Reaching a Consensus

Upon hearing this, Cheng Lingshuang and Li Sushang, who had just been stabbing each other in the heart, simultaneously began to emit sword energy from their wrists.

You bastard, you want to take everyone's ancestor/grandmaster away?

Liu Bai glanced at the girl sideways. This girl was also a bit of a goofball, but after Fu Hua returned to her body, she had obviously suppressed her Shibao, so she had been relatively quiet these past few days.

Liu Bai has experience dealing with a silly husky like Shibao.

"You're thinking about going out to play before you've finished your work? Did I teach you that?"

"Uh... no! Absolutely not!" Shibao shook his head vigorously. "It's just work! Bring it all on! I, as a student, can do anything!"

"Okay, you go move the books. We'll take whatever we need."

Well, all the ones who came over stayed here.

Cheng Lingshuang and Li Sushang rolled their eyes, but didn't say anything.

Compared to Fu Hua, although the two of them had fought with Shibao, they definitely preferred Shibao's straightforward personality.

"He's really become an idiot..."

Cangxuan and Danzhu looked at the Shibao now with curious expressions on their faces.

"Hey, Hua, do you still recognize us?"

"I recognize them, aren't they Danzhu and Cangxuan?" Shibao rolled her eyes as she got up to move her things. "Do you two think I'm an idiot?"

You're behaving like a complete idiot right now.

Danzhu and Cangxuan both thought to themselves at the same time.

"Ah... come to that point, why don't you use computers? With so many books, wouldn't it be much faster to use a computer?" Shibao asked, puzzled.

"What I'm saying is, Hua, is it possible that these books are the data that will be entered into the computer later?"

"Oh... there's such a saying?" Shibao scratched his head. "Never mind, I don't understand!"

Hey! Who just said "I can do anything"?

After everyone gradually got into work mode, the assistants had nothing to do, so Su Mei spoke up first, "If I remember correctly, in ancient mythology, Nüwa Fuxi and Jingwei were all the consorts of the Heavenly Emperor, right? It is said that after the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven, he also became a consort of the Heavenly Emperor."

"Cough cough cough!"

Liu Bai was the first to let out an awkward cough.

Danzhu Cangxuan, and Ji Lin all blushed.

Shibao puffed out his chest, his face completely unconcerned; "Yeah, that's right, so..."

Liu Bai reached out and pressed the brat's head down.

"Su Mei, who told you that?"

Qin Suyi and the others looked at Su Mei with great curiosity, as this myth seemed to be different from normal myths.

"I heard it from my senior sister when I was bored before." Su Mei's eyes curved into a smile. "After all, my senior sister is a descendant of the Nine Abyss Netherworlds, so she knows more."

"That's right, this myth also existed in my time, didn't you hear it?" Xiao Yun was also a little puzzled.

"We are people from the Ming Dynasty, which is almost two thousand years away from the late Spring and Autumn Period when you lived. In our time, the myths in this regard were much more serious."

Qin Suyi thought for a moment and replied that she had the deepest cultural knowledge among the Seven Swords.

"The myth of Senior Ji Lin has become ascending to heaven by seducing women, rather than ascending... cough, ascending to be seduced."

"Oh... Ji Lin, not bad." Danzhu nudged Ji Lin, whose face was already flushed.

"Sister Danzhu, please, please don't joke like that... Um, Suyi, I'm still a virgin."

Qin Suyi blushed and nodded, as if everyone present was a virgin.

However, their own grandmaster was no longer a virgin...

"Didn't Uncle Danzhu and Uncle Cangxuan also have sex with our grandmaster?" Su Mei asked curiously.

That's right, that's why she started this topic.

"We have thought about it, but the problem is that your grandmaster doesn't have the health."

Danzhu shrugged, looking regretful. If Liu Bai had a body, she and her sister would have definitely taken advantage of her, no matter how shy they were. They just wouldn't have had children.

Now that I have the body, it's a bit difficult to start.

"Why did the myth become what it is?" Xiao Yun stroked his chin. "If I remember correctly, there were murals in the inner palace of the Zhou emperor depicting the three consorts serving the emperor and the Yellow Emperor ascending to heaven. Hmm... it should be the three consorts serving the emperor on the left and the Yellow Emperor ascending to heaven on the right."

"What the heck?" Everyone was shocked.

"After all, I worked for the Zhou Dynasty for a few years. I've seen it. Although you are shocked to hear this, it was quite common in that era. I remember there was another picture of the Heavenly Emperor's conquest carved on the altar for sacrificial rites. I didn't realize it at first, and the little figures in the picture look different from you."

"If it were the same, that would be a real problem."

Danzhu twitched the corner of her mouth.

"Phallic worship is truly terrifying..."

It's all because of fertility worship. Aren't there too many scandals between them and Liu Bai? To the point that releasing this kind of picture isn't even considered disrespectful to the gods.

In a sense, the stories of "Three Consorts Serving the Emperor" and "The Yellow Emperor's Ascension" should be the oldest yellow books.

"Um..." Ji Lin, blushing, raised his hand, "Can I ask about that Yellow Emperor's Ascension Diagram? What exactly is this ascension?"

"Guess?"

Xiao Yun asked in return with a quiet tone.

What is the image of the Yellow Emperor's ascension displayed alongside that you don't know?

"Damn it! Wait a minute!" Danzhu suddenly cursed. "There are at least three known maps from the Spring and Autumn Period alone, what about the ones after that?"

Chapter 494 Reaching a Consensus

"What... what do you guys want to do?"

In the city's sewers, a short Herrscher of a Thousand was blocked up as he looked at the group of people surrounding him, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

These guys are acting strange today!

I feel like these people have some ulterior motives towards me.

If it were just about being killed, the Herrscher of a Thousand wouldn't be afraid at all. Her role was to buy time for the entire group, making her a so-called sacrifice.

Although this behavior is not in line with the selfish nature of the Herrscher of a Thousand, it is clearly the way to survive as part of a group.

"What do we want to do?"

Joyce, the leader of the criminal gang, stroked his chin.

"Of course, it's to capture you alive."

Capture alive?

The Herrscher of a Thousand was stunned for a moment.

Did she hear that right? These people wanted to capture her alive?

emmmm...

Well, the Herrscher of a Thousand wasn't opposed to this, although the other party certainly wasn't going to capture her alive to provide her with good food and drink; who knows what kind of cruel torture awaited her.

However, this also presents an opportunity to infiltrate the enemy's ranks.

If you can bewitch even one person... even the lowest-ranking employee, that's a huge reward.

What is she trying to assimilate now? They are all ordinary people, whose social status is at most middle class. The problem is, even if a thousand of them are all in the middle class, their impact on the world is not significant!

With seven or eight billion people in the world, how many are in the middle class? Her thousand are nothing. Yes, they can bring a debuff to the current social order of civilization, but they can't overthrow it.

Well, that's the awkward thing about the Herrscher of a Thousand. She's good at disrupting social order. Once she officially launches an attack, she can definitely make everyone in the civilization feel insecure and disperse the civilization's fighting power. However, she doesn't have the ability to make a decisive move. As long as the civilization's military strength is sufficient, the chaos brought about by the Herrscher of a Thousand can be suppressed sooner or later.

After all, the number of core members of the Herrscher of a Thousand is limited; if you work hard to kill them, you can eventually kill them all.

However, it's a different story if you can sway the real higher-ups.

Some commands, when issued, may only require changing a single word or phrase to bring about drastic changes, and can even be used to forcibly lure the enemy away from their prey.

This is a difficult choice for Herrscher of a Thousand... what a load of rubbish!

Do I have the right to choose now?

The Herrscher of a Thousand trembled as they looked at the Herrscher of Reason, the Herrscher of Wind, and the Herrscher of Ice, who were no different from the forces of evil.

You've deployed this entire lineup to capture a Herrscher? Do you even have any shame?

In a different context, the Herrscher of a Thousand would weigh the pros and cons of sending a live teammate, but now... even if they knew that the other party might gain something special by studying them, would they have any way to resist?

There's nothing we can do about it.

The group in front of her was roughly equivalent to two and a half Herrscher. With this lineup, as long as the other side didn't want her to die, she couldn't possibly die.

Yes, reality is cruel. In situations like this, even Herrscher of a Thousand doesn't have the right to commit suicide.

"... I surrender."

After weighing the pros and cons, the short, Herrscher of a Thousand informed the others of the situation while decisively choosing to surrender.

She's not the kind of idiot who knowingly risks everything to win—if she were, she would have already gathered all her strength and blown those bastards up.

This level of flexibility is nothing to Herrscher of a Thousand.

[Come on]

Find an opportunity to assimilate a few.

Try your best to live.

At this moment, the short Herrscher of a Thousand's mind received encouragement from others.

I fucking...

That's the downside of Gestalt thinking: everyone's thinking is equal, and you can say whatever you want.

"Surrender? I accept."

Joyce wasn't surprised at all by the result; after all, he was a smart guy.

"By the way, does your eye mask actually provide any protection?"

"An eye patch?" The Herrscher of a Thousand touched his eye patch, deciding to be honest. "No."

This thing is just a decoration. Although it looks dark and like it's covering things up quite well, it doesn't actually block anything. In fact, it can even create a thermal imaging field of view if necessary.

"Alright." Joyce nodded, conjuring a steel eye mask in her hand. "Here, put this on."

"..."

Do I have the right to make a decision?

That thing looks like it weighs at least ten pounds!

... Never mind, it's better than dying.

The Herrscher of a Thousand silently accepted it and then put it on.

Is this what it feels like to be top-heavy?

"Here, also handcuffs and shackles."

Joyce then put two more restraint devices on the Herrscher of a Thousand.

These two things seemed quite normal. The Herrscher of a Thousand didn't resist, after all, she wasn't so naive as to think that the other party would just put her in a cage and be done with it.

Are there any other companions around?

Seeing how cooperative the Herrscher of a Thousand was, Joyce continued to press for answers.

Hearing this, the Herrscher of a Thousand fell silent. After a long while, he slowly spoke, "Sir, I would never betray my teammates."

Do you really think I'm the kind of suspect who can be tortured into revealing information?

I'm Herrscher! Herrscher! Show me some respect!

[Agree to his request]

It seems he needs more than just one prisoner.

This is an opportunity.