Chapter 425: Old York's Secret
"Aha!" The queen stretched out her hand and asked, "It's me, I did it." Romance starterSo, please follow in my footsteps. With that, she took the lead.
"Majesty!" Rogge shouted, "This is an unknown passage, unpredictable, let's go down and explore the way first!" β
Vanessa's voice came from the tunnel, ethereal and crisp, "No need. This passage must extend to a safe place. "Vanessa had seen Deanna's eagerness to rush to the throne after her defeat, and this gem-encrusted treasure should give her a glimmer of life. Unfortunately, before Deanna could pounce at her feet, she became a middle-aged man with a stubble beard, bulky and stupid.
As an escape route, the further she went, the more Vanessa felt that it was a little too long. It's hard to imagine how Deanna could have run through these undulating rocks with such beautiful and delicate little feet, with no illuminated crystals, no magic torches, no real horn candles at the top of the tunnel, nothing to see in the darkness, only the sound of the wind whistling back and forth through the darkness. The winds didn't smell as salty as the sea breeze, nor did they sway at random by the heat waves on the surface, they were bitterly cold, just like the cold rock walls around them. It's strange why Deanna didn't put the old king's body here, then he wouldn't smell so impressive.
Perhaps, there is an even more immeasurable danger in this wind? Vanessa was blown by the wind.
"Lady York, my dear." Vanessa turned back and said, "For the safety of all of us, please go first." β
"You mean," Rog asked Vanessa in a low voice, ignoring Lexie's struggling scolding, "This secret passage has something to do with the Duke of York?" β
Vanessa glanced at her captain of the Selangor Guard, "I didn't expect your mind to be so fast. She reached out and wiped a handful of stone walls, and pressed the oil on her hand to the captain's hand, "What is this?" β
"Heavy oil?!" Rogge was taken aback.
"This passage leads to the Fire Dragon Village!" Vanessa whispered. She looked at Yu Lian and the other Xue Lanwei who walked past her, "Why can't there be magic in the Sanctuary?" She scoffed and snorted, "It's not because of any pious worship at all. Ancient families like York and Julien, who have no power and no fiefdom, can control the lifeblood of the Burning Flame Country, and the king is afraid of them, for only one reason - they have the real magic that can blow up the palace and even the whole of Europs to the ground in a matter of minutes! The Queen's eyes sparkled in the darkness.
"But the House of York has never been in charge of any construction work, so how could they build a secret passage to their house?" The Rogge family is an old minister of the Burning Flame Country, and the history is quite long, how can he explain the doubts in front of him because he has never heard of them?
"How not?" Vanessa said as she walked, "Although the York family is not the most favored among the nobles, it is the most favored by the country. Terrence's attitude towards York puzzled me for a while, but now it seems that he killed York's only son while trying to curry favor with his daughter, which was both a clever tactic of suppression and co-optation. She gestured to Lexie, who was reluctantly walking in front, "With her looks, do you think Terrence will take a fancy to her?" But he has been raising her in the palace and sharing sweets and meals with the queen, but in fact, he has invisibly held the dark heavy oil of Huolongzhai in his hands. β
"So what? She was always a woman, and she could not add another heir to the York family. β
"Do you think Terrence doesn't understand this?" Vanessa smiled in the dark, "The treasure he bet on is not on the heir, but on Old York." β
"You mean," Rogge gasped, then immediately spat out in disgust, "York to his daughterβ"
"Yes." Vanessa raised her chin, "Old York's love for his daughter is a hundred times greater than for his lonely son!" And Lexie loves her brother much more than she dislikes her father. She chuckled, "What's wrong with the world?" It's all messed up. However, it is best to do this, so that people with a mind can better control the situation. β
"You've long since seen what King Terrence meant?" Rogge's tone was admiring.
"Reina found it." Vanessa frowned, remembering that Reina was still outside the Sanctuary with the Imperial Guards, wondering what was going on with him. "He heard old York on his knees crying and begging Lexie to get out of Terrence, and saying that he couldn't breathe without her, ah, it was disgusting!"
Rogge apparently feels the same way. After a pause, he continued to ask, "But how do you know that this tunnel leads to the Fire Dragon Village?" What if it only leads to the back garden of the palace or to the entrance of the temple? There were only a few of us, and with Julien and the squeaky Miss York, we-"
"Do you smell the smell of heavy oil in the air?" Vanessa interrupted, "I bet this tunnel leads to a tributary of the underground oil well in Fire Dragon Village, and the Lord of York is waiting not far ahead to meet his dear daughter. It seemed that he would not be done without explaining it to him, Vanessa brought her mouth to Rog's ear, "Old York was forced by me to hand over the money to ransom his daughter, and the exchange place is at the end of this secret passage. β
"It seems that for the sake of his daughter, he even betrayed the most secret secret passage of the Burning Flame Country." Rogge sneered, "But are you afraid that he'll ambush us here?" β
Vanessa raised her chin in front of her, "His daughter is at the forefront, and if he dares to have an ambush, then Lexi will consider herself unlucky." β
"Die at your hands or at the hands of her own father, I believe she would rather choose the latter." Rogge stiffened his tone. It seems that he does not agree with Vanessa's approach, but he is trapped here, and he can only obey the queen's orders.
"Sir Sir, now is not the time to do good deeds." Vanessa heard a voice from ahead and walked quickly to the front of the line, "What's the matter?" β
"Your Majesty, there's light ahead!" Xue Lanwei pointed to the end of the tunnel and said, there, a faint light was bright and flickering, as if it was playing an unknown signal.
Vanessa sniffed, the smell of heavy oil here was getting stronger and stronger, and they didn't dare to light a fire here; And this place is out of the confines of the Flame Sanctuary, and they are supposed to be using magic crystals to signal themselves.
"Three long, three short, two long and one short." Rogge stepped forward and counted, "They're asking, who's coming." β
Vanessa twisted Lexie's fat arm and squeezed her armpit, and Miss York screamed, her voice echoing through the tunnel, and her hurried curses for a long time.
"Now they know who we are." Vanessa looked back and smiled at Rogge.