Qiu Miao: My partner has a secret crush on a stranger.

The character presented by Diling Public Office is a familiar figure in the news industry, Huang Qiren.

"This planet needs a change. We cannot take for granted the benefits it has brought us. This planet is struggling under heavy burdens, and most of us are the source of its suffering. Only people with value should live on this planet. Only those who are strong enough can produce stronger offspring. The weak are not needed." Huang Qiren didn't know who he was talking to. There was a chilling madness on his face. He had a completely different temperament from the man he had seen in the palace and at the military awarding ceremony.

Qiu Yanping looked at Gu Wenye, raised his eyebrows and said, "Another acquaintance?"

Gu Wenye frowned, looking at the man in the projection who was completely different from the man he knew. He said in a deep voice, "I may need to go to the palace once."

"What are we going to do? Confront him?" Qiu Yanping shook his head. His general was good in every way, except that he was always stubborn and single-minded in some matters. He had seen this kind of stubbornness in other generals in his previous life, and he knew what to do to make the other party follow his thinking.

He said in a persuasive manner, "What Huang Qiren did, Di Ling Gong could not have faked. Di Ling Gong only has the ability to replicate and present things that have happened in the past. The ability to distort the facts is beyond Di Ling Gong's ability. In other words, you can completely trust everything you see in front of you - if you trust me."

"Of course I believe..."

Qiu Yanping smiled slightly, interrupted Gu Wenye's unfinished words, and continued, "But it's useless for you to believe me. Everything you saw from the Earth Spirit Lord cannot be used as a reason for you to meet Huang Qiren, and it can't be used as any kind of evidence. The existence of the Earth Spirit Lord is ultimately not a recognized existence, and its abilities are not recognized by the public. The conclusions you draw from it are also not supported by the public."

Gu Wenye understood that what Qiu Yanping said made sense. He looked up at the familiar stranger who was giving orders in the air, and his fists hanging at his sides were clenched so tightly that veins bulged.

As a general, he recruited troops for Huang Qiren so that all people living on Earth One could have a stable living environment. But now? Instead, the biggest worry comes from within, from the highest authority on this planet.

"Is it possible that something has changed in Huang Qiren?" Gu Wenye quickly thought of another possible way out. After all, although the Huang Qiren he was familiar with was a man of many tricks, he had clearly felt his desire to prepare for war for the planet. Gu Wenye did not believe that a person would undergo such a diametrically opposite change in such a short period of time.

"Of course, everything is possible." Qiu Yanping said. He paused for a few seconds and asked, "Are you confident in Huang Qiren?"

"I know him," Gu Wenye said. "I used to know him."

Qiu Yanping looked at Gu Wenye quietly, waiting for him to continue. Gu Wenye smiled slightly, "Want to know?"

"Just say whatever you want to say." Qiu Yanping snorted and raised his chin. "I don't really want to know." As he said this, his eyes were glancing at Gu Wenye, and it was clear that curiosity was playing tricks on him.

"Haha." Gu Wenye chuckled, "There's not much of a story actually."

Qiu Yanping raised his eyebrows. Story? There is more story. He made a nasal sound, signaling the man to hurry up and stop keeping him in suspense.

"Huang Qiren and I graduated from the same military academy. He is two years older than me, but we have always had some interactions in the academy. The styles of Huang Qiren and Huang Qice were already very different at that time. I had more contact with Huang Qiren. Later, he became a king, and I made military achievements and became a general. We discussed several wars together. That's all." Gu Wenye started from the beginning, looking at the man in front of him who was proudly raising his chin and waiting for an explanation, a beautiful arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Of course he knew that Qiu Yanping was not really waiting for his explanation. This was just an excuse. He just wanted to understand the past that he had not participated in.

Qiu Yanping: No, I am really waiting for an explanation.

"What kind of person do you think Huang Qiren is?" Qiu Yanping asked.

“Neither good nor bad,” Gu Wenye said. “The traditional definition of a good person is not suitable for him or me. The decisions we made and the things we did have long gone beyond the scope of good people.” He smiled. “But I know he truly wants the best for this planet.”

Qiu Yanping curled his lips in his heart, but these were far from enough for him to trust Huang Qiren. However, he looked at Gu Wenye. Perhaps as an outsider, he did not have so much emotional influence on Huang Qiren, but Gu Wenye was deeply affected by it.

He did not say it out loud to avoid any unpleasantness, but just nodded slightly, pointed at the projection in the air and said, "Whether these are really Huang Qiren's true thoughts or not, the possibilities just mentioned should be taken into consideration."

Gu Wenye nodded.

He thought for a moment and asked again, "Do you think the matter of the Nightmare Beast has anything to do with him?"

Qiu Yanping pursed his lips slightly and said, "There are few people who can control the Nightmare Beast, or stimulate the Nightmare Beast to attack humans..." As he spoke, he paused and thought of Dong Huang. Dong Huang had come out to meet them. If they met someone who could control the Nightmare Beast and confront him directly, it didn't seem to be too unusual, right?

"What's wrong?" Gu Wenye saw Qiu Yanping suddenly brake and thought he had thought of something.

"No, I just think we can't generalize. It's nothing." Qiu Yanping shook his head. He wanted to say that even if there were very few people who could do this in the past, there must be no one left on this planet. Even for him, it would be difficult to control the Nightmare Beast. But he changed his mind and took back his words.

The Nightmare Beast is a monster that specializes in the spiritual realm to create and invade dreams. In order to control the Nightmare Beast for one's own benefit, one's mental strength must be at least stronger than the Nightmare Beast itself. This talent is a racial difference. He and Gu Wenye are considered to have good spiritual talents on the entire planet. Gu Wenye is the best among them. It took a lot of effort just to break the nightmare woven by the Nightmare Beast, let alone do the opposite to control the opponent.

However, Qiu Yanping remembered that there was something like a cheat device in this world. The extra drug stimulation could greatly improve a person's mental strength in a short period of time. A bottle of that drug once flowed into the black market and was sold in bottles. After changing hands several times, no one knew how many people it had passed through.

If someone wanted to do this, given their outstanding mental strength and the bonus of such potions, it would not be impossible to control a nightmare beast to attack in a short period of time.

"There are still too few clues." said Gu Wenye.

Qiu Yanping nodded. He waved his hand, and the projection in the air broke up and disappeared. He looked at the little man-like Earth Spirit God and said, "This information is very useful, thank you. Keep observing, and these are yours." As he spoke, a bag of yellow paper ash in his pocket spread out on the rice plate. The translucent milky white soul of the Earth Spirit God jumped several times on the rice plate, and the white rice grains gradually turned gray and dark yellow. A breeze blew up the yellow paper ash and dissipated it in the air.

Lord Di Ling bowed respectfully to Qiu Yanping one last time, and then disappeared from the spot.

"I have invited the Earth Spirit Lords to various corners of this general's mansion. Because the area under the control of each Earth Spirit Lord is limited, we can ask a few other Earth Spirit Lords and perhaps get additional clues." Qiu Yanping said. He led Gu Wenye to run around the general's mansion and asked all the Earth Spirit Lords. However, the information they finally got was not satisfactory.

It's not that there is no content, but these contents make Qiu Yanping and Gu Wenle feel more heavy. The situation of nightmare beasts attacking humans is not a recent occurrence, nor is it what Qiu Yanping thought, but it appeared around them.

He originally thought that nightmare beasts attacking humans was a rare incident, but after some inquiries, he found that this kind of incident had gradually spread throughout the entire central city. However, because the symptoms of nightmare beasts attacking humans were too subtle, many people mistakenly thought that they were just becoming sleepy and mentally weak, and no one realized that they had been attacked.

According to calculations, Shen Shenzhi was one of the first group of people attacked by the Nightmare Beast. He was lucky and happened to know the Gu Wenye brothers, so he was able to get rid of the Nightmare Beast early. However, the other people attacked by the Nightmare Beast were not as lucky as him. The six-line has been split into three strands, one for each month. Once the six gray lines grow, only Donghuang can come and save them.

For Qiu Yanping and his team, the top priority now is to find all the victims attacked by the nightmare beasts and get rid of the nightmare beasts that are entangled in them.

With the Earth Spirit overseeing the overall situation, finding all the victims was not a difficult task. Instead, how to convince these people, making them believe that firstly, there were strange creatures like the Nightmare Beast, and secondly, that they were attacked and their lives were in danger, became what troubled Qiu Yanping.

But soon, Qiu Yanping looked at Gu Wenye, who exuded an aura of "I am very trustworthy and reliable" from head to toe, and then looked at the first victim who was found in front of him with a look of trust, and realized that his worries were completely unfounded.