"The beast of the empire was not a fool who had been used all that time."
Hearing this, Mengze let out a low voice and said in surprise, "He knew it during the water battle at Dongting?"
"Yes."
"Well, then… Did he stab Mo Ge at that time then did not prevent me from taking him away with me because he wanted me to find out that Mo Ge's spiritual core had been eroded by the red puppet?"
Murong Lian nodded his head and said, "Most likely so."
Mengze murmured, "It was just because I was going to cure Mo Ge's spiritual core that I was able to realize that Mo Ge had been hit by the red puppet, so I tried my best to strip it off. But I didn't report it to the emperor. I felt strange in my heart. After several investigations, I found out that it was the emperor's conspiracy..."
She turned her head and looked at the so-called Gu Mang, who was confused at the moment, and her face turned pale. "So at that time, you… You did it on purpose..."
Gu Mang heard her speak to him and was confused. "What? What on purpose?"
Mo Xi shook his head and said, "No way. I have read the letters between Gu Mang and the emperor. For five years, he had been transmitting information to him. If he knew it, why would be he be willing to continue to offer demonic techniques to the emperor?"
"Fireball, did you notice that Gu Mang's letter to the emperor in the early days contained a lot of secrets about how to use the demonic techniques of Liaoguo. But in the later stage, they often only provided confidential information about military situation and national conditions, and seldom talked about the demonic arts?"
"..."
After Murong Lian said this, Mo Xi recalled the letters he read at that time, and it was really so.
Murong Lian said, "Gu Mang knew very well that if he was exposed, Murong Chen would not hesitate to kill him, nor give up his chess piece directly. He would then ask others to continue to search for secret arts in Liaoguo.
Therefore, although he knew what kind of person Murong Chen was, he still held back and wrote to him as usual…"
"Only after that, he paid attention. His letters to the emperor rarely talked about the demonic arts. Even if he did, he only wrote something that seemed very confidential but could not be of great use."
Mo Xi said, "How do you know that?"
Murong Lian filled the pipe bag with cut tobacco, lit it, and took a puff at his lips.
In the light blue smoke, he said in a deep voice, "Because these words are from Gu Mang himself."
Mo Xi's face suddenly changed, "When..."
"The day before he was sent back to town as a peace offering."
"!"
Murong Lian spoke slowly in the eyes of all the people who were stunned, "Don't be too surprised. The emperor once put Gu Mang in my charge. So the day before he returned to the city, I went out of the city myself, and I met him in private."
"On his way back?"
"On his way back, by the waterfront."
"..."
"Everyone thought that all of Gu Mang's memory had been hollowed out. His spiritual core was broken and his soul emptied, so that he became a ghost at that time." Murong Lian paused for a moment. "But that's not the case."
"Liaoguo did destroy Gu Mang's spiritual power in order to prevent him from divulging secrets, but they did not destroy those memories that had nothing to do with Liaoguo's secrets. Therefore, first of all, Gu Mang's memories were not destroyed by Liaoguo."
The ministers were horrified. "What?"
"Liaoguo's not to blame?"
"Yes. Secondly, it is also false that Gu Mang's two souls were taken away by Liaoguo. His mind wasn't taken out any man, but by himself. He donated it by himself, and it had nothing to do with Liaoguo."
This sentence was even more shocking than the previous sentence. If the former sentence was just a ripple, this sentence had become a huge wave.
Mo Xi took a step back, and his thin lips were completely bloodless. "How… is that possible? Why would he..."
"Why did he do this? The emperor should know this most clearly." Murong Lian glanced at Murong Chen and said, "Let's not talk about this. We have a third thing to talk about."
"Third, Gu Mang's final memories were lost on the Fushui riverbank. In fact, the erasure of all his memories is thanks to our great monarch of Chonghua!"
Murong Chen looked like a vulture. "Murong Lian, when did you decide to bewitch people!?"
Murong Lian said, "I knew you would say that. That's why you wanted to assassinate me. There's no way. After all, the one who you sent to make him forget his worries…"
Murong Lian raised his peach blossom eyes. "…was me."
Murong Chen: "It's not a good idea…"
"I have always regarded Gu Mang as a thorn in the flesh. After knowing that he had betrayed his country, I felt ashamed and thought that he was ashamed of Wangshu's Fu, and I wanted to punish him if he could not get it. At that time, the emperor saw my state of mind and secretly called me to the front of the palace and told me that Gu Mang was not treasonous, but a spy."
Mengze whispered, "You knew his spy identity, so why did you hate him so much?"
"There's no such thing as that," Murong Lian said with a sneer. "The emperor told me that Gu Mang went out as a spy at that time, but when he was half undercover, Gu Mang made a request, hoping that after he returned home, he would let the emperor help him become the master of Wangshu Fu."
"... Gu Mang would not raise such a price."
"But how did I know?" Murong Lian rolled his eyes. "The emperor caught my guard, then said to me, he did not agree to Gu Mang's conditions. Gu Mang's request to replace me was rejected by the emperor, and his heart was filled with resentment. In the end, he became a real traitor. Later, he had been working for Liaoguo to take revenge on Chonghua…"
The emperor is a person who knew that Murong Lian used to bully Gu Mang miserably. He made up a lie and said that Gu Mang had evil intentions and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to pull down the former master. This was a natural thing.
As the leader of Wangshu Fu, what mood would Murong Lian feel when he heard the news?
Murong Lian said, "I was angry when I heard about this. But I also felt strange. If Gu Mang had become a real traitor, why did Liaoguo send him back as a peace negotiation gift?"
Mo Xi looked at the emperor with one eye, and asked Murong Lian, "What did he say?"
"No leak. It was said that he could not tolerate Gu Mang's behavior, so he secretly wrote a book to the Guoshi of Liaoguo, telling him the identity of Gu Mang when he went to Liaoguo, and said that Gu Mang had stolen many secrets of Liaoguo and offered them to Chonghua. Liaoguo then felt that this man had two sides and three swords. His mental skills were extremely improper and could not be retained. So he sent him back…"
Murong Lian took another breath of life like a dream, and then said, "Murong Chen told me at that time that Gu Mang was a man who was greedy for life and afraid of death. Before Liaoguo started to arrest him, he had already sensed their intention. In order to protect himself, Gu Mang wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that he had found out about the secret refining room for the blood demon beast in Liaoguo, and he saw the cubs of the blood demon beast in it. He was willing to seal its power with the power of his soul and bring it back to the emperor in secret, hoping to spare himself from death."
"At that time, I completely believed his words and hated Gu Mang to the extreme. In my anger, I asked his majesty, are we going to agree to this traitor's request?"
"The emperor said to me that Gu Mang had been re-quenched using the demonic arts. If he killed Gu Mang rashly, he would turn into an unheard of evil. He could not do it like this. So he really agreed to Gu Mang's proposal, and he asked me to do two things --"
"The first thing, he asked me to see Gu Mang secretly before the convoy of escorting him into the city, and asked him to hand over the soul box sealed with the power of blood demon beast."
Mo Xi asked, "What about the second thing?"
"The second, he gave me a pill, saying that Gu Mang was born in poverty and came into a high position. He knew how cunning his nature was. Although he couldn't kill the demon because of his abnormal changes, he will certainly be wise with the people around him… The jailer, the guard, and so on, tried to make rumors with them. With Gu Mang's words, anything can be done, so we needed to make him lose all his senses and memories. The pill was made for this purpose. He asked me to take the pill immediately after I got the blood demon beast soul box presented by Gu mang…"
Mo Xi listened and his fingertips sank into his palm. As the truth of the past came to the surface, the threads of spider silk that the emperor once spit out were clearly visible, just like a vast net, which caged them in the middle.
Mo Xi said in a low voice, "But after you saw Gu Mang, Gu Mang didn't tell you the truth..."
"He did say a few words. He told me not trust the emperor too much. But who do you think I would believe at that time?"
"..."
"What's more, when I saw Gu Mang then, Xu was in charge of escorting him and had beaten him. His mind was very vague. There was a fresh scar on his chest, and he was still bleeding. He had no strength to talk to me too much, so he had fainted."
Murong Lian stopped and continued, "But there was one thing that really made me feel strange at that time. That is, in addition to giving me the soul box sealed with the power of blood demon beast, he also gave me another thing, so that I could keep it anyway, and then find a chance to destroy it. And that this matter could never be known to the emperor."
Murong Mengze asked, "What did he give you?"
Murong Lian didn't answer immediately, but looked at Murong Chen on the high seat.
"My Lord, you painstakingly let Mo Xi bring you a piece of the blood demon beast from Daze City. Only then could you refine this monster with a bird's beak and dog's body. It must have been Gu Mang's blood demon beast soul box that Gu Mang dedicated to you. Haven't you opened it after so many years of fighting?"
He said sneering, "Do you know why you can't open it?"
Murong Chen also knew that it was useless to install again at the moment, so he said, "Why."
Murong Lian spat out smoke and said, "Because Gu Mang used his own soul to cast a soul box different from others. He adjusted it himself, and to open it, he needed a key…"
Mengze was startled. "That's what Gu Mang wanted you to keep?"
"Not bad," Murong Lian said. "At that time, I kept an eye on it, and no one had mentioned this matter."
When Murong Lian said this, he gave an almost cold little look at Murong Chen.
"You can't open the soul box, which you have obtained with painstaking efforts.
You must have studied hard for a long time, but you can't open it. Fortunately, I'm suspicious by nature, and I know you're a slippery person. I don't believe you all. Otherwise, you would turn all the Chonghua people into wooden puppets in the year when Gu Mang returned to the city."
Murong Chen's silver teeth clenched, staring at him. Suddenly burst out a series of angry but wide smiles.
"Murong Lian… Murong Lian, you didn't believe me or Gu Mang! Ha ha ha ha...!"
It didn't matter to Murong Lian. "Yes."
"Who did you trust in your life?"
Murong Lian said, "I am like you, Murong Chen. We're both those kind of people - no one to trust but ourselves."
He spoke, his eyes indifferent and alienated. "It's time for your farce to end. Put down your dream of uniting Kyushu. I have already destroyed the key Gu Mang gave me."
Murong Chen laughed more than once. After circling a long time, his eyes were red as he stared at Murong Lian. And then his sight went past all the people, from Mo Xi, to Gu Mang, to Murong Mengze… Even the ministers.
Finally, his eyes were like a ghost, and he said, "Murong Lian, do you think that after studying for so many years, I really haven't gotten the second solution, that
I can't open the power soul box sealed by Gu Mang?"