Chapter 5 Chapter 4 The Call of the Palace

Lansi has her own way to communicate with that kind of worm. If the head is separated from the body, she can not only know, but also know where the head has gone by communicating with the worm. When she came back with Shenying and told us how she performed the spell, Wen Baoyu was the first to be excited: "If the head robber doesn't make a move, it's fine. If he makes a move, he must be captured!" Lansi sighed, "I didn't want to catch him. If he has nothing to do with Master, it's none of my business." When she said this, she looked at me: "How much do you think this head robber is related to Master?"

Although I didn't want to disappoint her, I still shook my head: "It's too slim, I don't think there will be any connection between the two!" Lan Si's expression was even more bitter. Although Bai Su and Hong Ling wanted to help her very much, they obviously agreed with me, so they had nothing to say for a while. I thought for a while: "Lansi, I think, such a strange thing happened to Master Caiwang, and we still have to find the real reason from the lowering master..." Lansi smiled bitterly: "We also thought of this first. The seven factions of the head-down masters we know are headed by Master Cai Wang. His position as the 'first head-down master' is naturally enviable. The matter of fighting skills, It’s not impossible, although every time, the challengers retreat despite difficulties, and some don’t know how to advance or retreat, and suffer a big loss, but there are also people who come to make trouble—”

I said: "That's it, it's hard to guarantee that there is someone who learned the secret technique to challenge—" Lansi shook her head before I finished speaking. I didn't go any further, waiting for her to explain. Lansi said: "If that's the case, he has already killed the master, and... he even took his head away, and he won a big victory. He must have appeared to announce his big victory, why didn't he get angry?" Lansi's analysis is very reasonable, but I still analyze it from another angle: "Perhaps, he was also hit by the commander's counterattack, and he died after leaving?"

After hearing this, Lansi turned her head and thought for a while, apparently she hadn't thought of this point before I pointed it out. However, she shook her head in the end: "The head-down master seldom acts alone, and they all belong to a faction. Even if he has suffered retribution, his faction will not keep such a big victory secret." She paused for a moment, and then said: "Besides, when we went back to investigate after the incident, no one even knew the news of Master's death—this is why we decided to conceal the news of the death for the time being." After I heard this, I couldn't help being stunned for a while, because from this point of view, the matter really has nothing to do with the lowering master.

Other than that, I really can't imagine what kind of power could cause such a strange thing to happen. Bai Su thought for a while, and said, "Guess Master Wang... did you have any unusual behavior before retreating?" Lan Si said: "No, he hardly cares about worldly affairs anymore, even if I want to see him, it's not easy, it's just...just..." We asked in unison, "Just what?" Lansi waved her hand vigorously: "Actually, it's normal. He has often been in the palace for the past six months—he is the first head-down master. It is very common for people in the royal family to summon him. More."

I said "Oh": "Who is he going to meet in the palace? For what?" Lansi shook her head: "I don't know - he never said, and I have no reason to ask him!" At this time, several of us thought of a question at the same time, so Bai Su, Wen Baoyu, and I said almost at the same time: "No, if the royal family invites him into the palace again, what will you do?" Lan Si was stunned for a while, and then said: "Ah, no, guess what happened to Master Wang, the palace didn't call him." I said, "How long has it been?" Lan Si said: "Twenty-seven days."

I said, "Isn't that unusual?" Lan Si thought for a while: "Originally, there were times when there were no summons for a few months, but recently, there have been a lot of summons, which is a bit unusual." My eyebrows were knotted, and I didn't speak for a while, Lan Si asked, "What did you think of?" I made a gesture to ask her not to ask for a while. In fact, my thoughts were quite disordered and I hadn't thought of anything yet.But my thoughts diverged.It occurred to me that there is a common funny situation in the world today, where there are still emperors.

That is, this emperor is clearly a vain position and has no practical role, but there are still many traditional rules to maintain his dignity.To say that he is not important is indeed dispensable, but there is a certain symbolic and special status. If the matter is related to the royal family, it will cause people to feel difficult to grasp, and even to investigate, but they don't know where to start! I thought for a while, then slowly asked: "Guess the king—I mean, the head-down master is the first, what is the relationship with the royal family?" Lansi said: "Excellent, in fact, this title was conferred by the royal family, and it is recognized by the whole world."

I raised my eyebrows: "The so-called conferment of the royal family is just a formality, not that the royal family really has this power. As long as there is someone who wins the challenge and guesses the king, the royal family must be conferred, right?" Lansi nodded: "Yes." I asked again: "The first head-down master, what obligation do you have to the royal family?" Lansi thought for a while, and then said: "It depends on the person. There are a few first masters who don't sell the royal family's account very much. On the contrary, the royal family is very afraid of him."

I further asked: "Where is the guess king?" Lansi said: "Master is easy-going and not arrogant, so his relationship with the royal family is very harmonious." I said: "There is no relationship between superiors and subordinates. For example, if the emperor gives an order, he must obey it?" Lansi said: "Absolutely not——The head-down master has a supernatural status, no one dares to offend." I thought to myself, no one dares to offend the head-subduing master, of course it is because of the fear of the head-subduing technique, possessing strange skills, and naturally has a detached position.

After listening to the conversation for a long time, Wen Baoyu said, "What exactly do you want to prove?" I said: "I want to prove that the matter of guessing the king has something to do with the royal family!" Lansi's complexion changed, and she must have thought at that moment that if this was the case, things would become very troublesome. I said again: "I even assume that the royal family—at least a certain member of the royal family knows exactly what happened to Guess the King!" Wen Baoyu hesitated and said: "So, knowing that Master Guai Wang is dead, he will not be called into the palace again." I took a breath and nodded. My hypothesis was naturally flat and abrupt, so for a while, everyone was silent. I said again: "If the palace has not issued a call to King Cai, it will prove my hypothesis, and it is very possible." Lansi said: "If the palace calls again—" I said, "How are you going to deal with it?" Lansi said: "It's hard to say. Of course, I will go first, and then I will adapt to the situation-I guess the emperor himself may not summon it. The empress is docile and easy to deal with. The crown prince has encountered extraordinary changes. It won't be him, the princess is smart and capable, and she is the most difficult to deal with." I said: "Is it impossible to find out who is the person who frequently summoned Guessing Master Wang in the past six months?" Lan Si thought for a while, gritted her teeth and said, "It's ok—if necessary." I said loudly: "It is necessary. There must be an antecedent reason for such a strange thing to happen. I guessed about Master Wang's activities before, and every point must be researched." Lan Si said: "Okay, I'll go and carry it out. It's just that the heads-down masters of each faction have internal responses in the palace. This investigation, I'm afraid the news of Master's death may not be able to be kept." I said in a deep voice, "I have to take an adventure." Lansi stood up and took a few steps back and forth: "I need to investigate this matter myself—" I understood what she meant—the head thieves here want her to guard the trap, I said: "It doesn't matter if you are late for the royal family's affairs, just delay for a few days, and see if they will summon Master Caiwang in these few days. " Lansi stopped: "After the incident, we were all like fish out of water. Now, we finally regained our composure." I said: "According to my analysis, the strange incident was already expected by King Cai. Otherwise, he would not have said that and appointed you as his successor. Everything was arranged!" Lansi couldn't help complaining a bit: "Why didn't he make it clear earlier?" I said: "He must have a reason. First, I think if he said it clearly, he would definitely be stopped by you." Lansi smiled wryly: "Yes, if he said clearly that he wanted to cut off his head and give it to others to take away, we will do our best to stop it!" What Lansi said is the result of our analysis and reasoning—after the analysis of a few of us, I am confident that so far, although it is still a hypothesis, it must not be far from the truth. Wen Baoyu hesitated for a moment: "Could it be that he was forced to do that under the coercion of others?" Lansi shook her head: "In this world, no one has the ability to force him, let alone such a big event." Wen Baoyu said again: "If it is a member of the royal family... what if he is ordered to do this?" Lan Si shook his head even more: "It's impossible, he won't sacrifice his life to obey the royal family's boring orders." After hearing Lansi's words, my heart moved, and I thought of something, but I couldn't grasp the center.I know that I can think of something in Lansi's words, but since I can't figure out anything now, I have to put it down for the time being. This kind of situation happens often, and I don't know when, when the inspiration flashes, it suddenly becomes clear.People cannot control the activities of their own brains at will, so they have to let nature take its course. Wen Baoyu was still making assumptions: "Could it be that he is practicing some powerful head lowering technique? How have you dealt with his body?" Lansi gave Wen Baoyu a blank look - naturally it was because he was too whimsical, although the head drop technique is rich in content and there are many unimaginable things, but only Wen Baoyu could think of cutting off his own head to practice kung fu come out. However, Lan Si still answered Wen Baoyu's question: "Master has made sufficient preparations beforehand, and not a single drop of blood was lost, and his body... as if nothing happened. Except for the cold, there will be no blood loss in three to five years. It turned bad, we protected him very well, and left him in the bamboo house, someone guarded him day and night." Wen Baoyu was even more whimsical: "If his head is found back, can it be connected?" Lan Si said: "Of course." Wen Baoyu asked again: "Can he come back alive?" Lansi let out a long sigh: "Xiaobao, I can't answer your question, because I don't know, it's beyond my knowledge." Although I am used to this typical Wen Baoyu-style fantasy, I am also horrified by it-it is natural to cut off a human head and then sew it back on, but it is really hard to imagine making a person alive again up. I thought for a while and said, "Tell Huang Tang what we are doing here." After Lan Si asked who Huang Tang was, she frowned: "What we are doing is too shocking, let the local police know, then..." I said: "It doesn't matter, Huang Tang is not an ordinary person, he can accept weird facts." Lansi said: "First of all, let me explain, if you find the person who stole the head, I will deal with it first." Lansi's words sound plain, but I know how terrible and weird her "disposal" method is, and I can't help but feel hairy, but it's a matter of course. I went to the study to contact Huang Tang, and as soon as I contacted him, he shouted: "Wei Jun, there is a new development!" I hurriedly said, "He's dispatched?" Huang Tang said: "Not yet, but I believe we followed the right person." I froze for a moment before I remembered that I had suggested that he go after the weirdo who was speaking at the meeting of biologists. At that time, I made a suggestion to follow him, but I just thought that he was very weird and could be used as one of the clues, but I didn't expect to hit it. I hurriedly said, "How is the situation?" Huang Tang asked, "Can I have an interview?" I said: "Okay, you come." When I told everyone that Huangtang was coming, Lansi changed her mind again: "I think it's better not to tell him about us—guess the news of Master Wang's death, if it gets out before we are ready, yes Our faction, for hundreds of people, is a catastrophe for extermination!" I completely understood her mood, and hurriedly said: "Okay, Huang Tang said that he has some clues, let's listen to what he has to say." After a while, Huang Tang came, and I introduced Lansi to him. Although he had never seen him before, in my account, from the story of "fooling around" when Lansi appeared on the stage, until the twists and turns were bizarre, Lansi actually She is Bai Su's cousin. He has read all these descriptions before, so he is no stranger to them.Therefore, he has a lot of scruples about Lansi, even though he tries his best to cover it up, he can't help showing it a little. Fortunately, Lansi was heartbroken and confused, so she didn't pay any attention to it, otherwise, if she played a trick on him, he would have a false alarm for a while and couldn't sit still. I cut straight to the point: "We all know the general idea of ​​the head thieves, so tell me what you have gained." Huang Tang was very excited: "This man, named Tian Huo, is originally from Poland and naturalized in France. He was originally a bacteriologist." I stared at him, although I didn't make a sound, but the meaning was very clear: what kind of gain is this? When Lansi heard the word "bacteriologist", she raised her eyebrows slightly—the head lowering technique has a wide field of research on bacteria, and it is by no means a practical scientific research, which can only be imagined in case of accidents. Huang Tang said again: "This person was right there during the times when heads were stolen that I mentioned - he didn't attend the gathering, but he contacted the attendees and listened in. He did this because For what purpose, I don't know." I shook my head: "You can't treat him as a head thief based on this alone." Huang Tang said: "Naturally, but, a bacteriologist, why does he keep traveling around?" I sighed, "Everyone can travel, and besides, what's a bacteriologist doing with a dead head?" Huang Tang's mood was lowered by my words, and after a while, he said: "Before he came to this city, his whereabouts were unknown for half a year." I stayed for a while, and modern people will leave records wherever they "travel everywhere". Of course, it is not difficult to deliberately keep no record, but it is not difficult for an ordinary person.If a bacteriologist has the phenomenon of "unknown whereabouts", it is indeed worth noting. Seeing that I was interested, Huang Tang cheered up: "He was in Singapore half a year ago, but there is no record of his departure from Singapore. Then, he came to this city." I asked, "Where did he come to this city?" Huang Tang raised his eyebrows: "From France." I was stunned: "He has no record of returning to France from Singapore?" Huang Tang said: "No, I don't know how he returned to France from Singapore, and I don't know what he did during this period." This is really interesting, I took a few steps back and forth: "This point, you can ask him directly - what activities does he have in the local area? If someone steals heads these days, we will know immediately here." Huang Tangdao: "He kept talking to the scientists who participated in this gathering. The content of the conversation was the same as what he said at the meeting that day. Everyone was unwilling to talk to him, and only regarded him as a lunatic." I frowned: "It's not easy to understand what he said that day, but it's not completely unreasonable." Huang Tang said: "There is only one scientist, you can talk to him, that person is your old acquaintance—" I lost my voice: "Chen Dao?" Then it occurred to me that I shouldn't be surprised.There are two kinds of scientists, those who are imaginative and those who are not.Chen Dao belongs to the former, and the bacteriologist named Tian Huo is even more so. It is inevitable that the two of them share similar tastes and have common topics. Huang Tang said again: "It's a pity that he didn't act, otherwise when he does act, people will get the stolen goods, that's fine." I said: "Now he is under your surveillance 24 hours a day, and if he makes any move, you will know." Huang Tang was very conceited, and took out a small wireless phone: "When I came, he and Chen Dao were in the hotel, and when I entered the door, I knew he had left the hotel—" Speaking of this, there was a small red light on the small phone flashing, Huang Tang pressed a button, and put it close to his ear, in an instant, he showed an extremely weird expression. Wen Baoyu hurriedly said, "Did he do it?" Huang Tang opened his mouth wide: "No, he...he and Chen Dao, came...here!" Before she finished speaking, the doorbell rang, Hong Ling laughed, because Huang Tang's expression at this moment was indeed ridiculous, she went to open the door, outside the door, Chen Dao and the person who spoke at the venue, Huang Tang had already found out his identity The truth is, it is Tian Huo, a bacteriologist, and the two stand side by side. Because Chen Dao was covered by Hong Ling's huge body, he was asking, "Is Mr. Wesley there? I'm Chen Dao. I need to visit you!" Hong Ling turned her body sideways, Chen Dao had already seen me, and raised her hand to me.I said: "Please come in, this friend you brought is Mr. Tian Huo!" The reason why I got straight to the point and called out Tian Huo's name right away was based on a principle. This principle is: to be a thief with a guilty conscience -- that's why there is such a thing as a "lie detector" in the world. If Tian Huo is exactly the "Head Robber" we expected, then he will always behave a little abnormally when he hears someone call out his name all of a sudden. At this time, Tian Huo and Chen Dao came in together. After I said this, I paid attention to his reaction. Bai Su, who was by my side, naturally knew my intentions, and she was even more careful. I saw Tian Huoguo was surprised, but that was a normal reaction, and then he said: "Mr. Wei really has great powers, he even knows my humble name!" I cried out inwardly ashamed—how did I know, it was Huang Tang who found out. I smiled, pretending to be mysterious, but Tian Huo didn't have any unusual reaction. He strode over and shook hands with me—the way he shook hands was warm and powerful, which made people feel good. He said: "Dr. Chen told me again and again that it would be a great pity in life if I didn't know Mr. Wei, so I took the liberty to come here!" I hurriedly said: "Dr. Chen is too famous——" We were exchanging greetings, and several people in the room stared at Tian Huo, all wanting to see whether he was a murderer or not. Tian Huo didn't seem to pay attention to others, and raised his head: "I want to get to know more scientists at the party this time; I can recognize you, but no one introduces me, so it’s always difficult to talk about it in depth, now it’s all over!" When he said these words, he was not only sincere, but also kept rubbing his hands to show the real joy in his heart. Huang Tang suddenly interjected: "Yes, with Wesley, we can talk about anything, from astronomy to geography, from human hair and eyes to the entire human head, you can talk in depth!"