Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 24 Hints for Wise People

The news brought back by the patriarch Mengsheng is very interesting.

"Boy Roger asked me," he said with a serious face, "'Is your king the head of the clan?'"

Siyado has not yet become the leader of the Executioners, so the answer is "no".

However, there are only three patriarchs in the Jita camp, and the chance of the king being the patriarch is one-fifth; why would Luo Geng ask such a low hit rate?

Different from before the kidnapping of the king, after going through a battle with the same enemy, everyone grew somewhat closer to Milady.As soon as she fell silent, the younger brother of the Huiji family asked straight away: "Hey, what are you thinking? Are you going to fight next?"

"The outer tower camp is different from us. They have grabbed a reminder about the king." Under the eyes of everyone, Milady said slowly, "Their question shows that they think from the reminder that the chances of the king being the patriarch are very high." high."

From a certain point of view, their guess is not wrong, and Xiyado can be regarded as half the patriarch.

"That is to say, the information written in the reminder must not be something universal like gender." Milady continued to frown and said, "It's... related to the patriarch, rare, or affordable for a few people." started..."

The several patriarchs all looked calm.

What will it be?And the last word in the reminder is still the word "生".

What are some words whose last character is Sheng, and which may be related to the current situation?Mengsheng, this is possible at first glance, but "family" is not written in the back; other than that, life, birth, students, graduates...

and many more.

graduate?
Milady was startled, and looked around.This is more of an intuitive guess than an educated reasoning.

The other contestants also noticed her strangeness and asked one after another: "What's wrong?" "What did you think of?"

"The patriarchs in the Wave Concerto..." she asked slowly, "Where did they all graduate from?"

During the meeting, the head of the family smiled, waved his hands around, and said, "Where else? We are basically alumni of the University of Arcana."

really.

The University of Alcana is the top institution of higher learning in Haidu, and people from the elite and the powerful will naturally gather here——When Milady turned his head to look at Siyado, he showed a reluctant expression for the first time, and turned his eyes away Say, "Me too."

The hint must be "The king is a graduate of the University of Arcana"!
It was too late to rejoice, but Milady felt a sense of crisis first.

She originally thought that Luo Geng had only excluded three of the 15 people, but in fact the situation was far worse than she thought: it was very likely that he had excluded three of the four.

"Who else?" She hurriedly asked, "Who else is a graduate here?"

They are all big families, so the patriarch will not be the only one who can enter Arcana, right?

To Milady's relief, two more hands were raised from among the remaining contestants.One is the flute who once greeted the enemy; the other is the girl who controls the wall crawler, named Mo Lian.

Three people were excluded from the six... It's not the worst situation, but Luo Geng is only one step away from finding out the identity of the king, and she must find a way immediately.

"Why are you looking for graduates?" The younger brother of the conference family seemed quite unconvinced: "I will graduate next year too."

As if he sensed someone's gaze, his uncle added: "The Department of Martial Arts and Physical Arts."

"We must prevent them from continuing to find the king, so we need to counterattack the outer tower." Milady looked at the crowd and asked in a deep voice: "Do you have any suggestions?"

"The main reason is that this corridor is annoying," the younger brother of the Huiji family complained. "There is only one passage, and the opponent is easy to defend. If we send people there, we will fall into their encirclement..."

Indeed, the real difficulty in the counterattack lies in how to smoothly enter the opponent's base camp. After all, they don't have the skills of the brown-skinned players.

Although everyone is now focused on defeating the outer tower camp, the time left for them to plan is barely 10 minutes, and they have to be interrupted by the sound of footsteps in the corridor.

The players from the outer tower learned to be smart. They didn't rush into the hall, but just peeped and harassed them from the stone corridor. Before the players from the own tower rushed up, they turned around and ran back to the base camp.They were not afraid of running out of time at all, and the statements were full of messages such as "the king has a pair of brown boots", "the king likes adventure novels", "the king wants to learn to ski"...etc.

Contestant Jita followed suit, and asked Xiyado about a lot of gossip, as if he was a famous actor in the theater and everyone admired him, which made him quite embarrassed.Because she didn't trust Siyado, Milady specially asked the patriarchs to take good care of him in the name of "protecting the king" and not let him show up.

"get ready!"

The patriarch Mengsheng, who was no longer in charge of defense, became very vigilant now. Even if a piece of dust fell on the stone corridor, he would be able to wake up.He shouted: "Those bastards are here again!"

Milady nodded to the people around her, and the attacking players picked up their traps one after another, rushed out of the corridor, and went straight to the attacker.As soon as those outer tower players saw it, they immediately covered their feathers and turned their heads to leave. Some people said: "Don't forget, you can't use force!"

But this time, the Jita players, including Milady, still clung to them and chased them all the way to the other side of the stone corridor; Luo Geng was standing ready to go.

"Finally dare to fight hard?" Luo Geng smiled like an old friend, showing his white teeth: "Welcome."

Accompanied by this sentence, when the outer tower players were about to rush back to their base camp, they suddenly made a strange movement: they kicked their feet one after another, jumped up from the ground, jumped over the last few stone bricks, They all fell into the hall.

"There is a problem ahead!" Milady came to her senses, and while uttering a warning, she reached out and grabbed the back of Mo Lian's clothes, almost causing her to fall—but the brother of the Huiji family who rushed to the front was late. One step, one foot stepped on the stone brick in front of the entrance of the outer tower hall.

As if being irritated, countless dust-like particles were suddenly thrown up layer by layer on the brick floor; as soon as they left the stone brick, the large groups of particles also lost their environmental color, and rushed onto the legs of the younger brother of Huiji , and quickly condensed into a shell of the same color outside his legs—or in other words, a cage specially made for his legs.

"Why do they even have 'Particle Shaping'?" When the meeting brother called out, an outer tower player had already put his hand on his feathers.

"You go back first." Seeing that the situation was not good, Milady quickly pushed Mo Lian, and said in a low voice, "We'll keep you in the way!"

Without saying a word, Mo Lian turned around and ran away.

Luo Geng's gaze crossed the entrance of the stone corridor, and turned to Mo Li'an's back, with a sneer on his lips.

"People like you may be a little clever." His tone was friendly, with a bit of praise, just like Milady's first meeting with him in the jungle. "Unfortunately, my level is different from yours. Do you think your hypocrisy will make me think she is a king?"

Milady had no time at all to answer him now.

When the staff announced that Huiqi's younger brother had been arrested, he threw two outer tower players from him, one of whom was the terribly flexible brown skin; Huiqi's younger brother watched the two feathers scratch his itchy past But because he was arrested, he couldn't do anything.

Milady and another Jita female contestant didn't dare to stay in place to fight, and immediately retreated; the staff on the stone corridor pinched their watches and counted them down: "There are still fifteen or fourteen before the timeout—— "

At this moment, Molly Ann let out a low exclamation in the distance of the corridor.

Her voice was amplified by the vibration of the stone corridor wall, so clear that everyone cast their eyes on her and saw the person in front of her.

Xi Yadu, who was supposed to be sitting in the deep part of the hall, was walking slowly in the stone corridor at this moment, passing Jasmine just now.

The moment she saw him clearly, Milady was so angry that she even wanted to raise her head and laugh.

It turned out that Xi Yadu didn't intend to let her win this round at all.

Indeed, as the king, it was too easy for him to let her lose the match.

Starting from "Kidnapping the King", the patriarchs of the same camp, King Siyado himself, Luo Geng, and the trial committee—she looked around, but there was no help at all, and there were reef traps everywhere, and obstacles.

Milady is not naive, of course she knows how many rocks and deep ravines there are in the road she chose.

If she wants to win, she is against the whole world.

"Seven, six—"

Milady rushed towards Siyado at full speed, stretched out her hand and grabbed his arm, shouting while scratching: "You go back quickly!"

"Five, four—"

Siyado turned sideways, avoiding Milady's hand.He has already made this step, and of course he will not let Milady drag him back to the base camp.

The brown-skinned contestant was so fast that he was already in the corner of his eye.Milady didn't want him to run into her, but Siyado was not afraid, and instead went up to the brown-skinned player.

"three two--"

Milady turned her feet lightly and landed on Siyado's back.

Of course, it is impossible for her to drag a large living person back to the base camp, not to mention that she will run out of time soon, but she can use other methods to force Xi Yadu to go back.

"One! The three players in Ji Tower have all timed out!" The timing staff shouted, "Please stop taking feathers and go to the outer tower camp to make a presentation."

Mo Lian stood at the other end of the stone corridor, wondering if she was distracted by Xi Yadu's appearance, and she was delayed, but she still couldn't get back in time.

Another staff member, who had been staring at Milady all the time, hurriedly shouted again: "Also, Milady has plucked the feathers of Siyado!"

The stone corridor was quiet for a few seconds, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the feather in Milady's hand.

Siyado's complexion was almost as gloomy and gray as his pupils, suppressed anger flashed like rain on a lake.

Milady, out of breath, smiled at him.

Of course he would be unhappy.

Aside from being caught, the easiest way for him to win the Rogen camp is to stand in the hallway until the timeout, and then say "I am the king" when making a statement.Next, there will be another feather grabbing scene, and the game will be over in less than 2 minutes-but now, everything has been disrupted by Milady.

"Here, if you pluck the feathers, it can't be regarded as the outer tower..." A male staff member said.

"But his feathers were plucked," Milady handed him the feathers. "According to the rules, you should take him back to the base camp, right?"

"Yes, it is……"

"You really have a way of how to use the rules." When Siyado walked past Milady, he said softly. "You're just lingering for a while longer, you know that too?"

"What did you say to make the patriarchs agree to you coming out?" Milady asked in a low voice.

"You don't need to care about it." Before Xiyado left, he dropped a sentence: "Next time, you won't be able to repeat the same trick."

Milady bit her lip, and followed the staff into the outer tower camp without making a sound.

According to the sequence, the meeting younger brother needs to give an answer first, followed by the statements of the three of Milady.

Luo Geng has always been friendly, and now he patted the younger brother of the meeting family on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "We are just competing on the same stage, don't blame the senior, I will apologize to you after the game."

As expected, the younger brother of the Huiji family was a little embarrassed and said, "Where, I understand..."

"Is Si Di the king?" Luo Geng's next sentence was as smooth and natural as it seemed commonplace.

The brother of the family was taken aback during the meeting.

The first person Luo Geng confirmed was not Siyado or Morian, but the flute who had the least sense of presence among the three Alcana University graduates—but from another perspective, perhaps it was because Sidi The person with the lowest sense of existence will be the first to be confirmed.

"No, no."

"I didn't guess right," Luo Geng frowned slightly, and said with a sigh, "Fortunately, there are only two people left."

"Please go back to your base camp," said the staff member, putting the feather back on the younger brother of Huiji.

Luo Geng obviously didn't pay much attention to the next three statements. After all, he took advantage of the loopholes in the rules and knew that the statements could be meaningless.

After the staff signaled, Milady said: "The king's breakfast is usually served with black tea."

Some of the outer tower players snorted.

"Kings used to have long hair," said Morianne.

"Our king doesn't like to eat sour food either," said another Jita female contestant.

"Like us," someone muttered, "it's all nonsense..."

Luo Geng was about to walk away from them, but when he heard this, he suddenly stopped abruptly, and the soles of his shoes even rubbed against the floor and made a "squeak" sound.

He turned his head slowly, and glanced at Milady, his eyes were as bright as devouring.

"Cleverness is mistaken by cleverness..." A light voice floated between his lips and teeth, and it disappeared before it could be heard clearly.

Luo Geng's smile became clearer and clearer.He stretched out a hand, and Li Wei immediately handed over a mechanism.As soon as the younger brother of the meeting period family left, he whistled - five or six players from the outer tower camp immediately moved, and surrounded the three players from the own tower camp in the center.

"Milady," he said slowly, "I must say, you have courage."

Milady could feel the uneasiness in the two girls beside her.

"I'm afraid the purpose of your attack this time is to make me misunderstand who the king is and prevent us from continuing to find the king?" He said with a smile, "It's really hard for you to play all kinds of tricks in the corridor. It's a pity, you Made a big mistake."

The pounding of her heart made her hands and feet go numb, but Milady said with a blank face, "Oh?"

"Those who have their feathers plucked must return to the base camp first. However, those who entered the enemy's camp to make a statement because of overtime are not protected after the statement. You didn't notice this blind spot at all, did you? Every one of us Those who made the statement came back intact. That was my test on you, and I am very satisfied with the result."

Luo Geng laughed heartily, the light flickering at the corners of his brows and eyes; then, he raised his chin to Mo Lian: "Grab her."

The next moment, time seemed to slow down for Milady.

She clearly saw that Mo Lian was startled, and under the organs and arms falling towards her, she opened the wall crawler; the vine leaves spread rapidly, but they could not resist the grasping hand for her; the feather was terrified. , Stirring the breathing and eyes of the people around.

It was only natural that they only stared at Morian. After all, Milady had carefully designed a riddle, and hoped that Luo would be able to decipher its answer, and the answer was Morian.

Fortunately, Luo did not disappoint her.

She bent her waist slightly, and when she stood up, she slid out a step, just in time to step out from between the two of them.

Luo Geng misunderstood a little.

In fact, Milady had long since discovered that the contestant who had made the statement was not protected; but she kept pretending not to find out, and just stood still—because "unprotected" meant that the contestant who had made the statement was also eligible to take the feather.

Milady's plan is actually very simple, it consists of two points: first, to enter the outer tower camp; second, to make Luo Geng mistakenly think that Mo Lian is the king.

Nawa is indeed the one with the best eyesight in the outer tower camp, and she was the first to shout: "Milady has run away, over there!"

Immediately, someone chased after him, but just as soon as he took a step, the branches and vines of the wall-climbing tiger on the ground suddenly turned slightly. The leaves that were originally for people to step on, now tripped the outer tower players and ate them.

"I didn't touch him," Molly Ann's feathers had already been taken away, and she said pantingly while sitting among the creepers, "He stepped on me to make the mechanism."

After being blocked by her for such a short moment, it was already too late for the outer tower player: Milady was always extremely fast, and now she approached the target, reaching out and gently grasping the feathers on the back of the opponent's neck; , as if she realized that her target was herself, her eyes were full of disbelief.

Luo Geng's roar suddenly erupted behind him: "Milady!"

Milady turned a deaf ear to it, and the feather came off the collar button as soon as she exerted force with her hand; Malt let out a cry, touched it with her backhand, and finally, as if she was convinced, she stammered, "You, you pluck my feather to do it!" what?"

Just saying such a sentence, her face almost turned into a tomato color.

Milady smiled slightly, turned around, looked at Luo Geng, the various clan leaders, and Molly Ann across the small hall... and finally said to the staff: "I want to identify."

"Don't, don't waste your chance," Mai Ya squeezed out a sentence as if he was holding his breath, "I, I'm not... that, oh."

Still didn't say it.

Luo Geng sneered, shaking the feather in his hand. "If you want to identify, you have to follow the order. We won the feather first, and we first identified—"

"That...Maurian is not the king." The staff on the side said dryly.

Luo Geng was quiet.He turned his neck slowly, glanced at the staff member, then slowly turned his neck and looked at Milady, as if very dazed. "what?"

"You're gracious and generous to everyone, but you really don't trust anyone, do you?"

Milady tilted her head and said, "You saw me protecting Morianne in the corridor, and thought I was playing a show to mislead you that she was the king, that's right. You saw that I had a disagreement with Siyado and made a scene in the corridor. In such a scene, did you suspect that we were acting? That's why you were the first to confirm Si Di who never showed up."

Luo Geng stared straight at her, unable to utter a word.

"Siyado wanted to help you out of his mind. He probably didn't expect that the dispute he had with me to help you would make you think it was a play to cover up Mo Lian..." Mi Laidi hooked the corner of her mouth without a smile. "I designed three statements to make you think that Morian is the king... You must be very clear about how you were fooled, right?"

Luo Geng's face was slightly distorted from the chin.Some places on his face were constricted, some places were burning, and some places were heaving. Milady never knew that a human face could do its own thing like this.

"It's 'Kings used to have long hair'?" came Malty's little voice from behind Milady.

That's right.

In Luo Geng's view, the only suspects left for the king are Xiyado and Moli'an; among them, Xiyado has short hair now, and Moli'an has long hair.At first glance, the sentence was referring to Siyado—but it was too obvious.How could a smart person like Luo Geng not think a little more?

"'Once' had long hair, there is no guarantee that this person will have short hair today, right?" Milady said lightly, "If you think about it, you will think that I am trying to mislead you through this statement , making you think Siyado is the king."

Also, there is a more vague, purely intuitive hint - "We kings don't like sour either".

The king of Luo Geng's camp is a woman, and she doesn't like to eat sour.When Luo Geng thought that the opponent's king was likely to be the female Molly Ann, he heard that the opponent's king "also" didn't like to eat sour, which obviously had nothing to do with gender. Further proof that the opposing king was a woman.

Only the first sentence statement "The king's breakfast is served with black tea" is a really useless statement, just to relax the other party's vigilance and generate the mentality of "they did it too".

"You are wronged by your cleverness. It should refer to yourself." Milady sighed, "The useless statements made by people in your camp inspired me and became the key to breaking the situation."

"But how do you know that I'm—" Mai Ya just said half of this sentence before being swallowed by herself.

Milady glanced back at her. "You told me during the warm-up match that you love to read adventure novels, especially The Adventures of Fanny... There is exactly this sentence among those useless statements about you."

Mo Lian and the other Jita contestant, after being taken aback for a moment, couldn't help laughing out loud.

Some outer tower players threw away the mechanism; some cursed and walked away; , also failed to dissolve a trace.

The result is already there.The staff cautiously announced: "Jita Milaidi contestant has successfully captured the king of the outer tower, Maiya. In this competition, Ji and Jita win."

(End of this chapter)