Throne Steps

When Li Chen participated in the New Year's dinner with Saenz for the first time, he accidentally took away the cup used by Cervantes.

When asked now, even he himself didn't know why he did it in the first place.

And what's more terrible is that he had been sent by God just once, and he didn't follow the same pattern to collect things used by other people.So when he took out the cup... Saenz's eyes were very meaningful.

Seryozha didn't care about the interaction between the two people's expressions, and only said that they could try.

He borrowed a relatively empty room from Saenz, then went in with a handkerchief holding a cup, and the door of the room was closed.Saenz and Li Chen looked at the door for a few seconds, then returned to the fireplace.

Li Chen felt that the aftertaste of the previous episode hadn't passed, so in order to avoid embarrassment, he found something irrelevant to do: "I asked the housekeeper to change the tea? Anyway, Seryozha doesn't drink it, so let's change it to your taste."

Saenz didn't know what he was thinking, he was a little dazed, and he just responded casually.

It wasn't until Li Chen rang the bell to let the housekeeper come that Saenz suddenly said, "What capacity do you think Seryozha should be allowed to stay here?"

"……what?"

"Although this is a separate courtyard, there are still people who know Wiggins' face." Saenz asked, "Have you thought about how to explain Seryozha's origin to these people?"

Li Chen wondered, "Why do you need to explain?"

With Saenz's ability to govern, Li Chen didn't feel the need to explain everything to his subordinates, and it was true that there were many times before that he didn't need to explain, they only needed to execute the order.

Saenz's response: "They cannot be made to blur the line between life and death."

"...Forgive me for being stupid." Li Chen's blank expression became more obvious, "Did you just talk about a philosophical topic?"

"You say yes." Saenz replied, "If they think it is Wiggins, and Wiggins is indeed resurrected, they may misunderstand 'death'. And their job is to swim. Those who are walking on the edge of life and death, once the boundary is blurred, it will have a negative impact on them.”

The most obvious impact is that they will no longer be in awe of death, they will not be able to go all out to protect themselves, and their desire to survive will decrease.

What's more, they may have other ideas about the meaning of "life" and try to pursue "longevity" in this way.

Of course, Saenz is not worried that they will become the latter for the time being, but he does not expect them to become the former either.

Li Chen still had a vague understanding, but he seemed to understand what Saenz wanted to express, so he asked, "Then are you going to tell the truth?"

The guards who can now be active in this other courtyard are basically Saenz's confidantes, who have a direct or indirect contractual relationship with Saenz.If Saenz tells them the truth, there is no need to worry about being publicized.

"No, let them know that there is a way to 'resurrect' a dead person, even if it is not the dead person." Saenz replied, "It will make them easy to doubt whether what they see is true. .”

"Are you saying that you will make them suspect that the people around them are also original goods?" Li Chen asked, "Is it too much to be prepared for a rainy day? Do ordinary people doubt others so easily? Besides, your guards are still fighting side by side, sharing life and death. Comrades, you shouldn’t be so easily shaken.”

"It's not easy, but it's not impossible." Saenz replied, "Once they are given the impression that 'someone will return instead of the dead', when they encounter questionable situations in the future, this kind of speculation will be out of control. .”

Li Chen was a little confused.He subconsciously felt that Saenz was right, and he also felt that he was still inferior to Saenz's management ability.To be honest, before Saenz said these things, Li Chen basically didn't think about this matter, even though he still had a black swan under his hand.

So Li Chen humbly asked: "Then what identity should we give him? Er... Wiggins' twin?"

"It doesn't need to be so specific." Saenz replied, "I thought about it, as long as it is established that Seryozha is not Wiggins."

Li Chen's brain speed hasn't recovered yet: "... Huh?"

"Let them understand that it's not Wiggins, or Wiggins' body, but Sergey himself, that's all." Saenz replied, "Just like your Dominique, pretending to be Brown, Switching back to his own identity. After Brown died, no one would think Dominic was Brown, would they?"

Li Chen was taken aback: "So simple?"

"It's as simple as that. Of course, it's also because the people here trust me, so it's easy for me to instill this idea in them." Saenz said, "If someone is completely unfamiliar with me and doesn't trust me, it's as simple as buying. "

After going around a lot, Li Chen felt cheated when he found such a simple solution.He twitched the corner of his mouth: "You are joking, who in the entire Raetia League will distrust you."

After all, the color of pure white is the "pope" of Raetia!

Seryozha finished his mysterious "casting" and brought good news to Saenz and Lichen.

He pointed out the approximate location on the map, and then described where Cervantes was now.

"Probably like this..." he explained while drawing on the paper, "the structure of the room is like this...here is a table...here..."

Li Chen didn't read much, because Seryozha is simply a painter of souls, what he said and what he drew were completely inconsistent.If he guessed what the real thing would look like according to the drawing, Li Chen would almost enter a new world.

Saenz seemed to be a little bit reluctant to see it anymore. After Seryozha finished talking, Saenz said: "I will find a painter to come over later, and you can describe him to paint."

As if he couldn't feel that his painting skills were being rejected, Sergey nodded in agreement, and said, "He doesn't seem to have any trauma, and he's awake... It's just that he may have taken some medicine. I don't think he's in a good condition. Right."

"Be specific."

Seryozha thought for a while: "I can't tell, I'm not familiar with many drug reactions."

Well, Li Chen sincerely agrees that this Seryozha really shouldn't leave the necromancer's side.The ability to draw and express is so bad, and I am not familiar with the reaction of medicines, it is almost useless except to see.

So far, we can only wait until we find Cervantes...

"Ah, by the way, I think it looks like something!" Seryozha suddenly hit his palm with his fist, and then he glanced at the two people who turned their eyes, "I just think it looks like it, not necessarily, Maybe you can think about it."

Li Chen urged: "Just speak up."

"It's just... I don't seem to feel his barrier much. You know, even though he can't reach that person's strength, I will feel invaded anyway. But apart from some formations set up in that place itself, I don't Feeling other things..." Seriosha paused, "Is there something wrong with his fighting spirit?"

Li Chen and Saenz looked at each other, and there was a flash of understanding in their eyes.

——The contractor of Cervantes was not affected, which meant that it was not a problem with the source of fighting energy, but that he had taken the fighting energy stagnant potion.

With the map and the real artist's work, the team looking for Cervantes grew again.

And in Saenz's other courtyard, although the guards knew that it was Sergey, but those who knew Wiggins couldn't help but take a closer look... Li Chen decided to let Sergey dye his hair.

No way, who made Wiggins' body lose all functions, even if he drank the "transformation potion"?

Seryozha didn't want to cut his hair—after all, he had no function, and it would be a waste of energy to grow his hair—so after much deliberation, he simply dyed his hair.

So, Lichen sat down with the careless Sergey to choose the hair color.

"Orange red? Please spare me..." Xie Liaosha looked at the color Li Chen pointed at, "It's too coquettish, I can't control it."

"Why didn't you think you could control it when you had silver-white hair? And it's not your own face." Li Chen glanced at him, then pointed to another color and said, "What about this one?"

"Green?" Seriosha looked at the color chart, turned his head to look at Li Chen, and then looked back at the direction of the color chart, "I don't know why, but I always feel that you have bad intentions, so forget it."

Li Chen held back his laughter, but he didn't say the line "with a little green on his head" after all. He pointed to another hair color: "Then what about this one..."

The butler knocked on the door and came in, gave Saenz new materials and refreshments.

When the study door was closed, Li Chen turned his head and asked Saenz: "How is it? Any news?"

Saenz nodded, and threw a few pieces of paper in front of Li Chen when he approached him: "It has been confirmed that the place where Cervantes is being held is indeed related to the 'alchemy gang' discovered earlier, but It’s not all good news from this discovery.”

"Because this means that the 'pharmaceutical group' you were looking for earlier, that is, the 'alchemy group' he was looking for, has more than one active branch, doesn't it?" He frowned slightly, "Seeing two branches, there might actually be four or eight... Maybe Cervantes will have to wait."

According to this situation, if you rescue Cervantes now, it is very likely that you will startle the snake.

"However, this is too strange." Li Chen said again, "It doesn't make sense for a group of this size to be monitored and noticed now."

Large-scale gang operations must be matched with large-scale capital and material flows, which can be easily detected after a while.What's more, this is still an alchemy gang, and it must cost a lot of money to operate.If it had really grown from a small scale to its current state, it should have been discovered in the middle of it, and it wouldn't be left until today to figure out the situation.

Moreover, Saenz and the necromancer paid attention to them at basically the same time, which also shows that their rise time is indeed not long, but their expansion speed is extremely fast.

Reminiscent of how they dared to give drugs to Lairier before, it seems that the people behind them are really daring.

Saenz narrowed his eyes: "We need to find someone who knows alchemy to sit in front and collect information..."

"Menzel?" Li Chen replied, "He is the most suitable here for me, he is capable of fighting and alchemy."

Upon hearing Menzel's name, Seryozha muttered, "He only knows a little non-common language, and his understanding of alchemy may not be as good as mine."

In fact, Saenz would not use a black swan, or a black swan sent from a necromancer to sit in his intelligence department, and said, "Just let Sean go."

"Xiao En?" Li Chen knew that the "Witch" was proficient in alchemy and had good intelligence processing skills, but, "She said a while ago that there was so much news from the headquarters that it was about to blow up, so I'm afraid she would not want to be a frontline intelligence processing post." .”

Saenz said indifferently: "Then let her be willing to go."

Li Chen thought for a while, then suddenly laughed: "I see.

"Black Swan arranged for Clement to be mainly responsible for investigating this matter."