Chapter 900 The Elf Queen and the Nobles

With a question mark on my face, I pointed at my nose and asked, "Is it related to me?"

Emily nodded and said: "To be precise, it has something to do with your goblin friends, but it also involves you."

I asked curiously: "What does it say?"

"The instructions above say that he is required to kidnap a goblin and bring him back. If he can't do it, he will invite the human man who has a good relationship with the goblin."

"Invite?" I asked in confusion: "What does "invite here" mean?"

"I don't know," Emily said, "I'm just certain that the human man referred to in the letter is you."

"Ah" I pinched my chin impatiently: "It always feels like it's so troublesome."

Emily stared at me for a moment and said, "Yes, it is very troublesome."

"Ignore that for now." I tilted my chin and looked at her, saying, "I'm afraid the Queen has already given you an order to retrieve the blueprints, right?"

"Yes," Emily said, "She asked me to retrieve the design drawings as soon as possible."

"Is there a time limit?" I asked.

She shook her head: "No, Your Majesty, she has no time limit."

"That's great. You can look for it slowly, carefully, and conscientiously without worrying about being punished for exceeding the deadline."

"No, I'm not worried about punishment." Emily looked at the steaming food on the table, but her eyes and thoughts were not on it at all. She pursed her red lips and said, "What I'm worried about is Your Majesty. She unexpectedly didn’t set a deadline this time.”

I wondered: "Isn't this great?"

"No, not good at all." She shook her head and said, "Your Majesty's indefinite deadline means that this task is extremely difficult and will involve a wide range of tasks."

"Ah? Is there still such a thing?"

Emily nodded and continued: "Whenever the interests of the nobles or higher classes are involved, Your Majesty will always deliberately ignore the time limit."

"The Queen is deliberately protecting those nobles and royal family?"

"Your Majesty, she is not protecting the nobility and royal family, but protecting Moonlight City and all the people under its protection." Emily said: "You have also lived here for a period of time, and you should also know that this place is actually the same as the Zephyr Continent. It is the same everywhere else. The royal family and nobles hold some real power to check and balance Her Majesty the Queen, while Her Majesty the Queen also holds another part of real power to check and balance the royal family and nobles. It is in this environment that the elves continue to develop. "

After listening to this, I remained silent for a while and said, "It seems like the Queen's life is not easy either."

Emily lowered her eyelids in acquiescence.

"The things on the Queen's side are indeed quite difficult, but are there any more important things that you have ignored at the moment~"

Emily raised her head, with doubts in her eyes, and asked me: "What?"

"Eat." I pointed to the warm meal in front of her and said, "If you don't have a full meal, how can you have the energy to think about these things?"

"Oh" Emily responded softly, picked up the chopsticks again, and continued eating.

This time, she didn't say another word and just concentrated on eating.

She ate even faster than usual. She must be starving. I leaned on the table and watched her eat quickly and gracefully. I always felt that this was the most amazing thing in the world - elegance could actually be combined with Speed ​​and speed!

After eating, Emily gently wiped the corners of her mouth, while I packed up all the food boxes on the table.

After cleaning up, I planned to leave directly. Emily didn't hold me back and just sent me to the door.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I suddenly remembered something and turned around and asked her: "Can we continue tomorrow's sparring session?"

Emily pursed her lips, shook her head, and said: "The Queen's order is important, I'm afraid it can't be done."

"That's okay," I said with a smile, "It's just a good opportunity to go to the dungeon to brush monsters. I haven't brushed monsters for so long that my hands are almost rusty, hehe."

She said 'hmm' and prepared to close the door.

I suddenly approached the door again and said to her: "Oh, and don't forget to come to my house for dinner tonight, everyone is waiting for you."

Emily was startled for a moment, a faint light flashed in her eyes, and she responded softly.

After leaving Emily's house, I carried the food box and walked home. Along the way, I kept thinking about what Emily just said.

Obviously, the Elf Queen must know something, but because she had her own concerns, she could not directly issue an order to arrest Emily, so she did not limit the mission period to Emily after the mission was issued.

Part of her approach may be easing off, and part of it may be delaying.

The Elf Queen is not a fool, and the loss of the design is not a trivial matter. I guess she probably wants to take this opportunity to separate the nobles related to the theft of the design from the many nobles. Only after the separation is complete can it be convenient. Find out who's behind this.

Of course, these are just my conjectures and have nothing to do with facts.

After returning home, Cagalli was sitting on the sofa waiting. When she saw me coming back, she rushed over, grabbed the food box, shook it, and said with satisfaction: "Well, everything has been eaten."

After saying these words, she suddenly stared at me and asked, "Xiaoyi, it's you who ate it, right?!"

I said calmly: "I don't think so. I've already eaten so much, how can I possibly eat so much again?"

"Hmm~~" Cagalli was finally satisfied. She rushed into the kitchen with the food box in her arms and started scrubbing it with her own hands.

Lilea, who was lying on the sofa, turned her head and asked me: "Xiaoyi, is there any connection between Emily's sudden departure today and the attack on us?"

"It's not related," I said, "She left because something happened in the Elf Palace. As for us being attacked, I don't know why we were attacked."

"Something happened in the palace?" Emily asked doubtfully, "What happened?"

"Oh, it's the design drawing that the goblin team drew for them before." I said calmly, "That drawing was lost."

"Eh?!" Lilea's reaction was fierce, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She sat up from the sofa with a swish and her starry eyes flashed: "Have you caught the thief?"

"Definitely not," I said, "If you dare to steal the design drawings from the palace, you are either seeking death, or you are a highly skilled person. Obviously, the thief belongs to the latter group. Not only did he steal the design drawings, but he also took away the two guards who were guarding the design drawings. It was cleaned up quietly."

"The guard guarding the blueprint is dead?" Lilea said in surprise: "I heard that the strength of the guards guarding important objects is generally around level 10!"