Chapter 445 is full of scheming
'Squeak, squeak, squeak...'
The night is quiet, the moon hangs in the sky, and the people who were noisy on the street during the day have hid under the covers. In the dream, I am looking for a way to realize my wish. Only the night insects are still whispering in this quiet time, pouring out the dissatisfaction of people's noisy day.
No, maybe there are still people awake at this time, or even they have just woken up.
Under the dim light, Alice woke up in a daze. After she was kidnapped during the day, she was quickly knocked unconscious by the group, and when she woke up, it was already now.
"Where is this?" Alice didn't know where she was, and felt inexplicably scared. She gradually saw the surroundings clearly. Old wooden boxes and cardboard boxes were stacked together. Upon closer inspection, some of the boxes seemed to contain goods. It looks like an abandoned warehouse.
"This is an underground warehouse." A deep voice sounded in her ears.
The small windows on the wall are all three or four meters high, and the edges of the windows are covered with weeds.
Alice was startled, and when she turned around, she saw a blurry face less than a foot away from her eyes. She hurriedly ran away, but accidentally bumped into another person: "You...who are you?"
"Little girl, are you also an alchemist?"
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"Me? No, it's not." Alice understood immediately. These people were all the same as her. They must have been caught here because of the alchemy competition.
"Alice?" A young male voice came from the dark corner.
Alice was stunned: "Who are you?"
The voice said: "It's me, Hughington." Then Hughington's face came closer in front of Alice. He didn't seem to notice when Alice was captured.
“Ah, you were caught by them too.”
"Get out of the way." Hullington pushed away the guy next to him, sat next to Alice, and asked: "How did you get caught by them? You are not an alchemist, why did they catch you?"< br>
Alice shook her head: "They kidnapped me and threatened Wright, asking him to abstain from this project. The alchemy final. But I don’t understand why they want to arrest me.”
“It’s really for the alchemy competition. They are determined to win the first place in this competition.”
< br>Alice tried to stand up, but as soon as she tried hard, her body went limp.
Hughington said: "No need to try. They have sealed your power and abilities, including your summoning guardianship, and they will seal it again every once in a while. They will not give you a chance to escape. ”
Alice had no choice but to give up her efforts: "Then what should we do? We can't just sit here and wait to die. They already know my identity, and I'm afraid they will..."
Hughington was silent Silently, it seems that he hasn't come up with any good ideas.
Alice was very scared and leaned towards Hurlington and said: "You must protect me, Hurlington...brother."
Hughington hit him Chill: "Hey, don't be like this, when will I become your brother?" Brother. Haven't you always hated me and called me a liar?"
"You..." Alice snorted: "You are a big man, why are you so stingy like me? Girls are fussy.”
"Little girl?" Hullington touched his newly recovered nose and said as if he disagreed with the statement: "You are simply a little devil."
Alice hugged her knees , leaning sadly against the wooden box: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, my master will come to save me, he will definitely find a way to find this place and save us."
It is still this night, Caesar Manor , Bingzhixieshen ate the food on the plate carelessly. After searching all night, I inquired in more than a dozen taverns, but there was no news about Alice. Finally, I found out that several alchemists who were allowed to participate in the finals were also missing.
I put a piece of cold beef on my fork, but I didn’t eat it for a long time.
“That’s strange.” Bing Zhixie thought deeply: “They arrested so many people. If it was for the first place in the alchemy competition, why didn’t they also arrest Wright? Even if they were confident that Alice If Wright doesn't dare to participate in the competition again, then they shouldn't keep Wright. Aren't they afraid that Wright will lead the entire city's guards to search for them? Of course, if Wright disappears, the Duke will definitely launch a city-wide attack? People come to search.”
He thought for a long time and asked: "Could it be that this was their mistake?" He shook his head again: "It's unlikely. From the time Alice went out to the time when Wright's mother was stabbed after going to the opera house. The trap shows that they have arranged it very carefully and would not be so careless unless...unless they did it deliberately. "Capture Wright."
Thinking of this, Bing Zhixie was puzzled again: "But why? From what I heard in the tavern, there are other alchemists missing. In addition, Some materials prepared by alchemists for the finals were also lost for no reason, which shows that there is indeed such a group of people fighting The idea of winning the first place in the alchemy competition also shows that Wright is not lying. He is not pretending to have some political conspiracy to capture Alice."
Bing Zhixie thought for a long time and thought: "They arrested her. If we take Wright away, I don’t have any obvious clues. If I don’t capture Wright... I won’t do it unless I capture Wright. Got this clue about the 'Ancient Bone Snake'! Could it be that this clue was not left carelessly, but on purpose? But why?"
One point, Two o'clock, three o'clock... the clock was ticking one by one, but Bing Zhixie never understood the problem.
In the early morning one day later, after Maharoud washed her face and changed her clothes, one of her partners and accomplices came to the door.
Mahalud yawned and said, "What's the matter? I have to go out for breakfast."
"It's nothing, I just want to tell you about the alchemists you asked us to focus on. It’s all done.”
Mahalud said: “Oh, by the way, today is the first day of the alchemy finals. I almost forgot.”
My accomplice said. : "Those alchemists who are powerful and threaten us have been eliminated by us. It can be said that we are the first place in the finals of this alchemy competition, but there is one thing I don't understand..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Mahalud interrupted him and said, "You said everything was done. Wright, Hughington and...they also got it done?"
The friend said: "Yes, Wright followed the method you said. We used Princess Alice to threaten him and forced him to give up the competition. Not long ago, he had announced that he would give up the competition because he was not ready for the finals. The organizing committee of the competition The meeting has approved it.”
“Oh, what about Hughington?” The friend said: “That guy Hughington, because we don’t know what the plans and materials he prepared for the finals are. There was no way to steal it, so I had to kidnap him."
Maha Lud nodded and said, "Hey, what did you say was wrong?"< br>
The accomplice said: "It's about using Princess Alice to hold Wright hostage. I've been wanting to ask you these past few days, but you stayed behind closed doors because of the final preparations and didn't want to be disturbed. I wanted to ask... …”
Maharoud raised his hand to stop him and said: "You want to ask, in the plan to kidnap Wright, why didn't we arrest Wright together, but instead deliberately showed our weaknesses to let them notice."
"Yes, that's it." said his accomplice: "It's not just me who doesn't understand, but also several of our bosses. Although Mahalud Boss, your ideas are always foolproof, but we really can’t understand this.”
Mahalud smiled: “It’s my fault that I didn’t make it clear to you, so tell them for me. , You must have a long-term perspective when doing things, and you can’t just look at what’s in front of you.”
“What do you mean?” My friend was confused.
Mahalud said: "Assuming that we capture Wright together, the Duke's Palace will definitely let all the guards in the city look for his son, right?"
"Yes." His accomplice said, "But now that we haven't arrested Wright, aren't they looking for the princess all over the city? And they already know that this matter is related to the alchemy competition."
Mahalud said: "We captured Wright, don't they know it's related to the alchemy competition? So many alchemists participating in the finals lost their alchemy materials, and several of the most powerful alchemists disappeared for no reason, wouldn't they think of it? Even if they Just doubting me They secretly control all the remaining alchemists. Whoever wins the alchemy competition will be the instigator of this series of conspiracy, right?"
The associates were stunned: " Then...then we don't Is it all in vain?"
Mahalud said: "That's why I asked your subordinates to deliberately leak clues to them."
The accomplice thought for a while and shook his head: "I still do. Don’t understand.”
"Why are you so stupid?" Mahalud said: "If they have clues, they will naturally solve the case. If the case is solved, doesn't it matter if I get first place again?"
The accomplice was stunned. There, after thinking for a long time, he shook his head again and said: "I still don't understand what it means. We did this case and asked them to solve it, so why are we still doing this case and going through so much trouble to arrest those people?"
Mahalud sighed: "I have made it so clear, don't you understand? You are so stupid!"
The accomplice could only laugh dryly: "Then invite Mahalu Boss De, please make it clearer and teach me this idiot."
Mahalud said: "I ask you, why are we designing this series of plans? "
The accomplice wondered: "Isn't it?"
"I'm really convinced that your subordinates have a boss like you." Mahalud said: "We do these things to make people They can't participate in the competition normally."
"Yes, yes," the accomplice said with a smile.
Mahalud said: "Firstly, we can't really kidnap them, and secondly, it's useless for us to keep them. We just prevent them from competing with me for the first place in the alchemy competition. If Wright and the others After solving this case, he really fell into The conspiracy I designed. Because only if he solves the case, can I receive the reward for first place in the alchemy competition and go to the Holy Garden to study."
The accomplice said: "If they solve the case, they will investigate. It’s our turn?”
"Stop it." Mahalud smiled and said: "It's not us, it's you. This matter has nothing to do with me from the beginning to the end, does it?"
The accomplice was stunned and smiled on his face: " I understand.”
“That’s right” Maha. Luther said: "Just let one of our bosses take the blame for this case. Aren't there two of our bosses who have been shortlisted for the finals? So I have already arranged that when Wright and the others solve this case, , find the 'behind-the-scenes instructions' I designed At that time, our scapegoat boss had safely left the city and was just waiting to come back from the Holy Garden to share the fruits of the Holy Garden together. "
"Boss is wonderful." His face was full of joy: "This is simply a What a brilliant plan, those people must not have thought of it.”
Mahalud also smiled and said: “While they were still complacent about solving the case, they had actually fallen into the trap of you, the boss, step by step. "
The accomplice asked excitedly: "Boss Mahalud, what should we do now?"
"It's very simple, do two things." Mahalud said: "First, take me too Kidnapping.”
“Boss?”
Maha Luther said: "So many alchemists have had problems. It doesn't make sense that I, the first one to pass the semi-finals, don't have some problems. I just do things in a decent way. It's just that this was an attempted kidnapping."
“What about the second thing?”
"The second thing is simpler, which is to control the speed at which they solve the case. The case must be solved on the day when the finals are completed. If it is early, the person caught by us will still have time to compete. If it is late, they will suspect the person who won the first place. Me."
"How to control this?" asked the accomplice.
Mahalud said: "Why can't this be controlled? Don't forget that the clues they have now are provided by us. At what time can we give them any clues? I think, they The day I saw the 'Ancient Bone Snake' was the day the finals ended."
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(End of this chapter)