"Who is it?!" Leoria followed Qingkong's hand and looked over, the cluster of flowers lay quietly under the light of the moonlight, and there was no abnormality around. However, he believed that Qingkong would not yell that sentence for no reason, so he pulled the girl behind him vigilantly and said, "I'll go over and have a look, you go to a safe place inside the tower and wait for me."
After finishing speaking, Leoria patted Qingkong on the shoulder, and walked quickly to the depths of the garden.
Qingkong hesitated for a few seconds, thinking about his low level, and finally chose to follow Leoria's suggestion and go back to the welcome tower first, then turned his head and walked in the opposite direction to Leoria's walking go.
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After walking a few steps, the open stone gate at the entrance of the Welcome Tower appeared in front of him. There should have been a guard in golden armor standing on both sides of the gate, but now there was no sign of it.
[Could it be a shift change? ] Qingkong remembers that there will be golden armor guards patrolling and changing shifts in the welcome tower area every hour, and there are personal guards brought by the princess to patrol the tower area, which makes people in the tower area and surrounding areas always visible, making people feel safe and at ease . But... just tonight, this moonlit night, the tower area at this moment suddenly became deserted. Although the state made Qingkong feel a little wary, he still comforted himself, persuading himself not to think about it, and to scare himself.
Therefore, she ran towards the welcome tower without hesitation. A few steps forward, the porch of the Welcome Tower appeared in front of her eyes, and more than that, she seemed to see a black corner of clothes flashing past this turn.
It was just a phantom for a moment, just like the black shadow seen in the garden, that fleeting moment.
But this time, Clear Sky was sure that he was not dazzled, and unconsciously yelled: "Assassins!—There are assassins!!!—"
Before the second scream came, Qingkong suddenly felt a burst of cold air coming from behind her—she turned her head reflexively, and immediately faced a strange cat face mask, on which a pair of glowing red eyes were staring blankly. looking at myself...
That was the last picture Qingkong remembered before he passed out.
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When she woke up again, Qingkong was lying in Leoria's single guard room, only Leoria was sitting by the bed, and asked her with concern: "Are you awake?"
"The man in black...a strange man in black with a cat face mask..." The girl struggled to get up, trying to describe what she saw.
"I know." Unexpectedly, Leo Lia replied to him, "Princess Vanessa was attacked by an assassin not long after you fell into a coma."
"What?!" Qingkong hurriedly asked regardless of her physical discomfort, "Is your highness alright?"
"Fortunately, you screamed at the time and attracted a large number of guards. You were intercepted the moment the assassin broke into the princess' bedroom. However, the man was so skilled that he escaped the search of a large number of pursuers. The entire Apocalypse King City We are on full alert, but we haven't found his whereabouts until now..." Leoria replied with a low-eyed look, "At present, only you have had a direct encounter with him, and everyone else only saw the outline of his figure. Really weird."
Qingkong sighed unconsciously after hearing this, bowed his head and became silent.
Leoria continued: "The princess told me to hide your existence, so I won't let you go through any inquiries, and you can rest assured to recover here. Don't go out tonight so as not to alarm the royal family—Prince Johnny heard I heard about the assassination of the princess, and I’m already on my way to condolences. I guess, Wells King has arrived at the Welcome Tower and started to ask for clues... I’ll stay here until they search this room, and then I have to go out to cooperate with the investigation .When someone knocks on the door, you should feel wronged and hide in the closet, and come out after I have dealt with these people."
"Understood." Qingkong said, rubbing her aching temples.
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Leoria's so-called search came soon, and when the knock on the door sounded, Qing Kong immediately hid in the only wardrobe in the house, and waited for the voice outside the closet to fall, and the sound of the door closing, before coming out.
After this round of search, Leoria went out to help search for the assassin.
About two hours later, when Qingkong was about to go to sleep, there was another knock on the door, accompanied by Leoria's soft call.
Qingkong put on her veil, opened the door carefully, and saw Leoria saying to her: "Princess Vanessa summoned us to ask questions."
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The noise in the tower had gradually subsided, and although the number of patrolling guards seemed to have doubled, Wells King and Prince Johnny seemed to have left the tower.
Pushing open the door of the princess' room, Princess Vanessa was half lying on the sofa chair in front of the coffee table, her face pale.
Seeing Qingkong coming in, she immediately asked: "Qingkong, describe to me quickly, what kind of demon does the assassin you see look like?!"
Qingkong tried hard to remember for a while, and replied: "It is about the same height as me, and the figure is also similar. Maybe it is a girl? I can't be sure... She is dressed in black, with a cat face mask on her face, and she can't see her face clearly at all. , and can't tell the difference between men and women... "