Chapter 22: Prelude

"What does this mean by headquarters? Raymond arranged for Bahrain to enter the special investigation team, and then the wooden box was also the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce that he led the team into, and then Raymond absconded with the wooden box. Soon after, he set up a Bahrain microfinance firm and turned into a financial predator, and there could be no connection between them!" Nikita slapped the desk of a DHS agent who had come to deliver the message. In fact, the moment Bahrain entered the special investigation team, she began to have doubts about this seemingly simple wizard, if there is anyone who is most likely to participate**, Bahrain is undoubtedly the biggest suspect, because he needs a lot of money to build the wizard tower.

The detective smiled bitterly and said, "Bahrain is now very involved, and it is also an official wizard, and all parties are paying attention. Without the approval of the Wizarding Council and the Bureau of Justice, no one can easily touch him. ”

Wiping his blonde hair hard behind him, Nikita shook his head in disappointment and said, "He may be the closest clue to us, but now he is placed in such an important position in the Special Investigation Team! Even if he can't be arrested, he should be transferred from the Special Investigation Team!"

"I hope the committee agrees!" the agent was also a little helpless, and then warned: "This time you must not make your own decisions again, the case against the wizard must strictly implement the decision of the wizarding committee!"

Nikita nodded angrily, "Roger!" and turned to leave.

In the structure of a dictator's regime, the upper elite is often controlled by disciples of vested interests. It's not that it's not that it's socially unfair, it's just that the vested interests are relatively wealthy in income and their children are more educated, so it's easier for them to get ahead. On the contrary, some families who are on the verge of prosperity are often less than three generations rich, which is a bit puzzling.

Therefore, at the moment at the banquet of the general's mansion, officials and celebrities at all levels are basically the children of officials who have been officials for generations. The younger generation of the few heroes and sages has become the star of the banquet as always. Although the ideology is different, it is undeniable that these leaders of the younger generation still have some real talents. Abu's outwardly heroic and tyrannical son did not attend the banquet, but went to Amnesty International's Edgar branch to negotiate.

Many of the people in the crowd were talking about Amnesty International, which seemed to them to be an organization that was specifically against Edgar, but each of them had personal relationships with some of the staff members.

Amnesty International is a fly in the ears when the political power scene is going well, and when the political struggle is lost and they are imprisoned, they hope that this organization will fight for a fair trial and future political asylum for them. This is the distorted values of the dictator, no matter whether the cat is white or black, the one who catches the mouse is the good cat. To put it mildly, truth is always changing with one's own needs.

Bahrain and Edgar Pearl Nazanin re-entered the hall side by side and immediately became the center of attention. A group of young talents have set their eyes on this wizard who is not handsome. None of them understood why Nazanin, who had always been close to everyone, suddenly became so close to this newcomer to a foreign country.

Every person born into a large family learns early on how to hide his emotions, and the younger Nazanin is better at this than Bahrain. Although the wizard has been in contact with him to become a qualified politician recently, he has been exposed to politics for too short a time.

But wizards are always mysterious, so Bahrain often puts on an eerie smile when his mood is not yet calm, as a way to hide his true thoughts.

The banquet hall is filled with food that is unique to the Persian Gulf region, such as the soup made from softened wood that is unique to the jade forest, the pincers of deep-sea arthropods, and the tender meat baked with the tongue of an unknown bird accompanied by some kind of cuttlefish ink...... Most of the food here is extravagant and unimaginably extravagant.

There was once a very famous joke about an embassy official from Edgar giving a banquet to four ordinary officials of the Sea of Stars. At the checkout, he deliberately handed the waiter eight golden coins one by one, hoping to show his friendliness.

However, he soon noticed that the four guests who had been invited to the banquet suddenly turned blue, and then gathered together to make up for something. The last of the younger officials seemed to be crying.

The diplomats at Edgar's embassy were puzzled, although the meal was indeed expensive to the point of luxury. Is it okay to pay the bills? How do you feel like they're inviting yourself?

So the diplomat asked curiously, and the final answer left him dumbfounded. It turned out that in the Sea of Stars, although it was not forbidden for officials to accept some gifts or accept banquets. However, you need to report to the special department afterwards and pay your own money to settle the money for these gifts or drinks and dishes.

So nominally, they were entertained by Edgar's diplomats, but in reality, all four of them had to pay for the eight gold coins. How could this be borne by the young official, whose annual salary was only one or two gold coins? I am afraid that for a long time after this he would have to borrow money to survive.

Therefore, many of the Xingchen Sea diplomats who came with the delegation did not communicate much with Edgar officials, but instead gathered with friends in their own mission to taste these precious delicacies along the way. In foreign countries, there is no restraint from the Ministry of Justice, so you can let go of eating.

After all, Bahrain is an honorable parliamentarian and belongs to the top in the power field of the Golden Council. Therefore, although Bahrain also wanted to try these never-before-seen foods, he swallowed his saliva raw in order to save face.

Nazanin on the side seemed to have discovered the wizard's thoughts, approached him and whispered: "I know that there is a food stall in the royal city that tastes very good, I'll take you to try it in a while, I'll treat you!"

"Then you won't get drunk or you won't return!" Barin replied quietly with a squinting glance at her.

"You pay for the wine!"

"Deal!"

The two looked at each other and smiled. Maybe it's because he wants to woo Bahrain, or maybe it's because he hasn't seen the heartfelt smile on his daughter's face for a long time. Seeing the two slowly approaching the door, Abu, who then quietly disappeared into the banquet hall, did not say anything to stop him.

The wizard and Nazanin arrived at the gate of the General's Palace, and Balin opened the military carriage of the embassy, rummaging back and forth from the carriage for a while, and found two hand crossbows and two bags of crossbow arrows. He handed Nazanin a crossbow and a bag of arrows. Then he walked to another military carriage guarded by five heavily armed Knights of Truth, showed his golden scepter, handed it to a Knights of Truth, and then took out a Barbel aid staff and a witchcraft contact crystal from the witchcraft encryption box in the carriage, looking like he was about to rush to the battlefield.

Nazanin opened his mouth slightly, and looked at Balin in surprise for a long time before he came back to his senses: "Are you going to the battlefield?"

Bahrain smiled and said only that he was accustomed to caution. In fact, the CIA of the Golden Council has obtained information, and it is very likely that the rebels will launch an attack on the royal city in the next few days. At the same time, there is accurate information that the rebels are funded by the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce.

Nikita, the head of the intelligence station at the CIA consulate in Edgar, had claimed in a briefing that one of her sources had provided her with a clue that Raymond was now seriously ill and closed doors, and that the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce was currently split in an altercation between Farah and a black man with a scar. Farah tended to use the Edgar government to provoke conflict between the Gulf nations and the Golden Council, while the black man with scars preferred to gain a foothold in the Gulf countries and obtain the heavy water wells that were widely distributed along the Persian Gulf coast in order to rebuild the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce.

As a result, there was a violent clash between the two, with Nikita claiming that there were indications that the black man with the scar now called himself Abu Edgar and had made an alliance with the rebels in an attempt to capture two heavy water wells in the Edgar Fisher area by supporting the rebels. The word Abu means father in the Eriber language, and the black man with the scar acts as Edgar's savior under the name of Abu Edgar.

But Nikita's report apparently failed to attract the attention of the CIA's and homeland security agency executives, and Bahrain was more inclined to believe the words of the woman who had been restless.

The House is very much looking forward to the possible Edgar Civil War, because if a civil war breaks out in Edgar, it will be of great help to the Golden Council's idea of establishing a military base in Edgar in the future, and it is even said that the Cabinet has met to discuss whether it is necessary to assist the Edgar rebels, so that the Edgar royal family can rely more on the Golden Council.

However, the bill was eventually shelved by Speaker Earl, who did not know the current leader of the rebel army, and did not want to see a full-fledged dictator replaced by another dictator, who preferred to find rebel generals among the rebels who were ideologically close to the Golden Council to support him, so as to achieve the goal of changing the status quo of Edgar.

On the other hand, Adams, the veteran secretary of affairs, believes that the Golden Council only needs to achieve the goal of establishing a military base in Edgar and completing the signing of the Joint Anti-Terrorism Agreement, rather than involving the Golden Council in the quagmire of Edgar's civil war.

Earl's chief of staff seems to have been encouraged by several of the country's major arms dealers, and has been advocating war in both houses in the past few days, taking advantage of Adams' absence. This was also a major headache for Earl, who warned Wilson several times. At this time, the attitude of the deputy speaker who presides over the work of the Glorious House is particularly important, but this old fox has not made a clear statement so far.

The smoke of the Golden Council also affects Edgar's diplomatic corps, and they can only be extra careful when they cannot determine their position.

Nazanin put down his glass heavily, and slammed it against the wooden table with a "thud". The eyes were a little misty, and there was a faint burgundy under the brown skin: "A bungalow, a gentle husband, a carriage, and a dog, this is my dream of the stars and the sea, uh!" The woman looked at Balin drunkenly and burped as she spoke. At the age of twenty-two, she was crazy and fun-loving, perhaps the culture and identity she was born in limited her nature, but she couldn't hide it after drinking.

"I can give you the bungalow, the carriage is fine, and the pets are no longer a problem. "Bahrain drinks much better than this woman, or this woman drinks too badly." It is said that women bring their own weight, but she obviously rarely drinks.

"Aren't you a ready-made husband? I see, I see, you don't have a ring on your hand!" the woman shouted as she pointed to Balin's finger, drawing sideways glances from passers-by.

"Can't afford it!" Barin looked at her amusedly, and the dignified and virtuous Edgar Pearl was only a twenty-two-year-old girl. ** Institutions can inhibit human nature, but it cannot extinguish human nature. Once let go, the pent-up emotions of the past will burst out.

"The ring is in my possession, I'll give it to you!

"I'm marrying you, so I'm not going to change my surname to Nazir?"

"Bahrain-Nazir! Yes. The woman laughed, and suddenly remembered something: "My wife, what is your last name?"

"The concubine's surname is Constantine, Your Majesty. Your Majesty wants the concubine to elope, and the concubine can't do it!"

"Presumptuous, little slut, disobeying the will will will punish the Nine Clans!" Nazanin smiled and trembled, in fact, she was not drunk, but she had not been so happy for many years, she wanted to enjoy this rare freedom. Because only Bahrain, who is from the Sea of Stars and has diplomatic immunity, would dare to joke with her so unscrupulously.

In Edgar, any inappropriate remarks may be reported by her side, and then dragged to the square to criticize to the death, she has a powerful father as a backing, but others have no such background, every word is carefully considered before it comes out.

Several Nazir family guards standing not far away frowned, watching their family's always gentle and virtuous young lady play drunk, which was too different from her usual state. Is it really love at first sight for this wizard who is not good-looking?

According to the examiner of the Wisdom Palace, the wizard talent of his own young lady is actually very good, and there is a high possibility that she can advance to the rank of official wizard at the age of thirty. And with the financial resources and network of the Nazir family, if they support it, it will not be a problem to build a wizard tower for Nazanin, not to mention that the ancestors of the Nazir family also have several wizard ancestors in the Wisdom Palace, and the family will find a way to contact them, these senior ancestors should be happy to bring such a descendant wizard.

So what is it about Balin, who is young but just a wandering wizard, to attract her?

As a famous scholar in Xingchenhai once said, the most fearful thing for a real slave is the fear after losing his slave owner. Undoubtedly, these guards who have lived in Edgar for generations are the kind of slaves who have also been enslaved by their souls. They will never be able to understand the yearning of normal people for freedom, and naturally they will not be able to understand that Nazanin has now seen Bahrain as a lifeline to pull him out of this prison.

And Bahrain is from the Dahua Empire, which is the most conservative and most restrictive of people's thoughts in the Wisdom Palace region, and he has a bitter hatred for ** rule from the bottom of his bones. That's why he crossed the mountains and crossed the vast desert to the Sea of Stars, and Bahrain is the kind of person who exudes democratic ideas from his soul.

He was like a magnet for this little girl who longed for freedom and wanted to escape from the state prison built by the tyrant.

Fortified at night, the fortified fortress of the Grand Canyon during the Persian Empire has been incorporated into the city of Edgar in the light of the changing times. After Amnesty International was established with the support of the Continental Inspection Committee, it began to continuously interfere in the human rights issues of Edgar and other Gulf countries, and many political prisoners who posed a great threat to the royal family could no longer be sentenced to death, so this castle built for the purpose of military town eventually became the prison of Edgar's top political prisoner.

Outside the castle of Tigbis tonight, in the blind spot of the lazy guards on the lookout, dark shadows flickered, and a slight metallic cold glint occasionally flashed on their waists in the moonlight.

Rebels in kingdoms like Edgar have never really been wiped out. On the one hand, the hopeless people staged a farce of harmony and happiness for the rulers under the sun, and at night they looked forward to the change of dynasty. The rebels cut off one stubble and grew another stubble like leeks.

Even within the ruling class, there are basically no one who is loyal to the regime, they only use it for their own benefit, so as long as the rebels pay enough price, these middle and lower officials, who are also in danger of being sacrificed by their superiors, will make various deals with the rebels.

The prisoners held in the Great Citadel of Tigbes were not only prisoners of conscience who had committed patriotic crimes, but also rebel class enemies who had infiltrated the statistical class, and many officials of all levels who were involved with the rebels. Of course, there are also those who have lost in the political struggle, but the latter often do not live long here.

In a separate cell in the Great Castle of Tigebes, an old man with gray hair in a prison uniform sat quietly at the head of the bed, as if waiting for something.

Finally, a jailer opened his cell door and walked up to him with a clean set of clothes in his hand.

The jailer walked up to the old man as if with a pilgrimage reverence, bowed earnestly, and presented his clothes: "Great Muhammad and Sage, the operation is about to begin! ”

The old man slowly stood up and reached out to touch the top of his head with his thin palm: "Allah is great, Allah will bless you!"

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