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The scene returns to Noxus, and the time is already five days later.

After leaving the border city, Zhao Xin and Xiu still collected information according to the plan, they used their identity as mercenaries to do some indifferent tasks as a cover, while advancing towards Nietrick, although in reality, this journey has no point to continue, Canin's assurance and Black Rose's attitude have outweighed all the unclear information collected on the way, but it is clear that Xiu did not know about this, and Zhao Xin did not tell him what he thought.

The mission continued, and along the way, the two met all kinds of Noxians in order to complete the mission, and for Zhao Xin, this mission was ...... Or rather, the trip became a cultural trip, because as a marginalized person, Zhao Xin originally had to wait until he was older to truly understand Noxian society, but because of the choice of the second day, Zhao Xin's fate changed completely.

"This is Greenstone...... Thanks for giving us a ride, huh...... It's not too early now, let's go find a place to stay, and then send the goods to the client tomorrow, no problem, right? “

After waving goodbye to the truck driver who had taken them on a ride, Xiu introduced to Zhao Xin while looking at the streets and buildings here, five years ago, Xiu had a short rest here for a few days, and for Zhao Xin, this is a completely strange city, according to Black Rose's love **a** reading** novel YBDU newspaper, Darius is currently in a city not far from Nietrick, and will not leave there for a short time, and before that, Zhao Xin had a problem that had to be solved.

Greenston is the closest city to Zhao Xin's birthplace of Isean, because he doesn't know if Xiu knows his specific birthplace, in order not to attract his attention, Zhao Xin deliberately chose this place as a transit station, according to Xiu's personality, if he knows that this is Zhao Xin's hometown, then he will definitely ask in a very careful way, and on the other hand, Zhao Xin is also leaving more time for himself to think about whether he really wants to do this.

In the previous contact with Demacia, Zhao Xin did not get much information related to the Black Rose, which was also counted as his expectation, the education of the Demacians since childhood made them have an almost hateful aversion to betrayal, for them, once they betrayed Demacia, there is no other way than to never come back, and the Black Rose established on the basis of leakage and betrayal, there is no Demacian who has ever succeeded in becoming even a low-level member of the Black Rose.

"This time, my father seems to be very satisfied with your performance."

"Hey......?"

Zhao Xin said very little, and Xiu didn't have many words, and the two of them were used to walking on the road without saying a word like this, because there was no good opportunity before, Zhao Xin had not been able to go to Black Rose to get that information, just when he was thinking about whether and how to get the information in this city, at this time, Xiu's sudden words interrupted his thoughts, and the second was very satisfied......? Why did the prince suddenly say this?

"Don't you understand why? Because you found out the attitude of the Black Rose, didn't you? “

When taking the mission, the two also met some powerful Noxians, the sudden cessation of conscription by the army is not a trivial matter, and it is natural for them to buy information from Black Rose, after reading their memories, Xiu was surprised to find that the different Black Rose members gave them surprisingly consistent answers: they used very seductive words, euphemistically expressed to everyone the inevitability of the end of the war and the importance of peace, and this also shows one point: the information reported by Zhao Xin is not wrong.

When he first got this information, the second didn't believe it, unless it was necessary, it was impossible for the people of Black Rose to take the initiative to tell an inconsequential ordinary person about this kind of thing, if it was Xiu who used spiritual magic to do it, it would be normal, but how did Zhao Xin know this? And after receiving Xiu's follow-up report to prove it, II had to believe that he was right.

It's certainly good to get accurate information...... At least that's what Xiu thinks, and he doesn't think - or should I say that he doesn't take this aspect into account at all, but in the correspondence with his father, he doesn't see his father's usual calmness and joy, on the contrary, he shows a little uneasy and even frightened look, what is going on? Why did the father ......

"Hmm...... Nothing, I just did my job. “

After being silent for a while, Zhao Xin finally replied, if it was Shivana, she would definitely see that Zhao Xin was just perfunctory at this time, but Xiu, who had long been disgusted by this normative answer, didn't think so, his lips trembled slightly as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it for a long time, and after walking for a while, he finally asked: "Before leaving, do you ...... Did you have something to do with your father? “

"Hey......? Why do you ask ......? “

"It's just that I feel like this......" Xiu's attitude made Xiu quite troubled, but he also quickly found the answer, before leaving, Zhao Xin was rarely half an hour late, and some kind of dispute between the two people can explain all this, obviously Zhao Xin made the credit, but because of the previous quarrel was not affirmed, this kind of thing should not happen in Demacia, out of this consideration, Xiu deliberately said so, he hoped that he could use such a white lie to resolve the misunderstanding between the two.

"No, the order was conveyed to me by Mr. Chad himself, and I did not see the Second before leaving."

Zhao Xin's answer made Xiu stunned for a moment, his eyes were very clear, and he didn't look like he was lying at all, not to mention that he wouldn't lie at all, so he thought too much?

"Prince...... I want to go and have a drink, I'll be back before midnight, is that okay?"

Neither of them continued, and after being silent for an unknown amount of time, Zhao Xin finally said this, Xiu didn't doubt it - he wouldn't doubt it, he just thought that Zhao Xin was just because the topic just now was too embarrassing, so he left for a while to ease the atmosphere, after finding a hotel, he just smiled and watched Zhao Xin leave, and as for what his father arranged, he didn't even think about it at all.

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The prince is lying.

Although he didn't know the exact reason, and there was no actual evidence to prove it, he was definitely lying, Zhao Xin was sure.

Of course, the prince did not do this out of malice, Zhao Xin was also sure of this, but why did such a gentle prince deceive himself with such a lie? Could it be that Chad said before......

Zhao Xin didn't want to think about it anymore, now, he just wanted to know if the illusion he saw that day was the truth, with the help of the magic map left in the coin handed to him by the black rose, he ran all the way to a grocery store, looked at the map again to confirm, pushed open the door and walked in.

"Hello young man, what do you need to buy?"

This time it was an ordinary middle-aged man who appeared, Zhao Xin nodded slightly, and simply handed him the coin: "I want my information." “

"Wait a minute," the man took the coin and operated it in the machine behind the counter for a few moments, then raised his head and said, "The information you need has been obtained, do you want to read it here, or take it with you?" ”

"Read it here." Zhao Xin wouldn't want to put this kind of thing on his body.

"Follow me." The man didn't say a word, and took Zhao Xin to the room behind a secret door, where there was only a pair of tables and chairs, and on the table, a paper document had been placed at some point, and I had to admit that the work efficiency of the black rose was indeed very high.

"That's what you want, and if you're sure you don't need it anymore after reading it, destroy it yourself." The man reminded and turned to leave the room.

Is this what you want...... Looking at the document in front of him, Zhao Xin's heart was actually not sure, as if he was only doing this because of what he had just done, would it be too hasty? However, he soon regained his previous calm, as the tavern lady said before, the fact that the farm was patronized by robbers was not too much to record for Noxus, and the records in it were not necessarily of any value, and after a long sigh of relief, Zhao Xin picked up the document.

Similar to what Zhao Xin thought, although it is a record, no matter how you look at it, the content on this document is more like a record like a memo, and the content of it is roughly as follows:

Recently, there was a bandit attack near the city of Isern, the bandits tried to attack a marginal farm, but were eventually repelled by the marginals, according to the analysis of this group of robbers is likely to infiltrate the city in the mercenary, so as to avoid inspection, according to which it seems that the management of the mercenaries still needs to be strengthened, in addition, the combat effectiveness of the marginals seems to be much higher than imagined, and the relaxation of conscription conditions can also be considered.

After the bandits began to attack, the military arrived a little slowly, and if it were not for the effective counterattack of the marginals, all the grain on the farm would have been emptied, which was quite detrimental to the army's logistics, and the protection of the surrounding marginals should be strengthened during the harvest season.

In the state where the attack took place, the marginalized farmstead suffered considerable damage, almost half of the labor force in the prime of life, and after careful verification of the number of people, the list and compensation have been confirmed, in addition to the fact that a teenager in the farm is missing, according to the investigation, it is believed that he escaped from the attack, and there is no further information at this time.