Chapter 184 Premonition of Approaching Darkness

After walking for another ten minutes, Li Huailin and others finally arrived near the city of God's Blessing. Of course, St. Gaius Li Huailin let her go back first, because this guy does not know why it glows at night, it is a bit conspicuous Well, with so many players in the main city, it might cause crowds to watch. m.. Next time Li Huailin goes exploring in some dark place, he doesn't even need to prepare a torch, just let this guy light it up.

"The situation is a bit wrong." Li Huailin here just walked to the west gate of the main city and found something different. "It seems that there are a little more guards."

"Yeah, it's twice as much as usual. It seems that the news that the princess has disappeared has spread." Hongyue looked at it and said.

"This is too bad... Leticia..." Fang Selin frowned and said, "But it's strange, it's only seven o'clock in the evening. When I went out in the morning, I said that I might return to the palace later. It should be You won't find out that I'm gone now."

"Probably someone in your convoy escaped and ran back to report the situation." Li Huailin said casually, "It looks like this, why don't you go back to the palace first."

"No, if I go back... Leticia won't be able to come back, I have to rescue her." Fang Selin gritted her teeth and said.

"Let's ask what's going on first." Hongyue said, and then walked towards the guard at the door.

There are really a lot more guards at the door, but they just stand there and stand guard, they don't block the exit, and they don't ask too much about the players who come in and out. Hongyue walked to a guard and asked, "Hi, may I ask if there are a lot more guards here, what happened?"

"Hello adventurer." The guard of the main city has always been more polite, and when he saw Hongyue's inquiry, he replied very seriously, "That's right, a big event just happened."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Although Hongyue knew what was going on, she just wanted to ask how far the palace knew.

"The fourth princess of the empire was attacked by unknown assassins on her way out," the guard said immediately.

"What happened?" Hong Yue said in shock.

"That's right, so now the guards have received the notice, and now they are going all out to track down the assassin." The guard said, "I was supposed to be off today, but the snacks were brought in to be on duty."

"Oh, so." Hongyue nodded.

"Wait..." Li Huailin behind him suddenly walked up and said,

"Why go all out to track down the assassin?"

"Huh?" The guard was stunned for a moment, "What's so strange about chasing down the assassin?"

"Shouldn't we look for the princess first?" Li Huailin asked.

"Oh? Why?" The guard asked strangely, "The princess is resting in the palace, why are you looking for the princess?"

"Oh?" Everyone present was taken aback for a moment, and Fangselin couldn't believe it, and immediately asked, "What did you say? The princess is resting in the palace?"

The guard gave Fang Selin a strange look, but he didn't seem to recognize Fang Selin, and continued: "Yes, that's right, although the princess was not injured, she was also frightened, and she is resting now, His Royal Highness is furious , and now we are doing our best to find the assassin."

"It's impossible!" Fangselin said excitedly, "How could the princess be resting in the palace! Am I still here?"

"Ah? What are you talking about?" Your guard here asked strangely.

"This is the direction." Li Huailin suddenly pulled Fang Selin, who was still wanting to argue, and then said to the guard, "In other words, although the princess was attacked by the assassin, she escaped smoothly?"

"Yes." The guard nodded, "God Bless the Empire, luckily nothing happened to Her Royal Highness."

"His Royal Highness is so powerful, she can escape so many people alone." Li Huailin here knew that Fang Selin had no fighting ability, and just wanted to hear if the guy on the other side had exposed this point.

"Oh, then you are mistaken, adventurer, Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess does not know martial arts or magic, it should be very dangerous. But Master Yi Fuli fought desperately and successfully rescued Her Royal Highness. , Of course he himself was also seriously injured, but his life should not be in danger." The guard said with a little admiration while talking, "Master Ifli is really too mighty, this time it seems that he can get the Empire Medal of Glory again. "

"Ivli? Is he still alive?" Fang Selin said in surprise.

"That is to say, there are two people who came back?" Li Huailin asked.

"That's right, out of the whole team of guards, only two of them can come back. The other party is too vicious. Fortunately, Her Royal Highness is fine." The guard nodded and said.

"Hehe, I suddenly found this mission interesting." Li Huailin turned around and said with a slight smile, "My lord princess, do you think so?"

"Someone is pretending to be me..." At this time, after the initial shock, Fang Selin also slowly calmed down. After all, she was born in the royal family, so she still has the ability to control her heart, although her heart is still a mess , but still pretended to be relatively calm on the surface.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, what's going on, I don't understand at all." Your beautiful woman drinking water here doesn't seem to have watched many Gongdou dramas, or she just doesn't bother to think about it, so she raised her hand and asked.

"Go over there and talk." Li Huailin pointed to the plain at the gate of the city while talking, "If the other side knows that the real princess has not been brought back, they may send people to the gates of each city to find someone and prepare to kill them. Be careful."

"En." Fang Selin nodded, until now it was a critical moment, she had to be calm.

The few people immediately walked to a place a little outside the city gate. There were no people here, and the light was relatively dim, so it was not easy to be spotted.

It was Li Huailin who said first: "Anyway, what I know now is that the princess was attacked, and then someone went back to the palace under the false name of the princess. I thought it was a mission to save people, but now it doesn't seem to be the case."

"Yeah, I didn't expect this to happen at all." Your Hongyue also said, "I thought it was going to a certain place, killing a SS and saving a person, but now it's getting more and more complicated. "

"How could this happen?" Fangselin couldn't believe it and said, "The other party has already returned to the palace, and should have seen the father, but the father didn't recognize her?"

"In other words, the other party looks very similar to you, so you can guess it, if you don't pretend to be someone." Li Huailin spread his hands and said, "I don't need to think about this thing. There are only three issues we are considering now. : First, who is the other party; second, what the other party wants to do; third, what should we do.”

"Who is the other party?" Fang Selin said, "Who is against me? I... I don't know..."

"Okay, let's study the first question first. Judging from the fact that the other party has already prepared a dummy to replace the princess, the other party's plan for this month is not a day or two, so it is not a random idea. Today is the time for the plan to be implemented. Why? Is it today? It's very simple, because the princess is going out, it is easier to start outside, well, now the first question, why is the princess going out?" Li Huailin said.

"Do you go out often?" Hongyue here asked Fang Selin.

"No, Leticia asked me to go out today..." Fangselin thought for a while and replied, "In the end, I met a caravan on the way, under the banner of the Mused caravan, we have already I didn't pay attention at first, but the other party suddenly launched an attack when they intersected with us."

"That's what the people from the Muside caravan did." The beauty here said while drinking water and raising her hand.

"Stupid, so stupid." Li Huailin couldn't help but said, "I've been planning for a long time, how could I use my own banner when I started, I'm looking for death, what if the attack doesn't succeed?"

"Oh." Hongyan drank water and patted her head.

"But in short, identify a suspect first." Li Huailin nodded.

"Oh?" Francine wondered, "Who?"

"Leticia, it's obvious." Li Hualin spread his hands and said.

"Leticia? Impossible, she is me..." Fang Selin was about to say something, but was interrupted by Li Huailin.

"Okay, I didn't ask your opinion, and I don't need to know how close or how deep the other party is with you. I'm just talking about my own judgment." Li Huailin waved his hand and said, "No matter what Invite a princess who doesn't usually go out, and then something happens, the suspicion is too great."

After Li Huailin finished speaking, he thought about it again: "There is a second suspect."

"Anything else?" asked Francine.

"The guard named Yi Fuli." Li Huailin touched his chin and said, "Who is he?"

"He is my chief guard, the person sent by my father to protect me." Fang Selin said, "I am weak, unable to learn martial arts, and have no talent for magic. Ifli has been protecting me since I was a child, and my Like family."

"He went out with you today?" Li Huailin asked.

"Yeah." François nodded.

"Yeah, after being attacked, Ivli fought with the opponent. I saw him get stabbed a few times with my own eyes, and I thought he was dying..." Fang Selin said.

"It doesn't make sense. Although the opponent's people were injured, they didn't destroy the group. In the end, they were attacked by the thieves group. That means the opponent had enough time to kill them. Let's assume that after Yi Fuli was seriously injured , and escape with them, so where is the time to change people." Li Huailin said.

"I... I was knocked out later, I don't know." Fang Selin thought for a while and said, "Is it possible for the other party to knock me out and then move away, and then Evelyn knows that he is invincible and prepares?" When you escaped, you found me who had been dropped, and then dragged that me away?"

"Impossible. In this case, the other party should chase you two with all their strength, because a seriously injured person and a person who doesn't know martial arts can't run far at all, and the other party will take you away, which doesn't make sense." Li Huailin said, "If there is nothing wrong with Evelee, he might be a little suspicious when he sees that the other party is not chasing him, but judging from the current situation, it seems that there is no such thing."

"This... I don't believe it..." Fang Selin said with her head lowered, "Ivli, it is impossible for Evli to betray me."

"It doesn't matter, this world is not something that you can change whether you believe it or not. Things exist objectively. After eliminating all the impossible, what remains is the truth." Li Hualin said.

"It's also possible that Evelyn was a little skeptical, but decided to send the princess back first, but after returning to the palace, he was too injured and passed out." The mortal misty rain here could not bear to see Fang Selin's distraught look. , so say.

"Yes, yes, it must be so." Fang Selin's eyes lit up, and she said immediately as if she had caught some straw.

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you think like this. I'm just talking about the suspect now, and I'm not sure." Li Huailin said, "And it doesn't matter whether Ivli is a traitor or not."

"Why?" asked Francine.

"The energy needed to kidnap an imperial princess is not one or two points. What strange purpose does a chief guard have to do this? It's simply impossible. If he wants to harm you, he has so many opportunities from childhood to adulthood. He can do it at any time. It can't be now, that is to say, this Yi Fuli is definitely not the mastermind." Li Huailin said.

"Yes, yes." Fang Selin said immediately, "Even if he really betrayed me, there must be a reason, and he must have been coerced."

"Well, who did that?" Hongyue asked here.

"I don't know." Li Huailin spread his hands, "I'm just analyzing, not fortune-telling. How can I know who the mastermind is with this kind of information now?"

"I thought you knew it, you said it so confidently." Hongchen Misty Rain said.

"I didn't say I knew it, did I?" Li Huailin smiled, "By the way, let me ask by the way, what is the origin of that guy named Leticia?"

"Origin?" asked Francine.

"That is to say, I have been concerned since the beginning. Why did Leticia meet you in the palace? He is also a princess? Or the daughter of a prince?" Li Huailin asked.

"No, she is just my friend since I was a child. She often comes to see me in the palace and play with me." Fang Selin said, "She is not a princess, she is the daughter of the Marquis of Fermut."

"Huh?" Li Huailin was stunned for a moment, "Wait... Marquis of Firmut?"

"Yes." François nodded.

"The boss of the De'an Chamber of Commerce?" Li Huailin said.

"The De'an Chamber of Commerce is not owned by the Marquis of Firmut, but it's about the same..." Fang Selin said, "Yes, it's him."

"Understood." Li Huailin nodded, and it has nothing to do with this guy, so it can't be justified.

"Wylin, you mean, this is the Marquis of Firmut?" Hongyue asked here.

"Seventy percent sure. This is it." Li Huailin said, "I've heard a lot about this guy in the north. It is said that he also controls the army, and he has great power."

"How could it be the Marquis of Firmut? It doesn't make sense." Your Fang Selin said immediately, "Why would the Marquis of Firmut harm me?"

"This is the second question." Li Huailin said, "What do they want to do? But before thinking about this question, there is a very important question."

"Huh? What is it?" Hongyue asked, Fang Selin here also looked at Li Huailin strangely.

"Why aren't you dead yet?" Li Hualin pointed at Fang Selin and said.

"Huh?" Fang Selin was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, why didn't the other party kill you." Li Huailin said, "It's very strange, the other party already has someone pretending to be you, but why didn't you kill the real body, the other party has a lot of opportunities to kill you and stuff you into the box During this period of time, if you just cut your neck with a knife, you will die, and then you will directly light the box, once everything is settled, you don’t have to worry about accidents at all, isn’t it very bad for them to run out like the princess now?”

"Oh? That's right." Fang Selin thought about it for a while and it made sense, why she wasn't dead yet.

"Reason 1, the other party has a deep hatred for you. Instead of killing you with one knife, it is better to see you humiliated and painful after losing your princess status." Li Huailin said.

"I don't remember who I had a deep hatred with. I usually don't go out at all, and I don't know many people." Fang Selin said.

"Second, you are still useful." Li Huailin said.

"Is it useful?" Fang Selin asked strangely.

"Maybe the status of a princess is useful, or you know some royal secrets, which may lead to the person pretending to be you, so let you stay here for now. In case there is something only you know, you can come back at any time to torture you and let you tell it. .”

"Royal secret?" Fang Selin looked confused, completely ignorant of this matter.

"Then it's the other party's purpose. I just said the first one. The other party hates you extremely. You also said that these people don't exist anymore, so it can only be the second reason." Li Huailin said, "Political reasons. "

"Political reasons?" asked Francine.

"Simply put, the other party is targeting your father, not you, and there will be future plans in the future. Changing you now is just the first step." Li Huailin said.

"They're going to attack Father?!" Fang Selin's whole body stiffened in an instant, "No, I have to go back immediately and expose the person who pretended to be me."

"It's up to you, you must die on the road before you enter the city." Li Huailin spread his hands and said, "I'm sure that as soon as you enter the door, the other party will be notified that the real princess is back, ready to rob and kill, and then You're dead."

"Please help me and send me back to the palace." Fang Selin said immediately, "My original promise will definitely be fulfilled."

"Impossible to succeed." Li Huailin said, "I'm only level 30, and the few here are only level 21. Do you think it's possible for us to keep you? For such a big plan, it's not too much to ask a few assassins of level 50 or 60. , I'm not saying we can't fight, if the opponent only fights us, luckily we can win, but we have to keep you..."

"Yes..." Fang Selin nodded, "If I die now, Father will be even more dangerous, what should I do?"

"You are the princess of the empire, don't you know some people with higher levels? What big sword masters, magic gods, etc., find a way to let them escort you to the palace, and then confront the fake princess. .” Li Huailin said.

"I... I seldom go out... I basically don't know what you said, and the other party may not know me." Fang Selin said, and suddenly remembered something, "I remembered, Marin The Marquis Dolph must have recognized me."

"Who is it?" Li Huailin asked.

"He is my fiancé's father, who is also my future father-in-law." Fang Selin said, "He should be able to know that I am the real Fang Selin."

"Where does he live? Let's send someone in to contact him and let him come out to see you." Li Huailin said.

"He's not in the main city...he's the marshal, and he's on the battlefield now," Fangselin said.

"Huh?" (To be continued.)