NOVEL NEXT Chapter 53
When Ye Lan woke up again, it was already night.
She was awakened by a knock on the door.
Someone outside asked her if she needed room service.
She drove the other person away with a gloomy face. Looking at the dark sky outside the window, Ye Lan knew that things were getting troublesome.
She used the Eye of God to condense a mouthful of water to quench her thirst.
Ye Lan rushed out the door quickly.
She didn't know what happened, but she knew something must have happened, otherwise there would be no need to knock herself out.
Sure enough, after coming to the street, she could easily see that the Qianyan Army was under martial law everywhere.
She was not familiar with these Qianyan Army, but she had her own intelligence network. Fortunately, the distance was not far.
Ten minutes later
"The Northland Bank was bombed? Who did it? How much was the loss? Tell me everything at once. Don't wait for me to ask! Do you want to be beaten?"
Ye Lan received information that she could not understand at all. Her subordinates' slow and timid personality made her a little irritated.
"Yes!"
The man shuddered and began to explain in a panic:
"This matter is full of strangeness. No one has entered or left the Northland Bank. The information we have inquired about is that it was done by a flying relic machine that we have never seen before. The only loss was the money taken away by the people who went up to join in the fun after the explosion. It is easy to recover.
There are no suspicious people nearby. The flying machine blew up the Northland Bank and blew itself up. There is no clue at all, sir!"
"Flying ruins agency?"
Ye Lan looked at the disaster report in her hand.
"Would those crazy ruins mechanisms be controlled so precisely? Would they only blow up the Northland Bank? Would the Qianyan Army guarding it not know where it came from?"
"This this……"
"Didn't find out where it came from?"
"Currently……"
"Sir, I have found the latest news!"
At this time, a slightly plump, ordinary-looking woman walked in:
"The flying object came from about 500 to 800 meters south of the Northland Bank."
"Did anyone nearby see a white-haired, busty woman?"
"This...we are all paying attention to the affairs of the agency.……"
"Forget it... It's none of your business, go ahead."
After Ye Lan drove the two away, she also left here and headed straight for the Qun Yu Pavilion.
Ning Guang didn't have only herself as a source of intelligence, so if she went directly to her, she would get more comprehensive information.
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The Jade Pavilion.
It was a huge floating palace floating above Liyue, symbolizing the huge financial resources and power of the contemporary Tianquan Star.
At this time in the Jade Pavilion, Tianquan Ningguang frowned:
"Hasn't the person who controlled the bomb-dropping machine figured out how he entered Liyue?"
"Sorry, Master Ningguang... None of the Qianyan troops stationed in various places have seen anyone with a huge machine.……"
Ningguang's secretary, Baiwen, stood beside Ningguang with his head lowered.
"If you can't find the person, then look for clues! What is the material of the bomb fragments?"
Ningguang frowned even deeper, and after a moment of relaxation, she still didn't get the answer.
"Baiwen?"
"Lord Ningguang... According to the information sent by Baishi... that batch of explosives seems to have come from our Qun Yu Pavilion."
"Hmm? What?"
Ningguang thought she had misheard. Baiwen's words"from the Qun Yu Pavilion" certainly did not mean that there was an explosives factory in the Qun Yu Pavilion, but that this batch of explosives came from the Qun Yu Pavilion, from Ningguang's hands.
"How can this be... Wait, is Ye Lan back?"
"I haven't seen Lord Yelan yet."
"What about Captain Beidou?"
"Miss Beidou had already returned to Liyue Harbor in the morning. After the explosion, Liyue was blockaded and her ship was detained and forbidden to go out to sea. She is still in a bad mood now.
Baiwen answered Ningguang's questions very seriously.
Ningguang's intelligence network has a"favor network", relying on those who have received Ningguang's favor to obtain intelligence. The informants did not deliberately investigate and did not even know that they were Ningguang's spies. Although this information came from all directions, it was always useful when pieced together.
For example, the famous Wanmin Hall in Liyue is one of them.
"This is interesting... After investigating for so long, I ended up investigating myself? Could it be that I was the one who blew up the Northland Bank?"
Although it was interesting, Ningguang waved her hand in a headache and told Baiwen:
"Ask Beidou to come to Qun Yu Pavilion. There is only one batch of explosives that I made that was shipped to Mondstadt recently... Even if I give her more money, I don't think she is that honest and will not peek at what is in the box."
She didn't doubt that Beidou was the one who blew up the Northland Bank, but she had to find out who had the explosives and investigate step by step.
"Yes, I'm here……"
"No need! I'm back, Ningguang!"
Bai Wen's words were interrupted, the door was pushed open, and Ye Lan strode in.
"Lord Ye Lan"
"Um"
"It seems that my partner has brought me another surprise? Bai Wen, you go out first, I will talk to Ye Lan alone."
Ningguang saw Ye Lan's expression and realized that she probably knew something.
"Yes." Bai Wen responded and left quickly, helping to close the door.
"Now, let me tell you my story first."
Ningguang saw Ye Lan sitting on a chair drinking tea and frowning, and thought that she might need to take a break, so she spoke out the results of the value survey first.
"Bang!" As Ningguang spoke, Ye Lan's hands tightened until the precious teacup in her hand, which was worth a hundred draws, burst.
"Hmm?"
Ningguang's eyes twitched. This was one of her favorite teacups.
"Phew... Sorry for soiling your carpet. I'll pay for it."
Ye Lan didn't think about this at all.
"No, it's nothing. The teacups you crushed are enough to buy ten carpets." Ningguang smiled helplessly,"Tell me, what happened? Why are you so angry?"
"same as usual?"
"As usual, we'll start from the beginning, but...if there's anything inconvenient, you can skip it, or just talk about the results."
Ningguang changed the subject halfway through her speech, realizing that Ye Lan had something to hide, so she took a step back to advance, and also saved face for both of them.
"There is nothing to hide." Ye Lan's eyes narrowed slightly. In her heart, the evaluation of Lidao had changed.
"Take a look at this."
She threw a booklet out and Ningguang caught it. She knew what it was. Ye Lan went to various countries to gather intelligence, and everything she got was reflected in it. From low to high, one to five, the General Affairs Department used this to refine and list people to guard against those who might threaten Liyue.
Visitors from another world (conservative estimate):
Wuliangta Jizi, strength three, wisdom two; Kiana Kaslana, strength three, wisdom two.
Raiden Mei, strength three, wisdom two; Bronya, strength three, wisdom two.
Lidao, strength??? Wisdom four!
Comprehensive influence five, great influence, extremely strong, uncontrollable (especially Lidao!)
"Ye Lan? Did you write it wrong?"
Ningguang thought about what"Strength Three" meant: Gan Yu, the Seven Stars' secretary for a thousand years, was a strength three.
This page, all three at a glance, and it was written as a conservative estimate?
"The Fatui arranged an explosion of the same magnitude in Mondstadt, but Mei Raiden, Himeko Murata, and Bronya, who were at the center of the explosion, were unharmed."
"……Tell me your intelligence."
Ningguang frowned again. She knew how big the Northland Bank was. The explosion destroyed half of the Northland Bank, not to mention the center of the explosion.
"I came back from Fontaine at first, intending to go to Xumi and then back to Liyue, but halfway through, I met an adventurer who used this strange artillery weapon.
I learned that the weapon came from a store in Mondstadt, so I went to Mondstadt instead."