Kenzu's question confused Guhan. Why would Kenzu ask him who Liu Qingmei was?
This was clearly an NPC in this dungeon. Guhan felt that he should be the one asking Kenzu who Liu Qingmei was.
"This woman was not part of my plan."
Kenzu seemed to see through Guhan's doubts and took the initiative to explain, "I thought that you were the only one who could reach the top. I didn't expect you to bring this woman up. She was not part of my plan, so I asked her those questions first."
"Isn't the entire dungeon under your control?
Why did something like this happen? "Guhan asked in confusion.
"I've said it before. I thought that everything was under my control. But in the end, this world is not under my control."
Kenzu smiled bitterly, "This dungeon was originally an abandoned dungeon. The NPCs here are all set up by the dungeon itself.
I didn't make any changes to these NPCs, so I don't know much about them. "
"Then has Lord Kenzu heard of the Scarlet Sword Immortal?" Guhan asked again.
"I've heard of it, but not when I was alive, but after I died."
Kenzu smiled, "Like you, I learned of this Scarlet Sword Immortal through the television series of the future.
I deeply sympathize with her tragic experience, but I never thought that one day I would have such a story with her. "
"Could it be that the Scarlet Sword Immortal didn't clear the Skyscraping Ten Palaces?"
"There were as many sword bearers as there was an ocean of them. How could I remember every sword bearer who came to challenge the palace?"
Kenzu looked at Guhan meaningfully, "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid that woman would have been eliminated in the Scarlet Rabbit Palace. How could she have come here?"
Guhan didn't say anything. Liu Qingmei's ability to reach the top was indeed due to Guhan. There was no doubt about that.
"That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the disappearance of that woman was out of my control.
Even though I had taken complete control of this instance dungeon and was keeping a close watch on everything within it, that woman still managed to break free from my grasp. Under the control of a certain power, she disappeared. "
At this point, Kenzu hesitated for a moment. "Until now, I still haven't figured out whether she disappeared on her own or under the control of some unknown force."
"You may not know this, but I actually only arranged for one egg to be placed in the chicken coop, but when you arrived there, there were two eggs, and the rule of clearing the level changed from defeating all the Gold Silk Pythons to producing countless offspring, and then witnessing the changes and progress of the entire race," the Sword Master said with a dignified expression.
"No wonder I felt like the Chicken Palace's tests were superfluous in many areas. Turns out this isn't a set up by Lord Kenzu. Instead, it was tampered with by some unknown power."
Guhan's expression was equally solemn. Even though it was just a small change, what it represented was enough to shake the entire game and even the entire human world.
"If there's another unknown force that can make that woman disappear in my hands, that means there's a third unknown force in this game.
This is an extremely dangerous matter. Countless human consciousnesses are controlled by that unknown force. If there's any change, I'm afraid it'll cause a huge crisis. That's why I'm asking you, who is that woman?
Why did you help her like that? "
"Why did I help her …" Guhan couldn't answer this question because Guhan didn't know the answer himself.
"My understanding of you is far beyond your imagination. Ever since you killed me in the dungeon, I've been paying attention to you. I know a thing or two about your personality.
A burden like that is a meaningless existence to you. Perhaps you no longer have the black courage to kill me with a single strike, but you definitely haven't become a good person who takes pleasure in helping others. According to my original speculation, you should've treated her with disdain and kept her in the Red Rabbit Palace. However, the truth goes against my speculation. So, I want to ask you, is it because of your sincerity that you're helping her?
Or is it because of something else? "
"It's because of my sincerity!"
Guhan thought for a long time before replying seriously, "Helping her is indeed because of my sincerity, but why I want to help her, I don't know."
"Is that so?"
Kenzu's hesitant gaze kept scanning Guhan's face. It was obvious that Kenzu didn't believe what Guhan said. He thought that Guhan was hiding something from him.
However, in reality, those were Guhan's sincere words. He really didn't know why he wanted to help Liu Qingmei.
"Lord Kenzu, I think I might know who the mastermind behind this is!" At this moment, Tomono Kakaze, who had been silent all this while, suddenly interrupted.
"Second Tone." Kenzu glanced at Tomono Kakaze and smiled. "I almost forgot, you're the true ruler of this world.
I can't find out where that power came from, but you might be able to! "
"It's not that I found it, but I'm very familiar with this power. I've seen it many times before!"
Tomono Kakaze smiled bitterly. "Guhan, in fact, you should be the most familiar with this power. I didn't think that your old lover would actually leave a foreshadowing in this dungeon."
"You're talking about Yi Qing?" Guhan's eyes instantly lit up. Yes, Guhan had forgotten about Yi Qing.
The things that happened to Liu Qingmei were indeed very similar to Yi Qing's usual style.
"Lord Kenzu, I don't know if you can open this dungeon to me.
If I were to systematically comb through the entire dungeon's information, I would be able to find out if this is the foreshadowing left by Zhe Tian Jiandi! "Tomono Kakaze respectfully requested of Kenzu.
This was actually a somewhat ridiculous thing. If this world was compared to a house, then Tomono Kakaze was the owner of the house, and Kenzu was on a certain level a villain who usurped the control of the house.
Now, the owner of the house was actually very respectfully requesting this villain to return the control of the house to her. Wasn't this very ridiculous?
"No problem!" Kenzu nodded. Tomono Kakaze immediately felt that she had regained the right to explore the entire dungeon.
However, Tomono Kakaze only had the right to explore the dungeon's data. She did not have the right to control the dungeon. The highest authority of this dungeon was still in the hands of Kenzu.
"That's right. This is indeed the back-up plan left by Zhe Tian Jiandi.
There are some traces left behind by Zhe Tian Jiandi. No one else could have done this. "
Tomono Kakaze quickly confirmed. It seemed that Liu Qingmei was really the foreshadowing left behind by Zhe Tian Jiandi in this dungeon.
This was very interesting because the Twelve Heavenly Palaces dungeon was completely under Kenzu's control. It also appeared because of Kenzu. But now, Zhe Tian Jiandi's foreshadowing appeared in a dungeon that was under Kenzu's control.
It was as if you and your wife had a child, only to find out that the child had another person's child in her stomach. It was as disgusting as that.
"Interesting!
Interesting! "
Kenzu was stunned for a moment before he clapped his hands and laughed. "This child Zhe Tian is really interesting. She even schemed against me.
Good, good!
As expected of the person I once fancied. It's just that her mind is a little too rigid. She only has herself to blame for her ending. "
This sentence made Guhan's heart skip a beat. What did Kenzu mean by this?
Kenzu also fancied Yi Qing?
In other words, Yi Qing was once a candidate for the Leveller?
That's right. One of the Sword Soul Marks left behind by Kenzu happened to be used in Yi Qing's era. Yi Qing also happened to be in Yanjing City. Maybe the two of them met at that time.
But what did Kenzu mean when he said that she only has herself to blame?
Could it be that Yi Qing's ending was not the normal White Heaven Ascension as recorded in history?
"Don't ask me about that person. I don't have the face to mention her!"
Kenzu directly blocked Guhan's question. Then the whole scene suddenly fell into a strange silence.
Kenzu was silent because he was thinking about Liu Qingmei and Yi Qing.
Guhan was silent because he once again thought of Liu Qingmei's last two answers to Kenzu. Her lover was Gu Xuanwu, and the one who killed Gu Xuanwu was Artoria Pendragon, Gu Xuanwu's biological mother.
This matter itself was already puzzling to Guhan. What was even more unimaginable was that Yi Qing actually had a hand in it.
There was no doubt that Liu Qingmei was deliberately sent to Guhan by Yi Qing. Then why did Yi Qing send Liu Qingmei to Guhan?
Guhan thought that the reason why Yi Qing sent Liu Qingmei to him was to let him know from her that Artoria Pendragon killed Gu Xuanwu.
The evidence was that she disappeared directly after answering the two questions of Kenzu … Obviously, Liu Qingmei had lost her usefulness at this time. If she continued to speak, she would say something that Yi Qing did not want Guhan to know. So Yi Qing directly set Liu Qingmei to disappear at this time.
Then a new question arose. Why did Yi Qing deliberately tell Guhan in this way?
What exactly was Yi Qing plotting?
More importantly, at this moment, Guhan suddenly had a strong dissatisfaction with Yi Qing. Guhan faintly felt that Yi Qing seemed to be trying to manipulate him … What was more frightening was that Guhan vaguely felt that his life to this point seemed to be under the control of someone. Could this person be Yi Qing?
… …
"Don't think so much. You just need to understand that strength is the most fundamental thing. That's enough!"
The Sword Master suddenly patted Gu Han's shoulder, who was in deep thought, and then said, "I have told you enough about what happened today. Next is the real reason why I asked you to come here."
"To be honest, you are still thousands of miles away from the strength that a real leveler should have. But you don't have much time left, so I have to help you out this time!"