Chapter Thirteen The Queen's Afternoon Tea(1/2)
Looking at this overly luxurious pomp, Xi Ziyue was a little confused. It seems that only lo's afternoon tea meets this condition.
"Hurry up and sit down, Xi Ziyue, there are a lot of delicious food here." Elizabeth chuckled and shook her fingers, leaving a faint red lip mark on the teacup with her lips, which was charming and dangerous.
Xi Ziyue walked up cautiously and sat on the empty seat specially reserved for her by Elizabeth. Looking at the table full of expensive cakes, she felt a little tempted to break the precept.
pierre herme’s macaron cake, frrrozen haute’s high-end frozen chocolate...the table is full of Hermès-level desserts, all of which Xiziyue has only seen in textbooks here. The whole table of snacks is packaged and sold.
, the value will approach five figures.
Sure enough, women still understand women. If a man comes to see her, he might just buy some flashy roses and diamond rings. To put it bluntly, he can't even eat them!
"Don't you want to eat something? I don't know what type of food you like, so I prepared all the types as much as possible." Elizabeth said, holding her chin.
"I've already eaten." Xi Ziyue replied coldly and indifferently, with a sense of being rejected from thousands of miles away written all over her body.
Eaters are short-tongued. She always feels that if she eats this thing, she may be asked to do something immediately. It is like walking in Times Square in New York and someone suddenly gives you a beautiful little greeting card with enthusiasm.
You must not accept it at this time, otherwise the other party will ask you for a $20 "purchase" fee.
"Don't worry about gaining weight. The dragon's blood will help us filter out excess fat. This is our right." Elizabeth stretched out her fingers, picked up a strawberry-flavored macaron, and bit off most of it unscrupulously.
It's like showing off his lineage.
Eat without getting fat, this word made Xi Ziyue's heart tremble, and the last line of defense was broken.
Xi Ziyue closed her eyes and sighed... just pretending.
"Then it's better for me to be respectful than to obey." She reluctantly remained reserved, pulled over a flowery vanilla parfait, dug into it with a spoon and ate it in small bites.
I wish I could get a bigger spoon...
Accompanied by the gentle music, the royal afternoon tea began.
Only by sitting on this seat in person can you appreciate the authenticity of the products around you. Both the housekeeper and the maid are professional. Their temperament has been professionally tempered, and the lines on their bodies are meticulous. Every corner of the clothing seems to have been refined.
.
The queen in front of me is also the real thing. The last time she came here was more like a private visit incognito, but now she is officially full of aura.
"Thank you very much for having you here last night, otherwise something terrible might have happened." Elizabeth said suddenly.
"Who are they?" Xi Ziyue asked subconsciously.
"Mercenaries recruited from a mysterious website, hunters who roam the dark side of the world. Unfortunately, although they have all been arrested, we still haven't been able to get anything out of their mouths." Elizabeth suddenly felt like it again.
As if realizing something, he added:
"Of course, we don't use torture. We have a strong psychological team. We can easily make the other party tell them what they need to say, just like pouring beans through a bamboo tube." She joked, speaking lively and enthusiastically.
vivid.
Hmm...
It sounded like a group of evil scientists laughing strangely and surrounding the white mouse on the electrode chair.
"Their employer is very hidden, and the plan is watertight. Only the captain can know the stages of the plan... But unfortunately, he seems to be mentally disturbed, and all our clues have been interrupted."
"Insanity?"
"That's right, he's just mentally disturbed. Maybe he saw something terrible before he was knocked unconscious by you with the Frigga bullet?" Elizabeth looked at Xi Ziyue with a tacit look in her eyes and a smile.
Xi Ziyue understood immediately.
Not long ago, he was being chased like a rabbit. Suddenly he sat up from the sarcophagus with the majesty of a monarch, pressing dozens of times his weight on the opponent... There was no doubt that he was the captain at that time.
His eyes were already comparable to those of the God of Death holding a giant scythe.
In other words, this person was frightened and went insane.
"Don't worry, with our technology, it won't take long for him to recover, and then we will know why he led the team to invade this island." Elizabeth kept using the word "we".
Maybe it refers to her and the organization behind her...or maybe it refers to her and Xi Ziyue, the two people who make up "us".
Xi Ziyue felt as if she was being trapped.
"Tell me about what happened to you yesterday, I'm very curious." Elizabeth said again.
The moment these words were spoken, the accompaniment disappeared, and the housekeeper and maid quietly walked away, leaving a private space for Xi Ziyue and Elizabeth.
"First of all, we have to start with the white tower." Xi Ziyue pointed to the unknown white tower in the distance, where she found the conch with the lucky word.
In Malta in March, the sun changes light and dark angles in the afternoon clouds, and the spring sea breeze blows the leaves into a whirling sound, like nature humming a tune that makes people fall asleep.
Xi Ziyue just told a story that would be considered fantastic by ordinary people. Elizabeth listened very seriously and occasionally stopped to ask questions and eat while asking... It seemed that this table of cakes was not for use.
To support the decorations on the cards, she really planned to clear the entire table in one afternoon.
A rain cloud covered my head, and before I knew it, the sky darkened and it began to rain lightly.
The climate at sea is like this. You never know when it will rain or how hard it will rain.
"The girl you saw in the profile in the white tower, her name is Jasica Lebius, and she was once a member of the secret party." Elizabeth said.
"Who is the secret party?" Xi Ziyue asked.
"To put it simply, she was once a member of our organization and an excellent female warrior. She got close to Napoleon under the arrangement of the secret party elders at that time. She mainly did intelligence gathering work. She used her beauty, wisdom and courage to conquer Napoleon.
She was taken along by Napoleon on several marches, and her good fortune ensured that Napoleon was invincible." Elizabeth said in a nostalgic tone of history, pointing to the White Tower in the rain.
"After Napoleon's first defeat in 1814, Gashika's whereabouts became a mystery. We thought she died in the war, but we didn't expect that she was arranged in advance by Napoleon before the defeat and hid on this island.
superior."
"But after she learned about Napoleon's death, she chose to leave here... Didn't she return to the organization?"
"No, if it weren't for you, this mystery would never be solved." Elizabeth smiled at Xi Ziyue, "Thank you, my little Sherlock Holmes, for finding the historical truth."
"But where did she go in the end?" Xi Ziyue seemed to be thinking to herself, suddenly becoming interested.
"Obviously, she went far away, far away, so far away that even we couldn't find her. Like a bird that broke away from the chains of fate, she was free." Elizabeth stretched out two fingers and flapped them in the air.
Two times...maybe it's a metaphor for the action of flying and flying.
Hearing this, Xi Ziyue's mood changed for no reason.
"As for the knight you mentioned, I don't know much about it. The only thing I can tell you is the situation he was facing at the time. It may be that he was about to degenerate into Deadpool." Elizabeth said.
"What is Deadpool?"
"What you will learn in the second grade... To put it simply, the power of each of our hybrids comes from the dragon blood in our bodies, but some hybrids have too much dragon blood in their bodies, exceeding the safe threshold.
, is born to be easily... easy to fall and become a bad person." Elizabeth carefully considered her words.
"You have also seen the phenomenon of falling in the profile. The surface of the skin will be covered with scales. This phenomenon is called dragon transformation. This is an irreversible process, just like falling into the abyss. The fallen can only rely on powerful
The mind slows down the fall, but it cannot change the result of the fall." Elizabeth said.
"That knight is amazing. Before he was about to degenerate into Deadpool, he chose to drink holy water, which is mercury poison. It is a mysterious technology that has been passed down since ancient Egypt, which can destroy the organs of dragons. Legend has it that Su
This is the kind of wine Grates drank when he died... As for why the knight leader disappeared in that coffin, this is another mystery."
Although she was talking about terrible things related to death, Elizabeth still used a humorous tone, but at the end her tone changed: "He can be regarded as breaking free from the shackles of fate. If necessary, facing death is also an option.
A kind of expression of struggle against fate."
The heavy breath of history rose up like rain and mist, permeating the small white pavilion. The ringing of the bell came from the teaching building. It was the bell for the end of the lunch break, but I was busy having afternoon tea with the school director, so I shouldn't need to.
Just ignore the ringtone.
Death, shackles, freedom, Xi Ziyue's heart seemed to be inspired, and it beat faster and faster unconsciously, thinking about grand things like fate, ideals, and endings.
It's not like Xi Ziyue couldn't accept the young man who died a few days ago. Maybe this was the end of the road they each chose.
"Look, I feel much better." Elizabeth suddenly smiled. She could see through Xi Ziyue's recent mental state from the first moment they met.
"Well, much better." Xi Ziyue nodded, as if a stone had been removed from her heart.
Maybe this is the psychological counseling session that Winnies mentioned. It is not about saying something full of positive energy, just a few casual and artistic words are enough. The most important thing is that the other party can listen patiently.
"I want to ask something, Madam Laurent." Xi Ziyue's eyes became more serious.
"Ask." Elizabeth blinked.
"After you came here on the first day, the group of hunters appeared on the second night..." Xi Ziyue's eyes were a little wary.
From a metaphysical point of view, the moment she opened the door to Cassel, the gears of fate began to turn. But from a practical point of view, after Elizabeth came on the first day, something happened the next day. It was difficult to let Elizabeth go.
People don't connect these two things.
"I'm sorry, this matter really has nothing to do with me. I can only explain it as fate. I promise you that I will get to the bottom of this matter." Elizabeth answered calmly and seriously, as if she had expected it.
These questions will be asked monthly.
"Then tell me that there are many strange doors on this island. Let me try to open them. This..." Xi Ziyue asked again.
"As the director of Golden Iris Academy, of course I know the history of this island, and I also know that there are many doors that cannot be opened on this island. I let you try to open the door with the 'key' because I hope you will become familiar with your own power.
, I really didn’t expect you to have the ability to obtain speech spirits through profiling.” Elizabeth’s smile was apologetic.
Xi Ziyue lowered her head and thought for a while, unable to find any logical loopholes for a while.
Maybe the only way to explain everything is fate.
"Then...are there any other girls like me and Winnie whose fiancé's identity is unknown?" This was Xi Ziyue's last question.
To be continued...