Chapter 307 Is there only one way out but to fight to the death?Time flies, and several days have passed.
Chu Lu conducted selections one after another, but the results were always unsatisfactory. He spent a lot of time and energy, but he couldn't even find a barely qualified candidate.
His patience wore thin and his attitude grew worse.
On this day, another group of candidates were eliminated. Chu Lu finally couldn't suppress his annoyance and summoned the official in charge of the matter to the Yangxin Palace and gave him a scolding.
"Waste! All of them are waste!"
Chu Lu threw a list on the ground, making a crisp sound. All the officials standing in front of the prince were silent, not daring to breathe.
"I've given you so many days, and all you did was bring me a bunch of crooked people?" Chu Lu's eyes swept across the faces of each official. "Each of you is either a bully or an idiot with a head full of straw! Did I keep you here just to let you do things like this?!"
His anger echoed throughout the temple.
The kneeling officials of His Majesty were extremely terrified and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. We are incompetent and deserve to die!"
"You deserve to die?" Chu Lu snorted coldly, "I think you don't take my order to heart at all! Get out! Get out of here! If I can't find the right person, I will hold you accountable!"
"I will take my leave! I will take my leave!"
The officials kowtowed as if they had been pardoned and hurriedly left the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Only after the door of the hall was closed did they dare to breathe a sigh of relief and wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads with their sleeves.
The news that the emperor was furious because of his failure to find the person and denounced his ministers for their incompetence was soon spread to the chat group of the heroines through Concubine Li.
In the chat group, there was an immediate burst of gloating ridicule.
Concubine Li: "The emperor went crazy again today, scolding several ministers. I heard he almost hit them!"
Imperial Concubine Wan: "Haha, he has come to this day? It's really satisfying!"
Concubine Zhuang: "He is asking for trouble! He wants to find some extraordinary woman to protect himself? That's just wishful thinking!"
Si Ren: "Humph, what group leader? He is just a pig man after all. Naturally, he can't be my opponent."
The rest of the people immediately started to flatter him, and they all felt that Chu Lu was at the end of his rope and wouldn't be able to survive for many more days.
A few more days passed.
Chu Lu walked towards the side hall with a stern expression, preparing for a new round of selection. He hoped that after his last outburst, the ministers would pay more attention and the people sent this time would be of better quality.
When passing by the imperial garden, he saw a group of palace maids carefully carrying a set of gorgeous bronze chimes, and some people were busy cutting bright yellow silk, as if they were preparing for some grand occasion.
"What are you doing?" Chu Lu asked casually.
The leading maid stopped immediately and bowed, "Your Majesty, the Spring Festival Banquet is about to begin, and we are preparing for it."
Chu Lu's body suddenly stiffened and his pupils shrank slightly.
"Spring Festival Banquet?" He looked a little dazed. "Spring Festival Banquet is coming soon? How many days are left?"
"Your Majesty, there are still six days left."
Chu Lu fell silent. After a moment, he vaguely responded, "I know," and then left quietly.
The selection that day failed again.
Late at night, in the bedroom.
There was only one lamp in the hall, the candlelight flickered, revealing a sense of desolation. Chu Lu said, "Qin Su, we must change our thinking. It seems impossible to find a suitable candidate now."
"Indeed, it would only be a waste of time to continue." Qin Su nodded, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"
Chu Lu said in a serious tone: "I am going to issue an order to forcibly suspend the Jichun Banquet to buy some time first."
Qin Su rejected it immediately: "No, this won't work. It's too obvious and will only alert the enemy, and it's useless. Si Ren doesn't have to do it only at Ji Chun Banquet. If you shut down Ji Chun Banquet, it will only make Si Ren feel something is wrong and force her to take more extreme measures, which will only cause more trouble."
Chu Lu understood that what Qin Su said was right. He was silent for a moment, his eyes showing determination, and his tone became extremely serious: "If that's the case, then there is only one way left."
"what?"
Chu Lu said word by word: "Kill. Kill them all, and kill them all."
"What?!" Qin Su was shocked, "Chu Lu, are you crazy?"
"This is the only way." Chu Lu's tone was unusually calm, and it was obvious that he had thought it over carefully. "Killing the heroine can also gain correction value. Since we can't find a strong person who can restrain her, then we should do the opposite. Avoid her, start by devouring the weak, fight to support the war, and kill all the heroines in the city and those spies hiding in the dark, one by one! As long as we can quickly max out the correction value, all problems will be solved!"
"But, but this...but..." Qin Su's voice was even a little incoherent.
She fell silent for a long time before she calmed down and said, "What you said... is not unreasonable. But Chu Lu, aren't you surprised why I didn't propose it? Because this method is impossible to succeed."
"First of all, the other heroines are fine, but how are you going to avoid Fei Wu? After all, she is one of the four ministers, and she is not that easy to deal with." Qin Su continued, "Secondly, even if you successfully avoid Fei Wu, you can't max out the correction value."
"Why?" Chu Lu frowned.
Qin Su explained, "Because in order to maximize the correction value, you must kill the last spy in the capital, codenamed Tianshu. But due to some complicated reasons, you can't find him immediately. If the correction value is not fully increased by then, you will not be a match for Feiwu and you will still die."
Chu Lu frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "In that case, let's find a replacement."
"Substitute?" Qin Su was stunned again.
"We need Tianshu only because he is an important character in this dungeon novel and can provide sufficient correction value. He is not indispensable." Chu Lu's eyes flashed, "Since we can't find him, let's go find someone else."
"Who are you looking for?"
Chu Lu's voice was decisive: "The protagonist of the copy! Around him, there must be a lot of characters who are more important than Tianshu. Let's kill a lot here first, increase the correction value to the limit we can reach, and then immediately flee the palace and go to the location of the protagonist of the copy to complete this last step!"
Qin Su was stunned. She obviously didn't expect Chu Lu to come up with such a crazy plan.
"But...they will definitely hunt you down. Without the emperor's status, they will become even more unscrupulous. How are you going to deal with it?"
Chu Lu said calmly: "Let's counter her moves. It's called a chase, but after the correction value is pulled to the limit, the only one who can affect me is Fei Wu. Although I don't know what kind of personality she is or what abilities she has, in the final analysis, she is just one person. It's not that I have no chance against a heroine alone."
The bedroom fell into silence again. After a long while, Qin Su finally let out an almost inaudible sigh.
“…It’s still too dangerous.”
"But there is no other way."
"...Indeed." Qin Su's voice was filled with a hint of determination, "Then let's take a gamble."
She paused, and then said, "But if that's the case, then we might as well start at the Jichun Banquet. At the banquet, all the civil and military officials will gather, and those heroines will also gather secretly to confirm the effectiveness of the plan. This is the best time to start, and we can get the greatest results in the shortest time."
Chu Lu nodded without any hesitation in his eyes: "Okay."
(End of this chapter)