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"What a guy with flashy equipment. What did he do to make you hate him so much? Hmm? Does Teacher Dan Heng know him?"
"When Li Sushang and I broke through, he supported us from the side. So we met once."
In response to Sora's series of excited movements, he let out a sigh, but when Mobius picked up the photo, his brows that were usually playful furrowed tightly.
"…Apokalis? Didn't he die a long time ago?"
"It's definitely not him. I'm very sure that he is dead without a trace left. After all, I did it myself. There is no possibility that he could escape in spirit form. Old Yang, is this Xukong Wanzang? Did he get off the bus and wander to Luofu by himself?"
Sora rubbed his temples with a headache. The excitement he had felt during the day because of the possibility of connecting the worlds disappeared the moment he saw the person who looked like his mortal enemy.
"No, it's another person, named Luosha, a foreign merchant who has dealings with the Minghuo Merchant Group."
The solemn and murderous aura beneath Lao Yang's glasses could not be concealed at all. Even Sanyue shuddered when he saw it, as if he could get a glimpse of the mental trauma left to him by the turbulent years of the Great Collapse.
"His business group and personal identity have both been officially registered with the Xianzhou Alliance - it is possible that they are isomorphs, but..."
"Yes, very similar!"
"Yes, very similar."
Lao Yang and Kong just nodded to each other, leaving Ji Zi stunned:
"...I don't understand why you all dislike him? Is it just that his appearance is not right?"
"It's a simple reason. He looks a bit like an old friend. Miss Navigator will never understand how much trouble Otto has caused them."
Mobius put down the photo and turned on Lao Yang's holographic transmitter:
"Otto, Archbishop of Destiny, was one of the causes of suffering for Little White Mouse and his group of old friends. We fought side by side, but since his selfish desires were exposed... the trauma he brought to the two gentlemen was no less than the collapse."
The man on the hologram was polite, but just by magnifying the image, Walter's knuckles on the cane turned slightly white.
Snake yawned at his stressed look, "Ah, of course, to me, he's just a dead man. I didn't have much contact with him, and I only fought him indirectly by accompanying the white mouse - this guy is a lovesick person, and his reasons for climbing the tree are too narrow."
The amount of information contained in the last sentence made Ji Zi take a few more sips of coffee.
Mobius leaned towards Sora, seemingly dissatisfied that Kama was the only one comforting him: "When will the little white mouse do something so 'narrow' for me? I will probably die without regrets~"
"...He is indeed a very admirable dead man, but I don't want another living person as dangerous as him to appear in the world. Stop it, Snake, let's be serious."
Kong looked more serious than ever before, picked up the jade sign, held it in his hand for a while, then put it down and turned to touch his own temple to contact Tingyun.
As one of the representatives of Minghuo Merchant Group, if she didn’t know the information about this invited merchant...
[Tingyun, do you know Luosha?]
[Hmm? Did he do anything to hinder his benefactor?] Tingyun's reaction is very intriguing.
[…You actually know him…Why didn’t you tell me in advance…Huh, wait, I’m a little confused now…Could he be part of your plan?] Lu
After calming down, Kong realized that Tingyun had no obligation to explain the situation of Luosha to him before, but the fox's answer made him more confused.
[In my plan, I have already used him. His aura of "order" and his blessing of abundance will definitely attract the attention of Luofu's top brass, helping you to divert their attention. I knew that his disguise was not good enough, so I let him stay to confuse you, although it seems a bit overthinking now...] 4
【……】㈣
Sora suddenly became speechless, and the psychic fluctuations of sweating soybeans made her a little confused:
[Why, benefactor, do you think it is inappropriate to have a lackey of order around to take the blame? ]
[It doesn't matter what he believes in - this is such a big mistake. Is his name on the invitation list of your Minghuo Chamber of Commerce? ]
[No, I understand you. People like us don't get along with the order... If he wasn't useful and could help you share some of the attention, I wouldn't have let him stay, and naturally I wouldn't have invited him in writing in advance.]
Tingyun's psychic emotions became inexplicably gentle, as if he was completely obedient to Kong:
[If you think he is an eyesore and want to kill him, I have no objection.]
…The cover was really unnecessary. I have always done things in an open and aboveboard manner. You even brought in a homologue who gave me PTSD…
People who are happy will definitely not hang out with people who are orderly, but before Kong felt that something was wrong, he could hear that Tingyun didn't care about this person's life or death at all...
...Isn't this just a random decoy bomb that failed to trick the enemy but instead caused 5 points of health loss to the friendly forces?
[No, I'm not that impulsive yet.]
[Hee~ Are you afraid that this will affect me, so you suppress your hatred for order? I will find a chance to repay you.]
[You owe me a lot... This person——]
Perhaps she noticed that Sora's mood had calmed down a little, so she hurried to please him:
[Do you want to dig deeper into his background? I have some information to share with you. Although we are fully prepared, if... using him as a scapegoat is a good strategy to get out of this situation.]
[There's no need to think about getting out of this situation. Are you still a defeatist strategist? Send the information⑤⑦］"←∵"｀●小↓—说∴日⊥＼更裙: Come here, let me see what this guy is like. 】
[It's just a useful chess piece, don't take it too seriously.]
After everyone waited in silence, Sora put down his hand, but became annoyed and let out a long sigh.
"…He is indeed not among the invited guests, but it seems that he cannot be touched."
"what?"
"According to official records, the person in charge of receiving Otto—no, receiving Luosha—said that she did not invite such a person."
"...Smuggling?" Ji Zi put down the cup.
She actually didn't have any preconceived ill feelings towards this man, but Lao Yang and Kong both looked at her in a weird way that said "you should hate him with us", which made her very uncomfortable.
"If he had sneaked across the border, he wouldn't have signed his name on the official documents. In addition to the fact that the Minghuo Merchant Corps' information cannot be connected, the Tianbo Division has a record of his entry application. Silver Wolf helped check it and found no signs of background modification."
"Except for the fact that Minghuo invited me, everything else is true." Dan Heng reached out and picked up the photo that Sheshe had thrown away:
"This guy has been with me before. He's pretty good. I knew he was hiding, but the mini-map didn't indicate he was an enemy, so I just let him go."
After all, with the perspective of a professional guard, Dan Heng gave his own judgment: "He hasn't appeared since we parted in the lobby. If he can bypass all of our vigilance, it means that even if he has a conspiracy, it is most likely not against us."
That’s right, during the time when Yu Xia Ting was resting, Kong did not feel any malicious intent from any direction. He was the most sensitive one. But even though they were living under the same roof, he actually missed a guy who was almost exactly the same as Otto...
"... Walter, tell me about the case you found that was related to him - I mean, case 8."
Sora changed his words very reluctantly.
The information Tingyun sent him had a fairly fair perspective - including the fact that his hometown and religious order had been devastated by the followers of the Destruction.
But the Rakshasa sect... after obtaining the power of abundance to fight against destruction, like the Immortal Boat people, was harmed by the blessing of abundance, which gave them full motivation to hate destruction and abundance.
It is hard to say whether he also intended to quickly end Jianmu's "pharmacist's miracle" and saw Xu Zu appear, so he reluctantly became the scapegoat under Tingyun's calculations.
But Kong just instinctively felt that the guy with Otto's face was not a good person, and hoped that Lao Yang could give some guesses and evidence to deepen his "expectations".
...You two are too prejudiced and hostile towards him.
The unwilling attitude of starting a discussion from the presumption of guilt without any angle made Sheshe and Jizi laugh very hard, but the situation was too serious to laugh out loud.
As everyone listened attentively, Lao Yang naturally connected the case of the attack on Dr. Gong Zao Si to him.
"The reason why I found him is that I think Jingliu learned the location of Wumingke and Taibu too quickly. If there was no help from the outside world, she would not have been able to immediately block the captain's way. Afterwards, Taibu also said that although the train operation was not kept secret, only a very small number of people were able to know about it in the first place, including the guests of Youxiating... Especially the guests who were interested. Maybe Xingcha was also tracked..."
Old Yang9 produced a list of all the guests who checked in: "3 I went to the government office and the front desk to check again. The information of all the guests who checked in matched, except Luosha. He was not on the invitation list of Minghuo's chief. The captain just confirmed that Miss Tingyun was just using his identity to cover up for the captain and herself. Everything matched my suspicion."
As everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, Kong nodded, "Our time, destination, and target were all known in advance. Putting aside Tingyun's little tricks, there just happened to be a VIP among the guests. How could such a coincidence happen? It feels like the other party left a loophole for us to find him out."
"..."
Ji Zi found that the rationality of "presumption of innocence" seemed to have disappeared from her two pioneering friends.
"…It is a bit strange. Should we report it to the government office and ask them to help monitor it?" But based on the universal value of helping relatives and not helping others, she still said something that would make the two men feel better.
"The key is, is this person still staying in Youxia Ting?" Sanyue also responded with a few words.
"I just contacted the front desk, and they are still here. They are really brave."
"But how did he move in if Minghuo wasn't invited?"
"Tingyun did it." Kong curled his lips: "Didn't she say she was using it as a shield? She didn't want to expose the identities of the two of us in the tavern, so she put a pot on his head, but this does not conflict with my suspicion that he also had some ulterior motives."
"Oh, that's okay."
When they heard that it was Tingyun who was in charge, everyone stepped back - since they knew she was from the tavern, nothing she did seemed surprising.
But when he thought about how he had slept with a man with Otto's face across several walls that night, Sora got goosebumps on his back.
"To put it another way, his identity is questionable, but that doesn't mean he must be the one who contacted Jingliu? So many guests who checked in through the regular channels are also suspects."
Ruan Mei, who had been silent the whole time, probably couldn't stand Kong's illogical and intuitive way of judging, so she spoke up to remind him.
"Ruan Mei, we don't need a rational person. For this face, as long as there is a little excuse, no, no excuse, I can stuff the grenade gun into his mouth without any guilt."
"..."㈡
Kong was so confident that Ruan Mei was stunned for several seconds:
"...Then notify Diheng's people to keep a close eye on him. He's just a traveling merchant. Luofu must understand that the trust of club members is more important."
Ruan Mei's words were a reminder to Kong that he was being a bit overbearing, which was totally unlike him.
After all, this is Luofu, not Night City. We cannot execute people on suspicion of crime, otherwise everything will be in chaos.
Reminded by Ruan Mei's cold voice, Kong finally came back to his senses from his red-hot state, and Walter also pushed up his glasses and cancelled the attack indication.
The former Anti-Entropy leader began to reflect on whether this was the first time he had given the children a confusing impression...
"...No, we can't do that... Let's monitor him for a while, then go find Jing Liu to confirm and feel out what she has to say." Lao Yang offered a compromise.
"Oh, yes, it will be much less troublesome if we start from her side."
Sora tapped his palm.
"Jingliu is a registered criminal. If she identifies him, we don't have to do anything out of the ordinary."
But he also did not realize that his "dirty adult" behavior of shifting the blame was also not conducive to early education, which made Kong's two students look "suddenly enlightened".
Only March 7th didn't understand the gloomy tone and was still lamenting that Uncle Yang could also have such "irrational" moments.
While Lao Yang was triggering the special attack effect against Otto, he decided on his own route for the next few days. Kong asked Tingyun Qiaoniao again -
[Do you know what the relationship is between Rakshasa and Mirror Flow? ]
[…Mirror Style? The sword master who dared to challenge you? Is Luosha related to her?] The fox's fluctuations became stunned.
[It seems that you don't know either. Ha, I finally found out something you weren't involved in - it's okay, I'll investigate it slowly.]
[I really don't know what he and Jingliu have exchanged... Fortunately, you found out. Ha, interesting, you have something to hide. ]
[My intuition tells me that he must have made preparations in advance and cooperated with Jingliu from inside and outside... Be careful, I will immediately explain the situation to Jingyuan and ask him to attack Jingliu again to confirm her attitude towards Jianmu.]