Long Aotian became popular overnight after wearing a sick and weak white moonlight

"A Fang Palace..."

Hearing these three words, the monster fell into frenzy again.

It frantically tore at Zhou Heng's barrier with its sharp claws that seemed to have only bones left, and it was not willing to let go until it was dripping with blood.

"why why why!"

"Because if you don't love, you don't love, and false acquisitions are always self-deception."

Ever since he discovered that the monster was Hu Hai who had failed in his pursuit of longevity, Zhou Heng's attitude towards it became indifferent and sharp.

Hearing this, the monster hugged its head with bloody hands, tore off the few remaining hairs, and struggled to say: "Father loves me! He once loved me! He... once... once... once loved me !"

"Since you firmly believe that he once loved you, why don't you go to Efang Palace with me to meet him?"

"me……"

The monster lowered his head, looked at the body that had become unrecognizable due to the failure of the pursuit of longevity, laughed at himself, and said, "I still have the right to stand in front of him like this?"

"In that case, why—"

"because……"

The monster lowered its head.

Zhou Heng also stopped talking.

In the silence that was quiet enough to kill, the monster looked up again and said: "I can go to Efang Palace with you, but you must promise me that you will not reveal my identity to anyone in Afang Palace. I would rather be locked up by them as a monster." Watching in the cage, I can't let any of them know who I am!"

"You—why bother..."

"I voluntarily!"

The monster replied emphatically.

Feeling the little pride left in the monster's heart, Zhou Heng nodded and agreed to its conditions.

……

Because of the failure of the pursuit of longevity, although the monster's body can be regenerated continuously, it still suffers from the pain of being hacked into pieces all the time.

He had no exposure to sunlight, which aggravated the pain, and had to lie in a bronze coffin completely shaded for at least twenty hours a day.

The three-headed dog was not only filled with emotion when he learned that he would suffer almost endless pain after failing to pursue longevity with Xu Fu's method.

[Why do human beings always like to take shortcuts that can be lost if one step is wrong?Can't live a steady life step by step? 】

"Because opportunism is a biological instinct."

【I didn't—】

"really?"

Hearing this, the three-headed dog fell into silence.

After the monster Hu Hai and the mysterious creature protecting it had a strange communication that only they could understand each other, they said to Zhou Heng: "You can take me away now, it won't stop you."

"What will happen to it when you're gone?"

"Go back to the house that Xu Fu built for us, and wait for me to come back." The monster Hu Hai smiled wryly, "Time is an endless madness for those of us who have not obtained complete immortality."

"But even so, you don't regret it?"

"No regrets."

The monster Hu Hai lowered his head, with blood-red tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.

Zhou Heng didn't ask any more questions.

After removing the barrier, he announced to the members of the investigation team who were unaware of what happened outside: "Within three hours, transfer a large truck and contact a large commercial airliner at the same time, I want to take this thing back. "

"this--"

All members of the investigation team were shocked: "Boss, what is this? It looks so advanced!"

"Something dug up in the ruins."

"Such a large bronze coffin, which looks quite old, is obviously a super cultural relic. Wouldn't it cause international lawsuits if we just brought it back like this?"

"The people in the coffin volunteered to go back with us," Zhou Heng said.

Hearing this, the members of the investigation team were all pale in panic, but when they thought that they had touched life forms beyond common sense through the cracks on the surface of the pyramid, they suddenly felt that it was not so unacceptable to have living things in the bronze coffin.

After all, there is so much here that is completely illogical.

"Boss, wait a moment, we will contact you with the collection card and the commercial airliner immediately."

……

……

After using the lifting device to send the bronze coffin into the emergency leased passenger plane, Zhou Heng finally had a moment to rest.

He turned on his phone and looked at the 99+ messages sent by Feng Ling, Wu Gangcheng and others when he was dealing with the monster Hu Hai, his brows gradually furrowed.

According to news, the excavation of the dungeon went very smoothly, but the deeper the digging, the more questions were raised.

In just half a day since Feng Ling discovered the monster in the red lacquer box, they have encountered at least twenty kinds of life forms beyond common sense!

Fortunately among misfortunes, these life forms are in a half-dead state.

but--

Who can guarantee that the next excavation will not dig up a living monster!

In case these things...

【Master, you look troubled? 】

"Because things were trickier than I expected."

Zhou Heng raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the cabin.

According to the records left by the ancestors of the An family, Long Aotian Rongfei hundreds of years ago built a city that could be called a paradise compared to the precarious troubled times, attracting countless people thousands of miles away.

However, the result of the actual excavation was——

If it is really Xanadu, why are there so many half-dead monsters?

These monsters are obviously normal people, cats, dogs, etc. who gradually mutated after eating certain forbidden medicines.

Who refined these elixirs?

Who distributed the elixir to them?

Who turned them into such half-dead monsters?

Rong Fei?

still--

Tens of thousands of clues circled and intersected in Zhou Heng's mind, triggering hundreds of speculations and associations.

He recorded these hypotheses with a pen, and after entering the dungeon to complete the actual survey, he would further reason and rule it out.

……

The plane landed quickly.

Just as Zhou Heng stepped out of the cabin, Feng Ling couldn't wait to rush up to kiss him.

Zhou Heng pushed away Feng Ling, who was overly enthusiastic, and reminded: "The business is important."

"Business? What business?"

Feng Ling played dumb.

Until he saw the huge bronze coffin being brought out of the plane.

"This is--"

"The harvest of this trip."

"It doesn't look like a good thing."

Feng Ling frowned.

Zhou Heng nodded: "It's really not a good thing."

"Then you still-"

"The stuff inside is still alive."

"what?"

Feng Ling was startled, and immediately thought of the half-dead monsters in the dungeon: "The things inside here are not the same as those we dug up in the dungeon, all..."

"The essence is very close, but the actual situation of the creatures in the coffin is more complicated than them," Zhou Heng said, "The medicine you dug up in the dungeon should most likely be the kind of medicine that the creatures in the coffin took. semi-finished product."

"—what medicine?"

"The elixir of life."

"turn out to be--"

Feng Ling frowned again.

A terrible possibility occurred to him.

"Is the city built by Rongfei really a paradise like the ancestors of the An family said?"

Feng Ling expressed his doubts.

Zhou Heng looked at him solemnly, and said, "I doubt this too now."

"That--"

Feng Ling became tired again, wanting to have sex with Zhou Heng——

"You first sort out the situation of the things you dug up in the dungeon. I'm going to take the creature in the coffin to meet someone."

"See who?"

Feng Ling's vinegar smell rose.

Zhou Heng ignored him, and announced coldly: "Go to meet someone who is inextricably linked to Changsheng."

……

Before boarding the plane, Zhou Heng had already contacted his son Fusu.

Not long after the plane stopped, Li Fei's people appeared at the airport and asked Zhou Heng and the things Zhou Heng brought back to Efang Palace.

Feng Ling said sourly that he wanted to go with him, Zhou Heng shook his head and asked him to stay and sort out the documents.

The three-headed dog is in charge of supervision.

Feng Ling: ...I'm not happy!

Three-headed dog: hehehe~

Li Fei's people pretended not to see the subtleties in the air, and politely invited Zhou Heng to get on the car. The bronze coffin was loaded on the big truck with a crane, and it was unloaded with a lifting device after arriving at Efang Palace. The whole process was smooth and natural. Well-trained, It is indeed a powerful army that once conquered the world and has been famous for thousands of years.

Zhou Heng got out of the car, saw the son Fusu who came to greet him, and thought of the twisted and painful monster Hu Hai in the bronze coffin, he couldn't help but feel a little bit embarrassed.

Young Master Fusu saw Zhou Heng suddenly showing a sad expression, and asked, "Mr. Zhou, is there something bothering you?"

"I'm worried I won't be able to fix the artificial moon in the sky by the deadline."

"Don't worry sir, since father has fully intervened, the matter will be resolved properly."

"I don't doubt Shihuang's ability, I just—"

Zhou Heng smiled lightly, and introduced the bronze coffin together with the monster Hu Hai inside to the young master Fusu. Of course, because of the agreement with the monster Hu Hai, Zhou Heng did not reveal the real identity of the monster Hu Hai, only that the person inside was from Emperor Shi Huang. The way to pursue longevity but failed miserably.

"Father actually also—"

Young master Fusu showed a look of hesitation.

Zhou Heng was not surprised by this.

Refining the elixir of life by plundering the aura of heaven and earth is a matter that violates the ethics of heaven. Even if you are an emperor, you may encounter failure. What's more, in the era of the first emperor, human rights were still in their infancy.

Using the moral concepts of the 21st century to measure behaviors thousands of years ago, is it not taking the wrong medicine? !

"He's in pain, isn't he?"

Young Master Fusu asked suddenly.

Zhou Heng nodded and said, "For nearly 2000 years, he has been tortured by the side effects of the failed elixir of life, and life would be worse than death."

"..."

Young Master Fusu fell into a brief silence, and then said to Zhou Heng: "I may have a way to relieve his pain."

"But there's a price to pay, right?"

"Ah."

"Then let's send it to Emperor Shihuang first, and discuss whether to relieve its pain after the matter of the artificial moon in the sky is resolved."

"it is good."

After the discussion, the two sent the bronze coffin to the first emperor.

Through the thick bead curtain, Zhou Heng reported the whole story of the discovery of the bronze coffin, only concealing the fact that the creature in the coffin was the monster Hu Hai.

The First Emperor listened quietly until Zhou Heng finished speaking——

"You all go down first."

"Father--"

"Fusu, you go down too."

"But--"

"I already know what's in the coffin."

"That--"

"Go down!"

"No~"

Zhou Heng suspected that the first emperor had guessed that the creature inside the bronze coffin was the monster Hu Hai, so he let everyone out, but as long as the first emperor didn't say anything, he wouldn't say anything.

After leaving the main hall, Zhou Heng raised his head and looked at the sky outside through the barrier of Afang Palace.

Young Master Fusu suddenly said: "The creature in the coffin is someone my father knew, right?"

"Why is there such a guess?"

"It's not guesswork, it's intuition."

Fusu looked back, glanced at the main hall, and sighed: "I haven't seen such obvious nostalgia and disappointment in my father's eyes for nearly 2000 years."

"My lord suspects—"

"Xu Fu concocted the elixir for his father, but he also used the most extreme method to destroy the Daqin for generations. He knew the consequences of this method from the beginning, so he asked his father for a large amount of property. Let them go overseas and move to Fusang Penglai..."

Speaking of those years, the son Fusu was quite emotional.

Zhou Heng was also surprised: "Why did you suddenly mention this old thing?"

"Because the pictures on the surface of the bronze coffin are obviously made by Xu Fu," Fusu said, "If the creatures in the coffin are not Xu Fu himself, they are people who have a great connection with Xu Fu's elixir of life."

"If that person is Xu Fu himself, will you feel that he is doing it on his own?"

"will not."

"why?"

"Life has the freedom to fear death."

"but he--"

"He did what he should do as a descendant of the old aristocrats of the Six Kingdoms, not to mention that although the rule of the Great Qin ended, the thoughts of the Great Qin and the foundation of the country created by the Great Qin have been passed down from generation to generation. In other words, he still failed. gone."

"Sir, you..."

"People today often imagine that if I hadn't died back then, would Daqin have survived for generations to come? This is actually a false proposition. Because Xu Fu has already drained Daqin's luck by deceitful means. Daqin will continue to live for a hundred years, and Daqin will eventually come to an end, this is the destiny of all things in the world."

"I see--"

Zhou Heng sighed, and said: "Young master is worthy of being a young master, with a seven-aperture exquisite heart."

"I don't have an exquisite heart with seven apertures. Sister Lin has an exquisite heart with seven apertures."

"My lord, have you seen "A Dream of Red Mansions"?"

Zhou Heng was surprised.

Young Master Fusu said: ""Dream of Red Mansions" is so well written, of course I won't miss it. I even went to Cao Xueqin's house to meet him and accompany him to review, delete and revise "Dream of Red Mansions". It's a pity..."

"Shortcomings are also a kind of beauty, you don't have to be too sad, young master."

"Ah."

The young master Fusu lowered his head, looked at the myriad of purples and reds scattered among the pavilions, and said, "How sure are you of resolving this big crisis?"

"Thirty percent."

"It's [-]% more than I expected."

"Why do you think I'm only [-]% sure?"

"Because we have not yet seen our enemy, and know nothing of him."

"We should have seen our enemy, and even had a face-to-face confrontation with him, but we didn't know that he was our enemy when we confronted."

"is it?"

"I have such a hunch."

……

……

Zhou Heng had nowhere to know what the first emperor had talked with the creatures in the bronze coffin.

After waiting outside the hall for two hours, Shi Huang let them in.

At this time, the bronze coffin was tightly closed, and there were two things on the ground, one was a jade seal and the other was a skull.

Zhou Heng was startled: "Could it be that these two things are—"

"The one on the left is Chuan Guo Yuxi, and the one on the right is his skull."

The first emperor's voice was full of helpless fatigue: "Xu Fu is really scheming, except that he didn't expect that the elixir he made at the price of the world is the real elixir."

"Your Majesty means—"

"Xu Fu is a liar, but he is also the greatest liar of all time. I have no doubt that he is still active in some corner of the world, just like he was back then."

"Your Majesty wants to find Xu Fu?"

"Finding him who is alive can solve at least [-]% of the current questions, and finding him who is dead can also solve at least [-]% of the questions, but there is still one problem-where to find him?"

"This one……"

Zhou Heng didn't expect Emperor Shi Huang to ask such a question, and his face was slightly astonished. After thinking for a while, a wonderful idea rolled in his mind.

Not that there is no place to look for Xu Fu!

The answer is already in his palm!

"Your Majesty thinks that Xu Fu is hiding in the underground city of Beijing?"

"There is such a possibility, but it is not necessarily true. The specific situation is up to you to investigate and be responsible for."

"clear."

Zhou Heng was about to leave the hall.

The First Emperor suddenly said, "Have you ever hated me?"

"Why did His Majesty suddenly say this?"

"It's just a whim," said the first emperor, "I have read many articles criticizing and discussing my merits and demerits. Their analysis is very reasonable, but they all take the situation for granted. The reality is that I Under the specific circumstances, he made the most correct choice for generations to come, although it caused a certain burden and harm to the time. It is a pity that Xu Fu has never been able to see through these things, and he has failed his great wisdom."

"People are not sages and sages, and Xu Fu just stands on his side and does what he thinks is right."

"Yes, so I don't blame him but I can't forgive him either."

While speaking, Emperor Shi Huang waved his hand and swept out the bronze coffin weighing several tons.

Zhou Heng wanted to chase after him.

The First Emperor said, "He has got everything he wants and can rest in peace."

After the words fell, Emperor Shihuang turned around, and the iron gate of the main hall closed.

Zhou Heng came to the bronze coffin that had finally stopped the sliding trend, and pushed away the heavy coffin lid, only a pool of blood and a few dead bones remained inside.

The monster Hu Hai was freed as he wished.

It can be seen from this that the first emperor did not have no feelings for him, but he did not expect that Hu Hai would——

"He finally got what he wanted."

Young Master Fusu stood beside Zhou Heng and sighed.

From this, Zhou Heng confirmed that they had indeed discovered that the monster inside the bronze coffin was Hu Hai.

But just like he didn't let them know that the monster in the coffin was Hu Hai, they didn't let Zhou Heng know that they had recognized Hu Hai.

……

……

When he came out of Efang Palace, Zhou Heng was very depressed.

Seeing this, Feng Ling, who pushed the work to Yu Huaijin, leaned forward and said amusedly, "What's wrong with you? It looks so uncomfortable?"

"It's nothing."

Zhou Heng waved his hand, took Yu Huaijin's document, and asked Feng Ling while reading it: "What kind of person do you think Xu Fu is?"

"Xu Fu? I don't know him."

"All right……"

Zhou Heng buried himself in the documents.

Feng Ling saw that his complexion was not good, so he urgently searched for Xu Fu's materials and related paper reviews, and finally came to a conclusion——

"I'm afraid this guy is not a traverser from the clock tower."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because he is obviously good at magic or illusion, otherwise he wouldn't have easily convinced Emperor Shihuang and the others to believe that there are immortals and various monsters in the sea, but it's not certain that these things really existed in the world thousands of years ago..."

The more Feng Ling spoke, the less confident he became, and his voice lowered accordingly.

Zhou Heng: "Besides that Xu Fu may be a magician, do you have any other ideas?"

"He is very charismatic as a leader," Feng Ling said. "Although the boats, boys and girls, and the items on board were all given by the first emperor, if Xu Fu hadn't made a plan in advance, it would be impossible to plan such a large-scale migration. Don't talk about controlling these people, let them obey his command, and go to Fusang island country with him to open up wasteland and live."

"...I also think the same way. Xu Fu is a very smart and well-planned person, and he cannot be summed up simply as a magic stick, alchemist, or liar."

"That--"

"We must find Xu Fu as soon as possible."

"what?"

Feng Ling was stunned again: "Xu Fu is still alive?"

"Xu Fu's method of refining the elixir of life is still circulating in the world, so Xu Fu must still be alive."

"Why do you say that? Could it be—"

Feng Ling shivered.

Zhou Heng nodded and said, "The half-dead creatures dug out of the dungeon are taking the half-finished elixir of life refined by Xu Fu's methods."

"……I see!"

……

……

Zhou Heng has been so busy dealing with dungeon matters recently that he doesn't even have time to log in to social platforms, let alone set aside time for live broadcasting.

Xu Rui and Zheng Yi, who were originally worried about being plotted by Zhou Heng, who was "on the list" to seal this golden mountain, suddenly felt that he could turn the situation back, and while speeding up to support the Boston Lobster, he urged Yue Fanping to get out.

"You are no longer worth using! If you are sensible, abdicate immediately! If you don't want to withdraw voluntarily, we will seek legal channels. It will not be as simple as being blocked!"

Zheng Yi gave an ultimatum to Yue Fanping who finished removing the stitches on his face.

However, after going through the ups and downs of this period, Yue Fanping finally understood the truth that being a dog for Qili.com must lead to a terrible death. After listening to Zheng Yi's ultimatum calmly, he sneered and said, "You think I'm stupid enough to believe me?" If you take the initiative to abdicate and let the virtuous, you can exchange your promise not to go to court to sue me and ask me to compensate you for the so-called losses?"

"—what do you mean by that?"

"It means that I am ready to die with you."

"What! How dare you!"

Zheng Yi was furious, and regardless of the presence of people in the ward, he raised his hand to—

"This gentleman, how can you hit someone!"

The nurse rushed into the ward and stopped Zheng Yi who was messing around: "This is a hospital, no messing around!"

"I'm discussing work with my former employees, what's going on!"

Zheng Yi refused to admit that he wanted to use violence against Yue Fanping, and forcibly found an excuse to evade it.

However, Yue Fanping was completely awake and no longer had any illusions about Xu Rui and others. Seeing that Zheng Yi started talking nonsense and pretending to be righteous again, he grabbed the railing of the hospital bed and stood up, shouting: "Get out!"

"Sir, the patient asks you to go out immediately."

The nurse also asked Zheng Yi to go out.

Hearing this, Zheng Yi sneered three times, and said, "The boy has the courage! He is still stubborn when he is about to die! See you at the gate of the court!"

"I've hired a lawyer."

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