In the secret party's safe house, a naked man was tied to a chair. Ander and Angers were sitting opposite him, exchanging something in a low voice.
During the previous interrogation of the man named Chu Hao, Ander and Ange learned that a group of Chinese hybrids had been planning to blow up an alchemy circle built by the Manchus: Dragon Vein.
The reason why Lu Shanyan appeared in Europe with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and joined the secret party was to complete the plan to explode the dragon vein.
The most important thing is that the suspected traitor member of the secret party: Friedrich von Long seems to be related to the dragon vein, and even went to Tongwan City in order to find the dragon vein.
After some discussion with Ange, Ander looked at Chu Hao who was still restrained.
"It seems we have a common enemy. Now think about it carefully and say everything you need to say."
An ugly bitter smile appeared on Chu Hao's poker face. Perhaps he was stimulated by the news of Lu Shanyan's death. He took two deep breaths and began his story.
In China, those dead warriors who have exceeded the critical limit of blood are called demons, and the dragons endowed with dragon blood of hybrids are called great demons.
Due to its geographical location, China has little communication with the outside world, so it has formed its own set of hybrid organizations, namely the Demon Slayers.
These demon-slayers lived among ordinary people and fought with those demons in obscurity. Until more than two hundred years ago, when the Tatars entered the customs, the Qing demon used some unknown method to establish the dragon vein belonging to the Qing demon.
The Dragon Vein is not without cost, it requires a large number of hybrids to function. Therefore, after the Tatars established the country, they captured hybrids everywhere and sacrificed them to the Dragon Veins to prolong the life of the Tartars.
Throughout the dynasties, the Taqing Dynasty was not the only dynasty that wanted to establish the Dragon Vein, but it cost a lot and only the Taqing Dynasty successfully established the Dragon Vein.
"Then you can't run away if you can't defeat the officers and soldiers?"
Ender was a little confused. The physical strength of hybrids was much higher than that of normal humans. If they couldn't beat them, couldn't they still run away?
Chu Hao sighed, there was no way they could defeat those ordinary-level officers and soldiers, but Qing Yao received guidance from an expert when he established the dragon vein. The dragon vein could not only protect Ta Qing's luck, but also control the demon clan.
"Control Demon, are you referring to those Deadpools?"
Ender was a little surprised by the ability of Dragon Vein. This thing could not only be used as a nuclear bomb to kill the enemy, but it could also control the unconscious Deadpool.
"Yes, according to foreigners' terminology, the demon is indeed called Deadpool."
Chu Hao went on to say that Taqing rarely used Deadpool's power. Apart from activating some Deadpools to capture hybrids, they had never seen Deadpool in action.
"Even though the old witch was driven out of Sijiu City, the monsters didn't even come out to save her."
Chu Hao explained
It is precisely because the Tatars have continuously hunted and killed Chinese hybrids over the past two hundred years that Chinese hybrids are so rare.
"My parents were also captured by Qing Yao and taken to the Dragon Vein. Only my brother and I were left to depend on each other."
When Chu Hao said this, the muscles on his face twitched, trying to cover up the sadness in his eyes.
Seeing Chu Hao who was beginning to act miserably in front of him, Ander had to change the topic to the main topic.
"What happened to Friedrich?"
Chu Hao was silent for a while, seemingly trying to calm down, and then continued.
"Brother Lu introduced Mr. Fu, so naturally we dare not neglect him, but it is impossible for him to do such a prodigal thing as selling his land..."
After Friedrich came to China, he quickly connected with the Tiandi Society. He did not understand the situation in China, but regarded the Tiandi Society as an underground organization similar to a secret party.
At the request of the secret party, Friedrich purchased antiquities related to the Dragon Clan in China. These antiquities were naturally available in the World, but most of them were heirlooms of various families and could not be sold.
So the demon slayers in the Tiandihui tried every means to get some useless scrap paper, or particularly dangerous alchemy tools, and sold them to the secret party to cheat... ah no, in exchange for some funds.
"So you think the secret party is the enemy?"
Ender felt that he had done the right thing by kidnapping this guy, and he actually heard such an interesting thing.
Ange stood aside with a dark face, remembering that there was a time when the antiquities coming from China were either waste paper covered with crazy words, or extremely dangerous alchemy items.
For example, pottery figurines that can kill people, Hanfu that can strangle people when worn, etc.
At that time, the secret party thought they had found a treasure. He and Meneke had been fighting against those alchemical items during that time. In the end, they found that those alchemical items were unusable and they would only try to kill everyone who came close to them.
"So that's it..."
Ange looked at Chu Hao in front of him. The secret party had been kept in the dark by Lu Shanyan from the beginning. He didn't even know that he had been taken advantage of and had lost a lot of wealth in vain.
"We are willing to sell things to foreigners. That is your blessing."
Chu Hao obviously has no compunction about cheating the secret party of money. Taking money from foreigners is called robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
Ender paid no attention to Angers, who seemed about to get angry. He hadn't finished hearing his story yet.
"Then how did Friedrich get involved with Dragon Vein?"
The story continues. Friedrich is not a person who doesn't know what to buy. After being defrauded of a lot of money by the Tiandihui, he probably came to his senses and proposed to go to Sijiu City to find some older objects.
The Tiandihui would not be able to catch a fat sheep, but the old witch in Sijiu City happened to be fleeing. The Tiandihui also wanted to build a base in the capital with the help of foreigners.
So Friedrich hit it off with the Tiandihui and followed a Tiandihui team northward.
On the other side, the demon slayers who had gained a lot of wealth also started their plan to explode the dragon veins. After purchasing explosives and firearms, they suddenly discovered that they had forgotten a very important thing.
Where is the dragon vein?
"You guys don't even know where the dragon veins are?"
Ender shouted directly, "What have the Heaven and Earth Society been doing these past few hundred years, drinking tea and fishing?"
Chu Hao avoided Ander's gaze and argued:
"Qing Yao is hunting down demon slayers everywhere. Many inheritances have been broken. How can we find the dragon veins?"
In China, due to the imperial court's arrest of hybrids, many of the original demon-slayer families were ruined, and most of their inheritance was cut off. Even if they wanted to learn knowledge related to the dragon clan, they had no place to learn it.
The person with the highest academic qualifications in the Tiandihui is Lu Shanyan, who graduated from the Tongwen School of the Capital. According to the standards of later generations, he has a bachelor's degree. He only studied English translation, and his knowledge of dragons is far inferior to Anger.
So these mixed-race people who haven't even graduated from elementary school don't know how to find dragon veins. At this time, someone suggested that we don't have much culture, but there happens to be a cultured person here.
So Friedrich, an archaeologist with a high degree of education and knowledge about dragons, became the only candidate to find dragon veins.
"You can just trust a foreigner to help you find dragon veins?"
"There are brothers watching him, not to mention we didn't tell him openly."
Chu Hao explained that under his instruction, the Heaven and Earth Society secretly revealed the news about the Dragon Vein. Friedrich was indeed fooled. After searching tirelessly for a while, Friedrich planned to go to Tongwan City, where the most important place was.
Possible locations.
After hearing the whole story, Ander couldn't help but sigh: