The road was skyward, and smoke and dust were flying.
The group of people rode fast horses and ran on the official road dozens of miles west of the Holy City.
Before I knew it, it was almost noon.
"Uu..."
Li Ao pulled the reins and stopped at a place that looked like open terrain.
"Uu..."
Others followed suit and stopped.
"Sir." Deputy Fu Qi rode over and asked, "Are you ready to take a break?"
"That's right, everyone, come down and take a rest first."
Following Li Chuan's order, everyone jumped down one after another and let the horses graze nearby.
Because it is inaccessible, the surrounding forests are lush and green, showing tenacious vitality even in winter.
This has actually begun to appear a bit abnormal, but their trip is going to an abandoned mine in the western suburbs of the Holy City to investigate anomalies reported by local villagers. This scene is somewhat related to what is described in the file.
Li Fan jumped off the horse, put his right hand in his pocket and looked out into the distance. He saw vast mountains and steaming clouds. Even at noon, there was an abnormal accumulation of fog, which looked like an autumn morning.
There is a small lake among the mountain cols below. The surface of the lake is sparkling, reflecting like shining silver light under the sun.
Deputy Fu Qi also dismounted and said, "Sir, I see that this place has beautiful mountains and clear waters. Why don't we ask the brothers to go nearby and see if they can hunt any game, so as not to eat dry food and plain water without taste?"
People's sensibilities are so wonderful. It's just a one-time relationship and they know each other's names, and the distance between the two parties seems to have become much closer.
All the Tiqi knew Li Chuan's current identity, deliberately made friends with him, and treated him warmly.
But Li Fan knew why he came and rejected his solicitude.
"No need, Deputy Fu Qi, I want to ask you something, and you'd better tell me everything."
"What's the matter?" Vice Fu Qi couldn't help but ask after hearing the difference in Li Ao's tone.
Li Fang said: "What exactly did you encounter in Taoshan Town last time? Why did so many brothers die and even the princes became evil?"
Vice Fu Qi looked surprised. He did not expect that Li Fan was not concerned about the tasks mentioned in the letter, but about his group's affairs in Taoshan Town.
"this……"
He was immediately in a dilemma.
Logically speaking, these are confidential matters and should be kept secret.
If Li Fan's original intention was not to find out, but to test their determination to keep secrets, and he failed as soon as he opened his mouth, he would not be trusted by them, and he would not be able to deal with any confidential matters in the future.
And if Li Fan's original intention was to test his obedience to see if he could use it to his advantage, and he was willing to risk leaking secrets to reveal something, then his so-called principle of sticking to his principles and never leaking secrets would become a joke.
The superiors will ask the subordinates to abide by the rules, but they will never be bound by the rules.
This casual question immediately made Deputy Fu Qi feel embarrassed.
However, his hesitation itself was an attitude. In the end, he remained silent and chose to keep it secret.
Li Fan breathed a long sigh of relief.
Even these petty officials can stick to their principles and don't become the dogs of the superior officials. How can they become the emperor's minions when they are a decent young man? ….
"***Let me make it clear to you. This time, the headquarters sent us here not to solve the strange incident in the wilderness, but to solve you."
Listening to Li Chuan's words, Vice President Fu Qi looked surprised and had an expression of disbelief.
Several other Tiqi who were close to this side also looked astonished.
"Sir...sir, what do you mean..."
"You are all smart people. You don't need me to explain some things clearly, right?"
"No... I don't understand what you are talking about at all. How could this be possible? How could this be possible!" Fu Qifeng said in a loss of voice.
The other Tiqi heard the movement here, and
They all gathered around, with solemn expressions on their faces.
"You don't want to accept this reality?"
"No, it's not that I refuse to accept the reality, but I simply don't understand why.
We didn't learn anything at all in Taoshan. We just followed the prince's life and death. Even if we really gained something, I'm afraid he would have been taken underground by the prince. Why is there any need to kill people and silence them?
Also, if you really want to kill us and silence us, why did you only send me here? Sir, why do you need to tell us this? "
"Perhaps some people think that your lives are as worthless as ants, so even if it's just to nip them in the bud, it would be easiest to just kill them all?
As for sending only me, of course it's because I alone can take care of all of you. "
Li Fan said this, but secretly wondered in his heart whether this was a conspiracy against himself and the Wu'an Hou Mansion.
According to the information currently available, Emperor Delon possesses the power of a magical emperor and can silently control people's hearts and dominate human beings.
Although it is impossible to know what the effect will be after the real control is completed, it should be possible to do just like those royal spies from the East and West Second Factory who obey orders.
From the perspective of profit, it is of great benefit to successfully control a descendant of the Wu'an Hou Mansion like himself.
From the fact that he forgave himself for killing Wu Xuan, it can be seen that the Wu'an Hou Mansion has far more value than the Wu family.
In addition, there is the Fuqi magic pen. He heard about the existence of this rare treasure from Yang Ju. It is at least a strange and rare treasure that targets information rules.
Now it seems that this kind of thing cannot be omniscient and omnipotent, and it must have certain limitations.
For example, ask "Is this person loyal to me?"
This kind of issue is very subjective. You may be loyal at one moment and disloyal at another moment, or even if you are loyal, you will still disobey when it comes to your inner principles and family interests. This will cause extremely negative consequences. Large fluctuations may even become completely meaningless.
Because there is no standard answer to this kind of subjective question, and it is not an objective and practical question.
Therefore, Li Fan boldly made a guess that the scope of the rare treasure should only be limited to materialistic and objective issues, or issues limited to a certain time and space range.
If he were truly omniscient and omnipotent without any restrictions, based on Emperor Delong's talent and strategy when he was young, Da Gan would have developed the moon long ago!
Therefore, Li Fan boldly guessed that even Emperor Delong, who mastered the magic and the Fuqi magic pen, could not directly control his ministers through them.
Because if wisdom is really a kind of weirdness, then human beings with wisdom are even weirder than weirdness.
This is definitely not something that mere exotic treasures and strange techniques can control.
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Don’t ask the common people, ask ghosts and gods
