NovelsAlex Chapter 2800 Hidden Rules
Chapter 2800 Hidden Rules
Chapter 2800 Hidden Rules
At this moment.
After running for a long time, the sky began to brighten.
Da Zhuang, Lao Bai, Xiao Shuai and Xiao Mei, four of them came to the city gate.
"Thanks to the previous training, our physical fitness is comparable to that of professional athletes." Da Zhuang panted.
"Yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get here at all." Xiaomei said hopefully.
Lao Bai looked at the tall city gate worriedly.
The bronze city gate was glowing with bloody rust in the dawn, and the twelve door nails looked like solidified blood beads.
"Open the door!" Xiao Shuai knocked on the city gate.
As it turned out, the city gate did not move at all.
And behind them came the sound of steel guns dragging on stone slabs.
The four of them looked back.
The princess was seen riding on a tall horse, holding a bloodstained steel spear.
At some point, she changed her outfit.
"It seems that someone is picking her up. She is not alone!" Lao Bai said in shock.
The princess looked at the four people coldly. She loosened the reins, embroidered the tip of the spear with kingfisher feathers, and the dripping blood beads embroidered a string of red plums on the blue bricks.
The tip of the gun was pointed directly at Da Zhuang.
"Your Highness!" Da Zhuang's Adam's apple moved under the tip of the gun.
The man who "once strangled a tiger from the Western Regions with one hand" was now shaking like a sieve - this was how he was introduced in the character background.
Unfortunately, it does not live up to its reputation.
"We are just following orders to investigate, please spare our lives——"
"It's a pity that you know too much." The princess said lightly.
The next moment, the gun blade cut into his thick neck.
All three of them heard the crisp sound of the steel blade scraping across their joints.
His head rolled to Lao Bai's feet, and his cloudy eyes reflected the peeling gold paint on the relief of the city gate.
The grooves in those conquest patterns are filled with coagulated blood.
Lao Bai turned around and tried to escape.
When his crane cloak was lifted up, the golden token on his waist was revealed - this was the investigation certificate awarded to him by the emperor.
It is said that everyone, from the queen to the beggar, can be investigated.
What an irony.
The emperor's words sound like farting!
The next moment, the steel gun pierced his back and then was pulled out.
Lao Bai pounced on the bronze door knocker, and his intestines flowed into the beast's mouth through the Taotie pattern's eye sockets.
The two people who were still alive almost vomited.
"I'm still so young and handsome, I don't want to die!" Xiao Shuai backed up and bumped into the city gate.
His jade-like face was splattered with blood, leaving only stench and ugliness.
"Death will come quickly, and everyone will die!" said the princess, and fired another shot, directly piercing Xiao Shuai's abdomen.
She picked up the splattered meat and wiped it with her fingertips.
"You should be content that you can die under my gun and know my secret for twenty years."
"But aren't you the masters that the rumors say you are? You are worse than a chicken."
"He is just as unworthy of his reputation as those imperial doctors. None of them could tell that I was still alive."
Xiao Mei said angrily, "They knew the truth but didn't say anything in order to protect themselves."
"Haha, then why don't you learn from them?" The princess said coldly, "Foolish fellow."
The kingfisher-inlaid steel spear slashed down directly.
It split Xiaomei's carefully maintained body in one go.
Two symmetrical pieces of body slid down along the city gate and formed a bloody doll under the feet of the relief sculpture of a man holding a spear.
It's really terrifying.
The princess then shook off the blood drop from the tip of the spear.
She carried the four bodies into the moat one by one.
Ripples spread out, and countless fish jumped out of the water, desperately scrambling for the freshly dead body.
During the entire process, the city gate remained closed.
……
Somewhere in the real world.
The top experts in the secret organization are all pondering over the game hints.
【"Imperial City Storm", all four people died. 】
"Four people died again and failed to pass the level. They are all newcomers, so the difficulty shouldn't be too high."
"The game doesn't give any hints on the difficulty, we can only figure it out on our own."
"Unfortunately, the information has not been leaked. The rules of this game are too difficult."
Several experts thought about it for a while, but finally gave up.
Expert A said: "What we have to do is send more people in."
"We can't just send people away rashly. Staff training is expensive and slow."
"Yes, there are not many qualified people. There are a lot of homeless people, but most of them are confused, and many of those who are sober don't believe it." Expert B agreed.
"After the screening, we will go for training. We will have to start from scratch in terms of physical fitness, knowledge, and reasoning."
"Unless we expand our organization a hundred times, it would be best to contact larger forces, use their platforms to conduct open recruitment, and select from normal people. This way, we will be more efficient," suggested Expert C.
After discussions among several experts, the organization quickly adopted their suggestions.
The reason is also very simple.
Everyone has a limited lifespan.
Can't afford to delay.
If you want to engage in covert operations and conspiracies, you are doomed to be inefficient.
Since you have to cover it up and you can't mobilize manpower and funds on a large scale, how can you be efficient?
In addition, it is difficult to crack the rules of the game, and it often takes several deaths before you can crack it.
More than a dozen lives would be lost at one time.
Secret organizations can bear this cost, but it takes too long.
After a round of quarrels and divisions, the relevant secrets were "handed over" to the major forces.
The big powers initially thought they were crazy and insane.
But in the face of evidence after evidence, he had to break his own worldview - the world is multidimensional, and the void can be observed, but it requires special means.
The actions of major forces are efficient and swift.
The most powerful elites were quickly assembled.
Compared with bankrupts and homeless people, they are more proactive and have higher quality.
……
After some prayer and preparation, the new group of four once again entered the rule game "Imperial City Storm".
Still the same tip as last time.
The four gave themselves new code names:
"The last time, the four people failed because of their names."
"That's at least half the reason. If you just use the name of a supporting role, then wouldn't your fate be the same as a supporting role?"
This new team is code-named "Four Symbols" - members: military strategist "Xuan Ce", warrior "Qing Feng", spy "Ye Xiao", and doctor "Su Wen".
Xuan Ce explained to everyone: "You should know that we accomplished this under the watchful eyes of certain beings."
"For example, Lin Feng, he must be watching us."
"Do you think the name of the supporting commentator 'Da Zhuang' will attract his favor, or our official code name will attract his favor?"
The three of them nodded at the same time: "It must be the latter."
……
At this time, Lin Feng was really looking at them.
It was just that Lin Feng was silently saying: "Da Zhuang can arouse my favor. Your code name is too pretentious. I don't like it."
"The problem is that I don't have the ability to interfere with what's going on inside. This is something that only gods of another level can do."
At best, he was just a small ant who got a treasure and was lucky enough to gain a little immortality and was just trying to survive.
The little bit of strength he has is not worth mentioning at all.
He didn't dare to interfere, but after taking a look at the rules of the void, he found that there was no problem.
……
The four of them had now arrived at the palace where the princess's body was kept.
Nothing has changed.
Eunuchs, palace maids, and guards stood around and guarded closely.
Inside the mausoleum, the air was chilly. As everyone watched, Su Wen lightly touched the edge of the ice coffin, and like a magic trick, the silver needle quietly pierced into the ice.
After the test, she took the other three into a secret room.
"The ice was set three days ago, but it's melting 30% faster than usual... There's something wrong with the body," she whispered.
The other three understood immediately.
This means that the corpse is radiating heat and has a higher temperature than the surrounding environment: only a living person can do this.
"The body is indeed alive." Xuan Ce nodded, "According to the information collected previously, the princess faked her death in order to escape marriage."
Night Owl wondered, "This is not right. No matter how favored the princess is, could she do such a thing?"
"Yes, this is a crime of deceiving the emperor!" Su Wen also said.
Qing Feng shook his head and said, "Unless she has a secret force that is extremely powerful, so powerful that the emperor has to compromise and allow her to do so."
These four people are indeed much stronger than the previous four.
Right away, I realized the princess's reason for doing this: it's not enough to just rely on being favored.
The emperor might have feelings for the princess and be very kind to her, like an old father.
Choose whichever one you like.
But when it comes to imperial power, there can be no emotions.
Xuan Ce nodded: "Well, we need to collect some more information."
"We must find out the princess's power."
……
night.
Ye Xiao sneaked into the Imperial Hospital and found the pulse records - all the seventeen imperial doctors recorded "pulse is dead and breath is scattered".
He examined it carefully and finally made a discovery.
In the corner there is a discarded yellowed piece of paper with the following words written on it: "The Ren Meridian is hidden, like the tortoise breathing technique, and is left for those who are destined to have it."
He immediately realized that this was placed there deliberately by someone.
Who could it be?
Why did the other party reveal the princess's secret?
Why should we rely on them to reveal this secret?
He took the piece of paper and went back to the secret room where the four of them were.
After Qing Feng saw it, he frowned immediately: "Turtle Breathing Technique? This is in the realm of martial arts."
"I remember now. In the character background introduction, it said that the four of us are cold-blooded and ruthless, and we pursue our lives with an iron hand. This means that this world has rivers and lakes, and there are also masters!"
"Master, but we are powerless." Su Wen said depressedly.
"This is unreasonable. The rules of the game will not leave such loopholes." Xuan Ce frowned.
Suddenly he understood and burst out laughing.
The three looked at him in amazement.
“Hahahaha, hahaha, hahaha!”
"I know why the four people died before!"
"Because they came up to solve the case, but they didn't solve their own case!"
"That's right, the nicknames of the four of us are actually hidden rules in themselves!"
Then the four of them suddenly realized.
So they spent four days out of the seven precious days investigating themselves!
Finally, they found a broken sign in an abandoned mansion of a marquis in the capital:
"The Divine Lord Zhuge"!
They dug and explored everywhere in this mansion.
Finally, two iron gloves, two iron shoes, a wheelchair, and a broken sword were found.
After getting it, the four of them suddenly felt a sudden concentration in their brains, as if they had grown a new brain.
It's like the rules are possessed.
They have corresponding martial arts and moves...
It's easy to use, just like driving a car.
You don't need to know the principle of the car's movement. You just need to insert the key, start the car, shift to D gear, step on the accelerator, and the car will move forward.
"So that's how it is. This is the secret technique of faking death that has been lost in the martial arts world for thirty years... This princess is no simple person." Su Wen said.
Then the four of them understood what to do.
So Xuan Ce, holding the golden token issued by the emperor, broke into the empress dowager's bedroom.
"If the Queen Mother really loves her granddaughter, why doesn't she verify her identity?" He stared at the curtains of the phoenix couch.
"How dare you break into the Queen Mother's bedroom? What do you want to do?" the old maid questioned.
"Hmph, go ask the Queen Mother. She doesn't want the princess' fake death to be known to the world, right?"
There was a sound of teacups breaking behind the curtain, and the old maid said tremblingly: "The Queen Mother...she closed herself in and chanted sutras three days ago, saying that 'Changping is destined to have a disaster.'"
"The only way to escape is to fake your death."
"Is that so?" Xuan Ce didn't completely believe it.
"That's it."
Xuan Ce sneered and then left.
……
at the same time.
Night Owl sneaked into the Queen's palace at the same time and found a secret compartment.
There was a secret letter written to the border: "The marriage contract is bait. When my uncle comes to Beijing, I will behead him and display his head to the public."
It turned out to be the case.
The empress is a relative of a general at the border, and is actually an eye and ear sent by the emperor.
The truth behind all this has surfaced:
The emperor was wary of the generals at the border, but he could not directly provoke them.
The other party cannot be allowed to enter Beijing directly or transferred at will.
In that case, the other party might directly rebel.
Then, it would be legitimate to marry the princess to the other party's son, use the name of marriage alliance, and let the in-laws come back to preside over the wedding.
And it can easily paralyze people.
Don’t think this strategy is simple. In fact, many strategies for palace coups in history are very simple and direct.
Find a pretext to lure people in and kill them directly.
That's the end of it.
The Xuanwu Gate Incident, the Shenlong Incident, the removal of Oboi...all these major events were accomplished with the help of very simple excuses.
Now the emperor is giving up his daughter, which is already very costly.
If a general from the frontier comes to Beijing to arrange a wedding, he certainly cannot bring a large army with him.
At most, he could bring dozens of skilled servants, which would give the princess a chance to assassinate him.
The emperor and the princess actually thought of one more thing:
If you simply use marriage as a means of alliance, the generals at the border may suspect it is a trick.
Then let the princess disobey orders and fake her death, so that the generals at the border will believe that this is true.
Then he will be off guard.
After the burial, the princess secretly left the capital and went to assassinate the general.
After figuring it out, Ye Xiao immediately returned to his residence to discuss it with the other three.
……
fifth day.
After figuring out everything, the four pretended to close the case, declaring that "the princess committed suicide."
On the night of the burial, Xuan Ce gathered all his friends in the martial arts world and bowed down at the mausoleum where the princess was buried.
At midnight, a dark shadow came walking on the moon.
It was Princess Changping who faked her death.
Her claws were as hard as iron and she chopped down four people!
"I've been waiting for a long time!" Qing Feng drew his sword and fought with the princess.
Su Wen sprinkled medicinal powder, and Ye Xiao locked his joints with iron chains.
The princess screamed: "How can you ants understand the great plan!"
"It's just the balance of imperial power. It's extremely boring and does not benefit the country or the people at all!" Xuan Ce sneered.
Then everyone worked together and finally subdued the princess.
"Assholes, you stupid guys, are you doing this to cause chaos in the world?"
"Hmph, just based on your own preferences and ideas, for the so-called imperial power, you want to kill generals who have made outstanding contributions and ignore the safety of the border. You are the murderers who cause chaos in the world!" Qing Feng sneered.
"It's ridiculous! If we don't kill him, he will rebel!" said the princess angrily.
"Rebellion, is there any evidence?" Qing Feng said disdainfully.
"It's obvious that you are the ones who have crossed the river and destroyed the bridge. You have just put away your bows after the birds are gone!"
(End of this chapter)