The soft sedan car was parked in a remote palace, I don't know what it was doing here, it was heavily guarded, and there were no eunuchs and eunuchs like Gong'e. The guards guarding the door saw the emperor and knelt on the ground to salute, and the emperor waved his hand and entered in silence. The room is empty, the furnishings are not special, that is, the general study layout, the only strange thing is that this room only has a door, no windows. When I had gone in with him, the guards closed the door, the light in the hall dimmed, and the Emperor went straight to the Bogu Rack, and twisted a celadon vase resting in an inconspicuous corner, which slid open silently, and there was a black doorway in the wall behind the shelf. I was only slightly startled, and then calmed down, it was not strange that there were tunnels in ancient palaces, I had seen too much on TV and in novels. The Emperor turned his head to look at me: "Come here!" ”

Stepping through the doorway, I found a dark passageway, with thick candles burning on the walls on both sides, and the light was dim. The emperor didn't know where he touched the wall, and the door hole was blocked by the Bogu frame just now. I couldn't see clearly, and it was like night in this environment, so I quickly held my hand to the wall to prevent me from falling. For a moment, the emperor's left hand was grabbed in the palm of the emperor's hand, his palm was moist and warm, I was stunned, and then I understood his kindness, so he held it, in the dark, I couldn't see the emperor's expression clearly, only heard him say in a low voice: "Are you afraid?" ”

"Don't be afraid." I smiled, I'm really not afraid, this man may have broken my heart, but he hasn't done anything that really hurt me, "The emperor is here." ”

The hand holding me tightened slightly, and his voice couldn't hear joy or anger: "Let's go, there are steps below, be careful." ”

I cautiously followed him down the steps, which were not long, but made a few turns, presumably leading to the depths of the earth. After staying in the darkness for a long time, the line of sight gradually adjusts to the light in front of me, and the general scene can be distinguished. Finally down the steps, and then walk through a passage, there are forks on the left and right, I don't know where it leads, but the emperor only pulled me forward, there is a closed iron gate in front, outside the iron gate guarded two black-armored guards, saw the emperor, respectfully saluted, took out the key to open the iron door.

Inside the iron door, it is a relatively spacious underground hall, the ground is paved with smooth stone slabs, the wall is also a hard stone wall, there are no candles in the hall, but at the top of the hall and the high place of the four walls, there are more than ten night pearls as big as pigeon eggs, so although there is no sunlight in this hall, the light is much brighter than in the passage, as if it is day. As soon as he stepped into the hall, two men knelt down in front of the emperor, one was dressed as a warrior in Tsing Yi, and the other was dressed in official uniform: "See the emperor!" ”

"Get up!" The emperor did not let go of my hand and led me inside. Although it is deep underground, it does not feel damp, and the air is not stuffy, so I think this hall must have been designed with vents. There are no superfluous furnishings in the underground hall of Nuoda, only a huge iron cage in the middle, the fence of the cage is all iron pipes as thick as a child's arm, one end is embedded in the ceiling, one end is embedded in the ground, there is a person lying in the cage, and the limbs are locked by thick iron chains, I was stunned, it turned out that the bottom of this side hall is a dungeon. The emperor stopped when he was about two meters away from the iron cage and looked at the people inside the cage: "The person you want to see is there." ”

"General Lone?" I glanced at the emperor in surprise and prepared to move forward closer to the cage. The emperor took me by the hand and dragged me back: "Just watch here." ”

"Why are you keeping General Lonely here?" I looked at the cage, and the person in the cage seemed to be asleep, and there was no reaction at all, "What's wrong with General Lone?" ”

The emperor looked at the people in the iron cage and said lightly, "How is he today?" But it was the two people in the room who asked, only to hear the man in official uniform hurriedly reply: "Back to the emperor, Weichen used the soul locking mirror phalanx to suppress the evil spirit, and put soft tendons in the diet, and General Lonely has not woken up. ”

Only then did I see a large bronze mirror around the iron cage, the mirror was written with a strange spell with blood-red cinnabar, the position of the bronze mirror was a little strange, slightly up, I looked in the direction of the copper mirror, only to see that there were four of the same copper mirrors at the top of the surrounding walls, the copper mirror on the ground absorbed the light of the night pearl, refracted to the copper mirror on the top of the wall, and the bronze mirror on the top of the wall reflected the beam down, straight into the iron cage, shining on the body of the lonely cloud, I saw that the body of the silent cloud, Shrouded in a layer of symbolic light and shadow.

I raised my eyes to look at the emperor, and there were infinite doubts in my heart, although I knew that I would soon know the answer, I couldn't help but urge: "Your Majesty? ”

"Supervisor Song, you can remove the soul locking mirror for the time being!" The emperor lightly commanded, leading me to get out of the way a few steps, further away from the iron cage. He had been holding my hand, and his palms were already sweating slightly. There is no obstacle to seeing here, I want to withdraw my hand, but as soon as I move, I was grabbed by him, and I couldn't break free in front of my subordinates, so I had to move. After a while, the emperor's hand loosened and slowly let go of mine.

At this time, the Song Supervisor had already stepped forward and turned the bronze mirror around the iron cage slightly, and the pillar of light reflected by the bronze mirror no longer hit the bronze mirror on the top of the wall, and the spell that shrouded the silent cloud disappeared. The man lying in the iron cage remained motionless, and after a while, his body trembled slightly, and it seemed that the Silent Cloud had woken up. The emperor must have had a good intention in pulling me so far, and I didn't dare to come closer, so I had to watch the reaction of the silent clouds from a distance. The man in the cage sat up, I couldn't see his expression clearly, I could only see his movements, he seemed to look left and right in a daze, turned his head in our direction, suddenly jumped up and pounced on the iron fence, but the chains of his hands and feet restricted his movements, he seemed to be extremely angry, struggled desperately, and pulled the chains with a rattle: "Kill you!" I'll kill you! Kill you! ”

His struggling posture was very strange, like a zombie walking straight on his hands and feet, I was startled by his crazy and weird appearance, and couldn't help but take two steps back, the emperor held my back, and said lightly: "Song Jianzheng, didn't you say that you gave him a soft tendon and a gongsan?" How could he still move? ”

"Back to the emperor, Weichen did serve him, according to the general, it is impossible to exert force, the minister estimates that the power of the evil soul that controls the general is too strong, so he can still control the body of General Shan's powerlessness!" There was a hint of panic in Song Jianzheng's tone, "Wechen is worried, if it goes on like this, the minister's soul locking mirror phalanx will soon not be able to trap General Shan......"

"Put the Soul Mirror back in place." The emperor's face was stern. Song Jian Zheng received the order, hurriedly ran to the soul lock mirror, aimed the soul lock mirror at the bronze mirror on the wall, after the first bronze mirror returned to its place, the bronze mirror on the wall shot out a light talisman, hit the body of the silent cloud, the silent cloud screamed, as if being struck by thunder, the body stiffly fixed on the ground, the whole body convulsed violently, and the mouth was still screaming: "Kill you!" Kill you......"

In the midst of the scolding, a second light talisman struck him again, and he let out another scream, his voice broken and terrible, as if he was suffering a painful capital punishment. I covered my mouth and looked in disbelief at General Lonely in a strange posture in the cage, and I couldn't help but burst into tears. When the third light rune hit him, he couldn't scold anymore, and his screams were much weaker, and when the fourth light rune hit him, his stiff body could no longer move, and he no longer had convulsions, and then he fell straight to the ground like a stone statue that had been pushed.

I was stunned by the strange scene in front of me, and I looked at the silent clouds that had fallen asleep again, and I was speechless for a long time. I only heard the emperor speak: "Look at him well." Then he turned to look at me, his tone still indifferent: "Scared? ”

I looked at him in a daze, speechless, and the emperor turned around and walked towards the iron gate: "Let's go!" ”

I wiped my tears and walked out of the hall behind him, the iron door slamming behind me, and I heard the sound of the black-armored guard's padlock. My gaze fell into darkness again, and the Emperor's hand reached out, and silently led me back the way I came, and I was shocked by what I had just seen, and followed him out of the tunnel without a word, and returned to the palace where the study was arranged.

After the emperor turned the vase mechanism and blocked the hidden doorway, he did not go out of the room, but sat on the soft couch in the room, raised his eyes and said, "Didn't you say that you are not afraid?" ”

"The concubine is not afraid." I bit my lip and followed him, "It's just too shocking." Your Majesty, was the assassin who assassinated you yesterday General Lone? ”

"As you can see, he is completely out of his mind, and his words and actions are completely controlled by evil spirits." The emperor said solemnly. I looked at him in a daze, and my heart suddenly turned upside down: "My eldest brother, was it killed by General Lone?" ”

The emperor raised his eyes to look at me, was silent for a moment, and then said: "He blocked the Shocking Clouds Ice Spirit Knife for me and saved my life, if it weren't for him, it wouldn't have been so easy to subdue Shocking Clouds yesterday......"

My body shook, and the emperor quickly stood up and supported me: "Sit down and talk." ”

He helped me sit on the side of the soft couch, my internal organs were churning badly, my eldest brother was really killed by General Lone, what can I do? Kill General Silence to avenge your eldest brother? He was obviously victimized by someone, and he did something wrong in a state of confusion, what can I do?

"General Lonely will assassinate the emperor because he has been attracted to the soul, right?" I calmed down my chaotic and complicated thoughts a little, and some doubts welled up in my heart, "But does it mean that people who have fallen into the second grade are basically the same as ordinary people?" Even if General Lonely is controlled, it is difficult for ordinary people to notice the abnormality, how can there be such a demented madness symptom? And the time for him to descend should not be enough for the head descender to completely control him, right, what is going on? ”

"The second grade soul pulling down to deal with a strong-willed person does need close hypnosis, step by step to eat away at his will, and wait until the head descending master can completely control the victim." The emperor's face was gloomy and his eyes were cold, "I asked Song Jianzheng, if during the hypnosis process, the hypnotizer accelerates the progress of hypnosis with evil magic, destroys the spirit of the descendant in an inhuman way, makes him unbearable, and his mind is confused, like madness, at this time, he only remembers the orders instilled in him by the hypnotist, and he will not be awake again, just like the soul of the lower three grades." ”

Song Jianzheng must be the chief official of Si Tiantai, and what he said should not be false. If it was true that the hypnotist was Se Carmen, why did she let the second-grade soul-pulling technique that had taken so much effort to perform the successful second-grade soul-pulling technique become the lower-third-grade soul-pulling technique? Wouldn't it be more useful to control a puppet that looks like a normal person than to control a puppet that is confused and unconscious? Why did she do this kind of thing of losing her wife and losing her soldiers? Could it be that her plans have changed? What's changing? Forcing her to give up such a good move? Could it be that she sensed the crisis, so she ignored it, changed her plan, and fought hard? Her plan is so secretive, even I just guess that there is something wrong with her, how can she have such a hunch? Did I startle the snake? I carefully recalled the situation of going to the Silent Mansion to investigate that day, and suddenly remembered that when Sai Carmen heard Mr. Fu say that the Silent Horror Cloud had a black face and must have come into contact with something unlucky, he was so shocked that he knocked over the medicine bowl in his hand, and now I recall her expression at that time, it was really a little weird, could it really be that it alarmed her at that time? After thinking about it deeply, I felt that Mr. Fu's performance was a bit excessive, why did he say that in front of General Shan? Even when he was about to go out, he made a special trip to explain to Secammen that he paid attention to General Shan's face, he knew that we were going to investigate secretly, and we couldn't startle the snake, why did he think about it at this time, but it seemed that he was deliberately startling the snake? Why did Mr. Fu do this? Don't...... What is the collusion between Mr. Fu and Sai Carmen, could it be that he is the head descender behind her?

My eyes widened, and I broke out in a cold sweat at the thought that had just come to me.

――2007、5、13

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Zeng Yue's "Really Stupid":

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