105: Old Thirteen

Zhu Ming nodded and said, "Your Highness's insight! It's too incredible how the Jianxuan Envoy Department could so accurately expose the Dark Night Valley's disguise, break Night Hawk's scheme, quickly discover the escape secret passage, and capture the Fusang People and Snow Eagle People alive. Your humble servant suspects there might be another mystery involved..."

"What mystery?" Prince Ding asked.

"Although the inside informant said that the Southern Division did not send out information at the time, the informant's official rank was not high enough to see all the Southern Division's information. From this perspective, the number of people who could send information from the Southern Division to Wang Weidong and Qi Huaiyi is very small. The most suspicious person among them, your humble servant believes, is..."

"Who?!"

"Prince Zhao!"

"Thirteenth Brother? It's actually him?!" Prince Ding was slightly stunned.

"Yes! Of course, this is just a guess from your humble servant. If we want to confirm it, we might need further evidence, which is to say, what level of development his military department and the Jianxuan Envoy Department's information System have reached..." Zhu Ming said.

"Could it really be Thirteenth Brother who interfered in this matter? Hmm, that is possible... However, the electronic information System he built has always had no sense of presence. The accuracy of those monitoring radars is terribly poor; they can't even discover the nests of mutated beasts near the Imperial Capital. Can they really penetrate through layers of mist to find the airport in Dark Night Valley, and the extremely well-hidden escape secret passage?" Prince Ding asked suspiciously.

Zhu Ming shook his head and said, "Your Highness, that so-called electronic surveillance System indeed wasn't very capable before, but your humble servant once received a message saying that Prince Zhao had invested heavily decades ago, secretly recruiting many domestic Geniuses for research. Because your humble servant has always been rather dismissive of the so-called electronic information System, I didn't take it seriously, and I don't know how they've been doing with it these past few decades. If there really has been a Breakthrough, then it's possible it played a role in this incident... If that's the case, then it's your humble servant's dereliction of duty. Please punish your humble servant, Your Highness!"

"Decades of research? It seems it cannot be underestimated. Since that's the case, you quickly order people to investigate this matter. If Thirteenth Brother has really created something good, it must be used by this Prince. This Prince can purchase it at a high price, or consider forming an alliance with him..." Prince Ding said.

"Yes! Your Highness! Your humble servant will definitely investigate this matter as quickly as possible and give Your Highness a satisfactory answer!" Zhu Ming immediately stood up and said.

"Go quickly."

"Yes!" Zhu Ming hurried away...

"Thirteenth Brother? Electronic information System? If you really want to interfere in the struggle for the throne, then prepare a few more heads..." Prince Ding stared into the distance, muttering to himself.

At this moment, "Thirteenth Brother" Prince Zhao, who was engrossed in reading in a certain building, inexplicably shivered and then couldn't stop sneezing several times in a row, instantly snapping out of his book!

"What's going on? Is someone thinking of me?" Prince Zhao mumbled, shaking his head.

He looked to be in his early thirties, much like a student from an academy, with short hair, a round face, black-rimmed glasses, fine stubble on his lips and chin, a strong build, and slightly bronze skin, clearly a Cultivation enthusiast.

But he had no mind for Cultivation now; his thoughts were all on the Dark Night Valley incident that had just happened...

This incident was a frequent visitor to the hot search lists of various major websites in Great Ming recently, and Prince Zhao naturally had heard about it. And when he sent people to understand the situation from beginning to end, he was greatly shocked, feeling that something extraordinary must have happened!

From his perspective, he easily discovered the strangeness hidden in this incident: how did Qi Huaiyi and the others manage to do something that even the Great Ming military couldn't achieve?!

Prince Zhao had always been very keen on scientific research, which was mainly related to his experience of studying abroad in his youth, especially when he traveled to Snow Eagle Country and Flying Lion Country. He was exposed to their more advanced scientific and technological techniques, and thus the idea of establishing such a military technology System in Great Ming sprouted in his heart...

It can be said that Prince Zhao was a research-oriented Prince, which was very different from the other Princes of the royal family. While others either immersed themselves in Cultivation and charged into battle, or accumulated wealth to enjoy a luxurious life, he was dedicated to research and academia. Cultivation and life could be neglected, but when it came to academia, he immediately became invigorated and could talk to people to the point of not eating, drinking tea, or needing women...

In this respect, he was quite similar to his father, the Emperor Ming. The Emperor Ming was now absorbed in carpentry, while he was wholeheartedly devoted to scientific research!

He established a "Tiangong Group," recruited talents, absorbed Geniuses, and collected everything related to academia and Cultivation technology. Most of the wealth he obtained from the royal family was also invested in this, so he gradually gathered a large number of relatively rare talents in Great Ming. The reason they were called rare was mainly because these people might be ordinary people in other Domains, or even worse than ordinary people, but in the scientific research Domain, they were expert-level figures. They were basically all scientific research enthusiasts. Although some of them were not even Xuan Practitioners, they could receive much better treatment from Prince Zhao than Xuan Practitioners. As the saying goes, a scholar dies for his confidant; they devoted all their efforts to studying various technological things to realize their dreams and Prince Zhao's.

In the eyes of others, this group of people were a bunch of oddities, because in this era of mutations, only engaging in Cultivation was the best way out. Only by becoming a Xuan Practitioner and a strong person could one improve one's identity and status, and protect oneself and one's family when danger came, avoiding becoming prey for mutated beasts. However, this group of people spent their days tinkering with things others couldn't understand. If you said these things were useful, it didn't feel like much, but if you said they were useless, there were still some things that could make people's eyes light up. For example, in recent years, Great Ming has seen some new changes in civilian Domains such as transportation, automobiles, airplanes, and electronic information, and many surprising things have emerged!

For example, cars that can withstand attacks from first and second-order mutated beasts, known as "mobile safe houses," are said to have come from the design of the Tiangong Group!

Although these mobile safe houses are expensive, they are widely popular among the public, especially Mortals, because they are almost powerless when facing mutated beasts. But with this car, they have a chance to escape from the mouths of beasts and become survivors in beast disasters. Therefore, many wealthy Mortals will spend huge sums of money to buy such mobile safe houses, even if they can only resist first and second-order mutated monsters, at least they can gain more security.

In addition, the safety performance of airplanes has also become better, able to remain unaffected when attacked by low-level flying mutated birds, and even in the event of a plane crash, passengers can eject in advance to escape and land safely. This has made taking an airplane a rather enjoyable experience, instead of constantly being anxious as before, with one or two terrifying incidents occasionally occurring where everyone on an entire plane was wiped out by mutated birds...

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