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"You doubted me?"

At the top of the Falling Star Tower, Khan Parkes, who heard what Ian said, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked with a smile, "I want to hear this." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"You know, my first impression of you wasn't good. So I used to suspect you when you sent out the investigation team. Ian replied calmly, "The earthquake occurred in January, and not only did you delay nearly two months before you officially dispatched the investigation team, but you also did not include any high-ranking people in the investigation team when you knew that there were great demons near your destination. ”

"Phil told me it was because of the other nobles' obstruction, but I always felt that it was wrong. Because it's not like you don't have other superiors available. You know I exist, and let me help you maintain law and order in the North. You could have entrusted me with a secret escort to protect them. But until they traveled, you didn't say anything to me. ”

At this point, Ian chuckled and shook his head, "That's not your style to do the best with your things. ”

"So you think I have other intentions. Khan Parks asked rhetorically with a smile.

"Not bad. I didn't think you were going to let the team go back. Ian walked slowly to the left, stopping until he reached the edge of the hall. He looked sideways at the burning city below, and said in an inexplicable tone: "It's just that at that time, these were just my malicious conjectures after all, with strong personal emotional factors, so I didn't tell anyone about them. ”

"And it wasn't until I followed the investigation team all the way and saw something that I brought this suspicion back to my heart. He frowned slightly, stretched out his hand, and stroked the strange crystal on the inner wall of the top of the tower: "Do you remember the first time you brought me up?"

"I was very impressed by this strange crystal. Ian turned back to Khan Parkes, "And I saw the same thing in the Black Scales Society's lab. ”

"I thought it was common to see crystals that were transparent on one side and opaque on the other. But when Master Clark was shocked by this, I knew that this thing was actually very rare, so rare that even the famous scholars of the Northern Regions had never seen it. ”

Looking at Khan Parkes, Ian's gaze sharpened: "The side wall of the top floor of the Falling Star Tower, the side wall of the spiral staircase of the Black Balance Society's underground laboratory, these two are actually made of the same rare material, which makes my suspicion of you reach the apex. ”

"Then, I started to guess many, many things. Ian lowered his voice, as if caught in some kind of memory: "Lots of things that look suspicious. ”

"There's one thing I've been unable to figure out since a long time ago. Why is it that the offshore expedition is made up of a bunch of straw bales?" he said, "You are not a mediocre lord, you can even be called virtuous. But why would such a lord allow a group of straw bales to hold such an important position?"

"Now I understand. It's not a political compromise at all, but because for you, if they're not a bunch of life-hungry bales, that's the real trouble. ”

"You don't want anyone to discover that lab, you don't want anyone to discover the secrets inside and affect your long-planned plans," Ian asserted, "You were evacuating, but there were some things that you couldn't take with you. That's why you dragged on for two months before you sent out the investigation team, so you didn't have any high-ranking people in the investigation team, so you let people rob and kill them. ”

"You don't want them back at all. Ian turned his gaze and looked at his feet, as if through a rock formation, and saw the corpses on the ground floor.

But they still came back. Khan Parks let out a long sigh and said, "I'm back with something I shouldn't have brought with me." ”

"Got yourself in the net, didn't you?" Ian laughed at himself, and said in an inexplicable tone, "'Traitor'." ”

"Traitor?" Khan Parks had an inexplicable smile on his face, as if he didn't mind the title at all. He took a sip of the red wine in his hand, then chuckled and asked, "Seriously, I really didn't expect you to find so many loopholes." But I'm curious, if you're aware of this, why didn't you try to expose me in the first place?"

"Because when I came back from the circle, I happened to hear about your situation and the other identity you had exposed. Ian shook his head and smiled wryly, "This almost overturned all my judgments." It made me subconsciously think that the head of the Balance Club could not be the head of the Black Balance Club at the same time. ”

"And the other reason for me to overturn these judgments is that," Ian paused, looking at Khan Parks with inexplicable complications, "I really can't find a reason for you to do this." ”

He slowly approached the three people opposite him along the side wall, "If my guess is correct, then you should have let out the rumors about the sinners in the first place. But I don't understand, why do you want to do all this superfluous stuff when you don't want anyone to know these secrets?"

"I also don't understand why you would want to destroy the city where you had worked so hard because you were the Grand Duke of the Northern Regions and the most powerful person in the city. ”

"Truth be told, if it weren't for the fact that Ms. Amanda left a double snake coat of arms on the ground before she died. No matter how much I doubt you, I'm afraid I won't believe that person is you in the end!"

"You want to know the answer?" Khan Parks asked, shaking his glass with his head down, smiling.

"That's right. Ian nodded: "The reason why I didn't go straight out of the sword is because I want to know the answer." ”

"Then I'll tell you the answer. Harpax smiled strangely, "Have you noticed that the hair color and pupil color of the two of us are almost the same?" ”

"What do you mean?" Ian frowned.

"Every year on the anniversary of the establishment of the Balance Society, your mother prepares twelve potions. She would wrap the potions in black paper and place them in a small satchel. Give them to me when you get to the venue. Khan Parkes smiled and said something that seemed unrelated: "This potion can only be concocted by your mother, and due to the scarcity of materials, it can only be made in a year at most. Each stick is only valid for one month, so it can only be used by a maximum of three people in a year. ”

"And the only effect of this potion" He raised his head, looking at Ian's silver-white hair, and showed an expression that seemed to be smiling, "It is to change a person's hair color and pupil color into another color, and no mental image can detect this disguise." ”

"Of course, because of your mother's attachment to someone, she will always only make one recipe for this camouflage potion. The silver-haired middle-aged man said meaningfully: "That is, to change the color of people's hair to silver white, and to change the color of people's eyes to pale blue." (To be continued.) )