Same light

That night, Alfred was turned away.

Recently, he spent the night on Xiu's bed every night.Although they all went in after Xiu fell asleep, and left before Xiu woke up in the morning, but a big living person sleeps next to him every night, even if he didn't notice it for a day, how could he notice it for several days in a row? no?

Rather than saying that Alfred left on purpose before Xiu woke up, it would be better to say that Xiu waited for him to leave every day before "waking up".

Neither of them said this subtle indulgence, but today, Xiu locked the door.

——He was deliberately avoiding the previous topic.

Even on the night he was "frivolous" by Alfred, he made a rare gaffe and asked Alfred to get out, and he didn't lock the door afterwards.What does this mean?

Alfred left Xiu's door full of thoughts.

The next day, Austin didn't see Xiu when he came to report to Alfred.

"Is the prince not here today?" He asked casually.

"In his room." Alfred said disinterestedly. "He's very strange today. He didn't come out except for dinner."

Austin didn't want to understand what was "wrong".In his opinion, as a person under house arrest, it is normal to stay in the room and not want to face the person who is under house arrest. Instead, he came over a few days ago and saw the prince sitting by the fireplace reading a book as if nothing had happened. I have to secretly admire the prince's psychological quality.

Obviously they put the prince under house arrest, but they had to go into the study to avoid the prince when they talked about things, making it as if they were the ones under the fence.

However, Alfred obviously didn't mean to explain it to him. He just said something like a complaint, and then returned to the topic: "So, the result of your preliminary investigation is that there is no special force behind the high priest."

Austin nodded and said, "Uh, if you don't count the prince...that's right."

The result fed back by the Stone family is consistent with the news fed back by Alfred's own newly formed intelligence organization.

As a "symbol" deliberately established by the royal family, the high priest will inevitably attend various activities on weekdays and have contacts with people from all walks of life. His interpersonal relationship is complicated, and it is very difficult to thoroughly investigate his real relationship network.

Today's interstellar society is a unified empire, and the biggest forces are nothing more than a few.At present, the emperor wholeheartedly supports the second prince, and Generalissimo Stone has secretly turned to the third prince. The crown prince seems to be aloof and respectful, and does not win over power. In fact, he has already formed a party with the high priest.

There are still some powerful organizations left, such as the Royal Academy with many branches, the Presbyterian Academy, scientific research institutes, and other duke and marquis clans, etc. Although they are powerful, they are still somewhat attached to the top three big clans.

Alfred really couldn't think of any other special forces that could make him afraid. If it weren't for the fact that the Stone family and the Bai family had a blood feud, he simply suspected that Xiu was implying to him that the Stone family had betrayed him, and that the High Priest got mixed up.

He involuntarily looked at Austin.

There is no doubt that the son of the generalissimo is the best among his peers, not only in ability, but also in acting skills, especially pretending to be crazy is his forte.If he hadn't won the support of the Generalissimo two years ago, Alfred would still think that this guy is an ignorant playboy who spends his days in feasting and feasting.

In the past two years, he and the family behind him have been very loyal. However, is this true?

"Your Highness?" Austin felt a little dangerous intuitively, but the question turned around, "...Is there any problem with the high priest?"

Alfred narrowed his eyes and withdrew his gaze, and said lazily, "The problem is that we can't find the problem."

Austin said: "There may be a bigger force behind the high priest. Is this information reliable? There are not many people in the entire empire who are more influential than the old man... Could it be the rebels?"

"Forget it, those trash..." Alfred narrowed his eyes and said, "As long as there are a few who can fight, we won't have to spend two full years to turn around."

There are still remnants of the rebel army, and this matter is purely fabricated by Alfred's side, mainly to attack the prince's meritorious service in destroying the rebel army.

However, Austin remembered something, and thought about it: "Your Highness, there is indeed a relevant information... The results of the dirty bombs sent for inspection in various places have not yet been released, but a second cantilever that started the inspection the soonest has just sent a report. According to the internal information of the legion, the structure of the dirty bomb does not seem to be any existing in the world, and it may have been independently developed by the rebel army."

So far today, Alfred finally cheered up a little bit, and said with some surprise: "I vaguely heard this news when I went to the second cantilever last year, and it was said that the cleaning work was very difficult because I had never seen such a structure. Is it really independent research and development? Those people have been fleeing on the border for a long time, they are all black households, and they have not been to serious school for several generations. How can they have the technical strength to independently develop such a large precision bomb?"

Technology... At the beginning of the founding of the country, wasn't it the Holy White Tower that represented the pinnacle of technology?

But Bai has always studied genes, and the current high priest also studied biology and genes when he was young. It is not in the same field as thermal weapons such as missiles. It is a bit far-fetched to say that there is a connection.

Both of them were lost in thought for a while, and after a while, Alfred pressed the outside of his ear bone to listen to a piece of news, and said to Austin: "Dinner is delivered, don't leave, just stay and eat together."

Austin did not pretend to shirk, accepted the invitation, got up and went out to let the waiter waiting at the door of the villa come in to serve dinner.

When he came back with the waiters pushing the dinner, Alfred and Xiudu were already sitting in the dining room.

Austin greeted Xiu, and waited until Xiu nodded to signal him to sit down.

His psychological quality is obviously also excellent. He had acted in front of Xiu for so long and pretended not to be familiar with Alfred. Now he has just reported information to Alfred. The three of them sat at the same table for dinner. He also behaved as usual, without the slightest embarrassment of being exposed as a lie.

Although Alfred said that the prince was "not right" today, Austin thought that the prince was normal today.

Halfway through eating, Alfred picked out Xueli dwarf spinach and threw it on the table. Xiu accused him of poor dining etiquette, and the two argued on the spot. Austin stayed by and continued eating for a while. It's not about not eating or not.

In the stiff atmosphere after the dispute between the two ended, he tried to talk about other topics to ease the embarrassment.

"Your Highness, my father asked me today when I can return to the main planet?"

Alfred said curtly, "Soon."

Obviously, he is still in a bad mood, this is just a perfunctory sentence.Both Marshal Stone and Austin believed that now was the best time to return to the center stage of power. Recently, he actually persuaded Alfred several times, both openly and secretly, but was blocked by Alfred.

But what Austin didn't expect was that Alfred didn't continue to say anything, but Xiu said, "I'm not feeling well, and I can't take the interstellar voyage for the time being."

"Are you unwell and can't sail?" Alfred asked with deep eyes.

Xiu's tone didn't fluctuate and said: "Yes."

"Then ask a doctor to come over tomorrow and have a look."

Xiu glanced at Alfred and said, "You can do whatever you want."

Alfred's expression flickered, but before Austin could distinguish clearly, he heard Alfred say to himself: "Did you hear that? The prince has not recovered and cannot sail long distances. If anyone asks when we will go back, just Reply like this."

Austin should be, something is wrong with the intuition.

It stands to reason that the prince is currently under house arrest, so he should be eager to get out of the current situation, but even the prince seems to be stalling for time.

Neither of these men wanted to go back.Why?

Meanwhile, on the main planet, a grand celebration has just come to an end.

The second prince Niente was supporting his father, the current emperor Wan Ni, as he walked towards the Holy Golden Palace.

"Father, Marshal Stone and the High Priest actually quarreled in front of you today, and the Grand Marshal almost made a move. This is really outrageous. How can you be so rude in front of you?" Nient's expression was not very good, "Besides, you have already made a conclusion about the death of the high priest's ex-wife. Isn't the marshal not convinced by your decision? You should beat him hard so that he learns to respect the royal family."

Most importantly, this was the last day of the celebration for him to obtain an honorary degree, and the two guests with the highest status actually broke up at the ceremony, and everyone would see him as a joke of the protagonist of the celebration!

He was brought up by the emperor himself since he was a child, so he didn't get angry on the spot, and he was still smiling. Now that the ceremony is underway, he really can't help it.

Hearing what he said, the emperor's face darkened, and he reprimanded: "Why do you still only see this little thing in front of you?! How many times have I told you that you are a prince, under one person, above ten thousand, born And honorable! No one dares to look down on you, don’t worry about that little face in everything! Tell me yourself, how many times have you insisted on going to Alfred to find face, but he stepped on the ground instead? !"

Nient didn't expect the emperor to be so angry, he didn't dare to vent his anger.

The emperor has been in a very unhappy mood recently, and after getting angry, he said coldly: "Now think about it carefully, and tell me again."

"The High Priest and the Grand Marshal check and balance each other...it is beneficial to us." Nient accompanied him carefully and said, "We, we shouldn't stop, and we shouldn't suppress either party too much, just like when it was found out that the High Priest abused his wife to death but concealed it. It's the same as not sending it down, and today there is no need to be too harsh on the marshal's disrespect..."

"That sounds like something." The emperor snorted, "Listen well, I will find a way to prevent those two people from coming back soon. While they are away, you'd better go to those two people as soon as possible." Walk more in front of the prince and the grand duke."