I didn't embarrass Bai Ya'er, I didn't take her away, and I didn't call for someone to arrest her.

She was right, she was just a pawn crossing the river, and it wasn't entirely unreasonable for her to call me delusional - I was actually in Lin Ying's office, and it took me about forty-five minutes to look up some information about Bai Yaer.

When she was in the Western Night Desert, Shen Yu was already suspicious of her, because it was a place where information exchange was inconvenient, and for Zhang Xiangchun's group of bandits, if there was no internal response, they would not be able to almost wipe us out.

In addition to me and Shen Yu, the only people Wen Tingxu brought from Weiyang were Qin Yafu and Bai Ya'er.

Qin Yafu is Lao Wen's bodyguard, and compared to the weak Bai Ya'er, he is more suspicious. But Qin Yafu followed Wen Tingxu from beginning to end, and when Lao Wen found his mother's bones fainting, he also fed Lao Wen medicine - at that time, the gangsters recruited by Zhang Xiangchun had already come to the archaeological site.

If Qin Yafu was an accomplice, he would definitely know about this situation in advance, and at that time, it would be better to attack Lao Wen and poison him directly. But apparently, that didn't happen.

So I set my sights on Bai Yaer again. At first glance, Bai Ya'er is the kind of capable "white bone spirit", she seems to have nothing in common with Zhang Xiangchun's group of desert robbers, and was even "kidnapped" by those people.

But strangely, when I checked her injuries during the rescue, I found that she had no signs of being forcibly captured, and even the rope that bound her was not forced.

But after returning from Yecheng, incidents occurred frequently in the entire Weiyang City, and even if everyone had doubts, they didn't have the energy to think about it. Especially Wen Tingxu, he doesn't even care about the normal operation of his own company, and he is focused on avenging his parents.

This is probably the reason why Bai Yaer can still sit in Kewei Company.

However, in the morning, I suddenly figured out one thing, which inadvertently implicated Bai Ya'er, a pawn who crossed the river, and let me see the corner of the chess game.

Life is like a chessboard, we are all pawns, but some have crossed the river, and some have not crossed the river.

And for the pawn, how easy is it to cross the river? There are so many useful chess pieces in the rooks, horses, and artillery, and which opponent is willing to focus on the soldiers?

Therefore, those who can use their pawns and make good use of them must be those who are wise and overconfident.

Like this brother sitting across from me.

The two of us sat in the restaurant of Ke Ke company's office building, Wen Tingxu biting on a bloody steak, and sometimes pouring crimson wine into his mouth.

"Really driving?" He asked me.

"What are you lying to you for?" I asked him rhetorically.

He looked up, his eyes slanted at me. I don't know if it was the strength of the wine that came up, and his cheeks turned red.

"Tell me, you can't hide it from me with that little bit of caution. Why are you looking for me, hurry up, since you're all out to eat, what's there to worry about? He raised his glass, shook it slightly, and looked at the glass of wine half in the sunlight outside the window.

"Why did you lie to me?" I was quite upset with his attitude.

"Is that a lie? At best, it's just a joke. He snorted, looking disdainful.

"You're kidding me? almost put my and Shen Yu's lives on the line, and it's also a joke? A wave of anger came over me.

He ignored me, just beckoned to the waiter and added another glass of red wine.

"Since you've seen it all, then I have nothing to hide. That's right, it's my bureau to go to the desert to visit the ancients. But don't worry, I've already made a full plan, even if your girlfriend doesn't fire that shot, I have a way to subdue that group of bandits, and it will never affect your personal safety.

"You know, I'm a person who believes in science, and I will never do it without being completely sure."

"So that place isn't really West Night City at all, right?"

"That's right, over the years, I have set foot in Yecheng more than a dozen times in a row, at first it was indeed to find evidence, and then to clear the grievances of my parents.

"I'm 100% sure because the logical chain is so complete and clear, but alas, there is no evidence at all. You probably can understand that kind of pain, just like the last big question in the college entrance examination mathematics, you know the result, but you just can't verify it......"

"So you chose an ancient city site and created a fake scene?"

"I can't say that, it's just a restoration of the truth that happened." He said indifferently as he cut the steak.

"It's a bit of a struggle to restore, isn't it?" I said sarcastically, "You have to find a venue, set up a studio, hire actors, and be a director - the key is that all this is not yet made the actors realize, so that they can play in their true colors - there are captains, traitors, detectives, bandits, screenwriters are probably quite troublesome, right?" ”

"It's not troublesome, such a clumsy and deliberate script, even you can see it. Tell me how you found out. ”

I sighed.

"Do you still need to find out? Gu Baotian confessed at the press conference in the morning, and many situations are not the same as the archaeological site we went to - we have an oasis there, but the artificial lake is very small, and there are no giant skulls in the lake.

"And the scale of the ancient city is not the same, and the statue of Moro is also different - our ancient city has a few pillars, but the imitation is very fake, and it is completely impossible to see that it is the appearance of the magic hand......"

He smiled: "You can't blame me, do you remember Zhang Xiangyang, who first discovered the ancient city of the West Night?" When he went to work in Kashgar, I approached him and asked about the Xiye ruins, and he said that he remembered that there were several rammed earth pillars, and the pillars were molded into them with human bones.

"It's stumped for me, rammed earth pillars are easy to do, but where do you get human bones? There was really no way, so I had to find a lot of beef and mutton leg bones to replace them - fortunately, except for Zhang Xiangyang, no one knew whether the pillar was a human bone or an animal bone. ”

"Bai Ya'er was specially recruited by you, right? Recruit a traitor and go undercover, so that you can recruit a group of bandits as temporary workers? ”

"No, Bai Ya'er is nothing at all, I'm looking for a higher trader - they are really powerful, they found people who are loan sharks at the bottom, and then Bai Ya'er was selected, and Zhang Xiangchun was selected - if I hadn't insisted on finding the villagers of Karaya Tuer, they would have done better.

"To tell you the truth, Zhang Xiangchun's grandson didn't have the courage to kill people at all, but they still hooked out his greed and guts through various coercion and temptation. This group of people is really capable, tsk. ”

"Tell me everything from beginning to end, and what happened to your mother's body? Are the bags and notes fake? ”

He spun his knife and fork and stopped suddenly.

"Only that's true." He muttered, then tugging at his hair, "I'm an unfilial son!" ”