Until a long sigh came from behind:

"All right!"

Points are scored with a straight sword.

Thales stopped and looked at Zhan expressionlessly.

"Yesterday morning, the special security officer Caguire who was responsible for receiving you came to report to me." The Lord of Emerald City looked a little ugly, but he sheathed his sword and defended appropriately. "He said that the defense attorney in charge of the murder of the wool merchant had doubts and asked him

It hinted at some disturbing suspicions. So as an old acquaintance, the Kakwere Security Officer sent someone to invite Mr. Slimani to the security hall to clarify some... misunderstandings."

Thales stared at Zhan for a while, then returned to his seat and sat down again.

"See," said the prince, "it's not that hard to talk nonsense."

A moment of gloom passed over Zhan's face, but he quickly returned to the topic:

"That was Caguire's own decision. I neither had nor nor did I need to send someone to kill the defender."

Thales did not speak immediately, but stared at Zhan for a long time.

Yes, he really doesn't need to, the young man's inner voice whispered to him.

Because he, Jann Kelvindir, holds the title of Duke, he can influence the entire Emerald City with just a single move.

It is enough to create an environment that can crush Slimani - whether he was once a cowardly and honest man, or the cold-blooded snobbish man he became later - and force him to make unimaginable deals and pay more than his life.

cost.

Let the devil behind this world rejoice.

"The person who killed Slimani was not an unknown person," Thales said. "The killer's name was Lausanne II. He was once an extreme master of the Blood Bottle Gang. Do you have any impression of this?"

Zhan En thought for a moment and his brows gradually tightened.

"There was Lausanne II, old Turnbull's executioner, but I remember him years ago—"

"died?"

Thales turned his sword and pointed with a sneer:

"But are you sure he is dead, instead of being saved, hidden, and tied up by some big figure behind the scenes of the Blood Bottle Gang, sharpening his minions, cultivating his ferocity, and releasing him at critical moments?

Some dirty work that is inconvenient for the Security Hall and the Emerald Legion to do?"

Zhan En's face also turned cold.

"I don't like the implications of your words, Your Highness."

"Speaking of which, aren't the Blood Bottle Gang your lackeys," Thales said. "When was the last time you disciplined them?"

"In order to maintain order and stability and minimize the harm of organized crime, Your Highness, the Emerald City and even the South Coast Territory do maintain strict and systematic control over all walks of life and civil society forces from all walks of life, but that does not mean that the official and street gangs

The relationship is just as conspiracy theorists think..."

Thales interrupted his official tone rudely:

"By the way, last time, it was you who instigated them to cover up information, forge clues, and tamper with murder cases - such as Dagory Moss, the wine merchant who used to be your white glove to make money, and Wool, who managed the secret accounts for Kong Ming Palace.

Shandiop, and in the future, perhaps the famous apologist Srimani..."

Zhan En's face darkened.

"We have had similar conversations, and all these measures are for the sake of the overall situation, for stability, and to prevent the rise of secret science -"

But Thales kept to himself: "As well as the former Director of Security, Jeff Rene was killed at home, but was dragged into their casino by the Blood Bottle Gang and faked an accidental death?"

Zhan paused.

An unexpected sword move.

After a few seconds, he took a deep breath:

"Rene...this is what the defense lawyer told you, right? The report said that Rene was once his boss and had a favor for him. What did he tell you?"

Thales's face turned cold.

"Why? Moss, Diop, Slimani, Rene, and maybe others... Jenn, why did you kill them?"

"Since you don't have to talk nonsense, I will only say it once," Zhan En's tone also dropped, "I did not kill them."

"Then why them? What did they do to deserve death?"

"We have also communicated this point," Zhan En said calmly and clearly, "The purpose of sending people from the secret department to do these murders is to attract your attention and provoke you to deal with me, and we -"

"You know there's something funny about that?"

Thales interrupted him again:

"This statement of yours, this so-called statement that 'the kingdom's secret department wants to provoke us to fight against each other', was something I told you on the first day I came to Emerald City."

Zhan En looked at him quietly.

"Yes, and I appreciate your honesty."

"But that's all nonsense on my part: in fact, I don't know what provocation is or isn't, and I don't believe it at all. I just said that just to make a statement so that I can stay in the Emerald City."

The reception room was quiet for a few seconds.

Zhan frowned and looked at Thales in front of him, who looked calm and without any shame.

A clever sword.

Finally, the Duke of Nan'an raised his lips, and the once perfect and polite smile showed a hint of weirdness.

"I think, Thales, this is probably the most honest thing you have said to me since arriving in the Emerald City."

"Since I'm so honest," Thales ignored his sarcasm, "Why don't you hide it?"

Their eyes locked in the air for several seconds.

"Yes, I knew you were talking nonsense from the beginning," Zhan En's tone no longer had the official tone before, but was replaced by an unsettling coldness, "bluffing, pretending to be powerful, from state meetings to royal banquets, you come

This is the only way to come and go."

"So you have never believed in me, or any of this nonsense that 'the king sent me here to provoke us into a fight.'"

"You said it too, that's all your nonsense." Zhan En retorted.

Thales stopped insisting and changed the subject:

"In this case, when the wine merchant Moss was murdered and we had a showdown in the confessional, you turned around and catered to my nonsense, telling me that the Moss case was just a 'misleading' and a secret method to provoke us... This

It’s very interesting.”

"Ha, you doubt me because of this?"

"Not only that, you are uncharacteristically willing to 'entrust' your sister to me and ask me to 'keep an eye on her'. You even reiterated the conditions given to me by 'Xinxing', as if you want to help me get crowned?"

Zhan's eyes moved.

"But as far as I know, since the failure of the imperial meeting eight years ago," Thales tightened his tone, "'Rising Star' has become the biggest stain on Duke Iris's performance in his life.

A scar that hurts when touched."

Zhan En was silent for a while.

Look at the sword that hurts the old.

When he spoke again, his voice was soft and slow:

"That's all thanks to you, Your Highness."

Thales snorted coldly.

"I know you so well, Jenn, as when you handed Jernard back to me on the way to the North, as when you suddenly became talkative and courted me at the royal banquet: and when you in turn agreed with me

He told me nonsense and even tried to use it to convince me that there must be something wrong here.

"Dagory Moss is by no means just a pawn to provoke our opposition, and his death is not insignificant. On the contrary, he is so important that you want to give me wrong guidance and don't want me to pay attention to him.

Bar."

Thales unsheathed his sharp blade and attacked one after another:

"Tell me, why did you kill him?"

Zhan looked at Thales for a long time and then took a deep breath.

"This is the last time: I didn't kill him."

He also spoke carefully, obviously restraining himself, but Thales refused to let go:

"Later, when the wool merchant was killed, you repeated the same trick and told me: Diop was killed by the kingdom's secret department, but he himself was not important. He was just to expose the illegal accounts of Kongming Palace, to lure me into action, to provoke me.

Attack your weak points..."

"enough!"

Zhan snorted and interrupted him:

"I don't want to get into this with you-"

But Thales ignored him at all:
To be continued...