books44 Chapter 512: Yuanshang's Explanation
Chapter 512: Yuanshang's Explanation
Amidst Paimeng's complaints, Gu Chen finally regained his composure. He said to Yuan Shang, who was in the deep pit on the stone wall:
"Well, Master Abe, I did owe you a favor in this matter, I admit that, and I won't pursue it.
But, you still tricked me this time, didn't you? "
The abyss was embedded in it and stopped rolling around:
"Uh... okay, I'm in the wrong this time."
With his hands on his hips, Gu Chen looked a little annoyed:
"I just don't understand. You're controlling the noble officers, and you're inciting the shogunate army to defect and attack Kaijima. Your purpose in going through all this trouble is to enter the Fushima Palace?"
Yuan Shang has an innocent expression:
"Isn't that enough? This is my goal!"
Gu Chen still didn't quite understand:
"Why go through so much trouble? Why go through such a big circle?
Can't you get into Yuanxia Palace by your own strength?
Do we have to interrogate the Coral Palace priestesses in order to open the Moon Bathing Abyss?
Aren’t you going in the opposite direction?”
Yuan Shang was inevitably stunned:
"Do you have some misunderstandings about me? I don't have the ability to enter Yuanxia Palace directly?
If you want to enter the Abyss Palace, you can only go through the Moon Bathing Abyss above.
If you want to enter the Moon Bathing Abyss, you can only interrogate the priestesses of the Coral Palace. Only they know the procedures!"
Hearing this, a question mark popped up in Gu Chen's head:
"Ah? Is there such a thing?
Don't you have those blue-black portals in the Abyss? You can't enter the Abyss Palace through that portal?"
Then the look in Yuanshang's eyes when he looked at Gu Chen changed a little:
"You really do understand me a little bit, knowing that I come from the abyss.
But it seems... I don’t really understand it.
I always feel like you overestimate us.
Yes, we can indeed travel through space to a certain extent through that blue-black space gate.
But that also has a premise.”
"What premise?"
“It must be a place we have been to and left space coordinates, so that we can open that blue-black space door.
I've never been to Yuanxia Palace before, so I don't have any spatial coordinates left, so I can't get in! If I want to get in, I can only use the conventional method!"
After hearing this, Gu Chen suddenly understood.
So that’s how it is. It sounds reasonable!
However, in the original game plot, Huangmao struggled hard to enter Yuanxia Palace, but when he came in and reached the ruins of the library, the old man Yuanshang was already waiting for him there!
The abyss there was like the abyss palace that was sneaked into using some special method.
Now it seems that the game and reality are indeed different. Yuanshang has no way to sneak in, and can only use the same difficult method as Huangmao.
The Coral Palace's witch would definitely not tell a stranger how to open the Moon Bath Abyss, so Yuanshang could only resort to this last resort to interrogate him.
Wait, that’s not right!
Gu Chen soon discovered another blind spot and continued to ask:
"Why don't you interrogate the shrine maiden of the Coral Palace? Why do you have to incite the shogunate army to invade Kaijima?
You sneaked to Haizhi Island alone, kidnapped a random shrine maiden quietly, and then interrogated her, right?
Is it really necessary to go to so much trouble?"
In the deep pit with large characters on the wall, Yuan Shang was almost laughing out of anger:
"You don't have the rigor of a scholar at all!
It's so rigorous! Things are not as simple as you think! "
"Appreciate further details."
“First of all, there is a fixed number of priestesses in the Coral Palace, and the Coral Palace will summon the priestesses every day to assign tasks.
If I were to sneak around and kidnap anyone, the Coral Palace would quickly discover a witch was missing and launch an island-wide investigation!"
Gu Chen continued to ask:
"Investigate then. Can't you deal with the Coral Palace?"
Yuan Shang's expression was both angry and funny:
"You overestimate me again!
In the abyss, I am not responsible for fighting, I am only responsible for some clerical work and am a marginal figure!
Yes, I have some fight in me.
But my fighting ability is not up to par yet. I may not be able to hold out against the entire Coral Palace! I might be killed!"
Gu Chen was speechless, but he continued to ask:
"Okay, let's put your combat power aside for now.
Even if you are worried about being hunted by the entire Coral Palace, the worst that can happen is that after you capture the witch, you can just open a space gate and drag her to the abyss for interrogation, right?
Is it necessary to be so afraid of this and that and to look ahead and behind?"
Yuan Shang became even more angry and almost jumped up and down in the deep hole in the stone wall:
"Strict, rigorous! Things are not that easy!
If you want to open the Moon Bath Abyss and enter the Abyss Palace, you need to unlock countless mechanisms and decryptions.
Moreover, these decrypted mechanisms are spread all over Haizhi Island, and I need to run up and down, forward and backward, left and right!
While I'm running around trying to solve those mechanisms, do you think I'll be blocked and hunted down by the Coral Palace?
In addition, in the process of opening the Moon Bath Abyss, special treasures collected by the Coral Palace are also needed, as well as opening some special seals.
Would the Coral Palace allow me to steal the treasure without worry? Would it allow me to open the seal without worry?
You don't care about so many troublesome things at all, right?
It is precisely because of so many troublesome procedures that the Coral Palace cannot be avoided no matter what, so I had no choice but to let the defecting shogunate army directly invade Kaijima!
Only when Haizhi Island is completely under my control, and only when the Coral Palace and the resistance army do not stop me, will I have the time and opportunity to carry out so many complex procedures! "
After listening to this, Gu Chen was thoughtful and understood it.
Makes sense.
It is indeed very troublesome to open the Moon Bath Abyss.
When carrying out so many steps of the process on Yuanshang, in order to avoid being disturbed by the Coral Palace, we can only completely solve the problem of the Coral Palace and Haizhi Island.
That's why he took advantage of the fact that the main force of the resistance army was not on Kaiji Island and killed someone with a borrowed knife, allowing the defected shogunate army to invade Kaiji Island and take over the Coral Palace.
In this way, Yuanshang basically has the final say on Kaiji Island.
No one stopped him, and he could interrogate the witch of Coral Palace in detail.
You can also proceed slowly with the procedures to open the Moon Bath Abyss after the interrogation.
And didn’t Kujo Masahito say that before?
After Yuan Shang interrogated the witch, he disappeared without a trace.
But before leaving, he still ordered these officers to lead the shogunate army to guard Kaijima Island and deal with the rebels who might counterattack at any time.
That is to let the shogunate army buy time for Fuchigami.
As long as the shogunate army keeps the rebels out of Kaijima for as long as possible, Yuanshang will have time to open the Moon Bathing Abyss.
Of course, Yuan Shang, who had planned so much, had never expected that the main force of the resistance in Tengdou Fort would provoke Gu Chen at this time and be defeated and captured by the Qianyan Army.
To a certain extent, all of his actions were in vain.