Gomez froze again.

A few seconds later.

"Ah, Nobu, you came early, you are dressed well today! I am warming up, hehe, warming up," the fat man begged for mercy at first, then his expression changed after he realized what the other party said:

"Ah? You mean your highness, your highness, your highness?"

He stared at the expressionless Thales several times.

"Ahhhh——His Royal Highness Thales!"

Gomez immediately put on a flattering look, tried hard to cover his heavy chest fat with his apron, and was so excited that he spoke incoherently:

"I'm the one from Xihuang, that one, that one! Do you still remember...that one!"

It's a pity that his appearance of being naked from the waist up and stained with sweat and blood reduced his flattering effect by half.

Thales could only smile and signal to him.

"Wake up the prisoner." Norbu felt embarrassed and covered his face helplessly.

Gomez gave a flattering smile and said "Okay", turned around, picked up a pair of bloody pliers, and walked towards Anke on the recliner with great interest.

Thales' complexion changed.

"etc,"

Nobu stopped him in time and glanced at Thales:

"Be friendly."

Gomez lowered his head, dropped the pliers, replaced it with a bucket of cold water, and poured it on Anke.

"Ahem, Tina, ahem, cough—"

Anke was poured cold water on the recliner, and he stood up from the recliner excitedly, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare.

"Tina...ahem..."

He painfully coughed out the water in his mouth and turned around haggardly and weakly. It wasn't until he saw the straps on his hands and feet that he realized that he was still in a nightmare.

"Didn't you agree to rest for a quarter of an hour..."

Anke weakly fell back on the recliner, dying:

"It's so late at night, I'm not tired...Aren't you...also tired..."

Thales looked at his bloody nails, bruised and bruised joints, and his eyes that were gradually losing focus, and felt it was difficult to breathe.

"Hey, man, wake up!"

Gomez slapped Anke's face vigorously and reopened his covered eyelids:

"Someone is here to see you!"

Thales let out an unspeakable sigh and walked up to Bailar.

"Ank Bailar."

"it's me."

Anke's distracted eyes were confused for a while, and then gradually focused.

"Your Highness?"

He raised his upper body with difficulty and took a clear look at the young man in front of him.

"Prince Thales?"

Anke's breathing accelerated, his chest heaved, and he squeezed out a weak smile:

"How was your day today?"

He was trembling all over, and there was blood under the slipped blanket. He would occasionally touch his wounds, and he would moan and sweat in pain.

Thales held back his nausea, helped Anke pull the blanket, and motioned for him to lie back down.

"I want to talk to him alone." The prince said to the person behind him.

"Now."

Raphael and Norbu looked at each other.

Nobu signaled Gomez with his eyes, and the latter reluctantly took out a water bag issued by the Western Wilderness Army.

"Open your mouth, man."

Gomez put the water bag to Anke's mouth:

"This is chaka wine that I specially mixed for medical analgesia. It will make you feel better - damn, don't drink too much, it's very expensive!"

When Gomez screamed with pain on his face, Anke loosened the mouth of the bag, fell on the lounge chair, and laughed.

Rafael was about to say something, but Nobu patted him on the shoulder and pulled Gomez with an aggrieved look.

The three of them left the torture chamber.

Thales and Anke were left alone.

"It's useless, Your Highness."

Anke, whose limbs were bound, struggled to turn his head and spoke intermittently:

"This is the secret department. As soon as you leave, they will come back and force me to repeat what I told you."

Thales looked at the tortured Anke and tried not to look at the wounds on his body.

"I know," the young man's heart was filled with confusion:

"I just want you to feel at ease."

Anke stared at him quietly, showing a tired smile.

"You are a good man, Your Highness."

"But as kind and generous as you are, have you found a way to stop being a chess piece?"

Thales paused, his eyes slightly gleaming.

【Is there any difference between you and him? 】

At the royal banquet, his final words to Anke are still fresh in my mind:

【I just, just understand...the other chess pieces.】

This man...

He chose to believe me, so he let go of the sword.

And what can I do for him?

Thinking of his experience in the Ballard Room, Thales pursed his lips and hesitated to speak.

"I understand."

Seeing the prince's expression, Anke gasped and understood something: "I'm sorry for embarrassing you."

"Whether it's yesterday or now."

Thales took a deep breath and forced himself to put away his negative emotions.

"No, the case is still under trial and there is still hope for a change."

Anke leaned back in his chair and grinned while groaning.

"There is no need to comfort me, Your Highness."

"The Bailar family has been bankrupt for a long time, and the family is completely devastated."

He smiled bitterly:

"And I studied the laws of the kingdom before I came..."

"Armed with weapons to attack the royal family, there is no doubt that the death penalty will be imposed. What's more, what I have done is to drive a wedge between Xihuang and the royal family, alienate the Seven Ministers from the Fuxing Palace, alienate you and your majesty, and even involve the "Land Measurement Order". There are many unspeakable things behind the scenes.

The secret is so troublesome and a headache."

"All stakeholders would be happy to add insult to injury."

Anke looked straight at the ceiling and spread his eyes in the dim light:

"I'm hopeless."

Thales sat on his recliner or torture chair and gritted his teeth.

"uncertain."

Duke Xinghu recalled what Black Prophet had just said and forced himself to smile:

"I can think of a way to conflict with the royal family."

"As for the rest, I can go and 'communicate' with Baron Doyle and persuade him to be kind."

The prince tried to put together the words he had thought of more beautifully, at least not so feeble:

"As long as both parties agree, the debt between your families can be settled safely. As for the land dispute between Crow Cry Town and Mirror River..."

"No, Your Highness."

Anke interrupted him.

The young Western Wilderness noble smiled bitterly, looked at Thales gently but desperately, and shook his head weakly but decisively.

"We all understand that this is no longer an issue between Crowcrow Town and Mirror River."

Thales was speechless and couldn't continue.

"Your Highness, do you know what the situation is in the Western Wilderness now?"

Anke on the recliner looked at the prince silently, but his eyes were misty, as if he were looking from the other side of the prison river:
To be continued...