The next day, in a house in the wealthy residential area of Yuhai City, in a spacious study.

"Master Gong, that Xiaoyao Academy is really too evil. ”

Qin Ji sat at the desk, shaking his head and sighing.

The person sitting behind the desk across from him was Gong Changfeng, a slender man, who looked very old, with a slender white beard, full of spirit, and his eyes were as calm as water, but full of strength.

"Even General Wu failed, which the old man did not expect. Gong Changfeng said leisurely.

Qin Ji swallowed his saliva and said with a wry smile: "It's hard to imagine that General Wu didn't even make a move under that Luo Haijie, and that Luo Haijie is only the vice president, this Xiaoyao Academy is unfathomable." ”

Gong Changfeng's expression did not change, and said: "The old man has inquired, this Xiaoyao Academy has just risen in the Southern Continent, and for some reason it has received strong support from the Hanging Pavilion, and its core competitiveness lies in all kinds of strange and powerful secret techniques, and it is indeed a very powerful sect." ”

"Before the old man sent you, he really didn't inquire clearly, and I don't blame you, but in this way, I didn't achieve my goal, but I offended them for no reason, which is really a wrong move. ”

Gong Changfeng shook his head, but there was no frustration in his words.

Qin Ji hurriedly smiled and said: "Master Gong don't have to worry too much, your strength and power are far beyond their Xiaoyao Academy, this time it is just a momentary carelessness, when your Wanghai Tower is established, where is the location of their Xiaoyao Academy?"

Gong Changfeng nodded, did not discuss this matter in more depth, and just said, "Come and accompany me in the next game of chess." ”

Qin Ji sighed, and hurriedly cleaned up the desk and put the chessboard chess pieces.

Of course, the chess they played was not a game of Go and backgammon, which had been lost over the years, but a type of chess that was popular among the upper classes of the Shuo Dynasty, called "shogi".

This kind of game is a bit like a variant of chess, both sides need to hold red and blue chess pieces, the chess surface is written with "Wu", "Mou", "Jin", "Quan" four words, each side has 20 chess pieces, a chess face each has five, the two sides of the game have their own territory on the chessboard, what they need to do is to use these four chess faces on the chessboard different leap play, defend their own territory on the basis of occupying the opponent's territory.

Among them, "Wu" can eat "Mou" and "Quan", "Mou" can eat "Jin" and "Quan", "Jin" can eat "Wu" and "Mou", and "Quan" can eat the other three kinds of chess.

The condition for winning is that two of your "right" pieces enter the opponent's territory, or one piece of "Wu", "Mou" and "Jin" enters the opponent's territory.

How to achieve both offense and defense, advance and retreat, and reasonably use a limited number of chess pieces, has become a problem that both sides of the game need to consider in depth, this kind of chess can be played in a variety of tricks, but also very test the player's ability to calculate and deduce, so it has become the favorite board game of the upper class people of the Shuo Dynasty.

Gong Changfeng and Qin Ji are obviously good at shogi, and they have killed you and me at the beginning, bloody and bloody, Gong Changfeng's chess path is steady and steady, Qin Ji is all the way forward, and the crisp sound of chess pieces falling heavily on the chessboard is endless.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the closed door of the study, and a voice said carefully: "Master Gong, the appraiser recommended by General Wu is here." ”

Gong Changfeng was about to drop the chess pieces in his hand at this time, and when he heard this, he put the chess pieces back in their original positions, and smiled at Qin Ji: "It seems that our game of chess can only be continued later." ”

Qin Ji nodded: "Of course, Master Gong's business is important, I have memorized the chess game, and I can re-put it out at any time." ”

Gong Changfeng smiled with satisfaction, and ordered outside the door, "Bring the appraiser over." ”

The chessboard pieces on the desk were quickly cleaned up by Qin Ji, and at the same time, he himself also retired and left, and not long after, the family of the Gong family walked into the study with a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.

"Hello Master Gong, my name is Wu Qi, and everyone ridicules me for being black, so it's good to call me Lao Hei. ”

The middle-aged man respectfully bowed to the palace chief.

He was well-proportioned, his face was wrinkled, apparently weather-beaten, and under his two ruler-like eyebrows was a pair of glasses with thick lenses, which he could barely see.

Of course, this old black is Qi Wanli pretending.

He asked Wu Kui not to tell Gong Changfeng that he was also involved in the investigation, of course, not because of anger, but because of his own position.

The others were eyeing the suspected monster in order to fight it and drive it away, and of course, from Wu Kui's words, it could be felt that they were more likely to hunt it.

But Qi Wanli is different, the purpose of him and Bai Qiyu is first to see if it is a demon, if so, they want to see if this is a demon that can communicate, whether it is a ...... A demon that can be a partner.

Under such circumstances, how could he possibly conduct an investigation with Gong Changfeng and Wu Kui? Wouldn't that be self-tiding?

However, Qi Wanli also knew very well that in order to understand the whereabouts of this suspected monster, instead of plunging into the ocean like a headless fly to investigate, it was better to go directly to Gong Changfeng's side and steal the information he had.

So, he inquired a little and knew that Gong Changfeng was recruiting appraisers recently, so the dean of the dignified Xiaoyao Academy asked Wu Kui for a nomination quota, and he changed his face, dressed up with makeup, and mixed in.

Of course, Gong Changfeng and the sailor have a long-term friendly exchange and cooperative relationship, and Qi Wanli has to repeatedly promise Wu Kui in advance to do this kind of thing, and his side is just to facilitate access to information, and will not do anything evil to Gong Changfeng, and even really help Gong Changfeng a lot in identifying this kind of thing.

What's more, if Shanggong Changfeng was stabbed in the back at this juncture, Wu Kui could think of it as a bad thing done by Xiaoyao Academy with his little toes.

"Hehe, that's an interesting name. Gong Changfeng smiled faintly, leaned back on the sofa chair behind the desk, and said, "Since he is an appraiser recommended by General Wu, his strength will not be bad, and he can be trusted." However, the appraiser that the old man needs is top-notch, so you still have to test your skills. ”

"Of course. ”

Qi Wanli responded without hesitation, with the powerful database of dark yuan, it is easier to identify this kind of thing than using a search engine to check popular science knowledge before.

"Looks like you're confident. Gong Changfeng smiled, opened the drawer of the desk, took out an object, put it on the desk, and said, "You take a look first, what is this." ”

Qi Wanli took a step forward and looked at the things on the table.

The glasses on the bridge of his nose don't actually affect his eyesight at all, and Skywalker's modification of his eyes allows him to adjust the focus of his eyes in a wide range.

Then, he smiled, pushed his glasses, and said, "Master Gong, this is not an ordinary monster material, this is a unique thing in the ocean, called white coral, which is equivalent to the divine crystal in the sea." ”

He picked up the thing on the table that looked a bit like a crystal ore, checked it, and said, "The excrement after the sea monsters devour each other and digest the excrement in excess, if it is eaten by a special kind of polyp that can digest divine energy, then when these polyps die, their corpses will form such white coral." ”

"It contains pure divine power, and it is very easy to be transformed into ocean divine power by the abyss messenger, and it is a good thing to assist in cultivation, but because it looks too much like a crystal, and it can hardly sense the fluctuation of divine power, many people will treat it as an ordinary crystal to make an ornament. ”

Gong Changfeng's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Sure enough, I have some ability, and I can recognize white coral at a glance." That's right, this is something that the old man brought from the Pacific Ocean, and it is usually used to assist in cultivation, and there are not many people on the mainland who can recognize it. ”

Qi Wanli smiled, put Bai Coral back on the table, and asked, "Master Gong, do you still need to continue to produce exam questions?"

"No, if you can recognize white coral, it means that you have studied things in the sea, and you can come to help the old man see something. ”

Gong Changfeng stood up and said to Qi Wanli: "You come with the old man." ”

Of course, the palace family's house was not as big as Lao Xu Yuan, where Xiaoyao Academy was located, but it was definitely not small, and the two of them walked through the long corridor and courtyard to the door of a warehouse.

There were two mediocre-looking guards guarding the door of the warehouse, and when they saw Gong Changfeng, they saluted, took the key handed by Gong Changfeng, and opened the door of the warehouse.

"Old ...... Old Black Master. Gong Changfeng was a little unsuitable for this cheesy title, coughed twice, and said, "The old man still calls you Master Wu." Master Wu, there are some materials in the warehouse that the old man collected before, but there is no way to determine the origin, please take a look, if there is a way to determine what it is, make a list for the old man. ”

"There is a room for you to rest in the house, and you can also take the key to the warehouse first, but you must be searched by the guards when you enter and exit the warehouse, and if you don't know the way, you can ask the guards to help you lead the way. ”

"I'll give you two days to sort out the list, and after you finish this, the old man has other arrangements for you, and if you do it beautifully, the reward will be indispensable to you. ”

Qi Wanli smiled without humility or arrogance, and walked towards the warehouse.

Gong Changfeng's warehouse is very neatly organized, and the classification is also very clear, one by one large or small wooden boxes or iron boxes are displayed, some boxes are labeled with clear names and uses of materials, and some are labeled with "unknown", I think it is what Gong Changfeng said, "There is no way to determine the origin of things".

Qi Wanli glanced at it roughly, and estimated that there were about forty or fifty of these unnamed boxes, accounting for about a quarter of the total, and couldn't help but sigh twice in his heart.

"It's really rich, it seems that this palace Changfeng has been in Yuhai for a long time, and he has reaped so many benefits. ”

He picked up the list of items on the shelves of the warehouse, walked towards the warehouse, and began his work as an appraiser.