Quadruple split.

Chapter 346
Game timeAM10:24
The Violet Empire, the capital of Salamune, the Red Court
Futaba, who was enjoying the sun on the deck chair in the middle of the courtyard, stretched her body slightly, opened her eyes lazily like a kitten that just woke up from a nap, and blew while wiping her glasses with the hem of her robe. whistle.

"You could actually call me in a more normal way..."

Cassie's figure slowly emerged from under the red maple tree in the courtyard, walked behind the girl and asked in a low voice, "What's your order?"

"The royal envoy is here, go out and tell him to wait for me for a while."

Futaba put on the round pair of flat glasses again, slid off the chair slowly, turned and walked to her room: "I was the first one to arrive last time, since I knew I was going this time It’s a disadvantage, let them wait for me for a while, and say that I’m fixing my makeup.”

Le Wen, who just came out of the study, opened his mouth exaggeratedly: "To be honest, you are already pretty enough now, this excuse is really clumsy."

"What the hell, I'm a natural beauty."

Futaba shook her head without turning her head, and then muttered angrily, 'So what's wrong with being less than [-] meters? ',' Less than [-] meters to eat your rice! ? ' He walked quickly into the room and slammed the door shut with a bang.

Levin scratched his hair in embarrassment, and shrugged at Cassie: "Is our young lady in a bad mood?"

"If you don't know, I don't know." Cassie sighed, then pointed out the door, winked at Levin, and said in a rather low voice: "When the person arrives, you should tell Well, I'm not good at dealing with this kind of thing."

Le Wen laughed at his old friend, patted Cassie on the shoulder vigorously when he walked past, shook his head and said, "Didn't Miss Futaba comfort you before, so don't worry too much about it."

Cassie just nodded slightly, didn't say much, and then walked back to the tree she was leaning against before and disappeared.

Five minutes later, the girl who just sent a lot of garbled characters to someone in the room stepped out, greeted Le Wen briefly, and left with the Bauhinia Envoy.

……

Game timeAM10:58
Royal Quarter, Courtyard of Three Colors, Hall of Purple Nine

When the belated Futaba arrived, everyone else including Emperor Clever had already arrived, but the girl just said "Excuse me" lightly, walked to her seat and sat there carelessly, He showed no embarrassment at all.

However, the other people present did not seem to be unhappy. Even Grand Duke Scorpius Hussein, who had been at odds with Futaba from the beginning until now, just smiled with his arms folded. After all, in principle, This should be the last summit meeting on the slave issue. On the premise that Marshall and Fireclaw have reached a basic 'reconciliation', Hussein, who is firmly on the former side, can't afford to continue targeting Futaba.

As the initiator of this turmoil, the winner at the negotiating table, and the party that did not achieve the real goal, Futaba's current attitude does not matter. Whoever wins and loses in this matter, at least has a close personal relationship with Buffy Marshall. The deep Grand Duke Scorpius still knows it well, especially after the secret conversation with the former last night.

"Everyone is here, Your Majesty."

Grand Duke Simon, who was always so meticulous, turned his head slightly after Futaba took his seat, and asked softly to the old man sitting in the middle of the long table: "So, let me summarize?"

The old emperor Clive Bressen nodded slightly: "That's it."

"Then, in order to save everyone's time, please allow me to get straight to the point..."

Grand Duke Ximu Simon stood up, looked around at the other participants with the red eyes unique to the dark elves, and said in a deep voice: "Three days ago, after carefully studying the transaction account book found in Mercury City, Marshall The investigation team jointly composed of the Clan, the Crystal Wolf Clan, the Baroca Clan, the Simon Clan, and the royal family sneaked into the eastern border of the Mirkwood and raided the wood processing factory that belonged to the 'Silver Cake' Chamber of Commerce and was suspected to be a stronghold of slave trade. According to feedback from several high-level personnel from various territories who accompanied the team, the processing plant did have abnormal precautionary measures. The mansion where the man Sachfries was sitting suddenly exploded..."

"Wait a moment, dear Ximu."

The gray-haired Grand Duke Dantis tapped on the table lightly, and asked rather puzzled: "Who is that Sackfries?"

"The superficial identity is as I said just now. He is the person in charge of the wood processing factory under the 'Silver Cake' Chamber of Commerce. At least those workers who were caught by us said so." The Grand Duke Dantes, who participated in this operation, explained a sentence, and then Gujing said calmly: "But his real identity may not be simple. First of all, we found several hidden crypts under the lumber factory. The most basic life-support equipment, the environment is very bad, even those workers do not know its existence and use, it is very likely that it is used to temporarily accommodate slaves; secondly, the two longest-qualified workers are only processing The factory has been working for three months, and they have all been transferred and will leave there soon. Some evidence we found also shows that the only permanent resident of the processing factory is the person in charge, Sack Fries, and he Has been working there for more than ten years, Grand Duke Dantès?"

"I wonder if there is any more tangible evidence, although the two items you just mentioned are strange enough."

The old Duke, who was not a few years younger than Clever, blinked and laughed at himself, "Sorry, it seems my curiosity is too obvious."

Simon shook his head: "I was about to talk about the third point, and it was the two oldest workers, one of whom claimed that he saw several black carriages appearing in the processing factory one night, and faintly heard Scolding and whipping, he is just an ordinary civilian, there should be no reason to lie."

"It seems that the conclusion is already obvious."

Duke Mercury Fernand leaned on a pile of soft cushions on the chair and muttered, and when he realized that he was suddenly being watched, he said in a panic: "Ah, to...at least I think so, after all, what Xi Mu said just now The content is very...obvious."

"No one said you were thinking wrong." Grand Duke Baroka slapped himself on the forehead, and sighed helplessly: "You are also a grand duke after all, although it is not appropriate for me to say this, but what we said Can the time be a little bit more in line with your own temperament?"

Grand Duke Fernand shrank his neck: "Well, you are right."

Baluoka rolled his eyes: "Don't, you should just pretend that I didn't say anything, it's so embarrassing."

Emmeline laughed idiotically, and then lowered her head in embarrassment. After all, Mercury Fernand's personality was a bit lame, but he was still her elder after all.

"Okay, Vernon, we're not here today to discuss aristocratic qualities."

Grand Duke Simon glanced at Grand Duke Baroca lightly, and then sat back on his seat again: "That's all, my point of view is the same as that of Mercury Core, whether it is the wood processing factory or its director Sachfries something wrong."

"Where are the workers?"

Scorpius narrowed his slender eyes slightly, and asked softly, "Are you sure you are innocent?"

"It should be possible." Archduke Simon nodded and replied: "They are all innocent ordinary people, and they are basically recruited by the recruitment revelation, which is posted in many cities."

Emmeline frowned, raised her head and said in a deep voice: "As for the Silver Cake Chamber of Commerce, I asked Uncle De Cube to investigate a bit, but nothing was found. Its headquarters is in Pamela Liberty on the other side of the mainland. In the trading area, the only industry around the empire is the lumber factory..."

"The southeast continent only has an industry in the east of the dark forest near the empire, but the headquarters is in the southwest continent, which is very suspicious in itself." Grand Duke Buffy Marshall sighed, and said with a gloomy expression: "The results of my investigation here is also like this."

Futaba chuckled: "In other words, our clues were completely cut off by the person in charge named Sackfries."

"That's right." Grand Duke Marshall didn't follow suit, but tapped on the table rather distressedly: "Being able to serve as the person in charge of such a place for such a long time, he must know a lot of inside information..."

"But he exploded on the spot, so I don't know anything now. It's a pity that I don't have any friends who are necromancers. No, even if there are, it shouldn't be possible. That guy seems to have no bones left." Futaba He smacked his lips, shook his head and said, "What a pity."

Her tone and demeanor were very normal, and she didn't seem to be implying anything, but everyone present was used to this girl's targeting of Grand Duke Marshall, and they always felt that Futaba's words were slightly thorny, so they all started to think about it in unison. up.

And this is exactly what Futaba wanted...

"Having said that, that Sackfries is really decisive."

Emmeline looked at Grand Duke Marshall thoughtfully, and said softly, "You committed suicide immediately after seeing our people invading. You are very loyal."

"All I want now is to destroy the bones and ashes of the object of his allegiance."

Grand Duke Marshall snorted coldly, his eyes were extremely sharp: "Let those things hiding in the shadows figure out their position."

Futaba clapped her hands absently, then turned to Clever: "So, Your Majesty, are you ready to announce the conclusion now?"

The old emperor smiled, shook his head slightly and said: "There is no conclusion now, but I think both the royal family and the lords will pay considerable attention to this matter. It is said that Buffy has made some progress."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the results of my investigation have also come out."

Grand Duke Marshall nodded, and said seriously to everyone: "Although I can't confirm whether it is really related, the former deputy head of Buffy's Sword Knights under my command, Bock Borg, has been temporarily placed under house arrest in the mansion, waiting for me to go back. A detailed investigation will be launched later. In addition, Manager Fudge, who also participated in the investigation of the wood processing factory the day before yesterday, also sent people to investigate the residence of Bannecroft before his disappearance, and found some clues and some letters that may be useful. The name of Sackfries has also appeared in the letter, you can send someone to accompany me in Mercury City to identify and investigate."

"No need." Duke Scorpius Hussein shook his head, spread his hands and said: "I believe in Buffy, anyway, if you need help, just say hello, um, and the little girl from Futaba, what happened to the Fire Claw leader I personally deeply sympathize, and the Hussain family can provide you with some interest-free loans if necessary~"

Futaba smiled slightly: "Okay, then let's spend more than a hundred thousand gold coins first."

Scorpius smiled: "Okay, let's talk on a more relaxed occasion another day, but right now, I just want to go home and spend time with my wife and children."

"Grand Duke Hussein is right, we have indeed left our territory for a long time."

Mercury Core Fernan also nodded, and said to the old emperor with a bitter face, "Look..."

Clever nodded slightly, looked around the crowd and fell silent for a moment, then said slowly: "In this case, I hope you will pay attention to those clues as much as possible after you go back. Since you are already prepared, don't let this kind of thing happen. It happened again in the land of Violet, especially Buffy, you have to pay more attention, the royal family will supervise the compensation for the Fire Claw collar, and Scorpius, what you just said to Ms. Futaba should be Do you count?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Of course, Your Majesty."

The two grand dukes nodded immediately.

"After a while, I will arrange for the elite of the Bauhinia Guard to go to Marshall again." Clever leaned back in his chair and glanced intentionally or unintentionally: "Re-do a detailed investigation, you'd better send some No matter if it is the missing Bannecroft, or the clues that may have something to do with that Sac, the investigation must not be stopped until the truth is revealed. In any case, the victim needs an explanation..."

All the lords nodded in agreement.

【Looks like this is the only way to go this time...】

Futaba didn't say much either, although she knew very well that letting Buffy Marshall return to Mercury City to preside over the overall situation would make the situation irreversible, but even she couldn't say anything when things got to this point .

[Although a bad strategy is a bad strategy after all, I have made some preparations anyway. If I can seize the opportunity after a while, I may not be able to cheat him for a while, although the possibility of directly cheating him to death is smaller than it is now... Huh, There is no chance of winning the war by instigating the fire claws here. This time, I really lost completely...too careless...]

Even if she had already guessed the result before she came, the girl was still very irritable at this moment, and it happened that at this moment, that annoying bastard sent another message...

"do you miss me?"

Futaba just ignored him.

then……

"If you don't reply, I'll take it as your acquiescence, tsk tsk, it's so embarrassing that even I can't stand it anymore, poor tablet is [-] meters~"

Another message flashed

Futaba gritted her teeth viciously, and was about to say something ugly, but unexpectedly...

crunch~
The door of Zijiu Hall opened by itself!
No, it was pushed away from the outside.

"Hi~ Excuse me, it's a great honor to have the opportunity to meet you adults, can you add two more seats?"

A young half-elf in a white robe with an evil smile on his mouth stood at the door and bowed to everyone, then grabbed a gray-faced blue-scaled lizardman and strode in...

The pair of emerald green eyes blinked at Futaba slightly, then looked around and stopped on the ashen-faced Grand Duke Marshall.

The smile on the face of the uninvited guest suddenly became stronger...

"This Mr. Sackfries seems to have something to say to everyone~"

Three hundred and fortieth three chapters: the end

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