The area of the still water prison is much larger than Liao Yu imagined.

It's not so much a prison as it is a small underground world.

After walking out of the portal, probably because of the "internal passage", Liao Yu appeared directly on a higher cliff.

There are no criminals here, and there are no fleshy monsters like the one in Khazar's diary.

Everything was quiet, very silent.

Liao Yu came to the edge of the cliff and looked down, where it might be the real still water prison, a dark land shrouded in thick "shadows".

The shadow exudes an ominous aura, and there seems to be some signs of activity inside, and if you look closely, it seems that you can still see the shadows of trees and vegetation.

It's a pity that because the distance is too far, the shadow also obscures most of the view, and Liao Yu can't get more information just by looking around.

As for the cliff I am on now, the reason why it is not covered by a shadow is that it is not far away, a quaint lighthouse that sits on the cliff and exudes a dark green light.

The light at the top of the tower isolates and dispels all the shadows that want to diffuse.

Such a dark green light is almost exactly the same as the "jade core" of the second prince in front of him, and it is obvious that this lighthouse should also belong to the "internal facilities" of the empire.

Liao Yu withdrew his gaze from the cliff and set off towards the lighthouse.

The iron door at the entrance of the lighthouse was locked, and there was a complex magic seal on it, and it was estimated that it would take a lot of effort to open it violently, but fortunately, Liao Yu quickly found a hidden socket embedded next to the iron door.

The shape on the socket is completely consistent with the jade core of the second prince in his hand, and after putting the jade core in, with the ghostly flickering, the entire lighthouse seems to have been awakened from the original standby state.

The dark green light at the top of the tower triumphed, and began to rotate rhythmically, and immediately after, all the seals on the gate in front of him were also lifted, and they took the initiative to open to both sides, as if to welcome Liao Yu.

The interior of the lighthouse is divided into three floors.

The first floor is like the room where the second prince often stays.

Many bookshelves are displayed here, and the classics placed on the shelves, Liao Yu read them slightly, most of them are Danye's experience when using "synthesis", as well as various formulas.

In addition to the bookshelves, on the desk in the center of the room, a notebook quickly attracted Liao Yu's attention.

The second prince probably didn't think that other people would be able to come here, so he didn't take any secrecy measures, and the notes were just spread out on the table.

The notes are like a memoir, most of which are used by Danye to record, before he became the emperor's voter, that is, the "second prince", as a commoner, although he and Lan experienced poverty and ordinary, but very warm and happy bits and pieces.

It can be seen that it is different from other princes.

Danye worked for the emperor and infected humans all over the world with insect eggs, purely for his own green plum.

Because of this, he did not have any fanaticism about the emperor, on the contrary, from Danye's memoirs, Liao Yu could see that the second prince's suspicion of the emperor had actually been there from a very early age.

The cause is the same as himself, and Dan Ye doesn't understand why the emperor did this, and what is the purpose of infecting humans with eggs.

But from the emperor's requirements for the improvement of "worm eggs" again and again, Danye seems to have speculated and speculated on something.

Today, the eggs that live in the human body have gone through three versions.

The original version is the memory picture I saw in court before, and the eggs just coexist with humans.

The second-generation version, mentioned in the notes, was the emperor who took the initiative to summon Danye and asked Danye to conduct experiments and use "synthesis" to continuously optimize the eggs until they reached the point where they could absorb the host's magic without causing death.

It was also during this period that the Empire's push for the "Prohibition of the Spread of Magic" reached its peak.

Dan Ye judged from this that it may be that the emperor used this method to maintain the dominance of the empire, forming a monopoly of magic talents, so that other countries from now on could no longer give birth to strong people.

The third version later confirmed half of Danye's guess.

This time, the emperor summoned Danye and asked Danye to apply the "pheromone" ability of the Zerg to humans through synthesis.

The so-called pheromone is actually equivalent to a monitor.

The eggs in front of them can contain magic, but they can't curb human intelligence and the desire to explore.

Especially after the parasitism of insect eggs, it has brought unprecedented population expansion to human beings, and it was originally after the war between humans and demons, which has sharply reduced two-thirds of the population, and it will not take many years for not only to recover as before, but also to quickly achieve overtaking.

With a very large base, there will always be a part of people who can discover something, or make a breakthrough in another field, and have a new technology.

For example, when Liao Yu was reading the memories of those judges earlier, the mentor who researched a new type of magic cultivation technique, or the herb sage who discovered the worm eggs, etc.

The "pheromones" demanded by the emperor were aimed at such people.

Whenever there is a major breakthrough or a remarkable discovery in a field that may trigger revolutionary progress, the eggs in the body of such key people will release special pheromones that are captured by the "mother".

After that, the court came out.

All over the world, hunt down these core talents.

Seeing this, Liao Yu realized that it was no wonder that human beings would regress so much after a thousand years, and civilization would make no progress.

It is equivalent to that every genius has been accurately positioned, and in the true sense, the genius is strangled in the cradle.

This is undoubtedly anti-human.

And it's wasteful.

The second prince in the note, after thinking that he understood the emperor's intentions, proposed to the emperor many times that there was no need to hunt these talents, and that talents could be absorbed into the empire.

After all, the purpose of hunting talents is not to hinder the development of other countries or forces, so as to consolidate the supremacy of the empire.

If we can rebel against these talents and let them work for the empire, wouldn't it be more able to accelerate the empire's development and open an unbridgeable gap with other countries?

Even later, the second prince took the initiative to propose to the emperor that he could develop worm eggs that could manipulate talents, so that the emperor would not have to worry about the loyalty of these talents who jumped to the empire.

This time, however, the emperor's answer was no.

And there is no room for negotiation.

It seems that in the eyes of the emperor, those scholars and geniuses who can bring progress to human civilization are not elites, but tumors and scourges.

Once such people appear, they will be killed.

The emperor is so with other countries and forces.

Even within the empire. The same is true.

At this time, the second prince in the note seemed to understand that in the eyes of the emperor, even the empire didn't matter, and what the emperor wanted was him, a single individual, who was the "strongest".

For this reason, the emperor did not hesitate to use any means, even if it was to bring the entire human civilization to a standstill, and no challenger could appear, and any challenger that might threaten his position and threaten the "strongest man" appeared.

After recognizing the true face of the emperor, the second prince quickly thought about it carefully.

If the emperor is really such a powerful dictator, an extreme individualism, then the emperor may give up his position and give them these unrelated "princes"?

Even a bold guess, is it possible that the so-called "emperor change" has been a lie since ancient times, and each emperor is actually the same person, the first emperor?

(End of chapter)