Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Since Emperor Zhuanxu[1] blocked the communication between heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of the lower world had gradually dissipated, and the demon race had gradually declined. The once tiny human race had gradually grown stronger and now even had the strength to fight against the demon race. The glory of the pagan gods was gone, and the human race, which was regarded as ants, had begun to revive. This situation was not something that all great demons could accept calmly – even though Emperor Zhuanxu and even Bai Ze[2] had long stated that the decline of the demon race was the heavenly fate and could not be changed.
But there were too many monsters who didn’t believe in fate.
They ran rampant between heaven and earth and could not accept the possibility that their power would be weakened or even disappear from heaven and earth at any time.
As early as in ancient times, there were great demons who attempted to defy the will of heaven and united to find a new way to heaven. They tried to break the barrier between heaven and earth, but they all failed without exception – at the moment when they were about to succeed, heaven sent down a thunderstorm, and all the great demons who attempted to defy the will of heaven and change their fate, no matter how powerful they were, were instantly reduced to ashes in the overwhelming and horrifying thunderstorm.
It was precisely because of such tragic precedents that many unwilling monsters had to accept reality.
It was better to behave like a demon with the tail between legs than to be turned to ashes by the heavenly thunder.
Today, most of the demons had already adapted to a life mixed with humans. They called that ancient glorious period that existed in their distant memories the Pagan God Chronicle. After the Pagan God Chronicle, there was the Human God Chronicle that had continued to this day.
Whether you accept it or not, the Pagan God Chronicle had long become a thing of the past. For most of the demon race today, the so-called Pagan God Chronicle and the ancient glory were just a symbol in their memory.
Compared to pursuing the illusory ancient glory, most monsters would probably prefer to work hard and earn more overtime pay.
After all, in this era of great competition, the competition was too fierce. Not only was the human race living a hard life, but many monsters were also not living an easy life.
If you had this free time, wouldn’t it be nice to play games, watch movies, eat and shop?
Joining a cult and taking society backwards basically means you are not using your brain well.
Bi’an originally thought that this kind of fool should have been gone by now, but he didn’t expect that he overestimated the overall quality of the demon race.
Not only were there fools, but it seemed that there were quite a few of them.
Jiang Lan also looked puzzled. He couldn’t understand what was so worth remembering about in ancient times?
Were there games? Was there delicious food? Were there various entertainment facilities?
There was really nothing you might want. Even to eat a meal you had to fight first, and whoever won got the food.
Was takeaway possible?
He poked Long Yi with an iron rod and asked: “You are cooperating with the Qian faction. Aren’t you also thinking about restoring the ancient glory? The situation in the United States and China is different, right?”
Long Yi lay motionless in the water dungeon, as if dead.
Jiang Lan poked him twice more, and seeing that he was still indifferent, he deliberately turned his head and said to Bi’an, “Since there is no point in getting anything out of him, it’s better to make use of him and let me eat him up.”
He looked at Long Yi with the eyes of someone who was sizing up food, and poked Long Yi’s injured hind leg with the iron rod in his hand: “The hind leg meat looks very solid, it must be chewy, why not braise one and stew the other, it will definitely taste great.”
Jiang Lan originally just wanted to scare Long Yi, but as he spoke, he really started to swallow his saliva.
He enthusiastically recommended it to his fourth brother: “Ying Qiao knows a black bear monster who is a great cook. He cooked the tail last night. It was delicious and tasty. It can be said to be the most delicious tail I have ever eaten.” He said with a little regret: “It’s a pity that you didn’t get to eat it.”
Long Yi, who was pretending to be dead, finally lost his composure when he heard the word “tail”. Having his tail broken was already a great humiliation, but it was actually being used as a food ingredient.
This was intolerable!
He suddenly jumped up and pounced on the confinement fence, his sharp claws piercing through the gaps in the metal fence, trying to attack Jiang Lan.
The solid metal railing made a dull sound when it was hit, but Jiang Lan didn’t even sway and caught his claw with one hand. He then frowned: “You’re not dead? I thought you were dead.”
He easily pushed Long Yi back to the dungeon, slamming him against the wall. He then looked at him with a fake smile, “I advise you not to expect Long Bing or the Americans to get you out. Tell us everything you know as soon as possible, or else when we find out the truth ourselves, I will make a dragon meat feast out of you and invite Long Bing and the others to eat with me.”
The person in charge next to him: …
It was worthy of being called a glutton.
Taotie was awesome.
After some threats and intimidation, Jiang Lan and Bi’an left the interrogation room.
Bi’an looked at his brother and couldn’t help but wonder, how could he be so ruthless to his enemy, but not a little fiercer to that Ying Gou?!
If he showed one tenth of his ferocity, Ying Gou wouldn’t dare to pay attention to him.
Jiang Lan didn’t know what his fourth brother was struggling with. His attention was attracted by Suan Yu imprisoned in another water prison.
——After being caught, Suan Yu was also imprisoned in the interrogation room.
His four wings and three legs were eaten by Jiang Lan, and now he was imprisoned in a water dungeon, so his wounds did not heal well, and were covered with a thick layer of ugly blood scabs. Not to mention that two of his eyes were blind, and most of his feathers had fallen off because of being soaked in water, so the whole bird looked even more uneven and ugly.
It hurt his eyes to look at it any longer.
If Jiang Lan had met this eye-catching Suan Yu instead of the pretentious “Dr. Yu”, he might have lost his appetite.
Jiang Lan asked the person in charge: “He hasn’t explained yet?”
The person in charge shook his head: “Suan Yu is good at mind control. He refuses to cooperate, and we have no way to force him to speak for the time being. The director suspects that he is also related to the Qian faction, so we can only keep him locked up.”
When one day Suan Yu’s will was almost worn out and he refused to speak, they would be able to find a way to make him speak.
Jiang Lan hummed and said, “I’ll talk to him.”
After saying that, he signaled the person in charge to open the dungeon door and looked down at the miserable Suan Yu.
Suan Yu rolled his eyes and looked at him with resentment.
Jiang Lan looked at him with a smile and said in a firm tone: “You are also from the Qian faction, right? Let me guess what level you are? Your strength is much higher than Zhu Nuo and the others. You must be at least Class A, right?”
Back on the rooftop, Suan Yu showed a strong hatred for the human race and even talked about restoring the ancient glory. At that time, Jiang Lan just thought he was having a second-year syndrome, but after knowing the philosophy of the Qian faction, the reason why Suan Yu said this became very clear.
——He was also from the Qian faction. And since he knew so much inside information, he was obviously of high status.
Suan Yu remained silent, just staring at him.
“It’s not even Class A?” Jiang Lan continued to guess: “Is it Class B? Class C? Class D?”
He pretended to be surprised: “You can’t be ranked D-level, right?” Glancing up and down at Suan Yu, Jiang Lan sighed, “There can’t be so many big monsters in the Qian Sect who are as brainless as you, right? You used to be a big monster that everyone was afraid of. It’s too shameful to be like this now.”
“You want to trick me?” Suan Yu smiled: “Provocation doesn’t work on me. I won’t fall for it.”
“Yes, I am trying to trick you. You just asked for it now, right?” Jiang Lan smiled, but the next moment he said something that almost made Suan Yu change his expression –
He said: “It’s not Class A, and it can’t be Qian Jun, so you are one of the four geomancers?”
He felt Suan Yu’s heart was shaking, but he pretended to be calm on the surface: “Whatever you say.”
Jiang Lan ignored Suan Yu’s rebuttal and turned to the person in charge and said, “Change him to a higher level water cell and keep a close eye on him.”
“He is most likely the Geomancer. We have caught a big fish.”
Person in charge: ???
How was this determined?
He looked at Bi’an blankly. Then Bi’an nodded in agreement: “It is very likely that Suan Yu is a geomancer. Just do as Jiang Lan said. You’d better inform Tai Feng. Strengthen the defense of the interrogation room recently to prevent the Qian faction from sending people to rescue him.”
The person in charge quickly nodded in agreement.
Jiang Lan admired Suan Yu’s stiff expression for a while, and then continued slowly: “I don’t know why you always think about the ancient times? There are thousands of delicious things in the world, why do you have to pick on humans? You know Xiang Liu, right? He also likes to feed on human fear, but he is smarter than you and knows to work in an amusement park. Not only can he feed on fear openly every day, but he also gained a group of little fans through the surrounding areas. Now he is making a lot of money, what can’t he buy if he wants to eat?”
“Look at yourself again…” Jiang Lan clicked his tongue twice and said to Suan Yu sincerely, “It’s important to follow the right boss. There’s no future in following a cult leader. Look at you now… Even Tao Wu who’s still serving his sentence next door is living a better life than you.”
Not only did he have no worries about food and drink, but there were even male demons vying for his favor.
It’s obvious that none of them were good people in the past, and their reputations weren’t very good either.
Jiang Lan’s words hit the nail on the head and it was very heartbreaking: “We all started from the same point, why are you the one who is the most miserable? Think about the reason carefully. If you figure it out, you can confess as soon as possible and try to get leniency. Even if you can’t get out, serving your sentence next door is more comfortable than being in the dungeon.”
“…”
Suan Yu’s stiff expression gradually distorted.
Jiang Lan closed the cell door as if nothing had happened, then clapped his hands happily and left with his fourth brother.
….
After the two men came out of the detention center, they drove to the hotel where the foreign guests were staying.
Bi’an was driving, thinking of Jiang Lan’s performance just now, he said with a smile: “If Big Brother saw you like this, he would definitely be very pleased.”
The previously ignorant Old Five could now stand on his own.
“Then when you come, can you help me put in some good words for Ying Qiao?” Jiang Lan was very good at taking advantage of the situation: “I’m already this old, isn’t it normal to fall in love? And the boyfriend I picked is not bad!”
It’s just that there are some misunderstandings about Ying Long in the outside world.
Just like those people misunderstood him.
Bi’an, who wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with his brother, suddenly choked up. Seeing his brother looking at him expectantly, he finally snorted and said, “Let’s see how Ying Long performs these days.”
Jiang Lan had great confidence in his boyfriend: “As long as Big Brother doesn’t believe those rumors, he will definitely like Ying Qiao.”
He then added schemingly, “And now that Ying Qiao has become a member of the Dragon Palace, won’t you and your sister-in-law be closer?!”
It’s such a wonderful thing to have close relatives!
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[1] Zhuanxu, also known as Gaoyang, was a mythological emperor of ancient China. In the traditional account recorded by Sima Qian, Zhuanxu was a grandson of the Yellow Emperor.
[2] Bai Ze is a mythical creature in Chinese and Japanese folklore, often depicted as a white, bovine-like creature with six horns and nine eyes. It is known for its intelligence, ability to understand human speech, and its connection to good luck and wise leadership.