Chapter 154 - CT Since Ancient Times
Chapter 154: CT Never Raises His Head Since Ancient Times
Duan Yunhong returned home in the afternoon, and Ning Fei was not there yet. He said he had gone out after lunch. It was not until dinner time that Ning Fei came back.
Duan Yunhong asked confidently: "What did you do?"
Ning Fei didn't say "It's none of your business", but threw him a box.
Duan Yunhong caught it unexpectedly, and only then realized that it was actually a small wooden box. Although it looks quite old, it is very substantial and heavy in the hand. He asked in confusion: "What is this?"
Ning Fei sat down at the table without hesitation and drank half a glass of champagne: "You'll know once you open it."
"If you're thirsty, ask someone to bring you some drinking water." Duan Yunhong didn't rush to open the wooden box, but said, "I asked them to boil it first - if they don't pretend to obey."
"No need. You've already kicked them out, why would I call them back? Besides, this wine is so mellow, can it be called 'wine'? It's no different from water." Ning Fei raised his chin, "Open it quickly, satisfy you first, then satisfy me."
"...I think you just meant 'satisfying curiosity'. You just strengthened me with light magic, so don't deliberately use such ambiguous words." Duan Yunhong said in a light tone, then finally opened the buckle of the wooden box and lifted the lid.
All I see is a box full of gold coins and gems.
"..." Duan Yunhong didn't expect Ning Fei to throw such an important thing to him. He was stunned for a moment, pretending to be calm and rummaging among the gold coins, "Is this all your belongings now?"
"Yes, the other fancy things are hard to cash in, and they are all in various jewelry boxes." Ning Fei replied casually, "So no matter whether I bought them myself or got them from somewhere else, I didn't take any."
Duan Yunhong vaguely realized that these words seemed to contain some explanation.
—Are you talking about why you didn’t bring the jewelry I gave you?
This thought flashed through Duan Yunhong's mind, and even he himself didn't know if he was overthinking it. He wanted to stop himself from being too self-indulgent, so he dug into the gold coins and pulled out a palm-sized cloth bag: "What is this?"
"You'll know if you open it and take a look."
Seeing Ning Fei's nonchalant look, Duan Yunhong simply pulled open the drawstring and poured the cloth bag directly onto his palm, and two things fell out of it.
——A small golden key and the brooch given by Duan Yunhong.
"..." Duan Yunhong paused.
"You have been questioning whether I took your brooch or not. Now you see it." Ning Fei has already started eating. "That key is the key to the bank's safe deposit box."
Duan Yunhong's eyes fell on the brooch, but he asked, "Safe?"
"You don't think that's all the money I have, do you? I'm here on vacation." Ning Fei replied, "The bank also has my savings notes and jewelry, and of course the little golden key."
"You can open a safe with a key, and you can open an account with a seal under any pseudonym..." Duan Yunhong sneered, put the brooch and the small key back naturally, and pulled the drawstring of the bag. "So you are going to your previous temporary residence to get this wooden box back? If you had said so, you would have stopped by last night to avoid leaving your box full of treasures outside."
"I dug a hole in the floor under the bed in that room. The innkeeper couldn't possibly know about it." Ning Fei shrugged. "Your noble carriage is too eye-catching. It's faster for me to walk."
Duan Yunhong closed his box and pushed it over: "Your box is so valuable, but it doesn't even have a lock?"
"I had it originally, but I don't know where the key fell, so I just smashed it."
"I'll ask someone to give you one later."
"Okay." Ning Fei was in a good mood today and was easy to talk to. "Any other questions? If not, it's your turn to report."
"..." Duan Yunhong was no longer in the mood to be moved. He could only change his mood and start talking about what he saw and heard in the palace.
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"So, the church is going to perform an exorcism on Miar and then hang him?"
Ning Fei took the newly refilled goblet and commented sharply, "It's really unnecessary. If you want to kill him, why bother to have an exorcism ceremony first? Isn't this just pure pretense and self-gilding? The church is still like this, even if it has lost face, it still insists on picking it up and gilding it."
"They acted properly in front of the king this time, unlike the last time when you were there." Duan Yunhong agreed with Ning Fei's opinion, "But I think the Pope seems to know light magic? He even cast it on Miar in front of the king, but Miar doesn't seem to have changed his loyalty to you. Does the Pope really know how to do it or is he just pretending to save face?"
"He really can, but not much. His light magic can only make people feel warm at most. It's hard to purify wounds, let alone brainwash." Ning Fei replied, "He wants to use his own magic to wash away the effects of my magic on Miyal. Even if he casts the spell a hundred times, it won't be as much as my magic effect fading over time."
"You still call this 'really good'? This is called 'there's no difference between knowing and not knowing'." Duan Yunhong complained bluntly, "You can reach his level by relying on hypnosis."
Ning Fei: “It sounds like you will.”
Duan Yunhong: "...I don't believe you won't."
"Hahaha, indeed, we should not play any more Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio between us." Ning Fei smiled and threw away the tableware. "Okay, it sounds like even after a few decades, these people have only grown a few years older, and their IQs haven't increased. I feel relieved that they are still so stupid. My Lord Earl, enjoy your meal slowly, I'll first..."
"Wait a minute." Duan Yunhong saw him getting up and immediately stopped him. "Actually, I don't care what happens to Miyal. But how are you going to deal with the trap they set for you?"
"'Trap'? Ah, you mean they are going to write the name of a little noble in the central square, and then set up many ambushes around that little noble, trying to trap me?" Ning Fei propped up his chin and smiled softly, "Is this also considered a 'trap', Lord Earl? I don't believe that such a childish idea can catch your eye."
"I don't look down on them, I just want to know if you have any solution." Duan Yunhong looked straight at him and said calmly, "After all, I am still hypnotized by your 'Oracle'. I can't solve it. I can't resist the urge to protect you."
"..." Ning Fei almost let out a "tsk" sound.
"In that case, you should figure out a solution." Ning Fei stood up, propped up the table, and leaned slightly towards the man opposite him. "Protect your 'follower' well, Earl Andrew, and don't let him down."
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Three days after Deka's death, Miyal had disappeared. At the same time, a name was written on the central square.
It was the name of an unknown minor noble. Ning Fei, who once knew the list of dignitaries by heart, could not help scratching his head when he saw it, and couldn't figure out who it was. Moreover, the name is not written in a large size and cannot be seen from the high-rise buildings around it. You can only see it in the center of the square. The number of patrolling guards near the square naturally increased, and the ambushing archers took shifts, waiting for the "Devil Ning Fei" to get close, and then they would shoot thousands of arrows at once, accomplishing their mission.
The square is only the first layer of insurance, the second layer is around the little nobles. It is unclear whether the minor noble himself agreed to have his name written, but his opinion was obviously unimportant. Anyway, the king and others would not allow him to hide. They would only set up a tight net around him and wait for Ning Fei to come to them.
If Ning Fei did not go because he saw through the trap and became afraid, then the king and the church could directly announce that they had thwarted Ning Fei's prophecy. At least psychologically, the myth of Ning Fei's "omnipotence" has been broken. This is the part that the church cares about most; the rest is not that important.
However, just when the powerful and wealthy were "all ready except Ning Fei", early in the morning of the fifth day, a scream cut through the early morning.
"There's a name there...!!!"
Another name was found on the square.
—The Duke of Batley.
It was bigger, more eye-catching, and directly covered...the statue of the king.
This statue was originally placed very high so that people could admire it. The base is higher than that of an ordinary person, and the statue is far above eye level. The guards who patrolled all night only paid attention to the ground, and no one looked up. It was not until daylight that the writing on the statue became noticeable.
The king was furious, the duke was furious, but the writing, which was painted with some unknown paint, could not be cleaned off at all. There was no other way, and at sunset, the statue was finally knocked down by someone and fell down with a loud bang.
Bang! ! !
Even the solid stone statue had its fingers and crown broken the moment it fell.
"Wow!" The square was crowded with people watching the excitement, and they couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this scene. They still didn't know why the statue was pulled down or why the Duke's name was on it. Some even thought that the Duke was preparing to openly rebel against the king. For a time, rumors spread everywhere, and all kinds of things were spread on the streets.
The king could not care less about these rumors for the time being. The fall of his statue does not bode well for him personally. He demanded that all the statues in the square be removed, including those erected by the church. The Pope was quite unhappy, but there was nothing he could do. In fact, he was also very nervous in his heart. If he could write the Duke of Bartley's name today, he would dare to write the King's or his own name tomorrow. Although he had more protection around him, he actually had no confidence.
The demolition work was carried out overnight, and the central square was brightly lit. There were too many workers at work. The guards had to patrol, supervise the workers, and supervise each other. For a while, they saw enemies everywhere. They didn't know how the words on the king's statue were written, but they knew that Ning Fei "could fly" and it shouldn't be difficult to write over everyone's heads.
Finally, late at night, the statues and other tall decorations in the square were completely removed.
The workers who were going to repaint the names finally came in at this time, carrying several buckets of conspicuous paint. In that era, this kind of pigment was not cheap, but in order to point the "arrow of death" at the intended target again, the nobles certainly did not hesitate to spend more to write their names more conspicuously and larger.
The Duke of Bartley even came to the site in person to supervise the work, of course, surrounded and protected by a heavy army of guards and archers. He didn't believe that Ning Fei could really kill his Iron Teeth Faction, but since he learned that his name really appeared in the square, the protection around him was indeed strengthened many times, even more solid than the royal family's iron wall.
Seris followed. He said he was concerned about his father, but in fact he secretly wanted to see if he could meet Ning Fei.
Surrounded by enemies, the father and son watched the workers paint the name of the little nobleman stroke by stroke. It is ironic that the Central Square is such a central area, but the biggest name ever written about it actually came from a small and unknown nobleman.
However, when the name was halfway painted, there was a commotion not far away.
The patrolling guards started shouting and swearing, some of their voices were particularly fierce and loud, it was obvious that something unexpected had happened. Duke Bartley sent someone to ask what happened. Soon the inquiring person came back and reported hesitantly, "We caught a man. We are...writing your name!"
"What?!" The Duke frowned, "Is it that devil Ning Fei? Have you caught him?"
"No, he looks like a guard. He had been squatting in the fountain where the statue had been moved, and passers-by didn't notice what he was doing. He was just discovered by someone writing, uh, spelling your name with stones at the bottom of the dry pool!"
"Another person bewitched by the devil? Arrest him immediately and interrogate Ning Fei's whereabouts!" The Duke walked towards the direction of the commotion. His steps were so fast that the guards and servants who had surrounded him did not have time to catch up. Soon, the Duke saw the captured guard - he was pinned face down on the ground by other guards.
Duke Bartley looked down at him and asked sharply, "Where is Ning Fei?!"
"I won't... expose my master!" The guard's face was bruised and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, but he still shouted with difficulty, "Ning Fei is the true god... ah!"
The Duke stamped on his head, as casually as if he were crushing a bug on the side of the road.
"Another person bewitched by the devil, drag him to the church!" The Duke said coldly, "All bewitched people must be exorcised by the church and then burned at the stake to prevent future troubles—"
whoosh——! ! !
The Duke suddenly felt a buzzing sound in his ear. He subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, and a servant beside him had fallen down!
A sharp arrow pierced the man's abdomen!
"Ahhh murder!!!"
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Those who are stubborn will be punished by Ning Fei
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