After a while, Richard followed the servant and met Oscar in the courtyard.

As suspected, Oscar had indeed come to deliver something, and had come with several wagons, and was having people unload boxes from the wagons and move them into the room to put them away.

Richard examined the contents of some of the boxes and found that they were all the materials he wanted from the Royal Library.

Watching Richard finish his inspection, Oscar spoke up next to him: "The things are almost here, just taken out of the royal library - the city has been turned upside down, but few people pay attention to this."

Here, there are twenty-five boxes of materials, most of which you need—only a few—about a tenth, and they are kept in the deepest vaults of the Royal Library, which are very difficult to retrieve, so I compensate you with all the high research value materials I can find.

If you insist on what is left, that's fine, but you'll have to give it a few more days, and I'll be sure to make it up for you when the time comes. ”

Richard listened, moved his eyebrows, and had to say that from Oscar's words, he could hear that Oscar was still relatively sincere.

After all, it is not so easy to figure out with less information, but the other party still took the initiative to explain and gave compensation and solutions.

After that, Richard nodded, and said that he was generally satisfied, and did not care about it - if he cracked Baltavin, the difference between the information of nine-tenths and the whole of the information would not be too great, and he would not be guilty of making an unpleasant fuss for the last tenth.

Looking at Richard's appearance, Oscar breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In that case, the original promise can be regarded as fulfilled, and you can return His Majesty's contract, right?"

"I should hand it over to Your Majesty myself, right?" said Richard.

Oscar was stunned for a moment, opened and closed his mouth, and said with some sadness: "There is no such opportunity anymore, Your Majesty has really passed away." ”

"Huh?" Richard raised his eyebrows, "really?

Oscar shook his head with a little confusion: "Originally, I thought that the eldest prince assassinated His Majesty so that he could inherit the throne." But what happened at the succession ceremony today changed my mind again, and now I can't see the situation clearly, and the whole Char and the whole alliance are in chaos. ”

After being silent for a while, Oscar looked at Richard, showed a somewhat pleading look, and said, "Although I know this is a bit excessive, if possible, I would like to ask you to deal with the current situation, solve the chaos, and restore peace to the alliance." ”

"How?" said Oscar at the end, asking earnestly.

Richard listened, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "I'm sorry, Mr. Oscar, I'm afraid I can't." ”

"Well, I didn't think it would happen. Oscar sighed, the whole person seemed to be a little older, and he didn't mention the matter of getting back the emperor's contract, turned around and walked out the door.

"Mr. Oscar. At this point, Richard stopped Oscar.

"What?" Oscar stopped, turned his head, and asked with some anticipation, "Have you changed your mind?"

"I didn't. "I just want to tell you that the reason for rejecting you is not you, but me, don't blame yourself." I'm a very selfish person, so I don't have enough interests to do things that have nothing to do with me, that's all. ”

"What if there's enough interest?" Oscar tried to persuade.

"Will there be?" Richard asked rhetorically, "not to mention the books in the Royal Library, the promise is not fulfilled, just what I remember, you still owe me three unfulfilled demands, right?"

Oscar was silent and smiled wryly: "Well, it's me who thinks too much." It's true that now I can't give you anything, and even if I do, you don't necessarily want it.

Then again, you're not an Alliance member, you don't have a sense of belonging, and it's really not up to you to save the Alliance. The affairs of the alliance need to be solved by the alliance people themselves, so let me do it. ”

"Then I'll bless you, Mr. Oscar. Richard said, blinking his eyes, "Considering that the territory of the alliance is not very stable now, if there are no accidents, I will leave here and go to my fiefdom 'sarin' to have a look, maybe stay there for a long time, and conduct my research." We've been dealing with each other for a long time, and we have a bit of friendship, so if you can't stay in Char, you can go to 'Sarin' and find me. ”

"'Shalin'? looking for you? Well, if that's the case, I will. Oscar said politely, and then paused, lowered his tone, and said with a joke, "But I think there is a greater chance that I will die in Char, maybe looking at the face of friendship, you can avenge me?"

Richard smiled cooperatively, thought for a moment and replied: "Mr. Oscar, if you die, then the three requests you promised me will be gone, which is a great loss for me...... If you don't get into big trouble then, I'll get you revenge. ”

"Hahaha, okay, okay, thank you, Richard. Oscar laughed out loud, loud, no longer hiding anything, no longer expecting anything.

Because Oscar has heard from Richard's words, Richard is indeed capable, but he will definitely not give it for free, and will think more about himself, so he will try his best to avoid falling into the quagmire of the league...... As Richard himself said before, he was a selfish man.

Selfishness and selflessness are inherently opposites.

"That bothers you, there's nothing else to do, I'll leave first. After Oscar knew that he couldn't get help from Richard, he no longer hesitated and said goodbye, "When you leave Char to go to Sarin, I shouldn't have time to see you off, so I wish you a smooth journey in advance." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Oscar, goodbye. ”

"Goodbye, Richard. Oscar waved his hand, turned and walked outside, and walked out of the reception under Richard's gaze.

......

Oscar, an old man with a black face, left the reception, boarded the carriage, and sat in the carriage.

With a "boom", the carriage started, and the wheels ran over the bluestone ground, heading towards the depths of the night.

In the carriage, Oscar closed his eyes and remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long while, one of the two figures sitting in the carriage with Oscar suddenly opened his mouth - he was wearing a brown robe, which was Nagarjuna, who had the strength of a fourth-level wizard.

"My lord, how is it, did the man agree to your proposal?" asked Nagarjuna.

Oscar opened his eyes, glanced at Nagarjuna and Zonghu on Nagarjuna's side, shook his head, and exhaled lightly: "No." ”

"It seems that the other party has no idea of thinking about the alliance at all, and he is more selfish than me. ”

In fact, selfishness is the reason given by the other party. Oscar said, seeing what Nagarjuna was going to say, he raised his hand to stop him, "Okay, let's stop this matter." If the other party can really help, it is indeed a good thing, but you can't pin all your hopes on one person. The alliance is not the alliance of the other party, it is our alliance, and it really saved the other party, which is fortunate but also shameful, so let's figure it out ourselves. ”

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