bayedsolid Chapter 298 Wang En's Trump Card
Chapter 298 Wang En's Trump Card
"I discovered many things that were not right during my investigation."
Zhou Yuqing raised her finger and transmitted a bunch of document data to Night Owl.
“For the past hundred years, Wang En has been in charge of the construction of the Great Wall at the first and second lines of defense outside the Southern Territory. However, during my investigation, I found that the data on the reports and bills were clearly inconsistent. The Soul Steel used to build the Great Wall and many other extraordinary materials showed obvious signs of being misappropriated.”
Night Owl's eyes narrowed slightly: "You mean, Wang En misappropriated resources intended for the construction of the Great Wall?"
"Yes."
"What does he intend to do with these supplies?"
"Many important fortifications require special extraordinary materials to be built, such as Soul Steel."
With another flick of her finger, Zhou Yuqing sent Night Owl a lot more data.
Zhou Yuqing continued, "After spending a lot of time conducting in-depth investigations, I personally interrogated a large construction company under Wang En's control and discovered that Wang En seemed to have been secretly building a huge underground fortification in the southern region for over a hundred years—an underground city that is several thousand meters deep."
"An underground city?" Night Owl asked curiously. "Why would he build such a large underground city without the Empire's knowledge?"
“I also asked the president of the Southern Beast Tamer Guild,” Zhou Yuqing said. “He said that Wang En started ordering specially bred spirit pets from him every month more than a hundred years ago, averaging more than three hundred per month. Moreover, Wang En’s requirements were particularly demanding. Talent and grade didn’t matter, but these beasts needed to have extremely strong adaptability, drug resistance, and evolutionary ability… This continued for a hundred years without stopping. The beasts in the Beast Forest were almost hunted to extinction. Later, the president of the Beast Tamer Guild had no choice but to use drugs to make those beasts breed quickly to meet Wang En’s needs.”
Night Owl frowned: "Wang En was originally a beast tamer, so it's not surprising that he wants exotic beasts... The problem is, what does he need so many exotic beasts for? And he's bought so many exotic beasts, but I've never seen him summon them on the battlefield of ten thousand races. Where have they all been...?"
Suddenly, a thought struck him: "Could this guy be keeping all these strange beasts underground?"
Zhou Yuqing: "I think it's very possible."
Night Owl's brows furrowed more and more; he knew this was definitely not a simple matter.
"What's the one more thing?"
"There's one more thing, also about the misappropriated Soul Steel."
Zhou Yuqing said, "Besides building the underground city, I discovered that Duke Wang En also ordered people to secretly build 'Void Gates' in various places in the Southern Territory!"
Night Owl's pupils contracted: "A portal to the void? That's an illegal creation strictly prohibited by the Empire at the highest level!"
The portal to the void is a spatial portal that can only be created by extremely rare spatial mages or supernatural beings.
No, to be precise, they weren't manufactured at all. Instead, they were fragments of runes from a space gate left behind by an ancient civilization. Humans discovered them through archaeology and pieced them together, arranging the runes to recreate the effect of traversing space!
Once this spatial portal is opened, it allows people to instantly travel from one place to another hundreds of thousands of kilometers away!
However, such spatial portals also carry extremely high risks. Not only are they unstable, but they also pose various hidden dangers. The biggest risk is the fear of being exploited by malicious individuals.
Therefore, starting from the Qin Dynasty, the construction of such spatial gates required strict approval; construction was only permitted after the imperial court had obtained multiple layers of approval.
Wang En's secret construction of the "Gate of Void" undoubtedly constitutes a serious crime. He must have found fragments of an ancient spatial gate somewhere, but instead of handing them over to the Empire, he kept them for himself.
"What exactly is this old guy trying to do?... "
The owl's eyes darted around, and his expression gradually turned serious.
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Ye Ge and Gao Shenxue helped out in the wounded soldiers' tents.
"The extent to which these people are corrupted by demonic energy seems to be more serious than we imagined."
Gao Shenxue handed a report to Yege.
Ye Ge glanced at the data on the report, then at the Ye family warriors lying on the bed.
All data points exceeded the average.
Even if the warriors of the Ye family are not demonized humans, their resistance to demons is much higher than that of normal people due to their training environment. If this is the case for them, then it goes without saying that ordinary people are like this.
Just how toxic has Wang En modified the Dark Blood?
Ye Ge scratched his neck: "Looks like we'll have to wait for Yu Li and the others to arrive before we can talk about it."
Arthur stood beside Nightsong, watching the soldiers tormented by the demonic energy, his feelings a complex mix.
He was someone who almost lost his life in the wilderness due to demonic pollution.
Of course I understand the pain of being corrupted by demonic energy.
"Young Master Yege."
At this moment, Li Shuying came in from outside, her expression serious: "Someone is looking for you."
"who is it?"
"Bai Jian...and several of his subordinates."
Upon hearing this, Ye Ge narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I understand. Let him come to see me."
“He said he wouldn’t come,” Li Shuying said. “He said he needed to see his sister first and ask her a few questions.”
Ye Ge smiled faintly: "This guy is quite cautious." With that, he put down the medical report and left the tent with Gao Shenxue and the others.
Soon, he met Bai Jian and the others.
Bai Jian did not come alone; he was followed by more than thirty of his trusted subordinates, including Duan Ye, Lei He, Wang Meng, and Li Yue.
Therefore, all the Night Clan warriors watched them warily and surrounded them.
After meeting Wang En, Bai Jian did not actually completely believe what Wang En said.
But he couldn't decide who he should believe.
So after discussing it with Duan Ye and the other cadres, he decided to go to the Ye family camp together to rescue people.
Duan Ye said, "Anyway, no matter what the truth is, we'll all go through fire and water together."
Ye Yulong crossed his arms and looked at Bai Jian and the others with a defiant gaze: "General Bai, are you here to surrender or to fight?"
"I'm here to rescue her," Bai Jian said calmly. "Ye Ge said that I would surrender to you countless times, and that as long as I withdraw from this war, I will release my sister."
"Heh, you actually believe what our demonized family says? You really are the most naive general I've ever met." Ye Ming licked his lips and sneered, "Since they've all walked right into our trap, then don't blame us for being impolite... Charge! Take them down!"
Duan Ye, Lei He, Wang Meng, Li Yue, and the others immediately became alert, drew their weapons, and nervously stared at the Ye family warriors around them.
Only Bai Jian stood still, his expression unchanged.
"Idiot." Ye Yulong's eyes turned cold as he cursed, "Get the hell out of here! Who gives you the right to speak here? Since when did it become your place to give orders?"
"You..." Ye Ming's face turned pale and then red as he glared at him angrily.
"Let's talk about it when Ye Ge arrives," Ye Yulong said leisurely. "Until he comes, no one should do anything reckless, or don't blame me for turning against you as his older brother."