That night.
In the guest room on the second floor of the tavern.
The Son of God stood by the window and looked out at the brightly lit imperial capital. From this angle, it was undoubtedly a prosperous city.
The endless lights are like the stars in the sky, and at the end of the starry sky is the imperial palace, hidden in the night, with shadows and a huge outline.
Retracting his gaze, the Son of God turned his head and looked at Ning Qingxuan who was sitting quietly in the chair, with a somewhat gloomy expression.
"I don't like it here. The air is filled with unpleasant smells. Even if I try my best to reduce my perception, I can still hear all kinds of wailing."
The fox ears hidden among the pink hair trembled slightly.
The wailing she was talking about was naturally not made by humans in reality, but rather a unique atmosphere created by the countless sins of this city. It is difficult for ordinary people to perceive, but it makes the fox demon who has achieved success in cultivation extremely uncomfortable.
"Little guy, do you know what I just saw? A few children killed an old woman on the spot in an alley and robbed her of her last money and food - those children were not even ten years old, right?"
"You can say they are wrong. But in the final analysis, it is this world that is wrong." Ning Qingxuan didn't seem to care much about such things.
He really didn't care.
Standing at the pinnacle of the Shenzhou Empire, Ning Qingxuan, who has no one above her except her father Ning Junkang, the emperor, knows very well that even in Shenzhou, which appears to be peaceful, prosperous and full of happiness, there is a darkness beneath its splendor that is unbearable to look at.
Ruling is never achieved by everyone joining hands and singing praises.
Power always requires absolute violence to maintain.
From childhood to adulthood, Ning Qingxuan has seen too many secrets and tricks. No one knows better than him what the saying "human hearts are like devils" means.
Even his own father, an emperor who could be called a more benevolent monarch than Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, had killed countless people at his hands - and among these people, how many were truly guilty of heinous crimes?
In this respect, Daxia is no different from other civilizations, or even from this empire.
Is the Shenzhou Empire sacred?
In Ning Qingxuan's view, throughout history, no empire has been sacred, both in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad.
However, in the long process of historical and cultural development, the sages of Daxia have gradually injected silent warmth into the core of Han civilization, restricted people's desires with concepts such as the Way of Heaven and benevolence and righteousness, and covered it with a layer of so-called kingly education.
But if this outer coat is lifted up and exposed to the scorching sun, what is revealed is a bloody conquest for the righteous cause of "all land under heaven belongs to the king", and a massacre of people who would not allow others to sleep soundly beside their own bed.
If Daxia is really so "warm and loving", how could there be such words filled with blood and tears as "The kingdom cannot be half-hearted, and the Han and the Hu cannot coexist"?
Do you really think that the vast base of the Huxia people and the rich and vast territory in the core area of the Han Dynasty were given by God for free?
What Daxia seeks is nothing more than the greatest common divisor that can satisfy and accept the vast majority of people.
But it is just this tiny difference that makes Daxia and the empire of this world, one becomes the Celestial Empire, and the other is corrupt, decaying and dying.
The Son of God was obviously in a very bad mood. She had seen information about this world from Ning Qingxuan before, but words on paper were one thing and seeing it with one's own eyes was another.
Just what she saw and heard half a day after entering the city was enough to make Shen Zi, a fox who always laughed at the world and seemed to just smile at everything humans did with an "interesting" look, get angry.
"I thought Inazuma's current situation was bad enough, especially after seeing your empire. But now, compared with this world, why do I suddenly feel that the wooden general and wooden shadow are doing pretty well?"
In the Pure Land of One Heart, Ying was already upset after hearing this: Son of God, you are going too far! If you don't understand eternity, why don't you just stop talking nonsense!
The angry Ying even puffed up his cheeks like a child.
After understanding the situation of the world of Akame ga Kill through the general's perspective, Kage's obsession with pursuing eternity not only did not weaken, but became even more persistent.
Look, this is the result of letting mortals deal with it on their own. These guys need a god to guide them - and give them a knife by the way.
Hmm? Why don't you go see Shenzhou?
Ying just acted like an ostrich and subconsciously ignored this question.
Just at this moment, there were rhythmic knocks on the door of the room.
Ning Qingxuan raised her eyes slightly and said, "Come in."
After a while, the fat tavern owner entered the room and knelt on one knee in front of Ning Qingxuan.
"I am Xilan, a member of the Lanying Cijiaqian 175th Squad, and I am here to see His Highness!"
"No need to be polite. Stand up."
Ning Qingxuan raised her right hand, and the proprietress immediately stood up and bowed to the general and the son of God respectively: "I greet Miss Ying and Miss Son of God."
The Son of God ran to Xilan and circled around her, exclaiming in amazement: "What a great disguise! How did you do it? Come on, let me see."
Xi Lan remained calm and completely ignored the Son of God. He stood in front of Ning Qingxuan with his head slightly lowered from beginning to end.
"Okay, take off your disguise. You look weird to me."
"Here——!"
Xilan finally reacted, which made Shen Zi stamp his feet in anger.
No one knew what Xilan did, but she took off a layer of camouflage coat deftly, just like a snake shedding its skin. In an instant, she changed from a bloated, ordinary, and even ugly tavern proprietress to a young girl with a graceful and powerful figure due to years of exercise.
Although her appearance is not that stunning, she is definitely above average. If she could dress up a little, she would probably be as good as some of the famous actors in Pingkangfang.
"How is the situation you were asked to investigate?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, I and my colleagues have thoroughly understood the layout of the imperial capital and have hurriedly produced a map with the imperial capital as the core.
We have also figured out the hiding place of Night Raid, their contact code, and the way to contact the revolutionary army.
We can send misleading information to the revolutionary army at any time instead of Night Raid."
"We have also collected important information about the homes of the nobles of this world empire, the distribution of imperial tools and ministerial tools, etc."
"The only person beside the general named Esdeath is my humble servant. I am incompetent and have never been able to place anyone there. I have done my job poorly, please punish me, Your Highness!"
Seeing Xilan's face showing shame at the end, and even kneeling on one knee again, Ning Qingxuan waved her hand and said, "It's okay. I'm here to deal with Esdeath's matter myself this time. She is not someone you can handle."
A strong man who can freeze time and space after using his ultimate move has long been beyond the ability of the elite team of Lanying Ci to handle. Even if Omega Yuriko comes, she will be in trouble.
It can even be said that in this world, the only person that Shenzhou is truly afraid of is Esdeath.
Such a person certainly cannot stop the army of the Shenzhou Empire, nor can she withstand the bombing of various super weapons of Shenzhou, but if she goes crazy, she can cause huge losses to the empire.
With her strong individual combat capability, she must be given enough attention - if she really goes alone to fight in the army of Shenzhou, we can't bomb her own people as well, right?
And once her problem is solved, in the world of Akame ga Kill, nothing will be able to stop the iron torrent of the Shenzhou Empire.
Of course, if possible, Ning Qingxuan would really like General Esdeath to become a general of the Shenzhou Empire.
It is not difficult to do this - just let the general, or myself, beat her into submission.