Chapter 222: The Truth Behind the Scenes
In a presidential suite at the Egerton Hotel, Duke Robert fidgeted in the living room, pacing back and forth. All day today, he always felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart, as if something terrible was about to happen.
"Could it be that something happened to Master Runo's side, or maybe something unexpected happened over there later?" He pinched his stubble chin, frowning at the point of wondering why he felt so intensely like never before.
Just now, news came from William's side, saying that both sides are fine at the moment, and nothing is beyond his control.
"Hey, maybe I'm thinking too much." Duke Robert sat down weakly on the leather sofa, poured himself a glass of red wine, and took a sip absentmindedly.
On the opposite wall hangs a beautiful oil painting whose name is known to those who believe in Jesus - The Last Supper. Duke Robert stood up with a glass in his hand, and looked up at this beautiful work.
Although the painting is not by Leonardo da Vinci, it is just a very similar fake, but even this does not erase its artistic value. Robert was willing to bet his title that even if it was a fake, it was the work of a contemporary master.
Duke Robert took another sip of the red wine in his glass, admiring the painting in front of him, as if his mind had been purified, and the restlessness he had just now was diluted in an instant.
"Holy Mother of the Son, we must make our Addams family the first family of Great Britain, and the royal family and parliament will all be controlled by our Addams family, Amen!" Facing the oil painting. Duke Robert seemed to be praying. It's like self-soothing.
But this kind of self-consolation prayer can be very useful. After silently reciting that passage, Duke Robert's mood was completely calm.
In a good state of mind, I can't help but feel that my appetite has improved. So, the Duke picked up the landline on the table and made an order call to the front desk of the hotel. He wants to use this method to vent his happy mood at this time, so as to forget the irritability that he had just now.
It wasn't long before the doorbell rang for the suite, and Duke Robert opened it. A waiter from the hotel came in with a dining cart: "Hello, Lord Duke, these are the foods you just ordered, if you are not satisfied, you can always call the hotel's internal line." ”
The waiters at the Egerton Hotel are extremely professional, and even the smile is professional and speechless, and six white teeth are revealed under that smile. Although it was a professional smile, it made Duke Robert feel extremely comfortable, especially since this waiter was still a beautiful girl.
The waiter respectfully withdrew after setting the cutlery and the wine, and Duke Robert sat down at the table, contemplating his next move as he ate the food on his plate.
"If the plan goes well. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow the Queen will throw herself into the arms of the Lord, and then it will be time to move the knife to the council. ”
Duke Robert only felt that his plan would be perfect. The bastards in the council would never have thought that he, who had always been weak, would turn his guns on the entire council. By that time, the bastards would have a lot on their faces, and he couldn't wait to see it.
"Cheers to celebrate our final victory for the Addams family."
Speaking of which, Duke Robert is also a bit narcissistic, he always feels that he is the most perfect, and the family he leads is the best. So in his eyes, the plan can be successfully completed, and that is a matter of course.
His narcissism has reached a very serious level of pathology, perhaps because he has developed a self-appreciative mentality due to his high position, or perhaps because he has never said 'failed' in his heart. In short, he has never thought about the consequences of failure, and he has never failed to do so.
However, just as he raised his glass, he saw the Last Supper again. At this moment, his gaze, the goblet and the painting were in a straight line. When he looked at the oil painting on the wall again in this way, he had the illusion that the Jesus in the painting was himself.
"Hehe, impossible, impossible. How could I, Duke Robert, fail, didn't there be good news from the head of the surveillance council in the morning? It must have been me thinking too much, it must be like this! Duke Robert kept comforting himself in this way, and he would rather believe that the queen would die tomorrow than that the plan would fail.
However, things often backfired, and just when he thought that an accident was impossible, the phone on the table suddenly rang, like a magic sound from hell, and he shook his hand and the fork fell to the ground.
Picked up the phone with a little nervousness: "Hey, have something to say?" ”
"Father, something is wrong, the two masters, Lu Nuo and Dakun, were captured by the people of Wanhua Valley." William's voice came from the other end of the line.
"What? You repeat. Duke Robert thought that his ears were not in trouble, and when William repeated it again, he suddenly came to his senses: "You mean our plan has failed?" How is this possible, and what is going on? ”
The calm and calm Duke panicked, he couldn't have imagined that he would be completely exposed in the past two days, and the other party's reaction was beyond his expectations.
"How could it be, why would Wanhua Valley intervene in this matter, they are just interested in it." Duke Robert couldn't figure it out, he just analyzed the relationship between the Valley of Flowers and the British royal family from his own perspective. In his view, there can be no friendship between the two sides who are united by interests. So he thinks that even if Queen Elizabeth died, the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers would only symbolically send people to attend the funeral.
"What to do, what to do?" Duke Robert was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, he had never thought that he would fail so quickly, so he was not prepared for any emergency measures.
"By the way, William, hurry up and get two plane tickets, and we'll be back to Northern Ireland tonight." There is no way around it.
William on the other side of the phone thought he had heard it wrong, and asked suspiciously: "Father, do you mean that we are going back to Northern Ireland?" But we're not done yet. ”
"I'll leave the mission at bay for now, and I'll make plans when I get home. If we stay here, I'm sure we won't even be able to go home. As long as we escape London, it doesn't matter if the two Nansears confess to us, because they have no direct evidence that we are behind it. ”
Although Duke Robert is narcissistic, he is not a fool, and he naturally knows the consequences of the revelation. But as long as he can return to Northern Ireland, even the queen can't do anything about him.
"Good father, I'll do it now." William also knew that the situation was urgent, and he could not afford to hesitate.
Putting down the phone, Duke Robert seemed to be dozens of years old all of a sudden, and sat back in his chair. Looking at the oil painting on the opposite wall, I feel like Jesus inside, and the people around me can become Judas at any moment and betray him to the British royal family.
"No, I can't stay here any longer, I need to get to the airport quickly." Duke Robert only felt that there were soldiers everywhere, and whether it was the waiter or the manager of the hotel, he might betray him, so now he had to go first.
So, he left the hotel in this insecure state, and he didn't dare to let the special car come to pick him up to take him to the airport, so he had to take a taxi on the road and leave in a hurry
At this time, in the temporary interrogation room of Buckingham Palace, Runo and Dakun were tied to two chairs facing each other. I saw that the beads of sweat on Dakun's face were falling drop by drop, his forehead was bruised, and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he was enduring extreme pain.
On the other hand, Runo was in pain, she really couldn't see her apprentice suffering so much, she simply closed her eyes and stopped looking at the scene that shook her heart.
"Master, I'm so miserable, let them kill me." But even if she closed her eyes, she could still hear the screams of her apprentices, and this kind of all-round sensory torture was beyond her control.
"That's enough, I said as long as you get rid of his Gu poison, I'll say anything." Lu Nuo finally couldn't bear the psychological torment, and she had to choose to confess for the sake of her apprentice.
"Go and get rid of his poison." Ye Qi gestured to Marceau, who answered and did as he wanted.
"Huh~" After the Gu poison was lifted, Da Kun let out a long breath, and leaned back on the chair weakly. His energy had already been tortured by the Gu worm just now, and if he couldn't faint at this time, he was already considered strong-willed.
"Tell me quickly, who is your mastermind behind it, and where is he hiding now?" Ye Qi didn't want to talk nonsense with them, so he asked bluntly.
"It's okay to ask me to confess, but before that, you have to promise me one condition, otherwise even if you kill our master and apprentice, you won't be able to get a confession." Runo glared fiercely at the three people in front of him, his tone full of determination.
"On what terms?" Ye Qi and Su Ziyuan asked at the same time.
"The condition is that we must be released." Runo said.
Ye Qi and Su Ziyuan glanced at each other, and they both got the information they wanted from each other's eyes. Immediately afterwards, Su Ziyuan turned around and said, "No, I can guarantee the personal safety of your master and apprentice, but after this matter is over, you must follow me back to the Wicked Village in Wanhua Valley, and you can't leave until you pay off the sins you committed before." ”
Ye Qi didn't react much to this decision. He had heard from the owner of the Eastern Valley that it was a place for the heinous to be placed under house arrest, where those who had made mistakes had to work to alleviate their previous sins.
Lu Nuo thought for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and agreed: "Okay, but after I confess, I must be lenient for the crimes I committed before." ”
"Yes, as long as what you say is true, you only need to stay in the village of the wicked for three years."
Runo nodded in acceptance: "Listen, the mastermind behind the whole thing is most of the members of the British Parliament, as well as some of the Northern Irish forces represented by Duke Robert, who hired our master and apprentice to give the queen a bow. (To be continued.) )