The male protagonist tricked me

When the sun was setting, Li Rui woke up leisurely in a certain guest room of the Song family.

However, the fourth young master Song who spoke softly and drank and laughed with her disappeared. Li Rui only saw a butler with a distant smile on his face, and politely asked her to leave.

"I... what's wrong?" Li Rui pressed his forehead and sat up, looking at the butler blankly and asking.

"Fourth Young Master and Ms. Li drank in the afternoon. The young man can't control the amount of alcohol very well. Both of them drank too much." The butler maintained perfect etiquette. Although there was no slightest contempt in his attitude, he did not show any intimacy either. meaning.

Li Rui only felt a burst of pain in his head, which was indeed a bit like the feeling of a hangover.

It's just, why it seems that since the middle of drinking, her memory has become blurred, and she can't remember what happened when she and Song Sishao were drinking?

But Li Rui naturally didn't want to give up such a good opportunity.

She did not give up and asked the housekeeper: "Where is the fourth young master? Didn't he say anything?"

"The fourth young master is also drunk, and I'm afraid he's still asleep at the moment." The housekeeper followed Song Ling's instructions and said politely, "The family has arranged for a car to take Miss Li home, so as not to worry about the Li family."

This is to make it clear that she will not be allowed to see Song Ao.

Li Rui was naturally unhappy, but she really didn't have the status and position to talk about these things, so she could only obey the arrangement temporarily.

Shi Shiran got up from the bed, rearranged his clothes, and Li Rui didn't forget to look at the housekeeper a few more times, and remembered this guy who made things difficult for him today.

It doesn't matter, when she enters the Song Mansion with a more honorable status next time, she will teach this housekeeper who doesn't know how to behave, how to receive herself.

A luxurious hover car was pulled out from the Song Mansion. Li Rui sat in the back seat and opened the windows fully, letting the evening wind on the Imperial Capital star blow his face.

She took out a small mirror from her handbag, and looked at herself in the mirror with the corners of her eyes raised.

Li Rui always felt that the beauty voodoo didn't just make her more attractive to men because of the voodoo, but also seemed to make her really walk up the ladder of beauty, exuding a more charming aura day by day.

Her gaze fell on the ruby ​​necklace around her neck through the small mirror, and the corner of her mouth couldn't help but curl up again.

Why worry about gains and losses?If Fourth Young Master Song had no intentions towards her, naturally he would not even give this necklace to her.

Although it is only a mere ruby, it is probably nothing to the Song family.

But after all, it was sent by Song Sishao, right?

Li Rui looked at his brows and eyes with satisfaction, and thought of everything he saw at Song's house today.

She always felt that she was just reincarnated badly. If she was also born in a wealthy family like the Song family, and could enjoy everything that Song Xiang enjoys on weekdays, then she would definitely be more beautiful and outstanding than Song Xiang Miss Shijia.

Li Rui closed the mirror in his hand with a snap, and glanced out the window with a calm expression.

But it doesn't matter, she is very competitive and has already found another way by herself.

A road to the sky that she can walk up by herself.

Greedy and arrogant light shone in Li Rui's eyes, which contrasted with the strange-looking ruby ​​around her neck, reflecting a strange red light.

It's just that Li Rui didn't know that this ruby ​​was indeed not randomly given by the Song family - after Song Cheng's precise modification, a bug was installed in this ruby, and Song Cheng's artificial intelligence assistant conducted 24-hour monitoring. monitor.

Once the artificial intelligence assistant intercepts keywords such as "Three Young Masters", "Song" and "Gu" from the recording, it will remind Song Cheng to monitor and manually identify.

At the same time, Song Ao was also sitting in the small conference room with others, discussing the information they heard today.

"I overslept." Song Ao rubbed the tip of his nose in embarrassment.

He still miscalculated his own drinking capacity, although the main purpose was to coax Li Rui to drink and relax his vigilance, but he came and went, and he still got himself involved.

"You've been working hard all this time, so it's good to be able to relax a little bit." Naturally, few of them would blame Song Ao, especially Song Ling was always worried about his health, because seeing that he could eat and sleep, he just I think it's a good thing.

After a few gossips, they began to analyze the information obtained from Li Rui today.

What is certain is that Mr. Song's hand has extended beyond the Song family, into Xingyao Army.

Li Rui and her younger brother Li Zhi had obviously boarded the pirate ship, but did the Patriarch of the Li family know how deeply the entire Li family was involved in this matter? At present, Song Ao and the others still had no clue.

"There is also this man named 'Third Young Master'." Song Xiang also took the notes he had taken, and seriously analyzed, "The young man wearing a mask, Xing San, is not from the Li family. But he has Gu, at least it should be a partner of the old stuff, or a relatively advanced one."

Song Xiang frowned, his face was stinky, "This is beyond our previous guess. We thought that the old guy was withdrawn and surly, and his personality was so bad, it was impossible for him to have a partner."

"If he really wants to extend his hand to the Song Mansion, he will naturally need a partner. At his age, the military camp must be a place he can't get in at all." Song Cheng was not very surprised by this result, he just said lightly , "However, beyond my expectation, they did not use Gu as a means of coercion, but instead established a form... similar to a religious organization."

"You can boldly call it a cult." Song Ling directly concluded, "Their organizational methods in the army are completely different from the methods in the Song Mansion."

When it comes to team building and the theory of fighting against the enemy, Song Ling is naturally much better than Song Cheng. She frowned and further explained: "At present, in the Song Mansion, the old things use Gu to control and threaten us. It was his own behavior."

"As an elder, he naturally thinks that he already has strong control over us. Coupled with the deterrent power of Gu, he must now feel that the entire Song Mansion is under his control."

"It should be." Song Ao nodded in agreement. Mr. Song was extremely confident in himself. He might have researched Gu based on the ancient books handed down by the Song family, which would make him complacent and proud of his talents.

Maybe he would feel that it is unnecessary to spend all his thoughts on coercing them and controlling the Song Mansion.

Otherwise, he wouldn't give himself all the sub-gus of Rank Nine Ring-back Gu after testing it once or twice.

Thinking of Zi Gu, Song Ao felt sad again.

Right now, I am already on the fourth floor of Xinghai, and Jiang Heng has cultivated to the third floor of Xinghai. Although at present, everything before it seems to be safe and sound, and many times it is even a blessing in disguise.

But the third floor is far away from the ninth floor...

He was worried that he didn't find a suitable enough time to confess to Jiang Heng about the nine-turn back ring Gu, which would cause a rift in their relationship.

He was also worried about the impermanence of the world, in case something happened to him, or something happened to Zigu, what should Jiang Heng do?

Song Ling didn't notice Song Ao's little distraction, and continued to analyze: "But in the army, the situation is different. Although our Song family has people who have served in the army and politics for a hundred years, most of them are empty positions. The real power faction who sits in a high position. If you really want to establish a system or pay dividends in the military, I am afraid that there must be a real power faction to support it."

Hearing this, Song Cheng also nodded in agreement, "Yes, and this person is very smart, and he adopted the method of establishing a secret small group. When they developed a set of rules independent of the military system, they established common values. ... They will be the army of the army." Song Ling frowned even tighter, "This is really chilling... After Xiaoxiang raised the possibility that the Li family's siblings had problems that day, I also focused on observing Li Zhi , and the situation of several people who have a better relationship with him."

Turning on the optical brain, Song Ling pulled out an investigation document, and spread out the conclusions for everyone to see, "There are a few people who were not very close to him before, but recently, the relationship between this group of people has inexplicably improved. , and their training performance commission levels are also very similar.”

Song Ling circled a few specific data, "Looking at the normal large scale, this kind of data improvement is actually not particularly outstanding, it's just the level of an ordinary elite." Her finger slid to the data on the other side , "But the past data of these people are very ugly, it can be said that they are only passing the level."

"Looking at it this way, they seem to have copied and pasted each other's training methods and improvement data, and within a very short period of time, they have completed the leap from sixty to ninety points." Song Ling concluded.

"Established in the form of a secret organization in the military, the main members are those who don't train very hard on weekdays, and can even be said to be marginalized guys in the military—relatively speaking, they can also be said to be the stupidest, most persuasive, The batch that fanned."

Song Cheng pushed his glasses and laid out a logical chain that gradually became clear, "Then provide them with attractive enough rewards, such as extremely fast improvement of physical fitness or training performance, etc., to lock them firmly in the group."

"Then cast a sense of ritual - planting Gu, the person who has been planted with Gu can get various benefits, but the most important thing is that this is his recognition from the entire group, or a certain status symbol."

"'Gu' has become the secret, belief, and pursuit of this group. And the concrete operator is the 'Three Young Masters' they mentioned."

"Tsk, first accurately screen, then shape the collective unconsciousness, and finally turn the so-called 'beneficiaries' into believers... This is a sophisticated design." After analyzing it as a whole, Song Cheng is disgusted by such a set I hate the system, but I have to admit that it works.

"But..." Song Xiang, who listened quietly to the whole process, blinked her big eyes full of doubts, "But if the old man put a voodoo on us for the purpose of experimenting, controlling and threatening us, it all makes sense .Then, he stretched his hand so far, and his partners, they put Gu on those who have no value... What is their purpose?"

This simple and unadorned question made several people who asked it stunned.

Yes, they are so carefully designed, ingeniously laid out, and spread out layer by layer, but finally framed a bunch of waste, what is this for?

"For money?" Song Xiang had already begun to list some possibilities.

"No." Song Ao shook his head, "Although most of these dudes in the army are collateral descendants of aristocratic families, there is no shortage of money...but if you really want to make money, with the old man's skill in raising Gu, even The money from drug trafficking is much faster than it is now."

Although these words are a bit rough, the truth is genuine.

However, Song Xiang tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally spread his hands in confusion, "Then I don't understand. This group of trash... oh sorry, they may still have their value, but I don't know .I don’t know what else is valuable for this group of trash besides the little money they have. Could it be that they can use their brains?”

"Let's investigate this matter again." Song Ling has no clue for the time being, and he doesn't intend to get entangled in these matters, "I will further investigate the situation of Xingyao Army. It is not clear how much has been infiltrated so far. Clear. We don't know the other party's purpose for the time being, and in the current situation, it is better to hold back."

Song Cheng also agreed with this, "I will continue to monitor Li Rui, and if I intercept any useful information, I will inform everyone in time."

"Xiao Ao, you can also take the initiative to attack and see if you can get valuable information." Song Xiang deliberately smiled and made a face at Song Ao, "Maybe this kind of straight ball is the fastest instead?"

"Please forgive me." Song Ao also knew that Song Xiang was joking, so he waved his hand begging for mercy, "I don't want to do it again."

The atmosphere became relaxed again, Song Ling stood up with a smile, "Xiaoxiang stop making trouble, let's go, let's have dinner first... Hey, wait, Xiao Ao, where is Jiang Heng?"

Only then did Song Ling realize that Jiang Heng wasn't there.

It is strange to say that Jiang Heng is clearly a person with an extremely unique style and a sense of presence.

However, when he was with Song Ao, Song Ling always felt that he would subconsciously ignore his existence.

In fact, it was an instinctive, fighting beast-like intuition.

It's just that when Jiang Heng and Song Ao were together, he put away all his sharp edges.

"He said that he would go back to the Marshal's Mansion to deal with some matters, and I will meet him directly during the training camp." Song Ao explained.

"Go back to the Marshal's Mansion to deal with things?" Song Ling repeated softly, and then gave a low laugh, "How long has there been no Marshal in the Marshal's Mansion?"

As Song Ling said, the marshal actually never went back to the marshal's mansion after returning from the front line.

But today was different, as if there was some inspiration in the dark, Zhou Zhuo watched Jiang Shuo fall asleep early, then quietly left the palace and returned to the Marshal's Mansion.

He didn't do it to deal with official business, but he always felt that he should go back today.

In the end, Zhou Zhuo saw Jiang Heng who was waiting for him to come back in the study on the second floor.

Zhou Zhuo thought in his heart, it really is so.

He has always had an extremely strange talent - a very accurate intuition.

Many times, he would suddenly want to do something without reason or reason, but he had a sense of mission that he had to do it.

It often turns out that his instincts were always right, as it is today.

"You are waiting for me." Although it should be a question, when Zhou Zhuo said it, it was a steady statement.

Jiang Heng glanced at Zhou Zhuo indifferently, "I didn't expect the Marshal to remember to go back to the Marshal's Mansion."

A flirtatious ridicule made Zhou Zhuo's expression slightly change.

This sentence has little weight, but it represents too many things.

The most straightforward thing is that this is not what a junior would say to a respected elder—Jiang Heng is trying to talk to him in a more equal capacity.

Zhou Zhuo was silent, and some strange feelings surged in his heart.

However, even now, Jiang Shuo still refuses to let go of Jiang Heng's identity. Even if there are thousands of guesses, he dare not directly confirm Jiang Heng's identity.

But no matter what, when facing Jiang Heng, he always felt a little guilty.

After all, for many years, he faced this child with an evasive mentality, and he never even took a look at him.

Zhou Zhuo looked directly into Jiang Heng's eyes, which were extremely similar to his.

These two pairs of eyes are not only similar in shape, but also the burning attachment is carved out of the same mold.

"What are you waiting for?" Zhou Zhuo ignored Jiang Heng's provocative words, and returned to the continuation of his first question.

It was not the first time Jiang Heng saw such a good-tempered and patient Zhou Zhuo.

But this time, he felt the blunt softness and slight compromise in Zhou Zhuo's tone more clearly.

Thinking of his previous life, Zhou Zhuo also suddenly changed his attitude towards himself overnight, and Jiang Heng suddenly became a little curious about his life experience that he never cared about.

But... their relationship is still very cold right now, maybe when there is an exchange of interests in the future, it will be better to ask again.

Jiang Heng thought about it for a while, then straight to the point, and asked his real question, "Secret Realm of Ancient Ruins, what are your plans?"

Zhou Zhuo was taken aback for a moment, he really didn't take this matter very seriously.

It's just that no matter how poor the Zhou family is, it's still one of the four sects, and there are three places that can enter the secret realm, and these places have to be dealt with.

"I will arrange for two people to go with you." After a little thought, Zhou Zhuo replied, "If you are worried, I can also call someone in advance to let you have a look." In a survival challenge, Zhou Zhuo added that the Qian family brothers hurt Song Ao.

Although Jiang Shuo had emphasized to him many times that "Jiang Heng must die", Zhou Zhuo still had a different mind.

He doesn't even know Jiang Heng's true origin, and he has never cared for him as a father. Will he send him to a dead end with his own life?

Even though he has been fighting on the battlefield for many years and is used to countless bloodbaths, Zhou Zhuo still feels that he can't fight.

He decided to wait, he wanted to know everything, and then make a decision.I don't want to make myself regret, nor do I want Jiang Shuo to regret.

Twenty years ago, he acted emotionally for the first time, and he didn't listen to his intuition, which caused the two of them to miss 20 years abruptly.Now that it's coming again, he doesn't want to take any wrong step.

Jiang Heng was slightly surprised by Zhou Zhuo's careful consideration.

But today he didn't intend to accept Zhou Zhuo's kindness.

Coming from rebirth, he knows very well that the empire is coming to an end, and soon it will be an era of warring for hegemony.

He used to be a knife on the battlefield, regardless of enemy or friend, without each other, whoever pays more can hire him.

But now, he has his own position and someone he needs to protect.

He's about to start building his own power.

"I want you to assign these three places to me," Jiang Heng said.

"You distribute it yourself?" Zhou Zhuo frowned.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to get these places in the secret realm of ancient ruins, but he really couldn't think of who Jiang Heng would give the places to.After thinking about it carefully, I realized that I didn't understand Jiang Heng at all, and I couldn't help feeling a little sour in my heart.

Maybe out of compensatory psychology, maybe out of belated love, Zhou Zhuo waved his hand after a moment of silence, "Yes, you can take it."

Jiang Heng nodded, expressing his satisfaction with the result, he had already got what he wanted.

However, since the atmosphere of today's conversation is so "relaxed", Jiang Heng added another question: "Will the brothers of the Qian family participate in the secret realm of the ancient ruins?"

"If the Qian family can get a second spot." Zhou Zhuo said indifferently, "The Qian family's strength is meager, and it's not within the scope of my consideration and observation."

"Then why did you choose the Qian family to handle your affairs?" Jiang Heng asked again.

Zhou Zhuo glanced at him, his mood was still very calm, "If it's not done well, I can suppress it. If it's done well, the Song family can suppress it. Different ways lead to the same goal."

"Why do you want to suppress the Qian family?" Jiang Heng felt that he seemed to have grasped a bit of the tail of the empire.

Zhou Zhuo's eyes were deep, and he did not answer this question immediately, but stared at Jiang Heng for a moment, "I will tell you when you come out of the secret realm of the ancient ruins."

The primary goal has been achieved, and Jiang Heng no longer wants to fight.

He was about to start looking for users for these three quotas.

Everyone got busy on the established track, and soon, the re-training for Song Ao and his group of private soldiers began.

Unexpectedly, the instructor in charge of them this time turned out to be Wei Rushi who was temporarily transferred from the Honglian training camp.

Facing the former instructor, Song Ao felt a rare kindness.

But for some people, such as Kuang Yin, this is a real nightmare.

This time, the Nine-turn Ring Gu is no longer like a stone that weighs people down, or maybe he is living under various pressures all day long. Song Ao finally completed self-decompression and decided to put aside all unnecessary emotions. Once again, enjoy this life of sweating and training every day.

However, God did not intend to give them this chance.

Half a month after the training camp, a shocking news brought the entire interstellar into a boiling oil pan.

The president of the Angk Union was assassinated.

The assailant was extremely skilled, avoiding all cameras and monitoring devices, sneaked into the presidential palace in the middle of the night, and killed him with a star power knife in the early morning.

On the president's desk, there was a stack of blood-stained documents, which contained all the crimes of the president's life.