"Listen to my explanation——"

Duke took a step back and said quickly.

"you say."

Qin looked at him sideways, but didn't refuse.

"I……"

Duke opened his mouth, but for a moment he really didn't know how to argue.

Looking at Qin's ice blue eyes, Duke sighed and spread his hands.

"Okay, I admit, I did see it."

Qin is not that easy to fool. Instead of trying to deceive him, why not admit it honestly? The worst he can do is get beaten up. If he doesn't believe Qin, can he still kill him?

Seeing Duke's sudden admission, Qin's chest rose and fell violently, and a trace of blush appeared on her cold face. She gritted her silver teeth and asked:

"What did you see?"

Duke said helplessly:

"I've seen everything."

"..."

"Can I say that I didn't do this on purpose? After all, I have no experience..."

Duke said with a grimace.

He was also very aggrieved. Who knew that such an embarrassing situation would happen?

Of course, he doesn't regret it either...

After finishing his somewhat pale explanation, Duke simply closed his eyes.

Anyway, things have happened, and he can't change anything. He can only prepare to let Qin beat him up to vent his anger.

But after waiting for a while, the imaginary fist did not come.

Duke opened his eyes in confusion, but there was no shadow of Qin in front of him.

"Huh? Where are the people?"

Duke was in a daze.

"Master, please have tea."

Alyssa came over with a pot of hot tea.

"Alyssa, where is Qin?"

"I just saw Miss Qin returning to her room."

Alyssa pointed to the room not far away and replied. After thinking about it, she added another sentence.

"Miss Qin's face seems a little cold."

Duke finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Qin had gone back to her room.

Then he asked in a low voice with some curiosity:

"What is Qin doing on the first floor below?"

He had clearly deceived Qin before, but after Qin went down there, his mind seemed to have been turned upside down. He immediately saw through Duke's lies and even caught a fish.

Duke wondered if Jean had discovered something down there.

After Alyssa heard Duke's inquiry, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed and her face looked unnatural.

When Duke saw this, he knew that there must be something going on, but Alyssa seemed a little bit secretive.

"Forget it, if Alyssa doesn't want to say it, then I won't ask."

Duke waved his hand and said in a retreat-oriented manner.

"No -"

Alyssa spoke quickly.

After seeing Duke's confused look, Alyssa felt a little embarrassed and recounted some of the previous situations to Duke.

"So that's it..."

Duke suddenly understood.

It turned out that Qin suspected Alyssa herself after seeing her condition. In fact, Qin was probably not very sure, so she fished for a while, and then Duke took the bait without any precautions.

Duke smiled bitterly. To be honest, he didn't think it was a big deal, he just glanced at her, not to mention that Qin kept saying she was his fiancée.

But Qin is a girl after all, and Duke cannot sympathize with this kind of thing, and he can't ask Qin to be more generous. After all, he has not suffered any loss.

"Master, Miss Qin..."

Alyssa was not stupid, and she quickly guessed what might have happened between Duke and Qin.

"It's okay, it's just a small misunderstanding..."

Duke shook his head in pain.

But since Qin didn't take the initiative to cause trouble, Duke naturally wouldn't get into trouble.

Duke put this matter aside for now, there are still many things waiting for him.

He plans to register the company first, and then buy some office supplies.

As a result, before he even left the house, No. 2’s voice suddenly sounded in Duke’s mind:

"I found something interesting that might interest you."

"What?"

Duke said curiously in his heart.

"I just imported the data from the medical cabin and found that Miss Alyssa next to you was seriously injured."

Duke's footsteps paused.

"Master?"

Alyssa is a little strange.

Duke's sudden stop almost caused Alyssa, who was half a step behind him, to almost run into him.

"I suddenly remembered that I haven't done anything important yet. We'll go out later."

Duke looked at Alyssa and said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll go clean the upstairs first."

Alyssa nodded, a little idle, picked up the broom and started cleaning.

Seeing Alice's diligent appearance, Duke quickly asked in his mind:

"What injury did Alyssa suffer? Is it serious? Can it be cured?"

"There are traces of injuries on his abdomen, back and legs. The abdominal wound is the largest, and some internal organs have hidden injuries. He also has some other injuries in his body, but they were all cured by the medical cabin... These are all

The medical cabin treatment log told me that."

Hearing the first half of No. 2's words, Duke instantly felt excited, but the second half of his words made Duke feel relieved.

As long as the treatment is done.

At this time, Duke also realized. No wonder Alyssa wanted to enter the medical cabin before. Duke thought she wanted to be beautiful, but he didn't expect that it turned out to be to treat her injuries!

"Can you see when Alyssa was injured?"

Duke asked.

"I don't know the specific situation, but from the analysis of the log in the medical cabin, these injuries were probably caused a year ago, or earlier."

"One year ago..."

A year ago, Duke had not yet entered the City of Dawn.

Duke frowned.

He had vaguely felt before that there was something unusual about the little maid Alyssa.

In the beginning, in the Elvis family, although Alyssa was a little maid, she felt completely different from other maids.

But after all, this was just Duke's sixth sense, without any basis. In addition, there were many things going on at the time, so Duke didn't pay much attention to it.

After Alyssa came out with him, Duke found that Alyssa seemed to know everything and could do everything.

This made Duke once think that the maids in Dawn City should look like this, but later, after slowly learning about Dawn City, he realized that he was extremely lucky to meet Alyssa.

Especially the last "Blood Hand Club Stealing Death Claw Incident".

Duke learned from Officer Richard that Alyssa took the initiative to lead the way to find him!

Although it seems now that with his physique, he would not die even if Alyssa did not find him, Duke will definitely take this favor.

Alyssa did not take credit at that time, but instead passed the credit to Officer Richard.

Duke didn't know if Alyssa had something to hide, but since she didn't want to say it, Duke didn't ask.

After all, who doesn’t have a few little secrets?

From then on, although Duke did not question Alyssa, he usually paid a little more attention.

Compared with ordinary people, Alyssa is indeed very extraordinary.

She alone can kill a large group of maids instantly.

Of course, this refers to work ability.

Duke didn't think Alyssa had any fighting ability. After all, her small body didn't look like she was very powerful.

However, Duke is not entirely sure, because there are still special human beings called Awakeners in this world.

Maybe, Alyssa is an awakened person? Otherwise, how to explain that she has hidden injuries all over her body, but she ends up acting like a normal person every day?

Duke asked out his doubts.

Number 2 replied:

"The medical cabin cannot detect whether it is an awakened person. After all, when the medical cabin was designed, no awakened person appeared. However, it can be inferred whether it is an awakened person through physical fitness. Generally speaking, the physical fitness of an awakened person is higher than

More than double the number of ordinary people..."

"What about Alyssa?"

"Her physical fitness is indeed stronger than ordinary people, but not much stronger, so I judge that she is either a non-physical awakened person, or an ordinary person with good physical fitness."

After hearing what No. 2 said, Duke frowned slightly.

"Is he really an ordinary person..."

With Alyssa like this, it would be difficult for Duke to connect her with the Awakened Ones.

After all, Duke has come into contact with many awakened people, but the physical fitness of those awakened people is very strong, and Alyssa seems a little unsuitable.

After thinking about it, Duke simply called Alyssa over.

"Master."

Soon, Alyssa came over wearing a maid outfit.

Duke hesitated for a moment and then said straight to the point:

"Alyssa...is she an awakener?"

He didn't expect Alyssa to admit it directly. He mainly looked at Alyssa's condition and could probably judge it through the other person's expression, body movements, etc.

But what Duke didn't expect was that after Alyssa heard his words, she was stunned for a moment, then nodded directly.

"I am."

"……Well."

Alyssa admitted it so readily, which caught Duke off guard. The clichés he prepared later were useless.

Alyssa's answer was a little surprising, but it made sense.

Duke took a deep breath, and then asked with a serious expression:

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"You didn't ask either?"

"..."

It seems to be the case, who talks about being an awakened person every day without any problem?

However, who has no problem asking people every day if they are awakened?

Duke was speechless.

"and you--"

Duke originally wanted to ask Alyssa what the purpose of an awakened person pretending to be a maid and following him was.

But when I thought about it, Alyssa didn't do him any harm. She didn't seem to have any purpose. Instead, she gave Duke a lot of help.

If he asked directly, it might break Alyssa's heart.

For a moment, Duke didn't know what to say.

Alyssa didn't know if she had guessed what Duke meant, but she said without much fluctuation in the expression on her face:

"What do you want to ask, Master?"

Seeing Alyssa take the initiative to speak, Duke no longer hesitated. He frowned and asked:

"I remember you were not trained by the Elvis family since you were a child, right? Did you join later?"

"yes."

Alyssa nodded.

"Can Alyssa tell me why she joined the Elvis family?"

Duke was a little puzzled. The Awakened Ones were very precious. Even the Elvis family could not ignore the Awakened Ones. If the other party joined openly as the Awakened Ones, they would definitely get better resources.

But after the question came out of his mouth, Duke added:

"Of course, I'm just curious. If it's inconvenient for you, you don't need to tell me. You know my relationship with the Elvis family. I don't really care about them..."

"Lack of money."

Alyssa said.

"What? Lack of money?"

Duke was stunned.

"Yes."

Speaking of this, Alyssa felt a little embarrassed.

But she didn't lie. She did come to the Elvis family because she was short of money.

"No, you are an awakened person and I believe you are short of money, but you won't come to the Elvis family to work as a maid, right?"

Duke had trouble understanding.

In his impression, isn’t it easy for awakened people to make money? How could they be reduced to being servants?

"Because the job is stable, there is no danger, and the money is good..."

When it came to money, Alyssa's cheeks turned red and she looked embarrassed.

"Well……"

Duke couldn't seem to find anything to refute for a while.

"By the way, how much monthly salary does the Elvis family offer you?"

Duke suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to know how much Alyssa's monthly salary was, and he hadn't even paid Alyssa yet, which made him feel ashamed.

"Monthly salary is 3,000 Dawn Coins."

Alyssa said softly.

"Three thousand!"

Duke was shocked, "Good guy, such a high price!"

The monthly salary he offered Da Baldou and the others was only two hundred yuan, which was already above the average.

The salary of the wilderness team members in Alger's hands is approximately between 600 and 1,000.

As for Alger himself, Duke paid him a salary of 4,000. This price is indeed not too high for a powerful awakener, but it is not low either. Moreover, Duke will give out some rewards from time to time. Overall

Come on, the salary is not low.

But Alyssa, a little maid, actually has a monthly salary of three thousand?

Duke was a little enlightened. From this small detail, he could get a glimpse of the leopard. He finally understood what kind of behemoth the Elvis family was!

Seeing that Duke was surprised, Alyssa explained a few words, saying that not all servants had this salary, and she was considered the highest-end one.

But even so, it's awesome.

"How much money is Alyssa still short of? As long as it's not more than I can afford, I'll help you pay it out!"

Duke waved his hand.

No matter what, Alyssa is his family and he has reason to help.

Moreover, he still has a lot of relics and goods in his hand that have not been processed. If they are all converted into money, it will not be a small amount. He has the confidence to say this.

Alyssa felt Duke's sincerity, her eyes were shining, but she shook her head:

"Thank you, Master, for your generosity, but... I can no longer use it."

"Huh? Have you collected the money?"

Duke was a little surprised.

"I collected the money to... treat the disease. This requires a lot of money, and it may not be cured. But yesterday I saw Miss Qin getting younger, so... because you let me use the medical cabin, my

The injury has been cured, so I don’t need money now...Thank you, Master."

Alyssa looked at Duke with eyes full of gratitude.

Her injuries and illness have troubled her for a long time, and doctors can't cure her.

As a result, she just lay down in the medical cabin and took a nap. She had never seen such a miraculous thing!

"Ah? This..."
Chapter completed!