Chapter 1503 Secret Service 3
The dark elf who called herself Ophelia Laurel and whose true identity was one of the senior chiefs of staff of [Female Bee] did not leave for too long. Less than a quarter of an hour passed. She returned to the cubicle, with two more people behind her.
The two are not familiar faces to Xiao Ai, but they are not unfamiliar faces either.
"I didn't hear that anyone else would come..."
Hermes smacked his lips and sat on the edge of the sofa on the side of the door, minding his own business, with a somewhat expression on his face. He fiddled with the buttons of his leather jacket tangledly, looked at the puffing 'other' next to him with some dissatisfaction, and asked dryly: "Why are you here?"
Elma Heche glanced at Hermes expressionlessly, her plump lips that always showed a charming smile turned into a thin line: "Because I should have appeared here."
"Do you mind making it a little clearer?"
Hermes rolled his eyes a little irritably, and the street fighter aura slowly faded away, and was replaced by the one belonging to Officer Hao. Although you can't see it, it's a painting style that makes people feel inexplicably decent.
He is not an idiot, so he knows that under the current situation, there is no need to continue to maintain the same external persona as before. After all, Alma, who obviously knows more than him, seems to be equally relieved. After taking off the disguise, she transformed from a young madam with a fiery personality into a...
I can’t tell what she is, but she doesn’t look like a high-fashion lady who sells skin and flesh.
Faced with Hermes's question, Alma ignored it completely and just stared at Xiao Ai, who was sitting on the sofa in the middle not far away and seemed to be a very good girl.
So Hermes also looked over and turned his attention to Ms. Wormwood, who was most likely related to someone.
The bartender Ophelia was leaning against the door with her arms folded, looking at the three people in the room with interest.
"Let me introduce myself again..."
Xiao Ai gently put the soda in his hand on the table and smiled at the two of them: "My name is Ai Fanye. One of Mr.’s followers.”
Hermes blinked and asked without understanding: "What about the senior advisor of the Keyvos family?"
"Countess Lesa is one of Sir's most loyal partners, and the so-called senior A consultant is a position that is relatively convenient for us to get involved in certain matters. It can be me or anyone else."
Xiao Ai gave the explanation with a shy smile, and then emphasized. One sentence: "Of course, the Keyvos family is not anyone's puppet. They just gave us absolute trust. The Countess herself is a friend of Sir, so I don't want you two to despise her in the slightest."
< br>Elma immediately nodded solemnly and responded loudly: "Yes, Ms. Vanye!"
"Understood~"
Hermes raised his right hand, folded his index and middle fingers together, and gently swiped them from the corner of his eyes, giving Xiao Ai a friendly forehead-wiping salute.
"Very good, if that's the case."
Xiao Ai clapped his hands happily and smiled at the two of them: "That's about it for the opening remarks. Then, you two should think about yourself a little bit. Can you introduce me? ”
"Irma Kurogiri."
The store manager of [Roman Abyss] made an elegant skirt-lifting ceremony, then leaned over without hesitation and said: "Under the leadership of the Violet Empire's Fire Claw, [Ye] Leader of the 17th Operation Team of the Hunting Force.”
"Hermes."
Officer Hao also had no choice but to keep up with the rhythm, and shrugged concisely: "Alien law enforcer."
Because he had already learned about the two from Mo Tan. Xiao Ai, who had already taken over the docking task, did not show the slightest surprise. He just nodded slightly and smiled gently at Alma: " Sit down, we are all business people, so don’t be too formal with each other.”
“Okay, Miss Vanye.”
Alma showed a smile to Xiao Ai. With a bright smile, he then sat on the sofa opposite Hermes, while Ophelia still leaned against the door on guard, sipping the soda in her hand with great restraint.
"Is this the first time that Miss Alma and Miss Ophelia meet today?"
Xiao Ai looked at the two ladies in front of him curiously and smiled: "We are both working in the City of Freedom. , I thought you knew each other.”
Ophelia smiled and shook her head. He nodded and said softly: "This question is more or less embarrassing..."
"Sorry."
Xiao Ai immediately apologized meekly, but did not change his mind. topic, just sitting there quietly drinking drinks, letting the atmosphere gradually become silent.
Obviously, the girl has not given up on this seemingly casual question, so the apology is not so much because of the rudeness of the question just now, but rather as an apology for continuing to ask after knowing that this matter is relatively sensitive. .
"Actually, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. At least you don't need to hide it from Miss Vanye."
Elma took a puff of cigarette, subconsciously spit out two eye circles and turned her head Glancing at Hermes: "It's just..."
[Sure enough, no matter how hard you try to reduce the sense of existence, you can't be regarded as non-existent. 】
Sighing secretly in his heart, Hermes spread his hands helplessly: "Although I think my mouth is quite tight, but if a few ladies feel it is necessary, I can leave first... …”
"No, sir, we have given instructions to make Mr. Hermes feel our sincerity as much as possible."
Xiao Ai raised his hand to stop Officer Hao who was reluctant to stand up, and then left. He glanced at Alma and Ophelia, smiled and said: "Don't worry, I can guarantee the reliability of Mr. Hermes. If you have anything to say, just say it."
Knowing that I might have to do something today Ophelia, who had been writing the report for a long time, pinched her eyebrows, turned to Alma and asked: "You said I said it?"
"I will say it."
Alma He took out a small iron box and knocked ashes into it while saying: "First of all, you... no, at least Miss Fanye should already know that Ophelia and I are both from the Violet Empire, and our status is not low. .”
Hermes blinked, reflected for a long time, then clapped his hands gently, and suddenly said: "Oh, that Violet Empire in the south, right?"
"It seems that Mr. Hermes is indeed an alien. "
When she said the last three words, Ophelia's eyes flickered, her eyebrows raised slightly, and she smiled. He said: "If we are 'aboriginals', we should not know about the Violet Empire until we are so old." Hermes grinned and readily accepted the other party's rather narrow-minded words. People from other worlds, no. Shameful, he felt that he would be thankful just to be able to sort out this little thing in the Free City.
“But although we are both from the Violet Empire, we are not in the same system.”
Alma gently picked up her ruby necklace, which had never been seen in its entirety because it was usually hidden in ravines, and gently shook it twice at a certain frequency: "I belong to the Fire Claw Territory. The secret service agency [Night Hunt] is directly responsible to the Great Chief."
Xiao Ai nodded slightly and said thoughtfully: "Is the Great Chief referring to... Grand Duke Rhinoceros Bloodaxe?"
< br>"Yes, it is the eight lords of the Violet Empire in the past...one of the current seven lords, Grand Duke Xiluo."
Alma gave an affirmative answer and said with a serious face. : "But we people in the Fire Claw Territory still prefer the name Warchief."
[? ? ? 】
Hermes blinked with a dull expression, obviously unable to keep up with the rhythm.
"The [Female Bee] to which I belong is a special department serving His Highness the Regent."
Ophelia saw that Alma said it in such pain, so she No longer hiding it, he explained bluntly: "The object of allegiance is to the Royal Violet Family."
[emmmm...]
Hermes didn't quite understand, but he He was shocked and deeply aware of the strong connection between the two people. At the same time, he was also deeply aware of how powerful his collaborator, the man called Sir by the girl sitting in the middle, was.
All in all, as the two ladies said, they are secret organizations affiliated to the regent of the Violet Empire and the Archduke Fire Claw, one of the seven lords of the Violet Empire.
It only took Xiao Ai a moment to clarify the positions of the two parties. At the same time, he also understood why Ofelia just said this question was somewhat embarrassing.
There can only be one reason, and that is that although he holds the title of regent, His Royal Highness Prince Hugh Bresne, who has already become the de facto controller of the Violet family, is far from completely controlling the entire empire.
Even though Xiao Ai is just an outsider, she has carefully studied the history of the Violet Empire and personally experienced the entire process of the Marshall Territory rebellion. She knows very well that this empire was not made of steel from a long time ago. A piece of iron, but a set of puzzle pieces with sharp edges.
A total of nine families in the founding era, Violet, Dantes, Hussein, Baroka, Marshall, Crystal Wolf, Fernand, Simon, and Fire Claw, although they stand under the same banner, But they have been acting independently from the beginning, and the relationship between them is very delicate. Take any two families and they have countless records of friendship and friction.
In fact, Violet is not so much an empire as it is a federation similar to the Southwest Continent Silver Wings Alliance, except that the relationship between the various member forces is much closer.
To put it bluntly, it is a Violet family that is responsible for maintaining balance and being maintained in the most privileged position, and several other countries within a country.
Despite the so-called appearance, in the history of this empire, there is no clear affiliation between any two forces, even if one of them is the Violet family that is named the country.
But since the fall of the Marshall Territory, the assassination of Crown Prince Ribo, Emperor Clairvaux's retreat to the background, and Hugh Bresne officially becoming active as regent, many people have realized that the Violet Empire may have to Things have changed.
His Royal Highness the Regent has never concealed his purpose, which is to completely eradicate the behavior of the major lords from enclosing land as kings, and turn this empire into a veritable 'Violet Empire'.
Everyone knows his ambition, but it is difficult to stop him.
The first Marshall family to be caught has become history.
The Dantès family, who intended to murder Emperor Clerval and assassinate Xiu, was directly suppressed by the latter from within. They had already completely surrendered to the regent.
The Crystal Wolf family has become increasingly weak in recent decades. Its head, Grand Duke Emmeline, is engaged to the Prince Regent. If nothing else happens, the entire Crystal Wolf Territory will become her dowry.
Contrary to the Crystal Wolf family, the Hussein family, which has grown stronger over the years, was liquidated by the regent with nearly 40% of their property due to their close contacts with the Marshall family. At the same time, more than half of the leaders were forced to disband, and they seemed to have become fish on the chopping board.
In this way, the regent miraculously absorbed nearly half of the nutrients from the ruins of the Marshall family in just half a year, and completely became subordinates of the other two families, turning the Hussein family from the most prosperous to the most prosperous. decline.
But this is the limit that His Highness Xiu can do after seizing a wave of opportunities. As for the remaining Fernan family, Baroka family, Simon family and Fire Claw clan, they are busy digesting it. The regent, who had consolidated his existing forces while continuing to put pressure on the Hussein family, had no power left to do anything more to them.
So these four families, which were originally the most firmly on the side of the royal family during the counter-insurgency war, are now the furthest away from the royal family.
Because of this, as the secret service departments of both parties, there is naturally no direct contact between [Night Hunter] and [Female Bee].
In other words, Ophelia and Emma, two women who were both born in the Violet Empire and were both civil servants, could say that their positions were very subtle.
Of course, this subtlety did not turn into hostility. After all, the Chief of Rhinoceros still had a good impression of His Highness the Regent, and he always remembered that he personally helped the Fire Claws to kill Marshall and avenge the blood feud that had lasted for decades. File matter.
It’s just that the political aspect is too involved. Even if the Fire Claw clan is willing to be loyal to the Violet Family instead of the Violet Empire, this is bound to be a long process. No matter how powerful Xiu is, he will not be able to promote the situation. development, it is impossible to directly reduce this process to zero.
[Night Hunt] and [Female Bee], two organizations of similar nature, may work together under the same system in the future, but it is only 'maybe' and 'future', which is half the difference from now. None.
They are just...
"By the order of His Highness the Regent, from the end of the Academy City Exchange Meeting until the next time we receive clear instructions, [Female Bee] will be in the Free City. All forces will fully cooperate with that adult’s actions.”
Ophelia suppressed a smile and made a rather extreme statement meticulously.
“According to the orders of the Great Chief, since the object code-named ‘Ghost Card’ arrives in the Free City, the three [Night Hunting] operation teams in the Free City will mobilize all resources to cooperate with the operation of ‘Ghost Card’ "
Alma also put down the pipe in her hand, turned to Xiao Ai and said sternly: "As long as I have a trust, I will not give up even if I die."
"I... belong to the alien agent. Department [Internet Police]..."
Feeling that he was out of tune with the current atmosphere, Hermes twitched his lips, and after a while he sighed deeply——
"I can help delete the bad website browsing history of your friends from other worlds."
Chapter 1,494: The End
(End of this chapter)