Chapter 1177 The Big Hand Behind the Scenes
"Those people have all had their appearances changed, right?" Zhou Wen asked with a strange look on his face.
Dugu Wuming shook his head and said, "I thought so at first, but later I realized it wasn't true. Those orphans originally looked like this. They grew up without any manipulation. That's their natural appearance."
"This is impossible..." Zhou Wen felt a chill down his spine.
If it is just a change of appearance, it is easy to understand. It is nothing more than training some people.
But if they were not transformed, and those orphans originally looked like this, then how could Dugu Qianqiu be sure that they would look exactly like a certain important figure when they grew up?
"I also thought it was impossible, but since then, I've been secretly keeping an eye on those orphans and have discovered that for any orphan there, there's a corresponding celebrity outside. Even if they can't find one right now, they'll appear in the future. Several of these orphans didn't have any corresponding celebrities when they were young, but when they grew up, people who looked just like them started to emerge..."
The more Zhou Wen listened, the more horrified he felt. He tried to think of reasonable possibilities: "Could it be that your brother raised the twins separately, supporting one to become a celebrity while keeping the other in an orphanage?"
"Among those celebrities, there are many members of the six major families. Do you think it is possible to have so many twins?" Dugu Wuming asked back.
Zhou Wen thought about it and felt it was a bit unrealistic. How could he get so many twins, and how could they all become famous? Even an elite academy couldn't guarantee that they would all be elites, let alone raise so many twins and ensure that each of them would become a top figure in their field. It was too difficult.
But other than that, Zhou Wen couldn't think of any other reasonable explanation. Raising an orphan from childhood, and then raising a celebrity who looked very similar to the orphan, if they weren't twins, could Dugu Qianqiu have the ability to predict the future?
"Were the experts from the old principal's inspection team replaced by these orphans?" Zhou Wen thought about it and found it increasingly bizarre. He then asked, "Among those orphans, are there any who are similar to the expert Chu He..."
Zhou Wen talked about all the experts in the expedition team, wanting to know whether the members of the expedition team were replaced by those orphans.
"There should be." Dugu Wuming said after thinking for a while.
"What do you mean by should have?" Zhou Wen didn't quite understand.
Dugu Wuming sighed and said, "After I discovered this secret, I found a way to secretly control Qianqiu and imprisoned him. I wanted to get the details from him, but he refused to tell me. After I imprisoned him, I went to the orphanage and wanted to bring the orphans back, but I found that the orphanage had been burned to ashes. The orphans were gone too, no one alive, no bodies found, and I have never seen them since."
"Has your brother been imprisoned in Senluo Palace ever since?" Zhou Wen thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes, I don't know what crazy things he wants to do, so I can't let him out." Dugu Wuming said.
"When did that happen?" Zhou Wen asked again.
"Forty years ago." Dugu Wuming gave a rough number.
Zhou Wen calculated that among those experts, there were young professors in their twenties and thirties and old professors in their seventies and eighties. It was difficult to infer anything from the time.
"I never saw those orphans again?" Zhou Wen had too many questions in his mind.
"No, even if there is, I can't recognize it." Dugu Wuming answered strangely.
Zhou Wen understood what he meant. If those orphans came out and pretended to be other people, he would not be able to recognize them.
"Your brother has been imprisoned for so many years, and he hasn't said anything?" Zhou Wen really wanted to know what was going on.
"No, he didn't say anything. No matter how I tried to trick him, he didn't say a single word. But from my observation, this matter is closely related to the Temple of Trajectory." Dugu Wuming said.
Zhou Wen thought about it and it made sense. All the changes started after Dugu Qianqiu returned from the Temple of Tracks. If someone said that this matter had nothing to do with the Temple of Tracks, Zhou Wen would definitely not believe it.
Dugu Wuming continued, "Later, I also sent many of the Dugu family's disciples into the Temple of Tracks, but they didn't gain anything either. Or maybe they did, but I just didn't know about it."
Zhou Wen knew what Dugu Wuming was worried about, but he also didn't know whether there was an orphan like that in the Dugu family, or whether someone had been replaced long ago.
Zhou Wen felt terrible just thinking about it. A person with whom he had a very good relationship, such as a relative or friend, suddenly became a different person, but you didn't know it. That was a terrible thing.
Moreover, the people who were replaced by orphans were basically experts and top talents in various fields.
Just thinking about it, Zhou Wen felt a chill down his spine.
Dugu Wuming said some more things, including about Dugu Busha. Dugu Busha was a genius, a rare genius in the Dugu family. Unfortunately, his fate was that he was not a god of killing, so he could only become an ordinary person in the end.
But geniuses are unwilling to be ordinary, so Dugu Busha would try his best to solve the problems of his own destiny. For some reason, Dugu Busha actually knew about Dugu Qianqiu and informed Dugu Qianqiu. Taking advantage of the Dugu family's grand sacrifice, he wanted to force his way into the Senluo Palace to inherit Dugu Qianqiu's power.
Zhou Wen probably already understood the whole story, but he still had more doubts in his mind.
According to Dugu Wuming, those orphans were all raised by Dugu Qianqiu, but Dugu Qianqiu has been trapped here for so many years, so who is controlling those babies behind the scenes?
"Trajectory Temple, Dugu Qianqiu, orphans, expedition team... What kind of connection is there between them?" Zhou Wen felt as if there was an invisible big hand in the dark, controlling all these strange things.
The Dugu family used special means of communication and quickly contacted Dugu Chong. Fortunately, Li Xuan was with Dugu Chong.
When he heard that Zhou Wen was looking for him, Li Xuan said that he would come back immediately and asked Zhou Wen to wait for him for two days.
But Zhou Wen couldn't wait. After asking where Li Xuan and the others were, he used his space teleportation ability and rushed over directly.
Fortunately, the distance was not too far. Even without Tsukuyomi, Zhou Wen could take Yaer and the others with him, but he had to let them enter the Chaos Orb first.
I saw Li Xuan at the agreed place and found that Li Xuan had not changed much. He still looked cynical, but his face looked a little more mature.
"Old Zhou, I haven't seen you for five years, and you're still not as handsome as me." Li Xuan walked over, put his arms around Zhou Wen's neck, and gave him a tight hug.
Zhou Wen felt that Li Xuan's aura was very strange, different from those creatures he had seen before, but it was not a purely human aura. However, one thing was certain, Li Xuan was very strong now.
"I need your help." Zhou Wen looked at Li Xuan and said.
"Let's go." Li Xuan said with a smile.
"It's very dangerous. You might lose your life. Think about it again." Zhou Wen said again.
"Since you can come to me, it means that this matter is something that only I can do, right?" Li Xuan said to Zhou Wen with a smile.
"I have a backup plan." Zhou Wen said.
"Come on, I don't know you yet, let's go." Li Xuan said with a smile.
Good night.
(End of this chapter)
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