Ge Sheng fell into a long silence.
Although he knew that the secrets Christie spoke of must be extremely secretive, Ge Sheng began to regret why he listened to these words about Yi Lanshan's past, especially when it involved such intense privacy.
Even if he and Xiaojiu have a good alliance with Yi Lanshan, according to Christie, they are carefully tending the seedlings they have chosen. However, if Yi Lanshan knew about this past, Ge Sheng would not dare to guarantee that he would He will not be killed and silenced by the mountain owner.
"He won't." Christie replied with a smile.
"This is indeed a past that he does not want to be known, but it does not mean that he will do anything to people who know it. Because his biggest purpose in concealing these pasts is to avoid unnecessary trouble, not to be embarrassed. It's hard to face your past." Christie said calmly: "Although it is a humiliating and sad past, it is also the past that I have experienced. Yi Lanshan will not deny or cover up these, as long as you are not trying to use this secret to Threate him, or simply spread it to the world to discredit the mountain owner, he doesn't mind what you know, just like I never mind that I am the product of incest."
Ge Sheng looked at Christie and was a little curious: "Since it happened so long ago, how did you know about it?"
"Because." Christie didn't smile: "I am Alaya."
Then Christie paused, seemed to collect his thoughts, and spoke slowly: "So, although Stella and Noct are rebels in name, the person behind all this is indeed Yi Lanshan. This plan has never Yi Lanshan started brewing when he entered Ye Ye College, and it was not until he finally came into contact with Stella that he finally entered the implementation stage. Everything after that included seducing Stella and Noct to completely rebel and providing them with advanced heaven realms. All the support needed is just an advance arrangement to destroy the Croft family."
"In other words, after I learned about his existence, I understood who my real enemy was."
"And, I will never allow what he wants to do to come true, even if the executors he chooses are my biological parents."
Ge Sheng looked at the focused and sad girl and couldn't help but ask: "Why?"
"Because I don't allow the Croft family to disappear." Christie looked at the sky and said calmly: "Those former tribesmen prayed in despair for decades for an illusory Alaya Consciousness, but finally ushered in it. The fate of the family was annihilated, and their successors in another form, the Croft family, finally chose that method because of the emergence of Douglass, using dozens of generations of sacrifices and hundreds of years to create the so-called Ah Lai Yeshi, no matter whether I agree with the method they chose, or whether I like the ancestor who was once powerful and wise but eventually went crazy due to paranoia, one thing is the mission I have shouldered since I was born, and it is also my mission. The only thing you can’t get away from.”
"Although I cannot recreate the Yeshi Clan, and I have no intention of pushing the Croft family to the status of the Eighth Hermit Clan, during my lifetime, I must protect my people so that they can live proudly and freely in this land. On this earth, this is something that their ancestors paid countless sacrifices for, and this is the only thing that I am responsible for."
"However, the prerequisite for completing all of this is that Croft still exists as a family."
"What Yi Lanshan wanted, what my parents did, was to completely destroy the Croft family and massacre more than half of the clan members. The remaining half would not exist as a family. The Croft family Not only has it never appeared before in human history, but it will also completely dissipate without leaving a single ripple."
"This is the only thing I cannot allow. In order to stop them, I am willing to pay a price that even I cannot bear."
Such as being alone, such as betraying everyone, such as being afraid of the world, such as giving up your heart.
Ge Sheng looked at the sky inexplicably, and then exhaled: "I don't know why, but I really want to hug you at this time."
The boy said this aggressive line calmly, Christie was stunned, and then smiled: "Then come on."
Ge Sheng shook his head: "You are still in the circle."
As Christie talked about all this, Ge Sheng felt more and more the loneliness and fear that had been everywhere in this young girl with unprecedented genius.
She is secretly fighting against the entire family, accumulating her own strength, just so that she can turn the tide at the last moment and save this family that although she has always been afraid of, she is always willing to protect her life.
Compared with that feeling of isolation and loneliness, compared with the proud and powerful girl now, who even had an aura as full as Her Majesty's, the contrast only made him pity the girl in front of him even more.
Christie looked at Ge Sheng's thoughtful face and couldn't help but giggle. Then she spoke briskly and slowly said thank you.
Then, the girl looked at Ge Sheng: "The next is the second secret, a secret related to you."
"That's who Xia is."
Ge Sheng's whole body suddenly tensed up.
"I told you before, before Xia became a saint, he was one of the few big shots in the world, and the Croft family was just a trump card in his hand, until he gave up control of Croft after he became a saint. , the family is still loyal to him. On the one hand, this is naturally due to the relationship between him and Douglas himself, which is more like a close friend than a superior and subordinate. On the other hand, it also implies the true identity of Xia."
"I said that the Croft family was a pet raised by that family, but in the end the pet was released and grew wildly in the ownerless land of the Commercial Federation, and eventually became a behemoth that controlled the entire Commercial Federation. So, Who is the hero who frees the key figures in the Croft family?"
"Can you tell me?"
Christie gave in lightly.
Ge Sheng could not help but think of that name.
Since the Yin clan can also be the royal clan, then why can't the saint be that person?
Ge Sheng looked at Christie and slowly said that taboo and powerful name.
"Initial Emperor?"
Christie looked at Ge Sheng's reaction, the expression on her face did not change slightly, she tilted her head slightly and smiled.
"Sorry, I guessed wrong."
Seeing the disappointed look on Ge Sheng's wrong answer, Christie had a subtle smile as if the prank had succeeded. She stretched out a finger and shook it gently: "As I said, the Croft family is the most hidden trump card in Xia's hand. If Xia If he is really the original emperor, why should he hide the existence of the Croft family? The so-called trump card is a sharp weapon used to make a comeback."
"Xia, the twenty-fourth son of the original emperor, the former leader of the Blazing Legion, the head of the four princes of the St Empire, the conqueror, Marshal Xichen."
Christie slowly said a string of nouns like this.
Ge Sheng was stunned.
"He, isn't he dead?"
Anyone who has read ancient history will never forget the name Xichen.
If the First Emperor is the tallest statue of the St Empire, then Xichen is the knight at the forefront.
He personally developed the territory of the Dast Empire that is a bit dreamy now.
It was a vast empire that included the entire Stur Empire, most of the Lanye Empire, half of the Ost Empire, and the entire Commercial Federation. Since the beginning of human history, there had never been such a magnificent empire. The Stur Empire , not only unprecedented, but also unprecedented.
The invincible Blazing Legion, known as the invincible myth, has been directly commanded by him for a long time. As the most trusted and relied-upon son of the original emperor, he has been the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Expedition since the third Western Expedition, and all arrangements are made by He makes decisions alone, so someone once described him as being like the most ferocious and loyal hound. Wherever the Great Emperor pointed in the distance, he would calmly return soon with the map there.
However, all this came to an abrupt end when Emperor Chu died of illness during his last western expedition.
As the top leader of the expeditionary force after the death of the Prime Emperor, he ordered that no funeral be held secretly. The entire army hurriedly withdrew from the war that originally attempted to conquer the Qingyi Empire after the capital was moved, and returned home with the Prime Emperor's coffin for burial.
However, all this is just the beginning of the farce.
As everyone knows, the War of the Hundred Kings began immediately. In order to compete for the vacant Throne of Thorns, many descendants of the original emperor threw themselves into the endless grindstone of flesh and blood. Xichen, who had the opportunity to ascend to the throne, was unexpectedly quickly defeated in the War of One Hundred Kings. He himself was publicly executed. In exchange, his wife was able to live in peace.
As for why Marshal Xichen, who had the most prestige and military merit during the Western Expedition, lost so quickly in the War of One Hundred Kings, this has always been a focus of debate among historians, and the most mainstream view at present is that , due to the chivalry spirit that Xichen has maintained for a long time, he was unable to fully display his talents in the empire's civil war, and due to possible threats from relatives, he finally had to sacrifice his own life in exchange for the safety of his family.
"However, what history shows us is always part of what they want us to see."
Christie said calmly: "Xi Chen is a marshal of hundreds of battles. No matter how cold-blooded and cruel the civil war between relatives is, it is only a part of the war. The reason why he gave up the fight for the throne is more about the sleepiness of the war and the search for the meaning of the war. "
"After I got the position of the head of the Croft family, I was able to meet with the saint. During that meeting, I asked him this question. His answer was very simple, only four words."
"Everyone in the world."
"Actually, for a long period of time, Xichen has coveted the throne. During the years when the original emperor was still there, the owner of the Throne of Thorns naturally did not think twice about it, but the original emperor will eventually die. Yes, after all, he was only a former saint, and the time for his sainthood was extremely short. So after the death of the original emperor, who can inherit the throne and how can he inherit the throne have been issues that Xichen has considered for a long time."
“That’s why the Croft family exists.”
"Because Xichen has been fighting abroad all year round, his control over the mainland of St is far less than that of his brothers who have been entrenched there for a long time. Therefore, he must rely on external forces, and the business that is the only way for the Western political army The land of the Federation is an excellent fulcrum, so he liberated the entire Croft family through official duties and allowed them to develop in the Commercial Federation. This was to lay the groundwork for his subsequent struggle for the throne. A sure trump card.”
"However, when everything went as he expected, the First Emperor died, the world was in chaos, and hundreds of kings rose up. At this time, he only needed to raise his arms and command his Chi Chi who had only obeyed him since the death of the First Emperor. The Flame Legion, in conjunction with the already deeply entrenched Croft family, relies on his talent and prestige to cut off the hundreds of rebel kings one by one with just a little effort. The only thing to worry about is time."
"But it happened that at this time, Marshal Tu, the man who once sent his troops to the west to slaughter countless living beings, began to doubt everything he had done."
"I cannot estimate what kind of mental journey that saint had before he became a saint. However, what we know is not false in the slightest."
"In public history, Xichen was executed in public, but his wife and children were well protected. For this reason, many historians believe that this may be a deal completed between Xichen and his enemies. "
"In fact, this transaction probably existed, but the content is different from what historians think."
"After Xichen's death, the Blazing Legion completely rebelled and supported its own army. For hundreds of years, it became a kingdom of its own without being restricted by anyone. Even the Blade of Disillusionment disappeared. After the War of One Hundred Kings ended, dozens of Years later, due to some kind of chance, Xichen's great-grandson sat on the Throne of Thorns, and his wife also became an old woman who secretly 'ruled' the Stur Empire for hundreds of years."
"We can deduce a lot from these facts."
"Since Xichen abolished all the bloodlines of the Yin tribe before he became a saint, we regard him as a human saint at any time, not a saint of the Yin tribe. In the following hundreds of years, he also never He has never interfered with anything in the affairs of the Ste royal family. Instead, he has done some secret but far-reaching things in the world. However, even so, the Ste royal family has still made many almost flattering changes because of this saint who once belonged to them. , Emperor Ste who has his blood flowing through his body is one of them, and the respected old woman is naturally one of them. However, time has passed by at that time, and the current Ste royal family, who knows that Xia was once a member of their clan, has been reduced to a handful of people. It can be counted that the things they have done have been deeply imprinted on them.”
Ge Sheng listened quietly. Through Christie's narration, he finally understood some things that he had never understood before.
For example, the origin of the Blade of Disillusionment in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, such as where he got the allegiance of the Blazing Legion, and the reason why he became the current emperor of St in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, I am afraid that this former distant ancestor and now the saint are not as good as him. Some of the approval of Xia cannot be separated. After all, as far as Ge Sheng knew, the spring of the fourth year of Qingli was the first qualified person selected by Xia, the one who had the hope of becoming Xia's true successor.
Christie ignored Ge Sheng's divergent associations about the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, but continued: "Although Xia gave up all the causes and effects that he had in the world as Xichen after becoming a saint, there are some causes and effects that he is not willing to give up. It will be broken, as is the inextricable connection between him and the old woman, and so is the Croft family."
"My Butler Xia Rang is the most important secret chess piece that Xichen has left in the Croft family. It can ensure that even if the entire Croft family rebels against him, he can easily regain control. The family flag.”
"It's just that after he became a knight, this chess piece was left idle. It's just that this saint probably didn't expect that his chess piece would become the most important arbiter in the entire chess game in the end."
"It is precisely because of this that I had the courage to appear in front of the other two parties in the end."
"Only by gaining the trust of Butler Xia Rang can I have the confidence and confidence not to die in this civil strife."
