Compared with before, whether it's the atmosphere or the scene, the city...or the Sibia Empire has become a little different.
First of all, His Majesty the Emperor recovered physically. Of course, in the documents sent to various places, it was stated that His Majesty had been slightly unwell before. To be precise, it was toothache caused by the growth of wisdom teeth. Then, the turmoil throughout the empire slowly subsided.
It was as inexplicable as when it happened. With the news about Cohen, the public's mood quickly returned to a rational level.
On the fifth day after the "toothache" disappeared, His Majesty the Emperor officially announced that the Sibia Empire would move its capital to the city and decided to hold a celebration ceremony half a month later. Surprisingly, the first person to respond was none other than the Dark Demon Palace and the
Temple of Light - While the Holy Capital and provincial capitals were writing celebration documents overnight, the pair of enemies who had been fighting since birth almost simultaneously issued enthusiastic congratulatory messages and stated that special envoys would be waiting for them on the day of the celebration ceremony.
city.
Then, the Sibia royal family expressed very generously that they would welcome the envoys from the Temple and the Demon Temple and their entourage in the city. Everyone had a tacit understanding and forgot about the expulsion of the priests not long ago.
As for other empires and treaty merchant groups, they can only watch the show, because the capital relocation celebration in Sibia was arranged so quickly that even the nearest empire had no time to prepare. By the time their envoys arrived in the city, the celebration ceremony would have been over long ago.
——Fortunately, there are many permanent ambassadors from the empire in the Holy Capital. It would not be too rude to send some gifts and say some congratulations.
It's not that no one doubts the whole thing, but unfortunately, the twists and turns in it have exceeded their knowledge. From another perspective, there is something happening that they dare not imagine.
In more than twenty days, Sibia carried out extensive construction work thirty miles outside the city, building two adjacent squares and an attached viewing platform and other facilities.
These two squares with exactly the same shape are not connected to each other, but are located on both sides of the commercial road. Countless magic street lights are installed on this commercial road, and the light extends to the Mortal Avenue, integrating with the Youshuang Palace.
The bright lights naturally illuminated the interior of Youshuang Palace as if it were daytime.
Upstairs in Baohua, Emperor Sibia was leading a group of his ministers to inspect the preparations for the reception ceremony. However, His Majesty was not in a high mood during this period. He was basically idle, and all matters were handed over to him.
Others do it.
"In twenty days, this is probably all we can do. We don't need to add anything more. We can't waste all the empire's income on the pick-up ceremony." He looked at the lights spreading out from the city absentmindedly. His Majesty was so commendable.
He nodded: "I'll trouble you to watch tonight, I'm going to bed."
Everyone knew that Cohen was in a bad mood, and it was hard to say anything, so he was allowed to leave.
At this time, the brothers closest to Cohen all knew that the so-called reception of the special envoys from the Temple of Darkness and the Temple of Light was just a cover. The real intention of this move was... The truth can only be understood but cannot be expressed. No matter who it is,
Saying it will bring about bloody disaster.
On such a night, the emperor could go to sleep, but his brothers could not. From the commander of the guards to the supreme judge, everyone had to stay on duty all night to prevent accidents. After everyone gathered together to discuss it for a few words, everyone separated.
Leave the palace and inspect the whole city. Jack and Geert proceed along the Mortal Avenue, while Marfa and Moya leave the city from the east and west gates respectively, and meet outside the south gate along the city wall.
At this time, the Mortal Avenue was not quiet. There were still many people busy. Many people stuck their butts out and used small brushes to clean the cracks between the bricks. Some people stood on tiptoes to adjust the ribbons, and even cleaned the trees on both sides of the Mortal Avenue.
Dead leaves...
They are not husbandmen or soldiers, they are priests wearing priestly robes.
The sudden appearance of priests in the city is surprising, but what makes people even more stunned is that the priests belong to the temple and the demon temple respectively. In order to distinguish their identities, the priests of the temple wear white robes and the priests of the demon temple wear black robes.
This is the reason why the Supreme Judge and Lieutenant General Haiert are required to patrol the mortal road together, because since the priests of the two temples came to the city in the name of the advance personnel of the special envoy, their conflicts have not stopped overtly or covertly. When they are powerful
In front of the combat capability, Daicheng was shocked, Youshuanggong was shocked, and Ke Keda was shocked.
The first conflict was quite rational, because the Light Temple got a post house, so the Dark Demon Palace also wanted a post house as a foothold in the city. The governor of the city did not hesitate and immediately allocated one to the Demon Palace.
But the post halls in the city are not all the same size. The priests of the Demon Temple claimed that "the treatment is unfair. There is an extra building in the temple post house, and they asked for reallocation."
Six generals were killed, and the quarrel continued until His Majesty Cohen wrote the case.
To be precise, His Majesty Cohen has transcendent wisdom, but he cannot resolve this unclear dispute. He can only control the scope of the conflict within a limit. Therefore, His Majesty first stated that it is impossible to reallocate the post house.
, then the Supreme Judge came up with two solutions: Either the temple priests demolish the small building, or give half of the small building to the demon temple priests.
No one expected that the final result of the negotiation between the priests of the two temples would be that each would get half the room, and the subsequent development of the matter began to become ridiculous.
The priests of the Demon Temple didn't know what they were doing in their rooms. Within three days, they caused a strong smell to spread throughout the temple posthouse. All the temple priests were vomiting and having diarrhea, and they had no energy to make preparations...
The Supreme Judge who received the complaint went to the scene and vomited all over. Master Jack was obviously very angry. His solution was a typical personal style: let the temple allocate the entire small building to the Demon Temple, and then put it in the Demon Temple.
Ten rooms were allocated for the use of the temple in the Demon Palace's post house, allowing both parties to avenge themselves if they had any grudges, and to take advantage of them if they had no grudges... After that, no one was willing to pass through the streets around the two post houses, and the preparations for welcoming the envoys from the two temples were almost at a standstill.
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Under the mediation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sbia, the two temples finally realized that they would cause trouble if they continued like this, so they handed over the priests involved in the case, and were slapped by the Supreme Judge for "illegal preparation of magic potions" and "minor poisoning"
, are still imprisoned.
The posthouse turmoil finally passed. In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, the city hall tried to allocate sites that were exactly the same. This is how the welcoming square outside the city appeared. Even the street lights and floor tiles on each side were twins. But
The conflict between the priests of the two temples did not stop, but escalated. Within two days, the people waiting in the city immediately saw the Mortal Avenue Incident - a ridiculous performance that had lost at least their sanity.
What happened was that, according to the procedures established by Sibia, the two palace envoys arrived at the same time on the day of the celebration, entered the city along the Mortal Avenue at the same time, crossed the square in front of the palace and entered the Youshuang Palace. In order to avoid conflicts, the two palace envoys were in the same position along the way.
In the parallel state, the routes do not interact, and even the music played along the way is arranged by Sibia... According to common sense, there will be no problems this time, right? No! The problem lies with the ribbons on the Mortal Avenue!
The temple insists on using temple-style ribbons, and the demon temple insists on using demon temple-style ribbons. Before the meeting chaired by the city administrator ended, the priests of the two temples had already begun to learn from the bandits and used the ribbons to seize the territory. You first
It doesn't matter if you hang it up. As soon as you turn around, I will tear off the ribbon across the Mortal Avenue and hang up my own! The cycle goes on and on, and within a day, the Mortal Avenue is in a mess.
The final result was that several priests from each of the two temples were banned and imprisoned, and then the city hall established a wide isolation zone along the Royal Road in the middle of the Mortal Avenue, with the temple and the demon temple each occupying one side.
No one is allowed to go beyond the isolation zone. Now the area that everyone can use is reduced, and there will be no disputes. You can arrange it however you want.
If Sibiya has reached this point, they will no longer have any excuses, right? Unfortunately, the high-ranking priests are another kind of creature, which cannot be speculated by common sense at all - they can always find a way to compete.
First, they competed with whose trees on the roadside were taller, then whose carvings on the street lamps were exquisite, and finally got bored enough to compete with whose road surface was cleaner. In this matter, both sides accused the other party of throwing garbage on their own roads, which led to
There was a violent conflict. The priests who clean the road usually work in groups of three or two. If something goes wrong, they will rush across the isolation belt and start a hand-to-hand fight with the other priest!
The last, last, last... Sibia couldn't bear the endless tactics of the two palaces, nor could he bear the repeated postponement of the date of the capital relocation celebration. He finally sent the guards to the scene, putting every priest in the city under strict supervision.
Under surveillance, preparations were restarted.
All of the above have become the most unique portrayal of Daicheng. Some people even made a bet that this scene will continue after the celebration and become a new scene in Bis Continent. Fortunately,
Until now, there are no residents in the city in the ordinary sense, otherwise, this gambling game would have spread out long ago.
With the sound of horse hoofbeats, Jack and Geert marched on the Mortal Avenue, listening to the report of the Guards Star Officer along the way. Fortunately, the priests of the two temples finally understood that tonight was the eve of the ceremony and did not dare to cause trouble. There was a calm and peaceful atmosphere on both sides of the Mortal Avenue.
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"I remember, there was a flower shop in front of me, right?" After halfway through the tour, Haiert pointed his horsewhip at a small street that intersects with the mortal avenue: "Specializes in selling flowers that are produced on the dividing line between gods and demons."
"Yes, that's a flower shop." Jack saw the waving sign outside the flower shop and whispered: "However, this flower shop has a strange origin and its business is bleak. According to the General Liaison Officer, this flower shop is completely
There is no need to investigate and deal with him, because no one dares to contact him at all, and his boss has become the most miserable spy on the Bis continent, and he really has to make a living by selling flowers."
"I know this joke, but it doesn't stop me from buying flowers. I often buy them for the person at home." Helter laughed, and then said softly: "This is a special night, and tomorrow is a special day. Have you ever thought about it?"
Who are you going to buy flowers for?"
"What do you mean?" The Supreme Judge looked at Helter quietly: "Don't joke about other people's sad things!"
"It's not interesting. If it were me, I would buy it and even ask my guards to send it away with great fanfare." Haiert looked at the sky and said in a strange way: "If you are afraid of this or that, you are a person with no future."
"You..." Jack frowned and waved to his group of personal guards: "Follow me!"
The door of the flower shop was knocked open. Facing the cold-faced Supreme Judge and his guards, the flower shop owner—the most pitiful spy in the entire Bis continent—thought that his last moment had arrived, so he calmly
He stretched out his hands, his eyes filled with relief and even a little bit of gratitude.
But unfortunately, the Supreme Judge only came to buy flowers. The flower shop owner leaned against the door and watched the Supreme Judge leave. Then he turned around tremblingly and wiped the tears of humiliation from his eyes with the hand holding the banknotes.
"I bought it, and it's a bouquet of the best flowers." Jack returned to Helter: "What are you looking at so ecstatically?"
"Look at our Foreign Minister." Haiert raised his head and said, "The Foreign Minister has changed a lot recently."
"There are indeed some changes." Jack looked in the direction he pointed and found that the Foreign Secretary was walking on the Mortal Avenue, making a final inspection of the celebration preparations: "I know some rumors, do you want to listen to them?"
"Okay, let's talk as we walk." Haert nodded and said, "You know a lot anyway."
"Before we came to stay in the city, the imperial concubine transferred two teams of people from me, and they didn't come back until recently. I asked them why they were there, and they smiled at me and didn't tell the truth. I was surprised. What?
Things are actually going to be hidden from me?" Jack was not talking about rumors, it was clearly first-hand information: "So, I went to talk to the chief liaison officer."
"It's only when it involves him that your men don't dare to speak, right?" Haiert smiled.
"It turns out that my people really went to work with people from the Liaison Department, and they went to investigate a case, but the location was very strange. They were in the Demon Alliance." Jack said: "They went there with false identities to investigate a case secretly.
An unsolved case from more than 20 years ago. Because it was in the Demon Alliance, they spent a lot of effort to investigate this case."
"What case?" Hearing such a bizarre thing, Haiert's curiosity was also aroused.
"Although money and power were involved in a murder case, the case was actually not complicated. It's just that after so many years, the murderers were scattered and it was a bit difficult to find. So, those people under me who were responsible for investigating the case came back." Jack said: "Then
The First Princess signed a special order, and the Liaison Department dispatched capable forces to go to the four demon empires to secretly arrest the murderer..."
"Such a big deal?" After listening to the thrilling arrest process, Haiert shook his head: "A few days ago, you and your eldest brother clamored to return a deer to someone else. They searched for creditors all over the world and never got such a big scene. Princess.
Who are you doing this for?"
"For whom, I don't know." The Supreme Judge smiled and shook his head: "Anyway, a few days ago, someone came to me to borrow an expert in investigating cases, and also borrowed an expert in extracting confessions from the Liaison Department.
"
"Then what?"
"You know that there is a small pool in the harem that was filled up, right? It's because these two masters vomited a mess there." Jack stretched out a finger: "One night, the mistress did it himself, and there was nothing at all.
Giving these two masters a chance to show off, not even the scumbags of the seven murderers were left. Then the torturer burst into tears in the harem and was promoted to a regular one the next day."
"No wonder he did his job so beautifully." Haiert stopped his horse in the doorway and looked at the foreign minister who was still busy in the distance: "It must be a super performance to be able to reach a consensus between the two special envoys!"
"That's right. He did the job well. Now it's our turn." Jack muttered.
"It doesn't matter. Although there is a big deviation from our previous estimate, the situation is developing smoothly!" Lieutenant General Moya came from behind on horseback: "Everything went well?"
"Everything goes well." Major General Mafa followed.
"It's almost dawn, and the celebration is about to begin." Lieutenant General Moya said softly: "As everyone thought, we are about to experience something that has never happened before. For the empire, this matter is full of crises.
It’s also full of hope.”
"There will be no more meetings on this matter today." Mafa said, "Please be cautious."
"Cohen is in the middle, and everyone else performs their duties..."
"Only ourselves, no one else can help..."
Just as several people were motivating each other and coordinating for the last time in the city gate, Cohen Keda, who was supposed to be "sleeping" in the Youshuang Palace, was signing orders as quickly as possible - the four imperial concubines
Before leaving the city, all these urgent orders that need to be issued must be signed by him.
This busy work lasted until the sky was already twilight.
Putting down his pen and coming to the window, looking at the scenery in the distance, Cohen's mouth suddenly showed a smile. He clapped his hands on the window sill and shouted: "Mortal Plan - Start!"
This shout lingered around Baohua Tower and never dissipated for a long time... (To be continued)