frightfiction Chapter 548 Heavenly Book
Chapter 548 Heavenly Book
After Lao Zheng's reminder, Lin Yu once again realized the strength and talent of the Nevernight Fire Apricot.
If she fully demonstrated her strength and joined the competition for the position of the head of the family, it would probably not be the turn of Buyetian Huoshu to sharpen the knife for Buyetian Huole.
but……
"If you don't intend to inherit the family, then why do you want Art Mercury dead?"
There is no doubt that the death of Art Mercury is absolutely detrimental to the Buyetian family. No matter whether it is Buyetian Huo Le or Buyetian Huo Shu, the two popular heirs definitely do not want such a change to happen - after all, the head of the Buyetian family has delegated power to let two people compete. No matter how much they shirk responsibility, they must each be responsible for what happened.
Although the head of the Buye Tian family had already known about this matter in advance and reached an agreement with Lin Yu because of Lin Yu's intervention...but the other people in the Buye Tian family did not know about this.
But on the other hand... just like Barry, the butler of Saint Lankui, the death of Art Mercury is almost beneficial to all the descendants who have ideas about the head of the family except Huo Le and Huo Shu.
But Nevernight Huo Xing was very surprised by Lin Yu's statement: "Does this need a reason? He is a royal noble, the former head of the Mercury Family, and the chosen one of the God of Life... It would be fun if he died!"
Lin Yu looked at the other party's Nevernight Fire Apricot and did not feel that this was not the other party's true words.
but……
This is not entirely true.
"No," Lin Yu said firmly, "If that were the case, you wouldn't have called me over just because I was investigating the C-77 commission... Even if there were rumors that I was pursuing you, you wouldn't have asked you to do this."
"Especially... you came here in person, and it wasn't just a simple matter of leaving me a tape recorder or a letter."
Huo Xing looked at Lin Yu and sighed: "He is indeed a man that my mother values and that Sister Huo Le relies on."
Afterwards, Huo Xing picked up the speaker again and turned up the volume to the maximum: "Why are you trying to be so clever? It's so annoying!"
"So, why is that?"
Lin Yu asked again.
"Because I realized I've gone too far. Although my mother won't consider me as her heir now, but," Huo Xing of Buyetian dropped the trumpet, stood up and kicked over a chair, "but she wants me to arrange a marriage. Ah ah ah ah ah, I don't want to get married. I'm not even twenty years old... I don't want to marry a boring nobleman I don't even know!"
"I also want to explore the sources of alchemical raw materials and find the 'Border Gate' deep in the wilderness... If I get married, I won't be able to do any of these!"
As he spoke, Buyetian Huoxing fell to the ground, thrashing around like a dead fish, his hands and feet slapping the ground with a snapping sound.
Lin Yu looked at the Bu Ye Tian Huo Xing who had suddenly fallen ill. After waiting for it to struggle for more than ten minutes, it suddenly fell to the ground as if dead, without a breath.
Another half a minute passed, Buyetian Huoxing climbed up again, hooked the stool with his feet and sat down again, and smoothed his messy hair with his hands.
"In short, Forboluo... I need to mess up my coming-of-age ceremony now. I need a shocking enough incident to throw the Buyetian family into chaos. Give me enough time... to slowly change my mother's opinion of me until it's just like, 'Although I'm not fit to be the head of the family and I'm not very useful, I'm not worth throwing out for an arranged marriage.'"
"Please, you must succeed... Although failure will cause chaos, it's better to succeed!"
Lin Yu listened to Buyetian Huoxing's words and spoke seriously.
"I'm not directly involved in the C-77 commission, but... I'll do my best to help you supervise the participant I sent."
"But... doesn't the C-77 commission have a whole team?"
Nevernight Huo Xing sighed. "The composition of that team... excluding your men, only one mercenary was officially recruited, and the rest are here to investigate this commission. Perhaps they also hope for Art Mercury's death, but they are all important figures... Do you really expect them to risk their lives?"
"The fishhooks are all tangled together... What kind of effect can such a team achieve? It's really a mystery!"
Buyetian Huoxing sighed, and Lin Yu nodded slightly.
This is also the information he has obtained.
"So I seriously suspect that the employer who issued this commission may not want Art Mercury to die at all. He didn't care about the person he chose," Lin Yu sighed. "So, do you have any guesses about the employer's choice?"
"Any of them are possible. The three most likely suspects are Qiu Xinliu and Larry Sorens. Neither of them wants to see the Mercury and Buyetian families continue to fraternize, and both need achievements to prove themselves. Furthermore, since they've confirmed they won't inherit the family, they're willing to do some dirty work for the family... Eris Mercury, this person definitely hopes to safely inherit the position of Chosen of Life, or at least not continue to 'wander' outside."
Huo Xing held her chin and said, "I don't know much about the nobles. I've only been making up for it recently because of urgent matters, so I can't say for sure... Broadly speaking, even my mother might be involved—although for the sake of the Buyetian family, it's best that Art Mercury doesn't die, but no one can say for sure about such things."
"Even you are a suspect."
Lin Yu looked at the Buyetian Fire Apricot and said.
"Yeah, but it's a pity it wasn't me," said Huo Xing from Buyetian with a sigh, "Really, I didn't think of such a brilliant idea the first time..."
"But I also want to ask, why do you want Art Mercury to die?" Buyetian Huoxing blinked. "If that old man dies, it will do nothing but harm to Buyetian Huole."
"There's no other way. This is what I have to do."
Lin Yu said helplessly.
Huo Xing nodded: "I understand, you are a 'player'... This is where you have no control over your own behavior!"
"Alas, thankfully our world doesn't have this kind of setting, otherwise I'd be in trouble if I became a player—although being able to freely travel to other worlds is great, there are just too many restrictions."
Huo Xing sighed, then added, "Ah, by the way, speaking of Huo Le... I think I should have given her the Heavenly Book by now, right?"
"Tell your people to be careful, that thing is a divine weapon," Huo Xing from Buyetian said. "Although every 'royal noble' family has a 'divine weapon' passed down through generations, ours... is extra ruthless."
"The Book of Heaven, the Scroll of Earth, the Book of Man... The Book of Heaven can store and access all concepts belonging to heavenly creation."
Lin Yu was a little surprised.
"What does it mean to be born naturally?"
"It's something that exists innately... like natural disasters, the seasons, celestial bodies and stars—even the passage of time and the laws of nature."