After a little inquiring in the forest, Jenkins learned the current location of the Stuart royal family. So I walked along the winding path in the forest, walked for about ten minutes, and saw the building group next to the lake in the forest.
Unlike most of the wooden buildings in the forest, the houses standing in front of the lake are all gray stone houses. Although they are not wooden houses, these buildings are also well integrated with this forest. Moss spread in the corner, creeper crawled all over the wall. Although these houses were built less than half a year ago, they look like abandoned houses in the forest for a long time, with a natural and simple temperament.
The building complex is located on the west bank of the lake. When they heard voices in the forest, the two cemetery guards who were in charge of patrolling and guarding the outside looked to the side. Seeing Jenkins with the cat, they immediately greeted him.
The evergreen forest is quite large, and the church did not gather all the buildings together, but scattered them all over the forest. Even Jenkins couldn't tell how many hidden buildings there were in the forest.
These stone houses standing by the lake were originally lent to the Church of Nature for the ascetics to live in. Later, the Church of Nature discovered that the spirits of life in this forest were different, so they used their own means to find a more suitable place to live, and after getting permission, they built trees closer to the place by themselves, so The houses by the lake were left unused, and only people who went fishing by the lake with nothing to do would set foot in them occasionally.
This time, I chose this place as the temporary "residence" of the Stuart family, firstly because of its concealment, secondly because of the beautiful scenery here, and thirdly because of the appearance of the abandoned house to shock the royal family of the Northern Kingdom.
At this time, the inquiry about last night's incident was still going on, and the benefactors patrolling the perimeter were both protecting and monitoring. Besides them, in order to take care of the face of the Stuart family, a royal guard team also entered the Evergreen Forest. Now the royal guards were waiting by the lake in the distance, and the men stood together and talked softly, as if they were talking about the environment here.
Under such circumstances, no one would be allowed to enter the stone house complex. After all, the church has not yet fully figured out what happened last night, so it would inevitably be problematic to allow irrelevant people to contact the Stuart family.
But Jenkins is a different person, and he's not entirely irrelevant. The tomb guards in charge of the guards passed the news of Jenkins' arrival to the superiors, and after the consent of the demigods present, he was allowed to enter temporarily, but he had to leave within half an hour, and he could not leave anything to the Stuart family. thing.
At present, the royal family is temporarily staying in the three-story building that looks like a dilapidated sentry post in the center of the complex, but after entering it, they find that the interior decoration and environment are quite good, which is completely different from the outside.
The first floor was severely damp and uninhabitable. Walk along the uneven steps, carefully avoiding the slippery moss on the rocks to the second floor, and saw the Stuarts in the front hall.
The family was not separated, but they were allowed to move freely on the second and third floors, but everyone had to record a statement about what happened last night, and it happened that Sarhi II was leaving now.
"...so am I going to address you as Her Majesty the Queen?"
When Jenkins was climbing the stairs, he heard a voice from above. It was a man talking, and his tone was quite aggressive. So Jenkins stepped on the stone deliberately and made loud footsteps, the sound stopped abruptly, and then everyone saw Jenkins walking up with the cat.
He saw Dolores at a glance, and asked quickly:
"well enough?"
"It's all right."
Dolores was sitting at the round wooden table by the window, with her older sisters sitting beside her, and other Stuarts also faintly surrounded the table, and Dolores was obviously the core figure here. As for the one who spoke just now, of course it was Sallot Stuart. His right hand was wearing a bronze-colored metal wristband with a rune with the meaning of "imprisonment". It was a special lock made by the Church of Fate. Wearing this he could not move more than 300 feet from the key in the lockset.
As for the prosthetic left hand, it has disappeared, and now the sleeve is empty. The prosthetic limb with a wooden skin and metal inner part that was suspected to come from the tree house was obviously confiscated by the church.
The current confinement is a unique treatment for tree house collaborators.
Seeing Jenkins appear, Salot instinctively took a step back, but felt that it was embarrassing, so he looked up at Jenkins, as if waiting for him to taunt, but Jenkins ignored him.
This person has no value for Jenkins to be ironic at all now. He cooperates with the tree house, and the church will not let him appear in the sun again in the future. Although it won't kill him, it won't be a good treatment if he thinks about it.
Last night, Jenkins had already treated Dolores, but what she suffered was not a simple physical injury, but a mental trauma. Jenkins could not completely treat it, so after the Stuart family was taken away, he deliberately Let the Sage Church take care of Dolores.
Now it seems that Her Royal Highness is looking very good, with a ruddy and beaming face. She stood up and gave Jenkins a warm hug, then took his hand and let him sit beside her.
Wendy Stuart immediately got up to give up her seat.
Most of the Stuart children said hello when Jenkins appeared, and a few nodded. Sarlot looked at Jenkins with a very ugly expression, but he at least maintained the most basic decency, and he was very self-aware and did not step forward to provoke.
"How is Ruen's situation?"
Dolores asked with concern, they all left earlier, and after Salhi II announced the end of the duel, the "viewing movie" function of the chessboard was turned off.
"It's all right, the church teamed up to repel the Snowman Legion..."
Jenkins winked at Dolores, and Her Royal Highness smiled reservedly.
"Beicheng District is now covered with snow, but according to the speed of temperature rise, the snow will probably disappear soon. According to current statistics, the number of deaths in the first half of the night and the second half of last night is less than 100. At present, the church and the municipal government of Ruen are arranging disaster relief and reconstruction work. Oh, the temporary manager of Ruen is Agelina. Although she is somewhat incapable, the officials and nobles who remain in Ruen They are all willing to help her, and there are several capable old dukes there."
Dolores breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and the other Stuarts also looked better, since it was their home after all.
Then Dolores asked the church about the arrangements for the group of people, and Jenkins said that the church would not restrict their freedom for a long time, and after figuring out what happened, they would probably let them leave.
"Now that the Three Kings' talks are still going on, it is impossible for the church not to keep Salhi II from showing up. As for you, there is no violation of the rules. Except for those who should be punished, no one will be restricted by the church. .”
Jenkins looked at Salot, who was on the side. There was clear evidence that he was related to the tree house, and he couldn't explain it clearly anyway.
While talking, footsteps sounded again at the stairway. Salhi II was brought back by two night watchmen. The two disciples of the Dark Moon greeted Jenkins first, and then took away a prince from Stuart, who seemed a little nervous.
"How is Ruen?"
Salhi II asked the same question as Dolores, and Jenkins repeated what he had just said before standing up and giving the seat to the weakened king.
There is a price to be paid for using extraordinary items as an ordinary person, and the chessboard last night was not an ordinary extraordinary item. If Jenkins hadn't treated him last night, it would be a question of whether Salhi II could survive today.
Now that he was here, Jenkins also asked about the origin of the chessboard, and what about the "ancestral enlightenment" that Salhi II kept talking about.
Under the eyes of the children, the king took the tea cup brought by Yani Stuart, and then looked out at the lush forest through the window on the stone wall, and he spoke for a long time:
"My original plan was not like this. I just wanted the Northern Guards to cleanse Loen. Leaving a clone in Loen was just to deal with possible accidents. Of course, in order to prevent accidents, I also tried to Looking for some useful items that Dolores did not take from the treasures left by the ancestors, I saw a mirror, a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, with unrecognizable ancient characters engraved on the golden frame.
Somehow, I became interested in that mirror, and then saw a person in the mirror. "
"who?"
"The ancestors of thousands of years, more precisely, the ancestors of the earlier period than the ancient Shikali Empire, I even suspect that the ancestors did not live in this era. He said some secrets of the family to prove their identity , there are some things that only Stuart knows, those secrets that even extraordinary people cannot pry into."
Salhi II said, looking at the prosperous summer outside with a disappointed face, it seemed that the problem of heirs had been solved, and he let go of the burden in his heart. The warm sunshine slanted on the king's face, clearly reflecting the vicissitudes and wrinkles, but it also seemed that this person was so real.
"He told me that now is a different era, a rare change in thousands of years. When choosing an heir, one should not just look at ability, because ability is no match for fate... Seeing that I didn't believe it, he gave me the chessboard, Tell me how to use the board, and it will prove him right... yes, I should believe him."
He tapped the table slowly with his fingers, as if enjoying himself. After the introduction, he said:
"The chessboard was destroyed by itself, and the mirror was also destroyed by itself. No one can prove what I said. But the ancestor asked me to bring you a sentence, no, it is not what the ancestor wanted to tell you, but the ancestor For a very honorable existence."
"Tell me, will you?"
Jenkins asked hesitantly, then nodded slowly:
"What words?"
"Don't be fooled by appearances, your essence is your original posture."