The night is already very deep. The pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info stretched lazily and looked up at the window, there was silence, only a few stars, glowing with pale light, blinking tiredly. Occasionally, a gust of wind came, and the branches couldn't help but creak a few times, so clear in the open world, the darkness of the night, it couldn't erase its figure.

The two daughters were asleep, and Duke Kao put the quilt on them, turned off the lamp in the bedroom, and tiptoed out of the bedroom.

The Quekao family, one of the most powerful families in Noxus, has many protégés and is in power. As the patriarch of the Quekao family and the first person in the Noxian military world, General Dukkao, his father, Duke Kao Yokhan, the founding father of Noxus, was also an excellent assassin.

As a young man, Yorkham was already at the forefront, long before the founding of Noxus, he held an important position as a battlefield staff officer under the command of the founding emperor of Noxus, the former King William I.

In addition to Demacia, William I's biggest obstacle to the founding of the country was the opposition of the surrounding small states, and the ordered Yorkham sneaked into their palace unknowingly before they united, and easily slit the king's throat with a sharp blade.

For this reason, after the official establishment of Noxus, King William I awarded Yorkham Noxus the highest merit, and in addition to the king, Yorkham is the authority. A kind of hereditary authority.

Yorkham didn't take credit for it, on the contrary, he didn't feel too proud. Because apart from Demacia, the rest was no longer a challenge for him, and his goal was to slit the throat of the reigning king at the time, Gavin II, so that he could achieve an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.

Never to be intimidated, he was still very young and had a youthful spirit that he did not admit defeat until he met Yorkham that he felt fear for the first time in his life.

Yorkham certainly didn't miss this great opportunity, and his blade couldn't wait to fly towards Gawain II, who only then realized that now he could do nothing but wait for death.

Although the mission failed for some reason, this did not affect Yorkham's image in the hearts of the Noxian subjects, who placed his tablet in their homes after his death and enshrined it with the former Emperor William I.

Du-Kekao inherited the title of his father Yorkham, and also inherited all the virtues of his father, and even more accomplished than his father Yorkham in swordsmanship. Jorkham's deathbed will was followed by Durkkao, but against his father's wishes, he quietly hid a hat that his father ordered to be burned, and because of this hat, it would bring unprecedented disaster to the continent of Valoran.

Du-Kekao's home is an old-fashioned courtyard house, and the muddy path under the willows is the only way to the courtyard room, and the white moonlight shines through the shadows of the trees, reflecting the pale white spots on the black and inky ground.

The iron door of the secret room slowly opened, and the crow resting on the branches of the tree was startled, flapping its wings and disappearing into the moonlight.

A figure burrows into the secret room, and the faint light can never illuminate the darkness in front of him, just as the "brightness" on the face of a person can never illuminate the haze of war. The flames flickered in the oil lamp, leaving a glimmer of light in the secret room, which was several feet square, but it could only illuminate the wooden table beneath it. The four walls of the secret room are made of granite, which is impermeable to the wind and does not see the light.

Duquecao moved the wooden table away, revealing a slate with a pull tab. As the stone slab moved, a cool air came to my face, and I was greeted by an eerie tunnel.

Walking into the tunnel, a strange wind whistled through, cold to the bone, and between the cracks in the stone wall were dense and opaque moss, just standing in the tunnel unconsciously chilled down my spine, and I wanted to leave this place immediately.

Durkkao tightened his shirt, and the faint light of the oil lamp moved forward step by step, one, two, five, ten......

Finally, wisps of colored light came in from the depths of the tunnel, illuminating the pitch-black tunnel in all colors. At the end of the tunnel, there is no cave sky, just like a magnificent palace, the palace crystal jade lanterns, the hanging beams of the cloudtop sandalwood, the three-foot-wide agarwood inlaid with gold lacquer chair side hangs the shark silk treasure Luo tent, the tent is embroidered with pearls and silver thread begonia flowers, the wind is moving, like the falling clouds and mountains and the phantom sea. There is a huge bright moon pearl hanging on the top of the treasure in the hall, shining brightly, like a bright moon. Below the pearl, there are long white marble steps, the number of stars, a total of ninety-nine steps. Due to the terrain, although this jade step is wide enough, it is extremely steep, and the bottom just extends upwards from the rainbow light of the Dao Dao, leading to the temple chair.

Dukkao followed the jade steps to the golden chair, and the moment he sat down, the moon beads hanging from the roof of the palace floated down and rolled to his feet. He bent down to pick up the bright moon pearl, touched the button at the bottom of the bead, the bright moon pearl spun out, and there was a light green gray hat hidden inside, there was a circle similar to the curvature of the mouth on the brim, and under the tip of the hat, a pair of eyes were embellished, and those eyes, steaming with scarlet light, seemed to cut through people's hearts.

"What's so amazing about you? Why is Father in such a hurry to destroy you? Duquekao scrutinized the hat resting in his hand, it was the 47th time he had infiltrated the secret chamber to unlock the secret of the Death Cap, but this time, he still couldn't find any clues.

However, what Duquecao didn't notice was that as he was muttering to himself, the circle on the brim of his hat that resembled the curvature of his mouth seemed to twitch, and it felt like the hat was smiling at him!

Coming out of the underground palace, it was already dark, and Duke Kao stretched out, gave up the idea of visiting his two precious daughters in the bedroom, and went straight out of the courtyard gate to the government building.

I have to say that after receiving the death order from the head of the military circles, the Noxus Police Department is still very efficient. More than 200 police officers were dispatched to investigate and arrest the whole city, and finally locked on the suspect at noon the day after Daphne's body was found.

"Has the suspect been identified?"

In the highest conference room in Noxus, Duquekao slouches in his chair and squints at a fat middle-aged man in a police uniform.

"Yes General." The fat cop nodded, handing a document to Duquekao, "This has information on the suspect." ”

Duke Kao took the folder and laid it on the conference table: Tyrone, male, seventeen years old, habitual thief, who had shut down Noxus Prison three times for stealing and injuring people. ”

"Did you catch someone?" Duke Kao closed the folder and asked nonchalantly.

"I'm sorry General, our people found the suspect in the vegetable market in the east of the city, but let him run away..."The fat policeman's old face turned red, and he didn't dare to look Du-Kekao in the eye, and lowered his head in fear.

"Smack!" Loud slaps. "A bunch of waste, what do you eat when the state raises you."

"The general taught me a lesson." The fat policeman covered his mouth, blood spilled down his fingers, and there was a distinct five-finger mark on his face. He gently wiped the blood stains with his sleeve and put on a flattering smile: "General rest assured, the police force of the whole city has been dispatched, and his subordinates have already arranged a net, as long as the suspect is still in the city, it will be difficult to fly!" ”

"Naturally, everyone is happy when they catch the suspect. If you don't catch it, huh. Du-Kekao snorted coldly, and glanced at the fat policeman out of the corner of his eye: "I'm afraid you're sitting at the end of your position as the deputy director." ”

"Yes, yes..."The fat policeman nodded resignedly, his forehead already dripping with cold sweat.

At this time, the door of the conference room opened, and a tall policeman ran in, he saluted Dukkao's gaze, and then turned around and nodded at the fat policeman, "Report General Kekao, report to Director Nie, find the suspect's trace." ”

"Where!" The fat chief surnamed Nie almost jumped up, grabbing the sleeve of the tall policeman as if he had discovered a new world. "Where, tell me!"

"In the west of the city, a police officer saw the suspect go into a sewer in a slum." The tall policeman replied.

The look of excitement on the fat chief's face was unmistakable, and he let go of the hand that was holding the sleeve of the tall policeman, bowed to Du-Kekao, and said, "General, my subordinates will immediately mobilize the police to arrest him!" ”

"Wait a minute." Duquekao stopped the fat policeman and glanced at the folder on the conference table, "Judging from the archives, this suspect has escaped from Noxus Prison repeatedly, a person who can't even hold Noxus Prison, can you catch these wine bags and rice bags?" ”

"This ......" The fat chief and the tall policeman suddenly blushed, lowered their heads and couldn't speak.

"Hmph..."Du-Kekao glanced at the two of them and slammed his fist on the conference table: "This time General Ben is going to meet this suspect in person, I want to see what kind of person can kill General Ben's captain of the guards!" “

Slums, as the word suggests, often refer to the worst housing conditions, the most unsanitary conditions. Slums are refuge for marginal activities including crime, ************ and drug abuse, and even infectious diseases. The slum was originally a large-scale temple, but later abandoned because of the lack of incense, the withering of believers, etc., and the temple and even the surrounding miles became the residence of the homeless, beggars, prostitutes, and the poor, and gradually, formed a slum trend.

At noon, a few wisps of green smoke rose from the slums, and when I looked at it, I found dozens of small black houses, the yards were made of simple stones, and there were doors made of tree branches, and the houses were very dark, relying on the flickering kerosene lamps to not be mixed down by scattered things, except for a bed and a set of seats, there was no special furniture.

At this time, around a sewer in the slum, a large number of poor people and police officers gathered. The slum slums were calm about the large number of police officers who burst in. Indeed, it was originally a hiding place for gamblers, prostitutes, thieves, and robbers, so it was often the subject of a police raid, and it is not surprising that the long-time residents of the area were well-informed.

"General, the suspect is hiding in the sewers." In the police ranks, a tall policeman said to Duquecao very respectfully.

Duquecao wears an azure Noxian military uniform with epaulettes and bright pine leaves embellished with four gold stars. He bent down and peered through the manhole cover into the dark depths of the sewers. "Can you be sure that the suspect is still hiding inside and hasn't escaped?"

"It can be determined that after the general found that the suspect had entered the sewer, in order to avoid startling the snake, his subordinates did not immediately arrest him, but sent people to guard the exits."

"Well, it's the right thing to do." Duquekao nodded, smashing him a few words. Then he turned to look at the two policemen with shovels: "You two, pry the manhole cover open." ”

The manhole cover was quickly pried open, and a disgusting stench came to my nose. Everyone pinched their noses and frowned.

Dukkao pulled out his saber from his waist, picked up a small oval flashlight, and climbed down the rusty iron hook steps of the sewers, step by step towards the depths of the sewers, "You wait outside, no one will come in without my orders." With a command, Dukkao's figure faded into the dark and cold shaft.