opened the door, and sure enough, it was Xiao Yun, the housekeeping attendant, who showed him a standard business smile.

Cheng Jinyang got out of the way, and Xiao Yun came in briskly, picking up a broom and dustpan from the balcony.

"Today's living room is a bit dirty, and it needs to be cleaned properly." It began to sweep the living room tiles, and said in a clear voice.

"yes, then I'm bothering you." Cheng Jinyang responded casually.

"It's the same with this world." Xiao Yun still lowered her head, and the indicator light on her temples flickered on and on, "If a dynasty rules for too long, the upper class is easy to become corrupt. Flies, dogs, snakes, and rats, if not cleaned well, will only become more and more unsuitable for human survival. ”

Cheng Jinyang: ???

Ah, this ...... Hacked by a housekeeping robot?

"Look at your surprised look, it seems that the family and the royal princess haven't told you anything." The housekeeping robot Xiao Yun continued to sweep the floor and said lightly, "Why did the Central Plains of Shenzhou fall, and why the Sima family became the enemy of the scholar clan, don't you know any of this?" ”

Cheng Jinyang was silent for a moment and said:

"I want to hear about it."

"Huh." Seeing that he didn't resist and resisted, the mastermind behind the hacking of the synthetics chuckled, "It all started with Emperor Xuan back then." ”

"Sima Zhongda, a hero who is difficult to come out of the world, Wen Taowu is the best. However, in his later years, he also made the same mistake as the First Emperor, that is, the pursuit of immortality. ”

"Under the auspices of the emperor, mechanical transformation and gene technology were carried out in parallel, and the whole country devoted its efforts to research and development. The former uses mechanical parts to replace aging bodily organs, while the latter uses cloning technology...... Either way, it's essentially an attempt to slow down aging, or even defeat death. ”

Cheng Jinyang listened quietly, thinking that it was no wonder that the technology line of this world was ridiculously high, it turned out that the predecessors of the traverser had engaged in a Cold War project, but the enemy of the Cold War was not another superpower, but the aging and death of mankind itself.

"The more he reached his old age, the more brutal the emperor's temper became, on the one hand, he could clearly feel his own aging, and on the other hand, the level of technology climbed too fast, so that he often had the illusion that the next technological breakthrough could achieve immortality. As a result, the entire empire was like a steam train running at full speed, and the mad emperor sat in the boiler room, constantly stuffing more coal into the boiler. ”

"And then, he failed?" Cheng Jinyang asked in a deep voice.

"Failed." The synthesizer said lightly, "Even if you haven't been able to achieve immortality now, it is enough to show that this technological node is actually much higher than Sima Zhongda expected." ”

"But we're not talking about this, we're talking about the family."

"In Sima Zhongda's time, the family had no supernatural bloodline, just oligarchs who monopolized resources and connections in various places. The emperor hated this kind of monopoly very much, so since he seized power and came to power, he has constantly suppressed the family and supported the poor. ”

This policy was also carried out by every emperor since him, namely increasingly radical centralized reforms. For the most part, it was the Imperial Power that triumphed, until the advent of the Ability Bloodline, which gave the Maison power for the first time that could not be seized by the powerful. ”

"Wait, how did the Bloodline of Abilities come about?" Cheng Jinyang interrupted.

"It originated from Sima Zhongda's madness before he was about to die, but that's another story." The other party seemed to be a little displeased, "In short, almost 100 years ago, the reigning emperor Sima Zhengdu, in order to curb the rise and growth of the Alien Family, adopted the method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle - trying to implant the bloodline of the Alien Family into the bodies of civilians. ”

"The implanted bloodline of this top-secret experiment chose the 'physical activation' of the Li clan in Longxi, because this bloodline is a rare ability that does not require an algorithm to passively take effect, so it can be easily verified after transplantation. The experiment initially seemed to be very successful, but after a few months it took a breakdown. ”

Speaking of this, the other party deliberately paused.

"I guess the subject leaked?" Cheng Jinyang asked tentatively.

"Nope." The other party denied it, saying, "This top-secret experiment has been carried out for three periods, and the abnormal traits are very obvious on the subject. So Sima Zhengdu, that idiot, was self-righteous and carried out a large-scale inoculation and transplantation in the emperor's Praetorian Guard without telling everyone. ”

"Then the mutation broke out, and the vast majority of the Praetorian Guards, after a few weeks, had different parts of the tissue, and then the mass cell collapsed and died, and only one female soldier survived, but the body was also mutated beyond recognition, and lost the rationality of being human...... They are the prototype of the first demons. ”

So were the demons made by the royal family in the first place? Cheng Jinyang listened to it with a smacking tongue.

"That is." The other party continued, "Sima Zhengdu used the power of the emperor to secretly arrange all this, and everyone was kept in the dark. It wasn't until after the Demon Cataclysm broke out that the scholars were able to restore the outline of what happened before the Cataclysm based on the broken information they had at hand - which is why the royal family is now spurned by all the scholars. ”

Cheng Jinyang was silent.

He knew that the reason why the other party told him these historical secrets was to incite his hostility and antipathy towards the royal family. However, what the other party didn't know was that he had no feelings for the Sima royal family itself.

I like the princess sister! Sister Princess has nothing to do with that stupid emperor, so you chose the wrong person to sow discord with me.

"I know what you're thinking." The other party seemed to see through his thoughts, and continued, "Follow me." ”

"Where to go?" Cheng Jinyang immediately became vigilant. Want to lure me somewhere else and ambush me?

"Bathroom." The other party said, "After this synth finished cleaning the living room, according to the program route, the next step is to clean the bathroom." ”

Cheng Jinyang: ???

So you're just hacking into the robot's vocalization program? Is it okay to be more professional?

"Of course I have full control over this synth." The other man walked into the bathroom and continued, "But this must have left a record inside this synth and thus attracted the attention of the housekeeping company...... You don't want to be found out on the surface that you have a connection with Wuchang. ”

"Uh-huh, you go on." Cheng Jinyang stood at the door of the bathroom and said.

So Xiao Yun washed the rag and began to wipe the bathtub while saying:

"Let's not pursue the matter of demons, after all, the fall of Shenzhou is a fact, Sima Zhengdu has died in the cataclysm, and it is useless to dig him up and whip his corpse."

"The first question we need to discuss is why the world is the way it is. What do you think is the reason, Cheng Jinyang? ”

"I don't know." Cheng Jinyang replied.

Of course, he was not stupid enough to answer "imperial power", if this was recorded by the other party, and then used as a handle to blackmail himself, wouldn't it be stupid?

"It's the imperial power." The other party gave the answer, "The development of science and technology has strengthened the concentration of power. In Sima Zhengdu's time, even the Zaifu were just tools of the emperor, so the emperor could hide from the people of the world to create demons. ”

Cheng Jinyang was noncommittal.

In fact, those who have studied history basically know that the final collapse of most dynasties is basically due to the inability to solve endogenous crises, and these problems are basically accumulated for several generations of chronic diseases, and cannot be simply blamed on the lack of wisdom of the last emperor.

Of course, the emperor is not completely without responsibility, it can only be said that he did not do his job well while he was in his position.

But if what the other party said is true, then the entire Great Jin Kingdom suddenly fell to the bottom from its peak, and it was basically Sima Zhengdu's pot alone.

To put it bluntly, it is the spread of large-scale experimental accidents, how can this thing be washed? It must be who is responsible and who is responsible!