Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 535 Audrey: You still have me in your heart
Hobert and Dunn were walking and talking on the streets of New Town.

Dunn said solemnly: "Although this is the first time I have encountered such an area that was recaptured from the hands of evil forces, based on my experience, the deployment of extraordinary forces must be strengthened in such areas to prevent the evil organization from resurrecting.

"The 'cold-blooded one' I caught before is a good example. Although they seem to have left, they will definitely send people back quietly. After all, they have been here for so long, and they should have many secrets. stronghold.

"And the Mother Earth Church does not have enough manpower. I heard that they have been invited to guide the development of local agriculture, so the Lord's Mansion must deploy enough extraordinary power!"

Hobert nodded: "I understand. I will talk to Angus in a moment and arrange manpower to the west coast as soon as possible."

Dunn seemed to be relieved, looking at the residential buildings under construction over there, and suddenly said another thing: "The salary you paid me is too high."

Hobert smiled: "You are worth more than those salaries!"

Dunn said nothing more: "I plan to settle in this city! The humid mist in the morning, the beautiful sunset in the evening, the beautiful scenery that can be visited by taking a train, and the town that is gradually becoming more and more lively."

He smiled: "This allowed me to experience a different life, or it made me discover that besides work, life can be spent this way."

"It's an honor for me to be able to retain talents like you in my territory." Hobert smiled.

Dunn glanced at Hobert: "Am I really worthy of your respect?"

"First of all, you are indeed respectable." Hobert said: "In addition, many of your previous actions gave me many new perspectives on the morality of the extraordinary world, and they had a profound impact on me.

"It can be said that you are a benchmark for me. Many times I can't help but think: What would Captain Dunn do if this matter were replaced?
"I have been using you to measure my moral values."

Especially after becoming a demigod, Hobert became more and more aware that no matter how he behaved on the outside, he needed a benchmark in his heart to anchor some of his persistence and beliefs.

There's another thing Hobert didn't mention: you are the captain, a unique symbol!

Captain Dunn smiled: "This may be the greatest contribution I have made to the extraordinary world."

Based on his recent understanding, he has realized that Hobert's ambition is not small, so he can influence the other person's moral values, which will definitely prevent many unfortunate things from happening in the future.

Dunn added: "If you need me to train Extraordinary people elsewhere, just ask."

Seeing Dunn returning to the dormitory alone, Hobert planned to build an "official Beyonder Training Center" in Jeffrey City, where official Beyonders from all over the world would be trained here in the future.

Then Hobert found Angus and talked to him alone in the conference room.

"I saw your report." Hobert put on a more serious expression: "The task given to you was completed very well!"

Angus made the members of the Tudor family feel good about Jeffrey City by dealing with the aftermath of the previous team members who died in the line of duty. The recruitment of new team members went very smoothly. Now there are a total of twenty Beyonders in the first team!

This is also the main reason why Dunn asked Hobert to set up a branch on the West Coast: enough manpower!

Angus smiled slightly after receiving Hobert's praise: "It's mainly because the tribesmen have been suppressed in the family for too long, and it's also because the conditions given by the lord are very generous."

"I came to you today to give you two new tasks." Hobert said: "The first task is that I am going to launch an attack on the Aurora Society in the near future. You must be ready for battle. The other one is that I am going to launch an attack on the Aurora Society in the near future. The news will not be announced to the public for the time being.”

He paused and then said: "There is also my personal request for you: strive to make enough contributions in this battle and get the opportunity to become a 'Retribution Knight'.

"If you can become a 'Retribution Knight' in the near future, I will transfer you to Long Tail Island and let you be the official commander of the Beyonders there.

“In addition to being much larger than here, that island also has more opportunities.

"For example, there is a wild god on that island. If you can destroy that wild god with me, you will have the opportunity to become a demigod."

Angus's eyes lit up: "I will always follow the lord!"

The words "My personal request to you" made him feel warm in his chest, which proved that the lord cultivated him as a confidant.

Hobert nodded slightly: "The second task is for you to select five capable team members and go to Felix Town to establish a branch to prevent the Blood Worshipers from coming back.

"Refer to the official Beyonder team. They need a Sequence 7 leader to lead the team, and the others can be low-sequence Beyonders. Well, I will provide them with a level 1 sealed artifact. As the captain of the branch team, they can hold the sealed artifact!

"That's a good place to get merit. After all, there are few opportunities to get merit in peacetime in Jeffrey City."

Angus nodded: "I will choose to be in Captain Dunn's class and study seriously."

Hobert smiled slightly: "Yes, this is exactly the person I need."

Then he added: "Go and get ready, and call Captain Helen here by the way."

Angus did not leave immediately, but asked: "Lord, I heard that the entire South Colson area is your fiefdom, right?"

"Yes."

Angus smiled and said: "Many team members plan to bring their families to live here!"

"Come on!" Hobert smiled and said, "Have you seen those new residential buildings? I asked Roy to build one for the special operations department. If you use your merit to buy the building, you will get a discount."

Angus said happily: "Okay! I think the members will be very happy to hear this news!"

After a while, Helen came to the conference room, a charming smile appeared on her pretty face: "I thought the lord had forgotten me."

Hobert, who often meets Audrey now, has become immune to this level of "charm".

He smiled and said, "I've been a little busy lately, so I rarely see you."

Hobert paused and then said: "I plan to launch an attack on the Aurora Society in the near future. You must be prepared for battle."

He also warned: "Don't announce this matter to the outside world for the time being. Just know it yourself."

Helen's eyes seemed to be able to talk, and she looked very spiritual: "No problem, everyone also wants to get more opportunities to make meritorious deeds."

Hobert's previous division of the spoils and handling of the aftermath made the members of the second team very supportive of the lord and willing to continue fighting for him.

Hobert took out the prepared wooden box, opened it and showed it to Helen.

Helen was a little surprised: "The parotid glands of the black-spotted verruca!"

Inside the box were the main materials for the "Witch of Pain" in Hobert's hand. He closed the box and said, "I said that as long as I come across the materials you need, I will definitely buy them for you.

"If you accumulate enough merit in this battle, it will be yours."

Helen looked away and said with a sweet smile: "I hope the war can start tonight."

She has also accumulated a lot of merit in the Gnosis Society. If she obtains this main material again, she will have a chance to be promoted.

Hobert was very satisfied with the effect: "One more thing! The entertainment center over the mountain has been built. In addition to the traditional bars, dance halls and some new games I invented, I hope you can bring some witches." Go and digest the potion with the witch.”

It would be outrageous for an entertainment center in this era not to have such services.

Helen was slightly startled: "Didn't you say that our potion can be digested in a positive form? For example, it can only make your lover happy."

Hobert thought to himself, then your significant other must be an extraordinary person, otherwise who can withstand it?

He smiled and said: "Didn't I say it again? You want to bring pain to the evil people. Those nobles are people who eat people without spitting out their bones. You break up their families and let them immerse themselves in the joy you bring. In the midst of pleasure, I can’t extricate myself from this, and I am doing a very just thing!”

Helen was stunned again: "How can you still explain it like this!"

Then she smiled and said: "This is an opportunity. We don't have to sneak around and bring disaster to the men."

"Be noble!" Hobert smiled and said: "For those nobles, sometimes the more they can't get something, the more they will yearn for it!"

He thought for a while: "Just try it out, how to start a real love, and see if you can digest the magic potion."

Helen smiled and said, "You don't need to teach me this."

"One more thing!" Hobert said seriously: "Your targets can only be those nobles or rich people, you are not allowed to target others.

"If any of you have a relationship with someone in the territory, you will immediately lose your job. Unless you want to marry that person, you will face my punishment!"

"I'll tell them."

By the end of this conversation, it was already dusk.

Hobert walked through the streets of the town, feeling the smoke and smoke all around him.

Many people stopped what they were doing and greeted Hobert respectfully, and Hobert would respond enthusiastically to them.

There was a middle-aged man carrying a few small pumpkins and also smiled and said: "Hello, Sir."

"Hello." Hobert looked at the pumpkins in his basket: "You picked them at such a young age?"

The middle-aged man smiled helplessly: "A goat kicked and broke the melon vines, so I had to pick them in advance."

Hobert thought of a delicacy he had when he was a child: "You can't eat so much, just give me two."

The middle-aged man was extremely happy: "This is my honor!"

He picked the two largest pumpkins and gave them to Hobert. After the lord left, everyone came up to talk to him, and some even congratulated him directly.

The middle-aged man smiled and dealt with it casually. This incident was enough for him to brag in front of his relatives and friends for several years!

……

The kitchen of the Lord's Mansion.

Donna came in from outside: "Hobert! Are you ready? My stomach is so hungry. Do you want to starve your sister to death?"

"It'll be ready soon." Hobert said impatiently while taking out the steamed buns from the steamer: "Isn't it good to be hungry and flat? Your figure will rise to the next level all of a sudden!"

Donna glared at Hobert, then looked at the strange-looking food: "What is this? A strange kind of bread?"

"This is called Baozi!" "Baozi? What a strange pronunciation? It's the same as the previous dumplings. Is it your own creation?"

"Well..." Hobert said: "That's right!"

This reminded him of Russell: Now I am as shameless as him.

Donna asked again: "But why are they shaped so strangely?"

Hobert had never steamed steamed buns before, so he could only steam them while pondering based on his limited memory, and the result was that the appearance of the buns was predictable.

However, he said stubbornly: "You don't understand, this is how you have to eat it."

Forsi, who was adding firewood and helping from the beginning, was deeply suspicious of this.

"Oh oh oh!" Donna looked like she had learned something.

The buns were brought into the restaurant. As soon as Donna picked up the knife and fork, she found that Hobert directly grabbed them with his hands and ate them.

Hobert took a bite, and the delicious aroma of tender pumpkin overflowed in his mouth. He was very satisfied with the taste: it was a pity that there were no leeks, and it would be perfect with more leeks.

He only ate this at his grandma's house when he was a child, and it left a deep impression on him in his childhood. Later, after going to school and working, he never had such a taste again.

After taking a few bites, Hobert glanced at Donna: "What are you looking at? Eat!"

Donna said seriously: "Hobert, it's rude for you to eat like this!"

Hobert smiled and said: "Are you going to eat? You will be hungry if you don't eat!"

"I'll eat, I'll eat." Donna quickly grabbed a bun with her hands.

Forsi smiled and said, "Donna is reminding you that you are now an earl and you must always pay attention to your image."

"That's the hypocrisy of the nobles." Hobert laughed: "They are strict with themselves and the people around them on small things, but on big things they are greedy and indulgent."

With her mouth full of buns, Donna puffed out her cheeks and said, "If you look nice to my sister-in-law, you'll know that you'll be cruel to me."

……

On Thursday morning, Hobert returned to Backlund. According to the plan, today he was going to inspect the manor rewarded by the king.

Hobert and Todd were about to get on the carriage when the butler Dophis came to report: "Earl, Miss Audrey is here."

Hobert was stunned. What did she want from him?
In the still somewhat empty hall on the first floor, Audrey, who was wearing a light green dress with many decorations but not looking fussy at all, showing her youthfulness and beauty, was admiring a newly hung oil painting.

After seeing Hobert arrive, she smiled and said: "Hobert, you should add some more works of art, otherwise if a banquet is held in a few days, this place will look too empty."

Hobert smiled and said, "All my money was used to rent the factory."

Audrey smiled gracefully: You're lying, don't think I can't see it!
She said: "There happens to be an art exhibition today. We can go and take a look at it together. If there are any works you like, you can buy them."

She came here today to invite Hobert to visit the art exhibition with her.

"I suddenly remembered something. Come with me." Hobert brought Audrey to the study: "Look!"

Audrey followed the direction pointed by Hobert and saw an oil painting hanging on the wall. In it were a laughing young lawyer, a helpless judge, and a gloomy-looking middle-aged lawyer.

It was "The Shadow of the Court" that Audrey had given to Hobert before.

Audrey was a little surprised: "This painting is not lost?"

After all, Hobert had committed treason twice in the past six months, so he should have lost some property, especially oil paintings that were not easy to carry. If he ran away, it would be a burden to carry him with him.

Hobert smiled and said: "When I realized something was wrong, I put the oil painting in a proper place. When I came back, I found it as soon as possible."

In fact, it was because the previous landlord of the townhouse, when the lease contract was about to expire, packed up all the things that belonged to Hobert and rented them out to other people.

Later, I heard that Hobert had become an earl, and he sent over everything that belonged to Hobert.

Hobert was also very happy when he saw this oil painting. It reminded him of the time when he was a lawyer and served justice.

For this reason, Hobert gave the landlord 30 pounds in cash as a reward for his behavior.

Because Audrey was looking at the oil painting at this time, immersed in the full emotion, and did not pay attention to Hobert's micro-expression, so she did not realize that Hobert had lied.

"Thank you, Hobert!" Audrey smiled gracefully.

Hobert was slightly startled: "I should thank you for recording my unforgettable time with oil paintings."

Audrey said meaningfully: "You don't understand."

She had always felt that she might be the same friend as Xio in Hobert's mind.

After she learned that Hobert cared so much about the things she gave him, she immediately understood: Maybe Hobert himself didn't realize that my status in his mind was higher than that of other friends.

"Okay, it's time for us to go to the art exhibition." Audrey smiled sweetly.

When she walked out of the study, she saw the exaggerated safe: "With such a big safe, you still say you have no money?"

Hobert said seriously: "This safe is in the study room, and of course it contains books."

The study room is a relatively private place, so safes are generally placed here.

Few nobles or rich people would put a safe in their bedroom, because if they encounter a thief, they will not only seek wealth, but may also kill themselves.

Just leave it in the study room, you'll just lose some money at most.

Audrey smiled: lying again.

If someone else had lied, she might have been angry and left immediately.

But she didn't know why, but she wasn't angry at all when she saw Hobert lying unabashedly. She also thought that the way Hobert lied was cute.

And Hobert had already given up on himself, knowing that his lies could not deceive Audrey, so he told the truth where he could, and where he couldn't, he lied "fairly"!

After returning to the first floor, Audrey saw the reactions of Todd and Dophis and suddenly realized: "Hobert, do you have to go out for something today?"

"Go and take a look at the manor awarded by the king." Hobert said honestly: "It's not that important. I will go to the manor after accompanying you to see the art exhibition."

"Let's go directly from the art exhibition to the suburbs." Audrey smiled and said: "During this period, I also want to go to the suburbs to breathe some fresh air. You accompany me to the art exhibition, and I will accompany you to inspect the manor."

Hobert smiled and said, "It is an honor for me to be accompanied by such a beautiful lady."

He said to Todd: "You sit in my carriage and follow behind."

"Yes."

Hobert still got into Count Hall's carriage, chatting with Audrey, and arrived at the art exhibition in the North District.

Today, the art exhibition is only open to nobles and the royal family. There are not many people. The art exhibition is very quiet. The nobles only smile and nod when they meet, and they say hello, even the politeness is omitted.

Only when several nobles stopped in front of the same painting, they would discuss it in a low voice.

Hobert has little research on oil painting. For works that are realistically painted, or that can clearly feel the emotions the author wants to express, he just stops and watches.

Audrey, on the other hand, looks at it very carefully, and occasionally learns the brushwork of oil painting, as if she is here to learn.

The two of them had just been watching for more than 20 minutes when they heard noise coming from the direction of the door. Although no one spoke, it seemed that many people had come in at once.

Hobert looked towards the door and saw that many people had indeed come in all at once. They were surrounded by a figure with a noble look and confident gestures.

Hobert was stunned, it turned out to be Princess Alice!

He followed the example of those around him, bowed slightly to the princess, and then looked away.

Audrey saw Hobert's reaction, but she said nothing and continued to watch the exhibition.

After looking at it for a while, Hobert became a little bored, and finally stopped in front of a hazy-style painting. He seemed to be admiring it, but in fact he was curious: What did his grandson paint?
More than half an hour later, Hobert and Audrey left the exhibition hall and came to the carriage. Audrey smiled and said: "I didn't expect you to like the works of the Hazy School so much."

Hobert made a pun: "Maybe it's because this kind of work is 'messy' enough."

Audrey nodded slightly and asked, "Do you know Princess Alice?"

Princess Alice was not in Backlund during Hobert's canonization ceremony and the palace dance, and the social season has not yet begun, so the two have no chance to meet.

Hobert was about to say "I don't know her" casually, but after seeing Audrey's smiling eyes, he could only smile and said: "I have heard others talk about Princess Alice, and today is indeed the first time we meet her.

"This reminds me of Princess Ethel of Feneport. You also saw her at the wedding. That princess was very politically literate!"

Audrey nodded with satisfaction: "I have also heard of Princess Ethel, how did you meet her?"

"I saved her life." Hobert told the truth.

"It's like the plot in a fairy tale." Audrey said: "The prince saved the princess, and the two lived happily ever after."

Hey hey hey, there's something not right about the atmosphere. Why do I feel like you're testing me?Hobert suddenly realized that he had to deal with it seriously, and he smiled to himself: "I am not a prince!
"Ethel is busy fighting for money, so she has no time to have sex with a man and a woman. Besides, I don't like Ethel's type, she is too strong."

Audrey smiled and said, "I think Princess Ethel is very elegant."

"That's it." Hobert smiled: the crisis is over.

(End of this chapter)