Chapter 196 - The Jungle Eats Forever 06
Bai Ze, this guy, is really nosy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhu Yuanfang put down the investigation report of the West Factory, took a deep breath, and called the maid to bring the wine.
Is it Bai Ze after You Guang? These two guys usually don't do anything, and when they come to this time, they will make trouble for others, Zhu Yuanfang's original plan was messed up by You Guang, and now Bai Ze has also come to intervene. Maybe he was too indulgent of these monsters, and he had to let them know that he couldn't be so presumptuous in the human world.
But it's that Bai Ze.
Unlike Yumitsu, a youkai who has an almost crazy obsession with her powers, she can be said to be the biggest outlier among youkai. It seems to be close to humans, but in fact it doesn't care what happens to humans. He plays a variety of roles in legends, but he puts on the posture of a sage, and treats everything equally. Usually that guy just sits and watches the situation unfold, and never gets involved in it and points fingers. Thanks to her ambiguous attitude, Zhu Yuanfang didn't even know what she wanted to do.
It's the first time I've suddenly got involved in something like this and messed everything up. There are still traces of Youguang's practice, but Bai Ze is completely freewheeling. Instead of guessing what she wants to do, it's easier to think about how to conquer the world.
All in all, he has ordered the West Factory to start investigating Dior's whereabouts, at least not to let Dior disappear here. It seems to be a duel between Dior and Bai Ze, but in fact, it is Bai Ze and him who are really fiddling with chess pieces. The subtle use of others without a trace is really convincing. Worthy of being one of the "sages of monsters", Zhu Yuanfang breathed a long sigh of relief and picked up the scroll on the table.
This ancient book is still well preserved, these things were originally stored in the warehouse he had built, and he would not have taken it out at all if it wasn't for Bai Ze. On the dark blue bark, the only white area is written with the pattern of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which is of course not a record of the legends of human beings, but a classic book of monsters written by Zhu Yuanfang himself.
If you want Dior to win, you can't just rely on the so-called "friendship". Bai Ze's ability is not a half-ass, although it cannot eliminate any physical objects that already exist, everything conceptual will be erased by her. Relying only on memories and emotions, it is impossible to remember Dior's things, even if you see Dior's photos, you will only feel 'where have you seen it', and you will not leave a trace of nostalgia.
The fate of people is nothing more than meeting, knowing, and getting acquainted, and Bai Ze's ability can completely erase these past 'histories' temporarily, and the non-existent past is naturally impossible to 'recall'.
Fortunately, Dior herself has long been prepared, she may know that Bai Ze will not stand idly by, maybe she just wants to prevent it from happening, or maybe it is just the inevitability of fate, she has two 'heirs' who have a great relationship with her. One is an orthodox descendant of Craigwen who was cultivated with her genes, Sixteen Nightsakiya, and the other is the heir of Dio who passed on in a vampire way, Liao Xueqing.
Vampires are a race that has been passed down by scent and blood, and they are all too familiar with the smell of their loved ones. Therefore, Zhu Yuanfang asked Xichang to clarify Liao Xueqing's crimes, and invited "D-10" to come to investigate together, so that Liao Xueqing and Sixteen Nights Saki would come to Nanjing. All that's needed is some bootstrapping... Dior's victory was predictable.
But how could it be that Bai Ze would actually show such a big flaw? In this information, she obviously has an absolute advantage, and she knows all this.
She did it on purpose.
In the duel with Dior, Zhu Yuanfang has no way of knowing the result of victory or defeat, it can be said that Zhu Yuanfang fell to the bottom from the beginning. Bai Ze simply messed up his old plan, and even excluded him completely, and could only do some trivial things, and it was already very obvious which was better or worse. But even so, Zhu Yuanfang couldn't do nothing.
For the sake of his own plan, he still can't let Dior lose. Before the duel began, his 'defeat' was irretrievable.
"Although I am very unwilling, I am worthy of being a monster who single-handedly founded the fairyland," Zhu Yuanfang snorted coldly and took the wine jug handed over by the servant, "Then, in order to show my respect for you, I will arrange a harmless 'drama' for you." Chan, the governor of the West Factory, asked her to bring Sherlock to me. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty. ”
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Sherlock had been on the outskirts of the Imperial City for three days. She has been staying here since she asked to meet Zhu Yuanfang. Of course, it wasn't that she wanted to stay here, the emperor seemed to have known that she would come, so he asked the people of Xichang to receive him temporarily, and said that he couldn't take a break for the time being, and asked her to wait for a while. Even if she wanted to leave, the guards would tell her, 'The emperor is about to receive you, please be calm.'"
There is no doubt that this is house arrest. She had to flip through the books in the mansion to pass the time. But, to be honest, the girl in a wheelchair who received her was also quite interesting, and if she was here, time would pass a little faster. The newspaper he bought also had a lot of recent news, and Sherlock picked up the newspaper casually, sat on the couch and flipped through it.
As she was reading the newspaper, she couldn't help but feel a wonderful sense of disobedience.
What's missing... This. She immediately watched yesterday's news again, the defection of the members of the Shenji Battalion, the big explosion in the middle of the inner city square, and even the West Factory was involved. It didn't seem like a big deal, but she suddenly remembered what seemed to have happened in the square yesterday, and she began to rummage through something, and soon she found a leaflet in yesterday's newspaper.
It is printed with a blonde girl in a suit with a braid tied around her left sideburn. The flyer read something like "The Great Magician from England," and Sherlock frowned.
Soon, the sound of a bicycle wheel interrupted her train of thought slightly. It wasn't that she was affected by the voice, but she knew who was coming when she heard it.
"What a satisfying hospitality, Governor of the West Factory," Sherlock put down the newspaper and leaflet, squinted his eyes, and looked at the black-haired girl in a wheelchair, "Can you tell me if the Emperor will receive me? Such a 'imprisonment' is a huge legal problem in England." ”
"It's obviously a request to meet the leader of the country, but you still have such a big shelf, and you are also very interesting," Ruoyuebai said with a chuckle, "Could it be that you still want to waste His Majesty's time out of his busy schedule? This is a diplomatic issue, and if you leave, we will demand an apology and compensation from the British government." I guess you don't want to see this kind of thing as the "order of the British detective community". ”
Tsk, that's a good excuse, she sighed. Sherlock really couldn't just leave, obviously she had come to see the king of a country herself. Moreover, the Ming Empire let the head of the special agency receive and entertain a civilian detective like her, which was enough to save face. If Sherlock were to really pull his legs and leave, that would be a big problem.
"Then forgive me for being rude as a commoner, so is the emperor of the Ming Empire ready to receive me?" Sherlock vented his frustration unscrupulously.
"Of course, Your Majesty is also very interested in you, so get ready, Your Majesty made a special trip this afternoon to make time. ”
Ruoyue Bai nodded slightly.
"However, the Ming Empire is really magical," Sherlock glanced at the flyer, "There are really 'girls' in the world who are seventy or eighty years old." ”
"I can't do this old bone and body, where can I be called a girl," Ruoyuebai pushed the wheelchair to Sherlock's side, "But if you don't pay attention to your body, little girl, your body will be weak when you get old, and it will be too late to regret it." ”
This guy... Sherlock smacked his mouth in displeasure, then held up the flyer.
"Do you have any impression of what was on this flyer? You should have been there. ”
“... To be honest, I don't have any impressions," Wakatsuki shook his head, "It's just that if you're interested, you can also participate in investigating this person's affairs." The person on the flyer acted as if it didn't exist, and when I asked the person who was doing the performance at the time, they also said they didn't know at all. ”
"Well, anyway, let's go see our Emperor Majesty first. Sherlock nodded.
That sense of disobedience, is it here?