Supreme pardon

Chapter 196 Invisible Hand

"Master, the family hasn't contacted us until today." The middle-aged man in the brown shirt looked worriedly at the young man standing by the window.

Gu Zhiqiu looked aimlessly at the courtyard, where a servant was cleaning up the fiery red fallen leaves on the ground with a broom made of bamboo leaves.

"I have told you before that if you are contacted from outside, you will immediately cut off contact with your family members. I have also told your family members that if there is no situation, you will come to join us within three days. If there is, you will hide completely. It seems..."

Sneering, putting one hand on the window coffin, Gu Zhiqiu's voice became low, "Three days have passed, it seems that someone is digging down along with you."

"Could it be as you guessed, it's really..." The man frowned, with a nervous expression on his face.

Gu Zhiqiu became more indifferent, with a mocking arc on the corner of his mouth, he shook his head and stopped talking.

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"My lord, we dug down the man he called, but unfortunately there is no clue at all. These two people seem to have appeared in our king's district out of thin air." Jue took the investigation report he had written in the past two days, and was carefully looking at it line by line.

Holding his breath, Yan Zhen lowered his eyes slightly, waiting for scolding.

Lan An turned her body halfway, her legs crossed, her left hand rested on the low table beside her, playing with the teacup.

Shuyi, who had rushed back from the new city, was seated at the first and next step. After listening to Yan Zhen's report, he glanced at Wenren Jue first, and saw that the man above continued to look at the report blankly without speaking.

After thinking deeply for a while, he swept his eyes over Yan Zhen, and said calmly: "Since Gu Zhiqiu contacted the people around him on the first day he entered the palace, it can be seen that he had already made arrangements before, and he followed his current situation. It's normal for that follower to find no news, if he doesn't even have this bit of vigilance, it's useless for him to stay in the tenth district chief executive position for so long."

After staying for four days, he was leisurely in the king's residence. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find out the people around him, they would really feel that Gu Zhiqiu was prepared to live here without any precautions.

Wen Ren Jue still didn't speak, his eyes were lowered, his eyes were concentrated on the paragraphs of the report in his hand, his silence made Yan Zhen who was standing below him more nervous, slowly, as the silence time prolongs, other people also began to Noticing something was wrong, they cast their sympathetic eyes on Yan Zhen.

Counting the events that happened before, firstly, the public assassination resulted in no news afterward, and then there were a few minor incidents, including Suizhu's disappearance and the closure of the king's district, but what happened?Similarly, the kingship side still failed to grasp anything.

No matter how good Wang's temper is, he will have to explode this time, right?

It was also Yan Zhen's bad luck. This time he was in charge of this matter, which happened to meet the critical point of Wang Ren's explosion.

Gu Zhiqiu must have some pre-arranged countermeasures. Wen Renjue believes this, his eyes fell on one place, and he was not only thinking about the current matter in his mind, he was thinking about the intelligence and investigation capabilities of his subordinates. At such a critical moment, he felt powerless.

Leaving aside the outside world, let's just talk about this royal area, where the royal power controls things, and things will always get out of control. No matter how powerful it is, without this "delicacy", the entire royal power will be blinded.

Although the Lan family has taken root in the royal area for many years, and most of the big families are around, the secret intelligence network is not wide enough. Those families who seem to be united in a group always have their own calculations when they don't encounter problems that are really related to life and death. .

As for Yan Zhen, because he used to run a gambling house, various forces in the dark had a lot of contact with some lower-level people, and because of the killer organization under Dao Ge, it was very useful to detect anything, and Wen Ren Jue also used information In this regard, the planning was under Yan Zhen's hands.

But now it seems that it is not suitable, Yan Zhen can grow in other areas, but in terms of intelligence collection, his temperament is not suitable to lead this kind of department.

What happened with Gu Zhiqiu this time is just another example.

"What's the problem?" whispering to himself, he finally raised his head, his eyes slowly swept across the people below, staying on Yan Zhen for the longest time, the man met his deep gaze, and his body trembled.

Except for Wei Duan, no one heard his words to himself. In his mind, Wei Duan asked curiously: "Master, what are you talking about?"

"Don't you think it's strange?" Wen Renjue asked with deep meaning in his mind as he looked at the subordinates who were standing or sitting below one by one with his eyes still deep and unclear.

Wei Duan was confused, "What's so strange?"

Throwing the report in his hand onto the table in front of him, Wen Renjue rested his left hand on his knee casually, put his right hand on the armrest of the chair, and tapped his middle finger slowly.

"Huh?" Wei Duan was surprised.

It didn't hear an answer for a long time. It commanded the sky eye to hover in the hall, and observed more than a dozen people below. After looking at each of them, the two sky eyes stared at Yan Zhen who was standing in the middle with his body gradually stiffening. .

"Are you annoying Yan Zhen?" Wei Duanjue thought that his guess was pretty good. Didn't he see the master suddenly be silent for so long, looking at the people below with a serious tone?

From Weiduan's point of view, if he couldn't find any news several times, he should be punished. If it were, he would punish these useless humans severely after the assassination on the pardon day.

At the beginning, the high-level people in the hall were still silently sympathizing with Yan Zhen, but as the silence time of the first king continued, those who had no trace of popularity glanced one by one, and gradually, everyone began to be unable to sit still.

Including Lan An, his crooked body slowly straightened up, his wantonness disappeared, his hands and feet became regular, and the looseness in his eyes had long since disappeared.

The silence seemed particularly difficult at this time.

Everyone who was glanced at by Wang once unconsciously lowered their bodies on the chair.

"As early as when the assassination happened on the pardon day, I felt that there is something I couldn't see..." Slowly speaking in his mind, Wen Renjue finally withdrew his gaze from looking down, and raised his right hand resting on the armrest. , spread out under his eyes, staring at the palm lines, he frowned slightly, and continued with some hesitation: "Nowadays, this subtle feeling has become stronger, I always feel..."

His gaze once again fell on the person below, Wen Renjue raised his lips, and said softly: "In this king's district, there is a hand that I can't see, playing with Fengyun."

Wei Duan was completely shocked, and questioned: "No way, master, now that the royal power is strong, who else can compete with us? Let alone come to cover your eyes."

The dialogue between the mind and Weiduan, other people can't hear it, let alone know it.

Feeling the gradual coldness of Wang's breath, the oppressive scrutiny made every senior executive who was somewhat unclean under his buttocks unable to sit still.

Every minute, the face turns white.

There was a man who was obviously fine before, but in this silence, his body was completely paralyzed on the chair, his lips trembling with blue lips.

Everyone is worrying and fearing that the disaster of extinction will soon befall them.

"My lord? My lord!" Shu Yi was quick-witted, seeing that everyone in Lan An's inner hall was starting to speculate anxiously, so he hurriedly called out a few times.

"Who knows..." Sighed, the confusion on the corners of Wen Renjue's brows and eyes disappeared, he seemed to have decided on something, his eyes glanced at Shuyi indifferently, he opened his eyes to Yan who was still standing upright, the back of his clothes was wet with cold sweat He said, "The intelligence team has always been in your hands, but the results of several visits are really hard to satisfy me."

"I'm sorry, Wang, I am willing to suffer any punishment." Yan Zhen knelt down on one knee, kneeling upright, up to this moment, he was still looking calmly at Wen Renjue.

Sighing again, Wen Renjue's eyes fell on the report spread out on the table, "After you go back, think about it carefully, whether it is because of your management method that you have made a mistake, and you should be punished, but tomorrow is the dinner, wait for the banquet The matter is over, go to the royal punishment department to receive the punishment you deserve."

"Yes." Yan Zhen's tone was a little weak, guilt and unwillingness flashed in his eyes.

He waved his hand to let him back, Wen Renjue looked indifferently at the few people sitting behind, not paying attention to their ugly faces, and said: "Tomorrow's dinner, I don't want any mistakes. Let's sort things out again and go through it again, putting my ugly words first."

Standing on the stone steps of Shu Yiping, he said coldly, "If you miss something, don't come back to see me. Did you see the eight gateposts outside the banquet door? Hit them headfirst!" "

It could be seen that he was actually angry, but he just suppressed it, and the people below held their breath and focused.

Shuyi heaved a sigh of relief. He was the closest to Wenrenjue just now, and he could clearly see the completely unhuman look in his eyes. Relying on his intuition, he believed that for a moment, Wenrenjue wanted to burn them all to death.

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"Since they followed you and failed to dig out anything, they must have run out of patience." Gu Zhiqiu's tone was still the same, as if he didn't care about his own life at all.

Although he wanted to give up everything cleanly, but at the end of the day, he followed the batch and left him. No matter how big the world is, he has nowhere to go.

These people have always regarded him as heaven and earth, and have never been shaken in the slightest by the photos or those ugly remarks.

Even if he gave up his rights, family, status, and left alone, these people still never gave up on him.

So, what right does he have to give up on himself?

He said he didn't care about it casually, but in fact he wanted to live, even if it wasn't for himself, just for these people.

"Then what should we do? We have to find an opportunity to leave the Wangju as soon as possible." The subordinate has followed Gu Zhiqiu for many years, and has a certain understanding of his temperament, and his way of handling things is somewhat like him.

"Have you found a way to get out of the king's district?" Gu Zhiqiu turned around and his eyes fell into the room.

They have been looking for a way out since the royal district was inexplicably blocked.

"Yes, Liangzi and the others have already figured out a way, as long as we can get out of Wenrenjue's nose."

"Tomorrow is a big dinner party. Except for the people from the tenth district, the entire southeast continent will send representatives from other royal districts. Although I haven't guessed what Wen Renjue is planning in his stomach, I also know that he has little patience. , after the dinner, he must free up his hands to clean up some of the things he was pressing down on earlier, which must include us." The voice was cold, and Gu Zhiqiu sat down at the table after finishing speaking.

The middle-aged man followed and said cautiously: "So, tomorrow night will be our last chance, but what should we do..."

"Zhiqiu, I'm here to look for you!" Before he could finish speaking, a clear and joyful voice sounded from outside the courtyard, and he quickly approached along with the sound of footsteps.

Stopping the topic, the middle-aged man looked out the window, and retreated behind Gu Zhiqiu with a calm expression.

Sitting at the table, Gu Zhiqiu happened to be facing the courtyard outside the wooden door. When he saw Bai Tan bouncing around, he squinted his eyes, and said in a low voice, "It's up to him."

The author has something to say: several races that have appeared in the text.

God descendants, demihumans, earthlings, interstellar humans, V races.

Regarding the hands of this chapter, it has been paved for a long time, very small details, time and time again. (It's really subtle, a little bit of movement, a little bit of dissonance, so subtle that Wen Dagong didn't pay much attention to it) Can you guess it, okay?

There is another important person in the thirteenth district who will appear on the stage, and this person is quite meaningful.