Chapter 7 Zhao Mian

The ship soon arrived at its destination, not Theramore, but the northern fortress, where Gianna checked her troops and met with Major Davin, and after strictly telling him not to do anything before the orcs, she looked in the direction of Orgrimmar and sighed heavily.

If she had gone to talk to Thrall now, perhaps the other party would have suppressed the matter for the sake of her friendship, and maybe she would have had time to stop these would-be radical orcs before they could involve the others, and maybe the bloodshed could be stopped in the first place.

But there are not so many uncertainties in life, as he once told her, people's life is actually making one choice after another, when you choose one, what comes to you will only be the next, and you can never return to the intersection of the previous choice.

After a quick and quick arrangement of the troops already stationed here, Gianna called back Lorena, who was tutoring a few recruits before the battle—although she might have been more useful in staying on the front line, she was obviously more willing to let the loyal colonel protect her in case of some surprises—and with a slightly fresh look at the soldiers encouraging each other, Egwene showed off her spells once again.

The light flashed, and the Mage Lord appeared in his chamber with her men and guests.

Leaving aside Colonel Lorena, who was a little disgusted by the long-distance teleportation, this behavior also frightened another person - Defe, who was stubbornly wiping some dry blood stains on the ground, obviously did not expect to encounter this scene, and the sudden light and sound frightened her forward, and her elbow knocked down the bucket on the ground, and scattered some bloody dirty water and a few rags on the ground at once.

But Gianna didn't care about this, she glanced at the throne where there was no one, and then at the stool that obviously hadn't been moved out yet, and asked, "Defey, where did he go?"

"He ......" Delphi glanced back at Gianna, and almost instantly she understood who the queen was talking about, and although her situation seemed a little embarrassing now, she answered her queen first: "Two hours ago a sergeant came to him, and after reading the last few files, he left with the sergeant and a few soldiers. ”

"Did he mention where he was going, or did he say anything noteworthy?"

"No, ma'am, he didn't mention anything to me. Delphi shook his head.

"At least he's not out of town yet. But compared to Delphi, Gianna, who knew more about each other, was relieved, but this peace of mind was not yet fully settled, her gaze swept to the few untied scrolls on the throne, and in a flash of light, she realized where Zhao Mian had gone, "Christopher!" She raised her staff again, this time faster, and in an instant, the three of them were outside a nondescript looking house in the city of Seramo.

"Who is it?" the soldiers guarding here immediately drew their weapons, but when they saw who was inside, they immediately put them away again and saluted each other, "Your Majesty." ”

"What about Christopher?" but Gianna's first words weren't the target she was looking at.

"His Excellency the Home Secretary is talking to the Commander, who says he doesn't want anyone to interfere with them. The soldier lowered his saluting hand before replying respectfully.

"Hmph, talk ......" Gianna shook her head a little amused and a little disdainful, "I'm going in." ”

"Okay. The soldier nodded kindly—he knew exactly who his allegiance was, as he had been taught in the army—and pushed open the door of the house, then gave way of his place, and waited respectfully for the queen to enter.

However, the soldier's behavior surprised Egwene a little—if politeness only means that the soldier is well-educated, then unhesitating loyalty is a rare quality, and such a soldier is only here to watch the door, and even chooses the king without the slightest hesitation between the general and the king.

Naturally, Gianna couldn't hide this look, and she instructed Lorena to stand by outside, and then invited Egwene to join her. When she entered the room, she said, "You seem surprised, Ms. Magna. ”

"That's right, Miss Broadmoore. Egwene nodded, "If this is a general talking to your Minister of the Interior, then it should be his own guards who will guard the door, and they should be more loyal to his general than to the king." But that's not what I saw. ”

"That's because that's what their generals asked them to do. Gianna explained, and then stopped, in front of her was an old wooden door, the sturdy wood blocked some of the sound transmission, but there were still some words revealed from it, Egwen also recognized this, she looked at Gianna, and saw that she was just looking at the doorknob in front of her with some complicated expression, and then reached out and held it as if she had made up her mind.

"It's been a long time, Your Majesty. When she opened the door, she was greeted like a prophet by the words of the man with his back to her, who was looking through a worn-out book with some loose scrolls at his feet, and Christopher, who had just been fished out of a water tank, and who was now in his eyes only despair.

"Her Majesty. When the man's voice was quiet, Hannah, who was waiting on the other side of the door, spoke out and saluted her queen.

Gianna was slightly relieved to see Christopher alive, she was always worried about his excessive use of lynching, and although it was inconceivable to suspect a paladin of lynching, Gianna had never thought of him as a glorious paladin since she had known him - although he was still the undisputed most powerful paladin in the entire Western Continent right now.

Such a concern seemed a little inexplicable to Egwen, she couldn't understand why Gianna showed a slightly relaxed posture at this time, and after thinking about it for a while, she blamed it on the man in front of her - Zhao Mian only put down the somewhat shabby book in his hand at this time, which was Christopher's personal notes, full of absurd words to record how such a man who was good at drilling camps was tempted by the demon step by step and bewitched into the Fireblade Clan. Then he turned around and nodded to Gianna lightly as a greeting, then glanced at Egwene who was following Gianna with a little confusion, and then nodded to Egwen amicably after a slight pause - and at this time Egwen was also looking at Zhao Mian.

A paladin, even if he no longer possessed a great deal of mana, but with hundreds of years of experience alone, Egwene could clearly smell the holy light stirred up by this man, just as she had smelled the strong stench of demons as soon as she entered the house. Although the power of the Light had been generally held by priests during the years of her life, she had heard of the new users of the Light in recent years - but these were not very good reviews, these paladins were more radical and more square in their ways and ideas than the priests, and in the eyes of a typical mage like her, they were simply a bunch of dull dogmatists.

“…… Her Majesty ...... "And it was only now that the other important character in the room opened his mouth sluggishly, and squeezed the sound out of his throat little by little in a harsh, dry voice. This voice, like a discarded gramophone, attracted Gianna's original attention to Zhao Mian, and at the same time attracted the attention of others - under the gaze of everyone, Christopher's thin body swayed like a weed blown by the wind, and then "plopped" and knelt on the ground, not knowing whether to mumble or say, "I...... I really think that's ...... I do not know...... How is this ......?"

Under such circumstances, Egwene's newly established rough opinion of Zhao Mian was shattered at once - in what she had learned, it was clear that no paladin would let a person hooked up with a demon become like this, and their overly square approach would urge them to judge this damn guy immediately, and even the paladins who were more relaxed would directly arrest these people and purify them with holy light several times before throwing them into prison to wait for the verdict to be issued. But it was clear that what was happening in this house was not either of the first two, and she could still smell the demonic stench in this house, and the smell of sulfur would not go away like lingering smoke, which proved that the so-called Minister of the Interior had been communicating with the demon for a long time - but she did not smell too much demonic power in the other person's body, and the power and hints that seduced him seemed to be all gone. This is not like the practice of a paladin, and only the mildest priests would choose to guide the other rather than pronounce the sentence directly.

"What's wrong with him?" After a little glance, Gianna understood that it was impossible for her to ask for any information from Christopher's mouth now, so she could only sigh helplessly—of course, she was still a little happy when she carefully identified that the other party really had no scars on his body—and then turned to Zhao Mian on the side to ask her own question, "What did you do to him?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that it makes him see the real form. However, in the face of Gianna's slightly reprimanding attitude, Zhao Mian didn't care at all, and replied easily with a posture that didn't seem to Egwen at all to be a general facing his lord, "Although Christopher's usual attitude is very annoying, I have to say that he is a rare smart person in the whole of Theramore, although the temptation and whispering of the devil made him fall into a twisted hatred and thirst for power, but his thinking is still clear, but the goal and thinking tendency are deliberately guided." It's a little trick they're used to, and we've seen a lot of it a few years ago, haven't we?"

“…… So you destroy his self-confidence. Gianna glanced at the file in the house, and saw a lot of information on the military strength and other aspects of the two sides spread out on the table, just as she had expected. She sighed helplessly, "Okay, okay, at least he's still alive, should I praise you for that?" and let the people see that their hero once again saved Theramore at a critical moment, and even has the strength to save a soul who has been bewitched by demons?"

"I don't recommend this, in fact I think we should keep a low profile with the change of Home Secretary and try to downplay Christopher's plot - after all, he is your cronies anyway, and let the people know that such a person is also tempted by the devil to cause unnecessary panic. Zhao Mian didn't particularly care about Gianna's somewhat sneering tone - he easily read her dissatisfaction and worry from the tone, but as she had always hated, even the follow-up things had been included in his consideration: "Of course, if you want to make this matter public, then I need two to three days to go to the tavern and other places to control and guide public opinion, and the resolution of this matter must also be." Her Majesty Queen Gianna's leadership, so that we can turn Christopher's betrayal by the temptation of the devil into the wisdom of Her Majesty the Queen's ability to see through the devil's scheme, and at such a point in time, this centripetal force can do many things. ”

"You ......" In Zhao Mian's calm and simple narration, Gianna was obviously angered again by this way of solving problems that clearly violated her education, and she raised her staff as if to give it to him, but before she could swing it, Zhao Mian's instinctive desire to dodge but completely unable to move freely, and her legs, which looked a little bloated under her pants, immediately attracted her attention. It was the same leg he had been like a stitch monster a few hours ago. Her anger vanished at once—and then immediately reached its peak in another place, and she slammed her staff, and the invisible hurricane swept the files in the room everywhere, and then she threw down a sentence and turned and walked out of the house, "Hmph! I don't care, you can do whatever you want, and when you're done, you'll roll me to the Mage's Tower to meet me." ”

Lorena and Egwene glanced at each other, then Egwene shook her head a little amusedly and turned to follow Gianna's figure, and Lorena also turned and walked out after saluting Zhao Mian.

After Zhao Mian, who stayed in the house, saw the three of them go away, he smiled a little easily, and then little by little he ordered the guidance of public opinion and other aspects of work.