"Forced conscription?" Su Luo still didn't believe his ears when he heard it for the third time, and he rarely used a questioning tone: "How can the royal family be so rude?" Even if it's 100,000 urgent, saying a word of invitation is nothing. The use of executive power is ......"

Lin Jian nodded depressedly, confirming this ridiculous news once again. After hearing the secret leaked by Jiang Biao in the morning, their shock was much worse than that of Su Luo now, first, they didn't expect Jiang Biao to be so easy to curry favor, and second, they didn't expect the royal family's reaction to be so simple and rude. What about the etiquette that has been precipitated for hundreds of years? Feed the dogs?

At that moment, Lin Jian simply had a kind of indignation from the emperor general.

But regardless of whether the royal etiquette is fed to the dogs or not, or whether the emperor is a general or not, they still have to accept this reality after calming down. Before fleeing in embarrassment, Jiang Biao gave the two of them a little common sense of the law, telling them that when the royal family was forced to hand over power, he had negotiated with the government, and because he was worried about his personal safety after losing power, he deliberately opened a small back door for himself in the treaty. In the event of a major crisis for the royal family, domestic citizens can be unconditionally ordered to help, known as "conscription".

Moreover, it is especially unpaid.

“…… So," Lin Jian reluctantly pressed the surging speechlessness in his chest, and tried his best not to spit out: "Although the recruitment or something seems to have no emotional intelligence, it still has to go." ”

Xiao Zhenyi collapsed on the chair beside the hospital bed and glared at him expressionlessly.

"Now that it's decided to go, the police have to make preparations, right?" Su Luo tried to divert the topic: "What's the saying over there?" ”

Lin Jian let out a short sneer, shook his hand and threw out a thick booklet, smashing the hospital bed with a muffled sound. He leaned back, stretched out his chin and pointed to the yellow booklet half a palm-thick, and his tone was neither yin nor yang: "I sent this royal etiquette training." ”

"And then?"

"And then?" Xiao Zhenyi picked his nails boredly: "No, then." ”

Su Luo was a little incredulous: "How is it possible?" If a novice is not familiar with the business, how can he be responsible for security? Aren't they afraid to mess things up? ”

"From the occult point of view," Xiao Zhenyi continued to pick his nails, "the police are laymen and novices. They have also proposed several plans, but they are all unreliable...... At first, I was going to equip us with multi-functional bulletproof suits, but that kind of thing was full of metal filaments, which were purely designed to disturb yin and yang. It can be seen how useless it is. ”

He blew on his fingers, and finally looked up

"We have a specialization in the art industry, and we are not invited to fight and kill and make explosions, at most, we will check the layout and structure of the royal family, and when the time comes, we will sit firmly in the rear and be on standby, and we can adapt to the situation."

Xiao Zhenyi glanced at Su Luo and Lin Jian, and gradually showed a sincere smile.

"After all, the occult magic is not a shootout movie, and most of the time there is no need for violence."

Lin Jian rolled her eyes.

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Involving the royal family, the efficiency of the police has reached an unprecedented level, only two hours after Jiang Biao "tactfully" informed them of the news, two sets of formal clothes prepared for them that do not know the price but are expensive at a glance and have a mortal kneeling and licking temperament were delivered, according to Jiang Biao, who came to deliver the clothes, this should be a special benefit issued by the royal family in order to compensate.

"After all, it's also very troublesome to be passive and slack off." Jiang Biao said sincerely.

Only an hour after the formal clothes were issued, at 2:24 a.m., the notice of the police drill reached them—the royal family's welfare was indeed not untargeted, and since they had formal clothes, they should make the best use of them. The notice ordered them to rush to the palace as soon as possible to hold a drill and conduct a safety check for the upcoming feast.

At two fifty o'clock in the afternoon, after the final preparations, Lin Jian managed to get a few hairs from Bai Lin, who had lost ten pounds.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, they and Gao Daguan, who was discharged from the hospital, set foot on the road to the palace.

At 4:50 a.m., a majestic complex finally appeared under the hovering car after a long drive. They paused on a tree-lined bluestone avenue and looked up at the towering cornices. A few minutes later, the police arrived in a hurry, their faces rather uncalm.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Biao frowned and asked.

The tall and thin connector glanced nervously at the tall crown before whispering, "The security level in the palace has been raised, and it is said that the entire defense system will be tested. ”

Jiang Biao was a little surprised: "The cost of fully opening the defense system is simply astronomical, and the preparation is also very cumbersome. How can you test this? ”

"It's not safe to say." The connector wiped the sweat from his forehead: "But turn on the security system to full ......"

He glanced at the tall crown again and said no more.

Beside Lin Jian, Su Luo, who accompanied him, explained in a low voice: "The security system of the palace is very sophisticated and high-end, and it is said that it can even directly resist space weapons when it is turned on to the full state, but the operation is also very complicated and cumbersome. ”

Lin Jian blinked, and also lowered his voice: "Then what is the purpose of suddenly opening this kind of ultimate?" ”

"I don't know." Su Luo's gloomy voice was a little more worried, he looked up at the undulating cornices of the palace, and his expression was solemn: "But I always feel that the wind and rain are coming." In forty years, the full state security system has only been used twice, each time leading to endless trouble, this time ......"

He sighed, glanced over the whispering crowd, and landed his gaze on the tall crowned face. Since getting in the car, this fat face has returned to the standard high-ranking posture, and he has not been silent at all along the way. But now the news brought by the police has obviously exceeded his psychological expectations, and on such a cold afternoon, there are actually beads of sweat on his forehead.

Su Luo looked away, and there was a heavy sense of foreboding.

But no matter how it feels, the work still has to be done. Jiang Biao and Gao Daguan discussed a few words, and began to assign tasks on the spot. Because of the urgent activation of the security system, a large number of people were temporarily arranged to help with the equipment in the computer room of the palace, and the remaining manpower was suddenly stretched. Jiang Biao crossed his fingers in front of the crowd and counted for a long time, and finally had to tell Lin Jian and Xiao Zhenyi with regret that they had to act alone.

"Your task is to investigate the hidden dangers of metaphysics in the palace, and someone should have led the way...... Jiang Biao was a little embarrassed: "But now the police and the royal family are seriously understaffed, so you can only trouble yourself." But don't worry, there are maps everywhere in the palace, so you won't get lost. ”

When he said "don't worry", his face twisted for a moment.

It wasn't until he entered the glorious gates of the palace and parted in the foyer, wide and tall enough to fit a small building, that Lin Jian realized what Jiang Biao's distorted face meant—the huge corridor was empty at that time (according to the police, all the staff had been urgently mobilized), and he wandered alone under the gilded windows, admiring the ornamentation on the walls as he went. Of course, he doesn't understand any historical connotations, but he can still see good things. The delicate strokes, vivid lines, and bold colors of these patterns give them a different kind of fluid beauty, even if they look like a bunch of purely abstract chaotic curves.

However, in the eyes of those who care, although these patterns have been covered up by a large number of smears, there still seems to be a faint shadow of Taoist talismans, but the line structure is too deformed, and it is really difficult to judge the true purpose of talismans for a while. Lin Jian raised his head to study the pattern, and unconsciously looked out of the world, and when he came back to his senses, he looked left and right, and the surroundings were already full of towering classical bookshelves and wooden cabinets, as if he had arrived at some inexplicable library.

He glanced around, found the map that Jiang Biao had promised, and then saw dozens of ancient characters twisted into twisted shapes at a glance, and he didn't recognize any of them.

LIN JIAN: EXCUSE ME

Are you playing a retro on the map?

He stared at the yellowed oiled paper for a few seconds, and finally gave up helplessly, and reached out to find the glass compass he had prepared - originally he asked Jiang Biao to find a compass, but with the rapid development of science and technology, he couldn't find such a feudal superstitious thing after running all over the antique market, and finally retreated to buy such a thing from the science exhibition hall, which is better than nothing. It's not good to use to the extreme, but it's still good enough to show the way. He held the base of the glass flat, spun it three times in the palm of his hand, and began to mumble the mantra.

This was originally a small spell in the Maoshan technique, and it was just an occasional trick to use when you got lost in the wild. As long as he reads it, a yin wind blows the pointer and leads the person to where he wants to go. But after reading it this time, the pointer remained motionless, and it had no effect. Lin Jian looked up in amazement, wanting to see if the yin and yang were wrong, but a leisurely sigh came from behind him.

"Hello, Mr. Lin." An elegant male voice said.

Lin Jian quickly turned around and glanced around, but only saw a shadow. He blinked and narrowed his gaze before he saw the man in black leaning against the bookshelf in the shadows. The man's face was handsome, but his face was terrifyingly pale, and he looked like a thin and transparent piece of white paper, and he was about to fly into the sky with a single breath. His form looked even more terrifying than his face—it had become a shadow so thin that it almost melted into the darkness.

But Lin Jian recognized this pale face, after all, he had seen it on various videos of the news media, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

The man in black let out a chuckle and tapped his white chin slightly.

"Mr. Lin has good eyesight." He said slowly.

Lin Jian's mind was already a mess, the moment he saw the prince, the terrible scene in the hospital corridor a few days ago was dangling in his mind, and he almost faintly heard the buzzing of echo insects and Bai Lin's strange moans in his ears, and in an instant, there was a rush of blood rushing to his face. He quickly diverted the topic: "What is Your Highness doing here?" ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince laughed again, and there was indescribable pleasure in his voice. "Well," he said softly, "I'm waiting for an opportunity, and I'm waiting for a few people." Now that people have waited, there is only ......"

Before the words fell, the AI's loud and mechanical voice broke the silence of the dusk, humming and echoing through the walls and ceiling, sounding simply deafening: "Attention units, attention units, prepare for a state of emergency in the defense system." Attention ......"

"Looks like the time has come." The prince looked up and muttered, "Good luck." ”

He lowered his head and nodded slightly towards Lin Jian, and then the green light flashed in his cuffs, and a vine shot out of the air, tying Lin Jian who was still in a trance. (.)