Chapter 473 Death Guidance
The central area of Wangcheng.
The Huowen Square is still lively at night.
Couples or couples are holding hands and walking in the comfortable evening breeze. There are old people in retro but meticulous clothes, standing quietly by the fountain with their hands behind their backs, admiring the statues. There are also some children gathering on the lawn, playing house. game.
In the corner of the square, Noah was sitting on a small bench with an easel in front of him, carefully and carefully describing the beautiful scene in front of him.
Since returning to the team, he has participated in the team's work with great enthusiasm. He spends almost all his days in the spirit world, either fighting pollution sources or receiving requests for help from undead strangers.
Only at night can he have some free time to relax in painting... He had traveled around with Teacher Lutina before and visited almost every area. Only Wangcheng was not explored carefully. He just planned to take advantage of this rare opportunity. Time, to describe the style of every corner of Tourmaline Kloster.
"Mr. Jack and Miss Floy should be enjoying the royal dinner... Unfortunately, Teacher Rutina is unwilling to take me to attend."
Noah shook his head with regret.
Although he is the young master of the Silver Dragon Chamber of Commerce and has experienced large and small banquets since childhood, he has never participated in such top-notch banquets held by the Sun Royal Family.
"But it's okay, this way I can devote myself more to painting."
He chuckled lightly, dipped his paintbrush in paint, and dotted the back of a man in black clothes on the canvas. Somehow, Noah always felt that this outline was somewhat similar to Mr. Jack.
However, when he looked up at the square to confirm, he couldn't help but smile... The man was just similar to Mr. Jack in terms of clothing and figure. He had mistaken him.
On the lawn of the square.
Five or six children were having fun. An older boy with short hair covered himself with a floral cloth spread on the picnic floor to serve as a cloak, and then took out a hat that he didn't know if he had stolen from a female elder in the family. He put a wide-brimmed straw hat on his head, picked up the dead branches on the ground and said to the other children:
"I am the messenger of the Sun God and the Fierce Father! I will fulfill your wishes! Write down your wishes quickly and give them to me!"
"Okay, distinguished Mr. Messenger."
The children imitated the behavior of adults, with boys stroking their chests and bending over, and girls holding up their skirts and saluting. Immediately, they each crawled on the grass and wrote crooked words on colored cardboard with pencils.
One of the little girls looked up at the high place in the distance, the golden palace that was brightly lit and sparkling at night, and thought to herself, it would be great if she could also attend His Royal Highness the Prince's dinner party, there would be a lot of good things. Ice cream, right? Maybe a magical ball from a fairy tale?
She lowered her head again and wrote her wish on the cardboard.
However, at this moment, a gust of evening wind blew through again, taking away the jam in the girl's hand.
"Ah! My wish!"
She shouted anxiously, but a strong wind blew, and under the night cover, she could no longer see where the jam was going.
In the corner a hundred meters away.
Noah, who was concentrating on painting, suddenly found that his hand was touched by a piece of cardboard. He was slightly stunned, and then picked up the cardboard and found that there were words written on it:
"——Go to the prince's dinner party."
Noah immediately became silent.
He looked around and found no suspicious person. The piece of paper seemed to fall from the sky and happened to fall into his hand.
Looking back at the canvas again, Noah's pupils shrank.
The man in black clothes that was being painted just now was interrupted by the cardboard, causing the black paint to collapse its entire outline and twist it into a mass of stains.
"Whose reminder is this?"
Noah suddenly became alert, but even if he used his Sequence Six extraordinary senses, he could not find any clues.
"Did something go wrong at the dinner and Mr. Jack is in danger..."
He frowned, thinking about this strange thing.
Suddenly, there was a rapid barking of dogs and a woman's exclamation:
"Oh my sun! What's wrong with you Jack?!"
When Noah heard the leader's name, he looked up reflexively and saw a luxuriously dressed woman leading a Springer Spaniel and having a conflict with several men. The men were guarding a group of children behind them, looking angry.
The leading man was holding a dead branch stained with blood, while the hound had fallen to the ground, whimpering and looking like he had been hit by a man's club and could not be saved.
"You are so rude! So cruel! You actually beat my beloved Jack to death! Damn barbarians, I will definitely report this matter to the police station!"
"Madam, it's your dog that wants to attack my child, don't be unreasonable!"
The two sides argued endlessly.
But Noah didn't care anymore. He dropped his paintbrush, didn't even pack his easel, and ran directly towards the palace.
Although I don’t know who is guiding me, there is probably an accident at the dinner, and Mr. Jack may really be in danger!
After a while.
When Noah climbed the long and spacious white marble steps, he suddenly realized a problem, that is, how could he enter the dinner venue without receiving an invitation...
However, not a single Imperial guard could be seen along the entire staircase.
He entered the palace area full of doubts and nervousness, and there was not even a single person to be seen here... This made Noah even more convinced that something must have happened at the dinner!
After a lot of twists and turns, he accidentally bumped into the door and saw the door of the banquet hall from a distance, and an exclamation came from inside.
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"How...how could it be possible?!"
The face of the head steward, Babaye, who originally looked sickly and fair, became even more pale at this moment, as if he were dead.
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Babaye knelt down on the spot and tightly grasped the cuffs of Prince Dazlet with trembling hands. The only crown prince was poisoned to death at his birthday dinner, and the princess also died. Such a serious thing happened in front of his eyes, and as the chief steward, he could not escape the blame.
He seemed to have imagined the rage of the Sun King Andre, and seemed to have seen himself being pushed onto the execution platform and hanged alive in loneliness and fear!
Unspeakable despair enveloped Baba Ye, and he didn't know whether it was because he felt collapsed because of what would happen to him next, or because he had watched the prince grow up, had a deep relationship with him, and was devastated by his tragic death... The manager, who was over fifty years old, started crying on the spot.
"Ah! Your Highness!!"
In the banquet room, which was as quiet as a late-night cemetery, there was only hysterical crying.
All the guests present were shocked by this scene.
The son of the Sun King and the beloved Princess were both poisoned to death? !
Chen Lun frowned and looked at this scene with a gloomy face. Suddenly he felt a slightly cool hand holding him.
He turned around and saw Floy giving him a concerned look. She seemed to see Chen Lun's depression and dullness, and wanted to comfort him in such a simple way.
Chen Lun took a deep breath and smiled at her.
Princess Anna never mentioned the assassination plan to him, but she didn't expect it to end in this way.
However, just when he was thinking a little confused, he suddenly noticed something and quickly turned his head to look at Princess Anna lying on the ground.
"Chief Babaye, Her Royal Highness Anna is still breathing."
He reminded in a deep voice.
Baba Ye was stunned for a moment, and then heard a sound in his ears.
"Uh——"
The blonde girl, who was bleeding from all her orifices, suddenly took a deep breath and struggled to shake her body twice.
Babaya looked surprised, as if he had seen hope, and regained his senses... He quickly stood up, called the attendant, and asked him to notify the doctor to arrive.
At this time, under Babaya's first aid measures, Princess Anna vomited a mouthful of black blood and leaned extremely weakly on the steward's arms.
"Your Highness Princess, how are you?!"
Anna's eyes were dim and her face was pale, as if she was in danger.
She did not answer Babaye's words, but said in Babaye's ear in a faint voice like a mosquito:
"Seal... seal the banquet room."
Only then did the manager realize that the poisoner was most likely at the scene, so he quickly shouted:
"Seal the scene! Don't let anyone go!"
Bang bang bang!
Dozens or hundreds of imperial guards, armored and armed, firmly surrounded the guests, and even the door to the banquet hall was locked tightly.
When the guests saw this scene, they couldn't help but started making noises in panic.
At this moment, Chen Lun had already stood up from the sofa with Floy in hand. He did not take Floy away rashly, as that would be simply courting death, but he did not dare to act rashly, and just stood aside silently, waiting for the development of the matter.
Seeing Princess Anna's weak look, he understood something in his heart.
‘Bitter meat trick... I drank poisonous wine with the prince, but controlled the amount, or took a trace amount of the antidote in advance to ensure that I could survive and get rid of certain suspicions. ’
At the same time, he also roughly guessed the ability of Princess Anna's crown through the other party's series of actions.
'It is most likely some kind of rule-based trick... First, it took advantage of the prince's enthusiasm for the cross sword and deliberately let him obtain it, thereby achieving the conditions. After that, he must accept his own poisonous wine... It may also have a certain mysterious interference effect, otherwise Once someone in a high position who is proficient in divination takes action afterwards, he will definitely be able to restore what happened. She still cannot escape the guilt of killing her brother, and may even expose her relationship with the Sun Cross Society. ’
Chen Lun took a deep breath and was amazed by Princess Anna's plan.
Although this plan is not complicated, it is extremely effective.
Just when the atmosphere in the banquet hall was extremely tense and solemn, an accident happened again!
I saw Prince Dazlater, who was already dead on the ground, and his body suddenly burst into flames!
The raging flames engulfed the corpses, and the flames even appeared with strange golden light, spinning and intertwining to form a scorching pillar of fire.
Everyone present was forced back by the heat wave and raised their hands to block the glare of the fire.
The remnant image of a giant flaming bird spread its wings from the pillar of fire with a strong oppression of power. Dazlater, who was already dead, slowly walked out of the flames naked.
"The power of the mythical creature Phoenix..."
Among the guests, a dark-skinned woman frowned and murmured.
This is Camacho, the chief priest of the Hailing Regiment. He recognized the secret of Prince Dazlet's rebirth at a glance.
"I didn't expect that the Sun King would give this power to a prince who was just a mortal."
Princess Anna, who was lying in Babaye's arms, had a flash of disbelief in her eyes, and then fell into silence, as if indicating deep unwillingness. (End of chapter)