Girl, there's something wrong with you

Opening the door, it turned out to be Xiaoyun, the housekeeper, who gave him a standard business smile.

Cheng Jinyang moved out of the way, and Xiaoyun came in briskly, picking up the broom and dustpan from the balcony.

"The living room is a little dirty today and needs to be cleaned." It began to clean the floor tiles in the living room and said in a clear voice.

"Really, then I'll trouble you." Cheng Jinyang responded casually.

"It's the same in this world." Xiaoyun still lowered her head, and the indicator light on her temples flickered on and off. "If a dynasty rules for too long, the upper class will easily become corrupted. Flies and dogs, a nest of snakes and rats, will not be able to survive. If you clean it properly, it will just become less and less suitable for human life.”

Cheng Jinyang:? ? ?

Ah, this... housekeeping robot has been hacked?

"Looking at your surprised look, it seems that the family and the royal princess have not told you anything." Xiaoyun, the housekeeping robot, continued to sweep the floor and said lightly, "Why did the Central Plains of China fall? Why did the Sima family become the enemy of the noble clan? Don’t you know any of this?”

Cheng Jinyang was silent for a moment and said:

"Appreciate further details."

"Haha." Seeing that he did not resist, the mastermind behind the hacking of the synthesizers chuckled, "This all starts with Emperor Xuan back then."

"Sima Zhongda was an unparalleled hero who could never be seen again. His literary skills and martial arts were both outstanding. However, in his later years, he also made the same mistake as the First Emperor, which was to pursue immortality."

"Under the auspices of the emperor, mechanical transformation and genetic technology were carried out in parallel, and the entire country was invested in research and development. The former used mechanical parts to replace aging physical organs, while the latter used cloning technology... No matter where Each route is essentially an attempt to delay aging or even defeat death.”

Cheng Jinyang listened quietly, thinking that it was no wonder that the technological level of this world was so high. It turned out that the senior time traveler had launched a Cold War project, but the enemy of the Cold War was not another superpower, but the aging and death of human beings themselves.

"As he reaches his later years, the emperor's temper becomes more cruel. On the one hand, he can clearly feel his own aging, and on the other hand, the level of science and technology has risen too fast, which often makes him have the illusion that the next technological breakthrough will achieve immortality. Therefore, The whole empire was like a steam train running at full speed, and the mad emperor sat in the boiler room, stuffing more coal into the boiler."

"Then, he failed?" Cheng Jinyang asked in a deep voice.

"It failed." The synthetic man said easily. "Even now, immortality has not been achieved, which is enough to show that this technological node is actually much higher than Sima Zhongda expected."

"But what we are talking about is not this, but the aristocratic family."

"In Sima Zhongda's time, aristocratic families did not have superpowers. They were just oligarchs who monopolized resources and connections in various places. The emperor hated this kind of monopoly, so since he seized power and came to power, he has continued to suppress aristocratic families and support poor families. .”

"This policy has also been implemented by every emperor since him, that is, more and more radical centralization reforms. Most of the time, the imperial power has won, until the emergence of the supernatural bloodline, which for the first time allowed the family to obtain the freedom to not be The power to seize power.”

"Wait a minute, how did the supernatural bloodline appear?" Cheng Jinyang interrupted.

"It originated from Sima Zhongda's crazy behavior before his death, but that's another story." The other party seemed a little unhappy, "In short, almost 100 years ago, the then reigning emperor Sima Zhengdu, in order to contain The rise and growth of the superpower family is based on a tactic of removing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron - trying to implant the bloodline of the superpower family into the bodies of civilians."

"The implanted bloodline for this top-secret experiment was Longxi Li's 'physical activation'. The reason is that this bloodline is one of the rare abilities that does not require an algorithm to passively take effect, so it can be easily verified after transplantation. The experiment was initially It seemed very successful, but a few months later it turned into a disaster.”

At this point, the other party paused deliberately.

"I guess the experimental subject was leaked?" Cheng Jinyang asked tentatively.

"No." The other party denied, "This top-secret experiment was conducted for three phases, and the supernatural traits were very obvious in the subjects. So that idiot Sima Zhengdu thought he was right, and carried out the experiment in the Emperor's Guards without telling everyone. Large-scale vaccination and transplantation."

"Then the mutation broke out. Within a few weeks, the vast majority of the Imperial Guards experienced tissue mutations in different parts, and then died of massive cell collapse. Only one female soldier survived, but her body also Mutated beyond recognition and losing their rationality as humans... they are the prototypes of the first generation of monsters."

So were demons originally created by the royal family? Cheng Jinyang was speechless when he heard this.

"That is to say." The other party continued, "Sima Zhengdu arranged all this secretly with the help of the emperor's power, and everyone was kept in the dark. It was not until the demon cataclysm completely broke out that the nobles made arrangements based on what they had at hand. The fragmented information restores the outline of what happened before the catastrophe - this is why the royal family is now despised by all the nobles."

Cheng Jinyang was speechless.

He knew that the reason why the other party told him these historical secrets was to incite his hostility and disgust towards the royal family. However, what the other party didn't know was that he had no feelings for the Sima royal family.

What I like is the princess sister! The princess sister has nothing to do with that idiot emperor, so you chose the wrong person to sow discord with me.

"I know what you are thinking." The other party seemed to see through his thoughts and continued, "Follow me."

"Where to go?" Cheng Jinyang immediately became alert. Trying to lure me somewhere else and then ambush me?

"Bathroom." The other party said, "This synthetic person has finished cleaning the living room and, according to the program route, will go to clean the bathroom next."

Cheng Jinyang:? ? ?

So you just hacked the robot's voice program? Could you please be more professional?

"Of course I can completely control this synthetic human." The other party walked into the bathroom and continued, "But this will inevitably leave a record inside this synthetic human, which will attract the attention of the housekeeping company... You don't want to be exposed publicly. I guess there is some connection with Wuchang."

"Yeah, keep going." Cheng Jinyang stood at the door of the bathroom and said.

So Xiaoyun washed the rag and started wiping the bathtub while saying:

"We will not pursue the demon's affairs. After all, the fall of China is a fact. Sima Zhengdu has died in the catastrophe. It is useless to dig him out and whip his body."

"The first question we need to discuss is why the world has become like this. What do you think is the reason, Cheng Jinyang?"

"I don't know." Cheng Jinyang replied.

Of course he was not stupid enough to answer "Imperial Power". If this was recorded by the other party and later used as a handle to blackmail him, wouldn't he be a fool?

"It's the imperial power." The other party gave the answer. "The development of science and technology has strengthened the concentration of power. By the time of Sima Zhengdu, even the prime ministers and assistants were just tools of the emperor, so the emperor could hide it from the world. Create monsters.”

Cheng Jinyang was noncommittal.

In fact, anyone who has studied history basically knows that the final collapse of most dynasties is basically due to the inability to solve the endogenous crisis, and these problems are basically chronic diseases that have accumulated for several generations and cannot simply be attributed to the lack of sufficient power of the last emperor. Wise.

Of course, the emperor is not completely without responsibility. It can only be said that he did not do his job well despite being in his position.

But if what the other party said is true, then the entire Jin Kingdom suddenly fell from its peak to the bottom, and it was basically Sima Zhengdu's fault.

To put it bluntly, it is the spread of large-scale experimental accidents. How can this thing be washed? Who must be responsible and who takes the blame!