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His slender and strong fingers turned the thin piece of paper over, and then the casual smile on the crown prince's face froze.

Croto had never seen such an expression on the Crown Prince's face, his true emotions and anger were never displayed, but at this moment You Jing seemed to be holding back something, as if the ghost that had been sleeping in his stiff body had finally woken up.

Croto was afraid and hid the historical novel that recorded You Bushu's family affairs, but he immediately realized that it was not what the crown prince cared about.

The muscles on his face twitched, his teeth were clenched, and he rolled the piece of paper into his palm and kneaded it into a ball, with blue veins protruding from his forearm where the sleeves of his shirt were rolled up.

It seemed to be in extreme pain, but those dark eyes were clearly sober.

The Crown Prince calmly threw the bookmark on the ground. He walked to the ruined desk, raised his hand and opened all the drawers one by one. There was nothing valuable, and the rest were just some scattered letter papers. A few damp cigarettes, empty cartons of medicines, it was evident that the owner had given up on tidying up the abode in his last days.

You Jing didn’t need to pick up the medicine box to know what words were printed on it. Everything Yegor was used to, with his signature on the bookmark, the smell of the letter paper, the brand of cigarettes, and the special medicine for hemophilia. Medicines are produced exclusively for one person in Helian's pharmaceutical company.

Croto watched You Jing overturn the entire table expressionlessly, and for the first time a tyrant's look appeared on his face, but he just leaned over and asked in a low voice: "You said, did not find the top floor?" the prisoner?"

Croto looked into his stormy eyes and nodded almost invisibly.

"Gather the captives and verify their identities one by one, immediately!" The crown prince's tone was full of impatient fanaticism, and he hurriedly strode towards the elevator.

Croto hurriedly followed him, asking for instructions in a low voice: "What about the dead in the riot, they were supposed to be buried together this afternoon." His expression is unclear, his profile in the shadows is like a mountain.

"There will be no burial for the time being, and the bodies will be transported to the square," he said.

Croto was startled, the crown prince had strode away.

When the report from the people below came, and no suspicious person was found among the surviving prisoners, the crown prince asked again dullly as if he didn't hear clearly.

"Then check again." He asked.

……

"Since then, His Highness has personally inspected the corpses one by one in the square, and we are not allowed to intervene." Croto said helplessly.

"We can't let him go on like this. Hades has a complex staff, and it's not that there is no possibility of carrying infectious diseases." Yan Jing, the former adjutant of the commander of the river bank base and the first senior general who defected to the empire, also slowly frowned.

One of them is the humerus of the empire, and the other is the pillar of the republic. They had nothing to say at first, but they are also loyal to His Royal Highness the crown prince, so they have to stand on the same side at this moment.

His mind is not so pure, and he always thinks about his crooked subjects. For example, the immigration leader Lisko has already run away. He would rather take over the affairs of Hades than worry about the monarch going crazy here.

Croto glanced at him sideways: "Are you going to stop? Anyway, I dare not."

For the underage elector, the crown prince is his master and half of his guardian, and usually only the crown prince is in charge of him.

Yan Jing also sighed, he and You Jing are comrades-in-arms, I only hope that You Jing can still listen to what he said.

Just as he was about to bite the bullet and persuade the crown prince, one of his subordinates ran over and whispered something to him, and Yan Jingye's expression became serious.

To be precise, You Jing was not flipping, he was just looking at the rows in the square, and with just one glance, he could tell it wasn't Yegor.

Every time he looked at the past, he relaxed a little, but raised his heart to his throat before the next corpse. How long this ups and downs lasted, he no longer cares about it, but he even vaguely hoped that it would last forever.

Better than waiting for the ending.

Suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder, and the Crown Prince turned around, seeing Yan Jing's worried expression.

He doesn't know Yan Jingye, but in You Jing's diary, Yan Jing is also a dead friend, and he has already shouldered all of You Jing's obligations.Speaking of Jingye's friendship with You Jing, it can be seen from the decisive surrender of the riverside base at that time.

So he didn't get angry, but looked at Yan Jing and asked cautiously, "Xiao Jing, who are you looking for?"

This long-lost title made You Jing's eyes warm. He has never been vulnerable for a long time. The crown prince of the empire does not have this qualification, but today is different. He suppressed his tears, took a step back, avoided Yan Jingye's hand, and said coldly: "You don't need to know."

Yan Jing also paused, and then said again: "You are looking for Yegor, your secretary-general, aren't you?"

Seeing You Jing's eyes turned from astonishment to ecstasy, he grabbed Yan Jingye's wrist, only to hear Yan Jing ruthlessly shatter his fantasy: "We didn't find Yegor. But we caught two Ao Fei Si’s agents, they were ordered to bring Yegor back. Xiao Jing, he didn’t die, he just ran away.”

After the crown prince was shaken for a moment, he immediately returned to the appearance of the superior, and he said in a loud voice: "Yan Jingye, blockade Hades, and no spaceship can enter or leave. Give me every inch of land, even if this star If the planet is flattened, it must also be turned out!"

Since then, half a month has passed, and the main force under the direct control of the crown prince has never moved forward, as if determined to settle in this barren land.

The crown prince only stayed on the top floor, looking almost dejectedly at the black cedar outside the balcony, with two long legs bent on the ground casually, with one hand resting on his forehead, his posture was like a wounded falcon, and he was indifferent to his subordinates every day. There was no response to the return report.

The first one who couldn't help it was Croto. He poked Yan Jingye and said in a low voice: "The people below are about to be overwhelmed. Yan Jingye, you have to think of a way."

Yan Jing also spread her hands: "The river bank army is a regular army, and orders are prohibited. If you have no way to control, I can't do anything."

Crotor gave him a hard look: "The empire will always be loyal to the Crown Prince! But I don't care about those restless immigrants. Where did Lisko go? If he can't fix his compatriots, I can throw him away." Go back to the mining area on the border!"

"The little beauty missed me. It's an honor to be here." A lazy voice came, and Lisko waved his hands at the two loyal courtiers as a greeting, completely ignoring Croto's stare at him, and exchanged greetings. Said: "Can you two come with me to see the crown prince. I heard that he has a very temper recently, and I am a little panicked."

Crotor whispered: "You still dare to come back." As if he couldn't hear Lisko, he pushed open the door and greeted loudly: "Your Highness, I heard that you made a mess of Hades during my absence. ,Yeah?"

Croto and Yan Jing also shivered at the same time.

If Lisko doesn't want to live, don't take them to die together, okay?

You Jing slowly turned his head, his black eyes looked at Lisko coldly.He continued to grin fearlessly: "Your followers are very opinionated. They escaped from death and came to Lyra, and they risked their lives to follow you, not to die alone in the prison star. I remember that His Highness announced heroically that he would capture Orpheus, did I hear you wrong, you are actually talking about Hades?"

"Do you want to negotiate terms with me?" You Jing looked at him with non-physical eyes, "Let's talk about it."

"I am not negotiating with you. Your Highness, I understand how great your potential is, and you will be the most successful investment in my life, but those ordinary immigrant soldiers don't understand this, they have never had close contact with you I can't understand that the king will also have temporary hesitation and doubts. You must give them some signals to reassure them. I believe that the empire will regard their interests as their own, and the crown prince will not harm them because of his own selfishness. The whole immigrant group."

The crown prince pulled out a mocking smile: "What promise do you want? The empire is still poor and empty, and the immigrants just want to share the cake?"

"That's not enough, Your Highness. To put it bluntly, it's very simple. This problem can be solved with a marriage. Please betroth the Marquis of Crotone to me."

He made a salute.