Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 He cheered up, but his voice was a little hoarse.

　　 "I will keep the promise between us."

　　 Jenkins said again, this time Salhi II did not speak any more, but clenched his fist and coughed a few times to his mouth, then greeted the attendants arranged by the church and helped him to the side room.

　　 Mortal birth, old age, sickness and death Jenkins can only control one-half. Death is summoning Salhi II, which Jenkins cannot stop. With some emotion, he watched the old king disappear in the corner of the corridor, and then he greeted everyone and prepared to leave. Before leaving, she smiled at Dolores, grabbed the little chocolate paw and shook her goodbye, but that didn't make Dolores feel better.

　　 In just one night, the succession to the throne of the Northern Kingdom has come to an end. This is much faster than Jenkins expected. Although it has been thought that Dolores must be the winner, in any case, ending with this kind of ending is not very good, but it is not very bad.

　　 He left the building complex by the lake with a dull mood, teasing the cat on his shoulder with his hands for a while, and he felt better.

　　 looked towards the giant tree in the middle of the forest. Behind the pale green spirit of life pervading the space, the light spots representing Miss Bevana and Alexia remained in place, and it seemed that the conversation had not ended.

　　 After I had nothing to do, I thought about looking for Sigrid, but I don’t know if she is in the forest today. After a run-up, he sprinted upwards, holding the trunk and climbing to the top of the tree with great effort. After finding a good angle of view, look at the thriving forest in front of you from the top of the tree.

　　 But Jenkins did not see his distant cousin, on the contrary, he actually saw the light spot of Mr. Hood.

　　 At this time, Mr. Hood is located in the mud area west of the Evergreen Forest. Because of the terrain, there are no buildings or settlements in the nearby church.

　　The middle-aged man wearing a black robe that is very conspicuous during the day, standing breathlessly in the mud, leaning against the tree behind. Although the tree is not large, it is connected to the nearby canopy, and it can also provide Mr. Hood with a shadow from the dazzling sun.

　　 His mouth was gasping, and he didn't forget to look around. Mr. Hood knew very well what would happen if he was caught by the church and broke in privately.

　　 A green leaf suddenly fell in front of his eyes, but Mr. Hood didn't care. It was a forest, and it was normal to have fallen leaves. But then there was a soft cat cry over his head, and the middle-aged man immediately raised his head, and then saw a young man sitting on a high tree branch smiling at him.

　　Mr. Hood froze, his heart throbbed from panic. But then he saw the cat standing on the tree branch and wagging its tail. Even from a squint angle of view from below, Mr. Hood recognized the cat.

　　 "Mr. Candle?"

　　 He stepped back two steps farther away from the tree, so as to better distinguish the cat's appearance, and in his voice, after being chased by a big octopus in the deep sea, he suddenly woke up and found that it was just a joy in his dream.

　　 "It's me, it's been a long time since I saw you~"

　　 Disguised Jenkins smiled, then grabbed the cat and jumped off the tree. The soil under his feet was soft, and even with the addition of [Cat's Grace] landing skills, he still left two clear shoe prints on the spot.

"Long time no see, Mr. Hood, if Miss Magic asked my friend to tell me some time ago that you suspended our party because of your right hand, I thought something went wrong with you. The party has not been held for a long time, I even miss those days when everyone hangs out late at night together."

　　 He said briskly.

　　 "Long time no see, Mr. Candle."

　　 greeted with a hood, and subconsciously covered his right arm, but looked around alertly:

　　 "How did you appear on top of my head? I have been observing the left and right, but no one is coming...are you sitting here all the time?"

　　 "No, I jumped over from the tree next to it."

　　 Jenkins showed his finger to Mr. Hood, then smiled:

　　 "The forest is happy to give me protection and help me disguise, so you didn't find me normal."

　　 Although Jenkins hasn't revealed his true colors so far, the two are very good friends, so there is no need to make tedious greetings, just go directly to the topic of the conversation.

　　Jenkins is curious about the reason why Mr. Hood is here, and Mr. Hood does not hide this:

　　 "Since you have heard something from Miss Magic, you should also know that there is something wrong with my right hand."

Chapter 1729 Chapter 1702 Mechanical Arm

　　 Mr. Hood talked about his physical condition, and even took the initiative to expose his arm under the robe, and then rolled up the sleeves of the long-sleeved shirt so that Jenkins could see his arm directly.

From the appearance, the shape and size of this arm is not abnormal, except that the color from the elbow to the arm is blue, as if it is on the verge of necrosis due to insufficient blood supply. If you look closely, there seems to be a black line under the skin, but the elbow The skin tone down to the palm of the hand is normal.

"Many years ago, my arm was cut off directly, and I almost died from it. It was an elder who was proficient in healing who saved me, but it took too long for the arm to separate and it was impossible to reconnect it with the power of life. Get up, and the surgical operations of that era were far worse than they are now."

　　 Mr. Hood smiled bitterly. He has already taken off his hood, showing a sweaty face. This kind of weather is not suitable for wearing such airtight clothes.

"But whether you are an ordinary person or a gifted person, it is very inconvenient to not have a right arm. Later I found a friend and used some special small methods to deal with the amputated arm, and then achieved a certain degree of grafting of the amputated limb. You see, it looks very good, I can’t tell the difference from the original. My wife and I have lived for so long, and I have never noticed something wrong with my right hand... But I dealt with Mr. White Cat some time ago Isn’t it because I was accidentally involved in the treacherous situation, so my arm was injured? I thought it wouldn’t be a big problem, but I didn’t expect it to be like this in the end."

　　 He tried to move the right arm with abnormal skin color, Jenkins heard the sound of abnormal metal bending:

　　 "This arm is a robotic arm?"

　　 he asked a little wary.

"No, it's not entirely a mechanical structure. Because my original arm is well preserved and not completely necrotic, when preparing a new arm, the original arm has been mechanically modified to a certain extent, and thin steel cables, gears, and gears have been added. Bearing and lever structure. It hasn't had any problems for so many years. The doctor who performed the operation on me has already left Nolan. Now that it has problems, I can only figure out a solution by myself."

　　 Mr. Hood has been trying to solve the arm problem since Jenkins was still in Roon. But instead of making any progress, his arm problem is getting worse. When Jenkins met Nolan and Mr. White Cat on the night when he returned to Nolan to play the dragon game, that arm could at least be used normally, but now it can hardly bend.

　　 In the end, Mr. Hood's acquaintances in the black market contacted the craftsmen who came to Nolan’s Creation and Machinery Church recently, and it took a lot of money to get one of them to agree to try treatment for Mr. Hood.

　　 The place they planned to meet is here, and Mr. Hood was just waiting for the person to come.

　　 Knowing the cause and effect, Jenkins also tried to check Mr. Hood's right arm. According to Mr. Hood's description, that arm is not a purely mechanical structure, but an organic combination of machinery and flesh and blood.

　　 But that is not to use a technique similar to that of a Gear Craftsman, using disgusting means to mix flesh and blood with gear bearings. Mr. Hood only used mechanical parts to repair some bones and replaced broken nerves with special alloys.

　　 Neither of them can explain the principle clearly, but at least this arm is "alive", not a dead thing simply manipulated.

　　 "What is the origin of the doctor who treated you, is it still possible to find it now?"

　　 Jenkins used the spirit of life to test the condition of his arm, while pretending to not care. He got the answer right away. Mr. Hood still remembered that the doctor at that time was a believer of [The God of Nobility and Order], and had the same faith as Miss Yindi.

　　 [The God of Nobility and Order] is a very powerful pseudo-god, but its power lies not in the extensive coverage of the core priesthood [Nobility], but in the [Order] priesthood. Order is the cornerstone of human civilization and even any civilization, and an important reason why the intelligent race can survive. Although many gods, including the [God of Destiny and Law] The Hermit of Destiny, have priests related to [Order], if you talk about [God of Order], then it must be a pseudo-god [Noble and Order]. God], this is not even opposed by believers of destiny.

　　 Hearing that the doctor many years ago was a believer of this false god, Jenkins was more relieved. The God of Order is an absolute good-god camp. He is quite old and powerful, and it is absolutely impossible for its followers and sects to be related to the [Gear Craftsmen Association].

　　 So he was relieved to conduct further inspections for Mr. Hood, but under the detection of the Spirit of Life, he found that the situation was not optimistic. Because of the damage of the mechanical parts, the normal flesh and blood tissues have also produced a considerable degree of necrosis. If it weren't for Mr. Hood's regular visits to his elders, that is, the old elves for treatment, I am afraid that the arm would have been saved long ago.

　　 "I can't deal with this degree of injury. The problem with this arm is not the flesh and blood part. You still need someone who is proficient in mechanical repair to help."

　　 After obtaining the consent of Mr. Hood, Jenkins carefully cut a small cut in his arm, and then filled a huge tulip seed in the landfill (Note).

　　 After careful activation with vitality, the flower seed did not grow in the arm, but contained the spirit of life input by Jenkins. Then Jenkins adjusted the vitality of the flower seeds to be consistent with the vitality of the arm, to ensure that Mr. Hood could use the vitality in the seed to maintain the arm's incomplete necrosis at any time when needed, and the large seed would not affect the normality of the arm. use.

　　 "The only things I can do for the time being, I am not proficient in mechanical repair."

　　 After finishing these, Jenkins said with regret, but Mr. Hood is already very satisfied, at least now there is no pain in the right arm, and a certain degree of bending can be achieved. Although it is not a cure, at least his risk of breaking into the evergreen forest today is not completely unprofitable.

　　 After this, Mr. Hood will meet with the craftsman whom he agreed with. As a stranger, Jenkins should not stay for long, so he left soon. Before the separation, Mr. Hood also asked Jenkins to be careful. It is not new news for the lie believers to interview the Orthodox Church. At this point in time, as a member of the lie believers, Mr. Hood thinks it is very dangerous for Mr. Candle to break into here.

　　 "Don't worry, I have an appointment."

　　 He said vaguely, then waved his hand at his friend as a goodbye, and then disappeared behind the jungle trees with his cat.

　　 In the end, Jenkins still failed to find his distant cousin. Later, after asking about the gifters of the Nature Church, she learned that she went to the city to sell flowers with nuns from other churches today.

　　 Sigrid and Jenkins mentioned this incident once, but they did not expect it happened this time. It is indeed regrettable that I did not encounter it, but it is not a big deal.

　　 In addition, Jenkins also saw that the Nature Church seems to be trying to cultivate its own tulip varieties in the evergreen forest. They also have the ability to catalyze the growth of plants, but they are not as convenient as Jenkins, and they cannot achieve the replacement of plants in half an hour with almost no burden like him.

　　 Therefore, the church's cultivation work was very difficult, but they did not give up. Jenkins pretended to be curious and inquired, only to realize that Nature Church had also noticed the recent changes in the flower market in Nolan. But they didn't connect this matter with the financial scam at all, instead they took a fancy to the business opportunities, so they had the current idea.

　　 The conversation between Miss Bevana and Alexia took longer than Jenkins thought. He came to the forest with Alexia in the afternoon, but it was late at night by the end of the conversation.

　　 The two women talked for seven hours without even eating dinner. But the conversation went smoothly. That night, the Church of the Twelve Orthodox Gods issued an announcement to accept Alexia Miller as a popular demigod gifter. It is true that Alexia has not done anything bad, and there is also Jenkins’s recommendation. In addition, the arrival of the end of the era made the material world urgently need more power, so the unexplained demigod was easily corrected. Accepted by the Church of God.

　　Although I still need to report my position regularly in the future, and follow the instructions of the church when needed. But Alexia is definitely going to marry Jenkins, these requirements are nothing, and it is unlikely that the church will actually implement it.

　　 Alexia’s matter is easy to solve, but the North Royal family’s problem is very big. First of all, three demigods from the tree house clearly appeared last night, and the [Snowman Legion] that was supposed to be wiped out by the God of Lies reappeared. Coupled with the very frank admission of Sarhi II, he was suspected. Guided by ancestors outside the world, each of these things is a big trouble.

　　The church has been investigating about the tree house. Now, according to the information of the Destiny Church, I have learned the clues of the [Uncrowned King] and the king's soul. I am not surprised that the tree house appeared in Ruen City. But the problem is that Salhi II accepted the help of the tree house, and his eldest son had an unexplainable involvement with that organization. If these two were ordinary people, it would be enough for them to be imprisoned by the church for a lifetime.

　　 Regarding the Snowmen Legion, it is impossible for the church to ask the [God of Lies], and now there is no Snowmen Legion. So for the time being, I think that this is a special situation at the end of the era, allowing some creeps that should have disappeared to reappear, and this creeps happened to be used by the tree house with unknown means.

　　 In view of the broken and mottled records of past epochs, something similar to the resurrection of a trick has occurred, so no one suspects that the Yeti Legion was a set jointly made by Jenkins and Alexia. But since the Yeti Legion can recover for the first time, it is possible to recover for the second time. Therefore, the situation in Northland is not optimistic. Jenkins heard from the worried Miss Bevanna that there is a shortage of manpower everywhere. The church is considering whether to continue to concentrate so many elites in Nolan in the future. After all, no corners of the material world are now peaceful.

　　 As for the ancestors mentioned by Salhi II, just as the king of the North believed, the church could not prove by any means that it actually appeared. Now the mirror that the ancestors appeared was shattered, and the chessboard where everyone was confronted last night became a mortal thing. The church couldn't guess who Sarhi II saw.

　　 Therefore, the focus of the current investigation on this matter is still on the tree house. The church believes that it can find new clues by relying on the three corpses that are now being urgently transported to Nolan from the Northland.

　　PS: I checked the tulip flower species, this thing is really big.

Chapter 1730 Chapter 1703 Death of the Heir

　　 At the end of the eighteenth era, it took place in Nolan’s "Gathering of Winds and Clouds". So far, the kings of the Chessland Kingdom and the Hampawo Kingdom have clear evidence that they have come into contact with the mystery and used the mystery. The former appeared in the public on the second day of the church's investigation, and unexpectedly announced that he had decided on his heir.

It was Friday morning in front of the city hall. The people attending the meeting came here under the morning haze and dew. The reporters stood behind the cordon with the good citizens and waited for the big people to pass by. .

　　 Salhi II, who appeared with Dolores, got out of the carriage, and under the guidance of his attendants, walked up the steps in front of the city hall, but turned around at the end of the steps and did not enter the door.

　　 He and his daughter stood on the carpet on the big steps of the city hall, and the Queen Isabella and the proud Takov, who had arrived early, looked here from the window on the second floor of the city hall.

　　 Coughed twice to make everyone quiet. The nobles and officials of the Hampawo Kingdom who participated in the talks received the news in advance and stood under the steps and waited.

　　 In this way, Salhi II unexpectedly announced his choice of heir, and it also meant that Dolores would become the first queen of the Kingdom of Hampavo.

　　 Even the Nolan Daily, which never publishes supplements, published the supplements of the day at ten o'clock in the morning, disseminating the big news announced in the morning to all parts of the city. At the same time, people rushing to all over the world by train also spread this news to the world. This is the second major event that happened in Nolan after the armistice between Fidi Ketli and Chesland, and no one expected that Sarcy II would make such abrupt decision.

　　 But even though it was abrupt, there was not much opposition in Hampavo. Even the officials and nobles who accompanied Nolan to Nolan had no objection to the king's decision. Sarhi II's prestige and iron-blooded means were enough to suppress his country, and Dolores had to learn a lot from her father.

　　 Of course, these things have nothing to do with Jenkins for the time being. In this somewhat noisy morning, he received a letter from Dad and Carfax Field, and brought his three girls to Dad’s antique shop.

This is probably the first time there are so many people in the antique shop in the early morning. In addition to the girls and daddy, the three sheriffs with stars on the shoulders of Carfax Field, the mayor of Nolan, Mr. Sax Ruto, and Douglas Jay The Duke of Rhodes, the Duke of Rochester, and the Duke of Madeleine waited for Jenkins in the shop.

　　 Before reaching the door of the antique shop, Jenkins saw the uniformed police officer and the straight royal guard waiting at the door. After he took the girls in, he was even more shocked by so many people inside.

　　 Hesitantly greeted those who could not be named, and then, under the sign of the old man, met the three dukes and the police officers of Karl Fax Field in the second floor meeting room. The lowest class here is Detective Vivendi, who recently went to the antique shop to inquire about Jenkins' whereabouts the night before after the hapless Victor died.

　　 "Is this what happened? Isn't it about asking me Victorm again?"

　　 Dad took the door from outside, and there were enough chairs in the room for everyone to sit down. Jenkins and the girls did it on the sofa, and neither of them knew what was going on.

　　 "Viscount, something terrible has indeed happened."

　　 It was the Duke Madeleine who was speaking, the only female duke present. She is very old, and she did not show up on the night that the Chessland fleet was greeted at the pier and the Queen was poisoned. But at the Queen's Ball a long time ago, she and Queen Isabella sat at a round table under the vines and had tea. .

　　 This old lady is a very traditional nobleman and respects the blood of the Middleton family. Although Miss Windsor has not actively contacted her, she is also a potential supporter of Jenkins.

　　 "Since last week, the royal heirs have been killed six consecutively, and they should have been done by a group."

　　 She slowly explained, telling the terrible facts. Seeing that Jenkins didn't interrupt, he paused and said:

"We have no other intentions, but every living heir is suspected, otherwise this serial murder case cannot be explained. This matter is already very serious. After all, there are not many royal heirs. According to Her Majesty’s intention, We want to make routine inquiries of all living heirs. I'm sorry to disturb you so early, but please don't be nervous, just answer some questions."

　　 "That's it, you can."

　　 Jenkins nodded, and then looked at the Vivendi detective. It was he who came to question as expected, but the middle-aged man seemed rather reluctant to do so.

　　 "Then Viscount, what were you doing the night four days ago? Can anyone prove it?"

　　 "Four days ago?"

　　Jenkins recalled that it was Monday, the day the church destroyed the [Scent Appreciation Committee].

　　 "I was at home that night, as for the proof..."

　　 He looked at the red-haired girl, Hathaway blushed and did not speak, so the Vivendi detective nodded and wrote the contents in the notebook.

　　 "So what about the night three days ago?"

　　 he asked again.

　　 Jenkins fell into the memory again. It was the Tuesday when the metal black tower appeared. That night, he entered the black tower disguised as a believer of lies, but got nothing. So worried and returned home, and was comforted by Briney all night.

　　 Then she looked at the blonde girl, her face also flushed, and Detective Vivendi understood again.

　　 "How about two days ago?"

　　 he continued to ask.

　　 Two days ago, Jenkins remembered quite clearly. Sarhi II asked him to play chess all night, but he was not sure if it was appropriate to tell it in front of so many people:

　　 "I was with Princess Dolores Stuart that night... Her maid, Miss Julia, can attest."

　　 Detective Vivendi opened his mouth slightly and was a little surprised. He hesitated to look at the big figures around him, trying to get instructions on whether to write down this matter. But no one looked at him and pretended not to hear what was just now.

　　 "Well...what about last night?"

　　The detective asked hard, lowering his head and staring at the blank page of his notebook, as if the letters Jenkins uttered would explode when he raised his head.

　　Jenkins remembered the events of last night very clearly. He was waiting in the Evergreen Forest for the short lady to talk to Miss Bevana.

"I was not at home last night. I was with Miss Alexia Miller... She is Princess Dolores’ tutor, and we often play together. But she is not here, I Just according to your request, I brought the girls at home who can prove my whereabouts."

Chapter 1731 Chapter 1704 Water Occupation Ceremony