A simple human search then started early when a new day was about to begin, and soon spread to the entire empire's team. The small search team headed by Duan Qing also attracted the surprised gazes of countless players.
He visited every corner of the imperial camp, working with Cangyun Barrier and others to check the identity of every player in the investigation team. With Lanshan's power and banner, nothing happened during this inspection.
Despite the lack of cooperation and disharmony, even some of the thorns who were resistant to this interrogation finally answered Duan Qing's questions honestly under the threat of Cangyun Barrier.
Of course, the final result was fruitless, which made several people present very helpless.
"It seems like I haven't seen a single word "lack"."
Gathered together again, the mixed team composed of Qingling Adventure Group and Lanshan Team was standing near the central square of Fars Fortress looking at each other with helpless eyes: "What's going on? We are dignified.
There are so many teams in the Empire Adventure Group, but you can’t even find a guy with the word “lack” in his name?”
"It's not like you're looking for a murderer just to find the murderer. Don't go in the wrong direction." He sighed helplessly. As the leader of Lanshan, Cangyun Barrier looked at Duan Qing's face with a funny look: "And I didn't do it at the beginning.
Having said that, I have never seen a guy with such an unlucky name."
"Have we transferred all the player teams?" Pushing Duan Qing's still unwilling face aside, Xueling Huanbing asked in a low voice: "Are there any omissions?"
"Even if there are omissions, they are probably not on our statistical list." Shaking a magic recording stone in his hand, Cangyun Barrier replied casually: "This is the survey given to us by Her Royal Highness Princess Reina.
There is nothing more authoritative than this list."
"By the way...where is Her Royal Highness the Princess now?" Gedmane on the side said while holding his chin: "Does she know about this?"
"How is it possible that you don't know? If you don't explain the reason, do you think that people will hand over this stone to us easily?" Cangyun Barrier replied with raised eyebrows: "She is just busy meeting with the big bosses of the principality, so she has no time to care.
It’s just this matter.”
"So, we should act impartially?" Asahi Dongsheng laughed and pinched his nose: "Do you want to go somewhere else to rummage?"
"Don't make trouble, we are still on someone else's territory now." Zhao Lu'an from Lanshan hurriedly pressed the topic: "Even if we suspect that someone over there did it, we can't find someone else's fault.
"
"I think it was done by people from the principality."
Having said these words plausibly, the giant ax warrior named Asahi Dongsheng then jumped in front of everyone: "If we can't find out the results here, then the only possibility is to be in the opponent's camp! What's wrong with that?
The guy with the character is definitely from the principality!"
"Don't say such unfounded words." Duan Qing, who had recovered his emotions after pressing his brow, said in a low voice: "From the other party's point of view, the people in the principality should also have similar suspicions.
What's more, what happened last night, they should conduct a thorough investigation of the situation in their own camp like us..."
"Duanshanyue will probably do this too." Nodding his head, Cangyun Barrier on the side said in agreement: "As long as they are not too stupid, they should first find a way to eliminate themselves.
Suspicion..."
"Do they know the clues we are pursuing?" Xue Ling Huan Bing suddenly raised his head: "That missing word hint"
"Did anyone tell them?"
Following her gaze, several people focused their attention on Qian Zhihe, who had been silent next to him. It seemed that the latter, who was worried, noticed the gazes of others after a while.
He raised his hands with a surprised and panic expression: "I, I, I, I, I... I haven't had time to tell them yet."
"Forget it, there is an advantage in not telling them." Duan Qing flattened his mouth, and then withdrew his questioning eyes: "At least they will investigate this matter from a different angle, but they will not and
We are also bound by some kind of hands and feet."
"You mean... the clue we have now is not credible?" Cangyun Barrier turned and looked at Duan Qing's face: "Did Miss Qian Zhihe see it wrong?"
"Of course there is a possibility of misunderstanding, but there are also other possibilities." Looking up at the clouds and stormy scenes that were constantly covering the sky in the distance, Duan Qing replied in a slow voice: "For example...
There are players who are not on the list and have been lurking in our team."
"You mean Yuemeng?" Qianzhihe opened his eyes in surprise, "How is that possible? He doesn't look like someone who is connected with the Restorationists, and his
There is no missing word in the name.”
"This is exactly the second possibility I want to talk about." Duan Qing interrupted the other party mercilessly, and then smiled in a low voice: "Maybe you saw it wrong."
"……ah?"
"For example, I read the wrong word or something."
Facing the confused looks of the other people, Duan Qing smiled and stretched out one of his fingers: "It's still what the president of Lanshan said before, using the word 'loss' to represent it.
My name is really weird, so... is it possible that Xiaoqian saw other characters and mistakenly thought it was the character "deficiency"? "
There was a moment of silence in the complex team, accompanied by the thoughtful expressions of several people at the same time. Cangyun Barrier, which had been written in the air for a long time with his fingers, then slowly lowered his head and expressed doubts.
His eyes wandered back and forth on the magic stone in his hand: "Thank you... shame... well, given the situation at that time, it is indeed excusable to be wrong, so"
“What other words are similar to the word kui?”
In the sight of several people coming together, his eyes kept glancing up and down the detailed list presented by the magic stone: "Is it the word "cloud"? One turns left and one turns right, it looks more like...
"
"How many players have the word cloud?"
"There should be one or two. One is named Yun Tianhe. I remember he is a warrior from Luoyun Jiutian. There is also one named Baiyun Duokai. She is a female player, but she does not belong to a guild..."
"Look, there are still a lot of clues...Hmm, wait a minute, what is the word 'loss' in his name that you saw before?"
"I, I remember it's probably the last word, right? Of course I'm not sure..."
"The last word? Then the two people we just found don't meet the requirements... Are there any words similar to the word "kui"? It's best to be the last word or something like that..."
"The word "cloud" is no longer suitable, but you can find a lot of other words with the word "deficiency", such as this dirty word... Hmm, how about this person called Bloody?"
"Impossible. I know that guy. He is just a craftsman player who is good at gem setting. His combat ability is not worth mentioning at all."
"That's him."
Countless noisy voices continued to sound in the scene around the open space, and the voice belonging to Duan Qing was the first to fall in front of the rolling magic light curtain with his fingers: "We have not checked this guy before.
Right? Let’s start with this person first.”
"This is called the Nine-fingered Divine Beggar."
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As the name suggests, the Nine-Finger God Beggar has only nine fingers in total on his hands. It is said that this player also has nine fingers in the real world, so he brought them to the character setting in the virtual world. There is no time to explore this.
What is the reason why people give up reshaping their fingers? The tall and thick figures belonging to Duan Qing and others soon surrounded the player in the corner of the Imperial Investigation Team's camp, so this seemingly innocent guy,
The voice that screamed also seemed particularly pitiful and helpless: "Who are you? What do you want to do? I have quit gambling for a long time! I have nothing on me now!"
"So is this the reason why you had one of your fingers chopped off?"
Duan Qing, who was sitting on the edge of the camp, sighed helplessly and looked helplessly at the ragged man who was brought in front of him: "It's so pitiful that you can live so miserably in the virtual world.
."
"You, you don't care about me so much." There was still a panic expression on his face. The player named Nine-Finger God Beggar opened his eyes and looked at each other sideways: "What do you do? Do you dare to report it first?
What’s your name?”
"I am Linyuan Duanshui, and my name is displayed above my head." Duan Qing, who was squatting in front of him, pointed to the top of his head: "As for what I do... I am now a gatekeeper for Qingling Office. I am just a person.
Just look at your uncle."
"The gatekeeper... uncle?"
"That's right."
Waving his hand at the angry expression on Xue Ling Huan Bing's face, Duan Qing then put away the smile on his face: "Now"
"I hope you can answer my next question truthfully. This is very important to us."
He snapped his fingers and motioned to the people present to pull him closer: "Do you know the Qianzhihe lady next to me?"
"No, I don't know her." He glanced furtively in the direction of the red-haired girl, and the nine-fingered beggar shrank his neck: "Who is she? Do I owe her money?"
"It seems that you owe a lot of money." Duan Qing sighed helplessly, covering his face and motioning to his side: "Next question, between ten and twelve o'clock last night, you
where?"
"..."
Without answering the other party's question immediately, the Nine-Finger God Beggar's expression became even more unnatural: "You, why are you asking this? Why should I tell you?"
"It seems there is really a problem."
The hand holding the opponent's shoulder became a little harder, and Cangyun Barrier on the side grinned several times and let out a fierce smile: "You'd better tell the truth, otherwise... your end may be worse than that of the traitor in Lanshan
Worse."
"Wait, wait a minute!" Then more cold sweat broke out on the ragged player's face: "I, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but I, I don't dare to say it."
"What is there that you dare not say?" Duan Qing continued to threaten with a raised voice: "Or... you can't say it at all?"
"What, what do you mean?"
"In my past period of time, I have seen a method used by the Restorationists to control the mind."
Looking at Xue Ling Huan Bing again, Duan Qing lowered his voice and approached the other party: "People who have been hit by this kind of spell will lose their consciousness and become the puppets of those guys. Even if they do it,
There are many unscrupulous things, but no memories are left afterward..."
"You can't tell the answer to this question, which is already an answer in itself." He withdrew his body and looked at the face of the player who was sweating with a joking look: "We are not a tribunal.
, no conclusive evidence is needed to convict you.”
"Wait, wait a minute, I really don't know what you are talking about!" The nine-fingered beggar once again struggled with his shoulders that were pressed hard on the ground, with a desperate expression in his eyes: "What are you talking about?
I have never heard of the secret technique."
"Sorry, your explanation doesn't pass the test." Duan Qing waved his hand and stood up, gradually condensing a shining fireball in his hand: "Your resurrection point should be here too, right? We have countless more
This is an opportunity for you to feel the pain of death. Although this torture method is somewhat inhumane, it is all what you asked for."
"I said! I said it's not okay!"
The firelight illuminated the player's face dripping with cold sweat, and at the same time, his screams became particularly distorted. After interrupting Duan Qing's voice, he then put away his broken gong-like voice, and deeply sighed.
He lowered his head: "I... I went drinking last night."
"Drink? Is it that simple?"
"Of course it's not that simple."
Looking at the sight of several people around him staring at him, the Nine-finger God Beggar hurriedly raised his head and explained: "Drinking in our gambler's mouth means opening the market. The location is in the Waste Four Tavern. Several friends from the principality
I have already received the news about the gathering, and they have been waiting for me there for a long time."
"...What's not to say? It's not a big deal to open a market, right?"
"I, I drank a little too much last night."
He lowered his head deeply again, and the voice of the Nine-finger God Beggar then returned to the feeling of regret: "Originally, I wanted to take this opportunity to trick them, but I didn't expect that they were all colluding secretly. Later,
...Later I fell unconscious and the envelopes on my body were touched by them..."
"Envelope?" Among the several people looking at each other, Duan Qing was the first to cast his gaze on Cangyun Barrier: "I forgot to ask you what does this guy do in the Imperial Investigation Team?"
"The person on the list is one of the members of the Elos family, and he is also considered a relatively famous noble in the empire. They are very close to the Susas family, and they occasionally take charge of some intelligence work... huh?"
"I see."
Several people all turned their gazes back to the face of the Nine-Finger God Beggar, and there was a hint of understanding in their eyes: "No wonder you are so scared."
"It turns out that I lost the information I brought with me."
This chapter has been completed!