Mao Tuan always wants to attack me

"Your Majesty, the Ai family recently heard people talk about the battle in Mo City...Actually, the Ai family shouldn't comment on what happened on the battlefield, but there are some things that the Ai family wants to tell the emperor."

"Mother, please say, don't be restrained."

Bai Shuyu personally poured a cup of tea for the Queen Mother.The Empress Dowager looked at the looming silhouette of Aiko through the lingering smoke, and the kindness in her eyes grew a little more.

"The Ai family doesn't know the art of war and tactics. I only know that Mocheng has been defended now, the army of the Demon Kingdom has withdrawn, and Bai Qiming's subordinates have also retreated to the distance. Mocheng can recuperate and build a reinforcement line." The queen mother said slowly, " On the one hand, Mocheng was preserved as a fortress for the north-south customs clearance, and on the other hand... this also means that the situation of confrontation between the north and the south has formed. Although the enemy cannot attack, if the emperor wants to return to Xuecheng, I am afraid it will not be easy .”

Bai Shuyu nodded and said: "The queen mother is right. Although I have saved Mocheng, it is not so easy to get out of the customs and go north. If I want to go back to Xuecheng, I have to work hard."

"Does the emperor have any plans?"

Bai Shuyu lowered his eyelids. "Currently, the army is urgently mobilizing troops and horses to transfer the supplies and troops from the south to Mocheng. But, alas..." He sighed softly, and simply gestured on the table with his fingers to describe the current situation of the Bai Kingdom.

"Mocheng is located on the border between the north and the south of the Bai Kingdom, surrounded by tall mountains, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but this 'easy to defend but difficult to attack' is aimed at both the north and the south. Bai Qiming's army can't get in, but My army also cannot easily cross the tall mountains and go north.

I can only deploy troops through the single and narrow passage in Mocheng, and my actions are greatly restricted by the terrain.If it is impossible to continuously put a large number of soldiers and horses on the battlefield and establish a large rear support, then the so-called "going north" will be as difficult as the sky. "

Mao Tuan was distractedly listening to Bai Shuyu's explanation while eating the snacks brought by the Queen Mother.From this point of view, although the rolling mountains around Mo City are a natural danger to them, they are also the biggest barrier preventing them from returning to the capital.If this cycle of pros and cons cannot be broken, the situation may become stalemate.

If you refer to the experience of living on the earth in previous lives, if a country maintains this situation of North-South confrontation for a long time, it will undoubtedly have an extremely bad impact on itself, and may even be taken advantage of by other countries.So not only Bai Shuyu, but Bai Qiming in the north must also be very anxious at this moment.No matter which of the two of them, they will never allow such a thing as a division between the North and the South.

In the face of such a difficult problem, what method should be used to solve it?

"Baiguo—or in other words, what the emperor owns now is not just the soldiers and territories in the south. The ancestors of the royal family have left a lot of treasures for future generations." State affairs are of great help.”

Bai Shuyu heard what his mother meant, "Please tell me, mother."

The queen mother looked at Bai Shuyu's pupils, "The emperor's pupil strength seems to have improved significantly after leaving Syracuse."

Bai Shuyu was taken aback.

"When I was in the Mo Mansion, the Ai family could sense...the spiritual power fluctuations in the emperor's pupils were very strong. Perhaps in the snow city, the emperor's pupil power was bound by some invisible force until he was far away from the snow city. , the pupil power can be fully released."

"Then, mother thinks... what is the reason for this?"

The queen mother shook her head lightly: "It's not sure yet... However, the Ai family has heard some things about the Bai clan's ancestors from the former emperor. The change in the size of the emperor's pupils may be related to 'those things'."

It looked like they were about to talk about more confidential information.Xiao Yuntian stopped eating snacks, glanced at Bai Shuyu, and asked him if he needed to avoid it.

Bai Shuyu nodded lightly, and said, "Let's go out first, Xiantuan."

However, the Empress Dowager stopped him: "Your Majesty, what the Ai family wants to say... has something to do with the fairy group."

"Oh?" Bai Shuyu was obviously a little surprised, "It has something to do with it?"

Xiao Yuntian also froze in place for a moment.Apart from the contract with the seal of the beast, is there any other connection between him and Bai Guo?

The Empress Dowager glanced back and forth at Mao Tuan, and she asked, "Does your majesty know what kind of beast the fairy group is?"

Bai Shuyu was silent for a while, and told her truthfully: "Actually, General Mo Chengwei accidentally picked it up in the backyard of his residence. On the eve of this year's New Year's Animal Selection Conference, General Mo couldn't find a suitable animal. To stand for the election, I sent a hair ball of unknown origin to the palace. I don’t know what kind of strange beast it is.”

The queen mother did not show any surprise when she heard this, but said indifferently: "A few days ago, Ai's family recuperated in the Mo residence. When they had nothing to do, they found the royal family history books left by the previous emperors and read them. Among the piles of old books, The Ai family saw a certain chapter of the secret history of the Bai family, and there were pictures left by the predecessors on it, and the appearance of the strange beasts depicted on it looked very similar to the Frost Snow Fairy Group."

"You mean... the Shuangxue Fairy Group is a strange beast that existed and appeared a long time ago? And the ancestors of the Bai family have dealt with it?"

While speaking, the Queen Mother flipped her right hand, and an ancient scroll appeared in her palm out of thin air.This is a common storage and carrying technique.

"In the past year, the Ai family has been sorting out the relics left by the late emperor, picking out the meaningful books and keeping them specially. Your majesty, look..."

Bai Shuyu took the old book and carefully turned over the incomplete and fragile pages.When he turned to a certain page, he stopped, spread the book out on the table, looked at the pictures on it, looked at the hairball, and took a breath.

"This is……"

Xiao Yuntian also saw that there were a few sketches of hair balls on the pages of the book, but the characteristics were not obvious.The Empress Dowager continued: "The picture is concise and vague, but the note below says that it is a white spherical beast with purple eyes, a soft body, and a low voice... This really coincides with the characteristics of the fairy group. "

Bai Shuyu turned to the back of the picture and saw the ancient characters of Bai Kingdom written on it.

The queen mother said: "The words behind the picture explain the whole story of the encounter between the ancestors of the royal family and this kind of strange beast." She glanced at Xiao Yuntian, "I never thought that Mao Tuan would have a close relationship with the seal of imperial beasts, the treasure of the Bai Kingdom. connect."

Bai Shuyu looked a little puzzled, more curious.He probably didn't expect that this hair ball picked up by General Mo had a mysterious origin.

"About the Royal Beast Seal... I only knew that it was obtained by the ancestors of the Bai family after receiving a gift from a divine beast, but I didn't know there was such a legendary past."

Under Bai Shuyu's interpretation, Xiao Yuntian also gradually understood the history of the Bai family's fortune and the origin of "self".

A long, long time ago, long before the Bai Kingdom appeared, there were many tribes in the Beast World Continent, and they fought for their livelihood and territory all day long.Among them, the Bai family has a unique strength advantage, and its unique light-colored pupils can freely use spiritual power to influence and control other people's minds.

Relying on this formidable power, they became the overlord on the mainland, and they made more and more enemies.The ever-expanding territory of the Bai family is especially coveted by the northern demons.

There is a boy named Bai Zeyu in the Bai clan.He is still young but brave and good at fighting, and was selected as the successor of the Bai family early on.

In a battle, a tribe led by Bai Zeyu was surrounded and dispersed by the demon warriors.The demons chased after him, and the injured Bai Zeyu fled desperately. Under the siege and pursuit of the demons, he was forced to hide in the snow mountain.In the biting cold wind, Bai Zeyu lost too much blood and passed out...

When he woke up, he found that he was lying in a strange cave, with a few furball-shaped beasts with purple eyes tightly next to him.It turned out that these hair balls kindly rescued him in the snowstorm, surrounded him, and kept him warm with their furry bodies.Not only that, there are many such purple-eyed hairballs living in this cave.This is their habitat.

In this way, with the kind help of Mao Tuan, Bai Zeyu recovered from his injuries day by day.But the good times didn't last long, the demons who persisted in searching in the snow-capped mountains discovered his traces and set up a net outside the mountains.Mao Tuan's homeland was mercilessly destroyed by the flames of the devil, and Bai Zeyu led the Mao Tuan to escape in a narrow escape.

Bai Zeyu, who left the snow mountain, went through all kinds of hardships and finally returned to his lost tribe.In return for his life-saving grace, he kept all the homeless hairballs in his tribe, allowing them to follow him and his tribe to wander around and live together.

A few years later, Bai Zeyu has grown into the leader of the Bai clan.One day, the Bai family once again faced a serious crisis. They were besieged by demons in the valley, and they were short of food and grass.Seeing that the clansman's fighting strength decreased due to lack of food, and even died due to lack of food, the elders of the clan proposed to use the only exotic animal species in the clan-the hairball as food for the clansmen to satisfy their hunger, so as to relieve the pressure on the clan members. hunger crisis.

This statement was strongly opposed by Bai Zeyu.He couldn't bear to see his savior being innocently treated as food, but he couldn't just watch his clansmen being trapped here to die one by one.In order to appease the hungry and tired clansmen, in desperation, he decided to sacrifice himself and provide himself as food to the clansmen...

Seeing the scene of Bai Zeyu's imminent sacrifice, the Mao Tuan, who are proficient in human nature, are extremely reluctant to part with it.They all raised their heads to the sky and roared loudly. Amidst the mournful screams, the power of dominance was quietly awakened, attracting strange beasts from all directions.In an instant, the strange beasts inside and outside the valley surged wildly, scattering the surrounding soldiers outside, and the Bai clan members in the valley took advantage of the chaos to escape...

Since then, the members of the Bai clan have sensed stronger and stronger fluctuations in spiritual power from the hairballs.They discovered—it turned out that in addition to the human race that can manipulate people's hearts, there are beast races that can manipulate the will of alien beasts in this world!

At first, Mao Tuan's unexpected awakening of the power to control beasts made the Bai clan feel like a treasure.Relying on the special power of the hairball, they have won more and more victories.Many years later, members of the Bai clan represented by Bai Zeyu entered into a contract with the Maotuan family, and the two clans will be friends forever, protect each other, and share victory and territory.

However, water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it.

As Mao Tuan's controlling power gradually awakened and became stronger and stronger, the mentality of some Bai clan members gradually changed.Because it has almost reached the level of universal response among the orcs, Mao Tuan's power even surpassed that of humans under the Bai clan's rule.Although the two clans still maintain a cooperative relationship according to the original agreement, in the eyes of some clansmen, the Mao Tuan is no longer an ally fighting side by side, but a hidden enemy who may backhand stab at any time, a crisis that may erupt at any time. potential threat.

Despite Bai Zeyu's efforts to protect her, once the seeds of doubt are planted, the intimate trust will collapse sooner or later.Finally one day, several high-level elders in the Bai clan dismissed Bai Zeyu with excuses, mobilized a group of killers, and came to Mao Tuan's residence overnight.

Maotuan was unprepared for the visit of "old friends" and warmly entertained them, but what was given back to Maotuan was a bloody disaster that wiped out the genocide overnight...

When Bai Zeyu realized the strangeness of the matter and rushed to the habitat of the hairballs, everything he saw was desolate and bloody... He cried bitterly, regretted, wailed, and his grief and guilt almost made him want to To make an apology with death.

At this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that among the piles of corpses, there was a small hairball trembling slightly, trying to crawl out from the pile of corpses of its relatives.

It turned out that there was still one alive here!

He lifted the little hairball out of the bloody water.Under the body of the hairball, there is a piece of white jade hidden.

At the moment when he touched the jade, a strange whisper came out of Bai Zeyu's heart.Weeping and complaining, this is the last wish left by the Mao Tuan.

"All the beast-controlling power of my whole clan is sealed in the jade stone, and I entrust it to Lord Bai Zeyu, the leader of the Bai clan. Please, Lord Bai Zeyu, preserve the last hope for our clan."

After reading this, Bai Shuyu couldn't read any more.He stared blankly at the characters on the scroll and didn't move for a long time.

"So," he said with difficulty, raised his face tremblingly, and looked at his mother, "The last jade left by the Mao Tuan to the Bai family leader is... the seal of the beast?"

The queen watched him silently.Bai Shuyu's mind suddenly trembled, and he suddenly covered his forehead.The cruel and bloody history caused the veins on his forehead to throb, he panted a few times, and almost burst into tears.

"This... is this true?" He muttered to himself, "Is this true? I have always heard that the seal of the imperial beast was given to the ancestors of the Bai family by a divine beast, but...but what kind of thing is this? 'Gift'?"

And then what?Xiao Yuntian looked at Bai Shuyu eagerly, he really wanted to know the final outcome of this story.

The queen mother just sat quietly where she was, without making a sound or moving.Bai Shuyu took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and continued to read the story.

The piece of jade that Mao Tuan gave to Bai Zeyu was later the Imperial Beast Seal.The hairballs gather their lifelong strength and seal it in the animal seal.With the seal of the imperial beast, plus another alien beast as the contracted beast soul of the seal of the imperial beast, the combination of the two can activate the power of dominance and successfully summon the alien beast.

Bai Zeyu carefully preserved the seal of the beast, and then took in the last surviving little hairball according to the wishes of the hairballs.After returning to the tribe, he successively found out the culprits who had arbitrarily claimed to destroy Mao Tuanman's family one by one, and executed them severely.In the long years since then, he has taken good care of the orphan of the Mao Tuan family, and made it the first generation contracted beast soul of the Royal Beast Seal.

After many years of fighting, Bai Zeyu finally led the Bai family to establish a ruling regime in the Beast World Continent, and finally established the Bai Empire.

Throughout his life, Bai Zeyu never forgot to fulfill his promise to the Maotuan family.He always remembers to teach the descendants of the clan to let them remember the concept of peaceful coexistence with the alien beasts, and they are not allowed to use or harm the alien beasts at will.When he was dying, he asked the successors of the Bai Kingdom to make an oath to himself: the Bai family will live in harmony with the alien beasts in this land from generation to generation, and must not squander the power of the beast seal...

I see……

After listening to the whole paragraph of text, Xiao Yuntian also gradually sorted out the story.Bai Zeyu was helped by the Maotuan clan in the snow-capped mountains. In order to repay his kindness, he took them back to his clan who were homeless.Unexpectedly, the power of the hairballs has attracted the covetousness and suspicion of the tribe, and some people brutally exterminated the hairballs out of fear of their threat.The Mao Tuan sealed the beast-controlling power in the beast-controlling seal, and entrusted them to Bai Zeyu along with the last surviving little Mao Tuan.This is how the Bai clan obtained the seal of imperial beast.

"Is this true?" Bai Shuyu looked at his mother with pain in his eyes, and for the first time in a long time showed a helpless expression, and repeated as if talking to himself, "Could it be true?"

The Empress Dowager said: "This book has been preserved as an important document of the royal family, and there is no need to falsify it. As for whether the author of the book has stated the facts... I don't know. However, the emperor should have read this book. "

Seeing Bai Shuyu startled suddenly, she continued, "When the late emperor was alive, he mentioned it to Aijia, and his exact words were..." I don't know that the hair ball that our ancestors saved hundreds of years ago finally died. Where. And does the prosperous hairball race still exist in the world today? I really want to go to the snow-capped mountains to see.' But at that time, the Ai family hadn't read the book, and couldn't understand the meaning of the late emperor..."

After the Queen Mother's words fell, her eyes also swept towards Xiao Yuntian.Xiao Yuntian suddenly remembered that the ending of the story he heard just now did not explain the whereabouts of the last surviving little hair ball.And the look in her eyes... Could it be that the queen mother suspects that she has something to do with the surviving hair ball?

Bai Shuyu stared at Xiao Yuntian with complicated eyes for a moment.

"So," he lowered his head, with a sour tone, "this imperial animal seal... is actually an 'ill-gotten gain' to the ancestors of the Bai family, right?"

The Empress Dowager was startled, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't say that. The beast seal..."

"If the content recorded in the secret history of the Bai family is true and correct, shouldn't the logic be like this?" He smiled bitterly with a stiff expression, "The Bai family wiped out the entire Maotuan family hundreds of years ago...they How on earth could he accept the gift from the person he murdered with such peace of mind? Exactly, exactly how..." His breathing became rapid, and he instinctively clenched the shirt around his heart, panting for a few breaths.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, don't get excited!" Seeing Bai Shuyu's anxious look, the Empress Dowager stood up worriedly and walked closer. "The Mao Tuan's gift was given to Bai Zeyu's ancestor, and Bai Zeyu's ancestor was extremely benevolent to the Mao Tuan. Perhaps the only thing he feels guilty about is that he let the wicked people in the clan take advantage of the loophole."

The emperor waved his hand lightly, signaling his mother not to worry.He said: "I'm fine, I just can't figure it out..."

"Your majesty... is a kind child." The queen mother looked at her son's expression and said in a low voice.

At the end, Bai Shuyu sighed and said, "I want to be quiet for a while."

Xiao Yuntian stayed aside.After hearing such a large amount of information for a while, his brain was a bit overwhelmed.He saw Bai Shuyu sitting quietly on the spot with a very uncomfortable expression.As a person with a vested interest in the events of that year, Bai Shuyu's ability to feel sad about the behavior of his ancestors is enough to confirm the Queen Mother's evaluation of him.Bai Shuyu is indeed a kind person, which is different from his greedy ancestors, and has something in common with the founding monarch named Bai Zeyu.

And myself—what position should I stand on?

If you listen to this story from the perspective of a bystander, the process of the Bai family's gaining power is undoubtedly a bloody history.

And if it's Maotuan's identity... Ha, Xiao Yuntian is actually not sure how his Maotuan body is related to the Maotuan family back then.Even the Empress Dowager herself, who made this point, was just guessing.

He looked at the Queen Mother, and she was also looking at Mao Tuan.The moment their eyes met, Xiao Yuntian suddenly recalled a fragment of the past.

At the Alien Beast Selection Conference, General Mo once told the queen mother, "The Shuangxue Fairy Group comes from the snow mountain", and when she heard this, there was a moment of turmoil in her eyes.Could it be that at that time, she...

Ever thought of this thing?

The queen mother looked at Xiao Yuntian, she hesitated for a moment, and said: "Xiantuan... Aijia is not sure whether you have some kind of connection with the Maotuan family mentioned in that book. You, if you are really The last hairball that was rescued by ancestor Bai Zeyu...Xiantuan, tell Aijia, is it because of this reason that you got close to the emperor and the royal family?"

Bai Shuyu suddenly raised his head and glanced at Xiao Yuntian.

"Mother, even if the hairball hundreds of years ago lived long enough to survive until today, the soul inside it has already been replaced." He said, "I have confirmed its spiritual consciousness. And," He lowered his voice, "The hair ball in front of the Queen Mother is the new generation of contracted beast souls of the Royal Beast Seal."

"Ah, this..." The queen mother was surprised and coughed a few times.She hurriedly covered her mouth with Sipa and calmed down.

"You probably noticed too...it doesn't look like an ordinary beast at all. The soul living in its body belongs to human beings."

Bai Shuyu briefly explained to her the reason why Xiao Yuntian suddenly appeared from the "different space".The Queen Mother looked even more confused, "Could it be that... its appearance is really just a coincidence?"

"Mother, you can tell me what you think."

"Alas..." the queen mother sighed in a low voice, "The Ai family thought that the reason why Mao Tuan appeared next to the emperor by coincidence was related to that incident back then. After all, Mao Tuan, who was the first generation of beast soul hundreds of years ago The regiment disappeared after the death of Bai Zeyu's ancestor, and no one knew what it was thinking."

She stared faintly at Xiao Yuntian, "What kind of thoughts does Mao Tuan have towards Bai Zeyu's ancestor, or the entire Bai family? Is it resentment, or forgiveness..."

Xiao Yuntian knew it in his heart.The Empress Dowager was worried, probably because of the former possibility.Back then, the villains of the Bai family had hatred for the Maotuans. If the first-generation beast soul suddenly appeared beside the royal family, he would doubt the reason for this.

"Your Majesty, please help me 'connect' to the Empress Dowager's spiritual consciousness."

Xiao Yuntian's voice suddenly came from Bai Shuyu's mind.Mao Tuan wanted to talk to the Queen Mother.

After hesitating for a moment, he still activated his pupil power.The queen mother was affected by the fluctuation of spiritual power, and she was in a trance: "This is...?"

"Hi, Queen Mother, my name is Xiao Yuntian. It is the Shuangxue fairy group in front of you."

The queen mother looked at Mao Tuan, and found that Mao Tuan was really staring at her closely, her eyes were sincere and did not flicker.

"Your name is...Xiao Yuntian?"

"Yes, I am honored to meet the Queen Mother."

Mao Tuan stood upright unsteadily, and saluted the Queen Mother with her two front paws together.

"Ah, you... have something to say, please."

Xiao Yuntian said seriously to the queen mother: "As the emperor said, I came from another world by accident, and my soul was embedded in Mao Tuan's body. I don't know much about the Mao Tuan race and the Bai family.

However, the Empress Dowager can let go of this worry.Because I didn't come here to seek revenge, nor did I deliberately get close to him in order to ask the emperor for something.The grievances and grievances hundreds of years ago have nothing to do with me.Besides... In the past hundreds of years, the victims and murderers have long been turned into dust, and no matter how deep the grievances are, they have to be put down.Regardless of humans or aliens, one should not stick to the past, but should look forward, right? "

"And..." Mao Tuan rolled forward a few times, and just fell from the edge of the table into Bai Shuyu's arms.Tuanzi tightly grasped Bai Shuyu's arm, with firm eyes, said: "I have already sworn to the emperor, no matter what happens, I will always stay by the emperor's side and never leave."

These words obviously surprised the Queen Mother.Her gaze flicked back and forth between the hairball and the emperor.

Bai Shuyu was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice was a little choked up: "Mother, he promised me just like this yesterday... It's just, it's just me..."

He looked at Xiao Yuntian, with a touch of sadness and guilt in his eyes. "I was shaken for a moment just now. Xiao Yuntian, maybe I'm not worth it..."

"Stop talking, Your Majesty, just relax." Mao Tuan stretched out his little paw and patted his chest, "I have no right or ability to intervene in the past of the royal family. But the future of the Emperor will be guarded by me, Mao Tuan!"

He boldly shouted the words from the bottom of his heart.Although it sounds a bit too hot-blooded, but this is his sincere words.

After speaking, Xiao Yuntian suddenly found that Bai Shuyu and the Queen Mother were staring at him in a daze.The emperor's eye sockets were a little hot and humid, and there were light tears in the long and narrow phoenix eyes.

In addition to being surprised, the Queen Mother felt even more moved: "You..." smiled again, "It's like this, very good, very good..."