The reactions of the four Grand Dukes were mixed, but one set an example. Ｅ┡ Δ％．＊

"It's okay," Auretheus decisively rejected him, "The topic of dividing up Longxiao City will end here." ”

"Please hear me out......" Rumba lowered his eyelids.

"Can't you understand people?" interrupted Ronnie in a cold voice.

But Rumba's eyes were furious, and he immediately hit back at him with louder and more decisive words.

"I know you've come out of the Crow!"

I heard Rumba shout angrily: "Lisbane and his patrol are coming, aren't they?"

His words fell.

There was only silence.

The four Grand Dukes were stunned.

They looked at each other, their breaths unconsciously tense, and they all seemed to be worried that Rumba already knew the news.

Rumba gasped and calmed down.

"Don't worry," his eyes replied indifferently, "I didn't bring a Saker with me, so I can't intercept your letters." ”

The breathing of the four Grand Dukes gradually stabilized.

"So please listen to me, and wait a little longer until they come and break the siege...... Actually, it's better for you. ”

I hope that the arrangement of the first city gate can be delayed for a longer time.

At least hold out until I fix them.

Rumba said in the bottom of his heart.

Ronnie narrowed his eyes and turned to the other three, "Are you going to continue to listen to his nonsense?"

Trudida shrugged.

"It's boring, but," the Grand Duke of the Rebuilding Tower whistled and said to everyone's hearts, "It's better than us swords facing each other and spilling blood in Valhalla together." ”

Auretheus sneered, and Lecco made a "please" gesture to Rumba with the same expression.

There was no objection.

Rumba nodded.

"Walton," he said coldly, "I hold the last daughter of the Walton family—closer than any collateral bloodline. ”

Archduke Leco narrowed his eyes and shook his head: "Exeter has never had a precedent for a woman to inherit the throne of the Grand Duke. ”

"She doesn't have to inherit," Rumba's face turned cold and his voice quickened, "but she can be used as a temporary pawn." ”

Trudida raised an eyebrow, as if intrigued.

"We can promise that the male bloodline born after she gets married will become the future Grand Duke of Longxiao City," Rumba had a decisive expression, rubbed his fingers into a knife, and waved fiercely: "This is more effective and secure than hastily sealing Longxiao City into another family, and it can stabilize the power inside and outside Longxiao City." ”

"Until then, you have been in charge of Longxiao City in the name of assistance. ”

Rumba said calmly.

Grand Duke Ronnie frowned, as if he couldn't believe it.

"And then?" said Archduke Leco, with a blank expression.

Rumba looked back at them calmly.

The next second.

"Then," the Grand Duke of Black Sand's lips opened lightly, his eyes were like knives, and his words were like iron:

"It's war. ”

Alethesius the Great's face moved.

"Ha," Trudida beside him shook his hand unhappily: "Each family goes back to the territory to recruit troops, and then takes advantage of their unpreparedness to destroy Longxiao City......?"

Rumba interrupted him.

The terrible Grand Duke took a step forward and said with a bang:

"No!"

Rumba's eyes were full of coldness: "We will unite the whole country and send troops south." ”

Grand Duke Ronnie's fists tightened: "What?"

The four Grand Dukes all looked at Rumba with serious expressions.

And the latter showed a hideous and fierce expression.

It's like a man-eating beast before hunting.

"We go to war against the stars," he said fiercely, gritting his teeth, "for His Majesty the Ancestor Nunn......"

"Revenge. ”

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In another corner of Longxiao City, Tails and Putile were both crammed into a cramped pony wagon, and in front of them, a make-up Nicola sat in the driver's seat, leaving them with a burlap jacket on their backs.

Tails hid in the crevices of a cart of firewood, fidgeting, frowning and pondering.

Charman Rumba.

The Four Grand Dukes.

King Nunn.

Between them...... How exactly do you break the game?

Putile and Tails were separated by two bundles of firewood and saw the latter's expression.

The Vice-Messenger of the Stars sighed softly.

The carriage shuddered as it drove through a low hurdle.

At that moment, Tails only felt his eyes flicker, and then a familiar feeling hit him.

The prince subconsciously stroked his forehead: his eyes began to blur again.

He was in a brightly lit room, with three or four young people holding computers, sitting around a middle-aged man scatteredly, looking at the projection on the wall.

"If you come to this course, you must have a basic understanding of social networks, such as nodes, edges, such as out, out, in, and even concepts such as two-mode networks and structural equivalence......"

"Now, I want you to imagine a network diagram. Well, it's better to use interpersonal networks, and replace geometric diagrams with relationships between people, which is easier to understand. ”

"a, B, and c are three people, and let's say they know each other in pairs, okay, draw three dots and connect them with edges -- we get the simplest diagram of a triangular social network, three points and three edges, and you can analyze the network in the same way you have learned. ”

"Let's take this simple network, and add plus or minus signs to these only number of connections: a and B have a very bad relationship, and the connection between them is assigned a negative one, and B and c have a good relationship, and the connection is positive one. ”

The question arises: what will happen to the relationship between A and C? This leads to a new question: the balance of social networks. ”

"The discussion of triangular relations began in the time of Zimmer...... Balance, for example: if your friend hates someone, then you, as a friend, if you don't hate him, you will be in a very awkward position in this triangle, and this triangle can be out of balance at any time...... And how do we show this balance in the concept of social networks?"

"How does an unbalanced network of people change to achieve its own stability?"

The balance of the network.

Relationship ...... Stable?

Tails took a deep breath and rubbed the side of his forehead vigorously, burying the newfound memory in the deepest part of his heart.

The relationship between Rumba and Nunn is negative.

However, the relationship between Nunn and the Grand Dukes ...... Also negative.

If this network is to be stabilized and balanced, then between the Rumba and the Grand Duke......

Wait a minute.

This network is incomplete.

I'm missing something.

"You're nervous, aren't you? ”

Tails, who was rubbing his forehead in contemplation, was taken aback and turned around:

"Huh?"

Putirai looked at him with a worried face.

"Uh, sorry, I just didn't get a good rest......" Tails reacted, smiling and shaking his head.

"No," Putile interrupted, "not just now. ”

The deputy envoy shook his head slightly: "From the beginning"

Tails was slightly stunned.

"When you're nervous, you talk a lot," Putile exhaled, grinding his teeth, as if he was choked by the addiction to smoking, "I remember when you first entered Longxiao City, you were like this." ”

Tails was stunned.

"Really?"

He was out of his mind.

Putile nodded silently.

"Although you have been confident before, for the next move," the thin lieutenant sighed.

"Actually, you're not sure, are you?"

Putile's eyes lit up thoughtfully.

Tails didn't speak.

He quietly looked at the firewood in front of him.

After a few seconds, the prince lowered his head and sighed.

"I'm sorry," Tails said with some frustration, "I'm just ......"

"I don't know if we can ...... Succeed. ”

Puttilai looked at him quietly.

At that moment, Nicolas in front of him turned his head with eyes like stars.

"We are Northlanders," he said coldly, "Northlanders don't ask if they can do it." ”

"Just ask 'do it or not'. ”

Putirai snorted.

Tails' heart jumped, and he took a hard breath to cheer up.

"We're there?" Tails raised an eyebrow as he felt the carriage stop.

"Of course," Nicolas knocked on the carriage, his expression calm, "they have already gone to explore the way first." ”

Tails let out a sigh.

"I thought it would take more time to move from finding a place to getting started......," said the prince silently, "we can't see the light of day after all......"

"This is Longxiao City," Nikolai interrupted him, his tanned skin trembling slightly, "no one is more familiar with someone than we are." ”

And.

Neither the real patrol nor the impostor of the Black Sand Collar seems to be nowhere to be seen.

Nicolai narrowed his eyes.

At that moment, a disguised white-bladed guard approached the driver's seat and gestured to Nicolais.

Nicolai gave a thumbs up.

"We can go in," said Nicolai, throwing off the reins of his horse, jumping out of the carriage, and turning back to them, "they have found their way, and we will go straight in." ”

Tails was slightly startled.

"Just go in?"

The prince's eyes widened: "Aren't we going to sneak in?

"Shut your mouth...... Nicolai said contemptuously, "we're sneaking in." ”

Putile pushed away the two bundles of firewood, jumped out of the carriage first, and then reached out and took the second prince over.

Tails was grounded and felt a little more grounded.

It's a relatively remote house, it looks big, but the façade is very simple, and it is not known which area it is located in. But the owner of this place obviously doesn't want to be too high-profile, and there is not even a Northland neighbor around.

And they were standing by a small side door, guarded by two men, Soldier Willow and Jenard.

"Good luck, Your Highness," Jenard replied simply to the prince's inquiring look, "and we'll get the wind on you." ”

Putile nodded to them, turned back and whispered, "We should hurry." ”

Nicolai chin at him and walked through the side door first.

"Straight to the door?" Tyers followed Nicollet into the small side door, into a seemingly desolate backyard, and couldn't help frowning, "It's going to be revealed......, right?

"You know, we're in danger and we need to keep a low profile, it's better to go over the wall or go through the roof or something, sneak into the ......"

His words came to an abrupt end.

Tails stopped opening and closing his lips.

He looked at the snow-covered yard with horror.

"Diving ...... Dive into ......," he repeated subconsciously.

Almost all of their White Guards stood in the courtyard, including Cohen and Miranda, and the guard bared his big white fangs.

Tails took a breath and lowered his head.

I saw that all around him, there were many people lying on the ground.

There were corpses lying in pools of blood.

There are also people who are in a coma or in shock.

There are even poor insects with blue noses and swollen faces, tied up by five flowers, and stuffed with rags in their mouths, often with a knife around their necks, and next to them is a fierce Northland or Xingchen people.

"You ......" Tails stared at the scene blankly, speechless for a long time.

"It's really a low-key 'sneak'. Puttilai let out a long sigh.

The Starfall gave a thumbs up to the lead Mielke.

Tails turned away from the corpses, casting a displeased look at Nicolais.

"Come on, as long as no one knows we're infiltrating," Nicolai raised an eyebrow, holding out his palm to the bloody mess and nodding smugly, "it's the most successful infiltration." ”

This sentence......

In those few seconds, Tails' eyebrows changed shape.

He took a deep breath, turned to Nicolai, and with a serious expression, asked tentatively in a low voice, "Everything is empty......"

Nicolai was slightly stunned, and looked puzzled: "What?"

Tails smacked, retracted his head, shrugged his shoulders like no one else, and said, "It's nothing. ”

Nicolas had an inexplicable look on his face.

Tails shook his head, pushing out unnecessary thoughts, and looked at the corpses that had fallen to the ground around him, holding back the complaints in his heart.

This will lose synchronization......

The next second, he followed Nicolais, leaving the courtyard and entering the house.

"This is your plan, have you figured out how to do it?" said the Starfall lightly.

"Of course," Tails crossed a threshold and took a deep breath, "improvise." ”

Then Tails looked up and turned his gaze to the two men behind an ornate desk.

One of them was Raphael.

The young man of the secret department happened to be leaning against the wall for a long time, his left hand stretched out, holding his sword.

The blade of the sword landed on the throat of another middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man frowned, but he was still calm and calm.

"Sir, I don't know how you found here......"

"But I'll assume that you already know who I am and know my worth...... The middle-aged man grew his mouth, squinted his eyes slightly, and said to Raphael beside him: "Then the question is simple, no matter what it is, we must have a ...... to talk about." ”

Tails took a deep breath as he stepped out from behind Nicolai and looked up at the man who had been held by Raphael's throat.

This golden ponytail, a middle-aged nobleman dressed in a gorgeous costume.

"Hello, it's an honor to meet again. Tails struggled to squeeze out his most hypocritical smile:

"Lord Marquis. ”

As soon as these words came out, it seemed that even the air was quiet.

The middle-aged man in gold was startled when he saw Tails, his face was surprised, and his eyes blinked back and forth.

Can't seem to believe it.

Immediately, the middle-aged man showed a complex and subtle wry smile and slowly exhaled a breath.

"It's been a long time. ”

"From sending people to ask for help, to now suddenly appearing ......"

"His Royal Highness Tails, who is a pleasant surprise. ”

The Marquis of Shanliu City, who belonged to the Comas Alliance, Srice Bermula, sat upright behind his desk and said helplessly.

(End of chapter)