Although the inexplicable interview left Thales confused, and the confrontation between Lisban and Cambida behind the stage was also full of doubts, the second prince did not intend to be troubled by it for too long. If he had been there six years ago,

What I learned from that thrilling night is...

"So you came to me?"

In the Blood Courtyard, Putilai, who was interrupted from his afternoon walk, was pacing and looking at the smiling prince with dissatisfaction.

"Yes," Thales leisurely imitated Putilai's pace, tapping the sword rhythmically with his right hand, Rolf and Wyatt followed behind them: "And I look forward to you giving me a satisfactory answer.

."

Putilai snorted coldly: "You expect a bad-tempered old man who has just arrived in Longxiao City for two days, is stupid, stubborn, and sarcastic to analyze such a complicated and difficult to understand diplomatic and internal affairs situation?"

The Lord flicked his pipe and said lightly: "Maybe you should ask Gilbert, but I'm really powerless..."

A bad-tempered old man who is stupid, stubborn, and sarcastic?

Thales took a deep breath.

"good."

The prince turned around, walked backwards in front, raised his hands and faced Putilai:

"I will not mention for now the most desperate moment six years ago, how the bad-tempered old man used his miraculous powers to find Mi Ke and Nicolai, and miraculously rescued me from the hands of the dark room and Rumba...

"

"He decisively supported us in breaking into the Palace of Heroes, and cleverly sent the prince into the Hall of Heroes, and finally miraculously saved the glorious deeds of Longxiao City..." Huaiya said cooperatively behind him, even Luo Luo

Wolf also nodded and said "ho" from behind.

Thales gave them a thumbs up.

Putilai showed an ugly smile: "...'Don't mention it for now'?"

"I'm just saying," Thales ignored Putilai's smile and said to himself: "That bad-tempered old man, on the first day he arrived at Longxiao City, how inexplicably, vividly, and in detail told

I, in the heavily-secret Hall of Heroes, in the inaccessible Longxiao City Political Day Meeting, what horrifying secret happened."

"Do you know how angry Lisbane looked when Cambida revealed the content of the hearing?"

Putilai raised his eyebrows: "I have more friends, that's all."

"And the most important thing is..." Thales stepped back, raised his right index finger, and pointed at Putilai: "In the complicated and complicated situation of Longxiao City, you, who have been missing for six years, suddenly appeared.

Already?"

Thales leaned forward and narrowed his eyes: "You want to tell me that this is a coincidence, that you just came to introduce a teacher and give me a pair of glasses by the way?"

"Aha," Putilai coughed awkwardly: "Speaking of that pair of glasses, you know, they were specially made for the Grand Duchess. They are..."

Thales frowned.

"Waiya, Medila, guard the surroundings and don't let anyone hear our conversation." He interrupted the other party and wisely cut off Putilai's intention to change the subject.

After the slightly confused two people took the order and left, Thales turned around again and looked at Putilai seriously.

Putilai looked at the prince, feeling slightly uneasy in his heart.

"You know, I didn't pursue the question that day," Thales' expression changed slightly: "But Wyatt reminded me more than once."

"After I was trapped in Longxiao City, you disappeared silently. It took more than six years before you reappeared in front of me." Thales raised his head, "It's not that I don't trust you, but why not

Earlier, not later, but now more than six years later?"

Putilai's face froze.

"Waiya inherited his father's sensitivity," Putilai sighed in a low voice a few seconds later, "but he didn't learn his grandeur."

Thales ignored him and continued:

"Six years ago, when I was just recognized as a prince...you had just returned to Dayon Star City, and you were entrusted by Gilbert to protect me as a deputy envoy when I went north."

Putilai stopped and lowered his head, making his expression unclear.

"Facts have proven that Gilbert's decision is correct: not everyone can use limited resources, in an isolated city, and rely on their sense of conspiracy and atmosphere to fight with the White Blade Guards, the Dark Room, and the Black Sands

Leader, the secret department, and the Earl of Lisban, not only did they not fall behind, they even managed to do it with ease."

Thales also stopped and shook his head: "Although you are very good at hiding yourself and no one cares about it, I know better than anyone else that a powerless prince can never be alone.

Save the world: Evacuate decisively, preserve strength, contact all parties, rescue the prince, hint for me to counterattack, break into the Palace of Heroes, compete with the Black Sand Leader, and reverse the situation..."

Thales took a deep breath: "Six years ago, the person who really saved Longxiao City countless times behind the scenes was actually you."

"Lord Putilai Niman."

"A former civil servant of the Foreign Affairs Department with a strange identity, a former Viscount who was demoted after the Year of Blood."

"And the eldest son of the late king, the attendant of Midir Shining Star,"

Putilai said nothing.

Thales lowered his head and remembered what Putilai had said to him in the Palace of Heroes about the Year of Blood.

"As far as I know, this is not something ordinary people can do."

Thales' face darkened slightly: "Don't you think there are too many mysteries in you, Putilai?"

At that second, Putilai paused slightly and his face became stiff.

It's like someone's heart has been revealed.

"Be honest," Thales observed the other party's reaction, sighed, turned around again and waited for the other party to catch up: "Putilai, don't learn the occult guys, you know I don't like them."

"Tell me, what kind of chess game am I in now?"

They walked past a big tree, and Putilai knocked the ashes from his pipe with a gloomy expression and said nothing.

Thales just stared at him silently.

"I understand," Putilai finally sighed slightly and replied to the tone he used when they first met: "What do you want to know about the current situation, troublesome little prince?"

Thales frowned slightly, recalling the many doubts in his heart.

"Connect." After a few seconds, the young prince looked around and said cautiously and quietly: "I want to know how all the major events on the table are connected through the hidden interests under the table. I think this is yours.

Long term."

Putilai put the pipe back into the pouch and was slightly startled: "Connect?"

Thales nodded, imitating Lisban's example and raising his hands behind his back, but his eyes drifted into the distance.

"Six years ago, Miranda Alland told me in the cell that everything that seemed unrelated to what happened in Longxiao City actually had an important clue running through it." Thales narrowed his eyes: "Later

We discovered that the clue behind the scenes is called 'Dragon's Blood'."

At that moment, Putilai unknowingly slowed down and fell one step behind the prince.

"In the past few months, since King Charman promulgated a new enfeoffment decree, Qiyuan City has roped in all parties to denounce the king, Lumba has been condemned and tortured, I have been accused as a hostage, the Grand Duchess of Longxiao City has been forced into marriage, and within the Freedom Alliance,

Unstable, the Black Sand Leader came to Longxiao City strangely," Thales was unaware of everything around him and continued to think hard:

"Although everything is fragmented, some things are not even related..."

"But I feel that the current situation is the same as then, and there is a faint clue connecting the before and after."

"I want to take hold of it...rather than react passively to the trouble that comes my way."

Putilai's eyes paused slightly.

They were both silent for several seconds.

Finally, Putilai let out a long sigh.

"You know, when we met the day before yesterday, I thought you were more cheerful than before," the thin man shook his head: "But now I find that the real you is more anxious, more vigilant, and more nervous than you were then. You are more nervous at night.

Can you really fall asleep?"

This time, Thales stopped.

"Six years ago, I fell down once due to carelessness and complacency," the prince's eyes slowly focused. "The price was my freedom and an enemy of the king."

"That feeling, that feeling of helplessness and fear that you can only drift in the wind, not knowing where you will go next second," Thales looked steadily at a stone slab under his feet that was broken due to age, and said calmly:

"I don't want to go through this a second time."

At that moment, Putilai felt for the first time that the fourteen-year-old boy next to him was a prince named Canxing.

The Lord shook his head slightly and whispered: "You have changed."

Thales came back to his senses and smiled slightly: "Everyone changes."

"more or less."

Putilai stared at him for a long time.

Finally, when Thales thought centuries had passed, Putilai took steps again. This time, the Lord's expression changed from the previous laziness and sarcasm, and became serious and nervous.

"For many years, the Freedom Alliance has relied on Qiyuan City for survival."

coming.

Thales quickly kept up the pace and pricked up his ears.
To be continued...