I'm a villain, not a devil

"No news yet?"

Inside the room, Bai Zhan sat on a chair. Although he seemed calm, his serious brows proved that the prince was not in a good mood at the moment.

"No information has been received... We contacted them, but the Tree People didn't say much."

The confidant also frowned, as the longer this matter was delayed, the more likely problems would arise.

Bai Zhan nodded, and then asked, "Where are our own people?"

"There was a caravan that entered Paradise City. According to their description, nothing major happened in the city, and the [Golden Ghost]...didn't change its owner. I heard that there was a big riot at the city gate half a month ago, but it stopped quickly."

"Half a month ago..." Bai Zhan stood up somewhat distractedly.

That would be the time agreed upon with Wen Qie...

After the death of the Crown Prince last time, Grand Duke Wenqie was hit hard by the Prince and suffered a great loss. In addition, Bai You was imprisoned. He can be said to have been living a very cautious life during this period.

He spent a small price to ask for help from the other party. Since it did not involve the tree people, and Sean was already dead, Grand Duke Wen Qi did not refuse.

I thought that with the help of Grand Duke Wen Qie, it should not be difficult for the tree man army to capture Paradise City, but half a month passed and no news came.

Bai Zhan didn't like the feeling of being out of control.

After the henchmen left, the man in black with the scar on his chin appeared in the room again.

"Military Advisor, we can't keep dragging this on..." Bai Zhan said in a deep voice.

The man in black, who was called the military advisor, laughed hoarsely: "Your Highness, there must have been some accident in Heaven City."

"What should I do then?"

"Your Highness, why are you in such a hurry? Taking over Paradise City is one of the plans of the Tree Man. It has little impact on us. You participated in it just to verify whether Panda's memory can be restored..."

The man in black paused and continued, "During this period, you have met Princess Baiye quite a few times. Whether the latter knows the connection or not, she didn't say it, and that's enough."

Bai Zhan frowned slightly: "Military Advisor, what do you mean?"

The man in black nodded: "It's time to take action now."

"But...if the plan gets to know..." Bai Zhan looked very worried.

The man in black dissuaded him, "I don't think anyone in the empire knows these details... Besides, what if some things are known?"

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"Restarting the program..."

In the laboratory, a panda-shaped robot lying on the operating table was plugged into wires all over his body. After a crisp sound, countless numbers began to flash in his mechanical eyes.

Sean, wearing a white coat, threw away the wrench in his hand and sat down on the test bench next to him.

"Damn it, the core is too polluted... Even with Endely's help, it's still so troublesome."

For the past half month, he has been repairing Panda's core program, but the contamination of Panda's core program was even more serious than Enderli expected, so the repair time was extended a lot.

"You stupid panda, I haven't slept with Bai Ye in this period of time. I've been bothering you all the time. Show some energy now."

Under Sean's expectant eyes, Panda's electronic eyes flashed wildly.

Although he was clearly the purest weakling, there was still a smell similar to rotting flesh coming out of his body.

Sean grabbed it casually, and the pollution that was finally expelled disappeared instantly and turned into a trace of his energy.

And Panda’s electronic eyes finally stopped flashing.

"Restarting... Restart completed."

The huge mechanical panda sat up stiffly.

His head turned and looked at Sean.

"Panda?"

There was no more craziness, but the somewhat silly voice that Sean remembered.

Sean breathed a sigh of relief: "Damn, I finally fixed you."

"Panda... Panda?!" Panda was confused at first, then jumped up excitedly.

The ceiling shook violently and half of the laboratory almost fell apart.

"So excited? Why are you standing there? Speak."

"Panda! Panda!"

Sean discovered that the previously polluted Panda could still speak a few incoherent sentences, but after being repaired, he could only say "Panda Panda" again.

"Human language!"

Panda hurriedly climbed down from the operating table, looked around and found some machines, which he quickly disassembled and remade. He connected a wire to his chest.

A funny clown voice came out of the small speaker: "Sean! You saved me, have you gone to find Enderly?!"

That little trumpet was a circus propaganda device, I snatched it back to kill time...

Ignoring his funny voice, Sean nodded and said, "Tell me, what happened? Damn it, was it Kan 14 who insisted on researching that proliferation and ended up causing a big trouble? I had long advised him not to do it. I give up."

Without saying a word, Sean tried to pass on the blame - even though that special proliferation was something he had reserved for Kan 14.

As a robot with a program core that can rival a genius brain, Panda is good at everything, but he really doesn't understand these twists and turns.

However, he didn't need to understand.

Sean was not expecting Panda's answer.

"That's not it. Although Fourteen brought the special proliferation back to the shelter for research, before he could come up with anything, we encountered a very terrifying existence."

Speaking of this, Panda still seemed scared, and his tone became sad.

"A very scary existence?" Sean narrowed his eyes slightly. Things did not develop as he imagined.

Panda nodded, and even the funny clown voice coming out of the small speaker became extremely heavy: "Fourteen has been studying that special proliferation. Liu Ke is not very happy about it. She thinks there will be problems with that thing. I habitually support Fourteen."

"That day, Liu Ke had a quarrel with Fourteen, and she was so angry that she left the shelter alone, so I went to chase her back..."

Panda's voice was trembling.

"But, when we return to the shelter... everyone in the shelter... will... will..."

The robot's head drooped, but its electronic eyes could not shed the tears they should have.

Panda paused for a while before continuing, "Almost all the people in the shelter... died... Liu Ke and I tried to find people who might have survived, but we couldn't find any..."

"Fourteen even disappeared directly, along with the special value-added..."

"Finally, we found a few people in the deepest part of the shelter. However, just as we were about to leave here to figure out what happened, we encountered the existence that destroyed the shelter..."

Even though a long time had passed, one could still feel Panda's deep fear when he talked about it.

"I didn't even see what that person looked like. Liu Ke, who was walking in front, seemed to see the whole face of the other person... But at that time, Liu Ke, who was already red in the face, screamed after just one look. I saw her body squirming, as if it had been completely contaminated."

"Then I heard the dragging of chains - and for a moment the world seemed to turn upside down."

"I was completely confused, and for some reason, I felt a crazy force rushing into my body. I actually advanced to Crimson... But in just a moment, I was swallowed by the huge madness... After that, my memory was basically incomplete... I guess this is the me you met..."

Panda sat on the ground dejectedly, seemingly unwilling to recall that scene.

So evil?

Sean narrowed his eyes slightly. This was different from what he expected. Did the shelter encounter some terrifying existence?

He looked at Panda: "Did you see any other information?"

Although Panda was in pain, he also knew that he had to force himself to recall.

After a while, he suddenly thought of something: "Oh, now I remember... the shelter we are in is one of the earliest ones built. Because it needs to cooperate with research, there are often certain things in the deepest layer."

"It could be some kind of creature, or it could be some kind of contaminated object...After the shelter was raised, because the director did not come out of the cryostat, the program that could open the deepest level could not be started, so no one has ever been to the deepest level."

"But the last few people Liu Ke and I found were at the entrance to the deepest level... Now that I think about it, the figure dragging the chain seemed to have come out of the deepest level... That's right!"

Panda's eyes suddenly lit up: "Pointer! Before I lost my mind, I saw something wrapped around the top of the chain opposite. It was a... no, half a pointer, half a broken pointer, like it was pulled out of a pocket watch, or like a collapsed lighthouse."

Sean's pupils suddenly contracted.

Originally, he didn't feel much when the chain was just mentioned, but the half-broken pointer in Panda's mouth...

In the desert gray sea, Sean obtained the ritual to summon the Lurker Gaozhi. Before that, the fisherman Bernard, who had been "fishing for something in the gray sea", held a pocket watch with the sea in the center of the dial and a lighthouse-like pointer.

After the pocket watch is opened, only Sean can see the contents inside. After that, when Sean helps Bernard solve his confusion and find his wife, he learns that Bernard actually presided over the advent ceremony of the seducer Gao Zhi, and his wife was the vessel for Gao Zhi's advent, and the residents of the town were the sacrifices.

A very orthodox method of summoning evil gods.

The only fucked up part is that Gao Zhi failed to summon and summoned Sean instead...

Bernard, who has come to his senses, naturally thinks Sean is the evil god Gao Zhi, and tries to throw the pocket watch that can revive Gao Zhi's power into the place along the chain, allowing the nano fish to fly away with the pocket watch.

Sean failed to stop him completely, leaving only the last half of the pointer.

As a result, he also obtained some of the rituals and abilities related to the evil god Gaoyi, such as the "luring" similar to the group frenzy control, and the sacrifice ceremony that can be used in conjunction with the luring.

Sean uses these two abilities quite frequently and they are very useful. At the same time, the half pointer has been completely integrated into Sean's body.

Sean tried to study it, but he found nothing. Besides, the half pointer that was integrated did not cause any harm to him, so he just let it go.

Now, when Panda mentioned it, he immediately thought of the fisherman Bernard, and the pocket watch and the remaining half pointer that had been drilled into the ground along the iron chain.

That thing should be the power that can revive the evil god Gao Zhi. How could it appear in the primitive refuge where Kan Shisi was?

Moreover, from what Panda said, the other party had drilled out from the deepest level of the shelter that had never been opened?

The gray sea...is connected to the shelter near Raya volcano?

Weird...

Sean originally thought that he would have to wait until he reached a higher level before he would come into contact with matters related to the evil god Gao Zi. Unexpectedly, the forces related to the other party would be the first to find the shelter where Kan Shisi was.

"Do you mean that the deepest level of the shelter was opened by someone? Or did that thing come out by itself?" Sean asked.

Panda shook his head in confusion: "I'm not sure about this, but the director who could open the deepest level has long been dead, so there should be no one in the shelter who can open it."

"Did anything happen in the shelter before that? Or did anyone suspicious enter the shelter?"

"I don't remember. The shelter is very closed, and there are no city-states or tribes around..."

"Weird..."

While asking Panda for more details, Sean suddenly felt that the illusion he placed outside the villa was touched by someone.

This is the contact information he left behind, and few people know it.

Let Panda rest in the laboratory for a while, Sean walked up, and soon the visitor appeared in front of him.

It's white leaves.

When the princess, with whom he had spent a night of real pleasure, reappeared, Sean habitually made a few jokes.

However, before he could speak, Bai Ye took the lead and said seriously: "Brother may have to take action."

"Bai Zhan is going to take action?" Sean became interested.

Bai Ye's expression was slightly puzzled: "But, something is wrong..."

"What's going on?" Sean suddenly had a bad feeling.

Bai Ye frowned, "My eldest brother organized a court meeting, and after Father showed up, he proposed a policy... a policy that many officials and the Emperor's uncle had advised Father not to continue many years ago."

"Policy?" Sean frowned.

"To be precise, it's not a policy, but a project." Bai Ye's eyes were a little strange, "The statue of the founding father."

"Statue?" Sean didn't react for a moment.

Bai Ye nodded: "Many years ago, my father's injuries had begun to flare up. I don't know who suggested it, but he decided to build a statue... a statue of the founder, of course, himself."

"However, the statue was too large and would require a huge amount of manpower and material resources. The empire was in a period of rapid development, so this was obviously not a wise move. Under the opposition of many officials and the emperor's uncle, the project was abandoned."

"But my eldest brother suddenly brought it up again... He said that the soldiers on the front line were fighting, and the capital should give them more confidence, such as... rebuilding the statue of the founding father."

Even though Sean was a person who loved to enjoy life, he still felt a sense of absurdity rising up.

No matter what, it's a war after all. Why is the king of a country doing this now?

Even more ridiculous things are yet to come.

The look in Bai Ye's eyes was almost indescribable.

"Father...has agreed directly, and the project will start soon."