In a few days, as the Earl had expected, the story of twenty-four seconds had spread throughout the royal city. The Count didn't even care, and he didn't even see the king. Even the plan to visit Prince Merisser as soon as he returned was thrown out of the blue.

What hasn't changed is that the line of Saint-Soli Church remains early in the morning. His pocket watch was as fast as ever, twenty-four seconds. But they didn't see it.

The New Year is approaching, and on this day, the king has received an edict to welcome the new year, and three days later, the kingdom of Esso will hold the most solemn court feast ever, which all the princes and nobles must attend, and Prince Merisser of Tesville has also been invited.

The Earl, who usually hates this kind of boring party the most...... This time, he happily obeyed.

Three days passed in a flash. During this time, the Count told Faslia for the first time that she had closed her door and only sat and meditated, and her habit of not being able to thunder every morning was interrupted.

......

The same process, as boring as ever, is no different hypocrisy. The feast took place as scheduled.

As always, the king frequently toasted with his courtiers. The same opening remarks, the same praise of virtue, and praise each other. After a while the king came to the earl, and the noise gradually subsided. Everyone looked at the place as if they were expecting something......

"Dear Charles, did you have a good trip, and you don't come back to tell me about your travels. During this time, I was looking forward to your return every day. How's it going, is your pocket watch normal?" the king's words were clearly tinged with a hint of banter.

"The whole royal city knows about the big trouble you are in, and it seems that our first wise man is also helpless!"

"Your Majesty, thank you for your concern, this time you have indeed encountered a great trouble. However, you have no idea what I discovered during this trip to Dunhuang, and now I have figured everything out, and I have solved the problem of Prince Merisser by the way." The Count said with a look of smugness.

"Oh, yes, you see, tell us what's going on?" the king's tone was strange, as if he was suppressing something.

"I've discovered a big secret about our plane. ”

Undeazed by the king's strangeness, the Earl continued: "Our plane is guarded by twelve giant mosquitoes, exactly twenty-four seconds away from the other planes, created by the Eastern god of time.

But Kronos, the Western god of time, didn't want to dominate this space. Unable to enter this time and space, he created the Demon God Wine to get the mosquitoes drunk, and hunted all the mosquitoes in the primeval forest, causing chaos in time and space.

Later, he defeated Kronos and restored order in time and space. However, the Demon God Wine remained, and it happened to be obtained by the Tesville royal family, but it was never opened until it was inadvertently opened by Prince Merisser not long ago, so the time and space were confused, and the previous life reappeared.

And my ancestral pocket watch is not an ordinary thing, it has been sensed by another time and space, and it has been displaced in time. The Count finished in one breath.

The king stared at him with wide eyes, as if he had seen something extremely funny, and after a moment he suddenly said, "Charles, I should have been stunned by your words, but I ...... It's really, I really can't go on, hahahaha......"

Before the words fell, he was already laughing so much that snot bubbles came out. The king's laughter filled the hall like a New Year's bell, and in an instant, everyone leaned back and forth in laughter.

"Wonderful! much more exciting than I expected!haha...... Your imagination is so rich, if you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, you actually made it up haha... What the... Daedric wine!Time shift!genius!You're a genius!" The king couldn't breathe with laughter. Prince Melisser walked over, patted the count on the shoulder, smiled and apologized.

This kind of scene is really hard to see, and thousands of people laugh in unison, which is by no means comparable to any other large theater. The Count looked at the mad people and remained silent.

"Silly, aren't you?" said the king, who laughed breathlessly, not noticing the coldness that came out of the earl's mouth.

At this moment, Faslia approached him, bowed deeply to him, and whispered, "Beloved, please forgive me for my sins!"

"It's all a hoax that we orchestrated, no twenty-four seconds, no weird dreams, and I've seen the murals a long time ago. The pocket watch is my hand and foot, the chance encounter with those people in the bazaar, the country boy who asks the time, Prince Merisser, including all the timekeeping tools you may touch, and the trip to Dunhuang, all of which we designed. ”

Faslya gritted her teeth and continued: "With your wisdom, it is too difficult and too difficult to fool you, I understand you, only by starting from the time you care about the most, and at the same time using your curiosity to create several inexplicable phenomena, first disturb your normal thinking, plus that ancient and mysterious legend, a three-pronged approach, may be able to deceive you."

I know, with your ingenuity, seeing those murals will definitely deduce the process behind the performance, and the whole plan is like that. Forgive me, my dear, for the hurt I have caused you, I am sad. With that, Faslia lowered her head and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

The Count was not as angry as she had thought, and he looked at Faslia with a warm smile in his eyes.

"How can I blame you, I have nothing but gratitude to you, I know your hardships, all for my good," the Count said softly, holding her.

Faslia looked up at the Count, tears streaming down her cheeks.

The laughter gradually stopped. The king, who had been given his wish, also found it a little bored. I want to divert the topic, but I don't know what to say.

The Count suddenly asked, "Why do you want to set my pocket watch twenty-four seconds faster than any other number?"

The king looked at Faslia, and she blushed and said, "I...... I just saw the twelve mosquitoes in the mural, and I casually thought of a multiple of twelve. ”

The Earl nodded and sighed, "Your plan seems to be seamless, but the most successful thing is that you hit the number of twenty-four seconds. If you had taken a different number, maybe I would have seen it a little earlier. ”

"What do ......you mean? You've already seen through it?" the king stammered. Faslia also looked at the Count, a look of shame and pride in her eyes.

"What about you...... Still...... Still cooperate with us?" said Sith III, stunned for a moment.

The earl smiled faintly and said meaningfully: "We are all human beings, bitterness and joy and honor are always a family, everyone is happy, what's wrong!"

After that, the shining eyes crossed the palace, and seemed to see the white-clothed Shengxue in the long yellow sand......

......

The New Year's bell is about to ring, and the sincere blessings contain people's yearning for a better life. There was a smile on everyone's face, a simple and warm smile, representing the purity, kindness, and love of human beings.

The countdown began, and people raised their arms and chanted under the leadership of the master of ceremonies: ten, nine, eight, seven...... Three, two, one.........

...... Why didn't the bell ring? People looked at their pocket watches......

Twenty-four seconds later, the bell rang.

The palace fell silent. The people looked at each other, and after a while they slowly began to whisper: it seems that the church bell is really broken......

"You can't go wrong with the Saint-Solly clock". The Earl said word for word.