Chapter 22: Secrecy (15)
Drake came out of the Fiat office and immediately called an official car to go to the Yafikros Hotel Complex, where Locks and Johns were staying.
The Yafi Cross Integrated Hotel is a chain hotel group under the Yafei Cross Foundation, and it is one of the most exclusive places in this imperial capital. The people who can live in it are not ordinary people, and the price is also a big expense for the average small noble. Locks and Johns spent almost all of their money to stay in a junior suite for three months.
The Yafi Cross Consortium is jointly owned by the Yafei and Cross families, as well as a number of small and medium-sized families. Although those small and medium-sized families have some say in the consortium, basically most of the time the two families of Yafei and Cross have the final say.
The reason why Locks chose this place as his place to stay was because the two families of Yafei and Cross did not participate in the suppression of the Minks family back then.
At this time, Locks and Johns were talking about the past few days in Locks's room.
"Uncle Johns, what do you think His Majesty will reward us?" Locks has been thinking about the reward for the past few days, although he still has a grudge against Fiat in his heart for the decline of his family, but the only person who can restore the glory of the family is Fiat. It's like meditating all day, and it's the same now. "It's been a few days, why haven't you sent someone to inform us?"
"Master Locks, don't think about it. With the two things we have given to the royal family, Your Majesty will definitely reward us. Johns was calmer and more composed, and it was useless to think too much now, and all he could do now was wait quietly.
"Uncle Johns is right, what we are offering is a special item that is extremely rare and rare in the entire universe. No matter what His Majesty the King thinks, he should give us something. In this way, the people of all parts of the empire will know that the royal family will not treat those who have meritorious service to the empire. Locks was persuaded by Johns's words, and knew that he was in a terrible state of affairs, and that no matter how much he thought about it, the status quo would not change anything.
"Knock knock......" There was a knock on the door, and Johns immediately got up and went over to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, Johns saw the old man standing in the doorway, smiling at him. Seeing the appearance of the old man, he immediately opened his mouth in surprise and stammered, "Hello! Morality...... Lake...... Sir, please...... Ask...... Yes...... What the...... Things? β
"Huh!" Drake didn't expect to make Johns so surprised and nervous, and immediately smiled at Johns. "You don't have to be so nervous, just treat me like an ordinary old man."
"Yes, Master Drake." Johns calmed himself down and turned to gesture with his hand raised. "Please come in, I'll prepare some refreshments right away, you can rest for a while."
"Don't bother, I'll be gone soon." Drake politely declined Johns's suggestion and explained his intentions directly. "Your Majesty has sent me to deliver a message to you, so that Locks will go to the palace at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon."
"Your Majesty, let us go to the palace at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon, right?" After waiting for a while, he didn't see Johns open the door and come back, so Locks also came to the door, and when he saw the old man at the door, he was stunned for a moment. Hearing Drake's words, Rocks, who had recovered from his shock, asked.
"Locks, I'll send a car to pick you up tomorrow afternoon. You don't need to prepare anything, just stay refreshed. Drake said kindly to Locks. Now that I've finished conveying it, I'm going back. Don't come out to send it, it's better to rest early, for the sake of tomorrow's future. β
"Okay, I will. Thank you very much for coming and informing us, and I will be in the best condition to meet your majesty tomorrow. Locks thanked Drake very solemnly.
"Huh! Very good, the old man is very optimistic about you, and in the future, he will do more things that are beneficial to the empire, and His Majesty will not treat you badly. "Drake has a good impression of Locks, and thinks that it is rare for Locks to risk his life for the sake of his family as hard as Locks, and he is really lucky to meet one. This kid will be on the rise in the future, and when he goes back, he has to let the juniors in the family get in touch with him to see if he can make friends.
"Huh!" Locks looked at Drake with a smirk when Drake said this.
Drake ignored the two of them, turned and walked out the door, and went downstairs back to the palace.
"Hey!" Johns looked at Locks' stupid look and didn't say anything, just sighed, closed the door, and went back to his own business.
Fiat hurried out of the office and drove to the sisters' base. On the way, he kept an excited look, looking at whether he could meet his expectations this time.
The car drove fast and arrived at its destination in less than ten minutes. As soon as the car stopped, Fiat couldn't wait to get out of the car.
As soon as he walked quickly to the front of the gate, a red light shone through the doorway, followed by an emotionless electronic synthesized sound. "Your Majesty, please wait a moment, AE303 will inform the princesses."
Suddenly scanned by the red light, Fiat instinctively raised his hand to block his eyes and stopped. Hearing the electronic synthesized sound that came, Fiat muttered to himself helplessly. "These two girls are really, Zhilu said that I will come over soon, and I will not prepare in advance, now let me stand alone so stupidly, and see how I clean up the two of them in the future."
"Your Royal Highness Princess, Your Majesty has arrived outside the door of the ground building and is waiting to come in." The sisters, who were carefully watching the picture, were suddenly interrupted by the intelligent system AE303, and the sisters retracted their gaze very helplessly and turned to check the monitoring screen.
"Oops! Grandpa, why did you arrive so quickly, I haven't understood much yet. "Alicia was very unpleasant and managed to find a fun thing to do. This has just started, and before I have made any achievements, I was disturbed and very angry. "It's less than ten minutes, grandpa is really anxious, don't you know that speeding on the road is easy to get into an accident?"
"Huh!" Meria covered her mouth and snickered, her sister was so funny. "Alicia, since grandpa has arrived, let Fiya go up and bring grandpa down."
"Hmph......" Alicia snorted very reluctantly, so she had to listen to her sister's words and obediently took out the terminal to inform Fiya. Fiya, my grandfather has just arrived at the door, you go out to greet him, and then bring it down. Well...... Also, try to make as many detours as you can to buy me some time. β
"Good thing, master." Fei Ya still connected the communication as quickly as usual, and replied very succinctly.
Fia put down what she was doing and went out to meet Fiat. Coming out of the room, Fiya walked down the corridor to the main entrance. When he opened the door, he saw a man who was spinning in circles, so he walked out of the door and saluted very respectfully. "Your Majesty, please come with me, the master is waiting for His Majesty's arrival in the underground base."
"Hmm. It's good. Fiat stopped spinning around and followed Fia through the door. At this time, Fiat's heart was full of the good news that the sisters said, and he didn't look at the scenery inside at all, and he didn't take a second look at Fiat, but just anxiously followed Fia.
Fiat followed Fia on a quick walk, passing through many places of all kinds. After a quarter of an hour, Fiat, who was following Fia, finally noticed that something was wrong, so he quickened his pace to Fiya, blocked his way, and asked. "Why haven't you arrived yet? Why do I think you're deliberately giving me a long detour, did Alicia make you do that? β
"Your Majesty, I didn't do that." Fiya's expression gave the impression that she would never lie, and she answered calmly. "Your Majesty must be too anxious, that's why you think like this. Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia has never ordered me to take a long detour. β
Fia saw that Fiat was still a little suspicious, so she hurriedly said. "Your Majesty, we're already very close to the princesses, let's hurry up."
"Oh! That's all right, let's move on. Fiat was deceived by Fia's perfect performance, and didn't know that he was really a fool in Fiya's eyes. I was deceived, and I don't know what to do.
Fiya took Fiat on his way, and it took him half an hour before the two appeared in front of the sisters.
Fiat finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the two sisters, and immediately asked Merea. "Merea, tell me quickly, what does that picture look like? Is there any important information on it? β
"Grandpa, don't worry, I'll tell you." Meria calmed Fiat, who was in a hurry, and then told Fiat everything she already knew. "Grandpa, based on my speculation after seeing the picture, that picture is probably an illustrative diagram of how to open the secret of the obelisk."
"Really? That's great, let's give it a try. Fiat was very satisfied with this answer, and happily danced his siblings, and suggested anxiously.
"Grandpa, don't worry. Now that we know the Tao, then we will definitely try. However, that will have to wait until we have finished studying the diagram first. It's just now that I know the way, so let's wait until it's confirmed. MerΓ©a opposed Fiat's proposal, believing that now was not the time.
"This ...... All right. You're right, I'm in a hurry. Fiat reluctantly agreed, and then ignored the two sisters and walked straight to the large screen that showed the puzzled picture.
Seeing that their grandfather was no longer paying attention to them, the sisters also came over to continue watching and studying.