Transcendent Ember

Chapter 472 The Crow Sees Everything

"It's you, it's you? How is it possible? How is it possible that you're still alive? Didn't you already be there?" In the deep, dead darkness, Zhou Chang stepped back several steps in panic as if he had seen a ghost.

"It has been burned to death, and my poor mother." The person holding the brass glass oil lamp looked at Zhou Chang with indifferent eyes, "Is this what you want to talk about?"

"!!!" Zhou Chang was shocked, and the muscles on his face twitched violently several times. He seemed to be greatly stimulated, and his chest heaved violently.

After a long time, he took a few deep breaths, forced himself to calm down, and looked at the person holding the brass and glass oil lamp with complicated eyes. There was shock, fear, and a trace of guilt in his eyes.

"Zhou Ji." Zhou Chang spoke slowly, revealing the identity of the person who came.

He wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the man: "I don't like this name, and I don't like hearing you call it by that name. If you insist on calling me, then you can call me .
"Lamp!"

The word "lantern" stimulated Zhou Chang's nerves, and he raised his brows: "You are the lantern? Last April, the lantern that caused the entire hotel to die silently?"

All the members of the Xingxing Express Hotel died tragically in their sleep, and it is still an unresolved case of the Yujing General Procuratorate.In the second half of last year, Zhou Chang often heard Qin Huaimin's supporters attack Li Luo for his ineffectiveness in this case, so he knew about this case and the murderer, code-named Lantern.

"It's me." There was no emotion in the tone of the lantern, "Is Lord Zhou going to arrest me?"

Zhou Chang's expression was very complicated. He stared blankly at the lantern, and then hissed after a while: "This is not my duty, Zhou Lantern, I ask you, your... your mother."

"How could Lord Zhou think of her?" Lantern said indifferently, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, "She is just a humble maid, who was 'fortunate' and gave birth to an heir after you got drunk. Maid, I didn't expect Lord Zhou to remember her, it's really strange.

"But Lord Zhou, do you still remember what she looks like?"

Zhou Chang was speechless when asked, and his expression became even more gloomy. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to speak or what to say.

After a long time, he said with difficulty: "Is she okay?"

The tone of the lantern was still indifferent: "Could it be possible that Lord Zhou has forgotten the scene where you pushed her and the child she gave birth into the fire pit with your own hands in order to marry the famous Kang family?
"Do you think she's okay?"

The words of carrying the lantern were like a sharp knife piercing Zhou Chang's heart fiercely, causing him to tremble, lose all energy, and slump down in a slumped state.

The lantern just looked down at him indifferently, motionless like a statue, and there was silence in the darkness for a while, only the orange flame in the brass and glass cup danced slightly.

I don't know how long it took before Zhou Chang smiled miserably, and asked self-deprecatingly, "Zhou Tideng, are you here today to see my joke?"

"That's right." Lantern admitted straightforwardly, "Besides that, is there anything else worthy of my visit?"

Zhou Chang smiled even more bleakly: "You should be very happy to see me in such a situation, right?"

"It's okay." Lantern said flatly, "This is just a natural result, nothing to be happy about."

"It will happen when it will happen?" Zhou Chang was stunned for a moment, and a bit of astonishment slowly emerged from his eyes, occupying the entire pupil. He raised his head in horror, looked at the lantern, and asked in an unbelievable tone, "Could it be that you did all of this? Was it planned behind the scenes?"

"You're not too stupid." Lantern nodded, and said calmly, "Qin Ziyu's 'Shang Yang Fangsheng' was obtained through my guidance. You should be familiar with the promotion ceremony of that extraordinary item, yes Unify weights and measures."

A trace of shock appeared on Zhou Chang's face.

Lantern continued: "Your precious son's 'Judah's Bag of Silver Coins' was also obtained under my guidance. The promotion ceremony was to betray a mentor and cause him to die."

The two ceremonies of unifying weights and measures, betraying a mentor and causing his death made Zhou Chang feel cold. The ceremony itself was not very special, but when placed on the future heirs of Qin and Zhou, it directly led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two allies.

"At the Ten Schools Invitational Competition, I was also the one who influenced Zhang Jichuan with psychological hints and made him snatch the 'Judah's Bag of Silver Coins' to analyze the ceremony. I hypnotized his coachman and sealed this information in his mind." Lantern added, every word he said made Zhou Chang's complexion even uglier.

"Could it be." Zhou Chang asked with a tone of disbelief, "The Qin family betrayed the Zhou family, and it was you."

"No." This time, Lantern denied it, and there was a rare hint of joy in his tone, "I just provided Qin Ziyu with extraordinary items, but Qin Huaimin chose to betray your Zhou family without hesitation.

"Similarly, the choice of your precious son to betray Qin Huaimin is also his own choice and has nothing to do with me.

"After all, the selfish gene has been carved into the bones of you people. As long as there is an excuse, you will sacrifice the people around you without hesitation."

The muscles on Zhou Chang's face trembled again. If someone else said that, he would definitely tear that person into pieces, but it was Zhou Ji who said that.
Hey.
He sighed secretly, and asked, "Are you doing this just to get revenge on me?"

It was rare for Lantern to be silent, and after a while he hissed: "I am a vengeful man, and I will never forget the way you pushed us into the fire yourself, and I will never forget that my mother tried to save me, but she was swallowed by the flames." scene
"The burn on my face can be cured long ago, but I still keep it, because every time I see it, it will remind me, don't forget to ask for an explanation for my mother."

Zhou Chang was silent, he never thought he would have such a day.

After a pause, he continued to ask: "I remember that Rodba from the Yujing Prosecutor's Office said that the murderer of the Xingxing Express Hotel case is suspected to be a fifth-grade supernatural. You are already so powerful, why don't you just come to me for revenge? Why must Ayun be dragged into the water?"

Lantern explained patiently: "At the peak of the Zhou family, there were four five-rank extraordinary, and one of them was an enshrined surnamed Han, whose ability was comparable to mine. Marquis family.

"Besides, I don't want you to die so easily. I prefer the ending now. Wouldn't it be better for you to see the power and wealth you gained by killing your wife and children dissipate like passing clouds?"

Zhou Chang stared blankly at the lantern, and after a long while, he laughed at himself: "You're right, if it were me, I would choose this way of revenge."

Lantern looked at him and asked calmly, "Do you have any questions?"

"Are you going to do it?" Zhou Chang asked back.

Lantern remained silent.

"Okay, one last question." Seeing this, Zhou Chang understood, and asked the only doubt left in his heart, "Whether it is the Qin family or the Zhou family, they are both families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. They are high-potential extraordinary items. , not to mention everything you need, but there is never a lack of it. How can you guarantee that Ziyu and Ayun will accept the two supernatural items you gave to upgrade together?"

"Heh." Hearing this question, Lantern smiled for the first time, and explained, "Originally, I made a lot of preparations to ensure that they would recognize the two Transcendent items to upgrade together, and I even considered hypnotizing them directly. .But then something else happened to save me from these worries."

Zhou Chang narrowed his eyes: "What's the matter?"

"Alien beasts attack the city!" Lantern said in a slightly brisk tone, "The awakening of the Fire Demon King was not what I expected, and it was not in my plan for him to lead an army of alien beasts to attack a civilized country, but he unintentionally helped I did me a big favor, let most of the fifth-rank worshipers of the Zhou family and the Qin family die in Xishan Province, and all the extraordinary items with high potential were scattered into the turbulence of time and space and disappeared.
"Qin Ziyu and your precious son naturally have no choice.

"You said, is this God's will for you to perish?"

After hearing this, Zhou Chang shook his head: "I don't believe in God's will, I only believe in man-made. Lantern, or Zhou Ji, no matter what, you are my only son left. Before you do anything, I will give you One last piece of advice:
"In this world, there has never been a perfect plan. Any plan will always face endless changes. Therefore, if you think your plan is going very smoothly, then you must maintain a vigilant heart."

Lantern's eyelids trembled, and he glanced at Zhou Chang unexpectedly.

Zhou Chang continued: "I'll ask you a few questions, you don't have to answer them, just think for yourself. First, where did 'Shang Yang Fang Sheng' and 'Judah's Bag of Silver Coins' come from? Is there anything unusual in the process? Doubt? Second, is it true that your mother pushed you out of the fire pit? When I dug such a deep pit, how could she have such strength as a woman? Third, is it true that the Fire Demon King attacked a civilized country? a coincidence?

"Aji, in the past, I was the one who wronged you mother and son. Now, I can't make up for it. I can only tell you some of my experience.

"Trust me, based on my intuition, which has been immersed in the officialdom for many years, once I heard you tell the ins and outs of this matter, I dare to conclude that behind you, there must be a real person behind the scenes, that person used you to treat me The purpose of his hatred is to ruin the Qin and Zhou families.

"After you take revenge, leave as soon as possible, stay away from Yujing, stay away from Gu Yue Kingdom, it is best to hide and never come out. Only by jumping out of the chessboard can you see whether there are chess players
"When all the dust settles, the ultimate beneficiary, nine times out of ten, is the chess player.

"I'm done talking, you can do it."

Lantern stared at Zhou Chang strangely for a while, and the latter was also content and fearless, and met his gaze directly.

After a long time, Lantern spoke again: "Actually, I have already done it."

Zhou Chang was stunned: "What?"

Lantern said indifferently: "From the moment I entered the Zhou family, the entire Zhou family has no survivors, and you are already dead. You are just your soul."

After finishing speaking, the lantern lightly shook the brass glass oil lamp in his hand, and suddenly, the boundless darkness dissipated like an ebbing tide.

Zhou Changfu looked at the ground as if in his heart. He saw that in the messy Zhou family mansion, the maids and servants who had escaped Qin Ziyu fell to the ground as if they were asleep, with peaceful expressions on their faces.

Seeing himself, Zhou Chang also fell to the ground, holding Zhou Yun's remnant body in his arms, and entered the eternal sleep peacefully.
"Ah, so I'm dead"

After saying these words, Zhou Chang's soul dissipated into nothingness in a gust of cold wind.

Lantern, or Zhou Ji, the burns on his face disappeared bit by bit, he snapped his fingers, and the brass glass oil lamp in his hand flew back to the crown of soul.

In the dense canopy of an old tree in the mansion, a crow watched silently as the figure with the lantern slowly melted into the darkness.
The strong wind and heavy rain blew up the curtains on the curtain, revealing the tip of the iceberg of a luxurious house.

On the sofa, a man wearing a windbreaker and hat was facing the window, holding a novel in his hand and reading with gusto. He turned to the last page of the novel, and there was only one line on it:

"The crow sees everything."

Snapped!
The man closed the novel and praised: "Ha, Mr. Tang, I've finished reading it. Your novel is really getting more and more exciting."

From the place covered by the curtain, a slightly respectful voice sounded: "It is an honor to receive your compliment."

"This is not a compliment." The man in the windbreaker and hat said, "This is the truth."

After finishing speaking, he stood up: "Mr. Tang, I look forward to seeing the following plot."

"I'll write it out as soon as possible," said the person whose figure was covered.

"That's good."

Between the rolling and falling of the curtain, the man had disappeared
(End of this chapter)