I want to embrace the moon for nine days

Chapter 364: Caught in the blink of an eye

"You remembered to contact your uncle when you were in trouble, which made your uncle very happy."

"But at this time, there is really no way to make my uncle completely happy."

Chen Xiaolou's soul came into the living room, but did not sit down. Instead, he walked to the front of the living room to admire the space scenery outside.

"Whether it is an organization founded on beliefs or blood ties, as long as it becomes powerful, there will inevitably be internal power struggles."

"We use Chen as our ancestral surname and call ourselves a family. But before we moved to the Xuanyuan dimension, we were actually in the Duanjin dimension, a collective name for hundreds of clans."

"Over the past thousand years, there have been rises and falls. Now, if we take a total, there are still more than 69 million members of the clan. It is even more difficult to count the managers, workers, and guards employed by the Chen family's enterprises over the generations."

"The position of the head of a family is actually more like that of a head of a country or a president. The competition is fierce, both overtly and covertly."

His tone was very casual, as if he was not chatting with a nephew he had just met.

But you can say anything to a close relative who you have watched grow up.

"In the past three hundred years, my father, your grandfather, has been the head of the family. Regardless of whether he has done a good job or not, his rule is very stable."

"But just recently, your grandfather had to temporarily hand over his authority as the head of the family, which caused a lot of turmoil. If you come back at this time, you will definitely be involved in the storm. The better you perform, the more you will be targeted."

Su Hanshan knew what was going on.

When he was snooping around the World Wide Web, he found some news about the draft.

The four series of temples have marked out the particularly difficult ones in the newly bordering dimensions in the past two years.

Some of it was because the new dimension itself had stronger resistance, but more of it was because the four priests in the new dimension were fighting each other, and were caught in a dilemma.

Relying solely on the fifth-level experts who have been serving in the temple for a long time is already a bit stretched, and it is difficult to send them in to break the deadlock.

Therefore, almost every temple has sent out conscription letters to those fifth-level strongmen who are under their command.

Coincidentally, if a certain force has more than one fifth-level strongman, the four-element temple will only recruit the most authoritative one, and the others can stay.

According to Su Hanshan, this was also a consideration made by the temple in order to prevent the various forces under it from becoming too stable and lacking vitality.

The tribe's patron saint is nominally responsible for protecting the tribe, but in reality only the tribe's high-ranking members can mobilize divine power at any time to provide protection for themselves.

The first level of authority must be in the hands of people like clan leaders or family heads.

The head of the Chen family has gone to a new dimension and is unable to use the first authority. If the Chen family encounters a strong enemy during this period, the power of the first authority will not be able to be exerted at all.

Therefore, any leader with a normal mind would choose a successor and entrust the primary authority to him after being recruited.

Apart from the head of the Chen family, there are currently only two true fifth-level powerhouses, namely Chen Xiaolou and Chen Aoran.

The head of the Chen family was about to leave, and the dispute between these two people was about to reach its most intense point.

Chen Xiaolou did not let "Char", a fourth-level combat force, go back directly to strengthen his strength. Instead, he was planning to arrange him to another place, which was indeed a manifestation of his greater loyalty.

"I'm pretty good at hiding my weaknesses. After I go back, I can pretend to be mediocre and just stay at the level of barely rank 4."

Su Hanshan said, "But since my uncle is worried about this and wants me to hide somewhere else, I can do so."

Hidden clumsiness?

Chen Zhongtai, who had just walked into the living room, couldn't help but look at Su Hanshan again.

Not to mention, every guy who awakens as a war king is extremely belligerent.

Just talking about Master Char's recent performance, on the day of his awakening, he destroyed the fourth-order colonial suit, sat at the crime scene, and posted a video online.

In the emergency just now, it was clearly the first time that he encountered a Zeroer, but he did not show any caution or try to restrain his breath. Instead, he directly took action to clear the area.

Even his palm technique attainment seemed to have made a breakthrough before the battle, and he was able to restrain the Zeroer, who was close to the fifth level, for a moment.

You say you know how to hide your shortcomings, but I don’t believe you.

Chen Xiaolou couldn't help but smile.

If it was just one atavistic person returning, it would not be too noticeable, but what happened on the giant ship today must have been carefully planned.

The only variable is Char. After his plan failed, how could others believe that this man was just a simple atavist?
"There is a branch of the Zhengshi Academy on the moon where our Chen family is located."

Chen Xiaolou said, "Xuanyuan Dimension, everyone should have heard of this academy. I want you to go in as a special student to study."

The Military Academy is the most prestigious military academy under the United Government, but it trains soldiers and military technology specifically for "Zero Returners" and never interferes in internal disputes among citizens.

Students are also not allowed to interfere with normal academic life within the college due to disputes such as religion, family, ethnicity, or race.

In the Xuanyuan dimension, this academy is mentioned in countless film and television themes. It can indeed be said that it is a household name and everyone knows it.

"Zhengshi College..."

Su Hanshan hesitated for a moment, "Since I am here to study, will I have higher query permissions when I enter the academy?"

Chen Xiaolou said: "It will be more convenient than just searching online."

"You probably don't know yet, but your Xia family's triangular frozen crocodile, this series of combat equipment, was developed by the Zhengshi Academy."

"It is said that the ancestor of the Triangle Frozen Crocodile is a fifth-level peak beast called the Ice Sky Moving Mountain Beast. It may even be a companion beast refined by a god in the dark ages thousands of years ago."

"After the death of that god, the Ice Mountain Moving Beast fell into a deep sleep. Many research institutions have tried to extract its blood and create clones, but they all have major flaws."

"Thanks to the Zhengshi Academy, we used the method of bloodline splitting and downgrading to split several sets of fourth- and third-level beast bloodlines and researched corresponding combat colonization equipment, so that this treasure house has not been covered in dust."

Chen Xiaolou continued, "I heard that the Ice Mountain Moving Beast's true form is currently dormant in our lunar branch school. If you go in to study, you might even be able to apply for a chance to observe it in person."

Su Hanshan had not noticed this information before.

After all, he is an expert in martial arts, not bloodlines.

The previous disguises of returning to ancestral bloodline, awakening of the King of War, etc., were all done by using the treasure refining method to refine Char's physical potential, and using the World Wide Web to spy on the historical records of the Xia family. With just a few clues, he was able to see the whole picture and sublimate the "Ice River Prajna Palm" by himself.

The triangular frost crocodile and Char's bloodline are not exactly the same, but they have genetic interaction because they have used the same set of colonial suits for generations.

Naturally, Su Hanshan had never thought about tracing the origin of the bloodline of the colonizer.

"it is good!"

Su Hanshan became interested in this branch of the Normal University.

Anyway, his first goal is to improve his authority on the World Wide Web and browse more technical mysteries. It doesn't matter whether he stays in the Chen family and becomes Master Xia or goes to school as a student.

Seeing this, Chen Xiaolou nodded with satisfaction.

When his sister passed away, he gave her a private contact account, but his sister never contacted him again until her death. Over the years, their feelings have indeed faded a lot, and she has never taken the initiative to pay attention to this nephew.

But after really meeting Xia Ya, Chen Xiaolou seemed to be reminded of many things that happened between the brother and sister in the past.

Perhaps it is precisely recently that the disputes within the clan have become more intense, with various means used to get back and forth, that has led to more and more conflicts, and we have come to cherish the past even more.

"If I can't stay at home for long, I can at least go around the house for a while."

Chen Xiaolou laughed and stretched out the hammer in his hand, "Go back to the moon!"

The space around the giant ship was slightly distorted by Chen Xiaolou's power, like countless folding fans connected to each other, forming a strange arc, covering the ship's hull, and the speed of navigation suddenly increased several times.

Su Hanshan sat on the sofa and browsed the web, silently verifying the various secret techniques he had recently discovered on the fifth-level Zeroer.

Char's soul hid aside, silent as a cicada, watching the Zeroer being kneaded, flattened and stretched like a dough.

"Wow, it would be fine if you just shook for a while, but why are you still shaking now?"

Su Hanshan's voice reached his ears, "Is this Zeroer so scary? You haven't gotten used to it after watching it for so long?"

Char couldn't quite express his feelings.

It seemed that he was not simply afraid of the Zeroer, but more like he was afraid of the Zeroer being kneaded by an invisible force.

"When you are scared, just read aloud. Some people like to read in a busy city, but I like to read in the wind and frost on the cliffs. Reading in fear should also be a different experience for you."

Su Hanshan said, "First, I will teach you a thousand-character essay, which is most suitable for you, a pure soul body, to read."

Xia Ya had no choice but to recite along. As he recited, he did feel calmer and a little bolder. He suddenly asked, "Teacher Su, if my uncle knew that I was just a useless student and my grades in a second-rate middle school were not even top-notch, would he still be so nice to me?"

Su Hanshan was keenly aware of his mood.

In fact, for Xia Ya, his uncle Chen Xiaolou is probably the only relative he has in the world now. He has no experience with more distant generations and blood ties, so he doesn't mention them. As for his closest relatives, his parents, he has already lost them.

"You are such a useless student, you just scolded your entire class."

Su Hanshan chuckled and said, "When I was very young, I was also a person who paid a lot of attention to other people's opinions. I might even have low self-esteem, so I would treat others with an overly polite and distant attitude, read a lot of miscellaneous books, or participate in sports to cover up my discomfort."

"But then one day, I suddenly realized that paying attention to other people's opinions and being particularly polite are actually contradictory to low self-esteem."

"I respect others, so I need to value their opinions. But if I really respect anyone, I should also respect those who must exist in the world and are in similar situations as me. Every time I feel inferior, I am belittling those people in my heart."

Xia Ya was a little stunned. He actually knew that he had a tendency to feel inferior because he lost his mother at a young age and his father was mostly not around, but he had never heard anyone talk about it from this perspective.

"Taoism teaches that all things are one, and Buddhism teaches that everything is equal. You should have some understanding of these things after practicing the Glacial Prajna Palm."

Su Hanshan spoke in a loud voice, and it seemed that he was not deliberately teaching. He just said, "The value of people can be very different, and there can be a huge gap between gods and mortals, but the self-esteem of lovers should be equal."

"Reality always oppresses people. We want to deny this kind of equality, so we have to break through this oppression through martial arts, cultivation, or something else."

"But reality may never be truly perfect. At least before seeking a breakthrough in reality, we must first remove these shackles from our hearts little by little. I have been making these efforts and hope to encourage more people to do these things."

He smiled gently, "If you are worried about the various setbacks you have encountered, or even imagine some setbacks that have not actually happened, then you should work harder to calm down and cultivate your mind."

"Take the day when the truth comes out as a test to test the results of your practice."

Uncle's attitude, whether good or bad, is just a test question. The result of the test is to see how your mindset is, whether you will be confused at that time, and whether you have the mindset to face the future. That is the most real treasure that belongs to a person.

Xia still didn't quite understand, but he seemed to know that it was impossible to get a perfect answer to this kind of question by asking others. If others gave a good answer, he might think it was perfunctory, and if they gave a bad answer, he could not help but hope for a lucky answer.

A person's own judgment and the judgment of others can never be placed on an equal footing.

It seems that I can only rely on myself.

He continued to recite the Thousand Character Classic.

call! ! !
The Cloud-Swallowing Ship gradually entered the surface of the moon, and using the artificial atmosphere maintained by the formation, it slowed down and anchored at the port below.

That is the Chen family’s port. People in the living room can directly see the scenery of the port.

People come and go, flags flutter, huge machines carry things and fly low, it is very lively and bustling.

But now there is a group of very conspicuous people standing in the port.

They were obviously not port employees. They were all dressed in luxurious and comfortable clothes, surrounded by people, which gave them an extraordinary demeanor.

But these people all looked unhappy, and they looked like they were watching with eager eyes.

"Homeowner?"

Chen Zhongtai's face changed slightly. He looked at the silver-haired man in the center of the crowd, wearing a crimson robe with black stripes and gold edges. "Why would the head of the family come to the port in person?"

Chen Xiaolou's expression also looked a little solemn.

Su Hanshan looked up from the web page and saw the divine power entwined around the head of the Chen family.

Wow, he is worthy of being the one with the first authority.

The power bestowed upon him by the Chen family's clan guardian god is much greater than that bestowed upon Chen Xiaolou.

At this time, the entire hull of the Swallowing Cloud ship had been deformed and flattened.

It was as if a thick layer of metal sheets was laid on the port, covering an area of ​​more than ten kilometers.

On this floor, there are various warehouses with people standing.

"Chen Xiaolou!!"

The head of the Chen family didn't even look at the insulating memory metals. He stared at Chen Xiaolou, his voice full of gloom, "Did you attack Chen Aoran?"

"Family members are fighting for the head of the family. It's too rude to use such cruel means!"

Chen Xiaolou was startled: "Aoran, what happened to him?"

Chen Aoran is currently his biggest competitor and is also believed to be the mastermind behind the Zeroer incident on the Swallowing Cloud ship.

Although there is no evidence, Chen Zhongtai and his team are already prepared to come back and publicize the matter.

No matter how you put it, using the Zeroer is not a glorious thing.

Hearing this, Chen Zhongtai suddenly had a bad feeling.

An elder of the Chen family shouted, "Why are you still pretending? He was seriously injured by your sneak attack. Fortunately, the head of the family arrived in time and barely saved his life. He is now recuperating."

Chen Xiaolou calmed down and explained, "I was in my office and on the family network before, and I can testify that I just heard that there was an attack by the Zeroers in the Swallowing Cloud Ship, and my soul left my body to go to space to respond."

"Who can testify where your soul went when it left home?"

Another elder of the Chen family said, "Chen Aoran has the authority to mobilize our Chen family's guardian deity. Unless you use your own authority to fight him, it is impossible for anyone in our Chen family to severely injure him so quickly."

"Only when the two of you have equal authority can the World Wide Web's monitoring of that area be completely ineffective."

The head of the Chen family asked, "Apart from your confidant, are there any other witnesses on the ship?"

Although the World Wide Web can collect a lot of information, the vast space is precisely the place where the World Wide Web cannot fully cover and collect information.

The divine power bestowed upon Chen Xiaolou by the Chen family's clan patron saint will also lose the credibility of timely recording, and the relevant records may be tampered with by Chen Xiaolou himself.

After all, it is just tampering with some surface information, not shaking the essence of the conceptual power.

As for the Swallowing Cloud giant ship's artificial intelligence and purchasing personnel, they are all Chen Xiaolou's confidants and can cooperate voluntarily and modify the underlying memory in advance.

The guards on the ship looked at each other in bewilderment. A few of them even began to doubt their own memories, but they remained calm.

Some people also looked at Su Hanshan.

However, Chen Xiaolou did not bring up this topic.

"Char" is his nephew, which also cannot clear him of suspicion.

"Since you can't explain, all of you will be detained pending investigation."

The head of the Chen family said, "I have sent people to gather the elders from all over the clan to discuss this matter. It is not ruled out that we will burn incense and pray together, asking the clan's guardian god to cancel the authority you have."

Chen Xiaolou suddenly said, "Aoran is the son-in-law of the Fangmu family. If someone in the Fangmu family has the authority to control the clan's guardian deity, and he acts against Aoran, and Aoran actively cooperates, this effect can also be achieved."

"They tampered with the delivery of my important cargo and deliberately lured my soul out of my body and across space, putting me in a difficult situation where I couldn't provide evidence."

"If that's the case, once the head of the family leaves, my authority will be revoked through a prayer at the clan elders' meeting. Who can guarantee that Aoran won't sell out the interests of the Chen family and make the Chen family gradually become a vassal of the Fangmu family?"

As soon as he said this, those elders who were close to him immediately came to support him.

Even those who stood on different sides looked strange and hesitant after hearing this.

The face of the Chen family's patriarch looked even gloomier, and he suddenly waved his hand.

The structure of the Swallowing Clouds warship, which had just been deformed and spread out, was completely closed again, with loud clanging sounds that continued to be heard.

Behind the head of the Chen family, a huge pure golden figure emerged, reaching a height of several thousand meters, holding a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other.

The square end of the sledgehammer swung forward and struck the sky above the Swallowing Clouds ship.

The giant ship shook violently, and the surrounding ground surged upward. Dark golden square pillars rose higher and higher, forming an encirclement.

The faint threads of light connected from the pillars to the surface of the giant ship, bringing a lingering and endless feeling of confinement.

"Then you will be detained here. During the investigation, if Chen Xiaolou leaves this place without my order, he will be considered a defector."

The head of the Chen family closed his eyes, looked very upset, and suddenly turned and left.

Inside the giant ship, Chen Xiaolou was still in the living room, silent.

Chen Zhongtai was a little flustered: "Master, why would the master be like this..."

“I just handled it wrong.”

Chen Xiaolou suddenly sighed, "I shouldn't have pointed that out."

“In fact, before today, we never thought that Ao Ran might go that way, but now it seems that the extent of his collusion with the Fangmu family has exceeded our expectations.”

"No matter if I was wronged or not, my father has no choice but to pass the throne to Chen Aoran."

The Fangmu family also has three fifth-level warriors, but they are the head of the family and his wife, and their son.

Even if the head of the family leaves, the authority will be transferred directly to his wife, and their son will naturally have no reason to object.

Chen Aoran is now completely on the side of Fang Mu's family, so the head of the Chen family will have to choose Chen Xiaolou as his successor.

Once the head of the family leaves, Chen Xiaolou will have to face internal and external thieves on his own, and there is a high possibility that he will not be able to cope with it.

The head of the Chen family can still maintain a little dignity by taking the initiative to choose Chen Aoran now. Otherwise, in the future, the Chen family will lose all its face.

Chen Zhongtai frowned tightly, "Why would Chen Aoran be willing to become a vassal? This doesn't make sense."

"If he continues to be loyal to the Chen family, even if the head of the family chooses you as the successor, he will still be the second most powerful person. But now that he has joined the Chen family, there will be more people above him. What is he trying to achieve?"

Su Hanshan said at this time: "Some people tend to behave irrationally when dealing with things, which harms others and does not benefit themselves. It seems that you have overestimated Chen Aoran's character."

Chen Zhongtai said dejectedly: "So now we can only wait for power to be taken away?"

"Don't give up too soon. Father won't like the feeling of being controlled by others. The investigation process will take time. Maybe there will be a turning point."

Chen Xiaolou walked aside, sat on the sofa, and looked very calm.

But he is now in the body of a soul, and there is a subtle light and color in his eyes, flickering and changing. He is obviously very uneasy, and he can't find any way to break the impasse.

Xia Ya asked worriedly, "What will happen to my uncle?"

"If it's a good situation, his privileges may be revoked and he may have to make amends for his crime. After all, he is quite capable and still very useful. If it's a bad situation, he may be completely eliminated soon."

Su Hanshan said, "Your uncle is still too indecisive. When he got the news just now, he rushed over and beat Chen Aoran to death, turning his fake injury into a real death. Your grandfather was hesitant and definitely couldn't stop him. He might even become his accomplice."

"When this is done, he will be the only successor left in the Chen family, with no other choice."

"Even if we have to fight against the Fangmu family in the future, without the traitor, the Chen family led by your uncle will be able to handle it."

"What a pity! He missed the opportunity when he explained the first word, and I didn't even have time to remind him."

Xia Ya was stunned: "Can we still do this? Then... Teacher, do you have any other ideas now?"

"Don't worry, the nominal investigation can still be delayed for some time."

Su Hanshan was leisurely and calm, and clicked on his watch.

The next second, his face suddenly darkened.

——This broken place has been disconnected from the internet!!

(End of this chapter)