The Hall of the Eight Kings was quiet for a while.

The cups in the hands of the kings all stopped halfway and quietly looked in the direction of Kingless Edward.

Everyone felt that Edward's expression suddenly became serious, and the word serious was extremely rare for Edward.

"Go home. ”

Edward stood there and said in a deep voice, "I don't know if any of you here have thought about these two words. ”

Go home......

Everyone knew in their hearts what these two words meant, not to return to their home in the capital city, but to return to the place where they were alive.

The living world, the human world.

That place where there are relatives, lovers, and friends.

"Nonsense. Zhu Wang Chiyou put the wine glass on the table with a "bang", his face was already a little drunk, and he said in a rough voice: "People in this ghost town, who doesn't want to go home early, especially those of us who are kings, who didn't rush here after trying everything to rush here, this is the closest place to go home......!"

He let out a sharp sigh in his nostrils and said, "Do you mean talking about this now? You know! We can't go back!"

Chiyou was already straightforward, and after drinking some wine, he was even more straightforward. For a long time, this sentence seemed to be a tacit ban between the kings, and as soon as he said it today, he could see that all the kings present were silent, and even the lonely king, who had been eating and drinking, stopped the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and was silent.

Ye Luo also suddenly put down the dessert he was holding in his hand and raised his head with big eyes.

She was obviously stunned for a moment, and then grabbed Ye Xishan's clothes: "Brother...... What are they talking about...... Haven't we become kings? We're close to home, aren't we?"

Yes, whether it is the king or everyone in the city below who is struggling to survive, they all have this only thought in their hearts—

Go home.

This is the hope of their bloody fighting, and it is the reason why they can comfort themselves even if they kill innocents indiscriminately, even if they steal their lives. Everyone believes that as long as they return home, all this will become a thing of the past, a memory that they don't have to think about anymore.

But...... Edward's words made Ye Luo a little dazed for a while.

"Brother......" Ye Luo tugged at Ye Xishan's clothes again.

Ye Xishan also heard this for the first time, he frowned slightly, as if he had thought of something. He gently stroked Ye Luo's hand and smiled comfortingly. That smile made Ye Luo feel a lot more relieved.

He immediately raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Can you explain it? Why do you say that? We have been told from the beginning in the vows that if we arrive at the royal city and complete the ultimate trial, we will be able to go home!"

Unfortunately, this is just a big lie. Edward said coldly, "A hoax." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a notebook from the ring, threw it in the air, and pointed to the pages.

A transparent ball of light wrapped the pages of the book in the sky, as if turning into a sun hanging in the air.

Radiant light, some text appeared in mid-air.

"There are several kings who have already read the content of this book, but today there are Qingwang brothers and sisters, so I will explain the content of this book again. Edward said solemnly:

"This book,It's a self-made special prop made by someone using the DIY weapon system of the capital city.,It's called'Dream Book'.,The holder puts the body of the book in any position.,You can convert what you see into words and appear on the book at any time.。 The creator of this book was a writer when he was alive, and he really wanted to write all the experiences of the dead world into a thick book, so he made this prop, a very interesting prop, right?"

Edward paused and continued, "It is precisely because of this interesting prop that we have discovered a truth about this place, about this capital city. ”

He lowered his head slightly as he spoke, and said, "Brother Xishan, Miss Ye, in your opinion, what should the Xudu Royal City look like?"

Ye Xishan thought for a while and replied: "The kings gathered, stood together, and the warring states were in strife to fight for the way home that surpassed the king. ”

"But what about the facts?" Edward continued.

Ye Xishan looked at the kings at this table, shook his head and said: "The relationship is harmonious, to be honest, I can't believe it, I always thought that the kings should be in a hostile relationship with each other." ”

"In fact, there was a time when we were hostile. Edward said: " Xudu City has designed a lot of confrontational and competitive tasks for us to facilitate our confrontation, but over time, we have found that instead of using confrontation to solve problems, it is better to use cooperation to be more efficient, just like yesterday's defense battle, itself has a scoring ranking and reward distribution, we were also competing for rankings in the past, but later we simply used cooperation to share the spoils to achieve a kind of cooperation, so there will be the royal city you see today, everyone can gather at one table to eat and chat, and it will not be like the Warring States heroes。 ”

Ye Xishan was very smart and immediately understood: "In other words, for the king, these benefits thrown out by the capital city are no longer enough to touch your hearts and arouse your war, right?"

"Exactly. "Because it never threw out the core interest that we care about the most—the qualification to go home," Edward said. ”

"Don't you think it's strange?" he quietly put down the wine glass in his hand and slowly paced around the wine table: "Even though we arrived in the royal city, we were never told what to do next, everything we did was like reaching the top, and there was no longer a task that we needed to continue to rush forward." It seems that the city of Xudu deliberately kept silent about its original promise, and tried to keep us from thinking about it with meaningless battles such as alien invasions, which inevitably makes people suspicious. ”

Edward pointed his finger at the "Dream Book" in mid-air: "It always became a mystery, hanging in the air like that, with no beginning and no answer, until I found the book." ”

"Do you know where I found this book?" he gently pinched up a page and said: "It is in a dream pillow in my palace in Wuwang Town, everyone knows that dream pillows can allow people to practice spiritual power in their sleep, and at first I didn't find anything, until one day I was idle, lying on the dream pillow and wandering in the dream realm, it doesn't matter if I don't shop, this walk, but let me notice a strange secret door." So I explored the depths of the dream realm, and found this 'dream book' in the depths of the dream world where the dream pillow was buried, and the content in it really shocked me. ”

Edward lowered his voice, and then said to Ye Xishan and King Qing: "Before I talk about this, let me ask you a question, do you think that there are really only eight of us kings in the royal city?"