Chapter 144: Take the initiative
When Evelyn and Roger returned to Xiao Chen's ward, it was already night. The two of them happened to bump into Caterina to deliver food to Xiao Chen. The appearance of the two startled Caterina who was feeding Xiao Chen, and a spoonful of rice was almost sent into Xiao Chen's nose.
Roger's face was serious but he didn't see much emotion, but Evelyn was obviously angry, and her whole face was twisted.
Judging from the length of the interrogation, Xiao Chen knew that Jiang Yitian did not simply let them go, and must have asked a lot of questions. He got up from his hospital bed and asked, "Have they embarrassed you?"
The Dark Elf Ranger, who was usually solemn and silent, couldn't hold back the anger in his heart at this time, sat down next to Xiao Chen and said, "I'm angry!"
She didn't go on, glanced at Caterina and gave Xiao Chen a look.
"It's okay, it's okay for Katarina, she already knows a little bit about it. Say, what did he ask?" Xiao Chen asked.
Evelyn looked at him, gritted her teeth, and said, "He's not asking questions, he's creating them!" He didn't ask me much, but he asked a lot about you. Especially him. Evelyn gestured to Roger.
Roger sat down at the end of the hospital bed, his hands crossed over his chest, his eyes hanging on the ground: "It seems that my Imperial blood will be a big problem this time." Although I told the truth about all the questions, Jiang Yitian didn't want to let me go. He will corroborate my words with what you say, find the most suspicious places, and magnify them...... I have seen a lot of this kind of method, and it is not a new way to play in the circle of the imperial aristocracy. ”
Xiao Chen moved himself up a little more, and said to the two sincerely, "I'm sorry. I didn't expect this operation to cause you so much trouble. ”
"You're not right, how can the problem be with you? If we stay in the city and don't go out, he can still suspect Roger of secretly opening the door, and he will be even more unclear. I learned an idiom before: there is no excuse for the sin that you want to add, and this is the case. Evelyn said
Xiao Chen nodded in agreement: "Well, obviously. This guy is either looking for a scapegoat, or he's having trouble with me, or both. But because Roger is my assistant a lot of the time, it comes down to me. ”
"They also asked me not to go out of town recently and not to get involved in any action. Evelyn slammed her fist on the edge of the bed and said hatefully, "It's too much." For the first time, I realized that sometimes my own people were more annoying than my enemies. ”
"The same is required of me. "But the most important thing is that many of our soldiers in our escort are originally slaves from the Empire, and now they have just lost the battle, and the hearts are unstable, and they are now doubting our loyalty, and I think it will be a big blow to morale." Today it is from the Empire, and tomorrow it will be a city-state, an elf, a dwarf, and it will eventually chill everyone's heart. ”
Katerina said: "Yes, how can this be! Sister Caranda turned out to be an Imperial, but now she thinks she can be a Chinese." ”
Xiao Chen patted her hand and said, "You don't have to worry too much about this, they won't be so stupid, looking at the current situation, the empire is just a front, and these movements will only be to deal with a few people." Most of the people of the empire do not threaten the interests of these people, and are harmless to them. ”
Roger said: "When Jiang Yitian asked me today, he accidentally leaked a message in order to confront me. It seems that a lot of things about us were provided to them by Zhang Hong. Listening to the way he talked about it, a lot of speculation against us also came from him. ”
"I've heard it here, and he said he didn't know anything about our movements, and he suspected that we were secretly operating. Evelyn stood up and said angrily, "Zhang Hong himself has been at the meeting several times, why would he say such a thing?"
"It's hard to say. Xiao Chen pondered for a moment and said, "We can't wait stupidly, we have to do something." Katarina, I heard that Tang Feng is also here, you go and inquire and find him. Evelyn, you look for Huang Zheng upstairs, his injuries are almost healed, let him come down and meet me. We're going to have to do a good job of totaling it. ”
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Tang Feng was still one step ahead of Huang Zheng, and Caterina bumped into him who came to visit Xiao Chen just after leaving the gate of the temporary hospital.
After the people arrived, Xiao Chen pointed to the surrounding walls and drew a circle, and said to Huang Zheng: "Old Huang, say a sound." ”
Huang Zheng was surprised while casting the soundproof enchantment: "You actually hurt to this point?"
Xiao Chen said: "The Great Magician is too fierce to use the self-explosion magic, and it is estimated that it will take several days for me to recover." But now the key is the matter of the investigation team. ”
"Then you need a lot of advice from Director Tang, what kind of tone did the committee have when you came out?" asked Huang Zheng.
Tang Feng's expression was quite serious, and he said: "The mainstream of the committee must be to find out the facts, and not to let the possible loopholes cause greater losses. But if you want to take advantage of the fire, there must be people who use the topic to play.
If Peng Ziyi's work hadn't focused on the empire's intelligence collection, he should have come to investigate.
Now that these two people are coming, I don't know what Bai Yicheng's attitude is, but this Jiang Yitian and Chang Lin are quite close, you have to be careful. Still, I can keep an eye on him a little bit here.
In the afternoon he threw me a task to gather information from the retreating soldiers, and I spent an afternoon in the barracks and got a mess of information. And he himself has come to judge you. ”
Xiao Chen said, "Let's check the information at hand." ”
So everyone told the relevant information they knew again, including their own views on the incident at Heikiguan. Synthesizing the information at hand, the black fog shrouded in this incident seemed to be clearer.
Xiao Chen said: "I think the most effective way to get rid of that guy's entanglement is to find out that traitor." ”
"Do you think my suspicion of Zhang Hong is justified? After the last time I communicated with Wang Jiyuan, I collected some bits and pieces of evidence, which are generally consistent with my guesses, but now that I am injured, I have not had time to do further verification. Huang Zheng asked.
Xiao Chen didn't say anything, and thought for a while before he said: "I don't think Zhang Hong has any obvious flaws in other places, it's just that he is so anxious to drag us into the water, but there is a possibility that he will take advantage of some people's thoughts to deal with me and let me be his shield." In general, he is still a timid and fearful fellow, and even if he has a conflict with me, he generally neither dares nor needs to use such a direct way, which makes his motives suspicious.
I don't think there's a better direction for us at the moment. Since this is the case, it is better to use him as a breakthrough. ”
Tang Feng said: "Then I'll go and talk to him in the name of the investigation team tomorrow morning." See what you can expect. If you can not get involved in this matter, don't get involved, especially Huang Zheng, the fire has not burned on you at present, don't end up first. ”
Xiao Chen said: "You can also go and verify the evidence he mentioned for Huang Zheng, maybe it is more useful than interrogating Zhang Hong directly." ”