Chapter 442: The Increasingly Terrifying Truth

What exactly was there in the whole matter that I still hadn't guessed?

Just like that, I thought about it for an entire night.

Liu Zheng still could not figure it out.

The next day.

The sun had risen as usual. Early in the morning, Huobu Quli came to report that the excavation of the water channels was proceeding extremely smoothly; in one more day, they would be able to store water, and taking the farm would be just around the corner!

Storing water!

Hearing this, Liu Zheng felt his whole body jolt.

Water attack...

Water Submerging Seven Armies.

He finally knew where the part that felt wrong to him was.

Since he felt that the Nanzhao Army had a great master sitting in command... then under such circumstances, would his Water Submerging Seven Armies be seen through by someone? Furthermore, he had been in Liangshan for so long that he still understood the fence-sitting nature of the Liangshan People—in this way, could there not be scouts of Shama Zhuoyi among the newly pacified Qionghai? If he were to secretly dig water channels on his side, the other side would know too!

But clearly.

The other side remained calm and did not make any moves.

Then, this could only mean one thing!

They were waiting!

They were conserving their strength to strike at the exhausted!

"My Lord, what is it? Is something wrong?"

Seeing Liu Zheng suddenly jolt and cold sweat break out, Huobu Quli was startled.

Liu Zheng shook his head and said, "You continue, don't mind me..."

Leaving behind Huobu Quli, who had been busy all night without sleep, Liu Zheng returned to his own tent.

What did they want to do?

What on earth did they want to do?

In that farm, what exactly was waiting for him?

Soon, Qin Zhangfeng and other generals from the Liangzhou side came to him one by one.

After hearing Liu Zheng's conjecture, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

"The Young Master means..."

"They know we are going to use a water attack, yet they have no defenses at all?"

Liu Zheng smiled bitterly: "How could there be no defenses, but we cannot know them. If you knew the enemy was using a water attack, what would you do?"

Qin Zhangfeng said: "The same, dig channels to divert water!"

Liu Zheng nodded: "This is exactly what they are doing as well. Of course, this is not important; what I am thinking about is... how will they deal with us? They are too calm!"

The fifty thousand Liangzhou Army, who claimed to be invincible under heaven—the other side only had fifty thousand who could be called regular troops...

How could they be so calm? How could they be so confident?

The group of people also could not figure it out at all.

Suddenly.

Liu Zheng jolted and slapped the table as he stood up: "Go to Qiongdou, I want to go and see Shama Zhuoyi's home!"

The Dean was furious upon hearing Jie Yu's words.

Bombarding the Academy with cannons, who gave him the nerve?

Jie Yu continued to smile bitterly: "Dean, our Academy has always upheld neutrality in the world, but in the matter of Chen Ran, the Academy bears an inescapable responsibility. This Prefect Liu is an imperial envoy; with just one charge of lax supervision and another of opium harming the people, he could make our Academy unable to cope. What would he not dare to do?"

"The Dean might want to say... if this Prefect Liu dies at the hands of Chen Ran, then it could be settled once and for all. But the fact is, this Prefect Liu is a favored minister of the imperial court. If he dies, Liangshan will surely be set ablaze. The Academy will also be hard-pressed to escape blame!"

Hearing this, the Dean's beard was almost standing on end.

"You mean..."

Jie Yu said: "Dean, Prefect Liu must not die in Liangshan!"

The Dean took a deep breath: "What do you want to calculate?"

Jie Yu replied: "Calculate the flow of Chen Ran's opium and the source of the Weaponry and Equipment! At this moment, the one closest to that Prefect Liu is our Academy. If this piece of information can allow that Prefect Liu to turn the tables, it can also be considered leaving a way out for our Academy, Dean!"

The Dean fell into deep thought.

Soon, other elders of the Wangbei Academy also came over one after another.

Hearing Jie Yu's words, several people fell silent.

"Open!"

"Open the Great Archive Technique!"

Only then did Jie Yu heave a sigh of relief and bow deeply to the several elders.

Creaking sounds.

Following the Dean's command to "Open!"

The door to a tall building standing in the clouds was opened, and various sounds of wood colliding came from within.

The Great Archive Technique!

At this moment, even Jie Yu was slightly excited.

She was a World-Walker of the Wangbei Academy, but even so, it was quite a difficult thing to see the Great Archive Technique. The Great Archive Technique was the big data of this ancient era! It recorded a great deal of information fed back by those World-Walkers of the Academy.

Recording, categorizing, and organizing.

Then, obtaining the result of a matter that they wanted.

Here lay a massive volume of calculations, a requirement for a huge amount of manpower, and the crystallization of ancient super-wisdom.

The truth is hidden within the scrolls visible to everyone; it just depends on whether you can find it.

This is the Great Archive Technique!

Walking into the most mysterious and high-end place in the Academy, there were several white-haired elders guarding the entrance. Upon seeing Jie Yu, they stood up one after another and bowed.

As a Yu Shi of the current Academy, her status was still quite high.

"Yu Shi, what do you wish to calculate?"

One person asked.

Jie Yu said: "The military strength of the Nanzhao Kingdom!"

"Agreed!"

One person pulled a mechanism to the side, and the entire interior of the tall building emitted a rumbling sound; the wooden machinery began to operate with a deafening noise.

Jie Yu followed by standing on a wooden board.

A miraculous thing happened.

The wooden board rose into the air, and she began to drift through the tall building.

Machines, Gears, scrolls, information...

It seemed that in this instant, a massive amount of information flashed before her eyes and through her mind.

Too much!

Too vast!

On this wooden board, she kept her eyes tightly shut, struggling to filter out useful information in her mind. Although this information was only about the Nanzhao Kingdom, it still made her feel as if she were currently wandering in an ocean of information and data.

Recent!

Look at the recent ones!

A cursory glance.

Extracting text and seizing words!

Faster!

Faster still!

Jie Yu's brain was operating at high speed.

She did not know how much time had passed during this calculation.

"Chen's Pawnshop..."

"Xie Ling of Pingzhou..."

"The Canal entering Shu..."

"The Southern Barbarian invasion..."

"The Prince of Shu..."

Suddenly.

The more Jie Yu looked, the more alarmed she felt, and she could not help but break into a cold sweat.

"Found it!"

At this moment.

The calculation result finally emerged.

She stared with wide eyes, her entire person falling into a state of bewilderment.

Shama Zhuoyi's residence in Qiongdou.

Liu Zheng and the others arrived quickly on horseback.

Soon, the entire residence was in chaos.

The Liangzhou Army began to search thoroughly.

However...

After searching through everything, they found nothing!

Liu Zheng was not reconciled!

He ordered them to continue the search!

No one knew what exactly it was that he wanted to find!

Only Liu Zheng himself understood that what he wanted to know now was... just how long this opium had been rampant, and whether it had already entered Longyan.

Having it.

And not having it.

The outcomes would be vastly different!

The war situation would also be vastly different!

If this opium had already begun to affect Longyan...

Then this time...

He took a deep breath.

Could it be that this was a trap set for him by his own sworn brother?