Beast is a doormat
Because the cold-blooded thing he did on the day of the selection irritated the second prince, so the second prince tortured him every time he saw him. fear. And the animal spirit always endures, never resists, and never chooses.
In fact, the person who abused him is not the same, but he killed the other competitors alone, while the others, after fighting each other, slowly decided the last person.
The only difference is the number of kills.
So inadvertently, the expression of animal spirit towards those people is just the faint disdain in their eyes.
The personal guards of the princes have to undergo inhuman training. If the selection is cruel enough, then the training is not at all easier than the selection. Those who train them seem to have a heart made of stone, and they don't care about their life or death at all.
Since the selection of the second prince's personal guard, the words "survival of the fittest" have been engraved in everyone's heart.
Beast Qi is the loneliest of all, and he tried to get close to one of them, but all he got was a cold fuck. After learning that he was raised by wild beasts, everyone looked at him like a beast. And they all use a look that thinks they can see through his heart, which means... I know you are a beast.
If you have animal spirit, you will no longer work hard, and if you are lonely, you will be lonely, it doesn't matter.
Beast Qi discovered something a few months after entering the personal guard training. It turned out that the second prince not only had their personal guards, but also other dark forces were training. Their teams have no contact with each other, and they don't even know each other's existence.
Of course, it is well known that every prince has such personal guards behind him. His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty would never intervene in these things, just ignore them. Everyone knows that such a force exists, but they certainly don't know where it is and how many people there are. Concubine Qin's family is not very powerful, and its influence in the aristocratic family barely ranks among the middle class. Compared with big families like the Cui family and the Yu family, it is naturally not on the same level, but it is still important to prepare for the second prince to devote all his power to the family underestimated.
Moreover, when the concubines married into the imperial palace by big families like the Cui family and the Yu family did not give birth to a prince, these big families would also make choices and place their bets on a certain prince. Compared with the first prince, the second prince seems to be slightly better, so even the Yu family, which controls one of the emperor's six armies, began to make a fuss about the second prince.
Beast Qi discovered that when the second prince came to inspect their training a few times, he was accompanied by a young man, who was younger than the second prince, with a heroic spirit, and he could tell that he was from a wealthy family just by his temperament. Later he knew that that person was Yu Manlou, and he was one of the most promising young people in the Yu family.
But these have nothing to do with animal spirits, he has his own business to do.
First, to be alive.
Their training was arranged in an abandoned brick kiln dozens of miles outside Chang'an City, behind which was a lonely mountain. The mountain is neither very high nor steep, but it is the nightmare of every child who is trained here. Before dawn, they will be woken up by the sound of the whistle, and then asked to gather in the shortest possible time. If someone sleeps too hard to hear the whistle, well...he's going to sleep through it.
Beast Qi watched helplessly as a child who once tried to express kindness to himself, because the training the day before was so exhausting that he didn't wake up when the whistle sounded, was directly taken out by the instructor who trained them and whipped to death. When Beast Qi went out, he thought about waking him up, but the cold eyes of the teacher standing at the door made Beast Qi sense the danger. He knew that as long as he woke up the child, he would be beaten to death together.
In fact, the sound of that whistle is no bigger than the sound of cicadas.
That is to say, from that time on, Beast Qi kept his ears awake all the time while sleeping. It sounds a bit mysterious, but it is not difficult to do this, as long as you go through that kind of hell, maybe it is really not difficult.
The food is at the top of the hill.
Enough to feed one person.
Yes, there are a total of more than 30 people in the team, and the food on the top of the mountain is only enough for one person. Whoever climbs to the top of the mountain first... may not be able to enjoy the food, because the people who came later came back to compete with you. This kind of competition is not as simple as you punch me and I give you a kick. To fight for a meal is something that the teacher has always instilled in them.
Beast Qi is a clever man, his cleverness is that he is not the first to reach the top of the mountain every time, but he can always eat a little food. He is not greedy, does not want to take all the food for himself, and does not take the initiative to attack the first person to reach the top of the mountain. He will wait, and when the opportunity comes, grab a little bit out of the cracks, enough for him to eat a few bites, but it will not attract the attention of others.
Once, when he went up the mountain for the second time and saw that the person with the strongest cultivation was already swallowing, he didn't even move forward, but knelt down from a distance and said, give me some, I just need a little. The man laughed arrogantly, and threw a little food over like giving alms to a stray dog. After thanking him with animal spirit, he quietly hid aside, watching helplessly as the man was beaten to pieces by other people.
Of course, the team didn't die every day. After analyzing the animal spirit, the death always happened when a strange atmosphere appeared.
That may be the time when the pressure reaches a certain level and has to be vented.
The team has always remained at more than 30 people, some people died and others were replaced.
The teacher said that if they can live to the day when the second prince becomes king, then they will be successful. However, from Beast Qi's point of view, that fucking Emperor Zhenzong seemed to be intentionally torturing these people. He was supposed to be crowned king when the second prince was fourteen years old, but he was delayed until the second prince was nineteen years old.
That year, Beast Qi was twelve years old.
Yes, he wasn't six or seven years old when he came in, he was just... too skinny.
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The second prince sat in his extravagant study room, the value of the chair under his buttocks could provide a medium-sized family with food and drink for two years. On the table in front of him was a tea set, the value of which might be such that a medium-sized brothel procuress would be happy to pack ten girls in exchange.
The twenty-one-year-old second prince is no longer the child who exposed his hostility.
He has become very mature and restrained, and is recognized by many important officials in the court as the most promising prince to sit on the dragon chair. Compared with the first prince who has a rough and simple personality, the second prince's personality is more stable. In the past two years, more and more people have begun to bet on the second prince, so it seems that he is more confident than before.
Even the poor fourth prince, who had withdrawn from the battle for the throne since birth, seemed to have made a choice, and has been very close to the second prince recently. Of course the second prince would not push him away, there is a prince who is willing to come and help, there is nothing better than this for building momentum.
In fact, there was another person who was excluded from the competition.
old seven
He is too young, and by the time he grows up, he will have no chance.
Of course, none of the princes thought that their father could survive so many years before he died.
"It's not that I haven't thought about it, you are the one who persisted in the end."
The second prince glanced at the animal spirit kneeling below, and seemed to appreciate the animal spirit very much. This is by no means the same person as the second prince in his animal memory, but he felt that the current second prince was far more terrifying than the violent guy in the past. A prince is violent because he is naive and doesn't know how to use his own strength. When he calms down, it means that he has really matured.
"Thank you, Second Prince, for your appreciation."
The animal spirit lowered its head and answered.
"It's not easy for you people to survive, and you will be my best helpers in the future. I will repay everything you gave for me yesterday. But, first of all, you must do your part today .”
The second prince smiled gently: "Beastly, I never thought you would be so strong."
He made a gesture: "When I first met you, you were as thin as a mouse, but now you are as strong as a cheetah. This is very good, which shows that the training in the past few years has been very effective. I know that you have been waiting for yourself It’s not unreasonable for me to choose you as the first errand, because your ability to adapt is the strongest of all.”
"Your Highness, just give orders."
The animal spirit still lowered its head and spoke.
The second prince seemed very satisfied with his obedience, nodded and said: "Recently, my fourth brother seems to have changed his temperament. He used to be the most taciturn person, but now he is more and more talkative in front of me. I know he also knows himself I don't have any hope, I just want to choose a team. It's not a bad thing for me to accept him, but... I'm not sure if he was arranged by someone else. If so, for a younger brother, I really don't know what to do. How to start, so it can only be prevented."
"That table is about my fourth brother's information. You will take it back and memorize it later and burn it. Find an opportunity to work in my fourth brother's mansion and find out what his purpose is for approaching me. Is it for himself or for the sake of me?" other people."
"No need for those materials."
Beast Qi shook his head: "I keep in mind every prince's habit, character and experience."
The second prince asked, "What about mine?"
Beastly paused, then nodded: "I also remember."
"Ha ha."
The second prince laughed loudly: "You are very honest, you must be so honest in front of me. Go, if you do well, I will promote you. Remember, you are not the only one in the fourth mansion who I arranged to enter, I need to know about him from more people, you and the other person are reporting to me alone, you don’t know each other, so if either of you is slacking off, I will know.”
The second prince waved his hand: "Choose between his death or your death, I don't think you can make a mistake."
"Subordinates leave!"
The beast got up, bowed and retreated.
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The palace of the fourth prince Yang Yi
When he entered the door, he took a deep breath and felt much more comfortable. Even from one cage to another, this feeling is very relaxing. At the very least, stay away from those people, those companions who seem to be getting closer, but who may kill each other at any time.
He found that the fourth prince Yang Yi is a very easy-going person, he looks a little honest and even a little silly. But he knew that it was all disguised by the fourth prince, because when the fourth prince saw him on the first day when he entered the mansion, that look seemed to penetrate his disguise and enter his heart.
That look seemed to be telling the animal spirit.
I know what you are here for and who sent you.
Beast Qi didn't know if it felt right or wrong, but he knew he had to be more careful. This fourth prince is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface. Surviving for a long time in the environment where he would die without knowing when, the animal spirit knows that the more simple and feminine a man looks, the less easy it is to mess with.
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Beast Qi told himself in his heart that the first thing to do was not to find out why the Fourth Prince was close to the Second Prince, but to find out the other person that the Second Prince placed.