Augustus closed his eyes and rested for 5 minutes before opening his eyes, his face was still pale, but his spirit was unusually much more obvious, and then he met Elizabeth, who was still squatting in front of him with tears, he smiled a little weakly, reached out and stroked Elizabeth's long blonde hair, he smiled, don't worry, I'm fine. Elizabeth www.biquge.info beautiful face also smiled, and said I know, since you didn't leave me before, then you will never leave me alone. Augustus nodded slightly, remembering Arthras just now, he urged narrowly, this is also my promise.

Elizabeth, apparently unwilling to waste her brother's energy on this frivolous matter, looked up at Augustus in feigned anger, did not speak, turned and handed the teacup into his hand.

Augustus took a sip of water, held a warm teacup, he leaned back in the soft chair and looked at Elizabeth, thought for a moment, and said, "Is there anything I need to explain about my decision at the meeting just now?"

Elizabeth hesitated, but soon she smiled and shook her head: "No, I absolutely trust your decision." After a pause, she said again: "Brother, you can rest a little longer, and you will be at the manor soon." ”

What a sensible child, Augustus looked at Elizabeth's pretended strength and lightness, sorted out his thoughts, and said slowly: "From the beginning, I didn't try to make Alfred stay away from the lich and get rid of the fate of resisting the lich, because it was impossible to do. I have changed the subject to create an opportunity for Count Christopher to make a statement, not expecting our father's death to change the attitude of the meeting, but only a promise from Sauron that we will have good reason to track down the attack on me Alfred after the lich retreats. As for Earl Donald's attitude, it was a complete accident, and you may wonder why I didn't seize this accident to confront the meeting, but Elizabeth, we don't have a full understanding of Donald, no matter from which point of view, Donald's support for us will not bring him any benefit at all, and even bring him and his family a crisis, so I don't believe him, it has nothing to do with his personality, it's just that I can't believe it. ”

"Moreover, the most important thing is that even if Donald will really help us, he alone cannot change the attitude of the meeting, and no matter how strong he is, he cannot change the absolute strength of the Sauron family. ”

"Elizabeth, I want you to remember that in the Wasteland, a concentration camp for sinners, we can only believe in ourselves. ”

Elizabeth nodded earnestly, he said this, she would believe it like this, it didn't need a reason, she wouldn't even ask Augustus if Alfred died, what was the use of Sauron's promise, and how to track down their father's death when he died.

"Then in the end, why did the civilians of those families choose the route of Alfred's fief when they retreated?"

Elizabeth thought about it and asked the question.

Very abnormally, Augustus, who originally took the initiative to explain these doubts to Elizabeth, did not speak immediately, he seemed to look much more unnatural, bowing his head and drinking water was more like covering up something, and then he hesitated for a long time before he reluctantly smiled: "Blindfolding, just to disturb those people's train of thought." You just don't know what I'm going to do - I need to keep all the families in the wasteland watching me in my next plan, that's why I've made such a puzzling proposal, you think, what they're going to do before they even know why I'm making such a stupid, or even death-seeking suggestion?"

"Definitely try to control our every move as much as possible. Elizabeth, who was already smart, said casually.

Augustus smiled, not knowing whether he was glad that he had succeeded in diverting Elizabeth's attention, or for some other reason, he said, "So, I'm just grandstanding. ”

"But shouldn't unexecuted plans be better known to fewer people and less noticed?

Elizabeth, who didn't want to disturb her brother's rest, had been completely aroused by Augustus, Augustus did not hesitate any longer, and said with a smile: "Conspiracy always likes to hide in the shadows to take root and sprout, and then grow; ”

Facing Elizabeth's puzzled look, Augustus didn't turn around, but casually pointed to the desk behind him, and said, "Mind helping me get a file?" The first is the third document in the stack on the left side of the middle drawer, counting from the top, and the second is the document in the last drawer, the bottom of the stack of documents on the far right. ”

Elizabeth didn't seem to realize what her brother's casualness meant, but after getting up and digging out the two papers from her desk, she returned to Augustus, and then, at Augustus's signal, Elizabeth flipped through the papers in her hand— She was certainly not unfamiliar with the contents, and before Augustus came to his senses, she had also flipped through the precious treasures left by Earl Alfred in the carriage, so that looking through these two documents, Elizabeth quickly felt familiar, and then she was completely sure that she must have read them.

She looked up in confusion.

Augustus naturally understood Elizabeth's doubts, but he didn't explain, just smiled: "Let's look at the lord introduced on pages 3 to 5 of the first document. ”

Elizabeth looked down and flipped to page 3 of the document.

Augustus lay on the dark red soft chair and gently closed his eyes, and said calmly: "Next year is the year of the high-level election of the Holy See of Light, and the leaders of the Holy See in various regions are also facing a new round of complete reshuffle, and if a group of cardinals want to retire, then there will inevitably be a group of young cardinal archbishops to fill up, and according to the convention, the clergy of the Holy See who are under the age of 40 are not qualified to run for such an important position as the cardinal archbishop." As you can see, the youngest, most promising, and most promising overhead of the Holy See happens to be only 38 years old, and under normal circumstances, he has no hope of entering the real inner circle of the Holy See next year. ”

If nothing else, if it weren't for the fact that the Lich of the North and the heretics of the southeastern Empire wanted to break the net, under normal circumstances, he would have had to wait until the next election year that the Holy See would have to hold every 20 years. Of course, at that time, he will be dressed in red, but the point is, 20 years, how many 20 years of life will there be? 20 years later, this adult will be a 58-year-old old man...... In particular, if he was a little more ambitious and wanted to hold the patriarchal scepter, then he would have to wait another 20 years after wearing the red robe, until he was 78 years old. ”

"I don't think it's possible for a 78-year-old to sit on that glorious throne. ”

Elizabeth had finally finished reading the most sought-after young overarch in the Holy See, and she seemed to be faintly touching the edge of her brother's almost crazy plan.

She looked at Augustus with some shock, and she didn't dare to imagine that a sinner in the wasteland had the courage to try to calculate that even the Bourbon royal family would not dare to offend the new nouveau riche of the Holy See easily.

She swallowed very cutely, and said with difficulty, "But what help can we give this adult, and how dare we plan such a thing?"

Augustus opened his eyes and glanced at Elizabeth.

He smiled, and instead of explaining, he added: "The second piece of information in your hand is the information that all the nobles in the wasteland have united over the years to try to make the empire accept us sinners again, and also try to let the Holy See of Light re-protect us sinners. I do not deny that, judging by the data, all the efforts in the wasteland over the centuries have been almost in vain. But there are two sides to everything, and in any case, the wasteland has made hundreds of years of vast efforts, and my plan itself is based on these hundreds of years of efforts, so I don't think there will be any opportunities in this direction. ”

He shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "And in my opinion, at least this opportunity is more reliable than praying for the grace of these nobles in the wasteland." ”

Elizabeth didn't speak for the first time, she still looked at the information in her hand in silence, a little strange why she thought that these materials had nothing to do with him Alfred when she first looked at them, but her brother could see that there were so many connections.

Of course, the presence of a connection does not mean that Elizabeth finds Augustus' plan feasible, in fact, even after hearing her brother's analysis, Elizabeth still feels that there is little hope.

But of course she would not say this, because she did not believe in Augustus in the slightest, so she thought about it, and then followed Augustus's words and asked, "Why do we believe that this lord will be tempted?"

"Where there will be a so-called certain. Augustus smiled bitterly, "This is just an opportunity, an opportunity that I think is more hopeful than praying to these nobles in the wasteland." ”

Elizabeth finally understood that her brother was not sure of his plan itself, and she looked at Augustus's tired face, and when what she wanted to say came to her mouth, she could not say it again, and at last she smiled and comforted her brother: "I hope the young overseer will seize this opportunity." ”

Augustus, of course, could hear Elizabeth's relief.

He didn't say anything more, but lay back in his soft chair, closed his eyes, and wondered whether he was comforting himself, giving himself confidence, or speaking to Elizabeth, and he said softly: "Desires without reason will swell rapidly in a catalyst called ambition, and then either go to glory or fall into darkness." But once desire has reason, it becomes what we call a dream or ideal, and when there is only a window between the ideal and reality, then I think no one can refuse the temptation to open this window. ”