Chapter 85 Speculations.

Li An thought about the timeline of the original world. What about the bamboo forest outside the city at this time? He murmured, "Could it be that Chen Pingping was looking for the traitor in the procuratorate and killing the black cavalry mobilized by Zhuge?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Shisanlang added hastily, "After I discovered something was wrong in the bamboo forest, I went to investigate."

"What kind of traitor needs to be killed by mobilizing tens of thousands of cavalry?"

There was anxiety on his face. He was not a native of Qing, and he never let down his guard.

"On the way back, I still couldn't figure out what that strange feeling was." Shisan Wang stared at Li An and said with certainty: "Now that I think about it, there is only one possibility!"

"That means we are being watched or surrounded!"

Li An raised his eyebrows, his face slightly tense. Although it was a rhetorical question, one could tell that he had confirmed the truth: "The surveillance scope is not the academy, nor the Wanshizhai."

"But the half of the city surrounding these two locations?"

This is what Emperor Qing did. He arranged it and Chen Pingping carried it out, so that no one would notice it.

I just don't know how far they have gone.

Suddenly, Li An asked Wang Shisanlang: "Have you been to those two places?"

It would have been better if he hadn't asked this question. As soon as these questions were asked, Wang Shisanlang's face became full of strange expressions.

He replied in a muffled voice: "I have been there, but only to these two places."

"Tell me all the details."

Li An calmed down and opened the invisible system in front of Wang Shisanlang. After taking a look at the wealth value, he carefully counted the various items in the space until his eyes stopped on the sword box.

Looks like you can get a few more swords.

Wang Shisanlang's clear voice came to my ears: "The Taiping Villa is heavily guarded, and there is no attempt to hide their tracks inside. All that can be seen with the naked eye are patrolling soldiers."

"But the second place, when I went there, I felt it was just ordinary, very wide, and there was nothing there."

The second place mentioned by Wang Shisanlang was the river outside the north gate of Kyoto, ten miles away in the direction of Cangzhou Road.

He was worried that he had missed something, which would affect Li An's plan, so he hurriedly asked, "That leeward valley is hidden, but it is also quite spacious. One glance is enough to see the whole thing. I should have found the right place, right?"

"How about I go again?"

Li An shook his head and said with a smile: "The place is right, you are not wrong."

There really is nothing there now, Li An thought.

It seems that I can't go to Taiping Villa to learn everything in a short time. I wonder if the "key" in my hand can open the taboo?

Li An then took out a piece of rice paper, spread it flat on the table, picked up the brush and started painting again.

This time, he did not go for a freehand style, but was instead very realistic.

"Look here." Li An put down his pen and pointed at the object in the painting: "I'll tell you how to open this thing. You must remember it well."

As he spoke, Li An's tone became heavier: "Don't make any mistakes."

Wang Shisanlang was full of surprise, and then he became serious. Although he didn't recognize the things in the painting, he still asked, "What is this?"

This is the way out.

Li An thought, I hope I don’t have to use it.

Without answering his question, Li An then explained to Wang Shisanlang how to open the things in the painting.

"I've got it down. There won't be any mistakes." In just a moment, Shisan Wang remembered everything. "Then let's hurry back to Wanshizhai to prepare!"

Li An was not in a hurry. He spoke slowly, his voice becoming soft and thin: "I still have classes to go to. I have to finish my lecture at least, so it will be fair to the rest of you."

Although he was talking, his eyes were fixed on the painting. If Fan Xian were here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that the painting was of a tank!

Speak of the devil, here comes the devil. The sound of footsteps is getting closer. Outside the studio, Fan Xian arrives.

"Brother Li!"

In fact, to be honest, anyone who spends a little time with Fan Xian will inexplicably feel a sense of ease.

Maybe because his heart is free?

Li An didn't know, he just circulated his true energy and shattered the tank drawing paper in his hand into powder.

"Is something wrong?"

Li An clapped his hands nonchalantly and asked calmly, "What medicine did you use? Your face is so pale."

Fan Xian found another recliner without hesitation and lay down comfortably on it. A trace of fear and strangeness flashed across his slightly pale face. After greeting Wang Shisanlang who was standing beside him, he let out a long sigh.

"I'm really not pretending. The wound from that arrow hasn't healed yet."

Seeing the papers in front of Li An, apart from the stack of paintings by the students, a separate picture of an exotic beast caught Fan Xian's attention: "You can do this too? By the way, how many other things do you know? Such a versatile person, how come I haven't heard of you on the Internet before?"

Wang Shisanlang standing aside looked confused. What on the Internet?
Without answering Fan Xian's question, Li An asked, "What's the matter that's so urgent that you have to come to the academy to find me? Why don't you wait for me in Wanshizhai?"

Listening to Li An talking about business, Fan Xian smiled bitterly and said, "Our reputations have spread all over Kyoto now."

Then he began to explain his purpose: "I guess the matter can't be hidden anymore."

"It's all the same to me. I've been exposed a long time ago." Li An said coldly: "Sometimes, if you want to tear your face off and hold a grandmaster accountable, you don't need some so-called evidence."

"But if they want to make a big deal out of a small matter, even if everyone saw my face that night, they would say they didn't see it."

"That's not what I'm talking about." Fan Xian said silently.

"It's all the same." Li An said faintly: "Is the box opened?"

"opened."

"Has the paper-scattering incident been exposed?"

"I thought this matter was foolproof." Fan Xian said as a matter of course. In his opinion, this tactic of his initiation into public opinion warfare was very clever.

But he underestimated the wisdom of the people in this world and was slapped in the face at the speed of light.

What exposed him was the batch of cheap paper that his cheap brother Fan Sizhe bought in.

Fortunately, the person who investigated this matter was Chen Pingping.

Fan Xian suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do next? If things don't go well, don't be impulsive. These few days have passed and nothing has happened. It should have faded away."

Li An smiled and said, "You got what you wanted, so you have time to care about me now? It's hard to guess what His Majesty is thinking. Nothing happened in the past few days, and I thought he had given up the idea of ​​getting to the bottom of it."

"But!" Li An raised his voice and said, "Do you know that this capital with a population of one million is the capital of Qing State, located in the heart of the country? In such a safe place, why is the wall of the imperial palace 50 meters high?"

"For people like me, it's just a decoration. This wall is not to protect people like me, but to protect the people of the world."

"This is the dignity of the royal family. It is to let the world know that the inside and outside of the wall are two different worlds."

"Now that people have been able to break in one after another and escape intact, this is undoubtedly a slap in the face of Emperor Qing."

"He won't give up, even if I have the power of a Grandmaster."

What this means is that Li An is going to have a fight with Fan Xian's biological father, Emperor Qing.

Fan Xian, who still didn't know the final truth, was hesitant and murmured, "Maybe there is another way."

Li An shook his head. The development of this matter would be either that Emperor Qing swallowed his anger, or the two of them would have a conflict, or Li An would retreat.

Now it seems that Emperor Qing will not tolerate it and plans to take action against himself.

(End of this chapter)