As soon as Su Qingwen heard about the hidden boss, she immediately perked up and quickly summoned the system.
"Does this game have a hidden boss? Will there be special rewards for defeating it?" Su Qingwen rubbed her hands in anticipation.
【System: Yes~ But there won't be special rewards for defeating the hidden boss. However, the game won't be considered cleared if you don't defeat it.】
This game is so tricky...
"What a stingy game. So the hidden boss really exists. But how do we start the hidden boss quest?"
【System: There won't be any message prompts about the hidden boss. You can only complete the side quests first, dear~】
...This hidden boss is so shy that it even hides the clues.
Half of Su Qingwen's face darkened. "So how do we complete the side quests?"
【System: To start the side quests, you need to use a special skill, namely the "Recreate History" skill you just obtained. We need to find the item that can start the side quests to unlock them.】
"What's this item?" Su Qingwen's face darkened even more.
【System: There won't be any hints about the item. You need to find it by yourself~】
Great. Su Qingwen's face was completely dark.
She took a deep breath and suppressed her urge to punch someone. She felt sadly as if she had painstakingly got the answers to the exercise book, only to find that the answers were omitted.
She stroked her chin and thought, "Let me think. The side quests must be related to the main quest. Since the main boss is Gao Quan, it must be related to him!" Thinking of this, she proudly snapped her fingers. She admired her own quick thinking again today~
"But we can't get in touch with Gao Quan. But he is the one who supported Hua Yueye to ascend the throne. That means it must be related to Hua Yueye!" Su "Sherlock Holmes" Qingwen continued to reason.
"But when he was a child, Hua Yueye was already supported by this damned eunuch as a puppet. Their relationship is not very good now. That means we need to find an item from Hua Yueye's childhood, and it's an item that has been preserved from childhood to now. This item is the one to start the side quests!" Su Qingwen slapped her thigh and announced the result of her reasoning. After that, she made a curtain call gesture and shamelessly clapped for herself.
【System: ... After being bound to you for so long, I just found out that you have the potential of Sherlock Holmes and can be so witty sometimes.】
... Although it's a compliment, why does it sound so strange? But soon Su Qingwen calmly accepted the system's "sincere praise" and boasted without a shred of modesty, patting her chest, "Of course! Is there any suspense game that I can't clear? Don't underestimate me!"
【System: But I remember you couldn't even pass level 212 of Lost in the Secret Room...】
Su Qingwen: ... "Life is already so hard. Don't expose some things."
She coughed twice to break the awkwardness. "Let's go. Let's look for something that Hua Yueye has kept from childhood to now! Wait. Who knows the answer to this question?"
【System: Of course it's the people who took care of him from childhood, like old eunuchs and old maids.】
"Gao Quan?"
【System: Is he the only eunuch in the whole palace?!!】 The system's electronic voice was full of helplessness as if hating iron for not becoming steel.
"O~" Someone suddenly realized.
After Su Qingwen's persistent inquiries from various sources, she finally found an old eunuch who had taken care of Hua Yueye from childhood and still remained in the palace - Eunuch Zhang.
This was in an old but not dilapidated courtyard. The door was in disrepair and only the frame was left. There was an old tree in the yard. The yellowing leaves were withering away and falling one after another, crying out their desire to return to the roots. The original red tiles had passed their prime and were too lazy to be decorated. Only a few sparrows were really insensitive, still chattering on the old eaves, making comments.
Eunuch Zhang was sitting in a rocking chair with his sparse hair casually tied up. While rocking, he was scattering rice to feed the sparrows.
"Eunuch Zhang? Are you Eunuch Zhang Xier?" Su Qingwen knocked on the remaining door frame and poked her head out.
Eunuch Zhang was obviously a bit hard of hearing. He shouted back at the top of his voice, "No need. I don't have any clothes to wash here."
Su Qingwen wiped the non - existent sweat off her forehead.
She howled at the top of her voice, "We're not here to wash clothes. Are you the Eunuch Zhang who took care of His Majesty from childhood?"
Old people who are hard of hearing are usually very loud. Eunuch Zhang shouted back at her, "Speak louder. I'm hard of hearing when I'm old."
Helpless, Su Qingwen had to roar the question again, reaching the limit of her lung capacity.
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm Eunuch Zhang. Sit down quickly." Eunuch Zhang pointed to the wooden stool on the ground.
Su Qingwen gasped for breath and unceremoniously plopped down on the wooden stool, almost falling flat on her back because the four - legged stool was uneven.
"Ouch, Eunuch Zhang. This stool is so uneven. Why does it only have two legs?!!" Su Qingwen exclaimed in shock as she picked up the stool.
"Alas, let me see when another leg fell off. It used to have three..." Eunuch Zhang took the stool and tried hard to remember.
... Forget it. Let's make this quick. Su Qingwen took a deep breath and exhaled. "Eunuch Zhang, do you know what His Majesty liked most when he was a child and still carried with him when he grew up?"
The eunuch, who was concentrating on looking at the stool, was stunned. "His Majesty?"
He squinted his eyes and recalled in the chair, "His Majesty was still very young at that time. Because his birth mother had a low status, he wasn't very smart when he was a child and was never well - liked in the palace."
... Sorry. He's still not well - liked now. Su Qingwen silently complained.
Eunuch Zhang continued slowly, "Later, his birth mother gave birth to a daughter, the current Princess Lingxi, and passed away soon after. At that time, His Majesty was adopted by King Rui, Hua Xiaochen, who was disabled and had no heirs. I was sent to take care of him at that time. He didn't like to talk and didn't like to get close to people. Only King Rui treated him like his own son and cared about him. His time in King Rui's Mansion was the happiest time in his life. Later, the former emperor passed away, and His Majesty was taken into the palace by Gao Quan to be cultivated. That's when he left King Rui's Mansion. When he left, he only took a small bundle. Besides his personal belongings, I remember there was only a golden chamber pot..."
Su Qingwen was originally immersed in the tragic childhood memory of Hua Yueye, who was unloved and lonely like a little cabbage. But when she heard the last word, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
The charred Su Qingwen asked expressionlessly, "Eunuch Zhang? Are you sure it's a golden chamber pot?"
The eunuch rocked his chair. "It's that golden chamber pot... I remember it very clearly... There's a vivid little monkey carved on it."
Hehe... I feel like this item to start the side quests is playing with me, Qingwen thought.
Is the chamber pot for real?!!