After the family meeting, Cheng Jinyang came out of the meeting hall and let out a long breath.
He suddenly felt an uncontrollable sadness, as if his second uncle and the others had died in vain.
Um.
Although if you think about it carefully, at least from the time when you agreed to join the military adventure project to the day when Yu Yuangui issued the call again, the Cheng family in the divine capital did have a safe time, allowing the tribesmen who were exhausted from the war to take a breather.
Although it is indeed inevitable that people will die and the government will cease, and the Cheng family, the city of God, no longer has fifth-grade superpowers, it does need a more radical output of loyalty to maintain the status of the noble clan.
Although the second uncle and the others were willing to sacrifice for the family, even after learning that Taicheng had regretted his decision, Huaiyan Yuexian had no intention of blaming him for his original decision.
but……
Cheng Jinyang felt as if he was holding a ball of fire in his heart, and it would burst out along his throat at any time. He wanted to find a place to vent, even if it was just a simple yell.
However, his reason told him that there was no point in doing so.
He is the patriarch of the Cheng family in the capital of God, so he should put aside any personal feelings and look at the problem from the perspective of pure interests.
but.
well.
It feels like it's about to explode.
"What's wrong with you?" Miss Qingqing's voice sounded next to her.
"I want to kill someone," Cheng Jinyang said.
"Who to kill?"
"Kill some monsters... and stuff like that."
"Idiot." Qingqing smiled, "I can tell you've been under a lot of pressure lately."
"But killing... is not a suitable way to relieve stress. How about you and I learn to cook? At least washing fruits and chopping vegetables can really relax your mind."
"Forget it about cooking. But, 'Killing is not a suitable way to relieve stress' is really strange coming from your mouth."
"Is it strange? But I think I am the most qualified to say this." Chu Qingqing said with a smile, "Using killing to escape reality is essentially a kind of escape. Just because I am still deeply involved in it, I don't want you to follow me.
I'm in it together."
"Jinyang, you have put too much pressure on yourself recently. Not everything can be accomplished quickly by working hard. Forcing yourself to put an unbearable burden on yourself will only result in crushing yourself."
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"Wow, you can be so gentle?" Cheng Jinyang was shocked, "Is this the so-called contrasting cuteness?"
So, when she hugged me from behind when I was sleeping last night, she also saw that I was under too much stress recently, so she comforted me in this way? Damn it, suddenly the motherly light emerged, Qingqing, please stop giving me this
I added my own character!
"What does contrasting cuteness mean?" Chu Qingqing said angrily, "After all, I am also a girl, okay? Isn't it normal to be considerate?"
"Well, thank you for your enlightenment." Cheng Jinyang said sincerely.
"So you feel better now?"
"I'm barely feeling better. If I can eat the delicious lunch made by Miss Qingqing, I will probably be able to fully recover,"
"Don't even think about it!" Chu Qingqing said with a sneer, "In your own clan, let your cooks cook it for you!"
"It makes me so sad, so is the comfort just now just polite words?" Cheng Jinyang covered his chest, acting like he was in disbelief.
"...What do you want to eat for lunch?" Miss Qingqing expressed that she couldn't bear it.
“Can I have shrimp with smooth egg and black pepper steak?”
"Can."
Chu Qingqing turned around and walked a few steps when she heard Cheng Jinyang ask hesitantly behind him:
"Hey, Qingqing... are you okay lately?"
She was silent for a moment and lowered her eyelids:
"fine."
"Then last night..."
"That was an accident."
Accident?
Watching Miss Qingqing leave, Cheng Jinyang stood silently for a while and shook his head.
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Chu Qingqing cooked the food himself, and the food was indeed quite delicious. Not to mention Cheng Jinyang, even Yang Wangshu nearly swallowed his tongue after eating it. He wished he could take off his mask and eat so much.
After lunch, his mood improved and he began to study the intelligence information on the Jiangning District front line seriously.
However, in the afternoon, another piece of news interrupted his good mood.
Tianluo captured the rebels alive on the front line, and it was Cheng Yizhou, the eldest son of his uncle Cheng Qingxin.
The other party seemed to have gone crazy. When he was caught, he still resisted desperately, and several members of the Tianluo family were slightly injured as a result.
Of course something was wrong, because Cheng Yizhou was the same age as him, and his bloodline level at this time should only be ninth level. Cheng Qingxin should not send him to the battlefield under any circumstances... What does it mean to be crazy?
Arriving at the family dungeon, Cheng Jinyang saw Cheng Yizhou tightly trapped in a mental hospital uniform, with a ball in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue to prevent suicide, and a brain-development helmet on his head.
"Since he was captured, he has been engaging in self-mutilation and even suicide. We can only inject him with sedatives, restrict his movements, and then confirm the situation with him in the virtual environment developed by the brain."
Cheng Yuexian looked pale and said with difficulty:
"At present, it seems that he has been brainwashed."
"Brainwashing?" Cheng Jinyang was silent for a moment and already guessed the answer.
"So, where are the others?"
A long silence.
"According to the battlefield information, the descendants of the Cheng family who entered Jiankang City from the uncle's lineage." Cheng Yuexian closed his eyes in pain, "All of them are dead soldiers who have lost their normal sanity."
Cheng Jinyang was stunned there.
In other words, the lineage of the uncle who defected to Wuchang County Duke was finished.
All of them were brainwashed by Wang Chuzhong's superpower and turned into consumables on the battlefield.
But why?
"You..." He didn't know what to say for a while, until all the impulsive emotions in his mind slowly calmed down and reason returned to consciousness, "First... let's do this first."
"I asked Wang Wanrou to come over and take a look."
Miss Wang soon arrived at the Cheng clan. When she went down to the dungeon, she saw Cheng Jinyang sitting on a chair at the end of the corridor, quietly waiting for her to come over.
Light was cast from the ground window high on the wall and fell on the dark ground. The position where he sat was behind the light, and his whole person was shrouded in shadow. His face and upper body could not be seen clearly. He put his hands on his knees and seemed to be talking.
What to ponder.
This suddenly reminded her of when she was a child, she went to Taicheng to find her father, who was the chief minister at the time. At that time, her father happened to be reporting to the emperor, and heard that the chief minister's youngest daughter was waiting outside, so the emperor graciously allowed her to come in and wait.
.
Under the leadership of Jin Yiwei, when she came to the depths of the palace, she saw the emperor sitting in the shadow at the end of the corridor in the distance. There were skylights every few meters high on the walls of the corridor, and beams of light passed through the top of the corridor to greet the emperor.
The hem of the curtain with the flag emblem fell on the carpet extending into the distance, and there was a slight swirl of floating dust in the air.
However, the emperor still sat in the shadow, and the entire throne was not stained by any light, as if he had merged with the darkness.
Just like Cheng Jinyang today.
Such thoughts only passed through her mind for a moment, and Wang Wanrou quickly came back to her senses. Accompanied by Cheng Yuexian, she walked into the prison cell and checked the mental state of the restrained Cheng Yizhou.
"Brainwashing," Miss Wang said calmly, "and it was very thorough. All subjective will was erased, leaving only the rigid thinking that wanted to destroy the Jiankang court and the emperor."
"Is there a way to cure it?" Cheng Jinyang's voice came from the shadows.
"Yes." Wang Wanrou said.
Cheng Yuexian breathed a sigh of relief.
"But it depends on how you want to restore it." Wang Wanrou continued.
"What do you mean?" Cheng Yuexian asked in a trembling voice.
"I said it." Wang Wanrou frowned and said, "His subjective will has been erased, which means that his personality has been completely destroyed. Using the soul as a metaphor, it is like the other party's soul named 'Cheng Yizhou'
It was completely hollowed out, and then a bunch of simple and crude mechanical thinking patterns were stuffed into it, turning him into a pure dead warrior."
"I can clear away the thinking logic of those dead soldiers. However, if that is all, he will become an idiot who knows nothing, because the original thing belonging to 'Cheng Yizhou' in his soul is gone. Do you understand?"
"Even if the file is completely deleted from the computer, it is still possible to restore it." Cheng Jinyang asked in a low voice, "Can you fix it, Wanrou?"