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Crouching down to look Leah in the eye, she said in a trembling voice, "Leah, why...why did you come to the capital?"
"Mr. City Lord brought me here."
Lord Edge?
In the royal capital... with my junior's ability... it's impossible for me to fool everyone with disguise magic.
Unless I use the potion that Brother Wang gave me, but the potion is a secret of the church, and I and the church are mortal enemies...
Feeling a little uneasy, Avril tried to hold back her anxiety and said, "Junior...what about Zhang Mu? Did you meet him later?"
"Brother Zhang Mu..." Leah's cat ears slowly bent down, and she looked disappointed. "He is in Bala City..."
She roughly recounted what happened after they separated.
After hearing this, Avril slowly stood up: "That's... a hope that shouldn't exist..."
She exhaled lightly and smiled a little reluctantly: "Sister has something else to do, so I'll go back first.
Leah, if... never mind."
She wanted to tell him that she was in trouble and came to find him, but then she realized that she was in danger at the moment, so she took back her words halfway through.
Looking at the woman in front of the bathroom door again, Avril lowered her head and said, "Sorry for being so rude to come into the room."
"It's okay, it's just..." Palina stared at her sad face and said with some concern, "Ma'am, you need..."
"Thank you for your kindness."
The woman, whose entire body was ice blue, even her eyes were ice blue, turned around and pushed the door open to leave.
Leah opened the door a crack and stuck her head out.
After about half a minute, he retracted, closed the door, and dragged Palina's hand to the bed in the bedroom: "The beautiful big sister is gone."
She recalled that before the city lord left this morning, he leaned over and whispered something in Leah's ear. Thinking about the woman's unusual behavior just now, she suddenly asked, "Zhang Mu? What's the city lord's name?"
"Ah..." The cat girl covered her head with her hands, "Leah didn't mean to deceive you."
"Haha." He took her hand off and rubbed his head. "This is the Lord Mayor's instruction, right?"
"Ok.
Because... because of some things, Brother Zhang Mu cannot reveal his identity now."
"Is it the rumor that there was a fight in Bala City more than half a year ago?"
"Hey, Sister Palina knows?"
"The eldest lady and the others mentioned it when they were chatting."
Just as Leia was about to say something, there was a knock on the door.
Judging from the time, it’s time for Brother Zhang Mu to come back.
She ran to open the door excitedly, and sure enough, the person she was always thinking about was standing outside.
Returning to the bedroom together, Leah said nervously, "Brother Zhang Mu, the pretty big sister is here as expected."
"Ah."
Hearing that she no longer called him "City Lord Brother", Zhang Mu knew that the senior student must have accidentally revealed his name during the conversation with Leah.
Well, it's that day already.
Moreover, Palina seldom goes out, and the hotel is now completely blocked. Except for a few individuals, no one else can get close, let alone come in.
"Zhang Muda..."
"Call me Zhang Mu." He sat down on the bed. "If there are outsiders around, just call me Zhang Mu as usual."
She nodded, and Leah immediately interrupted: "Brother Zhang Mu doesn't like people to add honorifics after his name when they call him."
"is it?
But I see Mr. Soran and the others…"
"Sauron is a conservative person, and he is used to having clear distinctions between superiors and subordinates. Domit is a military officer, and the Legion is a place where rules must be followed and cannot be arbitrary."
"As for Mi He..." Zhang Mu's mouth twitched, "He prefers to... tease."
After careful consideration, he chose a fairly euphemistic word.
"Is that so—" Palina stretched out the last syllable, as if wondering if Zhang Mu was fooling her.
Being stared at made him feel awkward, and since he was planning to discuss matters with Soran later, he stood up and walked out: "No need to wait for me, you guys should go to bed early."
When we came to the next room, the three of them were talking about the explosive news in the afternoon.
When the host arrived, Mih asked, "Did Jarvis accept the invitation?"
"I've already blocked the door, if he doesn't agree, he'll lose face."
"Then..." Domit's expression was filled with worry. "Marshal, how confident are you?"
"talk later."
Zhang Mu was vague and took the initiative to change the subject: "How is it, have the second prince's people arrived?"
"return……"
"咚咚-"
Zhang Mu raised his chin and offered a pillow just when he was sleepy. Domit understood and hurried to open the door. He soon returned with a bulging cowhide bag.
He took it, opened it, and pulled out a thick stack of rough papers covered with densely written words.
Although there was a translation on the panel and he could understand the text of the Thor continent, it was an uncommon language after all, so he let Soran look at it first and then pick out the valuable ones to read.
Soran placed a stack of papers on the bed and flipped through them one by one, putting the ones he had finished reading aside.
After about five minutes, he looked up in surprise. “The intelligence is not only about Andre, but also about the movements of all cities in the kingdom in the past three months.”
"Oh?"
Zhang Mu, who was lying on his side on the bed and waiting a little bored, suddenly sat up and said, "You are so sincere."
Perhaps knowing that Zhang Mu lacked an intelligence department and had no channels to understand the overall situation of the kingdom, the Second Prince thoughtfully sent all the detailed information.
Soran picked up a piece of paper and explained as he read it: "A month ago, after learning that the church was about to lift the ban on the use of force in the city, the city lord under His Highness Andre mobilized the army to the capital.
The city lord who supports His Royal Highness the Second Prince and His Royal Highness the Third Prince only began issuing orders yesterday."
"That is to say, the time when the two princes learned about the lifting of the ban was not much different from mine?"
"Yes, otherwise it would not have been possible to transfer the army to the capital yesterday."
It took Zhang Mu a month to get from Gul to the royal capital, which was a normal speed.
Most of the other cities were closer to the capital than Gul. Based on this, it could be inferred that the legions of Andre's city lords were probably approaching the capital.
Avril and the second prince's movements were much slower than Andre's.
There was no way around it. After all, Jarvis was on Andre's side, so he could naturally use his power to reveal the news in advance.
"Huh?" Soran stared at a piece of paper in confusion.
Zhang Mu was drawn to his voice and woke up from his thoughts: "What did you find?"
"The day after Grand Duke Blois arrived in the capital, he met with the Second Prince and disappeared."
"Leaving the capital?"
"Still there." Soran continued to look down, "His Royal Highness the Second Prince is sure that Grand Duke Blois is in the capital, but his exact whereabouts cannot be ascertained."
It is reasonable that you can't find him, after all, he is a saint-level professional.
"And then... Grand Duke Pestoya appeared around the capital half a month ago, and then disappeared."
The name sounded like a female's. Zhang Mu pondered in his heart, muttering to himself: "The two Grand Dukes are hiding in the dark... What are they planning?"
After thinking for a long time without any result, he raised his head and said, "Um, what, Tospeth?"
"Pestoya," Soran corrected expressionlessly.
"It's really hard to remember her name." Zhang Mu shook his hands and said, "She is Andre's supporter, right?"
"No." Soran lowered his head and stared at the paper. "Grand Duke Pestoya did not declare his support for His Highness Andrei, not even in secret."
After a few seconds of silence, he added, "His Royal Highness the Second Prince emphasized that this is certain."
The information provided by the second prince was far different from the investigation conducted before they came here.
Zhang Mu felt that the road ahead was shrouded in a layer of fog and he couldn't see clearly.
After thinking for a while, he asked Mih: "Can your old friend help me?"
"I don't know." He shook his head. "He is in the palace, so he may not know the news about the Grand Duke of the Kingdom."
"Let's give it a try. We have other ideas anyway."
Hearing what he said, Mih took out an ancient copper ring from the sleeve of his robe and said, "Go to the palace and find a man wearing the same ring, and then show him this ring.
He will understand everything.”
After taking the ring and putting it in his pocket, Zhang Mu stood up and said, "Let's get started as soon as possible. I'll leave now. You guys wait for me to come back."
As soon as he finished speaking, he activated the shadow technique and headed straight for the palace.
Walking on the streets at night, he thought that although the king was bedridden at the moment, there must be other saint-level professionals in the palace.
A conservative estimate is one, but the possibility of two or even more cannot be ruled out.
He had verified the Transfiguration Technique in Blovana, and it was impossible for a Saint-level professional to see through it.
Today I went to the palace to visit Mih's old friend, just in time to test the effect of the shadow spell.
Thinking of this, he quickened his pace.
…………
The palace, a luxurious bedroom.
At the back of the bedroom, there is a gorgeously shaped wooden bed.
There was a man lying on the bed, his face was covered with flaky skin, and his short hair, which was slightly longer than his ears, was tangled together like dead grass.
He was unconscious with his eyes closed, covered with a thin blanket.