"Agatha..." Luke was helpless with this simple-minded Princess Dale: "Do you know that if you run away like this, it is very likely that your sister Agatha will be killed."

Dale stopped eating and looked up at Luke: "How is it possible? Sister Agatha is the eldest princess and the head of the Imperial Secret Service. With so many people protecting her, who can harm her?"

"Our Emperor."

Dai'er was even more unconvinced: "Your Emperor is our father, and he loves Sister Agatha the most. Sister has been canonized as the eldest princess before she even moved out of the palace."

"Then explain to me...why His Majesty has been spreading the news that he wants to marry you to me, but I have been in the imperial capital for so many days, and he has neither summoned me nor issued an edict to grant me marriage?"

"How do I know what Father is thinking? Maybe, maybe I need to test you again."

Luke knew that Dale really didn't understand the turmoil in the imperial court, so he said, "Testing me? My performance in Raging Waves City is enough to satisfy any test from His Majesty. He is waiting for me to pledge my loyalty and offer Raging Waves City to him.

As long as you get these two things, His Majesty will immediately issue an order to grant the marriage."

Dai Er asked in confusion: "You work for Sister Agatha, isn't that working for our father? Hasn't Raging Waves City returned to the direct jurisdiction of the Empire?"

"But His Majesty doesn't think so, and Raging Waves City has indeed not returned to the direct jurisdiction of the empire. It is under my control. It is precisely because of Raging Waves City that His Majesty is willing to use a princess to win me over.

The current situation in the imperial court is that... as long as I offer the City of Raging Waves to His Majesty, the power and honor that the princess currently possesses can be taken away with just one word."

"I don't believe it, you must be lying to me!"

"Believe it or not, think about it carefully and think about what kind of person your father is. If you die or disappear, Your Majesty will lose the best bargaining chip for me to betray the princess and join the past.

Do you think His Majesty would suspect who did this?

In the entire city of Saint Lun, how many people are capable of arranging an assassination attempt on the royal princess in the imperial city area?

In the past, His Majesty may have only doubted the loyalty of the princess. After he successfully seized the princess' power, he should not do anything to endanger her life. But starting tomorrow, everything will be different."

Luke's words made Dale really scared.

She had not understood the political struggles in the court before, but this time she understood them and knew what kind of person Augustine the Great was.

If I die, whoever benefits the most will naturally be the biggest suspect in this assassination.

Dai'er felt her hands and feet were cold, and her heart was filled with desolation.

She asked Luke, "Who did this?"

"I want to know that, too."

The room became quiet, and both of them fell into deep thought.

Luke really didn't know who did it. After all, the plot had changed long ago and Dale had never appeared in the downtown area.

After a while, Dale let out a long breath and smiled again: "At least you saved me, which means someone still loves me... No, no, that's not what I meant! You work for Sister Agatha, she loves me so much, she will definitely protect me.

If you escort me back to the palace tomorrow, you can clear Sister Agatha of suspicion. I can find another opportunity to escape later, but I must not implicate her this time."

Luke stared at Dale for a while, and couldn’t help but laugh: “How come the Augustine family has a princess like you?

I was the one who saved you, and Qingkong was the one who tracked you down... From the time I met you until now, I never said that Agatha ordered me to do it. The only people who knew you were here were me, Qingkong, and my follower Kuai Tui."

"What do you mean?"

"The meaning is very clear...Her Royal Highness the Princess is the biggest suspect in your assassination."

Dai'er felt like she was going crazy: "What on earth do you want to tell me? You just said that assassinating me would put Sister Agatha in danger; now you say that she is... the biggest suspect in the assassination of me.

Don’t you think what you said is illogical?”

"Really?" Luke thought back to what he had said: "There is nothing wrong with the logic! Before the truth of the matter appears, any doubt may become the truth.

This matter will bring danger to the princess, but there is also a chance. Otherwise, there will only be danger. Isn't she the least suspicious person?"

"But you are an Imperial spy, working for Sister Agatha."

"It's really hard to communicate with you!" Luke shook his head painfully. "Anyway, you just need to know... I have my principles and positions. Your escape this time has caused me a lot of trouble, and it has also added a lot of uncertainty to the imperial court struggle."

Dale stared at Luke and asked, "What are you going to do with me?"

“You have two choices:

The first one is, tomorrow I will take you to the upper city, and you will go back to the palace by yourself. You can say that you were frightened by the assassination attempt, and you accidentally fell into the river, and you dared not come back until dawn. Don't say that you came to the lower city, and don't say that you met me.

The second is that you stay in the Lower City... but use the identity I assign to you. Do not run away, and do what I ask you to do. Your disappearance will definitely cause unrest in the court, and I will have a chance to find out who assassinated you. But if the situation in the court gets out of control, you must go back and restore the situation.”

Dai Er looked confused and asked, "What do you think I should choose?"

"I hope you choose the first one. As long as you leave the palace, you will be safe. It will be good for everyone if the palace struggle continues to remain at a low intensity..."

"I choose the second one, but you can't ask me to do something I don't like..."

Luke looked at Dai'er anxiously: "Are you kidding me?"

Dai Er smiled slyly and said, "Don't think I'm easy to fool. Someone wanted to assassinate me, but I foolishly went back and concealed the fact that you saved me. You are safe now, and I took all the danger.

You are more afraid than anyone else that the situation will get out of control. If I stay in the lower city, you must protect me. Only in this way can I help you stabilize the situation when necessary.

Although I don’t know how long I can hide here, I’ll play for as long as I can. It’s much freer than being locked up in the palace.

Hey... don't even think about sending me back! If you force me to go back, I'll say you saved me!"

Luke was dumbfounded.

Since I came here, I have never encountered such a situation... I was actually threatened and controlled by someone.

You big-tailed wolf, you always pretend to be a sheep in front of me!

Luke thought for a long time but couldn't figure out how to throw this hot potato away harmlessly.

Dai'er continued to eat without any hesitation.

Luke had no choice but to accept the reality and try his best to keep Princess Dale under his control.

I hope she won't cause any more trouble for me.

"Okay, okay, very good. You can stay here. As long as you don't run away, I will try not to interfere with your freedom.

You already have a name, Jasmine... and your identity is my wife."

Dale raised her head and looked at Luke warily again: "Why wife?"

Luke, who felt that he had turned the tables, smiled and said, "As a maid, you have to do laundry, cook, and clean the entire building. I don't think you can be a maid without people suspecting you.

To be a daughter... you are clearly too old.

Being sisters… our looks are very different.

Only being a wife could explain the intimacy we share living together.

If you can't accept it, you should go back to the palace. Life outside is not as good as you imagined. No one respects you or spoils you..."

Who would have thought that Dai'er said: "Life in the palace is not what you imagined. Isn't it just pretending to be your wife? I pretend to be..."

Luke spread his hands: "Okay, I won't suffer any loss anyway."

Dai'er, who was a little angry, realized what she had agreed to. She immediately lowered her head and pretended to eat to hide her blushing cheeks.

But she suddenly raised her head and said, "It's bad! Besides you, Fast Legs and Sister Clear Sky, there is another thing that knows my identity."

Luke, who was still admiring Dale's embarrassment, suddenly became nervous: "Who is it?"

"A shadow parasitic meta-iteration..."

Dale told Luke about her encounter with the Shadow Parasite Iteration, and finally said, "I swore on my mother's honor to set it free, so I had to save it. And I thought I would leave the Lower City soon, and then leave the Empire, but I didn't expect... I didn't expect to be caught by you and have to stay here.

If I had known, I would have let it follow me. What should I do now? "

Luke seriously suspected that God saw that he was having an easy time with the plot and deliberately sent Dale to make it more difficult for him.

Such a rare species as the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration was encountered on her way of escape, and she even let it go!

Melken's shadow parasite research project is the extraordinary biological breeding result that Luke wants to focus on when he sneaks into the lower city this time.

Melken was once a senior supernatural breeder at the Empire Supernatural Species Breeding Center and one of the core members responsible for the Shadow Parasite Research and Development Project. However, his research and development theory and path had never been adopted by the team, so he had the idea of ​​stealing an iterative body.

As a result, the theft failed and he was driven out of the Empire's Extraordinary Species Breeding Center. But Melken did not give up. He came to the Lower City and quickly became an important figure in the Lower City with his superb extraordinary transformation technology and the relationship with the Extraordinary Species Breeding Center.

According to the normal plot, Malken successfully received the shadow parasitic meta-iteration and carried out his unique research and development. Soon he developed a result...psychotoxin.

It is a mental power-enhancing toxin that is even more violent than the Berserk Potion.

He then used mental toxins to develop extremely powerful weapons of war... the Heart Eaters, and then used modified shadow parasitic meta-iterations to control them.

Luke is not interested in the Heart Eaters, but in how to effectively control the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration. This is a complex set of proprietary technology, and there is no detailed information in the game plot, except that Melken developed this and that.

Qingkong has a Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration in his hand, which comes from Grover. Although Grover is currently the best Shadow Parasite Meta-transformation, his performance... shows that the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration he left behind still has a lot of room for improvement.

Now...the Shadow Parasitic Meta-iteration that was supposed to be in Melkan's hands was actually let go by Dale.

It's fine to let him go, but it's better to find a cat or dog as his host than a mouse. The downtown area is infested with rats, and it's not much easier to find the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration from it than to find a needle in a haystack.

"Where can I find kittens and puppies on this garbage ship? And kittens and puppies are so cute, even if I find them, I won't let them be hosts for the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration."

What a hassle!

Luke said: "Now it's not just a matter of finding the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration! That thing is what Melkan wanted, and now that it's lost, he will definitely use all means to find it.

Tonight you and I walked all the way from the drainage ditch, and I wonder how many people saw you. I thought it was dim and they couldn't see you clearly, so I could disguise you and get away with it, but they must have known me."

Dai'er asked worriedly, "Will you be in danger?"

"It's... not dangerous." Luke thought quickly, "I'm a buyer who delivers money to them. Melken won't do anything to me without direct evidence, but I'm sure there will be a lot of trouble. Now you want to go back, and I can't send you away. Cooperate with me in the play, and don't let them see that we are a pretend couple."

"ah!"

"What? You are the one who caused the trouble, and I am implicated by you. If I am right, Melken will invite us over tomorrow. If he finds out anything, we will not be able to leave the downtown area alive.

I won’t be able to sleep tonight.”

"Why can't I sleep?"

"We need to collude... No, we need to understand each other. For example, I like to eat filet mignon and foie gras, but you said I like to eat bread with caviar. Is this a normal relationship between husband and wife?"

"No, do you really like filet mignon and foie gras?"

"No, I made that up."

“I like to eat…fish soup with many flavors, chicken salad, raw salmon with avocado, steamed egg rolls, stewed potatoes, wild rice and shrimp jelly, egg and tomato salad, conger eel soup, fried scallops with foie gras sauce, live shrimp with crab roe, stewed meat and mixed salad, curry shrimp, fried lobster meat, roast chicken with balsamic vinegar, cod with tomato and thyme, baked asparagus, salmon custard.

These are all true.”

Luke watched Dai'er continue to eat and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: She is indeed a foodie.

Luke continued to ask: "Women have a few days of discomfort every month. From which day to which day are your days?"

Dai Er almost choked on this question. She quickly took a sip of water and said, "Do you still want to ask this question?"

Luke looked at Dale.

Dai'er's eyes dodged: "And who would ask such a question?"

Luke continued to look at Dale.

"I regret it. I want to go back to the palace."

"If you can't make it through tomorrow, you'll have to go back to the drain."

"******..."

"Speak louder! Speak slower! Don't get your tongue tied!"

…

In the drainage ditch, a gray rat swam from the water to the shore. On a garbage boat not far away, a thug whipped the captain with a whip, and the scavengers pushed and shoved to break through the thugs' blockade.

The mouse shook off the water on the shore and sniffed the ground as if looking for something. A snake jumped out from the bushes and shot at the mouse like an arrow. The mouse suddenly turned around, and a red light flashed in its two small eyes, and the snake fell in front of the mouse.

The mouse pounced on the snake and started to eat it.