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Herwin Lambis went to the bathroom for a while, and when he came out, he found that the people in the banquet hall were still discussing hotly.

The content of the discussion is still the social issues that I have just deliberately led to the past and expressed radical views. - If you want to provoke more responses and discussions, you only need to make very extreme statements. Some people will approve of you, some will oppose you, and some more neutral people will not speak up, but they will discourage them because of these heated opinions.

In this way, almost everyone can be involved.

"I think there has to be a traffic restriction order."

"I also feel that we can't let those people walk around the streets, because it threatens the safety of our citizens."

"Well, I don't think it's necessary to be so serious, in fact, most of them are still very friendly, after all, they are farmers who only know how to farm, as long as they can eat and dress in Rune, they will be satisfied, this is actually a good opportunity to promote us."

"That being said, the call for a travel restriction right now is for the church to consider it."

……

He watched from afar as the heated conversation of those people began, and the topic had grown from only three or five people at the beginning to a debate of more than a dozen or twenty people, and their voices were getting louder and louder, and almost the whole room was more or less focused on this corner.

Herwin Lambis, of course, was not prepared to rejoin the conversation, and after a moment of scrutinizing gaze, he curled the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.

When relatively equal and free discussion develops into a debate with a clear position and purpose, people's focus is no longer on listening to different ideas against their own ideas, but racking their brains to output their own opinions and get others to agree with their words.

In this way, the contradictions and prejudices that already exist in the hearts of the people are deepening in the constant exchange, just as he hoped.

He was not surprised by this, because it was as effective as every hint and lead he had for so many years.

People's ideas and ideas are inherently fragile and subject to change due to many external reasons, and he only adds a little force to them—of course, Herwin Lambis still feels a sense of accomplishment and pleasure when he sees these self-righteous and intelligent people, such as the Earl, the Marquis, and the like of influential nobles, who have the anger, radical, and conservative reactions they want because of their words.

He enjoys the feeling, the feeling of regulating the hearts and minds of others.

He was in a good mood, and glanced back at the young audience from Fenerport, and found that the other party was no longer talking to anyone, but was eating with a plate of food at the table against the wall under the service of the maid.

A smart move. Herwin laughed and turned to walk towards the smoking room, ready to kill the time before the banquet was over.

……

"He just looked at us again." Susie ate the beef on her plate intently, her lips moving slightly.

"He's gone." Audrey replied, "We can speak quietly, Susie, and you eat less...... No, forget it, you don't have to eat less, it just shapes your image, you just need to continue to maintain your demeanor. ”

"Oh." Hearing Audrey's words, Susie picked up the fork she had just put down.

After possessing a human sense of taste, Susie immediately fell in love with these foods that she couldn't eat herself, and was especially enthusiastic about chocolate and candy that she couldn't eat before.

She took a sip of the juice, rolled a spicy sip of Fenerport's noodles with a fork, and cut a piece of beef rib in black pepper sauce and put it elegantly in her mouth—as a lady, she ate elegantly, and the two plates that were already empty in front of her were amazing—but Susie ate so happily that she didn't see the young nobles who were secretly watching her whispering.

"Can you get me some more cakes?" She asked Audrey.

Audrey's expression was a little subtle:

“…… Theoretically no, Susie, you've eaten a lot, aristocratic women have to strictly control the sugar content of their daily intake, you should know that I can only eat afternoon tea once a day, and lunch dessert, right? ”

"What about actually? Can I eat it? ”

Susie looked at Audrey with wide eyes, trying her best to look more innocent, so that Audrey couldn't help but think of the other party's true appearance:

"Audrey, others can't eat it because they want to control their body, but my current body is an extraordinary prop! And my purpose is not really to associate with anyone, and it seems that no one wants to be friends with me at the moment, since my figure will not be out of shape and I am not worried about losing face, then you can get me another piece. Just take a piece, it's also an important part of shaping my image outside, okay? ”

“…… All right. Audrey relented, and Susie happily stuffed another piece of pan-fried keel fish into her mouth.

Of course, outsiders could not see that Miss Conrad was talking to her personal maid, but they could only see that the young lady, who had already eaten two plates, asked her personal maid to fetch the chocolate cake dessert on the table.

"Sure enough, it's a countryman." The aristocrats whispered glances of scrutiny and jokes.

They use their own ideas and prejudices to ask for a dog, and Susie happily takes the plate and eats deliciously.

"By the way, Audrey, how did I just behave?" Susie said as she ate.

"Susie, you can't talk during dinner, unless it's a communicative occasion like a family dinner, you still have to maintain your manners...... Well, I know what you're going to say, but you've been pretty good at etiquette all along. Audrey also felt a little helpless and relieved for Susie, who was becoming more and more eloquent, she glanced at the corridor where Herwin Lambis had disappeared, and her expression became serious, "Your performance is very good, it makes me have a very bad idea." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Herwin Lambis is an experienced demigod, and I didn't think he was driving such an obvious social contradiction."

"But judging by the way he treats you, he's definitely involved."

Susie is also the "hypnotist" of sequence 6, this sequence is not enough to see in front of Herwin Lambis, but she is already a quasi-middle-level and high-level extraordinary person in the Psychological Alchemy Society, and coupled with Susie's age, there is no doubt that she will be regarded as a valued person in the Psychological Alchemy Society.

This can also explain why Susie shows a relatively strong personality, even if she comes from abroad and has family prejudices, she still looks at ease.

Because she has extraordinary powers, her strength and status in the mysterious world determine that she does not have to take a viscount in her eyes, nor does she have to curry favor with the viscount. People who become Sequence 6 at this age, unless something happens, the future is almost a definite demigod.

Susie nodded: "I've heard you say that his identity is 'arrogant'. ”

"Do you feel like you're being targeted?"

"No, I didn't feel targeted, he did it, but I think he really wanted to suppress me in this way."

Susie thought for a moment and asked in a more realistic and appropriate analogy:

"It's like he thinks I've intruded on his territory, so he wants to chase me away and intimidate me, Audrey, does he think I'm a threat to him? But I'm only a Sequence 6, and even if it looks like I have the potential to become a demigod, there's no need to suppress me from now on, right? ”

"That's what makes me weird, Susie, you made him eager, but he shouldn't pay much attention to you."

Hostility to you is not accurate, it should be hostility to the demigod behind you, after all, you are so young Sequence 6 looks like a student of some demigod or a future replacement, plus your identity is from Fenerport, it just happened to hit the muzzle.

Audrey was silent for a while, and finally said her biggest doubt:

"I always had a strange feeling."

"Herwin Lambis, does he really think that all the current contradictions are caused by him, the 'driving force behind the scenes'?"

Did he really not realize that he might be being used for a gun? It is so easy to bring the topic of contradiction to the dinner party of the aristocracy, but there are really nobles and big people who have a close personal relationship with the church and even have a lot of influence on society. The disgust of civilians may be just some private brawls and quarrels, or blatant discrimination, but the disgust of those who have the right to speak is not so simple.

Does he feel that the time is ripe now, does he really feel that everything is under his control, and he is strategizing?

…… He shouldn't be "arrogant" to this extent, right?

"I think it's time for us to go."

Audrey's heart was inexplicably uneasy, just as her goal had been achieved, Susie also showed her face at the dinner party and was full.

"Don't you stay a little longer? I think they might actually come up with some treaties and demands. ”

Audrey only felt that the opinions expressed by those people were harsh and unpleasant: "Maybe, but they have too much nonsense in their communication right now to distill valid information." If there really is any result, tomorrow it will also be known through the viscount and the newspaper. ”

Since Audrey said so, Susie naturally had no objection, and they went to Viscount Conrad to prepare to leave the scene early, only to find that Viscount was expressing his opinion in high spirits.

Audrey was stunned for a moment, and then she felt the urge to cover her forehead.

It's so stupid...... When entertaining the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Fenerport, he actually indulged in such a public place.

Susie also made a somewhat embarrassed expression of forbearance at the right time, adding some after-dinner conversation to the bored nobles.

They were too much to participate in the centre, and the ladies and some young people were not very interested in what they called the political and social realities, and they either whispered together in groups with wine glasses, or they had already taken their children to the lounge.

As a last resort, Susie had no choice but to find a personal valet who had come with Viscount Conrad and told him about her plan to leave early.

The manservant returned the Viscount, who agreed without looking, and a few minutes later, Susie and Audrey walked briskly out of the banquet.

……

After about fifteen minutes, Herwin Lambis came out of the smoking room, and found that the topic still showed no sign of ending.

"Isn't it a little too intense?"

He glanced at the large wall clock on the wall and confirmed that it was not too early, and that it was only half an hour before the banquet ended. According to the usual situation, there should be many guests who have left the venue at this time, giving the host's family enough time to clean up the aftermath of the banquet scene, but judging from the estimation of the number of people who are still at the scene, less than one-tenth of them have left, and the rest are still immersed in this warm atmosphere.

Herwin thought it was a little incredible, but he naturally attributed the situation to his excellent mental cues and guiding skills.

He casually looked around and saw that the young viewer named Susie had disappeared. When I asked, I realized that I had left the scene in a hurry.

Can't stay in this atmosphere? It's so young. Herwin Lambis couldn't help but laugh, although he was not happy that he had bullied a small audience with his little eloquence, but the disappearance of the other party did put him in a good mood.

……

"Actually, it's a bit difficult for you to make this request."

As the carriage was speeding through the street, which was no longer full of pedestrians, Audrey suddenly heard a word.

"Even if you want to do it, you should wait until the New Year's dinner, right? At that time, the people were more united, and you might be able to do better. ”

"There are only three days left, you don't have to be in such a hurry now, can't you use the last time to do something you want to do?"

Audrey reacted suddenly, she subconsciously wanted to let the coachman stop, but the voice that reached the throat was forced back into her throat, and her spiritual intuition transmitted a premonition of danger - since she could hear the other party, it proved that the distance between the two parties was very close, even to the extent that they had just passed by on the road, and once she stopped the carriage, then the other party would realize that she had heard!

At night, there were few people on the road, and the horses ran faster, but in this moment's struggle, the carriage had already gone four or five meters away.

Despite the ups and downs of her mood, as a demigod, she controlled her subtle expressions and body movements very well, and Susie, who was sitting facing each other, did not realize Audrey's mental activity just a moment ago. After a while, the speed of the carriage slowed down, and Audrey slowly released her clenched fists, trying to keep her breathing steady, and her brain raced and slowly calmed down.

"What would anyone want to do at the New Year's dinner?"

"Attack? Attack on the aristocracy, or the plebeians, or the church? ”

"If it were the church and the aristocracy, I might be able to think that I didn't see it, didn't participate, and thought about how to profit after the fact."

“…… But if it's civilians, I'm going to put a stop to it. People are victims, and even if they don't realize it, I shouldn't watch them consume their lives in senseless infighting. ”

Just as she was thinking about whether to investigate, the room suddenly became cold, and Audrey and Susie looked at the window of the carriage at the same time, only to see a spirit creature enter through the window, hand a letter to Susie, and then disappear.

Susie glanced at the fire paint stamp on the envelope:

"It's MI9."

"I sent a letter to a MI9 squad leader as a member of the Psychological Alchemy Society, saying that I wanted to gain a foothold in Rune, so I was happy to serve, but I didn't expect them to find out my identity."

Audrey was not surprised:

"Although MI9 has lost some of its law enforcement powers, it still has a foundation. It's incredible not to find you, yes, your behavior also shows the confidence and inexperience of our predetermined identity, open the letter and take a look at the contents. ”

Susie opened the envelope and glanced briefly at the lines, then raised her eyebrows.

"Don't they suspect I'm a spy?"

"They have the means of notarization, although our purpose is not to let the emperor come back, but also to shake the social order, so help them not to completely lie, they should have found out your false identity and verified your words."

"MI9 wanted me to use my extraordinary abilities to help them a little."

Susie read the text message again, and then the small stove stuffed into the carriage burned directly to ashes:

"They didn't have the whims to put me up against Herwin Lambis, but they said there would be some action at the end of the year and they wanted me to help cover it up. If a trace is found, or someone mentions it, let the other person have amnesia, and it is best not to let anyone find out. ”

Audrey's brow furrowed: "...... What action? ”

"The letter didn't say anything."

When I first contacted the other party, it was impossible to get very detailed information no matter how I thought about it.

Audrey fell into thought.

TBC

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Was the person you were talking to on the street from MI9? It's not impossible, but it's always strange.

What exactly are they going to do before the Chinese New Year...... Before Audrey could come up with a clue, she suddenly heard an exclamation from the coachman.

She noticed it, and immediately opened the car door and looked into the distance.

I saw that in the direction of the Harvest Church, a violent fire was ignited, and from the height, it seemed that the entire church was swallowed.

At this moment, Audrey's brain went completely blank, and she didn't even think about "why do you want to do this", but felt "why do you need to be in such a hurry"?

(End of chapter)