Chapter 228: Become the King! (5000 words!)

Author: Bachelor in White

Chapter 228: Become the King! (5000 words!)

That orange cat!

Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei were alone in the room. Relying on Feng Bei's experience in Ye Weiyang for more than ten years, combined with what they saw in Gongsun Mo's cannibal paintings, and what they encountered along the way, they unexpectedly...

Most of the "doorway" blanks on the drawing paper have been filled in.

Deductions, conjectures, filling in bit by bit, the upper, middle and lower realms are all human visions, and the gap between the prisoner and "human" is not a path that humans can take, and there is only one possibility left.

Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei thought of the orange cat at the same time.

That weird orange cat.

They have raised an orange cat in the world of paintings for ten years.

Zheng Xiu asked Qing Shisan that the cat had never left Zheng's house since it came to him and squatted every day.

Qing Shisan also noticed that after Master Zheng came back, the orange cat seemed to have become much colder and ignored people.

Usually, if the maid in the house throws something greedy, the orange cat will run away with it, but now if it is thrown in front of it, except for rolling its eyes and yawning, it no longer reacts like a licking cat in the past.

It has changed!

Zheng Xiu tried to write a few words in the blank space.

"Cat" - orange cat.

"Bird" - the crow farmer.

After thinking for a while, he wrote "worm" again - he thought of the huge insect sickle that almost invaded the ordinary world from behind the mirror in the dark passage at the end of the ghost scene in Xiangu Temple.

Maybe there are fish?

"Birds, animals, fish, insects, mountains, rivers, vegetation?" Zheng Xiu started thinking and made random guesses: "What are the sun, moon, stars and rivers above, wind, flowers, snow and moon?"

Listening to Zheng Xiu's wild speculation, Feng Bei couldn't help but smile, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. He obviously found Zheng Xiu's speculation interesting, but... it was obviously not reliable.

It was so bizarre that she couldn't believe it.

Zheng Xiu ignored the teasing in Feng Bei's eyes, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that this was what happened.

The only paths that humans cannot take are animals, natural disasters, and spiritual existence.

"Candle tried to create a 'crow-keeper' two hundred years ago."

"He asked the crow-keepers to learn the habits of birds, get along with them, and eventually become birds."

"How can an ordinary person walk on an inhuman road? Whether it was the crow-keeper who died on Sunset Mountain or the one we met, they all turned into ghosts that were half human and half bird!"

"This is an inhumane path!"

"A road not accessible to the living!"

"But once people master these methods, terrible thaumaturgy will be born!"

"This is the price!"

"Or...restrictions!"

"To become stronger, you must first become a human being!"

Zheng Xiu sighed, and he gradually figured out the reason.

Feng Bei did not refute Zheng Xiu's analysis. She silently pointed to the [Prisoner] at the top and looked at Zheng Xiu with a half-smile.

She seemed to be asking: What about you?

Zheng Xiu understood Feng Bei's eyes, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not that I intentionally concealed it. There are no secrets between you and me. But, I don't know why this is the case, let alone the origin of the 'Prisoner'."

In fact, Zheng Xiu had secretly expressed to Feng Bei that he was from another world during those ten years of married life. But Feng Bei didn't believe it and laughed and said that Zheng Xiu was talking nonsense.

At that time, Zheng Xiu still thought that Fengbei was the Xieluo River, so he did not continue to explain.

To explain now is undoubtedly superfluous, saying that there is nothing to hide and there is nothing wrong with it.

I confessed, it's up to you whether you believe it or not.

Back to business.

Zheng Xiu folded the "Pathway Map" and hid it on the bookshelf.

Only then did Feng Bei remember the topic of "collecting strangers" that was originally discussed. After Zheng Xiu interrupted, Feng Bei wanted to return to the matter and asked: "You mean, you want to find the strangers in the picture and take them as your own"

use?"

Zheng Xiu nodded with a smile: "The one who knows me is Madam." Zheng Xiu first nodded lightly and accidentally on the relationship between the two, reminding Feng Bei that they were a "dream couple" in name only. Feng Bei remained silent.

Denying it, Zheng Xiu continued: "He still doesn't know that we understand his origin through Gongsun Mo's memory. He doesn't even know that we know his true identity and purpose. In this way, with foresight, we

From his purpose, we can infer his possible arrangements next."

When Feng Bei heard this, there was no trace of surprise on his face. The murderous intent in his eyes flashed and then disappeared. Feng Bei said calmly: "He wants to recreate the Baili Village of twenty years ago!"

"Yes!" Zheng Xiu knew in his heart that Feng Bei must have thought of his father who was tragically taken away in Baili Village twenty years ago. There is a speculation that Zheng Xiu actually did not say that "Feng Nantian" twenty years ago,

It is very likely that he is not a stranger, but a "sacrifice" used to open Chang An.

There is a good chance that the sacrifice will not survive.

After Fengbei's transformation, he truly became a stranger. Fengbei was one of the three "human pillars".

If Feng Bei still holds on to the desire to find Feng Nantian from Chang Antian, he may end up in vain.

As for the other two, Treasure King Cangyun and Wei Chen... Wei Chen can find a way to confirm it later, but Treasure King, who was taken away by Chang An, may never see him again in this life.

The Treasure King was expelled from his official status twenty years ago and has no heirs. If you want to know whether the Treasure King is born a stranger twenty years later, you have to go and ask Zhu, the mastermind behind the scenes, Ben Hei.

"Now we know that Zhu's purpose is to complete a hundred-year 'ritual'. His ritual was not completely completed twenty years ago, and he failed to attack you. Now that he has disappeared, if you stay in the imperial city,

Because he is afraid of the 'entrance' underground in the palace, he will most likely not come back. After thinking about it, his most likely next move is to find new aliens and arrange ghosts to make the aliens invisible.

Introduced into the 'place' he has arranged."

"A mysterious case." Feng Bei thought about it and figured out the link: "Do you want to be like him, looking for strangers and avoiding ghosts that may gather a large number of human souls in advance?"

"That's right."

Zheng Xiu said with a smile. In fact, in addition to collecting stamps, his move was a way to kill two birds with one stone. The promotion of [Prisoner] requires getting rid of ghosts. Although the cannibal paintings are not ghosts in the true sense, after experiencing the world in the paintings,

[Prisoner] was still promoted.

One can stop the candle's movements, and the other can advance through the door.

This is why Zheng Xiu thought about it for a few days after the emperor proposed to let him be the second night master, and decided to take over the hot potato.

This potato may be too hot for other people, but for him, it may be just right and he can eat it in his mouth.

Feng Bei learned about Zheng Xiu's plan and knew that it was dangerous, not to mention that he had to stand on the opposite side of Zhu who had lived for a thousand years. But Zheng Xiu was right. Now Zhu doesn't know what they experienced in the painting, let alone

Knowing that the two of them have a certain understanding of Zhu's origin and purpose, taking this opportunity, they might be able to take a step ahead of Zhu and gain the upper hand.

"But... is this really good?" Feng Bei closed her eyes and hid the unbearable feeling in her eyes. Now she knew that all kinds of mysterious cases that happened in the ordinary world seemed to be related to her survival twenty years ago.

If she had not been rescued by "Zheng Shan", none of this would have happened.

The approach of candlestick seems to be correct from a macro perspective.

From now on, more innocent people will die.

"well."

From the time he met Xiao Fengbei, Zheng Xiu knew that this girl had a kind heart. Otherwise, he would not have the heart to stand up and persuade several strangers to flee in Baili Village after experiencing various changes.

"You are crazy." Zheng Xiu squeezed Feng Bei's hand, took out another piece of white paper, and drew on it. He drew a carriage and two roads, with five people on one road and one person on the other road.

.

"Let me ask you, if you are driving a carriage and the horse goes crazy and crashes forward. There are two roads in front of you. These five people and this one are tied to death and unable to move. Would you choose to kill the five people or kill them?

Choose to kill someone?"

Feng Bei was stunned for a moment, his eyebrows raised.

After thinking about it, she realized that she had no choice.

Zheng Xiu didn't let Feng Bei struggle for too long. This was a problem that faced thousands of people.

In front of Feng Bei, he tore the sketch into two halves along the empty space between the carriage and the six people.

Feng Bei looked thoughtful when he saw this.

"The point is not what he asks you to choose, but how you choose."

Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "This experience has left only two options in your heart. You live, or you change to eternal peace. But in fact, I have more choices. I can lift the carriage, and you can

Smash the chariots and horses to pieces together."

"The so-called choice is not worth mentioning in the face of absolute strength. I have already said that none of this is your fault."

The timing is wrong.

Feng Bei's eyes lit up and he nodded vigorously, feeling moved in his heart: "Feng Bei understands."

Feng Bei took a breath and secretly made up her mind. The knitting on her brows disappeared. She counted on her fingers: herself, the monk, Yin Qingqing, Sun Erming, and... the orange cat? In any case, Zheng Xiu currently has

Several strangers have been discovered, and any one of them may become Zhu's next target. And if Zheng Xiu gathered all the strangers around him and formed an iron barrel, Zhu would not be able to attack them.

It does work.

"Yes, the great writer Ximen Bei." Zheng Xiu suddenly remembered that there was another suspicious stranger in the city. When he used the [Evil Boy] incarnation to copy Ximen Bei's bloody romance works, the [Learning] attribute was the same as that of Qi Xiaomu.
To be continued...