!
A bullet wrapped in gunpowder penetrated his chest, leaving a bloody hole the size of a pea.
A wisp of green smoke came out of the musket in the emperor's hand, and a wound appeared on the palm of his hand due to the recoil, and a trickle of blood slowly flowed out.
The shouting outside the palace became louder, but the Purple Palace became silent. The ministers following the Left Prime Minister looked at him blankly. The latter himself did not know what was happening. He only felt the strength quickly draining from his body. He slowly lowered his head and looked at his chest, which brought him a chill.
He pressed the wound while shivering, and when he opened his mouth, only hoarse sounds came out.
He tried to raise his head again and stared at the musket in the emperor's hand, not understanding why the amulet he had asked for could not block this weapon.
Just as he was trying his best to make a sound and roared to order the believers of the gods to help him kill the emperor immediately, the noise outside the palace suddenly stopped.
Before he realized it, his body was grabbed by a giant hand and thrown around casually.
Then his head and limbs flew out, like a fly that landed on the food and was swatted away in disgust.
Bang!
The left prime minister fell to the ground and turned into a pool of meat paste.
The ministers who forced the emperor to abdicate were covered in blood, and their expressions were still confused. They could neither understand the muskets, nor the giant hand that fell from the sky.
The hand seemed to reach into a basin and pick out the fish it wanted to eat. It grabbed the Tianzun believers who had stolen the identity of the guards, pinched those bloated and dirty ghosts in the palm of its hand, examined them, and then threw them away again in disgust.
Then the ghost also wailed, and broke into pieces like bubbles with a crackle.
The emperor stared at the giant hand as it left, and the musket in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.
Under the watchful eyes of the people of the city, the giant hand searched the palace and then went to the Demon Hunting Bureau.
In the Demon Hunting Bureau, Chi Yangzi's body was already covered in blood, and behind him was Gong Li who was controlling the mechanism. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't kill all of the Tianzun believers. Fortunately, they finally trapped most of the believers with numerous mechanisms.
The two looked at the last two believers who were blocking their way. Chi Yangzi was about to step forward when he suddenly felt a large shadow falling on his head.
He felt an unprecedented chill in his spine, and the "Great Zhou Treasure Scroll" in his arms was trembling, trying hard to get into his clothes, wishing he could wrap himself in a hundred layers of cloth.
He heard Gong Li's exclamation behind him. He straightened his hairy neck, raised his stinging eyes, and saw a giant hand made up of countless chaotic and frenzied creatures.
With just one glance, he seemed to see the most profound secrets of the world, the essence of the world, and the end of the Tao...
His eyes had seen too many prophecies and knew too many truths. At this moment, the amount of information he absorbed was far greater than that of other people. One of his eyeballs suddenly exploded because it could not withstand the impact of this massive amount of information.
Gong Li screamed in panic and wanted to do something, but Chi Yangzi shook his head and quickly tore off a piece of his robe and covered his eyes.
The blood quickly dyed the blindfold red. Through the blood, Chi Yangzi saw the giant hand picking up the believers of Tianzun and checking them one by one. After the latter shattered like bubbles, they hung down in frustration, as if they did not find anything that satisfied Him.
Chi Yangzi realized something, and when the giant hand was about to leave, he transmitted a message while casting a tracking symbol: "I have a way to trace back to where Tianzun is."
Li Zhou had already found two places that smelled of seafood, but all she found was a bunch of sea foam. She was so angry that she screamed, but because so many people were watching, she had to hold it in.
Unexpectedly, before she could try her luck with the third piece, she heard a kind-hearted person offering to show her the way.
She quickly looked at the kind-hearted person, tapped the ground lightly, and motioned for him to lead the way.
Bang! Bang!
The ground made a low rumbling sound under the blow of the giant hand. The seriously injured Chi Yangzi almost fell down and was supported by Gong Li.
"Don't... Oh, forget it." Gong Li knew he couldn't persuade him as soon as he opened his mouth. After thinking for a while, he took out a folding wheelchair from his arms. After unfolding it, unfolding it again, and unfolding it again, it changed from the size of a palm to a standard wheelchair that can be used by people of normal body size.
Chi Yangzi, who is so serious about his words, was a little stunned at this moment. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Gong Li's clothes. He seemed to be thinking about what kind of storage design could hold so many strange things, and also seemed to be thinking about why Gong Li would bring these things out...
"Alright, stop thinking about it." Gong Li pushed Chi Yangzi into a wheelchair, held both sides of the wheelchair, and ran in the direction indicated by the tracking symbol, "God, this way!"
Okay.
Li Zhou followed with dignity and excitement.
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