Merit Book·Xinghai

Lance suddenly laughed, and murmured: "As expected, he is not dead?"

Leopold frowned, "What did you say?"

Lance glanced at him. The general was born with a poker face of uncommon integrity, and from that face, you could never tell whether he was telling the truth or playing dumb.Although General Leopold was famous for his honesty and straightforwardness, but... who knows?If it were such a simple person, he would not have climbed to the position he is today.

But Lance didn't need his answer, because he already had the answer in his heart.A person like him never fully believes what other people say, he only trusts his own judgment.

He poured himself another glass of wine and said with a smile, "Your Majesty... where is Selinda?"

"Your Majesty is naturally where she wants to go." Leopold said.

Knowing that Selinda would not come, although it was expected, Lance still felt a little regretful, he sighed: "Selinda... I watched her grow up, and persuaded the organization to choose to push her to become the queen, I thought I know her well enough, but today, she really gave me a surprise." He shook his head slightly, and said: "Perhaps Selinda's ability, prestige, wisdom, and accomplishment of being an emperor are not as good as the former emperor's." , but it doesn't matter, her luck is good enough."

Lance thought for a while, then he laughed and sighed: "The previous generations of emperors have suffered for a lifetime, just because my girl met a strong enough person, and then this person is willing to help her, all the problems will be solved. It's true. This is really..." He paused, not thinking how to describe the complicated emotions in his heart at this moment, so he shook his head, swirled his wine glass, took a sip, and skipped the rest of the words.

Leopold stood by the door with his hands behind his back, neither speaking nor showing any expression, as if he hadn't heard Lance at all.

"General, please tell Serinda for me." Lance looked into Leopold's eyes and whispered, "Lance has never been sorry to Serinda in his life."

Leopold sneered, showing his attitude.

Lance ignored him, his eyes were slightly distracted, staring at a certain point in the void, as if he regarded it as Selinda, and whispered: "I welcomed your birth, taught you to speak, taught you to walk, I used to hold your hand to write stroke by stroke, I once secretly repaired the boy who pursued you...I never thought that I would care about a person so much-I dare not let her get hurt, dare not let her She was disappointed and did not dare to let her encounter any setbacks... Your tears are my greatest weakness... I have hesitated for a long time whether to push you to that position, I know, your heart is too soft, It's not suitable to be an emperor, but you can only choose your own life if you ascend to the most honorable position... Serinda, my Serinda, I love you like my daughter. But, I'm sorry... Lan Uncle Si...can't accompany you any longer..."

Seeing that something was wrong with him, a soldier looked at Leopold and asked in a low voice, "General?"

Leopold shook his head, and the soldier continued to stare straight ahead like a statue, motionless.

Lance's eyes widened suddenly, and he stared at Leopold fiercely, and said sharply: "Warning Your Majesty, please stay away from this man, his heart is treacherous, unfathomable, unbelievable! For Your Majesty, for the Empire, if If you have a chance to win it, you must kill it to avoid future troubles!"

Hearing this, Leopold raised his eyebrows and was about to speak when there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him.He looked back and saw two soldiers approaching with a strange, semicircular object in their hands. When they saw Leopold, they were about to salute, but Leopold waved his hand to stop them.He moved away from the door and watched the two scan the door with their objects, and a few faint lines appeared in the air, shining with a faint red light.The two pointed one end of the machine at these lines, but after a while, the red line broke into countless pieces. Because it was so small, it looked like some red lights were scattered in the sky, slowly falling to the ground.

As soon as the red line disappeared, several soldiers rushed forward to take Lance down. Before they got close, they heard a muffled sound of "boom", and the wine glass in Lance's hand suddenly fell, and the light yellow liquid was soaked. Carpet, leaving a dark stain.

Several people froze for a moment, and the person closest to him stretched out his hand, only to find that Lance, who had half-closed his eyes, was dead.

Everyone looked at Leopold together.

Leopold said: "The royal steward, Lance, knew that his crime had been exposed, and when we arrived, he committed suicide in fear of crime!"

The soldiers froze.

Leopold swept his eyes, and everyone hurriedly said: "Yes!"

Although Lance is dead, everyone still has many tasks to do, such as searching the room, collecting evidence, etc. It is said that only Lance knows his or her true identity as the biggest boss of the mysterious organization. Once Lance dies, they can only Trying to see if I can find some clues from Lance's personal belongings.

When everyone was busy, Leopold walked up to the man who was sitting on the sofa with his head bowed as if he was still alive, looked down at him, snorted coldly, and said: "I don't believe in the man who saved the empire and His Majesty, Do you want to believe you moths of the empire? Because he is strong, so he should die? Ridiculous!"

He turned to leave, but suddenly remembered something, paused, turned to face the corpse and said: "Although your majesty is young, but his heart is firm, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, if you think that you can disturb her judgment by saying specious things before you die If you want to interfere with her thoughts, then you are wrong! Besides, I will not convey a word for you, take your 'heartfelt words', go to hell! Bah!"

He spat, seeing that some soldiers were stunned by this vulgar behavior, he gave him a hard look, turned around and strode away.

Behind him, Lance's body tilted and fell on the sofa, the corners of his lips still curled up in a stiff arc, as if he was laughing at something.

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When Lance's body was also carried away, only two soldiers were left in the room to do the finishing touches.Soldier A suddenly said: "Hey, I suddenly remembered, when the main entrance was not allowed to go, why didn't we break through the wall and enter?"

Soldier B snorted and said, "You are the only one who is smart!"

Soldier A: "Huh?" It sounded like he was praising him, but why did the tone feel so strange?

Soldier B said: "What the general says, we will do! Remember, we are a group of weapons with no brains! What do you think so much?"

Soldier A felt wronged and said, "But I've grown up!"

Soldier B sighed, "As a Lantian, I really have wronged you."

"What do you mean?" Soldier A scratched his head and asked.

Soldier B shouted angrily, "You idiot, shut up!"

Soldier A: "..."

——Because I was too surprised, I couldn't care less about being angry.

After tidying up in silence for a while, Soldier A was about to speak again when he was pulled down by Soldier B. He looked up, was startled, and hurriedly bowed and stepped back.

The long skirt hangs down on the ground, and the light blue fabric reflects soft pearls under the light, and the changing depths of blue are like a flowing river.

Queen Selinda came to this room quietly without notifying anyone.At this time, most of the things in the room had been removed, and it looked empty and desolate.Selinda stood silently. Although she did not speak or shed tears, she was surrounded by a sadness and loneliness that could not be ignored.Two soldiers stood aside with bowed heads, holding their breath, trying to pretend they didn't exist.

"Go out, I'll be alone for a while." Sailinda said.

"Yes."

After the two exited, they turned around and closed the door.They looked at each other and stood on both sides of the door, acting as the queen's guard temporarily.

Half an hour later, the queen came out of the room.Soldier A boldly took a peek at her, and there was no trace of crying, but her eyes became more gloomy, and she seemed to have grown up all of a sudden.

"Uncle Lance..." The queen paused and said, "What did Lance say before he died?"

Cold sweat burst out from the foreheads of the two of them.

After hesitating for a moment, Soldier B said: "Your Majesty, Lance...knowing that his crime was exposed, he committed suicide in fear of crime!"

"Didn't you say a word?" The queen asked softly.

Soldier B's lips trembled slightly, and the huge pressure seemed to materialize on his shoulders, and he couldn't utter the word "no".

"Ok?"

The two of them trembled, half kneeling on the ground, and bowed their heads without answering.

The Empress sighed and said, "Are you going to lie to me too?" Her voice was soft, but this accusation was more serious than anything else.

Soldier A lowered his head a little, and his fingers pressed tightly to the ground.

There was a rustling sound of skirts dragging the floor, and the Queen walked up to Soldier A and said, "Raise your head and answer my question."

Soldier A raised his head, not daring to look at the Queen's face, but only stared at an embroidered flower on her skirt, and said in a low voice, "Lance...he said..."

He stammered and repeated what Lance had said before he died, and when he saw Second Soldier sneaking behind the Queen and trying to kill him with his eyes, he shuddered, and to redeem himself, he repeated the last words of General Leopold Also repeated.His memory ability is very strong, after such a long time, he has not remembered a single word wrongly, and even the pause in the tone of the two of them is almost perfectly reproduced.

Selinda listened silently, her face was as pale as if transparent, but she didn't say a word.