After some introductions, everyone got to know each other. Al's colleagues from the Dark Nest were winking at each other, not knowing what they meant. Suddenly, he remembered that he had been followed before, and immediately felt uncomfortable all over. Do everyone here know their secrets, so do they have reservations about joining
Mallory looked around at everyone with a smile, and then clapped his hands: "Okay, there has been a lot of work recently, everyone should go back to their seats and do their work. Alben, Minna, follow me."
The crowd dispersed, and Minna followed Mallory upstairs. Seeing Alben standing there hesitantly, she pulled him up and said, "Why are you so dazed? Come on!" Alben was startled, then slowed down. Followed slowly.
When they arrived at the office on the second floor, Mallory smiled and gestured for them to sit down: "Currently, here in the Dark Nest, when I am not around, Minna is basically in charge. Alben, you may often deal with this place in the future. If you don't understand anything, just ask Ming Na. You should be familiar with her. You've seen her before, right?" He blinked his right eye, and Ming Na snickered secretly, knowing that he was referring to her actions. During the "Mint" operation, Albon was rescued.
But Alben had his mind elsewhere. He remembered that this Mingna was Anlong...Cado's daughter. After seeing her in the corridor that time, he had checked some information and learned that Anlong had been locked up in the dungeon at home by his father and brother and tortured. , almost lost his life. From this aspect, he and her can almost be said to be enemies!
I remember that he was an undercover agent in the Security Bureau where he died at that time, and his son also joined the Security Bureau. When he first joined, the other party gave him a lot of looks. Later, he was transferred and he could start his job. But he knew in his heart that because of what his father and brother had done in the past, the older generation members of the Security Department had always had objections to him. He couldn't defend himself and could only bury his head and work in a low profile. Is it still impossible to avoid it
Ming Na watched his face turn blue and white, his eyes flickering and he didn't dare to look directly at her, feeling a little confused. Could it be that...he knew that she poisoned their brother? So you are resentful? !
Ming Na shifted her position uncomfortably, unable to act as calm as before.
That was one of the few things she ever did that she regretted deeply.
Mallory watched as the two young men he was optimistic about suddenly changed their heads. They seemed unfriendly and a little confused. Doesn't Ming Na admire little Alben very much? She even made small moves for him, why did she suddenly become...
"Is it because of what happened in the past?" He seemed to understand. "Let what happened in the past be in the past. Alben has chosen a new life. And Minna has grown up. What happened when she was a child. Let everyone forget it. Shake hands. From now on, you will be a good colleague and a good partner." He He gestured to the two children with encouraging eyes.
Minna paused. He extended his hand first. Alben hesitated. But I still held it. thought. Since the other party has taken the initiative to reach out. You shouldn’t mind anymore, right
Minna cleared her throat. Said: "Mallory, you brought Al Ben because he confessed to you? What exactly did Jada want him to do?"
Alben felt uncomfortable again. Mallory smiled. Repeated what the former said. Then he said: "That Princess Stella is a little suspicious. I always feel that she and Duke Jada are not of the same mind. I'm afraid we need to send someone to step up surveillance on her. Maybe we can get important information about Noga's internal affairs."
Only then did Ming Na remember what she was going to report: "By the way! I just received the report from below! There are some unusual changes at the Nuojia Embassy. It has something to do with this princess! Wait for me. I Go get the report!" She immediately turned around and ran out.
Alban shifted uncomfortably. Take a few deep breaths. Then he mustered up the courage to ask: "Your Excellency, you...did you send someone to monitor the movements of the Nuojia people? Was it...was it then that you...discovered me..."
"Huh?" Mallory blinked, "What did you find?" He picked up the cup: "Ah! It's my favorite Mayton specialty milk tea! Xiao Mingna is always so attentive and thoughtful."
"Dong da dong da", the sound of familiar footsteps sounded, and Alben stiffened for a moment before hearing Minna's voice coming from behind: "This is what Mr. Coachman reported. He said that he has had no symptoms in the past two or three days. Princess Della had never left the embassy. Even if she wanted to come out, she would be stopped at the gate. When others came to visit her, the gatekeepers would always say that she was sick and would not see outsiders. But Mr. Coachman was watching in the yard. To her looking out the window in her room! Mallory, do you think she is under house arrest?"
"Oh?" Mallory took the report, looked through it carefully, and his expression became serious, "If she and Duke Jada are not of the same mind, then her secret contact with Alben may anger Jada. Duke, after all, he brought her here for a political marriage." After a pause, his eyes suddenly became sharp: "Someone intends to contact her?!"
"Are you referring to that strange carriage?" Ming Na said, "It is indeed very suspicious. It has passed by the path near the Noga Embassy many times in the past two days and stopped briefly." She pulled out another copy from the bottom of the report Document: "This was reported by colleagues who were monitoring the outside. Although the carriage had been disguised, they still recognized it. At that time, the driver of the carriage claimed to the gatekeeper of the Noga Embassy that he was the servant of a certain noble lady. Their lady wanted to visit Princess Stella, but was rejected.”
"What does the coachman look like?"
"He seemed to have a very ordinary appearance, but he was wearing a wide-brimmed hat, covering half of his face. The people watching were far away and couldn't see clearly. But they did catch a glimpse of the person in the carriage, who was wearing purple clothes. Earth woman.”
Mallory frowned. Alben had been frozen there, but when he saw that they were all discussing seriously, he relaxed a little and interjected: "In the aristocratic circle of Ito, there should be many young ladies who have interacted with Princess Stella, but Going to the embassy in person to visit and being rejected generally does not happen. This is because ladies will inform the other party in advance before going out to visit. If the other party is inconvenient, they will refuse. It is quite rude to come to the door without saying hello like this. It is also disrespectful to refuse guests entry. The Nuojia people may not understand this aspect of etiquette, but that lady...it is impossible not to know."
After hearing this, Ming Na said to Mallory: "Send a few more people to guard there? Maybe that carriage will appear again. Maybe there is something wrong with it!"
"We can also ask the ladies." Alben glanced at the report and put forward his own suggestion, "For such a humiliating thing, most ladies can't help but complain to others afterwards. If it doesn't happen at all News is the most suspicious."
"Then let's do it!" Mallory made up his mind, "Ming
Send someone to monitor... I don't object to you personally taking action, but you have to finish what you are doing. "Seeing Ming Na's frustrated look, he smiled and turned to Alben: "I heard that your mother is worried about your marriage recently. A good son should not make his mother sad. Take a holiday. How about a date with the ladies? How about being positive, talkative, and making them fall for you? "
Alben frowned and hesitated for a long time, then slowly nodded. Ming Na made a face directly at Mallory, took the report and went downstairs.
Mallory smiled and raised his tea cup, took a sip of milk tea, and let out a satisfied sigh.
The surveillance and investigation work was carried out in an orderly manner, and important information was quickly obtained. The mysterious carriage was not filled with a noble lady, because she came again with a different identity the next day. In the end, she was only invited to the foyer for a cup of tea, and then had to leave, unable to be seen at all. Princess Stella. The people at the embassy seemed to be wary, and she could no longer pretend, so she had to find another way.
The woman didn't know what means she used to bribe a handyman in the embassy, disguised herself as a maid and sneaked in through the back door, and saw Princess Stella's maid in the backyard. However, she only had time to say a word before she was discovered. Don't run away in a hurry. The person watching was very close at the time, and could vaguely hear the maid calling the woman "Poppy", but other words could not be heard clearly. After that, the maid never appeared again.
"Poppy?" Ming Na felt that the name sounded familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere, and she squinted her ears and thought hard about it.
Alben sat next to him with some restraint and said to Mallory: "The colleague responsible for tracking found that the woman entered a building in a carriage. According to our investigation, the house was purchased by Viscount Mandheling and belongs to everyone. The name is Poppy Devore. I have heard rumors that the Viscount has several mistresses, and this is probably one of them. Your Excellency, do you think we need to monitor Viscount Mandheling and Devore?"
Mallory smiled: "Won't you say something for him? As far as I know, your two families were once married to each other and have a very close relationship."
Alben moved uncomfortably: "Anyway, I am now a member of the Security Agency." Since Viscount Mandheling almost became his stepfather, the two families have almost cut off contact.
Mallory gave him an approving smile and turned to look at Minna.
Ming Na stared at the report, and after a while, she said: "As for this woman's situation... I can ask Alex, he should know better." When she said this, she couldn't help but think of You The anonymous letter at the hunting party was dropped in front of Viscount Mandheling's tent. Considering the letter writer's knowledge of Noga's secret, she couldn't help but wonder if the letter writer could be Princess Stella. ? But why
Mallory obviously thought about it and nodded slowly: "Alex is half of our own and can be trusted."
Minna got Mallory's permission and immediately went to the college area to find Alex. She felt a little uneasy in her heart. If the Mandheling family really had an ulterior relationship with the Noga people, what would Alex do
At this time, Princess Stella had no idea that she had become the object of suspicion. Her eyes were red and she stared at the cousin in front of her, with a hint of anxiety in her eyes. Her maid knelt beside her and looked at the people in front of her from time to time.
Jada flipped through a black leather notebook carelessly and asked, "Al Benda? Why did his diary appear in your hands? Didn't you say this is a girl's little secret?"
"Give it back to me!" Stella tried to snatch the note back, but her cousin grabbed her wrist and threw it away: "Pay attention to your behavior, don't forget that you are a princess!"
Stella bit her lip and tried to persuade Jada: "This is someone else's diary. I want to return it to him, you can't take it away!"
"I will return the land to you." Jada walked towards the door. "Be calm and wait until the battle for the crown prince in East is over. Your marriage will be settled. Before the wedding is officially held, I will bring You have to go back to Nuojia. Stop having any delusions."
The door closed, and his voice came again, telling the soldiers and maids to guard it. Stella ran to the window and looked down, and saw that the downstairs was also heavily guarded. She cursed "bastard" hatefully, and then lay down on the bed in frustration: "What should we do? We can't communicate with the outside. Let alone handing things over now, we even know whether we can complete our original mission."
"Don't worry, princess." The maid sneered slightly, "Now we have done a lot of things. As long as we wait for the news from the country, he will not be able to be proud for a few days. It's not like Poppy is in urgent need of this, and it won't be a few days later. It doesn’t matter.”
Stella thought about it, and then the smile returned to her face.
In a room dozens of meters away from her, Jada looked through Alben's family head's notes and sneered slightly.
That young man actually wanted to perfunctory him? It’s really overestimating one’s abilities! It seems that it is necessary to send out one or two of the letters in hand, and those who refuse to be obedient should be given a good beating.
When he saw the words that the Security Agency sent people to sneak into Shaonan as an undercover agent, he laughed sarcastically. So what if we are allies? How is it different from a half-enemy country like them? They are also wary of each other. Thinking that the secret agent team he had cultivated in China in recent years had also achieved good results in Shaonan, he felt a little proud. Although he started later than others, he believed that he would succeed sooner or later.
He continued to look through the contents of the notebook, watching the records inside gradually change from immature to mature. Recently, the recorder's thoughts have become clear and logical, but the content about the Security Agency has almost completely disappeared. During the month, I only mentioned that I had met a girl in red many times in the agency.
Alben wrote: "The ring on her neck looks so familiar. I remember seeing it on Xiao Minte before, but wasn't the boy who saved me back then? Why did his ring appear on a girl? At that time, he had taken out many objects from his body, which must have been storage devices. I originally thought it was a ring, but the ring was very new. If it was a storage device, how could the owner change? In the past ten years, As long as the owner of the storage ring that appears appears, no one else can open its space. Did Xiao Minte also bring other storage devices at the time, and was the ring just a decoration? Maybe it was a Reasonable answer."
Jada's hands trembled slightly. He had observed that ring at close range many times, whether it was on Minte or Mingna, and he knew that it was a magic storage device. If it is said that it is really impossible to change the owner, then...
Mint and Mingna...are they really the same person? !
(Jada finally found out...)