Chapter Seventy-One: The Devourer's Lair

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"According to the process, the Justice Department's hearing must be held within a week of the official start of the impeachment, I wonder what the president plans to do about it?" Perhaps sensing that Nana was beginning to show boredom, Jiang Baiyuan, who had been asking her questions during the banquet, finished the last few dishes in silence, wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin, and waved his hand to the surrounding maids, signaling them to step down, and then changed the conversation and returned to the topic before the banquet.

Helena, who was still tasting the white fungus soup, put down the porcelain spoon in her hand, pondered for a while, and replied unhurriedly: "Since Lu Mang has made up his mind to force me to go back, he will naturally not give me too much time, and the summons order he brought has already been written, and the hearing will start in three days, so I must leave the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”

"In such a hurry?" Zhang Chehan, whose mouth was still stuffed with food, heard that Helena was about to leave, and he didn't care about any etiquette, so he immediately said, "Then Auntie, if you go back, what will you do this time?" ”

"What to do? The plan has been set a long time ago, and how much impact can I have without a powerless woman. Helena replied directly.

"I'm not worried about this, I'm worried that after you return to Zhongdu, Auntie, we will continue to act here, not just to give those old guys an excuse to deal with you." Zhang Chehan picked up the red wine glass and took a few sips, swallowed all the food in his mouth, and then explained quite carefully.

"Say it slowly, don't worry, how old are you, and you still look like a child." Helena looked at Zhang Chehan, who was gobbling up and almost choking, and said: "You don't have to worry about the affairs of Zhongdu, I will naturally deal with it, you just need to concentrate on helping His Highness do a good job here." ”

"As Che Han said, if we continue to carry out the Heavenly Road Project, the pressure on the dean in Zhongdu will inevitably increase, the key is that we don't know Your Majesty's attitude towards this matter yet, if Your Majesty has changed his mind, the dean is afraid that it will be difficult to support it alone." Wu Yu, who hadn't eaten much and had been pondering for a long time on the side, said worriedly.

"At this point, Dr. Wu can rest assured, Your Majesty only sent an inquiry this time, instead of directly recalling His Highness, which means that His Majesty's support for us has not changed, Your Majesty is delaying time for us by doing this, so after I leave, your top priority is to solve it quickly, although the Pilgrim's Road Plan is complicated, but the key to success or failure is actually the Devourer - Ouranos.

Since Your Majesty has chosen the strategy of delay, it shows that there is a lot of pressure from all sides, so I think Your Majesty and I can buy you a month at most, and we must take down the Devourer-Ouranos within a month, otherwise the Pilgrim Plan will only be aborted, and His Highness's 'Prince's New Deal' is likely to run aground. ”

"A month?" Wu Yu frowned, and said worriedly, "It's a question of whether we can find it in a month's time, and to be honest, I've always been skeptical that we can defeat the Devourer, Ouranos. ”

"And that Sun Zheng, looking at him like this today, he is obviously a reckless person, Auntie, as soon as you leave, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness won't be able to suppress him, without Yin, what will we do to hunt the Devourer-Ouranos." Zhang Chehan interjected.

"Humph! Sun Zheng, I didn't expect him to be Lu Mang's person, but it's better to know earlier than later, others impeached our country for private use, can he get out of it as Yin's commander? I will bring him back to Zhongdu with me, and then His Highness will be able to take over Yin's command for the time being. Speaking of Sun Zheng, who she had picked up with one hand, Helena's tone immediately felt a little more chilly, obviously the other party's defection to Lu Mang made her quite angry, but she had seen too many betrayals and she understood that in this class she was in, as long as there were enough interests, even father and son, husband and wife could betray each other, so she didn't say anything more, and then said: "As for the Devourer-Ouranos, I have read all the information brought back by Lu Sen, although I don't know the specific reason, but Ouranos has indeed become weaker, His guess is correct, so you should be more concerned than defeating it, how to find it, and how to prevent it from escaping. ”

Nan Bo's thinking about the Thousand-Faced Ghost K stopped when Jiang Baiyuan opened his mouth to change the topic, although he had been drinking the white fungus soup with his head down, his attention was on the conversation of several people in the audience.

Hearing Helena say that Ouranos had become weaker, Nanbo's heartbeat accelerated a few times, first, he was surprised that the other party had also discovered this secret, which made it impossible for him to use the chips in his hand and one less item, and more importantly, the other party talked about various secrets in front of him again and again today, it must not be a momentary negligence, thinking that the other party has already arranged his future in his heart, and there are only two possibilities for this future - dead and his own people.

Judging from the current situation, the possibility of the other party killing himself is relatively small, but the so-called becoming his own person, naturally it is impossible to give Nanbo an equal position, and it is more likely to arrange him to a place where it is impossible to leak secrets to cultivate, although this result is undoubtedly much luckier than winning the Xinghe lottery jackpot for a civilian teenager, but it also means that he will lose some freedom, and he will have to be at the mercy of others to obtain a rich and noble future, which is obviously not the result he wants. So on the one hand, Nanbo began to consider whether he should be more active and show more value that could be used as trading chips, and on the other hand, he put the "prison break" plan that he had completely abandoned back into the selected plan.

Although Nanbo's brain was running rapidly, there was nothing abnormal on the surface, and others naturally didn't think of Helena's words, so he had so many thoughts, so the conversation continued.

"Over the years, no one has been able to discover the hideout of the Devourer, Ouranos, and apart from 17 such attacks, its whereabouts have always been a mystery, and its status as a shape-shifting and flying golem is really difficult to solve." Jiang Baiyuan put down the teacup that had been drunk, added two sentences, and then looked at Helena with a smile and said, "But I think since the dean will say that we should hunt Ouranos within a month, we must have found a solution." ”

"Actually, these two problems have always been a headache for me, but what I needed to solve more urgently before was how to defeat Ouranos, so I didn't report to His Highness much, but what I didn't expect was that someone helped me solve these two problems at once." Helena smiled indifferently at Jiang Baiyuan first, and then turned her gaze to the side of the guest seat as she spoke, and finally stopped on Ke Nanbo's body, and her indifferent smile became even thicker.

A few people who were about to ask "who is this person", seeing Helena suddenly looking at Nanbo's gaze, immediately understood the answer to the question, Helena didn't seem to plan to give them a chance to ask questions, and said directly to Nanbo with a smile: "Little guy, you should tell Your Highness about the information you provide, by the way, tell me how you came up with it, I'm also very interested in this." ”

Helena's sudden request made Nanbo a little surprised, but he didn't expect that he had just decided to express himself actively, and the opportunity was immediately sent to his lips, quite a bit of a feeling that his wish had come true, so Nanbo didn't shirk it, nor did he restrain himself excessively like before, and after quickly wiping the corners of his mouth, he replied directly: "Does Lord Duke want to ask me about the source of information I provided to you in Gray's Bar?" ”

"You don't need to be called so much, just call me Dean or Sui Chehan and call me Aunt Sheng, you tell His Highness about the mistakes pointed out in the survey and mapping at that time, as well as the A information you provided, in addition to the source, you can also talk about any other ideas you have, don't be too restrained." Helena smiled, and the rigidity that had always hung on her face was completely replaced by gentleness, like a kind teacher teaching her students carefully.

In terms of pleasing people, Nanbo has always had a high emotional intelligence, but it depends on his unwillingness, from the beginning of the banquet to the present, he has felt that Helena has taken special care and love for him, although he does not like the other party's condescending, controlling care, but he can also feel that this care is from the heart. So Nan Bo didn't pretentiously twist it, but directly agreed: "Then I'll call you Aunt Dean." ”

"Well, yes, that's what you call it." Helena still smiled softly, clearly liking Nanbo's proposed title.

"Then I'll tell you what I think according to the meaning of Aunt Dean, but a lot of it is conjecture, if there is anything wrong, please forgive me." Nan Bo looked around, met everyone's gaze without fear, and continued calmly: "I think everyone knows that I am a survivor of the attack on the Xihua State Prison, and I had a very close contact with the Devourer during that attack, which is why I can know such information about the Devourer. ”

Zhang Chehan asked curiously, "Close contact?" How intimate? ”

"Well, I've touched it and bitten it."

"Ha, you actually bit Ouranos! Awesome, is it delicious? What does it taste like? ”

"It's not tasty, it's salty."

"Tho Han, don't interrupt!" Helena interrupted Zhang Chehan's ridicule sharply, and then turned to Nan Bo and said, "Don't pay attention to him, you continue." ”

"Actually, Brother Chehan's words are not a mistake, I found its nest because of the salty smell on Ouranos." Nanbo continued: "Does Aunt Dean remember the mistake I pointed out on the survey map one day? ”

"At that time, you said that the three dark rivers on the survey map were actually three cracks exposed by an underground lake, and I also sent someone to investigate this later, and there was indeed a huge artificial lake connected under the three rivers, and there seemed to be some kind of signal jamming device in it, so that we did not find its existence when we first surveyed and mapped." Helena cooperated with Nanbo's questions and explained the situation of the day to everyone.

Nanbo nodded his head to Helena in thanks, and then continued: "Because my eyes are a little difficult, my ears, nose, and tongue are relatively bright, and I am more familiar with the neighborhood, and as soon as I tasted the salty taste of Ouranos, I guessed that it was the taste of these three saltwater rivers, so I boldly guessed that Ouranos was probably hidden in these three rivers at ordinary times. Later, I took advantage of the opportunity of a large army hunting nearby, dived to the bottom of the river to check, but was accidentally swept into the artificial lake by the undercurrent, fortunately I brought enough diving equipment, and swam in the lake for several hours before crawling out of another dark river, and when I was in the lake, I vaguely saw a behemoth at the bottom of the lake, very similar to Ouranos. ”

In fact, the truth of the matter is that Nanbo himself was swallowed by Ouranos and entered the library of dreams, and later discovered that Ouranos's hiding place was also discovered by analyzing the salt left on his clothes. However, to be honest, it is bound to be impossible to explain how he was in Ouranos's body for 3 months, and it was still a dream book thing, so Nanbo chose a narrative that was both true and false, with reservations.