Tails thought Raphael's advice was enough to make him uneasy.

It wasn't until it took Putile thirty seconds to tell Tails the way out of the city safely in the smoky passageway.

To sum it up—Tails twitched and looked at the natural-looking Puttie Lay—that is:

Follow me.

Go ahead.

Then smile.

Nope.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Tails stared incredulously at Putile, who was intoxicated by smoke, "What do you mean by 'keep going' and 'smile kindly at the connector'?"

Putile took a deep puff and slowly exhaled a perfect smoke ring.

"And there is no disguise and no ......" The prince was deeply worried and contemptuous of the other party's vague explanation: "Who is the connector? When will we meet? How is he going to send me out...... cough cough cough ......"

The smoke of Putileh clouded the already dim vision of the passage, and the pungent smell of tobacco choked Tails with a cough.

"Forgive me, Your Highness," Putile said calmly: "In the past month, the tail of Long Xiaocheng following me alone is enough for me to drink a pot, and I don't even have the skill to smoke." ”

"Don't worry, the connector will find you," Putile smiled lightly in the face of Tails' accusatory eyes, "And the place you are going to is relatively safe, as for not disguising, I am afraid that he will not recognize you......"

Tails narrowed his eyes: "Him?"

Putile walked up to him in two steps, smiled and took his shoulders around him, pulling Tails out.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense," Putile bit his cigarette holder and spit out a puff of cigarette again: "Your Highness, I'll send you off!"

Tails' doubts did not decrease, but increased.

"What?"

The prince covered his nose and frowned, struggling to find his way through the smoke: "But that's what you said......"

However, as soon as the words came out, he was held down by Putilai's palm and covered his mouth!

Putile's expression was serious, and he made a silent gesture to him.

Tails was startled, unconsciously holding his breath and inhaling slowly only through his nose.

But Putile exhaled another puff of smoke, his mouth still open and closed: "Trust me, that's enough...... My path is absolutely safe......"

Tread, step, step.

Putile led him coldly forward, all the way without stopping.

They crossed a fork in the road, and under the cover of smoke, walked far away to the next lamp that would not be extinguished.

The more Tails walked, the more frightened he became.

He's ...... Who are you guarding against?

No.

Tails came to his senses.

He knows.

In this underground tunnel, the only thing Putile has to guard against is ......

It wasn't until he came to a secret door that was as ugly as the surrounding earthen wall, and the passage behind him had returned to darkness and was completely gone, that Putile stopped, paused for a few seconds, and turned back to listen to something.

After a moment, he took a deep breath and let go of Tails.

"It seems that it is indeed gone. ”

Putile put down his extinguished pipe, his face slightly relaxed.

Tails looked at him in disbelief and whispered, "What's going on?"

Why ......

But Putile was quick to answer his question.

"Now that the people of the secret department are gone," the thin middle-aged lord leaned against the wall and sighed, "then, it's time......"

The middle-aged man's face flickered back and forth in the light of the lamp, and the dust spilled on his shoulders, marking a little stain, but Putirai had no intention of brushing it off.

Tails' heart moved.

He hadn't seen a putilai like this in a long time.

The last time, it seems, was six years ago?

In the dim light, Putile sorted out his emotions for a while, and then slowly spoke: "Listen, Your Highness, what I want to say next is that Gilbert's sanctimonious old fox will never tell you." ”

"He will only encourage you to be a good prince and bring the kingdom to the top. ”

"It won't be a mysterious anomaly that will tell you. ”

"Their principle is always 'less is better', both for those in the know and for the participants. ”

The more Tails listened, the stranger it became.

Neither Gilbert nor Myko will tell me......

"Putilai," the prince looked at him incredulously, "what insider, what participant?"

Putile pursed his lips, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes making him look even more tired.

"Your Highness. ”

"We paid so much to save you, and you just asked, 'Is it worth it?'" Putile frowned, lifting the pipe in his hand, not even caring about the ash spilling, "It's not just out of guilt, is it?" ”

"You're also suspicious. ”

Tails was stunned for a moment.

With a suspicious gaze, he looked at Putirai:

"What are you going to say?"

Putile closed his eyes, inhaled slowly, and exhaled slowly.

"What I want to answer to you is that doubt: the doubt that you have had since I came to Longxiao City dozens of days ago. ”

Tails' face became solemn.

Putile opened his eyes.

"Your Highness," said Putile, as if he had made up his mind, "you have asked me where I have been in the last six years, and why have I only appeared now to bring you back to China?"

"Why now?"

Tails frowned slightly, and then, full of doubts, he nodded lightly under Putilai's abnormal eyes: "Yes?"

In the narrow passage, Tails and Putile leaned against each other's walls, silently facing each other, looking at each other's half-light and half-dark faces in the light and shadow of the lamplight.

"You're right," Putile said softly, "it wasn't that we wanted to get you out on a whim, or because we felt that six years was too long. ”

"There's a reason why we, including the secret department who secretly guarded you for six years, suddenly appeared in Longxiao City after six years and wanted to rescue you. ”

Tails' pupils focused slightly.

His heart slowly quickened.

"You mean ......"

Putirai took another breath, as if it would take him a great deal of courage: "I think there are things you need to know...... Know at least some parts. ”

Tails was horrified to find that Putira's tone was trembling slightly.

Even he began to get nervous unconsciously.

"Your Highness, do you remember what happened in Longxiao City six years ago?"

"Whew," Tails exhaled, opening up the not-so-pleasant memories, "I want to forget, the plague has struck the city, the dragon has returned, and the rumba has killed the king......"

But Putile interrupted him almost rudely.

"No," said the thin Lord coldly, "and that's not all. ”

"On that day six years ago, something else happened in the shadows that we couldn't see, outside Valhalla and the shield area. ”

Tails' eyes widened slowly.

Other...... Something?

"I'm sure you can see that when I was younger, I worked under Prince Midir," Putile said of the past, his voice sounding a little uncomfortable, "Sometimes, I go with Myko...... Relatively close. ”

"That's why I was able to find the support I needed so quickly during the crisis six years ago. ”

Tails' heart sank, and he began to look at the man in front of him again.

Oh, yes.

I can see it.

It's just that...... This is the first time you admit it.

Putile Niemann.

Putile let out a long sigh, as if he was still reminiscing about the past: "Six years ago, the headquarters of the Kingdom Secret Science Longxiao City, which was just above us, had not yet been converted into the current chess and card room. ”

"At that time, it was just an inn," Putile's exhaustion overflowed:

"That night, it was with the help of my master that I was able to get support, gather resources, and order action—you were able to get out of prison thanks to him. ”

Tails subconsciously looked up, and of course, all he could see was a bumpy ceiling with a few cobwebs in the corners.

Even the nose is full of the cold and slight dampness that is characteristic of the basement.

Chess and card room.

Hotel?

Secret headquarters?

The prince lowered his head, and the question remained: "However?"

Putile nodded as he thought.

"Yet. ”

"It was the morning we broke into the palace and fought Rumba for the first time. ”

Putile's tone was heavy and sad: "The owner of this inn, the supreme head of the Exeter branch of the Kingdom Secret, and the special intelligence officer who has been lurking here for nearly twenty years, Karen Booker. ”

"Died unexpectedly. ”

Tails was startled, then rolled his eyes.

He could understand Putira's grief and the strangeness of his death, but it was something the other party had to say......

Tails hurriedly asked, "What happened to the intelligence officer?"

Putirai's eyes darkened, and his face twisted a few times under the flickering of the lamp: "Burglary, the robber stabbed Booker four times in the back. ”

Tails frowned: "But ......"

"Yes, Booker has been an old friend of mine for many years," Prophet Puttilai nodded, guessing what Tails was thinking, "I know what he is capable of, even if that night of calamity and dragons is indeed chaotic, no robber can take Booker's life." ”

He looked at him without saying a word, patiently waiting for the other party to continue.

In the next sentence, Putile gets to the point.

I saw Putira's eyes widen, his lips trembled slightly, and his face was serious: "But what is really terrifying is what he has recorded - Booker's secret code in the inn's ledger." ”

"During those days, he met certain people, found certain things, got some scattered clues, Your Highness. ”

"For the past six years, Mykoh and I have been following these clues left behind after Booker's death," Putile turned his face away from the light in the darkness, sinking his whole face into darkness, "It was only recently that some results were traced. ”

Tails was a little anxious: "What results?"

Putile exhaled slowly, as if to exclude something, and then inhaled deeply, as if gathering something, only to hear his slightly hoarse voice sounding tiredly:

"Something old, something terrible enough to shake the kingdom that even the Black Prophet couldn't keep his composure. ”

Tails' eyes widened, "What?"

Black Prophet?

Shake the kingdom?

Putile nodded heavily.

"From that day on, we knew that you were not safe, and neither was the Kingdom of the Stars. ”

"So, your rescue has been elevated to the most urgent priority of the kingdom and even the secret department," he looked at Tails with unspeakable pity and sorrow, "So, six years later, the Fuxing Palace has decided to take you out of Exeter and back to Eternal Star City at all costs." ”

Tails froze.

He didn't understand.

Putirai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and relaxed: "This is the answer, the answer to what I have done in the past six years, and the answer to why you have returned to China so suddenly." ”

But Tails is still not relieved.

He jerked to his feet.

"What, what the hell?"

Tails stared at Putirai anxiously, looking for words, and couldn't help but raise his voice: "Six years ago, six years ago, in Longxiao City, what happened above our heads that was enough to shake the entire Star Kingdom?"

But Putile let him down.

The other party shook his head: "No, Your Highness, I will do all I say." ”

Tails suddenly became anxious: "But ......"

Putileh held up a hand and interrupted him.

"Because I don't know," said Putirai's face with sorrow and sorrow: "I don't know, and I can't believe that what I have discovered is the truth, and I don't know the truth I understand and the truth that the secret science has seen, and ......."

He paused.

But Putile continued to speak.

“...... Is it consistent with His Majesty on the throne and the truth he believes, and how much does it deviate?"

Your Majesty?

A chill that came out of nowhere hit Tails' back.

Putilai suddenly raised his head, as if he had regained his strength: "Remember, Your Highness. ”

His voice tightened, his voice quickened, and there was a hint of bitterness in his heart: "In this matter...... Don't trust anyone, don't be sure of anything, don't be bound by any impression – sometimes, even what is happening in front of you can be a lie and a false impression!"

The more Tails listened, the more confused he became.

What is he saying?

What's going on?

Finally, like a dying patient breathless, Putile finally breathed in the first breath of air around him, calmed down in a trembling body, and resumed his long breath.

The pipe in his hand was almost broken.

But Putile's next sentence made Tails lose his temper!

"Your Highness. ”

"You have to do it, and you have to do it......"

"The truth about the year of blood, about your own life," said Putile, in a heavy and sad voice:

"It's up to you to discover, trace, and verify. ”

At that moment, it was as if someone was beating a war drum in his ear, and Tails was a spirit!

The prince's mind raced fast, and his unusual mind grabbed a myriad of matching information in an instant.

The Year of Blood?

Tails subconsciously clutched at his chest, where the map of the Fuxing Palace that King Nunn had given him years ago was clinging tightly to the placket of his robe.

But wasn't the year of blood the second prince Horace......

Isn't it the Black Sword that they assassinated......

Also, my background?

But didn't the Queen of the Sky say it, the name of the dragon......

Tails' face turned pale, and he remembered Selma's advice before he left:

[Tails, eighteen years ago, the year of the scarlet of the stars......]

【...... It's all about calamity. 】

Ashida, Giza......

His brain was getting more and more chaotic, and the surplus of intelligence and information almost lost him.

Putira, as well as the Black Prophet, the Myco, and even King Kessel......

What the hell are they ......

What secrets were discovered?

What secrets do you know?

How much does it overlap with the secrets I know?

Tails shook slightly, leaning against the wall.

Tranquility was restored in the passage.

After a few seconds, the prince slowly raised his head and looked blankly at the person in front of him.

Looking at the dead eyes of the middle-aged man.

Putile looked at the secret door and sighed softly, "It's time." ”

"It's time for you to go, Your Highness. ”

This is Putilai's farewell word.

The secret door opens.

A teenager slowly walked out of the tunnel, crawled out of a cave, and walked around the ruins of the low wall as a cover, and entered this remote and uninhabited alleyway.

He stopped and slowly raised his head.

The boy stood in the open-air Longxiao City in a daze, standing in this corner full of miscellaneous things, his thoughts confused.

In the distance, the bright moon has risen into the sky.

Illuminate his way home.

Right now.

"Hahaha-"

In the distance outside the alleyway, a rude and ugly voice exploded out of thin air!

"Hahaha, this can't be!"

Tails was startled, and subconsciously pressed against the wall, holding his breath.

"We respect you, so we're not joking," another slightly cold voice sounded: "Longxiao City is different from the past, this matter must be resolved, the new bosses of the Bow District have already stated that as long as you are willing to agree, they are willing to ......"

The rude and ferocious voice rang out again, seemingly unconcerned to politely interrupt the former:

"You know, a few hours ago, that dead face with drooping eyebrows in Valhalla came to me for the same purpose and with the same words as you. ”

The rude voice imitated the 'dead face' in his words: "He is much more majestic than a few of you, carrying that ugly knife on his back, and stepping into the shield area with two rows of guards in a menacing manner, smashing the knife in front of me, staring at who is dead, and speaking as if in debt: 'In the name of the Grand Duke of Longxiao City, I need the whereabouts of that prince. Hahahahaha, I'm so scared!"

But there was only sarcasm in the rude laughter, and there was no fear in his words.

Tails froze slightly.

"You mean," said a third voice on the other side, which seemed to be in the same group as the cold voice from before, and he asked cautiously, "That crazy meteorite, has he personally brought someone to you?"

Meteorite?

Hearing the familiar name, Tails pulled his mind back to the present, leaving behind the superfluous emotions.

Sounds ...... It's like two sides are facing each other, with a rude voice in one side being the minority and the other being the majority.

"Ha, do you know how I answered him?" The rude and vicious voice sounded again, full of disdain, "You must hear clearly, because I am ready to answer you in the same way......"

The next moment, the owner who sounded like it had a rude voice spat fiercely at the ground: "Phew!"

"I don't care if you're a starfall or a starfucker, a female archduke or a female archduke—"

"Fuck off!"