"You said...you killed the envoy of the underworld?"
Gao Xie looked doubtful, still a little unconvinced.
Li Nanke took out the bone whistle he found from Sun Xiaoyuan and said coldly: "I don't need to lie to you at this time. I came here to ask you some questions."
Looking at the bone whistle in Li Nanke's hand, Gao Xie had a complicated expression.
"What do you want to know?"
"About the bone whistle." Li Nanke stared into the other person's eyes, "You must have hidden something from me last time. I want to know the true origin of this bone whistle."
Gao Xie was silent for a long time, then sighed helplessly, "You must have been to Hecun before."
"Been there."
Li Nanke nodded lightly.
Gao Xie said: "What do you think Hecun is?"
Li Nanke frowned, recalling the information he had learned, and said calmly: "A place that was used as an experiment. The red rain first came from Hecun, and all the people there drank the red rain, and no changes occurred.
"
"Then what?"
"What then?"
"What happened to the people in the village?" Gao Xie smiled half-heartedly.
Li Nanke paused for a few seconds and said softly: "Except for one named Meng Shuangshuang who lived to death, all the other people died in a fire."
"Do you think they really died in the fire?"
"..."
Li Nanke was silent.
Of course it's impossible to die in a fire, any fool can see there's something wrong with it.
Gao Xie asked again, "Have you never seen Hecun in the Red Rain World?"
Li Nanke knew that he could not hide it, so he simply confessed, "I went to Hecun in the illusion of time and space, and met the Red Rain Spirit and the Disha members sent by Bai Yaoquan."
"This was the initial deal between Bai Yaoquan and Hongyu."
Gao Xie waved his sister to watch outside the door and said to Li Nanke, "Hongyu will continue Bai Yaoquan's life, and Bai Yaoquan will cede Hecun and let Hongyu come."
Extend your life?
Li Nanke was startled. This was the first time he heard this.
"You mean, Bai Yaoquan was already dying more than 20 years ago?" Li Nanke asked in surprise.
A complicated smile appeared on the corner of Gao Xie's lips, "Perhaps he is jealous of the talent, but Bai Yaoquan has a body with extremely severe Xuanyin meridians and cannot live past the age of twenty."
The body of Xuanyin Juemai?
Li Nanke's mind suddenly moved, as if he had never heard of this thing before.
Thinking back carefully, his expression changed.
Cang Yao once told him that Qu Hongling, the daughter of an old Taoist priest, was a member of the Xuanyin Juemi Disaster Body!
This is also the reason why the old Taoist priest used red rain to extend his daughter's life.
Could this be a coincidence?
However, the old Taoist priest's daughter seems to have died just after birth, while Bai Yaoquan can live to be twenty years old, which shows that there are some differences in their physiques.
But no matter how big the difference is, you can still use red rain to extend your life.
Thinking of this, Li Nanke felt unspeakable emotions in his heart.
Bai Yaoquan was definitely born to be an emperor.
From the early stage of rectifying the imperial court, restraining powerful ministers, to resisting foreign enemies, governing the country, and opening up territories... he has shown full imperial ability.
It was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for such an ambitious man to learn that he would not live to be twenty years old.
Anyone else would be dissatisfied.
Even if there is a glimmer of hope to survive, I will hold on tightly.
"No wonder, Bai Yaoquan has been unconscious from time to time since the arrival of Hong Yu. It seems to be a side effect of Hong Yu's life extension." Li Nanke murmured, "It is a good deal to exchange the people of a village for his own life."
"But Bai Yaoquan is a smart man. He understands that Hongyu can extend his life and can also control him, so - he has to resist!"
Gao Xie's eyes shone brightly, "After taking the initiative to extend his life, he killed all the people in Hecun who drank from Hongyu, thus ending Hongyu's expansion plan.
Even after he and Hong Yu traded again, and Hong Yu fell from six regions in the sixth year of Tianwu, Bai Yaoquan still took the initiative and set up a night patrol department to curb Hong Yu's expansion."
Li Nanke was shocked.
This Bai Yaoquan is really fierce.
Use your mortal body to transform yourself from the weak side to the active side.
At this moment, Li Nanke finally figured out something.
Why does Bai Yaoquan value Princess Shanyun so much? He wants to use this 'savior' to increase his bargaining chip and further suppress Hong Yu.
It's a pity that the old Taoist priest and Bei Wenliang disturbed him.
It's just that Li Nanke still can't understand the fact that Bai Yaoquan secretly collected Hongyu and secretly gave it to the people of the imperial city.
By doing this, aren't you helping Hongyu?
You must know that Hongyu's plan now is to let as many people as possible enter the world of Red Rain and transform the world.
Unless there is only one reason.
Li Nanke remembered the time when he helped Nie Ming investigate the other party's life experience.
Nie Ying's father, "Lone Eagle", was once a member of the first batch of Tiangang Disha and mastered many core secrets.
From the information he left behind, it was highlighted that Bai Yao used special red rain to give to the people so that the people would not mutate and fall into nightmares.
Later, Li Nanke met the businessman named Dong after the second earthquake.
He also learned from his son that taking Hongyu at midnight would not cause any changes.
Whether stated or not, both pieces of information are correct.
Bai Yaoquan specially prepared Hongyu and gave it to the people at the third watch.
And the specially made red rain allows him to control these people!
It's like a puppet.
The summary is: Bai Yaoquan guessed Hong Yu's plan, so he deliberately let these people who had taken his special red rain enter the world of red rain, but these people could not be controlled by red rain.
In this way, even if Bai Yaoquan himself enters the world of Red Rain, he will still have a large number of loyal "subordinates."
Have enough ability to fight against the red rain.
The only doubt is how Bai Yaoquan specially prepared these red rains and what method he used.
Add poison?
Or...does anyone help him?
"Then let's go back to the original topic. Who do you think is the real master behind the underworld?"
Gao Xie asked with a smile.
Li Nanke said: "In the real world, Bai Yaoquan has the absolute initiative and is able to control Hongyu. But Hongyu is not a vegetarian and is bound to fight back.
The underworld has been against the imperial court from the very beginning, and has secretly sold Red Rain to allow more people to take it. It even has something like a bone whistle that can control people's mutations at will.
The most important thing is that he actually knew that Bai Yaoquan would fall into a coma on New Year's Eve.
With all these things, it’s not difficult to guess the identity of the master behind the scenes, it’s Hong Yu!”
After a pause, Li Nanke continued:
"But after all, this is not Hongyu's home field. He can't go out personally, so he can only recruit his younger brothers to help him deal with Bai Yaoquan. And these two younger brothers are black and white."
"Can you guess the identity of Black and White Wuchang?"
Gao Xie asked.
Li Nanke wanted to shake his head, but after some hesitation, he finally gave his answer.
"If nothing else, one of them is Lin Siqing, the father of the empress and the chief minister of the cabinet who died suddenly in the second year of Yuanfeng, that is, three years ago!"