[Location: Tino City·Tino Prison]
That's when Louie started causing a riot.
The Tino City Prison is still shrouded in gloom and coldness.
Snow, the confused former director of the waste treatment plant, lies in the corner of the prison like a useless person.
There was a sound of crutches hitting the ground, causing him to slowly raise his head.
What caught his eye was the Marquis of York standing outside the iron prison.
"Good day, Lord York, which unlucky death row prisoner has provoked you to come here today?"
The Marquis of York looked at him quietly and sighed heavily:
"You will be guillotined tomorrow. Is there anything else you want to say?"
Snow rolled his gloomy eyes and said with a smile, "Haven't you already used Veritaserum?"
The Marquis of York leaned on the head of his crutch with both hands and snorted coldly and said:
"I was taught a lesson by a gentleman today. He told me that there are some things that can be taken out of context but are well-founded, and that can be believed by referring to a deer as a horse."
Snow was a little surprised and said, "At your level, someone still dares to teach you?"
The Marquis of York shook his head: "So you have nothing to explain to me?"
"there is none left."
"Hmph, you just have a tough mouth. You deserve to end up like this."
There was a sound of crutches hitting the ground outside the iron prison.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and the Marquis of York sighed:
"Forget it, I didn't expect you to explain."
Snow patted his belly and said with a smile, "Then why are you here?"
"I just worked overtime today and bought myself a cake."
Snow in the cell was stunned and slowly raised his head:
"cake?"
With a whoosh, a paper bag landed in front of Snow.
Snow stared at the cake in the paper bag that still exuded a faint coolness, and grinned:
"So Master York, you still remember the villain's birthday?"
Snow took out the cake from the paper bag and took a bite:
"It's quite delicious. I remember you asked me to share that piece of cake on my birthday. Do you want me to share another piece with you?"
That was 20 years ago.
At that time, Snow had just joined the city lord's staff and got his first salary, which happened to coincide with his birthday.
It is not easy for people from outside the city to work in the imperial capital, and it is also very difficult to join the Marquis of York as an ordinary operator.
The joy of successfully taking root and the happiness of his birthday made him rarely spend money to buy a cake.
After get off work at noon, while hiding in a corner to eat, he met the then Marquis of York.
At that time, Snow had not yet met his immediate boss, but seeing the middle-aged man staring at the cake in his hand, he was in a good mood, so he cut a piece of cake that had not been touched by him and handed it to him. past.
——Later he found out that the man was the Marquis of York, whose name he had heard for a long time.
Unexpectedly, time flies by, and when I eat cake again, I am already in and out of prison.
The Marquis of York said calmly: "Because today is also my birthday."
Snow, who was eating the cake, stopped, with a look of surprise and undetectable sadness on his face.
“The cake was delicious at that time, but it’s a pity that I will never be able to eat it again.”
Snow lowered his head: "There are many people who are willing to give you delicious cakes."
"That's different."
Snow ate the cake slowly: "Really?"
"It's time for me to go and say goodnight, Snow."
The sound of the crutches gradually faded away, and the smile on Snow's face gradually disappeared. Tide-like exhaustion swallowed him up, and his eyes were dark and unclear.
His breathing gradually became faster, and he suddenly rushed to the cell door and shouted:
"When there was no way to dispose of the waste from the treatment plant, I approached the mage who gave me 'help', or in other words, he took the initiative to approach me."
“I accepted his suggestion because I really wanted to eliminate the impact of waste.”
"And I would also like to get more help from him."
The receding sound of the cane stopped, and when Snow came to his senses, the Marquis of York stood in front of him again.
The Marquis of York said: "What is this condition? Why can you hide it when it comes to the Veritaserum?"
"Because it has nothing to do with the waste treatment plant, it's just my personal appeal."
Snow confessed everything happily.
"Lord York, have you ever heard of the Book of the Dead?"
"The Book of the Dead by the Necromantic Magic Lord Sandro?"
"No, it's the "New Book of the Dead" modified by another Mad King Rudelson in later generations."
"The one who claims that 'physical death can bring spiritual immortality'? Does this have anything to do with you?"
"It didn't matter at first, but then it happened. I saw the mage resurrecting the dead."
"..."
Snow howled: "After the old man who raised me turned into a little box, I never went home again. I want to see him again."
"Stupid, don't you know that without God's protection, the souls who go to the underworld will never come back?"
"...I know, I know! But I just want to bet on it, just like I bet on scraps that I can handle."
The Marquis of York was so angry that his body trembled, and the head of his crutch was crushed by him.
Snow said in despair: "Lord York, if you were to go back twenty years ago and I was still an ordinary person who had not been corrupted by greed, would you still eat the piece of cake I handed you?"
"There are so many ifs."
"Yeah, so I'm going to the guillotine."
…
When the Marquis of York left the iron prison, he looked at the armored man standing in the shadows with a complex expression.
"Your Highness Louis, was this also what you expected?"
"Call me Gaius Julius Caesar."
Perhaps because he felt that after listening to the whole conversation between the two, he felt that it was not good to show off again, Louis took off his helmet, revealed his true face and said:
"I'm just an honorary prince with no real power. It's all thanks to you, Marquis of York, that I was able to extract useful information from Snow."
Louis paused and said curiously:
"So today is really your birthday?"
"Um."
"That piece of cake back then..."
"Your Highness Louis, the higher a fruit tree yearns for, the bigger the shadow it will cast, and there will be wild monkeys climbing to pick fruits... So, that cake is different."
The succubus's perception of people's emotions told him that what the Marquis of York said was true.
As for the Marquess of York, it's all about acting...
If even the succubus' blood instinct of seeing into people's hearts was deceived, then the Marquis of York would be too terrifying.
It was also at this time that the Marquis of York looked at Louis:
"Your Highness Louis, the commotion you caused yesterday was too great."
Louis denied it: "Caesar did this, what does it have to do with me?"
Cut!
Cutting at the speed of light!
The Marquis of York just smiled and said nothing.
When public opinion broke out, he sent people to investigate.
What is the true identity of the adventurer Caesar?
Which motorcade did Grace register with when entering the city?
He is soon made aware of it and deduces the connection between Louis and Grace.
His intuition told him that everything behind this public opinion war was a calculation.
Louis, on the other hand, was lost in thought.
The Shi Jinquan incident in his previous life caused a huge sensation. After the truth came out, many people also accused him of taking advantage of the kindness of netizens.
Shi Jinquan himself was also under tremendous pressure.
However, Louis helped Grace, but he did it smoothly, and even induced the adventurers to go to Dragon Bone Grassland, all in order to hide the truth.
Even Alice doesn't know his real plan.
"Then the next step is the final step of preparation."
