Chapter 11: Stormy Weather
Xie Yuanqian, a reluctant person, would definitely not allow himself to have only one way to retreat.
So he is still secretly conducting scientific experiments in the blessed land.
Yes, scientific experiments.
He's going to order a technology tree in the world of immortal cultivation.
Because now his martial arts realm can only rely on time to pile up, and he can't practice his strength to death, so his self-protection ability can't be strengthened by himself.
And when it is not strong enough, it is the wisdom of human beings to rely on external forces.
The cost of conducting scientific experiments in the other world is not high, after all, those mortal iron, sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal and so on are ordinary goods in the immortal cultivation world, and it takes a lot of time and continuous trial and error.
And Xie Yuanqian lacks nothing now, but he does not lack time, the life span of the monk is enough to support him to complete the research and development and improvement of gunpowder, and the strengthening of mathematical ability can even support him to develop a typewriter with sufficient materials, which is a real typewriter.
Scientific experiments are time-consuming, and the monk's time is worthless.
Time in Xie Yuanqian's continuous scientific experiments, typing Ji laid off and re-employed, Gongsun Hongye traveled all over the imperial capital, Li Shixia also joined the scientific experiments, and Shen Xianya became a court musician.
Finally came the day when Meng Huzong invaded the Yu Kingdom.
In fact, all disasters are forewarned, and it depends on whether people can detect them in time or be lucky enough to avoid them.
Xie Yuanqian is the former, Fu Kaishan is the latter, and the immortal industries such as the Immortal Yuan Division are strong enough to resist the winds from all directions, and the Demon Sect will not be embarrassed.
The invasion of the Demon Sect is about to go back to the four regions of Kyushu, the Eastern Immortal Continent, the Southern Demon Continent, the Northern Demon Continent, and the Western Buddha Continent.
There are only nine pieces of territory, and they are often fought over by these four families, among which the battle for the Immortal and Demon Avenue is the most frequent.
After Xie Yuanqian and the others left the town, nothing changed much, but the prices rose slightly, the demon beasts of Lucane Mountain were a little restless, and the remnants of the secret realm in the black market suddenly appeared a little.
These three dots are connected to form the initial clue. In order to explore the opportunity of the secret realm, countless monks flocked to it, and finally opened the secret realm.
Then it is the righteous path immortal gate to preside over justice, control the entrance to the secret realm, limit the number of people entering and exiting, and even hand over the treasures obtained.
Civil strife, unsurprisingly, broke out.
Suppression, resistance, repression, rebellion, and then compromise, covenant, everyone explores the secret realm together after fighting most of the resources,
Spirit swords, magic weapons, secret methods, and countless heavenly and earthly treasures were brought out of the secret realm one after another, and then changed hands or auctioned, and even some people came out of the secret realm to build a foundation on the spot.
There are too many such coincidences, but the probabilities are also too great. Even if there is a 99% chance of a trap, they will not give up 1% hope of immortality.
And when this thought appeared, the cobwebs had already formed, and all the monks had fallen into the trap called the secret realm, except for those immortal chain industries,
Why didn't they warn?
Why should they warn?
The general trend of the world, divided and combined, you compete for me, this is the cultivation of immortals, which is also the reason why these chain industries can open the four regions of Kyushu.
From the day the secret realm was found, listening to Yun Xuan was sluggish, after all, compared to the Great Dao of Immortality, this novel was just a recreation.
Xianlai Restaurant has been in business for a while, because there is chaos, and the price of food will naturally rise in price, and the food will not be enough to sell later, and Xianlai Restaurant will also fall.
Fu Kaishan is a martial artist, no matter how good the secret realm is, it has nothing to do with him, he just happened to go to the outside world to visit his friends.
Xianyuan Division, Danding Pavilion, and Duobao Pagoda have been thriving for those who make money in the immortal road industry, and those who take wealth have been thriving.
Isn't there anyone who can escape in time?
No, because the human heart is like this, it is common for monks to take their lives to open the way in order to improve their realm.
Gambling is all gambling, and betting on dogs has no good end.
Lying flats like Xie Yuanqian are very rare in the immortal cultivation world, and even if there is, they will not appear in the town where immortals are mixed.
The competition in the Immortal Dao is too fierce!
Further immortality, take a step back to life, and no one will think of retreating when the opportunity is in front of you.
Now the secret realm is right in front of you, and the monks are taking their lives to open the way!
So even though such secret traps have appeared in many places, those towns still fell, and even some immortal cities have fallen.
Meng Huzong came, another city fell, and Yu Guo only found out that these secret realms were traps after losing half of the country.
It's not that Yuguo hasn't thought about control, but people's hearts can't be controlled.
The monks just wanted to take two more steps on the immortal path, and by the time they discovered that these secret realms were traps of the Demon Sect, no means would be of any avail.
Monks cultivate immortality, but they also have to die for immortality, so is there any immortality?
Xie Yuanqian saw that the queue of Fire Feather Immortal Cranes was gradually decreasing, so he vaguely guessed that disaster was coming.
Yuguo, who had lost half of the country, was greatly injured and fell directly into a lower-level country in Lingzhou, and Princess Yutong, who had high hopes, had to return to China to deal with the war.
Then came the influx of victims into the capital, skyrocketing prices, and a volatile environment.
It has been 8 years since Xie Yuan dived down the mountain.
His novels are not cared for, and can only be used as family scripts for family entertainment and enjoyment.
His snacks were once all the rage, but now they are all the rage.
His team of 13 people now has only 7 people left, three typing girls and their maids, and Qiaozhu is still his personal maid.
The 6 people who left were already free, came to the imperial capital, saw the real prosperity, and saw Xie Yuanqian come to an end, they all went to pursue their dreams.
Gongsun Hongye is already a monk at the 9th level of Qi training, and he will be able to step into the foundation building and become an immortal in another year at most.
Qiaozhu also cultivated martial arts, but the precious gold finger is still the precious gold finger, and she has no intention of adding a little more martial arts cultivation to her, but still adds a little bit to mathematics.
Li Shixia has reached the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, half of her life has passed, and she has no worries about it, so she doesn't have the luxury of immortal immortal dao, and it feels like she has been assimilated by Xie Yuanqian. And Xie Yuanqian's Blue Star scientific experiments also gave her a second spring in her life and career.
She is a foundation building immortal, her bearing capacity is much higher than Xie Yuanqian, the processed materials are much more accurate than Xie Yuanqian, and the success rate of the experiment is also much higher.
It's not so much that Xie Yuan is latent in the science and technology tree, but that Li Shixia is doing research.
Lou Fang's Taoist companion was sent abroad to participate in the war and has not returned yet, and her daughter also followed Princess Yutong to the battlefield, there is no news, her hair is gray all day long at home, she is really old.
Shen Xianya is the best one, with her back to the Yuyin Palace, she has risen step by step with Xie Yuanqian's endless good songs.
is now a rookie in the Yuyin Palace, and he frequently goes in and out of the banquets of the royal family and nobles, and he is not too reluctant compared to Li Shixia back then.
Xie Yuanqian checked his precious gold finger again today:
[Current number of couples: 2]
[Wife Gongsun Hongye, maid Luo Qiaoling will be unswerving to you to death]
【Double Cultivation Bonus: Kendo, Mathematics】
[Reward: Kendo Perception +1, Math +1, Martial Arts Cultivation +3]
It's still such a precious thing, it's been 5 years, Xie Yuanqian, who really can't complain, has turned a thousand words into a long sigh:
"Alas~!"
Gongsun Hongye, who was pillowed on his left arm, thought that he was worried about the convening order of the national capital, and comforted him:
"Don't worry, husband, then summon me to go."
Of course, Xie Yuanqian was not worried about that, and letting a woman stand in front of him was too unmanly.
Even if Gongsun Hongye's realm is much higher than him, this is his dignity as a man,
"Momiji is not allowed to go! We haven't reached the time of desperation, you are the last hole card of our family, and there is no room for loss! I'm also a martial artist, so it's not a problem to deal with the homeless. ”
Qiaozhu, who was pillowed on his right arm, also echoed,
"Madame, don't panic, I'll go with the master, you can rest assured!"
But Xie Yuanqian didn't allow Qiaozhu to go,
"You can't go either! Mrs. can not afford to lose when he hits the foundation, you and Danqing Miaobi Jiayao and they have to take care of them well, and they are not allowed to come out! ”
As soon as these words came out, the two women disagreed, and this was not allowed or that, did they want them to die at home in a hurry?
Xie Yuanqian definitely didn't want to resist everything alone, don't forget that there is another pillar at home.
"When the time comes, I will act with my mother-in-law, but my mother-in-law is a real foundation building immortal, so you can rest assured!"
The two girls were a little relieved, but they still told Xie Yuanqian to protect themselves.
Xie Yuanqian said, you don't need to say this, I am Xie Yuanqian, who can compare with me?
I haven't used up most of the supplies I purchased in the town before!
So, thanks to mathematics, without Qiaozhu's early warning, their family is estimated to be unable to escape the doom.
Moreover, compared to the ordinary monks who were struggling to survive in the national capital, they could still live a better life in such a turbulent time if they had prepared supplies early.
Thinking about it this way, Xie Yuanqian felt for the first time that this precious gold finger was still a little useful.
Today, Xie Yuanqian is going to respond to the summons of Yuguo and maintain the law and order of the national capital with Li Shixia.
Last night, the two girls obeyed him, let him do whatever he wanted, and fought a satisfying victory.
Li Shixia was also prepared, and she was ready to take her magic inventions, but in fact, she was still a little excited.
After all, she has made so many inventions, and now she is finally useful, and she is also full of expectations.
It seems that Xie Yuanqian is still too good to her, and Li Shixia has no sense of crisis at all now.
Speaking of the summoning order of this country,
Because of the fierce battle, Emperor Yu had to send the defenders of the national capital to resist Meng Huzong, so the garrison of the national capital would inevitably be empty, and the order in the city would gradually collapse due to the continuous influx of displaced people.
Therefore, Emperor Yu issued a convening order, all monks who purchased the blessed land of the cave in the national capital, each household must send monks to temporarily join the city guards to maintain the law and order of the national capital, and the corresponding Yu family will give sufficient remuneration.
This is a clever move, because the monks who can purchase the Cave Heaven Blessed Land in the national capital will inevitably not be idle, and now the safety of the national capital is closely related to their well-being, and they will naturally not sit idly by.
What about those fairy chain industries? Didn't the Feather Emperor ask them for help?
He is a small family emperor, how can he invite these people, these industries are not fishing in troubled waters, he is thankful, it is better to expect them to help than to count on the fire feather immortal crane to become a fine protector of the country.
What about asking for help? Isn't there no ally for the Yu family to be entrenched here for so long?
Blue Star has a famous saying about governance,
There are only interests between countries and nothing else,
Ally? It's just a wolf that hides its fangs in peacetime. The principle that it is easy to please God and difficult to send God is common everywhere.
Therefore, until the last resort, the Yu family will not ask for help. And now the battle situation is actually developing for the better, Princess Yutong is too powerful, and she has won many battles, which has stopped Meng Huzong's offensive trend.
If there is no accident, it won't be long before the Yu family can shake hands with Meng Huzong and make peace.
But now, Xie Yuanqian and Li Shixia still have to make a modest contribution to Yuguo.
With Lou Fang's relationship, they were not assigned to dangerous positions like guarding the gate, but they were just responsible for the security of Yumo Lane.
The 108 blessed places in Yumo Lane are all gathering places for monks who practice the path of immortal elegance, with tenants and tenants, compared to the mixed places, here are some elegant people, and they are still the places that accept these people.
Although there are disputes from time to time, they are all innocuous disputes over the rhythm and taste of techniques, and there are few vicious incidents. But it's not for nothing.
During the temporary induction of Xie Yuanqian and Li Shixia alone, there was a tragedy.
The deceased was Chi Feng, a chess player at No. 28 Yumo Lane, and his wife and concubines, and a family of 13 people all died.
In the immortal cultivation world without Skynet, it is even more difficult to crack this case than to ascend to the sky, but after all, the incident happened during Xie Yuanqian's inspection.
And this is still a place where Yashi gathers, and now that they have been involved in the robbery, it can be said that everyone is in danger, if Xie Yuanqian and they don't handle it well, I'm afraid they will be punished.
After investigating the scene of the crime, Xie Yuanqian felt that this was Conan, and there was no way to come, right?
The formation in the blessed land of the cave is disordered, and the mountains and rivers are displaced.
The corpses of the Qi family have all turned into ashes,
Chiffon's storage bags and valuables are gone,
When they entered the place, they smelled a strange smell, mixed with the smell of embers, which was disgusting.
Even the most basic post-mortem could not be done, and the on-site investigation was at an impasse at the beginning,
There were no clues in the on-site investigation, so we could only start with Chifeng's interpersonal relationships, according to the intelligence of the tenants who visited the surrounding area:
The chess player Chiffon is a national player under the account of Prince Yurong, who is usually arrogant, and the realm is three layers of foundation building, and he is also good at formation.
Most of the guests who came to his house were the people of Prince Yurong, most of them were chess players, and the closest contacts with him were Zhou Xing, who was also a national player, and his cousin Chang Wei, who recently came to join him, Lei Bao, the prince's guard, and Gong Fei, the chess attendant of the Xianyuan Division.
Chiffon is a kind person, has a good relationship with his neighbors, and has no experience of dealing with people, but like all chess players, he is obsessed with chess and is very persistent.
That's all there is to it, because the cave is a private space, so there are usually no witnesses.
But what is certain is that the prisoner must be a person who can enter and leave Chiffon's house at will, and the suspect can only lock on his relatives and friends.
Chifeng has a lot of relatives and friends, Li Shixia really doesn't know where to start, so she can only ask Xie Yuanqian's opinion,
"Yuan Qian, what do you think?"
Uh, wouldn't that be too much?
Xie Yuanqian silently complained in his heart and then expressed his opinion,
"Let's find his cousin first, the family is all dead, but he is fine, will it be a bit too coincidental?"
Chi Feng's cousin trusts Chi Feng's family to rent Yu Chen Lane, which is close to Yumo Lane, and can rent this kind of place in troubled times, Chiffon is not bad to his cousin, and the relationship between brothers should be very good.
Different from the neat and orderly Yumo Lane, the environment of Yuchen Lane is much worse, all the rooms are crowded with people, monks living on the street abound, and the monks who are usually superior can only grovel in the face of war, and the tragic situation of having no place is shocking.
When they found Chang Wei, he was cooking, a family of seven, all relying on him to support him.
Seeing Xie Yuanqian and them carrying the jade card of the security team, Chang Wei immediately greeted him,
"My lords, what are your instructions for coming to the door?"
Xie Yuanqian didn't want to do much, so he asked directly,
"Your cousin Chiffon was killed yesterday, where were you yesterday?"
Chang Wei, who heard that his cousin's family was killed, was actually happy, but he pretended to be sad instead, and then cried out sadly,
"My cousin actually suffered this catastrophe, it's really unfair! My lord, my cousin can help my family survive here, and I can't thank him yet, how can I harm him? Moreover, the villain only has the cultivation of the 8th layer of Qi training, how can he murder his brother who has already built a foundation? ”
Is there only 8 layers of Qi training? It seems that the murderer will not be him?
Li Shixia thinks so.
But Xie Yuanqian keenly felt that something was wrong, this Chang Wei was answering the question, and he was hiding something.
"Don't talk about these useless things, be honest and tell me where you were yesterday?!"
Chang Wei saw that this statement could not be concealed from Xie Yuanqian, so he could only answer honestly,
"I did go to my cousin's house yesterday, but I just went to borrow some food, and I went home after borrowing, if you don't believe me, adults can check my storage bag, I haven't touched the food yet!"
Of course, Xie Yuanqian wanted to check it, and after the inspection was completed, it was indeed food, and Chang Wei's suspicion was reduced a little.
Xie Yuanqian instructed him,
"Don't wander around these days, we'll be back!"
Xie Yuanqian finished asking, this Chang Wei still has something to ask him,
"My lord, you see that my cousin left in a hurry, it is really miserable, I am grief-stricken, I don't know when I can take care of his funeral?"
People die and the tea is cold, the aftermath is fake, and the inventory of the inheritance is true, right?
But Xie Yuanqian had nothing to say, after all, this was their family matter, but Chang Wei's impatient appearance was too unkind.
Xie Yuanqian replied angrily,
"When things come to light, I'll naturally come to inform you, and I haven't told you about it? The Chiffon family was robbed and killed, and there was no inheritance left. ”
Hearing this, Chang Wei had no choice but to laugh and send Xie Yuanqian away.
At this time, it was getting late, and the day passed so safely.
The Qi family's tragedy can only be dealt with here today, and the remaining suspects will not be able to contact carefully tomorrow.