Once, when Yussi tried to state his plan to Qiu Xuan, he mentioned some rumors about the beams.

In the beginning, there was no such thing as Drow or Otsay on the entire continent, and people lived on the same land regardless of language or ethnicity. And when the first "beam" in history appeared, there was a balance in the world.

No one knows how the first beam appeared, it was like a miracle that suddenly appeared there. It was only later that people reacted from their extreme surprise and dared to gradually send people to investigate.

The beam is made of a very special material, and when it was born in the center of the world, the continent began to subtly split into two ends.

After the initial shock calmed down, some people began to realize what the beam really did. It is a natural line of defense, it is the boundary that divides the world, it even ...... It is able to sift through human beings and eliminate some of them who have no role in order to maintain the balance of nature.

At that time, someone gave it a name, and it was called "beam".

They even began to gradually simulate the construction method of the original beam, and the same "beam" was completely reproduced in the same way on the boundary thousands of meters away.

It was found that although the beam built by imitation always seemed to be of inferior quality, when there were two beams on the mainland, the "balance" between heaven and earth seemed to be more and more harmonious and stable.

In the beginning, a considerable number of people did not agree to continue to build on the first beam, believing that it would be contrary to development and even cause disaster.

There are not a few people who support this viewpoint, while those who hold the other view believe that it is precisely because of the particularity of the birth of the beam that the development of human civilization can truly enter a new span. This is a truly timeless building that deserves to go down in history.

The two sides have been arguing endlessly, and neither has been able to convince the other.

Finally, one day, some of the extremists of the conservative wing made an unexpected move behind everyone's back. They dug out the core cornerstone that was used to keep the beam standing at the time, and buried gunpowder in the ground with the help of the special foundation stone, and destroyed the first beam with the power of the special cornerstone.

Destruction is really literal destruction, except for some artificially cast stones and sediment left in the ruins on the ground, the existence of the beams has disappeared out of thin air, everything is as if there has never been such a boundary in the middle of the world.

Everyone on either side was alarmed, the masses who supported the change were furious, and the quarrel eventually turned into a completely irreconcilable contradiction, and the war began.

The battle lasted on and off for about three years, culminating in a crushing defeat for the conservatives. Several of the core leaders were slaughtered overnight, and the rest of the red-eyed people were tied up and kneeling in front of the destroyed beam to atone for their sins, praying that the wrath of the gods would not reach the world.

Soon after the war, people continued to pick themselves up. They didn't dare to repair the destroyed initial beam in the first place, but little by little they began to imitate the construction of beams large and small in other centers of the world. Among them, there are extraordinary performances and relatively inferior ones, so people classify these buildings according to the degree of fineness, and there are four evaluation criteria for A, B, C, D.

Once the people had become thoroughly acquainted with the construction methods, they began to try to restore the destroyed master beams.

The "miracle" struck again, and people quickly rebuilt a new and original building on top of the collapsed ruins, which was an unprecedented success. People were overjoyed and finally decided to call it a master, called "Grade A Beam No. 1".

There are a total of 48 beams in the world, large and small, and only one is the only Grade A.

At that time, the history that was dictated from Yuxi's mouth was different from what Qiu Xuan had heard from ordinary city residents.

Or rather, the whole is very different, but the details have completely changed.

It is impossible for the superior to let ordinary city citizens know that "the beam can also be destroyed", and the history that people know is only a bits and pieces left over from the deletion and modification of the original reformers.

In fact, this is probably the case in this world, as well as in other planes and planes.

History has always been written by the victors.

Qiu Xuan's eyes were removed from the gravel and sand in front of him, and this sudden "accident" made almost all the people present dumbfounded in disbelief.

The attendant named Lao Wen suddenly stumbled forward and grabbed something in the rubble with his bare hands, and lost his temper for a long time, he sat on the ground with his butt, and covered his face with his hands, but he couldn't say a word.

"Give."

In the dead silence, Qiu Xuan silently walked up to Lottie, who was still stunned, and handed over the note that the previous head of the family handed over to her with a bone whip.

Lottie took it in a daze, as if she didn't know a big word, and she looked around and around in just two lines of words in a daze. Before she could react, the old squire, who had fallen to her knees, suddenly remembered something, and staggered over, and took out a piece of parchment from her bosom with trembling hands.

It was a declaration of succession, and it was clearly written that Lottie Alecshan was the next leader of the family.

Kujin glared at him in astonishment, snatched the parchment and couldn't believe his eyes, ignoring the unresolved situation over there, and picked up Lao Wen's collar and repeatedly asked if he had made a mistake.

Qiu Xuan silently withdrew from the crowd, she stood in place for a while, her fingers touching the surface of the bone whip, injecting a spiritual force.

"The net is closed."

There was a faint sigh in his tone, and he was imperceptible.

……

It stands to reason that if something so big happens, the city law enforcement team in charge of patrolling will definitely arrive as soon as possible.

It's just that the law enforcement team did come later, but the leader of the team was not Jussi, but a knight who was a complete stranger.

The crowd finally reacted in the initial uncanny silence, and the witnesses present began to clamor at a glance. However, when the final investigation came out, it became clear that the head of the family had already gone through the procedures for dissociating from the family a week in advance, and legally speaking, he was a free man, and no matter what he did, the Alexandre family itself was no longer involved.

Later, Qiu Xuan finally met Yusie again.

At the time of the meeting, the former chief knight looked embarrassed as if he had been on the run for several months in Auxer, and according to his statement, after being called back by Beelzebub on the day of separation, he was inexplicably dismissed and exiled to Auxel without asking the reason.

"Adults have found out what I'm doing."

Jussi wiped his face, looking a little weak. "Then I escaped and ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar voice rang out behind him.

The man said, "My little darling has been with you long enough, so return it quickly." ”

Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelids, "Your title is really disgusting." ”

Xi Hanting didn't say a word, and straightened down to snatch his bone whip from her hand, and after a careful inspection, he found that there was indeed no problem, and then he had the heart to reply and said: "Then we exchange, you give me your knife to play for a while." ”

Qiu Xuan: "Don't touch my little liver." ”

Xi Hanting rolled his eyes at her.

"I happened to meet Yu on an official road, and this time we came back together." Jussi was obviously not surprised by what the two of them knew, but just explained. "Now that the forces above have not fully reacted, we should take action immediately."

"Don't worry."

Xi Hanting sat down cross-legged beside the two of them, "Our dark line has been buried for so long, and it is at a critical time that we can't be in a hurry. By the way, how are you collecting crystalline ore there? ”

"They have been digging up almost all these years, and it is a little difficult to collect." Jussi frowned and his face was not very good, "I currently have eleven in my hand, and this is all I can collect after digging for so long." ”

"I have a question." Qiu Xuan listened quietly to the discussion between the two for a while, and raised her hand silently. "This ore is collected to destroy the foundation of the beam, and then erase the existence, which is exactly how the head of the Alecshan family used before. But now there are forty-nine beams on the market, does each one cost only the energy of one hedron, or does it cost more depending on the rating? ”

"According to my experiments in the past few years, the energy released by a special spar is enough to destroy a large beam, so there is no problem with all the buildings below the corresponding level B."

"That means even you're not sure if that Grade A beam can be destroyed." Qiu Xuan turned her head and stared straight at Yussi. "You know better than I do that only the No. 1 Grade A beam is the master, the so-called 'miracle', and the rest are all artificial imitations."

"But that 'miracle' in history was indeed destroyed by man." Jussi looked at her impartially, "If our predecessors can do it, we can do it too, you know, there is no turning back." ”

"Alright, let's count the total first."

Xi Hanting interrupted them with a wave of his hand, "I have nine of them here, and your eleven is a total of twenty. And there are also businesses on the black market...... Our 'companions' have been secretly collecting them all along, and as far as I know, there are more than 20 of them on the surface. As for the lord's side...... Afu? ”

Qiu Xuan shrugged, "At present, no lord is willing to risk betraying Beelzebub even on the surface. ”

The other side showed a look of disappointment, and then she said again: "But there is one person who doesn't care about this." ”

As soon as the words fell, a tall woman wrapped in a black robe approached the underground black market. Qiu Xuan beckoned to her, the man sat down and took off his hood, Xi Hanting didn't know who this person was at all, but Yuxi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

It was Kaya, who had a cold face, and she sat down and glanced at Qiu Xuan first, before raising her hand to take a bag tightly wrapped in cloth from her robe.

"Master Jima, let me bring you a message."

Her tone was cold without a trace of emotion, and when she saw Qiu Xuan's head, she said, "My lord, let me tell you, even if you let it go, even if it fails, you have to take a few dog-day lords to die together." Anyway, this world is like this, it's a big deal that everyone dies together in the end, and no one can think about it. ”

Xi Hanting laughed, she waved her hand against Kaya's indifferent gaze, untied the bag and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Anyway, thank you for your 'kindness' for us." ”

Jimma offered no more, no less, no less than five crystalline stones, and anyway, no matter what the purpose, it would not be bad for their current situation.

Qiu Xuan found Qin Jiuyuan and Tom in the black market, and Xi Hanting and Yu Xi also went to contact the dark line of the entire Zhuoer underground. All they have to do now is wait for the return of their peers who are still in Osser, and it will be the final moment to close the net.

Three days later.

Qiu Xuan walked near a Grade B beam in the northwest of Drow City, and it was time for the morning market, perhaps because the weather had been gradually warming up since the winter solstice, and there seemed to be more people in the market than in the harsh winter.

As for the time of the final move, only the forty-nine people who decided to participate in the whole process knew about it. Among the forty-nine were members of the Order, other fellow executioners who had been secretly developing, and Aborigines like Jussi.

Even these forty-nine people only knew the specific time before leaving, and under normal circumstances, even if there were spies in the team, the probability of being able to learn the information in advance was not high.

…… So it's really blood mold.

Qiu Xuan stopped and looked at the figure standing straight in front of him with an expressionless face.

The black-skinned young businessman scratched his head and smiled at her with white teeth, as if he were really innocent.

"It's been a long time, the business has been really hard lately, alas, I've been at home all winter, and if I stay any longer, people will get moldy, and if I continue like this, my reputation will be robbed by that stinky boy in the East Market! The recent harvest is also, alas, the only remaining land can not grow food, and everyone can only eat the old ...... But fortunately, the harsh winter has passed, and everyone can return to the old one...... Look, Aph, the snow has begun to melt. ”

As if to answer this, the melt snow that meandered down from the heights in the stone slab beneath her feet flowed into tiny streams of water over the soles of her shoes. Qiu Xuan lowered her head, didn't hide or let the upper of her shoes get wet, didn't raise her head, and said lightly.

"But you see, there are many people in this world who have survived the harsh winter and died in the middle of summer."

She slowly unsheathed the Zimu knife, and for a moment regretted that she didn't leave the bone whip of Xi Han Pavilion behind. But after thinking about it, it was naturally not good for everyone else to come back, so he always used other people's weapons, sighed slightly, and raised his face to meet the smiling gaze of the black-skinned young man Barens.

"It's been a long time."

"Beelzebub."

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