After the family meeting, Cheng Jinyang came out of the conference hall and let out a long breath of turbidity.

He suddenly felt an irrepressible sadness, as if the second uncle had died in vain.

Well.

Although if you think about it carefully, at least from the time you agreed to join the military adventure project to the day when Yu Yuangui re-issued the call-up, the Shendu Cheng clan did have a safe time, allowing the clansmen who were tired from the war to breathe.

Although it is indeed inevitable that people will die and the government will die, and now that there is no Divine Capital Cheng Clan of the Five Rank Abilities, it is indeed necessary to export more radical loyalty to maintain the status of the Shi Clan.

Although the second uncle was willing to sacrifice for the family, even after learning that Taicheng had now repented, Huaiyan Yuexian did not blame himself for the original decision.

But......

Cheng Jinyang felt as if he was holding back a fire in his heart, which would gush out along his throat at any time. He wanted to find a place to vent, even if it was a simple yelling.

Yet reason told him that there was no point in doing so.

He is the patriarch of the Shendu Cheng clan, so he should put aside any personal feelings and look at the problem from the level of pure interests.

But.

Alas.

It feels like it's about to blow up.

"What's wrong with you?" The voice of the young girl sounded beside her.

"I want to kill." Cheng Jinyang said.

"Kill whom?"

"Kill some demons...... Something like that. ”

"Fool." Qingqing smiled, "I can see that you have been under a lot of pressure lately. ”

"But killing...... It's not the right way to decompress, why don't you learn to cook with me? At the very least, washing fruit and chopping vegetables can really calm down. ”

"Just cook. However, it's strange to say that 'killing is not the right way to decompress'. ”

"Is it strange? But I think I'm the best qualified to say it. Chu Qingqing said with a smile, "Escaping reality with the help of killing is essentially an escape. Because I'm still in it, I don't want you to fall in with me. ”

"Jinyang, you've put too much pressure on yourself lately. Not everything can be done quickly by relying on desperate efforts, forcibly adding unbearable burdens to yourself, and the final result will only be to crush yourself. ”

"Wow, how can you be so gentle?" Cheng Jinyang was shocked, "Is this the so-called contrast cute?" ”

So, when she hugged me from behind while she was sleeping last night, she also saw that I had been stressed too much recently, so she comforted me in this way? Damn, suddenly there is a maternal light springing up, Qingqing, don't add people to yourself anymore!

"What do you mean by contrasting cuteness?" Chu Qingqing said angrily, "After all, I'm also a girl, okay, isn't it normal to be empathetic?" ”

"Well, thanks for the enlightenment." Cheng Jinyang said sincerely.

"So you're in a better mood now?"

"It's barely better, if I can eat the delicious lunch made by the young girl, I guess I can fully recover,"

"Don't even think about it!" Chu Qingqing sneered and said, "In your own clan land, let your cooks make it for you!" ”

"It makes me sad so much, so the comfort just now is just a polite word?" Cheng Jinyang covered his chest and made a gesture of disbelief.

“…… What do you want to eat at noon? The young girl said she couldn't bear it.

"Is it okay to have shrimp with egg and black pepper steak?"

"Yes."

Chu Qingqing turned around and walked a few steps, and heard Cheng Jinyang ask behind him:

"Hey, Qingqing...... You've been lately, are you alright? ”

She was silent for a moment, then lowered her eyelids:

"It's fine."

"What ...... last night?"

"It was an accident."

Accidental?

Seeing the young girl leave, Cheng Jinyang stood silently for a long time and shook his head.

——————

Chu Qingqing cooked in person, and the food was really delicious, not to mention Cheng Jinyang, even Yang Wangshu almost swallowed his tongue when he ate it, and he couldn't wait to take off his mask and eat it.

After lunch, his mood also improved, and he began to seriously study the intelligence materials on the front line in Jiangning District.

In the afternoon, however, another piece of news interrupted his good mood.

Tianluo caught the rebels alive on the front line, and it was Cheng Yizhou, the eldest son of Uncle Cheng Qingxin.

The other party seems to have gone crazy, and when he was caught, he resisted desperately, and several of his own Tianluo were slightly injured because of this.

Of course, this matter is very wrong, because Cheng Yizhou is the same age as him, and the bloodline level at this time should only be nine grades, and Cheng Qingxin should not send him to the battlefield no matter what...... What does it mean to be crazy?

When he came to the family dungeon, Cheng Jinyang saw that Cheng Yizhou was firmly trapped by the restraint suit of the mental hospital, with a mouth ball in his mouth to prevent himself from biting his tongue, and a helmet on his head.

"From the moment he was captured, he continued to engage in self-harm and even suicide. We can only tranquilize him, restrict his movements, and then confirm the situation with him in a virtual environment where the brain domain is developed. ”

Cheng Yuexian's face turned pale, and she said with difficulty:

"At the moment, it seems that he has been brainwashed."

"Brainwashing?" Cheng Jinyang was silent for a moment, and then he had already guessed the answer.

"So, what about the others?"

There was a long silence.

"Judging from the battlefield intelligence, the uncle who entered Jiankang City is a disciple of the Cheng family." Cheng Yuexian closed her eyes in pain, "All of them are dead men who have lost their normal sanity. ”

Cheng Jinyang was stunned.

In other words, the uncle who defected to the Duke of Wuchang County has ended.

All of them were brainwashed by Wang Chuzhong's abilities and turned into consumables on the battlefield.

But why?

"You ......" he didn't know what to say for a while, until all the impulses in his mind slowly calmed down and his reason returned to consciousness, "...... first Let's do it first. ”

"I'll ask Wang Wanrou to come over and have a look."

Miss Wang soon arrived at the Cheng clan's land. When I went down to the dungeon, I saw Cheng Jinyang sitting on a chair at the end of the corridor, quietly waiting for him to come over.

The light cast from the window high in the wall and fell on the gloomy ground, and he sat behind the light, the whole person was shrouded in shadow, his face and upper body could not be seen clearly, and his hands were on his knees, as if he was contemplating something.

This suddenly reminded her of when she was a child, she once went to Taicheng to find her father, who was the first assistant at the time. At that time, my father happened to be reporting to the emperor, and when he heard that Shoufu's youngest daughter was waiting outside, the emperor graciously allowed her to come in and wait.

Led by 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. Skylights were opened every few meters at the height of the walls of the corridor, and columns of light pierced through the hem of the curtain at the top of the gallery to greet the imperial flag, and landed on the carpet that stretched into the distance, and the dust floating in the air swirled slightly.

However, the emperor still sat in the shadows, and the entire throne was not contaminated by any light, as if it had become one with the darkness.

Just like Cheng Jinyang today.

Such thoughts only turned in her mind for a moment, Wang Wanrou quickly came back to her senses, accompanied by Cheng Yuexian, walked into the prison room, and checked the mental state of Cheng Yizhou, who was bound.

"Brainwashing." Miss Wang said lightly, "And it is very thorough, all subjective will has been erased, and only the rigid thinking of destroying the Jiankang court and the emperor is left." ”

"Is there a cure?" Cheng Jinyang's voice came from the shadows.

"Yes." Wang Wanrou said.

Cheng Yuexian breathed a sigh of relief.

"But it depends on what you want to fix him." Wang Wanrou continued.

"What do you mean?" Cheng Yuexian asked in a trembling voice.

"I told you so." Wang Wanrou frowned and said, "His subjective will has been erased, which means that the personality that originally belonged to him has been completely destroyed." To use the soul metaphor, it is like the other party completely hollowed out the soul named 'Cheng Yizhou', and then stuffed a bunch of simple and crude mechanical thinking patterns into it, making him a pure dead man. ”

"I can get rid of the logic of those dead people's thinking. However, if this is all he wants, he will become an idiot who doesn't know anything, because the things that originally belonged to 'Cheng Yizhou' in his soul are gone, understand? ”

"Even if you completely delete the files on your computer, there is still a possibility of recovering them." Cheng Jinyang asked in a low voice, "Can you fix him, Wanrou?" ”

"Please."