Chapter 7: Conspiracy Theories
Augustus took the minutes of the meeting handed by the clerk and flipped through them directly, he even forgot to say thank you, until he looked through it for at least 3 minutes, and finally remembered that the adults sitting at the round table of the conference were looking at him, he quickly took his eyes off the Chinese document in his hand for a while, looked at the adults in front of the round table, he first said sorry with some restraint, and then smiled and said, you don't have to wait for me, you can move on to the next topic first. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
What a forgiveness, how can there be the slightest bit of consciousness that a merciful person should have? The faces of the adults who were not very good-looking were even more ugly, and the Earl of Stuart held back his anger and sneered, No, we can wait.
As he spoke, he found that he didn't know when Augustus had buried himself in the document in his hand again, and he didn't look at him again at all.
One can imagine how embarrassed and angry Stuart would be at this time.
But of course, no one is going to vent their anger, not even God will make a person crazy before he destroys him, and they don't mind the madness of little Augustus before Alfred's demise.
The atmosphere gradually became delicate to an interesting tipping point, I don't know if Augustus really didn't know whether he was testing the level of tolerance of the adults with him, or if the only page of the minutes in his hand was really interesting, and he buried his head in that page of records for half an hour without looking up, let alone drawing conclusions. So, the adults' little patience was completely exhausted, they really didn't mind the madness of little Augustus in front of the abyss of despair, but they really didn't need to wait for this child's madness, so they sensed that the atmosphere in the conference room was about to get out of control, and Marquis Sauron coughed to break the oppressive atmosphere.
However, before he could speak, Augustus, who was still looking at the record, said abruptly: "I have two questions. ”
Marquis Sauron was unnaturally stunned for a moment, this kind of bad feeling of being forcibly interrupted before he could open his mouth was really the first time in his life that he had encountered it, but considering that the arrogant child in front of him had actually stepped into the grave with one foot, he gave up his intention to pursue it, tried to calm his emotions, tried to make his smile as sincere, and said, "The meeting will solve any problem that can be solved for you." ”
Augustus gently laid the meeting minutes in his hand flat on the conference table, and then he looked at the Marquis of Sauron opposite, and was extremely serious: "Can you temporarily cancel Alfred's decision to resist the Lich invasion?"
That's the conclusion that he stared at the paper record for at least half an hour?
Isn't that damn piece of paper the decision of the meeting after Elizabeth fought for half an hour ago?
The adults in the conference room finally did not intend to suppress their emotions anymore, although this damned Augustus did not surprise them to ask this question, but for some reason, they just felt fooled at this time, so the atmosphere quickly became much more lively, and the nobles sat up straight one by one, obviously in addition to trying to make Augustus die with the most resolute and mean attitude, they were more willing to give this child the most vivid lesson in the laws of nobility for the Count Alfred, who had already entered the kingdom of heaven, and let him know what price he would pay for his stupidity。
The atmosphere became more and more intense.
But just before Francis and Stuart could speak, Augustus spoke again, he seemed to feel the schadenfreude and anger contained in all the eyes that looked at him, he looked a little helpless, and the shrugging of his shoulders also revealed his retreat, he said: "Forget it, just because I didn't ask this question, after all, the decision of the meeting cannot be changed, and there is no precedent for this." ”
It's like panting and finally stripping off a girl's clothes and preparing to sprint with a gun, only to find that the latter's legs are covered in blood, and it feels so bad it couldn't be worse.
So the adults who couldn't find an outlet for the raging momentum looked at Augustus and only gritted their teeth.
But at the same time, the Marquis of Sauron, the number one giant of the wasteland, unusually caught something interesting in Augustus's series of attitudes and words, and he noticed that Augustus's last words were almost a repetition of what he had said to Elizabeth earlier, that is, he was simply reading the words recorded on the piece of paper - what did it mean? Does it just mean that the child is helpless and withdrawn? Marquis Sauron didn't think so, and no matter how much he didn't want to believe it, no matter how unwilling he was to admit his feelings, he did feel that this kid was consciously fooling all of them.
Yes, it's fooling.
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Augustus then asked his next question, he looked around at the round table and said in a deep voice, "The second question, I want to know, was the first to suggest to the meeting that Alfred should be in charge of fending off the lich?"
The nobles, who had not yet had time to completely calm down, were stunned for a moment, and then there was a collective uproar in an instant, didn't this damn Alfred at the helm have a little aristocratic consciousness? How could he ask this forbidden question so directly? You know, for hundreds of years, even if the many families buried in the Lich Tide want to know the answer to this question, no one has ever dared to ask this question openly, which in itself is the most tacit law of the aristocratic world in the wasteland, is he still planning to drag his enemies to Hell before going to Hell?
The nobles were surprised, but the Marquis of Sauron became more and more sober.
He was finally completely sure that the child was indeed fooling all of them, and the reason was actually very simple, Augustus knew very well that whether it was his weak prayers or his unbridled mad indulgence, the end that awaited him Alfred could only be to step into the abyss of death, so in this case, it was natural to make such a choice that did not know whether to live or die. And thinking about this, and then connecting it to the humble, desperate and desperate family leaders that Sauron had seen in the past many years, he had a faint appreciation for the poor Alfred at the helm, especially since he was so young.
He sighed secretly, and looked up at Elizabeth, who had been standing quietly behind Augustus, and was really a little jealous of the dead Count Alfred.
What a great heir.
He rarely had any thoughts of making things difficult for Augustus, I am afraid that at this time he is also very rare in his life like a real Saxon, he waved his hand to stop the noise and noise of the nobles at the round table, looked at Augustus with a smile, and said sincerely: "There is no one who first proposed it to the meeting, Augustus, this is the decision of the meeting, you can understand that it has nothing to do with anyone, and it can also be understood as related to anyone." ”
Impeccable answers.
Augustus narrowed his eyes slightly: "It's really an unprecedented tacit understanding, but there is a question I don't understand, why I didn't decide that I, Alfred, would resist the invasion of the lich 3 months ago, but at the same time that my Alfred was attacked and my father was killed in battle, the meeting made such a decision?" Forgive me for my speculation, but the conclusion of the facts tells me that either after my father's death, you felt that the two children left behind by Count Alfred had no room for resistance, so you chose Alfred without any scruples, or the meeting had already decided Alfred's fate, which is why Alfred was attacked. However, no matter how these two conclusions are derived, they can lead to the same answer, which is that it is very likely that in order for Alfred to bear the responsibility of fending off the Lich invasion this year, Alfred will have to be attacked, especially my father, Count Alfred, must die. ”
"This is a conspiracy, a regrettable and infuriating conspiracy!"