novelraw Chapter 276 Mysterious Boy
Chapter 276 Mysterious Boy
Chapter 276 Mysterious Boy
The Zhou Family Manor in the Fantasy Continent.
Bertha hesitated for a moment before asking, "Zhou Ze, what will you do with Jia Duo?"
Zhou Ze, with his arm around Bertha, smiled slightly and asked, "What do you plan to do with him?"
Bertha felt a warmth in her heart, but hesitated and said, "I think we should see what he's actually doing behind the scenes—"
"Okay, I'm a little curious about what he's been up to behind the scenes to get the company to issue such an order." Zhou Ze was indeed quite curious.
Let alone a mere prince, even if a high-level cosmic emperor did something heinous, the company shouldn't personally intervene. Could this guy have committed treason?
"Let's go, let's interrogate Jia Duo," Zhou Ze said softly.
Flying with Bertha to the courtyard where Gado was being held captive, Zhou Ze looked at a young Dream Clan warrior in battle armor who was guarding him and said:
"Thank you, Neil. Your mission is complete. I'm going to interrogate Gato now."
Neil couldn't help but grin and said, "That's great, Your Highness. It's so boring to stay here all the time."
"Haha, then go and wander around the capital. You probably don't come here very often, do you?" Zhou Ze chuckled.
"I've been here a few times. The imperial city of the advanced human universe is much more interesting than our own territory," Neil laughed.
"Okay, you go ahead and look around. Bertha and I can stay here."
Zhou Ze dismissed Neil and then entered the gate with Bertha.
This room is a secret chamber. The only way out is through the main door. The chamber is so sturdy that even an immortal being would not be able to break through it.
"Bessa—no—sister, please spare me, for Father's sake—"
When Jiaduo saw Zhou Ze and Bertha come in together, he kept begging for mercy.
"If you spare me, I will never dare to compete with you for the throne again."
Bertha snapped, "Shut up, Gato! Be smart and tell us what you've been doing behind our backs, or no one can save you."
"You've got some nerve, getting the company to personally order His Highness to take action. Heh—"
"What do you think you did that the company's intelligence system can't detect?"
Jiaduo feigned confusion, repeatedly protesting his innocence: "I don't know—"
Zhou Ze asked calmly, "What kind of business relationship do you have with the Black family?"
Jia Duolian said, "Actually, there's not much interaction. At most, we just support them in forcibly seizing other people's planets, but we also paid them money." Zhou Ze frowned, glanced at Bertha, and said, "It seems we won't get anything out of them by asking. In that case, I'll investigate myself."
"Don't worry, I'm very skilled; it won't cause any damage to your soul."
Zhou Ze's expression changed, and his powerful will directly crushed Jia Duo's will. Then, he used his soul power to enter the soul crystal in Jia Duo's sea of consciousness and search for Jia Duo's memories.
Soon, Zhou Ze discovered what Jia Duo had done.
"Thump!"
After searching his memories, Jia Duo lay unconscious on the ground. Zhou Ze kept his word and did not harm his soul, but his will was broken, and he would inevitably be unconscious for a period of time.
"Goodness, this guy's got guts," Zhou Ze muttered.
Bertha, who was standing nearby, quickly asked, "What did this kid do wrong?"
Zhou Ze smiled enigmatically: "Now I understand why this guy provoked our company to take direct action."
"His actions have escalated to the point of betraying humanity," Bertha's beautiful eyes narrowed. "As expected, otherwise why would the company personally intervene?"
"Zhou Ze, what exactly did he do behind the scenes? Would you mind telling me?"
Zhou Ze smiled faintly: "This guy is simply courting death. He actually made a deal with a powerful king in secret, to become a henchman of the Heavenly Saint King and help the Heavenly Saint King enslave the peerless genius of the Illusionary Dream Universe Kingdom."
"To be honest, he originally had his eye on me, but this guy has some self-awareness; he knows what he's capable of and what he's not..."
"Heavenly Saint King!" Bertha exclaimed gravely, "I never expected this matter to involve a King-level figure. We must report this to the company immediately."
Zhou Ze nodded: "Yeah, but I reckon the company has already found out. Maybe the Holy King has already been arrested by now."
Zhou Ze had Babata submit an email, and a reply came quickly, just as Zhou Ze had expected.
"The company already knew. The matter with Tian Sheng Wang has been resolved. The remaining tasks are just something I'm given to handle as assignments."
Zhou Ze said to Bertha.
"I never imagined that the Heavenly Saint King would have such ambitions," Bertha sighed.
"It's just a crooked path—" Zhou Ze said disdainfully, "but your brother has been completely blinded by the throne."
"Besides that, he also secretly enslaved your butler Will and maintained contact with that barbarian, leaking your whereabouts in order to gain his support."
"There are many other things that can't be discussed openly—"
Bertha's face grew increasingly grim: "Will, I never expected that Gado would dare to enslave my butler!"
Her butler had been taking care of her since birth, so there was some affection between them. She never imagined he'd be secretly enslaved by this guy. "Damn my birth!"
With a wave of her hand, Bertha sent Gato flying through the air, slamming him hard against the wall in the distance.
"And that disgusting bastard Man Feng, trying to seduce me!"
Bertha controlled Gado with her immortal divine power, tossing him back and forth for a long time. Only because she deliberately controlled her strength, otherwise a single blow would have been enough to kill Gado instantly.
After venting for a while, Bertha said with inexplicable irritation, "That guy got off too easy. He's unconscious now and doesn't feel anything at all. What a pity..."
Zhou Ze patted Bertha on the back: "Calm down, what are you planning to do to this guy!"
Bertha roared, "Killing him is too easy! Lock him up in the Star Prison and torture him to the bone, make him suffer as much as possible—"
"How dare they secretly enslave Will, sigh—"
Bertha was trembling slightly; Will's place in her heart was indeed extraordinary.
Zhou Ze was too lazy to get involved in the trial, so he handed it over to the court. Whether the defendant lived or died was none of his business.
However, Zhou Ze received an email from one of his guards, which piqued his interest.
After waiting for some time, all of Zhou Ze's guards returned to the Zhou family manor on the Dream Continent. One of the guards, a Realm Lord level expert, came to Zhou Ze's side.
He handed over a world ring and said:
"Your Highness, the child is sleeping inside the World Ring—"
"Okay, you can go down first, let me take a look," Zhou Ze said with a slight smile.
"Yes!" The guard bowed respectfully and withdrew.
After the guards left, Zhou Ze had a thought and entered the world ring, arriving at the top of the mountain range in the center of the continent.
This is the top of a mountain that has been flattened. In the center of the flat surface, there is a young man who looks like a teenager. He is not much different from an Earthling, except that there is a golden secret mark between his eyebrows.
The boy was currently being lifted up by the power of a realm lord, suspended in mid-air. His eyes were closed, and he was in a deep sleep.