At 11:05 at night, the lively atmosphere of the Little New Year Festival had not yet dissipated. All the senior officials of the royal capital had their holidays canceled and were quickly summoned to the royal court for an emergency meeting.
Less than 20 minutes after the summons was issued, more than 100 important senior military and political figures had already arrived. The atmosphere in the huge conference hall was very tense.
Even before the king showed up, everyone was already talking about it. This kind of urgent summons has never happened before. What is so important?
A few minutes later, the king came to the meeting hall with a serious expression.
There were no extra politenesses or extra preambles. The king did not even wait for the officials who had not arrived. Instead, he went directly to the topic and asked his secretary to play the video.
The giant screen in the center of the conference hall showed pictures of Tianpeng, Liming, Jiang Wei and others. The entire video was in the distance and seemed to be a candid video.
The scary thing is that the chat between Tianpeng and others and Elder Guo was also recorded very clearly.
When the video of more than 20 minutes was played, the entire conference hall exploded.
This is the biggest news in the underground world in 200,000 years. People on the surface have actually reached the underground world.
After heated discussions, the meeting mainly focused on one issue: how to deal with surface people. For this reason, everyone was divided into two groups.
Party A suggested treating the surface people well and gaining their trust so that they could extract key information, especially about the construction ants.
Party B suggested that it would be more efficient to capture surface people alive, imprison them, and torture them to extract confessions.
Party A is opposed to taking tough measures. After all, everyone is of the same race, and using torture to extract confessions is very inhumane. Moreover, this will lead to surface people lying and will not be conducive to good diplomatic relations with surface people in the future.
Group B believes that people on the surface understand the power of humans in the underground world, and they are also afraid of the creatures in the underground world, so they will never want the surface to be connected with the underground. When the time is right, they will definitely escape. We must act quickly to prevent later changes. Once you miss this opportunity, you may never come back.
As the fierce discussions gradually progressed, more and more faction B members came to believe that this opportunity must not be missed.
About 20 minutes later, faction B elements had taken up the majority, and the situation became one-sided.
The king finally complied with the views of most people and issued an order: capture the surface people alive.
As soon as the meeting ended, a senior politician immediately sent a message to Lingming Village.
The elder who was meditating in his training room heard the sound of his wrist vibrating. It was three consecutive vibrations, indicating that it was an emergency message.
The great elder opened his sleeves and revealed a communicator that looked like a watch. He clicked on his watch, and a row of text appeared directly in front of him.
"The incident involving the surface people in Lingming Village reached the royal capital, and the king ordered that the surface people be captured alive."
After the great elder saw this message, he became a little angry, which meant that there was a traitor in the village. Ordinary villagers' communicators can only communicate within the village. Only senior officials and elders in the village have communicators that can directly contact the royal capital.
Who could be the traitor?
But now is not the time to think about these things. The top priority now is how to resettle the people on the surface.
The closest city to Lingming Village is Luomen City. From there, it would only take an hour to send elite troops to Lingming Village using aircraft.
The elder immediately summoned the village chief Gou Mang to discuss the next countermeasures.
At this time, Tianpeng and others were immersed in the joy of the festival. They walked along the lively streets and stopped in front of a large party. The female singers dancing on the stage can actually summon water to add to the fun, and some can even summon flames to coordinate. The water and fire collide to form a sultry mist, and the audience in the audience is jubilant.
Until the New Year's Eve bell rang, countless fireworks flew into the air, blooming with colorful sparks.
After the fireworks, people began to disperse gradually, and Meng Yirou also said goodbye to everyone.
"The New Year's Eve is over, see you all tomorrow."
"It's so fast." Jiang Wei looked unsatisfied.
"If you like it, you can participate in the New Year's Eve in the future. The New Year's Eve will not be interrupted and will continue to be lively for three days and three nights."
"Really?"
"Of course." Meng Yirou touched Jiang Wei's head.
"Then I'll bring my parents with me." Jiang Wei said excitedly.
"Okay, if it's possible... I also want to meet your parents." Meng Yirou originally didn't think that the surface and the underground could be connected, but now she began to hold out a little hope that she might actually have a chance to go to the surface.
After Meng Yirou left, Tianpeng and others returned to their residence. But no one was in the mood to sleep right now, so they all gathered in the living room to chat.
Tianpeng helplessly smiled at Jiang Wei and said, "By the way, why is the power of fire so worthless here?"
Jiang Wei said cheerfully: "It's different. The power of their flames is very low, and they can't be transformed into any shape. It's not really a superpower. Those are just small magics that can be learned with some effort."
"Then why can ordinary people learn to summon flames?"
"Do you still remember those tall bookshelves in the tower? The books on them are not ordinary books, they are all magic books."
"What the hell is a magic book?" Ni Lin wondered.
"To put it simply, super powerful people inject their powers into magic books. Those magic books are made of special materials. When people study the contents of the magic books, they can learn the powers above. But it’s limited, it’s gone once you use it, and not just anyone can learn it,” Jiang Wei explained.
"To put it simply, is the magic book a container for storing superpowers? So those without superpowers can acquire limited superpowers by studying the magic book." Tianpeng asked.
"That's pretty much what it means. I don't know anything too specific."
"It's amazing. Super powers can actually be transferred." Jiang Hao found it incredible.
"You can't say that. There is a lot of knowledge in it. In short, the more powerful the power, the harder it is to learn." Jiang Wei replied.
Tianpeng suddenly slowly stretched out his hand, and with a bang, purple flames burned in his hand.
"Is there a limit to the transferred superpower? But it doesn't feel like there is a limit." Tianpeng stared at Zi Yan in a daze.
"What are you talking about? What kind of transferred power?" Jiang Wei asked curiously.
"Ah, it's nothing." Tianpeng immediately canceled the flame and smiled.
Tianpeng's casual words caught Li Ming's attention. Jiang Feng had told Li Ming a long time ago: Tianpeng is a mystery all over his body. Although it is certain that he is a kind person, he should still be cautious about him.
Liming knew that Jiang Feng had not understood why Tianpeng had purple flames from a long time ago? Jiang Feng once asked, but Tianpeng didn't answer directly. He just said: I don't know, I suddenly have super powers. Jiang Feng saw that Tianpeng didn't want to tell the truth, so he didn't ask any more questions.
