Everyone in the secret passage was anxiously waiting for the result of Nicolai's negotiation.

Thales tried his best to activate the few Hell River sins and improve his ear power.

The conversation between the two at the entrance of the cave finally reached his ears reluctantly.

"What?" Nicolai's voice came, "Is the Scarlet Witch going to use her best ability again?"

"Talk me to surrender?"

The Scarlet Witch just looked at him quietly.

Her eyes were calm but also serious.

Even Thales, who was hiding in the distance and eavesdropping, had the illusion of a ray of light on his back.

"I said, you are on the wrong side," Kashan's expression suddenly turned cold: "The White Blade Guards should be loyal to Exeter, not a certain king."

"Don't you think so?"

Thales, who was eavesdropping, frowned: What on earth does the Scarlet Witch want to do?

Do you really want to surrender Nicolai?

The Fallen Star tightened his grip on his knife.

Nicolai snorted: "As a regicide traitor, don't you think this sentence is too harsh?"

The Scarlet Witch raised her chin.

"Traitor?" Ms. Cassan's eyes flashed with sternness: "Do you really know what King Gongju, whom you are loyal to, is prepared to do in order to continue his family?"

Nicolai shook his head slowly, and Thales guessed that he was showing that uncomfortable and disdainful smile as usual.

But Meteorite soon stopped laughing, and so did Thales.

Kashan looked behind him and said coldly: "For example..."

"Pretending to be a child with no Walton blood as the heir to Longxiao City?"

Nicolai's back froze.

He wasn't the only one who had this reaction.

a bolt from the blue.

This is how Taylor, who was eavesdropping, feels now.

He opened his mouth wide in shock and couldn't help but look at the little Huitou who lowered his head in worry.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Scarlet Witch, she...

Miranda noticed Taylor's strange behavior and frowned: "What's wrong with you?"

Thales still kept his mouth open, his face full of shock.

His eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand to press his chin in embarrassment: "Um... move your chin..."

Miranda raised her eyebrows and turned her head.

But for Thales, the cold words of the Scarlet Witch continued: "He also placed his hope on the power of the Star Kingdom, put the handle into the hands of the Bright Star Family, and took the initiative on the inheritance issue of Longxiao City.

, sent to Fuxing Palace?”

There was no reaction from Nicolai's back.

But Thales guessed that his expression must be getting more and more ugly at the moment.

"Waiting for the Kingdom of Stars, waiting for the Secret Department, waiting for that weird boy to turn Longxiao City into their internal agent in Exeter," Kashan's tone was extremely cold, contrary to her previous smile: "Change

Becoming a puppet of the Bright Star royal family?"

Thales in the distance closed his eyes and covered his face in pain.

"It's okay," Thales' voice was weak. He waved his hand to Cohen, who looked at him in confusion: "My face is numb, rub it."

The Scarlet Witch snorted coldly.

"As the leader of the White Blade Guards, the king's most trusted personal guard captain, and his right-hand man, Lord Serui Nicolai," Cassan turned back with complicated eyes: "Do you know all these things?"

"Or do you also think that all this doesn't matter?"

Nicolai's back was still frozen in place.

He pressed his hand on the handle of the knife and did not move for a long time.

The meteorite exhaled with difficulty, and his voice reached Thales's ears: "You know."

"The darkroom has indeed collected these things," the Scarlet Witch narrowed her eyes slightly: "Isn't that enough?"

"That's... the reason why you killed the king?" Nicolai's voice was not coherent, as if there was something blocking his trachea.

"It's a pity, but this kind of thing..." Kashan sighed: "If His Majesty had a little more trust in me and asked me to help him find a solution instead of making his own decision, there would be another ending."

Nicolai did not speak immediately.

If Thales could see his front, he would find that the meteorite's eyes were calm and his pale face slowly turned red.

If Michael were here, he would recognize this as a sign that the old man is going to get angry.

And since young Nikolai became the commander twenty years ago, he rarely gets angry anymore.

"A little trust?" Nicolai sneered: "Why aren't you a little more loyal to His Majesty?"

Upon hearing this, Thales exhaled and slowly shook his head.

The old king...

Did you... die from the disloyalty of the ministers? Or did you die from the unbelief of the king?

Cassian narrowed her eyes.

"Why do you think he doesn't trust you?" The Falling Star's tone became increasingly cold: "Do you think his vigilance and suspicion of you suddenly came over overnight?"

The Scarlet Witch said nothing.

"Twelve years ago," Nicolai's voice was hard, and he bit out the words with anger between his teeth: "Your Highness Suril, when the couple was assassinated, the assassin who lurked in..."

Kashan remained silent.

But from the moment Nicolai mentioned "assassin", her eyes instantly released a different complex color.

Thales was slightly startled when he heard this.

Suriel's death?

Assassin? The assassin sent by the stars?

"That handsome pretty boy, remember?" Nicolai said harshly: "I had already intercepted him..."

"If it weren't for your dark room," Nicolai's words trembled slightly: "If it weren't for your people who were in the way, I would have chopped that assassin into pieces!"

Thales raised his eyebrows.

He understood Nicolai's words and gasped subconsciously.

That assassin...the assassin sent by the stars.

The assassin was actually... protected by someone in the dark room?

Kashan lowered her head slightly, stared at the ground, and fell into silence for a long time.

Nicolai gasped heavily: "Yes, I later found out through investigation, but His Majesty asked me to remain silent."

Thales noticed that the meteorite's legs were shaking slightly.

Only the Faller himself knew - those were two arrow wounds that had not yet been treated.

"You knew it before that, right?" Meteor Man gritted his teeth and said: "You know the existence of the assassin. You may even have known that the stars will send assassins!"

"Or is this just a scene arranged by your darkroom?"

"It won't end until His Highness Suriel dies?"

After hearing all this, Thales's face changed several times, and his heart was in confusion.

what happened?

The assassin was sent by Xingchen, but according to Nicolai's wishes...

Why?

Twelve years ago...the darkroom witnessed and even acquiesced in the death of Prince Suril?

At that moment, the Scarlet Witch's eyes moved slightly.

"Now," Nicolai sneered, speaking sharply: "Do you know why His Majesty doesn't trust you?"

"Just based on your cheap and fickle so-called 'loyalty'?"

The Scarlet Witch opened her mouth slightly, but made no sound - the old woman who had been answering fluently and calmly seemed to have suddenly got stuck in her throat.
To be continued...