Soul echo

Chapter 736 Information

"Mr. Zhong, Mr. Zhong..."

Qing Lai called out in a low voice, staring straight at the fluffy-looking cloud in front of her, watching it elongate and transform into Zhong Ye's appearance.

"Any news?" The avatar asked lightly.

Looking at this 'Zhong Ye', Qing Lai had a strange feeling in her heart.

Unlike the genuine Zhong Ye, this avatar of Zhong Ye didn't seem to have any emotion. When looking at people, his eyes didn't have much energy. It made her feel like...an object?It doesn't look like a person anyway!
Qing Lai nodded, "Someone sent an invitation. In the invitation, you were invited to a party by name. The time is tonight."

"Tonight...it seems that his time is very tight." The avatar muttered, then nodded, "Understood, give me the invitation, and I'll go right away."

Blinking her eyes, Qing Lai glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

"But it's only midnight!"

The avatar said: "I want to step on the spot first, so as not to have any accidents."

This……

Qing Lai hesitated for a moment, then turned around and picked up the invitation card on the table, and handed it to the avatar.

After receiving the invitation, the avatar immediately turned into a cloud and flew out of the window holding the invitation.

The location stated on the invitation was a restaurant in Bianliang, almost at the opposite corner from Changuang School.

When the avatar arrived at the restaurant, it found that there was already someone in that room, so it flew into it with the invitation.

"Are you the young man next to the deputy head of Qianji Pavilion?"

The young man sitting quietly in the room was suddenly startled, clasped a paper talisman with his right hand, turned his head to look beside him, and saw a cloud of mist gradually condensing Zhong Ye's appearance.

"Master Zhong, Mr. Zhong?"

The avatar threw the invitation in front of the young man, "Is this from you?"

The young man glanced at the invitation card, sighed, put down the teacup in his hand, and nodded heavily: "It's exactly, because there is no other way, I can only make this bad plan, and I hope Mr. Zhong will not be offended."

"Why do you want to do this?" The avatar pulled out the chair and sat opposite the young man.

Saying so, it looked around, "Is this private room safe?"

"Don't worry, after you appeared, I activated the Soundproof Talisman." The young man opened his left hand, allowing the avatar to see the paper talisman held in his palm, "Now no one can hear our conversation. "

"Why did you make an appointment with me tonight, and you're here now?" the avatar asked.

"Because..." the young man was silent for a while, "I have nowhere to escape now, even the last hiding place is lost, if there is no accident, those things are still looking for me now, as long as they put all suspicious places If everything is ruled out, maybe you will find it here.

"This is not a particularly hidden place, it's just a restaurant I found randomly, so they probably can't find it so quickly, I can only escape here and take a last gamble."

"Such a coincidence?" the clone asked expressionlessly.

It arrived in Bianliang yesterday and asked Qinglai to spread the news, and then received the invitation today. After receiving the invitation, the young man was exposed.

"It's because of the invitation I sent you." The young man couldn't help but sigh.

The avatar asked: "Your hiding place should be very hidden. Why can they find you just by sending an invitation?"

"This..." The young man was slightly taken aback, then shook his head, "I don't know either."

"Then change the subject."

The young man looked at the avatar in surprise. He didn't understand the previous question, so he turned to the next topic?

The avatar asked: "Why did you come to me?"

Hearing this, the young man took a deep breath, with a sad expression on his face, "Vice Pavilion Master, he passed away..."

"So, what does it have to do with me?" The avatar looked at the young man indifferently, waiting for an answer.

The young man suddenly raised his head, "Aren't you Zhong Ye?!"

No matter who it is, anyone who knows Zhong Ye knows that he is a kind-hearted and warm-hearted person, and it is impossible for him to say such a thing.

"I am Zhong Ye's avatar, and now my body can't leave Jingzhou, so I came here to talk to you." The avatar had already guessed the young man's reaction, and said calmly, "I have no emotions, so ordinary people come into contact with me It feels weird when I get up—my main body can’t control me, it can only receive the information I sent in the past, so what I’m talking to you now is the consciousness of my avatar itself, not the main body.”

Even if the avatar explained it this way, the young man still had some doubts, because as far as he knew, Zhong Ye was a martial arts master, so it should be impossible to use such means.

"Except for Delilah and the emperor, I didn't tell anyone else about the things that the deputy cabinet master talked to me about."

As he said that, the avatar recounted the content of the conversation between the deputy pavilion master and Zhong Ye that day, and the young man believed it a little bit.

After saying that, the avatar continued: "You haven't answered my question yet, does the death of the Deputy Pavilion Master have anything to do with me?"

The young man pursed his lips, and sighed softly: "Mr. Deputy Pavilion Master suspects that the Pavilion Master has been corrupted by the abyss. In order to confirm this, he chose to go to Jingzhou—otherwise, I should be the only one who interviewed you—" At that time, the Deputy Pavilion Master had already guessed what question you wanted to ask him.

"If he answered your question and nothing happened after returning to the headquarters, it means that the pavilion master has not been corrupted. If he dies, then..."

——Then the pavilion master will be corrupted!

Zhong Ye was already deep in thought, but the avatar continued to ask: "Why does the deputy cabinet master have such an idea? Why do you want to come to me after the deputy cabinet master dies? Besides, is you the only confidant of him? Why? Is it just you doing things?"

The young man was silent for a while, and said: "Because of the matter of Shangguan's family - the deputy cabinet master discovered that Shangguan Yao was seeking to be a god, and then secretly investigated the publications issued by Qianji Pavilion in recent years, and found that he did not know Under such circumstances, Qianji Pavilion seems to be trying to stir up conflicts among various sects and families."

"Isn't that the purpose of your Qianji Pavilion?" the clone asked.

"No, it's not." The young man shook his head, "That's just a summary made by the Deputy Pavilion Master based on the behavior of the Qianji Pavilion in recent years. He told you these things in the hope that through you, His Majesty will know this. One thing—maybe you don’t know it, Qianji Pavilion is the organization founded by His Majesty the First Emperor!”

...Wait, Qianji Pavilion was founded by the late emperor?
Even the emotionless avatar was silent for a while after learning the news, before digesting the shocking news.

"Actually, the purpose of Qianji Pavilion is to expose the families and sects hidden under the water and make them surface. Wait, these publications are issued around this purpose, and the existence of other publications is just to cover up this purpose."

The young man looked serious, and said in a deep voice: "Because compared to the enemies who have been hiding in the dark, the enemies who have stood on the bright side are obviously much less dangerous!"

Having said that, the young man paused for a moment, and then asked back: "Master Zhong, do you know why His Majesty the late emperor did that?"

Those who can enter the "Hero Records" are legends, and the magical weapons included in the "Shen Bingpu" are all marked with their holders. The people on the "Bill of Excellence" are all young and promising... It is impossible for the first emperor to regard everyone as an enemy, so, that is to say, he believed that his enemies should be born from these people.

"...Abyss." The clone spit out these two words coldly.

However, the publication of the publication was to make these contents public, so the first emperor did not just think that there were his enemies among these people, but that there were enemies of the people of the world among these people.

There is only one enemy in the world, and that is the 'Abyss'!
"exactly!"

The young man looked at the avatar in surprise. He didn't expect that this avatar who claimed to be 'using self-awareness activities' could hit the bull's-eye and guessed the answer right away.

"The original purpose of the Thousand Machines Pavilion was to prepare the world mentally. Once some of them were corrupted by the abyss, the world could refer to the publications of the Thousand Machines Pavilion to deal with the corrupted...at least at the beginning."

"Why did there change later? When did the change start?" the clone asked.

"The reason for the change is probably because the pavilion master was corrupted, and that change may have started when His Majesty the late emperor contracted an incurable disease."

The hands on the table were clenched into fists, and the young man frowned, "For a long time, the only people in Qianji Pavilion who have been able to contact His Majesty the late Emperor are the Pavilion Master and the Deputy Pavilion Master. Others don't even know what we have with His Majesty the First Emperor. Relationships, and that includes me.

"But after His Majesty the First Emperor fell ill, the only one who could contact His Majesty was the Pavilion Master, and even the Deputy Pavilion Master was under suspicion!
"Perhaps it was because of something that happened during this period, which eventually caused His Majesty to not know the connection between Qianji Pavilion and His Majesty the First Emperor, so His Majesty asked us that question through you.

"It was also after that that the Deputy Pavilion Master felt terrified, and finally chose to tell me these things. Once he died, he would immediately ask you for help. At the same time, he also hoped to tell all these things to today's people through your mouth. His Majesty."

At this time, the avatar frowned, "Then why do you have to make so many detours? Couldn't you just say it directly?"

"No way……"

The young man sighed: "Only in this way, your majesty will be wary of Qianji Pavilion, and only if your majesty is vigilant about Qianji Pavilion, can you prevent your majesty from being assassinated by the pavilion master.

"You don't know why even the Deputy Pavilion Master was suspected, but the Pavilion Master was not.

"Because the 'Governor' is not alone!"

The young man looked at the clone's eyes seriously, trying to see Zhong Ye who was thousands of miles away through those eyes.

"——The Pavilion Master is a creation of an institution. It can only do simple calculations and generalizations. It has no emotions, and it is impossible to have any interest relationship. That's why His Majesty the late Emperor will trust it!"

The young man said these words in a decisive tone, which shocked Zhong Ye's mind.

Zhong Ye never expected that the owner of the Thousand Machines Pavilion is not a human being, but a 'machine'!
(End of this chapter)