Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Godfather
The investigation was quickly completed.
"The main members of the legation, including Viscount Heinrich, plus the knightly squire, made a total of 19 people. If you include cooks, grooms, domestic servants and other miscellaneous servants, there are 104 people in total. ”
"The results of the investigation show that as Meyer said, the 18 knight squires are indeed all transcendental, but the level is relatively low, probably around LV. Everyone was more or less aware of the conspiracy, but they were unaware of it. ”
"It's strange that according to Medea's previous mind-reading of the black-robed man Adams, this knight squire of the Mind Sequence once sensed that there was a high-level transcendent in the team, probably around lv.18,19."
"And this search for everyone did not find the existence of this high-level transcendent."
"I asked for the list of envoys provided by the Weissbach family from Eleanor's brother Ludwig, and confirmed that the contents of the list are consistent with the number and names of the people who were searched this time."
That said, maybe Adams' memory is wrong. Perhaps the high-ranking transcendent has left the team and found another person to take his place on the team. Even, maybe he's just done some kind of disguise, evading our scrutiny, and actually staying on the team. ”
"Three possibilities, different risk levels, increase in order from front to back." Sheila concluded, "The initial examination that tried to force this person to be exposed was inconclusive, and we had no further excuse to investigate further, so we had to follow the envoys first." ”
"Yes." Aske agreed with her judgment, "Let's go first, everyone remember to be vigilant at all times, and after leaving Mingxing City, try to avoid acting alone, Medea and No, every half an hour, use the psychic vision to determine the location of all team members." ”
"Everything is handled according to the rules of team combat, understand?"
"Understood!" The girls answered in unison.
The team of Wolf envoys quietly left Mingxing City, and Viscount Heinrich's expression was extremely serious, because he knew that this was the last time to enter the Duchy of Bavaria peacefully.
The next time I had the chance to come back, it would be war.
The expressions of the knight attendants were even more nervous than him, because everyone had already guessed that this envoy was by no means as simple as an ordinary diplomatic visit, and there must be some conspiracy, and everyone didn't know what the specific conspiracy was! If it breaks out in the Duchy of Bavaria, everyone may become a substitute for the dead, and they will be slaughtered by the enraged Weissbach family.
Many people even speculated rather maliciously that the reason why the Wolf family chose these low-level transcendents was to cover up for the masterminds behind the scenes and confuse the public.
Therefore, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the Weisbach family and the Blue Sword Mercenary Group, the commander-in-chief of the guard, everyone was honest along the way, and they didn't even dare to say more nonsense, just walked forward in silence.
The envoys left along the same route as they came, heading south from the city of Minxing through the village of Berg, the mountains of Achno, the city of Innsbruck, then through the Brenner Pass into the city-state of Verona, and then turning west into the Lombard territory.
When they arrived at the Lombard Territory, they entered the control of the Wolf family, and the people of the Blue Sword could retire and turn around.
Of course, the actual journey must not be so smooth, and the other party's conspiracy must be selected at a certain time period and suddenly erupt.
"Berg Village is too close to Mingxing City, if you choose to launch here, you will probably be subdued by the demigods of the Weissbach family who came from Mingxing City." Sheila pointed to the map and said, "The Brenner Pass is also impossible, it is too close to the autonomous city-state of Verona, and it already belongs to the border of the Duchy of Bavaria. If you really choose to be here, you don't need to blend in with the envoy team at all, just send a few border smugglers over. ”
"The real place to launch the conspiracy is most likely in the mountains of Akhnow or Innsbruck." She pondered for a moment, "I think it's the Ahenau Mountains, after all, the mountains are sparsely populated, which is more conducive to hiding hidden things. ”
"My opinion is the opposite." Medea objected, "Innsbruck is densely populated, and if you want to pursue the destructive power of the mutation, it must be more appropriate to launch it here." ”
"The Weissbachs could not sit idly by and watch the city fall." "It's too risky to start a mutation in the city. ”
"High risk is high reward." Medea retorted, "If absolute security is pursued, this conspiracy should not be designed in itself. ”
"I agree more with Medea." Aske said loudly, "If you want to launch a mutation in the mountains of Achnau, then the blockade is not too easy, block the passes in the north and south, and then hire a large number of mercenaries to go in and clean up, and the monsters inside will not be able to escape at all." ”
"Of course, whatever the case is, we just need to be cautious."
"Of course." Sheila and Medea said in unison.
A few days later, the envoys who had left Mingxing City arrived at the village of Berg slowly.
As the lord of the village of Berg, Asker was in his own territory for the first time. Many villagers were originally working, but when they saw the personnel and goods of the envoys walking in a long line on the road, they couldn't help but put down their farm tools and look over.
The children who were chasing and fighting in the ridges also gathered around Eleanor and Sidlifa, who were equipped with power armor, and shouted excitedly:
"Your Excellency! Your Excellency Knight! ”
"The golden knight looks the best!"
"No, it's the cyan knight who is more powerful!"
The children argued about the relationship between color and strength, and circled around the two girls. One of the girls also plucked wild flowers from the ground and timidly ran up to Eleanor, as if intending to offer them to her.
There was a shout from the villagers in the distance, probably because the child's parents were afraid that she would annoy the knight, so they hurriedly lined up the crowd around them, waving their arms and rushing towards this side.
Eleanor looked at the little girl in front of her in a daze, and a fragment of memory suddenly flashed in her mind:
She remembered that on the third hill of Constantinople, the child who had been brutally killed by the Frankish knights had remained crawling towards his mother's corpse before he died;
She remembered that on the way to Olympia, the girl was scarred and fell in the rain, and the empty instant noodle bucket was rolling on the ground next to her;
There seems to be a subtle overlap between the image of the two dead children and the timid girl on the helmet screen.
Eleanor hesitated for a long time before she slowly leaned down and spread her steel palms in front of her.
The girl placed the wildflower in the palm of her hand, and she clumsily adjusted her fingers, inserting the wildflower between the fingers of her left hand like a ring, and then slowly stood up.
The parents of the villagers finally arrived here, picked up the girl and held it in their arms, and ran away in a panic. The girl's head rested on her father's shoulder, and her eyes remained blank on the knight.
"Live well......" Eleanor murmured as if worried, looking at her distant little face.
"Hey, Eleanor!" Hood's voice rang out from the side, "Don't set up any flags! ”
Eleanor turned her head to see Hood and Maria standing by the road, greeting the Blue Sword to everyone.
"Hood, you guy." Eleanor laughed, "Married life is pretty chic, huh?" ”
"Of course, we have settled in the beautiful village of Beg, and it is only a 40-minute drive from here to work in Mingxing City every morning." Hood said with a smile, "Are you still used to the power armor I modified?" ”
"Thanks to you, it was easy to use at first, but now it's getting harder and harder." Eleanor said.
"Aren't those all your captain's modification requirements?" Hood immediately shook the pot skillfully, "What about Asker?" When is he going to get married? ”
"He's probably going to be single for the rest of his life." Eleanor joked.
"Really?" Maria was shocked and said, "Hood and I want to wait for the baby to be born, and let him be the baby's godfather!" ”
"Are you sure?" Asker walked from the back of the line.
"I'm just worried that you won't agree." Hood said.
"Why don't you say yes?" Aske smiled and said, "Let me, the lord, be the godfather of your children?" You're a good boy. ”
"This way my baby will have no worries for the rest of his life." Hood said with a grin.