[The Chronicles of Narnia] Sin

"So according to the timeline of that world...you are more than ten years older than me." Edith took off her helmet and said jokingly on the sidelines of the swordsmanship training field.

"Your father was 1300 years younger than me in Narnia!" The Justice King wiped the dust off his sword. "I don't know what Aslan thinks, sending a man from the future here."

"Wait—" He suddenly realized something, and frowned. "This is equivalent to knowing in advance that I will participate in the war after 1300 years in Narnia—but how could Peter and I live so long!?"

Edith had never thought of this level, and was stunned for a while.

"No..." she recalled slowly, "my father said that you suddenly appeared one day, and you looked very young. Is it possible... that you will return to London again one day, and then the next day?" into Narnia?"

Edmund's mood was turbulent by her series of conjectures. ——Whether Edith's conjecture is true or not, knowing one's own fate in advance is not at all pleasant.Thinking of this, he stopped in time: "I think it should stop here. If it continues, I'm afraid that the unequal information will cause problems in the entire time and space."

Edith also finally realizes how daring and dangerous it is to tell those stories about the future of Narnia.Fortunately, her father didn't tell her too many details, and he didn't know much about the Pevensie family. Otherwise, once they decided to artificially change the direction of the future, the established relationship chain in the whole world might collapse at any time.

"Aslan, I seem to have made a huge mistake..." she muttered to herself.

"No, maybe he's getting old and confused." Edmund patted her on the shoulder, but his movements were a little stiff. "We just need to do what we should do, and if we come, we will be safe."

After that, he stood up from the rest chair and raised his long sword towards Edith: "Come on, next round."

Edith's swordsmanship is very strong, both among ladies and compared to all fighters.However, compared to Edmund, who was in the prime of youth, her explosive power and endurance were still a bit inferior.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of metal falling to the ground, the outcome of the second round was decided.

"I have been defeated by two people in a row recently." She picked up the sword that was pried from the hand by the King of Justice, and sighed, "——So Aslan sent me to Narnia to break my confidence .”

"It's that werewolf boy, Saknur, right?" The Justice King sheathed his sword, "He's really strong, and I'm not necessarily his opponent. ——Perhaps only Peter can fight him."

"The Intelligence Bureau has found a treasure this time." Edith laughed.

"The biggest treasure is actually right in front of my eyes." Edmund raised the corner of his mouth slyly, "Although your initial test scores were not ranked first, your interview performance was the best."

The praise of the Justice King is not easy to get.He only likes to tell the truth, and he is not as dignified and dignified as the Supreme King, as emotionally intelligent as the Gentle Queen, or as innocent and kind as the Brave Queen, who cares about the feelings of others.

Edith felt that her heart was being filled and expanded little by little.

"Maybe you're just fascinated by my story!" she teased herself.

·

Edmund told no one about Edith, not even his brothers and sisters.On the one hand, he didn't want to make Edith's identity sensitive again; on the other hand, he was indeed afraid of the consequences of predicting the future.

In the evening, Susan came to him and complained to him about the troubles of boring suitors.

"Damn it, who said that I was caught by Calormen's rude lunatics, and I was about to cry?!" The Queen's warm and beautiful voice gradually became shrill in front of the foreign guests, "Why must they think that I am I have no strength to restrain a chicken, and I urgently need a vase for my husband to protect?!"

Edmund listened to her hysterical complaints with great sympathy.His sister Wang is already 19 years old, and she is also a well-known beauty in the whole continent.The news that the Queen had been held hostage by lunatics during the war a few weeks earlier had spread around the world, stirring up the protective desires of even more hypocritical gentlemen.In fact, since she was just 16 years old, marriage proposal letters from all over the world have poured in from all directions, causing Peter, who is in charge of replying letters, to complain; From Peter to himself.

"This is not England, and I can't explain it to them." Edmund said honestly, "We can't interfere with other countries' backward governing forms and views on marriage—the only thing I can do is to come up with all kinds of messy reasons. Decline flatly and minimize the chances of them being annoying next time."

"I'm so annoyed by those kings and lords that I don't have time to read - I don't want to be that kind of woman whose mind is empty!"

"Okay, okay..." Edmund patted Susan on the back, even though he was not good at comforting people, and he still had a headache from the noise. "You can do whatever you want in Narnia. As long as your brothers sit on the Narnia throne for a day, they will never marry you off easily."

·

The Supreme King has been quite restless recently.

First, the residents of Narnia, who were dissatisfied by the state's intervention in handicraft production, needed to be appeased (a large part of them were hot-tempered black dwarves); then they discussed with many island countries to increase the export/transaction limit; finally, His unlucky younger brother Edmund also made him very worried-this little mouse didn't know what he had done behind his back, and he always kept it hidden in his conversations, and these seemed to be related to the group he started two years ago. small intelligence agency.Moreover, he got very close to the soldier from Archenland—this was completely out of line with his habit of keeping a long distance from the opposite sex.

Maybe one day I will be usurped by this ungrateful white-eyed wolf brother who will lead the queen-to-be to seek power!he thought half jokingly.

On this day, King Justice happened to come to deliver documents to him.Peter decided to seize the opportunity to test him secretly.

"I heard...you abducted Edith to your intelligence bureau?" He pretended to be absent-minded.

"...How do you know, who told you?" Who would have thought that Edmund, the shrewd and just king, would have a day when he would be "deceived by soldiers"; he couldn't believe that there was a traitor around him.But soon, he guessed the name of the person who couldn't hide the secret—"Damn it, I shouldn't have trusted Lucy!"

"Seriously," Peter looked up from the official document, and gave him a meaningful look, "My brother...is he looking for a candidate for his queen?"

King Justice blinked his eyes in doubt, but he didn't react.Five seconds later, he suddenly yelled: "Damnit! What are you thinking? Your brother is only 17 years old, and he is not the one who is always urged to marry by the people of Narnia!"

"Oh." Peter responded coldly, and continued to review the documents.

"And then?" Edmund looked very uneasy, "I think at this time, my brother should apologize to his offended brother."

The Supreme King still ignored him.

Feeling that he was making fun of himself, Edmund gave his brother a murderous look, slapped the documents on the table again and walked away.

·

Edith's first mission in the intelligence agency came earlier than she expected.

Her direct line in the bureau is called Amos, a 30-year-old experienced man who has led two scouting rookies, code-named "Silver Gun".And she's code-named herself "compass"—a clear nautical word that doesn't look like a girl's—but she likes it.

There have been rumors of a coup d'état recently in the island nation of Tribenzia in the East China Sea.According to international conventions, Narnia cannot spy or interfere in this matter; but Edmund knows that, as countries across the sea and with closely related interests, countries such as Calormene, Archenland and Narnia all It will be tacit to take the necessary steps to understand the situation in advance to prevent unexpected changes.

A team is in charge of carrying out this task, including the cedar spirit Mona and the werewolf Saknur who disguised themselves as merchant sisters and entered the palace in Mingzhong; Silk.The code names of the three of them are "Autumn Water", "Blood Moon" and "Compass".

"Autumn Water" and "Blood Moon" brought a shipment of rare flower species with high medicinal value called "Jiuyue Burn", claiming that they came from the Seven Islands, and hoped to exchange them for some treasures in the Tribinia Palace. shells and pearls.

What the two said was not entirely a lie - "September Burn" was indeed a very precious medicinal material, and it did come from the Seven Islands, but these were donated to Narnia by the islanders voluntarily, in order to thank last year's rainy season The four kings helped them survive the flood.

The siblings managed to temporarily stay in the palace. Except that the dryad Mona only drank drinks for several meals (the dryad would have abdominal pain after eating human food), but it didn't arouse too much suspicion.Edith, as an outsider, stayed in the hotel next to the castle and waited for their letter.

During the day, the two tried their best to chat with the staff in the castle, insinuating information about the king's blood relatives and important officials around him; at night, Mona turned into a tree and listened in front of the windows of various rooms in the palace.

Tribinia's throne has always been inherited by blood, but for some reason, King Legordo, who is nearly forty years old and has no brothers, has been married and has no children for ten years.He is cruel by nature and advocates ruling the country by force, which has accumulated a lot of grievances among the people.The queen was worried and lingering in bed because of her inability to give birth to a royal heir, while her younger brother, Lord Pedro, held military power and was ambitious.

The queen is the only link to maintain the tense relationship between the two. Once she dies of illness, the war between the two sides will be on the verge of breaking out.

Mona has been watching out of Lord Pedro's window for two nights.Tonight was the day when the mission team decided to take action officially. Saknur and Edith lay quietly on the roof of the Lord's attic, exchanging glances with Mona.

For two days in a row, Pedro summoned his generals and cronies.On his desk lay rolls of parchment, the exact deployment plan for a coup d'état.

The Lord closed the doors and windows as usual, and after confirming that everything was locked, he lay on the bed and tried to fall asleep.

The three continued to wait until late at night.Edith was tired from lying on the roof, and couldn't help complaining to Saknur in a low voice, but was covered by the boy who took his work very seriously.

After confirming that the other party was asleep, Mona stretched out "one hand", which was one of her many branches, and gently drilled into the gap of the window frame.

The branches moved the bolt very slowly so as not to make a noise in the silence that would wake Pedro.

At last all the bolts were drawn.

Pedro rolled over in his sleep and resumed snoring.

Mona succeeded in the first step and continued to move.She pushed the window open a gap two inches wide, just enough to allow the diameter of the parchment to pass through.

The branch spread to the desk, rolled up the deployment plan worth a thousand dollars, but accidentally touched the ink bottle next to it at the same time.

The crisp sound of glass crashing broke out without warning, and Mona was shocked, and quickly withdrew the branch from the window, staring nervously at the movement of the man inside the room.

Pedro's eyelids quivered a few times, but he didn't really wake up.The hearts of everyone hanging in their throats fell to the ground temporarily.