With two crisp cracks of whips, the red-lacquered door of the examination hall slowly opened.
Many candidates who had been waiting for admission since early morning filed in.
The imperial court paid more attention to this talent promotion ceremony than in the past. Not only did it send a team of guards to guard the surrounding area, it also cleared the city around the examination institute one day in advance and moved the surrounding residents to military camps outside the city to temporarily settle down and have some free time.
People are not allowed to come within one mile of the examination center.
However, this policy was a bit hasty and there was quite a bit of public dissatisfaction. However, Daliang Mansion soon issued a notice that all residents who were transferred to the military camps would be compensated eight taels of silver per household per day. The talent transfer ceremony lasted for three days in total, and each household could receive a total of
Got twenty-four taels of silver.
This is a generous compensation. Many citizens even need three to five months to save such a sum of money. However, after moving out of their residences for three days, they can receive such compensation. All their dissatisfaction disappears. Many people even want to pay more.
Stay a few days and get some more money.
Of course, for the merchants in the area, this compensation is better than nothing. However, they cannot violate the imperial decree, so they can only reluctantly leave.
"what to do?"
In a residential house a few miles away, a few people who looked like ordinary people gathered together, frowning.
Ever since Daliang Mansion began to relocate residents around the examination center yesterday afternoon, they felt that something was wrong and that it was directed at them.
However, when the officials of Daliang Prefecture were performing their tasks, they repeatedly emphasized that this was to cooperate with the talent recruitment ceremony and to provide a clean environment for the candidates. At the same time, it was said that there was also an exam question that involved some dangerous operations, and the relocation of residents was also for the safety of the people.
For these people who were planning to take advantage of the Talent Recruitment Ceremony to cause trouble, they did not quite believe in such words, but after repeated consideration, they were sure that their group had not been exposed and had never leaked the information.
Even Wang Cizhi didn't know their plan, but it was a link in their plan, a chess piece used to take the blame and be given up at any time.
"The mission given to us by the master is very obvious. When Wang Cizhi breaks into the examination hall and starts to be promoted, we will take the opportunity to kill as many candidates as possible inside..."
The leader had a centipede-like scar on his face, his right eye was pierced, and a ruby eye was installed in the eye socket, shining with a strange red light.
He sneered and said: "No matter whether the people of Liang Dynasty are alert or not, we must act according to the plan. As long as Wang Cizhi starts to act, half of the master's plan will be completed... The remaining half will be completed by us... You gentlemen!
His tone deepened: "When we came here this time, we were determined to die to complete this important task. The master is watching us!"
"Swear to the death to serve the master!"
The rest of the people immediately straightened their backs and expressed their feelings.
"Very good! Half an hour later, the Cai Cai Ceremony officially started. Wang Ci appeared and summoned the lurking brothers to follow him and enter the examination hall together!"
The leader took a deep breath and reminded: "Remember, you can't bear the mark of my Dayan on your body, and carry the tokens of Prince Wang and Prince Cui with you!"
"yes!"
Everyone nodded repeatedly. This was also a strategy that had been planned long ago. All the brothers involved in this matter were disguised as dead men of the Wang family and the Cui family to divide the relationship between the Liang court and these two aristocratic families. In addition, Wang Cizhi was the perfect person.
If the person takes the blame, their plan will be perfect.
"Dong...dong...dong..."
Nine bells rang in the direction of the examination hall, which was a signal that the examination room was closed and the talent selection ceremony officially began.
A decisive smile appeared on the leader's face: "Gentlemen, start taking action!"
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"a ha ha ha……"
At the corner of the examination room, a wild laugh rang out.
Wang Cizhi, who was covered in a black robe, suddenly appeared.
A twisted black energy lingered around him, his face was blurred, and the space around him was slightly distorted.
"This bunch of trash in the inner factory have been looking for me for so many days, but they don't even know I'm hiding under this street! Hahaha, they are indeed a bunch of trash!"
He strode forward, snapping his fingers slightly.
"Huh……"
But at this moment, he suddenly discovered that some of the changes that should have occurred after he snapped his fingers did not happen.
That was the place where he prepared to distribute the test papers dozens of times. As soon as the title of the talent selection ceremony appeared, he could use the last "white paper" analyzed by Cui Wen to copy it and distribute it throughout the city!
However, at this time, he could not sense the existence of the white paper. He hid the paper and prepared the formation to distribute the examination papers, but there was no response.
"what happened?!"
Wang Cizhi was slightly stunned.
"Things have changed..." He muttered, but his steps were not slow at all. He sealed his six senses and power, and hid under the street for several days, only waiting for the exam hall bell to ring before he would sleep again.
The state is awakening. During this period, even the fate masters of the magicians and the fate masters of the astronomers can't find any trace of him.
But after waking up from a long sleep, his promotion ceremony began.
The whole process is irreversible. No matter what happens next, he must continue according to the original plan.
In just a few steps, he found some clues and used the limited information to deduce what probably happened.
Wang Cifu was killed, and he and Wang Cifu's clones were captured by the inner factory!
"I see!"
He knows his own character very well, and naturally knows what choices his clone will make.
Then what he did with the "blank paper" must have been exposed. With the accurate location of the inner factory and the whereabouts of the "blank paper" found, the plan to steal the examination papers came to nothing.
"It's harmless." Wang Cizhi shook his head.
As long as he can be promoted successfully, the role of these conspiracies and tricks will be ignored.
"Hey...why can't you see a single person around the examination center?"
He found that the streets that were usually bustling with traffic were deserted, and there was no one even at the entrance of the examination hall!
This no longer seems abnormal, but rather strange!
"Did they move the candidates elsewhere?"
Wang Cizhi pondered for a moment, but he could still feel the breath of the candidates in the examination hall. The breath of thousands of people could not cover it up.
"Open it for me!"
He took a long stride and arrived in front of the entrance to the examination hall. He pushed the door hard and it burst apart.
"Hahaha... Today, I will use the elites of the Daliang Kingdom for thirty years to repay me for the humiliation of more than a hundred years!"
With a wave of his hand, he rushed towards the examination room inside.
"Wang Cizhi!"
However, a loud voice rang out, shattering his dream: "You are really crazy, you can really do such a dehumanizing thing, I, Mrs. Cui, will never share the same fate with you!"
The speaker was an old man with white hair and beard, but his face did not look wrinkled, as if he was only fifty or sixty years old.
This person is Cui Wenwen's elder brother, Cui Han, who is the most senior clan elder in the Cui clan and fully represents the will of the Cui clan.
Although Wang Cizhi blamed a branch of the Cui family, they would not be able to escape once the court caused trouble for the Cui family.
At this time, Cui Han personally led the extraordinary elites supported by the Cui family, waiting for Wang Cizhi's arrival here, preparing to fight Wang Cizhi to the death, to show that he had drawn a clear line with Wang Cizhi and had no disobedience to the imperial court.
Next to Cui Han was Wang Huai with a livid face.
There are no masters of the Wang family around Wang Huai, but his appearance represents the attitude of the Wang family.
They cut off relations with Wang Cizhi and get rid of them quickly!
"Is it you?"
When Wang Cizhi saw this scene, he looked very puzzled.
"Where are the candidates?"
But what he saw was that from the examination room, a group of Imperial Guards came out in full gear and lined up to surround him.
"Good guy, we are really here..."
The experts in the inner factory occupied a favorable position. Beishang, who was surrounded by factory guards in the center, pinched his eyebrows and said: "Where are the killers sent by Yan State? Have they arrived?"
"He has appeared and is coming towards us!"
"very good!"
Beishang also had a smile on his face: "Su Wen, this guy, this is a really good plan!"
"Indeed, thanks to Master Xia Gui, otherwise this matter would not have been easy to handle." Zhong Zheng on the side also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hahaha...trap! You actually set a trap for me."
Wang Cizhi did not have the consciousness to be trapped in a tight siege.
"I'm very curious... I clearly felt the aura of thousands of candidates, but why did they disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye?" Wang Cizhi still has puzzlement and obsession with this matter.
"When you get to the spiritual prison, I will tell you slowly."
Beishang took a step forward: "Wang Cizhi, surrender! There are all extraordinary people here and there who have restrained the dark path. Resistance is meaningless!"
"Surrender... Jie Jie, haha!"
Wang Cizhi raised his head and laughed: "It's the same thing if I kill you all and then find those candidates...You rotten fish and shrimps, you just want to stop me?! Do you really think that Wang's plan of more than a hundred years is that simple?
?”
He shook the black robe on his body, and the black mist dispersed from the black robe, like ink dripping on the basin, staining it black. With a big hand, he tore the black robe completely off his body, and then with force
shake!
"Be careful! This is the forbidden object 'Night Puppet'!"
Wang Huai's face changed drastically and he shouted: "After being affected by it, you will become his puppet!"
"Fuck!"
When Beishang heard what Wang Huai said, his expression changed.
"Dark Night Puppet" is a forbidden object numbered Tian-15. This object is said to come from the abyss, and some people think it comes from the sea of stars. It has been thousands of years since its emergence. It was initially in the hands of Wenling Palace, and later Wenling Palace took over
It was presented to a master of the Za family. After the master disappeared during an expedition, this forbidden object only had a name left.
But hundreds of years later, there were still signs of this thing appearing in the world, but they were all glimpsed and no evidence was left.
I didn't expect to be owned by the Wang family. Otherwise, Wang Huai wouldn't be able to pronounce this name.
But Wang Huai didn't expect that Wang Cizhi would take this treasure from Wang's treasure house and use it here.