nucmednet Chapter 512 What bait?
Chapter 512 What bait?
Ye Qing'an was amused by Eleven's words and simply raised her hand to ruffle Eleven's hair: "And who said these things to you?"
“It’s what the book says.” Eleven raised an eyebrow, looking proud. “Father said that he understood this principle when he was very young. Overprotecting me will only turn me into a useless person. Only danger and adversity can truly make a person grow.”
Ye Qing'an's eyes were full of helplessness; she knew it was Yi Moxu again.
Eleven stopped in front of Ye Qing'an, her eyes sparkling: "Mother, is Father going back to the manor today?"
"Yes." Ye Qing'an secretly found it a bit amusing: "But your father often sees you in the Dreamland of Clouds, so whether you go back to the manor or not seems to make no difference."
“There is still a difference.” Eleven’s lips curled up: “After returning to the manor, I can play with Father openly.”
"Mother, are you going to pick up Father later?"
"Yes, I'm going. Do you want to come with me?"
Eleven happily agreed: "Of course, I'll definitely go too. I've also prepared a gift for Father, but it's not finished yet. I'll come and tell Mother first, and when Mother sets off, please call me, okay?"
"Okay." Ye Qing'an smiled and shook her head, then watched as Eleven ran out like the wind.
Ye Qing'an then turned to look at Jiu Xiao: "You've been to the Gu residence?"
Jiuxiao nodded: "I've been there, but..."
"When I got there, I found that the number of guards on the surface of the Gu residence had been reduced slightly, but the number of guards inside seemed to have been increased a lot. Fortunately, because you are now a Supreme Being and my level has also improved a lot, I was able to enter the Gu residence safely and find the Water Kirin."
Jiuxiao recalled the scene when he met the Water Qilin before, and after a moment of silence, he said, "When the Water Qilin heard me say that you were looking for Gu Duo's missing soul, it did not resist as much as I had imagined."
“Of course.” Ye Qing’an had already anticipated this: “Although Shui Qilin had been openly and covertly competing with you before, and didn’t want you to see him in his fallen state, that was all in the past. Perhaps when Gu Duo first got into trouble, if you went to see him and offered to help him, Shui Qilin would have felt embarrassed and refused. But Gu Duo has been in trouble for over ten years now…”
"In ten years, I think the Water Kirin has tried all sorts of things to find Gu Duo's missing soul. If he had a way, he wouldn't have waited until now. Ten years of hardship, experiencing countless disappointments and despairs, have probably worn down the Water Kirin's character. Now that we are willing to lend a helping hand, he is naturally more than happy to accept."
Jiuxiao also sighed with some emotion: "Alas, things have changed, and everything is over."
After sighing, Jiu Xiao remembered the important matter and hurriedly said, "What you predicted earlier was indeed true. According to Shui Qilin, he did smell the aura of Gu Duo's soul in the Gu residence, which is why he stayed there all this time. However, after searching almost every corner of the Gu residence for so many years, he still couldn't find it."
"How did Gu Duo become like this? Who caused his soul to be missing? What exactly happened to Gu Duo?"
Jiuxiao shook his head: "He was unwilling to say, only that he was not by Gu Duo's side when Gu Duo's soul was extracted. However, he did not know what had happened to Gu Duo. He only knew that he was sent by Gu Duo to do something, and when he returned, Gu Duo's soul was missing and he was delirious."
"Because Gu Duo was mentally unstable, all the summoning spells between the two of them were completely ineffective. In addition, he was discovered by Gu Hai unintentionally, and in the ensuing entanglement, Gu Duo's whereabouts were lost."
Ye Qing'an nodded, pondered for a moment, and then said, "So, Gu Duo's missing soul is in the Gu residence? But we don't know where it's hidden?"
"Yes."
"Now that it's confirmed to be the Gu residence, things will be much easier."
“What’s so easy to do?” Jiu Xiao sighed. “From what Shui Qilin said, he really has searched almost the entire Gu residence over the years, especially Gu Hai. He has searched every place Gu Hai has been, every place where he could hide things, but he still found nothing.”
Ye Qing'an shook her finger: "It's not Gu Hai."
"Not Gu Hai?" Jiu Xiao was slightly surprised. "If it's not Gu Hai, then who could it be?"
"I don't know who it is, but it's not Gu Hai."
"Although Gu Hai is vicious, he is not very bright and lacks ability. The fact that Gu Hai has been the head of the family for so many years may be a scheme deliberately set up by others. Gu Hai is just a pawn used to deceive others."
"The person who is truly controlling the game is still hiding behind the scenes."
Jiu Xiao frowned: "But it's been more than ten years. Gu Hai has been the head of the family for more than ten years. If the goal of dealing with Gu Duo is to take over the position of head of the Gu family, they shouldn't have let a pawn like Gu Duo sit in the position of head of the family for ten years without doing anything, right?"
"Who said that person's goal was the position of head of the Gu family?"
Ye Qing'an pointed his finger into the air: "A person who can set up a scheme over more than ten years cannot be so short-sighted as to only care about the head of the Gu family. Perhaps his true goal is this country, or even the world?"
Jiuxiao opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but he couldn't find any words to refute it.
After a long pause, he murmured, "How could that be? There aren't that many people who care about the world."
Ye Qing'an simply smiled, raised her hand, and the chessboard beside her suddenly rose into the air and landed in front of her.
Ye Qing and An Nianzi fell one after another.
“Yi Moxu, the Crown Prince, the Fifth Prince, Ye Qinghao, Gu Hai, a Night Demon hiding among the crowd, someone who has been plotting behind the Gu family for decades, and me…”
Ye Qing'an's eyes were full of interest: "One after another, people with hidden ambitions are gradually emerging. A storm is brewing in this world. The winds are rising and the clouds are surging. A great change is about to come."
"In the future, more and more people may join this great upheaval. In the end, who will emerge victorious depends on who has the ability."
As Jiu Xiao listened to Ye Qing'an reciting one person after another, his brows furrowed more and more. These people were indeed thinking about the world and the country.
Just as Ye Qing'an said, a storm is brewing, and the tempest is coming.
Unlike Ye Qing'an's excitement, Jiu Xiao only felt a headache, which meant that he would have more and more things to do.
Jiuxiao bit her lip, remained silent for a moment, and then asked, "Should we keep an eye on the Gu family?"
"I've already arranged for people to investigate and keep an eye on things. We should have news soon." Ye Qing'an smiled, as if everything was under control: "The bait has been cast. Now we just need to see if there are any fish, and how many fish, to bite the hook."
"The bait has been laid? What bait?" Jiu Xiao looked bewildered, feeling that he couldn't keep up with Ye Qing'an's pace and train of thought at all.
"I."