Hunting Game [Interstellar]

More than half an hour later, the two walked to the Crown Prince's Palace located in the northeast of the Imperial Court of Shuangyue Hall.Affected by the earlier assassination, the guards here are very strict. In addition to the royal guards stationed regularly, the military department also dispatched two marine squads to ensure the safety of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

This time even though Xifa was present, Su Shichuan was stopped by the first guard outside the palace.

The man who stepped forward to check was a man in an army uniform. The rank shown on his epaulettes was not low, as high as a lieutenant colonel.He walked over and saluted Xifa first, and then looked at Su Shichuan, asking why he visited the Crown Prince's palace.Su Shichuan showed his identity certificate and explained his intention.The lieutenant colonel carefully checked Su Shichuan's officer's certificate, and did not let him go immediately. Instead, he asked the two to wait for a while, and he quickly returned to the guard room to confirm with the person in charge of the palace whether there was a corresponding appointment.

Xifa cared about Su Shichuan's shoulder injury, and was rather dissatisfied with it. He frowned slightly and said, "This group of people really have no eyesight. I brought someone to the second brother's palace, and I have to confirm with the people inside?"

"He is also doing things for others, just following the process." Su Shichuan said, "Since the assassination of His Highness, the military has been very sensitive to related terrorist actions. The murder of a crown prince is already a secret royal scandal. If it happens again One, I'm afraid the entire top management will have to undergo a complete change."

After his words fell, Xifa gave Su Shichuan a sideways glance, and said meaningfully: "You can score people by going through the process. Is it possible that I can still murder the second brother?"

"In a sensitive period, you can't talk nonsense." Su Shichuan reminded in a low voice, after a moment of silence, he asked casually, "Xifa, His Royal Highness was assassinated for no reason back then, as his beloved brother, Didn't you have any idea?"

"I know what you mean." Xifa raised the corner of his mouth inexplicably, "but it's useless to have ideas about this kind of thing, and it's even useless to have evidence. There are only three people in the Luoyin Empire in our generation. Prince, His Royal Highness is dead, His Highness Third is incompetent, so even if the remaining one has done something, what about Father? You can’t let the empire change its name and surname, right?”

Su Shichuan immediately laughed when he heard the words: "Can't you change your position towards the Third Highness?"

"How to change?" The smile in Xifa's eyes deepened, and he leaned over to Su Shichuan's ear, "Aren't you afraid that after I change, there will be another scandal about the assassination of the prince?"

Su Shichuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood in his heart, it turned out that he knew it in his heart!

In just a few seconds, Xifa has stood up straight again, with his hands behind his back, looking down at a certain place on the ground, and said indifferently: "I told you before that I thought about that position because I was too close to it. , one step away, right in front of my eyes, it’s impossible not to think about it. But if I want to think about it, I also know that I don’t have the capital to sit.”

Su Shichuan looked at him sideways, was silent for a while, and suddenly asked seriously: "What if there is?" Xifa met his gaze in surprise when he heard that, Su Shichuan's expression remained unchanged, and continued, "We We all know that it takes a lot of time and energy to accumulate this kind of capital, and we have to pay a corresponding price. The teacher really wants to know, if there is such a day, will you sit?"

Xifa was noncommittal and did not answer.There was a smile in Su Shichuan's eyes, his attitude became weird, what he said just now seemed to be a casual joke, but also seemed to be true.

"Maybe that question is too fast, let's change it." Su Shichuan changed his words, his voice revealed obvious deep meaning, "Will you pay the corresponding price in order to get that position? For example, those who wanted to get that position back then Man, what did you do to His Highness?"

Xifa suddenly opened his eyes wide, looking at Su Shichuan in disbelief.

At this time, the lieutenant colonel who left not long ago came back, and the female bodyguard beside Cisse came back with him.

"I'm very sorry for keeping His Highness and Major General Su waiting for a long time." The lieutenant colonel bowed and retreated voluntarily.

The female bodyguard saluted the two of them, stood up straight and said respectfully: "It's so late, I didn't expect the Third Highness to come here, otherwise, I must inform the guards here in advance. If there is any negligence, I hope His Highness will not take it to heart."

"Admiral Feng Chen needs to interrogate and arrest the assassin. I happen to be free, so I sent the teacher here." Xi Fa said.

"So that's how it is." The female bodyguard smiled, raised her left arm sideways, and said, "Third Highness, Major General Su, please follow me."

After finishing speaking, the three of them entered the courtyard of the palace one at a time.

This place is much bigger than Xifa's residence. Through a long corridor in the vestibule, the female bodyguard led the two of them into the main hall and ordered the servants to prepare tea and snacks. Then she smiled apologetically to Xifa: "His Royal Highness It is to meet with Major General Su alone, and please ask the Third Highness to rest here and wait."

Xifa gave a flat "hmm", took the coat handed by Su Shichuan, turned around and followed another maid who came to lead the way and walked towards the side hall.

The female bodyguard led Su Shichuan up to the second floor of the palace, and stopped in front of a double door at the end of the corridor on the right. She said "please" and signaled Su Shichuan to enter the door. Quickly left the corridor.

Su Shichuan stared at her back for a while, until the person's back disappeared around the corner, he stood upright again, and knocked on the door in front of him.

After a while, "Please come in" came from inside, Su Shichuan breathed a sigh of relief, held the doorknob and turned it lightly, pushed the door and walked in.

This study is over a hundred square meters, with no windows, and the four walls are only vacant for the door, and the rest is filled with well-preserved paper books, which is very rare in the era of the big universe.Cisse was sitting on the large sofa in the corner of the study, with his long legs crossed, in a casual but elegant sitting posture. His evening dress was replaced, and he was only wearing the most common silk shirt, dark trousers and standard military boots. He was not formal at all. The seriousness of the summoning, instead, I was reading books to pass the waiting time.

Hearing someone enter the door, Xisai put the book in a place out of the way, looked up at Su Shichuan, and said softly: "There are no outsiders here, don't be restrained, just be casual." He raised his finger and pointed to a group of sofas next to him, " Shi Chuan, come and sit."

Su Shichuan walked slowly to the side of the sofa, bowed to Xisai, and sat down.

Xisai pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the blue eyes behind the crystal lenses smiled, looking at Su Shichuan with a slightly scrutinizing gaze, and did not rush to speak.

It was rumored that among the three princes of the Luo Yin Empire, His Highness the Second Highness was the most similar in appearance and temperament to the emperor when he was young.Cisse does have Zhang Junyi's very face, his facial features are deep and tough, his brows and eyes are full of heroism, his eyes are clear and wise, and when they look at each other, they will give people an intuitive feeling that he can understand everything, which is a typical double, smart human eye.

However, Su Shichuan has had too many intersections with these eyes, not to mention that the current Xisai is still young, far from being as sophisticated as decades later, at best he can only be regarded as a little fox still sharpening his claws.Su Shichuan had accompanied him from the crown prince to the King's Landing Empire before, and he had seen every side of Cisse, and he was familiar enough with it.

"I heard you were injured, is it alright?" Finally, Cisse spoke.

Su Shichuan said lightly: "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness, it's just an ordinary skin trauma, and it will heal within a few days."

"That's also to protect me from being injured, so I should care about it." Cisse smiled gently, "Tonight's arrangement is a secret of the military department, except for the air combat team A that directly participated in the encirclement and suppression, it is completely kept secret from other organizations Yes, so although we are able to grasp the assassin's movements thanks to you, according to the regulations, we cannot inform the action plan in advance."

Su Shichuan knew what the phrase "thanks" meant, but at this time he had to pretend that he didn't know that Aning was the Crown Prince's man, so he frowned slightly in a pretense of bewilderment, puzzled and said: "Your Highness means...? "

Cisse: "Three months ago, you arranged an additional test for the freshmen of the special tactics. There was a newcomer with good grades named Ji Yue. I don't know if Shi Chuan still has any impression?"

"I remember." Su Shichuan said, "At that time, she failed the additional test for some reasons, and then joined the Mecha Marine Corps."

"Well, it's her." Cisse nodded slowly, with a self-evident meaning in his smile.

Su Shichuan remained silent for a few seconds, then took the initiative to speak again: "That newcomer's ability is indeed good, but the subordinates and the new assistant instructor felt that her excellence did not match her background, so they paid attention to this person's background. But at that time The subordinates just arranged for the teaching assistant to investigate, but did not follow up, and did not expect to trigger tonight's action, I am negligent of duty."

"You are too modest, Shi Chuan." Cisse did not hesitate to express his appreciation, "You are so young, but you can keenly pay attention to the suspicious points of a person who has been in contact with her for less than half a day, and remind your subordinates to investigate her This kind of vigilance is very rare. If you were someone else, you might be excited about having a genius in your major? This is the inherent thinking mode of newcomers returning to school in the military. But you are different."

Su Shichuan smiled, and said, "Your Highness is absurd."

"It doesn't matter whether you are praised or not, what is important is that your vigilance saved my life." Cisse said.

Su Shichuan was slightly stunned, and his mind was spinning. This sentence was too powerful, and it had the taste of throwing bricks and attracting jade, which indicated that the opening ceremony and temptation were about to end, and the following should be the main topic of this summoning.

Sure enough, Xisai leaned back on the back of the sofa, looked up at Su Shichuan, the smile in his voice receded, and became more serious: "You should know that since the death of the emperor's brother, there is also a position for me to take over as the crown prince." It's been nearly three years. According to the usual practice, the first knight of the Luo Yin Empire should be the tutor of the emperor, but it's a pity that Rex has betrayed the country, and the vacancy of the first knight has not been found so far. "

Having said so far, Su Shichuan had already understood the meaning of the other party, his eyes could not help but move, and he felt that the original timeline was really advanced because of one of his actions.

Cisse caught the flash of surprise in his eyes, thought Su Shichuan was flattered, and then smiled reassuringly, and continued: "About a year ago, the father mentioned to me the matter of the emperor's mentor. For the matter, all the officers he nominated were officers above the level of the current admiral of the military department, but I rejected them."

Su Shichuan was well versed in conversation skills, and showed a puzzled expression at the right time.

"There are no outsiders now, so we talk behind closed doors." Cisse said, "Those officers do have enough qualifications and prestige, but because of the large age difference, I can't reach a consensus with them on many issues, and the Imperial Instructor's The responsibility is to guide in the early stage and assist in the later stage. What I need is not a senior who will dictate my decisions in the future, I hope he can have a similar vision to mine.”

"Of course, this is only secondary. The more important point is that they are all old troops from the era of the father, and they have the power to mobilize the team. However, they have no room for improvement and have become more self-willed. They The object of respect and allegiance is not me, even though I may be honored as 'His Royal Highness the Crown Prince' on the surface, but in my heart I may not really be willing to respect me as emperor."

"Shi Chuan, you are a smart person. You should understand that there is always a change of blood when the throne is changed. Only when those who are supported by me sit in their positions and take over the military power they hold, will the Luoyin Empire truly fall under my control. hand."

Listen to the similar content again in a lifetime. This time, Su Shichuan is no longer that twenty-something newcomer to the military department, no longer a brat who can be wooed and deceived by words casually. It allowed him to hear details that he hadn't noticed before, and he was really shocked by Cisse!

As soon as these words came out, Cisse's ambitions were not insignificant.

Although every new emperor would aspire to create his own dynasty, the terrible thing about Cisse lies in the "exchange of blood", that is, to rebuild after being completely overthrown.Su Shichuan was surprised by Cisse's cautiousness and suspicion. He heard his plan - he didn't want any of the old ministries who followed the old emperor to conquer the entire galaxy and laid the foundation for the Luo Yin Empire. Military power, and then replace him with a dog who is loyal to him, so that the whole empire will never question him again.

What Cisse wants is not the tutor of the emperor, but a subordinate with a beautiful background, excellent ability, and absolutely obedient.

Reminiscent of the previous life, Su Shichuan had no military rank, but he was criticized everywhere. He had been struggling with rumors and rumors for several years. Take the position of the emperor's tutor.With this kindness, in the next few decades, he did his best to do things for Cisse and eradicate those heretics who were not obedient.

He was called the Emperor Tutor, but he gradually became the sword in Xisai's hand.What Jianfeng points to is a road leading to the pinnacle of power, where the blood of the living and the bones of the dead are sacrificed.

And at the end of that road...

Su Shichuan suddenly came back to his senses, only to realize that the crossed fingers had been cold and numb.He looked at Cisse Tranze sitting opposite him again, took a deep breath, and said, "Your Highness understands what you mean, but my qualifications are too shallow, and I'm afraid I'm not qualified enough to be your emperor's tutor." .”

"I said that you are too modest." Cisse laughed, "You are the only son of the founding commander, with a unique status, even the royal father expects you to take over your father's position and become the future supreme commander of the Luo Yin Empire. Seniority doesn't mean anything, all you lack is time to prove yourself to the world, not ability."

Su Shichuan recalled his reaction back then, staring at Cisse without speaking.

Cisse has no doubt that he can convince Su Shichuan, he understands his eyes, like all talented people who lack opportunities, he is eager to prove himself.Xisai smiled leisurely, picked up the cold cup of tea in front of him, and raised his toast to Su Shichuan.

"You are the only son of the commander-in-chief, the youngest major general in the empire, and the instructor directly under the third prince. No one is more suitable for the position of the emperor's tutor." Cisse's voice seemed to be bewitching, "I will personally recommend it to the emperor, and give you the best A grand canonization ceremony. Before that, the teaching matters related to the military academy can be completely handed over to the teaching assistants, and you will stay by my side and start working for me."

"Shi Chuan, what do you think?"

Eyelashes raised, Su Shichuan's face was calm, but the bottom of his eyes contained the most genuine fear and expectation.He showed the side Cisse longed to see, stood up solemnly, gave the imperial military salute, and said respectfully, "Yes, Your Royal Highness."

He thought, on the night of the National Day, the crow was born, the unknown person was born by mistake, and he became the emperor's tutor in advance... From this moment on, the part of the historical coincidence has ended, and the butterfly flapping its wings 50 years ago is destined to Set off a tsunami for the future.

It was almost three o'clock in the morning when he left the study, Su Shichuan bid farewell to Cisse, and when he turned around, he found that he had picked up the paper book again, and had no intention of resting.

The female bodyguard waited outside the door of the study, and saw Su Shichuan came out and smiled at him deeply, saying: "Congratulations, Major General Su, I will send you out."

Su Shichuan closed the door with his hand back, turned around and followed the woman through the corridor again.

In the middle of the night, most of the lights in the palace were extinguished, leaving only the bloody moonlight shining through the windows in the entire corridor.

Su Shichuan stared down at the woman's back, stopped suddenly, and said in a low voice, "A-Ning."

The woman walking in front paused, and turned her head after a while.There was an unbelievable look of doubt on her face, her eyes looked at Su Shichuan for a moment, and when she spoke again, his voice returned to a clear male voice: "How did you see that?"

"It was you who accidentally exposed your own habits." Su Shichuan didn't mention Austin's name, nor did he say the answer directly. Instead, he raised his left hand and sorted out the buttoned regular one seemingly unintentionally. Well-formed cuffs.

Aning stared at the movements of his hands, hesitated for a few seconds, and then suddenly realized.

Su Shichuan took two steps forward and reached out to pat Aning on the shoulder, shook it lightly, and said: "Remember to write the teaching summary of the previous three months and send it to me."

Aning: "..."

Aning, who was extremely regretful and exposed his identity, couldn't laugh or cry at once. Who can explain why he can still feel the fear of being dominated by the head teacher in the crown prince's palace far away from the military academy? !

"Oh," Ah Ning said obediently, "Are you going back to school again?"

Su Shichuan shook his head and said lightly: "Your Highness asked me to stay and work for him. You are mainly responsible for the training and professional courses of the military academy, but you still have to send me the daily news summary regularly. I will fly over to supervise important exams. .”

Aning was inexplicably relieved, thinking that at least he would not be practiced frequently, and smiled: "No problem."

Su Shichuan sized him up and down, and said, "You always follow His Highness with this disguise?"

Aning looked down at the half-exposed full fake breasts, raised his head again, and the two looked at each other. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and pulled up the low-cut dress. For the convenience of His Highness."

Among all the disguise methods, as long as the technique is clever enough, transgender disguise is the least likely to reveal one's identity. With Aning like Cicelius by his side, it is self-evident that he can do anything when he is sent out.Su Shichuan knew it well and didn't say much.

A Ning was relatively calm when she was pretending to be a female bodyguard. After being recognized, she always looked at Su Shichuan with a little trepidation. Seeing that he stopped talking, she couldn't help asking: "Any other orders?"

"No," Su Shichuan said, "It's getting late, I have to go back."

"I'll see you off." Aning said.

Su Shichuan stopped him: "I don't need to trouble you, I can do it myself." After speaking, he walked around Aning and left without looking back.

Aning was also tired all night. He could have a rest after the two of them finished their conversation, but he was encouraged by Su Xingchuan in the military academy, and his identity was exposed. He panicked and went back to his room when he couldn't think about it. I went to write a report.

In the hall on the first floor of the palace, Xifa was standing next to an indoor fountain with his coat in his arms. When Su Zhanchuan went downstairs, he noticed that he was staring at the pool. When he walked in, he found that there was a very small larval merman in the pool.The little guy had iconic red pupils and long silver-white hair that was almost as long as a fish's tail. He looked very timid. He was hiding behind a rockery and looked over timidly.

"I remember that the mermaids of Canglan Star cannot do without the sea water there. If they change the environment, they will easily fester and die. How could this one be here?" Su Shichuan squatted down by the pool, dipped his fingers into the water, and pointed at the little girl. The guy beckoned.

"Second brother likes those weird species. Others give them to him to play with." Xifa put his coat on Su Zhanchuan's shoulders, seeing the little shark wanting to come over, he whispered Reminder, "Be careful, this thing was inhumane when it was a child, it looked harmless, but its blood is highly poisonous, and it even killed a maid here last month."

The little shark had a good impression of Su Zhanchuan, and swam to the pool wagging his tail. Su Zhanchuan patted his head, but he remembered the disobedient one at home, so he couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth, and wrote lightly: "It's okay. , the teacher's hand is faster than its mouth, if it dares to bite, I will directly break its neck."

Seeing him teasing the merman, Xifa found it strange, and asked in puzzlement, "Why doesn't it attack you?"

Su Shichuan felt that it should be because he had contact with Cang Xingyun not long ago, leaving the other party's smell on his body, and was mistaken for the same kind by the little guy in the pool.But I couldn't say the reason, so I just said casually: "I don't know."

Standing beside Su Shichuan, Xifa would turn into a little wolf dog protecting food, full of hostility towards all humanoid creatures that approached, of course, even half-human mermaids.The more he stared at the merman who was wagging his tail comfortably, the more unhappy he became, and finally he couldn't hold back and bent down to touch the water.

The little guy was so frightened that his scales stood up, he slid into the depths of the pool, and disappeared.

Su Shichuan was almost laughed out of anger, he stood up straight and looked at Xifa.Xifa shook off the seawater on his fingers, helped him put on the sleeves of his coat, and fastened the buttons one by one: "I'll take you back to the Commander's Mansion later, can I stay?"

"You have to listen to me if I say no." Su Shichuan said with a smile.

"There is still one week left for the holiday," His Highness continued to act obediently, "Can I stay for two more days?"

"Two days is not enough," Su Shichuan spoke out for him, "How about living until you go back to school?"

"Can?"

"can."

Xifa was stunned for a moment, he couldn't believe that Su Shichuan just let go!

However, the time of excitement was extremely short, and the next sentence of the major general was: "I promised to be your second brother's tutor, so I won't go back to the military academy after the two-month memorial ceremony is over. I'm afraid you will be lonely, so—" Before he finished speaking, Su Shichuan smiled slyly.

Xifa: "..."

His Highness the Third Highness thought unhappily, just now he said he wanted to see me grow up, why did he turn ruthless in a blink of an eye? ? ?