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"Okay." After receiving a positive answer, the law enforcement officer untied Jiang Lu's handcuffs without saying a word: "Come with me."
Then he took Jiang Lu out of the interrogation room and brought him to a completely enclosed room without windows.
And in the room, there were stones all over that looked very similar to the gambling stones that he had seen at the gambling stone stall before, filling the entire room.
"These can't all be..." Jiang Lu looked at the law enforcement officer in surprise.
"Yes, these are the gambling stones we seized."
The law enforcement officer answered Jiang Lu's doubts directly without any beating around the bush:
"I brought you here mainly to verify your ability."
"No...what's the point of verifying this?" Jiang Lu felt a little confused.
Could it be that this law enforcement officer with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him is actually a swindler, doing some shameful things in private?
Perhaps seeing the suspicion in Jiang Lu's eyes, the law enforcement officer patted him on the shoulder and said, "Although I don't know what bad things you are thinking, it is definitely not what you think. But I need to see your performance before deciding whether to tell you what is going on."
"It looks like there's no room for negotiation." Jiang Lu looked at the door that had been tightly closed after they came in. "It seems like if I don't show off my skills, I won't be able to leave this cell today?"
"Why are you speaking so harshly? Even if you insist on speaking in jargon, let's take a step back. This is a police station, not a cell!"
"Okay, then I'll show you what I can do."
Jiang Lu was pushing the issue, but he was calm like an older artist: "Tell me, how do you want to try it?"
"You wait."
After the law enforcement officer finished speaking, he walked into the pile of gambling stones and picked out three of the most ordinary black stones, which had no special features at all, as if they were watermelons. It was impossible to tell what they were without cutting them open.
They are no different from ordinary stones.
In terms of appearance, it is far less fooling than those colored stones. It is the kind of stone that everyone would take a second look at if it were thrown into a mine.
Looking at the three plain stones, Jiang Lu took a deep breath and said, "Then I will show you how ugly I am!"
After saying that, he directly activated the Eye of Prescience, wanting to see the moment when these stones were opened.
These gambling stones are not Schrödinger's cat. Before turning on the device, you don't know whether the cat inside is alive or dead. The substances contained in the gambling stones are lifeless and will not change due to external objects. They are what they are. This is why Jiang Lu thought of using the Eye of Precognition as a substitute for the Eye of X-ray Vision.
People may see changes in the distant future due to certain changes, but gambling on stones will not, so you can safely and freely extend the future you see until the day they are opened.
While Jiang Lu was concentrating on using the Eye of Prescience to investigate the situation in the gambling stone, he was unaware that everything in the secret room was being broadcasted in real time.
In a meeting room of the Law Enforcement Bureau, a special team to crack down on gambling stone scams was watching Jiang Lu's every move closely.
"How can a mere acquired martial artist, not even a cultivator, have such ability?" someone questioned.
Upon hearing this, someone immediately spoke up for Jiang Lu:
"Xiao Chen, what you said is not very polite. Gambling on stones is a miscellaneous subject and has nothing to do with cultivation. According to what you said, if you want to rely on cultivation to see through objects, it must be something that only Yuanying-level masters can do. If we only consider whether we can do it, aren't we who are not Yuanying-level the same as him in essence?
Besides, when we cultivate immortality, we must first cultivate ourselves, and we must be realistic. You cannot make subjective assumptions and accuse others of something. Speaking with facts is a sign of maturity. You still need to make more progress."
The man quickly admitted his mistake: "The team leader is teaching me that I am superficial."
At this moment, Jiang Lu had already seen the future of the first stone.
"There's nothing inside." Jiang Lu's voice in front of the camera could also be transmitted to the conference room.
The special team leader who was sitting in the first seat and helping Jiang Lu said, "Let Xiao Zhang open it and take a look."
The law enforcement officer beside Jiang Lu heard the instructions and opened the gambling stone box in front of Jiang Lu and all the leaders in the conference room.
Sure enough there was nothing.
"There really is nothing here, just an ordinary piece of stone." The team leader nodded with a smile: "This young man has something."
"Team leader, what if he is just guessing blindly? After all, it is common to get nothing out of gambling on stones. In fact, let alone there are only three stones now, even if there are ten stones and he guesses nothing for all of them, there is still a high probability that he will guess right." Someone suddenly said.
"Don't jump to conclusions." The team leader said, "Let's see what he says later. If he really says nothing like you said, that's fine. We can add it. As far as I know, there are still some real things in these gambling stones. If it's really a guess, it won't escape our eyes."
"Great idea, team leader!"
However, Jiang Lu's subsequent performance directly avoided any further trouble.
When he saw the second stone, he said, "There is green in it. It must contain emerald."
"Oh? Are you so sure?" The team leader couldn't help but admire Jiang Lu's confidence: "Let Xiao Zhang open it and take a look."
When I opened the gambling stone, it turned out to be a jadeite the size of a palm.
"See, he really has some skills." said the team leader.
But some people still expressed doubt: "Team leader, I'm not trying to argue, but the colored parts of this stone are all near the surface. He looked at it for a long time. Maybe he secretly scraped off the outer layer of the surface and said that because he was lucky enough to see the green part. We can't see it clearly through the camera."
"Well, what you said makes some sense. Let's see what he has to say in the end."
But when it came to this last gambling stone, Jiang Lu was also in a dilemma.
Because no matter how the future seen by the Eye of Prescience is extended, this gambling stone has never been opened.
In the future he saw without his participation, the gambling stone was just polished into something like a rolling pin, and no one knew what it was used for.
Jiang Lu found this very strange. Does a rolling pin need to be sharpened with a stone?
Just when Jiang Lu was almost exhausted and his brain was about to explode with pain, he finally saw the day when the rolling pin was taken home by a woman.
As soon as she got home, the woman couldn't wait to close the door and start doing this and that with the rolling pin.
At the same time, he was still mumbling: "Ah... I didn't expect that there was a drop of phoenix blood in this inconspicuous stone, ah... my academic qualifications are about to melt..."
Chapter 290 Informant
Phoenix blood?
Heater!
Jiang Lu certainly didn't know whether this last piece of gambling stone contained the so-called phoenix blood, but there was no way. In the future timeline that he could see, this gambling stone had never been opened, so he could only hope that this was true.
"This piece is quite special. It contains the Phoenix's blood essence, but the Phoenix's blood essence is melted into the stone. It will not crystallize like other minerals. Once it is exposed to the air, it will be difficult to preserve. So my suggestion is not to open this piece completely for verification." Jiang Lu said seriously.
"But if you don't open it, how can it be called verification?" asked law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang.
"Hmm... Let me think about it..."
Jiang Lu pretended to think for a while, then answered:
"This is easy. Just shave off some of the stone, leaving a piece about the thickness of a baby's arm. When you touch it with your skin, you can feel a noticeable burning sensation."
After listening to this, law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang looked towards a hidden place.
There is a camera connected to the big screen in the conference room.
He was asking his leader behind the camera what he should do.
The head of the special task force in the conference room told law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang through the headset without hesitation: "Let's do it this way."
So, the law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang used his hand as a blade, and in no time he cut a gambling stone the size of a watermelon into the shape of a phantom dragon.
This size is even thinner than the rolling pin in the woman's hand that Jiang Lu saw, and it is very extreme.
Perhaps it was because the stone wall had become very thin that the heat from the Phoenix's blood essence became more obvious. Without even putting their hands on it, the two people present could clearly feel a wave of heat coming towards them.
"This is... so hot!" Law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang was shocked.
The law enforcement officers in the conference room looked at each other in bewilderment.
This time no one was able to speak.
Because what Jiang Luyi said about the gambling stones were different every time, which ruled out the possibility of blind guessing. And even if the stone was cut into such a small piece this time, there were still no features for him to use as a reference, which ruled out bad luck.
Even the law enforcement officer who had voiced the most doubts before shut up at this moment.
"If it's a trick, then there's no flaw at all. It's completely flawless..."
"No, magic tricks are deceptive, but he is not faking it. Even the props are prepared by us."
"Is there really someone who can achieve something that only Yuanying Great Powers can do with his acquired talent?"
However, Jiang Lu couldn't hear the chatter behind the scenes. He couldn't help but sigh: "What a pity! Do you have any misunderstanding about baby arms? They are too thin, aren't they?"
The one cut by law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang was too small. Even if it could heat up naturally, it would not be popular with girls.
"Let's put aside the definition of a baby's arm. How do you know exactly what's in the gambling stones every time?" Law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang asked everyone's question.
Hearing this, Jiang Lu replied with a bit of amusement: "Can a secret that is spoken out still be called a unique secret? And at the beginning, I seemed to have only agreed to let you verify my strength, and I didn't say that I would tell you how I did it, right?"
"you..."
"I'm just protecting my privacy. This isn't against the law, right, sir?"
"Indeed..." Law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang nodded helplessly: "Not really."
From the reaction of the law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang, Jiang Lu had actually already figured out that at the beginning, the other party absolutely did not believe that he could really gamble with stones, so when he really did it, his reaction was so big and he looked surprised.
After all, if the other party agrees with you from the beginning, then he will not ask you how you did it now. He will just smile knowingly and then say "as expected" in a pretentious manner.
So Jiang Lu was also a little puzzled. Since the officer didn't believe in him at first and didn't hold out any hope, why did he spend so much effort to let him perform? Are law enforcement officers usually free?
Jiang Lu thought so and asked.
After hearing Jiang Lu's doubts, law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang finally explained to Jiang Lu the reasons for everything and the origin of the gambling stones in this room after hearing the instructions from the headset.
"I admit that I didn't have high expectations for you just now. I asked you to come over just to give it a try. I just wanted to give it a try.
As for why I was so anxious, that’s a long story.
Let’s start with the gambling stones in this room.”
As he spoke, he found two chairs and asked Jiang Lu to sit down, then continued:
"In fact, gambling on stones has never been illegal in the past, because although it is called gambling on stones, it is still fundamentally different from gambling, and it will not easily cause tragedies such as family breakdown and death. In addition, it has its own threshold, and there are not many people who have studied this for many years. Even if it is a bit excessive, it is not to the extent that it needs to be curbed."
"?" Jiang Lu twisted his mouth and said, "If I had come earlier, I wouldn't have been arrested, right? This new law was made specifically for me, right?"
"Don't be impatient, wait until I finish speaking."
Law enforcement officer Xiao Zhang raised his hand to calm the emotional suspect Jiang:
"But in recent years, chaos has emerged in the gambling stone circle. The worst thing is that, somehow, there seems to be a trend of popularizing the gambling stone activity among the whole population.
Gambling on stones is no longer just a small circle. Monks or ordinary people who have not specially learned anti-fraud knowledge in this area can easily fall into the trap. Once they are deeply involved in it, they will go crazy and spend all their savings on it.
Up to now, there have been at least thousands of cases of ordinary people, especially the elderly, being deceived across the country. In addition, it has indirectly triggered various violent and criminal incidents.