Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 159: The Detective's Code
For Tang Zheng, the emergence of two conflicting clues, although troublesome, was not enough to leave him helpless.
However, there is an even worse situation in Xingyao Continent—he knows too little about this world.
His entire range of activities is just Wulong Town.
Therefore, he had no way of judging whether the conflict between the two clues was truly contradictory or whether they could exist at the same time.
"Okay, a scholar should know everything about the world without leaving home. Today, I will test you about the matter of the strange thief Pan Yu. How did this person show up, what did he do, how did these things spread, especially the girl from the three-star family. Tell me in detail." Tang Zheng narrowed his eyes, knocked on the table, and changed the subject to Tang Xiaotang and the others.
The children of Tangjiabao were collectively speechless.
They were already accustomed to Tang Zheng's shamelessness and were not surprised by it. What left them speechless was where on earth their teacher came from and how come he knew nothing about the strange thief Pan Yu?
Xu Qingyan had a cold face and began to imagine again - Tang Zheng must be the last disciple of a hermit master, isolated from the world since childhood...
"I first heard of Pan Yu when I was about the same age as Xiao Lingdang." Although Tang Xiaotang was speechless about Tang Zheng's "ignorance", she still spoke up, "At first, he only harmed some women from small families. Most of them couldn't even light up the first life palace, but they all had one thing in common, that is, they were beautiful."
"Yes." Tang Xuan continued, "Most of the victims suddenly disappeared in their rooms, and there was no sign of anyone having been in the boudoir. There was only a beautiful envelope left, signed by the Phantom Thief Pan Yu!"
"The girl's family members could not find her anywhere. She returned on her own the next day. She was also in a daze, as if she had been greatly stimulated. She could not remember how Pan Yu, that beast, bullied her during the time she was missing!" Tang Xiaotang nodded.
“At that time, let alone women from aristocratic families, he didn’t even dare to touch a clan like the Tang Family Castle, which was still a little short of being a powerful force… But about three years ago, Pan Yu began to become really famous—the first thing happened in the early summer of the year before last, when he changed his habit of only targeting women from small families and directly reached out to a female disciple of the Hidden Sword Sect, and he actually succeeded!”
"Well, the Hidden Sword Sect is a sect that is stronger than the Zhaixing Sect and Qintian Sect in Wulong Town. They have five-star peak masters in charge... But Pan Yu still took advantage of the opportunity when a female disciple was traveling outside and kidnapped her. He only released her the next day."
"This incident made the Hidden Sword Sect very angry. All the three-star disciples in the sect were dispatched, but they still couldn't find any trace of him. In the end , they could only let it go."
Tang Xiaotang and Tang Xuan exchanged glances and talked to each other, describing in great detail the incident of the attack on the disciples of the Hidden Sword Sect.
Apart from the fact that we don't know exactly what Pan Yu did, the sensation caused by that incident could definitely not be false.
"What is the strength of that woman?" Tang Zheng asked.
"It's already a high-level two-star level."
"Three years ago?"
"Yeah, three years ago."
Tang Zheng took out a pen and paper, nodded, and motioned Tang Xiaotang and Tang Xuan to continue.
Tang Xuan finished talking about the sect disciples and finally talked about what Madam Zhao said: "At the end of last year, Pan Yu had become a wanted thief by sixteen noble families because... he actually extended his murderous hands to the Beishuiyan family!"
"The Beishui Yan family is one of the eighty-one noble families. How could ordinary people dare to touch the tiger whiskers of a noble family? However, it was this Pan Yu who was still so bold that he took advantage of the Yan family's daughter Yan Qianqian's way back to her mother's home and kidnapped her again without a sound!"
"However, the matter of Yan Qianqian was exposed by their family feud - the Beishui Sun family also exposed an envelope left in the room of the inn when Yan Qianqian was abducted."
"The Yan family has never admitted this, so we don't know whether it's true or not. However, Yan Qianqian originally entered the three-star level at the age of nineteen and was already on the Star Power Ranking of Zijin City, with a promising future. After this incident, there was no news about her, and she soon fell off the Star Ranking."
"It seems that the Yan family has secretly pursued Pan Yu, but because his whereabouts are erratic and his actions are secretive, he has never been found, let alone a direct fight... No one knows how he abducted those girls silently, because, in the places where some girls were abducted, there was not even a !"
"Some people say that he is very powerful, at least five stars or above. Some people also say that he is gifted and can shrink the ground and pass through walls. Some even say that he is not a human, but a pervert from the underworld!"
While listening to Xiaotang's story, Tang Zheng held a pen and kept writing and drawing on a piece of paper.
Tang Xiaotang and the others leaned over and looked at the paper written on Tang Zheng's paper, which contained irrelevant words like "traveling alone", "exquisite envelope", "boudoir" and so on.
"Master, can you catch him?" Tang Xuan was a woman after all. Knowing that Pan Yu had come to Wulong Town, she couldn't help but feel a little afraid.
Even for Tang Zheng, she could fight the assassin to the death, and was seriously injured and on the verge of death by the ambushers, but when she heard the name of the flower thief, her first reaction was still a little panic.
Tang Xiaotang was stunned for a moment, then clenched her fists and said, "He has already stolen our Master's things and offended the beauty who admired our Master. How could the Master not catch him?"
Tang Zheng stopped writing, looked at the paper in front of him, and said with a smile: "I don't know whether we can catch him or not. However, I found something interesting."
"Oh? What's that?"
"Oh, Pan Yu and I...turn out to be the same kind of people!"
"Ah." Tang Xiaotang almost choked on her saliva, "Don't be the same kind of person as everyone else, okay!"
…
The last time he met the little savage, Tang Zheng said that they were the same kind of people.
At least the little savage was of a straightforward character. He insisted on flattering himself, so Tang Xiaotang had to endure it. But what was going on this time?
Tang Zheng was the teacher who taught them poetry, books, etiquette and morality, but Pan Yu was a flower thief who was hated by everyone. How could they be the same kind of people!
"You...you also have such perverted thoughts about women?" Tang Xiaotang asked tentatively.
"Nonsense, you can tell from my name that I am a 'upright and upright' gentleman!"
"Then why are you..."
"I mean, his way of thinking!" Tang Zheng tapped Xiaotang on the forehead.
Xingyao Continent is a world where strength is paramount and people are accustomed to solving problems with force.
Even the assassins who came from Kageyama had more in-depth research on surprise attack-style combat.
In real assassinations, raid-style combat is only a very small application.
"What I mean is that there are too few people who don't consider taking action first when encountering something, but instead use their brains! And Pan Yu is one of them."
"Master, Master..." Little Bell raised her hand.
"What?" Tang Zheng looked at her and smiled.
“When encountering problems, don’t use your hands, use your brain first… That’s because if you use your hands, you’ll get beaten if you’re not strong enough!” Little Bell opened her big eyes and added the finishing blow.
"What truth are you talking about!" Tang Zheng was stabbed all over and his face darkened.
Although Xiao Lingdang's finishing blow fell on him, it was indeed the truth.
If in his previous life he could have kept the top assassin equipment he sold every year, if his attributes could have been enhanced by various RMB props, if...
If you can crush them, who will assassinate you?
So, all masters are forced to become masters!
As Tang Zheng spoke, he wrote a new item on the paper: "Not strong enough"!
The conflict between the two clues has been resolved by Tang Xiaotang and his team.
Just as Xiao Lingdang said, precisely because "if you fight, you will get beaten if you are not strong enough", so it can be judged that Pan Yu's strength is lower than that of the beautiful lady from the aristocratic family, Yan Qianqian.
Tang Zheng sorted out the paper in his hand, put down his pen, and stood up.
Seeing him about to leave, Tang Xiaotang couldn't help but glance at Xiao Lingdang: "Master, Master...well, children speak without restraint, you won't be angry, right?"
"Why should I be angry? Xiao Lingdang was not talking about me!" Tang Zheng had just been saying "He and I are the same kind of people", but after being stabbed by Xiao Lingdang, the next moment he had an attitude of "Hey, what does this have to do with the stupid habit of a gentleman using his brain instead of his hands?"
The speed of conversion is simply amazing!
As Tang Zheng went out to say goodbye to Lu Huang and the others, he beckoned at Xu Qingyan and asked him to follow.
"Master, then...what are you going to do now?" Tang Xiaotang also followed.
"Silly girl, do you know the four rules of famous detectives in solving cases?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Uh..." Tang Xiaotang didn't quite understand.
"The first step is to talk to everyone who knows about the case. The second step is to turn the crime scene upside down. The third step is to imagine the crime process based on various clues. The fourth step is to gather all the relevant people and onlookers and show off in public... Oh no, solve all the puzzles in public and reveal the final truth of the incident!"
Tang Zheng had just talked with Ban Yilou, Hua Yingxiu, and Zhao Shanhe and his wife, and also consulted Tang Xiaotang and the others to learn about Pan Yu's history of fame. Now, of course, it was time to execute the second step...
New Oriental Cooking School has a routine crime-solving major that guarantees training, skills training and employment, and it will catch every criminal accurately!
"Wait, wait a minute..." Tang Xiaotang and the others were not stupid. They would not be easily fooled by Tang Zheng's nonsense. "There is something wrong with the third step! What if... I imagine the crime process in my mind, then... what if I am wrong?"
"Hey." Tang Zheng stopped walking. "Good question! Of course I have a final fifth trick, which I won't tell ordinary people."
"Hurry up and tell us, we are not ordinary people."
"After we catch the criminal..." Tang Zheng smiled, "beat him until he admits that his crime process is exactly what I said!"
"..." The disciples of Tangjiabao looked at each other. They suddenly felt that if Pan Yu really fell into Tang Zheng's hands, it would be very unlucky.
