Chapter 312: Decent Ending
The moment Lucien came on the field, the entire gospel square was silent, and the pins were heard.
Shen Fei read their eyes, and they all had the same sentence written on them - hell!
His Majesty has been missing for more than three years, and he has exhausted countless financial resources and manpower in the empire and has not been found, so now that he is celebrating the day of victory, he suddenly came up from the background, and it is impossible for anyone to remain calm.
Well, Shen Fei doesn't count.
The countess reacted, her eyes staring at Shen Fei, but she saw a faint smile of contempt on Shen Fei's face.
It turns out that this guy has known for a long time......
Now the countess all reacted, the teleportation ring in Shen Fei's hand was originally prepared for her!
Therefore, Shen Fei just wanted to prevent himself from being unfavorable to Joshua behind his back when he was fighting on the front line.
Countess Mary had indeed thought of taking advantage of the opportunity to create chaos and end the royal bloodline while everyone was on the front line, but she didn't expect Joshua's blind cat to touch the dead mouse, and unexpectedly added the identity of a regent to Shen Fei. In this case, if you make a move, you will risk being exposed, and the benefits will be taken by Shen Fei, and the countess is proficient in business and will never do this kind of loss-making business.
It's just that I didn't expect that Shen Fei had already found out everything.
Countess Mary was sitting on pins and needles in the audience, with a forced smile on her face, and thousands of thoughts were constantly tumbling in her mind, what was wrong?
Lucian didn't go to see Mary, and when he was rescued by the shadow, he knew Mary was finished.
Lucian hid in the basement of MI7 for three days, and for three days he watched the events that had happened in the past few years of his disappearance, which were recorded in MI7's intelligence room.
In Shen Fei's plan, the celebration of the return of the front-line soldiers three days later was the time when everyone's pressure was greatly reduced. The Gospel Square was full of citizens and soldiers, and after seeing Lucien appear, no matter what careful thoughts he had before, he unconsciously knelt down on one knee, put one hand on his chest, and shouted "My King".
Mary got up with Fei Gong, Maile and the others, and bowed down to welcome Lucian's arrival.
Joshua in the audience was stunned, his father had been missing for three years, and he suddenly stood up from the backstage during today's celebration. Joshua rubbed his eyes vigorously, it was true...... Before you know it, your eyes are moist.
Lucien glanced across the front row and saw a lot of familiar faces, as well as some slightly "unfamiliar" faces. Joshua grew up, and the eyes between his eyebrows and the bearing exuding from his whole body made Lucian seem to see himself when he was young, and he was even a little more calm and introverted.
Lucien walked to the center of the stage with open arms.
"Sorry to worry everyone, I'm back now." Lucien lightly bypassed the fact that he had been missing for three years.
This kind of thing can't be said much in public, not to mention that there are foreign guests of other two races in the audience.
The Imperial Consortium is an extremely large organization, and in the conversation between Shen Fei and Lucian, it was decided to downplay the impact of this matter and slowly try to make a peaceful handover.
This hand is tantamount to directly strangling Mary's last chance, and she has no way to raise troops to resist in public, not to mention that these soldiers under her command may not have any intention of rebelling at all after seeing the old king. In other words, Mary has now completely lost control of the troops. Only the retainers of the Earl's Court were completely loyal to her, but now in the Gospel Square, she had no way to mobilize the retainers.
What's more, now that all the soldiers have returned, all the big names have also gathered in the Holy City, as well as Shen Fei and his two divine beasts. Mary wasn't crazy enough to think she could deal with a force of this magnitude with hundreds of retainers.
Lucian smiled with satisfaction, this time the difficulties encountered by the human empire were far more terrible than forty years ago, but the tenacity of the human race was more than ever, especially Joshua's performance, which was completely qualified as a king. Even if Lucien was there, there was no guarantee that he would do better than Joshua.
Many people in the audience have already reacted and burst into tears.
The Human Empire has been really hard to endure in the past few years, and without Lucien, everyone is like losing their backbone.
This time, humanity shocked everyone, including themselves, with their tenacity in the face of the combined attack of the Frost Orcs and the Apostles.
Now that humanity has proven itself to be the rightful king of the northern continent, the return of the old king Lucien is the best ending.
Everyone in the Gospel Square knelt down and chanted the name of King Lucian, and the mountains shouted a tsunami.
The people in the rest of the Holy City, who had not crowded in to join in the fun, also exchanged their mouths, and soon learned what was happening at the celebration.
People ran around telling the news to everyone they met, whether they knew it or not.
At this moment, even the players are all fried. When he entered the holy city to understand the background, it was clearly stated that the human king Lucian had been missing for more than three years, the little prince Joshua was young, and several important ministers controlled the government. Now they have not only defeated the orcs and apostles on the front line, which has greatly frustrated their prestige, and now there is even the return of the old king NPC, and now the human forces are about to become NB!
"The human race has added another legendary NPC, we have heard the deeds of the old king Lucian from the novice village, but I didn't expect it to come out this time!"
"It seems that this is the reward of this great victory of mankind, if the Holy City cannot be defended this time, the old king will definitely not be able to come out."
"I heard from the NPCs at the scene that Shen Fei invited the old king up, which means that Shen Fei already knew about this?"
"Shen Fei can be regarded as a meritorious person for protecting the country this time, and the reward must be a lot......"
"I heard from the NPCs of the army that Shen Fei came back on a black dragon to rescue the Holy City, and he sprayed all the enemies and players of the Apostle to death with two dragon breaths."
One by one, the players turned into lemon essence, and the sour one by one was not good.
However, the human power has become stronger, which also means that the area and influence that their players can walk have become stronger.
No, just after the humans and the other two races signed an alliance agreement, all players prompted to gain Dwarven and Elf friendliness.
When I first came to the Holy City, everyone had seen the NPCs of these two races on the docks, but the friendliness of the two races was very low at that time, the friendliness of the dwarves was evaluated as [bland], and the friendliness of the white elves was even lower, and the direct default was [indifference], which made the players at that time complain, obviously when they chose the human race, they all said that the Light Alliance, how could there be mutual discrimination within the alliance......
Some daring players also rushed over to chat with the dwarves and white elves in an attempt to trigger some hidden plot, and naturally ended up with a lot of white eyes. There were even dwarves and elves that broke into their ships, only to be killed by direct attack.
But now, when the agreement was signed, everyone got a system prompt, and the initial friendship with the dwarves and white elves was directly increased to [friendly].
"I'll go, this time, the friendliness has increased so much?"
"This is the Bright Alliance, right?"
"By the way, I also received a reminder, saying that the exchanges between the three clans will increase in the future, and the border gates will cooperate in defense to promote economic and trade and exchanges, what does this mean?"
"This means that in the future, it will be easy to see dwarves and elves in the land of the Human Empire, and we can also go to their territory at will."
"I'll go! It's finally open to the communication of the three clans.,You can directly meet with dwarf players and elf players to form a team.。 ”
Some players were excited, while others had stiff faces.
Now there is no barrier between the three clans, and they are one, which means that the various guilds are finally going to meet.
In the past, they were kings and hegemons within their respective races, but now the entire "battlefield" has expanded to the entire northern continent, and now the name of the first guild must be wanted by many guilds. In addition, the competition for resources and quest progress will be fiercer. For ordinary players, it is convenient to communicate in the future, and many of the big guilds' methods of locking materials will be ineffective for them. In addition, the high-value drawings will only be sold higher, but some potions will become cheaper.
For a while, the players had mixed feelings and had their own concerns.
Countess Mary is now in the same mindset.
Unable to find any reason to leave, he could only wait on the scene.
Mary, who is usually decisive and straightforward, is rarely "reserved" at the moment.
After Lucien had finished speaking, Countess Mary got up and whispered to Ferdinand beside her, "I am a little tired from the long journey, and now I want to go back and rest, and I will not go to the celebratory dinner in the evening." ”
Ferdinand didn't have any doubts, and nodded his head to indicate that he would definitely bring the words.
But as soon as Mary stood up, Shen Fei didn't know when she appeared on the way out.
"Mary, your face doesn't seem to be very good, it just so happens that there is a doctor in the palace, and my nephew Lazy Chan has been waiting in the palace for a long time, so let him check your pulse when the time comes, and see if it is the wind evil into the body."
Shen Fei spoke slowly and logically, and every word was a kind of torture for Mary.
Mary's afterglow saw that just as Shen Fei raised his hand to "warmly invite", Lucien also came down from the stage, greeted everyone one by one, and slowly approached her.
"I'm really uncomfortable now, there are special doctors in the Earl's Palace, so I don't have to bother the lazy Zen master, I deliberated on my own, don't let me ruin my good days." Mary was a little dodgy, but Shen Fei was like a big mountain in front of her, no matter how she tried left and right, she couldn't get around. At this moment, Mary even wanted to make a move, but in the end reason suppressed the impulse.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind her, like a fixation spell, which suddenly made Mary unable to move and froze in place.
"Mary, long time no see."
Shen Fei dodged with considerable discernment, and it happened that the other people's minds were now full of doubts, where did Shen Fei find King Lucien? When did they join forces and prepare to surprise everyone today? Surrounded Shen Fei.
Shen Fei glanced at the two people who were "chatting privately" and "catching up", thinking to himself about how much he had contributed to the last conversation between the two of them!
On the night Shen Fei met with Lucian, Shen Fei learned the ins and outs of the whole thing.
After listening to the process and experience of Lucian's kidnapping, Shen Fei only summed up three words - romantic debt!
It turned out that Lucian and his wife knew each other back then, and Mary was about the same age at that time, and she was soon fascinated by the handsome and dashing Lucian. However, Mary did not intervene in the marriage of Lucian and his sister because of morality, and she shouldered the two pieces of the empire's laws and finances, and contributed a lot to the empire.
Mary's indecent crush on Lucian soon turned pathological, and she believed that all the power of the empire must be firmly in Lucian or her hands, because she was the only one who would never betray the empire and would not betray Lucian. But at that time, Lucian was spending time with his wife, and the empire was also growing stronger and stronger under the rule, and he didn't notice what Mary was doing behind her back, so that Sean, the deputy director of MI7, was poisoned.
Mary was in charge of the empire's economy and laws, leaving no trace in her work.
After Sean's assassination, Mary wanted to explain to Lucian that she would become the top commander of MI7, but Lucian simply refused. Mary didn't know at all that the position of the supreme commander of MI7, Lucian had always been vacant for Shen Fei, and all the appointments were just temporary deputy positions, and Lucien did not ask for the deputy position, all of which were decided by MI7 for themselves.
As a result, Sean's former disciple, the most gifted shadow, naturally became the "supreme officer" of MI7 on the outside.
In fact, Mary also wanted to make a move on the shadow later, but the shadow's latent technique was too tricky, and she couldn't find any chance at all......
And so it was, until the queen died in childbirth when Joshua gave birth to him, and things took a turn for the better......
Lucien was immersed in the great grief of losing his beloved wife, but Mary's eyes lit up, as if she saw a ray of light.
My sister died, so her chance came......
But her greetings were not answered by Lucian, and at one point Mary even made it clear that the queen was now vacant and she wanted to replace her...... Rejected by Lucien's righteous words.
Although Mary and the queen are not twins, but the two look very similar, Mary thinks that she can take care of Lucian instead of her sister, but she didn't expect that the other party didn't mean anything at all, and advised her not to think nonsense.
Mary, who thought she was no worse than her sister, was subjected to a "great disgrace", her psychology became more and more distorted, and her humble love turned into pathological possessiveness, until the night of Joshua's spring outing......
Mary decided to take possession of Lucian forever, brainwashing the guards of the camp with the secret technique of the Warlock, and once again expressing her love for Lucian after entering the camp. Of course, once again, Lucian refused. But this time Mary came prepared, and told Lucian to ask for only one last hug, and after the hug she completely forgot about him and went to find someone who cared about her to marry.
This was also the situation that Lucian wanted to see the most, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and agreed to Mary's request.
But who knew that during the hug, Lucian found that his consciousness was getting more and more blurred, until he lost consciousness in front of him......
When he woke up again, he was already in the vault of the Earl's Court.
When Lucien was speaking to Shen Fei in the basement of MI7, Shen Fei picked up a plate of small melon seeds and listened while eating. After all, this kind of emotional and ethical drama at eight o'clock in the evening has no feeling without adding a little melon seed.
After a long time, the case of the king's disappearance is a bloody drama. Because of her own selfish desires, Mary has harmed many people, and in the end, she has also led herself to a point of no return.
"Hey, lick the dog, lick the dog, lick until the last ......"
Shen Fei and Lu Xien also discussed how to deal with this matter in the secret room.
The truth must not be made public, otherwise the credibility of the Imperial Consortium over the years will be destroyed, and the trade of the Consortium throughout the country will be completely destroyed. Of course, the most critical point is that Mary didn't do anything to catch Lucian, so Lucian can't kill the killer, so he can only deal with it in the same way.
Shen Fei looked at Mary with tears streaming down her face, and being under house arrest in the Earl's Court was her final destination......
As for the Imperial Consortium, it will all be taken care of by Fuman in the future.
Of course, this decision will be announced by Mary herself.
This can be regarded as a decent ending for her.