Imperial capital.

Heaton sat on the supreme throne in the Hall of Hearing.

Heaton, who was noticeably taller, was no longer the little kid sitting on it with his legs out of reach.

The light green hair under the crown sets off the handsome face that has not completely taken off the sense of immaturity.

He held a scepter symbolizing royal power in his hand, and his face was grim.

is different from the impression of the fat dudu, it is not the image of the pole in the comics, and even the previous clothing style has changed.

Under the slightly loose royal robe, there is an unimaginable figure.

Of course, it is not as exaggerated as Zhu Tian, but it is also gradually approaching Brand, but the body size is placed there, which is probably what Tazmi looks like.

"Where?" A slightly magnetic voice came from Heaton's mouth.

Seeing the bottom of the hall, the soldier kneeling on one knee bowed his head, not daring to make the slightest unnecessary movement.

"Tell Your Majesty, in the Forest of Prayer."

"Okay, let's go down first."

"Yes!" The soldier breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

For this emperor who has become more and more powerful in the past three years, he is afraid from the bottom of his heart.

If Heaton knew what he was thinking, he would only feel wronged, and he was not a person who killed people indiscriminately, so why should he be afraid of himself?

In the past two years, I have done nothing but rectify the officialdom and the Guards!

Because of the arrival of the old minister, he shared the pressure of Lan, who was actually an internal affairs official but did the work of a minister.

Although Yuri is old, the ability of the minister and the mud is not low, but he is more shrewd than before.

The empire, a big house full of holes, was repaired here and there, and life can go on.

In addition to the growing rebels!

"What do you think, Lan?"

Regarding the soldier's briefing, Heaton asked the Lan Interior Officer on the side.

Plainly dressed, Lan didn't seem to hear Heaton's words, her brows furrowed, her fists clenched, and her eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire.

"This isn't like you used to be, Lan!"

Heaton reminded softly, unconcerned, and stepped down from his throne and stretched.

This morning's pilgrimage meeting was really sore.

It's just that things have been getting more and more lately.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I was rude."

Lan heard Heaton's reminder, his eyes closed slightly, calmed the anger in his heart, and saluted Heaton.

"It's okay, let's talk about it."

He seemed to be a little impressed about Ran's affairs.

"Your Majesty, I used to be a village teacher, you know this."

"That's right, later the local county guard recommended you over, and then you went to the imperial capital to be an official."

Heaton is very clear about these things, although he knows Ran's person and story, but the matter that Gozzi is investigating still needs to be investigated.

"Your Majesty, my belief as an official is very simple, that is, I want to fundamentally change the status quo of the empire, so I hate the existence of rebels who want to overthrow the empire by violent means.

And the idea came about because of the inaction of the local officials, and because of one thing, when I was a village teacher. ”

Heaton seemed to remember the incident, but nodded anyway, and motioned for Lan to continue, he wanted to continue listening.

"That village is the village where I grew up, and since I came back from studying outside, I returned to the village, thinking that I wanted more people in the village to go out, so I became the only teacher in the village.

The children in the village are very cute, they are innocent, lively, love to learn, and I think that in the future, they will be like me, and they can go out of the village and see the outside world. Lan, who brought up the sad story again, had tears in her eyes, her hands were clenched, and she had a smile on her lips when she mentioned the children in her village.

"In addition to teaching them to read, I usually play with them, so that the parents in the village can rest assured that they will not worry that the children will run to the mountains or dangerous places.

But when I came back, everything changed! They... They... All dead, all of them..."

"It's okay, Lan, I see."

Heaton stopped the thought of continuing.

This kind of retelling the picture in the memory is no less than experiencing the scene again.

Champ, a murderer.

Lan didn't know his name, but he would never forget the scene when he returned to the classroom.

Blood, a house full of blood.

Unforgivable.

Lan didn't know how she spent that night, her mind was blank.

Why is this happening?

Avenge! Find out this scum and kill it!

The next day, Lan was unusually calm, he cleaned the classroom, and the door was locked with chains.

When he found the town guard officer and got the answer of refusal, he was not angry or surprised, and then he came to the nearest city, relying on his talent and appearance, he coaxed the female county guard to love, obtained the emperor [Mostima], and was even recommended to be an official.

He has been on the lookout for similar cases of child abuse and murder, but there has been no clue.

Until today.

Qi Yao's dangerous species removal team found a pile of children's corpses, covered in scars and traces of being violated.

"Your Majesty, I want to go in person, I want to catch the murderer and kill him personally." Lan exhaled deeply, calmed his good mood, and respectfully requested.

"Yes, it happened to be found by General Najeta, so it's better to ask her to help you search the neighborhood."

Heaton, of course, agreed to Ran's request.

The reason why Najeta is in the Forest of Qi Yao is because of the Imperial Capital Guard.

Today's Guards have long since changed greatly, several military defense dispatches, let some lazy worms be transferred to the border, the army is empty salary, and the corrupt ones are all beheaded for public display, and they are still hung on the ten-meter-long pole in the military.

Because they couldn't afford to eat, there were only a lot of poor people who wanted to come to the army, and after the selection, they were re-trained by Najeta with the old guards who stayed behind.

There was a military camp near Qi Yao's Forest to make it easy to enter the forest to clear out dangerous species, and Najeta would occasionally take the guards there to assess and verify.

General of the Southern Border Guard, Liva, was transferred to the West three years ago to temporarily take the position of Najeta. Now he will return to the imperial capital again to change defenses with Estes, and Estes will also take advantage of this opportunity to solve the threat of foreign nations in the West at once.

Just like the northern border two years ago, hundreds of thousands of foreign nations have now been completely frozen in their homeland, forever feeling the power of the ice.