Chapter 349 The plan passes!
Chapter 349 The plan passes!
"Thank you, Leon."
Looking at her daughter who had been following William and Melanie like crazy all day and whose eyelids started to twitch after she had just taken two bites of cake and whose little head was nodding, Emma lovingly held her in her arms and gently rubbed the top of little Ellie's head with her cheek.
"Ellie loves the fireworks you gave her. This is not only the happiest birthday she has ever had, but also the happiest day for me in all these years. It can be said that there are no regrets to have such a happy ending."
"It's nothing. Ellie is a very cute child and I like her very much."
Facing Emma's "goodbye" words, Leon, who had also made up his mind, did not persuade her anymore, but asked quietly with a calm expression:
"Senior Emma, are you ready? Even if you are banished to the dead world by the General Administration, you will die with him?"
"Um……"
After looking at Leon apologetically, Emma nodded slightly and said seriously:
"All my clansmen are in the realm of the dead. My father, mother, grandfather... they are all still in the City of Regret. I should have been with them six years ago. Now I am just going to a place I should have gone to long ago."
"I see... Since you have made up your mind, I won't stop you."
After looking at William, who was still trying to eat cake but kept stuffing his fork into his nose, and Melanie, who had long curled up in Anna's arms, wrinkled her nose and snored, Leon switched on the [Master of Performance], sighed in a full-on performance, and said goodbye with a gloomy look:
"Senior Emma, then... goodbye."
Looking at Lyon, whose eyes were filled with four parts of desolation, three parts of loneliness, and three parts of unspeakable regret, as if he was saying goodbye to something extremely precious forever, Emma's heart couldn't help but be gripped, and words of retention almost came out of her mouth.
But the nearly two thousand days and nights of pain and regret over the past six years, as well as the hatred that had grown sharper in the torment of remorse, had successfully pulled back her mind, turning the promise that she had almost spoken into an equally dry and low farewell.
"Goodbye."
After hearing her answer, the last bit of hope in Leon's eyes gradually faded. He hummed lightly and smiled bitterly, then stood up from the table and took Melanie from Anna's arms.
"Anna, let's go."
"Okay, I'll go get a carriage then."
After spending a whole day together, although Leon and the other man had been avoiding her when talking, the sensitive Anna had already discovered that something was wrong in the atmosphere between her eldest brother and sister Emma. In order to take care of their emotions, she took the initiative to pull William out of the cabin early.
After Emma sent her daughter back to the room and gently tucked her in, she silently sent Leon out of the cabin, then put her arms around Leon's waist and gave him a warm and soft hug. She said softly with apologetic eyes:
"I won't see you off... Leon, I... I wish I had met you earlier."
"..."
It’s not too late, at least not now!
After looking at her deeply, Leon did not answer, but waved his hand, then held the still snoring Melanie in his arms and slowly walked up the gravel path in the garden.
"Since you're awake, come down and walk by yourself."
"..."
"Stop pretending."
After walking for a while, Leon couldn't help but stop and patted Melanie's tight little buttocks, saying unhappily:
"Who would fall asleep with their legs stretched out? And your snoring is faster than your breathing? You should at least act more convincingly, right?"
"profound……"
After her disguise was exposed by Leon, Melanie, who was making faces in pain, relaxed all over, opened her big eyes, looked at Leon carefully, and then hugged Leon's neck like a spoiled child, whispering slyly:
"Brother, Aunt Emma...I mean...from now on, can we...not come to play with Sister Ellie anymore?"
You are such a naughty little thing!
Seeing his sister who obviously understood something and might even guess that Emma was saying goodbye to him "forever", Leon couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch her little nose and said unhappily:
"What are you guessing! Nothing will happen to your Aunt Emma. When you and William are not in school, you can still come over and play with Sister Ellie!"
"profound……"
After responding doubtfully, Melanie blinked her big watery eyes and asked curiously:
"So... you just..."
"Your Aunt Emma was just hugging me excitedly to thank me for helping Ellie with her birthday celebration. There's no need to say so much nonsense... Oh, by the way!"
When he said this, Leon narrowed his eyes in a "director-like" way, and then threatened in a very un-big-brother manner:
"When we get back, if Anna asks, what you just heard and saw..."
"What did you hear?"
Melanie blinked her big eyes.
"I was just dreaming. I dreamed that my elder brother bought me a new doll, and when I woke up, I was already in the carriage!"
Good guy, he actually took the opportunity to blackmail me!
After giving Melanie a look of laughter and tears for taking advantage of the situation, Leon said unhappily:
"Okay, I'll buy it for you! But there will definitely not be a next time! You really are..."
"Brother is the best~"
After smiling and kissing Leon on the cheek, Melanie, who had been playing all day, couldn't help but yawn. Then she closed her big eyes, curled up in Leon's arms like a kitten, and whispered in a dreamy voice:
"Aunt Emma is a good person, and so is sister Ellie, but big brother, you have to take care of yourself too. You still have to buy me... ha ha... a doll... huh... you have to support me in the future... don't play tricks..."
"..."
As expected, although the ability of [Master of Performance] is powerful, it is not very effective against people who are too familiar with him, and it is easy to tell that it is different from usual.
Looking at his sister who was snoring again in his arms but holding his clothes tightly with her little hands, Leon couldn't help but shook his head, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Well, big brother promises you."
……
"tatter"
"beep……"
With the sound of horse hooves and a long, shrill whistle, a horse-drawn carriage with white steam coming out of its boiler slowly stopped by the roadside.
"35 Bridge Street, Happy Apartments."
After taking out the fare that had been prepared long ago and handing it to the coachman, Leon stepped on the carriage's pedals and sent the sleeping Melanie to her seat. He then carried William, who was leaning on his legs, into the carriage, and then turned around and said apologetically:
"Anna, today I will..."
"understood."
After pulling the handle to get on the carriage and holding the sleeping Melanie on her lap, Anna interrupted Leon and said while biting her lips slightly:
"Sister Emma is a good person, but you are my only brother. You... I won't stop you from doing whatever you want, but remember to be safe." "..."
You've noticed it too...
Looking at Anna, whose eyes were half encouraging and half worrying, and then looking at Melanie who was frowning while sleeping in her arms, Leon felt warm in his heart and couldn't help but hum with some emotion.
It seems that even if the [Master of Performance] can deceive the unknown true God, to his family members who live with him day and night and are familiar with his temper and character, it will always be a poor performance that will be exposed at the slightest provocation.
"what?"
At this moment, William, who was leaning on the back of the chair, tried to open his sleepy eyes, and asked with a blank look on his face:
"What's wrong? What is Big Brother going to do?"
"..."
Well...but the prerequisite is that the family members are not really sleepy, or their emotional intelligence is obviously not up to standard.
"nothing."
After rubbing his brother's chubby head, Leon replied with a smile:
"Brother, I'm not going home today. I'm going to do something that I will regret deeply in the future if I don't do it now."
"Then I understand."
After nodding with a look of understanding, William tried to open his eyes, and said to Leon with a serious look on his face:
"Come on, big brother! I've read in The Great Emperor that a real man won't be afraid before doing something, and won't regret it after doing it!"
This is all a mess...
"Go to sleep!"
Faced with the obviously irrelevant chicken soup for the soul given by William who was extremely sleepy, Leon could not help but laugh and curse, then raised his hand to close the car door and bid farewell to his younger brother and sister.
After looking up at the sky, Leon restrained the smile on his face, walked out of Redwood Avenue, and waved to another carriage waiting on the roadside.
"Go to the Municipal District, Police Department!"
"okay!"
……
This carriage, which was also waiting at the intersection of Redwood Avenue, had already seen the Lyon family who were preparing to take a taxi, but it was a little slow and was overtaken by a van that was closer.
I originally thought that this business was hopeless, but unexpectedly, the family did not get on the car together, but left one person behind, and they were going to the faraway municipal district at night. It was indeed a pleasant surprise.
"I'm grateful for this silver wheel... Please get in the car!"
After accepting the silver wheel that Lyon paid in advance, the coachman, who unexpectedly pulled a big job before leaving get off work, chatted with a smile on his face:
"Sir, are you a public official from the Ministry of Police?"
Lyon got into the car with a light step, nodded and said:
"Well, I am."
"You're here so late...are you working overtime?"
"Yeah that's right."
"Oh, there's still a case this late at night. Your work in the police department is really hard!"
The rather talkative cabbie tilted his head slightly, glanced at the passenger behind him who had a dull expression and whose silhouette was a little blurry in the night, then deliberately turned up the small light in the carriage a little, and then continued to show the talkative nature of the "taxi driver" profession, chatting with great interest:
"Speaking of cases, the Sun recently added a special edition on unsolved cases. A female reporter named Nicole dug up all the unsolved cases in the kingdom over the years, one by one, and caused a big commotion. You didn't go back to work overtime because of her, did you?"
"Yes, that's it."
"Ahahaha, then she must have done you a lot of harm. I heard from other customers from the police department that..."
"beep……"
The sharp and long whistle sounded again, temporarily covering up the coachman's slightly noisy chatter. The steam carriage carrying Lyon left the roadside and drove towards the municipal district.
The other Leon who was left on the roadside by the carriage looked at "himself" who was sitting upright in the carriage going back to work overtime, and nodded with great satisfaction.
In order to defeat Director Taurus, the third-generation director really put in a lot of effort when creating an anomaly for himself. In addition, the material was upgraded from the fragments of the Holy Spirit to the weapons of the true God. The effect of the new main combat anomaly was comprehensively upgraded.
Compared to the [Holy Spirit Pendant] that actually uses spirit to change matter, the [Dream Invader] that uses the power of the dream world to erode reality, although it needs the help of the "dreamer" as a springboard to exert the power to erode reality, its consumption is much smaller.
When it was still the [Holy Spirit Pendant], it could only briefly turn hard stone bricks into quagmire, which almost drained its power, and it could only last for a few seconds before being modified again.
And now, he just talked to the coachman for a few words, and then paid about 1.5 points of power, and successfully used his soul as a springboard to pull out a character dream named "Leon who returned to the bureau to work overtime" from the dream world.
Although only the coachman can see clearly the existence of this "Dream Lyon" and it is just a hazy shadow in the eyes of others, it is real after all. It will even get off the car at the police department and work an entire night at the cleaning bureau. It will not disappear until the coachman wakes up the next day.
And with just a few words, "Dream Lyon" created the [Dream Invader], which not only has a concealed triggering method and consumes very little power, but also has a very long duration of effect... Even though the upper limit of lethality has been reduced, its functionality is much stronger than the [Holy Spirit Pendant] produced by Director Taurus.
As expected of the second best abnormal object blacksmith, the third-generation director is really good at what he does!
After silently giving a thumbs up to the square-headed old man in his heart, Lyon turned around with somewhat unsteady steps and walked in the opposite direction of the steam carriage, thinking carefully for a while about what to do.
After all, people can take action out of anger, but they must think before taking action. At the very least, they must understand the consequences of taking action, otherwise that would be really stupid!
Apart from anything else, if the Marquis Jinjuan, who should have died long ago, suddenly died, the General Administration's first reaction would definitely be to look for Senior Emma, and there is a high probability that they would also pay attention to themselves.
As for the [Dream Invader], which was modified from a true god weapon and had a very high status, the investigators of the General Administration would definitely not be able to detect it. After all, if they could even handle such a thing, then they would not be investigators.
Given the average level of those internal investigators, the most they could find was that the coachman's soul had suffered a slight shock, and they would definitely not be able to obtain any definite evidence.
These unclear doubts provided him with room to argue with the bureau. The "self" who left with the carriage and actually worked an overnight shift at the bureau could also help him pass the more basic lie detector tests.
If you have endured all these, then all you have to do now is to hold on.
Relying on the trust of the director and Taurus director, as well as the great contribution of exposing the Aquarius conspiracy and saving the Watchtower Palace, I now have a "halo" protecting me. If there is no definite evidence, but only some doubts, it is unlikely that anyone will hold on to me.
And if there are still people who insist on fighting to the death at this time, then I will find a reason to bite back, and then drag him down to have his brain licked by the God-level Brain-Eating Demon!
As for finding a reason... isn't this already available?
Anyone who dares to doubt that I did it is a spy who accepted bribes from Director Aquarius and tried to help him persecute the heroes!
The plan goes through!
(End of this chapter)