Listening Test

On the way back, Luo Tan nervously asked Xiao Ai:

"Is there something wrong with your system? It won't be detected by any high-tech means, right?"

Xiao Ai seemed a little sleepy, and her voice was not as lively as before, but she was still trying to answer Luo Chen's question: "Don't worry, host! I am an invisible system, no matter what kind of radiation can scan me!"

Luo Tan: "Really? Don't lie to me."

Xiao Ai swore: "Host, when have you ever seen me lie to you?"

After saying that, it yawned in Luo Chen's mind, and then said, "Go to sleep," and then it fell silent.

Luo Tan thought that although this system picked up from the garbage dump was indeed not very reliable, as it said, it had never deceived her.

But this is a bit strange.

If a system was not scanned, why would Simba force her to go back?

…

After Lotan returned to the palace, Simba asked the nurse to collect some of her blood.

Although medical testing methods are highly developed, when you want to verify the conclusion, the traditional blood drawing method is still the most reliable.

Luo Chen watched her bright red blood flow into the catheter. She then looked at Simba, who looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy, and asked tentatively, "Isn't it possible that I have a terminal illness?"

Simba: "What are you thinking about? Nothing!"

"That……"

Xu Cheng, who was sitting on a chair not far away waiting for the result, almost lost his balance and fell down.

The blood analysis results came out quickly, and a report came out from the printer's print port. Luo Chen turned her head to take a look curiously, but it was obvious that she didn't understand a word of it.

Professional matters should be left to professionals.

Obviously, Simba was not an expert in this field either, so he handed the report directly to the nurse.

The young nurse grabbed a corner of the report, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then nodded at Simba with a serious expression.

Luo Tan: “…”

Luo Tan was greatly shocked.

Is she really terminally ill?

She stood up suddenly, and the young nurse was almost startled by her, and even the blood-drawing needle was pulled out crookedly.

She said solemnly, "How much time do I have left?"

"What have you eaten these past two days?"

Luo Tan and Simba spoke at the same time and were both stunned for a moment.

Simba sighed, "One good news and one bad news."

"The good news is that you are not terminally ill."

Luo Tan: You should have said it earlier.

She sat down slowly and began to blow gently towards the wound where the needle had been pulled out crookedly.

Then Simba was heard saying: "The bad news is, you have been poisoned."

Luo Tan:?

Xu Cheng, who was not far away, quickly stood up and walked over.

Luo Tan asked hesitantly, "Poisoned?"

Simba nodded. "According to your test results, you have ingested some toxic substances. Fortunately, you have not ingested these substances for a long time, so they have not caused any greater harm. I will arrange for someone to treat you later. However, if these substances are not discovered for a long time, you may die of multiple organ failure in less than a month."

Luo Chen: "Can you tell how long ago it was taken?"

Simba looked at the nurse beside him.

The nurse said, "It happened in the past two days." Then, she couldn't help but add, "This poison is quite powerful. It can accumulate in the blood in just a few days."

Luo Tan felt a chill on his back.

She said to herself, "I think I only ate a few bites at that barbecue restaurant in the past two days."

Xu Cheng also immediately had a blood test, and the results showed that he had no problems.

Simba said seriously, "Think about it again. Apart from the food you ate and used together, have you eaten or touched anything else?"

Luo Tan exclaimed "Ah", and a flash of inspiration passed through her mind.

"I drank a glass of milk last night."

She said hesitantly, "Brother Hei brought it here."

Soon, Brother Hei was called over.

Recently, he looked very haggard. The saying that with great power comes great responsibility is true. Every day when he got up, he felt that he was in a lot of debt, including a pile of unapproved government documents, several confusing meetings, and three or four people he didn't want to see but had to see.

He has lost a lot of hair recently, and even his once-proud abdominal muscles have become much softer due to lack of exercise.

Sometimes, he really wanted to go back to the days when he was the boss of Chishui Street!

But this was just a thought, he also knew very well that only he, who was in a high position now, could bring real welfare to the people of Chishui Street!

After Heige heard Simba's explanation of the whole process, he was stunned: "What? Someone poisoned you? You still suspect I did it?"

Heige felt aggrieved: "No, how could it be me? It's obvious..."

He seemed to suddenly remember something, glanced at Luo Tan, and stopped the words that were about to come out of his mouth -

It was obviously because of Luo Tan that he had the opportunity to learn about his own life experience and come from Chishui Street to the palace!

How could he have poisoned her?

Simba studied his expression and said quickly, "Prince, if we suspected you were the one who did it, we wouldn't have told you! Now that we've told you everything, we naturally want to know if you have any clues!"

Heige's expression slowed down a bit. He recalled and a figure suddenly jumped into his mind. He slapped his thigh and said, "That glass of milk was handed to me by a maid!"

Through the maid's facial features described by him, Simba quickly found the maid.

But disappointingly, the maid was also innocent.

She is kind, has no motives, and comes from a clean family. The only thing she did was to take a cup of warm milk from the kitchen.

The clue was broken again.

In this case, it seems that even milk is innocent.

…

Xu Cheng walked to Simba and whispered to him for a long time. Simba's eyes lit up instantly.

He said, "I'll arrange it now!"

Luo Tan said to Xu Cheng, "What did you say to him?"

Xu Cheng: "Uh..." He wanted to make up an excuse, but he was obviously not very good at lying, so he could only say: "This matter, what I told you is not going to work."

Luo Tan:?

Xu Cheng wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "No matter what, you just need to sit here!"

Luo Tan:?

But even though she had a thousand doubts, Xu Cheng could only force her to stay in this room.

But she has a good habit, which is that she is always good at finding reasons for everything that is unreasonable.

For example, this time, the reason she gave was——

Maybe it was some high-tech method that she didn't know about! This high-tech method was sensitive and fragile, like Schrödinger's cat. Once she knew about it, it would not work!

So she continued to sit in the house with peace of mind.

…

What she didn't know was that -

At this time, Simba was holding a "listening test" in the large courtyard outside the building where she was.

The exam requirements are simple.

Every staff member in the palace, whether male or female servants, guards, security guards or gardeners, was given a large white paper. And they just had to write down what they heard later.

When Simba first heard about this examination plan, he was simply amazed at Xu Cheng's imagination!

It is known that only those who have not harmed Luo Chen can hear her inner voice.

On the other hand, anyone who has hurt Luo Tan will never be able to hear her inner voice.

Then whether or not one can hear the voice of one's heart becomes the criterion for judging whether one has harmed Luo Tan!

Simba thought secretly in his heart:

Did he get full marks in judgment and reasoning when he took the civil service exam?

So, everyone sat in the yard, staring at the big white paper, with a pen in their hands, waiting for the "listening test" broadcast segment to begin.

At the same time, in Luo Tan’s room, Xu Cheng was trying hard to make Luo Tan speak out.

He had vaguely guessed before that not every thought of Luo Chen would be revealed as her inner voice, but only those that were related to premonition, had strong emotions, or that she deliberately reread.

He began to change the subject and chat with Luo Tan.

However, he talked about everything from Western philosophy to Eastern aesthetics, from the stars to the moon, from the truth of the universe to life under the moon and flowers, but Luo Tan had no real thoughts.

Xu Cheng: ...Are all of my topics too boring?

He was a little frustrated.

But he could only fight harder and harder.

Just as he was trying his best to find a new topic, he heard Luo Chenxin say:

[It's kind of cute that he's trying to find a topic to talk about, but doesn't know what to talk about.]

Xu Cheng's face turned red from his earlobes to his cheeks.

It's over.

If this was part of the "listening test", he would have to dig a hole in the ground and drill into it right there.

However, this is not the end.

Luo Tan was very interested:

[The blushing look makes her even cuter. 】

Xu Cheng stood up suddenly.

Luo Tan was startled by him: "What are you going to do?"

But Xu Cheng's eyes were blank. He didn't look at her, nor at anything else.

But anyone could feel the brokenness of his heart.

This feeling of brokenness is definitely not acted, it is truly broken!

Xu Cheng muttered to himself, "Where is the crack in the ground?"

Luo Chen simply didn't follow his train of thought: "Ground crack?"

Xu Cheng: "...I want to find a crack in the ground...to drill down!"

…

Twenty minutes later, all the answer sheets were collected.

Simba compared them one by one.

After checking each one, he would put a check mark on the name list.

Half an hour later, the roster was filled with ticks.

Simba couldn't believe his eyes.

This exam was absolutely closed-book, all communication devices were taken away in advance, and the distance between each candidate was two meters, so there was no possibility of cheating at all.

This can only mean one thing.

The person who poisoned Luo Tan was not in the palace.

…

At the same time, in the room.

Luo Tan suddenly felt a little panicked.

She had a vague feeling that something seemed to have happened, but she couldn't find any clues.

She tried to call Xiao Ai.

But Xiao Ai seemed to be really asleep and didn't respond to her at all.

Luo Chen turned on the system and saw a huge explosion on the animated picture. A raging fire burned and gradually revealed the unique top of a temple roof.

The next second, the roof of the temple was also engulfed in flames.

But throughout the incident, she did not hear the familiar alarm sound.

She opened the map and the red dots that had clearly marked the locations of natural disasters in the past seemed to have gone crazy, jumping up and down, with no moment of stability.

When she opened the GIF again, she found that the screen was stuck like never before.

After a while, a rotating circle appeared in the center of the screen, with a line of words attached below:

"Loading, please wait..."