Doctor Amnesiac, but not completely amnesiac

He handed the tablet back nonchalantly.

“Most people who haven’t met me yet have no need for us — but once we meet for the first time, they realize how much they want and how much they need [help].”

The Jade Shatters

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Chapter 155: A casual trick

"Then I'll go find them first, Qiao Qiao!"

Before the car came to a complete stop, the emperor had already anxiously kicked open the door and jumped out.

"Then will you come back with me, or go by yourself?"

Qiao Yelan’s voice chased out.

"Where are you going?"

"Casimir."

"Hey, if I'm not going to that place, I won't take your ride - where are you going next?"

The emperor shook his head and turned to look at Qiao Yelan who was still in the carriage.

The man rubbed his chin.

To be honest, he didn't know where he would go after Casimir—

Just like he didn't know at which step his plan would go wrong, Qiao Yelan also didn't know where the problem would occur next and he would need to help clean it up.

"Tell me a place you will definitely go to, and I'll wait for your news there."

Seeing that Qiao Yelan did not speak immediately, a gleam of brilliance flashed across the Penguin's eyes under the sunglasses, and then he took the initiative to open his mouth and continue asking additional questions.

"Um... Columbia, right."

"Colombia... Huh, Colombia? I get it. I'll go."

"I won't be going for a while. If you want to wait for news from Dolly, you'd better go--"

"No need, I'll take the puppies away, they'll definitely find her, there's no need for you to worry, Qiao Qiao, you should just mind your own business - I'll tell you in Columbia how I'll exact revenge on that pink-haired creature."

The emperor waved his fins and said goodbye to Qiao Yelan.

"Don't worry, I won't leave Columbia until I've shown off my achievements to you."

After saying this, his figure disappeared into the wilderness of Syracuse.

Qiao Yelan frowned slightly. He always felt that the last few words the emperor said were a bit strange, but he had no clue for the moment.

"...Keep going, today we are going to enter the city of Sicily."

"Yes, doctor."

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The city of Sicily is not the capital of Syracuse, but it can be regarded as a miniature of Syracuse.

A new yet old mobile city, full of unconventional young people walking in it, but they are respectful to the middle-aged people in old-fashioned suits, and they yearn to become those old people sitting in the luxurious halls and making decisions.

Divided is the first impression this country gives people.

In fact, this is also the impression that Syracuse's history gives people.

[Golden Rule], as a symbol of the union of the ten electoral regions of Leithania, the music recorded in it about Syracuse is just a barely connected wolf howl.

This can be seen from the fact that almost no one in Syracuse knows how to use musical rituals - this area has never been truly integrated into Leitania, and the Leitanians have never considered Syracuse to be part of Leitania.

Syracuse is a country, but it has neither a reliable army nor a complete industry. Each mobile city takes decades to build because most of the core components are imported, and family struggles for power and profit further increase the difficulty of advancing large projects.

Even until more than 30 years ago, Syracuse did not have a unified government and was completely in a state of war among warlords.

Until Lady Sicily returned to Syracuse.

Da da da.

A woman in black walked into the reception room, but was stunned for a moment - to her surprise, it was not a visitor, but the person who came to meet the guest with her.

"Agniel?"

Father Sakota nodded at her seriously, without the usual slackness, and the eye mask that he almost never took off was nowhere to be seen.

Lady Sicily has realized the problem - even when Agnir invited her to go back with her to Syracuse, where the family was in turmoil, and said they wanted to unify this chaotic country, he had never been so serious.

At that time, the other party just yawned, took his gun, got in his car, put on a blindfold and went to sleep.

She turned an inquiring look towards her best friend.

"I have never met him, but a Messenger of Nations sent me some news - His Holiness the Pope called him the Righteous Man and asked the former Cardinal of the Seventh Office of the Pope to resign and follow him to Victoria."

The woman held her breath at this statement.

After a long while, she finally let out a long breath.

"......I see."

Agniel seemed to want to say something, but Lady Sicily raised her hand to stop him.

"Don't say more, Agnir. I know it's been hard for you, but for my sake, you kept silent - until today."

There was a gleam of determination in the woman's eyes.

"This is the 'momentum' I once borrowed. I already knew that I had to return what I borrowed. It's already a good result that it has been delayed until today. After all, it is because of my own incompetence and cowardice that Syracuse is still hesitant to move forward."

The priest just sighed softly and said no more.

There was silence in the reception room.

Until the waiter's voice came.

"Your Excellency, Mr. Qiao Yelan, CEO of Babel Chamber of Commerce, is here to visit you."

"Invite him in."

Agnier stood up, walked behind Lady Sicily, and returned to his expressionless state, but the guard gun that was ready to fire was always placed in the most convenient position for him.

This was the scene that Qiao Yelan saw when he was pushed into the living room by Ace.

"Hello, Mrs. Sicily, hello, Father Agnier."

The man greeted politely.

"Hello, Mr. Qiao Yelan."

Mrs. Sicily still had that calm expression on her face, and she extended her hand to invite Qiao Yelan to sit across from her.

The waiter served coffee to the two of them, then closed the door and left.

In the reception room, only the breathing sounds of four people could be heard.

"Mr. Qiao Yelan came from Leitania?"

"Yes, I just attended the celebration of Trilintelme."

"Then why not try the coffee first - Syracuse's coffee is not the dandelion chicory powder mixed with Leitania."

Qiao Yelan smiled faintly, picked up the condensed milk and sugar cubes beside him, and added a lethal amount that made Mrs. Sicily frown.

However, Agnier, who was standing behind the woman, showed a look of approval.

Looking at the other person enjoying the cup of [sweet milk with coffee aroma] comfortably, even though Qiao Yelan did not have a halo on his head, Lady Sicily now believed that the other person was really one of the official figures of Lateran.

She picked up the steaming black coffee and took a sip without adding anything.

"Mr. Qiao Yelan, are you here in Syracuse on behalf of Lateran or on your own behalf?"

"I am here, of course, on my own behalf--just like Mr. Agnel, who came to Syracuse with you, my lady, on his own behalf, not on the Lateran government?"

After saying this, the woman's face darkened slightly, and Agnier sighed deeply in his heart.

Sure enough, His Holiness the Pope is still somewhat dissatisfied with our behavior.

The city of Sicily is not the capital of Syracuse, it was not in the past and it is not now. It is just one of the cities in Syracuse and once belonged to the sphere of influence of the Sicily family - and Lady Sicily came from this city and this family.

As a girl who was sent out of Syracuse to study in Lateran, she was originally looked down upon by her family members, who believed that she had not grown up in Syracuse and was not qualified to lead the family.

So when she returned from the Lateran, she had only a gun, a codex, and a young Sakota man who liked to sleep with an eye mask.

The fact that she was able to take down the Sicilian family was enough to surprise everyone, but even if the Sicilian family tried their best, they were not qualified, let alone capable, to support Lady Sicilian to reach her current position, or even to unify the entire Syracuse and form the [Gray Hall] according to the heads of all the family heads.

Only Lady Sicily and Agnier knew the situation at that time.

They pretended that they had Lateran's support behind them.

In Dayan's words, this is called "the fox borrows the tiger's power to bully others."

Of course, a real fox would never use the tiger's power as a talisman, but would use the tiger's power to buy itself the time and resources to transform into a tiger.

And Lady Sicily really did it.

She and Agnier both possess extraordinary fighting power, but they are still a little short of being able to overturn the table - so she borrowed Lateran's "momentum".

With her powerful military force, huge backing, and Lady Sicily's alliances, she actually suppressed other families, unified the entire Syracuse, cultivated her own strength, and established Syracuse's administrative system.

At this point, it no longer mattered whether Lateran was behind her or not - because she was able to suppress the opposition within Syracuse by herself.

No one knows the truth about this.

But the other party seemed to see through it clearly, and used Agnier as an entry point, instantly shattering the calm that the two of them had created.

Mrs. Sicily stared at Qiao Yelan, took a deep breath, and her heart was filled with bitterness.

It seems that it is time to pay back the debt.

"...If that's the case, I wonder what Mr. Qiao Yelan wants to get?"

Qiao Yelan just smiled faintly, picked up the coffee-flavored sweet milk and took another sip.

He really tricked it out.

Yes--

Qiao Yelan actually didn’t know what Lady Sicily had done back then.

Syracuse is so insignificant in the Terra region, whether in terms of land area or military strength, it is something dispensable to Qiao Yelan. If it were not adjacent to Kazdel, he probably wouldn't even bother to take a look at it.

As for why there was such a temptation, it was simply because Qiao Yelan found some clues from the life records of Lady Sicily, and what the Pope said to him during his first visit to the Lateran, which made him a little confused.

Yes, even Lateran didn't know what Lady Sicily had done back then, otherwise the Pope would definitely tell Qiao Yelan the truth - instead of just helping to send a request for a meeting.

Qiao Yelan certainly remembered what the Pope said to him at that time -

[You have always seemed to have no desire for Lateran, and we were also worried that our actions would have some kind of impact on you, so we have always maintained absolute neutrality and did not cause you any trouble. It was not until nine years ago that the [God] of Sakota issued a warning, and I had to try to help Terra in my own way.]

At that time, the Pope proposed the [Messenger of All Nations] system to the countries of Terra without any preparation, but there were only a few responses. It was not until now that Qiao Yelan planned to let Babel Tower participate in this matter that things really got on the right track.

Then a strange thing happened - nine years ago, something very important happened on the continent of Terra, so much so that the [Gods] of Sakota directly warned the Pope?

Qiao Yelan looked through the records of the Tower of Babel that year and found that the biggest event of that year was the Lateran's announcement of the "Messenger of Nations" system...

But further down, things become a little subtle.

A group of officials and judges who were promoted by Mrs. Sicily were purged by Mrs. Sicily herself - without reason and without evidence.

The rumor outside was that these people betrayed Lady Sicily, but the investigation results showed that these people were all fanatical followers of Lady Sicily, and they almost worshipped the "Law and Gun" she brought back. Before being purged, they were the most radical guys under Lady Sicily.

Originally, this didn't make Qiao Yelan suspicious, but he could not find any connection between other things and the Pope's behavior, so he had to go back and recalculate the matter.

——What would have happened in Syracuse if the Pope had not proposed the system of messengers of all nations?

The answer surprised Qiao Yelan:

Syracuse would once again fall into civil strife.

Because the Emperor of Leitania at that time was a madman who didn't care about anything. He even declared the independence of Syracuse valid decades ago and proposed the Golden Rule.

Kazdel in the east could not possibly pose a threat to Syracuse, and Iberia in the south was already struggling to protect itself, let alone going north.

At that time, Lady Sicily's killing of these people actually revealed her decline.

Although she did not admit it, it would be interesting if she did not kill these people herself - if Grey Hall cannot even protect the safety of government workers, then what is the need for it to exist?

So it must have been Lady Sicily who did it.