About half an hour later.

Boom!!!!!

Two hundred meters away from the Governor's Palace, the sewer in the alley between the two houses suddenly burst open, and rubble and red and yellow flames rose from the hole, like a bear throwing firecrackers into the manhole cover filled with methane.

Before the cloud of water vapor that obscured his vision dissipated, Lao Chen flashed out in embarrassment.

The screeching of women and girls, the muffled swearing of men, the commotion of children's footsteps, and the old man's admonitions and warnings sounded in the surrounding shacks, but most of them seemed to have no courage to meddle in their affairs, and soon fell silent.

But Lao Chen is clear.

Behind the worn-out curtains and cracks in the doors, there were eyes full of curiosity and fear.

He lifted the surface of his true qi distribution body, and his whole body suddenly shook, and the stinky mud on his body was directly shocked like a bullet.

The filth was shaken straight to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

He squinted his eyes and glanced at the dark and cramped sewers behind him, and gradually fell silent, and a trace of realization and speculation flashed in his eyes: there was a problem with the origin of those ghost things, and eighty percent of them could not see the light, and they probably did not dare to emerge from the city.

Lao Chen smoothed the folds of his collar with both hands, and at the same time walked quickly to the mouth of the alley to watch left and right, and took advantage of the "onlookers" attracted by the sound of the explosion, as well as the officers and soldiers stationed in the governor's palace, to slip away first.

......

On the cliff shore in the rain, next to the lighthouse dense forest, the surrounding rain and fog are filled, and it is difficult to see with the naked eye.

The shadow of the Grand Duke of Dundee, dressed in the tight-fitting training clothes of a warrior, stood diagonally under the lighthouse, by the small bay and in the bluestone pavilion, which was only large enough for a boat to dock, playing a melodious flute by himself.

Squeak, squeak, squeak......

A man wrapped in a dark brown leather hooded cloak followed the melody of O'Khali's flute piercing through the rain as he slowly tread the gravel path along the shore.

The man in the cloak seemed to have entered the pavilion to take shelter from the rain, and when he lowered his hood, he saw this young general who was in the palace of the AIDS Mai and was physically punished in the court, the Marquis of Theodore.

"When my subordinates received a secret letter from my lord, I only listened to the sound of the flute swirling and echoing, and the duke looked at the harbor that was hidden in the fog. The duke's mood seemed to be a little bored at this time, can you let your subordinates share your worries?" Theodore stepped closer and bowed to the shadow.

The shadow stopped playing and turned around, bowed his head slightly, and then said with a fluttering expression, as if asking himself, "Do you know what is in the cave under this cliff? There are 1,800 shipwrights, slaves, outcasts, sailors, pirates, death row prisoners, dead soldiers, soldiers, and all kinds of skilled men. I promise them~ that if you serve me, you will be pardoned for all sins, and you will be rewarded for your merits, and you will be rewarded with freedom, titles, and treasures. ”

Theodore subconsciously looked down at the cliff indicated by the other party, but he couldn't see the submerged cliff cave from the high tide.

He looked shocked and asked, "Is the Duke going to do that great thing that changed the sky? or is he going to clear the king's side?" Although the first king said before his death that whoever can recover the territory in the royal bloodline is the king. But now the political situation is turbulent, the border is unstable, and neighboring countries are eyeing each other. Although most of the soldiers in the protectorate army inside and outside the royal city were somewhat disappointed by the king's weak compromise. But let them follow the marshal to raise troops and murder, fight in the same room, and let the syndicates benefit from fishermen, I'm afraid most people are still difficult to drive~"

After listening for a while, the shadow was noncommittal, and suddenly blurted out: "The real marshal wants to see you!"

"You mean?!"

Theodore showed a look of surprise on his face to the other marshal in the shadow mouth, but there was a hint of understanding in his eyes, obviously not everyone was without doubts about the shadow pretending to be a duke.

The shadow voice just fell.

The real Duke Edmund Dundees has slowly emerged from the woods.

He paced slowly along the slippery stone path, followed by a group of three or two mute servants and palace people, who were carrying umbrellas and some of them carrying wine utensils in their arms, and entered the pavilion under the lead of the duke.

Theodore was stunned for a moment at the sight of the old Archduke Edmund Dundees, who described his withered cape, but immediately flew over with emotion, fell to his knees and cried out in a mournful voice: "Marshal!! you have really suffered!!

"People are not people, ghosts are not ghosts~ not like the previous marshals, right?" Grand Duke Edmund Dundees showed a gleam in his hair and helped his old subordinates up with his own hands.

"Marshal, always my marshal. Again, the young general emphasized.

Archduke Edmund Dundees recalled in a sighing tone: "In those days, the Western Frontier fought with Maraketh's cavalry! In order to save me, you killed more than 30 enemy cavalry, and you were heavily wounded in 17 places! Due to excessive blood loss, even if you were treated with spells, you were still in a coma for three days and three nights, and almost left like the rest of your comrades. What is this little injury of mine?!hehehehehehe......"

Edmund Dundees was clearly well versed in the way of the military world, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he let the other party know that he remembered the other party's old feelings, which immediately brought him closer to the sense of life that he had not seen in several years.

Then.

The two waved away the shadow and waited for everyone, sat cross-legged at the round table in the pavilion, first reminisced bitterly and sweetly about the friendship between the generals in the past, and then changed the topic and talked about their stand-in.

Archduke Edmond Dundees' eyes were downcast, as if he was studying the texture of the stone carvings on the table: "When I was seven years old, I was only three days after the New Year's Day. Uncle ~ was assassinated. On his way home, he suddenly rushed out of an assassin who, without knowing what trickery he used, swung his sharp axe at his shadow...... was beheaded!"

"My father was worried that I would end up here, so he sent someone to search for him, and finally found a boy of about seven or eight years old among the local homeless people~! Hey~" Grand Duke Edmund Dundees sighed slightly, paused for a short time, and then continued: "In order to ~ in the future sinister political situation! can save my life! That is, today's 'Shadow Duke'." A few years ago, I suffered a knife wound, my body changed drastically, and my appearance was aging. The kingdom's many enemies are still on the lookout. Of course, this matter must not be known to outsiders. ”

"So you've been using shadows for the past few years?" Theodore, still a little puzzled, picked up the small pot to pour wine for the duke, and then changed the subject and asked, "Your Majesty forcibly examined the injury that day. Isn't it~ already aware that he is a stand-in for the Duke?"

"What do you think?" asked the duke.

"Your Majesty knows that I have been in love with the princess for many years, but it is chilling that you will marry the supreme treasure of our kingdom to the foolish son of the governor, and blindly seek peace with outsiders. Why did the duke bother to imprison himself in the fighting room. If you can take the port of Kuawati, you can take advantage of the situation to replace it and establish yourself as the king! I think that the tens of thousands of soldiers of the AIDS Kingdom will all support the Duke!"

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