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In front of him, Song Li, who looked a little stiff, turned his head and blinked his eyes, trying his best to signal Song Yufeng to stop talking.
Although Song Zhihao was an elder of the Later Jin clan who had just been promoted to the Deer Ship a few decades ago, he was already a powerful figure in the family, otherwise it would not have been his turn to garrison this "large thunder stone vein".
If you really pissed off this person, you wouldn't be killed on the spot, but there would be too many ways that the other person could do it secretly, and you might even be severely injured on the spot.
Song Yufeng didn't seem to notice Song Li's gesture at all, and the words in his mouth still didn't stop.
This also completely exhausted Song Zhihao's patience. As a newly promoted patriarch of the family, he has already entered the top ranks. In recent decades, he has been respected by everyone and can make changes with his words and deeds.
How could he endure Song Yufeng's repeated provocations and questions?
"The evidence is conclusive, but you are still messing around and disturbing the order. According to the family law, the Xinhuo Ancestral Aperture should be abolished and expelled from the family!"
As he spoke, the fourth-level coercion he had just restrained surged out again, crashing down on Song Yufeng's old body below.
"Old Zhihao clan, no!"
Song Lizhen didn't expect Song Zhihao's reaction to be so great. He abolished the Xinhuo Ancestral Aperture and was expelled from the family. This was a punishment for a huge crime. Song Yufeng's previous behavior was far less than this.
However, Song Zhihao didn't pay attention to Song Li, whose expression changed drastically. His eyes were gloomy and his attitude was extremely firm.
And before his own pressure was about to be fully exerted on Song Yufeng, he added one last sentence lightly.
"Ancestor, please seek justice? As the guard with full authority over this Thunder Stone Mine, I am the Ancestor here!!"
This voice was calm, and there was no sense of disobedience coming from Song Zhihao's mouth, as if it was true as he said, in this thunder stone mine, he, Song Zhihao, was the sky that shrouded everyone's heads.
Behind Song Li, there was no fluctuation in Song Yufeng's turbid eyes. Under the gaze of Song Zhihao, Song Li, Song Lu, and a large number of mining slaves around him, he slowly took out something from the Xinhuo Ancestral Aperture, one that emitted a faint black light. of jade.
The moment he caught the obscure black light emitting from the jade, Song Zhihao's pupils shrank from high in the air.
He seemed to think of something.
The cold, sinister and other emotions that were originally gathered on his face subsided slightly, and turned into a trace of surprise.
But before he could think any more, Song Yufeng, who was just holding the jade in his hand, spoke again.
"Ancestor please seek justice!"
As he spoke, before the pressure of life in the sky came down, the nether energy surged in his body and slowly poured into the jade in his hand.
With the injection of these strands of ghostly energy, the jade that originally only emitted a faint black light suddenly became full of black light, and the jade quickly floated into the air from the palm of Song Yufeng's hand.
The next second, under the eyes of tens of thousands of creatures in the Thunder Stone Mine, eternal black light covered the entire sky of the mine. When the black light dissipated again, a projection of a battleship of staggering size appeared in the sky of the Thunder Stone Mine.
"People from the Song clan have met Chi Zu!!"
Seeing clearly the projection of the battleship above their heads that blocked the sky and the sun, all the Song family members in the Thunder Stone Mine bowed in unison.
Inside the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Chi ignored these. His eyes moved down and fell on Song Yufeng, who was covered in blood.
"What happened?"
The words echoed over the entire mine through the battleship, but Song Chi was a little surprised in his heart.
Song Yufeng was the steward of the family's Longji branch in Morning Star Yanglu when he arrived in Chenxingyanglu. He had just been included in the family line at that time and his reputation had not yet been established. However, under this situation, the other party still tried his best to help. I helped him a lot.
At that time, he took the initiative to express his gratitude to the other party, which was also the reason why he subsequently handed over a projection emperor stone to the other party.
He originally thought that this projection emperor stone would be used in the alien star realm, but he did not expect that Song Yufeng would use it here, which really surprised him.
But since the other party has been activated, he naturally won't say anything and directly asks about the specific situation that happened here before.
Under the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Zhihao, who had recovered from shock and panic, hurriedly spoke:
"The family's new captain, Song Zhihao, met Chi Zu. Here's what happened..."
Before he could finish speaking, a powerful psionic energy suddenly emitted from the projection of the dreadnought, completely surrounding Song Zhihao.
At this moment, Song Zhihao was just like Song Yufeng before. His whole body was under strong pressure. However, Song Chi had a sense of proportion. This pressure only made Song Zhihao's words stop abruptly and did not cause him any injuries.
After all, he still doesn't understand the cause and effect of the matter, and he can't yet judge who is right and who is wrong.
"Let him speak!"
After receiving Song Chi's signal, Song Yufeng quickly recounted the entire incident in detail.
After listening, the pressure emanating from the projection of the battleship above the mine became heavier again, making it difficult for the creatures in the entire mine to even breathe.
Inside the battleship projection, the distraction projected by Song Chi was now filled with anger. The oppression emanating from the entire battleship projection was far ten to a hundred times stronger than the outside world.
According to what Song Yufeng said before, there were people guarding the Thunder Stone Mine who were stealing and appropriating the clan's property. The key was that after being discovered, they killed the discoverer on the spot without any scruples. They even turned against Tiangang and stole the clan's property. The blame for the crime was pinned on a dead man, which can be said to cover the sky with one hand.
If this matter is true, Song Chi simply can't imagine that under the leadership of several of them who work hard to govern and care about the family, the family has become so corrupt?
Thinking about it, he turned his eyes and looked at Song Li in front of Song Yufeng.
He had some impression of this person.
"Are you from the Inspection Hall?"
"Hui Chizu, grandson Song Li, is currently the captain of the 6th inspection team under the inspection hall."
Hearing this, Song Chi nodded lightly.
"In that case, tell me, is what Song Yufeng just said true?"
Song Li did not reply immediately, but organized his words for a while, and then slowly said under the gaze of Song Zhihao, who stared at the dark eyes above:
"Back to Chi Zu, it is not certain whether it is true that he is a grandson, but there are indeed many doubts in this case."
Without the need for Song Chi to ask, Song Li continued to talk about several doubtful points in his opinion.
"First of all, Song Xing was killed by the Zhihao clan elder himself. The reason was that Song Xing had embezzled clan property. But even if that was the case, there was no need to kill him directly. After capturing him, he handed it over to the Inspection Hall. All members of the family knew it. This is the most reasonable way, and it is not like a captain of the same rank who can suppress it with a flip of his hand, but also directly kills him. This move of the Zhihao clan does have a certain meaning of concealment. "
"Secondly, according to our investigation, although Rongxing did sneak into the depths of the mines, the same was true for Manager Song Lu."
"Finally, according to the information we collected from the family before we came here, in the past two hundred years or so, Steward Song Lu's ship's combat power has always been at the lower middle level among its peers. However, since it fell to this Thunder Stone After the mine, not only was he quickly promoted to a cruiser, but his ship's combat power was also extremely strong among cruisers of the same level. Coincidentally, he had only rarely explored alien star fields, and basically stayed in this thunderstone mine all year round. Within the field.”
When Song Li explained the three doubtful points in a clear and coherent manner, Song Lu's eyes suddenly widened and he immediately retorted:
"Captain Song Li, have you seen with your eyes that I rarely participate in the exploration of the alien star field? I happened to obtain quite a few rare objects during an exploration of the alien star field decades ago. It is not normal for the ship to have a higher combat power. ?”
Song Chi was too lazy to pay attention to this meaningless excuse. He stopped his hand and removed the nether energy around Song Zhihao, allowing him to regain his ability to speak.
"Zhihao, do you have anything to say about these items? Think about it before you answer!"
Facing Song Chi's plain inquiry, Song Zhihao's heart tightened. He was deeply impressed by Song Chi and knew Song Chi's status in the clan very well.
But his answer was very quick.
"Chizu, you can't listen to the words of a family about this kind of thing. The reason why I took action to kill Song Xing is because the other party has embezzled a huge amount of family property in recent decades. There are more than a hundred low-level thunder crystals alone, and the number of mid-level thunder crystals is It’s more than ten, it’s hard to forgive!” “As for Song Lu, I don’t know anything about this person.”
In the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Chi was distracted and flashed a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"Okay, since you said it yourself, as a senior member of the family, I naturally believe you, but..."
He changed his voice and looked at Song Lu below.
Understanding the meaning of his words, Song Zhihao breathed a sigh of relief and rolled his eyes, and then said softly:
"Chi Zu, since this person is suspected, do you need me to have someone go down and interrogate him?"
Song Chi shook his head without any hesitation.
"No, I can let him speak."
As he spoke, a faint light shot out from the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong.
The dim light accurately penetrated the eyebrows of Song Lu, whose face was pale below.
The next second, the expression on Steward Song Lu's face suddenly changed. He was no longer nervous as before. Instead, he raised his head and looked respectfully at the projection of the Tianxu Cangqiong above, as if the Tianxu Cangqiong was everything to him at this moment.
"Chizu, this..."
Song Zhihao was shocked deep in his eyes, but he concealed it well and quickly turned around.
Song Chi ignored his reaction and asked first:
"Let me ask you, does Song Xing have a grudge against you?"
When the first question came out, Song Lu seemed to be a different person below, and he respectfully replied:
"Sir, yes!"
Song Chi then asked again for the second time.
"Why did Song Xing die?"
"My lord, I was killed by the Zhihao clan elder himself."
Under the projection of the battleship, Song Zhihao's breathing was extremely slow, and unknowingly, he clenched his fists tightly.
However, this could not stop Song Chi from asking the third question:
"Why do you want to kill Song Xing?"
"Sir, because Song Xing..."
At this point, Song Lu's voice stopped abruptly.
Seeing this sudden movement, the expressions of Song Yufeng, Song Li and others below all changed, and they raised their heads full of doubts.
Coincidentally, faint words had already come out from the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong at this moment.
"Have you signed a confidentiality agreement? It's really interesting!"
Talking to himself, Song Chi's voice suddenly changed.
"Zhihao, what do you think?"
This sudden change of voice shocked Song Zhihao's already increasingly nervous mood.
At this point, basically those who are interested can already guess the general outline of the matter.
Taking advantage of the frightening moment, another ray of light shot out. This time, it was no longer Song Lu's eyebrows, but Song Zhihao's.
The two lasings of light naturally came from the [Master-Servant Contract] component.
The [Master-Servant Contract] component focuses on the voluntariness of both parties. If it is forced to sign, the success rate will be greatly reduced.
So Song Chi caught him in a daze and fired the light of the contract in order to increase the success rate. In addition, he was two levels higher than the opponent, and finally successfully completed the signing of the contract.
As Song Zhihao's frightened expression suddenly turned to respect, Song Chi quickly issued the order.
"Tell me the whole story without missing a beat."
"Yes, Master."
After signing the master-servant contract, although Song Zhihao did not lose his subjective consciousness, he was completely unable to resist the instructions of his master Song Chi. In the end, he could only tell the whole story in detail.
"Hahaha, this is the new generation of the family. They embezzle family property, kill people indiscriminately, and are selfish... It's really disgusting!"
After hearing Song Zhihao personally say that he had appointed Song Lu to secretly trade [Thunder Crystal], and that after being discovered by Song Xing, he directly killed people in order to cover up, Song Yufeng from below burst into laughter.
There was deep sorrow and hatred in this laughter, and it was indescribably heartbreaking.
Once upon a time, this old man loved his family so much. He was proud to be born in the Dinghai Song family, and he dedicated his whole life to the family.
At that time, how could he have imagined that the family he loved so much would be in such a bad state just a few hundred years ago.
Song Chi didn't stop him, or he felt the same in his heart at the moment.
He clearly remembered that the atmosphere of the family in the past was much better than it is now. There might be fights between different branches, but it was definitely a healthy competition within the rules, and it was definitely not what it is now.
After a long silence, his hoarse voice sounded over the entire mine:
"The family has developed too fast in the past few hundred years, and its strength has indeed improved a lot, but it has also resulted in a lot of worms and scum. The family will soon give a satisfactory explanation to all the clan members!"
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After speaking, he made some new arrangements for the subsequent management of the mine.
After doing this, the illusory hull of the Tianxu Cangqiong slowly turned from virtual to real, taking Song Zhihao and Song Lu, including Song Li, Song Yufeng and others, back to the Dragon's Back tens of thousands of light years away. mainland.
Dragon's Back Sacred Mountain, Dragon Whale Hall.
After listening to everything Song Chi retold, the six people in the hall all looked extremely ugly.
This situation is extremely rare for the entire family's three thousand years of inheritance, not to mention that the instigator is a Zhulu Captain.
It was unimaginable for them before.
"This matter must be dealt with as soon as possible, and I think this may not be an exception!"
"I agree. The family has developed so fast in the past few hundred years that many young people have become very impetuous and extravagant. The family atmosphere has indeed been affected a lot in recent years."
"After all, we made a miscalculation. We only focused on improving the strength of the family, but ignored the internal management of the family, which allowed some people to emerge who are enjoying the success but are still not satisfied."
"Investigate, we must investigate strictly. All those who have committed serious corruption and evil will be hanged after strict investigation. We must not let them go unchecked!"
"Otherwise, after taking my Dragon Backbone Song family for thousands of years, I still don't know how bad it will be!"
(End of chapter)