Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 270 The Mysterious Merchant
"Your idea is quite interesting." Ian chuckled.

"Isn't it?" Celia asked back, "This conclusion matches the conclusion that the Generalissimo and the others tried to blame Yazan for the murder. The Generalissimo has already made arrangements with someone who can take over your army Conspired to liquidate only Yazan after your death. This way they not only got rid of their political enemies in Yunkai, but also avoided war with the Malord."

"So in your opinion, who are the people who can do this?"

"Femor?" Celia guessed first.

"No, he doesn't have such a status. Even if Lexix is ​​on his side, he can only control two slave iron legions at most, and he can't get his hands on the elite Unsullied and Janissary cavalry. Even The two slave legions may not completely listen to them, because all the centurions in the legion are selected by me, my students."

"That's Luo Er? He is the chief deputy commander of the army. After you die, he should take over the command." Halfway through Celia's speech, she denied this possibility.
"But Rolle doesn't have much reputation in the army. Whether it's Fermor, Lexix, or Khal Quigo, who is in command of the cavalry, they may not obey his command. And Rolle is your NPC, he It is impossible to betray you."

"And then" Celia frowned, and finally shook her head after a long time, "It seems that there is no one who can do this at all? If you die in Yunkai, if any of your lieutenants dare to come out to stop others A man who avenges you must be torn to pieces by angry others."

"Yes, because I have never considered what will happen after my death, so within our system, only I have absolute authority, and there is no one who is prestige enough to be called my successor .Even Daenerys, our legal queen, if she can get half of my power after my death, her protagonist halo will be full."

"In that case." Celia fell into deep thought again.

"But have you ever thought that for the Grand Marshal of Yunkai, his collaborators don't need to control my army after I die? This person actually only needs to be able to persuade my lieutenants to only punish the 'culprit' A It is enough that I do not blame all Yunkai for my death, or divide my army at the first moment of my death, and let us break into civil war so that we cannot attack Yunkai."

"Roll and Khal Quigo are your NPCs. They will not be traitors. In the same way, Gray Worm and Hero, who command the First and Second Legions of the Unsullied respectively, have no possibility of betrayal. Therefore, traitors It can only be Fermor and Lysix? Maybe they think their two slave legions, together with Yunkai's army and Yunkai's mercenaries, have the strength to fight us?"

"The Unsullied were trained by them themselves. They are well aware of the quality gap between the Iron Slave Legion and the Unsullied. I don't think they will make such a stupid judgment." Ian denied it again.

"Then... there's no one left?"

"In front of me, isn't there another one?"

"Me?" Celia showed an extremely shocked expression, and at the same time, her face suddenly turned pale.

"I don't have any army." Celia immediately defended, "I don't understand how you would suspect me."

"I once gave orders to the Unsullied, and their first object of obedience has changed from my Harpy Finger to myself. But if one day I am suddenly murdered, who will they obey? ?”

"The man with that whip?"

"Then, of all of us, who has the best hope of getting the whip the first time after my death?"

"No, no, no," Celia said three no words in a row, "This is too absurd."

"Not only can you get the whip immediately, but my cronies also know about our relationship. As long as you speak properly, you have a high probability of persuading Rolle and Khal Quigo to turn to you. allegiance.

You just need to point the finger at Yazan, the richest man in Yunkai, the 'true murderer', and kill him to avenge me, then you can take over most of my forces and take advantage of Daenerys' trust in you Let her appoint you as her new Hand of the Queen. "

"Coincidentally," Ian continued to add, "the current number of players is 21. After you backstab me, although all your points will be deducted due to the alliance mechanism, because the number of players is reduced to less than 20, You won't face the threat of the Faceless even if you have zero points. There seems to be no one here who is more suitable to be this schemer than you."

"It seems that this is really a good explanation, but." Celia suddenly laughed after being silent for a long time, and then picked up the chubby orange cat that had been fed from her feet, and immediately stunned Yi En's face, "I have always been in your sight, how can I complete such a huge conspiracy behind your back?"

No, I took back my monitoring of you when I was a skin-changing human. If you were keenly aware that I hadn’t possessed the orange cat for a long time during the interaction with the orange cat, you There was a time for this crime, Ian retorted in his heart.

"Besides, there is a backstab judgment in the alliance system. If I really planned to kill you behind the scenes, the system should have judged me for backstab a long time ago, right?" Celia said again.

Eh?How did I forget this?Ian blinked.

Previously, he only thought of giving up surveillance on Celia because of the shape-changing human beings, so he subconsciously listed Celia as the number one suspect, and even forced Celia to 'confess' her own crime in a wicked way.

But Ian forgot that the alliance mechanism itself has a warning for the mutual shady behavior of allies-that is, the judgment of backstab.

It is true that the reliability of the system's alliance mechanism is not high, and there are even some suspicions of encouraging backstabs, but perhaps in order to make players feel that the alliance mechanism is at least somewhat useful, it is planned to design such a system so that once the alliance players try to interact with each other before Yin will be judged by the backstab of the bright card.

If a player does something that harms the interests of allies, it is not clear to what extent it will be judged as backstabbing Ian, but it is definitely a backstab to arrange a killing situation with outsiders and try to seize the opponent's power.

Since the system did not show that the alliance between the two parties was broken, it proved that Celia was really innocent.
"That's right, then this possibility is ruled out," Ian casually drew a cross behind Celia's name, then he raised his head and asked of course, "By the way, we're just deducing each This situation, and I'm used to thinking from the worst possibility, you don't mind?"

do not mind?Half of my old lady's life was almost scared away by you!

"If you are excluded," Ian pretended not to notice Celia's expression, "then Fermor and Lexix are the only remaining suspects. Wait, there seems to be a situation."

渊凯
After returning to Yunkai, Grazdo zo Alk, the 'General Shaking Ass', did not go to the tower of Generalissimo Yakhaz zo Yazak at the first time, but after dismissing most of the cavalry who followed him , leading a few people straight to the south of the city.

The sparrow transformed by Ian just followed behind General Shake-Butt's team not far or near.

After a while, he found that the other party came to a warehouse?

"My lord, you... you... why did you come back so soon?" A person who looked like a warehouse manager rushed out to greet him.

"Have you counted it yet?" General Shake Butt asked eagerly instead of answering the steward's question.

The warehouse steward only hesitated for a moment, then was severely whipped to the ground by the general who shook his butt, with a clear bloodstain on his face.

"My lord," the warehouse manager staggered to his feet and smiled apologetically, "My lord, don't worry, we have already sent enough slaves to the countryside to gather food, within a week at most, no, no, at most five days , they will be able to come back with the food and grass you asked for."

"Five days?" General Butt Shake was furious, and he whipped the warehouse steward again, "That goddamn Earl Darry refused the invitation to a banquet in the city and the gifts from the wise lords. Don't want to stay in Yunkai!"

"What should I do with this?"

"What to do is something you should consider! I'm going to report to the Generalissimo now. You'd better prepare the food and grass that Earl Darry needs within three days. If you exceed this time, you will definitely die before me." After the buttock general dropped these words, he patted his horse and left.

"Bah! You bastard! If you hadn't sold Yunkai's military rations for the Astapors to that Volantis merchant who charged a high price for profit, how could things happen today?!" As the general walked away, the warehouse steward spat on the ground angrily.

"And you," the steward turned around, and scolded his son, "If you hadn't told Lord Grazdo, he wouldn't have known about the fact that the Volantis bought grain at a high price !"

"But, father," the steward's son could only apologize, "we had calculated the time, and Astapor's army should have arrived in Yunkai in about six or seven days. The team has collected enough new food to come back. Who would have thought that the people of Astapor could run so fast?"

"That's all, that's all." The steward waved his hands irritably, and returned to the warehouse with his son.

After Ian Sparrow hesitated for a while, he did not choose to enter the warehouse, but took off again with wings flapping, catching up with General Shake-Butt who had left.

Camp outside the city
"What's wrong? Such a weird expression?" Seeing Ian's dumbfounded expression after being silent for a while, Celia asked hastily.

"I just suddenly felt like a clown." Ian came back to his senses and scratched his hair. "Do you know what I heard just now when I followed the general's butt-shaking bird?"

How could I know?

"The mystery of the general ass shaker wanting to invite me to the city has been solved. Including the panic and fear he showed at the time and the reason why he repeatedly confirmed to me how long I plan to stay in Yunkai." Ian flipped through a Rolling eyes,
"A few days ago, the manager of the united Yunkai granary sold the rations that Yunkai prepared for us to a Volantis merchant privately. The new ration team they sent has not returned yet, and they can't afford the ration now. The food is coming out, so General Shake-Ass desperately hopes that I can stay in Yunkai for a few more days, so that he can fill this hole."

"So his panic at that time was not due to your scrutiny, and it was not you who he was afraid of, but if you rushed to complete the supplies and set off, his crimes would be discovered by the Generalissimo?" Celia quickly understood Ian means,
"It turns out that's the case, so no matter how we deduce it just now, we can't get a conclusion that can perfectly explain all the doubts, because the main premise of the whole deduction-the conspiracy of Grand Admiral Yunkai against you does not exist."

"Guards." Ian didn't answer, but shouted outside.

Guard captain Yada came in again after hearing the sound.

"Send spies into Yunkai to investigate something," Ian ordered to Yada, "Just recently, the large granary in the southern part of Yunkai sold a huge amount of food to a Volantis merchant. The grain. The grain may not all come out of that warehouse, anyway. Help me find out the details of this transaction.

Including the details of the Volantis merchant, his motivation for buying this batch of grain, and all the information related to this transaction that can be found out.Send a few more people and tell them they can report back to me as they check. "

"Yes." Yada left quickly after receiving the order without any unnecessary nonsense.

After seeing Yada off, Ian went back to the table and sat down, picked up the manuscript paper and flipped through it.

"Hey, what are you still doing?" Celia asked a little strangely, "Hasn't the truth been unraveled?"

"For a rigorous deduction, this can only be regarded as a few new clues and a new possibility. We can only bring this possibility back to the original bifurcation point and re-deduce it again, and make sure there are no other doubts. It's the end."

"Did you do the same thing when you were in Pentos?" Although Celia didn't want Ian to always bring up the incident at that time, she couldn't help asking.

"No, I didn't have such ample time at that time." Ian paused for a moment and didn't expand. "It's different now. According to General Shake-Ass, we need to stay here for at least four or five days to complete the resupply. This deductive reasoning is completed, just as I am killing time."

Ian didn't tell the truth. In fact, he was not killing time. The reason why he chose to continue was more because these clues were still full of doubts.But now the context of the whole matter has been clarified, so he doesn't intend to let Celia continue to participate, it will only slow down his thinking.

And...Ian actually didn't rely on Yunkai's supply at all. This time, the food he carried was enough for him to march directly to Meereen. Asking Yunkai to provide food was just a simple blackmail.

The soldiers and horses did not move, but the food and grass went first. How could he let someone get stuck on the food and grass?

　PS: I made a lot of compromises for the sake of performance before, deleted a lot of more complicated plots and was a little restrained when writing.But after this sick leave, the subscription has dropped to one or two hundred anyway, so I don't think about my grades, and I don't want to change my style.

　　Another: I will definitely write this book to the end, and I will do what I say, but the grades are really bad, so the ideas about the land of shadows, the land of eternal winter and the land of rites in the outline can only be discussed by fate (previously thought After opening a book with Rega as the main character, I thought about it at the beginning, but Quanyou is really too small, so I may not be able to write it), and the number of words in the book will most likely not exceed 120 million (unless the grades suddenly improve, but It is estimated that it is impossible...)
　　
　
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