Chapter 257 The culprit of time travel? (Ten thousand words, please vote for me!)
After hearing La Riluo's words, Qiu Tu did not try to fight for the rhythm of the conversation as usual.
Instead, she took the initiative to hand over the leadership of the conversation to La Riluo.
He smiled deliberately awkwardly, and then pretended to be tough and said, "How dare I discuss business with His Highness."
"I'm here to save His Highness."
After saying that, Qiu Tu took the initiative to offer some advice, "I saw the phantom of Yan Ai's Law appear, and found that something big seemed to have happened in New Territories City."
"So, I arrested many people, and after a long interrogation, I found out that Yan Ai had laid a trap, a trap, to devour His Highness and become a fourth-level catastrophe."
"After receiving this information, I communicated with His Highness immediately and wanted to save His Highness."
Sure enough, after hearing what Qiu Tu said, La Riluo chuckled, and then said jokingly, "Save me? Do I need your rescue?"
She said with a little disdain, "Do you really think Yan Ai can plot against me?"
"In fact, I have seen the tricks he and Bai Yu played very clearly."
"We even made targeted layouts."
"Yan Ai felt that he had plotted against me, but in fact everything was a plot within a plot, a scheme within a scheme."
When La Riluo spoke, Qiu Tu kept staring at her expression, trying to tell whether La Riluo was telling the truth or a lie.
But I don’t know if La Riluo’s acting skills are too good or if everything is really true. Anyway, Qiu Tu didn’t see any flaws.
As a result, he became more cautious and said tentatively, "Is that so?"
"Then I wonder if Your Highness can help me clear up my doubts?"
Qiu Tu deliberately frowned and said in a puzzled tone, "After I learned about the general process of the whole thing today, I really feel that the entire New Territories City is a huge chessboard."
"And you and Yan Ai seem to have been making arrangements several years ago. There are frequent contacts."
Speaking of this, Qiu Tu took the initiative to mention several key words.
He said, "For example, what is going on with Zheng Tao and his wife?"
"When did Bai Yu pretend to seek refuge with His Highness?"
"Since when did His Highness start hiding around Yan Ai?"
"And how did Yan Ai plot against His Highness?"
Speaking of this, Qiu Tu pretended to be dejected and said, "I have only pieced together a rough fact from the information from all parties, but I can't understand it at all regardless of the time point or your layout."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, La Riluo looked Qiu Tu up and down with her scarlet eyes, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.
Obviously, she didn't expect Qiu Tu to know so much information and details. And in just one day, she figured out the whole story.
It's just that the information and time of some key nodes have not been sorted out clearly.
Such intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities are truly astounding.
Thinking like this, La Riluo couldn't help but look at Qiu Tu, as if she was considering whether to tell Qiu Tu everything.
For a moment, she made a decision in her mind.
She raised her head slightly, and then said, "That's all~ Since you want to know, I'll just tell you briefly."
"It also lets you know my power."
With that said, La Riluo roughly told Qiu Tu the mutual arrangement between her and Yan Ai in the past two years.
According to La Riluo, she set her sights on Yan Ai a few years ago.
At that time, the shelter had just determined that New Territories City would be turned into an area to be planned, and Yan Ai, General Ye, and Commissioner Jiang were also identified as the top officials of the three major organizations in New Territories City in the future.
Mr. Qin learned the news through some secret channels.
So I collected information about these three people for La Riluo to see who would have the chance to be won over and defeated.
In the end, La Riluo chose Yan Ai.
The reason why Yan Ai was chosen is also very simple, that is, Yan Ai's wife died a few years ago and can be resurrected using a "clone female body". And he has a daughter, which makes it easier for La Riluo to come in hiding.
Therefore, Mr. Qin went to the shelter as a defector with a heavy gift, started a secret conversation with Yan Ai, and finally reached preliminary cooperation with Yan Ai on the condition of cloning and resurrecting Mrs. Yan Ai: Mr. Qin's second son
His son Qin Zhengguang joined the Investigation Agency.
Later, when Yan Ai came to New Territories City, the Qin Family would continue to cooperate with Yan Ai.
Of course, all this is a cover-up. Mr. Qin's cooperation is false, but stealing Yan Ai's daughter's genes is true.
When talking about the technology of "cloning female bodies", Mr. Qin made up a story: Mrs. Yan Ai has passed away for several years, and it is impossible to clone directly with the remaining genes alone. The living cells of Yan Ai's daughter must be used for template correction.
Only then.
Not many living cells are needed, just a tube of blood.
Yan Ai obviously did not expect that Mr. Qin's target was his daughter at the time, so he agreed to this condition without hesitation.
So, after returning to New Territories City, Mr. Qin began to clone Yan Ai's wife and Yan Yan.
During this period, the cloned body Mr. Qin prepared for himself matured.
So according to his plan with La Riluo, Mr. Qin gave up his original old body, split his soul in two, and entered his cloned body and the body of his eldest son Qin Heng, continuing to serve La Riluo.
In this way, soon, New Territories City was officially established, and Yan Ai successfully became the director of the New Territories City Exploration Department and came to New Territories City.
According to the original agreement, Mr. Qin dedicated the cloned Mrs. Yan Ai to Yan Ai, and Yan Ai readily fulfilled his promise: making Qin Zhengguang the deputy director of the Investigation Agency.
However, when Yan Ai wanted to further cooperate with the Qin family, Mr. Qin was worried that the relationship between the Qin family and La Riluo would be discovered, so he temporarily delayed the cooperation with Yan Ai.
As for the reason, it is simple, that is "his" own death - "his" people are all dead, and the descendants do not know the original agreement for the time being, so they dare not take refuge at will.
At that time, New Territories City had just been established, and the three major institutions still needed the Qin family and other established families to establish a ruling order, so Yan Ai did not dare to force the Qin family too much.
So the Qin family and Yan Ai reached a state where they were related but not close.
According to La Riluo's speculation, it was Mr. Qin's conservative approach that aroused Yan Ai's suspicion.
So Yan Ai began to secretly investigate the details of the Qin family, and finally found some clues about La Riluo.
Because Yan Ai is the catastrophic changer of the "life" path.
And the catastrophic ability is a bit special, called "Devouring Life".
The effect of this catastrophic ability is very overbearing: it can forcibly swallow the lifespan and soul of creatures in the same path, thereby strengthening itself.
But in the real world, casually killing catastrophic people will be wanted by the shelter, so Yan Ai can only be forced to use his other catastrophic ability "Turtle Breath" to slowly increase his strength.
But there are shortcuts and no one wants to practice step by step.
Therefore, after discovering that the evil god La Riluo was also the path to "life", Yan Ai was moved.
Because the evil gods are all fourth- and fifth-level high-level catastrophic creatures, once they can devour La Riluo, Yan Ai's strength will immediately increase by leaps and bounds, and he will be promoted to the fourth-level catastrophic creature just around the corner.
But at that time, Yan Ai didn't think of any good way to deal with La Riluo.
As a result, who would have known that at this time, Jia Wei actually approached Yan Ai. As a follower of La Riluo, he proposed to cooperate with Yan Ai.
As someone who aspired to climb the peak, Yan Ai of course rejected Jia Wei without hesitation.
He also sternly warned Jia Wei not to mess around in New Territories City, otherwise even his brother Jia Shu would not be able to protect him.
But after openly refusing to cooperate with Jia Wei, Yan Ai secretly had a secret conversation with Secretary Bai.
In the secret conversation, Yan Ai hinted that he wanted to devour La Riluo, but could not find the opportunity.
If there was a way to lure La Riluo to the real world, maybe Yan Ai could devour her and successfully advance to the fourth level of Cataclysm.
Yan Ai was very kind to Secretary Bai.
Therefore, when he discovered that Yan Ai was interested in La Riluo, Secretary Bai finally made up his mind after thinking about it for a long time and decided to step in to help Yan Ai.
So, he took the initiative to find Javi, reached cooperation with Javi, and began to help Javi.
Faced with the sudden offer of an olive branch from Secretary Bai, one of the nine top executives of the Investigation Agency, it was of course impossible for Jia Wei not to accept it.
So although he was a little confused, he still accepted Secretary Bai without hesitation.
As a result, Secretary Bai officially became the "Evil God's traitor" and began to provide Jia Wei with various information on New Territories City, the Investigation Agency, etc.
Secretary Bai is still very calm and serious. He knew that Jia Wei might doubt him, so he was not in a hurry to meet La Riluo. Instead, he took a long-term approach and patiently provided all kinds of information and support.
It was this kind of move that allowed him to finally win Jia Wei's trust half a year later and introduce him to La Riluo.
Because he was ready to join the game and sacrifice himself, Secretary Bai did not object to being planted by La Riluo with the believer's mark that could deprive him of life and death.
This further gained the trust of La Riluo and Jia Wei.
So La Riluo's various plans began to be revealed to Secretary Bai. So Secretary Bai naturally knew La Riluo's plan to come, and also knew La Riluo's goal: Yan Yan.
So, Secretary Bai wrote the relevant information on a letter one night and put it on Yan Ai's desk.
Yan Ai also relied on Secretary Bai's information to make many targeted arrangements.
For example, I borrowed a Catastrophic Noble Phantasm in advance that can kill evil gods.
For example, he prepared a substitute for his daughter in advance so that he could die in his daughter's stead.
For another example, after determining the date of La Riluo's arrival, a large fusion magic circle was arranged near the Qin family.
One of the functions of this fusion circle is to forcibly fuse the soul and body together, making them inseparable.
Unless you have the "ability to relieve disaster", you won't be able to get out of trouble!
So, on the day of La Riluo's arrival, she was horrified to find that her soul could not return to the "infinite sea of heart"!
At that time, she thought that there was something wrong with Mr. Qin's body, or that he was being plotted against, so she used the believer's mark to comatose Mr. Qin and then fled the Qin family and hid. (Chapter 143)
When Qiu Tu heard this, he suddenly thought: So, his time travel and rebirth, as well as Qin Shuman's fusion of a new body, are all actually because of Yan Ai?
But Yan Ai’s array is aimed at the Qin family, shouldn’t it affect the old alleys?
Moreover, merging bodies shouldn’t make the original souls of the two bodies disappear, right?
Qiu Tu felt that Yan Ai might indeed be a key factor in his time travel and fusion with Qin Shuman's new body.
But there must have been other things that happened that day that ultimately led to this.
Thinking like this, Qiu Tu also retracted his thoughts and continued to listen to La Riluo's story.
La Riluo was probably tired from talking, so she simply flew to the table and sat down.
La Riluo, who was transformed into a simple coin, was wearing a black lace dress.
The long skirt hugged her exquisite figure and fluttered gently with her movements, like black butterflies dancing in the dark night.
She was leaning on the table, her bare feet as white as jade curled up and down, obviously very cute.
But combined with her blood-red lips and evil eyes, it always felt like a poisonous snake luring its prey to the bait.
She continued, "After that, Yan Ai never dared to do anything else in order to lure me into taking the bait."
"Whether Tian Dafu was arrested or the Qin family was destroyed, he pretended to know these things for the first time and remained calm."
"In addition, Bai Yu has been in the Exploration Agency, continuously delivering intelligence and help to Jia Wei."
"I finally decided to follow the original plan: replace Yan Ai's daughter and lurk next to him to further expand my influence in the New Territories City."
Hearing this, Qiu Tu added thoughtfully, "There should be Bai Yu's role in adding fuel to the flames, right?"
"If I guess correctly, he should have told you that Yanyan will be arriving in the New Territories City soon. If you miss it, you will miss it forever."
La Riluo nodded with a half-smile, but that smile didn't have any warmth, instead it was full of coldness and ridicule.
Her eyes shone with a strange light, as if she could see people's souls, "But... they ignored the most important thing."
"That's the sign of my followers that can control more than just life and death."
"But it also allows me to share the believer's vision and hearing. In other words, I will know what the believer sees and hears."
"Just after I became Yanyan, my life was very boring. I only had flowers to admire, pull flowers, and arrange flowers. So, when I had nothing to do, I would share Bai Yu's vision and hearing and see his work."
"Haha." At this point, La Riluo chuckled, and then said, "As a result, guess what? Bai Yu actually has the habit of writing a diary."
Qiu Tu:??
Qiu Tu couldn't help but sigh, "Who would be a serious person to write a diary?"
When La Riluo heard this, she laughed "giggling". When she laughed, her little feet moved around from time to time, which was particularly attractive.
After laughing, La Riluo sat up straight, and then her eyes were deep and cold, like a bottomless abyss. She said coldly, "Then I knew that he didn't really rely on me."
"Following this clue, I worked backwards on the whole thing, and of course it was easy to discover Yan Ai's layout."
"But I also know: It's useless to discover Yan Ai's plan. The most important thing is to break it."
"So. I prayed to a great evil god for help."
Hearing La Riluo's words, Qiu Tu was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but said, "Zhao Ji?"
This name was told to Qiu Tu by Mr. Qin. At that time, he said that Zhao Ji was an evil god more powerful than La Riluo. She was entrenched in Dongcheng City and several surrounding cities (Chapter 229).
Mr. Qin once summoned La Riluo in Dongcheng City, but La Riluo's expression changed immediately after she found out that she was in Zhao Ji's territory.
At this time, after hearing Qiu Tu's words, La Riluo couldn't help but look at Qiu Tu one more time, obviously surprised again by Qiu Tu's intelligence capabilities.
But in the end, she nodded slightly, "Yes. It's her."
She said lightly, "She is a fifth-level evil god. She can be said to be the most powerful existence in the world."
"With her here, Yan Ai can't hurt me at all."
A wild and arrogant smile appeared on La Riluo's face. She stretched out her jade-like index finger, looked at Qiu Tu evilly, and said proudly,
"She only needs one blow to penetrate the barrier between the boundless sea of mind and the real world, and defeat the phantom of Yan Ai's law!"
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It’s still 2 chapters and 10,000 words. I have something to do today, so I’m a little late!
Keep up the good work tomorrow!
Chapter completed!