Overall, the chat with the old man was still very pleasant. Although this old man is a little old, he is healthy, clear-minded, cheerful and talkative, humorous, and a little naughty of an old child.

What made them react was the heavy bell that reverberated over the palace. Lu Xi pondered for a moment, and suddenly realized that he had been chatting with the old man for more than two hours, and now it was twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the dinner was about to end.

"It was rude, but I had to quit. Otherwise, when the gate of the palace is closed, I will have nowhere to go, and I may be treated as an assassin by the guards here. Lu Xi said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Well, that's right, I won't keep you." The old man waved his hand very boldly.

Lu Xi saluted the old man and walked quickly through the corridor, while the white-robed old man stood in place and watched Lu Xi away with a meaningful gaze. From beginning to end, the old man did not report his name, and Lu Xi did not ask. As an elder, if the other party is not willing to use his name, it is always difficult to ask too much.

After a long time, there was a slight sound of footsteps behind the old man. At some point, a man in his fifties dressed in an off-white silk shirt had already walked over. He was tall, but he looked a little fat and bloated, so round that there was no hair on his head as if he could steal oil, his facial features were kind and pleasant, and his smile seemed to be a ball of harmony.

The man bowed to the old man.

"Your Majesty, it's time for you to rest."

"Varus, how's it going?" The old man didn't look back and asked casually.

"The dinner hosted by His Royal Highness and Mrs. Iken on your behalf was also a great success, and the guests and hosts were delighted. 陛xià. The balding Varus replied with a squinting smile.

"You old spider, you know that's not what I'm asking." The emperor scolded with a smile, "Do you have to be honest if I kick you?" ”

Varus smiled and said, "It's a good boy who rarely shows talent. If not His Highness...... Well, the little ones are a little tempted. ”

"Then you have to take it easy, watch out for my precious granddaughter pumping your spider skin." The old man left this sentence noncommittally, and turned away, his steps so brisk that he did not look like an old man in the twilight.

Lu Xi didn't expect that he had become the object of other people's criticism. He ran through the hallway and outside, ready to take a shortcut from the garden outside. The bronze bell at the highest point in the palace had stopped ringing, and the square at the main entrance in the distance was brightly lit and full of people, apparently the guests who had gone to the banquet were ready to leave. Thinking of this, Lu Xi couldn't help but speed up a few more steps, but when he passed a section of low, ivy-covered white walls, he couldn't help but stop.

In any building with a long history, a strong sense of the times, or a special mission (such as a school, a palace, an abandoned factory, etc.), there will always be all kinds of strange legends. For example, "an extra staircase", "a mannequin that can move on its own", "the ghost of an old school building", and so on. It is in this Bailu Palace, which is said to have a thousand rooms, that there is also a legend of a thousand and one rooms, the story of the undead of the unscattered palace concubine who was beaten into the cold palace.

Theoretically, of course, such a bizarre rumor in Auckland's centre of domination is more the result of a longing for mystery and unfounded rumours. If there is a ghost in the Imperial Palace, then all the archbishops and paladins of the Templar can die for malfeasance.

But then again, the swaying shadow on the wall, dressed in a white evening dress, is a little panicked no matter how you look at it.

"Immortals?" Lu Xi looked at the shadow on the wall and asked. …,

"Huh?" The shadow heard this voice and turned his head, revealing a pretty face, which was Caterina who was in Nancheng and Lu Xi's relationship again. Seeing her acquaintances, she couldn't help but smile: "Huh? Lucy, is that you? ”

"Youkai?" Lu Xi ignored it and continued to ask.

"Huh? Are you having brain cramps again? ”

"Really, not cooperating at all, it's so uncute." Lu Xi didn't say the word "thank you" after all, he pouted helplessly, and was ready to leave.

"Hey, wait, did you just leave a weak lady in the middle of nowhere?"

"First, you are not weak at all; Second, isn't this a wilderness? Lu Xi continued to walk without looking back.

"If you don't come, I'll yell 'indecent'. Do you think the guards believe in you or me? ”

"Oh, everyone is a civilized person, you have to be reasonable." Lu Xi hurriedly walked back with a smiling face, "Do you have any instructions?" Dear Miss? ”

"I'm Katarina, and you called me Karin!"

"Well, Karin, what the hell do you want to do? Even if you want to see the scenery, you can climb to the bell tower, but what is the purpose of staying on the wall? ”

"What? Of course, it's to climb over the wall? Karin squinted at Lu Xi, completely looking at the idiot's expression.

"Uh...... Okay, so why are you going over the wall? Lu Xi looked at the girl and made sure she was wearing a white evening dress.

"Of course, I climbed over the wall to escape. What else can it be for? Karin said aloud, as if she were recounting objective truth.

"Escape? Do you live here? ”

"Not really," Karin's eyes rolled slightly, "It's just that my grandfather was fooled by my aunt who was not in tune, and wanted me to go on a blind date with a cream boy from a noble family, but I didn't want to, so of course I had to run away." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be an escape...... Then I'll take my leave. "Grandma's, this kind of thing is mixed in, and if one is not good, it will offend the two nobles at once, so I won't do it.

"It doesn't matter, if you leave now, when I am taken home, I will say to my grandfather: I am going to elope with a Nadia diplomat named Lucy Berencaster!"

Oh my God, who the hell am I messing with? Why did you meet such a female devil?

Lu Xi sighed while stroking his forehead in his heart, and at the same time, he could only accompany the smiling face, and asked patiently: "Okay, so what do you want to do?" Well, run away, then you have to have a plan, right? ”

"Escaping from marriage is usually forced on a whim or shape, where is there any plan? But since you're here, help me make a plan. Didn't you say that all of you magicians were full of bad water? ”

"Who the hell spread this rumor?! What about this subtle sense of identity?"

"Oops, men, don't care about such details." The girl beckoned to Lu Xi and jumped off the wall. "Hurry up!" Her voice rang out on the other side of the wall.

Lu Xi sighed helplessly, silently recited a flying technique, flew over the wall with ease, and then landed lightly again, without even making a sound.

"Magic is so handy." Karin snorted.

"Aren't there any magicians in Auckland?"

"If the magic of the priests and paladins is also magic, then there are quite a few. However, it is not possible to make the arcane law of the League of Learnings so diverse. ”

"Divine art also has the characteristics of divine magic. At least in terms of healing, expelling poison, inspiring and subduing demons, the arcane law is completely incomparable to divine magic. ”

"Why, then, can the Confederacy of Learning, which monopolizes the Arcanes, establish and rule a heavenly kingdom, while the priests have to become vassals of the princes and nobles?" The girl looked at Lu Xi and asked another question. …,

That's because the priests are all staunch believers, and they will always set some moral bottom line for themselves because of some hidden beings. Magicians, on the other hand, are typical unbelievers and egoists, and they are naturally fearless in their actions. Didn't you say that? Only ruthless hooligans can achieve great things. Of course, the most important thing is that these hooligans are all sanctimonious, gentle, and erudite, and when they do bad things, they will definitely think that they are doing their best to serve the country and the people. ”

"It sounds like Nadia is a country of hooligans, liars, and hypocrites, and it's not at all what I've heard."

"Only hooligans, liars, and hypocrites can succeed in Nadia's society, which is the unique national condition of the kingdom of heaven."

"Hehe~~ This argument is still quite fresh." Karin couldn't help but laugh, and she didn't know if she took Lu Xi's words as a joke or if she took them completely seriously, "If Nadia is a rogue liar hypocrite, wouldn't Auckland be a country of gentlemen, murderers, and prodigals?" ”

"Well, if you want to say that, it seems to make some sense." Lu Xi couldn't help grinning, but quickly reacted, "Oh, by the way, you said you were going to escape." Well, so are you preparing for the short-term or the long-term? ”

"What do you say in the short term? What about the long term? I don't know why, when he said this, Lu Xi always felt that Karin's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, like the rising sun.

"In the short term, you can find a quiet and safe hotel outside, but preferably more secluded. Staying and playing at the same time, at least three to five days, at most seven or eight days, you can almost go home. In the long run, you should find a trustworthy person and rent a house for a month or two, and of course, during this period, you must also send some letters to the house through a third party to prove your safety. ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

"You're just running away from marriage, and you're not falling out with your family. Of course, it doesn't matter if you occasionally make trouble and run away from home, but because of this, the family is frightened, which is a great unfilial piety. ”

"Hmm......" Karin snorted a faint grunt of displeasure in a nasal voice, but eventually nodded, "Well, I'll admit you have a point. ”

"So, what about your choice?"

"Whatever option it takes, look at me like this," she stretched, her bumpy figure and fair skin looming under the evening dress, "Does it look like rich?" ”

"It doesn't matter, your forehead, earrings, and necklaces are all priceless treasures, and if you take any of them, you'll be able to live in luxury in any corner of Auckland for years." Lu Xi replied expressionlessly.

"It's not going to work." Karin pursed her lips, "Each of these pieces of jewelry has our family's coat of arms on it, and it is estimated that no jewelry store in the city dares to accept it." ”

"And what are you going to do?" Lu Xi couldn't help but squint his eyes, and suddenly became alert, he quickly added, "First of all, if you want money, I can lend you a little, after all, we can be considered friends after knowing each other; But if you want to come to live with me, it's absolutely not a no! ”

"Huh? Why? ”

"That's my territory, of course I can't say no, where are there so many why?"

Karin rolled her eyes slyly, "Your girlfriend is here?" ”

"Who knows?" Lu Xi spread his hands and didn't take the offer at all.

"Even if your wife is here, I'm just a weak woman who is desperate and wants to trouble her friends, she won't mind."

"How do you know she won't mind?"

"Common sense judgment, you are so good and ambitious, and the woman you like must be the type of elegant, dignified, generous and kind. She will certainly be eager to help me, a poor weak woman, too. ”…,

"It's useless to pat me on the back. Also, aren't you talking about the so-called Madonna? I'm not nostril-kun, are you an idiot bird? ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Literally."

“…… Well, if you don't agree, I'll shout 'indecent' here! ”

"Huh?"

"Oh, look at here, it's outside the walls of the palace, dark and deserted, full of damp dark bushes and tall dense maple forests. If there are nymphomaniacs who want to do something like this and that to a beautiful weak woman, they probably choose this kind of place. Ahhh Help me! ”

"Me! What are you doing? Lu Xi wanted to throw away a silence spell, but found that he didn't have a wand and a magic guide book, and he couldn't do it instantaneously, a spell that he didn't usually use, so he could only jump forward and try to cover the girl's mouth.

In an instant, Karin suddenly showed a smile similar to that of a little fox, she reached out and grabbed Lu Xi's wrist, took advantage of the situation to lean her shoulder on the other party's chest, and then pulled it hard. This was a beautiful over-the-shoulder fall, and in the next second, Lu Xi was already lying on the ground, unable to get up for half a day.

The outside of the palace is mainly soft natural grass, so that it will not be injured because of this, but Karin's standard textbook-like wrestling skills are enough to make Lu Xi, a little otaku who is not diligent in all four bodies, dizzy, and instantly lose all his combat effectiveness.

How did I forget? This female devil is a master of swordsmanship, and it is normal to have a body of martial arts. However, we also have level 5 ancient knight swordsmanship, why is it still so face-to-face in hand-to-hand combat?

"This is the current crime of molesting women and children, look, I have caught it."

"Hmph, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, you want me to betray my conscience, don't think about it!"

"Don't worry, you still have a lot of use, and if you want to kill it, you will wait until later."

In any case, the magician, who is an egoist, believes more in the true meaning of a good man who does not know what to lose. A few minutes later, Karin was already in Lu Xi's carriage, and the coachman looked at the beautiful lady in the evening dress with a very eerie and playful smile, and proposed his own proposal.

"My lord, I know there is a nice inn. The place is remote and the environment is good, do you need me to show you the way? ”

"No need, send me home."

"Home?"

"Any questions?"

"Hehe, you're amazing." The coachman laughed even more playfully, he had seen Primlach and Sesiluk, who lived with Lucy.

Although he knew that the other party would be completely wrong, Lu Xi was completely unable to refute it. He was silent for a few seconds before he said, "Whatever you see, forget it all." ”

"Don't worry, my lord, although the little one is just a coachman, he also has a work ethic."

Work ethic, your sister!