Zhou family, Enlightenment Pavilion.

The tea is fragrant and the music is beautiful.

In the main hall, there are two people sitting upright, it is Zhou Wuzheng, the head of the Zhou family, and Zhou Ke's father, Zhou Botong.

The two of them discussed something important in a whisper, and suddenly there was a hurried sound of slamming the door outside the door.

The two immediately stopped talking, Zhou Botong glanced at Zhou Wu, and after getting permission from the head of the family, he raised his voice and said to the door:

"Come in!"

After a while, a mercenary of the Zhou family walked in with high spirits, arched his hand and said:

"The head of the house, the head of the hall, my subordinates want to tell you a great news!"

Zhou Wu's face was expressionless, and the ancient well was unwavering, but Zhou Botong's eyes flashed with golden light, and he said in surprise:

"Could it be that you have news of Zhou Ke's kid?"

The mercenary nodded, smiled and said:

"The hall master guessed correctly. Yesterday, when a group of demon hunters of our Zhou family was hunting in the Valley of the Earth, they accidentally found a person who looked very similar to Zhou Ke, so they immediately chased after him. However, because the man was moving too fast, we didn't catch up, so we lost it. Now that the others continued to search in the Valley of the Sunset, their subordinates came over to tell them the good news. ”

Zhou Botong stroked his palms and laughed, and said excitedly:

"Hahaha, I knew that this little hairy head would be fine, great, recently let the various city-states of our Zhou family attach great importance to this matter, if that kid returns to which city-state, he must notify me as soon as possible......!

Zhou Wu, who was high on the dragon's head sofa chair, was expressionless, waved his hand and said:

"If there's nothing else to do, go down first!"

Zhou Botong glanced at the old man, coughed dryly, suppressed his excitement, nodded and said:

"Well, go down, let the people in the Valley of the Earth and the Sunset intensify their search, and if you find that kid, say it's my order, and let him come back immediately!"

"Yes, my subordinates understand!"

With that, the mercenary exited the room.

Zhou Wu, as the head of the Zhou family, is naturally very fond of the heirs of the Zhou family, but after all, a bowl of water is difficult to level, in this world of the weak and the strong, the strong have always been respected, and strength is supreme.

In Zhou Wu's impression, Zhou Ke has always been a cynical and unscrupulous descendant, when everyone is studying hard and comprehending the source power, he is soaking in the library and the hall of ancient books all day long, engaging in research that is of little use, and occasionally creating some strange mechanical gadgets, which cause explosions or destruction from time to time, in short, he is a master who constantly causes trouble.

There was one thing in particular that Zhou Wu was particularly impressed, at that time, a city lord within the Zhou family's sphere of influence came to pay tribute and sent Zhou Wu a piece of armor dismantled by a rare black pupil machine demon bulldozing crab - passivation crab armor! This crab armor can blunt the weapon when resisting the attack of the weapon, which is a good piece of armor, and the grade is the ground level.

In this world, any item can be identified as a level, including weapons, secret treasures, props, etc., their levels are divided into: mortal level, earth level, heavenly pole, holy level and god level, the specific level needs to be identified by a professional appraiser to be able to judge, but some items in the process of identification, if the qualification is too ordinary or the workmanship is poor, it is possible to shatter and collapse, some items with very good materials are also likely to be destroyed in the identification, so there are many secret treasure weapons will not be taken out for identification.

But in any case, the prefecture-level armor is also a rare treasure in the ancient kingdom of Hanbang.

Zhou Wu placed it in the Treasure Pavilion, and occasionally took it out to show the guests, but he was never willing to use it.

Later, once the Zhou family encountered a big trouble, Zhou Botong was about to attack to quell the turmoil of a certain city-state, this expedition was very dangerous, so Zhou Wu endured the pain and cut his love, and handed over the passivated crab shell to Zhou Botong for use.

Zhou Botong put the passivated crab armor on his body, and with his own combat power and the blessing of the passivated crab armor, he quickly wiped out the rebellious enemy army and won a complete victory.

But what Zhou Botong didn't expect was that after his son Zhou Ke discovered this treasure armor, he coveted it for a long time.

Later, in order to study the secret of a certain part of the passivated crab shell, Zhou Ke secretly stole the passivated crab shell when Zhou Botong was not paying attention, and dismantled the passivated crab shell, saying that he wanted to find out what chip from it.

As a result, the passivated crab shell was disassembled, but Zhou Ke did not find any so-called chips from it.

This made Zhou Botong half angry, and taught his son Zhou Ke a lesson, and locked him up for three days, but he didn't make more punishments.

After all, Zhou Botong is still more protective of calves, and he especially likes his eldest son. Later, Zhou Botong wanted to lie to the head of the family, saying that the passivated crab armor was destroyed during the battle, and he resisted the responsibility. 、

But what he didn't expect was that this matter was told by Zhou Ke's younger brother Zhou Cong, so that Zhou Wu knew the truth.

This made Zhou Wu furious, confined Zhou Ke, and confiscated many of his tools for dismantling machine demon parts.

After this incident, Zhou Wu had a very bad impression of Zhou Ke, thinking that he not only did not learn and did not know how to learn, but also did not seek progress, had no great potential, and was still a loser. In contrast, Zhou Cong not only became a source martial artist at the age of 18, but also was talented and very smart, so he was very popular with Zhou Wu.

Because of this, after Zhou Ke was abducted and trafficked, although the Zhou family also used their strength to search, they did not do their best to investigate the matter. In addition, Zhou Cong was blowing the wind in Zhou Wu's ears from time to time, so Zhou Wu temporarily pressed this matter down.

Although Zhou Botong was very worried about the safety of his eldest son, he did not dare to disobey the will of the head of the family, so he had to temporarily resign himself to fate and send a small force to continue to search for Zhou Ke's whereabouts.

Now that the hard work has finally paid off, and the news of Zhou Ke has been found, Zhou Botong is naturally very happy.

When the mercenary left, Zhou Wu's face sank, and he said solemnly:

"Bertong, now that Wu Bang and Wei Meng are pressing forward step by inch, if we don't use some tough measures, the knives of the two of them can no longer be hidden. ”

The joy on Zhou Botong's face quickly converged, and he frowned and said:

"Father, having said that, Shu Ting's side has never expressed a position on this matter, so we can't preemptively strike. The two of them provoked the incident in order to deliberately provoke us, and now they want us to fight back. Now among the four major forces of the ancient kingdom of Hanbang, our Zhou family is the weakest, and even the Shu court, which is harmonious with us on the surface, has ulterior motives, if we want to survive in such an environment, we must be extra careful, I still don't approve of taking the initiative. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Wu also sighed and said:

"Hey...... It's a pity...... The rookie descendants of the Zhou family in recent years are really too modest, looking at the entire ancient country of Hanbang, if compared with the ordinary source martial artists, the Zhou family's erlang is still superior, but if it is compared with the young powerhouses of the other three major forces, it is really too inferior. Hey, when will our Zhou family be able to produce a Sun Tianyao and a Cao Luo!"

Zhou Botong also frowned and said with relief:

"Father, don't worry, our Zhou family will definitely be able to tide over the difficulties, and our reserve force is also growing rapidly. Not to mention the talented Zhou Feiyang, even Zhou Cong and Zhou Xiao have been promoted to the Black Pupil One Heavy Heaven, if we increase their training, increase the training intensity of these little guys, and cooperate with the secret treasure we got a while ago, maybe we will be able to take the lead in the Dragon Chase Meeting and win back face for our Zhou family. ”

Zhou Wu's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise:

"Yes, yes, Zhou Feiyang, that kid doesn't care about him for now, especially Zhou Cong and Zhou Xiao, we must let the two of them hurry up and train, and break through to the Black Pupil Double Heaven before the Dragon Chasing Meeting!"

"Okay, don't worry, the head of the family!" Zhou Botong agreed.

At this time, in another luxurious courtyard of the Zhou family, Zhou Cong, who received the secret letter, was also surprised.

His face was frightened and frightened, as if he were a wooden man, standing straight in place, squeezing the black secret letter in his hand with some trembling, and kept muttering to himself:

"I'm dreaming, no...... No way...... Impossible...... How is this possible?"

In the black secret letter in his hand, Magellan clearly wrote that Zhou Ke escaped from prison and killed three strong people in Shu Ting, including Liu Yeying.

This is simply a fantasy for Zhou Cong, his own brother is obviously the tail of the crane of the Zhou family, and he doesn't even have the qualifications of a source martial artist, why did he suddenly become a super strong man now?

Zhou Cong couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it.

Zhou Cong is even more worried that if Zhou Ke really comes back and reveals what he has done, what awaits him will be punishment from the entire family, and he will be spurned by all the clansmen.

Thinking of this, Zhou Cong immediately came back to his senses, his eyes flashed with a cold light, and he crumpled the letter into a ball, and then burned it in the palm of his hand.

He returned to the study and immediately compiled a MeSign chip with an electronic password, and asked a very trusted subordinate to wrap the chip in an envelope and give it to Qiu Bulai in the Heilan Trading Field.

The subordinate took the letter with great joy, and received a reward of 500 gold coins, wondering where to spend his time and drink, and was very satisfied with the errand.

But what he didn't know was that the reason why the thing he gave this time was worth 500 gold coins was naturally for another reason......