Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

"Based on your own conditions, you should know best whether what I said makes sense or not."

The imperial concubine continued to speak, and Li Huoyue glared at her with annoyance, but she didn't care.

"Including your brothers, all of them."

The imperial concubine chuckled twice again, just as clear and weak as the first time she was heard yesterday.

"Your eldest brother is in the court, your second brother is in business, your third brother..." The imperial concubine paused here and went on to talk about the next person, "Your fourth brother specializes in intelligence gathering, and your fifth brother happens to have a great talent and interest in medicine."

The imperial concubine helped Li Huoyue count the items one by one.

"Oh, and you, you know almost everything, including your martial arts that allow you to walk alone at night. But you are not bound by modern thinking. You kill anyone who gets in your way. You..."

"That's enough." Li Huoyue interrupted the Imperial Concubine. "I don't need you to explain my situation to me. Please pay more attention to yourself, Imperial Concubine. When the Emperor suddenly comes to his senses one day, you may only be able to stay with the big cauldron over there."

The imperial concubine was not afraid of this threat at all. She giggled freely and lively.

More like a mother.

Li Huoyue originally wanted to ask the imperial concubine if he could choose the body himself, but given the current situation, Li Huoyue no longer wanted to say anything more.

She had a feeling that this woman wouldn't care what she asked.

No matter how you ask, you will definitely get back to the current topic in the end.

Due to the delay of the prince, it is getting late now. The imperial concubine has barely survived and it is time to leave. It is almost time for the palace gates to be locked.

"I know your mother is very capable." Even if there was no other topic, the imperial concubine was still able to speak, "But don't rely too much on your mother. Your mother is not some..."

Li Huoyue laughed out loud.

What the imperial concubine wanted to say was interrupted by the sudden laughter.

"What are you laughing at? You...don't believe it?"

"So?" Li Huoyue asked with a smile, "I have lived with my family for so many years, but because of you, a cheap aunt who showed up halfway, I have fallen into doubt about family affection, right?"

Li Huoyue's words were very different from what the imperial concubine expected. She wondered what kind of magic potion her cousin had given to this child.

The two were silent for a moment, and Li Huoyue walked out the door without any reluctance.

Behind me, the imperial concubine seemed to be talking to herself:

"I didn't tell a lie..."

Li Huoyue did not stop, as if he did not hear anything.

The palace is strange.

As Li Huoyue was walking on the way out of the palace, he pulled out a few books from the bookshelf behind the third brother. The layout of the books was similar to the book he had just thrown to the fourth brother, but the content they covered was very broad.

From biology to selected essays or astronomy encyclopedia, Li Huoyue's scalp tingled when reading them.

So many "banned books" are just left at home, aren't they afraid...

Right.

Li Huoyue figured out why it was chosen to be placed here.

On the one hand, it was because "the light is darkest", and on the other hand, once his father was no longer the special inspector, no one in the Li family could escape.

We're all going to die anyway, so we might as well just leave it here.

Seeing Li Huoyue so absorbed in reading, the others were also attracted over.

The second one was the closest, and he pulled out a book, which turned out to be exactly what he wanted.

"Ha! Sure enough!" The second brother flipped open the book with both hands, his joy evident in words. "It's right here, the discussion on the market and morality. I was only halfway through reading when they urged me to leave. It was as if they were afraid that if I walked too slowly, their base would be burned down."

Li Huoyue: “…” Some things only need to be said once.

"This is interesting, the limited ways to obtain information." The fourth brother also came over and picked up a book at random according to his first impression. As a result, the book attracted his attention from the very beginning.

Li Huoyue seemed to be thinking about something, how could it just happen to be what they were interested in?

Asked: "Did you just pick it up?"

The fourth child answered while reading a book: "What do you mean casually? This is my favorite book. I didn't expect it to become even better!"

Li Huoyue doesn't have a favorite book. The few books she just picked out at random are not only ones she has read in modern times, but she is not very interested in them either.

The eldest brother also came, but he did not immediately take the book. Instead, he looked inside the bookshelf and said, "Fourth brother, are there any paintings hanging behind your bookshelf?"

The fourth brother was reluctant to put down the book in his hand, but since it was his eldest brother who asked the question, he had to temporarily move his eyes away from the book and look behind the bookshelf.

He took out a dozen more books and found that there was indeed a painting behind the bookshelf.

He hurriedly called several other people to come and study together.

Several people took turns to peek into the small space that had been vacated.

The viewing angle through the gap was too limited. Several people looked at it for a long time but couldn't make out what it was. There were red dots and squares on it, which looked like annotations or key pictures.

Li Huoyue asked the third and fourth brothers to move the bookshelf away to reveal the full view of the back. It was impossible for just a few people to guess what was going on.

The third and fourth brothers were the youngest present except for Li Huoyue. The fifth brother was not here today, and there was no one else to serve, so they had to stand symmetrically on either side of the bookshelf.

Although they are twins with identical faces, they are easily distinguishable when they stand together.

Although they quarreled all the time and looked down on each other, when they worked together, they showed the tacit understanding that is unique to twins.

There was almost no need to call out one, two, three. After the two stood still, they lifted up with force at the same time, moved to the right together, and let go at the same time, just as they had agreed beforehand, without any error, as if they were afraid that they would suffer a loss even if they were a second late.

As the two of them moved, the things hidden behind the bookshelf gradually came to light.

A map.

Map of Southland.

"Where... where did this thing come from?" The boss saw something was wrong at first glance, "How come there are city defenses and secret passages?!"

The second brother nodded, his tone heavy with a hint of ridicule: "It's really weird that our entire family hasn't been executed yet."

Li Huoyue deeply agreed.

The third and fourth brothers also stood together with a few others, lined up in a row, and carefully looked at the detailed map of the South.

"What are these red dots?" asked the third brother.

The red dots are not evenly distributed. They can be found in the southeast, northwest, and northeast of the inner and outer cities, but there are obviously fewer in the east and more in the south.

"There's nothing in the northwest corner of the inner city." The boss pointed out the special spot, "This is the imperial palace."

"But there are blocks." The fourth brother pointed to the location of the palace and then pointed his finger to the east. "The situation in the east forest is the same. There are many blocks, but no red dots."