Volume 2: The Church of Light Chapter 220 Offline (Part 2)
"So what do you think I would say?"
Xu Shen asked back.
Liu Jichuan did not answer, but patted Xu Shen's shoulder again:
"In fact, you and I are both A-coals. Some A-coals were driven out of the kennel and did not crawl into the manor, but crawled into the grave."
“Some of the dogs froze to death in the woods before they could find a kennel.”
"Some coal miners have already died while completing tasks for the manor owner."
"Some Amei went to prison and never came out."
Liu Jichuan put his hand down and said softly, "Amei did nothing wrong. He entered the kennel just to avoid the rain. He didn't kill the dog on purpose. He just hoped that the dog would let him live ."
"I just want to survive, what's wrong with that?"
“But all the systems and laws that Ah Mei encountered were designed to protect the strong and the rich.”
"Rules are supposed to protect the poor and the weak, but they have become a tool for the strong to oppress the poor. Do you think this is reasonable?"
Xu Shen said: "The strong prey on the weak, that's how it is."
"That's right, being weak is Amei's sin."
Liu Jichuan said: "But the rules are made by the strong. Some people climb to high positions and make rules to block the footsteps of others who come later."
“That’s not fair!”
A cold and sharp light flashed in Liu Jichuan's eyes: "Some powerful people get to the top by their own ability, while some powerful people only get to the top by some cunning means. They can commit crimes, but they ask us to follow the rules. Do you think this is reasonable?"
Xu Shen didn't say anything.
This is naturally unreasonable.
But that's the reality.
No one is willing to accept it, but no one has the ability to resist.
" Let's go , I'll take you somewhere." Liu Jichuan stared at Xu Shen, then turned and walked away.
Xu Shen didn't ask, but just followed silently.
The two returned to the tavern and emerged from the world of ruins. The owner of the tavern happened to come out and smiled when he saw them, "Are you ready to go back?"
Liu Jichuan nodded: "Come back when you have time."
"No problem, good wine is waiting for you." The tavern owner glanced at the two of them, and then said to Xu Shen: "Come and have a drink later."
"good."
Xu Shen nodded.
The two got in their cars and drove to the end of the town.
This is a black church with a spire, solemn but old. Outside the church, a forest of black dead branches spreads. Black crows soared into the sky over the dead branches, shaking off several feathers.
Two cars stopped in front of the church and Yanagi Sumikawa got out.
Xu Shen also got out of the car.
Liu Jichuan pushed open the door of the church. Dust was floating in the air and the seats in the church were empty.
Xu Shen raised his head and looked around, only to see several figures squatting in several places under the oval arch of the church.
"Xiao Xu, you are a smart person, you understand what I say."
Liu Jichuan turned around and stared at Xu Shen: "Let me ask you, do you want to be a coal miner, or do you want to be the owner of the manor?"
Xu Shen fell into silence.
After a while, under Liu Jichuan's gaze, Xu Shen whispered, "I don't even want to."
"Don't want any of it?" Liu Jichuan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Maybe it's good to be a rich man. I can build a few more kennels and adopt poor people like A Mei." Xu Shen looked up and smiled.
Liu Jichuan stared at him.
"But do you know what happened to the rich man?"
"Um?"
"Killed by the owner of the manor."
Liu Jichuan said calmly: "The owner of the manor wants to avenge Ah Mei, and at the same time, the existence of this rich man has hindered the owner of the manor."
Xu Shen sighed.
Yanagizumi said: "Living in this small town, you have to make choices."
Xu Shen understood what he meant. He looked up at the goddess of night in front of the church and was silent for a while before saying, "Do I have a choice?"
Liu Jichuan stared at Xu Shen and said, "You have no choice, but the road ahead of you leads to light."
Xu Shen smiled and said, "Do we need to force others to make a choice on the road to light?"
"Because too many people are lost in the darkness, even if they see the light, they cannot distinguish it, let alone know how to grab it," said Liu Jichuan.
Xu Shen shook his head and said, "Have you ever thought that maybe some people just like to stay in the dark?"
Liu Jichuan's face darkened and he said, "Xiao Xu, you are a talented person. Are you really willing to stay in the dark forever?"
Xu Shen sighed: "I just want to stay where I am comfortable."
Liu Jichuan's face was gloomy, and he said slowly: "Xiao Xu, join us. I believe that you also hate the Inner City in your heart, and you also want to overthrow them. The power of the anti-Inner Army is greater than you think. The kings in our organization are not inferior to the major forces in the Inner City. After the reshuffle, we will be the ones sitting in the Inner City."
"Then we will have the right to rewrite the rules so that no one will be oppressed."
Xu Shen remained silent. Liu Jichuan's showdown was completely within his expectations and there was nothing surprising about it.
The previous conversation between the two was just a tacit expression of understanding.
"In that case, your organization doesn't need someone like me," said Xu Shen.
"But we still need to accumulate more strength so that we can reduce casualties when launching a coup. What we hope for is not a tragic victory that will hurt both sides, but a crushing victory!" said Liu Jichuan.
"Sorry." Xu Shen shook his head: "I really can't."
"Are you really willing to be a coal miner?!" Liu Jichuan said angrily.
Xu Shen shook his head slightly: "I don't choose any of them."
Liu Jichuan stared at Xu Shen, and seeing Xu Shen's resolute expression, he knew that no matter how much he said, he would not be able to persuade him.
His expression calmed down and he said slowly: "When did you guess my identity?"
"Since you invited me to Elena's house." Xu Shen didn't hide it anymore.
"At that time..." Liu Jichuan frowned: "Did I reveal any flaws?"
He remembered that he had no intentions at all.
Xu Shen shook his head: "There is no flaw, it's just that I had just rejected the invitation of the Anti-Inner Army at that time, and no one contacted me during that time, and you... contacted me first."
"so?"
"So there's a high probability that you are one of theirs."
Xu Shen said: "A secret organization like the Anti-Internal Army will not take no action if their invitation is rejected. What if I expose their organization to the Queen Ant? Wouldn't they be in a passive position?"
Liu Jichuan was silent for a moment, then he sighed softly: "You are indeed very smart, what a pity."
His eyes were full of regret and sorrow.
"In order to invite me to embark on your bright path, you want to assassinate Elena. Is your purpose to shift the blame to the inner city, or to increase my anger?" Xu Shen asked.
Liu Jichuan sighed, "You are just like Ah Mei, lonely and helpless. All your relatives and friends are dead. I can't find any way to threaten you, so I can only help you establish a close relationship. Unfortunately, little Elena failed to impress you, but it doesn't matter. Her death can touch you to some extent."
Xu Shen's eyes slowly turned cold: "So, you want to kill them just to provoke me? His father is your best friend."
"Just a friend, not a close friend." Liu Jichuan denied, "I have many friends like this, but unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to introduce you to them before."
There won’t be such an opportunity in the future… he added silently in his heart.
"When did you plan to recruit me into the anti-internal army?" Xu Shen asked.
Liu Jichuan said calmly: " I will look through the information and resumes of the Ruins Slayers in the Ruins Secret Bureau. Among them, there are outstanding talents, and they are all the seedlings I have reserved, and you are naturally no exception."
"So, quite a few people in the bureau have also joined the Anti-Internal Army?"
"Not much. After all, what we need is talent," Liu Jichuan said.
Xu Shen nodded and said, "So you deliberately leaked the information and colluded with the Zhuiguang Society to frame me and make me enter the Inner City to suffer, right? You made me hate the Inner City because of this. Haha, you put a lot of effort into me."
Liu Jichuan was startled, the calmness on his face disappeared, and he stared at Xu Shen: "How did you know?"
"Unfortunately, the old friend you colluded with also knew your character, so he kept it a secret and wrote it down in his diary. I found out by accident."
Xu Shen sneered: "You should be very familiar with the inner city and know about the Moonlight Religion and the Jiang family. You think I will suffer at most. You also know that Sister Li gave me the Ghost Moon Mask of the Jiang family. So when I was arrested, the Ghost Moon Mask would definitely be found by the Moonlight Religion people."
"With this mask, at most I will escape danger and return safely, but I will hate the Light Chasing Society and even betray or leave it, thus returning to the embrace of the Ruins Secret Bureau. At the same time, I will bear a grudge against the Inner City in my heart and plant the seeds of hatred..."
Xu Shen looked directly at Liu Jichuan and said, "This is all your plan."
Liu Jichuan was silent.
What Xu Shen said... is basically correct.
After learning that Xiaoli gave the Ghost Moon Mask to Xu Shen, this idea came into his mind. Later, when Xu Shen got into trouble, he saw an opportunity and thus made the subsequent plans.
But I didn’t expect that Xu Shen knew everything.
That old friend...it turned out that I was too soft-hearted and failed to handle it in time.
He sighed inwardly.
"You're right, but I did all this in the hope that you can see the reality as soon as possible."
Liu Jichuan looked at Xu Shen with a calm gaze: "The sooner you see clearly, the better it will be for you. Maybe the process will be painful, but pain will make people grow."
Xu Shen looked at him without any guilt, and there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes: "But what you didn't expect is that the Ghost Moon Mask failed to save me, and the friendship between the Moonlight Religion and the Jiang family has become worthless because of the Jiang family's current situation!"
Liu Jichuan was stunned.
"What do you mean?" Liu Jichuan showed confusion in his eyes: "You came back from the Moonlight Religion, not because of the friendship with the Jiang family? Then you are..."
"You are too confident!" Xu Shen looked at him quietly: "Not everything is under your control. You treated me as a chess piece. You thought your purpose was to cultivate me, but you almost killed me!"
Liu Jichuan looked at Xu Shen in surprise. Judging from Xu Shen's expression, he was not lying, and there was no need to lie.
If not the Ghost Moon Mask, then what else can we rely on?
and.
Xu Shen seemed to know a lot about the Jiang family. Who told him?
Mu Xue?
Seeing the dark mockery in Xu Shen's eyes, Liu Jichuan's face darkened and he said, "Accidents can happen in any situation. This is not what I want to see."
Xu Shen's expression was indifferent, and his eyes were even colder.
"Since you know this, why..." Liu Jichuan suddenly felt that his understanding of Xu Shen was not deep enough. This little guy seemed to be hiding a lot of things and thoughts.
"Why didn't I seek revenge on you?"
Xu Shen said coldly: "Because you gave me a Xu Bing before. Although you had your own purpose, you did give me some resources."
"Just because of this?" Liu Jichuan was stunned and felt a little unbelievable.
"At the same time, it's also because it's not the time for revenge yet, and I'm not sure I can deal with you." Xu Shen said.
Liu Jichuan calmed down and said, "This is the real reason, right? This is the correct reason. If it is just the previous one, then it is too naive. I don't like naive people."
Xu Shen did not comment.
"Since you know everything, you should also know the reason why I invited you here today. How dare you come here alone? Didn't you ask Mu Wang for help? Didn't you arrange for someone from your Chasing Light Club to come here?"
Liu Jichuan looked at Xu Shen with interest: "Before in the tavern, you dared to drink water, weren't you afraid that I would poison your water in advance?"
Xu Shen looked at him quietly and just sighed.
"That's the chance I gave you..." Xu Shen said softly, "It can also paralyze you."
"Um?"
Liu Jichuan's eyes moved slightly, and he looked down, and found that black filaments had spread all over his feet without him knowing when. These filaments were made of virtual force, extending from the ground, and had surrounded his body.
At this moment, he was like a butterfly landing on a spider web.
It turned out that when they were talking earlier, Xu Shen had already been quietly making arrangements.
It turns out... I'm not the only one making preparations.
Liu Jichuan was not panicked, but laughed instead.
Cute little guy.
There was an even more regretful look in his eyes, and he felt more pity and reluctance towards Xu Shen.
"I really didn't make a mistake about you..." Liu Jichuan chuckled, "But unfortunately, you are still a little immature now."
As he finished his words, figures lurking on several elliptical arches in the church suddenly flew out and killed Xu Shen.
One of the figures refracted in a "Z" shape in the air and instantly appeared in front of Xu Shen.
The blade suddenly chopped down.
Such an astonishing speed of attack made Xu Shen, who had already witnessed their existence, change his expression slightly.
bass!
He drew his sword instantly.
The brand new sword blade was forged by Zhou Yuanyuan using the body material of the suspected A-level corpse she had dealt with for him.
The sword's edge is like soft snake bone, with a hint of sharp toughness.
When the swords collided, the face of the attacking woman suddenly changed. She didn't expect Xu Shen to be able to react. She was relying on her ability to assassinate him, but Xu Shen seemed to have already discovered her existence. Not only that, the speed of drawing the sword... was too fast!
If it were an ordinary person, even if he had noticed it long ago, he would not have had time to draw his sword.
clang!
Sparks flew out like the friction of bones, and Xu Shen's eyes suddenly flashed with a chill like the abyss.
Sword slash, second level!
Stacking waves!!
The power in his arm exploded instantly, and with a bang, the sword edge left a violent mark.
