60 True and false messengers
"The Minotaur? I think about it, I didn't find him after being swept away by the current, and if I saw him, I would say hello to him on your behalf. North walked away in a relaxed tone.
After the door closed, Thea looked down at what she was holding, it was a flare. After thinking about it, Xia put it away anyway. What the hell is North here for? Thea wouldn't believe his nice nonsense. Her fingers unconsciously twirled lightly at the brooch that North had just touched, which contained the magic amulet that Fording had given her.
Uncle Fordin...... I don't know when he'll be back. Thea was now anxious to consult with him, and perhaps Uncle Fording could give her some advice. She didn't dare say a word to anyone but Ferdin.
With such a nervous mood, the night passed.
When a new day comes, the true messenger arrives, as North says. There were five of them, and the one in the lead was dressed exactly like North.
The guards were terrified and reported the strange incident to Commander Maxwell.
"How is this possible? Didn't the messenger arrive last night? Why is there a new messenger? Are you sure they're real? Maxwell felt ominous in the face of the soldier's affirmative reply. Go find that messenger from yesterday and see if he's still there, quick! ”
North is gone. No one knows how he left the Chapel of Light's Wish. Even more panicked was the case when Marlan's lieutenant came to question him, and the mortally wounded Scarlet Messenger was missing.
Maxwell felt overwhelmed. How did the Scarlet Courier go missing? And who is that person pretending to be the Coalition Courier? What is the purpose? How did he get out of the well-guarded Chapel of the Light's Wish with a large living man? Maxwell had to carefully examine the correspondence of the new messenger, and was surprised to find that yesterday's fake messenger North had provided the same correspondence as the real one, both in paper and in writing.
Two letters were placed in front of the new envoy and the Scarlet Adjutant. After careful comparison, the two had to admit that even they could not tell the difference between the two letters. In this way, the mistakes made by Silver Dawn have become less unforgivable.
"But with such a momentous incident taking place shortly after Commander Marlan left, I must report to the Hand of Tyre, perhaps a conspiracy against our Scarlet Crusaders. I'm sorry to say that, but Commander Maxwell, things don't seem to allow me to think so. Allow me to retire first. "Marlan's adjutant is a man of action. After saying that, he left. Soon, Maxwell smiled wryly and received a report from the soldiers that he had set off with a group of blood-colored soldiers towards the Hand of Tyr.
"As for you, honorable messenger, do you have any questions that I need answered?" Maxwell asked, thinking that he would not be in debt.
The Courier's eyebrows were kept tight, and when he heard Maxwell's question, he immediately let go of his eyebrows out of politeness. "The Scarlet Adjutant was here just now, so it's not convenient for me to bring up some things."
"It's just the two of us now, so the Courier might as well be straightforward."
"What does that guy look like? How do you dress? Is there anything special about it? ”
Maxwell truthfully described North's looks. The two discussed it again, but still did not come to any conclusion.
"Commander, you and I are well aware of the seriousness of this matter," the messenger reluctantly tapped on the table with two identical circulars, making his final conclusion. "I also have to be honest with the top. Such a realistic forged circular is not something that ordinary people can do. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent will be very interested in this matter. I beg your pardon, although His Royal Highness the Regent has agreed to support your cause. But after this incident, I must admit that I do not think that your Chapel of the Wish of Light will give me complete security. I must return to our new stronghold in the Plaguelands, the Icewind Sentry, just west of the Plaguelands. I'm afraid I'll stay there until the new instructions arrive. ”
"As you wish." Maxwell breathed a sigh of relief. The Courier's reaction was probably the best for him. As for what he said about reporting to the top, Maxwell was not worried at all, as long as the support promised by the regent remained unchanged, the rest would not have much impact on Maxwell. After all, in this case, the fake circular used by the fake messenger is the focus of the other party's headache.
Maxwell opened the door to the conference room and led the messenger out.
The messenger gathered his retinue almost impatiently and prepared to go, only to find that one was missing. "Goering! Where did that guy Goering go? Tell him to get out of here, we're going back to the Icewind Sentry soon, right away!! ”
A middle-aged man ran to his side almost palely and muttered a few words in his ear.
The Courier's expression was like an instant of electricity, and he whispered in despair, "You can't be mistaken, can you? ”
"No, absolutely not." The middle-aged man swore a promise. "I asked the soldiers who guarded the door yesterday. The fake messenger looked like the missing Lord Nathanos. I once accompanied Nathanos on an envoy to Quel'Thalas. Judging from their descriptions, it is indeed him, and I am absolutely not mistaken! ”
The Courier looked around, thankfully only his retinue at the moment. "Silence! There is a big problem with this matter, we must go back to the Ice Wind Sentry right now, this is not the place to talk. ”
The middle-aged man nodded. The group then quickly left the Chapel of the Light's Wishes.
Maxwell watched them leave. Looks like he had to remind Lord Ferding to come back first, Maxwell touched his chin. It seems that a new wind has been blowing in this plague land lately. He looked gloomily at the West. He also sent a letter to the Dark Queen of the Undercity. But why, Her Majesty the nearest Queen, has not yet replied?
It was a terrible day, and Maxwell thought it until nightfall.
Until the appearance of a man made him praise the Light for being so just.
The presence of that man was the only good news Maxwell had had on this terrible day.
"You're welcome back."
Xia Ya, who heard the news, also hurriedly ran to the door, looking at the object of the wind and dust, she couldn't restrain the excitement in her heart for a while, and pounced on each other, giving the other party a forgetful hug.
"You're back, we're all worried about you. It's good for you to come back. ”