Chapter 141
The birdman called himself Hulennar, spoke little and looked a little gloomy. He walked in front with an oil lamp, and the bird's claws made almost no sound when they touched the ground. Therefore, although his body was larger than the two of Mogui combined, he looked more like a ghost in this dim underground sewer.
Lin Lai walked behind and unconsciously fixed his eyes on Hulennar.
He walked in a strange way, and one of his claws seemed to have been broken and had not healed well. The gray robe he was wearing was like a large bed sheet, and it was torn in many places. In the flickering light of the oil lamp, Lin Lai also saw that his body was covered with gray and brown feathers sticking up randomly, as if they had never been taken care of.
Hulennar also had no hands, but three thin, short fleshy wings similar to claws seemed to have evolved at the tips of his wings, allowing him to hold the oil lamp. At the same time, his other wing drooped at his side, as if it was difficult to move it.
Lin Lai was a little absent-minded.
Because of his status, although he was raised by the Bei people when he was a child, he actually did not have much contact with the Bei people. His adoptive father protected him very well and did not let him know too much about the real life of the Bei people. That man... always looked very relaxed and at ease in front of him, as if raising him was not a very hard thing. Before his adoptive father was beaten to death for no reason, when he was a child, Lin Lai actually always thought that although the Bei people had a lower status and their work might be more tiring, they were not much different from other humans. He thought that the difference between humans and Bei people was like the difference between rich and poor.
After his adoptive father passed away, he deliberately learned a lot of things, and then he realized that the truth of this world was completely different from what he had thought before. Although he didn't say a few words when he was in such close contact with a Bi, Lin Lai seemed to be able to see the countless sufferings that the Bi had suffered for hundreds of years.
"Child, you seem to be very interested in my wings?" Hulennar suddenly asked.
Lin Lai didn't know how he knew he was observing his wings when he didn't even turn around. He apologized hastily, "Sorry... I'm just..."
"It's okay." Hulennar laughed hoarsely and said, "It's all in the past. When I was young, I worked in a circus and sometimes I had to carry human children on my back and fly around in the sky. But one time, a very fat man insisted on riding on me, but he was too heavy and I accidentally threw him off, and that's how it became."
"I..." Lin Lai felt ashamed from the bottom of his heart, even though he was not the one who caused all this. He whispered, "I am very sad."
Hulennar rolled his eyes, looked at him, and smiled: "It's nothing... It's like this... I'm actually very lucky . After all, I survived." After a pause, he said: "You are a good child."
For the rest of the journey, Hulennar began to take better care of Lin Lai and specifically chose a cleaner section of the road to walk on, which made Mo Gui's walk much easier as well.
They passed through one sewer after another that looked exactly the same. Sometimes Hulennar and the other two would stand by for a while, and soon a torrent of water would rush through; sometimes the sewers they passed through were very low, and Hulennar almost had to lie on the ground to get through; sometimes the sewers they passed through were very high, as high as more than ten meters, and walking in them was like walking through a magnificent palace.
They encountered two inspections during the trip. One time, they were asked to change all their clothes, not even their underwear. Fortunately, the clothes provided here were of poor quality, but at least they were brand new. Another time, two beys who looked like large toads took detectors to scan the three people's bodies to prevent them from bringing in things like locators implanted in their bodies.
Then, Lin Lai and Mo Gui finally saw the target of their trip, Rotstein.
But when they met Rotstein, the tall and majestic Centaur did not attract the attention of the two. The first thing they saw was a silver-white beast standing among the crowd. He looked at them with a pair of gentle and peaceful blue eyes, as if there were stars in them.
—Lacini!
The two did not hide their shocked expressions. Rotstein smiled, stroked his long white beard, and said, "Please let me introduce you to our leader, His Highness Lacini. He is the pure-blooded descendant of the ancient land king Thunder Beast. He is of noble status and great power."
Lin Lai and Mo Gui looked at each other, and then he pretended to be a little surprised, a little happy, and a little suspicious. His acting skills were brought to the extreme, as if he wanted to ask something but restrained himself. He bowed respectfully to Lacini and said, "Qingyu greets His Highness."
Mo Gui hesitated for a moment before also bowing and saying, "Hei Yu greets His Highness."
Although everyone who saw him would greet him like this during this period, Lacini was still a little shy and uneasy, but he was able to control himself and not show this emotion. He just nodded lightly and said, "Hello."
Although he had never experienced this before, he had seen many big figures of the empire when he was with Lin Qingge. At this moment, he imitated the way those big figures spoke, and he looked quite intimidating.
But Lin Lai and Mo Gui were not ordinary people. Even though they only said hello, they had their own guesses when they saw Lacini's unconsciously evasive eyes and slightly trembling eyes. Of course, on the surface, Mo Gui still had no expression on his face, while Lin Lai seemed to be deeply honored .
Rotstein smiled with satisfaction, and then said: "Your Highness is of noble status, and usually does not receive outsiders casually. But I heard that you can get guns and bombs..."
"The transaction should have already started."
"Tracking and positioning."
"Cross-reference it with a map of the sewers."
On the screen hanging on the wall, red dots of light were flashing one by one. The dots of light connected into a winding curve that sometimes coiled and sometimes turned. At the end of the curve, two green dots of light were flashing.
There were more than a dozen people busy around, some were giving instructions into headphones, some were typing on keyboards, and others were building models of the underground sewer.
Suddenly , the door was knocked open with a clang, and a group of fully armed soldiers rushed in, pinning everyone to the ground and handcuffing them without saying a word. Several guards were lying outside the door, and it seemed that they were subdued by the intruders without even sending out an emergency signal.
A bald man in the room came back to his senses from his astonishment. Someone grabbed his arm and pressed him on the table. He struggled and shouted, "What are you doing? I'm the Speaker 's man! I want to see His Excellency Yang Siyu! I... um... um... um..."
Before he could finish his words, his mouth was blocked by someone.
Yunxi walked in from outside, straightened his collar, glanced at the various equipment in the room, and then said with a smile: "I now suspect that you are related to the gangsters who assassinated His Highness Cain. Now everything here must be sealed and investigated as evidence. Take it away!"
At Yunxi's command, the soldiers pushed all of them out. The bald man struggled and groaned, but he couldn't speak at all. He used all his strength to push away the soldiers around him and tried to bite a lighter-like object on the table with his mouth, but was punched on the head by a soldier who rushed over. In an instant, he felt that his brain was beaten into paste.
As he was dragged out like a dead dog, the bald man wailed in his heart:
[It’s over! It’s really over! Speaker… Speaker! What should I do now? Lin Qingsi… Lin Qingsi is too cruel! ]
Everyone else here is a tool. They only know what they are required to do but don't know why they do it. Only the bald man, as Yang Siyu's confidant, knows the whole picture.
He knew that Yang Siyu had nothing to do with the gangsters involved in the assassination. Before today, if Lin Qingsi's people dared to slander him like this, he would have spit on their faces! But Yang Siyu wanted to use those guys to completely overthrow Lin Qingsi, so he sent someone to disguise their identities and get in touch with the resistance army. After that, whether he wiped out the gang of thugs to prove Lin Qingsi's incompetence in front of the head of state, or planted some "clues" and "evidence" to prove that Lin Qingsi was the mastermind behind the assassination of Cain, it was an excellent chess game.
But only now... only now when their people have just contacted the bandits and have not had time to do anything! Now that they have been caught by Lin Qingsi's people, it can only prove that Yang Siyu's people secretly provided weapons and medicines to the bandits, proving that the Speaker is the mastermind behind the assassination of His Royal Highness the Prince! This is the real "redemption of people and goods"! At that time, it will be Yang Siyu's turn to be speechless! Even their subordinates will be buried together!
How come Lin Qingsi’s people... came at such a coincidence?
If their people hadn't taken action one day earlier, any doubts would be groundless slanders, and Yang Siyu could easily turn the tables if he reported it to the higher-ups;
One day later, everything that needed to be done would have been arranged. Even if that rebel army finally fell into Lin Qingsi's hands, the Speaker could make him not only fail in his efforts but also make him guilty!
But only now! Only this moment! How could they have timed it so well?
Unless... unless there is a traitor among them!
When he was dragged out of the door, the bald man, who thought he had figured everything out, saw that Yunxi had become interested in the ordinary-looking lighter because of his previous behavior and was playing with it in his hand. He suddenly felt a black screen in front of his eyes!
Yunxi gently placed the lighter in a small box and asked a woman in black who was following him to put it away. Then he looked at the red and green dots on the screen and said with a smile, "Poor aliens. Their understanding of human technology is probably still stuck in the past ten years."
Then, he dialed the phone and said with a serious expression: "Director, everything is just as you expected... We found those little mice!"
