Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 86 People in the Court

It's been a really eventful time lately.

Duan Mingyuan didn't expect that he would encounter such a change when he came to Yunhai Academy to teach happily. He now couldn't help but seriously suspect that Jiuyue's learning of Ruihu's skills might not be a good thing for the people around him. According to the law of conservation of fortune, the luckier they are, the more unlucky some people will be.

It is obvious that Yunhai Academy’s recent fortunes have become so bad that they cannot be worse.

After a brief conversation along the way, he learned that the white-haired old man was named Mo Song, the current dean of Yunhai Academy.

The dean had a serious look on his face as he took him around the academy. Duan Mingyuan noticed that the spatial structure inside the academy was very special. Different areas were connected not by doors but by a series of ink paintings. Thanks to this, the actual space inside the academy was much wider than it looked from the outside.

The principal's office is also located in an ink painting. The room is filled with a faint scent of ink and is decorated in an antique style. In the middle of the room stands a dark purple sandalwood table, on which are placed several worn scrolls and glowing jade slips. The bookshelf is filled with various books, and the covers all look old. The cover of each book is engraved with exquisite carvings, which appear solemn and mysterious. In the corner of the bookshelf, there is also a set of painting tools. An exquisite brush lies quietly on the rice paper, next to which is a bottle of ink and several sheets of rice paper.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. I didn't expect you to get into trouble as soon as you arrived."

Mo Song bent down to pour tea for Duan Mingyuan. At the end of the day, the academy finally received some good news. "I have some connections with Mr. Dajiang. He knows that you are looking for the knowledge that was hidden by the aliens, so he strongly recommended you to me. What happened some time ago also made me realize that Yunhai Academy urgently needs a teacher who can teach students how to protect themselves."

Although Mo Song had already vaguely sensed the arrival of this day, he did not expect it to happen so soon.

"No problem. I actually like this kind of learning and communication opportunity."

Duan Mingyuan waved his hands. He was not angry about the attack on the road. To be honest, he felt a little regretful.

He also looked forward to meeting their superiors in the second half, so that he could learn about the causes and consequences of "Hidden Butterfly" through academic exchanges.

Judging from the information he extracted from the life energy of the man in black, this organization that gathered together children with the gift of life energy and trained them to be death warriors looked like a terrorist organization like Wangxu.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Dean, you called me here at night. Do you know about the hidden butterfly?"

“I know a little bit.”

Mo Song sighed, "It's just that this is a long story. I wonder if Teacher Mingyuan has the patience to listen to an old man like me telling you about the past of the academy?"

"That's what I'm here for."

After receiving a positive answer, Mo Song finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "I wonder if Teacher Ming Yuan has heard of Chaozhong?"

"of course."

Chaozhong, as its name suggests, is the political and economic center of this world. It is also the first place to be baptized by the technology and culture of the aliens. It is also the home of the world's outstanding people. For example, the highest goal of the students of Yunlong City's No. 1 Middle School is to be admitted to the higher education institution in Chaozhong. Only talents appointed by the company in all walks of life can get the opportunity to go to Chaozhong.

In people's eyes, the court is the place closest to "heaven".

But that’s where all the information about the court ends.

Only those outstanding people who are selected by the company and have obtained the qualifications can have the opportunity to appreciate the full picture of the court. For people like them who usually live in peripheral cities, the court will always be a mysterious and inviolable place.

"That's good." Mo Song nodded, "The court is the origin of all stories."

He stood up and took out a scroll from the back of the bookshelf. The scroll looked very old, but there was no dust on it, as if someone had cleaned the dust on it often.

Mo Song opened the scroll in front of Duan Mingyuan, and the next moment, the lifelike scenes came into his eyes.

Hundreds of years ago, huge flying objects suddenly came to this world, bringing aliens and their knowledge and technology, as well as people's worship of gods.

These are all recorded in history textbooks.

But judging from the content on the scroll, the textbook seems to have made certain revisions to history. For example, it never mentioned the war that broke out after the arrival of the aliens.

The constantly interlaced images in the scroll made Duan Mingyuan seem as if he was on a battlefield. The sound of killing was deafening, and people one after another were manipulating strange magic and rushing towards the enemies falling from the sky with fearless determination.

The faces of those people could not be seen clearly as their entire bodies were covered by armor. They were like the gods of death on the battlefield. The ground beneath their feet had long been stained red with blood. The broken limbs and organs made the ground beneath their feet look like hell on earth.

Duan Mingyuan quickly identified the identities of these "death gods".

Xifeng is also a member of "Long Branch".

In this war, the company sent a total of 11 members of "Long Branch", and with the flagship that blocked out the sky above people's heads, they easily crushed the army formed by the rebels.

"The war ended in failure. Most of the resistance forces were killed or wounded. With nowhere else to go, the remaining people were forced to sign a ceasefire agreement with the aliens."

Mo Song said in a deep voice, "One of the demands raised by the outsiders was to bring all known strange arts into the court and let them be managed uniformly. Half a year after the war stopped, the court issued a ban, prohibiting the people from studying strange arts in any form. Violators should be punished and executed. The founder of Yunhai Academy was an opponent of the ban. They gathered all the opponents of the ban together and avoided being hunted down everywhere. Finally, Qingchi Peak gathered everyone's strength to set up a barrier and founded Yunhai Academy.

"Another group of people returned to their hometowns in despair and lived in seclusion, never caring about worldly affairs again. Many years later, some of them gathered together for some reason and founded the Imperial Hunting Court, dedicated to solving the frequent incidents of evil spirits injuring people outside the court.

"However, most of those who survived the war stayed in the court and accepted the conditions proposed by the Tianwaimin. With their help, they established a new order. As far as I know, the Tianwaimin did not kill all the strange and tricky techniques. After the political situation stabilized, they allowed the court to gather the talented people they recruited together to establish a military organization to handle "internal affairs". All those who responded to the call were marked with an emblem of loyalty... The founder of the academy found the same black butterfly mark on the pursuers."

At this point, Duan Mingyuan suddenly realized, "Yindie is an assassination organization established by the court."

So in a sense, the people hiding in Yunhai Academy are the rebels left over from that era.

Mo Song smiled bitterly. "The first founders of the academy wrote down all the strange and trickery they knew in the library, but they didn't leave behind the method of creating a barrier. It seems that they didn't want the later generations to continue the hatred and turn the academy into a terrorist organization waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on the people in the court and the aliens."

The founders realized their original wish, and Yunhai Academy ushered in a long period of peace.

"But they suddenly came to our door. Why?"

Duan Mingyuan asked.

Could it be that all this was really caused by the box of lucky braised chicken that September brought?
"The ruler who was supported by the aliens called himself the 'First King'. With the help of the aliens' technology, he has been ruling the court for hundreds of years."

They were people who lived in the same generation as the founder of the academy and had witnessed the development and changes of the world with their own eyes.

Mo Song said, "A few years ago, I heard some rumors from the Royal Hunting Court. There are rumors that the technology of the aliens seems to be unable to sustain the life of the first king. He... is about to fall."

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