Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 354 The Nonexistent King

Since Police Officer Justus left, there have been many tourists who looked like tourists in the town overnight.

Everyone knew that the war was still going on outside, but the spies from all directions still pretended to disguise themselves.

The townspeople quickly realized that they could tell the identities of those guys, but those guys couldn't know each other's identities, which was why they dressed themselves up ridiculously.

So a strange scene was born-the residents of the town went about their normal life and rest every day, and the foreign guys staged a good show with each other anytime and anywhere-they tried to disguise themselves as normal residents, It's too ridiculous.

The residents of the town don't have much fun on weekdays, except for making people at night, or the annual imperial circus tour, there is no other fun to find.

Now, watching these people act has become their new joy.

In the face of their poor acting skills, the residents just pretend nothing happened.

They also seem to know the thoughts of the residents in the town, so they put on more effort to perform - no matter how ridiculous their behavior is, the exchange of information generated by the transactions between them is a real benefit, which is also the purpose of their coming here.

And Laz, a thin, vulnerable, ugly girl who dared not even raise her head after being molested, would only become the object of their teasing, and would not be regarded as the eyeliner of any force.

They even exchanged information openly in front of her.

"The Red Army Corps is stationed in Xiliu Town, and they are not going to come out for the time being. This is really good news, which means that we don't need to face those monsters anytime soon."

"Probably because the head of this generation is the emperor's own brother. Now that the younger brother has done something stupid, the older brother will naturally give him a chance to repent, otherwise his reputation will be ruined."

"The emperor is really a coward. With the name of an emperor, he has to worry about being stabbed in the back all day long. First, it was the princes and kings of various places, and later it was his own brother. Who can bear it? If I, I can't take it either."

"Huh? Why did the head of the regiment stab the emperor with a knife? Let me explain in detail."

"This starts with the Imperial Expeditionary Force who was pulled out of the abyss by the Holy Light... Laz! Serve the wine!"

Raz didn't understand that what these spies said was all in the open, and it was obvious that everyone already knew it - Officer Justus could also get information like this, so what's the point of recording it?
She had never thought about anything like this before, and she couldn't figure it out now.

But since he promised Officer Justus, he had to do it.

She worked during the day, and at night took notes of what the drinkers said.

Over time, she found that the efficiency of such records was very low—the information disclosed by the drinkers in their chats was very messy and miscellaneous, and some of them were even compiled at will while bragging, and these records easily conflicted with each other.

So she thought of a way:
Instead of writing records on the notes, write the things recorded every day on a separate piece of paper, so that it can be easily compared with the previous notes.

Then use a method similar to bookkeeping to integrate and summarize what happened on these papers according to the two elements of [power] and [time of occurrence], so that you can see what the drinkers said at a glance.

She does this every night, and after a period of time, she has become quite familiar with the collection and recording of information.

During this period, she finally understood the cause and effect of this war:

It all started 30 years ago when the old emperor made a shocking move.

About 30 years ago, at a state banquet in the imperial capital, all the archbishops of the choir were present, and the princes and kings were next. The old emperor announced an unexpected thing to everyone——

The old emperor told everyone that he was blessed by the Holy Light, which gave him the ability to create life, and wanted him to become the next generation of Holy Light.

The head of the choral troupe was sitting next to the old emperor at the time, and after hearing the news, he expressed strong dissatisfaction with the old emperor (there was no blood relationship between the head of the choral group and the old emperor).

According to the archbishops, the Holy Light has never had such a will—even if the Holy Light had such a will, it would not directly tell the emperor, but would definitely inform the choral group first, and the choral group would sing its will to the emperor. In the world, let all life in the world know.

At that time, everyone knew that the hymn hadn't echoed in the world for nearly a hundred years, and the Holy Light seemed to have abandoned His people long ago, leaving them to fend for themselves.

The old emperor's astonishing remarks caused great resistance from the choral group, and the nobles who were closer to the choral group also lost their voices at this moment-most of their blood inheritance was far away from the old emperor. Compared with the old emperor, The choir can give them more.

The head of the regiment told the old emperor:
"Everything between heaven and earth is running according to the rules formulated by the gods, and [the birth of natural life] is the most important one among many rules. No one has ever been able to replace God to grant life to people. The means of intervention are all heresies that we must destroy, and we must also bear the curse of the gods."

At that time, the old emperor did not express any objection to the head of the regiment and the bishops.

This is where the disaster lay.

The old emperor ignored the warning of the choral troupe, so two princes were born. Under the operation of the old emperor, the younger brother became the current emperor, and the elder brother became the current head of the choral troupe.

On the day of the old emperor's funeral, the elder brother broke open the old emperor's coffin, hung the old emperor's body on the holy light statue in the center of the imperial city, and burned it with the holy light turned into sunlight.

Everyone knows why—the elder brother was not born to any of the old emperor’s concubines, but his appearance, demeanor, speech and behavior, the color of his hair reflected in the sun, the density of fine hair on his skin...even the slant of his beard at the corner of his mouth The degree is exactly the same as that of the old emperor.

Some people said that the elder brother was the old emperor himself—the old emperor’s own copy of himself using profane rituals—the old emperor had reached the end of his life, and he couldn’t live forever, so he thought of a way to keep his other self alive.

My brother made a shocking move because of this incident, and after all this—after the old emperor was burned to death by himself, he recognized his current identity even more—he was the head of the choral group , an agent of the Light's will on earth—not a life continuation of a damned, life-blaspheming old thing.

As the head of the choir, he should obey the will of the Holy Light and resist all heresies that try to pollute life.

And the younger brother, who is now the emperor, did not show much malice towards his elder brother, and even expressed his support for his elder brother to all the princes and kings in public.

Now that the upper echelons of the empire have acquiesced to his brother's actions, the voices of the people quickly disappeared. Even if some fanatics collided with the choral group's residence, the conflicts that occurred were quickly resolved by the red-clothed guards of the choral group. calm.

The younger brother is completely different from the old emperor. He has a beautiful appearance, gentle demeanor, and his gestures make people feel refreshed. He is not as violent as the old emperor at all, and he is like two extremes with the old emperor.

The elder brother often expresses his disgust and contempt for the younger brother to everyone in public, which is not a good thing for the empire.

But under the intentional or unintentional connivance of some people, the relationship between the two brothers is getting worse and worse.

People at the time didn't understand what was going on at the time, and it wasn't until later that the conflict broke out between them and experienced a series of events surrounding the struggle for power, that people slowed down:

It turns out that the connivance and provocation of the two brothers by the nobles and bishops at the beginning was just because the empire has been calm for too long, and all classes have solidified. Fighting, redistribution of power.

Thus, the war began without any suspense.

The one who rebelled at first was one of the most stupid princes and kings. He was named "King of the Pigsty" by later generations, because he was fattened by everyone's ambitions, openly challenged the emperor, and later became the king on the dinner plate of the emperor and nobles. Fat——

After the king of the pigsty failed to raise an army due to "disobedience to enlightenment", his territory was divided up by a new generation of nobles.

The war gave birth to the emperor's ambition: when the war was about to end, the emperor suddenly found that he had a half-disabled artillery regiment, an organized musketeer team, and a general who had taken refuge in him. The whole legion.

The emperor didn't think he would have these at the beginning. In fact, before he became the emperor, he knew that he could not easily possess armed forces—his elder brother, who was almost exactly like his father, already had his father before his death. all powers.

And he—the new emperor, who is completely different from his father, is just a puppet set up by his elder brother to support the superior and to contain the old nobles.

Now, the puppet has a knife that can kill people, and the blood drips on the knife. The blood is so sweet that it makes the puppet, who has never been greedy for food and dare not even have the sense of smell, linger on it.

But his elder brother was a sword hanging over his head, and he carefully protected his power from being eroded by his elder brother, until in the next ten years, he grew into an unimaginable behemoth under his elder brother's contempt.

When he led his generals to his elder brother, he saw astonishment on his elder brother's face as expected, and that expression of astonishment gave him an indescribable sense of accomplishment. all the joys of the day.

Brother was silent for a long time, but when he spoke again, there were only two words:
"monster."

Just like the two words his father said to the two of them when he opened his eyes to see the world for the first time:
"monster."

He is a monster created by his father just like him.

The difference is that the elder brother is completely copied from the father.

As for him, he was completely "fabricated" by his father.

(End of this chapter)