After chatting with Charlotte on the mobile phone for a while, Ren told her that she would attend the harvest festival and celebration tomorrow, and that he was going to go to bed early and asked her not to sleep too late.
After ending the call, he did not sleep. Instead, he locked the doors and windows, took out the pickaxe, got under the bed and started digging a hole in the ground.
It has become his habit to dig a hole first when arriving in a new place.
Not only can he obtain information by digging holes in the ground and learn things that others will not tell him face to face, but he can also have an emergency escape exit when something happens.
The Kingdom of Nangris may not do that, but we should take precautions before it happens!
Check the virtual map underground of the palace, identify several key locations, and dig there quietly.
The main reason is that the king has a record of letting Baron Andrew capture Melody in an attempt to use her to threaten the Sea Tribe and control them. Renne needs to know what his current attitude is towards the Sea Tribe and the "Warcraft Lord" who suddenly appeared.
Reinhard should be fine, but he is still a prince, and it is still his father who controls the country.
Before taking a break, Renn made some insinuations through chatting and learned from a palace maid that the king dealt with state affairs late every day and should not have slept at the moment.
After digging all the way to the king's "office", I saw the mark on the virtual map.
He didn't dig through it directly. There was a virtual map that allowed him to track the king's actions in real time, and he could clearly hear any movement in the room even under the floor.
At this moment, in addition to the king, Reinhardt was also in the room. The father and son discussed the Devil Vine incident seriously and seemed to take it very seriously.
Anyway, Ren listened for a long time and did not mention himself at all, nor did he mention Prince Austin and Princess Melody of the Sea Tribe, let alone Charlotte and the others.
Around 23:00, Reinhard finally left.
The king continued to work in the "office" until 23:40, and then moved outside.
Ren immediately followed, pursuing in the underground passage dug in advance.
The king did not return to his palace, but turned to another place on the way.
Renne had to temporarily dig a new tunnel. Fortunately, he was fast enough and had a virtual map to locate the specific location quickly.
I thought that the king had to deal with important matters before going to sleep, but unexpectedly, through eavesdropping, I discovered that this was actually the room of a palace maid.
The king, who was already in his fifties or sixties, actually stayed in the room of a maid who was only seventeen or eighteen years old. He listened to the noise and drank some kind of potion to enhance his physical strength. What followed was a plot that anyone could guess.
Ren didn't overhear what the king thought about himself and the people around him. He waited until the movement above stopped, and soon heard the snoring of the king and his maid before leaving.
Although he didn't get the information he wanted, he unexpectedly discovered that King Nangris enjoyed life after work.
However, the work is so hard, and he still has to deal with the young maid, and even choose to take medicine. This king will torture himself to death sooner or later. No wonder the people below have chosen to take sides and prepare for the battle for the crown prince in advance.
This has nothing to do with Ren.
Because he did not get the information he wanted, Ren decided to continue digging and walked around the palace to see if he could get useful information from other places.
When he dug into the garden around 1 a.m., he discovered something that stunned him.
Just now, I was talking about why the king didn't go back to the palace, but went to a certain maid's room, thinking that his queen wouldn't mind?
It turned out that the person with the Queen's Mark was currently in the garden with someone with the title of "General of the Palace Guard".
Hearing their conversation was even more speechless.
It turned out that the queen knew where the king was and that he would not come back tonight, so she secretly made an appointment with the palace guard general. After making sure that the king had gone to bed, they went to the garden together.
The queen and the general's people are all outside the garden, and no one else can enter.
The two actually hugged each other intimately and spoke love words to each other.
Good guy! Why is the Nangris royal family so chaotic?
Renn was deeply shocked. The king and the queen had sex with each other. It was a courtesy!
The difference is that the queen knows the king's affairs and seems to have no way to object.
The king did not know about the queen, because the queen and the palace guard general were very careful and talked many times about how to ensure that the king would not find out about the next date.
It seems that King Nangris and his queen do not have deep feelings for each other, or even no feelings. It is probably a political marriage.
Renn didn't know whether the queen was the biological mother of Reinhardt and Schneider, or the mother of one of them, or if she had nothing to do with them. He knew nothing about the other's family, and had no interest in knowing.
After eavesdropping for a while, they were all meaningless love words, so I chose to leave.
After walking around underground, he visited all the important areas of the palace, but without getting any valuable information. Ren, who was not sleepy, decided to change direction and left the palace to dig all the way to the city center.
There are a large number of noble mansions here, as well as various shops and civilian residences.
At this time, except for the occasional patrolling soldiers on the streets, this bustling city is sleeping.
Everywhere is quiet, especially the underground passage dug by Renn.
After walking around the city, I finally felt sleepy around 2 o'clock.
I was going to take a shortcut and dig straight in the direction of the palace. When I passed a grocery store, I accidentally dug into a dark basement.
This is normal. Many houses have basements. Wren plans to seal the excavated wall and continue digging around it.
At this moment, I heard shouting coming from inside, accompanied by the rattling of chains, as if someone was being imprisoned in the basement.
Out of curiosity, Ren passed through the dug-out wall, took out a torch for lighting, and looked for the source of the sound.
I found a young man in the corner, about twenty years old, whose hands and feet were bound by iron chains. He was struggling desperately, his wrists and ankles were bruised, and he was screaming at the top of his lungs.
Ren was quite surprised and quickly stepped forward: "Hey! Are you okay?"
When the chained man saw Ren, he immediately retreated in fear, huddled in the corner, and let out meaningless shouts.
Ren was curious and was about to step forward to ask questions when he suddenly heard rapid footsteps coming from behind. He immediately retreated into the cave and blocked the damaged wall as quickly as possible.
Through the wall, I quickly heard the voice of the person entering the basement: "What are you doing? You called me again in the middle of the night. Are you hungry?"
The young man who was chained didn't answer, he just yelled loudly.
"Quiet! I brought you food." The people who entered the basement seemed to have taken the food. The young man's shouting finally stopped, followed by the sound of wolfing down food.
Ren was thinking about whether to dig the basement again, and asked the other party who the locked man was, and to ignore this nosy matter, when he heard the person who entered the basement sigh, and said to the young man while he was eating: "Why God?"
You want to punish me like this? Sandy risked his life to give birth to you, but got this result! What should I do with you?"
Listening further, I discovered that the person who entered the basement was actually the young man's father. It turned out that this man had intellectual disabilities since birth and was very aggressive. He had hurt many people before. His father had no choice but to kill him.
Locked in the basement.
It turned out that it was this kind of family tragedy, so it was not convenient to intervene. Ren quietly turned around and continued digging around the basement.
