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"Is he still refusing to tell?" Alfred asked in the dark underground passage.

"He doesn't deny it very much, but he just refuses to go into details, and hasn't dug up any important information for the time being." Austin said, opening the one-way mirror in the prison room for him.

Alfred looked in the one-way mirror, and Joshua was lying on the bed bored with eyes open.

The entire Bai clan does not have any special genetic abilities. The members of the family have always been thin, fair-skinned, and in poor health, which is extremely rare among nobles.After experiencing the baptism of survival crisis, the human beings with the weakest physique and adaptability have been eliminated by cruel natural selection, and those who can grab benefits in the troubled times are all strong, the most typical ones are the current royal family and Stone family.

Most human beings struggle to protect themselves in the crisis of survival, and they play the role of waiting for others to save them. Naturally, they will not get any benefits at the end of the troubled times, and the privileged class will not have their share.

Bai's is a special case.Because their ancestors were the leaders of the gene project, which successfully helped human civilization avoid the fate of annihilation. At the beginning of this era, the royal family closed the Holy White Tower, stopped the gene project, and granted the great The sacred nature of the position of priest has infinitely elevated the prestige of the high priest, making it a spiritual symbol of human beings' unyielding resistance to fate.

The ancestor of the Bai clan was too weak to undergo transformation, and he had never done experiments on himself, so he failed to leave any magical bloodline abilities to his descendants.

After being held for several days, Joshua, who was already thin, looked even more haggard.

"We'll be releasing him soon," said Alfred.

Austin said clearly: "Because His Majesty paid the remuneration in advance?"

The royal family has issued an official statement, stating that the real reason for blowing up the small planet two years ago was to prevent the rebel forces on the planet from detonating dirty bombs buried on many other planets. The Royal Legion has been working on investigation and cleanup for the next two years task, but in order not to cause panic among the public, the reputation of the little prince was temporarily sacrificed.Now that the clean-up task is over and the matter has come to an end, I hereby restore the reputation of the third prince, Alfred, and grant him the title of prince, and wait until next month's birthday banquet to officially hold the canonization ceremony.

Alfred said: "What does it matter to me that he paid the salary in advance? Of course it's not because of this. It's because we will have to set off back to the main star soon."

Austin said: "Yes, anyway, you have to catch up with your birthday party."

In fact, according to Austin's idea, they should set off immediately to return to the main planet.Joshua couldn't ask anything. Anyway, he was arrested at the beginning mainly to put pressure on the emperor, and he didn't really expect to be able to ask anything.Now that Alfred has won the title of prince and the command of the legion, he is in the limelight. He should take advantage of the situation and return to the center of power to kill the prestige of the second prince.

However, Alfred didn't seem to be in a hurry to leave.

An officer came towards them and saluted, "Your Highness, Major."

He handed over a document, Alfred nodded slightly, Austin took the document and handed it to Alfred.

These are the interrogation records of Joshua these days. Alfred has been very concerned about Joshua since he began to suspect that the high priest had some reliance that he didn't know about. He would look at the interrogation records every other day.

But Joshua seems to be very good at interrogation talk, talking a lot but hardly anything of real value.

Alfred looked carefully at the records of the last two days, and suddenly, he stopped.

Austin watched him check one of the passages repeatedly, and asked, "Your Highness, is there any question?"

"Open the door, and I'll ask him a few words myself," said Alfred.

In the detention room, Joshua sat on the edge of the bed, and Alfred casually pulled the simple wooden chair in the room and sat down.

None of the former master and servant greeted each other hypocritically, and they seemed to be tired of the two full years of flirting with each other.

"I heard that you admitted to leaking some information to the prince, including 'the third prince has started to trust you'."

Joshua never thought that Alfred would come to ask him in person, just asking such an insignificant paragraph, he was stunned for a moment, and he sneered, "This also counts as leaking information? It's you who repeatedly said that you trust me, Prince If you summon me, I will tell the truth. Third Highness, even if you want to fabricate charges, this is a bit ridiculous."

Alfred said: "By the way, you also truthfully told a lot of other things, right?"

Joshua said: "I don't know what you are referring to, the prince is only concerned about your daily life."

Alfred nodded, seeming to accept the answer, without entanglement, just started another topic: "You have been injected with a dispersant, you can't connect to the Ethernet, and you probably don't know the latest news - I have been blocked Prince, and was given temporary command of the legion."

"Congratulations, Your Royal Highness." Joshua said with a dull face.

He knew that this meant that Alfred could use the legion's resources in a fair and honest manner, as long as he ordered the legion to be tortured and interrogated... Joshua's face turned pale.

"Then, tell me, how did you report to the prince?" Alfred said, it seemed that he just accidentally interrupted the conversation, and then we got back to the topic.

"what?"

"When you report to him that you have gained my trust." Alfred reminded him tirelessly.

"At that time, I was telling the truth." Joshua said, his tone was not as relaxed as before. Fortunately, the topic was not sensitive, so he replied calmly, "I have relayed what you said to me to the prince. .”

"What did I say to you?"

"'I believe in you, Joshua,'" Joshua repeated.Alfred had indeed said this to him more than once.

Alfred immediately asked: "Are you sure, you relayed this sentence to the prince?"

Joshua became more confused and cautious, and he replied, "Yes."

"Then, what did the prince say?"

"The crown prince rewarded me for 'good job'." Joshua said cautiously, "He wants me to continue to work hard and serve you wholeheartedly."

"Good job?" Alfred repeated oddly.

Joshua interpreted this as sarcasm. Even though he knew that the other party was the prince, he could control himself, but he couldn't help but complain: "How do I know that this is a deception carefully designed by Your Highness? Your Highness is wise and wise, I am far away from you." Can't compare."

Alfred's mind was no longer on him, he nodded and stood up and said, "It's good that you know."

When Alfred returned to the villa, he corrected watching the snow in the yard.

He stood alone in the snow, the snow was not heavy today, the snowflakes fell on his black hair, and soon melted away.

The main planet is warm and habitable, and there is almost no snow, which is a rare sight for people who grew up there.

"I'm back from Joshua," said Alfred, standing behind him.

As if Xiu didn't hear it, he didn't answer.

Because Xiu's complaint angered Alfred, he gave an excuse to forcefully take away Xiu's handheld the next day. Since then, Xiu's attitude has become more and more indifferent, often ignoring Alfred's questioning. .

Alfred stopped and stood beside him, as if talking to himself.

"He told me some interesting things-in fact, you have already discovered that I was setting up a trap to deceive Joshua, but instead of reminding him, you misled him. The last lesson you taught me two years ago, It is impossible for you and me to forget that you knew that the 'belief' I told anyone was a lie, but you didn't expose me. Why? Are you dissatisfied with Joshua and are planning to lend my hand? "

Xiu turned and walked into the house, but was easily grabbed by Alfred's arm.

"It's getting late." Xiu said, "I'm going to bed."

"I even made up the reasons for you, so you can make them up." Alfred said, holding him tightly, "but you didn't. Are you trying to imply something to me?"

Xiu said calmly, "I'm not feeling well."

"You... what are you?"

"Uncomfortable." Xiu said, "Aftermath of a concussion."

Alfred said suspiciously: "The doctor said there would be no. And it's been a few days, and there are still sequelae?"

But the strength in his hand still loosened. Xiu broke free from him, turned and walked upstairs to the bedroom. Alfred followed behind him persistently. Because of Xiu's subtle attitude today, he risked asking another question. .

"You are so cautious in dealing with doctors, how did you tolerate putting a bag of your blood on me back then?"

Hugh stopped suddenly, and Alfred almost ran into him.

"Alfred." Xiu called his name after a long absence, "There is something I've been wanting to tell you for the past few days."

His tone was very solemn, and Alfred knew that he would not easily believe what he said, but he couldn't help becoming nervous.

"You said."

Xiu said: "Go to a psychiatrist. Delusions are a disease."