After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

He looked up at the room where Zhong Ning was and was horrified.

No wonder, no wonder she treated Fang Ping differently.

It turns out that they are not from this world at all.

He recalled the rumors in the palace that Fang Ping had once told Emperor Yong that his poems and songs were not the result of his own talent, but rather the result of an inadvertent dream in another world where he had received teachings from an immortal.

Looking back now, this so-called alien world is actually his original world.

Qi Yu recalled that when he was in Fengcheng County, he had interrogated Zhong Ning's so-called adoptive mother and brother in the Tianlao. In their words, Zhong Ning was a taciturn person who could not say a word.

Not only does he not know martial arts, he is also illiterate.

Whenever she met someone, she always lowered her head, which resulted in no one in the entire village being able to truly remember her face under her thick bangs.

Even when she came to her senses later and decided to leave the village and go into the mountains, she accidentally became a disciple and learned martial arts.

But can learning martial arts really change a person's personality so drastically in a short period of time?

Can learning a martial art really turn a taciturn person who can't speak two words in a year into the eloquent person he is today?

Today he understood all the things that he couldn't understand in the past.

No wonder she said she was not Xu Xiaocao, but Zhong Ning.

I originally thought that she just thought the name Xu Xiaocao was not nice, but now I know that Xu Xiaocao belongs here, and Zhong Ning belongs to her.

Qi Yu clenched his palms slightly, watched Shen Yan enter the room, and immediately started practicing his martial arts again. He was now standing just within five meters, and with this martial art, he could hear all the sounds he wanted to hear within this distance.

He was glad to be standing here today.

If not, he would probably still be kept in the dark and would always be an outsider, an outsider that she could abandon at any time.

In the bedroom, Zhong Ning's voice came again: "Are you feeling better?"

Shen Yan took a seat not far from her and replied, "I've recovered... Aning... I have a question for you..."

Zhong Ning raised his eyebrows slightly, "You say!"

"That Fang Ping, is he, is he the same as you?" Shen Yan pondered for a moment and decided to speak directly.

"Um..."

"No wonder... I heard earlier that this Master Fang was a poet who had descended to earth. He could recite famous poems from ancient times, with a very unique style... Now it seems that these poems are the product of your era..."

"After the Chongyang Palace Banquet, he rarely wrote poetry anymore. At that time, my son had just arrived here and was trapped in this situation. He had no idea what to do. This was a necessary means of making a living. I think you should understand!"

Zhong Ning's eyes were serious, and Shen Yan immediately understood.

Shen Yan lowered his head and looked at Zhong Ning sitting at the table, looking calm and casually brewing tea foam with a tea lid.

She was wearing a plain robe that was comfortable and decent, her three thousand black hair hung softly on her shoulders, her face was not made up, and her slender fingers were casually placed on the table. She no longer looked as sad and sorrowful as he had imagined.

It can be seen that Fang Ping’s conversation just now played a very important role.

Suddenly, he remembered the song praising the motherland, and then he asked again: "What is that song...?"

"It's from our country, a revolutionary song, I guess. Fang Ping probably understood that I was homesick at the time, so I suddenly sang this song..."

Shen Yan was silent for a moment, a hint of sadness flashed in his eyes, and asked, "Are you leaving soon?"

"I don't know. Everything is unknown now..." Zhong Ning smiled calmly, and then said, "There are still some things I need to do before I leave."

"By the way, have those people contacted you?" Zhong Ning suddenly remembered that she had arranged spies in Yingjibo's mansion in Shen Yan. If any strangers contacted him, she would receive the news.

But if the other party has made careful arrangements and sneaks into the mansion without being discovered, it is possible. After all, it is a private army that the Duke of England spent a lot of effort to form.

His strength is enough to make him a formidable opponent that can challenge the Black Dragon Guard!

It is very possible that the eyeliner cannot detect it!

Shen Yan clenched his fingers slightly, then moved slightly closer to Zhong Ning, as if he wanted to whisper in his ear!

Zhong Ning tilted her right ear, pretending to listen, and then a low and magnetic voice sounded in her ear: "They have secretly sent people to contact me, wanting to serve under me!"

Zhong Ning glanced sideways slightly, almost meeting Shen Yan's handsome face head-on. She suddenly stepped back an inch, but heard Shen Yan's low laugh.

"Your Highness, I know that they have tried to assassinate Your Highness many times..." Shen Yan retracted his smile, lowered his voice, and continued:

"But that was under Fu Lin's instructions... According to them, the reason they robbed the Heavenly Prison was because of the Duke of Ying's will. Only Fu Lin knew where the antidote was, and only Fu Lin could keep them alive."

"I'm not speaking for them. I just feel that His Highness is in dire straits right now, and it's time to use someone."

"Although these people are not good people and each of them has killed people, they are good at doing dirty things. If there are some things that Your Highness is not in a position to handle, you might as well let them handle them."

"Your Highness," Shen Yan continued, "Of course, this is partly for your sake, but also partly for my own selfish reasons. Seeing their miserable state, I suddenly feel as if they never had the right to choose their own lives."

"From the beginning to the end, they were just pawns in the hands of those in power, unable to influence their words or actions."

"Not long after they were born, they were taken to a secret base by the British. They were constantly soaked in various drugs and lived in a place without sunlight since they were young."

"If they don't obey orders, they will die. They are used to fighting for survival rather than dying silently."

"No matter what kind of person we are about to face!"

Zhong Ning lowered his eyebrows, then stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

If this is true, then these people can be said to be no different from secret guards.

Controlled by poisons since childhood and living a life of inhuman training, they do not look like humans but more like machines.

An emotionless, endless killing machine!

If such machines kill people, the blame should be on their owners. Now that their owners are dead, if they were to wander among the people, there would be a risk of endangering society and the people.

If such a team is used well, it should be a sharp sword.

Now that she wants to participate in politics, she urgently needs a team that can help her deal with the dirty work. Although the Black Dragon Guards are good, they are the emperor's close ministers after all, so she can't get too involved.

However, there were many corrupt officials who colluded with each other internally and externally, sold official positions and titles, and occupied fertile land. She needed someone to stand outside the law and execute a group of people who were difficult to deal with openly.

"Do you know how many people are left?" Zhong Ning asked, with a hint of excitement in his expression.

"Originally there were about 300 people, but now there are less than 70 left!" Shen Yan replied, then seemed to think of something and asked, "Does His Highness agree?"

"They came to you, probably thinking you had the antidote and wanted to survive. But do you have it?"

Shen Yan:..........

He actually had an antidote, but it wasn't the antidote from the Duke of Ying's Mansion. Instead, it was a backup that Zhong Ning had deliberately left on him when that thing was stripped off. He only discovered this later.

It was a small transparent space with many small bottles displayed inside. He once found a bottle of pills called Detoxification Pills among them.