King's Landing in France

Chapter 315 Abnormal noise
Robespierre said to Danton: "Don't worry, as a third-party witness, I have made complete preparations, and there are doctors on site."

Just as he was talking, the doctor appeared: "Get out of the way, let me see the wounded."

Danton reluctantly gave up the position in front of Desmoulins.

The doctor stepped forward to check Desmoulins' body, then gently took off the monocle, and said to Danton: "He has passed away, and my condolences will change."

Dandong sighed for a long time, then turned to look at An Ning.

Danton: "Explain, why do you have to be tricky? I always thought you were a person who would uphold the principles of fairness and justice in duels, like a knight."

An Ning thought that I would definitely be like this in the next duel, after all, I am invulnerable to the body.

But Paulina doesn't have this trick. She will be injured if she is shot, and she will die if she is killed.

An Ning chose to tell the truth: "Because the duel is my best friend's younger sister, I can't bear the price of losing her. If I fight in person, Dandong, I assure you, I will definitely not be tricked at all."

Robespierre looked at An Ning with complicated eyes.

Paulina intervened at this moment: "But in the end I won the game in a normal way, and the rifled gun the general prepared for me was of no use at all.

Robespierre also nodded: "Yes, you killed this man in a fair state. I have no objection to this result. However, it is not honorable to cheat first."

An Ning couldn't argue that he really wanted to use this duel to get rid of Desmoulins, and he didn't hesitate to use some treacherous means for this.

Now that Desmoulins is dead, there will be one less opportunity for Danton and Robespierre to break up in the future.

Although the goal was achieved, An Ning felt a sense of distance from Danton and Robespierre.

An Ning quickly adjusted her mentality: I have already chosen this path, so I will go straight to the dark, hit the south wall and break the south wall, just keep going.

**
Back at the Royal Palace, Christina had been waiting for a long time.

"How's it going?"

Before An Ning could answer, Paulina rushed out and gave Christina a thumbs up.

"It's done!" said Paulina. "I have killed anyone who insulted Frost's dream. From now on, no one in Paris will dare to speak ill of the steam revolution."

An Ning: "Originally they don't believe in the steam revolution now, just because of shortsightedness.

"In the future, when we install steam engines in every factory in Paris, and run huge and tireless iron dragons between cities, they will know that what I said is true.

"Then they'll have to acknowledge my foresight."

Polina asked curiously beside her: "The iron dragon running on the ground? What is that?"

An Ning: "It's a means of transportation driven by a steam engine. Because the size of the steam engine is as big as its strength, it usually strings together a lot of carriages, with one front leading a string of carriages."

Christina: "When he said it, he always described it so vividly, as if he had seen it with his own eyes."

An Ning thought that I had indeed seen it with my own eyes.

But on the surface he has to say: "I have a rich imagination, imagination."

Christina: "He hasn't told you about the mechanical iron bird that can fly in the sky, you should really listen to it!"

Fanny: "There is also the kind of boat that uses a steam engine to drive the wheels to move forward without hanging the sail."

Paulina: "My God, what a fantastic idea, I never thought that Your Excellency General is still very childlike!"

An Ning raised her forehead, thinking that you wait, if I really create all these in the future, you will have to apologize to me.

At this time, Paulina blinked her eyes and said to Christina: "By the way, Mr. Robespierre pointed out the fraudulent behavior to your Excellency the General during the duel just now!"

Christina: "Has the breech-loading gun been discovered? I persuaded him yesterday, but he insisted on doing it because he was afraid you would lose."

Paulina pouted: "You don't have to do this. The duel is for me. I should be responsible for the accident. I think my brother will say the same when he knows it. He won't run away because of me. Go to a duel, and if you die, you will blame Your Excellency."

An Ning: "Maybe Napoleon will forgive me, but I cannot forgive myself."

Christina: "That's who he is."

Paulina: "Hey, I know, I know. I'm going to write to my brother about my first duel experience in my life."

——The first duel in your life?Hearing this tone, do you want to come for the second time?

An Ning could only scratch her head.

**
Dandong returned home, sat down on the sofa, and stared at the grandfather clock facing the sofa.

The pendulum of the grandfather clock swung from side to side with a regular clicking sound.

He stayed in a trance like this for many minutes.

Then his second wife, Louise, pushed the door open and came in: "Honey, let me know when you come back."

Dandong shook his head: "Sorry, as soon as I get home, I just..."

Louis came over and hugged Danton from behind: "I'm sorry about Desmoulins."

"No, it's not about Desmoulins... Well, I'm not saying that Desmoulins' death didn't matter. His death makes me very sad, but it's not his death that makes me not want to talk now."

Danton let out a long sigh, and then began to tell: "Did you know that Frost actually prepared a breech-loading pistol for Miss Bonaparte who was competing with Desmoulins.

"The accuracy of this pistol is much better than that of ordinary pistols, and it reloads faster. This is simply the advantage of the crushing class."

Louis: "But before the duel, don't they send people to check each other's prepared weapons?"

"That's where the problem lies. The craftsman Desmoulins brought to inspect the weapons didn't say anything wrong with the weapons prepared by Frost.

"I'm afraid he was bought by Frost long ago."

Louis muttered, "That's it." Danton continued: "It was unimaginable before. Frost always confronts dueling enemies head-on, and doesn't use any side tricks at all.

"But now, he actually...has become like this."

Louis: "Honey, this is not a strange thing. People are always changing. In the past, Maximilian was still a person who opposed the death penalty. Now he sends 50 people to the guillotine every day.

"It must be the same with Frost.

"Of course, it's also possible that he was fearless in the past because he had nothing, so he had nothing to be afraid of. Now he has something he can't let go of."

Dandong didn't pick up his wife's words, but nestled on the sofa and remained silent for a long time.

(End of this chapter)