Chapter 170 87. The truth about Hua Chao Festival (12,000 words)
At this time, in the conference room, Fang Ze and Bai Zhi also began to formally chat about the case.
After looking around and checking that there were no surveillance or listening devices in the conference room, Fang Ze returned to sit next to Bai Zhi.
Bai Zhi saw his action and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
Fang Ze said, "What we are talking about this time is confidential. I am worried that the Federal Guards and others have eavesdropped on it."
Hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Zhi smiled and took out a small box, and then she said, "Don't worry. I'm familiar with this. So, when I came today, I brought the anti-monitoring and surveillance equipment."
"After I came to the conference room, I opened it."
Seeing this, Fang Ze curiously took the small box and played with it.
Then he put down the small box and said to Bai Zhi, "Take out the pen and paper. What I'm going to say next is very important and very complicated. You must write it down carefully."
Seeing how serious Fang Ze was, Bai Zhi blinked, then opened her space folding bag and took out paper and pen from it.
However, even though she listened to Fang Ze's words, judging from her attitude, it was obvious that she was not very serious.
It is estimated that in her mind, saying that she wanted to talk about Hua Chaojie today was just an excuse. The real purpose was actually to remove Fang Ze's status as a suspect so that Fang Ze's treatment could be better. Therefore, no need
How serious.
Fang Ze had a clear view of Bai Zhi's expression, but he didn't explain anything.
Instead, he slowly said, "Actually, I have been busy with the Flower Festival during this period."
After hearing what he said, Bai Zhi looked at him secretly with an expression like "I believe you are a ghost."
After all, Fang Ze has been fighting with Jiang Cheng every day during this period and has been digging up the secrets of the shadow organization. He has no time to investigate Hua Chaojie.
Fang Ze saw the look in her eyes and immediately understood what she was thinking, so he coughed and explained, "I first caught Jiang Cheng's tail, wasn't it because I was investigating the Hua Chao Festival?"
"So. During this period, I got a lot of clues about the Hua Chao Festival that Jiang Cheng was investigating from Qianfeng, Huajian, and Qiuyue."
"It's just because I don't have time, so I haven't told you."
Speaking of this, Fang Ze's face turned serious and he began to slowly explain the clues he had obtained during this period of time about the Hua Chao Festival.
"Sir, have you ever heard a jingle in all your years in the Emerald City?"
Bai Zhi asked curiously, "What jingle?"
Fang Ze pondered for a moment, then read,
"The eyes of the Zhao family, the mouth of the Qian family, and the princess of the Sun family are beautiful."
"The hands of the Li family, the legs of the Zhou family, and the body movements of the Wu family are as soft as water."
"The bones of the Zheng family are as strong as hammers, and the bones of the Wang family are as black as coal."
After hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Zhi thought for a moment, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "It seems... I have a bit of an impression."
"It is said that this jingle is related to the eight major underground gangs in Emerald City?"
"It seems that you are talking about the awakening ability of the bosses of these eight major gangs?"
Fang Ze nodded, and then said, "Yes. The eight families of the eight major gangs that control the underground order in Emerald City, their surnames are Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang."
"And their awakening abilities are also related to their eyes, mouth, face, hands, legs, body, bones, and skin."
"For example, the Ax Gang, one of the eight major gangs, their leader Zhao Laoliu, has a family awakening ability called: Glue Eyes."
"With this awakening ability, you can use your eyes to change the surrounding environment. When fighting, at a glance, the enemy will feel that their whole body is covered in glue. If you want to use martial arts, you will have to spend more than ten times the usual strength."
"For example, the leader of the Qingfeng Gang, Mr. Zheng. His family's awakening ability is the [Forest of Flesh and Bones]."
"This awakening ability can freely control the growth of bones, and then form a hard exoskeleton outside the body for defense, or manipulate the bones into weapons for attack."
Bai Zhi had only heard about these a little bit, but she really wasn't very clear about it, so after hearing Fang Ze's words, she immediately wrote them all down out of curiosity.
Seeing this, Fang Ze nodded slightly, and then told all the abilities of the eight oldest families.
After listening to Fang Ze's detailed explanation of the abilities of these eight gang bosses, Bai Zhi also asked curiously, "But, does this have anything to do with Hua Chaojie?"
Fang Ze said seriously, "It does matter."
He said, "Do you still remember the names of the five flower goddesses during the Flower Chao Festival?"
Bai Zhi nodded and said,
"Zhao Grace, Qian Diemeng, Sun Nianyan, Li Jingge, Wu Xiuya." (Chapter 4)
Fang Ze nodded, and then pointed to the surnames of the eight gang bosses that Bai Zhi had just recorded.
Bai Zhi compared them one by one, and then said in surprise, "All their surnames come from the eight major gangs?"
Fang Ze nodded and then said,
"Yes."
"The Jiang family was the first to discover this matter."
"The Jiang family has been setting up in Emerald City these years. It has spent a lot of manpower and material resources investigating the Hua Chao Festival."
"They didn't notice this detail at first. Instead, they discovered another clue. That was that the Eight Gangs suddenly came to the Emerald City more than fifty years ago."
"Afterwards, they recruited troops and together they established the Emerald City Red Light District. They also published a magazine: The Hundred Flowers List of Luxurious Nightlife."
"In the same year, the first Flower Festival began to appear."
"However, after the Flower Festival, the Hundred Flowers List suddenly changed its name and became the Golden Rooster List." (Chapter 3)
"The eight major gangs said yes to the outside world in order to avoid the name of Hua Chao Festival."
"This statement is actually very reasonable. In addition, there were relatively few clues at the beginning, and no one doubted whether there was a hidden secret."
"But when the Jiang family started investigating, there were already five saints with five surnames."
"So, the Jiang family followed this clue and quickly discovered the connection between the surnames of the eight major gangs and the surnames of the five saints."
"Then they started trying to investigate the eight major gangs."
"The result was a surprising discovery."
"Although the Flower Goddess in recent years were randomly selected, they are actually related to the eight major gangs."
"Some of these flower goddesses are the children of a certain gang, and some are the family members of a certain gang leader."
"Yes, I joined the eight major gangs myself."
"Others are the children of businessmen who have business dealings with the eight major gangs."
"Actually, if you get here, it won't arouse much suspicion."
"After all, the eight major gangs have been rooted in Emerald City for fifty years. Almost everyone in Emerald City can have some relationship with them."
"However, the Jiang family used their family power to continue to scrutinize the information about these flower goddesses."
"Although there are no problems on the surface. However, after spending a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate, they found that these flower goddesses are all orphans!"
"And, without exception, they are all girls from the eight major gangs, kidnapped or adopted from low-level urban slums." (Chapter 27)
"The eight major gangs gave them false identities when they were young, and sent their subordinates to adopt them, or after naming them, they gave them up and let others adopt them."
After hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Zhi was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth and felt that the hairs all over her body stood up.
After all, the Emerald City is too big. And the eight major gangs seem to be very impressive. But no matter how big the gang is, they are nothing in front of the official, and they will be suppressed and banned with just one order. Therefore, in the Emerald City,
It's not an important force at all.
If it weren't for the fact that their red light district was so well done, it probably wouldn't even have much fame.
The Flower Chao Festival is a secret realm of laws that all the eastern jurisdictions are concerned about.
One of the two is like a small dust, and the other is like a bright star.
As a result, they are actually the masterminds behind the Hua Chao Festival now?
A speck of dust controls a huge star?
Why doesn't this shock Bai Zhi?
Seeing this, Fang Ze smiled and nodded, "Are you surprised?"
"I was very surprised when I first got the news."
As he said that, Fang Ze motioned for her to stop being dazed and continue to write it down, and then continued, "After that, the Jiang family regarded the eight major gangs as a breakthrough point and began to think of ways to infiltrate."
"For this reason, they do not hesitate to deploy personnel, or cooperate with the eight major gangs to do business, etc."
"And after nearly ten years of infiltration, they are almost close to the truth."
Bai Zhi couldn't help but ask, "What's the truth?"
Fang Ze said, "Do you still remember the jingle I just said?"
Bai Zhi nodded, "Remember."
Fang Ze, "Don't you notice anything unusual between this jingle and the Flower Goddess?"
Bai Zhi looked at the content she had just recorded in confusion. For a moment, she shook her head.
Fang Ze pointed to the fifth "Zhou" in the jingle, then pointed to the last two goddesses of the flower goddess, and reminded, "Look at the order."
Bai Zhi suddenly said, "'Zhou' has passed?!"
Fang Ze nodded, and then said with a serious face, "No, it didn't happen that Zhou passed by in vain."
"But, there is no Zhou at all."
He said, "After detailed investigation and checking the timeline, the Jiang family discovered that in fact, more than fifty years ago, the people who came to Emerald City and established the eight major gangs were not eight people, but seven people."
"In the beginning there were not eight major gangs, but seven major gangs."
"Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Wu, Zheng, Wang."
"After that, it's the Flower Festival."
"Then, in the third year after the first Flower Festival, this jingle suddenly spread in the Emerald City."
"Soon, at that time, a new gang force suddenly emerged in the underground organization of Emerald City: the Zhou family."
Bai Zhi couldn't help but ask, "You mean, the Zhou family is a later person? Involved in the Hua Chaojie incident?"
Fang Ze shook his head and said, "The Jiang family thought so at the beginning."
"But later they discovered that the secret was bigger than this."
"Actually, there is no Zhou family in Emerald City."
"The ancestor who single-handedly established the Zhou family is actually not named Zhou, but his surname is [Shankar]."
"Shankar?" Bai Zhi frowned and muttered the name, a little confused, obviously not familiar with it.
Fang Ze said, "You definitely don't understand."
"I checked this surname specifically."
"This is an ancient surname of the Miaohua ethnic minority. It only existed before the establishment of the Federation, that is, during the Xida Kingdom."
"After the federation was established and Xida was changed to a state, all the Hua and Miao people asked to change their surname. So the surname Shankar was banned and changed to [Zhou]."
"But in fact, this is a later changed surname, not the real [Zhou] surname."
Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment, "Do you have to worry about it like this?"
Seeing Bai Zhi's appearance, Fang Ze said helplessly, "Sir, solving a case is a delicate matter. All the clues are hidden in the details."
"Perhaps, if you miss a detail, you will eventually miss the truth."
Bai Zhi was educated and immediately stopped talking.
Fang Ze continued, "During the Jiang family's investigation, they also discovered that this eighth gang was actually established by seven families who secretly sent people and helped to establish it."
"It's said to be the eight major gangs, but actually it should be the seven major gangs, plus a puppet."
Bai Zhi asked, "What does this mean?"
Fang Ze said seriously, "The Jiang family speculates that it is probably some kind of ritual. That's why the seven major families have to complete this ritual."
"but."
Speaking of this, Fang Ze paused and said, "I am more inclined to think that this is a story of betrayal."
He said, "Although I don't know exactly what happened in the great disaster fifty years ago."
"However, it is obvious that many nobles and ancestors of the Awakened family benefited a lot from that disaster."
"I even gained a lot of bloodline and awakening abilities that can be passed down."
Speaking of this, Fang Ze pointed to the information on the paper and said, "And you see, according to the jingles and awakening abilities of these eight major families. Their abilities are eyes, mouth, face, hands, legs, body, bones,
skin."
Fang Ze raised his eyes, glanced at Bai Zhi, and asked, "When you put these together, do they look like one person?"
Bai Zhi was stunned.
Fang Ze continued, "So, I guess, it was probably fifty years ago. The ancestors of these eight families worked together to kill someone fifty years ago."
"After that, they dismembered that person and got different parts from that person, thus inheriting different abilities."
"However, because of uneven distribution of the spoils or some other things, the ancestor of the Zhou family was killed by seven other people."
"However, before dying, the ancestors of the Zhou family passed on the truth of the matter to their friends or descendants."
"So, after that friend or descendant discovered these seven gangs, they compiled the information into a jingle and circulated it in the Emerald City."
"The purpose is to reveal the truth of that year."
"As for the people they killed."
Fang Ze was silent for a moment and said,
"Could it be that he is the Goddess of Flowers?"
"As for the Flower Festival, could it be a ritual for the seven families to awaken the power of the Flower God and purify the blood in their bodies?"
"As for the Flower Goddess, it may be a bridge for them to gain strength, or it may be a condition for completing the ritual."
Bai Zhi was completely stunned, blinking her eyes, feeling that her small brain seemed to be completely insufficient.
She struggled to move her brain, trying to make herself understand all this. But for a moment, she still opened her mouth and asked, "So. The case has been solved?"
"We won?"
Fang Ze:.
Fang Ze looked at her and said helplessly, "It's not that simple!"
"All this is just an inference I made after combining the clues from the Jiang family and the Fuxing Society."
"What we have to do next is to prove all this and crack the way the seven major gangs summon the Flower Goddess!"
Speaking of this, perhaps fearing to undermine Bai Zhi's confidence, Fang Ze added,
"However, although the case has not been solved yet, we are actually very close to the truth."
"Furthermore," Fang Ze said to Bai Zhi, "there are four waves of forces paying attention to the Hua Chao Festival."
"We, Gu Qing, Jiang Cheng and a certain organization."
Speaking of this, Fang Ze nodded slightly towards Bai Zhi, hinting.
Bai Zhi suddenly understood: Fuxing Society.
Fang Ze said, "Because of the death of Huayang Jie, Jiang Cheng and that organization either actively or passively left the Emerald City and could no longer interfere with the Hua Chao Festival."
"We have inherited all the clues from the Jiang family and that organization, and harvested their efforts for more than ten years."
"Even, the most important thing is."
"In the past ten years, the Jiang family has secretly controlled two flower goddesses." (Chapter 65)
"Due to the death of Huayang Jie, Jiang Cheng ran away very suddenly and had no time to move. In addition, the communication was cut off and he could not contact the guards, so we can completely take over the two Flower Goddess directly.
come over."
"Now the most important competitors have been driven away, and the key clues and key people are all in our hands."
"And Gu Qing has only been in Emerald City for two years, and he is not as powerful as the Jiang family. He probably won't investigate so deeply."
"So, as long as we act steadily and don't waste time, we will be the first to solve the case!"
Fang Ze said so much before, Bai Zhi's head was all a mess!
but!
She understood this sentence clearly!
Therefore, she suddenly said "Wuhu" happily, "Then we are going to win?"
Fang Ze said seriously, "Yes. As long as you don't waste your money, you will definitely win."
"Next, I will make some arrangements. Remember them all."
With victory as a carrot, Bai Zhi immediately became serious. She picked up a pen and began to record Fang Ze's arrangements seriously.
At the same time, the control room of the space carrier.
The old man and the lieutenant looked at Fang Ze and Bai Zhi on the screen, and after listening to their words, the two looked at each other.
The old man asked, "Baizhi, did you take the jammer but forgot it?"
The adjutant smiled sarcastically and said, "I guess so?"
"Or maybe Fang Ze accidentally touched the switch when he was playing with the jammer just now?"
Old man:.
For a moment, seeing that the old man remained silent, the adjutant coughed and asked, "Sir, do you want to inform Gu Qing of the information we have obtained?"
There was no expression on the old man's face, but the fingers of the hand behind his back were rubbing back and forth, as if hesitating.
At this moment, suddenly, a member of the federal garrison ran over.
He ran to the two of them, stood still, and said, "Report to your lord, Master Fanda has just arrived at the space carrier. Would you like to receive him?"
After hearing the team member's words, the old man's movements suddenly stopped.
After a moment, he said to the adjutant, "Don't worry now. Wait until Master Fanda uses his psychic ability to investigate Fang Ze."
After speaking, he looked at the member of the Federal Guards and said, "I'd like to invite Master Fanda."
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