Kingdom’s Bloodline Chapter 165: Conflict

On the morning of the third day of the Emerald Celebration, Thales pushed aside the obstructing servants and brutally broke into Zhan En's dining room.

"Your Highness Thales," the Duke of South Bank, who was sitting at the head of the table, put down the cutlery, wiped the corners of his mouth gracefully, and signaled the servants with their eyes not to panic, just close the door and leave, "I'm still wondering when you will come Looking for me..."

But Thales looked at him coldly. "Explain."

"Explain what?" Zhan En still smiled.

Thales carefully observed the Duke's every move.

"Last night, one of my subordinates died," the prince was full of anger, "he was so seriously injured that he couldn't even call for a doctor in time."

Jen En's smile disappeared, and his hand holding the wine glass paused slightly.

"And you, Jann Cavendir, you have to pay the price for it," Thales' eyes were like knives, and he gritted his teeth, "I swear, I will use the little puppet in the name of Fort Star Lake."

"Impossible."

Duke Iris thought for a moment, then answered with a frown:

"Your group of ten people, including the heirs of Arend and Bozdov, as well as the captain of your personal guard, they returned to Kongming Palace in batches last night. There must be a complete tail, and there is absolutely no one who is seriously injured! Even if there is an unknown hidden injury, it is not..."

Zhan En's eyes moved, but his words froze.

"Wait, are you lying to me?"

Thales raised his eyebrows, walked over to Jann's head, pulled out a chair and sat down.

"So you really know, from the beginning to the end," the prince snorted coldly, "from when I sent my men to when they returned to Kongming Palace."

Jen En turned cold.

"I was about to talk about this," the Duke of South Bank said indifferently, "We encountered an accident yesterday, but it has been handled safely, efficiently, and properly..."

"No, you didn't," Thales interrupted him coldly, "You still have one thing to deal with."

Jen stopped talking.

Thales leaned forward, put his arms on the table: "Me."

The dining room became quiet again.

Across the dining table, the eyes of the two met in the air, like two swordsmen standing on the dueling platform and slowly drawing their swords.

The atmosphere became tense.

The next second, the door of the dining room was pushed open, and both of them were shocked!

A 'man' with a pale green complexion and a neck swollen like a gourd staggered in, his facial features hung sparsely on his face, as if melting, disgusting and terrifying.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......" He made a gurgling sound from his throat, like bubbling.

Thales clasped the arm of the chair tightly, with a stiff face, at least he did not lose his composure.

"Hee Lai," Zhan En calmly took a sip of his wine without changing his expression, "We're talking about business."

"Hey."

A disappointed voice came from behind this 'person'.

The monster's face was shriveled, and Xi Lai's sweaty face "drilled" out of it, still in the same casual dress:

"The new handicraft is based on the legend of the water ghoul in the canal area. Does it look good?"

Water ghoul...

Thales exhaled, looked at the swollen face with melting features, and exchanged glances with Zhan En who was frowning behind the dining table.

"Very beautiful, ma'am, a genius idea," the butler Ashford followed her with a smile on his face, "May I suggest that you pour some water on it to create a wet effect?"

Hile's eyes lit up when he heard the words:

"It makes sense, no wonder I feel that something is missing, if pus can ooze from the facial features while walking, tick-tick, with footprints and sound and light effects, it will be even better, and then choose a name ..."

"Ashford!" Jen couldn't bear it anymore.

In the next second, the water ghoul was instantly transferred from Xi Lai's hands to the housekeeper's.

"I'm going to process it right now, miss," Ashford turned and left, closing the door smoothly, his movements were coherent and in one go, "don't worry."

The door closed, leaving the three of them in the dining room, staring wide-eyed.

"Why do you always like to play ghosts?" Thales frowned.

"Because everyone likes it," Xi Lai stepped forward, looked at the prince, then at her brother, with an innocent face, "Look, don't you guys like it too?"

Thales and Jann looked at each other.

As old rivals and old enemies, they have long been accustomed to the tit-for-tat relationship and the tense atmosphere, but suddenly there is a third party in front of them, whether it is the Duke of Xinghu or the owner of Iris, they seem uncomfortable.

"What are you doing here, Hilley?" Jen asked their common question.

Under the complicated gazes of the prince and the duke, Miss Kevin Dill sat down at the dining table without any burden, just on the other side of Jann, directly opposite Thales, and wrapped her napkin happily , unceremoniously picked up the spare knife and fork on the table.

"Get up early, find something to eat. By the way, come and ask Thales, when are you going on a date today?"

As soon as this remark came out, Thales and Zhan Enqiqi froze.

What?

"He's here to see the fiancée candidates, isn't he? Or am I making a mistake?" Hille replied very naturally.

Thales and Zhan En met eyes, one was embarrassed, the other was cold.

They exchanged countless emotions and information in a short period of time, and finally reached a rare agreement:

Not now.

The two swordsmen on the dueling platform put their swords back into their sheaths.

"Hey Lai, pay attention to the address, it's 'Prince Thales' or 'Your Highness'." Zhan En's face was so cold that it was about to drip, "Don't be rude."

"That's right, Ms. Xikai Wendier," Thales nodded with difficulty, "We're not that familiar yet."

Hilley shook her head with a click:

"Ha, you didn't say that when you were on the roof of the temple yesterday."

Roof...

Jane's eyes became more and more terrifying, like a butcher sharpening his knife.

Feeling the terrifying atmosphere, Thales took a deep breath and got up from his seat:

"It's late today, ma'am, I think it's time for me to leave..."

Jen also put down his glass on the other side: "Yes, we just finished talking..."

But Hilley's next sentence made a difference:

"By the way, Jen, I just heard from Police Officer Kaguire that there was a murder in Dianjin District yesterday?"

Murder in the Dianjin District.

After saying this, Thales and Zhan En both frowned.

Their eyes met in the air.

As if the duel had just stopped, the drum of war sounded again.

But Xi Lai at the center of the duel just looked at the table full of food without realizing it:

"I heard that the person who died was a businessman? What's the matter, has something happened?"

Diop.

Thales frowned deeply as he remembered the name of the deceased.

Looking at Thales, Jen En said calmly: "No, it's just an ordinary..."

But before he finished speaking, Thales interrupted him.

"Actually, I also heard from my subordinates," Thales sat down on the chair again, his eyes burning, "Yesterday both the Security Office and the Emerald Legion dispatched a large number of people, causing panic. Is this murder related?"

Zhan En's eyes turned cold when he heard this.

"Wow, is that true?" Xi Lai thoughtfully pawing at the dessert.

Jen En and Thales looked at each other for a long time, and then glanced at his sister.

"Listen to your subordinates?"

The Duke of South Bank picked up his wine glass again, and observed Thales' distorted face through the glass: "I wonder which subordinate your Highness heard from?"

This time, the two swordsmen no longer put their swords back into their sheaths.

"I have a subordinate named Huaiya," Thales naturally picked up an empty cup, and took the opportunity to get a water bottle containing clear spring water from Tai Lunbang, "he said that when he was wandering in the street, From a distance, I saw a large number of police officers and military officers cordoning off the block and searching for criminals.”

"As far as I know," Zhan En's eyes sharpened, and he pressed the lid of the Qingquan drink pot to prevent Thales from taking it away, "Aide Wyatt Casso has been with you since noon yesterday How did you hang around in the street?"

"You don't know about that," Thales sneered, grabbing the handle of the pot, and wrestling with Zhan En, "Many of my subordinates are called Huai Ya."

"Which Wyah is that?"

"The one you don't know..."

"Hey!"

Xilai finally couldn't bear it anymore, she bit the teaspoon and pointed to the kettle between the two:

"Can you stop grabbing it? That jug is empty."

Thales and Zhan En looked at each other, and both let go in embarrassment and discomfort.

Healy smiled now,

I saw Miss Kevin Dill stretch out her hand gracefully, took the kettle away, then tilted the spout freely, and poured herself a full cup of clear spring drink.

Thales and Zhan En were startled, their eyes were strange.

"Oh, so there are more," Xi Lai shook the kettle with a look of surprise, "There are quite a lot of them."

The prince and the duke looked at each other and let out a breath.

The conversation was interrupted, but the mood in the room was a little better.

Jane glanced at Hille again:

"That's right, yesterday, a police officer in Dianjin District received a report from enthusiastic citizens, saying that there were strangers coming and going in and out of a private mansion, and the appearance was suspicious."

Thales smiled sarcastically: "An enthusiastic citizen? Which enthusiastic citizen?"

Jen moved his fingers. "The citizens of Emerald City are enthusiastic."

"Especially the Duke himself?"

"It's no more righteous than His Royal Highness..."

"Don't digress, what then?" Hilley interrupted them.

The Duke of Iris sneered: "Then, the Police Department and the Emerald Legion jointly dispatched, and finally discovered that a wool merchant and his mistress were both killed in the mansion. The death was horrific and outrageous."

There was a moment of silence in the dining room.

Xilai took a sip of the spring water and stared wide-eyed:

"Wow, that's really scary."

Thales' complexion remained unchanged, and a pair of eyes were nailed to Zhan En's body:

"So, has the murderer been caught?"

"Of course," Zhan En's expression was calm and unwavering, "The Security Office and the Emerald Legion were in place quickly and efficiently, and the suspect was arrested on the spot."

Thales stared:

"Suspect?"

Jane stared at Thales and smiled: "Lord Bedren was found drunk in a block not far away, holding a **** murder weapon in his hand, and he couldn't tell who he was when he woke up. How come."

Thales frowned.

"Lord Bedrun?" Hilley rolled his eyes, "Oh, the family whose ancestors were barons, but was punished for oppressing the people?"

Jen nodded, firmly:

"It's him."

Thales was silent for a while:

"Why? A drunk man, why did he break into the house and kill a wool merchant?"

Duke Iris was silent for a moment.

"According to the police officer's investigation, the debt owed by Lord Bedren is about to expire, and the debt belongs to the Wool Chamber of Commerce."

"That doesn't seem like a good reason?"

"Yesterday, some citizens saw him looking for creditors everywhere. Maybe he became angry and took risks while drunk..."

In other words, Diop's death has become a case of indignant homicide under a debt dispute.

Thales clenched his fists.

Of course, the voice in his heart sneered: This is his usual method, isn't it?

From Moss to Diop.

Who is next?

"Dear Jann," the prince said suddenly, his tone tightened, "Are you sure?"

Jen frowned, and Hille also raised his head.

"Are you sure, the perpetrator is really that Lord Bedren?"

The Duke of Xinghu's voice was extremely soft, but his words seemed to have some kind of power, which made people hesitate.

Jen didn't answer, he just stared at his glass.

Hile looked at his brother, and then Thales.

"Speaking of which, Prince Thales."

The next second, Duke Iris spoke slowly, his tone was gentle, and he had a completely different feeling from the prince:

"I remembered. I heard from Ashford just now that many of your subordinates, such as the Wyah I don't know, were 'hanging out' in the city yesterday and only came back at night. There are still people injured."

Thales frowned fiercely.

Jen En looked at Thales with cold eyes:

"Did they just pass by the scene of the crime, do they have any clues to solve the case?"

Just passing by the scene of the crime...

The atmosphere between the prince and the duke became cold again.

"Oh?"

Hile's eyes lit up: "Really? Did they see the murderer?"

Thales and Zhan En looked at each other silently.

"No, in fact, they went to the countryside to do as the Romans did. They lost their composure while having fun with the people in the city. They somehow got into a fight with someone and were injured and died," Thales lowered his head with a cold tone. "It's funny, isn't it?"

Jane smiled.

"Where, the Emerald City is full of fish and dragons now, especially those foreigners with complicated backgrounds, always looking for trouble and causing troubles that shouldn't be caused," the Duke said lightly, "Prince Thales, your people are walking outside, Be more careful."

Thales sneered.

"They will be careful. After all, not everyone has a special status and significance like that wool merchant, so they can work for Duke Jann to personally intervene in the case?"

"Every citizen and guest of the Emerald City, no matter what their status or significance, their safety, freedom, and rights are under the protection of the Emerald City and under my protection," said Zhan En Don't change your color, "Don't allow Xiaoxiao with ulterior motives to get involved in infringement."

"It's really a blessing for Emerald City to have a ruler like you. The murdered businessman must be able to laugh at the prison river." Thales sarcastically.

"Thanks to His Majesty Kessel's ability to govern the country, we can enjoy peace in a remote country like ours."

"My father will be very happy if he knows your loyalty."

"Your Majesty and His Majesty are as happy as father and son."

Hile looked to the left and then to the right, showing an intriguing expression in the tit-for-tat battle between Thales and Jann:

"You said, could it be a water ghoul?"

The prince and the duke, who were fighting **** for tat, were stunned for a moment when they heard the endless words:

"What?"

"Water ghoul?"

Xilai picked up the kettle enthusiastically, poured out two cups of spring water, and handed them to them respectively:

"You know, the ancient legend of the Emerald City, every time the Emerald Festival comes, the water ghouls under the canal will wake up, get out of the river, and wander the streets of the Emerald City, looking for people who are alone at night... So every year on Queen's Day, many people die unexpectedly."

The conversation was interrupted, Thales and Jann had to withdraw their aggressive attitude.

The atmosphere in the dining room is no longer so scary.

"Sixty percent of the people who died during the Emerald Festival were the drunkards who fell into the canal on the day of the carnival." Zhan En took the cup handed by his sister and exhaled, "The rest Thirty percent of them are various murders, vendettas, gang fights, or this debt dispute, which was just covered up by the Emerald Celebration, and most of them are man-made disasters."

Thales took the cup:

"Then there is still 10%?"

"The police officers of the Emerald City are not detectives," Zhan En snorted softly, "There will always be unsolved cases, such as missing people."

Thales found that Xi Lai only poured him half a glass of clear spring water, and when he leaned on the edge of the glass to drink water, two grimace patterns of the previous "Soulbone Jacques" appeared on the inner wall of the glass Same, words made up of fluorescence:

【Don't conflict. 】

Thales frowned slightly.

"Eat it."

Xilai said suddenly.

Thales and Jen Qiqi looked up in doubt:

"What?"

Heilei rubbed his gloves and rolled his eyes: "If it's really a water ghoul, then of course the people who get eaten won't leave a corpse, they can only be 'disappeared', right?"

Thales narrowed his eyes

"Ah, right?"

The next second, Xi Lai frowned, she took a deep breath, and stood up with difficulty:

"Ah, sorry, I have to leave."

Thales asked in confusion: "Ms. Xi Kewendier?"

And Zhan En's eyes tightened even more, and he stood up:

"Hey Lai, are you feeling well?"

But Xi Lai just waved his hands indifferently and exhaled:

"It's nothing, it's just menstruation."

Huh?

Thales and Jen Qiqi were taken aback for a moment, and they quickly turned their heads and looked away in embarrassment.

"Ah, I have to change the menstrual cloth, every hour I feel like I'm sitting in a pool of blood..."

Zhan En's face suddenly changed, and he said sharply:

"Cecilia!"

Heilei waved her hand indifferently:

"You should be happy, you bleed every month, which means your sister is not pregnant..."

Thales pretended not to hear, lowered his head and drank his drink, and painted out the fluorescent words on the glass wall by the way.

Jen looked at Cecilia in disbelief, then at Thales, and said angrily:

"Cecilia! Don't mention it again! What about your upbringing?"

"What's the matter, is everyone okay with this?"

"Half of the men don't have it!"

"That's right!" Xi Lai pushed open the door, turned her head and said fiercely, "Then you are gesticulating and caring about so many farts!"

There was a sound of closing the door, and only Thales and Zhan En were left in the dining room again, looking at each other in blank dismay.

"This girl is never reassuring," the Duke snorted coldly, and also lowered his head to drink to cover up his embarrassment. "You see, she is not a good girl, let alone a good wife. She will only make your court Chickens fly and dogs jump."

Thales hooked the corner of his mouth: "Well, I don't think it's that bad..."

Fortunately, before Zhan En's gaze turned cold again, Thales reacted and shut up in time.

But after Shiley's interruption (and maybe Shiley's reminder), the atmosphere between them is not so tense.

"I thought we made an agreement yesterday: I will continue to investigate Dagory Moss, pretending to be hostile to you in order to confuse our enemies." Thales adjusted his mood, became serious, and once again Back to the topic.

"Exactly," Zhan En put down his glass heavily, "so I will cooperate with you in acting, obstruct you and fight against you as always, so that everyone, no matter if they are their own people, enemies, smart people, stupid people, or those who think they are smart Fools think that Emerald City staged a fight between the prince and the duke to mislead the Kingdom’s secret department, don’t they?”

Thales was silent for a while, then chuckled.

"So you took the first step, cut off the investigation clues, and almost killed the subordinates I sent to investigate, and even tried to frame me as 'the prince's personal guard entered and murdered', a sensational and hot topic, right?"

Jen shook his head, not leaking:

"If you don't do this, how can you convince Wang Guomike and your father that the two of us are indeed in a brutal struggle, which is a matter of life and death?"

"But judging from the wool merchant, you seem to be very involved."

Jenn raised his glass again and observed Thales through the glass: "Remember, since you want to pursue the effect, you should follow through to the end?"

Thales was silent for a while.

"Before Dagory Moss was silenced, he went to meet the wool merchant."

"I know."

"If the Kingdom Secret Division ordered him to do this, then there must be a reason."

"I know ~IndoMTL.com~ Thales frowned:

"Then why are you"

But Jen interrupted him first, there is no doubt:

"Because I already understood it!"

The owner of the iris stared at him coldly:

"In the plan of Kingdom Secret Division, their trump card is not someone else."

"And it's you."

"The second prince, Thales Canxing."

At that moment, facing Zhan En's sharp eyes, Thales' heart tightened.

There is one more chapter, which can be finished in the early morning.

(End of this chapter)