Chapter 329: Pure White Kingdom
"Master, have you ever heard of the Piaoyi Guard?"
Ning Mingmei nodded and said, "The court's lackey."
The muscles at the corners of Thirteen's mouth twitched.
Obviously if someone else said this, Thirteen wouldn't feel anything. But when these words were spoken by his former mentor, he would feel a little embarrassed... and the pain of having his ambitions unfulfilled.
But is it difficult to achieve one’s ambitions? Hasn't he already become "Master Shi" in everyone's mouth, and a being that no one in the human world dares to look down upon? No one in the capital dared to be found guilty of any fault by him, and no one dared to be accused of practicing witchcraft. But why is it that only in front of his master, he always feels that he is not decent enough, as if he is sorry for something?
"The Piaoyi Guard is for mortals, and the Tiyi Guard is for talented people. The Tiyi Guard is owned by the royal family and directly serves the emperor. Their job is to nip in the bud all magic-related things that threaten the royal family. In the past, the Tiyi Guard and the Jiantiansi were both agencies that belonged to the royal family and served the royal family, and they often cooperated with each other. But now, the royal family hopes that the Tiyi Guard will be completely owned by the royal family."
Strangled in the cradle? It is known that Xinghuo Island violated the interests of the human world's imperial court, and the Heavenly Monitoring Department and many sects in the fairy world were the main force that persecuted Xinghuo Island. It seems that in the incident on Xinghuo Island back then, the Tiyiwei were also used as a knife to executors.
"Your last words are quite meaningful!" Ning Mingmei asked, "Has anything changed?"
It was obvious that Thirteen wanted Ning Mingmei to know about this. He hoped that Ning Mingmei would understand his current position, which would be beneficial in the future and there would be no need for conflict between the teacher and the student.
But why did Thirteen feel that there was a potential possibility of a war between them? And Thirteen didn't know that he came to the capital to steal fire.
The nights in the capital are getting colder. There was a cool breeze blowing in from outside, but Ning Mingmei could vaguely hear a sobbing and complaining voice in the cool breeze. This made him feel weird.
Thirteen took a sip of tea and said, "The Crescent Moon Cult. The Heavenly Supervisor does not want the Crescent Moon Cult to exist. They hope that they will always be the only one respected."
The Heavenly Supervisor also wanted to control the royal family.
Unfortunately, wars, famines, droughts, floods, locust plagues and diseases... these things have happened too many times in recent years. The Sky Supervisor is unable to handle the situation in two places. They can restrain the royal family and have the ability to manage a certain group of people, but they cannot manage all the refugees in the world.
Amidst one disaster after another, the Crescent Moon Sect has become a raging fire. And after that, extremely unusual diseases occurred. No medicine was effective and the entire capital city was in collapse. Only the Crescent Moon Cult was able to control the disease.
From then on, only the eighteenth prince who was controlled by them became the candidate for the next emperor.
"What happened in the capital? What kind of disease is it?" After Ning Mingmei said this, he found that Thirteen was staring at him.
"Thirteen, you also know about this disease, right?"
"Master, do you understand? The Tiyi Guards are loyal to the emperor, and the Eighteenth Prince will be the next emperor... Master!" Thirteen clenched his fists, but quickly calmed his breathing, "So regarding the affairs of the capital, I hope..."
"Master, please don't interfere."
What exactly gave Thirteen the illusion that he would definitely intervene?
Ning Mingmei asked, "How is the treatment from the court?"
"We have eight days off a month. Although there are night shifts, they are three shifts."
"How's the salary?"
"Sixteen salaries a year, paid on schedule."
"Is there insurance? What about the promotion mechanism?"
Thirteen gave some answers. Ning Mingmei said, "Since you think you are doing a good job and the salary is not bad, why are you so nervous in front of me? Besides, all graduates have to go out to work. Do I expect you to do some legendary work?"
Thirteen still clenched his fists, but soon he relaxed and said with a smile, "Yes, Master, Twenty-Five and I are doing well. The situation in the capital is quite tense these days. After things are over, I will take a New Year's leave. If Master wants to go to any place in the human world, I will take you there to have a look..."
“Da da da!”
The sound of uniform footsteps echoed in the street. Ning Mingmei did not miss the stern look in Thirteen's eyes. He looked towards the street and saw several Ti Yi guards rushing towards the direction of the weeping voice that Ning Mingmei had just heard.
"It looks like an emergency has occurred. As the leader of the Ti Yi Wei, don't you plan to go over and take a look?" Ning Mingmei said.
As he spoke, he stood up. Thirteen looked at his figure and uttered a few words: "Master, don't go."
"Let me see the fun, too." Ning Mingmei said, "Don't worry, we in the fairy world are not interested in meddling in the mess of the human world."
“Master!”
Ning Mingmei did not stop. He followed the group of people to a house. Along the way, he saw many peeping eyes through many cracks in the doors.
Frightened, alert, scared...
Numb.
"Hush! You're going to die, you peeked." Ning Mingmei heard a mother whisper to her child, "Don't look, if you do, aren't you afraid that you will also change color?"
The door of that house has been opened. Ning Mingmei once passed by this house in broad daylight, and there was a white flower hanging on the door at that time. But now, the flower is no longer fresh and pure, but has turned purple and black, revealing an ominous color.
Inside, a mother cried out, "Don't take my son away..."
Ning Mingmei saw two Crescent Moon Sect members in white standing among the group of Tiyi Guards. One of them said, "Madam, your son is already sick."
"No, no...he didn't..."
"If he didn't have it, why would the flowers on the door change color, and why would there be several more mouths on his face?"
When people want to utter evil words, express disgust, or carry out intrigues, they often cannot do without their mouths.
And now, Ning Mingmei also saw several "mouths" on the face of the young man who was captured by the Ti Yi guards.
This scene is really twisted and terrifying.
His mouth is speaking, his ears are speaking, his eyes, nose, even his Adam's apple and fingers are speaking. Even through the faint echoes, Ning Mingmei discovered that his internal organs were speaking. Those mouths seemed to represent the person's emotions; some were crying, some were laughing, some were angry, some were begging, and they were all saying different words.
And he couldn't control himself and said what was in his heart.
"That old man always bullies my mother. I want to kill him!"
"I have been thinking about chopping him up for a long time. There is a hatchet next to the woodshed. I can use it..."
In addition, there are all kinds of dirty words. As the situation developed, his mouth got bigger and bigger and his emotions became more and more agitated. The cries, laughter and angry sounds became increasingly harsh.
"My son is only 18 years old! Please don't do this to him!" the mother cried, "He is still a child, he is innocent, it is not his fault..."
One of the believers originally wanted to take the person away directly. But he paused as if he heard some command, then he sighed and said to the mother: "Your son is not innocent. Listen to what he said. If he had no evil thoughts in his heart, how could he be infected with the evil plague? All of this originated from his evil thoughts towards his stepfather. He wanted to kill his stepfather, he is not innocent!"
"But he didn't do that..."
"It was you. You prevented the Tiyiwei from taking him away. Have you forgotten what the capital looked like when the plague spread a few years ago? The whole city was filled with monsters and dead bodies infected by the plague, and the sky and earth were dark." The cultist's eyes were stern. "You want him to stay, is it because you think you would rather let him infect your neighbors?"
"No... I'm not..."
"You obviously value your son's life more than your neighbor's life, right? If you were given a chance to trade your neighbor's life for your son's, would you do it? You would definitely do it."
"...But, but!" the mother said hysterically, "That man has been beating us mother and son. So what if my son wants to kill him? I want to kill him too..."
At that moment, everyone fell into silence for a moment. Ning Mingmei saw fear creeping onto the mother's face. She covered her face with her hands and dug into her meridians, as if a monster was about to crawl out.
"It seems that my guess just now was correct." Another believer who had never spoken said gently, "This woman has also been infected by the plague. Otherwise, why would she stop us from taking her sick son away?"
As she spoke, she squatted down, and as if she was not afraid of infection at all, she gently stroked the woman's face: "Do you think your son can turn back into a human? Turn around and look... Your son has turned into a complete monster."
"And all this cannot be blamed on others. It is all caused by his own evil thoughts."
In just a moment, the young man who was "sick" at the beginning had turned into a strange appearance. His face no longer had any facial features, but was completely black. Where the eyes were originally located, there was a mouth. Where the mouth was originally located, there were two mouths. Where the nose was originally located, there was a mouth. And this "mouth" has no details, it's just a hole.
His entire body turned pitch black, and his bones were creaking violently, as if they would melt at any moment, or as if something was falling out of his body with a creaking sound. Seeing this, the mother let out a heart-wrenching wail.
The sound did not come from her mouth, but from another mouth that opened on her cheek.
"You will die a miserable death!!"
"Take them both away," a cultist ordered, "and take them to the processing site."
The two "people" were put into sacks and tied up and taken away. Thirteen, who was standing silently behind Ning Mingmei, also spoke.
"This is the strange disease that has appeared in the capital and the human world. It is called the evil plague, also known as the 'Black Death'. The Crescent Moon Cult says... its origin is unknown, but anyone who comes into contact with it will be sick. It originates from the evil thoughts of everyone."
"Everyone, in the end, will turn into a pool of black mud after all their emotions erupt."
Two sacks were taken away. Two Ti Yi guards also walked to the position near Ning Mingmei. One of them said: "Every time I deal with such a scene, I feel very uncomfortable..."
“Are you reaching your breaking point?”
"It's almost changing color." said the man.
The man pulled out a package from his arms. What he took out was actually a white crystal. The crystal stone suddenly reminded Ning Mingmei of what he had collected in the underground place when he went to Changle Gate: crystals of various colors, and solidified human emotions that were precipitated through the muddy water. If Ning Mingmei remembered correctly, this white crystal represented joy.
After eating the white crystal, Ti Yiwei's face showed an intoxicated and joyful expression. The boutonniere he was wearing also turned back to pure white. Someone was putting a seal on the family's door, meaning no one could enter the house anymore.
"Master." Ning Mingmei heard Thirteen's voice, "This disease has little effect on cultivators, Master, don't worry..."
"Master Shi?"
The Ti Yiwei discovered Thirteen and started chatting with him. The sky was covered with dark clouds. Ning Mingmei looked up and found that it was drizzling.
He took two steps and looked towards the alley next to him. Just when the two sacks were loaded onto the carriage, one of the sacks broke free and fell down, revealing a hand - that hand was already covered with dense gray-black blisters, and it looked like it would soon turn into a black human figure of the same origin as Hunlun.
At this moment, Ning Mingmei heard a distant ringing sound.
He looked up and realized that without him noticing, there was already someone standing in the alley. She was wearing a white dress and a veil. She was the woman Ning Mingmei had seen at the banquet today.
The vast ocean.
"Is this what you want?" Ning Mingmei said, "To let innocent people die tragically?"
"They are not innocent people. They are people with evil intentions." "Cangming" said, "The boy wanted to kill his stepfather, and the mother was willing to put the whole neighborhood in danger to protect her son. They are all people with evil intentions. They were not destroyed... but restored to their evil appearance."
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
Ning Mingmei had done a lot of academic work in his life and had destroyed the mental health of many of his disciples in group meetings, but he had never experienced what it was like to talk to a psychopath.
It's crazy. It seems like the whole world has gone crazy. Ning Mingmei thought of the white flower and suddenly said, "You don't think that by doing this, you can make everyone in the world have no evil thoughts, right? Make everyone in the world afraid of this evil plague, and from then on, they dare not even have any evil thoughts?"
"This world has failed those who wanted to redeem it. Therefore, we have found the path that best suits it. We no longer want to take revenge on this world and let it fall into despair and pain. Instead, we want to transform it. Make the world a paradise."
"All the pain and disasters in the world are caused by people's evil thoughts. Wars are caused by evil thoughts. Killing is caused by evil thoughts. It is better to educate the mind than to educate the body. When all the pain and hatred disappear, the person who made it happen will be regarded as the savior. This will not be a dark revenge, but a gift of light."
Ning Mingmei felt a little chilly after hearing this.
"For her? To give her the gift and bring her back?"
"For the world." said "Cang Ming".
She looked at every household in the capital and said, "Just five years ago, hundreds of people died silently every day in this seemingly prosperous city. But now, this number has been greatly reduced."
"No hatred, no evil, no resentment, no worries."
"This is the Pure White Kingdom that we want to build on earth."
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What idealist villain?
Blade and Soul: I want to create a pure white kingdom that is qualified to call back Weng Xingyun.
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