Chapter 131 Structural Contradictions

Looking at Ning Zhe's calm expression, Feng Yusu hesitated, as if he wanted to ask something but didn't dare to speak.

At this moment, the phone in his pocket rang.

Ning Zhe put his index finger in front of his lips and gestured to Feng Yusu to keep quiet. As the call was connected, the features on his face changed.

"Miss me so soon?"

"How can it be that fast? It's only been one day. It will take me at least a week or two to finish my work here. I will probably be back around the 15th."

"Okay, I got it. Be obedient and don't lose your temper. I'll be with you when I come back."

"Well, that's it for now. I'll find some time tonight to video chat with you guys. Remember to take your sister to the hospital for a checkup..."

Feng Yushuo listened silently as Ning Zhe used a gentle tone to coax the girl on the other end of the phone, then asked cautiously, "Who was that just now?"

"Yu Ziqian's girlfriend, or to be more precise, his servant."

Ning Zhe said bluntly:
"The two sisters were childhood sweethearts who grew up with Yu Ziqian. They both had feelings for him, but Yu Ziqian was a playboy and wanted both of them. However, the moral ethics of modern society make it difficult to tolerate such things. The two sisters asked him to choose one or give him neither."

"But you can probably guess what happened next."

Yu Ziqian controlled the 'God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly' and used the power of the Thought Stamp to achieve his goals.

Feng Yushu took a moment to understand the logic and figure out the current situation: "So you stole Yu Ziqian's identity? And turned his slaves into your slaves?"

"You can say that." Ning Zhe nodded: "I entrusted Yin Lishang to the care of the sisters. People who are controlled by the ideological stamp are much more loyal than any professionals who are paid to do things."

The only drawback is that these two slaves are too irritable and clingy, which can be attributed to the fact that Yu Ziqian originally instilled in people the idea of love rather than obedience.

Human love has always been an illusory thing, invisible, intangible and unpredictable. The sound of a stray dog biting a plastic bag while digging for food in a garbage dump on the side of the road is more pleasant to the ear than saying "I love you".

At least the wild dogs' desire to have enough food can be proven to be real.

"So that's how it is... By the way, what is the origin of that girl named Yin Lishang? Is she a human or a ghost?" This is the question Feng Yusu has always wanted to ask.

"It's a ghost, but it thinks it's a human." Ning Zhe said without raising his head: "The relationship between them is very complicated. It's not something you should be concerned about. I will handle it."

"Okay..." Feng Yushu nodded obediently: "But you asked me to kill so many people in the science park, won't there be any problems? Will that young man named Lan Shiwen cause trouble for you?"

"No, because those people you killed were all considered members of the 'aristocratic family'."

Ning Zhe said calmly, "Yunshan Pharmaceutical is Ji Bochang's business, and Ji Bochang has been proven to be suspected of wanting to turn his family into a 'noble family'. His two sons fled abroad early on, and are now being hunted across the ocean by the Central Plains Upgraders."

"All attacks by ordinary ascenders against the aristocratic families are naturally legitimate, so even if you kill all 5 employees of Yunshan Pharmaceutical Group, you will never be punished, because they are the minions of the 'aristocratic family'. Lan Shiwen will never trouble me for this, otherwise he will be the next target of public criticism."

Feng Yushu was a little stunned when he heard this: "Do those who have been promoted have any grudges against the noble families?"

"Not just the Ascended, to be exact, everyone living on this earth has an irreconcilable feud with the Aristocratic Family."

Ning Zhe said lightly: "No matter if you are male or female, old or young, from the Central Plains or a foreigner, as long as you can still be considered a 'human', the aristocratic family will be your mortal enemy, because the existence of the aristocratic family will push the human race to extinction."

"All members of the aristocratic family, whether they are old men on their deathbed or babies crying for food, should be killed by all humans on earth if they find them."

"In short, being born into an aristocratic family = death penalty. Anyone who has any form of blood or inheritance relationship with an aristocratic family deserves death."

"I repeat, anyone who has anything to do with the family must die, no matter who he is."

Feng Yushu was stunned and asked in confusion, "Why?"

Is the argument that we are born sinful actually true? Is there really sin in this world that can be passed down through blood?
Ning Zhe silently took out a small leather-covered notebook from his arms, opened it in front of Feng Yusu, and handed it to her.

The envelope that Lan Shiwen gave him spontaneously combusted and burned up after Ning Zhe read it once. It was a handwritten copy of the intelligence on "Ji Bochang's 7 deaths and causes of death" that Ning Zhe had written down from memory, as well as some intelligence that Ning Zhe had collected through various channels.

Feng Yushu took the notebook, lowered his head and saw Ji Bochang's first death when he was young:
[On December 1959, 12, a strange incident occurred in Yunting City, Yunzhou Prefecture, with the incident number 03 and the code name "Lie Que".] [The incident occurred at a construction site in Yunting City. More than 01521 construction workers died in the incident. Ji Bochang, 20 years old at the time, was a laborer at the construction site and the only survivor of the incident]

[Ji Bochang cracked and mastered the strange rules codenamed 'Lie Que' at the construction site and became an ascender]

One very counterintuitive thing is that although Ji Bochang was famous for the Five Tongs rule of the God of Wealth, the first strange rule that made him an ascender was not the Five Tongs, but 'Lie Que'.

The Millennium Massacre that led to the destruction of the Yin family occurred in 2000. However, in the year when the Lieque incident occurred, the Yin family was still prosperous and the God of Wealth Wutong was still under the control of the Yin family.

[On the second day after controlling Lieque and becoming an ascender, Ji Bochang died in a hotel. Lieque's control turned into a large-scale strange incident, causing more than 41 deaths or disappearances]

[The then head of the Yunzhou Yin family sent people to seal off the scene and prohibit anyone from entering the hotel. At the same time, the Yin family began to send family members into the hotel.]

[Seven days later, all the Yin family members who entered the hotel died. The dead Ji Bochang was resurrected by some means and controlled Lieque again]

This is the first recorded and verifiable "death" of Ji Bochang.

Feng Yushu held the notebook, Ning Zhe leaned on the backrest of the co-pilot seat and explained:
"It was later proved that Ji Bochang did not die from the backlash of Lieque's rules, but was assassinated by someone from the Yin family."

"An Ascended Person called 'Fen Wu' bypassed the Yin family's blockade and entered the hotel. He obtained money by hunting down Yin family members and resurrected Ji Bochang. Together, the two killed all the Yin family members in the hotel, which calmed down the 'Lie Que' incident that had gotten out of control again."

Fenwu...? Feng Yushu was stunned: "Fenwu, that's not..."

"Yes, it's the one who wanted to kill me and take Zhao You from my body, Fen Wu." Ning Zhe nodded and said, "He is an old fellow from the same era as Tu Yu."

"But I don't understand." Feng Yushu asked in confusion: "Why did the Yin family want to assassinate Ji Bochang at that time? A construction worker solved the strange incident in Yunting City and avoided a larger-scale disaster. Isn't this a good thing?"

After the Yin family assassinated Ji Bochang, Lie Chao lost control, which led to the deaths and injuries of countless innocent people in the hotel. The Yin family's own family members were also hunted down by Fen Wu. It was unreasonable no matter how you looked at it.

Why do they do such things that harm others and benefit themselves?
"Because the aristocratic families cannot tolerate the emergence of any new ascenders." Ning Zhe exhaled lightly and said lightly: "The members of the aristocratic families inherit the rules of their elders through their bloodlines, so that they have extraordinary powers from generation to generation and are high above. Mortals without extraordinary powers cannot resist their rule, but the ascenders can."

"For the noble families, anyone who does not have their blood flowing in their veins is an outsider. The promotion of any outsider is destroying the foundation of their own rule. Therefore, the noble families will not tolerate anyone other than their family members controlling the rules of evil spirits. They indiscriminately slaughter the survivors of every strange incident."

Ning Zhe took his notebook back from Feng Yusu, put it in his pocket, and continued:

“The same thing happened in Qinzhou, which is my hometown.”

"In the early years, the family name of the thousand-year-old family that had been entrenched in Qinzhou was 'Lou'. In 1987, a strange incident occurred in a watchtower ruins in the suburbs of Qinfen City, Qinzhou Prefecture. Because the watchtower had been abandoned for a long time, this strange incident did not cause large-scale casualties, and only killed a farmer who was cutting grass and feeding fish nearby."

"After the incident, Qinfen City responded quickly. A large number of volunteers who signed life and death agreements tried to enter the tower. They were willing to risk their lives to explore the rules and try to calm the incident in the shortest possible time. However, members of the Lou family quickly arrived at the scene and strictly prohibited anyone, including volunteers, from entering the tower. Only members of the Lou family were allowed to explore the incident."

"This strange incident that happened in the tower is quite special. It is not like Zhaoyou or Lieque, who stay in one place and don't move. Instead, it moves towards places where people live, like some kind of living thing. While the Lou family is trying to crack the rules of the tower, the strange incident begins to move towards Qinfen City, which has a population of millions."

"Until the evil spirits crawled into the city, the Lou family had not yet successfully solved this strange incident. Of course, they did not allow any volunteers who were willing to risk their lives to explore the rules to enter the impact area of the incident. Anyone who sneaked in was killed by them."

Hearing this, Feng Yushu couldn't help but open his eyes wide, and his rosy lips opened slightly: "This... This is too ridiculous."

"It's ridiculous, but that's the family."

Ning Zhe concluded: "The noble families don't care about the common people in Qinfen City, nor do they care how many people will die after the monsters in the watchtowers crawl into the city. They only care about one thing - they can't let 'outsiders' control the rules."

Aristocratic families will never allow any outsiders to interfere with the path to advancement, even if the sky falls.

This is a structural contradiction between the aristocratic families, the individual ascenders, and all of humanity. The same thing happened in various parts of Kyushu and has never been resolved for thousands of years. As a result, there was the Millennium Massacre.

"In 1996, Lan Shiwen was born in a hospital shrouded in strange events. This natural ascender crawled out of the body of his mother who was killed by a ghost and was adopted by Tu Yu who came to deal with the incident."

"In 2000, Tu Yu carried the 4-year-old Lan Shiwen into Juxian Garden and, together with Fen Wu and Ji Bochang, killed everyone inside."

In 2018, Ji Bo tried to turn his family into a "aristocratic family".

(End of this chapter)

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