Chapter 108: Outside and Inside
The southern continent is Zhou Yu's base and the base of the Immortal Army. In order to firmly grasp the initiative in the struggle against the enemy, this position absolutely cannot be lost. Otherwise, he would have no chips in his hand, and he would talk vainly about fighting against Water Wang Li.
He sent Janso away, and sat down at the table with a heavy heart, Xerxes and Lancelot very concerned.
"Do you have something important to deal with? Why don't you say goodbye to this general first, you and I will come to Japan for a long time, can we change the time to drink and talk happily? ”
"What the hell is going on?" Xerxes rarely saw Zhou Yu so sullen, even when he was a great enemy and outnumbered, he was always full of confidence.
Zhou Yu didn't treat Lancelot as an outsider, let alone as an alien, even though he was a veiled knight lord. He drained the wine bottle in one gulp, and explained to the two of them the danger of Puran City.
Xerxes and Lancelot are both from the past, and the religious events that happened around them in their previous lives and even the evil consequences that lasted for hundreds of years are vividly remembered. The two agreed that if not handled properly, there is a high risk of triggering a larger riot. When the time comes, let's not talk about fulfilling Pachuya's covenant and overturning the water king, and whether you can save your own life or not.
After repeatedly apologizing, Zhou Yu sent Lancelot and Xerxes away, and stood in the patio thinking about countermeasures. He did not take Xerxes' advice to slaughter the city, nor did he take Lancelot's advice to besiege the city. For, in his view, mob politics is classical democracy, the tyranny of the majority, alternating with aristocracy in the course of civilization. At this time, there is its inevitability, and I am nothing more than ordering a * bucket.
There is one of the simplest and most direct ways to make this kind of violence dissipate naturally: to incite the masses to fight the masses.
"My lord, what do you command?" Ansai was very unhappy to be picked up from the beauty bed late at night, but as soon as it seemed that the person was sent by his own medicine master, where did he dare to slack off, so he put on his pants and pulled his shoes.
"Ansai, I have a task for you!" With that, Zhou Yu glanced at Bambul, and he and Kazik took out five bags of gold sand and piled them up in the courtyard. These were confiscated by the noble priests.
Ansai looked at Qian Xiao's eyes and rolled up, rolled up his arms and sleeves and said, "My lord, why are you doing this? As long as it is your order, the little one will go to the soup and fire, and he will not hesitate! ”
"It's not easy to say this, it's not hard to say." Zhou Yu introduced the task to him in detail, and Ansai's eyes widened like copper bells when he heard it. First of all, the Metropolitan Governor asked him to select some henchmen and infiltrate the five cities such as Puran as a wanderer. Secondly, use money to buy the underworld forces in the city. He had no doubt that Ansai had his own way of contacting the black bosses of various cities.
Third, the formation of opposition forces in the city on the spot, the names of which are "Red Sun", "Blue Moon", "Zhouzhu Brand Laundry Detergent", etc., are as good as they can be, the more personnel the better, and the darker the means, the better. Organize forces to tackle key positions and occupy key sensitive parts of the city, transportation hubs and important facilities. Finally, and most crucially, as long as the leader of the displaced people or the leader of the mob travels, he will go up and fight to the death. However, there must be no shortage of slogans, such as "do the right thing for heaven", "let you disrupt social order", "my children are not in school", etc., it is best to find a few actors to cry, and arrange the consequences of mob politics as vividly as possible.
When Ansai heard this, he didn't understand what the adult in front of him meant, didn't he just let him do things? The messier it is, the better, and the bigger the better. He is good at this, not to mention that he has so much money as a reward, even if he doesn't give him a penny to return to his old business, he is happy to do it. Therefore, after listening to Zhou Yu explain some details, he happily accepted the order.
"You're a bit despicable in this way!" After Anse left, Nika pushed the door open and came out of her room. She had a full view of the scene that had just happened in the patio.
"Despicable, I can't talk about it. I just made the right decision, the people are going to solve their own problems, and there is no need to use the army. ”
"But they are innocent people, and they just want to return to their old lives."
"Once upon a time? After a lifetime of hard work, saving money, and finally giving all the belongings to the Rain Temple, and those priests with fat brains? ”
"But this is their spiritual sustenance, as early as when you destroyed the rain temple and killed the priests, I felt that something would be wrong, and habit is a terrible thing."
"Yes, it's terrible to get used to being enslaved. If they don't have an outside to help them, they don't even feel like they're human. ”
"I'm curious about what your head thinks about every day. Once upon a time, when my father was alive, he said that a wise man is virtuous, and a virtuous man is virtuous. God loves the world, so he can be called God. ”
"Yes, what Ling Zun said is very true. But that's God, and it's because of this love for the world that the divine soldiers ended up in disrepute. Unfortunately, I am not God, and I do not have great wisdom, great virtue, or great kindness. ”
"It is precisely because of my father's teachings that I guess I chose to accompany you and join you in this act of saving all peoples, but now it seems that I may have been wrong."
"You're right, it's the wrong way of the world. Let me ask you, is it more effective to counter violence with violence or to counter violence with good? ”
"Well, Nika didn't think about it. Killing, though, is never something to be proud of. ”
"Violence is the most concise and straightforward way to stop it."
"You..."
"I'm tired, Samir, can I leave now?" Zhou Yu's eyes dimmed for a while, and since he called out all three words of Samir, he showed his determination to stop the conversation.
Ansai is really good at handling these chickens and dogs. Within a few days, the already chaotic city of Pulan was even more noisy, and the pro-rain god faction and the anti-rain god faction were incompatible, and there were more than a dozen large and small armed fights in the city, killing and wounding 100 people.
According to the news that Jamsel left behind in Pulan's eyeline, the anti-rain god faction was well-equipped, orderly, and brave, and gradually occupied most of the fortresses in the city, and the original powerful mob was intimidated by the rogue methods of these hooligans and ruffians, and suffered arson, kidnapping, and threats all day long, and most of them chose to quit the riot and live in seclusion, and the only few remaining mob leaders were isolated.
Zhou Yu is not an executioner, although he came up with the idea of dispatching Ansai to engage in infighting, he does not approve of this kind of underworld behavior. However, in such a context, it is difficult to command soldiers to kill their family, friends, and neighbors who get along day and night. This is why, in civilized society, the ruling class breeds a group of gray people who cannot be seen in the dark to solve problems that are not convenient for the government to solve.
With the foreshadowing in place, the second phase was easily pushed forward. The city defense army returned to the city separately and simply dealt with the mess, recovering the lost territory and restoring order even within two or three days. The mob suddenly found that a stable and peaceful political situation was more important than anything else, and that the rain god, the water king, and the priest all let him play with his eggs, and that there was no eating, drinking, or personal safety, or military protection.
The Grand Governor was very satisfied with the actions of Ansai, codenamed "Catfish", so when he returned, he gave him a lot of money. Anselle's mouth couldn't be closed, he didn't care much about the poison in his stomach now, as long as he was loyal to the adult in front of him, what else did he need the antidote? What's more, every time I make a move, I get a lot of gold sand, and how many girls do I have to buy tonight to sleep, I can't think about it, what do you want to do?
In the past few days, Zhou Yu has been thinking about nothing else, but Sisyphus. He had a very bold idea, according to Mensah, Sisyphus was produced in a place called the Nether Valley, and if it was mined, could it be used as a remote communication tool, used for command, dispatch, communication and liaison when necessary? Think about it a little further, if you can take a piece of Sisyphus to Kuzcia with the help of the ability of the two-headed vulture to fly long distances?
With this very imaginative idea, Zhou Yu made a special visit to Mensa again and inquired in detail about the Netherworld Valley. Mensa saw that he was resolute and could not be persuaded to do so, so he specially instructed Zangduo to be his guide and accompany him to the valley to find out. The Governor also searched the map according to the map, and the entrance to the valley pointed out by Mensa was four or five days away from the ape-back elephant to the west. Seeing that the date of the final of the Tenmaki Hunting Tournament was approaching, he didn't have much time to delay, so he set off directly from the dense forest and returned to Ilek without turning around.
The speed of the ape tree under him made the Governor of the Metropolitan staggered, and sitting on it was several times faster than riding a horse. Along the way, gags with Zangdo, Bambul, Masha and Nika, it is rare to have a few days of leisure.
"My lord, there is the Netherworld Valley ahead." Kura waved his hand, and the ape slowed down until it finally stopped. Zhou Yu stood on the canopy, put his hand on the pergola and looked forward, startled.
In front of me, a huge object lay quietly on the grassland, the size of a standard football field. The eyes are full of lianas that wrap it tightly from the bottom up, and it looks like it has been abandoned for many years. Even the metallic texture and various symbols of the lacquer on it can be seen from the scattered foliage. In the afterglow of the setting sun, it looks like a giant egg.
It's not a valley, it's an abandoned spaceship. Zhou Yu looked very familiar, and he didn't know where he had seen it. He racked his brain and thought about it for a long time, actually? It's like Daitaimon's lair, the mysterious building buried in the sand. Is there some inevitable connection between them?
"My lord, this is the Netherworld Valley, and the elves have a legend that it contains great energy. Trespassing will lead to death, so the small ones can't accompany you, so they can only be sent here. Before Zangduo got closer, he showed his attitude, he was not retreating, he was hanging up the exemption card.
"It's okay, you're waiting for us right here. I'll take care of the rest. Zhou Yu tightened his clothes, took Nika and the three of them to slide down the vines, and walked towards the giant dome a few hundred meters away.
The so-called Taniguchi is actually an entrance to the tail of the ship, which has been abandoned for many years and has long been overgrown with weeds, and the rhizomes of plants as thick as iron cables block the path of several people. Zhou Yu and the others had to wave the swords in their hands and cut out a passage to the entrance.
It's no wonder that there are no symbols or annotations on the map, and this item is supposed to belong to the same lineage as Sullivan, an alien species from the Borderlands. After tossing and turning a meal, he finally stood on the deck of the entrance. Zhou Yu rubbed the moss with his feet and saw the clear and cold metal plate.
"Keep up with me and don't fall behind. Remember, don't touch anything! Zhou Yu knew that it was useless to talk too much about this mysterious unknown, and he couldn't explain it himself, but he had to remind a few people behind him that the danger hidden inside was no less than that of Dai Taimeng and the snake-headed Sky Eagle.
It was pitch black inside the spaceship, Bamble took out the tinder and lit the torch and handed it to Zhou Yu, everyone gathered around him, cautiously leaning inside. Masha didn't dare to breathe, her hand full of bowstrings with bowstrings, her eyes fixed on the darkness ahead. The deeper you go, the colder and damp it gets worse.
"Wait!" Zhou Yu whispered to stop a few people behind him, he saw a painting under the moss on the left hand side of the eye, holding a torch and taking a closer look, it was a structural drawing. It appears to be a diagram of the ship's structure, marking the location of their feet and the location of their vital parts.
Although he couldn't read the words, the content of the pictures was much the same as in his previous life. The position of the gears should be drawn in the power compartment, the bed should be painted in the living compartment, and the gun symbol should be drawn in the ammunition compartment. If Sisyphus is here, where should it be?
Energy. By the way, the kind of tremendous energy it displays should be preferred in the power compartment. It wouldn't be wrong to investigate here first, Zhou Yu wanted to take out his mobile phone to take a photo for the next reference, but what came out of his pocket was a dumpling. Damn, where is there such a thing as a mobile phone, if there is, I would have gone home early.
The power module is at the front end of the entire bottom layer of the spacecraft, which is a few hundred meters away, and it needs to be two floors down to see the picture. Under the light of the fire, Zhou Yu went back and forth several times before finding the ladder to climb down.
Unlike Zhou Yu, who was so nervous that he didn't dare to breathe, Nika felt that this was a very fun thing. She followed behind the Metropolitan Governor, looking here and there, very curious.
"Don't touch it, or you won't know how to die." Zhou Yu opened the powder fist that she was about to pull a handle, who knows if it will touch any mechanism, if the poisonous gas is released, nine lives will not be enough to die. Nika grimaced at him and jumped away.
"My lord, there's a door here!"
"Well, I saw it, I'm not blind!" Zhou Yu looked at a huge iron door in front of him, the knocker was locked, and there were no gaps. stepped forward and pulled the handle, but did not move. Inside this door, it should be the power cabin. Strangely, the door seems to have been locked from the inside. If the elves had ever taken Sisyphus out of it, the door should have been open, right? There is only one explanation for that, Sisyphus was dropped on the elven steppe under the pilot of the spaceship.
"Y-Look, there's something strange here!" Nika stood in front of the iron door, her finger pointing to a small black locket embedded in the door. Zhou Yu hurriedly went over to check, and this Nizi pointed to a combination lock. After blowing it, the Governor found that it was a nine-square grid, with nine symbols drawn, which should be that kind of special writing, which was exactly the same as the symbols used in the book unearthed together when Xiaosha found the can.
symbols, combination locks. Let's not talk about whether there is a power source for this lock and whether it can be used normally. Even if so, what is the password? If you press it indiscriminately, it's no different from looking for death.