Chapter 675: Willing to Compromise for the sake of peace
"Dismantle the MONOCULUS?" Zhuang Weidong was stunned and said, "Mr. Situ, from the bottom of my heart, I support you, and your conditions are not too excessive. But ......"
"I understand your concerns, but with the three Zhenguo artifacts in his hands now, Xun Tiansheng can already command the world, and he doesn't dare to obey, his fear of us is completely unreasonable." Situ Zhao said, "Of course, if Shoufu feels embarrassed, I can also give you a gift, I believe that after the Fuhrer sees this gift, he will consider our opinions."
"Oh? What gift?" Zhuang Weidong wondered.
"Xun Tiansheng has mastered the Nine Dragons Circle, Tianxuan Mirror, and Nirvana Yue among the ten great emperor spirit weapons, these three things alone are already extraordinary, I will now give you one of the remaining seven spirit weapons The demon refining pot, the head of state has this treasure, that is, one person has obtained four treasures among the ten major spirit weapons, and the consolidation of the country is unshakable, I believe it should also be able to sit back and relax."
Zhuang Weidong looked at Situ Zhao and asked, "Mr. Situ, do you really plan to turn hostility into friendship?"
Situ Zhao smiled and said, "Shoufu, after talking so much just now, you should also know what happened to the whole thing. So far, the conflicts and strife surrounding the armor of the god of war can be summed up in five rounds."
"In the first round, the three forces chased and killed me, I called it the "Sinking Stone", as the name suggests, that is, all the forces know that no one will win in this round, and the reason why they do it is just to break the dead water surface and stir up ripples. In the second round, "Battle of the Soldiers", a stone is thrown down, and there are always twists and turns. But at this time, the bigwigs of all parties did not move, and under the premise of controllable intensity, they let their subordinates peck each other: I accepted Li Rui as an apprentice, and the "Demon Eye" controlled and transformed Xiao Xiao, and Agni simply did not participate in the whole process. In the end, the "38 Series" replaced Xun Tiansheng to clean up the situation, and the battle of Fengjun seemed to be a complete victory, but in fact it was just an invincible victory. In the third round, "Catfish in the River", the reason why Li Rui was placed in Shancheng was because I had long suspected Bai Heng, so I made Li Rui a catfish that crossed the river and the sea, forcing Bai Heng out of the water. As it turned out, this move was correct. Li Rui single-handedly stirred up the three cities of Haizhou to be unpeaceful, making Bai Heng's wolf ambition obvious, and finally successfully attracted Xun Tiansheng to enter the game. In the fourth round, the daughter of the hidden sky, Xiao Xiao was sent to the Xiao family in Shanghai, only a few of us know, but it was still mastered by Bai Heng, it was the information revealed by the person hiding inside us, Bai Heng used the so-called volcano operation as bait to lure Li Rui back to the Xiao family, in order to force him to turn against me."
"Wait, how could Bai Heng know Xiao Xiao's movements, didn't you say that she was the one with the 'Demon Eye'?"
"Back then, about Natasha's identity, 'Agni' was always silent, and it seemed that he was deliberately trying to confuse the hearing and hearing of the '38 series' for us, and Bai Heng had already calculated Xiao Xiao in his chessboard, which became a crucial step for him." At this time, Situ Zhao spoke, "It is only recently that we have finally figured out the cause and effect."
"Oh?" Zhuang Weidong wondered.
"Actually, there were three survivors of the Xiao family's tragedy." Jiang Wanting said, "Xiao Xiao, Xiao Yixiao and Xiao Yun, all three of them survived. And the real culprit of this fire is not Jin Xinxin, but Xiao Yixiao himself."
"Xiao Yi laughed at himself?" Zhuang Weidong was shocked and asked, "Isn't he already dead, how can this be?"
Jiang Wanting explained: "When we investigated Bai Heng's 'Volcano Operation', we found that his real motive was to use Xiao Xiao to control Li Rui, but there are two questions here that are difficult to explain. First, what is the purpose of controlling Li Rui? Second, what will you do to control Xiao Xiao?"
"First, let's look at the first question." Jiang Wanting continued: "If Bai Heng's purpose in controlling Li Rui is for Shangguan Liang, then his motive is too jumpy, after all, at that time, he was not ready to fight Shangguan Liang. Therefore, the purpose of controlling Li Rui can only be Mr. Situ. But this information is top secret, how did Bai Heng know about it? At the very least, this person should know the identity of Mr. Szeto."
Zhuang Weidong nodded and said, "But there are not a few such people."
"Then let's look at the second question, what does the other person take
to control Xiao Xiao and accomplish his previous purpose?" Jiang Wanting asked herself, "This at least shows that he knows where Xiao Xiao and Li Rui's weakness is? And as long as you grasp this weakness, you can use Li Rui to achieve his goal for him."
At this time, Situ Zhao said, "Shoufu, this Xiao Yixiao is so deeply hidden that all of us have been toyed with by him."
Zhuang Weidong was surprised: "Mr. Situ, who is this Xiao Yixiao?"
"He's a mage." Situ Zhao said.
"Mage?!" Zhuang Weidong was shocked, "This is too unbelievable, isn't it?"
"yes, I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the hard evidence." Situ Zhao said, "Xiao Yixiao has never shown his feet, from the beginning, he was the master behind Xun Tiansheng, and planned a whole conspiracy for him."
"Actually, Xiao Yixiao has long known Li Rui's identity, he knows that Li Rui has Li Tianxiong's blood in his body and is the guardian of the Sword of the Holy King, so he recruited Li Rui into the Xiao family, and married his daughter Xiao Xiao to him, becoming the son-in-law of the Xiao family." Situ Zhao said, "At that time, his idea was just to deceive the Li family's 'Saint King's Sword'. However, Li Rui and the Li family have long since broken off their relationship, and his conspiracy did not work. Then, he joined Xun Tiansheng and began to plot conspiracies for Xun Tiansheng."
"That rainy night, he first used Luo Bingbing to betray my whereabouts, and poisoned my wine, causing me to lose all my true qi, and then sent Jin Xinxin, Agni and Demon Eye killers to hunt down and kill in a row."
"Who is Luo Bingbing?" Zhuang Weidong wondered.
"You may not know her real name, but you've heard of Phantom Flyer." Situ Zhao said.
"What? Phantom Flying Flowers? Isn't that your apprentice?" Zhuang Weidong asked.
"Except for Li Rui, I have not accepted any apprentices." Situ Zhao said, "The five golden flowers under my command are the core backbone of the 'Xuanwu' organization, and I do regard them as my own apprentices, but that's all."
At this time, Jiang Wanting said: "Because Luo Bingbing has long had feelings for Mr. Situ beyond master and apprentice, but Mr. Situ has always rejected her feelings, so it led to Luo Bingbing's rebellion."
"Luo Bingbing was sent by me to Bai Heng earlier, and became one of the "Ten Elders of Ice Drinking", but I didn't expect that I would fall for her counter-plot instead." Situ Zhao laughed at himself, "After I was assassinated, I was suspicious of her for a while, but she continued to pass on information to me from Bai Heng, which made me dispel my suspicions about her again."
"And how did she show her feet?" Zhuang Weidong asked.
"In fact, if it weren't for the progress of Miss Jiang's investigation, I probably wouldn't have woken up until now." Situ Zhao said, "I was nicknamed 'Evil Sword Immortal', but now it seems that I am also an old man, and the future of this world still belongs to young people."
Situ Zhao continued: "The assassination that day, because of Li Rui's appearance, I was lucky to escape. Maybe Xiao Yixiao couldn't have imagined that the son-in-law he recruited into the door had become the biggest opponent in his life."
"After Xiao Yixiao learned that it was Li Rui who saved Situ Zhao, he quickly planned Xiao Yun's fake death. He took advantage of Jin Xinxin's hostility to the Xiao family and guided Jin Xinxin to destroy the Xiao family. But in fact, Xiao Yixiao had already arranged for Xiao Yun to replace the dead ghost. Then, Xiao Yixiao and the praying mantis did not produce yellow finches, and directed and acted in the scene where the "Demon Eye" mage rescued Xiao Xiao, making her the only survivor of the Xiao family in our eyes."
"After Xiao Xiao reached the Demon Eye, Xiao Yixiao transformed her into a cold-blooded killer, Natasha. And this is his second part, in order to deal with Li Rui's killer weapon in the future. But he never imagined that someone would be pregnant with him and save Natasha from the Magic Eye."
Zhuang Weidong asked, "Who saved her?"
"Steve." Situ Zhao smiled and said, "You definitely didn't expect that because Steve had a relationship with Li Rui and Xiao Xiao, when the intelligence officer he planted in the devil's eye passed the information to him, he recognized Xiao Xiao at a glance, rescued her, and sent her back to Li Rui."
"I didn't expect that,
I really didn't expect it." Zhuang Weidong nodded, indicating that he was unexpected.
"After Xiao Xiao came back, Xiao Yixiao's formation was completely messed up. But he didn't plan to stop, but targeted Xun Tiansheng's henchman, Xiong Tianping. Xiong Tianping was sitting in Fengjun and the north at that time, and his strength was very strong, which Xun Tiansheng could not tolerate. Therefore, Xiao Yixiao took advantage of He Zhen's ambition to control the "38 Series", and used the "Demon Eye" as a bait to guide Li Rui into the trap he set step by step."
Zhuang Weidong nodded and said, "I understand, in fact, his purpose for doing this is still for Li Rui."
"Yes, after the defeat of Fengjun, Xiong Tianping fell, and He Zhi ascended. Everything seems to be just a battle of power. But he has made another enemy for himself, and that is our Miss Jiang." Situ Zhao said with a smile, "Miss Jiang has always been suspicious of the Xiao family's extermination case, and she is even more wary of the abnormal behavior of the "Demon Eye", it seems that from the very beginning, the "Demon Eye" was a bait for Wang Binghao to enter Fengjun, which is not at all like the level that a "countercurrent" organization should have, which is very incredible."
"Yes, with this suspicion, after I took refuge with Mr. Szeto, I have been secretly tracking down clues about the "MONOCULUS" and the Xiao family. Originally, I had limited clues, but it wasn't until Operation Volcano surfaced that it began to become clear." Jiang Wanting said, "The volcano operation, on the surface, is still a power struggle, it is nothing more than trying to use Shangguan Liang to trigger a fight between the Ouyang family, the Bai family, and the Meng family, so that Xun Tiansheng can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. But the chess pieces it uses are very subtle, and it chose Li Rui."
"Could it be Luo Bingbing?" Zhuang Weidong asked.
Situ Zhao smiled and said, "No, but Xiao Yixiao showed his feet, and he really couldn't do without Luo Bingbing."
At this time, Jiang Wanting said: "In the face of this doubt, we have carried out a lot of intelligence work, especially in the investigation of the Ma brothers, and Xiao Yixiao's name accidentally entered our field of vision. It turned out that in the process of the Ma family brothers planning various conspiracies for Bai Heng, there has always been a behind-the-scenes figure in command, and this person is Xiao Yixiao."
"You mean to say that Xiao Yixiao actually took refuge in Bai Heng a long time ago?" Zhuang Weidong wondered.
"It's not a refuge." Jiang Wanting said, "It should be that Xiao Yixiao pretended to take refuge in Bai Heng before he "died" and became Bai Heng's chief think tank. But Bai Heng didn't know that Xiao Yixiao was actually a "mage", and he didn't know that Xiao Yixiao's real master was Xun Tiansheng."
Situ Zhao continued: "Xiao Yixiao's original purpose of taking refuge in Bai Heng was to get rid of Bai Heng for Xun Tiansheng, but as things changed, Bai Heng also became a pawn of Xiao Yixiao. Bai Heng and Li Rui were inseparable in Haizhou, Xiao Yixiao did not take substantial help for Bai Heng, and one of the main reasons behind it was that he was happy to see Bai Heng's strength weakened. And when he moved out of "Volcano Action" afterwards, he pulled Bai Heng into the trap he had set up in advance."
"The whole conspiracy, on the surface, is just a conspiracy, but in the end, it is still for the sake of the "God of War Armor"." Situ Zhao said, "I knew this from the beginning, so I also arranged for a backhand. I asked the little girl Situ Jin to stay in Shanghai all the time and closely monitor the movements. Eventually, a man appeared."
"Who is it?"
"Serimaru's apprentice." Situ Zhao smiled, "Her name is Yang Jieyu, she is Snake Pill's apprentice, and she came to Li Rui as a secretary."
"Oh?" Zhuang Weidong was surprised, "Xiao Yixiao sent his own apprentices, aren't you afraid of exposing yourself?"
"He did it on purpose." Jiang Wanting said with a smile, "According to this clue, we conducted an in-depth investigation and found that behind Yang Jieyu, there was a big fish."
"Big fish?"
"Yes, you would never have imagined this person." Jiang Wanting smiled, "It's the daughter of the Xiao family who has been confirmed dead in the fire, Xiao Yun!"
"After our investigation, it turned out that Xiao Yun had been doing things for Xiao Yixiao all along, she not only knew Xiao Yixiao's identity, but also became his right-hand man, the second person of the "Demon Eye", "Blood Spirit"." Jiang Wanting said, "Xiao Yun sent Yang Jieyu to get close to Li Rui and induce Li Rui to find him, and then reconcile with family affection
Xiao Xiao was coerced to force Li Rui to comply. But she didn't expect that Li Rui, who never played cards according to common sense, actually left Shanghai and hid in the suburbs, which made her sit still and look for Li Rui's movements, otherwise, we would not have been able to lock her so quickly."
"It's so unbelievable, I didn't expect the truth to be like this." Zhuang Weidong exclaimed.
"The appearance of Xiao Yun made me start to re-examine the whole thing, and finally found the relationship between Luo Bingbing and Xiao Yun in the layers of cocooning." Situ Zhao said, "When Xiao Yixiao and Xiao Yun were serving Bai Heng, they noticed Luo Bingbing and plotted against him, and got a lot of information about us from him. After Luo Bingbing was arrested, he truthfully confessed all the facts, and now all the truth is revealed, just wait for the first assistant, how can you decide?"
Zhuang Weidong glanced at Situ Zhao and said with a smile: "Mr. Situ, in fact, as long as you tell Ouyang Xin, Bai Heng and Meng Liang the truth tonight, Xun Tiansheng's conspiracy will be completely overover, so why bother to come to me?"
"The general trend of the world, together for a long time, must be divided, and for a long time, it must be united. Judging from the general trend of the historical cycle, reunification is the direction of history, and none of us can change it." Situ Zhao said, "What I want is to protect the 'God of War Armor' and the safety of the people, and I don't want to create a chaotic situation, so I don't want to see a scene of falling apart and bleeding."
Zhuang Weidong glanced at Situ Zhao and said, "It's rare that Mr. Situ has such a benevolent heart, and I thank you for the people of the world." Well, the old man is willing to give it a try to his best."
Situ Zhao glanced at Jiang Wanting and said, "It is naturally best for Shoufu to agree, but with my understanding of our head of state, he may not be willing to listen to you. Even if you give him this demon refining pot."
"What should I do?" Zhuang Weidong was embarrassed.
"You need to give him a plan."
"What's the plan?"
Situ Zhao pondered for a moment and said, "As long as he agrees, disbands the 'Demon Eye' and no longer covets the 'God of War Armor', our Situ family is willing to leave the Celestial Empire from now on. And, before leaving, I will help him strengthen his grip on the Celestial Empire and create a pattern that he wants to see."
"This ......," Zhuang Weidong asked, "Can you be specific?"
"Shousuke, you know that the Celestial Empire currently has nine local factions: one is the Bai family, even if it loses Haizhou, it still sits on the land of Jiangnanshan, Qingzhou, and Yizhou, with the largest territory and the strongest strength. The second is the Meng family, which supports Liang and Yun Erzhou, governs the Xiliang garrison, and now annexes most of Yongzhou, second only to the Bai family in strength. The third is Yelu Zongyun, which governs Youzhou, which is rich in land and resources, and can also compete with the heroes. Fourth, Shangguan Liang, the governor of Shanghai, the capital of China, can be strong with the world's heroes for a long time with only one city. The fifth is the Xiong family, which originally actually controlled Shangdu Feng County and governed the northern garrison area, and its strength was not bad. Sixth, Du Feng, based on Wandao City in Shanzhou, has jurisdiction over the South China Sea garrison area and is the overlord of the sea. The seventh is the Ma family, which governs Yongzhou, and is left and right between Meng and Xiong, although its strength is not strong, it is also a hegemon. The eighth is Lu Mocun, the governor of Yuezhong, and the ninth is Huangbei, the commander of the East China Sea Pacification Zone, but the strength of both of them cannot be compared with the others." Situ Zhao said with a smile, "The most feared by the Führer is the Bai family, the Meng family and the naturally rebellious Shangguan Liang, if, after Shangguan Liang falls, the Bai family or the Meng family will also lose their strength, do you think the Führer can accept this result?"
"You mean, you're planning to facilitate Xiao Yixiao's conspiracy?"
"It's not a facilitation, it's just a compromise." Situ Zhao said, "In fact, if I want to thwart Xiao Yixiao's plot, it will only be a matter of minutes now, but in this way, the Celestial Empire will inevitably rise again, and the lives will be ruined, if the harm is minimized and peace can be restored, why don't we do it?"
"And what else do you have?" Zhuang Weidong asked.
"There is only one condition other than agreeing to disband the MONOCULUS."
"Please."
"Li Rui will be the new governor of Shanghai."
Zhuang Weidong glanced at Situ Zhao, seemed to understand his intentions, smiled, and said, "Okay, what do you mean, I will tell the Führer, whether it can be realized or not depends on him to decide." Z.br>
Situ Zhao didn't speak, and at this time, Jiang Wanting smiled and said, "I think, with your support from the head of state, the head of state will not not listen."