Chapter 1170: Morning Glory

The Gemini Branch is still operating normally?

Hearing the middle-aged little flower man's words, Li Ang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Regarding the fate of the Gemini Branch, he and Nicole had imagined many situations, but it was nothing more than partial escape, all being captured, or even the entire army being wiped out, etc. Only, he had never thought that the Gemini Branch could still operate normally.

After all, Atifi 01 had directly attacked the Gemini Branch, and also suspectedly controlled the royal family of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom, almost equivalent to clearly setting up a battle formation against the Cleaning Bureau. Why keep those cleaners?

"Are the people in the Gemini Branch controlled?"

After frowning and pondering for a while, and only coming up with this possibility, Li Ang tentatively asked:

"For example, inserting some strange things into their brains, or being influenced by some anomalous object, or their relatives and family members they care about are residents of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom and were directly captured?"

"Not clear."

The two little flower men shook their heads in unison after hearing this, and then the older little flower man said:

"Branch Chief Edward once thought about whether to grab someone from the Gemini Branch to ask, but none of the people we brought this time are good at this, and there is no ability to clear memories afterwards. Once we do this, it will definitely alert the other party.

Considering that the situation of the royal family is not yet clear, Branch Chief Edward temporarily gave up this plan and changed to first determining the situation of the royal family, as well as the location of that Atifi 01 body."

"Then do you have any results? Have you determined the situation of the royal family?"

"Uh... not yet......"

The two little flower men looked at each other and said helplessly:

"The terrain of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom is too complex, with more than eight hundred blocks, and it often changes. Mona's ability consumes a lot, and the Branch Chief and the others spent several days only checking more than thirty blocks.

And what's even more fatal is that the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom will hold a celebration in a few days. By then, most of the blocks will change positions and be rearranged. The thirty-odd blocks that have been checked will likely be checked in vain once they move."

"......"

So you checked for nothing, right?

Shaking his head extremely speechlessly, Li Ang carefully asked about the progress of the Scorpio Branch Chief, then frowned and said:

"Two seniors, if Branch Chief Edward continues to check like this, the time spent is a bit too long, and whether it can succeed in the end mostly depends on luck. If the luck is not good, it is possible to be dragged on like this."

"Branch Chief Edward also said similar things."

The middle-aged little flower man nodded, then said helplessly:

"But after we added it up, we found that there was really no good way. Considering that the royal family members of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom might have been controlled by Atifi 01, in order to avoid stimulating it and causing the royal family members to be injured, we had to check slowly like this first."

Forget it, with your investigation method that depends entirely on luck, if you really want to find out something, I'm afraid you will have to check until the day the Watchtower Palace falls into disrepair.

"Two seniors, my words might be a bit unpleasant."

In the nervous expressions of the two little flower men, Li Ang frowned and said:

"But you will definitely not succeed if you check like this. I even have reason to suspect that the other party has actually discovered you and is using this method to delay time.

So I hope you can help me contact Branch Chief Edward. I want to discuss with him and see if we can try my method first."

"This... is also okay."

After looking at each other, the middle-aged little flower man reached out to support the petals on both sides, climbed out of the onion-sized bulb of the green plant, then dug a small hole in the flower pot and stuffed a small seed into it.

Immediately after, he covered the dug soil back, and then took out a miniature small watering can from somewhere, and poured a little water on the place where the seed was buried.

"Puff"

Only hearing a faint sound that could not be heard, the plant with short soft hairs growing upside down on the tender stem of the tree root gently and quietly pushed open the soil on its head, and then in Li Ang's somewhat surprised eyes, it climbed two circles along the edge of the flower pot and spat out flower buds in his direction.

This is... Morning Glory?

Looking at the plant that completed the entire process of growing and sprouting in less than two seconds, and bloomed more than a dozen pink, red, and purple trumpet-like gorgeous small flowers, Li Ang couldn't help but blink in surprise, and then under the gesture of the middle-aged little flower man, he leaned down and tentatively asked: "Your Excellency Edward?"

"......"

After a "delay" of about a few seconds, a voice that was somewhat surprised by the Scorpio Branch Chief actually came from one of the morning glories closest to Li Ang.

"Li Ang?"

Good fellow, not only can he become smaller and hide in the flowers, but he can even use a morning glory as a speaker. This ability is really interesting.

After looking at the middle-aged little flower man wearing a grass-leaf suit in surprise, Li Ang responded:

"It's me."

"I of course know it's you."

The Scorpio Branch Chief on the other side of the morning glory said somewhat puzzled:

"But shouldn't you have just gotten off the airship and be arguing with the Minister of Foreign Affairs right now? Why did you suddenly contact me?"

"The Minister of Foreign Affairs was coaxed away by me, and I was with..."

Speaking of this, Li Ang glanced slightly at the two little flower men, and then continued:

"After communicating with the two seniors, I felt that the situation seemed a bit wrong, so I wanted to discuss with you to see if we could change the investigation method."

Want to change the investigation method?

After hearing Li Ang's words, the Scorpio Branch Chief on the other side of the morning glory was silent for a few seconds, then said:

"Give me a reason."

"As for the reason... we have very likely been exposed."

Recalling some common sense about the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom he heard from the female reporter, Li Ang frowned slightly and said:

"Just now the two seniors told me that because the blocks of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom change frequently, your investigation progress is abnormally slow. But in fact, although the blocks of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom do change frequently, they shouldn't be that frequent."

"Tell me in more detail."

"In more detail, among the six types of blocks in the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom, the four types of living, residential, administrative, and scientific research blocks have relatively stable personnel flow and usually have no need to move, so they are generally rarely moved.

Only the production and military industry types of blocks, because they involve a large amount of raw materials and finished products, need to frequently dock with blocks such as the airport, so they often need to change positions."

Except for production and military industry types of blocks, other blocks don't move frequently?

After hearing Li Ang's words, the Scorpio Branch Chief on the other side of the morning glory slightly recalled the situation of the blocks they had investigated these days, and his brows immediately twisted involuntarily.

If those blocks that don't usually move frequently suddenly start to change positions frequently recently, the reason is naturally only one, which is to slow down his investigation speed. So the investigation he originally thought was hidden enough might have been seen by others long ago.

"I understand what you mean."

After judging that he had likely been exposed through the information given by Li Ang, the Scorpio Branch Chief pondered slightly, then decisively said:

"What are you going to do?"

"I plan to take a 'guarantee' first."

Li Ang thought for a while and said:

"You also know that the situation the bureau cannot accept most is the total annihilation of the royal family of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom, leading to a reduction in the effectiveness of the Watchtower Palace.

And it just so happens that we now have the status of a delegation and can legitimately come into contact with the royal family members of the Iron Wang Gong Kingdom. Then we might as well avoid the worst result first, catch some prince or princess, and take the opportunity to catch eight or ten of them first!"

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