Chapter 376: Black Box
I had heard from the drunkards that the ship hall was a meeting place for the elders, that is, in addition to the King of the Yellow Coat, several of the highest-ranking lifeforms in the underground world would appear here.
I use the word "living beings" because I have no way of judging whether these elders are living or evil.
After thinking about the next course of action, I calmed down and started doing research.
One of my actions was to tell the elders that the murals on the walls were incomplete, and that the King in Yellow did not tell them that after the sea serpent was sealed, the righteous god would become a new demon, and when it fell into evil, a new god would come and replace it.
As for whether the so-called new god is me, it's hard to say at the moment, because if I find out that I am not the opponent of the king in yellow, then I will definitely not be able to fight hard, and then I can only go back to the line to move the rescuers, and whoever moves here is the new god.
The assault on the ship hall seems to be huge, but in fact, there are landslides in many places, and there is not much space that can really be used.
It took me about two hours to get a feel for the inside and outside of the ship's hall.
In the upper left corner of the entire ship's hall, there is a very special office.
To be precise, it was supposed to be an archive room, which contained a large number of useful and useless files, some of which contained only oral gossip from the city, some of which were missing files, and some of which were supposed to be more classified.
In the center of the whole room, there was a badly worn office work, and it could be seen that someone often worked here, and that person's rights should be great, because the stability on the table was piled up at random, among which there was the ordinary stability that only recorded the gossip of the market, and there were also some files involving the secrets of the city.
The reason why I think the guy working here is doing a lot of effort is because he can read any kind of document, and he doesn't have to take care of it after reading it, and he doesn't get punished for throwing confidential documents all over the place.
During this time, I cursoluted the documents on the table, and the contents of these documents seemed to be unrelated, but if I analyzed them closely, I would find that the contents of each document pointed to a person, Teucer.
Even those documents that only involve gossip have many references to Tefiguer, and all the classified documents are related to the tasks that Tefigura has carried out in recent years.
If you thread the information on each document, you can see that the person who reviewed the documents seems to think that Teucer's disappearance is extraordinary, and he thinks that Teucer's disappearance may have something to do with the King of the Yellow Coat.
Can it have nothing to do with the King in Yellow? After all, Teucer was exiled to the surface world by it.
However, those who read the documents seem to think that the Yellow King's reason for sending Teucer to the surface world is not just an ordinary exile, but seems to have some more subtle and darker purpose.
After that, I flipped through some of the documents in the filing cabinet, and there were rumors in the market that I didn't have time to read them all, and what I read was all confidential.
According to a document from ten years ago, as early as seventeen years ago, someone questioned the King of the Yellow Coat, who had walked around the surface world and came to the conclusion that the King of the Yellow was probably not the only god in this world.
The man's name was also Teucer.
The document states that the man eventually disappeared into the surface world, and no one knows exactly where he went.
I've heard from drunkards that a few decades ago there was a man who questioned the King in Yellow who was burned at the stake as a witch, and that person's suspicion of the King in Yellow was only that the food in the well might be the flesh and blood of the sea serpent, and the King in Yellow used the flesh and blood of demons as food to feed everyone.
Before burning him, the King of Yellow showed everyone that the flesh and blood in the well were created by him out of thin air.
In other words, that time, the king in yellow first refuted the rumors and then killed people, but seventeen years ago, the king in yellow neither refuted the rumors nor killed people, but Teucer has disappeared since then.
This makes people have to guess that the flowers that Teucer said at the beginning may not be rumors at all, and the king in yellow can confirm that the rumors are false, but there is no way to confirm that the truth is false, so he can only secretly kill Teucer and announce that Teucer is missing.
After all, it is not uncommon to disappear in the surface world.
But the problem is that seventeen years later, another person named Teucer disappeared from the surface world for no reason, which has to remind people of the old incident seventeen years ago.
Of course I know how this Tok classmate went missing, but the locals don't know.
The unknown can always trigger infinite reverie.
Looking at the old documents in my hand, a complex plan gradually emerged in my mind.
Da, da......
At that moment, there was a dull sound of footsteps in the hallway outside the door, and I immediately put the documents back in the cabinet, locked the door, and found a fairly spacious ground to stand over.
In this office, the spacious place is the one where very little attention is paid to it, because there are no filing cabinets and no documents piled up on the floor.
In a moment, the door was pushed open, and a dark-colored old man slowly walked in.
He was dressed in pure black and had a pair of leather shoes on his feet, and just by looking at his steps and the temperament that exuded from his body as he walked, I immediately concluded that he was the man in black I had seen before.
As soon as he entered the room, he exhaled a long breath of turbidity, as if he was venting the pressure in his heart.
I noticed that this man's eyes were normal, not the yellow rainbow and gray pupils that were common to the inhabitants of the underground.
In retrospect, Teucer was also an elder of the Shadow Brotherhood, so I guessed that all the elders in the Brotherhood might be exiles with "different eyes".
It's strange, why did the King of Yellow let these exiles become elders?
The old man walked to the desk and flipped through the papers on the table, which he should have read many times, and after a few random flips, he slumped in his chair.
When he first entered the door, he still looked confident, his chest and spine were straight, but now, he was like a deflated ball, full of powerlessness.
I couldn't help but be a little more curious about this old man, so I quietly stepped forward and observed him carefully.
As soon as I got to the desk, I saw him lean over and open the floor-to-ceiling cabinet under the desk, and take out a boxy black box.
As soon as I saw the box in his hand, I couldn't help frowning a few times, and through the thick lid of the box, I could sense that there was a very thick yin qi filling the inside of the box.
"Hopefully this time."
As he spoke to himself, he pulled a crystal the size of a grain of rice from his pocket and gently slipped it into the keyhole on the edge of the lid.