Indeed, Lan Wangji only nods calmly in answer to this. He has always been an observer, too, primarily by necessity; for nearly his entire life, he has stood apart from his peers, from the cultivation world, and watched silently. He notices most things, but Claudius has a much defter ability to maneuver amongst those things and pluck information that way. "Then we will make our own inquiries and observations and look for inconsistencies."