No.178 Face Arthur

"The preparations on my side will be completed soon, how are you two doing, click, squeak————"

In the weapons and equipment arsenal of the third fitting room of the Royal Tailoring Shop, Egger and Merlin, who were preparing their operational equipment, suddenly heard Lin Cheng's voice, and at the same time, there was a very harsh sound, like the sound of something heavy dragging on the floor.

In order to avoid being noticed, Lin Cheng certainly wouldn't casually set the sniper rifle in the window, at this moment, he was dragging the cabinet in the bedroom to the other side of the bed, and then opened the MK12's tripod and put the sniper rifle on top of the cabinet.

"Merlin and I are ready, Arthur is returning from headquarters, and when he enters the conference room, I'll act immediately."

Egges frowned at the cacophony of scraping, but quickly unfolded it, grabbed a new modified TT-33 pistol from the shelf in the arsenal, pressed the bullets into the magazine one by one, and pocketed two 12-gauge shotguns.

"It's good, now it's in a state of silence, I'm going to pay attention to the whole thing, and if you miss, I'm going to shoot."

"Roger, Merlin is ready to act."

At the end of the call, Eggsy turned off the Bluetooth headset, took it off and put it back in his pocket, and nodded at Merlin.

At this time, Merlin had already changed into a full set of bulletproof suits, just in case he also brought a gun, hidden in the quick-draw holster inside the suit, seeing Eggsy nodding, Merlin nodded in response, picked up the tablet placed on the table, turned around and walked out of the weapons and equipment warehouse.

The tailor's shop was the same as usual, but the old clerk wasn't behind the counter, Merlin gave him a day off, and the whole tailor's shop was now only Merlin and Eggsie, who was hiding in the arsenal of weapons and waiting to act, and Arthur, who arrived in the basement by bullet train.

In the basement, when the gray-haired, but still suit-wearing old man stepped out of the bullet train door, Merlin immediately walked up, although the old man was old, but he looked very calm, wearing an expensive suit and black-framed glasses, showing his aristocratic demeanor.

Chester King, the leader of the Royal Secret Service [Arthur], although he has long reached the age of the Staff Dynasty, he is still active in the intelligence organization in his eighties, and is trusted by everyone in the Royal Secret Service....... Unfortunately, he was bewitched by lust and betrayed everyone.

"Good afternoon, sir—Agent Percival wants to speak to you."

"Percival, what's going on?"

Arthur frowned, he didn't want to come back at this time, because Valentine had already sent a message, and there were only six hours before the Doomsday Project, and Arthur was about to leave England by plane, but was called by Merlin.

"He didn't tell me, he said he was going to talk to you in person at the holographic conference."

Merlin shook his head, his face unchanged and lying to him.

Percival had no idea what was going on here, let alone their decision to assassinate Arthur.

Arthur thought about it, and finally decided to see what Percival was going to say to him first, as long as he could send the other party away, naturally no one would stop him from leaving, so he nodded, and took the elevator back to the surface with Merlin, walked up the stairs, and went to the conference room on the second floor.

Entering the conference room, Arthur walked straight to his first seat, lightly touched the outer part of the temples of the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and as a blue light flashed, the glasses entered a working state, but Arthur did not see Percival's figure.

"Why isn't Percival online?"

"He's gotten the word and should be online soon."

Merlin spoke slowly, picked up the gin on the table, poured a glass for Arthur, and then turned to leave.

"Aren't you going to join in this conversation, Merlin?"

"Percival means that he has something very important to report to you individually."

Merlin nodded and did not stay here, and looking at Merlin who was about to leave, Arthur did not doubt, but waited quietly, but what he didn't expect was that he didn't wait for Agent Percival to come online, what he waited for was a young man who broke into the conference room.

The young man who broke into the conference room, wearing a suit and glasses, his hair was meticulously combed, and he showed a strange luster under the crystal lamp on the ceiling, looking at Eggsy in front of him, Arthur suddenly noticed something familiar in Eggsie's body.

What was it that made it so familiar, Arthur pondered, and suddenly, his eyes widened as if he had come to an abrupt realization, and in Eggesy he felt the shadow of Harry Hart, as if he had seen young Gahallad.

Looking at the young man who appeared in front of him, in the expression on Eggsey's face, Arthur felt his sadness, which should be the result of Galahad's sudden death, but for some reason, Arthur read it in Eggsey's expression again...... Wrath?

The old man's wisdom immediately reminded Arthur that Eggsy might want to borrow the power of the royal agent from him to complete his revenge.

"Galahad's death is something that everyone regrets, you don't have to push yourself too hard, kid."

"However, now that Galahad is gone, Gallahad's position and responsibilities must always be assumed, your grades are very good, I can see your potential, Eggsy - succeeding him may give Galahad's soul rest."

Looking at Eggsy's angry face, Arthur gently pushed his glasses and spoke slowly.

"Arthur, Harry is dead, he was killed by Valentine, but what I didn't expect was that you actually chose to stand with Valentine, you betrayed everyone in the royal agents, and now, do you know why I stood in front of you, Arthur!"

Eggesy sneered, his eyes cold, and pulled out the Royal Agent's version of the TT-33 pistol and aimed it at Arthur's head.

Arthur didn't speak, he still maintained a calm attitude, and he didn't even change his posture, he knew that his betrayal had been exposed, although he didn't know when he was noticed, but now was obviously not the time to discuss the matter.

"The Galahad thing, it's not what I wanted, and Valentine, what he said makes a lot of sense."

Maybe it was because he was about to shoot someone for the first time, maybe it was because of the anger of Galahad's death, Eggsy gritted his teeth tightly, and even the hand holding the gun seemed to tremble a little because he was trying too hard, but he still tried to control the muzzle.

Arthur caught this sign accurately, and immediately began to think about countermeasures, while verbalizing it.

He slowly straightened his back, holding the table with his left hand, but quietly approaching the table with his right hand, where a small Walther PPK pistol was fixed, which was used for self-protection in such a critical moment.

Although Arthur is over eighty years old, he still maintains the habit of exercising every day, as long as he can get the Walter PPK pistol, he can kill the young man in front of him, leaving no trouble, and naturally he does not need to worry about aiming at his muzzle.