“It’s just a video.”

Chu Zhixiao asked, "Didn't you ever doubt that Master Zhishan is likely to commit fraud?"

Li Yao's heart moved, knowing that the puppet king's bewitching just now had planted the seeds of doubt in Chu Zhixiao's heart.

Otherwise, she would never ask a question like "Will Master Suiya commit fraud?"

Of course, for Li Yao, Chu Zhixiao's suspicion is not a good thing. The suspicion is right. It depends only on who will guide him after the suspicion, whether it is Li Yao or the puppet king.

"I have long known the virtues of those in the family, what else can I doubt?"

Yun Haixin smiled bitterly and said, "Even if there is no video of Master Zhishan, I know that my wife and children will have a hard time in the family, and I will even have life worries."

"Then what?"

Chu Zhixiao continued to ask, "Do you know your wife and her children are in danger of life and death, then what?"

"Then, Master Zhishan gave me two choices and wanted to make a deal with me."

Yun Haixin was lost in her eyes and fell into a painful past. "At that time, my children were about to become adults. Under the intentional calculations of their enemies, they were likely to be sent to a secret training camp with extremely high mortality rates. Even if they could survive the tempering of life worse than death, they would become a killer hidden in the darkness of the family, a assassin who would do dirty work for the rest of their lives, and other infamous characters.

“Or, they would repeat my mistakes and be sent to the front line and die meaninglessly as cannon fodder.

"If they really fall into this fate and separate from their mother for a long time, my wife's ending can be imagined - she was not a woman who was too strong. She was first hit by the loss of her husband and had to help her two children solve the dilemma. She was driven crazy by herself.

"I don't need Master Zhishan to tell me that I know very well. If I don't take action, I will divorce my wife and children and die.

"The two choices given to me by Master Zhishan are also very simple - first, he can "brainwash" me according to the regular procedures like he did to other imperial prisoners, wash away my memories and self, and let me spend the rest of my life in a daze.

"And the power of the Holy Alliance will give up monitoring of my wife and children, let them die by themselves, and be bullied by enemies within the family until they die.

“If I long for help from… the gods, then be clear-headed, keep your own face, join the Holy Alliance, and complete the tasks assigned by the Supreme Master.

"With the premise of completing the task, I can do anything as I want, no matter how I curse or complain, it doesn't matter if I grab a certain Holy Alliance and curse, the gods can... forgive my recklessness and ignorance.

"Then, Master Zhishan will mobilize all the powers of the Holy Alliance lurking in the empire to help me rescue my wife and children and send them to the Holy Alliance!"

"I understand a little."

Chu Zhixiao thought for a while and said, "This happened twenty years ago, but you have been in the Yasha Squad for less than ten years. What tasks have you carried out in the past ten years?"

"Many tasks, such as the identification of the 'Lander'."

Yun Hai thought, "A lot of 'lurkers' who have invested a lot of resources and carefully cultivated must be tested by the authentic imperial people to test whether they are qualified and modify the flaws and loopholes they reveal unconsciously to make them more 'perfect'. I am both a sage cultivator and a strong man of the Nascent Soul level, so I am naturally the most suitable for testing them. This work is irreplaceable to those brainwashed 'soldier bees' and 'worker bees'."

"Indeed, an empire with a clear mind can evaluate the Holy Alliance from a different perspective and find defects that we cannot find. Your value is indeed very high.

"But I still can't understand, how could you be willing?

"Even if your wife and children live a miserable life in the empire, don't you despise the 'dummy' life of the Holy Alliance the most? How could you agree to let Master Zhishan bring them all to the Holy Alliance?"

"Of course there are conditions, that is, the Eternal Light."

Yun Hai said in his heart, "The Supreme Master showed me the life on the Eternal Light, a life that is... illusory, yet peaceful, peaceful and happy.

"Master Zhishan promised me that as long as I work hard for the Holy Alliance, it doesn't matter if I still hate the Holy Alliance deeply in my heart. On the premise of completing the task, my wife and children can live on the "Eternal Light" forever.

"Of course, their memory area will be sealed. They no longer remember the past. They will think that they were born as a member of Guangming City, but their egos are still preserved and they still have the past emotions, hobbies and living habits. They will get rid of the darkness and usher in the light. They will live happily and carefree in this small world of cultivation!"

Chu Zhixiao opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

"Is it ironic?"

Without waiting for her to say, Yun Haixin started to laugh at herself, "I am a cultivator, but I would rather die than let my wife and children continue to live the life of a cultivator. I would rather betray my own way, bear the crime of a 'traitor', and cooperate with the evil demons in my eyes, just to allow my wife and children to live in an illusory world of cultivation.

"Yes, you and I know very well that the world of cultivators is fake, it is impossible to exist, and even if it exists, it cannot last forever.

"But I don't expect long-term. It only takes one hundred or two hundred years. As long as the 'human experiment' of Master Zhishan can continue to last for one or two hundred years, so that my wife and children can live this life comfortably and happily in Guangming City, I will be satisfied, and my responsibilities as a husband and father will be fulfilled."

Chu Zhixiao's breathing became heavier and disordered.

Obviously, the killing goddess never felt such a strong human emotion. The ripples like beasts made her fall into deep shock and confusion.

"you……"

She thought for a long time, "Have you ever seen your wife and children over the years?"

"I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I often see videos of them living in Guangming City."

Yun Hai thought to himself, "Didn't you always want to know what kind of power it is to support me in a hell like the Holy Alliance for so long, no matter how much I hate here and how much I hate my work, but I still do my duty and meticulously?

"The only reason they are, is that the glimmer of light in hell is the most powerful force that supports me to live!"

Chu Zhixiao took a deep breath.

"Your wife and children are not born and raised in the Eternal Light and have not been discovered in twenty years?"

she asked.

"No, here is a complete set of processes that allow outsiders to integrate seamlessly."

Yun Hai thought to himself, "Not only my wife and children, but also many families of imperial people, all of them are here."

"this--"

Chu Zhixiao was stunned, "Why?"

"Don't you understand it yet, there are many reasons, for example, to create a real 'lurker'."

Yun Haixin smiled sadly and weirdly, "Do you think the 'Landers' are those guys who have been deeply brainwashed? Then you think Master Zhishan is too simple. The so-called brainwashing and 'using computing power to simulate emotions' will be discovered even if the technology is excellent or the disguise is hidden.

"Relying on such a man-made 'Lander', it is impossible to sneak into the highest level of the empire and spy on the most core secrets.

"Let me tell you what the real "lurkers" look like. They are definitely not the Holy Alliance members, nor the imperial people who were captured by the Holy Alliance and then brainwashed, nor are the underground natives at the bottom of the empire who fanatically believe in the gods. But people like me who believe in the principles of people not for themselves, who are punished by heaven and earth, and who are natural!

"The more senior immortal cultivators like us, the more they can understand the darkness and evil hidden behind the path of immortal cultivation, and the less they want their descendants to live in the kingdom of immortal cultivators.

"So, the Holy Alliance used various means to bring our loved ones to the Eternal Light, allowing them to live a dreamy life, and used this method to force us to cooperate.

"Their goals are carefully selected, and they are all people like me who are deeply in love with my relatives and are willing to give up everything for them, so almost no one will refuse.

"In this way, we are clear-headed, keep ourselves, have rich or even too rich emotions, but we are still "willed" to become the minions of the Holy Alliance. We either stay within the Holy Alliance like me, or lurk in the empire, continuously transmitting various intelligence to the Holy Alliance, helping the Holy Alliance see every detail of the core of the Empire.

"The stupid empire authorities use the 'spirit test' to identify the Holy Alliance spies. The latest generation of Spiritual Diagram tests can almost identify all the brainwashed Holy Alliance members, but they will definitely not be able to catch people like me, because we have not been brainwashed in the first place and still maintain a strong self and emotion!

"I understand. The 'Landers' you usually see are just small characters who are not good at the right time, low-level intelligence personnel. Even those seemingly carefully modulated lurkers are just guises, bargaining chips that can be sacrificed at will, and are deliberately discovered by the imperial authorities.

"The value of these 'Landers' existence is to make the imperial authorities mistakenly think that they have mastered the method of capturing the Holy Alliance spies, but they do not know that the real spies have not been brainwashed at all!"

Not to mention Chu Zhixiao, even Li Yao was secretly shocked and his soul was covered in cold sweat.

"Human emotions..."

Chu Zhixiao murmured, "It's so strange, so terrible."

"Yes, humans are such a strange and terrible thing that can give everything and burn themselves for an illusory dream."

Yun Haixin's face was extremely sad. She looked at her trembling hands, listened to the angrily roar outside, and murmured, "It's a pity that now, the dream is broken."

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