Chapter 783 Banquet, Kingdom of Shadows

The next night.

Bai Yu and Cordelia went to Buckingham Palace together and attended the banquet.

Originally, he thought that Peggy and Cordelia would have another argument, but the problems in the Laurennin family prevented Peggy from getting out.

Even Melusina had to stay to help deal with it.

Because Morse was unwilling to give up, he took his loyal followers and chose to rebel.

That night, Peggy encountered an assassination, but the assassination was quickly settled.

Peggy is now at the level of a fourth-level mage, and is still the most difficult vampire mage with strong vitality.

After killing the assassin, he learned through interrogation that the employer was Morse.

Then Peggy quickly judged that Morse's plan was to assassinate important members of the family and make Laurennin lose his footing.

He was already at the end of his rope, so he was completely crazy.

Of course, Morse did not go on the field himself. Although he was crazy, he was not stupid. If he came up to kill people, even if he succeeded, it would only be a one-for-one exchange.

And with Bai Yu there, a one-for-one exchange was a luxury.

Their fundamental goal is actually to disrupt the internal affairs of the Laurennin family, and then find an opportunity to donate money and run away.

Through the underground black market, a large amount of money, industry, and shops are exchanged for hard currencies such as gold, gems, and elemental crystals, and then find a place to start over.

After all, the world is so big that there is always a place to settle down.

However, if Morse wants to leave Midwinter, he can only transfer his property through the ghost fleet.

But he is careless here, there are only a few ghost fleets in the world.

Although Edward can't go ashore, it doesn't mean that he can't read the newspaper to understand the specific situation.

The man who was scolded by Cortelli and Peggy at the same time yesterday, and the lady who sent the letter behind him, are actually a metaphor.

The signature at the end of the letter is Anna.

It refers to the Queen Anna, the flagship of Blackbeard Edward's fleet.

With Blackbeard's tip-off, Morse's transfer plan was completely exposed ten hours before it was executed.

Of course, even if he found Nelson, the result would be the same.

The cooperation between Donghuang and the Ghost Fleet was just reached not long ago. It was a secret treaty, and Morse had no way of knowing it.

When he was anxiously waiting for the fleet at the dock at three o'clock in the morning, what he waited for was the guards of the Laurenning family and the security personnel of the Donghuang Group.

Morse was pressed to the ground before he could even start his last dance.

Morse was taken back by the police. A pit was reserved for him in the prison of Scotland Yard. Next, he will face multiple criminal charges, including murder, arson, asset reselling, financial fraud, and more than 20 other charges. In the end, it will be a solid case. If he is lucky, he can still have a three-year suspended death sentence. If he is unlucky, he will have to rush to the execution ground in three months to pass this week.

Peggy didn't actually plan to kill Morse. Although this man was very ambitious, he also had some ability. If he bowed his head and admitted his mistakes, as long as he signed the order contract and swore with his heart, the family could keep him for use.

But the result of a person's paranoia is to go all the way to the dark, and the result of not repenting is death.

Although Morse's problem was solved, the large amount of assets he brought with him also became a problem. It would take a lot of time just to count them.

The advantage is that he took all his assets with him when he ran away, which greatly filled the treasury of the Laurennin family.

Peggy sighed again and again, no wonder the emperor liked to kill nobles and confiscate their property.

Bai Yu agreed deeply. He remembered that in a previous game, Heshen was made into a card character. When there was no money, Heshen would be killed and his property confiscated, then resurrected, and then killed and confiscated again, repeating in the game cycle, and exploding gold coins crazily.

In short, after last night's episode, the president's sister and his fiancée Peggy had to start working overtime to liquidate assets, take in the Laurennin faction while the iron was hot, appease people's hearts, and eliminate chronic diseases. They had no time to accompany Bai Yu to the royal dinner.

...

The carriage was shaking.

Bai Yu didn't understand. With such a good invention as the car, why did they have to make a carriage? Even the best carriage would be bumpy. Is it worth giving up the comfortable sofa, refrigerator and color TV for a little ritual?

Cordelia didn't have so many thoughts. She hugged Bai Yu's arms and smiled confidently and unruly.

This look and subtle expression were very much like a teenager who was pressed against the wall and kissed by a school beauty at the age of 18.

Full of pride, arrogance, vanity, confidence and even arrogance.

It's not impossible to understand.

After all, Bai Yu knew that he would be the most handsome guy in the whole banquet tonight; and as his female companion, Cordelia was naturally the most beautiful girl in this banquet.

The two entered the banquet venue.

Buckingham Palace opened a very high-standard hall, which was called the Red Heart Palace. It was usually open to entertain foreign guests.

The royal family showed the attitude they should have.

The first half of the banquet was basically unremarkable.

All kinds of social interactions in the aristocratic circle were inevitable.

The attitude of the prince who hosted the banquet was really flat. He said a few polite words to Bai Yu and then nothing more.

Princess Sissi did not show up at all, but Princess Helen, who invited Bai Yu, did show up.

She took the initiative to tell the reason for inviting Bai Yu, because she was very curious about Bai Yu's past experience.

Princess Helen had a pseudonym as a best-selling novelist in the middle of winter. Bai Yu was a rare source for her.

Bai Yu told her a few stories with some cuts, which were related to himself or the real past of some heroes.

Seeing Princess Helen's thoughtful expression, Bai Yu guessed that she must have had inspiration, so he took the initiative to leave.

After dancing two dances with Cordelia, the banquet came to an end.

But Bai Yu's real goal of coming to Buckingham Palace has not been achieved.

He has not yet met Queen Victoria.

If he meets Victoria, she should be able to tell him the whereabouts of his father.

If he is lucky, he can also learn from her how to enter the fairy kingdom.

Although the fairy kingdom is not a secret in Midwinter, there are very few people who are qualified to enter it, and those who can be favored by fairies are very few after all.

Queen Midwinter is a saint with a transcendent status, so naturally not everyone can meet her at will, but Bai Yu is a distinguished guest who has sent back the Sun that Never Sets. His application should be heard by the Midwinter royal family and given a decent explanation.

The prince was surrounded by a group of nobles, chatting about everything; Bai Yu could only find the princess to submit an oral application.

The princess had a good impression of Bai Yu, and she was also a noble who grew up in Rome, so she was quite friendly.

She said helplessly that the saint from Rome and Victoria had been staying in the greenhouse and had not come out until now, and no one dared to ask.

Bai Yu then knew that Lyudmila had come to Buckingham Palace three days ago and had talked with Victoria until now.

The conversation between the two saints must be extraordinary.

Bai Yu had to give up temporarily, and then asked: "I have come to Midwinter, but I haven't seen even one saint?"

The princess smiled and said: "How can it be so easy to see a saint... Seven out of ten saints in Midwinter stay in the Fairyland."

"Is the Fairyland good?"

"I don't know, and I haven't been there." The princess said: "It has been rumored that the Fairyland is an ideal place that can make people immortal."

"Fake." Bai Yu asserted with certainty. If it was true, countless people would have been waiting in line to enter.

The princess smiled lightly: "Of course it's fake, but the canonizations left in the fairy kingdom are real."

"Because the Holy Grail Knight must protect the Holy Grail."

"By the way..."

The princess suddenly remembered something and took the initiative to propose.

"Since Mr. Bai has come here, why don't you go to see the Holy Grail on a suitable day?"

"Just treat it as a pre-familiarization."

Bai Yu was puzzled: "Can the Holy Grail be seen at will?"

"Of course not." The princess shook her head and smiled: "The Holy Grail will only stay where it should be, and what we see in the real world is just its reflection."

...

Buckingham Palace, in the greenhouse garden.

Lyudmila picked up the teacup that was still emitting hot steam, silently waiting for the queen in front of her to open her eyes.

After two days and two nights of waiting, Victoria's eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she opened her eyes.

The queen's expression revealed a trace of fatigue.

"You may have been immersed in it for too long this time. I thought you were asleep, Your Majesty."

"If this counts as sleeping, it must be a nightmare." Victoria gently rubbed her brows, picked up the teacup, cut off another piece of cake, and took a sip: "I haven't eaten for three days, I'm a little hungry."

"Your canonization is so fragile."

"After all, I'm different from you. I just see farther than ordinary people and am not good at fighting." Victoria rubbed her sore shoulders: "I'll have to let my granddaughter massage my back later."

"Are you deliberately delaying time? Is the situation really so bad that you don't want to speak?"

The icy Valkyrie frowned, and her tone became more suppressed: "So, what did you see? Did you find the whereabouts of the Roman emperor?"

Victoria was silent for a long time.

"I just saw the Kingdom of Shadows."

"Scathach told me."

"She said... the emperor is dead."

Glittering snowflakes suddenly floated in the greenhouse.

A snowflake fell into the black tea and instantly froze into an ice ball.

Lyudmila's eyes were cold: "This... Impossible, Victoria, can you take responsibility for what you said?"

The disappearance of the Roman emperor is a secret among secrets. Now the crown prince is acting as regent, and Prince Tiling is pretending to be the emperor.

And now the emperor is dead?

This is a major event that can cause an earthquake in Rome.

How did he die, where did he die, and who killed him?

And these three questions were denied by Victoria before Lyudmila asked.

"I don't know the details."

"As the gatekeeper of the Shadow Kingdom, Scathach's words are not wrong."

The queen put down the frozen black tea and looked at Lyudmila again.

"She saw the emperor enter the innermost door of the Shadow Kingdom with her own eyes."

Lyudmila breathed a sigh of relief: "Doesn't that mean that Scathach didn't see his death with her own eyes?"

"For her, it makes no difference... Those who cannot return from the door within a hundred days will never come back." Victoria sighed in a low voice.

"Didn't His Majesty leave any message?"

"There's no way to know. Perhaps we can only find out after we meet Scathach." Victoria paused: "And, I also learned some other news."

"What is it?"

"The emperor was not the only one who entered. There were other people who entered the innermost door with the emperor, a total of five people."

Victoria waved her hand gently, and the temperature of the greenhouse returned to normal, warm as spring, but her eyes were as cold and lonely as the middle of the night.

"There is a Holy Grail Knight, a devout saint of the church, an ascetic monk who came from afar, and a father looking for his child."

"Five canonized saints entered that door, and there was no echo? This is the largest event in the past hundred years, right?" Lyudmila sat up straight: "When will the Holy Grail Knight be able to leave the Fairy Kingdom?"

She just finished speaking, and suddenly realized the point, and immediately asked: "Wait, who is the last person you mentioned?"

Victoria glanced in the direction of the Red Heart Hall: "His last name is Bai."