A few days later, the news of the king's death came, and the struggle between Arnold and Aubrey reached a fever pitch, and it is estimated that the king did not make a will. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info From the news from Archimedes, I have learned the origin of these incidents one after another. The kidnapping was planned by the eldest prince Arnold, but it failed, but the poison he put on Aubrey worked. Although the rescue was timely and sane, it left sequelae after all. And the second prince did not do less in the persecution of Lante, and Longde was a good thing he did. While the two brothers were fighting, they eventually dragged him into the water together in order to prevent Rand from taking advantage of the fish. Although there are external factors and Archimedes' interference in the dangered things in the outer forest, it is uncertain whether there are others who have done it. Those ministers also played an important role in the struggle. In other words, few of the powerful people in the capital were clean.

According to the regulations, the royal family had to enter the palace to keep a three-day vigil for the king, and in the process, Archimedes' letters also came unexpectedly. I knew the time had come for me to make up my mind.

And this time the death of the king, Rand did not feel as sad as he imagined, but became a little silent. That morning, Rand knocked on my door and said, "Accompany me into the palace today to keep a vigil." ”

I looked at him for a moment and replied, "Okay." ”

Rand silently withdrew from my room, looking at his back, I realized for the first time that I didn't know him all these years, I didn't know what Rand was thinking.

He has always been gentle to people, leaving no flaws, and is so perfect that it is impossible to hate. But this kind of personality sometimes makes me feel disgusted. I don't know if it's because he was born into a royal family and has complicated interpersonal relationships, he almost never shows his emotions to others, and the impression projected in the hearts of others is gentle and elegant, as if he is a delicate doll that will never have emotions. This kind of character is certainly likable, but sometimes it makes people feel incomprehensible. Maybe he is not as simple as he seems on the surface, but in fact, he understands everything in his heart, in order to protect himself, he must maintain an ideal appearance in everyone's minds.

Seven years, it took me seven full years to understand this.

My mind seems to go back to the moment when I first met, and I feel that the current Rand is as foreign to me as if it was the first time we met.

I never doubted his kindness and friendliness towards me, I just felt like I didn't know him anymore. Even when I got along day and night, I never really wanted to know what he was thinking, but I thought I was smart enough to treat him as a child.

But now it seems, who is the simple one?

The wall clock on the wall began to chime on time, and the sound of the pendulum pulled my mind back to reality. The time agreed with Archimedes is coming soon.

I quietly knocked on Gray's room, and he was waiting for me, as promised the day before.

Gray looked at my outfit and changed to me. Although I was mentally prepared, it was still terrifying to suddenly see someone exactly like me in front of me. I told him the precautions for waiting for him to enter the palace with Rant, and Gray waved his hand: "I don't know about others, am I not familiar with you?" Rest assured, absolutely no one will see it! He changed his tone, and his tone was exactly the same as mine.

I nodded, and Gray pushed open the door and went downstairs, and when Barrow was carrying him and Rand in his carriage, I jumped back to my room through the window and changed into a more streamlined, low-key, dark, tight soft armor.

After all, I decided to take this step.

I jumped into an alley from the other side of the yard again. Ellis was already waiting for me in a carriage.

She looked at me silently, took a deep breath, and said, "Get in the car." ”

Without the excitement and nervousness I imagined, my mood at the moment was extremely calm, and I was able to calm down and think about some problems.

I looked at Ellis's back and suddenly remembered that although we had met many times, we had never been able to speak properly.

I asked, "Ellis, I heard that you have finally officially taken over the royal army guarding the capital in the past two days, you can have a good future, and you are obviously highly valued by the royal family, so why do you want to do things for Archimedes?" ”

Ellis's body froze slightly, and after a while, he said, "It's just a deal." ”

I think her back looks a little lonely now, and suddenly remembered the news that her father was seriously injured and sick a few years ago, and there was another incident in the fiefdom, and finally suddenly calmed down, and I was secretly aware of what she said.

It seems that she is also a person who can't help herself. I looked at her as if it were me.

"How long are you going to do anything for him?"

Ellis glanced back at me and took a deep breath, "This is the last one." ”

I looked at her face, her black hair was like paint, her face was handsome, and although her expression was still gloomy, it was much lighter than usual. It seems that it is indeed the last one, and it is precisely because it is the last one that she can finally put her mind at ease and take over the army that she has rejected countless times, and no one else will interfere with her actions. She was supposed to be the most flowery age, but her face was always full of worry, but this is a strong girl who can bear it all alone. The difference between me and her is that she is already about to break out of this whirlpool, and I am just about to enter.

Ellis sensed that I was staring at her, turned his head away slightly, and we stopped talking.

When I got to the agreed place, I got out of the car. Ellis began to tell me about the next assassination.

"I'm going to enter the palace next to keep a vigil, so I can only bring you here. This is the back wall of Aubrey's mansion, where he was weak because he was poisoned. When you climb over the wall and get in, our people will pick you up. When the time comes, he'll take you to Aubrey's location, and you'll just have to get him out of the way he came. This is the knife that Archimedes has prepared for you, you must be careful not to miss it with one blow. As she spoke, she pulled out a short knife, which was short and twisty, but unusually sharp.

I took the knife from Ellis's hand, and Ellis looked like he was about to say something.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Ellis looked at my face with a somewhat complicated expression, and after a long while, he silently took out a bag of things from his pocket and handed it to me: "This is the last time I was in the Designer Street...... I owe you. ”

I glanced down and didn't pick it up. These things outside of my body are no longer important to me now.

I chuckled under my breath, and Ellis looked at me feeling a little dazed. I looked up: "That music box, I thought it was given to you." It's a pity that it's broken. ”

Ellis was silent, then shook his head and spread out his palms: "It's not completely broken. ”

I looked into the palm of her hand, where there was a small heart-shaped key, delicately crafted and embedded with gemstones.

"The key to the music box, I took it at that time." Ellis looked at me, somehow her eyes moistened, and I could feel the change in her eyes when she looked at me these days.

Somehow, I feel like my nose is a little sour.

"You take it, we've been through so many things together these days, we're friends, right? If you're a friend to me, keep it ......"

Ellis stared at me fixedly, and I turned away from her.

If we had an ordinary birth, maybe we would become best friends, right? Strong, smart and brave, she carries the fate of her family on her own. It's a pity......

Forget it, reality is reality, there are no ifs.

I climbed through the back door into the mansion, where a man in the form of an attendant was already waiting for me, apparently "one of his own" as Ellis had called. He dragged me to the utility room, where no one was looking, and began to tell me about the current situation in the house.

Since it is a special period, the number of guards in the palace has also doubled, and there are people patrolling the outer courtyard all the time, so it is not easy for people to sneak in without anyone knowing. And Aubrey has been in poor health since the poisoning, basically staying in the study in the side hall on the second floor to recuperate, and rarely comes out. No one else had a chance to enter, so this time I was on my own.

While familiarizing myself with the layout of the courtyard, I thought about the planned itinerary. There is nothing special in the plan, why did Archimedes say that only I can do it? He obviously has a more professional professional assassin on his hands.

But time did not allow me to think too much, and the person who answered me found the right time to divert the soldiers patrolling the courtyard. I jumped up the corner of the staircase, silently hidden in the shadows that no one noticed. The skills of concealment that I had worked so hard to learn when I was abducted and abducted as a child finally came in handy seven years later, and I seemed to have found a trace of the feeling I had back then.

Finally, I gently pushed open the door of the study and sneaked in, only to find that the study was empty.