In the mirror, the face of the Red King with a wicked smile appeared.

Outside the door, the laughter of the Red King was heard.

Feng Bei looked in the mirror for a while, looked at the direction of the door for a while, and was dumbfounded.

In the next second, the "Red King" in the mirror floated a layer of surging red light, and the illusory streamer reconstructed a vivid human face above the mirror.

"Hey, hey, hey? Can you hear me? ”

First, there was a voice outside.

Then the "human face" on the mirror slowed down by half a beat before speaking.

Zheng Xiu stood outside the door, and after he spoke, he also heard the voice coming back from inside.

Back and forth, there is a slight difference.

"There's a little bit of a 'delay.'"

"Mirror" touched his chin in annoyance, lowered his head and said to himself: "It's good to be able to do this step." ”

Feng Bei held the mirror, and Xiao Feng Meow stared at Feng Bei's head and looked at this magical scene. After a while, Fengbei was amazed by Zheng Xiu's "technique" and asked the mirror image, "How did you do it?" ”

"It's nothing." Zheng Xiu smiled: "Don't forget who I am in the world in the painting." ”

When Feng Bei heard this, his calm eyes were a little more depressed, but they hid nostalgia.

Zheng Xiudao: "Gongsun Mo used his ability to create a 'world' that was fake and real. Now I've just borrowed a little bit of a coincidence to draw a 'portrait of a human soul' in a mirror. ”

"Portrait of a human soul?"

This word sounds like a very novel thing in Fengbei.

Zheng Xiu on the mirror nodded, revealing a thoughtful expression: "How to do it is difficult to say." After all, you are not a 'painter', a small skill that is difficult for non-followers to grasp. But to put it simply, I personally experienced the hundred years when Gongsun Mo painted the 'cannibal painting', and I went deep into the door and understood one thing. ”

Zheng Xiu paused and continued: "Gongsun Mo didn't draw 'them' in a literal sense, he wrote 'missing' into the painting. ”

"Missing?"

Feng Bei pondered these two words.

"Yes, missing, I was told that missing is an unimaginable 'power'. It can even create a complete 'person' from scratch. I just wrote a part of my 'impressions' to the point where I could transmit my thoughts simultaneously, and that's it. ”

After a while, Fengbei noticed Zheng Xiu's plan and said in surprise: "You plan to use this mirror to replace the raven of the candle?" ”

"It's worthy of our wife, with a smart mind."

Anyway, the portrait on the mirror is just a "mirror image", Zheng Xiu praised it cheekily, Feng Bei's face flushed slightly, and then he couldn't help but laugh and deliberately put on a straight face: "Don't you have a poor mouth, but if you want to make a 'mirror' for everyone, don't you have to have a lot of blood?" ”

"It's been a big mouthful." Zheng Xiu complained silently in his heart, he had already "moved" in this batch of mirrors last night, but in order not to worry Fengbei, Zheng Xiu shook his head: "No, you drop a drop of blood on the mirror." ”

Feng Bei obediently bit his finger and squeezed out a drop.

The blood smeared on the mirror, and it was absorbed by the mirror in the blink of an eye.

Feng Bei suddenly felt that he had a little more connection with the crested mirror.

"My 'thoughts' are the rules, and your blood is the 'medium', as for the restrictions, hehe, I really tried to tinker with the 'human soul portrait' to really understand the horror of the alien. In the thaumaturgic chain of 'rules, mediums, and restrictions', the monster acts as a catalyst for 'breaking the rules', augmenting the chain and ignoring many of its rules and restrictions. So, when it comes to binding everyone, I don't need everyone to 'miss' the point, I just look at their faces and draw them in the mirror. ”

[Prisoner] Zheng Xiu didn't sit down and understand, but [Painter] trick He really spent a hundred years with the "help" of Gongsun Mo to paint a cannibal painting. It depicts the various states of the world, the time of a hundred years, joys and sorrows, and thus opens the passage to Changyan.

In the final analysis, it is not completely impossible for Zheng Xiu to really want to reproduce that "cannibal painting" now.

Hearing this, Feng Bei nodded. Think of your own hands and empathize.

It's unreasonable.

Inhuman, after all.

At this time, Xiao Fengmeow stared at the two of them chatting in the air, I don't know if it was because she felt funny or jealous, and suddenly stretched out her furry paws and patted it on the "mirror".

The mirror image is shattered.

Zheng Xiu was shocked and angry and pushed the door in, ...... I was really smashed by the orange cat. The mirror image dissipates into bits of light and shadow in the room.

After doing this trivial thing, the orange cat's beard shook, the corners of his mouth rose, and he jumped out of the window triumphantly.

"Meow!"

[Garbage. 】

Fengbei knew that Zheng Xiu could understand the words of the orange cat, so he asked curiously, "What did Xiao Fengmeow say?" ”

“…… It says the painting is awesome. ”

"I see."

Feng Bei nodded and believed it.

Sooner or later, it will make you look good.

At the end, Fengbei held the mirror engraved with the phoenix picture and put it away closely, looking like a baby.

This is a gift from Zheng Xiu himself, in reality, after ten years of married life, she really received a small gift from Zheng Xiu.

"What is the name of this mirror?"

"Uh...... Cell phone? ”

"Hand ...... Chicken? ”

Feng Bei stared blankly, she remembered the phoenix picture behind her, her long hair floated up, and "Ding Wei" turned.

"Just kidding." Zheng Xiu's eyes rolled, he thought for a moment, and said with a smile:

"Since that guy calls the raven 'raven,' I can't afford to lose to him in that regard, without him shouting loudly."

"It's called ...... Perennial Painting. ”

After setting the "loud hall" of the mirror, Zheng Xiu hurriedly said goodbye to Fengbei and returned to the main courtyard.

He secretly stuffed a mirror in the orange cat's imperial den.

Behind the mirror, a cat's meat ball was drawn, and a note was left with four words: Blood Confesses Lord.

I don't know what the orange cat thinks, but Zheng Xiu gave a gift to the orange cat, but he has his careful thoughts.

"It thinks I'm currying favor with it, but it doesn't know that I'm trying to get its hair."

After the gift-giving, Zheng Xiu was in a happy mood.

The experiment of "Chang Shi Hui" was successful, and Zheng Xiuzhen drummed up something similar to "mobile phone" in this world.

It is more practical than a "raven", and there is no need to create a "raven keeper".

Zheng Xiu has been thinking about how Candle has created an organization that spreads all over the world and deals with the world's mysteries in the past twenty years. After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu felt that the most critical point was "the transmission of information".

Talents can be dug around, as long as there is money, as long as his fists are hard enough, Zheng Xiu is not worried that no one under him will do anything. In order to reintegrate and create a new organization, which can compete with the night and can spread its tentacles all over the world, it is necessary to have a complete and timely and effective information transmission system.

The "teleportation" of the crow keepers and the ravens all over the world made Zheng Xiu very greedy. However, it is impossible for the candle to leave the manufacturing method of the crow keeper in the secret record of Ye Weiyang, and Zheng Xiu can only use the "painter" way to find another way.

The ending is very happy, the "weird version of the mobile phone" was born in this world, although there is a little delay, but Zheng Xiu is already very satisfied.

The first batch of "Changshi Painting" only tried to make 30 samples, Zheng Xiu traveled in a carriage and came to the auspicious workshop in person.

The workshop was still in full swing and busy, and Yan Jiji was shirtless, carrying a small hammer, and came to greet him in person.

Zheng Xiu asked Yan Jiji to place the second and third batches of orders respectively, and took out a white jade vial, which contained his blood, and handed it over to Yan Jiji with his own hands.

Before leaving, Yan Jiji suddenly remembered the order of the military department, so he secretly pulled the prince to a secluded place and informed Zheng Xiu of the matter.

"Siege engines? Going to war? ”

If it weren't for Yan Jiji mentioning it, Zheng Xiu would never have imagined that the Ministry of War would hand over such a confidential order to Zheng's industry. In the past, Zheng Xiu made a fortune, and he never touched the official salt and official iron, first, it was easy to be prostituted by the imperial court, and secondly, if it was not handled well, it was easy to cause a big disaster.

When Yan Jiji took the order from the Ministry of War, Zheng Xiu didn't blame him. The orders from above have always been unreasonable, and who is not the ruled class at the feet of the Son of Heaven. And the way the military department dismantled the siege equipment into parts and let Jixiang Workshop customize, which has the meaning of "secrecy", they probably didn't expect Yan Jiji's eyes to be vicious, and he made up the "siege equipment" to the brain through brain supplementation.

Yan Jiji gestured with his hands, supplemented by verbal descriptions, and Zheng Xiu probably knew that what the military department was going to order seemed to be a kind of "siege iron car".

"Lord Wang, let's ...... Do you want to deliver? ”

Yan Jiji looked at Zheng Xiu's deep expression, scratched his head, and asked with a sincere smile.

After thinking for a moment, Zheng Xiu nodded: "Deliver!" Why don't you pay it! The Ministry of War handed over the list to Jixiang Workshop for the first time, and it is estimated that it is inseparable from me becoming the prince, and it must be the emperor's instruction behind it. You should just do it as an ordinary order, ensure the quality, and complete it on time. After that, Zheng Xiu patted Yan Jiji on the shoulder and said with emotion: "Boss Yan, that's a gold-lettered signboard of our Zheng family, but you can't break your 'rules' because of these broken things." ”

"Besides, no one else can see this, if you don't say it, I won't say it, who knows what this thing is? Maybe doing this single job for the Emperor will also allow you to go further in the doorway. ”

"Hey!" Speaking of the doorway, Lao Yan waved his hand indifferently, wiped the sweat sticking to the lake on his face, shook his head and smiled: "It doesn't matter what the way he doesn't have, he can have something to eat, so that the craftsmanship of our Lao Yan family will not be lost, and don't make the prince embarrassed, just let Lao Yan knock on a Babel Tower to come out, Lao Yan is also happy!" ”

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he was happy, he liked this kind of unpretentious worker who collects money to do things, and even took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms: "Add money!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang! The prince is arrogant! ”

Yan Jiji happily received the reward.

It's all here, Zheng Xiu can't ignore one or the other, he sprinkled a round of silver in the workshop, and it was already afternoon when Zheng Xiu left the workshop.

Zheng Xiu has so much money that he doesn't know how to spend it, so everyone is happy.

Sometimes it's a joy to throw money around.

Who can understand?

Back at the Red Palace, Yin Qingqing stayed in front of Zheng Xiu's study and waited quietly.

"Slave Qingqing, I've seen the prince."

She solemnly handed a black token to Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu took a look and was stunned for a moment, there was a word "secret" written on the token.

"The saint learned that the prince had acted recently, and the special slave maid handed over the 'secret order' to the prince himself." Yin Qingqing lowered her head, her eyes lowered, and she couldn't see her expression clearly: "Those who hold the secret order can order the secret department to act." ”

"Anything?"

Zheng Xiu played with the black token and asked interestingly.

Yin Qingqing replied expressionlessly: "Yes...... Except for rebellion. ”

To put it simply, the emperor knew that Zheng Xiu had been busy with the matter of "Ye Weiyang" recently, and deliberately handed over the command of the secret department to Zheng Xiu.

But Zheng Xiu knew that the secret department was still the emperor's henchman in the final analysis, like a double-edged sword. However, Zheng Xiu was now short of people at hand, and it was impossible for him to send all the assassins of the Brotherhood out, which was equivalent to emptying the Red King's Mansion. The emperor sent the command of the secret department, which just solved Zheng Xiu's current urgency of employing people.

Not long after Yin Qingqing sent the token, the three giants of the Brotherhood learned about it. They pondered in private, and felt that something was wrong, and when Zheng Xiu was bathing in the dungeon that night with the "Poison Lady Special Blend", Qing 13 secretly approached Zheng Xiu and said his thoughts.

Qing 13 stood in front of Zheng Xiu, wanting to speak and stopping.

He smoked one cigarette in a puff, and the smoke was filled.

In the barrel, Zheng Xiu opened his eyes, and the two looked at each other in silence for a while. Zheng Xiu suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I still don't know the origin of your name before you changed your name to 'Qing Thirteen'. ”

Qing 13 smiled in a dumb voice: "The prince doesn't ask, Qing thinks the prince is not interested." ”

Zheng Xiu: "I still remember that you were covered in blood and lying in front of my house. ”

Qing 13 grinned, with a mouthful of yellow teeth: "Back then, you were still a little master, lonely and miserable." ”

Zheng Xiu: "You knocked on my door. ”

Qing 13 closed his eyes: "It was Erniang who opened the door." ”

Zheng Xiu: "Erniang said you were very hungry. I said that it was cold and freezing, so let you come in for one night, and Erniang was kind and made a bowl of ginger soup for you. ”

Qing Shisan's smile was even worse: "I still remember that bowl of ginger soup was hot and spicy, choking my throat." ”

Zheng Xiu recalled the night he met Qing Shisan: "Later, I asked Erniang to take some broken silver for you, but you confiscated it." ”

Qing 13 suddenly remembered something, and his face was strange: "Actually, you don't know, Lord Wang, Qing Mou was desperate that night, in fact, he wanted to enter the house to grab some entanglements, and then die in the world." ”

Zheng Xiu nodded: "I know." ”

Qing Thirteen was stunned: "Do you know the prince?" ”

Zheng Xiu: "Nonsense, I'm not stupid, you have a knife in your hand, and the blood on your body looks like you are being hunted down by the enemy." ”

Qing 13 touched the cigarette stick awkwardly, and then gave Zheng Xiu a thumbs up: "The prince has been big since he was a child!" ”

Zheng Xiu: "I thought at the time, if you accept the money, you won't embarrass our sister and brother, stay overnight and leave." ”

Qing 13 recalled the past, and also sighed with emotion: "It's been ten years in the blink of an eye." ”

Later, the reckless man and Qing had a fight and developed their feelings. He also got a daughter-in-law, and on the day he got married, you gave him a golden basin, and he suddenly became honest. ”

"Red Lotus and Qing are old acquaintances, and they want to settle down while chatting."

"There are other brothers, Qing Mou said to them all day long, the prince's heart is open, anyone can tolerate anyone, they didn't believe it at first, but now they are very convinced of the prince."

Shaking his head and spewing out smoke rings with regular shapes, Qing Shisan gradually disappeared into the smoke, and an ethereal voice came out: "Yin Qingqing, Fengbei, Mibu, that stupid bald man, next on our Zheng family's big ship, more and more people will take advantage of the situation to board the ship." ”

Zheng Xiu was almost soaked, walked out of the wooden barrel, took off the bath towel hanging on the side, and wiped his body. A scent of flowers wafted out, and Kei-san confronted it with smoke and took a step back vigilantly.

Seeing Zheng Xiu soaking in poisonous water and playing, the corners of Qing Shisan's eyes twitched, and he sighed in his heart, the little young master of the year had unknowingly grown into a red king who stood up to the sky.

He admitted that he had gambling elements back then.

Qing 13 bet was right.

Zheng Xiu dressed calmly and said, "I know what you're worried about. I am telling you this tonight, just to tell you that there is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people. ”

Qing 13 nodded silently.

"Besides, isn't this king you?" Zheng Xiu walked out of the dungeon, and under the flickering candlelight, the shadow dragged out, falling in Qing Shisan's eyes, and Zheng Xiu's voice echoed in the dungeon: "The Zheng family has you, I don't worry." What bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods boarded this big ship, they could only lie cross-legged. No matter what I toss outside or who I deal with in the future, I will remember that my back garden is guarded by someone, and I feel at ease. ”

"That's it!" Qing 13 laughed heartily: "Don't worry, Lord Wang, we will guard your back garden." ”

In his heart, Qing 13 added:

Swear in the name of the commonplace.

In the blink of an eye, it was the night when I agreed to meet with the old department of Ye Weiyang.

The east school field is three miles outside the imperial city, and is used for training the Shenwu Army on weekdays, and tonight Zheng Xiute asked the emperor for instructions, and the approval agreed to let Zheng Xiu use it as a temporary office location.

Zheng Xiu went to bed early and woke up in the middle of the night, Qing 13 drove in person, and Yin Qingqing sat on one side.

In the carriage, Fengbei and Zheng Xiu sat face to face, Xiao Feng Meow was affectionately attached to Feng Bei, and Feng Bei used his ominous hands to stroke Xiao Feng Meow's hair rhythmically. Zheng Xiu looked at Xiao Mu Meow, and couldn't help but feel a trace of jealousy in his heart, eager to understand the thaumaturgy of "transposition transposition" and change positions with Xiao Feng Meow.

The sky was white, the carriage stopped in front of the East School Yard, the door was open, and the red tassels standing on the high wall fluttered in the alternation of day and night.

There were whispers from inside, and hundreds of people were waiting inside, whispering.

Jiang Gaoyi, who was wearing an official hat, was waiting on the side, and when he saw the prince, he hurriedly stepped forward to ask for peace: "The minister greets the prince." ”

When he went outside, he called himself a "minister" again, and the distance was pinched, this is the way to be an official.

"Chen Gang sneaked in and took a look......" Jiang Gaoyi leaned over and said a few words in Zheng Xiu's ear.

"Sure enough."

Zheng Xiu smiled and nodded, and Qing Shisan's eyebrows smiled: "There is work to do." Then how do we get in, sir? There are quite a lot of people in it. ”

"Swagger in, get in the car!"

Several people got into the carriage, Zheng Xiu was in the carriage, his right hand was twisted, and the strange thing came out of the cage. Zheng Xiu bit his finger and drew a colorful ribbon of light with a stroke of his pen.

Yin Qingqing watched in amazement as a brilliant rainbow light eerily emerged from the carriage, spread into the sky, and distorted into the interior of the East School Yard.

"Drive!"

Qing Thirteen's eyes were shining, Zheng Xiu's hand was a new trick, and he had never seen it. Secretly sighing at the mystery of the master, the carriage was like a rainbow chariot of the heavenly immortals, tapping and tapping, stepping on the rainbow light and falling into the east school field.

In the east school field, hundreds of old members of the night Weiyang gathered, although they came here, they were in different moods. Some people are suspicious, some are uneasy, some are dismissive, some sit and wait to see the joke.

At this moment, in the faint sky, a seven-colored rainbow light pierced the darkness, the sound of horses' hooves moved, and everyone looked at the sky in shock.

The carriage finally landed on the high platform of the East School Field, and the expressions of the happy Qing 13 and the shocked Yin Qingqing formed a stark contrast. But they stepped out of the carriage one after another, and one of them lifted the curtain on one side.

Zheng Xiu, who was wearing a crown hat and a brocade robe, calmly stepped out of the carriage.

At this time, the glow of the sky was reflected, obliquely shining, and the dawn broke.

There was originally a bit of noise for hundreds of nights in the old department, but under such an exaggerated appearance, the east school field was silent and terrifyingly quiet.

Everyone turned their eyes to the high platform and looked at the new Red King of the Brocade Night Walk.

The Red King under one man and above ten thousand people.

"I, Zheng Xiu, King of the Red King, by the will of the Emperor, lead the old department of Yeweiyang and set up a new department to deal with the treachery."

Zheng Xiu didn't intend to make a long speech, the opening lightning strike, squinted and smiled, and the voice echoed clearly over the east school field:

"From today onwards, there will be no more 'night in the world'! No more 'Night Masters'! ”

"From today onwards, those who are willing to stay will become members of the new department outside of the six departments!"

"This department, I call it the 'Changyan Disaster Prevention and Control Bureau'!"

"I, the Red King, will not rule over you in the form of superiors and subordinates, as the Lord of the Night did in the past. In Gong, you call this king 'Red King', but for your own time, this king prefers you to call me 'boss'. ”

"I will pay for it, and you will eliminate the evil, investigate the treachery, find the stranger, and recover the treachery, this is your job. From today onwards, the king divides the eucalyptus into four classes, corresponding to different levels of difficulty, and different difficulties mean different 'rewards'. ”

"For every 'Grade A job' completed, a reward of 10,000 taels of silver will be awarded! And so on! ”

Everyone was shocked.

"In the new 'Changyan Disaster Prevention and Control Bureau', it is subdivided into four branches."

"First of all, the Inhuman group who only made a move when they were undecided, and was responsible for the final word...... 'pillar'!"

Feng Bei silently walked out of the carriage, dressed in black and wearing black gloves. It's just that the style of this dress is different from the past, and Zheng Xiu specially asked Yueyan to order it for her. The back of the black dress is embroidered with the eye-catching word "phoenix".

There was a lot of discussion below.

"It's the first quarter three!"

"It's Fengbei!"

"That Fengbei!"

"She came!"

Zheng Xiu's hands were pressed weakly, signaling everyone to be calm and not to be impatient.

"Today, there are only five of the 'pillars', namely 'phoenix pillar', 'green pillar', 'cat pillar', 'flower pillar', and 'blind pillar'. Hehe, some of you may have guessed that in the branch of the pillar, it is all the same as Fengbei...... Inhuman! ”

Hiss......

It's all inhuman!

Some people wonder about this strange name, except for "Phoenix Pillar", there are some other "Pillar" level aliens.

I've never heard of it.

After Fengbei stood out, Zheng Xiu continued to introduce the rest of the branches.

"The 'blind pillar' is in charge, and the 'remnant' department is responsible for the logistics work."

"The 'Qingzhu' is in charge, and the 'secret' department responsible for finding out the news."

"Finally, it is the top priority of the Changyan Disaster Prevention and Control Bureau, that is, you. All the old departments that used to be in the past are temporarily subsumed into the new branches. ”

"Ye Weiyang is dead, and the long night will be bright!"

"You are the cornerstone of everything, you are the Dawnbreaker."

"Of the four, the most important one, I call you ......"

"Aka!"