Same light

It was our turn to turn up the opponent's cards—and it was only then that Austin realized what this sentence meant.

It turned out that tonight's highlight had just begun, and he picked up his wine glass in a leisurely manner, quietly waiting to see the development of the situation.

Joshua's already pale face became even more unhealthy. He forced a smile and said, "Your Highness...Your Highness is joking. Mrs. Bai has always been loyal to..."

Alfred didn't seem interested in listening to his defense at all, he stood up and said, "Austin, call someone to take him away."

His attitude was so indifferent, not only Joshua was a little stunned, but even Austin paused for two seconds, and then sent a signal with the handheld, and a team on duty nearby rushed in with full armor.

"Your Highness!" Seeing that Alfred was about to leave, Joshua shouted with an ugly face, "I am the only son of the High Priest, the next High Priest of the Empire! Do you want to imprison me for no reason?"

He thought that Alfred would be furious, and he had already prepared himself psychologically in a very short time just now, but he didn't expect Alfred to say a light word and was about to leave, as if he hadn't carefully planned to catch him for a long time. Instead of finding a spy, he brushed the dust from the corner of his clothes casually.

As the first in line heir of the high priest, he has always been highly praised in his more than 20 years of life. Even if he was exiled with the little prince, he was also highly praised. How has he ever suffered such neglect?

"Thanks for reminding me that you are the son of the high priest." Alfred stopped in his tracks, and said as if he had suddenly realized, then turned his head and told Austin, "Remember to give him a dispersant."

In today's society, no one is completely "original". Most people will have a "time display agent" in their arms that is convenient for checking the time, and a "microphone" in their ears. Various sensor devices that are implanted and linked with the handheld.

People with conditions will also accept more types of more intensive transformation. The function of the dispersant is to temporarily make the body reject these acquired transformation functions. Generally speaking, it is injected into criminals who have just been detained to prevent them from having any unexpected special effects. Function.

The dispersing agent is one of Bai's research results, and it is ironic that it should be used on the descendants of Bai's direct line.

Austin was obviously more than happy to do such a thing, and immediately signaled to his men to inject.

Two soldiers restrained Joshua from left to right. Joshua was a thin and ordinary person, so naturally he was no match for the soldiers. Although he was suppressed in terms of strength, he did not show timidity. With less arrogance in front of others, he shouted loudly: "Third Highness, wait... Let go, don't touch me! How dare you arrest me?! Don't you know how honorable I am? I am the High Priest son!"

Alfred lazily said, "So what? I'm still the emperor's son."

Joshua was speechless for a moment.

Austin said disdainfully: "If that old thing in your family hadn't tortured my great aunt to death back then, you wouldn't be the next high priest at all. What do you think you are?"

"Major, watch your words, you dare to slander the high priest with empty words." Joshua said gloomily, "Your Majesty has already concluded this matter. Your aunt, my father's ex-wife, died of illness."

Austin said: "Did your father tell you this in private? Then his shamelessness is beyond my estimation, and his own son lied."

Joshua was about to refute again, but Alfred said impatiently, "Are you guys going to argue in my house until dawn?"

Austin immediately apologized to Alfred, and waved for the soldiers to take him down.

After the people left, Alfred said to Austin: "The prince's palace caught fire in the middle of the night. I'm going to visit the prince. You don't have to follow."

After arguing with Joshua just now, Austin is obviously not in the mood to act in front of the prince at the moment, so he quickly said, "I'll go and interrogate that man for you."

As he spoke, he couldn't wait to leave, but was stopped by Alfred.

"Remember what you promised me on the balcony just now?"

Austin was taken aback, and quickly recalled it. Just as he was not sure what Alfred was referring to, Alfred continued by himself.

"Abandon the old grievances." Alfred looked into his eyes and said, "You are doing something for me, so your task is to dig out what I want from him, other things, without affecting the task Under the circumstances, you can figure it out yourself. But there is one thing. The Bai clan made great contributions to saving the world when the country was founded, and they are the spiritual pillar of the entire empire. We must bring the son of the high priest back to the main star intact. Don’t make it difficult for me, Austin, you understand ?"

Austin bowed his head deeply, and assured him: "Yes, Your Highness. But...the high priest has a special status. We imprison him for no reason now, and there will indeed be troubles later..."

Alfred said: "It won't be too long. We will all return to the main planet in a short time, but we are just waiting for something to happen."

Austin asked blankly, "Waiting for something to happen?"

"Besides, how could it be for no reason." Alfred didn't answer the question, and continued, "Didn't he blow up the prince's palace? My brother-in-law was eager to take down the suspect. Even if he was a little reckless, others can say What am I?"

"Can you push this on him?" Austin asked thoughtfully, "What if you ordered his confession?"

Alfred asked back: "What evidence is there? I just said one sentence from the beginning to the end. Who can prove that I said that sentence? If he clung to me, it happened to be another one. The charge of 'slandering the prince' - he wouldn't have said it if he wasn't stupid enough."

Austin has also figured it out back and forth, and he said: "Half a month ago, when the prince just landed, the inner ghost in the 'Mirror' Legion we caught confessed that he told you that you had a girlfriend. The high price was passed on to a thin man wearing a cloak... Did you identify Bai's problem based on the interrogation report at that time?"

"It's just more certain." Alfred said, "I have endured him for two years, and I finally endured it to the end."

"Wait, you knew he was the prince's man two years ago?" Austin asked in surprise.

"Your father also knows." Alfred said, seeing Austin's expression becoming more and more shocked, he patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, "Don't be sad, we didn't deliberately hide it from you, you see I called you Come to the scene to watch the play. Previously, forbearance and reluctance are conducive to secret arrangements and to seize the upper hand. After all, we are at a disadvantage in the early stage. If we don’t have any cards that we can draw, how can we be so smooth now?”

When he said this, he frowned slightly, and the feeling of "too smooth" came again.

Austin didn't know what he was thinking, and followed his words: "Indeed, His Highness's word-of-mouth among the people is retaliating, and everyone is urging the Holy Golden Palace to respond and reward His Highness. So many days have passed, I don't know Did Shengjin Palace make a decision... It's a pity, the crown prince must have avoided it this time, if he gets injured, it will be beneficial to us."

Once the crown prince was injured and unable to move, many things became much more logical. What's even better, this matter was handled by Joshua alone from the beginning to the end.

However, the prince "coincidentally" is not in the palace, if he is safe and sound, then there is nothing to do.

Alfred affirmed: "Indeed. However, I didn't expect this at first. It would be nice to have an excuse to detain Joshua to put pressure on the Holy Golden Palace, and take something out of his mouth by the way. This is a good thing that kills several birds with one arrow. Alright, let’s go to work, I’m going to act too.”

What Alfred didn't expect was that when he arrived on the scene, the shock almost didn't need to be acted out.

"Say it again, what?" He seemed unacceptable to ask.

They were in front of a vacation villa that was urgently requisitioned next to the palace, and the prince was resting in the bedroom on the second floor.

The assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Snow Voice News Agency said again: "Third Highness, the prince's arm was dislocated and his slight concussion was caused by a fall. Fortunately, all the people in the palace accompanied the prince to enjoy the sight in the courtyard. Xue Jing, who was impacted by the aftermath of the explosion, only suffered minor injuries of varying degrees, and no one was killed..."

Alfred was silent for a few seconds, and when the assistant to the chief editor became uneasy, he said with a normal expression: "So, there is no one available around the prince?"

The editor's assistant said cautiously: "From the news on the front line, it is so, Your Highness."

"Understood, you go. Bring it to your editor-in-chief for me, and the report will be published normally." Alfred said.

The assistant to the editor-in-chief got his instructions, saluted and left.

The local sheriff is also guarding here, and he came forward to talk to Alfred. Alfred also called a team of personal guards he brought to him, and ordered: "From now on, the security bureau Everyone has evacuated, and I will take over the villa myself. My brother is injured, and I should be close to the sick. The prince is injured like this. No entry, no exit."

The people in front of him all bowed in response, scattered in all directions, and the security and medical staff in the building were all withdrawn one by one.

After the scene was cleared, Alfred walked up to the second floor alone. The noise outside the window had not dissipated, but the second floor was quiet.

He pushed open the door and sat on the bed half covered with a thick quilt.His right arm had already been reset by the doctor, and now it was medicated, and the joints were covered with snow-white bandages.

But it must have hurt, too, because his face was pale and sickly.The cold starlight shone in from the window and surrounded Xiu's body, making Alfred feel somewhat illusory and unreal.

This person has always been radiant since he was born, but the light that enveloped him tonight is so cold and pale.

They stared at each other for a moment in the cold starry night of Xuelixing, but neither of them spoke.