Chapter 159: The world is like chess
readx;?“ You want to attack me!? Jing Ling said sharply, he saw a dagger stuck in Harwood's arm, and he only needed to use his brain to guess that Harwood had just wanted to attack him, but was stopped by the guards with weak hands. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Sure enough, Harwood's next rant confirmed Jing Ling's guess.
"You're a murderer! A demon through and through! ”
The roar drew the guards from the nearby tent, whose piercing gaze killed Harwood's illusion of escape, only to see him take a deep breath and jerk out the dagger from his arm, which was red with the clatter of metal falling to the ground.
He clutched his injured arm and said fiercely, "I know you're watching all of us, so you must know how my parents died, right?" ”
For some reason, Harwood's gradually calm tone made those present feel creepy, especially his dead pupils, as if they had lost their vitality, like the ashes of a burning flame of anger.
Jing Ling, who was directly pointed at the conversation, also had the illusion that he was talking to a dead man, and he calmed down and said slowly: "Hawood, I regret the death of your wife and daughter. ”
After speaking, he looked deeply at Harwood's pupils, and found that there was a throbbing in them, and it seemed that the death of his wife and daughter had hit Harwood very hard.
Cain had also suggested that Kyoling should not promote Harwood to the head of the armament department for two reasons, one was that he had been the earl of the Blackland kingdom and had been recruited into the army because of his outstanding military talents. He was released from the army and later arrested in the Great Purge. The camp was reorganized, and his name was even on the final trial execution list, and although in the end Jingling gave up the Great Purge, who knows if these military and political figures who had been purged had a grudge against him?
Loyalty was just one of the reasons Cain did not advise Hawood to commit such a task, the other being that Hawood's pregnant daughter had died of a miscarriage a month earlier, and that his wife had gone insane due to the loss of her and committed suicide by slitting her wrists on a silent night.
While everyone thought that Harwood would collapse because of this, he worked more diligently than before, which made Kyungling unilaterally think that he wanted to take up time for missing his relatives through work.
However, Harwood's actions just now made Jing Ling realize his mistake, and he was already able to guess that Harwood's nails must have been coated with poison, and if he had been scratched just now, he might have been a cold corpse at this moment.
Thinking that the high-ranking generals of the empire were actually plotting to assassinate him, his spine couldn't help but start to chill, and he asked angrily, "Tell me, who instructed you?" ”
"Hmph......" Harwood sneered, "No, what you should be asking is who I took advantage of. He took a step forward, and the two guards made a blocking motion in an instant, killing his idea of trying to get close to Kyungling.
"I don't understand what you mean." Jing Ling frowned.
"Of course you don't." Harwood's face turned very pale, and he swallowed his saliva and continued, "I have taken advantage of many realms. The foreign forces are just looking for revenge on you, but now it seems that the flame of my revenge has been extinguished. ”
Jing Ling's pupils shrank, and he looked at Harwood's arm sharply, if his fingers were coated with poison, then his action of holding the wound at this moment would inevitably cause the venom to penetrate into his skin and even the wound!
"It's already late." Harwood seemed to see through Jing Ling's thoughts, "Although it is an indirect contact with my wound, the poison will kill me in a few minutes, and no one can save me......"
"Why are you doing this!?" Jing Ling's heart was very entangled, he sincerely did not want Harwood to die, although this was a traitor who tried to assassinate him, he knew that the other party must have some unspeakable suffering.
"Do you remember the Great Purge?" The corners of Harwood's mouth curled, and he looked like he was mocking Kyungling. "If you could turn back the clock, would you still start the Great Purge?"
"Of course!" Jing Ling said without hesitation: "The empire has decided that it must suppress and eliminate the reactionaries, and although there are many innocent people who have been implicated, I do not regret starting the Great Purge." ”
At this point, Jing Ling could already guess that Harwood had a grudge against him because of the Great Purge, but he didn't understand why Harwood, who had been rehabilitated and was in a high position, wanted to assassinate him.
Is it the realm? Rebellion by foreign forces? So what is the point that he just said, 'just to seek revenge on you!?
"You're thinking...... Why should I kill you? Harwood's voice was weak, his body trembling uncontrollably, and his face as white as a dead body.
Perhaps knowing that his time was running out, he didn't give Jing Ling time to interject, and continued to say in a weak tone: "You started the Great Purge Movement to ...... Suppress and purge reactionaries, but you know what...... When my wife and daughter learned that I had been taken away for investigation...... They went around asking me about my ...... Whereabouts, and finally ......"
Speaking of this, he no longer had the strength to maintain his standing posture, and the whole person fell to the ground with a bang, Jing Ling ignored the advice of the guards, stepped forward and knelt beside him on one knee, put his head on his thigh, and asked in an uncomfortable and sad tone, "What happened in the end?" ”
Harwood seemed to see the Grim Reaper standing behind Jing Ling and watching him, but he never imagined that he would lie on Jing Ling's body and leave this world, only to see him choke up intermittently: "Finally...... My daughter...... Pregnant...... Your secret police deceived me..... Wife and daughter...... Just satisfy their kinky. Desire...... will ...... Let me ......"
Everything that people see is determined by the brain, and before he died, Harwood recalled his deepest memory, he saw that he returned home with the news of his rehabilitation, he hugged his wife and daughter tightly, and at that time he thought that the days would get better and better, until his daughter began to vomit frequently, and he realized that his daughter, who was only sixteen years old, was two months pregnant!
His heart bleeds when his wife kneels in front of him and cries about their involvement by the secret police, but he still loves his country and supports his emperor.
It wasn't until a month ago that his daughter died of a miscarriage due to a viral infection, and his wife, who was devastated, also chose to commit suicide by cutting her veins, and at that time he accepted the flames of anger.
He blames all this on the author who started the Great Purge, and it was Kyungling who killed his wife and daughter, so he must take revenge!
For this reason, he chose to work hard, and at the same time, with the help of Albertin and Nolan intelligence organizations, he successfully rose to the top of the Chinese military and political with outstanding political achievements, and it can be said that he is the biggest spy lurking in China.
But now that he was dying, before he died, he felt the body temperature of Jing Ling, and for some reason, when he looked up at the hateful person, there was no hatred in his eyes, there was only pity, and in its place was relief......
"The world is like chess, we are all just chess pieces......" Jing Ling shook his head and sighed after closing Harwood's eyes. (To be continued.) )