LRAB Chapter 48 Nobles and Bloodsucking Insects
Chapter 48 Nobles and Bloodsucking Insects
Scene three is not in Korea, but in the Qin state, in a valley nestled among mountains.
The valley is connected to the outside world by only one river. It is surrounded by high mountains, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, the valley is shrouded in mist all year round, which makes it even more secretive and difficult to discover.
Upon seeing the valley displayed on the screen, Jing Ni, who was holding her daughter, sat up straight instantly. Numerous painful memories flooded back. It was here that she was trained by the Luo Wang organization, where she killed her best friend and became a ruthless killer.
This valley is the assassin training base of Luo Wang in Qin State, and also Luo Wang's largest base, which is guarded by top-ranking assassins year-round.
The camera zooms in, entering the valley.
Once inside, you'll see that the valley is extremely large, with clusters of buildings situated within it, including drill grounds, clinics, prison cells, bathhouses, and more...
On a training ground, hundreds of children aged six or seven are training, each holding a wooden sword and intently watching their opponents.
No one dared to be careless; at best, they would be punished with a meal, and at worst, they would be publicly executed.
The training here is brutal; it truly "starts from childhood." As long as a child has developed intelligence, they must undergo training. Children who haven't developed intelligence by the age of six are considered waste and disposed of.
Children here are instilled with two concepts from a young age: one is obedience, absolute obedience; the other is that the strong live and the weak die.
Every day, the weak are eliminated from here, and their corpses are displayed in front of everyone so that the living can see what happens to the weak.
The sound of reading could be heard coming from some buildings. Assassins also need to be literate, but they don't study the classics of the Hundred Schools of Thought. Instead, they have their own method of teaching literacy.
The Net constantly collects children from the seven kingdoms and sends them here, using this cruel training method to produce batch after batch of assassins.
This is also a major reason why the assassins of the Luo Wang organization seem to come in endless numbers, and it always feels like they can't be killed off.
The scene shifts to a dimly lit stone chamber, where Jingni's pupils constrict upon seeing it.
Because it was in such a stone chamber that she killed many of her fellow trainees from the Net, including her best friend, and then became a heartless killer who only knew how to kill to complete missions.
The doors on either side of the stone chamber opened, and two boys, about seven or eight years old, entered. They were each holding a sword and looked surprised when they saw each other.
The door closed quickly after the two boys entered. One of the older boys slashed at the door with his sword, but apart from leaving a mark on the stone door, he couldn't break it open.
If you get closer, you'll see countless sword marks on the stone gate.
The older boy whispered, "Damn it, why you? Why not someone else?"
The younger boy paused for a moment, then replied, "Because that's what they want. Only one of us brothers can get out of here alive."
"Brother, just kill me!"
The older boy said, "No, I won't kill you. Even if I die, I won't kill you. I'm going to take you out of here."
"It's no use, brother. Only one person can get out alive. That's the rule, and no one can break it."
The older boy also fell silent. No one could break this rule alive; either one person would get out alive, or both of them would die.
Seeing his older brother remain silent, the younger boy said, "Brother, just kill me. Swing your sword faster, I'm afraid of getting hurt."
The slightly older boy slashed at the stone door with his sword again, then cried out for help: "Someone, please save us, anyone will do..."
The boy was just shouting incoherently when he had no other choice. He knew that no one would come to save them, and no one could save them, but a voice came into the stone chamber.
"By order of the Supreme Ruler, this Net base shall be eradicated and the people here who have been harmed by the Net shall be rescued."
As the voice faded, a series of explosions rang out, and a huge gap appeared in the stone chamber that had trapped the two boys. The two brothers exchanged a glance and quickly ran out through the exit.
After escaping, the two brothers discovered that their companions, who had been trapped in other stone chambers and forced to fight each other, had also escaped.
"All of you, get back right now! If you don't, you'll be..."
Several assassins who were in charge of supervising them appeared. Before they could finish speaking, they took off and flew into the sky.
The two brothers and their friends then noticed that there were many people hanging in the sky, and more and more people were being hoisted up; they were all assassins responsible for training and supervising them.
Whether they were assassins of the "Liang" or "Sha" level, they were all indiscriminately hung in the sky.
At that moment, a sharp sword light suddenly appeared from the ground and shot swiftly towards a monster in the sky.
Upon seeing the sword light appear, the two brothers' hearts leaped into their throats; it was the top-tier assassin guarding the outpost who had made his move.
Besides the assassins who trained and supervised them, there was only that monster in the sky; it must have been that monster that saved them.
Although the monster didn't look human, the two brothers felt a sense of familiarity with it.
Like the two brothers, the other children who escaped from the stone chamber stared intently at the sky, hoping that the monster in the sky could defeat the top-tier assassin.
As expected, the sword light was frozen in mid-air, its internal force and killing intent erased, and the sword light returned to a strangely shaped blood-red longsword.
Seeing that his full-force sword energy was easily blocked, a figure quickly hid in the building below, darting rapidly through it, trying to use the building as cover to delay the enemy.
Suddenly, the figure fleeing inside the building was unable to move and was lifted into the sky by a force.
Upon seeing the figure rising into the sky, the entire valley fell silent for a moment before erupting into cheers. Many children and teenagers wept with joy. Even a top-tier assassin had been easily captured by the monster; this monster must be their savior.
Many teenagers and children kowtowed repeatedly to the monster in the sky, crying, "Thank you, divine being, for saving us!"
"I am not a god, you don't need to kneel down to me, I am just a Trisolaran citizen."
"You are safe now. No one will force you to become assassins anymore. You can choose your own path. If you want to find your family, we will help you."
Although the monster claims it is not a god, the boys and children believe it is.
After hearing the monster's words, many teenagers and children looked up at the sky with hopeful eyes: Could they still find their relatives?
A young boy asked, "My lord, can you really help us find our relatives?"
After asking the question, the boy quickly slapped himself hard, so hard that his face swelled up and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
He kowtowed to the monster in the sky: "My lord, I was not questioning you..."
"No explanation is needed. I am not a god. As long as your loved ones are still alive, we can help you find them."
Collect blood samples from everyone in the Qin Dynasty world and do a genetic test; it's no big deal.
The boy who slapped himself suddenly felt an invisible force enter his face. His swollen face stopped hurting and the swelling quickly subsided. His bleeding gums also stopped bleeding.
The deity not only didn't blame him, but also performed a miracle and healed him. The boy quickly said, "Thank you, deity! Thank you, deity!"
The monster in the air spoke again: "I am not a god. Those who have harmed you will be tried in public in two days, and you will all be here to witness it."
Many teenagers and children's eyes lit up, meaning that the deity was going to execute these beasts in two days, and they definitely wanted to watch it live.
Jingni, who watched the whole scene from her room on planet LV-223, had a complicated expression. She envied the children who were saved by the Trisolarans. She wished that Trisolarans had come to save her back then.
It's not too late now; at least my daughter won't have to go through all of this.
It was also in the Qin state, only the location was Xianyang, the capital of Qin.
Inside Xianyang Palace, the young Ying Zheng from the Qin Dynasty timeline stared blankly at his mother, prime minister, and others hanging from the sky.
The good news is that all those who were preventing him from taking over the reins of power have ascended to heaven, and he can reclaim the power that should belong to the King of Qin without having to wait until his coming-of-age ceremony.
The bad news is that even if he takes power, it seems he can't do much.
First, too many princes and ministers were suspended in the air; without these people, the court simply could not function.
Secondly, few people listened to him anymore; the guards, palace maids, and eunuchs no longer needed to obey his orders as the king.
Listening to it didn't seem to help. He had just ordered an attack on the monster in the air that claimed to be a "Citizen of the Trisolarans," and all the guards who participated in the attack fainted. He was also hung in the air for a while.
Everyone in the entire Xianyang Palace witnessed him being hoisted into the sky, and the emperor's majesty was completely shattered.
However, being a man of unwavering resolve, Ying Zheng did not give up. He stepped forward and addressed the Trisolaran citizen: "What exactly do you want? If you desire beauty, I can select the most beautiful woman in Qin for you; if you desire power, from this day forward you will be the most powerful person in Qin besides myself; if you desire wealth, I can give you a million gold pieces every year!"
The Trisolaran citizen sent to Xianyang Palace to carry out the liberation plan replied to him: "King Qin, did you consult the people of Qin before giving me these things?"
"Did you ask them if they would be willing to let you choose one of their daughters as a concubine?"
"Did you ask them if they would be willing to let you give me a million dollars?"
"Did you ask them if they would be willing to let me become the second most powerful person in Qin?"
Upon hearing these questions, Ying Zheng frowned and said, "'Under the whole heaven, all land belongs to the king; on the shores of the land, all people are subjects of the king.' The entire Qin state belongs to me, so why ask them if they are willing?"
"The Qin state is yours? Then what have you done for the Qin state, and what have you done for the people of Qin?"
"You do not weave clothes, yet you wear the most magnificent garments; you do not till the land, yet you enjoy the finest food; you do not cut down trees to build walls, yet you live in the most luxurious palaces."
"You stay comfortably in the palace every day, with someone serving you when you dress, when you eat, and even when you go to the toilet. You don't have to be exposed to the wind and sun, yet you can naturally enjoy everything of the highest standard in this country, and even decide the life and death of countless people."
"You create nothing, yet you enjoy everything with a clear conscience, while the people of Qin who actually weave clothes and cultivate the land do not enjoy anything."
"The weavers have no clothes to wear, the farmers have no food to eat, and the builders have no houses to live in. They created these things, so why don't they enjoy them?"
The guards, palace maids and eunuchs nearby heard these words and couldn't help but start to think: Yes, why is that?
Even the young Gai Nie, who was guarding Ying Zheng, started to think about it. He hadn't thought about it much before, but now that he did, something did seem off.
The Trisolaran citizen continued, "The Qin state does not belong to you and your ancestors, but to the people of Qin. It is the people of Qin who support you bloodsuckers, not the other way around."
"It is you bloodsucking insects who cannot live without the people of Qin, not the other way around. Your Majesty, you have got the relationship backwards."
The young Ying Zheng was intelligent; he quickly grasped the meaning behind those words and asked, "Do you intend to eliminate all the princes and nobles?"
"I admit there's some truth to what you say, but eliminating all the princes and nobles will only plunge the world into chaos..."
Ying Zheng was about to say that the disappearance of the royal family and nobles would plunge the world into great turmoil and chaos, but he suddenly realized that what he thought might not happen.
These Trisolaran citizens of unknown origin are too powerful. If there were many such Trisolaran citizens, they could suppress the entire world.
At that time, these monsters, who call themselves "Citizens of the Trisolarans," will be able to establish a new order that does not need them, these princes and nobles.
Ying Zheng's pupils dilate: A world that no longer needs monarchs and nobles?
How could such a thing be allowed? He had not yet taken personal power, he had not yet tasted the power of a prince, and he had not yet realized the grand plans he had envisioned.
Is he going to be crushed before he can even begin his grand ambitions?
Gai Nie also thought of this, but unlike Ying Zheng, he was not anxious. Instead, he was very curious: what kind of world would it be without kings and nobles?
Although these Trisolaran citizens were monsters, what they said did make sense: the nobility were like bloodsucking insects that gnawed on the people, doing nothing and creating nothing, yet enjoying the best of everything.