Chapter 186: Suspicion
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"You're here to be a war correspondent?"
"yes, but it looks like the enemy won't be moving before noon. Ha, your master was completely stunned by those paladins, and he is probably discussing countermeasures in the curtain. Yuki patted Nocton on the shoulder and smiled, "By the way, let's take a look at my brother." ”
Even when Nocton heard that his master was praised, he only smiled bitterly back. He was now pale from exhaustion, but he had been mistaken for idleness, and he really didn't know where to explain it.
"How did you get into the back kitchen?"
"The whole inn is in a mess, and I find that there are no other staff members except you, the new boss, and this little girl, so isn't it just walking with me?" As he spoke, Yuki took Nocton's hand and was about to leave, "I have something I want to talk to you about, let's change places." ”
Nocton strained and didn't move. His ring-bearing hand must always be on the dining window, as a turning terminal, constantly conjuring up celestial cuisine. Although Nocton didn't know much about the mechanics of the jump, he knew that he couldn't take half a step out of the place, or the owner would be furious, and the new creamy potato soup would spill all over the floor.
"What's wrong?"
"Uh...... This ......"
Fool finds out that Nocton won't leave with him, and the latter stops talking, realizing that something is wrong. He tilted his head to look at Nocton's right arm, his elbow always resting on the dining window, and his hand was stuck into a black curtain, so he couldn't see what he was doing. This is a simple dark room with double curtains made by Yuan Huang to hide people's eyes, and you can't see the scene of folding and jumping from the outside of the waitress and customers, and if someone enters the back kitchen, you can't see what Nocton's hands are doing.
The hand can't leave here, and the clever fool quickly understands.
"It's okay to talk here, it's still the last transaction ...... you and me"
"No, Mr. Yuji, I don't understand what you're talking about, please don't go on."
Forehead? Yuji was stunned when he heard this, and then understood. He found a pen and paper and wrote a line, "Inconvenient to speak?"
Nocton nodded.
Yuji speculated that it was because there was a waitress through the dining window that he couldn't speak, so he wrote, "It's not okay to be quiet?"
Nocton frowned and shook his head.
He wasn't afraid that the waitress would hear something, but because the ring had a bugging function. It seems that he is the only one in the five-member group who is aware of this at the moment. Speaking of which, the opportunity to perceive is also very simple - he once witnessed Lord Hongyang Minbo sticking a ring to his ear and having a conversation with Lord Yuhan Bed. Since he could communicate, and of course he could eavesdrop, he didn't believe that such a trivial matter would be difficult to defeat the omnipotent Celestial Mage.
Yuan Huang took off his mask and secretly got into the maintenance pipeline before and was noticed by the bed sister, just because he didn't take off the ring.
Of course, the last time Nocton made a private deal with Yuji behind his master's back, it must have been exposed! But as for the reason why Lord Yu Hanbed pretended not to know anything, he couldn't understand it—maybe it was planning to give him another chance, maybe the master was originally a good person with a knife mouth and tofu heart, or maybe the master really didn't find out—but after getting along for so long, he was completely convinced that the Heavenly Mage could do anything. The latter possibility is too low.
Pen and paper conversation may be fine, but no one can guarantee anything.
Yuji did not give up and wrote, "The deal is canceled? Don't you want to go to the newspaper office?"
Nocton's face immediately darkened when he saw it.
In the extreme situation that Yuan Huang had just washed the inn in blood and killed nearly thirty of Sha Pei's men, the five-person group changed their original intentions and chose to follow Yuan Huang, not that the five of them were not afraid of death, but that they had their own plans, even if they had to bear the danger of their lives, they had to hold on to Yuan Huang's thigh. Nocton's purpose was simple—to hollow out the unprecedented scoop on the Celestial Mage, and use it to squeeze into the newspaper of his dreams, rather than hunting for the rest of his life.
Now the opportunity is here, albeit very high. But Nocton can only gamble that the ring only has a bugging function, but he can't see anything. After all, celestial magic is unfathomable, who can say for sure?
Nocton held the pen in his left hand and wrote with difficulty, "Didn't I tell you some secrets last time? When will I be able to join the newspaper?"
The report that "the celestial mage is in a bad mood when he comes to menstruation" is actually not what Shar Pei said, because Shar Pei was busy running for his life at the time, and he had nothing to do with the reporters; Not to mention the servants around Jozhe revealed, because Jozhe resisted his father and was low-key, it was too late to hide from reporters. Officially Nocton and Yuki's first deal.
But it's not enough for Yuji.
"Brother, I'll be straight to the point. You're not the only one I've informed. There's a shocking piece of news - Yuan Huang and Yu Hankou are basically the same person."
Nocton couldn't help but exclaim, "How is this possible! Then he covered his mouth.
Yuan Huang was the only apprentice of the Prophet, male, with sound legs, and although he had not seen many people and had not shown any magic. Yu Hanbed is a celestial person, female, and her left leg is a high-level gold magic prosthetic, and her mana is boundless. How can these two people be the same person?
"Who's that informant? What evidence is there?"
Yuji sneered, how could he possibly tell who the informant was? He just wrote, "The evidence is just waiting for you to find it."
"Me?"
Nocton suddenly felt that something was wrong. He could clearly feel that the way his master looked at him was not right, and he seemed to have become suspicious, but now he actually asked him to find any evidence? Looking for death? The master is murderous.
"Voice, voice is female. If you say it's hallucinatory magic, how can you bewitch tens of thousands of people?"
Nocton is right, and that's what everyone thinks. Illusion magicians can make dozens of people hallucinate for a limited number of targets, but there will be no more. So the rain culvert bed must be female, and it can't be wrong.
Yuji asked rhetorically, "What if the illusion of the heavenly realm came from the other way around?" It means simply changing one's own voice, not confusing a specific target. If it is cast directly on the sound, although it is incredible, it is true that everything is possible with celestial magic.
"Where's the face? Everybody has seen her perfect face!"
"You can fake it, right?"
Nocton was silent. A few days ago he would have thought that it was pure that his voice and face could be faked, but now he didn't dare to say it.
"But, that leg ......."
"Yes, brother, I'm just going to let you try to see if Yuanhuang's leg is real."
Nocton didn't see Yuan Huang many times, and he really hadn't seen Yuan Huang pull up his left trouser leg. Whether it's a metal prosthetic or a meat leg is really unclear.
That's right......
Why did Yu Hanbed give the secret recipe of the Heavenly Cuisine to Yuan Huang? Just because he is the master's future brother-in-law? The two sisters, Yuhan Bed and Xiao Youxiang, just met in Pingshui, right?
Could it really be the same person?
Nocton suddenly became interested and asked, "Mr. Yuki, what should I do?" Looking for an opportunity to pour some soup on his trouser leg and then take the opportunity to pull it up?"
"No, no, since even the face can be fake, what's the point of holding it up? Even if Yuan Huang's left leg looks real to the touch, it doesn't prove anything."
…… That's right, too.
Yuki handed Nocton a dinner knife. "You pretended to accidentally drop the knife on Yuanhuang's foot, and if it bleeds and hurts, it's true."