Chapter 133 Everything is like chess
Chapter 133 Everything is like chess
When Pei Jinge pushed the door open, the courtyard was already empty.
There was only a chair under the eaves.
And the autumn wind that never really stops.
“The weather is really nice.”
She spoke softly, feeling the silky wind caressing her skin, the corners of her lips curled up in a gentle smile, but the emotion in her eyes was extremely cold.
For some reason, Pei Jinge felt that all this was vaguely familiar.
It was like she had had the same experience somewhere before without knowing it.
Maybe Wangjing, maybe Shendu?
Thinking about these two place names, the real purpose of this trip, and Gu Zhuo's identity as the reincarnation of the Taoist master, Pei Jinge once again confirmed that this matter would be far more troublesome than he had imagined.
She put her thoughts aside, turned around and walked out, stepping into the sunlight again.
Unlike before, Pei Jinge's aura suddenly changed.
In just a moment, she was like a drop of water merging into the ocean, nothing special about her anymore.
Ten thousand people are like a sea hiding one person.
"Hide and seek."
Pei Jinge said to himself, "It used to happen every four years, how come it's doubled this year?"
As she said this, she suddenly remembered that the summer festival had set a precedent that had not been seen for a hundred years because of Gu Zhuo. So it didn't seem so strange that she could play hide-and-seek with the evil demons one more time in the thirty-eighth year of her sainthood.
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Chaozhou City was not under martial law.
Citizens could still walk on the streets and witness with their own eyes the deacons of the Sky Patrol breaking into the house with flying swords and killing the followers of the Tianming Sect, and then politely asking the officers and soldiers of the Southern Qi to follow up with the cleanup.
The people of Southern Qi were shocked at first, then angry, then powerless, and finally numb.
This city is still bustling because the Sky Patrol and the Heavenly Fate Cult are still entangled in an endless struggle. This city is dead silent because the people living here have completely become the background.
"Let's talk."
Gu Zhuo was walking on a street and asked, "What do you think of the current situation?"
This was the question that Sui Qiangu, an elder of the Tianming Sect, asked him not long ago.
At this moment, he suddenly brought up the old matter again, which was inevitably a bit mocking.
Sui Qian Gu frowned and looked at the figure in front of him. After a moment of silence, he said, "The most urgent task is to avoid unnecessary losses."
After hearing this, the others began to echo each other, with almost the same meaning.
In short, the overall situation is important.
As for why they had to put the overall situation first and minimize the losses, no one mentioned it. They just said that the actions of the Sky Patrol Division today were unpopular and they would suffer the consequences next year.
During this process, Taoist Changyu remained silent.
Only after the other six elders had finished speaking and a noisy voice could be heard from the end of the alley did the middle-aged Taoist slowly express his thoughts.
"My view is very simple."
He said sincerely, "The position of the leader should be determined."
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the six elders seemed unchanged, but in their hearts they could not help but curse at Taoist Changyu.
Even if you are really determined to be this man's dog, at least give yourself some face, right?
How can it be so direct?
Gu Zhuo said calmly: "No hurry."
Taoist Changyu had great trust in him and nodded in agreement immediately.
Gu Zhuo continued: "I have a few more questions to ask."
Sui Qian Gu said, "Please speak."
"first."
Gu Zhuo said: "Do you think you can kill Pei Jinge?"
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For Pei Jinge, the most foolproof solution to today's incident is to cover the entire Chaozhou City with his own Taoist temple.
At that time, no matter how smart the person playing hide-and-seek with her is, he will no longer be able to hide.
The problem is that the price of doing so is... all the ordinary people in the entire Chaozhou city who are not practitioners will die directly, in other words, it will be a massacre.
Now is a peaceful time, so Pei Jinge would naturally not do such a thing.
Then she could only walk around Chaozhou City and continue this game of hide-and-seek until the result came out.
This is undoubtedly a rather troublesome matter.
But now there is no one in the Tianming Sect who can be her enemy, so just think of it as killing someone while taking a walk.
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“It’s not like there’s no chance at all.”
Sui Qian Gu was silent for a long time, then said: "If you can create a suitable environment for the seven of us to fight Pei Jinge to the death, we have about a 50% chance of killing her."
After listening to this, Gu Zhuo said directly: "That's not possible."
Sui Qian Gu did not refute because it was indeed the case.
Regardless of whether such an environment exists in Chaozhou City, just looking at the premise that the seven elders of the Tianming Sect put aside their past grudges, this is something that is impossible to happen.
At this time, Gu Zhuo was sitting in a teahouse on the street.
There were no longer so many people around him because he had mentioned several place names again a moment ago, which caused the expressions of several elders of the Tianming Sect to change suddenly. They could no longer remain calm and chose to leave temporarily.
It was obvious that the deacons of the Sky Patrol were about to visit the confidants of these elders, otherwise they would not have chosen to leave the meeting at such a short notice.
Now, the elders of the Tianming Sect who stay with Gu Zhuo, except Taoist Changyu, are Sui Qian Gu and a Taoist nun who calls herself An Ning.
"Secondly."
Gu Zhuo drank a cup of hot tea and asked casually, "Can you survive in front of Pei Jinge?"
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……"Walk?"
A disciple of the Tianming Sect was very puzzled and wondered if this meeting would end so quickly?
Chaozhou City is the city where Tianming Sect has made the deepest contributions in Southern Qi. Tianming Sect has a profound influence on this city, so the disciple never thought that this actually meant escape.
He only felt that the seven elders had already selected a new leader and made a decision about the future in this not-so-long period of time to deal with the upcoming upheaval.
"Walk."
Another disciple said, "This is an order passed down directly by the elders."
The Tianming Sect disciples standing in the courtyard didn't think any more and followed the elder's instructions and began to prepare to leave Chaozhou City.
Separated by a wall.
A certain elder of the Tianming Sect who had stood behind Gu Zhuo not long ago had an extremely ugly expression on his face.
In the corner of his eye, a person in a black dress came fluttering towards him.
That's Pei Jinge.
So he knew he was going to die.
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There was a lot of noise in the restaurant.
The four people sitting by the window were dead silent.
The answer is clear.
Neither Taoist Changyu, Sui Qian Gu, nor Taoist Nun An Ning had the confidence to survive. When facing Pei Jinge's blade alone, the only option was death.
Gu Zhuo put down the teacup.
Then, he said directly: "None of the seven people can be an enemy of Pei Jinge. Chaozhou City has been operating for many years but is no different from a sieve. We can let the Patrol of the Sky go directly to the door and kill people."
When he said this, his tone was very calm, just narrating.
To the other three people, this was undoubtedly a great irony and dissatisfaction.
"sorry."
Taoist Chang Yu said apologetically, "It was my fault that I didn't do my job well and didn't arrange things properly, which gave the Sky Patrol the opportunity to take advantage of the situation."
Nun An Ning said seriously: "The death of the leader has made the hearts of the people in the sect uneasy. If it were in the past, things would never be like this now."
Sui Qian Gu took over the conversation and defended, "If we were really such a waste, how could we have fought against Qing Xiaoyue for so many years and have our own influence in this world?"
He paused and continued, "I think this is not a crime of war."
Gu Zhuo was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "The second one."
Taoist Chang Yu was puzzled when he heard this, and subconsciously asked, "What do you mean the second one?"
"dead."
Gu Zhuo looked at the three of them, smiled, and said, "Someone who was standing next to you before."
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Two days ago, Taoist Changyu tried to have a conversation with Gu Zhuo.
In this conversation, he will give a detailed introduction to the specific personalities of the other six elders of the Tianming Sect, as well as the conflicts of interest among these people, who has a closer relationship with whom, and who are allies with each other.
Logically speaking, since Gu Zhuo has decided to become the next leader of the Tianming Sect, he must have sufficient understanding of this, otherwise it will be easy for him to deceive his superiors and hide the truth from his subordinates.
Ultimately, people are everything.
However, what Taoist Changyu could not have expected was that Gu Zhuo refused.
This was also the reason why when Sui Qian Gu spoke today, he had to move over and introduce himself to Gu Zhuo.
He couldn't help feeling dissatisfied about this.
But... when Gu Zhuo said that someone had died, Taoist Chang Yu suddenly understood.
Is it necessary to remember the names of the dead?
This should be what Gu Zhuo was thinking at the time.
Thinking of this, Taoist Changyu suddenly recalled the autumn rain seven days ago.
At that time, Gu Zhuo told him that killing was not something that must be done. He was almost completely disappointed and thought he had met a naive idiot.
It was not until this moment that he realized that for Gu Zhuo, he didn't have to kill people himself.
On the contrary, Gu Zhuo was even saving people.
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If even a Taoist priest like Changyu, who has a strong personality, could figure it out, how could Sui Qian Gu and Taoist nun An Ning not figure it out?
To be precise, the two of them thought even more deeply and suspected whether Gu Zhuo had some kind of connection with the Sky Patrol Bureau, otherwise how could they create this situation?
But when they recalled that the leader had personally designated Gu Zhuo to inherit the Tianming Sect, they had to give up the idea, and then naturally thought of those even more terrifying four words.
——Everything is like chess.
Gu Zhuo didn't look at the three people, but he could roughly guess what they were thinking at the moment.
Seven days ago, he decided to take over the position from the old man, and he began to think about how to deal with the problems within the Tianming Sect.
Of course, there were many surprises.
After all, things are never as we wish.
But now it seems that this matter is finally on the right track and can continue.
"at last."
Gu Zhuo's voice rang out.
First, second, last.
So this is his third question today.
He looked at the three people present, his expression gentle and polite, and asked: "Do you want to live?"
Chapter 2 is before 12 o'clock, and Chapter 3 will be in the early morning, probably around 3 or 4 o'clock.
(End of this chapter)