Chapter 280: A Bloody Case Caused by a Message
The second prince returned to his mansion with a worried face, and today was the day he talked to his father the most in his life.
The father, who has been pretending to be sick for more than ten years, told him a lot, including his grievances, his majestic cause, and all kinds of plans he will have to do next. The second prince listened for a while, and only felt cold in his heart. He only felt that his father was crazy, and he actually wanted to kill the King of Zhaoyang, and then completely wipe out the entire martial arts to show his immortal merits.
The second prince felt that this was an attempt to destroy the entire Wu Dynasty.
Let's not talk about killing the King of Zhaoyang, if you are lucky, maybe one killer can finish the job. But to eliminate more martial arts? How is this possible.
Hundreds of thousands of outlaws with unique skills, once the imperial court is completely suppressed, the entire Wu Dynasty and all provinces will be boiling. These martial arts people really assassinated the officials of the Wu Dynasty regardless of it, how many people could the Wu Dynasty return to the virtual realm to protect?
Even if there is, if someone assassinates him every once in a while, who else in this Wu Dynasty would dare to be an official. Without the support of the officials at the bottom, the Wu Dynasty collapsed in less than half a year.
In the end, they will only lose both, and then let the alien race take advantage of the situation, and the second prince would rather have a strong martial arts than let the alien invasion. They are all from the Central Plains, and their own people can fight as much as they want behind closed doors, once they are invaded by barbarians and the Western Regions, it will be completely wiped out.
It's just that his father didn't listen to the second prince's admonition, but said disdainfully: "Ce'er, you don't know my arrangements at all, go back and wait." When I clean this mountain and river again, and when it is handed over to you, it must be the time when the Wu Dynasty expands its territory. ”
This can be regarded as a reassurance to the second prince, no matter how the emperor tosses, his position as the prince will be stable. The old emperor is not a fool, the second prince is now his only heir, and it seems that his performance is quite good.
There is a little conceptual conflict, and that is because the second prince doesn't know what hole cards the old emperor has. The old emperor felt that when he completed these immortal deeds, his son would naturally admire him so much.
The second prince could only smile bitterly, it was impossible to persuade his father now, and if he said a few more words, he might lose his position as the prince, or even his head would have to move. The old emperor's paranoid appearance is exactly the same as which of his prince's brothers, and he is indeed biological.
All kinds of worries in my heart, once the emperor's plan is launched, regardless of success or failure, the Wu Dynasty will be greatly damaged. But the second prince can't report to anyone, whether it's King Zhaoyang or Xu Lin, he can only watch quietly, otherwise he will be a traitor to the royal family, and the end will be death without a place to be buried.
Returning home with this concern, his wife saw at a glance that the second prince was wrong, and asked with concern: "Your Highness, the conversation with Governor Xie didn't go well today?" ”
The second prince comforted: "It's not Xie Guangxi's business, it's just that there are some troubles in the court today." ”
Seeing that the second prince didn't seem to want to talk more, the princess didn't ask, but she took out a letter and handed it to the second prince and said, "This is a letter sent by someone today, saying that I hope His Royal Highness will open it in person." ”
The second prince took it, opened it and looked at it, Deng Shi was taken aback, and hurriedly asked his wife, "Who sent this letter?" ”
"This person said that the people sent by the Imperial Sword Sect don't know if it's true or not. But since the head of Xu is a friend of His Royal Highness, I put the letter away. Is there anything written in the letter? ”
The second prince handed the letter over, and the imperial concubine glanced at it and couldn't help but be shocked: "This ...... This is bold and unruly! He wants to kill Governor Xie, and he dares to write to Your Highness? Is this a rebellion? ”
"No, this letter was not written by Xu Lin. His words...... Well, I recognize his handwriting anyway, it's not his letter. ”
"Is there someone trying to sow discord?" The princess was also confused.
"I hope so, too." The second prince comforted himself and said, but he knew in his heart that what was written on this letter was true.
Xie Guangxi conspired with the emperor to deal with the entire martial arts, and the first place to make a move was naturally Tiannan Province, where Xie Guangxi was the governor, and Xu Lin's Imperial Sword Gate was naturally the first to bear the brunt. Although I don't know how Xu Lin knew, it was strange that he was tied up.
It's just that this letter inevitably came too quickly, could he have known about it a month ago?
How did the second prince know that Xu Lin just sent a task to the two female apprentices, asking them to send a message to the second prince. How easy it is for players to send letters, post a post on the forum, and let players in the capital write a letter and send it over, it won't take a day at all.
Xu Lin is a Jianghu person, although he is reluctant to talk about the rules of the imperial court, but he also has his own set of rules. Xie Guangxi was the governor of a province and a feudal official of the imperial court. And the second prince is now the de facto prince of the Wu Dynasty, but Xu Lin has a good relationship with the second prince.
Therefore, before killing people, he had to send a letter to the second prince, telling him that Xie Guangxi was going to exterminate his Imperial Sword Gate in Tiannanxing, and now he could only fight back. As for whether the second prince would remind Xie Guangxi, or directly break with the Imperial Sword Gate, that was not something Xu Lin needed to consider.
If the second prince really turned his face with Xu Lin because of this, then Xu Lin didn't mind having fewer friends.
Sometimes you really don't need to think too much about it.
But Xu Lin didn't expect that as soon as his message was sent, the second prince was reading the letter, and Xie Guangxi had already encountered an assassination.
This is not Xu Lin's hand, others are still in Tiannan, and they will not be able to reach the capital in ten days and half a month. It's just that Xu Lin sent a message through the player, so that the players received an incorrect message - the protagonist of the plane is going to kill the official? Rebel? Epic quest?!
The player's thinking ability is always so jumpy at this time, so countless "smart people" are ready to kill this Xie Guangxi in advance. A big boss with an epic mission, if you brush it in advance, how much benefit can it have?
Don't look at the fact that there are no quests yet, that's because players haven't triggered them yet, and once they start to affect the main story, they will definitely trigger related quests.
This idea is the deep impression that Squirrel Hang has left on others after posting again and again to provoke all players. Squirrel Hang has always said that he is so awesome, just because he is enough to "die" and trigger several epic tasks.
From worshipping the Imperial Sword Gate, to raising trouble, to meeting the prince by chance, it was all triggered by his "subjective initiative". It's a lie, but the other players don't know it.
Although Squirrel Hang is a hateful, he is indeed a member of the high-end players, and the gameplay strategy passed on must be correct, and it is also in line with everyone's speculation.
So, don't care if there is a mission or not, Xie Guangxi must die!
As soon as he came down from the morning court, Xie Guangxi was ready to go back to the house to pack his luggage. He came back to the capital to report on his work only because the second prince wanted to figure out his thoughts, and now the old emperor personally came forward to explain to the second prince, there is no need for him to continue to stay, and go directly back to Tiannan to continue to complete his plan with the emperor.
It's just that as soon as the old man came out of the palace gate, three hidden weapons flew from different directions, stabbing Xie Guangxi's eyes, throat and chest. It's all about the essentials, and they're all here to kill people.
If Xie Guangxi was really just an ordinary old man, this assassination might have been successful. However, Xie Guangxi was a master of returning to the void with the ability to suppress Qingsheng Zhenren, just listening to his cold snort, and with a wave of his long sleeves, he let these three hidden weapons shoot back.
There were three muffled sounds, and three players fell to the ground in a hidden corner. The master of returning to the virtual realm counterattacked with one move, and the three players in the god transformation stage were killed in seconds.
At this time, the guards outside the imperial city reacted and hurriedly guarded Xie Guangxi.
Xie Guangxi said in a cold tone: "No need, go and bring back the corpses of those thieves, this official wants to see who dares to assassinate the court officials outside the imperial city." ”
Directly assassinating a feudal official outside the imperial city, this touches the bottom line of the imperial court, what is it to kill three people, how can you keep the majesty of the imperial court without losing hundreds of heads?
The bodies of the three players were quickly dragged over, and they were all killed by their own hidden weapons, and as soon as they pierced the body, the true qi attached to the hidden weapons directly destroyed the meridians of the whole body.
Xie Guangxi looked at the three of them, except that they all looked good, but he didn't find anything suspicious.
"The masters of the Transformation God Realm in the capital will not be nameless, go and check!" Xie Guangxi instructed the guards of the imperial city.
Although he was the governor of Tiannan Province, as an old minister of the Three Dynasties, these imperial city guards also knew his status, and they did not dare to take the order without the slightest hesitation.
Xie Guangxi continued to walk home, but he did not encounter any danger on the way. It's just that his face didn't ease at all, because he felt that this assassination was not simple. Who is going to kill him, and at this critical time, is the emperor's plan already leaking out?
"Could it be the Earl of Kongsan?"
Xie Guangxi is accustomed to calling Xu Lin with the habits of officialdom, because in his opinion, the identity of a martial arts person is actually not in the stream. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, what is this martial arts person?
It's just that as soon as this idea was mentioned, he denied it himself. Because this timeline is not right, Xu Lin sent his son Xie Feiyun back not long ago, and it seems that he is planning to talk to him.
But it's only been a few days, and the two haven't even seen each other, so what reason does Xu Lin have to kill himself?
According to Xie Guangxi's understanding of Xu Lin, this is not a moody person, and it can even be said that he is quite cautious and benevolent. The reason why Xu Lin helped the second prince to seize the heir, Xie Guangxi also knew, it was completely for the sake of the common people of the entire Tiannan, and he wanted to borrow the power of the second prince to deal with the barbarians.
Xie Guangxi also admired such a character, and felt that Xu Lin was different from those martial arts people who were not satisfied with Wang Hua's fly camp. Such a person, even if he kills someone, will not pretend to be a talent, let alone send such an unpopular killer.
"Who would it be? Could it be that someone in the court wants my life? ”
Xie Guangxi began to list the people who had contradictions with him among the court officials, and then denied them one by one, and he was really a little puzzled for a while. Rubbing his eyebrows, his old wife did not follow him back to Beijing, so no one could give him a hot towel to relieve this exhaustion at this time.
Xie Guangxi sighed and prepared to boil some water for himself to take a bath. He was in a relaxed mood at this time, because according to common sense, after the assassination failed, the mastermind behind the scenes would not act rashly, and maybe he would be scared out of the flaws.
Who would have thought that the second assassination would come so quickly and so intensely.
As soon as Xie Guangxi wanted to ask his subordinates to prepare hot water, he heard someone shouting: "Go to the water!" Walk the water! ”
Xie Guangxi walked out of the study and saw that half of the house was burning. I don't know what kind of oil the firefighters used to burn so quickly and so strongly.
People were in a panic, some wanted to put out the fire, some wanted to run for their lives, and some didn't know what they were doing.
Xie Guangxi was so angry that his beard was blown, is there still a royal law?
"Don't mess around, this fire can't be extinguished, escape first!" Xie Guangxi shouted loudly.
The subordinates finally found the backbone and began to leave the mansion in an orderly manner.
Although Xie Guangxi's life is very simple, the mansion is not luxurious. But after all, he is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and he is a high-ranking and powerful figure, so naturally he will not mix with the common people, and there is a lot of open space around. Therefore, this burn only burned most of his mansion, but it did not spread.
It's just that this is shocking enough, the imperial court officials were assassinated when they left the imperial city, and they were set on fire when they returned home, this is the capital!
When the person in the palace heard the news, he was so angry that he dropped several cups, and he didn't even pretend to be sick, and roared loudly: "Check! I must check it thoroughly! Find the murderer, Ling Chi! ”
In this way, the vigorous search began, and the capital began to rumor that everyone was in danger.
Xu Lin didn't know that he had caused such a big trouble with a message, and he didn't run to the capital at this time, but contacted Yun Ge again, hoping to have an interview with the gold medal killer of the Blue World Gate, Ling Lingjiu.
This time, he wants to kill Xie Guangxi and destroy the Five Immortal Sect, but it is not as simple as words. Xu Lin's martial arts are indeed very strong, but if the governor was so easy to kill, the Wu Dynasty would have been destroyed a long time ago. Xu Lin hoped that he could find the Qingjiemen for help, and he didn't say that he was begging the Qingjiemen to assassinate, he hoped that he could ask Ling Lingjiu for assassination techniques.
Qingjiemen killers are famous all over the world, and there are only nine gold medal killers, so there is no problem in saying that it is one of the nine strongest killers in the world. If he could get this guidance, Xu Lin would be able to be a little more sure. If you are lucky, and Zero Zero Nine is willing to help, then you will be sure of nine out of ten.
"Master Xu wants to see the Ninth Master, but this slave can't speak. But if Master Xu can help deliver the 80,000 taels of cash safely, then this favor Ninth Master will definitely not be stingy at sight. Yun Ge lowered his eyebrows and said to Xu Lin.
At this time, before the team delivering the silver had left Tiannan, it had already encountered more than ten robberies on the way. Fortunately, there are enough masters of the Qingjie Gate, and they have repeatedly repelled the other party, and they have not lost a single cart of silver.
But this is still far from the destination, and it is definitely a good thing to have one more master to return to the Void Realm to support it.
Xu Lin also understood that he was begging for someone, and the previous Imperial Sword Gate had no friendship with the Qingjie Gate, and only by giving Ling Lingjiu a favor first, it was possible to ask him for help.
"In that case, then count me as one. But don't call me Master Xu, from now on, I am Xiong Chumo, a star picker. Xu Lin said to Yun Ge.