"Um...pee..." Bailey, who was drowsily asleep, got up from the bed and wanted to go to the toilet. Of course, there is no independent toilet in the room of this small hotel, and the toilet is in the public area on the same floor.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw a figure moving outside. At first he thought it was a ghost and was startled. But after taking a closer look, he discovered that it was actually Elaine.
"Big brother? Are you back?" Although he was very sleepy, Bailey still said happily.
"Well..." Elaine looked at Bailey from a distance about five yards away, but did not come over: "I'm going to go out and do the task. Before I do the task, I'll come back to see you."
"Really," the little fox walked towards the bathroom: "Brother, please pay attention to safety when doing tasks."
"Hmm..." Unexpectedly, Elaine followed Bailey into the bathroom.
"Bailey...I, I want to tell you something." He whispered: "Actually, I——"
He struggled for a long time before deciding to speak out. Bailey had the right to know, and he also had the obligation to tell the child about Leo.
"I admit, I know your father."
The little fox's ears moved.
"...Really? You said that just to make me happy, right?"
Everything was so sudden that he remained unmoved.
"Really, really. Your father and I are...brothers. There is no blood relationship. I was just taken in and adopted by your grandfather. But, the relationship between us is just like that of biological brothers." Elaine said lowly
Say it loudly.
"...Is he the big brother you call Leoport?" Bailey asked.
"Yes. That's you, your father's name." Elaine replied: "I just went to the hospital and did some tests, and it was finally confirmed. You, you are his son. His biological son."
"So Elaine is my uncle? Even though we are not related by blood?" the little fox asked again, before washing his hands after urinating: "Then, uncle, give me a hug?"
"...Yes, I'm sorry. It's not possible right now." Elaine said, but when Bailey approached, he took half a step back.
"Why? Because eldest brother doesn't like me?"
"Because of me, I was... dirty. I'm too dirty. I can't touch you now." Elaine said, "But, but one day, if I can atone for my sins... I can be forgiven."
, if you forgive yourself, I want to hold you tightly at that time."
"Big brother is such a fool." After washing his hands, Bailey suddenly rushed over and hugged Elaine.
"B-Bailey...? Don't touch me, I'm so dirty..."
"It's nothing dirty or dirty. It was you who risked your life to save me, big brother. At that time, big brother didn't even know who I was, but he just went to save a kid who met by chance and wanted to be saved. Big brother...
...is my hero. So no matter how dirty you are, you are not dirty. No matter how wrong you have done, I forgive you."
"I..." Then Elaine began to sob uncontrollably: "I...are not qualified..."
"It was me...who let down your father's love..." he said.
"It's me... I just wanted to save him, but I missed the last time with him...
It was me... No matter what I did... I couldn't save him in the end... I watched him die...
Doing everything...shameful...stupid...painful...but achieving nothing...in the end, not even the most important person can be saved.
How do I deserve to be loved by others?"
"You are qualified." Bailey said, "You couldn't save dad, but you saved me. Even if the whole world says that eldest brother is a bad guy, I still think that eldest brother is a hero. Even if there are no big heroes in the world at this moment.
Saved the world, big brother is a greater hero than him. I don’t want you to think that, I don’t want others to think that, I want me to think that.”
After hearing Bailey's words, Elaine cried even harder. He knelt down, hugged the child tightly, and began to cry loudly.
"Okay, it feels so uncomfortable..." Bailey whispered.
"Hug, sorry..." Elaine relaxed a little.
"You know, big brother?" the little fox whispered: "When I got on the boat today, I saw big brother from a distance. I know that big brother is my tribe and a relative, even if there is no blood relationship. I saw
The pained look on Big Brother's face...knows you need help.
I planned to spend the last time of my life trying to help you. Even if I couldn't help anything, I still wanted to make you happy.
But I failed to help my big brother, and instead I was saved by you. As expected, we are all on the same level. I wanted to save others, but failed to do so. I even got saved in turn. It’s really shameful, this useless me.
"
"No, no..." Elaine cried and whispered: "I, I have been... saved..."
"I think so." The fox boy also cried softly, and the two hugged each other tightly and cried for a long time.
One forty in the morning.
"Are you okay? Your eyes are swollen?" When Elaine appeared in front of Sir Gordon, Gordon asked with a funny smile.
"...No, it's okay." The white lion boy whispered: "Come on, let's start the mission?"
"Well, let's get started." The captain of the Dark Blue Rose Knight Squadron said, and he gave a sign to the team members behind him. A group of people were already ready to go, and their armors were neatly dressed. It is hard to imagine that these guys were still in the bar a few hours ago.
They were doing ridiculous and uninhibited things in a room with a large group of men and women. Even though Elaine had rested, her whole body was sore, but these knights were in high spirits late at night. Aren't they tired?
"Let's [celebrate] after we come back, macho." Gordon lowered his voice and said with a smirk to Elaine: "You have tasted the sword at my waist. Next time it will be you who will penetrate me."
Elaine made a disgusted expression and did not respond to Gordon.
After telling Queeg to let the leopard take care of Bailey, Elaine left her companions in the hotel and set off with the group of knights.
The city that never sleeps is indeed the city that never sleeps. At one o'clock in the morning, the whole city is still full of energy, and there are a large group of prostitutes in the streets and alleys, soliciting customers, and the customers are more like hungry wolves searching for food everywhere.
In the night of this vibrant city that never sleeps, a group of people moved quietly in the dark alley corners.
"By the way, why is it Rabuel?" Elaine has wanted to ask a long time ago: "After the identity of King Soissons as an artificial human was revealed, he ran away and took refuge in a place like this? Indeed, indeed
It's far away from the capital, but there are so many people in this city..."
"Who knows? Maybe King Clotier knew that he was in trouble and was eager to continue his descendants?" Gordon said half-jokingly: "By the way, can artificial humans have children?"
Elaine didn't answer. He didn't know what an artificial person was. But since the artificial person was deliberately created to replace a real person, the manufacturer would definitely make the artificial person exactly like a real person. If an artificial person is
If a person is infertile, doesn't that expose his identity?
But wait, even real people may not have the ability to have children. There are many infertile people in the world.
"But one thing is for sure. La Bouelle, the city that never sleeps, is just a cover. Soissons has been using the disguise of La Bouelle, the city that never sleeps, to hide the secrets of this city since a long time ago." Sir Gordon said: "
The Knights of the Dark Blue Rose have been observing for a long time, and there is no mistaking it. The true face of this Rabuel is actually a military base hidden under the city that never sleeps - a large underground dock."
"Ship, dock..."
Rabuel is not a port city. However, there is a lake next to this city and a river that leads directly to the coast. Boats can indeed reach the sea from here. And no one would have thought that such a city would have an underground dock.
Such a ridiculous city that never sleeps is actually a military center. It has a perfect disguise.
Maybe the "City that Never Sleeps" was deliberately decorated like this in order to conceal the existence of a military base. The French always have a little crazy idea in strange places.
"I don't need to tell you," Sir Gordon added. "More than one-thirtieth of the population in this city are actually spies from that military base. They specialize in collecting intelligence and monitoring the comings and goings of Rabuel."
What’s even more interesting is that more than one-sixty of the people who come here are intelligence workers from a certain country in the world. On the surface, they are here for prostitution, but they are actually looking for that underground military base.”
"You, you guys used to have sex in bars, too...?"
"They are disguising, and we are also disguising." The captain of the Dark Blue Rose Knight Squadron laughed and said: "You have to have fun, so you won't be suspected. Coming to La Buelle and not having fun is simply telling the people here that we are here.
You are a spy. We were worried that you were too serious and would expose us. It turned out that you were indeed the legendary playboy, the big, lecherous, ghost Leoport. You played crazier than us, and you were so lewd that everyone present was
The knights all chuckled softly. God knows what crazy things Elaine did after being drunk.
"But, but, are you leaving the city?" Elaine asked suspiciously when she saw that the route the knights took did not look like leaving the city at all, but more like running towards the center of the city.
"No." Gordon said, "We're here."
They didn't leave the city, and they didn't even get close to the city wall. The real way to reach King Clotiel's hiding place was actually——
Sir Gordon lifted the lid of the sewer. A smell came out of it.
"Uh." Elaine is the only orc in the team, and naturally has the most sensitive sense of smell. She almost wants to vomit when she smells this smell.
"Here." Gordon handed a gas mask: "You shouldn't be afraid of getting dirty now, right?"
Elaine frowned, took the mask and put it on. Although the shape of the poison mask was only suitable for humans, it contained subspace magic and automatically fit Elaine's face after putting it on.
"Can we get to the military base from here?" Elaine was still confused. His voice passed through the small communicator in the gas mask and reached the communicator in the ears of Gordon and others.
"No, the real entrance to the military base is from the bottom of the river. You need to use a submarine." Gordon replied: "But of course we can't drive a submarine in openly, so we asked the intelligence network to investigate. From the trail
Go in."
Is the trail he mentioned a sewer... Well, no matter how tight a military base is, it needs ventilation from the outside, which means there must be ventilation passages - I just hope that Gordon and the others will really investigate everything clearly.
The knights touched a certain switch on their armor and turned on a protective shield that covered their bodies like a membrane and had very weak protection. Although it was very weak, it was enough to block the dirt in the sewer and prevent it from being contaminated.
Their precious armor.
Elaine did not have such equipment, so he was immediately troubled.
"Just use this." Gordon said, giving Elaine a small shield generator that can be carried with him: "It would be bad for the noble Mr. Leo to get all dirty - although I have seen more
You are dirty, hehe."
Elaine pouted and took the equipment. It could just be hung on Elaine's belt. Its function was similar to the protective shield on the knights' armor. Although it did not provide much strong protection, it could at least block dirt.
.
"I'll go first." After Gordon said that, he climbed down first.