Although it was thanks to Qi Qing’s deployment of manpower in advance, the arrest went so smoothly that Ji Xingjue felt a little uneasy.
Rand had run away.
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Qi Qing kept his eye on Harlem, and after reporting to the Emperor, he took Harlem directly back to the military headquarters building, locked him in the military headquarters prison, and immediately began interrogation.
Ji Xingjue also had some questions to ask and followed him into the interrogation room.
Not sure if it was intentional or not, Harlem briefly glanced at Qi Qing, the victor, and looked at Ji Xingjue with a smile. “What do you want to ask, teacher? I know everything.”
Ji Xingjue suddenly had a big headache. Lord Marshal was good at every aspect, but he couldn’t get rid of his small problem of being jealous. When he turned to talk, the Marshal’s expressionless face became sour.
He quickly took two steps back to show his innocence. “Your Highness is joking, I’m no longer your teacher.”
Harlem didn’t seem to feel threatened at the current situation at all, and his smiling expression was still gentle. “Teacher will always be my teacher. Those years at Ankara University were the most relaxing time for me.”
Qi Qing narrowed his eyes and stared at him coldly. “Really? In return to your teacher’s teaching, your choice was to introduce an evil-minded priest disciple to his laboratory?”
Harlem shrugged, “A priest disciple? Colin was indeed recommended by me, but I didn’t know he was a priest disciple. Lord Marshal, I admit everything I did to His Majesty the Emperor, but I refuse to admit anything else.”
“Your Highness is not ready to admit that he has any connection with the Holy Order?” Ji Xingjue raised his eyebrows, “But you seem to have forgotten someone?”
Harlem, “Oh?”
Qi Qing leaned forward and uttered three words, “Alder.”
Harlem’s smile faltered.
“It seems that it’s not only dangerous to be your teacher, but also dangerous to be your eldest brother.” Qi Qing mocked lightly.
At the mention of Alder, Harlem fell silent.
After a long time of silence, he raised his eyebrows, and the smile that had persisted on his face finally disappeared completely. With a tone as cold as ice, he asked, “What do you know?”
“Marshal Qi’s life must have been kind of smooth sailing,” Harlem shrugged. “My father was once the top leader of the military. He had a smooth official career and was invincible. Even his companions who had fallen out with each other in the past quickly got back together. It’s so enviable…so you won’t understand me.”
Smooth sailing?
Qi Qing sneered lightly. He had no intention of confiding his true feelings to a prisoner, so he held his hands and said, “Your life experience is tragic. Is that the reason why you betrayed Alder to the Holy Order?”
Harlem pursed his lips, as if he had been hit on a sour spot, and said after a long time, “He was an eyesore.”
He was brought back to the Palace when he was only four years old. In order to cover up this Royal scandal, His Majesty the Emperor gave his mother a glass of poisoned wine before taking him away.
The Emperor thought that he was too young to remember things, so he didn’t even cover his eyes.
Of course, bringing him back to the Palace was not because of any remaining affection between father and son, but because he didn’t want the Royal blood to be lost.
After all, the Imperial Capital was a place where bloodline was very important.
He was brought into the labyrinth-like Palace, when he was timid and didn’t know what to do. The first person to show kindness to him was the Eldest Prince. The Eldest Prince, who was a few years older than him, didn’t know whether to raise him like a younger brother or a child, and brought him up.
The Eldest Prince had a straightforward and free temperament, and treated everyone equally. He also had the purest and noble bloodline, and was His Majesty the Emperor’s favorite son.
With Alder around, His Majesty the Emperor had even more disdain for the illegitimate son.
Harlem loathed the Royal family.
But Alder was the one with whom he had the most complicated feelings.
“…No matter what you think, I have no intention of harming him.” Harlem closed his eyes, his complexion was pale and cold, like a piece of ice revealing its true color. “I just.. want to talk with him.”
“You mean, you don’t know that your communications have been stolen?”
Ji Xingjue tilted his head and looked at Qi Qing.
Harlem pursed his lower lip and repeated, “I didn’t hand over his coordinates.”
He turned to Ji Xingjue and was silent for a few seconds. “I’m sorry, teacher.”
He probably didn’t hand over Alder’s coordinates, but he did let in a priest disciple who came with murderous intentions.
Ji Xingjue sighed inwardly, patted Qi Qing’s tightly clasped hand, indicating that he was okay, and then said, “Do you feel remorseful toward me?”
Harlem smiled and said softly, “You are a very good teacher.”
“Thank you,” Ji Xingjue nodded, “but it doesn’t seem like a good thing to be praised by you… Well, do you know what role Rand plays in the Holy Order?”
When it came to other people, Harlem did not hesitate. “He didn’t officially join the Holy Order, but only cooperated with the Holy Son in the Imperial Capital for the ‘Resurrection Plan’.”
At this point, Harlem paused. “I think you already know where the spark of the Resurrection Plan is.”
Ji Xingjue lowered his eyes and looked at his fingertips. “I’m more curious as to why the Holy Father wants to kill me.”
Since there was a spark in his body that they had worked hard for hundreds of years to obtain.
Harlem thought for a while, “I only have a cooperative relationship with the Holy Order. Regarding this, I only heard a few words from the Holy Father, and I speculated that the general situation should be that the Holy Son was the person who led the experiment of the Resurrection Plan, but he deliberately resurrected the wrong person.”
“…What did you say?”
“Teacher should know the true identity behind the Holy Order, so I’ll tell you straight away. The original core of the Resurrection Plan was the tyrant Carol, but the Holy Son secretly picked Prince Ludwig.” Harlem said, “Most of the senior leaders of the Holy Order are the remnants of the Royal family of the Randa Empire. After discovering that the person they wanted to be resurrected was not the one they wanted, they were very dissatisfied with the Holy Son’s actions. Moreover, for a long time, these people have long been unwilling to give themselves a boss, and just want to be in power themselves.”
Ji Xingjue rubbed the tip of his eyebrows.
Harlem’s words contained a lot of information, and he needed to digest it.
The person they wanted to resurrect was the tyrant, but for some unknown reason, the Holy Son secretly replaced it with the Crown Prince’s spiritual code.
The Holy Father was dissatisfied that the one being resurrected was the Prince. He was preparing to take power by himself, so he wanted to kill him.
The action of the Holy Son choosing the Prince was obvious that the Holy Son was more powerful.
Ji Xingjue found it a little ridiculous for no reason.
He actually felt a little sympathy and compassion for the tyrant and the prince, shook his head and said, “Thank you, that’s all I want to ask.”
After Qi Qing finished listening, he fixed his gaze at Harlem and remembered the question that had been thrown to the back of his mind. “Did you use the Bewildered Flower on His Majesty the Emperor?”
Harlem suddenly bent his eyes and smiled. “Yes, I went to Dark Star several times to auction a few plants, and all the extracted ingredients went into His Majesty’s stomach.”
He held his chin and said regretfully, “Do you want to ask me about the antidote? It’s a pity that Bewildered Flower is not poisonous. It has addictive and hallucinogenic ingredients, more like a drug that does not bring pleasure to people. The dose I injected was too much. Unless His Majesty the Emperor can learn from the Holy Order and convert the spiritual code into a new body, otherwise, he will only be able to rely on drugs to neutralize it occasionally in his life, wake up briefly for a while, and then fall back into the nightmare of my hypnosis.”
Harlem smiled happily and said, “It’s so interesting. I searched for a long time before I found something that suits him so well.”
Qi Qing calmly watched him go crazy. “Just asking casually.”
As long as His Majesty the Emperor was alive, the morale of the front line would not be broken.
As for the rest… His Majesty the Emperor had indulged in singing, dancing and feasting. He had been doing nothing for many years, and all the government affairs were handled by the Presbyterian Council. There wasn’t much difference between having him or without him.
When the interrogation came to an end, Ji Xingjue and Qi Qing left the interrogation room and ordered people to guard the door tightly.
Having already met the Emperor, Qi Qing didn’t need to hide anymore. He probably gathered some information that could be reported in the car.
Currently, the most urgent thing for the Emperor was not Alder’s information, but himself.
Perhaps he already discovered it too, and soon he would fall into the nightmare of Harlem’s hypnosis again.
This thing could drive people crazy.
Ji Xingjue’s small belly didn’t hold any sympathy toward any of this matter.
There were finally no outsiders on the suspension car. Ji Xingjue stretched out his limbs and lay down in Qi Qing’s arms in a particularly inconspicuous manner. He lazily connected to the operating system of the suspension car and took a look at the set route.
It was the road from the military headquarters to the Palace.
“Lord Marshal,” Ji Xingjue turned over and slowly poked Qi Qing’s chest, “It suddenly occurred to me that you have dropped me off so many times before. Is this really a drop off?”
Qi Qing grabbed his disturbing finger with his left hand. After browsing through the contents of the report, he chose to send it and looked down at Ji Xingjue. “No.”
“When you first returned to the Imperial Capital, why did you come to school practically every day?”
Qi Qing also grabbed his other hand that was preparing to do evil, held it tightly in his palm, and said without changing his expression, “I went to see my legal partner, is there any problem?”
“Of course, it’s no problem,” Ji Xingjue laughed at the word “legal partner” and asked with a smile, “Then what about when you drag me to a blind date to propose?”
Speaking of this, Qi Qing immediately lowered his head. “How many times have you been on blind dates?”
Ji Xingjue smiled half-heartedly. “Only seven or eight times a month? I think you should know better than me.”
Qi Qing was in an even worse mood and turned away, dejected.
Ji Xingjue couldn’t help but say, “Qi Xiao Bao, you’re so childish.”
He scratched Qi Qing’s palm and said, “The very generous Lord Marshal, do you know why I reject those blind dates?”
The tips of Qi Qing’s ears twitched slightly, but his head still remained sideways.
Ji Xingjue chuckled while giving him a side glance and deliberately slowed down his speech, “Because of you.”
Only then did Qi Qing hum with satisfaction and turned his head back. “You lied to me.”
Ji Xingjue liked this secondary adorable side of Lord Marshal so much that he wanted to trick him into bed and kiss him on the face to his heart’s content. “How could it be possible? When did Gege lie to you?”
“…Ji Xingjue, look at your trustworthiness, which is worse than a fish trap, before saying it again.”
Alright, Ji Xingjue followed suit and changed his words, “I definitely didn’t lie to you this time.”
Qi Qing lowered his head and looked at him.
When the Lord Marshal fixed his gaze at a person, his light-colored pupils looked particularly cold and ruthless, which always made people feel scared. However, Ji Xingjue didn’t think so. He liked Qing Qing’s eyes very much and said with a smile, “Aiya, probably about that time… I suddenly realized that our little baby has grown up and is taller than me.”
When they played games together in a crowded room, Qing Qing had to turn sideways and half-hug him in his arms. The hot breath hit his nose, which always made his performance unstable.
When they chatted all night, and when he opened his eyes half asleep, his eyes would unconsciously trace the profile of the young man’s handsome face in the dark, staring at him in a daze.
The iron tree, Ji Xingjue, was blooming, but he didn’t know what that feeling was.
After missing it for many years, looking back, he suddenly realized that it was actually called throbbing.
Qi Qing said those words when he left the Imperial Capital, and everyone thought that Ji Xingjue would panic.
Only Ji Xingjue knew that he was waiting every day for Qi Qing to come back as promised and eagerly awaiting this revenge.
English word translation: 2266
Drifting Wanderer 