A strange world

Chapter 1147 Chapter 69. The bitter fruit of trust

"Even drinking tea requires a set of cumbersome etiquette rules: to pick up the teacup, you need to lift three fingers, pinch it with only your thumb and index finger, and maintain a fixed head-head posture. These are just rules for ordinary nobles. If you It’s the nobles, businessmen, commoners, and slaves who need another set of rules.”

"Isn't that formalism?" Annan said.

"What is formalism?"

Annan considered it and said: "It means not implementing the original intention and just embellish the surface."

"That's true..." Prince Aidan whispered, "The kingdom is seriously ill. If you want to cure it, you can only break all the rules and completely purify it."

"You are too extreme."

Prince Aidan looked at Annan: "Compared to the kingdom, am I really extreme?"

Annan thought for a while: "There is something more terrifying than order, and that is a society that has lost justice and rules."

When Prince Aidan showed his disappointment, Annan added: "Talking about it reminds me of a story."

"What?"

"Fast always bullies Martin. They are all your friends. On the surface, you have three choices: help Fast, be neutral, and help Martin, but in fact you only have two choices. Helping Fast and being neutral are actually both. Just sit back and watch as Martin continues to be bullied.”

After saying that, Annan shrugged: "I'm not from the Kingdom, and I don't know how bad the Kingdom is. My opinion doesn't matter. But I really don't like the fact that a farmer's son can only be a farmer."

Prince Aidan smiled again: "Interesting statement..."

"Speaking of which, do you think the attacker is related to the Kingdom of Paem?"

"I'm afraid... no." Prince Aidan's expression was full of sincerity, "The kingdom has no reason to rekindle disputes."

Annan clearly remembered that Prince Aidan said that the kingdom once fought with the elves and drove them out... But since he said so, he had no reason to doubt it.

After asking Prince Aidan some inside information about the kingdom, Annan stood up and left.

Prince Aidan sent Annan to the door, watched him walk towards his cabin, and then turned back to the cabin.

The quiet wooden house suddenly heard the voice of a second person.

"Your Highness, why don't you say it's a kingdom?"

"We are exposed," said Prince Aidan.

"How could..."

"Many people in the kingdom know that Vaughan is mine. The elves have already gone to question him. My brothers know the situation and will only do two things." Prince Aidan remembered Annan's story, "Put all the blame on me. The kingdom is innocent or refuses to admit it and arrests me secretly.”

“What if the kingdom chooses the former?”

"What you said won't happen."

Prince Aidan had already foreseen what his brothers would do: find a way out of a library full of rule books.

As long as the arrangement is completed... the kingdom will never escape the relationship, and the elves' anger will overwhelm them...

The voice continued to ask: "He killed Vaughn and ruined our plan. Why didn't you kill him..."

"I thought he was the same person as us before, but now it seems..."

"What does it look like?"

Prince Aidan shook his head and said no more: "Inform other people in the Utopia that we will meet at the hiding place No. 13."

The voice disappeared, and Prince Aidan finally forgot to look out the window.

"I hope to meet again, we won't be enemies..."

…

In the Elf Flower Garden, several Elf elders looked sulky, looking at the middle-aged man in rich clothes opposite the Magic Gate and talking: "This matter has nothing to do with the Kingdom."

"The Vaughn you mentioned is indeed a person, and he is indeed someone close to Aidan, but after investigation, we learned that he was bribed by a group of rebel forces and lurked beside Aidan. This matter has nothing to do with him or the kingdom. "

"You mean, the attack has nothing to do with you...?" Elder Ares whispered hoarsely, new and old hatreds adding up.

"The existing evidence is really not enough to explain anything." The man smiled politely: "There have been elves attacking villages in the kingdom. Are they also under orders from the Elf King's Court?"

The third prince's evasion made the elf elders look at him angrily. It's not that they haven't come into contact with humans, but the shamelessness of the humans in front of them is far beyond their imagination.

He continued to add fuel to the fire: "I implore you not to let unnecessary prejudice tarnish the supposedly harmonious relationship between the elves and the kingdom. You-"

At this time, a dull and distant voice suddenly sounded in the ears of every elf elder.

"Proper lessons need to be given to arrogant and rude humans to let them know that the dignity of elves cannot be violated..."

Another high elf elder spoke: "Ares, lead someone to capture that human prince!"

The third prince of the kingdom looked at the elf elders suddenly saluting in the void in surprise. After making this decision, he realized that something unknowable had happened.

"you--"

"Stop your nonsense, human." A moon elf elder's beautiful eyes flashed with anger, "The elves have heard enough of your hypocritical words, it's time to learn a lesson!"

…

Annan returned to the wooden house and held the doorknob. When he was about to push it open, he suddenly stopped there.

Aidan is the prince of the Kingdom of Paem, but he is too calm, as if he doesn't care that this will start a war between humans and elves...

He suddenly remembered a question that Prince Aidan asked him a few days ago: one of his friends caught an enemy who broke into his home, and he found out that the enemy was a friend of his friend. He was worried that killing the enemy would make his friend sad, and Turning against oneself...

It just happened to coincide with the time when Irelanze disappeared.

And Prince Aidan's broken artifact...

Annan let go of his hand and knocked on the door of the Skeleton King next door.

Soon the door opened, revealing the tall Skeleton King.

"Mr. Leonefa, do you know the Eye of Rudolf?" Annan asked.

"The artifact made by the demigod in the Kingdom of Paem?" As expected of the Skeleton King, he was knowledgeable and knowledgeable.

"What does it look like?"

The Skeleton King used magic to condense a scepter in the air.

Annan stretched out his hand in astonishment and covered half of it - the remaining part was the artifact of Prince Aidan that Annan had seen before.

Annan hurried to Prince Aidan's wooden house, but was still a step too late... Prince Aidan had already left, leaving only a piece of parchment on the table.

Annan picked up the parchment with wet ink.

[Annan, you are one of my few friends, and I don't want to be your enemy.

You caught Vaughn, I don't blame you, because you know nothing. I just used my intelligence and sharpness to perceive part of the truth. As for your elf friend, I'm sorry. After everything is over, I will return her to you.

Please forgive me, and accept my last advice as a friend: stay here before dawn.

If the Elf King's Court arrives here first... Get ready, executioners, the villagers of Lost Village are here for revenge. 】