Chapter 361: Puzzle solving
There's a very old story: what could be more terrible than eating an apple and eating a bug?
Eat half a bug.
Yuan Shi now understands this truth very deeply, looking at Xu Bailian in front of her, who suddenly became more comfortable, she felt as disgusting as if she had eaten half a worm.
What could be more uncomfortable than being blinded by a conspiracy?
Yuan Shi is now facing such a dilemma, she did lock the object of suspicion to Xu Bailian, but the clue ended here. And Xu Bailian blatantly put on an attitude of "I still have a backhand, but I will never tell you one more word".
It's really disgusting!
Yuan Shi's dangerous tactics are a kind of gambling, after she asked the police from the thundercloud messenger, she immediately thought of Xu Bailian, as long as he can quickly control this person, no matter how many shrimp soldiers and crab generals he has, there is no need to worry about conspiracy. But now the person is locked, but the control is far from it, unless he can extract all the thoughts in his head, the half worm in the mouth of the original poem can't spit it out!
After all, this move was too hasty.
"Idiot. ”
When Xu Bailian's laughter came to his ears, the original poem himself was also annoyed and secretly scolded himself for being a wise man with wet feet by the river...... So much so that the next moment, when Zhu Junshen's figure flickered to the side, Yuan Shi glared back at him very angrily, which made the old dean inexplicable.
Did you call me here!? It was the most urgent channel in the Book of Confusion, and I let go of the staff who were working overtime and vomiting blood, and came all the way, but you want to stare at me!?
"What's wrong?"
On the other side, Ying Ruoying, who had been watching everything in the grandmaster area, also broke the silence and asked in a cold voice.
Beside Ying Ruoying, Huang Buming also glanced at curious eyes.
Yuan Shi faced the collective questioning of these grandmasters, thought for a moment, and then simply stated the situation.
"Just now I saw that the thundercloud envoy of Shengyuan transmitted a plague alert to the princess, and a terrifying plague that threatens hundreds of millions of lives is about to break out in Hongshan City, and the source of the plague has been locked on Xu Bailian. ”
Ying Ruoying asked, "Is there any evidence?"
Yuan Shi said calmly: "No." ”
"So what are you doing stupidly?"
Yuan Shi said: "I'm betting that he's stupider than me." ”
"Did you win?"
Yuan Shi smiled helplessly: "As you can see, it seems to have lost." ”
Ying Ruoying glanced at her angrily, and locked her gaze on Xu Bailian again: "It does seem very suspicious, speaking of which, his previous resurrection from the dead, does it really make sense in principle?"
This question was obviously thrown to Huang Buming and Zhu Junshen.
Huang Buming sits on the title of "Wan Zhi", and in terms of the amount of knowledge, he is still above Zhu Junshen and even Zhou Yu, so he naturally has to be the first to speak up about this kind of question.
"According to the existing general theory of the Demon Dao, it can't be explained, at least in his state at the time, unless the demon clan comes again, he will definitely die. ”
"Oh, the demons are coming again. Ying Ruoying thought thoughtfully, "I remember that the ancient battlefield in the lime plain has always been very precious in the east, maybe it was the Shengyuan Council that quietly raised the demon clan in the ruins?"
When Xu Bailian heard this, his smile became even more sarcastic: "Idiot!"
Ying Ruoying's willow eyebrows were raised, and the scattered supernatural power in her hand was ready to pass by her face, but before she could make a move, she was stopped by Zhu Junshen.
"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the Shengyuan people are the most injured in the war between humans and demons, and their scars have not healed for two thousand years. ”
Ying Ruoying snorted and didn't argue with Zhu Junshen.
Why didn't she know about this kind of common sense? It was nothing more than a test of Xu Bailian. And just now the dead rotten thing dared to speak ill of himself, it was a good time to resort to force the problem, although he seemed to be reborn, and his strength must have changed qualitatively compared to before, but Ying Ruoying won him once, and he was confident to win the second and third times.
Grandmaster Sanhua is not invincible in this life, she will also lose, and there will be opponents who cannot be defeated no matter what.
But as long as she wins once, she will never lose again.
Victory, only 0 times and countless times, this is the intuitive portrayal of Ying Ruoying.
But Zhu Junshen had other considerations, after he stopped Ying Ruoying, he looked at Xu Bailian again with a deep gaze, and after a long time, he asked, "May I ask who Your Excellency is?"
Hearing this question, Xu Bailian finally became serious, but this seriousness was limited to the bottom of his heart, and on the surface, he was still the Saint Yuan Sect Master who had no one in his eyes.
"Who am I?, you Qin people should know best......
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Junshen.
"I'm not asking as a Qin person, but as a human being, may I ask Your Excellency, who is it?"
Xu Bailian was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "Your vision is better than that of the person who claims to be the first in the world." ”
Zhu Junshen said: "That's not necessarily, it's just that I dare to gamble and dare to lose, but he is too high to lose and can't afford to lose." ”
"Oh, so you think he's suspicious of me, too? ”
"The mind of the first person in the world, how can you easily see it. ”
Yuan Shi listened to it for a while, although he knew that Zhu Junshen was taking this opportunity to delay time, and dispatched troops to collect clues...... But this conversation is so stupid.
Fortunately, Xu Bailian was not interested in talking nonsense with Zhu Junshen, and changed the conversation halfway: "By the way, you don't have to waste time controlling the members of the academic group I brought, more than half of them are innocent." ”
Yuan Shi pursed his mouth and forcibly did not beat him.
In other words, there are still a small number of people who are not innocent? Now we can't distinguish which people are innocent and who are guilty, so how can we not waste time trying to control them? This sentence seems to be well-intentioned, but it adds to people's blockage......
Wait, is he really just saying this just to confuse us, or to disgust us? Xu Bailian is indeed often stupid, but he can grow all the way from the slums to a demon master, and the most important thing is that when he is not stupid, he is actually terrifyingly smart!
The original poem and he debated on the forum, and won many times, relying on Xu Bailian to be smart enough, if Xu Bailian is a simple criticism like Zheng Liming, then the original poem is easy to show off and meet soldiers. The so-called IQ crushing is often only effective in battles of the same level.
So now the original poem has to wonder if Xu Bailian's sentence means something else, or what is the purpose of his nonsense......
The next moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and her gaze immediately glanced at the eldest princess.
Ying Ruoying also raised her head, and if she realized, her fingers lightly touched her waist.
At the same time, Li Qin, who was far away in southern Xinjiang, suddenly became energetic and opened his book of mysteries, like a woman picking mushrooms.
"What does Your Highness have to tell me? Leaving the Fire Sect, the mission will be accomplished!"
"Less nonsense. ”
"Oh. Li Qin immediately restrained his expression and listened intently.
The officers and men of the Southern Xinjiang Army who gathered around Li Qin left the military tent very tacitly, pretending that they had not heard or seen anything.
As comrades-in-arms who have lived and died together, there has long been no estrangement between their superiors and subordinates, and there is more of a tacit understanding between them with all sincerity, so it has long become the basic etiquette of the Southern Xinjiang Army to lose face and avoid it for the whole army.
According to the usual practice, the dialogue between Li Qin and the eldest princess usually lasts unilaterally for a long time, especially when the eldest princess leaves southern Xinjiang for a while, Li Qin's longing is bound to last for a long time...... Anyway, everyone doesn't have to go back to the camp tonight, just go hunting and take a walk.
On the other side, in the military tent, Li Tan's face became more and more solemn.
Although the longing for Ying Ruoying is like a volcanic lava waiting to erupt, but there are priorities, Li Qin is not going to abolish the public for personal reasons, and every word Ying Ruoying said at this time made the heart of the Fire Leaving Grandmaster tighten.
"You're saying there's something wrong with those Saint Yuan sappers?"
Ying Ruoying said angrily: "I didn't say that, but at the moment they are very suspicious, you think for your own reasons." ”
Li Qin nodded, and all kinds of pictures and lines kept pouring out of his mind as material for reasoning.
The reason for this state of affairs, although Ying Ruoying did not explain it too clearly in the Book of Confusion - Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has never had the patience to break the words and crumple them to tell - but Li Qin has accurately grasped the context.
The prophecy of the Thundercloud Envoy was generally not wrong, and Princess Shengyuan's attitude also supported the strength of that prophecy to some extent - unlike other Qin people, Li Qin had dealt with that princess many times, so he could understand her silence.
She used her silence and inaction to force the Shengyuan Empire to send more forces to help the Hongshan people resolve the crisis, as long as she didn't leave, then even if she was as noble as the first person in the world, it was impossible to watch the princess of the empire fall into the plague crisis.
And since Her Royal Highness the princess is so decisive, it proves that the crisis is mostly real...... But now the original poem has only uncovered the first layer of riddles, and it is far from solving the truth, there are too many things that can be radiated from Xu Bailian!
It's just that the most suspicious of them is indeed none other than the Shengyuan sappers who came to southern Xinjiang to bury immortal tree seeds.
These people came with the academic group on the Apocalypse Giant Ship, and after the ship landed, they parted ways with the academic group and were secretly sent to southern Xinjiang through the Qin Empire to suppress the barbarian spirits who were becoming increasingly rioting.
Li Qin, as a representative of the Qin State stationed in southern Xinjiang for a long time, came into contact with these sappers, and only felt that there was almost no human smell on them, but considering that these sappers basically belonged directly to the first person in the world, even the Shengyuan royal family ordered not to move...... It's normal to have no smell.
But at this time, it seems that this lack of human smell is very wrong.
"I see, I'll take them under control right away...... But I don't think that's the crux of the matter. ”
Although he already had doubts in his heart, Li Qin still calmly said another guess: "In my opinion, this is still a confusing item thrown by Xu Bailian. ”
"So I didn't expect you to save the world. ”
"Understand, I will do a good job in southern Xinjiang as soon as possible, Your Highness...... You have to take care of yourself. ”
“...... Hmph, got it. ”
This was the end of the conversation between the two grandmasters, which was very different from the long and long conversation that Li Qin had expected, but Li Tan only felt a burst of joy.
How many years has it been? Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess has responded with such a gentle tone to her sincere greetings?
It's been at least 13 years......
As a Demon Dao Grandmaster, Li Qin has the ability to never forget, especially every detail when he gets along with Ying Ruoying is deeply imprinted in his mind, so he knows very well that in the past 13 years, no matter how he cares and greets, the answers he gets are: "Disgusting", "Shut up", "Sanhua!"
Knowing these three words, it seems to be unremarkable, but it carries Li Tan's infinitely beautiful dreams.
However, now is not the time to indulge in the gentleness of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, it is a matter of the safety of the Great Qin Empire, and he must also devote all his energy to deal with it.
Although there is a high probability that these Shengyuan sappers are just suspicious soldiers posed by Xu Bailian, they would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go...... This is what Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess expects from him!
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In Hongshan City, Ying Ruoying left the blurred book on her waist with her fingers, raised her head and said to Zhu Junshen and the others: "Southern Xinjiang has been arranged. ”
Zhu Junshen nodded, but did not show a look of relief.
Southern Xinjiang was not the focus of his suspicions in the first place, because those sappers were almost Zhou Yu's private soldiers. If even Zhou Yu was infiltrated by Xu Bailian to this point, there would be no need for everyone to guess the riddle here, just go home and write a suicide note as soon as possible.
The question is, what exactly is Xu Bailian's conspiracy?
The situation has developed to this point, Xu Bailian's fearless and even playful attitude is enough to prove that the suspicion of the original poem is not subjective speculation, she guessed correctly!
It's a pity that I only got half of the guess right......
Xu Bailian is the key, but the key is that everyone does not have a very good way to take Xu Bailian.
"Why, it's hard to start? You can try to read minds, if you can extract my thoughts directly, then all the intrigues and tricks will be out of the way. ”
Zhu Junshen laughed and stretched out his hand to stop Ying Ruoying, who was silently hurting the killer.
"Mind extraction can also be faked, and even if we really kill him, it will only cut off our existing clues...... Try life reasoning, Lao Huang, help me?"
Huang Buming nodded: "You're welcome, I can't ask for the opportunity to see the methods of the Sect Master." ”
Ying Ruoying didn't speak, but silently stepped forward half a step forward and came to Zhu Junshen's side, although she didn't say it explicitly, her supportive attitude was clear at a glance.
The next moment, a figure flickered behind everyone, Zhu Junshen turned his head and saluted solemnly: "Mr. Yue......"
The tall and thin figure waved his hand: "Don't waste time talking, unfold your life chart, I will do my best to help you...... But let's talk about it first, if you can't do anything, I'm only responsible for bringing it back to Your Highness, your own business, and wiping your ass. ”
Zhu Junshen said: "Being able to get the help of Grandmaster Shengyuan is the secret of the world, and there is nothing to hide!"