Leonidas immediately led Rog and Catherine into the royal palace, which was actually the equivalent of a rich manor in the human empire, with no walls around the palace, and houses built slightly larger than ordinary houses, all made of rocks that could be found everywhere in the wilderness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After bypassing the king's stone house, where the king and queen lived, a large stone house with four rooms, two bedrooms, a reception room, and a room for the king's armor, weapons, and booty.

There was a small open space between the two stone houses in the front and back, where some dummies were erected, and at the edge of the open space was a small stone house, and an old man with a rickety body was sweeping the dust blown by the wind and sand on the ground, and Rog looked him up and down, and asked Leonidas: "Your Majesty, who is this man?"

"He is my slave Garcio," said the king of Sparta, looking at the unkempt old man, "and he was responsible for the house in front of me, and my dwelling, as well as the roads nearby, and he had been here for many years, before I became king." ”

"Does he sleep in that hut at night?" asked Rogge, looking at the squat stone house behind him.

"Yes, he can't leave my house. Leonidas was about to lure Rog and Catherine into his lodgings, but Rog stopped him and said, "If that is the case, we may ask him what happened on the night of the queen's disappearance, and that he lived so close that he would have noticed if the queen had been taken away." ”

"I'm afraid he can't do us any help," said Leonidas, with a disbelieving sigh, "and he is deaf and dumb, and even if he knows anything, how can he tell us?"

"Is he deaf?" Rog looked at Leonidas in surprise and asked, "Then how did he accept the orders given to him by you and the queen?"

"He's been here for a long time, and we just need to gesture or give him a look, and he knows what we want, which is why we haven't driven him out of him for a younger and stronger slave. Leonidas made a gesture of please, and led the two into the residence.

Rog and Catherine followed Leonidas into the living room, where they saw that the tables, chairs, and furniture were arranged in an orderly manner, and the walls were hung with specimens of the heads of lions, cheetahs, and other beasts, as well as weapons such as axes and daggers, exuding an air of majesty.

Rog asked Catherine to go to the queen's bedchamber, and he and Leonidas went to the child's room, where they saw the child's bed in disarray, and a wooden dagger for a child to play with was placed on the bed.

He leaned over and picked up the dagger and looked at it, and asked Leonidas, "Your Majesty, who usually cleans up this room?"

"It's my wife," Leonida said as he stepped forward and looked at the wooden dagger in his hand with complicated eyes, "Gasio is not qualified to enter here unless he has our permission, and my wife takes care of the daily household affairs. ”

Rogge silently put down the short sword, opened several cabinets in the room to inspect, and found that the cabinets were turned into a mess, he looked down at the clothes inside one by one, took them out and folded them neatly and put them aside, as the clothes were taken out one by one, his face showed a puzzled expression.

"Your Majesty, are all the child's clothes in this room?" asked Rog as he finished arranging his clothes, looking back at Leonidas suspiciously.

"Yes, the child's clothes are here, and all the things he usually uses, in his own room," Leonidas asked, staring at the expression on his face with concern, "Did you notice anything wrong?"

"It's hard to say yet. Rogge shook his head slightly, closed the cupboard, and said to him, "Let's go to your room, and wonder if Miss Catherine has found anything useful." ”

He went back to the living room with Leonidas to the bedroom of the royal couple, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Catherine standing in front of the queen's dressing mirror, he stepped forward and patted the girl on the shoulder and asked, "Why, you don't always admire yourself in the mirror here, do you?"

"No, I was thinking about things," Catherine hurriedly turned back to him, "I just looked around the house, and found no footprints or any signs of a struggle, but I found that everything of value in the house was missing." ”

"All things of value?" Rogge frowned when he heard this, and Catherine lowered her head and picked up an empty scabbard from the dressing table and continued, "Yes, and this scabbard, I searched around the house and couldn't find a matching short knife. ”

Rogge took the scabbard from her hand and examined it carefully, and found that it was not particularly ornamented, neither golden, silver, nor inlaid with precious stones, and he took the scabbard to Leonidas and asked, "Your Majesty, this scabbard must not have been empty in the first place, right?"

"This is a token of my love for my wife," Leonidas said, taking the scabbard and stroking it with emotion, "We Spartan women, like men, practice fighting and weapons even when they are not on the battlefield, and this knife is the weapon I gave her to protect herself." ”

"Are there any other discoveries?" Rogge nodded thoughtfully, turned back and continued to ask Catherine, the girl shrugged helplessly and said, "There is nothing, the queen's clothes are in the cupboard, there is no trace of moving, and the bed has no sign of sleeping, I don't know if it has been cleaned up." ”

Rogge looked back at the couple's neat bed, walked around the bed to the closet, opened them one by one, and sure enough, as Catherine said, the clothes inside were neatly arranged, and there was no sign of missing them.

He was about to close the door of the wardrobe, when he suddenly saw a piece of cloth exposed at the iron nail that fixed the handle on the inside of the wooden door of the wardrobe, Rogge carefully grabbed the piece of cloth with his hand, and found that it was hooked by a nail, he carefully took the milky white piece of cloth down, and saw that its fracture was uneven.

"Your Majesty, does the queen have a dress of this color and fabric?" Rogge turned back and handed the piece of cloth to Leonidas, and the king of Sparta stepped forward to take the piece of cloth and recognized it at a glance: "Yes, it is a milky white cloak, which my wife often wears, and there is sometimes wind and sand in the wasteland, and we will prepare cloaks to avoid the wind and sand." ”

"Have you seen such a cloak just now?" Rog turned his gaze to Catherine, who shook her head and said, "No, I have carefully looked at every piece of clothing, and I have never seen a cloak like this. ”

Rogge was silent for a moment under the puzzled gaze of the two, and said coldly: "Your Majesty, what kind of person is the queen?"