Chapter 113 The Wandering Travel Group (Part 44)
"prove."
From the tone and expression of the other party's speech, one can actually vaguely see Miao Jiang's expression, but what Nan Huan found strange was that the national teacher she had seen in the palace before, she was sure it was not Miao Jiang, and this was what made her feel strange.
Role-playing does not limit the player's personal skills and panels, so in order to confirm, Nan Huan did not directly believe the other party.
"The characters I play have fixed plots that I cannot change."
The Imperial Master frowned, as if annoyed by Nan Huan's distrust, but she still spread out her palms, pulled out a few strands of spider silk and showed them to Nan Huan.
"In the scene just now, I couldn't control her body at all, so you didn't notice it."
Miao Jiang explained that she had actually recognized Nan Huan in front of the palace before, but she couldn't control her every move just now.
It's like there are two souls in the same body, and she has no control over this body at certain times.
Only after hearing the other party's explanation did Nan Huan let down his guard.
"Is this state random? Or are there any signs before you take the initiative?"
Nan Huan asked a very important question, "Can you feel it yourself?"
After all, the first requirement of role-playing is not to be noticed by NPCs. If Miao Jiang himself cannot notice it and cannot give them any hints, they have to be extra careful in their conversation, otherwise they will not be sure when the person in front of them has been replaced.
“I have feelings, but I can’t control them.”
Miao Jiang had never encountered such a situation, and was not used to sharing the same body with others, even though it was not his own body.
"Don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to tease you on purpose and then let us all die together. If I realize that she is about to take the initiative, I will tell her."
Miao Jiang knew what Nan Huan was worried about, so he just spoke frankly.
Nan Huan nodded, agreeing with her statement. After all, the rules of the game had already stated that they were all on the same boat. If the murderer was not found in time, the other players would be implicated as well.
"So you can share a body with her, but what about your mind? Consciousness, memory, etc.? Are there any useful clues you can provide?"
Knowing that she would most likely only be there for a limited time, Nan Huan didn't say any more nonsense.
"I only have the past few memories. The rest is unclear, but I can see what she did to you from a weird third-party perspective."
Miao Jiang sorted out what was in his mind and gave a clear and coherent answer.
"To be precise, there are three memories. They may be clues given by the game settings. The first memory is that the national teacher is holding a newborn baby in his arms..."
In fact, Miao Jiang was awake from the moment she entered the role-playing game. Nan Huan had not appeared in the hall at that time. When she woke up in the national teacher's residence, three memory fragments flooded into her mind.
The first one is that the imperial teacher is holding a baby in his arms who looks like a newborn. The baby looks very good and doesn’t cry or make a fuss. Because of its strong recognition, one can vaguely see the shadow of Nanhuan or the princess.
However, what Miao Jiang was more concerned about was that the expression on the Imperial Master's face was not like the other party who was targeting Nan Huan everywhere in the palace. Instead, there was a flash of surprise in her eyes. Her gaze was far-reaching, seemingly falling on the baby in her arms, and more like she was looking through the other person to see other people.
The second scene shows the Imperial Master and King Jiang appearing together in a strange palace. The walls of the palace are covered with many talisman papers, on which are painted many black cloud-like patterns, which are exactly the same as the patterns on the Imperial Master's clothes.
But in this scene, the Imperial Master stood far behind King Jiang, with a look of indifference in silence on her face, as if King Jiang's pious behavior was not worth mentioning in her eyes.
This image of bowing and kneeling is very different from the real situation, so it left a deep impression on Miao people.
In the last scene, I’m not sure if the person I saw was the Imperial Master, because the person in the memory had his face covered and seemed to be talking to a huge dark wall. There were black shadows lingering on the wall, which quickly enveloped the person.
The last picture has the shortest pause, and it flashes by in a flash, so the amount of information that can be captured is very small.
"...My description may be limited. The first and second scenes both show the relationship between the Imperial Master and you, or between the Imperial Master and the princess, and between the Imperial Master and King Jiang. But it's unclear what the last scene is trying to express."
There has never been a moment when Miao Jiang felt that her ability to express herself was so poor as it is now. If there were props that could allow Nan Huan to see the scenes in her mind, she would definitely have used them.
"It seems that the Imperial Master knew about the princess' birth, including the fact that the princess was raised outside. I'm afraid she knew about it very early on, and the Imperial Master may have contributed to this."
Nan Huan had no intention of exploring the secret of the princess' birth, but was a little confused. "If she knew from the beginning that the princess had to attend the prayer, why did she help King Jiang send the princess away? And what about the deaths of the previous princesses?"
"Why go to so much trouble? Wouldn't it be better to just raise the princess in the palace? There wouldn't be so many uncertainties. What if something happens to her before she grows up?"
If the goal is clear from the beginning, why should we go far away?
"Maybe the princesses before you just wanted to predict the future, or maybe there is some necessary reason that requires you to leave the palace?"
Miao Jiang felt that the focus was not here. "We are looking for the murderer. Judging from the current clues, the position of the National Master is inevitable. The key is whether King Jiang can be considered an accomplice in this matter. The relationship between the two of them is not like that of a monarch and his subject as it seems on the surface. Perhaps for some unspeakable reason, this relationship is the other way around."
Lingyue was listening to the conversation between the two people while paying attention to the surrounding environment.
"Someone else is coming over here. He moves very quietly and deliberately avoids the guards arranged by Shi Jing."
Nanhuan and Miaojiang stopped their actions at the same time because they found that there seemed to be quite a few people coming and their movements were very covert.
They were in a garden behind a palace, with a low wall behind them and an arched door next to it.
After hearing Lingyue's words, the two fell silent at the same time. Not long after, they saw five people coming out of the archway one after another.
Two guards, two maids, and a man dressed like a butler.
In short, these five people are all different and it seems unlikely that they would appear in the same occasion, but there is an inexplicable tacit understanding between them.
In addition, when they passed through the archway, they did not lower their heads and be cautious like Shi Jing did. Instead, they looked around blatantly, as if they were looking for something.
Especially when they saw Nan Huan at the same time, their eyes lit up, but when they saw two people standing next to each other, the joy on their faces instantly disappeared and were replaced by nervous expressions, and everyone put their hands behind their backs at the same time.
This is a posture of preparing for battle, and Nan Huan is very familiar with it.
"Alice, Nineteen...is that you?"
After all, they are teammates who have fought side by side with me. Even though their faces are unfamiliar, the stress response of their muscles in an emergency situation cannot be faked.
Nan Huan asked tentatively, "Why don't you prove your identities? This is the prophet and President Miao..."
At this time, they were anxious to find him, and they were so organized and disciplined, and the number of people matched. Nan Huan had confirmed it in his mind almost the moment he saw them.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and almost thought they were going to be discovered by the NPC. As soon as Nan Huan said this, everyone pushed Alice out. She symbolically dug a rabbit hole on the ground to confirm her identity.
Nan Huan originally thought that even if Lingyue and the others didn't use their own faces for role-playing, at least the genders should match. Only then did he realize how naive he was.
After all, the supervisor played by Alice looked like an extremely old eunuch. His hair was already somewhat grey, and even his voice was shrill and sharp.
"We are both role playing, why do I look like this? Yours are all so good looking, at least they are all strong and sturdy guards, how can you be like me?"
Alice had never been so angry before. She had already given in to the system in her heart and was ready to argue with the other party, but she didn't know whether the other party was in the wrong or it expected a verbal dispute, so the system simply pretended not to hear.
Nan Huan looked at the other person and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You are a high-ranking official, the head of the eunuchs. If you didn't have this status, how could you find them so quickly and find me?"
There is a big difference between a soft girl and a dysfunctional big man who picks his feet. Nan Huan couldn't think of any words of comfort, so he had to try his best to find some good points in the whole thing he heard from Nineteen, and use them to comfort the other party.
In the absence of the president, Nineteen had an inexplicable sense of responsibility to unite the entire team and work together. He hurriedly stood up at the right time and drew everyone's attention back.
"Well, we don't have much time to gather here together. Later, President Alice can use her power to transfer the two maids, Ah She and Ah Kong, to the palace of the eldest lady. As for me and the Mad Hatter, as guards, President Alice does not have the power to transfer us. Later, I will have to trouble the eldest lady to ask Shi Jing, who is beside her, to think of a way to place us in your palace so that everyone can have the opportunity to communicate."
With just two words, Nineteen Three had arranged everything for everyone.
"Now, everyone, please tell me if you have found anything this morning, or if there are any clues that can be used."
"A Kong and I are maids in the side hall. That side hall is where the third princess lived before she died. We also explored the courtyard before coming here."
A She was the first to talk about her discovery. She was very lucky. After entering the role-playing game, she quickly found A Kong's whereabouts. The two were so familiar with each other that they recognized each other after a while.
"I heard that the Third Princess escaped once before she prayed for the blessing. At that time, the maidservant told the Third Princess that the so-called blessing was fake and that everything was made up by the Imperial Master. However, King Jiang was already too deeply involved and turned his back on her. Since the maidservant grew up with the Third Princess, she helped her escape, but she failed and was executed."
Because no one had lived in the side hall for a long time, and many people were executed in the previous escape incident, not many people knew about what happened at the time. Everyone only heard vague rumors, and many specific information could not be verified, only a general idea was available.
A She and A Kong were busy for a long time, but they only got this little information.
"It seems that the problem is directed at the national teacher."
A'She combined the clues that Miao Jiang had just mentioned given by Nan Huan and got an answer that was not surprising. At the same time, she looked at Miao Jiang, who was wearing the face of the national teacher.
I had some thoughts in my mind, and I didn't know if it was intentional by the system, but I was assigned the role of the national teacher by Miao Jiang. Moreover, such an important role as the other party was not under the control of Miao Jiang at times.
What if the other party doesn’t tell the truth?
Although we are all in the same boat now, who knows if this kind of person will suddenly go crazy or something.
Miao Jiang watched Ase's eyes turn around and around, and she knew what the other party was up to. She didn't bother to argue with such a small fry, and just squinted at him.
Miao Jiang is the leader of a group after all, so his momentum is naturally not inferior to others. Ase felt that he had spoken too quickly just now, so he took Ah Kong's hand and silently moved behind Shijiu.
Although Nineteen had the same worries as Ase, he did not show it on his face, but instead changed the subject subtly.
"We have received two pieces of relatively useful information from the guards. The first one is that when King Jiang decided to look for the princess who had been stranded outside the palace, the guards thought it would take a long time to find a needle in a haystack, but they received news from an insider, and within a few days, they locked on the target. It is said that the national teacher went to pick her up in person."
"The second is that there are guards on duty in every part of the palace, but there are no guards at the Imperial Master's residence. It is said that this is the Imperial Master's own request. Since he entered the palace decades ago, only a few maids who were responsible for daily cleaning have been able to enter the Imperial Master's residence. Even King Jiang has only been there a few times. All those who trespassed have finally disappeared deep into the palace."
Miao Jiang thought of the scene when he woke up from the empty palace in the morning, frowning, "There doesn't seem to be anything special in the palace. Or maybe there is something, but I was in too much of a hurry and didn't see it. I will pay attention to it."
She knew what Nineteen meant by this, so she simply expressed her opinion directly.
Nan Huan had no objection to this. After all, Miao Jiang was now like a third eye constantly placed beside the Imperial Master, able to notice his every move.
If the other party really has a problem, it will definitely be discovered. If Miaojiang wants to make any small moves, he may have to consider his current situation, so Nanhuan is not too worried.
The last speaker was Alice, who role-played the role of the eunuch chief, and she revealed a shocking piece of news to everyone right at the start.
"King Jiang seems to be ill. He drank a bowl of medicine before leaving his residence this morning to meet the eldest lady. It seems that he has been drinking it for some time, but I am not sure if it is real medicine. But later, I can take the opportunity to talk to others. Maybe there will be some useful information."
When the game started, she was busy running around and trying not to be discovered, so she didn't observe much.
"By the way, don't you think that King Jiang is a little bit abnormal for being so young?"
Alice saw King Jiang's true face when he left his residence, and now she finally asked the question that had puzzled her for a while.
Except for Nanhuan, Lingyue, Miaojiang and Alice, no one else present had the right to answer this question. After all, they had never seen the legendary King Jiang.
"It's just that his face is younger, but some of his movements and expressions still make him look older."
Nan Huan corrected Alice's words, "The most powerful person in the world is the emperor. He has everything he should have. If he wants to pursue something else, he can't avoid the same problem that all emperors face."
Although he thought this idea was very stupid, Nan Huan still chose to respect the fate of others.
"Immortality."
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