Chen Huijie, I am not a good person anymore!

With Ioletta's words, Viviana naturally didn't need to bother to greet McGee. She walked to the door of Lingguang's house and rang the doorbell. Soon she saw Maria running towards her. There seemed to be some cake crumbs at the corners of the girl's mouth that she hadn't wiped off in time.

Maria recognized Russell when she saw him. She had met him when she was a child. The year her sister left, this kind Grand Knight had come to her house in person and apologized to young Maria.

"His Excellency the Grand Knight has arrived. Please come in!"

"Maria, you've grown a lot taller."

Ioletta suddenly became much kinder when facing the descendants of the Linguang family. Especially since Maria was young and sensible, she always reminded her of Viviana when she was a child. She loved this younger generation even more.

"After all, it's been many years. Please come in. I have prepared hot tea and cakes."

Although she said she was preparing, Maria actually felt embarrassed. Hongxue helped her make the black tea, and she ate all the cakes bought by Roya. Fortunately, Arturo, as a Sacotan, is a first-class dessert-making expert and helped to bake a lot of cakes, so that entertaining guests would not seem so shabby.

After not seeing the Linguang family for many years, they found that the house had become much more dilapidated. Ioletta had actually known about the situation here for a long time and had thought about helping to repair it, but was rejected by Mainna. Now, seeing with her own eyes the weeds growing wildly in the garden and the dilapidated signs on the house, she still felt very uncomfortable. Viviana also felt indescribably depressed.

Maria, on the other hand, didn't care at all. She also liked the weeds in the garden, and she would repair the dilapidated signs of the house herself. She was used to it, but she calculated the time and guessed that Roya and Cyril might have some things to talk about, so she couldn't bring guests to disturb them for the time being.

"Grandfather is chatting with other guests. Your Excellency the Grand Knight Commander, please sit in the living room for a while. I'll go see if they're done there."

"guest……"

Ioletta was a little confused. She couldn't think of who would come to visit Cyril. No, the report from a few days ago seemed to mention that someone had come to Lin Guang's house during this period, but she was too busy with the knight competition and Viviana's affairs at the time and had no time to watch.

On the contrary, before McGee came, he had already learned from the Wuzhou Alliance that the Linguang family had guests today. Even his visit at this time was instructed by the Business Union. The group of directors hoped that McGee could have a natural contact and negotiation with this distinguished guest of the Linguang family. The Platinum Master, who was responsible for providing intelligence, was currently observing the situation here in the beauty salon opposite.

"It's... well, it's really hard to describe."

Maria thought that with Roya's appearance, it would be hard for most people to believe that he was Cyril's teacher, and if she explained too much, it might lead to misunderstanding. Fortunately, Roya had finished talking with Cyril at this time, closed the door, pretended to grope his way to the stairs, and then felt a more familiar consciousness.

"Vivianna?"

"Roya?!"

Viviana was stunned when she saw Roya, but soon a crisp sound brought her back to consciousness. It was the sound of a teacup smashing to the ground, from her adoptive mother, Ioletta Russell, now the Grand Knight of Casimir.

He looked at the familiar face in disbelief. Although he had an extra tail and horns, Ioletta was not so old and confused that she could not recognize him.

"Luo Ya, why is it you?!"

This was the first time that Viviana saw her adoptive mother behave so badly, but she was not in a good mood. She did not expect that Luo Ya actually knew her adoptive mother.

"This voice... Ioleta, you are getting old too."

Roya raised his brows slightly and walked down the stairs slowly step by step along the handrail. In fact, he did not recognize Ioletta's old voice, he only remembered her young appearance, but he already knew that Ioletta and Viviana would come to visit today. Since Viviana was there, she was the only one who could recognize Roya and she was old.

Since Roya had just come out of Cyril's room, it proved that his identity was also recognized by Cyril and there was no possibility of counterfeiting. Moreover, Roya's temperament was rare and difficult to imitate, but Ioletta really didn't expect to see him again, and he was still so young.

"When did you come back?"

"Some time ago."

With Cyril's help, what Roya remembered was enough to deal with the current situation. He was indeed grateful to see someone who once knew him. There were not many fragments about Ioletta in his memory, but they were all very interesting.

"The little girl who used to follow behind Cyril and cry when she fell while running has now become the Grand Knight Commander of Casimir. The world is changing so fast."

Even though her past was brought up in the past, Ioletta's expression remained solemn. She knew very well that Roya was not the kind of person who had the leisure to travel around, and his appearance was not accidental.

"You haven't changed at all. What's the reason for your appearance this time?"

"I'm just visiting an old friend, don't take it too seriously."

As a friend, Ioletta welcomed Roya to come to Casimir to relax, but when she thought of the many clues she had discovered when she looked back at the battle of the Four Emperors, she felt that Roya was terrible.

Although he could sense that Ioletta was wary and uneasy about him, Roya didn't understand why and could only pretend that everything was normal and resist the pressure from her aura.

"I should go now. Cyril will be very eager to see you."

It was getting late, and Luo Ya estimated that Tolan's actions had almost finished and he should go and meet up with them. When he reached Viviana, he stopped and although he couldn't see her, he still turned his face towards her.

"It's my treat next time we meet."

After saying this, Luo Ya ignored the complicated looks of the people behind him, rubbed Maria's head and promised to bring her something delicious next time they met. Then he left Lin Guang's house and came to the door. Arturo and Hong Xue were already waiting for him there.

"Let's go. We need to buy some seafood. Ghost Shark and Skadi said they want to change their taste."

When he thought about the fact that he had to support two girls with big appetites, Luoya suddenly felt that the confrontation between him and Ioletta just now was nothing. Skadi was really a big eater. She ate three melons by herself the day before yesterday and ate a whole street yesterday. Luoya had no doubt that she and Xiaoke must have something in common.

But it’s okay, he only needs to support Xiaoke for the rest of his life, not Skadi.

Chapter 172 Encrypted Call

It was another long night. Roya, who was busy in the hotel kitchen, picked up a spoon and scooped a spoonful of fish soup to test the saltiness. The people on Terra continent always called animals differently from Roya. For example, cows were collectively called tumor beasts, and fish were called scales. However, Roya was still used to calling them according to the old names. He thought that this pot of fish soup should be enough to fill Skadi even if it was eaten with rice.

"Tolan, are you here to help or to watch the show?"

Feeling that an uninvited guest had broken into the kitchen, Luo Ya picked up the kitchen knife and continued to prepare some side dishes. Not only did he want to try out his cooking skills after a long time, but he also had an appointment with Tolan to hand over information here.

Although he had seen it many times, Tolan still couldn't help but wonder if Roya was really blind. He thought he was an expert at hiding and stealth, but he couldn't hide from Roya's perception. He could only smile and scratch his head.

"Can I say I'm here for dinner?"

"Come and help me cut the vegetables."

Luo Ya casually threw the kitchen knife to Tolan and pointed to the table next to him. Tolan immediately understood and squatted down to take a look. He noticed the miniature eavesdropping device stuck in the dark. He immediately understood what Luo Ya meant and smiled.

"The Wu Zhou Alliance thinks highly of you. It's not easy to come and talk to you. Tsk tsk, a platinum lord and a dozen assassins are watching you day and night. I had to crawl in through the ventilation duct."

The original intention was to let Roya divert the attention of the Chamber of Commerce, but he actually went too far and made the intelligence handover difficult. Tolan had to come up with different tricks every time to get in, thanks to the Platinum Lord's weak awareness of reconnaissance.

Thinking of this, Tolan was about to help when Luo Ya took the kitchen knife back from his hand. After all, Tolan just said that he had just come out of the ventilation duct, and cooking like this was not very hygienic.

"It's just a Platinum position, and they didn't even send out a Black Iron. I thought they would at least send two Blue Golds."

There was only one Platinum, which proved that the Wuzhou Alliance did not really want to put much effort into Luoya, or they did not want to have too much unpleasantness with Luoya. Platinum was not very concerned about this surveillance work. When she was observing the Lin Guang family in the beauty salon before, she really had a skin beauty treatment.

"I heard that the selection criteria for Qing Jin in the No Helmet Alliance is 'anyone who can kill Casimir'. Aren't you worried about two Qing Jin coming together?"

Hearing this selection criteria, Roya's first reaction was to laugh, and then he shook his head. He had already seen Monique, one of the Blue Golds. She was quite powerful but only suitable for assassination, and had no effect on Roya.

"There's nothing to worry about. And they even bothered to spy on me just because I know Cyril. What about those people from Leitania?"

"Just as you thought, more than 20 people are very troublesome. They don't seem to be here just to watch the game. I estimate that they will arrive at the Grand Knight's territory in a few days. But I don't have the right to investigate and interrogate Leitania's distinguished guests."

Investigate? Of course there was no need to investigate, because there were no guests from Leitania. The invitation letter sent by the Business Federation to Leitania was intercepted by Tolan before it even left the border of Casimir. After all, he knew that Leitania would not come to watch the game. Those self-proclaimed upper-class noble guys always looked down on the knight competition and would never attend the invitation. The so-called Leitanian VIP was just a cover for Tolan. After all, someone had to take the blame for what they did.

Although Tolan said it lightly, Roya knew in his heart that this guy's connections in Casimir were not limited to the wilderness. In response to an invitation from a country, there should naturally be professional messengers and guards to be responsible for the transportation of letters. Tolan was able to get the letter that was originally planned to be sent to Leitania, which proved that there must be someone from the Supervisory Commission supporting him behind the scenes.

But he knew it all but didn't say anything, especially since there were people eavesdropping. The meeting between Roya and Tolan was both to exchange information and to paralyze the other party. To sum up what he said just now, Tolan needed a few days of preparation time to gather all the people.

"We must find out their purpose. Since they dare to come as VIPs, it proves that what they want to do requires this level of status, and it will not lead to a dispute between the two countries."

With a gesture to Tolan, Roya's meaning was very clear, that is, he should grasp the limit. Although he wanted to make a bigger noise this time, he didn't want to involve innocent people if possible, especially he didn't want what happened next to become a knife in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce.

"Then I can only hope that it will be your wish."

What Tolan meant by this was that he could only try his best. After all, what they were going to do was not so easy to accomplish by just talking about it. Then he remembered that Roya was also making preparations.

"Do you need me to help you cut vegetables?"

"No, I can do it by myself. The vegetables are already cut."

Preparations are complete. Even if Tolan is too late, Roya can implement the plan alone. This is another meaning behind Roya's words. Tolan has no doubt about this. After all, Roya is Cyril's teacher. Not only is he powerful in combat, but he also has the terrifying destructive power he had before. As long as he finds a few key points, he can completely paralyze the city.

"Well, then, why did you participate in the Knights' Tournament? Isn't this pure bullying?"

Tolan had no other intention in his words, he was just curious. In the original plan, Roya was not allowed to participate in the Knights' Tournament. It was better to say that after doing such a big thing, he still wanted to

"I'm just bored, and I want to see what the Knights Tournament has become like now. Who knows how many years it will take for me to come back next time."

Anyway, in Roya's plan, he probably wouldn't have much interaction with the country of Casimir in the future, but he remembered that he had asked Tolan to help do some research before.

"By the way, do you have any clues about the descendants of the Nightmare Clan that I asked you to help me investigate?"

"Nightmare... I really don't understand why you are looking for them. You know, Casimir can hardly see nightmares now, so it's not easy to find clues about them."

Ever since Harandu Khan led the cavalry to conquer all directions and completed his own great cause and created the legend of "Whiplash of the Earth", the Nightmare clan, as a clan that once plunged the entire Terra into great changes, has been excluded and suppressed by various forces in Casimir. Everyone is afraid that another Harandu Khan will appear in the Nightmare clan.

Even with Tolan's intelligence network that covers most of Casimir, it is not so easy to find the descendants of the Nightmare Clan. In order to avoid being harmed by their ancestors, the Nightmare Clan has already changed their appearance and hidden their identities. It is hard for him to say whether he can find them.

But this was just Roya's personal wish. If Tolan really couldn't find him, there was nothing he could do. He just wanted to see if he could find the Nightmare Clan and learn from them about things that happened thousands of years ago. Since Harlan had a relationship with him, perhaps there were some clues about him in the Nightmare records.

According to Cyril's description and his own few remaining memories, Roya had actually come to Casimir decades ago to look for the descendants of Nightmare, but it was hard to say whether he found them or not. He collected his thoughts and continued cooking while thinking about how to answer Tolan.

"Nothing, I just wanted to see how the descendants of my old friend are doing."

Roya and Haranduhan should have a good relationship, so it is not surprising that he said he wanted to see the descendants of his old friend. He has more feelings for the words "old friend" and "past" in his heart.

"Well... since he is your old friend, I will go investigate whether there are any nightmares among the knights who were in the same class as Grand Knight Commander Ioletta and Cyril Linguang."

"This line of investigation is fine, but the old friend I'm talking about is not a knight of Casimir."

Tolan was stunned by what he said. He thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Roya meant. Since he was his old friend, he must be from the same class as Cyril... No, if this guy didn't look older in decades, then maybe he could live even longer.

"So which old friend are you talking about?"

"Harandu Khan."

Luo Ya uttered the name calmly, and then he clearly felt that Tolan was stunned. He could even imagine that Tolan suspected that there was something wrong with his ears. But he was right, the name Haranduhan was indeed too scary.

Harandu Khan, how could there be a Casimir who didn't know this name? He was a great man with the title of "Whip of the Earth". To date, historians across Terra generally believe that it was Harandu Khan's Nightmare Expedition that shaped the basic structure of the countries of Terra today.

He crushed the corrupt pride of the Hippogriff Empire, smashed the throne of Casimir's Pegasus people, trampled on the positions of the Gaul emperor, and overturned the thousands of towers of the Leithanians. The Nightmare Khan whipped the entire land, completely destroyed and burned the old era, and then resolutely went to the border of human civilization, determined to conquer places that no one had ever reached.

"Are you kidding? How many years have you lived?"

"Who knows." Luo Ya turned off the fire. "Besides, Terra is not young. I am definitely not the only one who has lived for so many years."

Looking at Luo Ya's nonchalant expression, Tolan always felt that he was joking with him, but this was not impossible. He estimated that the members of the No Helmet Alliance who were responsible for monitoring were probably dumbfounded at this moment.

"Would you like some? I made an extra portion for you."

"Forget it, I'll just go eat at someone else's house."

Tolan shook his head decisively. Not to mention the explosive information that Roya just said casually, he felt uncomfortable just thinking about eating with Roya. This guy is really not a human being. He brought three beautiful girls with him on a mission, and he didn't know where he got a Sakota woman from. The four of them sat around him when they ate. Hongxue and Arturo were responsible for serving food. Skadi was so happy that she didn't forget to grab food from Roya's bowl. As for the ghost shark? She hated that Roya was eating her.

Tolan said he doesn't like dog food. As a single man, he can't bear to see it. It would be sad if he said too much.

They had talked about everything they needed to talk about and exchanged information. After figuring that the Wu Zhou Alliance would not be able to get much useful information from what they had just said, Tolan chose to leave. Roya didn't care about the bug stuck under the table. In his perception, there were seven or eight such devices in the kitchen, which showed that the Wu Zhou Alliance was definitely very talented in being gossip reporters. It took only five minutes from the time Roya wanted to borrow the kitchen to the time he entered here.

But he said so much anyway. Now the Helmetless Alliance and the Chamber of Commerce will probably investigate everything related to Nightmare. With their efficiency, they will be much faster than Tolan. Luo Ya aimed at this point and deliberately revealed the fact that he knew Haranduhan.

The facts were indeed similar to what Roya had thought. Although the members of the No Helmet Alliance who were responsible for eavesdropping were surprised that Roya had a relationship with the notorious bounty hunter Tolan Cash, they did not understand the other deeper meaning of the conversation between the two. They were just stunned when Roya mentioned Haranduhan. That was a person who lived more than a thousand years ago. How could Roya live that long?

However, these have little to do with him as a small soldier in the Wuzhou Alliance. All he has to do is to report everything he has monitored truthfully and let the people above him worry about it.

A person who could be related to Cyril, suspected to be an old monster with an old relationship with Haranduhan who was at least a thousand years old, was enough to give the Chamber of Commerce a headache for a while. However, at this moment, the Chamber of Commerce might be happy that Cyril would not live long. Only the Supervisory Commission was really worried that Cyril's death would bring unknown changes to Casimir.

........................

Ioletta didn't care what the Supervisory Commission and the Chamber of Commerce were thinking now or what they would do in the future. She just came to Cyril's bedside and looked at the man who had once led her to fight against the enemy and was so arrogant that he couldn't even get up now.

"Old friend, we haven't seen each other for more than three years. I can't even remember what you looked like the last time I saw you.

"But I still remember you said you wanted to rescue your companions. I still remember you wanted to charge at the front. I still remember the second sun rising in the Golden Fields. But we are all old..."

Time is the most ruthless. The knights who were full of vigor and vitality in the past can no longer wear armor or hold spears and swords. Ioletta took out a green wheat sprout from her arms and placed it on Cyril's bedside.

A fresh and indescribable breath made Cyril, who had been listening to Ioletta silently, slowly open his eyes.

"Wheat from the Golden Plains?"

"Let's go there again in the fall. That's the real golden plain."

Ioleta did not mention anything about Roya. It took her a long time to make this decision. She did not want Cyril to have any regrets before his death, and she also knew how important Roya was in his heart.

"it is good……"

After answering this question, Cyril closed his eyes again, smelling the scent of wheat seedlings, and seemed to have returned to the morning after the rain when he first met Roya.

Ioletta just stayed with him, and would do so for the next few days. She hoped that when this old friend left, there would at least be a few familiar people around him. He had already lost his eldest son and granddaughter, so how could he leave alone now?

Chapter 173 Arturo's Choice

It was late at night, but Arturo still couldn't sleep. She seemed to sense something, so she sat up, picked up her cello, left the hotel room and walked towards the rooftop.

The rooftop of the hotel should have been locked, but when Arturo walked to the door of the rooftop, she found that the door lock had been opened and a piece of wire was casually hanging on the keyhole. She really didn't expect that Roya actually had this skill.