He lowered his eyes and looked at the two plaques on the table, one gold and one bronze. Now after much deliberation, Shen Hao had to connect them together.
The bronze one is the Death City Order, which is Shen Hao's voucher for going to the underground palace of the City of Death in vain. Its main purpose, in addition to gaining insights into the mysterious underground palace, is to pursue clues to continue to find out the relevant information about the black beast tattoo.
The golden Royal Library Pass Token, in Shen Hao's hands, is still used to help him learn more information about evil beasts.
In essence, it seems that the Death City Order and the golden library pass are of the same use to Shen Hao.
This seemed like a coincidence, but Shen Hao didn't think so at all.
Did Shen Hao make meritorious deeds less often before? Helping the emperor capture Ye Lansheng and wiping out more than 40 aristocratic families and major cultivators, these achievements are big enough, right? Even greater than the current contribution of Lu Liang and the Qin family, right? But why didn't he reward him with the gold medal from the Royal Library at that time? At this time?
If you want to know why, you only need to think about what you have done during this period of time to make the emperor give such a reward.
The time span can be reduced very small. To be precise, it is the period after cleaning up the Luliang and Qin families to getting the golden royal library token.
After much thought, Shen Hao felt that the only thing that could be called an "emergency" was his trip to Wanjuanshu Mountain.
Why the trip to Wanjuanshu Mountain? Because during the trip to Ten Thousand Volumes of Books, Shen Hao accidentally revealed to the outside world his interest in the history of evil beasts. And this matter obviously could not be hidden from the emperor. Is this the reason why the emperor suddenly summoned him and gave him a gold medal to allow him unimpeded access to all books and documents in the royal library?
Is this an encouragement?
No matter how Shen Hao looked at it, the emperor giving him the gold medal seemed to be deliberately encouraging him to dig deeper into the history of evil beasts that had been deliberately covered up by all parties.
This is very contradictory.
Because the old Jing Dynasty had obviously deliberately covered up this period of history, Shen Hao, who was from the fourth rank and was a Xuanqing guard, was unable to learn the truth behind the cover from normal channels. But after the emperor discovered After he was interested in these things, you took the initiative to open the door for him to dig deeper?
Why? After learning about Shen Hao's snooping behavior, shouldn't the emperor scold him and stop him at the same time? Why would he be encouraged to dig deeper?
No, it's not explicit encouragement, but disguised encouragement in the form of rewards. Is there something to say here?
"Evil beast... Library... Emperor..."
Shen Hao has a secret card in his hand that he got from Ye Lansheng before he died. He knows the big secret of Emperor Yang Shu, that is: Yang Shu is in a similar situation to him, and there is something like an evil beast attached to his body.
The difference is that Shen Hao is a "tattoo" and the emperor is a "cobweb". Moreover, Shen Hao can get a lot of feedback on the benefits of cultivation, while the emperor seems to have no way to receive gains in cultivation. But other aspects are unknown.
So Shen Hao felt something different. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that the emperor was leading him to the evil beast. If he even made some bold guesses, he felt that the emperor was hoping that Shen Hao would find him from the evil beast!
"hiss......"
With this thought in mind, Shen Hao reluctantly left the back of the chair, feeling a chill on his back and chills in his bones, followed by a deeper confusion.
The black beast tattoo on Shen Hao's body is a big secret equivalent to his true origin for him, and the black beast tattoo is the same kind as the "spider web" on the emperor's body. Although the effects of possession are different, it can definitely be called "secret", right? Would someone else deliberately investigate this kind of thing?
"If I guessed correctly and the emperor really wanted me to check the thing on him on purpose, then there is only one possibility. That is, the thing attached to the emperor is not a gain for him, but a harm!"
Once this thought came out, I couldn't suppress it.
Emperor Shu would never have imagined that he could be deduced so many things just by awarding a gold medal to Shen Hao. The key is that Emperor Shu didn't know that the secrets about him had been spread out long ago.
Standing up from the chair, Shen Hao walked to the window and looked at the scorching summer sun outside. After calming down his emotions, he asked the black beast tattoo in his heart.
"Is the one of your kind in the emperor plotting to kill the emperor?"
...After waiting for a long time, Black Beast Tattoo did not pretend to be dead this time, but the feedback was not straightforward, but "hesitant".
"You mean it's not all murder, right?" Shen Hao reacted quickly. He was now familiar with the emotional meaning of the black beast tattoo, and he understood it much more smoothly than at the beginning.
This time, Black Beast Tattoo didn't make Shen Hao wait long, and directly responded with a "pleasure", confirming Shen Hao's second guess.
Isn't it all about murder? This is very interesting.
Not entirely, it means that the same kind of black beast tattoo attached to the Emperor's bundle has both advantages and disadvantages for the Emperor's bundle. And this balance between "good and bad" should be that the "bad" is greater in Emperor Shu's mind. So in order to get rid of this "bad thing", he secretly "guided" Shen Hao to dig up the evil beast?
Feeling the heat coming in from the shop outside the window and the coolness brewing from the indoor air-conditioning array, the alternation between cold and hot was just like Shen Hao's mood at this time.
At first, when he felt that the emperor gave him the gold medal, he felt a little uneasy. As the deduction progressed, he became a little more frightened. Now that he had figured out all the doubts, his heart suddenly became clear again, and it was gone. All previous burdens.
It can even be said that if Shen Hao's guess is correct, then it is not an exaggeration to say that he and Emperor Shu are now half "connected by the same fate."
"So, even the emperor's power cannot easily solve this problem. He can't even ask for help openly. He can only try his luck through hints and lottery-like methods?"
Shen Hao understood the emperor's difficulties.
In the state of the black beast tattoo, Shen Hao himself couldn't hide much from it, but the black beast tattoo couldn't interfere with Shen Hao's behavior. This is probably because the serious injury of the Black Beast Tattoo has not healed. The black beast tattooed on the Emperor's body would probably not be so easy to talk to.
Therefore, even if the emperor wanted to get rid of the other party, he could not do anything blatantly.
"Since the emperor is in trouble, if I follow his "guidance" and slowly investigate while letting him know that I am investigating, won't I be able to be tied to the emperor in this back and forth?"
