Chapter Ninety-Three: An Ultimatum
Two days later, when I came to Ishishita Fortress again, I clearly felt that the atmosphere was abnormal. The guards looked reserved, completely unrelieved of their previous idleness.
It seems that Yiqiē is proceeding in an orderly manner according to the original plan, and the conspiracy hidden in the lord's uncle's room has been revealed.
"Has anything happened in the past two days? The atmosphere in the fortress looked very wrong. ”
I asked the guard in front of me to confirm my suspicions, and the guard responded to me with a tight-lipped attitude. Although there was no direct reply, it was already an indication that something big was going on in the fortress, and the guards must have been given a gag order from their superiors. He couldn't ask for the details anyway, so I walked straight in the direction of the excavation site, where Casemi probably wouldn't hide anything from me, and as one of the people on the cusp, he obviously knew better.
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"Damn! I thought it was a thief from somewhere, but I didn't expect this qiē to come from Lajek! ”
Casemi angrily complained to me. As a high elf, he must have suffered a lot of grievances in the Nord city over the years, and this incident can be regarded as bringing his dissatisfaction to a climax. But that's not what I'm focusing on now, what I'm concerned about is, why didn't the Igmund Lord PR follow the theoretically optimal solution?
"Are you sure it was really Lajek who did the good thing? Isn't he Igmund's uncle, and you're a court mage hired by Igmund, how could he do it to his own people? Could it be a misunderstanding? ”
"Hmph, your own people? No one here has ever treated me as their own! The fools of the Ancestral Divine Continent didn't understand the great significance of my research at all, and only knew that they were sneering at me; As for the Nord barbarians, they are not even more likely to possess any virtue than they have a bad record, and I am not surprised at all that they have done such a despicable act! ”
Belch...... Judging from the way Casimer was furious, he was actually quite surprised that the theft was at the hands of the lord's uncle.
"Do you have any reliable evidence?"
"Of course! I wouldn't have told you so much if I hadn't had hard evidence in hand......," Kassemer returned to his workbench and picked up a letter to show me and explain, "A servant, as usual, happened to find an artifact that had been lost from me while tidying up Lajek's room. The servant, who had never seen the world, thought that the Falmo dictionary was something of value, so he quietly put it in his pocket and wanted to steal it and sell it. As he was leaving, the guards noticed that he looked strange and searched him in detail, revealing the truth. When I heard the news, I grabbed the letter before they could destroy the evidence......"
Yiqiē went with the flow without dragging his feet, and the technique of firing the cannon was quite ingenious, and that servant must have been a pawn of Nebos. I took the letter from Kasemer, and it was the same letter I had placed in Lajek's room to set up the blame, and it seemed that it had convinced Casemer that Lord Igmund's uncle was behind the theft.
"I knew for a long time that these Nord barbarians had a deep hatred for us elves, but I didn't expect them to lose even the most basic shame! I confronted Lajek with the evidence, but he didn't expect that to this point he would not admit his despicable deeds, and he would not even say anything about where the other stolen goods were hidden! ”
Belch...... The thing was not done by anyone else at all, so he naturally would not admit it; As for the whereabouts of the rest of the stolen goods, he couldn't give it if he didn't know it.
"Lajek and you have no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future, if you insist on saying that because you are an elf, he will stumble on you, and the people of the Ancestor Shenzhou are his primary target; And as a close confidant of the lord, he has power and money in his hands, so why bother to steal your worthless things and sell them......" According to the original plan, I began to persuade Casimer to calm him down and seek a more rational solution, "Believe me, there must be something strange in this incident. I think...... You can go to Lord Igmund Theory, his uncle on one side and his court mage on the other, I don't think he takes sides and should be able to give you a fair account. ”
"Igmund?" After listening to my persuasion, Casaimer's anger did not decrease at all, "I have already said that Igmund hired me as his court mage just to take advantage of me, and he never regarded me as his own in his heart!" In this matter he was indiscriminately biased in favor of his uncle, bent on believing that the conclusive evidence in my hands was a fake! He even scolded me for being paranoid, fooling around, making trouble for nothing, seeing the wind and rain, and always wanting to make a big news......"
Well, things are still following the trajectory set by the old man of Nebos, and the Lord of Igmund has not done the proper crisis PR as I suspected, and the sharp contradictions are on the verge of exploding.
"Igmund is unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust! I've given him an ultimatum and tonight is his last chance! If he dares to ignore my pleas and shield the prisoner, I will show him how terrible it is to be angry with techmakers! ”
There are so many strange things in Kasemer's hands, and if he really turns his face and doesn't know what will happen, let's take a moment of silence for Lord Igmund first.
Fortunately, there is still one last chance to grasp. It's just that Igmund's current response is too inferior, and even if he can give an explanation tonight, there will be a crack in his relationship with Casemir that will be difficult to erase. I hurriedly took my leave to Cassémer and hurried back in the direction of the house, ready to urgently discuss with Atreous what to do next. (To be continued......)